Do
Not Abandon the Church
Recently
I wrote to the people in a group in which we meet every Friday to
pray and to encourage each other in the period of great confusion in
the Church. Today the world and the Church is on the left side,
liberal, with the presumption of the love and mercy of God, with no
obligation to live what we say in the Act of Contrition: “I firmly
resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the
near occasion of sin” (“Who Decides The
Truth?”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html;
https://www.scribd.com/doc/229388195/Who-Decides-the-Truth)!
Thus there is the tendency to go toward
the other extreme, to the right, and even to leave the Body of
Christ, the Spouse of Christ, the Church,
believing to find the true Church in another group. Today the Church
is full of more Judas Iscariots than ever before. It is now that the
Church needs faithful faithful on their knees before the Blessed
Sacrament with the Holy Rosary. Saint Thomas Aquinas tells us that
virtue lies between the two extremes; today with so many on the left
side in subjectivism and relativism, there is a great temptation to
go too far to the right and to lose true humility. We must not
compromise with the truth as so many do today, but at the same time
we must recognize that we are sinners and we must not abandon the
Church crucified today due to more sins than ever before.
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Dear
friends of the Friday group,
Our
Friday group is a group of sinners.
This is why we do the Way of the Cross every Friday in order to
penetrate the mystery that if I were the only person on the face of
the earth, Jesus would have done all that suffering only for me.
Visit: “The Great Gift of the Cross”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/09/the-great-gift-of-cross.html;
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/the-great-gift-of-the-cross/;
https://www.scribd.com/document/358989258/The-Great-Gift-of-the-Cross).
Our
group is not a group in which we believe that we are less sinners
than others. I wrote in my article to the neocatecumens, “The
Infinite God Among Us” (“Il Dio Infinito Fra Noi”;
http://cibo-spir.blogspot.it/2014/01/il-dio-infinito-fra-noi.html):
“When
one reads the diary of Saint Faustina, one sees that while she
progressed in union with Jesus, she was MORE
AND MORE AWARE OF HER MISERY, and at
the same time more trustful in the mercy of God with much gratitude
toward God for this inestimable gift of His mercy! Instead,
very often, the more that we go forward in an ecclesial movement or
in or priestly ministry, we believe to be less pitiful and more
worthy to stand before God and men. And
when a person does not do what he must do according to our criteria
as leaders in an ecclesial movement or as a pastor of a parish,
instead of trying to understand the situation and the motives of the
person, who often we treat this person badly, very badly. Is this the
way to love our neighbor as ourselves? What remains after death for
all eternity, a great work that we believe to have done or our
personal virtue? Saint Bonaventure and many other saints tell us that
without humility there is not virtue, and there is also spiritual
blindness! Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said on May 27 1998: “…
THERE IS MANIFESTED MANY DANGERS,
as well as the ways of overcoming, in the (ecclesial) Movement. THERE
IS THE THREAT OF UNILATERALITY
which leads to exaggerating the specific mandate which has its origin
in a given period or in strength of a particular charism … is a
fact THAT CAN LEAD TO ABSOLUTIZING
one’s own movement, which ends up identifying itself with the
Church herself, to understand itself as the way for all while in fact
this one way can be made known in different ways.” … “THERE IS
A STRONG TENDENCY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE ECCLESIAL MOVEMENTS TO
“ABSOLUTIZING ONES OWN MOVEMENT” especially today when we find
ourselves more than ever in a social, cultural and spiritual crisis
at all levels. But we priests must seek that maturity to not run from
this lack of maturity which suffocates the life which is there, but
to stand with Mary at the foot of the cross, waiting with patience
and with our example, their Christian maturity. One makes a journey
of faith and maturity together, each respecting the role and vocation
of the other. (see also:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_30121988_christifideles-laici_en.html)”
(“The Neocatecumenal Mass”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html).
The
martyrs of the first centuries of the Church,
did not hold a vengeance against their murderers and thus attracted
many new followers to the new Christian religion because people never
saw before anything similar, that is the great persecution and
injustice without vengeance or rancor, but forgiveness from the
heart.
I
wrote in my article, “The Eucharist in
the Catacombs”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/10/the-eucharist-in-catacombs.html;
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/the-eucharist-in-the-catacombs/;
https://www.scribd.com/document/361581452/The-Eucharist-in-the-Catacombs):
“Do
not seek a perfect Catholic group with people who have put themselves
above the TRUE Magisterium of the
Church, as did the Donatists in the
time of Saint Augustine, and many groups in the history of the
Catholic Church, but rather remain with Mary at the foot of the cross
as the Body of Christ, the Church, is being humiliated and crucified
in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21; CCC 677).
