Posted on 11/01/2017 12:39:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
One of the tritest of trite expressions is that a picture is worth a thousand words. And yet it is true, especially if one studies the picture in all its implications.
Consider, for example, this most revealing photograph:
The photo was taken at the very moment Rosary-praying Catholics were about to be forcibly removed by police from the cathedral in Brussels during an insane “ecumenical service” to “celebrate” the Protestant Revolt, aka the “Reformation.” Arms linked, they were praying the Rosary in reparation for the sacrilege taking placing before them.
Study the picture. Notice that the two rows of Catholics reciting the Rosary are composed entirely of young people. Now look behind them to the rows of people attending the “celebration” of the “Reformation” without protest. Notice that they are late-middle-aged or older, most with gray hair.
Look next at the young woman in the foreground: shamelessly attired in a tight mini-skirt and black leggings, she can be seen in the video here extracting what appears to be a program for the scandalous event from the hands of one of the youths praying the Rosary before they are removed, one by one, from the premises.
This one photograph tells the whole story of the state of the Church today: a decadent and dying “mainstream” given over to ecumenical madness, literally attempting to commit suicide, while young people courageously invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and are arrested for praying the signature Catholic prayer on consecrated Catholic ground. And the only sign of youth affiliated with the dying establishment is a shamelessly attired woman who violates every standard of modesty as she assists in an unholy ceremony in what is supposed to be a holy place.
The next sham Synod, on “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment,” is supposed to be all about “listening to the young.” It is a very safe bet that there will be no listening to the young who are flocking to the traditional Latin Mass all over the world, who have had enough of the failed, trendy Catholicism of the past fifty years, and who represent the real future of the Church, which awaits the day of her restoration. Indeed, Francis has repeatedly denounced these faithful young Catholics for their “rigidity,” even suggesting that they are “sick.”
Instead, we can be certain that the youth of miniskirts, selfies with the Pope, and “irregular relationships” will receive an attentive hearing, as if to ensure the continued decadence of a decadent establishment. The effort will fail, just as the entire disastrous experiment with novelty has failed. But the dictatorial regime of novelty in the post-conciliar Church aims to impose its will until the bitter end, as if determined to provoke the wrath of God.
Marco Tosatti has published a letter from a major figure in the Church, known only as “Big Shot,” in which we read:
“Dear Tosatti, you won’t believe it, but I am beginning to really be afraid. I have begun to pray once again the prayer of exorcism to St. Michael the Archangel written by Pope Leo XIII (recited at the end of Holy Mass until 1964 when it was unexplainably ‘deleted’). I ask myself if I will have the strength to take action without any assistance from my Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, sensing rather that it sets itself daily more and more against the Gospels and the Truth that it taught me. The Cardinals and Bishops who still believe in the Truth of Christ had better do something quickly! I fear we are in the End Times, dear Tosatti. I am a “Big Shot” but terrified…”
The final consummation of the Message of Fatima cannot be long in coming, as the prophecy of the Third Secret, concerning sin within the Church, unfolds in what Pope Benedict XVI called “a really terrifying way” — three years before he abruptly and mysteriously abandoned his papacy.
You don’t need help from me; you’re doing a great job displaying your temper.
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See? This is what I mean about losing your temper.
You can’t even handle it when I say you’re in schism with Francis. You can’t even handle reading Luther for 20 minutes.
Twenty.
Minutes.
You could have felt smug all night and you couldn’t even think clearly enough to sacrifice TWENTY. MINUTES.
All you can do is throw around petty, childish insults.
You’re never gonna get rid of ‘Bergoglio’ like this. If you go and do the whiny ‘I know you are but what am I’ to your bishop like you just did, you’re gonna get your butt thrown out the door before even two minutes pass.
Baptists don’t “do” sacraments / eucharist, so we wouldn’t have covered those topics.
P.K. - Preacher’s Kid.
I have better things to do with 20 minutes, like praying a rosary.
Bogus. At least the Hail Mary part, which is substantial.
I have better things to do with 20 minutes, like praying a rosary.
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DID you pray a rosary?
I doubt it, because you were busy insulting me.
Again, twenty minutes. You could have spent twenty minutes doing even the smallest bit of research. You could have debated with intelligence and knowledge. You may have even made me think about my own views.
Instead you went on a bizarre tangent about fecal matter and convinced me in doing so that you never read Luther at all.
Do you REALLY think that kind of attitude is going to convince anyone? Do you really think that kind of attitude will remove a Pope you don’t like?
I think they are termed “ordinances” in Baptist theology.
Here’s what I find that may apply to Baptists, from my previous link:
Reformed theology has traditionally taught that Jesus’ body is seated in heaven at the right hand of God; therefore his body is not physically present in the elements, nor do the elements turn into his body in a physical or any objective sense. However, Reformed theology has also historically taught that when the Holy Communion is received, not only the Spirit, but also the true body and blood of Jesus Christ (hence “real”) are received through the Spirit, but these are only received by those partakers who eat worthily (i.e., repentantly) with faith. The Holy Spirit unites the Christian with Jesus though they are separated by a great distance. See, e.g., Westminster Confession of Faith, ch. 29; Belgic Confession, Article 35.
The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, in which Reformed Baptists believe, affirms the Lord’s Supper to be a means of “spiritual nourishment and growth”, stating:
The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by him the same night wherein he was betrayed, to be observed in his churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and showing to all the world the sacrifice of himself in his death, confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe to him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other.
I have better things to do with 20 minutes, like praying a rosary.
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So, you’re admitting that you intentionally avoid doing research before making your arguments?
Oh, I’m going to have so much fun with this little bit of information now~
The anniversray of his revolt ends tonight. No need to worry about any Luther posts from me tomorrow. I have better things to do, like celebrating All Saints’ Day.
Probably. We have just two ordinances: Believer’s Baptism (by immersion), and Lord’s Supper (Communion).
What???? You can't hear echoes? See your Dr.
It is an echo chamber when you only preach to the choir. Sack up, call the Pope to repentance, the Church to reform.
I'm not even suggesting going that far. Stand, call out church authority for heresy or whatever it is when Catholic teaching evolve. Call out the Pope! They don't have to worry about the secular sword and a spiritual sword wielded by a heretic is no threat either. Instead of complaining about Luther being proclaimed a heretic by a Pope less worse than this one. Instead, complain loudly on a site the Pope will never see or hear about.
Do you consider yourself to be a member of my choir?
Or maybe you lack reading compreheision. Luther wasn't mentioned in the article.
Maybe you lack comprehension in general.
Or do you not see how deliberately refusing to research before spouting off makes you look like an idiot and a source of amusement?
Do you consider yourself to be a member of my choir?
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And this coming from the king of the ‘Catholic Caucus’ threads too.
Roffle.
I consider myself part of the choir that thinks this Pope is a dope.
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