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.
“Be a sinner, and let your sins be bold
Archheretic Martin Luther”
Have you even READ that paragraph? It’s really fantastic, in Luther’s over-the-top style:
“If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2. Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign. It suffices that through God’s glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.”
“Get back to me when Lutheranism isn’t named after Luther.”
Don’t blame us, we didn’t name it after him, the Catholic Church did as an insult.
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What’s so weird??
The weird cultic beliefs about Mary.
I sure question the title!
However; the 'role' of Mary; Joseph's wife; is CLEARLY spelled out in Scripture:
Theotokos
30 And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. 31 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. 33 And of his kingdom there shall be no end.
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38 And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word. |
| | (This stuff up there was her role)
I’d look for a church that could elect godly men to lead it.
A church that did NOT try to hide the sins of it’s priests by shuffling them off to obscure locations.
A church that never had tried to TORTURE folks into recanting their beliefs.
FS can stand for some; shall we say; interesting word combinations.
I shudda read ahead!
Why?
Because your chosen religious organization has convinced you.
...there it is!
The reason Marty is an ARCH-heretic!!
It's interesting to read about the beginnings of the "cult of saints" and the veneration of relics - body parts, objects, pieces of clothing, artifacts, etc. - that are presumably associated with those saints. Various Popes even contracted with relic sellers to acquire "important" ones in order to set up pilgrimages to Rome for the faithful to venerate, touch, kiss and pray to them for special graces and miracles in order to raise up much needed funds for the Vatican. There was a big market for them during the Middle Ages and consequentially a lot of fraud, theft, superstition and idolatry.
“Hence, the pagan influence.”
Bingo
“Now, I will avoid this. 🔥”
Amen brother!!!
“In Hindism there is the worship of a Mother deity. Devī (the middle name of Kamala Harris) is the Sanskrit word for “goddess.”
Not changing subject, but that is a very interesting note, thanks.
“spend too much time in Purgatory.”
ADSUM,
I have asked this question before of you, so again the dogma of purgatory comes from the Maccabees please answer these questions.
Do those books belong in the Old or New Covenant?
If they are Old Covenant theology how exactly does that pertain to a New Covenant Christian?
If they are New Covenant books please explain this...
How are they New Covenant when they are clearly before Jesus Christ was manifested in the flesh at Bethlehem?
Do you really understand your own dogmas or you simply a mouth piece of propaganda with no real understanding of Rome’s beliefs.
“You know that the Catholic Church does not treat the Blessed Mother of God as a goddess”
Maybe you missed this,
rcc’s pray to mary and their god
rcc’s bow to mary and their god
rcc’s kneel to mary and their god
rcc’s offer sacrifice to mary and their god
rcc’s serve mary and their god
rcc’s get grace from mary and from their god
Tell me the difference again.
Yes, there is a thread on that. The surprising meaning of Kamala Harris' name (The meaning of Kamala Devi)
Didn’t the worship of Mary, originally come from the religion of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis? I think when those dudes were yelling, great is Diana of the Ephesians, the Catholic Church, just took Diana, the queen of Heaven, (demigoddess) and changed the name to Mary. I think the religion of Nimrod, was widespread at the time of Jesus.
I vaguely recall classes in Seminary where this was covered, but that was 50 years ago. I do remember that schemes were added every now and then to get more money from the people, and more often than not the people were in the depths of poverty and easily manipulated. They believed the money was connected with achieving eternity in Heaven. Sad.
But how to account for the easily manipulated million and billionaires of today?
Why do SO many of them fall for Liberalism?
Why did Willy Sutton rob banks?
Because that’s where the money is!!
The Left is erasing Judeo-Christian boundaries that have controlled human behaviour for eons.
They do so because human enslavement is profitable-remarkably so.
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