On the liturgical calendar of the Traditional (and only) Roman Rite, April 8, 2018 is properly referred to as the Octave Day of Easter, Sunday of Quasimodo, and Low Sunday.
It also happened to be the second anniversary of the day on which Amoris Laetitia was made public; promoting blasphemy and heresy under the guise of “magisterium.”
Over the past twenty four months, the dictatorial author of this poisonous text has done everything in his power (or apparent power, as the case may be) to see to it that the so-called “pastoral practices” that it inspires are fully integrated into the life of the Universal Church come Hell or high water (even if he isn’t quite sure if the former actually exists).
Most recently, this involved the issuance of yet another ersatz “magisterial” text – Gaudete et Exsultate – the sole purpose of which is to promote Amoris Laetitia and to further intimidate any cardinal or bishop who might even be considering declaring the obvious; namely, that Jorge Bergoglio isn’t even remotely Catholic much less the Vicar of Jesus Christ. (Fat chance, I know.)
In this sense, April 8, 2018 was a very low Sunday indeed.
Two days later, Francis met with the so-called “Missionaries of Mercy,” the 1,000 member contingent of priests to whom he granted (as part of a “Jubilee of Mercy” PR stunt) the make-believe mandate to forgive sins allegedly “reserved to the Holy See” even though there are no such things.
The “Missionaries of Mercy” were initially sent forth from Rome – with a one year commission that has since been extended indefinitely – on Ash Wednesday of 2016; roughly two months prior to the publication of Amoris Laetitia and specifically (as we now know) in service to its implementation.
Specifically, the MoMs are called to give make-believe absolution in the Confessional to make-believe penitents lacking a firm purpose of amendment, and this according to the spirit of Amoris Laetitia.
At times we find it hard to make room for God’s unconditional love in our pastoral activity. (AL 311)
The footnote to which reads:
Perhaps out of a certain scrupulosity, concealed beneath a zeal for fidelity to the truth, some priests demand of penitents a purpose of amendment so lacking in nuance that it causes mercy to be obscured by the pursuit of a supposedly pure justice. (AL footnote 364)
In his address to the MoMs on April 10, Francis made clear his intention to obliterate the sacrament of Confession, this time by once again misappropriating and twisting Sacred Scripture to say whatever suits his diabolical fancy.
For instance, he cited the parable of the prodigal son, saying:
The Church cannot, must not and does not wish to create any barrier or difficulty that many hinder access to the Father’s forgiveness. The “prodigal son” did not have to pass through customs: he was welcomed by the Father, without obstacles.
Isn’t it charming when the “pope” uses sarcasm in his Biblical “exegesis”? How very humble!
The parable of the prodigal son recounts that “while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son” (Lk 15,20). And he threw his arms around him.
And then he arrived at the punchline:
Sometimes, unfortunately, it can happen that a priest, with his behaviour, instead of approaching the penitent, dismisses him. For example, in order to defend the integrity of the Gospel ideal, the steps that a person takes day by day are neglected. This is not how God’s grace is nourished. Recognizing the repentance of the sinner is tantamount to welcoming him with open arms, to imitate the father of the parable who welcomes his son when he returns home (cf. Lk 15: 20); it means not letting him even finish his words.
Let’s stop here for a moment.
First, one notes the perfectly serpentine notion of defending the integrity of the Gospel ideal; with the words “defend” and “integrity” meant to distract the naïve into accepting the lie that the Gospel is merely an “ideal” – you know, like Christian marriage as described repeatedly in Amoris Laetitia.
In the above, we are also witnessing firsthand the slipperiness of the Bergoglian slope.
This assault on Confession started with Amoris Laetitia suggesting that a firm purpose of amendment isn’t necessary. Now, we have Francis encouraging priests to believe that the penitent doesn’t even have to speak; i.e., all he has to do is show up!
This has always struck me: the father did not even let him finish the words, he hugged him. He had the prepared speech, but [the father] hugged him. It means not letting him finish even the words he had prepared in order to apologize (see verse 22), because the confessor has already understood everything, strengthened by the experience of being a sinner too.
In the Bergoglian version of the parable as applied to the confessional, the prodigal son as penitent returned to his father’s house just long enough to get a hot meal and some more of the old man’s treasure; with no intention of leaving his life of squalor behind.
