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David F Jones's avatar

Good post. The case made for what the Synodal church avoids dealing with.

Sin.

And those without fortitude who remain in communion with Rome's leadership suffering the effects of apostasy already.

I don't hear a cliche when someone reminds me of Our Blessed Mother's promise, "in the end my immaculate heart will prevail"... I hear something that resonates truth and love in my soul.

Our Lady of Sorrows, grant us the grace of hope!

Stewart Davies's avatar

In his 1948 work; Communism and the Conscience of the West Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote: [Satan} will set up a counterchurch which will be ape of the Church because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be the mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the Mystical Body of Christ.

He also wrote what could be equally applied to both the Church and the Faith, and Western civilization and contemporary secular society: It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe that their own times are wicked, partly because they have no standard outside of themselves by which to measure their times. If there is no fixed concept of justice, how will men know it is violated. Only those who live by faith can really know what is going on in the world; the great masses are unconscious of the destructive process going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.

I think many of us who are old enough to remember the 'pre-Council' Church are becoming increasingly painfully aware of 'the heights from which we have fallen', having unconsciously assimilated to at least some degree the erroneous understanding of the Church, and our own particular place in it. For many years I naively supposed the imposition of 'Novus Ordoism' as a well-intentioned though naive attempt to accommodate the lowest common denominator, only for it to finally dawn on me that the 'lowest common denominator' is itself a product, and the intended product of Masonically-influenced Novus Ordoism. The Novus Ordo Missae is the liturgy of the New World Order. It has been admitted the the Novus Ordo is a liturgy that underpins a 'new ecclesiology.' Ecclesiology' is essentially the Church's own Christ-given understanding of itself. To bring us to the abysmal state in which we now find ourselves, our own understanding of the Church and our own place in it needed to be drastically undermined and distorted to facilitate the imposition of the 'new, improved' Synodal Catholic Church, which is the "ape of the Church" which Fulton Sheen foresaw with great clarity.

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