The schismatic traditionalist groups, where there is very often
present spiritual blindness and proof texting and a priori deductions
if things do not fit into their scheme or idea (e.g., Mass bad –
therefore the Second Vatican Council bad, without studying the
documents of the council, and popes afterwards bad etc.), have
convinced many Catholics that the Novus Ordo Mass of the Second
Vatican Council is invalid. But as explained above, in the Novus Ordo
Mass, all the four essential elements are present; below you can also
read that “the other parts of the Eucharistic prayer are, according
to St. Ambrose (also quoted in Summa Theologica), essentially
preparatory”. If a priest obeys the Liturgical Books of the
Catholic Church, the Novus Ordo Mass is to be celebrated with the
same reverence and respect as is expected from a priest who
celebrates the Tridentine Mass following the Liturgical Books which
regard the Tridentine Mass. In the early 60’s in California, I was
an altar boy and one of the priests of our parish celebrated the
Tridentine Mass in less than 20 minutes every day. The real problem
here is in the heart and in the faith of the priests and bishops and
of the lay people. If the majority, and even the great majority, of
the bishops and priests and lay people are no longer willing to obey
the Liturgical Books or even the Catechism of the Catholic Church for
adults and have slipped into the worship of man instead of remaining
faithful to their calling as Christians to worship God, “to adore
God alone”, what could Pope Paul VI,
Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict do to
remedy the problem?
As I
wrote in “Letter to fellow Priests”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html):
“Archbishop
Fulton Sheen said: “The truth is the
truth even if no one believes it; error is error even if everyone
believes it.” Many Catholics actually believe today, in our climate
of relativism, that the truth is established by the majority of
people or perhaps by the priests, bishops or the pope; few Catholics
realize today that God not only establishes the Truth, but God is the
Truth (Jn 14:6), Who is immutable! In this period before the second
coming of Jesus Christ, “that day will not come, unless THE
REBELLION (APOSTASY) COMES FIRST”
(2Thess 2:3); this indicates that the majority, if not the great
majority of Catholics at all levels in the Church will follow the
very attractive “apostasy” which will seem the best way, the
right way, the most merciful way, the most loving way, the most
ecumenical way, the most merciful way, presented by “angels of
light” (2Cor 11:14), who give their approval and blessing without
any exhortation to “promise with the help of thy grace to sin no
more and to avoid the near occasions of sin” (Act of Contrition)!
Christianity without the cross of Christ! These are the liberals who
in the past left the Church on the “port side” (left side) of the
Bark of Peter, while there are many who leave the Bark of Peter on
the “starboard side”, (the right side) of the Bark of Peter, the
schismatic traditionalists, by putting themselves above the teachings
of the Magisterium of the Church, above the Truth which cannot change
since it is part of the Divinely Revealed Truth…” (“Is the Pope
Catholic? - The Greatest Schism in Catholic Church History!”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html).
The schismatic traditionalists seek to maintain their feeling of
importance in triumphalism and clericalism
that was rather strong before the Second Vatican Council.
THERE
IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONALISTS AND SCHISMATIC
TRADITIONALISTS. To be a traditionalist
is very good because it means to hold on to traditions and the
immutable truth from God. But schismatic traditionalists have put
themselves over and above the authentic Magisterium of the Church
just as so many groups have done in the 2000 year history of the
Church. There is much to be said about the value of the beauty of the
Tridentine Mass to help people realize the greatness of God and to
draw our attention toward God primarily and not to man primarily. But
there is also much to be said about the benefits of using also the
vernacular language at the proper moments of the Mass as the
Liturgical Books of the Church indicate. When the Mass was celebrated
only in Latin, it was more difficult to change things so as to shift
the emphasis and attention from God to man as many wanted to do. Many
people were not seeking to discover what God wanted but what man
wanted. By offering more options in the Sacred Liturgy at the Second
Vatican Council, it became easier for those who were not first
seeking God’s will and desires, to improvise and make the
exceptions, provided in the Liturgical Books of the Church, the rule
to fit what they wanted, putting man instead of God as the primary
focus of the Holy Mass. But you cannot put handcuffs on everyone! God
does not force anyone to seek his holy will so as to truly live the
Our Father: “THY will be done”. No one goes to heaven by chance
and no one goes to hell by chance. God respects totally our free
choice; no one is predestined to hell as Calvin taught. Another
example of this manipulation within the Mass is that Communion in the
hand was not only started in disobedience, but was perpetuated by
deception. Visit: “The History of Communion in the Hand”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/12/history-communion-in-hand.html).