How coincidental (or not) that the Gospel for the Octave of Easter (and the anniversary of Amoris Laetitia) was taken from John 20 wherein Our Lord instituted the sacrament of Confession:
Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. (John 20:23)
Bergoglio, just like his idol Luther, has apparently decided to simply excise the part that doesn’t tickle his heretical fancy.
He went on to tell the MoMs:
There is no need to shame those who have already recognized their sin and know they have been wrong; it is not necessary to inquire – those confessors who ask, ask, ten, twenty, thirty, forty minutes … “And how was it done? And how? …” – it is not necessary to inquire where the grace of the Father has already intervened; it is not permitted to violate a person’s sacred space in his relationship with God.
Another Bergoglian strawman; the priest who grills penitents for half-an-hour or more.
In any case, so much for confessing sins in number and kind. The grace that moved the penitent to walk through the door – never mind his actual motives or intent – is enough, according to Francis. Requiring anything more is a violation of something sacred!
The assault continued:
When we welcome the penitent, we need to look him in the eye and listen to him to allow him to perceive the love of God Who forgives in spite of everything, He dresses him with the festive robe and the sign of belonging to his family (see v. 22).
We need to look him in the eye…
Speaking of violating a sacred space, in the Bergoglian version, we must sit face-to-face with our confessor; that way it will be more like a Protestant counseling session.
If all that has been addressed isn’t evidence enough that Jorge Bergoglio doesn’t have a Catholic bone in his body, get this…
I return to the words of Isaiah. We find the sentiments of Jerusalem that feels abandoned and forgotten by God: “Zion said: The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me. Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you” (49: 13-15). On the one hand, this rebuke to the Lord for abandoning Jerusalem and His people seems strange. With much more frequency, we read in the prophets that it is the people who abandon the Lord.
Yes, you read that correctly. He actually imagines that Sacred Scripture teaches that the Lord abandoned the people. This is the same guy who approves of the reprehensible text produced by the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
And then there’s this Bergoglian balderdash, which is perfectly in keeping with his bankrupt Christology… no, make that, Christological heresy, whereby he doesn’t really believe that Jesus is true God:
The God Who loved the world to the point of giving His Son (cf. Jn 3, 16), to the point of abandoning Him on the cross, He will never abandon anyone: His love will always be there, close, bigger and more faithful than any abandonment.
For the benefit of those who have been misled to believe otherwise, when Our Lord speaks from the Cross:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
He is reciting the opening words of Psalm 22, and in so doing is invoking and calling our attention to its entirety. This would have been understood by the Jews, as such was (and still is) their practice. This should be even better understood by Christians today given the triumphant, Messianic prophecy that follows.
Furthermore, it is utterly impossible for God to have abandoned Jesus, whose Divine nature and human nature, joined by hypostatic union, allow of no separation.
Our Lord did, however, experience the pain and the suffering of Divine abandonment that, in justice, is due as a result of the sins of the world; the same that He freely took upon Himself that we might be saved.
In conclusion, while I wish I could report more encouraging news in this space, we mustn’t lose sight of the reason why we simply cannot shy away from addressing this charlatan and his lies head-on at every turn:
For the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea recently went off against Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis, and much else at the recent Fatima Center conference:
Father Isaac Mary – Living The Fatima Message In The Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa6V3-a9mjk
It could be that, taken by surprise by this diatribe, the increasingly watered down Fatima Center will eventually memory hole this talk. Download and save it while you can.
Bergoglio is turning the Catholic Church into a three ring circus. “Where Are the Clowns”—in the Vatican and no one will stop them.
Louie you have a remarkably clear-eyed interpretation of things. I benefit from reading your observations. Thank you for them.
It appears the Vatican feels it has to pander to the sodomites because just too many of them fill the priesthood.
Since Borgoglio suggests that the penitent may not even have to speak , I wonder when he will start encouraging general confessions ?
Years and tears ago we traveled to Illinois to see some friends and went to Mass there. Bernadin was still doing his thing at the time. During Mass in his Diocese we experienced General Confession, Anointing of the Sick for everyone ,Holy Communion and I honestly cannot recall what else. We were shell shocked.
On the return trip we stopped at Our Lady of Lebanon shrine and I confided in the Monsignore there what we just witnessed . He just put his head on the desk and rolled it back and forth saying ,”Oh Lord what next?”
It seems Bernadin’s Diocesan style insanity has been reincarnated in Borgoglio’s globalized merciful insanity !
