Posted on 10/28/2019 2:34:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
I, like many of you, feel overwhelmed by the events of the past month in Rome. Many an evening, late into the night, I have come before the Lord in the rectory chapel in lament for the confusion and chaos in the Church, the Lord’s beautiful bride and our mother. Oftentimes too in the fourth watch of the night, between 3 and 4 a.m., I return to the chapel, for with my cares I cannot long rest.
Reported from Rome are terrible and seemingly impious things at worst, and confusing and ambiguous things at best. In the final document of the synod are included proposals for married priests on a wide scale and women “deacons.” The Church is currently deeply divided and, I would argue, on the brink of schism, if the Pope includes such proposals in his apostolic exhortation and plan. We must pray for him as never before to hold the line, much as Pope Paul VI miraculously held the line in 1968 when he wrote Humanae Vitae, upholding the Church’s perennial view of the nature and purpose of human sexuality and the ancient forbiddance of contraception. He did this against pressure from the spirit of the age — a pressure that was even stronger than the pressure Pope Francis currently encounters. And, like Francis, Paul VI was no conservative and was very friendly with the agents of radical change. This makes Humanae Vitae all the more miraculous, and we must allow this to give us hope now that Pope Francis will issue a document that does not take us over the brink.
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Ping
Prayers up.
Dear Lord, may your grace lead the Pope to finally find faith in Your Son.
In Jesus we pray, Amen
Msgr. Pope is the honorary pope and should be the real one.
Amen
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“statue was of a pagan goddess known as Pachamama”
I still don’t understand how mother elephants got involved in this.
Our Lord said that some demons are not driven out except by prayer and fasting.
I think there are many Catholics that read that as pray fast.
My Aunt Eleanor's group of prayer warriors really moved along and
Mrs Infool7 and I can knock out a Rosary in under 5 minutes but
I don't think that's what that passage means.
I started slow by putting off breakfast until after a
short morning workout and eventually pushed it to having lunch about 1:30
I've fallen off the wagon lately but it's time for me to get backup on that horse
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Msgr. Pope’s concerns and article are well targeted. May we all be saved from what Pope Francis may inflict on the Church. We need a miracle to save us from the very possible outcome of this Amazonian Synod.
One of the most disturbing elements is the proposal to turn over the Church to the United Nations. That is beyond absurd, and it is reported that Francis stated the same proposal in a recent address to the UN.
An important article by Msgr. Charles Pope that, I think, is worthy of your ping list.
The narcissist is picking up the same gauntlet that he threw down.
Dictator Pope
I don't want any "clean environment" mentioned in any exhortation. That has NO place in the Church. That is a secular concern.
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