Are You A Code-Breaker?

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In my short life, I have observed, that in many Catholic families, one Catholic seems designated to be "the code-breaker". This person is the one who prays for all the other members of the family, especially those who are fallen away. Sometimes the Catholic code-breaker is in a Catholic family. But, sometimes the code-breaker is a convert, and, therefore, the only Catholic in the family.

The code-breaker, (my term), could be a Catholic who marries into a family steeped in falsity and sin, and begins the work of breaking the codes of error.

I have met several code-breakers. Some, like the latter description, are women who have married into families where there is a long history of Masonry or addictions, and these ladies break the codes so that these are no longer passed down in the families.

Some are women who have prayed against deceit, and even incest in the families, and these sins stop.

Code-breakers work hard in the spiritual world, praying, having Masses said, doing penance to break the code of sin.

Of course, the first code-breaker in the world was Our Lady, Mother Mary, who as the Immaculate Conception, broke the code of Original Sin, allowing Christ to become Incarnate and free us from sin and death.

She suffered for breaking the code of evil, but she teaches all the other code-breakers how to suffer, pray, do penance.

Perhaps because women share more on the spiritual plain than men, with other women, I only know very few male code-breakers. Most of those I know are women.

Sometimes, they experience spiritual warfare increasing as they pray against evil in the families.

Such people are gifts to a family.

Are you the code-breaker in your family? If so, take your role seriously. Do not "grow faint". Keep breaking the code of sin and death by prayer and sacrifice.

Code-breakers remind me of Isaac McCaslin, William Faulkner's character in Go Down, Moses. Isaac moves out of the Manse because of the sins of his ancestors and wants to atone for the horrible evil in the family. He is the code-breaker, literally, finding out the incest of the past through a ledger book of Uncle Buck's.  Feeling the land of the plantation is cursed, Isaac gives his inheritance to his second-cousin, McCaslin Edmonds. Years ago, I decided on the term "code-breaker" because of Faulkner's story.

Some code-breakers move out of the Manse.

Some code-breakers move into the Manse from the outside.

Are you a code-breaker? Have you met a code-breaker? Can you sense if the woman or man you are dating is the code-breaker for your family?  Usually, the person who is a code-breaker knows this spiritual reality. Let God lead you to the code-breaker for your family.

On this Mother's Day, I salute all the mother-code-breakers I know. May God bless you. May God protect you and keep you in the Palm of His Hand.

May I add St. Paul's comment from Colossians 1: 24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

He is describing a code-breaker. Christ invites some to enter into His suffering, His Passion, for the sake of others. Such is the call of the code-breaker. Paul's family was the Gentile world. Thankfully, most code-breakers have a smaller sphere in which to break the code.

to be continued later.....