Posted on 05/02/2023 11:49:09 AM PDT by ebb tide
Ping
• Are there any specific prayers authorized by bishops to Blessed Pachamama, after her vatican visit?
• has Pachamama been designated a saint of anything specific yet - for example fertility?
• Have there been any reported miracles from those venerating or praying to this idol??
I don’t know. Ask Bergoglio.
Who are we to judge whether one religion is better than the other? Paganism and Christianity. That’s how it starts, with moral relativism. This opens the way for treating good as evil and evil as good. Eventually the philosophy becomes do whatever feels good, because that’s the only measure of right and wrong. And more often than not, human wants desires are rooted in evil. But that’s Humanism, the idea that we are no more than animals with no spiritual aspect.
Great. Thanks so much.
Holy Spirit, cleanse Your Church.
St. Roberto Bellarmino stated: “As it is legitimate to resist the Pontiff who attacks the body so it is legitimate to resist the Pope who attacks souls or disturbs the State, and much more so if he tries to destroy the Church; it is lawful to resist such a Pope by not carrying out what he commands and preventing his will from being carried out, it is not lawful to judge or punish or depose him, this in fact belongs to superiors. " [182]
Today’s saint is Athanasius. Our pastor said in his homily that Athanasius was exiled 8 times for defying heretical authorities. He was an incredibly tough and smart man of faith who lived to be 80 despite everything the world threw at him.
Just saying that I pray Fr. Rotondo is in the mould of Athanasius.
Bishop of Alexandria, St. Athanasius opposed Arius with admirable zeal. He has left us several works in defense of the divinity of Christ. He suffered frequent persecution. He died in 373.
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ATHANASIUS was born in Egypt towards the end of the 3rd century, and was from his youth pious, learned, and deeply versed in the sacred writings, as befitted one whom God had chosen to be the champion and defender of His Church against the Arian heresy. Though only a deacon he was chosen by his bishop to go with him to the Council of Nicaea, in 325, and attracted the attention of all by the learning and ability with which he defended the faith. A few months later, he became Patriarch of Alexandria, and for 46 years he bore, often well-nigh alone, the whole brunt of the Arian assault. On the refusal of the Saint to restore Arius to Catholic communion, the emperor ordered the Patriarch of Constantinople to do so. The wretched heresiarch took an oath that he had always believed as the Church believes; and the patriarch, after vainly using every effort to move the emperor, had recourse to fasting and prayer, that God Would avert from the Church the frightful sacrilege. The day came for the solemn entrance of Arius into the great church of Sancta Sophia. The heresiarch and his party set out glad and in triumph. But before he reached the church, death smote him swiftly and awfully, and the dreaded sacrilege was averted. St. Athanasius stood unmoved against four Roman emperors; was banished five times; was the butt of every insult, calumny, and wrong the Arians could devise, and lived in constant peril of death. Though firm as adamant in defense of the Faith, he was meek and humble, pleasant and winning in converse, beloved by his flock, unwearied in labors, in prayer, in mortifications, and in zeal for souls.
In the year 373, his stormy life closed in peace, rather that his people would have it so than that his enemies were weary of persecuting him. He left to the Church the whole and ancient Faith, defended and explained in writings rich in thought and learning, clear, keen, and stately in expression. He is honored as one of the greatest of the Doctors of the Church.
Reflection—The Catholic Faith, says St. Augustine, is more precious far than all the riches and treasures of earth; more glorious and greater than all its honors, all its possessions. This it is which saves sinners, gives light to the blind, restores penitents, perfects the just, and is the crown of martyrs.
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