Do Yo Weep for Catholic Liberals / Dissidents or Mock Them?

TCRNews.com ^ | May 13, 2004 | Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich

[McClave]

Do You Weep and Offer Your Suffering for
Liberals / Dissidents or Mock Them?

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Excerpt from Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich, p. 48:

"The signification of my sufferings in all my limbs was explained to me in the following vision:

I saw a gigantic human body in a horrible state of mutilation, and raised upwards towards the sky. There were no fingers or toes on the hands and feet, the body was covered with frightful wounds, some of which were fresh and bleeding, others covered with dead flesh or turned into excrescences.

The whole of one side was black, gangrened, and as it were half eaten away. I suffered as though it had been my own body that was in this state, and then my guide said to me, 'This is the body of the Church, the body of all men and thine also.'

Then, pointing to each wound, he showed me at the same time some part of the world; I saw an infinite number of men and nations separated from the Church, all in then own peculiar way, and I felt pain as exquisite from this separation as if they had been torn from my body. Then my guide said to me: 'Let thy sufferings teach thee a lesson, and offer them to God in union with those of Jesus for all who are separated. Should not one member call upon another, and suffer in order to cure and unite it once more to the body? When those parts which are most closely united to the body detach themselves, it is as though the flesh were torn from around the heart.'

In my ignorance, I thought that he was speaking of those brethren who are not in communion with us, but my guide added: 'Who are our brethren? It is not our blood relations who are the nearest to our hearts, but those who are our brethren in the blood of Christ—the children of the Church who fall away.'

He showed me that the black and gangrened side of the body would soon be cured; that the putrified flesh which had collected around the wounds represented heretics who divide one from the other in proportion as they increase; that the dead flesh was the figure of all who are spiritually dead, and who are void of any feeling; and that the ossified parts represented obstinate and hardened heretics.

I saw and felt in this manner every wound and its signification. The body reached up to heaven. It was the body of the Bride of Christ, and most painful to behold. I wept bitterly, but feeling at once deeply grieved and strengthened by sorrow and compassion, I began again to labour with all my strength."

 

Ephesians 4:1-6

[McClave]

Here's where the rubber meets the road. Catholic heart vs. mocking pride.

[animamea]

Those who cannot abide with the Church should leave Her rather than claim to be one with Her.

However, we pray for their conversion and hope that their hearts are opened to the Truth, that their souls (and ours) may be saved.

"Catholic" Liberals have much zeal and energy when promoting their counter-Catholic Church ideas. More orthodox Catholics should have this zeal and energy in refuting the ideas of these "fallen away" brethren.

[steve8714]

I do both, especially for those who are scandalous, or heretical. This is life and death here, you use whatever device you need to discredit evil...sometimes humor will touch the hardest heart.

[steve8714]

the Church needs to get a set.

[McClave]

sometimes humor will touch the hardest heart...

How Very True! It reflects our common humanity also.

[McClave]

A "set"?

It has and needs only one: Jesus and Mary. They are everything the Church teaches. Read them for a while...instead of Tom Woods or Richard McBrien, folks...

[McClave]

...whatever device you need ...sometimes humor will touch the hardest heart...

P.S. But don't think people cannot tell the difference between genuine humor and contemptful mockery...to think otherwise would be funny indeed!

[steve8714]

No, the Church needs a set... More men like Keating or Abp Burke, fewer effete Jesuits and chicken hawks, liturgies of eternal meaning and beauty rather than kumbaya guitar masses and the sign of peace.

[steve8714]

Looks like a private thread to me, not much activity.

[McClave]

Looks like a private thread to me, not much activity.

I can understand why. The saints lives and their way of love (even with those with whom they disagreed in many things) tends to help us see what is uncharitable and what charity is supposed to be. They point another Way. "Father forgive them..."

[McClave]

Keating? Which one? Karl? Good man, he. Very basic, dry cornflakes, but good.

[McClave]

Keating? Which one? Karl? Good man, he. Very basic, dry cornflakes, but good.

[Salvation]

**Read them for a while...instead of Tom Woods or Richard McBrien, folks...**

BTTT for that idea!