I seem to remember a Catholic prophecy that mentioned in the End Times we would only have Our Lord Jesus to confess our sins to. Does anyone recall who said that?
sweep–The way I see it is that no one is an actual sinner. We are merely victims of events and circumstances out of our control. After V2, the Act of Contrition was watered down omitting anything to do with penance. I went to a general confession in our parish many years ago. I left the church without that wonderful feeling that my sins were absolved. Maybe, texting our sins to a priest is next. Wait for the ping to be “reconciled”.
I remember when I was still in the Novus Ordo church and went to one of their retreats, I had to make a special request to go to confession. How is that not a regular, planned part of any serious Catholic retreat? I remember that this was one of my first indications that something was terribly wrong (but still hadn’t seen the bigger picture).
2 Cents, YES! I remember that “wonderful feeling” ! looking back I wondered if it was my mother who planted it in my brain OR if I was imagining it .She used to say she always felt ten pounds lighter. I felt as if I was just cleansed inside and out and I always walked away with a sensation of elation.
2 Vermont, I recently made a request to a priest to hear our confessions. He did not get back to me for three weeks and when he did he just blew me off .
Did you ever go to a local NO at the regularly scheduled time for Confessions in the bulletin to find doors locked? I have several times in several different churches .
Or have you ever left puzzled with the feeling the priest actually did not give a dang? One actually rushed me out afterwards while I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament still withing the hour for the regularly scheduled confession time. He was locking the doors and standing by one door opposite to me and heaving loud sighs with his arms folded. Two months later he was wanted by the FBI for skipping the country after it was revealed he had a long line of abused children to his name.
In between that time I was on a bus going to the Pro Life March in DC and listening to older women defending him as a “holy priest” because ,”he even made rosaries.”
All the while I was thinking about the bums rush he gave me while I was praying the rosary before the Blessed Sacrament .Something just did not add up.
Then the whole story broke. It was Fr Tumang .
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/147757806/
This fight is going CATHOLIC ( universal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=99&v=ARd4lg7uPgU
Pray the Rosary daily !
“Did you ever go to a local NO at the regularly scheduled time for Confessions in the bulletin to find doors locked?”
No, I was one of the lucky ones I guess. I think that for most of my time in the NO, I was lucky to attend a “conservative” NO parish. Granted, there were never long lines for confession, but the NO priest was always there when he was supposed to be there.
“Two days later, Francis met with the so-called “Missionaries of Mercy,” the 1,000 member contingent of priests to whom he granted (as part of a “Jubilee of Mercy” PR stunt) the make-believe mandate to forgive sins allegedly “reserved to the Holy See” even though there are no such things.”
In preparation for the “Jubilee of Mercy” PR stunt, the canonization of the unsaint Faustyna Kowalska and the establishment of “Divine Mercy Sunday” based upon her Devil-inspired “inspirations” seems a first and major step in convincing the sheeple that God really does not judge anything as sinful.
Recall that prior to JPII, Sister Faustyna’s writings were condemned by the Church as clearly, she was not inspired by the Holy Ghost but by Satan, as a thorough review and exposition of her writings clearly shows.
You can access a thorough exposition of this demonic-inspired woman here:
http://www.mycatholicsource.com/mcs/ua/user_article-faustinas_divine_mercy_devotion.htm
Ask of my faithful servant [a priest] that, on this day, he tell the whole world of My great mercy; that whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.
— Diary 300
I was never comfortable with face to face confession. In the pre-V2 Church, the priest, in the privacy of the confessional, most times had no idea who was making their confession, nor did he need to know. The Sacrament of Penance absolves the sin. Our Lord knows who committed this sin and it is He who absolves the sincere penitent. Confession by appointment or face-to-face is often very stressful to penitents, especially those who are familiar with the priest. Anonymity allows for a more truthful and complete confession of sins. If counselling is needed, the priest may offer time to offer advice for various problems. The new way of doing things does not encourage the wonderful graces of this Sacrament. I think it frightens many away.
I agree of course 2 Cents. I remember the first face to face, well it was not quite that because there was a thin piece of cheesecloth hanging between us. It was with our pastor who taught our Religion Class in Seventh and Eighth grades. The same one who excitedly kept us up to date with what was being discussed during Vat 2.
I was very nervous so I wrote a sin cheat sheet so as not to forget anything. Naturally he asked what the paper was and of course he addressed me by name to add to my embarrassment. It was a horrible experience because this was the same priest who had it in for me for challenging him on his excitement about Vatican Two introducing the idea that there was no evil entity called the devil.
