tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post6979738227477602220..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: Father John Unni urges those in attendance at St. Cecilia's "Welcoming Mass" to shed the burden of shamePaul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-21535836590194701172011-07-13T03:48:42.018-07:002011-07-13T03:48:42.018-07:00"So then, my beloved, obedient as you have al..."So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling."<br /><br />Philippians 2:12Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-48496660376496630922011-07-12T20:12:07.926-07:002011-07-12T20:12:07.926-07:00There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth...There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.<br /><br />John 4:18Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-48114938300578058432011-07-12T07:58:13.963-07:002011-07-12T07:58:13.963-07:00Thanks for following up on all this.
With the fea...Thanks for following up on all this.<br /><br />With the feasts of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher having past us in these last few weeks, two models whom we are greatly in need of in these times, God lead me to read St. John Fisher’s Exposition of the Seven Penitential Psalms.<br /><br />On pages 79-81 of the 3rd Penitential Psalm (Psalm 37) he writes:<br /><br />“… perhaps this prophet meant by those who are as neighbours and friends those who favor and owe good will only to the body. And by those who are near to us, he meant those who have the cure of our soul, for these by their strict duty should first have the name of friend and neighbor, because the soul is nearest to the body. And though every person has the charge of rebuking vices in others, according to the saying of our Saviour, if your brother or fellow Christian should offend you, correct him, yet the office of correction belongs first of all to bishops and those who have the cure of souls. For these are set in this world by almighty God to be supervisors of the people and are commanded to show the people their grievous offenses, but they stand afar off and omit to say the truth. Either we take the literal sense, that is to say, that bishops are absent from their dioceses and pastors from their churches, or else the spiritual sense, as thus, that no one will show the filthiness of sins. We all use bypaths and circumlocutions in rebuking them. We go nowhere near the matter. And so, in the meantime the people perish with their sins. This thing the prophet complains of, saying, they who had cure of my soul stood afar from me. Truly, those who are subdued by sins and put under the miserable yoke of servitude or bondage are wretches indeed; but they are thrust down into a much narrower corner of misery when their friends and neighbors will not admonish and reprove their wickedness but allow them to continue thus and when bishops and pastors do not correct their bad living and quickly call them to ammendment but rather go by and tolerate their misconduct.”<br /><br />“… what then? Truly, the soul that is glad of his destruction and in a way runs on his own bridle, not helped by his friends, not at all cared for by the bishops and those who have the cure of souls, must necessarily come into the power of the devils. Like furious enemies and ramping lions, these go about seeking whomever they may devour, doing the uttermost in their power, going vehemently to the task, and many times overcoming such as are very strong.” <br /><br />“… it is written, without doubt, sinners are beguiled, and all they do are but dreams and vanities. The prophet adds to this, saying, those who were my enemies and who wished me evil rather than good spoke to me and persuaded me of vanities, that is to say, of worldy riches, pleasures, and false fleshly joys.”Alençonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-35374908029424568282011-07-12T04:26:51.807-07:002011-07-12T04:26:51.807-07:00Staying silent in front of that infamy like does t...Staying silent in front of that infamy like does the Cardinal of Boston, amounts in condoning it.<br />I am afraid about these shepherd's souls. They have twisted the Truth to make it more acceptable by the faithfuls and therefore are leading their flock to Hell.<br />They will the firsts to enter it and will end into the deepest levels.jachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17650477732170495698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-26364278859369649382011-07-11T15:02:12.435-07:002011-07-11T15:02:12.435-07:00book of ezekiel 33
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You, son of man, I have app...book of ezekiel 33 <br />7 <br />You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me. <br />8 <br />If I tell the wicked man that he shall surely die, and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked man from his way, he (the wicked man) shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you responsible for his death. <br />9 <br />But if you warn the wicked man, trying to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself. <br />10 <br />As for you, son of man, speak to the house of Israel: You people say, "Our crimes and our sins weigh us down; we are rotting away because of them. How can we survive?" <br />11 <br />Answer them: As I live, says the Lord GOD, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but rather in the wicked man's conversion, that he may live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, O house of Israel? <br />12 <br />As for you, son of man, tell your countrymen: The virtue which a man has practiced will not save him on the day that he sins; neither will the wickedness that a man has done bring about his downfall on the day that he turns from his wickedness (nor can the virtuous man, when he sins, remain alive). <br />13 <br />Though I say to the virtuous man that he shall surely live, if he then presumes on his virtue and does wrong, none of his virtuous deeds shall be remembered; because of the wrong he has done, he shall die. <br />14 <br />And though I say to the wicked man that he shall surely die, if he turns away from his sin and does what is right and just, <br />15 <br />giving back pledges, restoring stolen goods, living by the statutes that bring life, and doing no wrong, he shall surely live, he shall not die. <br />16 <br />None of the sins he committed shall be held against him; he has done what is right and just, he shall surely live. <br />17 <br />Yet your countrymen say, "The way of the LORD is not fair!"; but it is their way that is not fair. <br />18 <br />When a virtuous man turns away from what is right and does wrong, he shall die for it. <br />19 <br />But when a wicked man turns away from wickedness and does what is right and just, because of this he shall live. <br />20 <br />And still you say, "The way of the LORD is not fair!"? I will judge every one of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.andresnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-67002566503594748582011-07-11T14:53:28.719-07:002011-07-11T14:53:28.719-07:00So let me get this straight. This priest from Bos...So let me get this straight. This priest from Boston is telling his parishioners, many of whom are homosexual and who engage in homosexual acts, to feel no shame? How will these people come to repentance? If there is no shame for sins committed (and I'm talking about homosexual acts not simply the inclination), then these people will not approach the sacrament of reconciliation. Does the Boston Cardinal approve of this warped theology? Anyone?Doris L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-62829432836300723372011-07-11T12:22:28.352-07:002011-07-11T12:22:28.352-07:00Fr. Unni's "homily" reminds me of th...Fr. Unni's "homily" reminds me of the Chicken Soup books which encourage "self-esteem," "self-assertion," and "self-love" while neglecting self-examination, self-denial and humility.<br /><br />The "New Gospel" doesn't recognize sin. This New Age "Gospel" is from Hell. It is rooted in self-will.Blakenoreply@blogger.com