Posted on 01/02/2021 6:05:47 PM PST by ebb tide
This Sunday, January 3, 2021, is the 500th anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther as a heretic and schismatic – the greatest damage ever done to the Holy Catholic Church. He died unrepentant, without the sacraments and outside the One True Church.
Yes, Pope Leo X, who issued the excommunication decree and the previous Exsurge Domine warning (6/15/1520) to Luther, had a mixed record of papal righteousness – but in this event he is nearly unsurpassed and fairly vindicated.
In this writer's view, these documents are two of the most formidable, necessary and courageous decrees emanating from the Chair of Peter, defending the Holy Roman Catholic Church from doctrinal attack. They were subsequently, fully upheld by the Council of Trent – also one of the greatest Councils in Church history – to which we owe very much, especially on the Eucharist!
We still face great danger. With Luther, there was no warning, just 95 absurd theses appearing out of thin air.
Here today, we had a warning in 1917 at Fatima. “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world,” did Our Lady alert the three children and us Catholics.
We feel these effects today – a far more serious warning than Luther. In full deference to Our Lady and the Most Holy Trinity – it is extremely doubtful (despite assertions to the contrary) that the full, correct Consecration to Russia was done; or that the decisive 3rd Secret text was totally revealed.
The errors, it is said, will lead to “The Great Apostasy.” There seems no appetite in the Vatican, at any level, to humbly accept and remedy those grave errors. Rather, a desire to hurtle into the future with Pachamama; Amazon Culture; ecology; and global secular solutions – as moral virtue is completely ignored and vocations and faithful Catholics disappear at record speeds.
Will the Church (and our Country) continue its decline? Will we still continue to receive God’s Divine Mercy and Graces? Are we due for a severe Divine Chastisement?
I am not going to advance an opinion here – only to charitably say, we would all do well to place our own souls in a state of grace, and urge our families, friends and others to do the same.
And Pray. God is very good.
Oh my! Your accusation is disturbing. Jesus is the judge; not me. I will keep Him as the center of my life and defer to His judgment on your statements.
“ Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic pilgrims five years ago, was a charlatan who deliberately mutilated himself with acid to give the appearance of bearing the stigmata of Christ, according to evidence to be published next week.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/padre-pio-faked-his-stigmata-acid-397811.html
Not even out of the Christmas season and little ebby is on the floor kicking and screaming because he can’t stand that Christians exist.
On the contrary, I don't want people, including Jorge Bergoglio, deceived by Luther to suffer eternal damnation.
Read boldly and be informed:
https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2005/12/luther-be-sinner-and-let-your-sins-be.html?m=1
It has nothing to do with Christmas, Lurchin.
Tomorrow is the 500th year anniversary of the arch-heretic’s excommunication.
I Peter 3:21.
Also consider 1263 of the Catholic Catechism:
“By Baptism all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin. In those who have been reborn nothing remains that would impede their entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam’s sin, nor personal sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation from God.”
Hell is separation from God, which cannot happen to a baptized person according to the Catechism.
I absolutely have my own personal interpretation of Scripture.
Nor is it forbidden in scripture.
On the contrary...
This is required, if you are to fulfill God’s command, “love God with all your mind.”
But of course “my own personal interpretation of scripture” is shared with hundreds of millions of believers around the world and inhabiting eternity.
Sorry guys.
Putting carbolic acid on his hands to create a stigmata was a falsehood.
Stay childish, little ebb.
Indeed.
Sola Scriptura
Said the person who claims he is equal to God
Neat graphic. I need it.
I'm aware of that. I think all protestant have their own personal interpretations; that's why there are so many sects.
Your “take” is mistaken. I only worship God.
Martin Luther did not die unrepentant, just in correct opposition to an errant Roman Catholic Church.
“ that’s why there are so many sects.”
Small potatoes compared to the smorgasbord RC approach, where each individual decides which teachings they personally accept. Hundreds of millions.
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