At the Beatification of Joan of Arc on December 13, 1908, Pope St. Pius X said that: "..the greatest asset of the evilly disposed is the cowardice and weakness of Catholics.
Oh! If I might ask the divine Redeemer, as the prophet Zachary did in
spirit: 'What are those wounds in the midst of your hands?' the answer
would not be doubtful. 'With these I was wounded in the house of those
who did nothing to defend me and who, on every occasion, made themselves
the accomplices of my adversaries.' And this reproach can be leveled
at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries."
Yes, even certain priests, Bishops and Cardinals.
Fr. Vincent Miceli, S.J., my mentor, once said, "Fortitude is that
virtue which enduringly resists difficulties of mind and body while
persistently seeking, defending and spreading the truth and holiness of
the Gospel. St. Thomas reminds us that fortitude is especially
concerned with overcoming the fear of performing difficult deeds for the
glory of God. This virtue prevents a soldier of Christ, and above all
officers in Christ's army such as bishops and priests, from fleeing the
field of battle, from betraying the brethren when real or imaginary
obstacles present themselves. The great fault of the pusillanimous is
that they succumb easily to irrational fears and leave the field of
battle to enemy forces. This moral deformity reveals a lack of faith in
the cause of Christ and a distrust of the assurance he gave his
followers when he said to his Apostles: 'Have confidence, I have
overcome the world.' The defect of irrational fear weakens virtue and
renders Christians cowards. All the Apostles except Judas overcame this
fear when they received the gift of Fortitude from the Holy Spirit on
Pentecost Sunday. And priests should pray daily for this gift which the
Holy Spirit will never deny them."
Francis wants us to apologize to "gay" persons (those who reject the Good News of Jesus and who self-identify as homosexual persons as opposed to those with a homosexual inclination who are committed to the Church's teaching and who live a chaste life). This we cannot do. For to do so would constitute a false charity.
Fr. Felix Sarda Y Salvany, in his book entitled Liberalism is a Sin
writes, "Are not your vigorous denunciations, it is urged against us,
harsh and uncharitable, in the very teeth of the teaching of
Christianity which is essentially a religion of love? Such is the accusation continually flung in our face. Let us see what its value is. Let us see all that the word charity signifies.
The catechism, that popular and most authoritative epitome of Catholic
theology, gives us the most complete and succinct definition of charity;
it is full of wisdom and philosophy. Charity is a
supernatural virtue which induces us to love God above all things and
our neighbors as ourselves for the love of God. Thus after
God, we ought to love our neighbor as ourselves, and this not in any
way, but for the love of God and in obedience to His law. And now what
is to love? Amare est velle bonum, replies the philosopher: "To love is
to wish good to him whom we love." To whom does charity command us to
wish good? To our neighbor, that is to say, not to this or that man only
but to everyone. What is that good which true love wishes? First of all
supernatural good; then goods of the natural order, which are not
incompatible with it. All this is included in the phrase "for the love
of God."
It follows, therefore, that we can love our neighbor, when displeasing
him, when opposing him...If it is shown, that in displeasing or
offending our neighbor, we act for his good, it is evident that we love
him even when opposing or crossing him. The physician cauterizing
his patient or cutting off his gangrened limb may none the less love
him. When we correct the wicked by restraining or by punishing them none
the less do we love them. This is charity and perfect charity. It
is often necessary to displease or offend one person, not for his own
good, but to deliver another from the evil he is inflicting. It is then
an obligation of charity to repel the unjust violence of the aggressor;
one may inflict as much injury on the aggressor as is necessary for the
defense. Such would be the case should one see a highwayman attacking a
traveler. In this instance, to kill, wound, or at least take such
measures as to render the aggressor impotent, would be an act of true
charity.
The good of all good is the divine good, just as God is for all men the
neighbor of all neighbors. In consequence the love due to a man inasmuch
as he is our neighbor ought always to be subordinated to that which is
due to our common Lord. For His love and in His service we must not
hesitate to offend men. The degree of our offense towards men can only
be measured by the degree of our obligation to him. Charity is primarily
the love of God, secondarily the love of our neighbor for God's sake.
To sacrifice the first is to abandon the latter. Therefore to
offend our neighbor for the love of God is a true act of charity. Not to
offend our neighbor for the love of God is a sin.
Modern Liberalism reverses this order. It imposes a false notion of charity; our neighbor first, and, if at all, God afterwards.
By its reiterated and trite accusations of intolerance, it has
succeeded in disconcerting even some staunch Catholics. But our rule is
too plain and to concrete to admit of misconception. It is: Sovereign
Catholic inflexibility is sovereign Catholic charity. This charity is
practiced in relation to our neighbor when in his own interest, he is
crossed, humiliated and chastised. it is practiced in relation to a
third party, when he is defended from the unjust aggression of another,
as when he is protected from the contagion of error by unmasking its
authors and abettors and showing them in their true light as iniquitous
and pervert, by holding them up to the contempt, horror and execration
of all. It is practiced in relation to God when, for His glory and in
His service, it becomes necessary to silence all human considerations,
to trample under foot all human respect, to sacrifice all human
interests, and even life itself to attain this highest of all ends. All
this is Catholic inflexibility and inflexible Catholicity in the
practice of that pure love which constitutes sovereign charity. The
saints are the types of this unswerving and sovereign fidelity to God,
the heroes of charity and religion. Because in our times there are so
few true inflexibles in the love of God, so also are there few
uncompromisers in the order of charity. Liberal charity is
condescending, affectionate, even tender in appearance, but at bottom it
is an essential contempt for the true good of men, of the supreme
interests of truth and of God. It is human selflove usurping the throne
of the Most High and demanding that worship which belongs to God alone."
This is the false charity of Francis. It places men above God, and before Him. It is a diabolical counterfeit.
There is so much TEPIDITY in the Catholic Church amongst the ordained and the believers. Everything goes nowadays.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they expect ? Do they require God to apologize for punishing SODOM and GOMORRAH ??? !!!!!
Please Lord how long are You still gonna wait to intervene, this world is already so rotten but I know that Your timing is perfect.
THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST
This world is so possessed
by the spirit of the anti-Christ
most earthlings are obsessed
with one or another poltergeist
God’s Commandments
are completely ignored
they make evil amendments
to the Laws of our Lord
He said : “Thou shalt not kill”
but almost nobody cares
they follow their own will
even murder their own heirs
“Thou shalt not commit adultery”
but they live like wild animals
only pursuing carnal flattery
living as fleshy cannibals
They worship themselves as gods
only the me me and myself counts
but God will use His avenging rods
when perversity His line surmounts
I refuse to partake in this netherworld
I belong to Jesus my God and Savior,
while walking on ways hard but pearled
He is forgiving my stubborn behavior
I try hard not to upset You my Lord
but I’m still living here on this earth
You've redeemed and not abhorred
prayerful waiting for a spiritual rebirth
Oh Lord hasten Your coming on the Clouds
I’m getting impatient, forgive me please
Rita Biesemans, June 13 2016