As we approach the Feast of the Lord’s Resurrection, it is no coincidence that the Christological heresy that lies at the very heart of Francis’ “magisterium” (so-called) is once again coming into sharper focus.
During his sermon on Palm Sunday, he said:
So as we joyfully acclaim our King, let us also think of the sufferings that he will have to endure in this week. Let us think of the slanders and insults, the snares and betrayals, the abandonment to an unjust judgment, the blows, the lashes and the crown of thorns… And lastly, the way of the cross leading to the crucifixion.
There is a thread of truth in these words as Our Blessed Lord will indeed endure much in the way of slanders, insults, snares and betrayals during this Holy Week; primarily thanks to Francis himself.
For instance, for the Mass of the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, he will visit Paliano Prison near Rome where he will once again drop to his knees before mere men; washing and kissing their feet.
The Humblecam, of course, will be rolling.
Shortly thereafter, while at the altar whereupon Our Lord will be present in the Most Holy Eucharist, this same Francis will once again refuse to drop to his knees.
Obviously, this is not what Francis meant when he said that Our Lord will endure slanders, insults, snares and betrayals during this week.
So, what did he mean?
It appears that Francis is fixated on Christ as “Suffering Servant;” to the exclusion of Christ the King.
You see, for him, Christ is not so much He who defeated even death itself and gloriously reigns over all things; rather, it is He who even now willingly submits to the powerful of this world only to be beaten and bloodied all over again.
In other words, Francis speaks (and has consistently spoken over the last four years) as though the Resurrection, the singular event in the life of Christ that proves His divinity more clearly than any other, never happened. This is the same event after which:
When giving to his Apostles the mission of teaching and baptizing all nations, he took the opportunity to call himself King, confirming the title publicly, and solemnly proclaimed that all power was given him in heaven and on earth. These words can only be taken to indicate the greatness of his power, the infinite extent of his kingdom. (Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas 11)
Francis continued to share his image of Our Lord’s “kingship” in his Palm Sunday sermon, saying:
He is present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own: they suffer from slave labour, from family tragedies, from diseases… They suffer from wars and terrorism, from interests that are armed and ready to strike. Women and men who are cheated, violated in their dignity, discarded… Jesus is in them, in each of them, and, with marred features and broken voice, he asks to be looked in the eye, to be acknowledged, to be loved.
OK, whatever we do for the least of these… On this level, these words are defensible, but Francis does not mean to say what the Gospel says; rather, he goes on:
It is not some other Jesus, but the same Jesus who entered Jerusalem amid the waving of palm branches. It is the same Jesus who was nailed to the cross and died between two criminals. We have no other Lord but him: Jesus, the humble King of justice, mercy and peace.
We have no other Lord but him: Jesus, the humble King…
Yes, there is but one Jesus (He who truly suffered and died), but missing entirely from this exhortation is any sense of the Resurrection (He who truly rose from the dead unto glory) and thus an authentic understanding of the Kingship of Christ.
Indeed it is true, human beings are still subjecting one another to all manner of suffering here in the valley of tears, but this is the case precisely because they refuse to subject themselves to He who reigns over all things as King!
Again, we turn to the words of Pope Pius XI:
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. (Quas Primas 19)
As long as men believe, as Francis apparently does, that the Kingship of Christ is best understood in terms of His submission to the authorities of this world and His suffering at their hands, the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony will never be realized.
In short, Francis’ impoverished Christology is built upon a heresy; one that entails the denial of Our Lord’s divinity.
Our Lady at Fatima warned us. She let us know that this day would come.
To find out how, set aside the time to view, and perhaps to share, the following if you’ve not already.
Never mind the lowly messenger (me), but please, take heed of the message. Truly we are living through the days of chastisement.
The new Rites of Ordination are doubtful, the new mass is doubtful, Bergolio’s intention at the “altar” is doubtful as is his understanding of the priesthood. I don’t blame him for not genuflecting in front of his Novus Ordo host. Its most likely still only wheat.
+Lefebvre:
“The day they recognize again our Lord King of peoples and nations, it is not us who shall have rejoined them, but they who come back to the Catholic Church in which we live.”
Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, SSPX:
“At the French Seminary in Rome, Fr. Marc Voegtli, following the teaching of Fr. Deschamps, taught the young Marcel Lefebvre the liberal, Freemasonic agenda in three points:
1. The banishment of Christ the King from government by the secularization of the State;
2. eliminating the Mass which would result from the persecution of the Church by legal means, and ultimately the secularization of the Church itself, the supreme plot of initiated Masons; in order
3. finally to suppress the grace of Jesus Christ High Priest in souls—the very secularization of Catholic souls. All of this happened after the Second Vatican Council…
What Archbishop Lefebvre did is reverse this satanic program in order to come up with the Catholic program, which is that of the Society of St. Pius X, also in three points:
1. Restore to the faithful the Mass—the true Mass, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—which is the source and expression of the reign of Jesus Christ.
2. By the grace of the Mass, form an elite of faithful Catholics living in the state of grace; and
3. through the work of this elite in public institutions—not just in ecclesiastical organizations, but also in openly Catholic civil organizations—re-crown our Lord Jesus Christ in society: “Omnia instaurare in Christo—Establish all things in Christ,” according to the motto of St. Pius X.
