From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   June 14th - St. Eliseus   
      
   The mission of St. Eliseus has a special importance for us since, as you   
   know, St. Eliseus was the successor of St. Elias. We may consider his   
   mission from several points of view.   
      
   First, Elias can be considered, historically speaking, the first devotee of   
   Our Lady [click here]. Israel was passing through a terrible drought as a   
   chastisement for its sins. Elias, who was Prophet in Israel, went to Mount   
   Carmel to ask God to forgive the guilty people and send rain; otherwise all   
   would die.   
      
   He remained there praying for a long time with the certainty that Divine   
   Providence would listen to his requests. While he prayed, he sent his   
   servant many times to look at the horizon to see if any sign of rain had   
   appeared. The servant always retuned with the same answer: "No, there is no   
   sign of rain."   
      
   Elias did not give up. He continued to pray and send his servant to look and   
   report what he saw. The seventh time, the servant came and told him: "There   
   is a small cloud on the horizon the size of the palm of a man's hand." It   
   was the sign Elias was awaiting. The small cloud began to grow and cover the   
   sky. In a short time a long, hard rain fell that saved Israel from   
   perishing.   
      
   This small cloud was a symbol of Our Lady, who would bear the Redeemer. With   
   the rain of His blood, humankind would be saved from the death of Hell,   
   destined for it as a consequence of Original Sin.   
      
   Elias, then, was the first one to pray and await the coming of Our Lady on   
   Mount Carmel. Eliseus was the one who succeeded Elias in this devotion.   
   After Elias, and certainly under the encouragement of Eliseus, hermits   
   established themselves on Mount Carmel, continuing to pray for the coming of   
   Our Lady and the Messiah. This is the origin of the Carmelite Order, which   
   is the first Religious Order in the Catholic Church.   
      
   As the first successor and perfect disciple of Elias, Eliseus played a   
   fundamental role in the establishment of the Carmelite Order.   
      
   Second, a very trustworthy tradition tells us that Elias made the vow of   
   chastity, thus becoming the pioneer of the religious life from this   
   perspective as well. In the Old Covenant this vow was rare, since to be in   
   the ancestral line of the Messiah was justly considered the greatest honor a   
   Jew could have. Therefore, no one considered making this vow.   
      
   However, in this sphere Elias also had a prophetic understanding. He   
   realized what St. Thomas would express perfectly centuries later: By means   
   of marriage mankind continues to grow; by means of chastity mankind   
   continues to see the great panoramas and discern the direction it should   
   take. The first state of life, St. Thomas taught, is symbolized by man's   
   feet, which allow him to walk; the second state, that of chastity, is   
   symbolized by his eyes, which allow him to see. Elias understood this. Since   
   he was called to comprehend, judge, and fight for the greatest causes of God   
   during his life and at the end time, he sensed the need to be chaste. So he   
   took the vow of chastity.   
      
   Here also, Eliseus maintained the vow of chastity, which would become one of   
   the most sublime marks of the religious life.   
      
   Third, as the founder of devotion to Our Lady, Elias most probably had that   
   special form of devotion taught by St. Louis Grignion de Monfort, who was   
   himself the founder of the Apostles of the Last Times. This true devotion to   
   the Virgin Mary consists of the complete deliverance of one's will to her   
   will so that she can do with him whatever she pleases. This is what St.   
   Louis de Monfort called Sacred Slavery. I think that Elias and Eliseus and   
   those who followed them would have known this devotion, at least in its   
   germination stage.   
      
   Elias, as the Church teaches, must return in the Last Times. He must return   
   not only in the Last Times, generically speaking, but in the last days of   
   History to fight against the Antichrist. He will be the greatest and most   
   expressive Apostle of the Last Times.   
      
   It is interesting to consider the mystical relation of these two great   
   Saints and Prophets with Our Lady and also their relation to each other.   
   Elias was her first devotee; St. Grignion de Monfort brought her devotion to   
   an apex. St. Louis foresaw the Apostles of the Last Times, and the   
   culmination of the Apostles of the Last Times will be Elias. Both are   
   mysteriously linked to her and to one another.   
      
   The fight Elias had during his mission in Israel, and principally the fight   
   against the Antichrist that he will direct at his second coming make him the   
   precursor of the Counter-Revolution and the one who will conduct it to its   
   most important battle. Everything that we do today fighting the Revolution   
   in the temporal and religious sphere are related in one way or another to   
   that apex which will be the confrontation of Elias and the Antichrist.   
      
   Now then, Eliseus asked and received the spirit of Elias when he left this   
   earth in a chariot of fire. In this request there was a mystical and   
   beautiful reality that is the transmission of the spirit. How is the spirit   
   of a man transmitted? How can a grace that is characteristic of one man pass   
   to another, making the latter the alter ego of the former?   
      
   Here is not the place to delve into this mystical concept. But one can say   
   that the spirit of a founder of an institution can be transmitted to his   
   successors just as Elias transmitted his spirit to Eliseus. In the Church we   
   can speak about the spirit of the Carmelites, Benedictines, Dominicans,   
   Franciscans, Jesuits, etc. Each one of these religious institutions has its   
   own spirit that is the spirit of its founder, which was passed to his   
   disciples.   
      
   Eliseus received the spirit of Elias and, therefore, he received his   
   counter-revolutionary spirit in order to direct the fight against the   
   enemies of God in his time. He is, then, a special protector of the fight   
   against Progressivism in the Church, which has infiltrated the highest   
   positions of the Church in order to destroy her. Progressivism is today the   
   very point of the lance of the Revolution.   
      
   So, Eliseus is our patron Saint in several ways: as the devotee of Our Lady   
   at Mount Carmel, as the one who practiced chastity, and as the one who   
   continued the fight of the Counter-Revolution. Under each of these titles we   
   should ask him to give us his spirit, which is the spirit of Elias.   
      
   See Images at:   
   http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j181sd_Eliseus6-14.shtml   
      
      
   Saint Quote   
   The more we see of failure in obedience, the stronger should be our   
   suspicion of temptation and illusion.  For when God sends His inspirations   
   to a heart, the first grace He sheds upon it is that of obedience.   
   -St. Teresa   
      
   Bible Quote   
   1 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the   
      
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