Sunday, 29 October 2023
HEAVEN, HELL, PURGATORY AT ST BRIGID'S FEILDING
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| This is not St Brigid's, Feilding - yet |
"Oh, I don't believe in Purgatory."
An elderly lady, a member of the St Brigid's Feilding Liturgy Committee, was explaining to a reader of this blog the theology of a poster on the wall behind them at a function in St Brigid's 'Gathering Room'. Headed "A Profession of Faith", it concluded thusly: "We believe that one day we will share eternal life with God in heaven". Amen."
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| In the 'Gathering Room' at St Brigid's |
Isn't that heartwarming? Only it's not true. It's a thoroughly Protestant belief, and it's a lie. Challenged with the perennial Church teaching on the existence after death of our three alternatives - heaven, hell or purgatory - the Lit Comm lady was adamant: she emphatically denied that if Catholic wish to be saved they must believe ALL that the Church believes and teaches, and that outside the Church there is no salvation. "The Church has changed," she said.
"But the Church can't change, because she is the Mystical Bride of Christ who is Truth, and the truth can't change. If it changed it would no longer be the truth." The Lit Comm Lady blandly denied that, too.
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| St Brigid's Feilding: seems the architect was a disciple of the disgraced Fr Marko Rupnik |
And at St Brigid's parish school - whence, the Lit Comm Lady (perhaps eager to pass the buck) explained, the rainbow-tinted 'Acceptance' and the 'Profession of Faith' images had come - a staff member, when questioned, positively bristled. The poster reading 'Acceptance' (one of the buzz words in the gender-bender lexicon) had absolutely nothing to do with LGBTQI, she said. And its colouring wasn't rainbow, it was, well, just "colourful."
The Lit Comm lady is a perfect illustration of the wilful ignorance of both lay and clergy which Jorge Bergoglio's disastrous, phony pontificate has succeeded in embedding in the Catholic consciousness. As a result souls are "falling into hell like snowflakes" (St Teresa of Avila) and to counter this calamity, two days ago in Rome the saintly Bishop Athanasius Schneider announced his new book, "Credo".
Now, with the appearance of Credo, every Catholic wishing to defend the authentic Roman doctrine may hold up this book and say: “This is what the Church teaches now, just as she always has.” * https://traditionsanity.substack.com/p/weekly-roundup-october-21-27-2023
*('Credo' has already sold out.)
And the hapless non-Catholic staff member at St Brigid's parish school (curiously and confusingly called St Joseph's) is evidence of the wilful neglect of Christ's command to teach the Gospel - to evangelise. This is Jorge Bergoglio's pet peeve: he's effectively cancelled what he denigrates as 'proselytism', which to the faithful Catholic mind is evangelisation.
The school staffer readily agreed that the 'Profession of Faith' was theologically askew: "I'm an Anglican," she said. Why would a good Anglican want to convert to Bergoglio's parody of Catholicism? And as they limp along in the wake of Vat II, it's a sure thing that the Catholic staff at St Brigid's would never have tried to persuade her of the truth of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
When a girl told Francis (Bergoglio - ed) she wanted to invite her unchurched friends to church, Francis grabbed his interfaith fire extinguisher and hosed down her evangelistic brio.
"It is not licit that you convince them of your faith; proselytism is the strongest poison against the ecumenical path," he chided. Then, with Jesuitical equivocation rivaled only by the Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's Macbeth, he added: "You must give testimony of your Christian life ... But without wanting to convince." https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/proselytism-phantom-haunting-pope-francis
St Brigid's Feilding was obviously designed by a disciple of the infamous Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik, a sex fiend whose deviancies have ecclesiastical overtones and whose creepy 'artworks' have become the aesthetic signature of Vatican Twoism, now defacing some of Europe's most important Catholic churches, like the Basilica at Lourdes (pic below).
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| Randomness, chaos, deliberately subversive of the Church’s traditional Christology |
St Brigid's church is unsettling, depressing, aesthetically and liturgically all wrong. And was very expensive. Back in 2009 it was expected to cost $1.8 million. It represents all that is so WRONG about the post-Vatican II Church, whereas the 1925 model demolished to make way for it (see pic below) stood as concrete witness to all that was RIGHT about the traditional, faithful Church.
"Where's the tabernacle?" someone asked - and was shown into a glorified cupboard, quite separate from the 'church' and in which there's no provision for kneeling, and hand sanitiser and masks blasphemously disgrace the tabernacle itself.
The size of the 'Gathering Room' rivals that of the church, where comfy benches are arranged so everyone can see everyone else, with the customary neo-modernist table instead of an altar, and a carpeted floor on which few are likely to kneel given that there's no Real Presence - except for a few moments at Mass - for them to adore.
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| Bergoglio with + Rupnik and a typical example of the latter's parodies of Byzantine art (r) |
"We're all getting old," the Lit Comm Lady said to her interlocutor - who suggested that she try the Latin Mass at nearby St Anthony's SSPX in Whanganui, where three Masses every Sunday are full to bursting with young families.
"Oh, I grew up with the Latin Mass!" she exclaimed. "I don't like it! I couldn't understand it."
"Did you have a missal?"
"Of course."
"Did it have Latin on one side of the page and English on the other?"
"Yes, but ..."
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| We all remember this blasphemy - Fr Rupnik's 3-eyed God, icon for his buddy Bergoglio's 'Year of Mercy' |
“You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of HELL.” (Matt 23:33)
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| The original St Brigid's, Feilding - demolished |
We have many new Catholic churches that look like St Brigid's. Our church architecture used to be distinctive, consistent and unified (like our doctrine and liturgy). Your photo of the old Fielding church says it all. But now our new churches built since Vatican II seem to strive for the most extreme architectural novelty, they confuse, they turn everything Catholic on its head. And we now have a pope who seems to want to turn doctrine, liturgy and hierarchy upside down. There is a clear trend, and it goes back half a century.
ReplyDeleteNothing in Vatican II directly authorised all this, but Vatican II was twisted and distorted and out came the 'spirit of Vatican II'. Architectural novelty, bad art (like the ghastly efforts of Rupnik), crazy new doctrine, weird liturgy, ecumenism, lay democratisation etc are designed to confuse and anaesthetize the Catholic laity and make them ready to accept anything. It is the biggest spiritual and cultural reprogramming exercise in history.
God will not be mocked.