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.
Because Jesus rebukes Satan, but angels do not!!!
I agree.
So, you had better look again in Jude 1:9. Michael rebukes Satan. Ergo, Michael is Jesus Christ. I’m glad you finally admitted it.
Where?
HMMMmm...
Come ON guys!
It’s WAY too early for the popcorn eatin’ gif!
where what? (You didn’t leave a reference again)
HMMMmm...
I still don’t see anything slanderous or “abusive”
Your comment: “ADSUM thank you for making this easy to prove that your cult is not Scriptural and does indeed worship a dead mortal that has absolutely no place being named near GOD as being worshipped or served.”
So your lies and vitriol towards God’s Truth and the Catholic Church. May you find God’s Truth and repent before you die.
Apparently if you don’t know or cannot find anything, then you assume that you are right.
In the story of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19–31), the rich man shows concern for his family on earth, even though he is in hell.
In a dream, God commanded King Abimelech to ask Abraham to intercede for him: “For [Abraham] is a prophet and he will pray for you, so you shall live” (Gen. 20:7). When the Lord is angry with Job’s friends because they did not speak rightly about God, he tells them, “Let my servant Job pray for you because I will accept his [prayer], lest I make a terror on you” (Job 42:8).
“Let my prayer be incense before you.” Ps141
“and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints” rev 8
A good catholic bible would help without all th anti-catholic bias.
So, do you agree with Mrobisr that a CREATED angel would never rebuke Satan? Only God would? I agree. Or, would you call Mrobisr a CULTIST for believing that? Or is Mrobisr now going to change his statement?
Your comment: “You romans just don’t study the Word enough to comprehend the deeper meanings. You read just one verse and run with it and it is almost always out of context.”
Of course, a baptized Catholic that has rejected the Word of God and His Catholic Church fallibly knows and follows all of God’s Truth better than Catholics that receive multiple graces through the Church and the Sacraments.And then he spreads false statements and blasphemes against Our Lord.
If one moves away from the influence of Satan and false teachers, repent and try to understand God’s revealed truths instead of false ones, then one may find the Peace of our Lord.
Your comment: “ That’s just a bunch of easily disprovable nonsense.
There’s a plethora of prayers to Mary asking her to do things for people that only God can do.
It’s not just simply asking her to pray to God for us and a simple search of prayers to Mary will prove that beyond the shadow of a doubt.”
Perhaps you don’t understand prayers for the intercession of Mary and the saints so that God can respond. Jesus asked us to pray for one another including our enemies.
Your anti-Catholic bias is evident, Prayers to Mary are asking for her intercession. Similar to the Wedding at Cana, where Jesus responded. Protestants are willing to make false statements to try to process their false beliefs.
Your logic and understanding of Scripture fail you. Your own words acknowledge the Catholic Church in Revelations.
Your comment: “No; that is ROME’s claim; and you KNOW it!
What I’ve shown; over and over and over; from SCRIPTURE; is that Catholic teachings didn’t take hold very good in the early church.”
You acknowledged in post 201 “Ahem: Every one of those churches were Catholic; according to what I read posted by Catholics on FR.
They sure went off the rails quickly! “
So you are judging the Catholic Church based on man made heretic interpretation of Scripture. There is nothing that you or any protestant has proved wrong in the teaching of faith and morals. On the contrary, you rely on man made false truths and not all of God’s revealed truths.
The Catholic Church has followed the authority of Jesus to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” Mt 28:19-20
Your own baptism has benefited from the Catholic Church exercising this authority for 1500 years before the protests of heretics in 1500’s.
Perhaps you do not understand what blasphemy is, since you keep dancing with it. Today’s Catholicism is not Christianaity, not even close! Keep striving to obtain that which God gives ONLY as a gify for believing in Whom He sent for your salvation, you can earn hell if you keep striving ...
Your ORG is ferrying people into hell with your works based lying. Perhaps satan’s greatest accomplishment is the Catholic ORG. And your purposed deceit of conflating the Catholic ORG with the one true Body of Believers EKKLESIA is more evidence that you are a supporter of the lies and father os same.
I hope you don’t tell Jesus your comments when you die and face judgement.
Your comments:”Your ORG is ferrying people into hell with your works based lying. Perhaps satan’s greatest accomplishment is the Catholic ORG. And your purposed deceit of conflating the Catholic ORG with the one true Body of Believers EKKLESIA is more evidence that you are a supporter of the lies and father os same.”