He said,”Of course I knew it had to be you XXXX, who had your sins listed.”
I guess I suffer with scrupulosity. But at least I Believe.
Katherine, I remember when the devotion first became popular reading that Sr Faustina was functionally illiterate and that the nuns in her convent wrote her diary based on what she told them. I do not know if that is true .
What seems strange to me is that the oldest Psalter in Christendom is the “Jesus Prayer” said by both Eastern and Western Christians but later traditionally held onto mainly by the Orthodox . “Lord Jesus ,Son of God , Have Mercy on me a sinner.”
Also straight from the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom ,the Thrice Holy Hymn chanted in every Eastern Catholic Church and in the
Orthodox (Masses ) aka Divine Liturgies, “Holy God , Holy and mighty ,Holy and immortal have mercy on us.”
Odd that Sr Faustina borrowed the same prayers chanted in the Eastern Churches all over the world both in the Catholic Eastern Rites and Orthodox.
Alphonsus Jr. – has anyone posted the recording of Fr. Relyea’s talk at the recent Catholic Family News conference in Chicago? I would be very interested in hearing that talk as well from Father. Pax
Yes indeed a devil inspired plot to distract and disarm the laity, even the picture of Our Lord without his most Sacred Heart. The rays coming out of his chest instead portraying a whirling Dervish. Is most disturbing and was also condemned.
I looked into what a whirling dervish is…it’s used in Sufi Islam where the men whirl in circles and open themselves up to receive some kind of spirit (evil spirit ) they deny themselves to the point of becoming supposed divine gods. The Ottoman Empire practiced this pagan stuff and is still practiced today in turkey. Pure evil.
I believe it was from the Sufi’s is where Enneagram originated KellyAnn, far removed from the ancient prayers of the Catholic Eastern Rite prayer origins. In fact it is the charismatics who brought in Enneagram . Nuveaux charismatic mystics like Eileen George of Worcester ,Mass who allegedly taught enneagram to nuns and who was a featured retreat master for seminarians and priests at the Malvern Retreat Ctr in PA. and even a frequent featured Speaker at St Peter and Paul Basilica in Philadelphia. This is the demonic that originated from the Eastern Sufis .
http://www.sufienneagram.com/overview.html
The Thrice Holy Hymn originated from the Early Church Fathers and monastics.
I have a relative who has been very involved in hypnotism, has gone to workshops and training centers, etc. He has always said that there are many Catholic priests and nuns involved in hypnotism and related practices, that they are frequently in attendance at those events.
I believe Divine Mercy devotions were intended to replace this:
http://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/promises-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus.html
Possibly because the charismatics and quasi neo cons and modernists
have latched onto it. I remember a priest i knew well who gathered a prayer group at a hospital to “heal” one woman’s husband who was dying of lung cancer. First he laid a Tilma replica on the man and then predicted he would rise well on Divine Mercy Sunday. Now he promotes the Cause for Maria Esperanza.
The poor man died shortly after DM Sunday and the reason given was that ,”Someone’s prayers were not pure enough.” Hmmm? could it have been the priest’s since the widow told friends he was, taking her out to comfort her after her husband died but she broke it off, ” because she did not want to be the cause of a priest leaving his vocation.”
Meanwhile, this same woman composed prayers and hosted a prayer group in which she would kneel in the center of the room reciting her own prayers….
She also promoted Eileen George the gnostic mystic along with numerous Bishops. I lost people I once considered to be friends thanks to this foolishness.
This all was around the time people were into Gobbi and having rosary gatherings in their homes. I had hopes more people reciting the rosary would redirect the Church and bring about the Fatima Consecration.
I read this on another site. Here I just include the opening and the ending paragraphs.
I wonder if the writer realized the Faithful would be left confused and tortured for all these years with no end in sight?
” In 1969, the Abbe Georges de Nantes warned against the grave danger of the temptation to schism, as he had a number of times during the turbulence during and following the Council. Since the Abbe’s warning in 1969, the confusion, the errors, the heresies, the liberalism (modernist and integrist) has only increased in the Church. On the one hand, we have the modernists seeking to undermine and overthrow the doctrines of the Church; sadly, on the other hand we have schismatic integrists who seek to throw off the visible, hierarchical structure of the Church, emancipating themselves from Her authority and jurisdiction, but in the process establishing yet another sect which God does not recognize, nor honour. ”
If the closing statement below is true , then what does one do if the “Church” has left the Faithful Traditional laity behind in the dust? Fine if you are a patient priest but not so good if you are a layperson .
