Posted on 10/27/2022 11:33:15 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
The Vatican has released a new working document for the Synod on Synodality, summarizing the results of national consultations and preparing for the “continental stage” of the continuing Synod process.
In a 44-page document, entitled “Enlarge the space of your tent,” the document calls for “a Church capable of radical inclusion,” and stresses the need to reach out to those who feel alienated from, or marginalized by, the Church. In particular, the text calls for greater efforts to include women in decision-making roles, and to reach out to homosexuals, divorced and remarried couples, single parents, young people, and victims of racism and abuse. ...
pursuit of this inclusive model—which the document suggests is the model for a “synodal” Church—the working document encourages greater dialogue with “those who, for various reasons, feel a tension between belonging to the Church and their own loving relationships, such as: remarried divorcees, single parents, people living in a polygamous marriage, LGBTQ people, etc.”
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On what page is Christ mentioned?
By pushing these things, the Synodal sycophants are going to end up being in schism against more long-standing church teaching than can possibly be fathomed.
Where is He mentioned?
I doubt they know who is He or even what He taught, as recorded in Sacred Scripture, for Mt. 19:5-6 much less what St. Paul taught in 1 Cor. 6:9-10, Gal. 5:19-21, 1 Cor. 11:27, etc.
A continuation and expansion of this:
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Amazon Synod final doc calls for official women’s ministry at Mass
ROME, October 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The final document of the Amazon Synod calls for allowing women’s ministries at Mass, specifically saying that women can “receive the ministries of the Lector and Acolyte, among others to be developed.” While it does not specifically call for a permanent “diaconate” for women, it refers to the Commission set up by Pope Francis to study the question and says Synod Fathers will share their observations with the Commission and await the Commission’s report para 103).
“It is urgent for the Amazon Church to promote and confer ministries for men and women in an equitable manner,” says the document (para 95).
Quoting Pope Francis’ exhortation Evangeli Gaudium, the synod document (para 99) calls for the Church “to create still broader opportunities for a more incisive female presence in the Church.” Quoting again from Pope Francis (from a 2013 speech), it says, “Let us not reduce the commitment of women in the Church, but promote their active participation in the ecclesial community.”
“The Magisterium of the Church since the Second Vatican Council has highlighted the leading place that women occupy within it,” says the document (para 100). And quoting Pope Paul VI, it adds, “The time has come, the time has come for the woman’s vocation to be fully fulfilled, the time when the woman acquires in the world an influence, a weight, a power never reached until now.”
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There are two instances in the New Testament when Jesus told someone to “sin no more,” and they were each under very different circumstances. The first is when Jesus healed an invalid by the Pool of Bethesda (John 5:1–15). Afterward, Jesus found the man and told him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you” (verse 14). It is clear that Jesus knew what had caused the man’s condition. We are not told the specifics of the man’s physical impairment, but the context implies that it was caused by sinful choices. Jesus warned the man that he had been given a second chance and that he should make better choices. If the man returned to his sinful behavior, he would have wasted the opportunity Jesus gave him to live whole and forgiven.
The second instance is in the account of the woman taken in the act of adultery (John 8:3–11). When the woman’s accusers brought her before Jesus, expecting Him to pronounce judgment, He told them that the one who was without sin should throw the first stone. One by one, the condemning crowd left. Then Jesus told the woman, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more” (verse 11). She had been caught. She was guilty. She did deserve stoning according to the Law of Moses (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22). But the religious leaders who had dragged her there had no concern for holiness. They were trying to trap Jesus into saying that the Law did not matter (verse 6). Jesus often reminded those religious leaders that He had not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17). He, as God, was the Author of the Law (2 Timothy 3:16). The Pharisees focused on the letter of the Law but missed the true spirit of it, which is given in Galatians 5:14: “The whole law can be summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” When Jesus refused to condemn the woman, He was not minimizing the importance of holiness. He was offering her the same kind of forgiveness He offers every one of us (Acts 3:19).
In saying, “Go and sin no more,” Jesus was not speaking of sinless perfection. He was warning against a return to sinful lifestyle choices. His words both extended mercy and demanded holiness. Jesus was always the perfect balance of “grace and truth” (John 1:14). With forgiveness comes the expectation that we will not continue in the same path of rebelliousness. Those who know God’s love will naturally want to obey Him (John 14:15).
No. I want a church that preaches Christs love and follow the law.
Those who adhere to Sacred Scripture and Tradition have told the progressive modernists within the church that they are teaching against what Christ, St. Paul, etc have taught: “Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more.” Both. A message of conditional forgiveness.
In concert with what St. Paul wrote, those who have committed adultery or done anything per Gal. 5:19-21, 1 Cor. 6:9-10, can be absolved of sin and receive the Eucharist as long as certain criteria are met: sorrow for sin, true repentance, etc, etc.
But the progressive modernists instead support a message where just about anything goes on this, divorce, women “pastors” being allowed, etc.
As someone else said, it’s a false message of mercy from them based upon the lie of supposedly God-allowed “tolerance” and “inclusivity.”
Sacred Scripture ultimately tells us (on these issues the Synod is in schism against) what kind of church God allows us to have, and it sure isn’t what they are promoting...
Unless people think I am against more people in the Church, nothing could be farther from the truth. There needs to be lots more. Why?
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1439, “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith…”
Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302: “With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside of which there is no salvation nor remission of sin...”
Innocent III, Lateran IV, 1215: “There is one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which no one is saved.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great, 590-604: “The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved.”
St. Paul, 1st century AD, Sacred Scripture:
Ephesians 4: 4-5: “One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
1 Tim 3: 15: “...the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Matthew 18: 17 “And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.”
The church, not the 40k protestant churches.
St. Augustine, On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 4, Chapter 4: “And just as baptism is of no profit to the man who renounces the world in words and not in deeds, so it is of no profit to him who is baptized in heresy or schism; but each of them, when he amends his ways, begins to receive profit from that which before was not profitable, but was yet already in him.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives… and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Basel, Session 19, Sept. 7, 1434: “… there is hope that very many from the abominable sect of Mahomet will be converted to the Catholic faith.”
I agree. Grace is not a license to sin. God’s grace does not condone sin or approve of sin or turn a blind eye to sin. Coming to Christ means acknowledging sin and with His grace turning from it. Jesus gave a beautiful parable of a man who was sorrowful of his sin to the point of not looking up and He contrasted him to a self-righteous proud religious figure.
Again,Jesus was always the perfect balance of “grace and truth” (John 1:14).
Here we go....
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