This is the program Archbishop Lefebvre tried to explain to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Benedict XVI, in a meeting they had in Rome on July 14, 1987:
‘Eminence… you are working to dechristianize society and the Church, and we are working to Christianize them. For us, our Lord Jesus Christ is everything, He is our life. The Church is our Lord Jesus Christ; the priest is another Christ; the Mass is the triumph of Jesus Christ on the cross; in our seminaries everything tends towards the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. But You! You are doing the opposite: you have just wanted to prove to me that our Lord Jesus Christ cannot, and must not, reign over society.
For us, our Lord Jesus Christ is everything!’”
“So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”. Philippians 2: 10-11
It is quite evident that PF does not believe that Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, True God & True Man. Why Oh Why don’t the four Cardinals & the silent ones supposedly supporting them, call PF out for his heresies & blasphemies & escort him out of the Vatican?
Doubtful? Flat out invalid.
Great presentation, excellent! You made the case, and very well.
I enjoyed especially the part when you stopped the presentation, and commiserated with your listeners. I see this all the time, and this is a challenging aspect of our faith right now. Some of us are pragmatic, accept the bad and the good, but there are many people who are positively allergic to bad news, don’t want it, don’t want to hear it. Being “positive” has become a diabolical distraction, it is really considered a virtue, and that makes it very hard to even talk about these issues, because people want and need positivity so very much today. Added to that is the reality that most people don’t actually care very much about their Catholic faith, if at all.
Yet we have to face the truth about this pope and where we are, and know about it. Your point about knowing what bad thing affects our loved ones is a great comparison. We wouldn’t say we don’t need to know about a loved one’s suffering, how could we say that about the faith, and our own pope?
Thank you for posting this. It was so good, I’m going to ask my husband to watch this.
“OK, whatever we do for the least of these… On this level, these words are defensible, but Francis does not mean to say what the Gospel says; rather, he goes on:..”
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Neither Francis nor Louie really seem to understand Jesus’ words.
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When Jesus says “the least of these” he is talking about HIS disciples. The nations will be judged on how they treated Jesus’ disciples, (and by extension, Himself) not how Jesus’ disciple treated the world. The entire sermon is about the final judgement of the nations, where they will be gathered and judged by Jesus on how they treated God’s people , Israel. One needs to read the ” judgement of nation”s prophecy in the book of Joel first in order to understand Jesus’ words, which are regularly misused to interpret the Church as some type of universal social justice organization.
Michael F Poulin
….. The entire sermon is about the final judgement of the nations, where they will be gathered and judged by Jesus on how they treated God’s people , Israel…..
http://www.salvationisfromthejews.com/m1.html
“…Abraham had two sons; the one by the bondwoman and the other by the free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by Promise.” (Gal. 4:22,23)
All this was said by way of allegory in order to signify that the simple fact of fleshly union with Abraham is represented by Ishmael, the slave’s son; and the imitation of Abraham, by faith in Jesus Christ, is represented by Isaac, the son of the Promise.
“In short, Francis’ impoverished Christology is built upon a heresy; one that entails the denial of Our Lord’s divinity.” That is why Bergoglio does not kneel before the Eucharistic Christ. I don’t think he believes in God at all. He is a Communist.
But wait, Dr Franco Adessa believes he is a freemason to boot. Recall the Pinochet regime and Peron, where Catholics were disappeared and their children abandoned, some taken in by the Clergy [for want of a description] Many were posted to Europe and suffered abuse and worse. Evidence is being collated of who was involved and how.
Being a Marxist, mason and a Christ Crucified denied exponent, he in the first stanza believes he is Christ, who has come;
Try a substation of words of Francis for King and he [words in the text.] Makes sense?
Hence the floor and feet show: Dome from the Rock, visits the Rock prisoners {Alcatraz as it was in NY} for grandstanding or grovelling [starring King Rat on his knees/Throne]
Where will it end. As St Nillus stated in his prophesy hundreds of years ago, “in the latter days the will deny GOD in the Three hypostasis…” an entire World wide loss of Faith.
That’s the Chastisement we live by the hour, by the day and now years. Years of Elder abuse of the faithful, more in store for the lambs it seems
Our Lady of Fatima – Ora pro nobis
Nice Danielpan..Fr Luigi Villa said as much in his last works volume.
He said Father Ratzinger would make a decision to either abdicate or vacate the Seat, once he was challenged with his written confirmation – denial of Divinity of Christ. The other EU investigations into child abuse/sacrifice in a Chateau in France, was probably another consideration weighing heavily on his confused mental capacities at that time. Then of course, his controllers probably saw he had run the course of his usefulness, as Marxist/Leninists are want to have done with other pawns. So it was a time to retire or find a safe haven in an extradition free land, to “contemplate” where to from there now. Retired Head of the Bavarian Chapter, Emeritus what?
Shocking? Factual? – one of many “realities in this corrupt World and its Counterfeit V2 clergy”
Man is God God is Man theory, their opinions delude them, their Pride ensnares them Not some of us we pray by day and night. And so on rolls the Train to Perdition, new imposter at the helm…the rest is obvious.
Our Lady of Good Success, Ora pro nobis
St Padre Pio, Ora pro nobis
Fr Luigi Villa, Eternal rest to him O Lord, let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in Peace – the Peace of Christ Jesus, the only World Peace. Amen