There is no doubt this is the Church's Passion. The Modernists are trying to nail Christ out on a Cross of their own making. In one sense we do need to acknowledge that God is allowing all of this through His permissive Will. It certainly cannot be His active Will since it involves great sin. That being said, in my opinion, we must also not lay down and let this happen without a fight or at least without protesting. Perhaps that protest takes the form of prayer or perhaps it takes the form of doing something actively or perhaps it is a mix of the two. In any case, at the Judgement, I think we will all be asked what we did to prevent this great disaster. To do nothing is to allow it, even aid it. Unlike the Crucifixion, where Christ predicted exactly what was going to happen to the Apostles, we do not have such a clear guideline. So in essence, it would seem, we are duty bound to fight this to the best of our ability while at the same time respecting those who have been put in authority over us as hard as that may be at times.
Honestly, it seems to me that the vast majority of people alive today had very little to do with the disaster which is manifest inside the Vatican. Other than those who are in positions of authority and who refused to act out of self interest or covered up out of the same selfish motives. I have a hard time reckoning the idea of respect or esteem for anyone who is actively participating in abusing their station and authority. I will pray for them of course and wish for them to turn from their abuses. It is much easier to respect the office in these cases and the responsibility and dedication demanded to fulfill such stations properly if that makes sense.
Maybe he was thinking that about his river, which bends and turns like heresy. These poor heretics, they just can't stop spinning their false teachings contrary to scripture and church teachings to fit their ideology of who God should be. I for one am glad they have pulled their mask of deceit from their faces. Only those who are either ignorant of the teachings of the faith or those who could care less are following these fools ways. They are having their day, but God will have his hour. Very hard to pray for these heretics who know better, but God have mercy on them!
One thing for sure is, you can save your stamps to Rome for help. Probably most Bishops offices too. Nothing will turn these winds of heresy around but a miracle or a purification. Even after the Warning most will choose the Antichrist to satisfy the hunger of their bellies.
\ In one way I can see your point, however it is the worldliness of the millions of past practicing Catholics that allowed this disaster inside the Vatican. This disaster has been in the making since Freemasonry began 3oo years ago. I wish any of the past pope's had conformed to our Lady of Fatima's specific request to consecration Russia to her Immaculate heart and we would already have been in the Era of Peace she promised. Instead the pressure was so great around even saintly popes, that they could not speak against communistic Russia. And now it's errors have spread throughout the world.
Fatima I have taken to praying for them by giving my prayers to Our Lady. I entrust them to her. I don't even know what to pray for in their regard. Rspecially PF. I just say "mother you know what is needed" and I give her all my prayers.
I’d strongly encourage everyone to pray that this pope repents and believes, then perseveres and dies in a state of grace. And that if he won’t repent and believe, he be confounded in his manifest errors and agenda. Specifically praying for the confounding of Christ’s enemies is completely scriptural.
I would be more optimistic than this. It needs to be taken into account that we are living in the most propagandised and deluded generation by far in the history of mankind. I take it that the Warning would be a gigantic dose of absolute truth, totally novel to many and completely destructive of the false foundations of their errant world-view. I reject Kasper's mercy, but I believe in Christ's Mercy.
I guess Pascal could be cynical also We are made in God's image and there is such a thing as justified anger.
I think this all the time. Is this not one of the great many signs we were told to watch for? I'm thinking we ought to be rejoicing in greater confidence our Lord will be sending His Spirit to wake the world up very soon rather than wringing our hands at the state of our Church and the world.
I I do appreciate your post. I do happen to fit your personal wish. I find certain factors almost intolerable...pay a ridiculous $ for rent (it's a racket) rather than pay that amount for ownership, I refuse to have cable, I often of late have difficulty and appreciate the excess we have here in America (I appreciated this for many years) but also appreciate many other freedoms I was born into. I've had my smart phone since 2015. There are many times I think I could almost easily go back to a more simple cell which does not provide the internet etc. I know in time, we won't have these services. I have purposely kept my last simple phone, not that I'd be able to use that for long. I am confident within my lifetime we will lose all this technology. I am 51. I do though struggle to gauge how extensively I should prep when all I have is a small apartment and very limited storage. With a small house or perhaps a condo with a basement I'd have that storage. Some prepping does require more costly items. Solar power and a HAM radio seems like a requirement. Any recommendations in that area on a budget with other priorities? I am also saving for an overseas trip in the next year or 2. I know there are countless resources on prepping websites. My sense also is much more will be made known to each of us with the Warning.
