Below we will take a look at the Catholic faith (in black), followed by the propositions set forth by the architects of the Amazonian Synod in the Instrumentum Laboris (in red), the same having been made manifest over the past few weeks in Rome.
At the conclusion, that a pagan planter representing Pachamama (or Mother Earth) was placed on the altar at St. Peter’s to close the event last Sunday, while no less reprehensible, will perhaps make a little more sense.
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The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
The Synod is a great opportunity for the Church to discover the incarnate and active presence of God in the most diverse manifestations of creation. (cf Instrumentum Laboris – 33)
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The unanimous teaching of the holy Fathers assert that the Church was born from the side of our Savior on the Cross like a new Eve, mother of all the living. (cf Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis – 28)
The Church became flesh by making her dwelling – her thatched-roof shelter – in the Amazon … The multinationals have cut the veins of our Mother Earth. (ibid. 17, 30)
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For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. (Romans 5:10)
Salvific life, which begins with creation and manifests itself from the start in the most elementary dimension of life (bios) … is reflected in its abundant bio-diversity and cultures. (ibid. 11)
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Teach them to observe all things whatsoever that I have commanded you … Do whatever He tells you. (Matthew 28:20, John 2:5)
It is necessary to listen to the cry of “Mother Earth.” (ibid. 146)
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And through Him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the Blood of His Cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven. (Col 1:20)
The earth has blood and is bleeding. (ibid. 17)
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[Who] offer up to Thee, this sacrifice of praise for themselves, their families and friends, for the redemption of their souls, for the health and salvation they hope for … offer[ed] unto Thy most excellent Majesty of Thine own gifts, bestowed upon us (Traditional Roman Rite)
The Amazon people have the right to health and to live healthily, which means harmony with what Mother Earth offers us. (ibid. 88)
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May the performance of my homage be pleasing to Thee, O Holy Trinity… (Traditional Roman Rite)
Love lived in any religion pleases God. (ibid. 39)
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What we witnessed in the Amazonian Synod, which did not stray far from its working document, was not so much a distortion of the Catholic faith as it was a faithful representation of a new religion – the one that was formally born at Vatican Council II where Christ the King was effectively dethroned and His Church reduced to just one path to salvation among many.
These two religions – one true, the other decidedly false – are diametrically opposed to one another; there is enmity between them, their seeds and their leaders, with the “Synodal” faith recently put on display for all to see representing a repudiation of the Catholic faith.
We have a name for this; it’s called apostasy, and let us be perfectly clear – manifest, public apostates have severed themselves from the Body of the Church, most obviously so in the case of he who is pleased to serve as the Apostate-in-Chief.
There you go, Pachamama is the Bride of Frankenstein.
You can spend the rest of your life comparing the counterfeit church with the Catholic Church and its constant changes to the unchanging truths of Catholicism but it can’t change its nature which was born out of a hatred of the one, Triune and true God and His one, instituted Catholic Church and thus, can only progress to greater and greater evils.
Amen. God bless and keep you Katherine. In caritas.
VERY well done. Kudos!!!
Dear Louie, I just want to say thank you for your very astute analysis which clearly demonstrates that what the world perceives to be “the Catholic Church” is not Catholic in any sense of the word. May Our Lord and Our Lady continue to be your source of fortitude and wisdom. I agree with Katherine that this counterfeit church cannot correct itself and greater evils are to come.
Louie, thanks for the various quotes from Instrumentum Laboris. We are talking nothing less than “apostasy” here.
Thank you for this Louie. I wept.
The first picture…so horrible.
Thanks from a fellow Catholic born in nov 1961.
I have a BA in philosophy from a Catholic seminary college…now long closed.
It was overrun with sodomites. And as your post shows…and my past experience
testifies to….sodomites ruin everything. Bergoglio is the destroyer who took the name of the saint who predicted him.
Pray for me. I will pray for you as well.
Prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi
Act bravely, my Brethren; take courage, and trust in the Lord. The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of the wicked will increase.
The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that ***there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity***. At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected [ASB: JOHN XXIII – white/BLACK/white SMOKE; Oct 26-28, 1958], will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death. [ASB: He announced the “2nd Vatican” Council exactly 90 days later on Jan 25, 1959; 75 years after vision of Pope Leo XIII]
Then scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.
There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people [ASB: At the time of and after Vatican II], the religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, ***even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God.***
Then our Rule and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and terrible trials will come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown of life; but woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall fall into tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for the proving of the elect.
Those who preserve their fervour and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the truth, ***will suffer injuries and, persecutions as rebels and schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face of the earth.*** But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head [Jesus Christ], these, the elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear nothing, and they will ***prefer to perish [physically] rather than consent to falsehood and perfidy.***
Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.
