Cardinal Falls Ill as Blood of St Januarius Liquefies

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 9/20/18 | Staff Reporter

[marshmallow]

The ceremony takes place three times a year, and failure to liquefy is seen as a portent of disaster

The blood of St Januarius has liquefied at the thrice-yearly ceremony – but the officiating cardinal fell ill.

Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the Archbishop of Naples, “blanched and had to sit down”, according to the news agency ANSA. The blood of the saint had reportedly liquefied, but the cardinal was unable to take the reliquary outside.

The liquefaction of St Januarius’s blood is said to take place three times a year: once in May, once in December, and once on September 19 – the feast day of the fourth-century bishop and martyr.

Many Neapolitans believe that when the saint’s blood remains solid, it portends disaster. It preceded, for instance, a famine in 1559, a cholera outbreak in 1833, the Allied bombing in 1944, and an earthquake in 1980.

According to a Catholic Encyclopedia entry from 1910, the blood normally liquefies in May and September, but in the December event the blood “remains solid more often than not”.

[Elsie]

 It means that we must have men like the apostles who can orally speak as wholly inspired of God, providing Divine revelation thereby, as the NT church had.

 

 

 

 

                                           We got 'em!!

 

 

 

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In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.

1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.

I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.

Ezra Taft Benson

(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)     http://www.lds.org/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng

[Big Red Badger]

Oh Well,,

[marshmallow]

Your huge cut and paste jobs are unreadable and usually irrelevant to the question under study. They're nothing more than thread bombs and are the equivalent of shouting down an opponent.

Try posting a reasoned, balanced argument which makes your points succinctly without color, caps, exclamation marks, huge font, flashing text and general self-congratulatory blather.

Your posts come over as deranged.

[marshmallow]

Okay, so if Rome tells me that sodomy is okay and that priests are allowed to rape children and suffer no consequences, that must be the truth.

The Catholic Church has never taught this and it never will. The Church's teaching is clear on these issues.

If heresy such as this is ever put forward, it would contradict the Church's own teaching and would indicate that the Church had been hijacked by heretics. Judging by present circumstances, that may be happening.

For this reason, the Church's tradition is very important and Catholics use this as an anchor when the ship is passing through stormy seas such as currently.

[Gasshog]

Is anybody gonna talk about the guy who has been dead for Centuries dried dead blood turning Bach to liquid?

After all that’s what the articles about... ;p

[Luircin]

So you’re telling me that Rome has NEVER taught in blatant contradiction to the Word of God before?

[marshmallow]

"Taught"? As in "officially proclaimed" ex cathedra?

Absolutely not.

[Big Red Badger]

Ancient Liquid Blood,
Nah,
That is not the Issue.
Protecting a corrupt
Organization Is.

[Luircin]

Ohh, so what you’re telling me is that I’m allowed to ignore everything taught by Rome unless it’s ex cathedra?

[marshmallow]

There is only one body of Church teaching. It's either Catholic teaching or it isn't. Ex cathedra simply means "from the chair". It denotes the magisterium of the Church.

[Luircin]

So you’re telling me that church run brothels and selling indulgences is all hunky dory because church teaching used to approve of those.

[Zionist Conspirator]

[RinaseaofDs]

Wonder how the Cardinal stands in terms of all this pederast mishigas?

Something’s going down soon.

[marshmallow]

Yeah, I figured you were tossing around the word "teaching" loosely, which is why I used the term ex cathedra.

No, they're not "hunky dory" and no they are not now nor ever have been "church teaching". Nor is concubinage, sodomy, blackmail or slavery although these may have been practiced at certain times by certain people. These are scandals. Neither is it Church teaching when Bergoglio says "save the rain forests".

"Teaching" refers to the deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

The Catholic Church has never taught this and it never will. The Church's teaching is clear on these issues.

And isn't it amazing that abuse has occurred under 7! popes?? And isn't it amazing that the teaching apparently does no good, since multiple popes have allowed the gay infestation to continue at the Vatican?? And isn't it amazing that despite the teaching, many, many priests buggered boys? Many many leaders covered up the perversion?? What is officially taught and what is allowed are two different things.

[marshmallow]

What’s your point? If sin and scandal reach some arbitrary, self-defined level, the Church ceases to be whom she claims to be?

[HarleyD]

This is occultism at it’s finest-no matter how one wants to try to explain it away.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

What Rome approves by its actions is the clearest sign of what it is - regardless of its words.

What Rome fails to do to follow God is as wrong as what it adds to His truth.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

It is truly astounding.

As is the spiritual blindness.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Teaching” refers to the deposit of faith handed down from the Apostles.

Not provable. There is no evidence any Apostle ever taught or believed half of Rome’s ideas.

Nor any other believer before 100 ad.

Lots of evidence the pagan religions of Greece and Roman Empire believed and practiced these things.