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To: piusv

You can find my comment below regarding the article:
The Great Difficulty In Overcoming Pharisaism - The Difference Between Schismatic Traditionalism and the False Pope Prophecies
http://schis-trad.blogspot.it/2016/05/overcoming-pharisaism.html
No, I do not think we are on the same page. The article offers the references of Cardinal Danneel’s Mafia, and the automatic excommunication for these activities in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Domini Gregis.
There is a real battle going on here. It would be a mistake to lump everything together. With the great lack of prayer today, and more sin than ever, we have given the power to deceive to the forces of evil.
In the above mentioned article there is the paragraph:
“THE CHURCH ON EARTH, THE “CHURCH MILITANT”, IS MADE UP OF SAINTS AND SINNERS AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN (Mt 13:36-40, 47-50). In the early Church the heretical cult, the DONATISTS, explained these two parables of the fish and of the weeds in a rather simplistic way: the Church was made up of only the good people and the world was made up of all the evil people without hope of salvation. The Church would be in the world as a “closed garden” or better, the Ark of Noah in which only for the very few there is salvation from the general flood. St. Augustine’s thought won out which was that of the universal Church. The Church herself is a field in which grow weeds and good seed, bad and good together . St. Augustine even exclaimed: “How many sheep there are outside the Church and how many wolves are inside!” The world is not divided into children of darkness and children of light; but rather we are all children of darkness, we are all weeds, but destined, if we desire it, to become children of the light and good grain, receiving the Kingdom and converting ourselves. Nothing is fixed or fatal, no castes of the elect or of the damned. The field is, yes, the world, but it is also the Church: the place in which there is room to grow, to convert oneself and above all to imitate the patience of God. “The bad exist in this world either so that they might convert themselves, or that by way of them the good exercise patience” (St. Augustine).” At the end of the world will be the separation between the saved and the damned, not now as many in the SSPX believe, or as Calvin believed!”
If one is truly humble and praying a lot, and willing to suffer with Christ in this period of the Church, this person will be able to distinguish the difference.


36 posted on 01/28/2017 7:53:17 AM PST by JosephJames (The Truth Shall Set You Free (Jn 8:32)!)
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To: JosephJames

I was speaking to HomerBohn. I just included you in the post given you wrote the original comment to him.


41 posted on 01/28/2017 8:19:48 AM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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