Posted on 05/14/2004 10:57:17 AM PDT by AskStPhilomena
The explosion of the preventable scandals involving sodomite priests which have rocked our beloved Church in recent years evidently has weakened the faith of some Catholics. And this is to say nothing of the scandal of the abandonment of the authentic patrimony of the Catholic Faith and her traditional liturgy under the regime of novelty of the past forty to forty-six years. Indeed, it is not an exaggeration to state the the preventable scandals involving sodomite priests, at least some of whom were recruited into the priesthood and protected by sodomite bishops and sodomite chancery factotums, is an expression of the corruption of the Faith that has been enshrined in the Church's liturgy and the very humanistic, if not secularist, language that is used to describe the worsening of problems in the world that have their proximate origin in the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen.
However, we have to understand that the Church is divinely founded. She will last until the end of time, no matter the assaults of the Adversary against us individually or against the Church Militant on earth collectively. Indeed, the scandals which are continuing to make news are really negative proofs of the divinity of the Church. Nothing humanly organized could possibly survive nearly two millennia of the bad example and scandalous behavior of those who have made up the Church Militant from one epoch to the next, including us. In every age of scandal and heresy, however, Our Lady has raised up men and women of sanctity to help effect a genuine renewal of the Church, a renewal that is founded in the re-formation of individual souls in cooperation with the graces won for us by the shedding of every single drop of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross, graces which Our Lady herself helped to make possible by her perfect participation in her Divine Son's Redemptive Act.
To wit, Saint Francis of Assisi lived at a time of terrible scandal and clerical corruption within the Church. The lives of many in the clergy and in the laity had grown quite lax, to say the very least. It was Saint Francis's life of austere poverty, severe mortification of the flesh, deep Eucharistic piety and devotion to the Mother of God which helped to bring about the genuine renewal of the Catholic spirit in the Thirteenth Century. Although many Dominicans might be loathe to admit this, it is certainly the case that the work of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, was made possible in no small measure by the seeds planted by the great saint of Assisi, Saint Francis, who bore the brand marks of Our Lord on his holy body and who used the Crucifix to perform many miracles. Saint Francis did not despair in the face of the problems of his day. He did not lose his faith. He understood that he had the responsibility to make reparation for his own sins--and that Our Lord permitted him the opportunity to help make reparation for the sins of the whole world by getting on the cross with Him on a daily basis.
A son of Saint Francis, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, showed us more recently the good that can be done by devoting oneself single-heartedly to the establishment of the City of Mary Immaculate. Saint Maximilian had no fewer than twelve publications printing simultaneously to promote total consecration to Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart and to build up the City of Mary Immaculate as the only antidote to the poisons of secular political ideologies and Masonry, including its Zionist manifestations, and naturalism in the world, to say nothing of the infiltration of these poisons within the souls of baptized Catholics. Saint Maximilian knew that the only true way to go Our Lady is through Our Lady. There is no other way to get to Heaven. There is not other way to grow in intimacy with the Divine Redeemer than by surrendering everything we have (our liberty, our merits we earn for the good works we do and the indulgenced prayers and acts we say and perform) to Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
There is thus no better way to help heal the self-inflicted wounds the Church Militant on earth is suffering from at present than to promote total consecration to Mary Immaculate, especially by relying upon the work and example of Saint Louis de Montfort and Saint Maximilian Kolbe. Saint Maximilian Kolbe, for example, knew that more good could be done for the world by the wearing of the Miraculous Medal and by the daily and prayer recitation of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary than by anything else after Holy Mass itself. We must rely upon Our Lady to resist sin to the point of shedding our blood, and therefore to grow to the heights of personal sanctity, striving with each beat of our hearts to desire the highest place in Heaven below that of Our Lady herself.
Bishops and priests who are serious about making sure that the scandals still festering in the news do not occur in the future must eschew psychology and theological workshops and update programs. So much spiritual pollution. So much spiritual garbage. No, bishops and priests who are serious about renewing the Church authentically must be committed to the entirety of the Catholic Faith, including the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass without any of the unjust and illicit conditions that have been attached to the Immemorial Mass of Tradition in the past twenty years. And the only way to this effectively must be to promote total consecration to Mary's Immaculate Heart, either through the formula of Saint Louis de Montfort or that of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who saw how clearly our contemporary world needed her and how every aspect of daily life had to be given to Mary to be used as she sees fit for the honor and glory of the Blessed Trinity and for the salvation of souls. It is holiness which is the breastplate and the armor against the attacks of the Devil. What better way to resist the Devil, who prowls around the world seeking the ruin of souls, than by relying upon the woman who has crushed his head, and who wants us to rely upon her to crush the head of the serpent in our own lives, especially in times of temptation.
To seek to be holy be being totally consecrated to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart begins with an admission that we are fallen, imperfect creatures who are prone to sin. No, not evil, not wicked. Imperfect, disordered, fallen. We must acknowledge the fact that we have to be reliant upon Our Blessed Mother to help us to follow her Divine Son in this vale of tears, trusting in her maternal protection and guidance at all times to be ever vigilant in our pursuit of sanctity (and never to be slow in getting to Confession should, God forbid, we fall into mortal sin). Bishops must be consecrated to Our Lady themselves and thus insist that every single one of their priests be so consecrated. No man should be ordained to the priesthood who is not totally consecrated to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart. Such a consecration is not a guarantee that a priest will never sin or cause scandal. However, it is a safeguard against sin and a motivation to scale the heights of sanctity.
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This is a wonderful article, but does Dr. D need an editor?
This article is nothing less than idolotry. Every benefit attributed to "Our Lady" belongs to Jesus or the Holy Spirit.
That should be "Saint Maximilian knew that the only true way to go Our Lord is through Our Lady.
Thanks Dr. D. for writing an article about one of my favorite saints!
I've been a M.I. member for almost a year now! I consecrated myself on the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 27, 2003.
A discussion with this gentleman may prove useful:
http://www.gerrymatatics.org/
God bless you!
Just leave it alone. Say nothing more to him.
Prayer is a form of worship. Praying to anyone but God is idolotry.
.. she was a path to be taken ..
Jesus said, "I am the way. There is no other "way" but Jesus.
Bumpus ad summum
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