It's absolutely incredible the amount of writing that Mark Mallet has been providing us. He has been a True North Compass and his most recent writing is again spot on. He has nailed it once again. I'm am fervently praying for the Vicar of Christ, The Rock, our Papa, Francis. http://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-spirit-of-suspicion/#more-16870
I've always loved this video. It speaks very fervently to me now. This little site is Our Lady's living room where we need unity. Yes, we have disagreements, maybe worries a bit, but we ALL belong to Christ! We are His Church. I love this Church! I love the Founder of this Church- Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I don't care about Sister Cristina, this cardinal or that cardinal, or this apparition or another. I care about the Bride of Christ - His Body. We need unity, and we can only get there by humility and recognition that this is HIS CHURCH and it is holy. God has His plan. I can't say I know it or understand it, but I pray I can conform and trust.
Amazing that Charlie's post tonight mirrors Marks. Two great men giving us the same message: Through Wind and Waves Posted on October 24, 2014by charliej373 I have long loathed the application of political labels to religious affairs. It seems to me the more things are politicized, the more degenerate they become. There was a time in America when it was neither conservative nor liberal to be patriotic. It was just…American. The same goes for supporting religious liberty, for traditional marriage…I could go on, but you get my point. Often, an ideological label is an excuse not to think, to play at being smart without actually using study, contemplation or right judgment. You want to know what to think, just refer to the ideology – don’t worry about how it works out in practice. Always defend the ideology, regardless of how it works out in practice. That’s your “team.” It is not about finding good solutions to hard problems, but supporting your ideological team. Christianity requires us to constantly balance mercy and justice. we stand for justice that the foundation of the faith might ever be solid. We stand for mercy because the whole point of the Church is to reconcile the broken and injured to what will give them new life. St. Paul said that he was all things to all men that by all means some might be saved. Satan is no less clever than St. Paul: he, too, is glad to be all things to all men that by all means more might be lured to their doom. Satan loves to use our ideological “teams” against us. If you identify yourself as liberal, satan will be delighted to be more liberal than the Church that he might seduce you away from the faith. If you identify as conservative, satan will delightedly send minions to be more conservative than the Church, that he might deceive you into abandoning the faith. What you desire most is most effective against you. Desire Christ and all else will be given. Many are breathing a sigh of relief in the aftermath of the preliminary session of the Synod on the Family last week, thinking we narrowly averted a real disaster. But the only disaster that was ever possible looms as large, perhaps even larger, before us as it did before the Synod began. Some thought the Church was in danger of tossing out its Magisterial Doctrine of 2000 years duration for a false mercy. Others thought the Church would leave people who are in a mess to stew in their own misery in order to avoid upsetting any legalism governing the application of that doctrine. But for either of those things to happen would have required the Word of Christ to be void and without effect. So what most were worried about was whether or not there was a God or not, and whether His promises were reliable. There is. Despite all the sturm und drang, there was never any danger that Christ’s promises would be found void. The only real peril was that some would leave the safety of the Church and go apostate if their favored emphasis of mercy or justice were not ascendant. That danger lurks with as much predatory power now as it did before the Synod began. Some two decades ago I was shown the nature of the spirit of antichrist and the tools at satan’s disposal to pull people away from the faith. For many generations, the most effective tool satan had was that of seduction, to persuade people that what was good was actually evil and what was evil was actually good. It had been a most profitable – and fairly easy – gambit for satan. Convince people that destructive sins that they were already disposed to were actually positive goods. It was like being a drug pusher – and satan found an eager clientele among a civilization that had developed a taste for sensation and instant gratification. I was shown, though, that as the Storm approached and settled in, there would be two major shifts in the primary tool satan would use. First, in the period of what I call “Rumblings,” the relatively brief period leading into the Storm, satan’s most important tool would be terror; large-scale institutionalized terror. I do not fully understand why terror was so important to satan during this period, the heart of which lasted from September of 2000 through May of 2009. I do know