Volume XXIX, Number 15
August 14th, 2025
What is THE HOW PROBLEM?
My friends. I felt bad about not writing as often over the past two months, so here is a bonus message.
We'll conclude with a prayer, as always.
I am truly grateful to everyone praying for me as I write the screenplay (see my last message).
One Reckless Sower and ReaperI'm a big believer in reaping the whirlwind, as long as it's God's whirlwind, although the Bible passage from Hosea correctly has a negative connotation. I understand that most people are not "wired" to sow the wind (literally, to plant seeds into the wind instead of into the ground).
Whirlwinds can be a lot of fun. I consider them shortcuts. For example, this little project for Our Lady, the Mary Foundation, is a millions-of-souls-influencing whirlwind.
My writing is also a kind of sowing the wind. Wanna know my secret? I tell the truth. And so, I'll start throwing handfuls of seeds up and you try to catch 'em in the cyclone of your spirit...
Text Swapping Daily ResolutionsIt has been my theme this year to invite you to spend every day of your life trying to be a saint, especially through daily meditative prayer that includes—per Saint Frances de Sales' anointed advice—making the all-important Jesus-guided "resolution."
Have you taken up the challenge yet? A few of my friends and I are finding it much easier if we text our topics of meditation and resolutions to each other every morning. Try it with someone you love.
The Diabolical Deception
There is the widespread misconception that becoming a saint is practically impossible and requires extreme effort most of us can't muster—that actual holiness is something set aside for special souls like Saint Francis or Saint Catherine of Siena.
This is pure poppycock, balderdash, and poopythink ('just made that one up)—it is a satanic lie.
I reject this lie because the Church itself rejects it. Every person on this planet can be transformed by God's grace into their own unique version of a Saint Anthony or a Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton.
Including you.
The Catholic Hall of FameNone of us are tall enough, coordinated enough, or young enough to be in the NBA Hall of Fame—no matter how hard we try. Yet, every one of you can be in the Heavenly Hall of Fame—if you try.
I know this is a massively widespread misconception because most of the best Catholics I know are not focused on holiness. Instead (just like me for so many decades) they are just trying to survive the challenges of life and are frustrated by frequent sin.
To the contrary, I have also met a few saints. I wrote about one I met in California (#13 "I Saw the Holy Spirit). Outside of their extraordinary holiness, the saints I've met really did seem to be just regular folks.
The How ProblemIn fact, most good Catholics I know need two simple things to become a saint. First, they need to be invited to give holiness a normal human effort. Second, they need to know how to become a saint.
The Solution to the How ProblemOur Lady led me to the solution to the How Problem over the past few years, so I cannot take credit. I did deny myself and picked up my cross (finally!), and then she showed me where to guide others through a series of providential experiences.
How to Be a SaintIn short, to be a saint, start by making "being a saint" the only thing you really truly care about. Second, get rid of 95% of the unnecessary diabolical influence in your life through the The Angelus Cure and the Auxilium Christianorum exorcism prayers for the laity. Being delivered from demonic influence makes being a saint much easier.
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Third, in an obedient, childlike way, begin your day with meditative prayer and a daily Resolution as taught by Saint Francis de Sales.
Fourth, do whatever Jesus guides you to do that day and every day for the rest of your life.
Otherwise, carry on. Live the sacramental life—Mass and frequent Confession. Continue your other devotions. Live your life with a deep interior peace—through all the joy and suffering.
You will become a saint. Miracles await you and your loved ones. The world will change. The dragon will be cast down.
Why the How Problem ExistsI have heard Father Ripperger explain to me in person and on podcasts that he determined that one of the victims he treated for years was possessed by Lucifer himself. Under obedience, Lucifer explicitly confirmed his purpose (had he not chosen to rebel against God) was to show man the greatest good. It makes sense; his name means "the bearer of light."
This is my conclusion: during our diabolical age, virtually all the men and woman on earth, including otherwise wonderful Christians, have been blinded to the greatest good, which is how to be a saint.
Saints defeat the evil one's plans. Saints convert nations. Saints are happy.
Another Great Good Hidden from YouIf you are in a state of grace, the Holy Trinity dwells inside of you.
This reality, of which most us are rarely aware, is another supreme good that the evil one works so relentlessly to hide from us. The divine indwelling means—among a thousand other very cool things—that the Holy Trinity inside of you can speak through you to other people. You remain you, of course, fallen and free.
(I have experienced this often, and I'll have more to say about this in future messages. The Holy Trinity is speaking through me to you right now.)
The Holy Trinity is inside of you, and letting the Holy Trinity act and speak and pray through you to others is a key component to converting the United States and the rest of the world.
Even More Great News?I've been told that Father Ripperger has been heard on a podcast that he believes the hundred year time period where Satan was granted more power over the world has come to an end.
I agree. I've witnessed dozens of unmistakable signs.
I'm not saying that there is not great evil in the world. It's worse than ever, and God is allowing some of it to be unveiled.
I am saying that the evil one's hundred years are over—that high-level demons have already been bound and cast down—and this means that a great portion of the three-hundred and forty-seven million souls in America will happily accept our invitation to be a saint through our Treasure in Heaven project.
They will no longer be blinded to the greatest good of holiness.
Tens of millions will convert. Tens of thousands will become the kind of saints that get canonized. The United States will become the most Catholic nation on earth.
We sow. God reaps.
Just the Plain TruthPlease say a prayer today (or offer a Rosary) for Our Lady to send the Mary Foundation $300,000 soon. Thanks.
Now Let Us Pray......in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, tens of thousands of us, as one voice, all over the world.
Most gracious Virgin Mary, thou who wouldst crush the head of the serpent, protect us from the vengeance of the evil one. We offer our prayers, supplications, sufferings and good works to thee so that thou may purify them, sanctify them and present them to thy Son as a perfect offering. May this offering be given so that the demons that influence or seek to influence the members of the Auxilium Christianorum, everyone involved in the Mary Foundation—past, present, and future—and all residents of the United States do not know the source of their expulsion and blindness.
Blind them so that they know not our good works. Blind them so that they know not on whom to take vengeance. Blind them so that they may receive the just sentence for their works.
Cover us with the Precious Blood of thy Son so that we may enjoy the protection which flows from his passion and death. Amen.
Okay, I guess it's a tradition now to end with several pithy phrases. So here they are...because you guys are the best!
All for Mary!
Eyes on the Holy Face of Christ.
Enjoy the summer weather...
...and good food.
Don't worry about nothin'.
Wear a Brown Scapular.
Tell the God's Truth.
If you're gonna be a saint...
...be a happy one.
With Saint Pius X,
Bud Macfarlane
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