THERE
IS AN ENORMOUS AND FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE
between negating an ecumenical council (more than 2000 bishops
present) and saying that we have arrived to the prophecies of Saint
Francis of Assisi, Blessed Catherine Emmerich, Saint Hildegard
(doctor of the Church), Bruno Cornacchiola
(Book: Il Veggente, by Saverio Gaeta) and
others regarding THE ONE (not many false popes!) FALSE
POPE! As with all ecumenical councils
in the history of the Church, the documents of the Second Vatican
Council were protected by the Holy Spirit; it was the organized
misinterpretation and dissemination of this misinterpretation of the
Second Vatican Council that caused all the problems and disunity and
negative fruits – the “Spirit of Vatican Two!” You cannot force
faith or obedience. God Himself does not force anyone to spend
eternity with Him in heaven; this is why after death there are two
eternal places, one where there is God Who is the Truth, and one
where there is not God but the “father of lies” (Jn 8:44). God
totally respects the free choice of each person. If a person does not
want to be with God every day in this short life - in prayer and in
living the Our Father, “THY will be done” - at death, it is not
God who sends this person to the place where there is not God, but
this person willingly throws himself or herself into the eternal
place where there is not God. “The chief punishment of hell is
eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035). Visit: “The
Great Difficulty In Overcoming Pharisaism - The Difference Between
Schismatic Traditionalism and the False Pope Prophecies”
(http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html).”
I
AM A CATHOLIC. It is very important to
keep in mind some very fundamental Truths. One Truth that may seem
obvious, but no longer today in an atmosphere totally dominated by
subjectivism and relativism, is that the
Truth comes from God, not from me or any other creature and also not
from the Church, and thus no priest,
bishop or pope can change the Truth of Divine Revelation which is
well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults. I
am not referring to the catechism that Bergoglio published this year,
2017! I am referring to the CCC published in 1992 by Pope John Paul
II which the very numerous puppets of our mortal enemy, Satan, have
managed to get the great majority of the diocese in the world to
forget about, or to put aside or to scorn, especially in most
seminaries, as old and out of date for out new “modern church”!
Our Lady referred to this catechism of Pope John Paul II:
“The
great trial has come for the Church, so violated by the evil spirits,
so divided in its unity, so darkened in its holiness. See how error
has flooded throughout it, error which leads to the loss of the true
faith. Apostasy is spreading everywhere. A
special gift of my Immaculate Heart for these times of yours is the
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, which MY Pope has wished to
promulgate, to be as it were HIS SHINING LAST TESTAMENT.
But how many are those pastors who grope about in the mist, become
speechless out of fear or compromise, and who no longer defend their
flocks from the many rapacious wolves! Many priestly and consecrated
lives have become dried up by impurity, seduced by pleasures and the
search for comfort and well-being. The faithful are being drawn in by
the enticements of a world which has become pagan, or by the
countless sects which are spreading more and more. …” (Our Lady
to Don Stefano Gobbi; January 1, 1993).
The
schismatic traditionalist groups put themselves above the Second
Vatican Council, and thus above Pope
Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. What can a good
pope do if the great majority of the bishops do not obey? Pope
Benedict tried in every way to have a “Reform of the Reform” of
the liturgy, and also to convince the neocatecumens to obey the
liturgical books for the celebration of the Holy Mass. From my
experience, losing my sister, brother-in-law, with seven children,
and my Mother in the sedevacantists groups, it is very difficult to
come out of this mentality of superiority, from the “Trilogy
of Devils in the Church: Triumphalism, Clericalism and Juridicalism”
which the Second Vatican Council tried to overcome. It was difficult
for me to leave a schismatic traditionalist group in 1983 (“The
Cult At Necedah, Wisconsin”; http://necedah-cult.blogspot.com).
“It
is not easy to criticize oneself in order to discover the causes of
the problems as well as the solutions.
But the Church actually succeeded in listening to her critics and
then translated this into a self criticism precisely at the
Second Vatican Council. The Church
arrived at a rather high level of maturity at the council. But has
this maturity arrived yet in our dioceses and in our parishes after
fifty years since the council? … The manifold Catholic attack
against triumphalism goes hand in glove with a desire to sustain the
spirituality of the Church. This is one of the essential elements of
the new ecclesiological way of thinking apparent at the council. It
wanted no new dogma, no new definition of the Church that would
clarify everything. Rather, with the hierarchy in mind in a most
existential sense, it was a summons to
complete and utter humility. The
Church was being told to remember that it followed the Lord who came
not to be served but to serve” (Mk 10:45) (“Evangelization
VS the Trilogy of Devils in the Church: Triumphalism, Clericalism and
Juridicalism”; http://trueevangelization.blogspot.com).
