Posted on 01/02/2021 6:05:47 PM PST by ebb tide
This Sunday, January 3, 2021, is the 500th anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther as a heretic and schismatic – the greatest damage ever done to the Holy Catholic Church. He died unrepentant, without the sacraments and outside the One True Church.
Yes, Pope Leo X, who issued the excommunication decree and the previous Exsurge Domine warning (6/15/1520) to Luther, had a mixed record of papal righteousness – but in this event he is nearly unsurpassed and fairly vindicated.
In this writer's view, these documents are two of the most formidable, necessary and courageous decrees emanating from the Chair of Peter, defending the Holy Roman Catholic Church from doctrinal attack. They were subsequently, fully upheld by the Council of Trent – also one of the greatest Councils in Church history – to which we owe very much, especially on the Eucharist!
We still face great danger. With Luther, there was no warning, just 95 absurd theses appearing out of thin air.
Here today, we had a warning in 1917 at Fatima. “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world,” did Our Lady alert the three children and us Catholics.
We feel these effects today – a far more serious warning than Luther. In full deference to Our Lady and the Most Holy Trinity – it is extremely doubtful (despite assertions to the contrary) that the full, correct Consecration to Russia was done; or that the decisive 3rd Secret text was totally revealed.
The errors, it is said, will lead to “The Great Apostasy.” There seems no appetite in the Vatican, at any level, to humbly accept and remedy those grave errors. Rather, a desire to hurtle into the future with Pachamama; Amazon Culture; ecology; and global secular solutions – as moral virtue is completely ignored and vocations and faithful Catholics disappear at record speeds.
Will the Church (and our Country) continue its decline? Will we still continue to receive God’s Divine Mercy and Graces? Are we due for a severe Divine Chastisement?
I am not going to advance an opinion here – only to charitably say, we would all do well to place our own souls in a state of grace, and urge our families, friends and others to do the same.
And Pray. God is very good.
Get back to me when Lutheranism isn’t named after Luther.
and added a lot more.
Cardinal Hugo http://fatima.org/crusader/cr38/cr38pg3.asp Translation: "that those who do not serve Mary will not be saved; for those who are deprived of the help of this great Mother are also deprived of that of Her Son and of the whole court of heaven."
26. "Gens quæ non servierit illi, peribit; gentes destitutæ tantæ Matris auxilio, destituuntur auxilio Filii et totius curi’ coelestis."— De Laud. B. M. I. 4.
(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)
| 1 | Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces. |
| 2. | I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. |
| 3. | The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies |
| 4. | It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. |
| 5. | The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. |
| 6. | Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. |
| 7. | Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. |
| 8. | Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. |
| 9. | I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. |
| 10. | The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. |
| 11. | You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. |
| 12. | All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. |
| 13. | I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death |
| 14. | All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. |
| 15. | Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. |
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,
no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
Sister Lucia dos Santos
300 A.D. 1. Prayers for the dead
300 A.D. 2. Making the sign of the cross
375 A.D. 3. Veneration of angels & dead saints
375 A.D. 4. Use of images in worship
394 A.D. 5. The Mass as a daily celebration
431 A.D. 6. Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term; “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus
526 A.D. 7. Extreme Unction (Last Rites)
593 A.D. 8. Doctrine of Purgatory-Gregory 1
600 A.D. 9. Prayers to Mary & dead saints
786 A.D. 10. Worship of cross; images & relics
995 A.D. 11. Canonization of dead saints
1079 A.D. 12. Celibacy of priesthood
1090 A.D. 13. The Rosary
1190 A.D. 14. Indulgences
1215 A.D. 15. Transubstantiation-Innocent III
1215 A.D. 16. Auricular Confession of sins to a priest
1220 A.D. 17. Adoration of the wafer (Host)
1414 A.D. 18. Cup forbidden to the people at communion
1439 A.D. 19. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma
1439 A.D. 20. The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed
1545 A.D. 21. Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent
1546 A.D. 22. Apocryphal books added to Bible
1854 A.D. 23. Immaculate Conception of Mary
1870 A.D. 24. Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals proclaimed by the Vatican Council
1950 A.D. 25. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death)
1965 A.D. 26. Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church
I'd rather wait until you can show me that Luther STARTED the Lutheranism denomination; like you've claimed.
