Posted on 09/01/2018 4:36:36 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
So, you're not very much of a believing Catholic, or you hardly go to Church, so what? This immediate time is a critical time in human history. Evil's mask of hypocrisy has been ripped off the mincing, patronizing smiling, nice-nasty face. We have been given a small reprieve. If Jesus isn't coming back now, His mother will make an appearance more radical than Guadalupe or Lepanto. Following the First Saturday observance is how you can get with the program of Jesus's regent, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Those who disdain her patronage have already declared their choice, which is starkly either against the bad people or for them, no middle ground now. It's 11:59:59.
God pressures us to get rid of the old to make room for the new. We just need to make sure that we do not throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water.
Now it is more important to pray than ever.
AMEN!
Will be going to confession and mass for the upcoming Sunday, tomorrow.
‘Now it is more important to pray than ever.’
people have been praying for millenia; evil remains with us, and obviously always will...new tactic time, n’est pas...?
Certainly, nothing prevents us from taking other actions to resolve the problems we face, but prayer is always the primary answer. To everything. It is the answer Jesus gave us.
The good news is that evil WILL BE DEFEATED according to THE BOOK.
Evil men are in control. Evil hasn’t won, but it’s sure hard to find any good in today’s situation.
‘The good news is that evil WILL BE DEFEATED according to THE BOOK.’
by all means then, let’s all do nothing more than pay, pray, and obey, and everything will be hunky-dory...those appointed to tell us what to do will continue to bugger people vulnerable to them, and those appointed to tell them what to do will point to something else and say ‘oh look at that’, but it’ll all be okay because a text compiled nearly 2000 years ago says so...
until people start ‘praying’ with their feet, evil will be having a field day in the ‘holy’ sanctuaries...
“Recite five decades of the Rosary”
A lot of people will die of old age before that is done. I would be 109 if I did it, for instance.
“people have been praying for millenia”
We tend to forget God and think that we are in control when times are good. In times of suffering, we feel that we are not in control and turn to God for help. Thus suffering causes us to search for God.
However, the Holy Spirit is here to help us and stronger than ever. The message to me in contemplative prayer for the past six years has been “rise above everything going on in this world through prayer. Do not get caught up choosing sides on earth, but choose God in Heaven.”
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John 14
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
Acts 2
17 “‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
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Although I know the Bible states that “in the end times, none would survive if it were not for God’s intervention,” I don’t remember where that scripture is located. Thought is was Acts. As I get older and my brain is getting full, it’s harder to find some memories!!!
I hope someone can point out something more hopeful than anything I’ve seen. Here’s all I’ve got:
First, the secular press (I wouldn’t know about the religious press) is steadfastly lying about what the problem in the Roman Catholoc Church is. I keep reading about the Roman Catholic “pedophillia” scandal. The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t have a pedophillia scandal, and never did. The Roman Catholic has a homosexual rape scandal.
In all the reports of priests hitting on their parishioners that I’ve seen, there was exactly one instance of a priest hitting on a pre-adolescent – one instance of pedophillia, in the entire United States. There was exactly one that involved a woman, and exactly one that was consensual (the same one, if I’m remembering this right). Until I saw reports of the recent investigation in Pennsylvania that priests had been assaulting girls as well as boys, I had only one instance of heterosexual abuse, and I still haven’t seen the details of that, so I don’t know what was involved. All the others were of homosexual priests rapping post-adolescent (though many times, still underage) males. This is, definitionally, not pedophillia.
The secular press is militantly determined to not mention the actual news, and is simply lying about what it’s reporting on.
When I’ve seen any report of anyone in the Roman Catholic Church trying to reform the organization, they have spoken of ending the “pedophillia” scandal. Generality: No problem is solved while the people who are supposed to be solving it, refuse to state what the problem is. This gives me very little hope that any reform effort is going to go anywhere.
Note: In my mind–others may disagree–the real problem with a homosexual priest rapping one of the boys in his congregation is not the “homosexual” part. I would not be so very much happier if heterosexual priests were rapping the girls in their congregations.
I think it’s generally accepted that rape is a horrible crime and perversion, but in this case, there is also an additional dimension of problem. The parishioners do not exist to serve the priest, the priest exists to serve the parishioners. The fundamental role of a priest is, in the archaic, to edify the parishioners. The fundamental role of a bishop is to see that the priests do so. For a priest to rape his parishioners is a fundamental betrayal of what it means to be a priest. For a bishop to cover for priests who rape their parishioners, and enable them, is a fundamental betrayal of what it means to be a bishop. These role are critical to the functioning of the Roman Catholic Church as an institution, and they have been about as thoroughly corrupted as they possibly can be.
As best I can tell, the rapist conspiracy completely permeates the Roman Catholic Church in the western world. Essentially, every functionary in the organization knows about this, and is either a conspirator, or, with a few courageous exceptions, has been cowed into silence. The entire organization is thoroughly corrupted.
The Roman Catholic Church is a very authoritarian organization–the Pope is in charge. Yet a reform-minded Pope, Benedict, was not able to defeat the rapist conspiracy, and, ultimately, was not able to withstand it. Now, the Pope is one of the conspirators. Necessarily, the conspiracy is now much stronger than it was when the Pope opposed it–and it was already too powerful for a Pope to oppose.
Praying for a church is never a bad idea, but in this case the need seems to have extra force. We have to hope that God will save the Roman Catholic Church, because who else can? The, bluntly, depravity of the Roman Catholic Church has gone beyond what anyone else that I can see, could stop. I see no hope for the Roman Catholic church, coming from a temporal direction.
Although I am not Roman Catholic myself, I regard the corruption of such a large slice of Christendom with horror. I hope some of the posters on this thread can point out something important that I’m overlooking. What am I missing, here?
I realize this is awfully long. Apologies for taking up so much space.
Parishes that have the first Saturdays are so fortunate and blessed.
Thank you to these blessed priests!
I am staying to help clean house.
BTW, “What is old is new again.”
Come to a First Saturday Mass. Make the effort — it’s worth it.
An investigation on the fed level lead to possible RICO issues or more individual state AGS doing like what PA did could be the force that could bring alp this corruption in the open. A few other states have started.
Correction: all.
Matthew 24:22
By the FBI and the Just-us Department???
ROFL!!!
I take it that you’re hoping for US government activity that will make this loud enough, so Rome will have to at least pretend to put a lid on the corruption. That could work for a time. But I don’t see the Roman Catholic Church in the United States being really cleaned out, if the Vatican is still supporting the rape conspiracy. This would be difficult to uproot, even if a real effort were made. Africa, at least, seems to be mostly clean. Maybe that can be built into something.
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