I
wrote in my article, “The Great Difficulty In Overcoming Pharisaism
- The Difference Between Schismatic Traditionalism and the False Pope
Prophecies”
(http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html):
“Before
the Second Vatican Council, people stayed away from topics that could
lead to the slippery slope. When
children are young, parents say, “Do as I tell you!” But when
their children are older the parents explain more and more fully the
motives of their rules for their children, which opens up the
opportunity for the children to accept or reject the motives of the
rules of their parents. Many children, who trust more in themselves
instead of in their parents, are looking for an excuse to take the
easier way. Over a hundred years ago, many people were still working
on the farm and did not have a chance to study too much, and thus
accepted readily the simple explanation of the parish priest
regarding faith and morals. But now many people have a college
education and ask questions and rightly so. In a certain sense, God
further explained the rules of the Church at the Second Vatican
Council; the Holy Spirit brought the Church to a higher level of
maturity. But many Catholics did as do irresponsible children who
were LOOKING FOR THE EASIEST WAY INSTEAD
OF LOOKING TO PLEASE GOD IN CHILDLIKE TRUST.
So many immature Catholics were seeking to use religion for their own
benefit on this earth, to find approval for their egotistical desires
and their definition of truth as did Adam and Eve (Gen 3:4-5),
instead of using religion to discover and do the holy will of God.
Thus God has now given these very numerous spoiled arrogant children
in the Church, and in the world, what they wanted as St. Francis
prophesied:
2.
The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate
purity of our religious community and of others, will wither to the
point that very few Christians will want
to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with a
sincere heart and perfect charity. At
the decisive moment of this crisis, a
personage not canonically elected,
raised to the Pontificate, will
endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his
error.” (“The “Prophecy” of Saint
Francis (Assisi)”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html).
“After
the Second Vatican Council many did not obey the documents and
SHREWDLY SHIFTED THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION
FROM GOD TO MAN.
Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist said in an
interview of 2001:
The
Second Vatican Council asked that some texts be revised. Disobeying
this command, they set about re-writing them completely with no
thought for the danger of making things worse instead of better. So
many rites came off badly from this mania to throw out the old and
start from scratch, as if the Church to date had always conned us and
as if only now the time had at last come of the great geniuses, the
super theologians, the super-biblists and the super-liturgists who
know what the right thing is for the Church. This is a lie: the last
Council simply asked that the texts be revised, not destroyed.”
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html).
… Pope John Paul II as well as Pope Benedict ordered in a very
clear way the members of the Neocatecumenal Way to obey and
faithfully follow the liturgical books of the Church; the
three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way refused to obey these two
popes. Visit: “The Neocatecumenal
Mass”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html)
(“Letter to fellow Priests”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
The
“very few Christians” who “obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and
the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity” are now
looking for guidance in a Church full of confusion, and with “a
personage not canonically elected,
raised to the Pontificate, will
endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his
error”. There is now no longer unity under the Divine Revelation
infallibly explained by the authentic Magisterim of the Church but
there is unity under a dictator who will not dialogue with anyone,
including cardinals, who are not in agreement with him, that is,
those who maintain the absolute necessity to remain faithful to the
revealed Truth, who is Christ (Jn 14:6), and thus cannot change with
the world and with the whims of men, not even “an iota, not a dot,
will pass from the law until all is accomplished” (Mt 5:17-18;
24,35). Those with a sincere heart will suffer with those who do not
want to obey the authentic Magisterium of the Church especially
regarding sexual morality and the progressive destruction of the Holy
Mass to arrive at the ultimate
“DESOLATING SACRILEGE” (Mt 24:15;
Mk 13:14; 2Thess 2:3-4; Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11)! Many of these “very
few Christians”, not having studied theology have been led to put
the blame on the documents of the Second Vatican Council instead of
the organized promulgation of a false interpretation of the
documents, the “spirit of Vatican Two”. Few people, including
most priests and bishops today, have the discipline in theological
thought and problems to do as Saint Thomas
Aquinas wrote: Rarely affirm, seldom deny, ALWAYS DISTINGUISH. In
most seminaries today there is no longer taught courses on logic and
cosmology.
This
is why POPE JOHN PAUL II
(AMONG MANY OTHER OCCASIONS) SPOKE FIRMLY TO THE US BISHOPS AGAINST
THIS "PICK AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORD
TYPE CATHOLICISM" in LA in his
September 1987 visit: "It is sometimes reported that a large
number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Church
on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal morality,
divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting the
Church's clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that
there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in
their adherence to the Church's moral teachings. It is sometimes
claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with
being a “good Catholic” and poses no obstacle to the reception of
the sacraments. THIS IS A GRAVE ERROR
that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United
States and elsewhere. I wish to encourage you in the love of Christ
to address this situation courageously in your pastoral ministry,
relying on the power of God's truth to attract assent and on the
grace of the Holy Spirit which is given both to those who proclaim
the message and to those to whom it is addressed."
(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1987/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19870916_vescovi-stati-uniti_en.html).
