Posted on 06/22/2019 3:25:07 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
It's from 1974--- 45 years ago --- and couldn't be more apropos.
Links to both the video and text version are at the original LifeSite link.
Sheen helped millions of Catholics and non-Catholics ,...
his sermons are 95 percent still relevant today...and I wish they’d get more airplay
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a very very very very minor quibble...
Sheen: “He will set up a counter-Church, which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God.”
me: yes indeed, but most of this evil will be achieved by infiltrating existing churches and synagogues... whether Catholic or otherwise, churches that teach or attempt to teach God’s word................and, from within, take them over ....to replace any kind of genuine Biblical or moral teachings with “another gospel”...including patently anti-moral “values” that destroy people, families, and society.
same idea as Ven. Sheen.. just explicating it a bit with the advantage of hindsight.... the most serious dangers today are not new churches but the infiltration of “enemy agents” into existing churches that, up until now, have (allowing for their varying distinctives, doctrines)...been (largely, anyway) preaching and teaching Biblical messages and values
the greatest dangers come from the wolves within the sheeps’ fold, imho
I just watch what Obama is doing and figure that that provides an insight into the Antichrist playbook.
Bishop Sheen was a great anti-Communist. He described Catholicism as Christ and the Cross, and Communism as just the Cross.
He also stated that Communists warm their houses by burning their neighbors’ houses.
And even more astounding, the lack of huge push-back from the bishops. There are over 5,000 bishops (more or less) in the Catholic Church around the world, and those openly opposed the Francis' antichurch program number ---as far as I know -- in the low dozens.
Raise up saints, O Lord. Make us saints.
We used to watch him as kids. Then on Sunday the priest would quiz the congregation: How many know what the “ego” is?
the problem with relying too much on any leadership, whether political or religious, Catholic/Protestant/Jewish,corporate, state/local.....whatever
is that leadership consists of human beings.
often, very very good people worthy of great respect.
sometimes,.... not.
the “nots” wind up doing great damage to us all, if only by virtue of their having obtained positions of “leadership” in the very institutions we look to...for positive benefits or (in the case of religious organizations) guidance
their positions of “leadership” from within our “trusted” organizations... enable them to multiply the damages they inflict on us.
truly, I believe, we must always be on guard ... not only against the enemy outside our walls........but especially the enemies within our own tents
I was shocked to read recently that Cardinal Spellman had Archbishop Sheen effectively exiled and the elevation to the Archbishopric was a cover for his Machiavellian act.
What Catholics must do to survive the evil day
Not a single one is Biblical, nor would they help...
Why did praying to God not make his list?
THANKS for posting. Love Archbishop Sheen. Growing up in Chicago I remember watching his tv show. Those shows are all on youtube now!
Staying in the Word didn’t make the list either.
It’s food for the spirit and soul and keeps one focused on God and HIS plan.
[What Catholics must do to survive the evil day:]Id include frequent confession in there.
Bishop Sheen bump!
Amen.
Okay that's it. You and metmom are on double secret probation. Bringing up Biblical facts just aren't helpful on some of these religion threads.
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Infilterating existing churches
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Exactly, and he has been doing that for years, and how so many
people can read the threads every day and not see that is
beyond my understanding.
That is why God tells his people to come out of her and be not
partakers of her sins rev 18:4
Yes I recall something like that. Very unfortunate.
Its food for the spirit and soul and keeps one focused on God and HIS plan.
+1
Spellman was part of the Lavender Mafia. His homosexuality was an open secret in New York.
Sheen advises that we assist at Mass daily. Do you know Who is being prayed to in the Mass? Most of the Mass is directed to God the Father. (Some of it is to the Trinity, some to the Holy Spirit.) Do you know Who is doing the praying? The principal person *praying* at Mass is Jesus Christ, Our Lord and God.
Here's the *only* prayer in the "Ordinary of the Mass" that refers to Mary, and notice how she is addressed. The same way the rest of us are addressed:
I confess to Almighty GodSimilarly with the Rosary.
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done
and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault,
through my fault,
through my most grievous fault.
Therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
"Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."And:
"O my Jesus,Who do you think we, all of us, Blessed Mary and the Archangel Michael, are praying to? We all pray to the same God, metmom.
forgive us our sins,
Save us from the fires of hell.
Lead all souls to heaven,
especially those in most need of Thy mercy."
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