This is an assault against the Body of Christ, but will not end the Catholic Church. It is the Mystical Body of Christ in the world and the gates of hell will not withstand. We as members of the Body must fast and pray. We are living out the passion of Christ. The Church with its members must follow the Head along this road in order to receive the ultimate Crown of Life.
Who knew the crucifixion of the Church would be so bland, bureaucratic, and mind-numbing? I guess it's typical of Satan to go about his work in the most soul-deadening way, rather than by dramatic, bloody attack.
I often fantasize about a new order of Catholic Knights who drag each rotten Bishop and priest from their rectories, tar and feather them, and bar them from returning. All I know with certainty is that I must pay and fast with more discipline.
" I guess it's typical of Satan to go about his work in the most soul-deadening way, rather than by dramatic, bloody attack."
That is his M.O. Subtle deception; although those of us like yourself are not deceived. It is a complete erosion of theology and doctrine over the long haul that has worn down faithful Catholics to be weak kneed.
Fools think it’s about “Ordinary Form” vs. “Extraordinary Form.” It’s not. It’s about Ape Church and True Church.
Bergoglio is continuing the Ape Church that began with John XXIII. Unfortunately most who self-identify as catholic are really ape catholics. We can only hope their ignorance saves them because their church can’t.
At 52 I feel the same. I just have to trust that this time of destruction and darkness will cause saints to appear - which has pulled the Church through former times of decay. Christ knows how to bring it all to fulfillment somehow.
It is imperative that the true Faithful, no matter who we are, become impeccably diligent in the exercise and promotion of the means of our personal sanctity and that of our charges. We do so not as a response to the current storm of deadly evils that beset the hierarchy and baptized of our Church but as a disposition, long awaited by our God, as a response to His incessant and insatiable hunger for us demonstrated by His relentless pursuit of us even as we have consistently disavowed Him. By allowing the establishment of our unique communion with Him we each consummately dispose our whole selves to embodiment by the virtue of sanctity and the disposition that even if Christ's whole Church here on earth were to embrace an apostasy so grave and rank that in its promotion of sin it disavows its own legitimacy in the eyes of God, then we are and remain the faithful Church instituted by Him. This is ultimately what we each are responsible for.
Dear candy-ass bishops: Stop "accompanying" and start LEADING.
It is a complete and utter sell out
100%
Dear Anna-Kate; as you so astutely alluded to; there is no leadership; only complicity.
Bingo.
Political correctness within the Church. It’s so disheartening that it’s sickening.
This is an assault against the Body of Christ, but will not end the Catholic Church. It is the Mystical Body of Christ in the world and the gates of hell will not withstand. We as members of the Body must fast and pray. We are living out the passion of Christ. The Church with its members must follow the Head along this road in order to receive the ultimate Crown of Life.
Who knew the crucifixion of the Church would be so bland, bureaucratic, and mind-numbing? I guess it's typical of Satan to go about his work in the most soul-deadening way, rather than by dramatic, bloody attack.
I often fantasize about a new order of Catholic Knights who drag each rotten Bishop and priest from their rectories, tar and feather them, and bar them from returning. All I know with certainty is that I must pay and fast with more discipline.
" I guess it's typical of Satan to go about his work in the most soul-deadening way, rather than by dramatic, bloody attack."
That is his M.O. Subtle deception; although those of us like yourself are not deceived. It is a complete erosion of theology and doctrine over the long haul that has worn down faithful Catholics to be weak kneed.
It will take about 50 years. The old guard will die off. Young, traditional American and African priests are the future.
Fools think it’s about “Ordinary Form” vs. “Extraordinary Form.” It’s not. It’s about Ape Church and True Church.
Bergoglio is continuing the Ape Church that began with John XXIII. Unfortunately most who self-identify as catholic are really ape catholics. We can only hope their ignorance saves them because their church can’t.
At my present age of 61 I can pray until I am blue in the face but the Church will not right itself in my lifetime.
At 52 I feel the same. I just have to trust that this time of destruction and darkness will cause saints to appear - which has pulled the Church through former times of decay. Christ knows how to bring it all to fulfillment somehow.
Then , God willing; may you, I and those of us who know what is at hand become those saints.
Amen. Mary, our mother, Queen of Angels, pray for us.
Agreed, at 67.
The Church will endure.
It is imperative that the true Faithful, no matter who we are, become impeccably diligent in the exercise and promotion of the means of our personal sanctity and that of our charges. We do so not as a response to the current storm of deadly evils that beset the hierarchy and baptized of our Church but as a disposition, long awaited by our God, as a response to His incessant and insatiable hunger for us demonstrated by His relentless pursuit of us even as we have consistently disavowed Him. By allowing the establishment of our unique communion with Him we each consummately dispose our whole selves to embodiment by the virtue of sanctity and the disposition that even if Christ's whole Church here on earth were to embrace an apostasy so grave and rank that in its promotion of sin it disavows its own legitimacy in the eyes of God, then we are and remain the faithful Church instituted by Him. This is ultimately what we each are responsible for.
Stunningly true comment! Thank you!