When
one has acquired a logical way of thinking and theological discipline
one understands the great danger of lumping just about everything
into the category of grey instead of analysing the small black dots
and white background. Either Christ gave us an infallible guide on
earth regarding faith and morals, or Christ did not give us an
infallible guide on earth regarding faith and morals which would
leave us totally in our own subjectivism and relativism which would
lead to our destruction.
Lumen
Gentium 25 clearly teaches that the documents of an ecumenical
council are INFALLIBLE (CCC 891). The
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 888-892;
www.vatican.va/archive/ccc/)
tell us that the doctrines of the Church are essential in order to
arrive to sanctity. “When the Church through its supreme
Magisterium proposes a doctrine “for belief as being divinely
revealed,” and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions “must
be adhered to with the obedience of faith.” This infallibility
extends as fare as the deposit of divine Revelation itself” (CCC
891). But to the ordinary teaching of the Church “the faithful are
to adhere to it with religious assent” which, though distinct from
the assent of faith, is nonetheless an extension of it” (CCC 892).
Thus the documents in an ecumenical council
express in human language the absolute truths which cannot be
changed, EVEN BY A FUTURE POPE FOR APPARENTLY GOOD MOTIVES TO MAKE
THE NON CATHOLICS FEEL MORE AT EASE (at a Catholic Mass!) (false
ecumenism, false mercy, false love!)! Before the New World Order
totally manifests itself, there is needed to be in place a one world
religion which “will be emptied of all divine content and will be
the mystical body of the antichrist” (read the words of Cardinal
Biffi and Archbishop Fulton Sheen, visit:
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/02/resignation-of-pope-benedict.html).
The Church is the handmaid of the Truth and not the Author of the
Truth which is God! The Truth is absolute even though we are living
in a world today in which the culture totally refuses the possibility
of the absolute Truth. These very numerous modern “enlightened”
people of today say that the Truth must change according to the
world, according to the consensus of the majority, and even according
to each individual; this is exactly relativism which Pope Benedict
XVI said is "the most profound difficulty of our time"!
But
even though we are in the time of the New World Order as well as the
infiltration of the Catholic Church by the ecclesiastical masonry, as
explained above, the Holy Spirit protected the veracity of the
teachings of the authentic Magisterium of the Church up to “a
personage NOT CANONICALLY ELECTED,
raised to the Pontificate”, which of
course is not part of the authentic
Magisterium of the Church.
Before
the Second Vatican Council there was the strong tendency in the
Church to believe that only the truth, that is the Catholic Church,
has the right to be promoted publicly; the other Churches or groups
must remain in the closet. But the council fathers, seeing the
Church persecuted in more and more hostile countries, realized that
every person or group has the right to promote his or her or their
belief publicly due to the human dignity of each person as long as
one does not interfere with the rights of others, i.e., public peace,
public order and public morality (DH
7); this is the principle of promoting religion or the faith on the
basis of the dignity of each person. This was a change in DISCIPLINE
of how religion is promoted; it was NOT A CHANGE IN FAITH OR MORALS,
as the schismatic traditionalists claim. We see that in the document,
“Dignitatis
Humanae”, it is very clear that the
Church teaches against indifferentism and against subjectivism: “All
men are bound to seek the truth, especially in what concerns God and
his Church, and to embrace it and hold on to it as they come to know
it. The sacred Council likewise proclaims that these obligations
bind man’s conscience. … So while the religious freedom which men
demand in fulfilling their obligation to worship God has to do with
freedom from coercion in civil society, it leaves intact the
traditional Catholic teaching on the moral duty of individuals and
societies towards the true religion and the one Church of Christ”
(DH 1).
(http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html.
Visit: “The Declaration of Religious
Liberty”;
http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/religious-liberty-of-vcii.html).
Schismatic
traditionalists maintain that there is no salvation outside the
‘VISIBLE’ Catholic Church. But how do they explain someone in
China who never heard about Jesus Christ? Do they then believe in
predestination to hell as Calvin believed? Thus again the Second
Vatican Council explained in greater detail and clarity the
dictum "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" without falling into
either a false triumphalism or indifferentism. (“Ecclesiology of
the Catholic Church”;
http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/ecclesiology-of-vcii.html).
A Catholic "is not saved, however, who, though part of the body
of the Church, does not persevere in charity" (Lumen
Gentium, no. 14).
“This is the one Church of Christ
which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic,
which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to
shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with
authority, which He erected for all ages as "the pillar and
mainstay of the truth". This Church constituted and organized in
the world as a society, SUBSISTS in the Catholic Church, which
is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion
with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are
found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts
belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward
catholic unity. Just as Christ carried out the work of redemption in
poverty and persecution, so the Church is called to follow the same
route that it might communicate the fruits of salvation to men.
