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"Keeping Christ company in the Blessed Sacrament," says a Novus Ordo Catholic - definitely not a reader of this blog - "sounds dangerously like anthropomorphism."
Says it all, really. Anthropomorphism, as you probably know, means attributing human emotions to something non-human, most often to dogs or cats (as in "oh you naughty boy, you did that just to annoy me").
This N O Catholic is a Massgoer, a man committed to his parish community and looked up to, even revered, by his fellow parishioners. And what this committed Catholic was saying is that Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is not human.
His one-liner explains why our churches are pretty much empty. Empty, that is, except when Mass is in progress. Or some other group activity, like a prayer group. Or when the church needs cleaning or the organist is practising. You know, when 'communidy' is involved. Otherwise our churches are empty, except for immigrants who are still nourished by the graces they received in the churches of their homelands.
Empty, that is, except for the very reason that the church - and often the school alongside - exists. Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle - the source, summit and centre of the Catholic faith, says Vatican II - is abandoned, forgotten, derided and denied. Our N O Massgoer has become a Protestant.
When told that Jesus wants company, the lovely young school teacher in the church foyer two nights ago looked blank. She's a regular Sunday N O Massgoer and 'Catholic' school teacher, and she simply didn't get it. Her faith would seem to be essentially Protestant.
It's the Novus Ordo effect, illustrated and amplified by material the meeting she was waiting for was expected to study: an excerpt from the speach (sic) given by Cardinal John Dew to the 150th Jubilee Dinner at St Patrick's Waipawa a couple of weeks back.
Cardinal Dew chose to quote 'Pope Francis' on 'the need to come out of the Pandemic better than we were before'.
Passing right over the fact that the 'Pandemic' is a bad seasonal flu, amplified out of all proportion by evil globalists and their government and media minions to serve their own sinister purpose, and that New Zealand's 26 deaths do not amount to a Pandemic, the burning question is, how do we come out better than before?
Let me tell you that there's not a hint of an answer in the page of Dewy rhetoric our Parish Council was dutifully studying and no doubt, 'reflecting on'. He quotes, at length, a certain Italian Bishop Derio Olivero (pictured above) whose claim to fame is he survived an attack of COVID - like over 99.98% of the people who catch it. Why would Cardinal Dew quote this Italian bishop who has nothing to say, if not to emphasise the seriousness of the 'Pandemic' and the measures necessary to combat it (excluding, of course, common sense, Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine).
About 400 people, including the head of the intensive care unit at Pinerolo’s Agnelli hospital, attended the Mass in the courtyard of the diocesan seminary; everyone in the congregation wore masks and the chairs were set six feet apart.
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/bishop-tells-of-surviving-covid-19/
Oh gee, scary stuff. See what could have happened in New Zealand if we didn't have kind mass-murderer Jacinda Ardern and dear Dr Bloomfield to save us? And the bishops to abolish our right to Communion on the tongue and holy water, and make us 'sign in and stop the virus'? Maybe Cardinal Dew didn't mention the bishop's brush with death by COVID; I might have been asleep at the time.
If you can bear it, I'll quote the bishop's homily, which stated in part: "We need to rediscover the beauty of relationships inside the church (sic), we need to make the parish a place people want to come to, where you can say" - wait for it - "This feels like a community, it's good to be here! ... How do we all make it a community that people want to come to?"Perhaps, your Excellency, by worshipping Almighty God instead of 'community'; by asking His Blessed Mother for her intercession on our behalf. As our parish priest let slip in a recent Sunday homily, in his early days as a priest (when the traditional Latin Mass was still the only Mass) a novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour brought an answer (I forget what) to his parish's prayer. It doesn't seem to occur to him to repeat the exercise. The mere suggestion would likely bring a kindly snigger from his parish councillors.
Bishop Olivero goes on to "dream of Christians who don't think of themselves as Christians because they go to Mass every Sunday (though this is an excellent thing to do) "'
Your Excellency, it's beyond 'excellent'; it's something Catholics must do if they wish to avoid eternity in the hell as shown to the shepherd children at Fatima by their heavenly Mother.
