Ralph Martin is as Christ-centered a theologian as you can get. His “The Catholic Church at the End of an Age” helped me into the Church. Meanwhile James Martin teaches without supervision! Just wow.
This is the ugly face of the antichurch led by corrupt antipopes from the top down since 1958. Apparently, NOTHING has changed since I was forced to leave the seminary twenty five years ago. More of same heresy and apostasy. It all makes me want to puke.
No reason to puke. We're unworthily blessed to be able to discern that we are in the time of the long prophesied Great Apostasy. That grace has not been given to many.
Here’s the thing… this is a part and parcel of what was foretold by Our Lady going back several hundred years (which was reiterated at Fatima and Akido)… in which the Church would come under attack and be chastised for forgetting Our Lord. Even Pope Leo XIII witnessed a conversion between Satan and Our Lord in which Satan boasted how he could destroy the Church in 100 years…and Our Lord allowed him to proceed (spoiler alert - he will fail but many will be lost). So here we are today in a world of hurt - something created by our own design. On the one hand we have V2 (which was unnecessary) highjacked by modernists and a laity too eager to embrace/fit-into a demonic secular world…think about it (the sexual revolution/feminism/communism/and various other “isms”). To make matters even worse we have Islam on the move…a so-called religion inspired by Satan himself…that wants you dead…but I digress. SOOOO what do we do and how do we proceed? First we gotta “grow a pair” and embrace the suck. The pathway forward is going to be awful AND we will see our Church shrink…so be it. Start by actually studying the faith/magisterium/catechism (might I suggest sources from pre-1950…maybe earlier). Find authentic priests/bishops/parishes that live/teach The One True Faith. $UPPORT these clerics and parishes (don’t be surprised if you gotta drive distances to do so). Hit these modernists toadies where they live…in the pocketbook… NOT ONE RED DIME. Even though most of these toadies get their money from the government as they act as NGOs doing sinful work… cutting back their funds will hurt (I mean they gotta maintain a lifestyle). Finally…pray like your life depends upon it..because it does. I suggest praying the rosary as much as possible. Look for the signs of the chastisement as I’m sure it’s closer than expected. And finally FEAR NOT as in the end Our Lord (and Blessed Mother) will win. See you on the other side. Pax
PS. Also pray that the modernists convert back to our faith, that they regain their supernatural faith, publicly acknowledge their sins and properly confess, and die in a state of grace in order to see the beatific vision. Otherwise their eternal future doesn’t look very good.
Is there any factual basis for saying that somehow in our age Christ's mercy and saving power as regards sinners are fatally diminished? Yes, our grave sins separate us from God. Still His arm is not too short to save: "He saw that there was no one, and was appalled that there was none to intervene; so his own arm brought about the victory..."
Here is a revealing interview with Sr Lucia, by Father Lombardi. It was recorded in the Vatican weekly "Osservatore della Domenica" February 7, 1954:
Fr. Lombardi: "Tell me, is the 'Better World Movement' a response of the Church to the words spoken to Our Lady?"
Lucia: "Father, there is certainly a great need for this renewal. If it is not done, and taking into account the present development of humanity, only a limited number of the human race will be saved."
Fr. Lombardi: "Do you really believe that many will go to Hell? I hope that God will save the greater part of humanity."
Lucia: "Father, many will be lost."
Fr. Lombardi: "It is true that the world is full of evil, but there is always a hope of salvation."
Lucia: "No Father, many will be lost."
Father Lombardi remembered that Lucia had seen Hell and added: "Her words disturbed me. I returned to Italy with that grave warning impressed on my heart."
St John the Evangelist, who of course is authoritative while Lucia's theological speculations are not, wrote in the Book of Revelations that he saw a vast crowd of the saved in heaven "that no man could number".
I submit that Our Lord is always there for the repentant sinner. Problem is that many refuse to accept that they are in sin. Our Lord is constant… we are fickle.
How do we know that many refuse with finality to accept that they are in sin? And how can we know how to define "many"?
We simply do not know the proportion of the saved to the unsaved in the end. We should always trust in and hope for the efficacy of Jesus' saving mission and power and desire. We should never go around thinking that most people will end up in hell.
Because scripture tells us precisely this. Don’t you recall the verse about wide is the road to perdition and many are those who take it and narrow is the road to heaven and few take it??? We choose which path we take and just look at the state of the world today. Clearly many are choosing the wide road.
Scripture does not say that few take the road to heaven, it says that few find it. It does not say that only few are eventually introduced to it.
Recall that Jesus spoke of his "little flock". He was speaking to all of us who are His flock. Yet Scripture also says that the number of the saved is so great that no man can count them.