Christ Jesus, "though He was by nature God . . . emptied
Himself, taking the nature of a slave", and "being
rich, became poor" for our sakes. Thus, the Church, although
it needs human resources to carry out its mission, is not set up to
seek earthly glory, but to proclaim, even by its own example,
humility and self-sacrifice.” (Lumen Gentium, no. 8;
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html).
Visit also: “The Impact and Interpretation of 'Subsists In'
(Vatican II)”
(http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/subsists-in.html).
There
is a great human temptation to want to feel better than others, do
dominate over others while seeing this tendency only in others, to
not follow the example of Christ who said to those who truly want to
follow Him: “Take my yoke upon you, and LEARN
FROM ME; for I am gentle and lowly in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light” (Mt 11:29-30).
The
Second Vatican Council also explains
that a person born into a protestant family is not automatically
culpable of being outside the one visible Church that Christ founded,
the Catholic Church, and that such a person can correspond with the
grace of God to live the Gospel better than many baptized Catholics.
Just as grace and truth can subsist
anywhere (wherever the Spirit blows), so too, grace
and truth can subsist in other churches.
"Nevertheless, many elements of sanctification and of truth are
found outside its visible confines. … Moreover, some and even very
many of the significant elements and endowments which together go to
build up and give life to the Church itself, can exist outside the
visible boundaries of the Catholic Church: the written word of God;
the life of grace; faith, hope and charity, with the other interior
gifts of the Holy Spirit, and visible elements too. All of these,
which come from Christ and lead back to Christ, belong by right to
the one Church of Christ” (Unitatis Redintegratio, no. 3;
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html.
Visit: “Ecclesiology of the Catholic
Church”;
http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/ecclesiology-of-vcii.html).
Visit:
“A Common Sense Rebuttal to Schismatic
Traditionalists and Sedevacantists”
(http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2008/03/rebuttal-to-schismatic-traditionalists.html;
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/rebuttal-to-schismatic-traditionalists-1/).
In
the article, “Is the Pope Catholic? - The Greatest Schism in
Catholic Church History!”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/05/is-pope-catholic.html):
“In
the New World Religion, as Archbishop Fulton Sheen (and Cardinal
Biffi) pointed out years ago: “The false
church will be worldly, ecumenical (false), and global. It will be a
loose federation of churches, religions forming some type of global
association, a world parliament of churches. It will be emptied
of all divine content and will be the
mystical body of the antichrist.” Thus we see now that Bishop
Fellay is coming together with “Pope Francis” because “Pope
Francis” has indicated that the
doctrinal issues are not so important!!!
Let us put aside the uncomfortable truth, Who is Jesus Christ, so as
to be all together in a worldwide brotherly fraternity of “peace
and love” as did thousands of youth, the “Flower Children”,
from the summer of 1965 to the culmination of the “summer of love”
in 1967 in California in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco in search of
peace, love and freedom (from all rules from any authority) with
music, LSD and poetry! Did God give us rules, the Ten Commandments,
for our good or for our evil? Do God’s laws offer true love and
true freedom or false love and false freedom? Is it possible to have
true love without any rules or restrictions? Do we trust our Creator
or do we trust ourselves?
“SSPX’s
Bishop Fellay: Little by Little Rome Is Giving Us All We Need for
Reconciliation” - “But the French-Swiss SSPX leader has learned
how to communicate with this Pope, by acknowledging that Francis
often seems to view doctrine as an obstacle to leading people to
Jesus. For the Pope, Bishop Fellay said, “what is important is
life, it’s the person, and so he tries to look at the person, and
there, if I may say, he’s very human”…
Certainly
he doesn’t agree with us on these points on the Council which we
are attacking. Definitely he doesn’t. But for him, as the
doctrine is not so important — it is
man, the people, who are important — there we have given enough
proof that we are Catholics.” (“Bergoglio, il generale che
vuole vincere senza combattere”;
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350737)
“Francis
often seems to view doctrine as an obstacle to leading people to
Jesus”! THIS IS A TOTAL CONTRADICTION
because the Church expresses the Divine Revelation throughout the
centuries in her doctrines, which are expressions of the Truth Who is
Jesus Christ (Jn14:6)!?! Pope Benedict opened up dialogue with the
SSPX and even bent over backwards to receive them into the Catholic
Church, allowing them to maintain their liturgical rites. But Pope
Benedict would not receive them into the Church if they were not
willing to accept the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Pope
Benedict took this discernment process out of the Congregation for
Divine Worship and gave it to the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, because the real problem was not so much a liturgical
issue but a doctrinal issue.
(https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/sspxs-bishop-fellay-little-by-little-rome-is-giving-us-all-we-need-for-reco/).
