RELIGIOUS OBEDIENCE
Seers can emerge from the laity of course. But a seer – must always submit to the Church which Christ had founded with RELIGIOUS OBEDIENCE. Anything less will give rise to a scandal, because disobedience is fruit of the Devil.
“Whatever you bind on earth, I will bind in Heaven.”
• No message from Heaven can violate the Fourth Commandment.
• No message from Heaven will ever condone or advocate disobedience.
• The true seer is always obedient.
Religious Obedience
"Religious obedience is that general submission which religious vow to God, and voluntarily promise to their superiors, in order to be directed by them in the ways of perfection according to the purpose and constitutions of their order. It consists, according to Lessius (De Justitia, II, xlvi, 37), in a man's allowing himself to be governed throughout his life by another for the sake of God. It is composed of three elements:
• the sacrifice offered to God of his own independence in the generality of his actions, at least of such as are exterior;
• the motive, namely, personal perfection, and, as a rule, also the performance of spiritual or corporal works of mercy and charity;
• the express or implied contract with an order (formerly also with a person), which accepts the obligation to lead him to the end for which he accepts its laws and direction.
Religious obedience, therefore, does not involve that extinction of all individuality, so often alleged against convents and the Church; nor is it unlimited, for it is not possible either physically or morally that a man should give himself up absolutely to the guidance of another. The choice of a superior, the object of obedience, the authority of the hierarchical Church, all exclude the idea of arbitrary rule." (New Advent)
St. Margaret Mary:
“The greatest adversary of Jesus is Satan. Jesus warned me to be on guard and said my greatest defense was obedience. `Don’t believe easily,’ He said, `in every inspiration, and don’t be too sure of it. Satan is furiously bent on deceiving you. So don’t do anything without the approval of those who are guiding you. As long as you have the sanction of obedience, he can never delude you. He is completely powerless over those who obey.’
Mary to Mary Agreda:
“Many times, in the effort to avoid humiliation at the hands of the immediate superior, the subject appeals to the higher authority and thus asks for exemptions from those who have only a general information and cannot know or understand his particular needs or danger. It cannot be denied, that this is still a kind of obedience; but it is also certain, that it is a shift for greater liberty, diminishes the reward and incurs danger; since without doubt it is more meritorious to obey and subject oneself to the inferior authority, to those in a lower condition, and to those less favorably disposed to one’s own views and inclinations.”
Sister Josefa Menendez:
“Seek Me in your Superiors. Listen to their words as if their words fell from my lips; I am in them for your guidance”. Her spiritual director ordered her to renew her vows in the presence of every apparition. “If you are the Mother of Jesus, allow me to renew before you the vow of virginity that I have made”