To God a vast number can be little. Perhaps similarly, to God a lesser number can be many.
In like manner, Scripture says that with God a thousand years are as a day, and a day as a thousand years.
Well if you listen to Our Lord and the Blessed Mary and several saints… people falling into hell is akin to snow falling from Heaven. So unfortunately many do wind up in Hades. There are numerous reasons as to why but that’s beyond this comment. Point is one should be aware and try to avoid falling into the pit. 🤷♂️
I have a really hard time believing that either Our Lord or Our Lady would use such an inappropriate analogy as to say that people falling into hell are like snowflakes. What happens to snowflakes that fall into a fire? They get totally annihilated. So the snowflakes analogy as regards hell would seem to imply that souls going to hell are annihilated. But only heretics say this.
Your hardness of heart is going to be something you eventually regret. Our Lord Himself told us that few choose the narrow road (this few are saved). It’s clear as day and yet you refuse to accept it. That’s your prerogative but it does come at a serious consequence. With that attitude, you also are choosing it.
STFU you truly stupid person…I’d call you a level one thinker but that would be an insult to level one thinkers. The point is that many so call good intentioned people go to Hell because they do not mend their ways nor use the sacraments. The snowflake example was to stress the point how many people fall into the abyss ,,,, you stupid putz. So I say this with all sincerity….wise up…otherwise….GFY.
I don't think it was Jesus or Mary that said that but one of the saints.
Keep in mind that one unrepentant mortal sin leads a soul to hell & Our Lady of Fatima revealed to young Jacinta Marto that "More souls go to hell on account of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." Not that they are more serious than some other sins but because so many don't repent of them, thinking that they are not hurting anyone.
Dr. Fastiggi came to our local parish several years ago and gave a talk in the church in the Presence of Our Lord. We were urged to bring our family, but only I was able to go. To my shock, Dr. Fastiggi used horrible 4 letter words. I was horrified. I was grateful that my family did not attend. There is something wicked going on with Dr, Fastitggi which he covers up with his demure and kind demeanor.
Of course, anyone with a teaching position in a diocesan seminary is a modernist. Period. There are varying degrees, of course, but its like pitting Burke/Muller/Schneider/Strickland vs Fr. James Martin, etc. Or BXVI vs Francis. Like Taco Bell, the presentation might be different, but its the same 7 ingredients for everything on the menu.
Ultramontanism from the left, somehow they have managed to combine it with its antithesis of conciliarism. This internal chaos and contradiction and confusion is indicative of something, I wonder what🤔
Really the only solution I can see for all this is the promised Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I think we should all pray regularly that this comes as soon as God may will it to come.
Current scholarship would place Our Lord's birth at around 2 BC (because of calendar errors made in the past). That would put His Resurrection at 31 AD. And so the 2000 Jubilee of the Resurrection would be in 2031. How fitting for the Church to have her own sort of resurrection that year!
2031 is also the 500 Jubilee of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Soon after she appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 with the miracle of her tilma image, she converted ten million Mexicans to the Catholic faith. This was the biggest mass conversion in the history of the Church.
Finally, one of Padre Pio's friends (who is still alive today), relates the following in a book recently published in Italy:
In 1963 or 1964 Padre Pio was speaking to his spiritual sons. Padre Pio said their own children there, who were approximately 10 years old, would live to see the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
Those children would be 77 to 78 years old in 2031.
And to add; Conchita Gonzalez is 76 years old and holds the secret date from earlier visions at Garabandel about the Warning and the Great Miracle, Garabandel being a continuation of the message of Fatima. So it is coming soon to a sky near you.
There was resistance yes, but there are credible reports that Our Lady´s last message at Fatima made reference to San Sebastian (de Garabandel). Interviews with the shepherd children are recorded in Rev. Fr. Formigão’s 1921 book. The consistencies with Fatima are undeniable.
Reports of the Garabandal children running backwards at high speeds seem more indicative of the preternatural than the supernatural.
I've never seen anything about any message at Fatima making reference to anything related to Garabandal. I seriously doubt such a connection. In any case the local bishop's evaluation should be considered determinative.
The anti-papal V2 regimes exist to attack the Catholic Faith. Bp Williamson pointed out that WWI and WWII were 'great steps forward in the world revolution' against the Church. He added that Archbishop Lefebvre said V2 was 'WWIII' and was 'worse because it attacks the soul rather than the body.'
My wife and I are so delighted we’re out of the palace of perverts and gaslighters and frauds and creeps and malignant Screwtape-like paper pushers who every day pretend that THEY are the charitable servants and the people revealing them to be cockroaches are just, just, just AWFUL. It’s especially giggly when they try to say we’re going to the inferno for not playing their sex trafficking mind-twisting games.
