Posted on 04/22/2016 3:19:15 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Title: The Key Character in Brideshead Revisited Is Mrs. Beryl Muspratt
In the aftermath of “The Exuberance of Buttsecks” more than one piece was written on the novel “Brideshead Revisited”, and how the entire point of the novel was essentially mocked unto destruction by Bergoglio and his army of diabolical faggots. I wrote on this previously in September of ARSH 2014. Here is that piece, even more relevant now than it was before. I have updated a couple of terms.
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There are a few more points on the subject of shame that I would like to expand upon. The first comes from the novel “Brideshead Revisited”, which demonstrates, completely contrary to the Modernist, post-Christian, Bergoglian heresy, how shame is a medicinal mercy. If we can self-generate shame without having to have it applied from the exterior, then so much the better. In fact, we pray for shame in the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary – The Agony in the Garden, the fruit of which is “sorrow for sin”. Shame. We beg God to grant us the grace of shame. But for many people, the shaming must be generated, at least initially, externally. This is a function of charity – true charity, not the mindless platitude consisting of indifference yielding permissiveness, or in giving people “free stuff”, or just simply “what makes them happy”. No, true charity is joy in the existence of another and thus a focused desire that that person make it to heaven. Full stop.
If you are not familiar with Brideshead Revisited, the context is easily explained. Set between the World Wars in England, Julia is civilly divorced from Rex, and is shacking up with Charles, who is also civilly divorced. Charles and Julia make a real cute couple and “love” each other (inasmuch as people who express their “love” for one another do so by knowingly flagellating and crucifying Christ in exchange for having an orgasm, can actually be said to love one another in any honest sense of the word.) Bridey is Julia’s older brother.
[Bridey has just announced his engagement to Beryl Muspratt, a widow with three children. Julia asks why he hasn’t brought Beryl to Brideshead to meet her]
Lord Brideshead ‘Bridey’: [pompously] You must understand that Beryl is a woman of strict Catholic principle, fortified by the prejudices of the middle classes. I couldn’t *possibly* bring her here. It is a matter of indifference whether you choose to live in sin with Rex or Charles or both – I have always avoided enquiry into the details of your ménage – but in no case would Beryl consent to be your guest. Julia Mottram: Why, you pompous ass! [Julia walks out of the room, holding back tears] Charles Ryder: Bridey! What a bloody offensive thing to say to Julia. Lord Brideshead ‘Bridey’: [coldly] It was nothing she should object to. I was merely stating a fact well known to her.
Long story short, Julia eventually breaks off her affair with Charles and lives at home, alone for the rest of her life, reconciled to Our Lord through His Holy Church, namely through the Sacrament of Confession. Charles also converts to Catholicism and, it is presumed, lives a chaste life as well.
Beryl Muspratt, painted by all of the protagonists as a villain, ugly, frumpy, judgmental, and emblematic of “everything wrong with the Church”, even though she is never directly seen in the novel, only discussed and quoted a few times by others, is the most heroic figure in the novel. She is reported as always being kind to Julia, but unwavering in her defense of the Truth, in this case the Truth about marriage and the Sixth Commandment. Thus, she could never consent to being a guest in the home of a woman – even her own sister-in-law – whom she knows to be Living in Sin, because to do so would ratify the sin itself, ratify the torture and murder of God Himself, and also REDUCE the likelihood that Julia (and Charles) would repent, correct their situation, and die confessed and in a state of grace, be that five minutes hence, or five decades. Beryl cannot coerce Julia or anyone else to love God, but she can and rightly does apply medicinal shame to Julia in the hopes that the pain of that shame might lead Julia to stop torturing and killing Christ, and thus utterly rejecting His Love in favor of having orgasms with a cute guy, and in so doing, damning herself to hell.
It is precisely because Julia was made to feel PROFOUNDLY ASHAMED by Beryl refusing to enter her home that Julia set out on the road to repentance. If Beryl had been a typical Novus Ordo FrancisNewMercyChurch Kathy-zombie of today and sought to “encounter” and “accompany” Julia with the “tender caresses” of mendacious FrancisMercy, manifested by indifference to Julia and her mortally sinful lifestyle, Julia would have been EDIFIED IN HER SIN, and thus would not have repented and corrected. And neither would Charles – both would have been lost to hell, in all likelihood.
Interestingly, Bridey, the older brother, is revealed by his own words as being “indifferent”, and thus it is BRIDEY, with his lack of charity for the soul of his own sister, that is the most villainous character in this particular scene. But even then, he concludes by stating that Julia has no right to object to the statement of facts which she already knows – namely the Sixth Commandment and Our Lord’s words in Matthew 19. The only thing Julia has a right to object to or be hurt by is Bridey, her own brother, declaring that he is “indifferent” to her sin, and thus to the fate of his own sister’s soul, not to mention Charles’ soul. That’s it. And Beryl Muspratt is indeed the heroine of the novel.
Let's deal with today's troubles for what they are. Satan has gotten a Judas-like character to APPEAR to sit in the chair of Peter.
Don't fall for it, folks. This is heresy, and heresy automatically removes from office ALL presumed clerics who practice it. Saint John Bellarmine ("Is there a doctor in the... Church?!") says so.
Bergoglio is no more pope than Judas was an apostle after he betrayed Christ and hanged himself, and as such has no authority what so ever to declare or suggest anything to the Bride of Christ.
Yet should we still pray for this Pope though?
Thank you Ann Barnhardt. That section of Brideshead is my favorite part. It is lost on the 50-60% of the folks I know who are civily divorced.
Yet should we still pray for this Pope though?
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When Peter was about to deny Christ, Jesus Christ our Lord prayed for him after prophesying Pope Peter’s fall.
When Judas was about to betray Him, however, He said of Judas Iscariot, that it would be been better for him if he had never been born.
Like our Lord Jesus, we can discern between two individuals and the difference in their manners of choosing and act accordingly.
Yes.
Pray he comes to see the error of his ways.
Unlike Our Lord, we can NOT discern between two individuals, because we cannot see their hearts. Every (outward) sin has three components --- the outward, discernable, objective word or act; the inward knowledge of the person, and the inward ability to choose knowingly and freely. We can observe and "discern" only one of the three, in anther person's visible actions.
This is why Jesus says to pray for our enemies, and Paul says, (1 Timothy 2:1) "First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone".
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“...Jesus says to pray for our enemies...”
Yes.
The real danger I often see is that people can think that that is all that is necessary here.
But what we have here is a wolf disguised as a lamb, going about and eating the lambs and slaughtering many others.
The first line of duty is to sound the alarm. Secondly we rid the pasteur of the wolf.
Once those immediate items are well underway for the good of the flock, we can pray for the conversion of a single perpetrator
Emergency actions must be prioritized or the casualties will be unnecessarily high.
We must first and foremost concern ourselves with the sheep, then at a much lower priority the good health of the wolf.
"joy of My Sacred Heart, listen: the reasonings of mortals are not divine; I, the Lord, journeyed through the earth to warn the world that the Enemy will come upon them like an immense wave to swallow them, but no one really believed that Satan would ever penetrate the gates of My Sanctuary, and yet he has....Staying in the moment with that theme, this is good, end of times advice and counsel: Repent!he walked right into My Sanctuary through the sins and errors of My Own who to this day oppose the shepherd (Pope John Paul II) I have given you;
so how can you expect My lambs to respect those priests when they themselves rebel against My chosen one? they pay no attention to My shepherd ....
sorrow overtakes Me and My Heart is lacerated for what I see coming yet; what has been as a fragment of apostasy now will become a general apostasy, well-rooted; this apostasy will be so vast that it will swallow many as it spreads....
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