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.
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.
We used to watch him as kids. Then on Sunday the priest would quiz the congregation: How many know what the “ego” is?
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!
[What Catholics must do to survive the evil day:]I’d include frequent confession in there.
Bishop Sheen bump!
Amen.
Ummmmmm....now contrast with what Paul had to say in fighting spiritual battles.
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.
11Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
14Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
15and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE;
16in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
17And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
Ephesians 6:10-18 NASB
“Sheen states that he raises his concerns about the anti-Christ, not because he fears for the survival of the Catholic Church, but because of the devastation the anti-Christ will bring upon those who have no faith.”
“He will set up a counter-Church, which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will be the mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the Church as the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man, in his loneliness and frustration, to hunger more and more for membership in his community that will give man enlargement of purpose, without any need of personal amendment and without the admission of personal guilt. These are days in which the devil has been given a particularly long rope.”
“Signs of Anti-Christ:
“He will invoke religion to destroy religion. “
We have seen them in society as they follow the ways of the world and lead many away from Christ and His Church. We even have some in the Catholic Church (more than just personal sins).
The evil day of the anti-Christ may already be here, and not just one individual anti-christ(devil), but the consensus of society through a party, such as democrats, the abortion issue or those falling away from the Truth of Jesus and the Catholic faith by many. The Blessed Mother has warned us that God is very disappointed and we may see His retribution.
As Catholics, we continue to believe in Truth of Jesus as given to the Catholic church and fully participate in the Mass and the Sacraments. As a community of Catholic faith, our prayers and works make us stronger.
As Jesus told us, we must endure till the end.
The Catholic Church (like most of churches) has been compromised by Satinisms. Those being socialism, liberalism, and communism!
Sheen's words sound so convincing, until you try to square them with what the Word of God teaches regarding the True Church, The Body of Christ made up of all believers alive and dead who will be transformed in a moment int he twinkling of an eye when The Lord Christ comes to the first heaven and calls us up into the clouds to return to The Father's House before the Tribulation!
But perhaps he is onto something! The Catholic religion will remain intact after the One True Church is removed, so just don't take the mark which will be commanded to you then.
Thanks for the post on Ven.Fulton Sheen.
It was wonderful that Jesus on the cross gave us His Blessed Mother as our Mother and we honor her in many ways.
We pray and venerate our Blessed Mother and saints in the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass.
In communion with those whose memory we venerate,
especially the glorious ever-Virgin Mary,
Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ,
† and blessed Joseph, her Spouse,
your blessed Apostles and Martyrs,
As our spiritual mother, she guides us and protects us.
Yes, the devil mocks her, but she is in Heaven trying to help us join her with her son Jesus.
One of the biggest tricks used in the Unites States is to how wink sane people into voting for Democrats
Then since in Catholic teaching the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing, then evangelical church and all be the RCC can be excluded as being the mystical body of the anti-Christ
What Catholics must do to survive the evil day:
Which leads to a host of practices that are not what the NT church manifestly believed , even to beseeching Mary to find Christ for the world, and form Him in our hearts, thus attributing uniquely Divine attributes to the false demonic Catholic substitution for the holy, virtuous, Spirit-filled Mary of Scripture, who yet awaits the resurrection of the body, and the receiving of crowns.
In the final judgment the Mary of Scripture will be one of the witnesses testifying against those who were deceived by the lying spirit to make of the humble holy Mary of Scripture into an exalted demo-goddess.
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Actually, Catholicism and liberal Protestantism, and cults, among others, has sadly become as the gates of Hell for multitudes.
HMMMmmm…
John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
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If someone does the above; they will NOT be 'believing' something false.