“ The Church does not lie within us. It subsists in those very men whom we see busying themselves in her ruin and whom we nevertheless believe, by virtue of their apostolic jurisdiction, to be the bearers of Christ’s grace. We ourselves have no share in their powers of order and ministry except in the exact extent to which they delegate it to us. Thus, I am recognised as having the power to celebrate the Holy Mass, and this would be the case even if I were to be punished by an unjust excommunication (which God forbid !), provided that I then celebrate it in private and without the risk of scandal. I also retain the power to give absolution to those who are dying… I give thanks to the Church for these faculties which she allows me to keep. I make use of them and I will continue to do so. But to go beyond this would be to build a simulacrum of the Church outside the Church. Good heavens ! What would be the point ? To deceive myself into thinking that I could save everyone ? Ah, no ! When the schism of this Reform is over, I do not wish to be separated from the Church. ”
Psalm 106 …
27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
28 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses.
29 And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still.
It is no coincidence that on Low Sunday, the Gospel is centered on the Wounds of Christ; in the diabolical cult of Divine Mercy, we see a christ void of His Wounds. Satan can do a lot, but he can’t fully ape Christ.
Try telling the DM fanatics their devotion is wicked and there’ll take your head off while screaming “DISOBEDIENT SCHISMATIC!”
Sheeple gonna sheep.
They’ll*
I read that whole piece allegedly by the Abbe Georges de Nantes and thought about it for awhile.
Questions.
So the clerics are the Church and we are not?
If they all believe what he said , why would we think the Dubia brothers or any other Prelates would do a thing to correct this roller coaster to hell?
Was this posted to discredit ArchBishop Lefebvre?
if so than this was the worse piece of clericalism I have read in a long time. The Abbe says he would be fine because he could celebrate the Mass for himself but what about the laity?
How much weight should we put into excommunication when it is used falsely as with Cardinal Cushing and Fr Feeney whose alleged excommunication was never registered or approved by the Vatican.
The so called Crusaders who participated in the false Fourth Crusade were excommunicated for stealing and or trafficking in Eastern relics . Next Pope lifted the excommunication and the relics were never returned.
Freemasons incurred excommunication and then allegedly that was lifted ,according to many Catholic sites.
one man wrote to me and said St Athanasius was excommunicated and later became a Saint for his defense against the Arian Bishops.
No wonder Jesus pondered if upon his return if He would find any Faith left on earth.
Good Monday morning Sweep…,
Step out of the paradigm which you have constructed above, just for a moment. Paradigm–a set of principles, praxis, beliefs, and supposition–essentially. There are of course paradigms which demonstrate ideological truth as Truth and most of course, as all human ideology, demonstrate truth as deception, consequent to the stain of Original Sin as concupiscence, the allure of this world, and the temptation of the devil, ultimately leading to the vice of despair; if left unchecked by freely blocking the reception of grace, which perfects our fallen nature. Both circumstances are perfectly real, it’s just that one of them and of course, truth as Truth, is of Christ Jesus and the other is of Antichrist and his prince, as the Prince of this world, Lucifer.
What do we know definitively, as must any pious 12 year old in the state of grace at the very pain of Hell itself, and as it relates to the questions you posit above? The Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, as commanded into being by the Son of God, made true Man, founded upon Blessed Peter as Her rock, and as expressed in the objective realm of reality as the Credo by any human person who holds the true Faith in the operation of his will, simply can NEVER err on matters of Faith and Morals, period and end. She is infallibly protected by the charism of the Holy Ghost, as commanded by Jesus the Christ, in Matthew 16:18,19. As we are bound also and by the pain of an eternity in Hell, to the governance of the true as Holy Roman Pontiff, there is the negative protection of infallibility given the Pontiff in his governing capacity, as minimally this negative protection. How do we know this? We know it by holding the Catholic Faith and Her consequent sensus fidelium, as Christ Jesus with divine certitude, simply cannot bind His human creatures to error, period and end. To suggest otherwise is pure blasphemy, as that same 12 year old would know.