that that is how it happened, though. Finally, once the Storm was well established, the most important tool at satan’s disposal would be that of deception – to actively imitate that which is objectively good. At that point, the disasters borne of seduction would be increasingly clear to all who were not invincibly ignorant or committed to an ideology visibly collapsing from the weight of its own fallacies. So satan’s minions would adopt orthodoxy with a vengeance, seeking to convince people they were literally holier than the Pope. Having worn out the utility of pushing people off the true path to the left, they would now push them to the right. Satan is equal opportunity that way. Whether you fall into the abyss from the left or from the right does not concern him, only that you fall. In these last years, the abyss to the right is more useful to satan. Imagine my dismay at the rise of all sorts of “holy” groups and former fruitful writers claiming that Pope Francis is an antichrist and the gates of hell have prevailed against the Church, which is now a “false church.” These new apostates of satan call for people to abandon the Church in order to be more holy. It is just another way of “doing your own thing.” In order to mask what they are doing, these evil ones erect convoluted claims to prove Pope Francis was not validly elected. They rely on all manner of fantasy and smooth-sounding technicalities to support those claims. At bottom, it is a sort of theological alchemy that rhetorically seeks to persuade people that a horse chestnut is actually a chestnut horse. This is the final deception of the spirit of antichrist before the rescue. I have encouraged respectful disagreement here – and sometimes vigorous disagreement with the sort of sharp elbows used in a sandlot basketball game. Shoot, I have thrown a sharp elbow or two, myself. I can’t say that the subject of whether Pope Francis is an antipope will never show up here. There are many who are being led astray, who are being led into confusion because of the efforts involved in peddling this calumny. There will be times when, with some patience, I will seek to help people who are struggling with it. But I must make this emphatically clear: this notion IS the spirit of antichrist. Its sudden, visible rise is what so shook me in the last week or so. Some who propound this seem to think because I am emphatic that both Protestant and Jewish believers are full partners with Catholics in the work before us, that I am susceptible to this heresy. We are a little flotilla in a turbulent sea in which a great Storm is rising, making a perilous journey back to the safe harbor which God has prepared for us. I certainly defend our flotilla against assaults from without: conventional media, hostile governments, Jihadists, malicious activists and others. I am glad to have our Protestant and Jewish brothers in our little flotilla of faith. But those who would try to strike the Pope and undercut the hierarchy are not just another boat in our flotilla. They are saboteurs trying to blow up the engine room. They are more contemptible than the hostile forces attacking from without. If you are honestly shaken by such things, we will discuss things here to assure you of the safety of the ship Christ has commissioned for this pilgrimage back to Him. But I will publish no screeds from those trying to tear down the Pope. I will banish those who insist on pushing such a notion. If you adopt that, I tell you bluntly, you have become an acolyte of the antichrist. You may be an unwitting dupe or a willing agent, I don’t know. But that horse won’t ride anywhere – and I won’t even allow you to try to throw a saddle on it here. On this site we will often work to repair the damage satan has wrought in souls, but it will never be a forum in which satan’s acolytes may spread their poison, however much they howl about equal time or fairness. I don’t give the devil equal time. Choose well. Your soul depends on it. It is a horror to watch people who have already swallowed the camel of apostasy eagerly searching for gnats of error to strain out of the Pope’s words. If you are among these, you have your reward. http://charliej373.wordpress.com
Yep. Everybody is giving this same kind of message, with rare exceptions, from liberal to mainstream and even conservative Catholic commentators to all the best visionaries and prophets, and Cardinal Burke has been thrown under the bus. Frankly I'm made suspicious by the unanimity here, on the forum, in the prophecy blogs, among the mainstream Catholic media and bloggers to include conservatives, and how well it corresponds with the praise of the non-Catholic as well as the anti-Catholic world for this Pope. If someone is going to deceive the whole world, he will certainly need the kind of universal support this pope enjoys. And that will pretty much be my last comment on this forum.
Where are you going to go BrianK? The hills? Just because you have great respect, as do I , for Cardinal Burke, do not throw the baby out with the bathwater! Just last week there were many who had jumped ship for the sake of the good cardinal---please stay and be a part of the ship. Why do you think Mark and Charlie are wrong?
