[pascendi]

"And hopefully gain some wisdom from them too."

Let me get this straight. Christ died, rose, and ascended into heaven. He charged us with keeping the Faith until His return, and the Church has done that for 2,000 years.

But now in the year of our Lord 2004, because someone on the internet found out about St. Charbel, as if the first saint in Church history to have made mention of this unique idea called obedience, and this person didn't have a thorough understanding of the various types and applications of the word obedience, that because of said obedience the implication is that Catholics must learn that the synthesis of all heresies isn't really hurting the Church and that Catholics should turn a blind eye or capitulate maybe just a little to it, or take out after those who resist it, all in honor of this new thing called obedience?

It's brilliant, but I'll pass. It would be better to remain obedient.

[NYer]

St. Teresa of Avila: "I believe that since Satan sees there is no road that leads more quickly to the highest perfection than this of obedience, he suggests many difficulties under the color of some good, and makes it distasteful; let people look well into it and they will see plainly that I am telling the truth. Wherein lies the highest perfection? It is clear that it does not lie in interior delights, not in great raptures, not in visions, not in the spirit of prophecy, but in the conformity of our will to the will of God, so that there shall be nothing we know He wills that we do not will ourselves with our whole will, and accept the bitter as joyfully as the sweet, knowing it to be His Majesty’s will."

What is God’s will? "Whatever you loose on earth, I will loose in Heaven."