Posted on 10/29/2024 8:38:15 PM PDT by ebb tide
In the past, Jansenists (and allegedly traditionalists today) put the emphasis on God’s justice, while discounting His mercy. Indeed, both Jansenists and traditionalists seem to think a lot of people go to hell. It all seems like a grand-slam against traditionalists.
Therefore, the recent document from Rome titled Dilexit Nos purports to be about the Sacred Heart crushing Jansenism: “The promotion of Eucharistic communion on the first Friday of each month, for example, sent a powerful message at a time when many people had stopped receiving communion because they were no longer confident of God’s mercy and forgiveness and regarded communion as a kind of reward for the perfect. In the context of Jansenism, the spread of this practice proved immensely beneficial.—#24.
The above paragraph is diabolically tricky. While it is true that Jansenists were wrong to refuse Holy Communion to so many people, and while I entirely agree with Pope St. Pius X in encouraging lay people to receive Holy Communion much more frequently, we have the opposite problem of Jansenism now in the Church: Presumption and license in approaching the sacraments like never before in history.
Keep in mind that Dilexit comes the same guy who wrote Amoris Laetitia. In Amoris, he tells divorced and remarried people to receive Holy Communion without confession or even an annulment. That is an outright command to sacrilege both the Eucharist and Marriage. Thus, the pendulum has swung to the exact opposite of Jansenism today, namely, license to the point of sacrileging the Eucharist. What could be more evil than a man telling a billion people to sacrilege the Eucharist? Of course, the few Catholics who resist this call to sacrilege are not “Jansenists.”...
... How do I know the author of Dilexit does not believe the Sacred Heart is about salvation? Because that same author publicly stated “I like to think of hell as empty.” He also recently said “All religions are a path to God.” Therefore, it is not a stretch to come to the conclusion that he holds neither Jesus nor His Sacred Heart are necessary for salvation. And that is why you can’t find the word “Catholic” even one time in that 31,000 word document Dilexit allegedly written on the Sacred Heart. (I’m not exaggerating. Do the word search yourself. You’ll only find the word “Catholic” in the biographical footnotes at the very end.)
But you will find these two sentences in it: “The present document [Dilexit] can help us see that the teaching of the social Encyclicals Laudato Sí and Fratelli Tutti is not unrelated to our encounter with the love of Jesus Christ. For it is by drinking of that same love that we become capable of forging bonds of fraternity, of recognizing the dignity of each human being, and of working together to care for our common home.”—#217.
In other words, according to him, the Sacred Heart is simply about loving man and planet earth, not God. Go re-read Laudato Sí or Fratelli Tutti if you doubt me on this horrible (but obvious) conclusion.
I will resist dark errors in all three documents, for “love is repaid by love alone.” In contemplating the love of the Sacred Heart that was pierced for us and in expiation to God’s justice, we should respond to Christ in adoration and atonement for the salvation of souls, not as social justice warriors with a political agenda. An ancient way of sacrificial love has nothing to do with “Jansenism,” for even the Apostle Paul wrote: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.”—Col 1:24. That is how we imitate the love of the Sacred Heart “which has so loved men.” Fr. Dave Nix [https://padreperegrino.org/2024/10/cooptsttcj/]
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