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.
Yes. God used Him mightily to restore the gospel of grace to a world that desperately needs it
Luther died as he lived - as one redeemed by the Blood of Christ
Ironically...those were the SAME things that brought about the Reformation! Luther was absolutely right and he wasn't alone in his efforts. If Catholics expect to go to heaven they should get used to the idea that Martin Luther will be there, too.
Padre Pio was a lunatic...
Amen!
That it does! The gospel will always be preserved.
Martin Luther helped usher in a vast Christian movement in which everyone was encouraged to follow what the Bible says and not what corrupt popes had mandated.
Other Christian groups had previously existed, but Martin multiplied those by a thousand fold.
Thank you, God, for such men, who, although flawed, saw the Truth and insisted everyone seek that, instead.
And oddly enough, the Roman Catholic church changed many of those "absurd" issues addressed by Luther's Theses! Imagine that.
“We still face great danger. With Luther, there was no warning, just 95 absurd theses appearing out of thin air.”
“Absurd,” but completely true and valid.
The Catholic church is hamstrung by these shortcomings and plenty of others it seems impossible to ever remedy, which is truly sad.
I know no Christians who have ever followed Luther.
“On the contrary, I don’t want people, including Jorge Bergoglio, deceived by Luther to suffer eternal damnation.”
LOL! El pope Francis is already deceived by Herr Satan, The Gay.
Copy and use it all you want
LOL! The Buggering Catholic Pope has no authority to do anything of consequence to the dead except to shag what remains of their corpse.
But didn't YOU say that you won't claim Luther is in hell? Hiding behind a mystic are you?
Comfort your heart in knowing that we don't follow Luther, we follow the Lord Jesus Christ and He will lead us to eternal life by grace through faith in Him.
Many Catholics (or former Catholics) have caused the greatest problem by leaving the Catholic faith and following the ways of the world and not the ways of Jesus.
While Luther and others were the instigators, too many Catholic have fallen away from the faith. Even some of the leadership have accepted sinful ways.
Both the Blessed Mother and Jesus have warned us and yet we ignored the warnings.
Let us pray ans ask both Blessed Mother and Jesus to continue to help guide us on the rough and narrow path.
Yes many have there own opinion of God’s Word, including Satan that is not God’s Truth.
Faith is both a relationship with God as well as engagement with the truths that He reveals.
We must trust in God and follow His Truth and not man’s false truth.
Too many reject God’s revealed Truths and follow the hypocrisy of other false opinions.
Scripture is clear about the evil of lying (Sermon on the Mount). Lying is the most direct offense against the truth.)
Won’t do any good since we know some folks like being ignorant. But for those who care about the truth, thanks for the link.
Why should we care?! Do you think Pope Frank decides who goes to heaven or hell? Luther has been beholding the beatific vision of Christ for 500 years now. Sorry ET.
Yes, but you are critical of Francis/status quo just like Luther was in criticizing the Pope at the time and the status quo, lol.
“ Too many reject God’s revealed Truths and follow the hypocrisy of other false opinions.”
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