taken from the Catholic Herald: FR RONALD ROLHEISER Our most common sin I suspect that the sin which most commonly afflicts us and is not much mentioned in spiritual literature is wrath: that is, anger and hatred. I venture to say that most of us operate, however unconsciously, out of anger, and this shows itself in our constant criticism of others, in our cynicism, in our jealousy of others, in our bitterness and in our inability to praise others. And unlike most of our other sins, anger is easy to camouflage and rationalise as virtue. At one level, anger often rationalises itself as justified indignation over the foibles, stupidity, egotism, greed and faults of others: "How can I not be angry given what I see every day!" Here anger shows itself in our constant irritation and in our quickness to correct, criticise, and make a cynical remark. Conversely, we're very slow to praise and affirm. Perfection then becomes the enemy of the good, and since nothing and no one is perfect, we're always in critical mode and we see this as a virtue rather than for what it in fact is, namely, an inchoate anger and unhappiness inside ourselves. But our unhappy cynicism isn't the biggest problem here. More seriously, anger too often parades itself as godly virtue, as righteousness, as prophecy, as a healthy, divinely inspired militancy for truth, for a cause, for virtue, for God. And so we define ourselves as "holy warriors" and "vigilant defenders of truth", taking justification in the popular (though false) conception that prophets are angry people on passionate fire for God. However, there's a near infinite distance between true prophetic anger and the anger that today commonly parades itself as prophecy. Daniel Berrigan, in his criteria for prophecy, submits (rightly) that a prophet is someone who takes a vow of love, not of alienation. Prophecy is characterised by love aching for reconnection, not anger pushing for separation. And love isn't generally what characterises most so-called prophetic anger in our world today, especially as it pertains to God, religion and defence of truth. You see this in its worst form in Islamic extremism where, in the name of God, every kind of hatred, violence and random murder puts on God's cloak. Blaise Pascal captures this well in his Pensées where he writes: "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
PF is so surrounded by Freemasons, I choose to pray much more for him than I have any other Pope. I'm just glad he gave enough wayward Catholics a sense of Christ's mercy to soften their hearts a little more. As a result, one friend has returned after 20 years. My sister may have a lot of anger stemming from our Mom having this wretched disease but she is joining my Dad taking Mom to Mass so clearly the Holy Spirit is working in her. She may not know it or acknowledge it. Anything else, I leave to my favorite intercessors Mother, St Pio, JPII, Faustina, Grandparents, St Mother Teresa, St Joseph, St Michael, Raphael...and the Warning/Miracle/Permanent Sign a.k.a. GOD. It's not my job to take on the worries of the world. My job is to pray for those who won't and ask for much intercession and leave the rest! Also to do my best to discern my path is according to His will and TRY to hear that still quiet voice of His. Peace my dear MoG family,
Yes, a very good excerpt, thanks. It would be good if this pope who continually disparages faithful Catholics, and his handlers who have so maligned the Dubia Cardinals as well as other orthodox defenders of the Faith, were to read this and take it to heart. (But if David continues to insult and malign MOG forum members by posting this kind of excerpt and asserting that most MOG forum members are guilty of it in reference to this pope, I will continue deleting it and similar posts because of his abuse of the forums’ members!)
Come Soon - I appreciate your goodness. May I ask that you please pray for my daughter. I am trying to convince her to go to Medjugorje. She refuses to go. She is turning 30, and needs the Holy Spirit desperately. Thank you and God bless
Excellent article for an examination of conscience. Thank you for posting. Recently I watched this rare recording of st. Padre Pio’s voice, he warns against curiosity, on how curiosity destroys above all charity, leading to loss of peace with ourselves, breaking the bonds of charity with our close ones, and the consequences of that we all know: impatience, anger or grudge. That is why, he says we should focus only on Christ, and Christ crucified, as st Paul said, and not care much about the rest. Watch out for ourselves and those close to us, and the rest as I f it didn’t exist for us... Now that we have so much access to news about the world, and the Church in particular, it’s so hard not to be ‘curious’. I find it really hard to resist this apparently unimportant defect that opens the door to many other sins, and it can be even harder to discern whether one is driven by curiosity or a prudent intention to be well informed (though most of the times it’s pretty clear an ill curiosity is the drive). John 14:1-7 14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