Again
we find a fundamental contradiction here
in that Bishop Fellay does not agree with the documents of the Second
Vatican Council, and thus was unwilling to reunite to the Catholic
Church by accepting these documents, but is more and more willing to
put these doctrinal differences aside due to the deceptive and
misleading appeals of Bergoglio, who “will endeavor to administer
shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his error” - the
doctrinal issues are not so important!?! Jesus
Christ, the Truth (Jn 14:6), is not so important!?!?! If Bishop
Fellay, and all the schismatic traditionalists, had the humility of
Christ, which the Church in Lumen Gentium,
no. 8, and in the other documents of the Council were calling us to,
they would not be deceived by Bergoglio, who “disguises
himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14)!
The
Second Vatican Council was a summons to complete and utter humility.
Thus right after the Council, Satan
began to push the pendulum to the other side toward false humility,
to false love, to false mercy and
misguided compassion, to false ecumenism
(without the truth expressed in the doctrines of the Church), but
telling us that it is not nice or loving to preach about the
examination of conscience according to the Ten Commandments well
explained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC –
1992). “Forbidden to Speak About Sin”
(https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/forbidden-to-speak-about-sin/)!
But sin separates us from God; sin is our greatest evil. What an
incredible contradiction embraced by so many today in the Catholic
Church! If we acknowledge and confess our sins, we become free from
slavery and true brothers and sisters in Christ who is the Truth,
instead of being slaves to sin now and for all eternity! When we put
Christ, the Truth, first, only then can we truly love our neighbor.
Bergoglio
is shrewdly communicating to both the liberals and the conservatives
that “doctrinal issues are not so important”.
That is, Jesus Christ, the Truth, is not so important, but what is
important is that we are all together, in a “universal fraternity”,
in the cult of man without God, sacrificing the Truth on the altar of
unity, a true malevolent dictatorship, not a benevolent dictatorship
as it is in heaven. It is amazing how the two extremes meet, both
with a lack of true humility and obedience to Christ the Truth, both
extremes embracing truth according to their own human subjectivism
and relativism as if each of us can decide the truth as did Lucifer
and Adam and Eve (Gen 3:4-5). The primary point of discernment for
private revelations is precisely humility and obedience which
indicates that the seers and their followers trust in God and not in
themselves which indicates that the revelation comes from God not
from man (http://necedah-cult.blogspot.com).
“Saint Thomas Aquinas tells us that virtue lies in the middle
between the two extremes which is usually the more difficult path
requiring much patience, discernment, humility and long suffering. On
various occasions Jesus used very strong words for those who have
taken the easier path…” (“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html).
Among
all those who claim to be Catholic today, WHO
ARE THE ONES who are truly seeking the
Truth outside of themselves from God, not for their disguised glory
or for their hidden agenda, ready to suffer to change their lives
accordingly, AND WHO ARE THE ONES
who claim to be seeking the Truth outside of themselves but with a
hidden attitude that God is always in agreement with themselves or
with their group?
400
years ago the protestants left the Church causing great harm and
disunity and the death of thousands of Christians. But
today the protestants remain in the Church and put to silence or send
away those who remain faithful to the immutable Truth of God. An
example of this is what Msgr. Athanasius
Schneider was trying to say:
“The (Neocatecumenal) Way is a TROJAN HORSE in the Church”
(March 6, 2016;
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/04/exclusive-interview-with-bishop.html).
Having arrived to “a personage
NOT canonically elected,
raised to the Pontificate”, everyone,
both in the Church and outside of the Church, is being encouraged and
manipulated very strongly, to be “politically correct” in the
Church
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/10/politically-correct-in-church-ewtn.html),
that is, to please man who does not want to hear about sin or the
consequences of sin, and to put aside the “Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world”! Pope John
Paul II and Pope Benedict, and all the popes up to Bergoglio, told
us: “Only what is true can ultimately be
pastoral”; they also told us that the greatest sin today is that we
have lost the sense of sin! “Some preachers will keep silent about
the truth and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the truth.
The sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who only
profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our
Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a
destroyer.” (“The
“Prophecy” of Saint Francis (Assisi)”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html).
Our
Lady in her messages to Don Stefano Gobbi (“To The Priests Our
Lady’s Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/)
says often the importance of becoming
little children! If we feel full of our
intelligence, wisdom and holiness, God draws away from us and we
deceive ourselves and in the end we destroy ourselves. “Truly, I
say to you, unless you turn and BECOME LIKE CHILDREN, you will never
enter the Kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3).
St.
Augustine tells us: “IT
WAS PRIDE that changes angels into devils; it is humility that makes
men as angels. Humility is the
foundation of all the other virtues. The soul in which this virtue
does not exist, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere
appearance. There is something in humility that strangely exalts the
heart. This is the very perfection of man, to find out about his own
imperfections. You must be emptied of that which you are full that
you may be filled with that which you are empty. How can we do great
things for God? Begin with the least. First think of the foundation
of humility. The greater the building is to be, the deeper you dig
the foundation. For once your foundation is set, the height to which
you can build has been determined. You want a tower that will pierce
the clouds, lay first the foundation of humility. Humility must
accompany all of our actions. For as soon as we glory in our good
works, they are of no further value for our advancement in virtue.”