Because the people I trust who were there, and personally witnessed the behind the scenes manipulations at the Synod and the very obvious author of those manipulations, do not agree with Mark and Charlie. One of them, when I asked about the Synod and the Holy Father's involvement in it told me point blank, "Pray for the Holy Father's conversion." That from a man whose opinion is not given lightly or flippantly, who I trust and esteem more than most Catholics I know and who is speaking from intimate knowledge of the Synod machinations. Many people will be lead astray in the coming three years and I will not participate in it. And I see the subtle enforcement of the majority view of this forum as part of that.
I'm not "going" anywhere. This is a false dichotomy the defenders of the pope have presented to try to make their case stronger. I will continue with daily Novus Ordo mass and a diocesan TLM on Sundays and I will continue to pray for the Holy Father. But I will not blindly follow him into error.
Brian don't give up, remember Pope Pius IX had a complete change of heart and did a 180degree turn unfortunately it took the loss of the Papal States... Correction thanks to Mac
I posted this on Charlie's site yesterday for what it's worth?: "I'm a simple Old CrewDog and I keep important "stuff" real, REAL Simple. Jesus (Father, Holy Ghost, Mary & Joseph) I trust in YOU ... all others pay cash. "But prove all things: hold fast that which is good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21
Our Holy Father has been faithful to His pastoral duties. As of today, He has not abandoned the faith. To deny Our Holy Fathers mandate from God is heresy. Brother al
No offense to Mark M. and Charlie J., but they are not ordained (that I know of) and so their thoughts don't hold the same weight in my opinion as Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Pell, Archbishop Chaput or Bishop Tobin. I appreciate your thoughts, Brian K. and I know that it is the minority opinion.
You have left the Church of Christ and its Pope in your heart Brian. Please don't go to communion. Please listen to our Lady at least and don't jump ship!!! What does our Lady say in ALL HER MESSAGES! There WILL BE CONFUSION--stay with the Pope! You are following a man? Seriously hear what you are saying! You are following a man who had been at the synod or around it...so...when the Pius X groups splits again and runs off to Pius V group what are you going to do then????
As some of you may be aware there’s been a lot of erroneous reporting on my Erasmus Lecture in New York this week and particularly the Question and Answer portion. I encourage you to read two blog postings on First Things for an honest account and for clarity. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/10/chaput-on-the-synodhttp://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/10/confusion-is-of-the-devil-indeed May the Lord give you peace. Archbishop Charles Chaput
In fact, Chaput denounced its public image while saying he would need to hear more from his brother bishops who actually attended before forming a firm opinion. As I told David O’Reilly of the Philadelphia Inquirer, there was no criticism of Pope Francis. Chaput did, however, offer the deliciously prophetic warning alluded to at the beginning of this post. His words? “To get your information from the press is a mistake.”
A few also followed a man in the 4th century ,and not the Pope. What approved messages say a Pope cant go astray? In fact the big messages [church approved]suggest the opposite. The majority will be led into error.
January 19, 2005. Message 2472 Dear Sons and Daughters – A well dressed man will enter into the house of God and will take a special place. The enemies of God will join him and will do great damage to all humanity. He will seem like a good man and will seduce many people. The rock will not be overcome because God is faithful to His promises. Put all your trust in The Lord. Those who faithfully follow the Gospel and accept My appeals will never experience the weight of defeat. Don’t lose heart. (that is Peter-the Pope!) January 28, 2005. Message 2475 Dear Sons and Daughters – Pay attention to what I am saying and you will be able to comprehend the signs from God. There is a house without a door and the enemies of God enter into it. An immense multitude goes hungry in the house of the Father and does not encounter the precious food that fills it. Those chosen to defend the truth deny it. (who walks away from the house of the Father???) March 12, 2005. Message 2494 Dear Sons and Daughters – The wrath of a man looking like a prophet, but is not, will leave an empty chair. The faithful will shed tears, but God will not abandon them. (will it be a Cardinal who will leave his chair?) March 19, 2005. Message 2497 Dear Sons and Daughters – A great ship will be on the high seas, and all aboard will be surprised by Christ in front of them. A divided reign and an empty chair. The existence of two kings will spread great confusion throughout the world, but God will come to the aid of His people. His chosen ones will not be left helpless. Trust in the Lord. (why walk away??!)