Look, we'll skip over the next few lines suggesting ways to nurture our own spirituality - all of which save a priest's precious time. Dah de dah de dah ... +Olivero dreams of :communities infectious with passion and trust." Passion for whom exactly, Cardinal Dew? Trust in whom?
"... Not a Church that goes to church, but a Church that goes to everyone."
Why would we go to anyone at all, if we don't first go to a church where we give first place to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, learning the love of God which alone teaches and inspires us to go to others? You know, the faith that built schools and hospitals and churches and monasteries throughout the world?
In this excerpt from Cardinal Dew's 'speach' to the 150th Jubilee of St Patrick's Waipawa, intended for the Parish Council's study and reflection, there is no mention of Christ or His sacraments. It's all about community. It's all about US.
The +Dew/+Olivero/Bergoglio line is so worn out and threadbare now, after six decades of the 'Spirit of Vatican II', fewer and fewer Catholics - Novus Ordo or Latin Mass adherents - are listening to it. So why would New Zealand's modernist bishops and priests be still repeating it?
The evidence all points to a sustained campaign to undo the Catholic Church and replace her with what resembles a creeping Protestantism, enshrined and embedded in the Novus Ordo Missae in which, for example, the committee who invented the N O (in a space of five years) cunningly inserted the Proddy line, "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever Amen" which no Catholic bible ever included, and which wild horses wouldn't drag out of me.
But it's far, far worse than Protestantism.
“Thus I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church … In this supreme moment of need for the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent.” - Our Lady of Good Success
“Shortly after the middle of the 20th century” … most certainly points to the infamous anti-authority, pro-hedonism 1960s, that ushered in unparalleled self-indulgent (the essence of the demonic) sexual revolution into our world. In the midst of this, our Church has not only suffered unprecedented losses in the sheer number of souls, but we are witnessing an epidemic of liturgical abuse and rampant sacrilege. In an article that speaks to this, I called this a “Stealth Arianism.” Many claim we very well could be in the throes of what is termed, “The Great Apostasy.”
Pope Benedict XVI said, “the true problem of our times is the ‘Crisis of God,’ the absence of God, disguised by an empty religiosity” (emptied of its divine content) … a kind of lukewarm, going through the motions of one’s faith (It’s No Big Deal), which ends up collapsing completely.
Did Archbishop Fulton Sheen prophesy about the condition of our Church today?
Ven Archbishop Fulton Sheen: those were the days when priests were priests and people were proud of them “[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.”
We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.
The False prophet will have a religion without a cross. A religion without a world to come. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.
Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.
The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.
A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops." - Fr Richard Heilman https://www.romancatholicman.com/archbishop-fulton-sheen-prophesy-condition-church-today-2/
So as a footnote, a grim warning to Novus Ordo Catholics who blithely recite "for thine is the kingdom etc etc" every Sunday at Mass, and never come near Our lonely, crucified Lord in His house for the rest of the week. It's a warning that will be deemed by some to be cruel and unnecessary - but it's addressed to adults, not three little shepherd children in a field.
You know the local Church has become too worldly when it repeats the goals of political entities.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand Catholic reports on a speech given by Julianne Hickey from Caritas NZ.
"This year could mark the end of the old normal and the beginning of a new “normal” that includes and provides for all."
I was struck by how well it resonated with the current global political leadership, including Ardern, who speak about 'building back better'. But if you track back to its source, it is Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. Schwab speaks about building back better in the context of his much hoped for Great Reset. Further, he says that transhumanism is an integral part of the Great Reset. It is just evil, plain and simple and it is at the very least disturbing that the Church aligns itself this way. We are a long way from the charity of Mother Teresa, charity has been politicised. We have a worldly Church not the Church of Christ.
We should be shocked, that Catholic leadership is prepared to get into step with such notions, in other words 'baptize' the Great Reset project.
Philippa O'Neill says:
ReplyDeleteYup... the NO effect. 75% or more Catholics in the USA do not believe in the true Presence.. be worse here... little or no formation.
Their plan is a church for all people.
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