I will agree with you in part that some Catholics (including clergy) by their sinful ways are leading many to perdition, just like Luther and others have led many away from God. Yet the Catholic Church and Catholic faith remains strong and Jesus is with us always.
In your confusion and attitude you may not understand the Catholic Church or God’s revealed truth, so like the Apostles that followed Christ (it took time and many mistakes), continue to seek the Truth so that you can follow Jesus and His Truth.
God gave you free will to choose Heaven or Hell. To reject the Catholic Church that Jesus founded may lead you to the latter.
You cannot help but deviate from The Body of Christ Believers (the real one True EKKLESIA / Church) to your man-made ORG, empowered by lies and deviants. Every time you try to conflate your Org with The Church made up of ALL BELIVERS since the Day of Pentecost preaching by Peter, you practice to deceive.
here's a clue for you, ADSUM, your ORG does not have nor does it promote The Truth. I have God's Truth and consult it every day. I have committed much of His Truth to memory so that if your ORG does a repeat of the past I can have it neigh me, even in my mind and in my mouth.
Your ORG's sacramental trail, your worship of the Catholic Mary, your prayers to dead people, your idools and icons, all of that is not Christianity. Your eating what you imagine is the physical body of Jesus and consuming His blood, well that blasphemy does not get the deity of Christ into your spirit via your alimentary tract. Hence the accusation of Magic Thinking. Your pedophile homosexual priest cannot absolve sin, only GOD can do that and He has assured us sexual deviants are an abomination in His eyes, hence the delusional thinking. You are already possessed of STRONG DELUSION. You are pushing an 'other religion' as Paul identified your ORG.
Did you thank the Catholic Church today for the written Scriptures that you have with the exception of some deletions by heretics?
Too bad that you don’t accept that Jesus gave authority to the Catholic Church to continue His mission to spread the Good News and help us on our road to salvation.
Your fascination with delusions continues your belief in an invisible church with no leader on earth instead of His visible Church on the Hill that commenced with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
Perhaps you didn’t understand what Jesus said in Mt 18:17 when one sins, but doesn’t listen, then “tell it to THE Church; and if refuses to listen even to THE Church”.... So Jesus formed one Catholic Church, not multiple protestant EKKLESIA churches (with multiple opinions of God’s Truth) after 1500.
It is a shame that you reject the Catholic faith (that if I remember correctly you were baptized in the Catholic faith) and I hope and pray that you repent and change your understanding and accept God’s Truth for your salvation.
Wow, you are sooo confused! "It is a shame that you reject the Catholic faith (that if I remember correctly you were baptized in the Catholic faith) and I hope and pray that you repent and change your understanding and accept God’s Truth for your salvation." Thanks be to GOG, I never made that mistake. You really should try dis-conflating your ORG with the One True Church / Body of all Believers making up the Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ. There is so much truth you could learn if you would put your faith in Christ alone, not in the striving for salvation by works.
It is to GOD's glory that I have rejected the Catholic Other Religion. ... And your practiced ability to misconstrue the Word of God to support the heretical religion of Catholicism is not un noticed. Twisting the words of Jesus to make a lie is a most grave sin, ADSUM.
I wonder, sometimes, perhaps you do not know Who is the One True Church founded by The Holy Spirit the day Peter ptrached the Gospel. Nut them I recall I and others have explained it to you so many times and in so many loving ways. Jesus established a SPIRITUAL Body of Christ made up of ALL believers, even Catholic believers. To be among the Redeemed one need only Believer and call upon the Christ to be your redeemer. When He redeems you, His Word says God then abides in your born again spirit. You can work all you want AFTER being born again, even work at the sacramental trail, it will not remove your Born Again membership in His family, the Body of Christ Believers. BUT if you try to work your way to salvation, well, God does not honor works with His Gift.
Trying to type too fast for old fingers.
So you didn’t thank the Catholic Church that you have access to the written Scriptures! Perhaps you should also thank God for giving the Catholic Church the authority to teach and Baptize and interpret the Scriptures!
Perhaps if you could support your false opinions and rantings about God’s Word, instead flailing about the Catholic Church teachings, then you might be taken seriously rather than a rambling protestant. Sorry if I took you for a baptized Catholic (as there are many here).
Yes I do know the true Jesus Christ, Son of God, and Our Lord and Savior and follow His Truth and teaching through His Catholic Church (the ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC and APOSTOLIC Church) and I receive Him often in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. I do not accept a man made Church or follow man made theories of God’s Truth.
An article about Catholic faith. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-true-faith-requires
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