Thus the more Truth and means of sanctification we have received, we
must have more humility, not less, otherwise we will end up using
what we have received from God against God and against neighbor,
precisely in the name of God, disguised as “an angel of light”
(2Cor 11:14), in triumphalism, clericalism
and juridicalism!
Our
Lady communicated to Don Stefano Gobbi on November 22, 1992 (“To
The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”
(http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/):
“My
beloved ones and children consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, listen
to the words of your heavenly Mother, who is gently preparing you and
leading you to live through these events, because the times which
were foretold to you by the prophet
Zechariah have now come. `An
oracle of the Lord: I will strike the
shepherd, and the sheep will be completely scattered; and then I will
turn my hand against the little ones. `An
oracle of the Lord: In all the land,
two thirds of them will be cut off and perish; and one third shall be
left. `I will pass this third through fire; I will refine it as
silver is refined, test it as gold is tested. `It will call upon my
Name, and I will hear it; I will say:"This is my people.” And
it will say: “The Lord is my God.” ‘ (cf. Zec 13:7-9)”
“I
will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be completely scattered;
and then I will turn my hand against the little ones”. I believe
that this coincides well with the prophecies of the FALSE
POPE, who will corrupt “the little one”,
especially those who have been abandoned by their parents and their
pastors who have the vocation from God to protect the souls entrusted
to them.
“Two
thirds of them will be cut off and perish…” This
means two thirds will lose their immortal souls in this period,
and the third that saves their souls will pass “through fire; I
will refine it as silver is refined, test it as gold is tested”!
Right now there are very few people who have the courage to take the
risk to open their eyes to the signs of the times so as not to be
hypocrites (Lk 12:56; Mt 16:3; 24:32-33,51), to go against the tide
of the great majority, strongly manipulated by the highly controlled
mass media, who have taken the easy way of being “politically
correct”, and in particular today, in the Catholic Church
(“Politically Correct in the Church – EWTN”;
http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2017/10/politically-correct-in-church-ewtn.html)!
In this period of the crucifixion of the Church, the purification of
the Church and of the world, we are called to not flee from the
sufferings that Jesus offers and shares with us, but to offer our
lives for the Body of Christ, the Church, as did Mary, the “Queen
of martyrs”, at the foot of the cross with Jesus totally covered
with blood and wounds and humiliations and abandoned by almost
everyone. Thus most of the very few who
remain faithful to the uncomfortable truth in this period will later
offer with their blood the grace for the conversion of many others
so as to arrive to the prophesied one third who will save their
immortal souls for all eternity. “The blood of martyrs is the seed
of Christians” – Tertullian.
One
second in hell, one second separated from God, is more painful than
all the pains put together in this short life. But one second in
heaven, in the presence of God, is more happiness and joy than all
the happiness and joy in this short life. God hides the reality after
death to leave us totally free to choose if we want to spend eternity
with our Creator; respect of our freedom is true love. Satan
convinces so many today that hell does not exist
and that each of us is a little god so we decide reality and truth
not according to the Creator of the universe but according to
ourselves. But after death, we will discover that we took the easy
way of following the “father of lies” (Jn 8:44) and we will spend
eternity with Satan. They say “ignorance is bliss”, but after
death, it will not be so blissful for those who did not live the Our
Father: “THY
will be done”! Did God give us the Ten Commandments for our good or
for our evil? Do we trust ourselves or do we trust our Creator? Jesus
said to Saint Faustina: “If their trust is great, there is no limit
to My generosity. The torrents of grace inundate humble souls. THE
PROUD REMAIN ALWAYS IN POVERTY AND MISERY, BECAUSE MY GRACE TURNS
AWAY FROM THEM TO HUMBLE SOULS” (Diary
of Saint Faustina, 1602).
In
this period Our Lady is forming the cohort of the smallest ones and
Satan is forming the cohort of the important presumptuous ones,
the ones who decide for themselves the truth and reality. Let us
become smaller so that we will become the little children in the arms
of our Heavenly Mother so she will help us persevere in this period
of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21)! Visit: “Funeral Stefano
Gobbi”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2011/07/funeral-stefano-gobbi.html).
Father
Joseph Dwight
“THE DREAM OF ST. JOHN BOSCO”
of
the two pillars indicates to us the great importance of staying very
close to Jesus in the Eucharist (while it is still possible) with our
Rosary in hand.
Saint
John Bosco once said: “Make frequent
visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and THE
DEVIL WILL BE POWERLESS AGAINST YOU.”