Not as many of these “I hate Christians with a hot hot hate” threads lately.
I can only manage the occasional snarky response; I’m rather busy defending the rights of these Catholics to make these threads.
Shame that the instigators refuse to return the favor.
Who is Catholicism named after?
I don’t see anyone in Scripture named *Catholic*.
Besides, that’s just a red herring to avoid addressing the issue of the immorality and sexual abuse that is running rampant within the Catholic clergy.
Why did you change the subject?
And we can add about 50 more ‘core principles’ that Pope Bergoglio has instituted since taking office.
Good list!
Well, I called Comcast and they had me try the site https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ which confirmed the inability to load site https://www.tektonics.org/ was “just for me,” and then had me check http://test-ipv6.com/ and which I passed 10/10, and then they tried to change the modem security settings which did not help. I checked my History and saw that I was able to access that site in the last 7 days before i had this problem. And so they are going to send a new modem free (this one is at least 6 years old) and I can return the old one at my convenience. So thank God for that, but it will be about 3 days before the new one comes in and I can see if that fixes the problem.
I can access my modems settings myself if i could remember the user name and pword since I changed it.
Daniel, I think it has something to do with your software.
You could download a copy of a self-booting operating system environment like Knoppix and if that boots up and its browser gets to the site, this should prove a software issue with your Windows.
Knoppix download:
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
I already have a Linux Mint live USB, but the same cite will not load on a rig running Mint, and connecting via wireless to the same modem. Lets wait and see till Thurs or so to see if it works with the new modem.
I’m glad you both have such high regard for Martin Luther. Maybe you will believe him in his identity of the Antichrist?
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
“We are convinced that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” Luther’s Werke, v. 2, p. 167
“We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist…personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.” L. Froom, Prophetic Faith of our Fathers Volume 2 (Washington D.C: Review and Herald, 1948): 121
“You should know that the pope is the real, true, final Antichrist, of whom the entire Scripture speaks, whom the Lord is beginning to consume with the spirit of His mouth and will very soon destroy and slay with the brightness of His coming.” Luther’s Werke, vol. 8, p. 554
“nothing else than the kingdom of Babylon and of very Antichrist…. For who is the man of sin and the son of perdition, but he who by his teaching and his ordinances increases the sin and perdition of souls in the church; while he yet sits in the church as if he were God? All these conditions have now for many ages been fulfilled by the papal tyranny.” Martin Luther, First Principles, pp. 196-197
“I am practically cornered, and can hardly doubt any more, that the Pope is really the Antichrist… because everything so exactly corresponds to the way of his life, actions, words and commandments.” Martin Luther, Schriften volume 21a, column 234, as translated in George Waddington, A History of the Reformation on the continent volume 1 (1841)
“Already I feel greater liberty in my heart; for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself.” Martin Luther, as quoted in D’Aubigné, book 6 chapter 9
“We are not the first who interpret the Papacy as the kingdom of Antichrist…He (John Purvey in 1390 AD) rightly and truly pronounces the Pope “Antichrist” as he is…a witness indeed, foreordained by God to confirm our doctrine.” Martin Luther, Commentarius in Apocalypsin (reprint)
Evesdropping on you fellas conversation has convinced me you are speaking in tongues.
Are you serious?
When have you done that?
We do not need any cessassionists to derail the conversation.
Here is the first post you made to me on this thread:
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I do not consider your above rant to be your "valuing my opinion". Rather it's an example of hypocrisy and mind-reading.
Right; Lutherans must have adopted their name from John Calvin /s
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