Posted on 05/02/2016 11:50:24 AM PDT by NYer
"Today bring to Me SOULS WHO HAVE BECOME LUKEWARM,* and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: 'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."
Consider including this vast group of souls in your daily prayers.
Catholic ping!
I have a dear friend who is a hardcore TRADITIONAL Catholic. His son is a priest.
He is HEARTSICK and tells me he’s convinced that the Vatican has been captured by the Marxists!
As I watch this Pope, I’m convinced he’s right!
For me, I’ve been able to identify with this description, and its corresponding admonition in Scripture (cf Rev 3:16). I often fear I fit into this category much to easily, without much resistance or thought on my part. I can only rely on His Mercy, for the more I examine my conscience daily the more I realize how much I fall short.
My God, have mercy on me a sinner.
>”Today bring to Me SOULS WHO HAVE BECOME LUKEWARM<
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When you are unemployed and you have prayed your heart out for a job, and there is no answer, it’s hard to believe in the abyss God’s mercy.
Try the Latin Mass if you are lucky enough to live near one. I’m convinced that the Latin Mass holds the key to the future of the Catholic Church. In the meantime let us pray for the Pope, that he takes the right road ahead.
True. I have lived that (and am living through something similar).
Hang in there.
Christ Himself prayed in the garden for the chalice to be passed from Him, and He was then excruciatingly tortured and killed -- but His final prayer was "not my will, but thine." Without the Crucifixion, none of us could enter the Kingdom. It was the ultimate act of mercy, but it probably didn't appear that way to the apostles at the time.
Resignation to, working towards acceptance and even to the joyful embrace of God's plan regardless of how painful it is for us in a temporal sense is something we all have to discipline ourselves to move towards.
Wow, beautiful words — you must have a job. Want to trade places?
I can distill it into two words:
POPE FRANCIS!
The theft of the Papacy from Cardinal Siri to the leftist John XXIII was the beginning of the end. Vatican II followed and the steady destruction followed. It continues today with this Marxist imposter in the Seat of St. Peter. It will not however end well for them.
Vatican II opened the windows & so many nuns took flight. I wish we had them all back!
Today I will pray for your employment situation. And if I may ask, let us pray for each other, in our various circumstances or trouble and suffering, in which Jesus joins us even now.
I think for me it really all started in the 2006 timeframe when “we” were told that “Sanctity of Life” should make way for “Social Justice.” And then, during the 2008 election season, we were damn near told to vote for Obama...
My concern began at that moment when our Priest was able to stand in front of the parish, with a straight face and say “it’s more important to support candidates that support Social Justice than Sanctity of Life.” I literally got up from the pew and left, and have only been back a few times. If my Priest felt that social justice was more important than sanctity of life then that is not the church I grew up in.
God and I are doing just fine...I don’t need to sit in a church and polish a pew with my a$$ only to be told that THE most vulnerable are not deserving of defense and are somehow less important, well, than anything.....
My reason for being lukewarm: Francis. It’s ironic that America and the Catholic Church have that in common...just when it needed a great leader, it got a Marxist, divisive, America-hating fool instead.
I’m just tired of having to “sing” all the responses. It’s like an episode of “glee”. Even the Lord’s Prayer is sung. I want to go to church, not glad hand, not hold my hands up and not have to sing. I look at all the men in the church and very few are involved because it’s so odd and I think effeminate.
Yeah, I know that men sing. but I’d just like to go to a mass like I did in my youth and listen, respond and learn.
As far as the politics of the church... it’s communist and homosexual friendly. Anyone who denies that are truly drinking the kool-aid. That’s why I left initially.
But the words of my father brought me home...”the church is the Lord’s home, the Catholic faith is the Lord’s gift. But men are flawed and should not be confused with what you know in your soul to be good and true.”
The communists can destroy the “church” but not my faith. The current pathetic pope and his little cronies make me sick, but I look at all the gifts the church has given the world and realize that they are lost and they will ultimately pay the price, all I have to do is believe, live my life as if the Lord is at my shoulder, ask him to forgive my sinful and despicable acts against him and pray that he has the grace to give my that forgiveness.
It’s all in his hands and he knows how it all will shake out. Without the Lord I am truly lost and pray with all my heart that I have done enough to live forever in peace with my family and that they find happiness and the Lord’s grace as well.
amen brother.
I love the quietness of the Tridentine Mass. So very quiet and contemplative. It reminds me of the silent, non-sermon daily Masses we were forced to attend as children in Catholic school in the 19960s. It’s nice to escape lay people, bad music, loud, malfunctioning mics at the pulpit and, worst of all, altar girls.
I have a home in NJ and would have to travel far to find a Latin Mass. In NYC, one is near me.
My family went through what you went through two years ago. Not only that, we faced social justice warriors who took our story to the New York Times - lies and deceit that caused my husband to go into a major depression that took a long time for him to emerge. But you’d be surprised how things can turn around in unexpected ways. I happen to think God took care of us in the end - a kind of strange way that we didn’t expect! So keep your chin up.
Can I ask you how long you’ve been out of work?
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