Posted on 03/17/2011 10:31:41 AM PDT by 0beron
It says "Mass" outside. But it's a Rock concert on the inside. This thief's pastoral initiative doesn't serve the youth, rather it serves the blathering of the official Bishops, providing them a diversion from the shattering glass of their Olde Liberal Church destruction.
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My sainted Mother, a convert to Catholicism, used to say that if you need to provide entertainment to get people to go to mass they aren’t getting anything out of being there.
“Rock me, oh, my Deus!”
Wow.
If it takes a circus to get them there it will take a circus to keep them there. Bring out the clowns and dancing bears.
[1] And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him: [2] That you be not easily moved from your sense, nor be terrified, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand. [3] Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, [4] Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. [5] Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?[6] And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. [7] For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. [8] And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, [9] Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, [10] And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: [11] That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity. (2 Thess. 2)
In the light of the above scripture, the fact that "he who holdeth", the Holy Mother Church, perhaps did not have to direct these poor deceived people to stop, shows that perhaps, the age of the Antichrist is not yet on hand.
I’m not sure what you mean, but it sounds ominous. The expectation that we are nearing the age of Peter the Roman perhaps?
The Antichrist will not prevail until “he who now holdeth” continues to hold. So I think that when we see the Church having to assert herself over her own flock, — that will be a sign that soon the Antichrist will be revealed. Conversely, when we see the Church pulling herself together from the ground up, which we have a few times already in this pontificate, perhaps we still have time.
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