In this blogger's opinion, this is a significant change and it is rooted in influences that are typical of those that are Satanic. Satanic influences always appear to be innocuous because Satan is the master of deceit. Satan puts doubts in God's eternal Truth. It happened in the Garden of Eden and it has happened again and again ever since under different scenarios. The exchange that took place in the Garden of Eden between the Serpent and Eve, is quoted without reference to paragraph numbers and notes [2]:
Now the snake was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?”
The woman answered the snake: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;
it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, or else you will die.’”
But the snake said to the woman: “You certainly will not die!
God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil.”
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Die they did, and die all sinners born after them did and will. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Immaculate Conception. She was not tainted with Original Sin. She was assumed into Heaven, believed by those faithful to Her beloved Son, Whose birthday was only a week ago.
On changing the words of "Our Father" many looked at the words themselves which without thought behind them have no meaning. They simply resort to semantics. Bergoglio "insisted that God 'does not push us toward temptation' to then observe how we fall. The one who does that 'is Satan,' the pope said firmly. On the contrary, 'like a Father,' God “immediately' helps those who have fallen to get back up." [3] He agreed with the French [4]:
To say that God “leads” us into temptation is “not a good translation” of the prayer taught by Christ, the pope said. It is for this reason, he continued, that the French liturgical translation has been changed to ask the Lord “not to let me fall.”
Innocuous enough, or so it seems. This is exactly what Satan wants people to think.
In a previous post, this blogger argued that if God had answered the prayer, not letting people fall, then man, God's creation, would become a robot, at least one that does not yet have Free Will and even if it did, it is not man born with a soul. In other words, had God not allowed people to choose, man would not need a soul. Man would then be a robot, a perfect one, and Satan would be delighted since man, God's prized creation, would be reduced to nothing, beneath Satan itself.
This would be the effect of changing the words from "lead us not into temptation" to words like "do not let me fall into temptation." For those who will be praying this "new" prayer, it is best to remember these words of wisdom said long ago: "Be careful what you wish for." [5] Can anyone imagine going through the rest of one's life without choice which is the same as without God because God created man with Free Will? Souls in Hell no longer have choice. Satan wants man on earth to be without choice like souls in Hell. Souls in Heaven continue to have choice, just as Lucifer did, who chose to reject God and became Satan.
Not only could this change affect all that is to come, but it also affects all that is in the past. Imagine all the graces that everyone had received from saying the words "lead us not into temptation" being retroactively vitiated since this pope who is supposedly infallible has declared it to be wrong. If the words are wrong now, they were wrong from the very beginning, and all the prayers prayed would be made ineffective.
The words "lead us not into temptation," are correct and they need not be altered in any way, not even in a way that may make more sense to the modern reader. Below are this blogger's thoughts:
1. The words "lead us not into" are synonymous to "lead us away from." This change allows man to choose, and once man has chosen, he prays to God to lead him away from his sinful choices. This is a change that preserves Free Will but it is unnecessary.
2. "Lead us not" into temptation are words that Christ had backed up with His actions. He not only taught but He led man every time NOT toward Satan (INTO TEMPTATION) but toward God (into Heaven). Man can choose not to follow but Christ continues to lead nonetheless. In other words, by His actions, Christ led man, not into temptation toward Satan, but away from temptation toward God. This is the meaning behind these words, albeit somewhat archaic, and obviously not digestible by those overcome by Satanic powers.
What could come next? A shorter rosary for today's busy folks with so much information to process, a wide variety of material things and entertainment to choose from and so many ways to forget about God including inebriation and drug abuse and other mind-numbing options, and this is only a partial listing.
Perhaps a better world can begin today, the first day of 2018, with God always in clear focus, not putting oneself and one's pride at the center. To focus on God is to focus on the love one can give to God and neighbor, love that is infinite and inexhaustible, and innate in every human heart but which is seldom accessed and given.
[1] http://www.sltrib.com/religion/global/2017/12/13/lead-us-not-into-what-pope-francis-suggests-changing-the-words-of-the-lords-prayer/
[2] http://www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/3, 1-6.
[3] https://aleteia.org/2017/12/05/satan-not-god-leads-us-into-temptation/
[4] Ibid.
[5] http://jamie.workingagenda.com/blog/2010/06/12/who-said-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
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