The “excommunication” of which you write, which indeed does occur in the moment of a man’s free and willful assent into his membership in the Craft, was never removed by a true Successor of Saint Peter, as the excommunication was removed by a pope of the church of the Antichrist, as Giovanni Batista Montini, period and end. Montini cannot be a Pontiff in the succession of Blessed Peter, as he bound himself, as have all of the false popes since Pius XII, to the so called “Ecumenical Council of Vatican II”, which places an affront to the very Credo, which establishes one’s faith in the One True Faith, in the external realm of being, period and end. L.G. 16 in the objective realm of reality, tacitly denies the very divine Person of Jesus the Christ, as it denies the Triune Personhood of Almighty God. What did Christ Jesus command? “He who denies Me, I will deny before the Father.” What does that mean? He who denies Jesus the Christ is damned to an eternity in Hell, deFide, as extra ecclesia nulla salus. Also, “He who denies Me, denies the One Who sent Me.”. Therefore, L.G. 16, which declares that the Mohammadens, “…along with us adore the one and merciful God,…” (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html), simply cannot be the teaching of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, commanded into being by the Son of God, period and end. This again, must be known by a pious 12 year old in the state of grace with the very pain of an eternity in Hell itself. Amen. Alleluia. I do pray this helps, as our eternal salvation rests in the balance. In caritas.
In Caritas,
Rosary in hand , Ave Maria on the lips. Hope.
Dear sweep–I know In Caritas’s post was meant for you. However, my poor intellect cannot decipher long and deep comments. I try to read his (her) responses which are generally very long and I quit midway through. Can you interpret In Caritas’s comment to you so that I may benefit also. Thank you, sweep. In Caritas, this is not a criticism. I’m sure you have much to offer to those you read your posts. God bless both of you.
In Caritas basically says that the Church is infaillable and Vatican 2 taught heresy so it cannot be from the Church nor can those who hold to it be from the Church. Those who deny even one iota of what the Church teaches are not members of the Church. In other posts he goes on to say that this is a hard truth to accept, but accept we must to be saved.
By the way, the entire work of St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church and described as Doctor of the Papacy, has now been translated (cited in quote below). The quote that the “Resistance” likes to use regarding resisting a Pope who destroys the Church was taken out of context, in that he was not speaking of an heretical Pope. He goes on later to say, in so many words, that if a Pope were to fall into heresy, he would automatically lose office.
He also restates infallible Church teaching, which destroys the notion of “Resistance”, in the following:
“The Pope is the Teacher and Shepherd of the whole Church, thus, the whole Church is so bound to hear and follow him that if he would err, the whole Church would err.
Now our adversaries respond that the Church ought to hear him so long as he teaches correctly, for God must be heard more than men.
On the other hand, who will judge whether the Pope has taught rightly or not? For it is not for the sheep to judge whether the shepherd wanders off, not even and especially in those matters which are truly doubtful. Nor do Christian sheep have any greater judge or teacher to whom they might have recourse. As we showed above, from the whole Church one can appeal to the Pope yet, from him no one is able to appeal; therefore necessarily the whole Church will err if the Pontiff would err.”
(De Romano Pontifice, Book IV, Chapter 3; Grant translation.)
Furthermore, he destroys the notion (lie) that a number of Popes were heretics.
A good book for anyone to read is “The Present Crisis of the Holy See, A Warning About Antichrist”, by Cardinal Manning (1861).
“The revolt and separation must come…the Sacrifice shall cease and…the Son of Man shall hardly find faith on earth…All these passages are understood of the affliction which Antichrist shall cause in the Church…But the Church… shall not fail, and shall be fed and preserved amidst the deserts and solitudes to which She shall retire, as the Scripture says, (Apoc. Ch. 12).”
-St. Francis de Sales
“It is true that [the Mass] will cease on earth at the time of the Antichrist: the Sacrifice of the Mass is to be suspended…according to the prophecy of Daniel 12:11.” – St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Taken from His book the Holy Eucharist
“St. Alphonsus goes on to explain ( In His book Holy Eucharist ), however, that in reality the Sacrifice and priesthood never will cease since “the Son of God, Eternal Priest, will always continue to offer Himself to God, the Father, in Heaven as an Eternal Sacrifice.”
Thanks, Tom A. In other words, Vatican II, which is heretical, could not have come from the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the True Church founded by Christ Himself, because the True Church is infallible. Anyone who adheres to the V2 false church is not a member of the Church established by Our Lord. If this interpretation is correct, I am in agreement. Thank you for this simple explanation.