(Works of the Seraphic Father St. Francis Of Assisi [London: R. Washbourne, 1882], pp. 248-250; underlining and paragraph breaks added.)
ASB,
Thanks for posting that, I’ve not read that before. Quite startling.
The only recourse is for all orthodox bishops to meet in conclave and elect a Catholic pope, as soon as possible. The heretics can keep the desecrated buildings and the Vatican. Communications to the faithful by a Catholic pope will have to be via epistles to local Catholic churches, as in the beginning.
It seems there are none who have what it takes (complete repudiation of V2 and NOM) to do so. They still cling to modernism -pinch of incense to the false church – and therefore cannot do what is good.
Unfortunately, if the SSPX bishops did this, most would consider them in schism (which Card. Burke has stated they already are), and they would probably be “excommunicated” by Francis the Merciful. But, this probably won’t happen as Bp. Fellay et al are hell bent on capitulating to the modernists so that they will be accepted by the conciliar church and considered Catholic. Imagine that – the desire to be considered Catholic by modernist heretics!
Until the Society initiates a rosary campaign for the election of a holy, Catholic pope, and cease the negotiations for a deal with Rome, I won’t have much confidence that they will do what is right either.
Abp. Lefebvre:
“How could it be clearer?! From now on it is the conciliar church one must obey and be faithful to, and not to the Catholic Church. This is precisely our problem. We are suspended a divinis by the conciliar church, of which we do not want to be a part. This conciliar church is a schismatic church, because it breaks with the Catholic Church of all time. It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new liturgy, already condemned by the Church in many official and definitive documents. This is why the founders of the conciliar church insist on obedience to the church of today, making abstraction of the Church of yesterday, as if it didn’t exist anymore. … The church which affirms such errors is at one and the same time heretical and schismatic. This conciliar church is therefore not Catholic.”
“It is, therefore, a strict duty for every priest wanting to remain Catholic to separate himself from this Conciliar Church for as long as it does not rediscover the Tradition of the Church and of the Catholic Faith.”
“Rome has lost the Faith, my dear friends. Rome is in apostasy. These are not words in the air. It is the truth. Rome is in apostasy. They have left the Church. This is sure, sure, sure. It is a schismatic council. The Church which affirms such errors is both schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is therefore not Catholic. To whatever extent pope, bishops, priests or faithful adhere to this new Church, they separate themselves from the Catholic Church. The Novus Ordo Mass is a bastard rite. The Novus Ordo sacraments are bastard sacraments. The Novus Ordo priests emerging from the Novus Ordo seminaries are bastard priests. So we are excommunicated by Modernists, by people who have been condemned by previous popes. We are condemned by men who are themselves condemned. It is a Church that I do not recognize. I belong to the Catholic Church. Let us add this, that the greatest service we can render to the Church and to the successor of Peter is to reject the “reformed” and liberal church. I am not of that religion, I do not accept that new religion. It is a liberal, modernist religion. We are not of this new religion! We do not accept this new religion! We are of the religion of all time; we are of the Catholic religion. We are not of this “universal religion” as they call it today—this is not the Catholic religion any more. We are not of this liberal, modernist religion which has its own worship, its own priests, its own faith, its own catechisms, its own “ecumenical” Bible. We cannot accept these things. They are contrary to our Faith. We choose not to abandon our faith, for in that we cannot go wrong. We are convinced of this, it is they who are wrong, who have changed course, who have broken with the Tradition of the Church, who have rushed into novelties, we are convinced of this. That is why we do not rejoin them and why we cannot work with them; we cannot collaborate with the people who depart from the spirit of the Church, from the Tradition of the Church.”
Spoken in 1976. What would he have said today with a demon worshipping, Marxist usurper on the throne of Peter? But no, we have the SSPX leaders telling us that the conciliar church is the visible Catholic Church – with the Four Marks – it’s just that they don’t shine as brightly as they once did, see? It’s incredible!
Our Lady of Buen Suceso of the Purification, pray for us!
Dear Tony,
I can’t find it at the moment, but what you said about some people writing long diatriabes to prove that they are more Catholic than others is simply rash judgment, and God withdraws Grace for that sin. It may be true for some but not for all. Some people are more interested in the Truth, and the ultimate fate of their souls and those of others, than being “right”.
You are only now reaching your conclusion of “Sede vacante”. Perhaps then there’s more.
Exactly, Catherine. I know good priests in the FSSPX who I suspect will break with the compromisers.
“For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.” Psalm 95:5.
http://www.drbo.org/chapter/21095.htm