Dearest my2cents,
Amen. Alleluia. As our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ commanded: Seek the Truth and you shall find it. He never led us to believe that it would be easy. Quite the contrary: “If any man is to come after Me, he must first deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.” The Truth is hard but He is a divine Person and His name is Jesus the Christ, Son of the Living God and He commanded: “You think I came to bring peace. I came to bring the sword.”, as it is in division where the truth as Truth springs forth and is plainly seen. Amen. For it is the sheep who hear His voice, He calls their name as He knows them, and they follow Him. The true Shepherd is simply known by the true sheep. Amen. This is the sensus fidelis and it is antithetical to protestantism, which is antichrist, whereby the sheep hear the false shepherd, as their own voice–sola-scriptura–a self-interpretation of the Holy Writ established immanently, without the discernment of the Holy Ghost, contrary to Holy Tradition. Amen. I pray you continue to be open to His Truth as Truth Himself. God bless you and yours’, all the days of your life. In caritas.
Dearest A Simple Beggar,
Thank you for these words: the true, the beautiful, and the good, of the holy Saints of our Holy Mother the Church. Amen. Alleluia. It was proper for Saint Robert Bellarmine to mention the possibility of an Holy Roman Pontiff falling into heresy, although he greatly doubted that could ever happen, and his doubt was of course the truth as Truth, as later defined precisely by the only true Vatican Council in Her 4th Session in July, 1870. Amen. As you well know, it is now blasphemy to entertain any possibility that any true Holy Roman Pontiff can EVER lose his personal faith, which has always been–this knowing that the Pontiff could never lose his personal faith–simply in keeping with the sensus fidelis, as now defined definitively, period and end. With this reality as Truth, the so called “R&R” charlatans continue to blaspheme God thus, suggesting that apostates to the Faith could actually be Christ’s Vicars, while at once actually guarding His True Church, with the great masquerader Lefebvre and his SSPX, sorrowfully as the first. Lefebvre simply had no excuse, as this was defined in 1870, and therefore he blasphemed Almighty God, period and end; objectively dying thus outside the True Church. Amen. Lefebvre and his SSPX, what I’ve simply come to know as Lucifer’s, “pious deception”. As you have written, A Simple Beggar, Lucifer simply has all of the, “escape routes”, covered. Could it be any other way with the true Vicar of Christ as, “he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way”, now gone from this world for the past 60 years and counting, unto the end, the very consummation of the world? The truth as Truth is indeed very, very, very, hard but the true sheep hear His voice and they follow Him alone, to the slaughter if He so Wills. Amen. Alleluia.
As you first alerted me to 2 Thes 2 some months ago now, it is clear that we are there. All of these things now in our midst, as commanded by our Lord and our God, the Christ, as the chosen One of God, Amen, in Matthew 24, for instance. And again as a matter of the sensus fidelis, 2 Thes 2 commands that the Holy Roman Pontiff will be, “taken out of the way”, in the prophesied time, Amen. It is all consistent, as it can only be, and as infinitely understood. The Victim and the Sacrifice could only “fail”, as prophesied in Matt 24:15 and Daniel 9:27, when the Holy Roman Pontiff as the one and true Vicar of Christ Jesus our Lord and our God is, “taken out of the way”, as, “he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.” Those who hold the true Faith know the Shepherd’s voice, as He knows them, and when they hear His voice, they follow Him, in utter spite of themselves, Amen. The ad hominem a mere taste, a glimpse, of what is to come. So be it. As Saint Paul prophesied then in 2 Thes 2: 6-11:
“And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.”
May Almighty God continue to richly bless you, A Simple Beggar. In caritas.
Dear In Caritas,
Thank you again for your kind words (AMDG). By the way, I was not surprised in the least regarding your change of position. I expected it might very well happen. Brace yourself for the incredibly heavy crosses to follow. I sometimes wish that there was a way for combox folks to get in touch. May Jesus Christ, who is The Truth, continue to bless and reward you with His Grace. Amen. Alleluia. -ASB
P.S. I read this quip somewhere. When one finally possesses Supernatural Faith, the outrageous contradiction is exposed in such simple clarity:
SSPX slogan: “Where Peter is, is not the Church; where the Catholic Church is, there is a non-Catholic Church.”
“To this Magisterium Christ the Lord imparted immunity from error… God Himself made the Church a sharer in the divine Magisterium and by His divine benefit unable to be mistaken.”
(Pope Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri, #16 & 18, December 31, 1929)