".....trying to reconcile the contradictions of Vatican II with the faith of the ages". Ah, well right there is the problem. It's no longer acceptable to try and show how VII is really just the 'church doing church as it always has.' One has to cheer for breaking away from that awful rigid tradition that once was the Faith, and boldly go towards new and improved rainbow inspired celebratory 'faith' yay!
This will of course ensure a future full of even more therapriests! Helping the flocks they lead embrace and accept that God made them prone to sin anyway, so it's all good.... Yay!
“Nothing reeks of papolatry more than firing two respected scholars for politely questioning Francis….”
Not quite. Crusaders for Francis the False and Defenders of Francis are not defending the papacy or even a pope. “Anti-Papists” (Anti-Papolatry) is a more accurate term.
Just look at what they did to Benedict — The Last Catholic Pope.
Bishop Wisenheimer can not be bothered with such trivial things as doctrine and dogma. He is far too busy marching for illegal aliens in Detroit. Maybe he can hook up with the Florida biker bishop, the guy who thinks he is the Catholic answer to easy rider. Here is a thought, why not to something they were ordained to do like, oh, say perhaps, hear confessions.
Ralph Martin is as Christ-centered a theologian as you can get. His “The Catholic Church at the End of an Age” helped me into the Church. Meanwhile James Martin teaches without supervision! Just wow.
I recommend hisThe Fulfillment of All Desire.
This is the ugly face of the antichurch led by corrupt antipopes from the top down since 1958. Apparently, NOTHING has changed since I was forced to leave the seminary twenty five years ago. More of same heresy and apostasy. It all makes me want to puke.
No reason to puke. We're unworthily blessed to be able to discern that we are in the time of the long prophesied Great Apostasy. That grace has not been given to many.
I'm with you brother!
Yet they wonder why for every 1 new 'catholic', 8 leave. The V II 'church' is rotten to the core.
Here’s the thing… this is a part and parcel of what was foretold by Our Lady going back several hundred years (which was reiterated at Fatima and Akido)… in which the Church would come under attack and be chastised for forgetting Our Lord. Even Pope Leo XIII witnessed a conversion between Satan and Our Lord in which Satan boasted how he could destroy the Church in 100 years…and Our Lord allowed him to proceed (spoiler alert - he will fail but many will be lost). So here we are today in a world of hurt - something created by our own design. On the one hand we have V2 (which was unnecessary) highjacked by modernists and a laity too eager to embrace/fit-into a demonic secular world…think about it (the sexual revolution/feminism/communism/and various other “isms”). To make matters even worse we have Islam on the move…a so-called religion inspired by Satan himself…that wants you dead…but I digress. SOOOO what do we do and how do we proceed? First we gotta “grow a pair” and embrace the suck. The pathway forward is going to be awful AND we will see our Church shrink…so be it. Start by actually studying the faith/magisterium/catechism (might I suggest sources from pre-1950…maybe earlier). Find authentic priests/bishops/parishes that live/teach The One True Faith. $UPPORT these clerics and parishes (don’t be surprised if you gotta drive distances to do so). Hit these modernists toadies where they live…in the pocketbook… NOT ONE RED DIME. Even though most of these toadies get their money from the government as they act as NGOs doing sinful work… cutting back their funds will hurt (I mean they gotta maintain a lifestyle). Finally…pray like your life depends upon it..because it does. I suggest praying the rosary as much as possible. Look for the signs of the chastisement as I’m sure it’s closer than expected. And finally FEAR NOT as in the end Our Lord (and Blessed Mother) will win. See you on the other side. Pax
PS. Also pray that the modernists convert back to our faith, that they regain their supernatural faith, publicly acknowledge their sins and properly confess, and die in a state of grace in order to see the beatific vision. Otherwise their eternal future doesn’t look very good.
"many will be lost"
Is there any factual basis for saying that somehow in our age Christ's mercy and saving power as regards sinners are fatally diminished? Yes, our grave sins separate us from God. Still His arm is not too short to save: "He saw that there was no one, and was appalled that there was none to intervene; so his own arm brought about the victory..."
Here is a revealing interview with Sr Lucia, by Father Lombardi. It was recorded in the Vatican weekly "Osservatore della Domenica" February 7, 1954:
Fr. Lombardi: "Tell me, is the 'Better World Movement' a response of the Church to the words spoken to Our Lady?"
Lucia: "Father, there is certainly a great need for this renewal. If it is not done, and taking into account the present development of humanity, only a limited number of the human race will be saved."
Fr. Lombardi: "Do you really believe that many will go to Hell? I hope that God will save the greater part of humanity."
Lucia: "Father, many will be lost."
Fr. Lombardi: "It is true that the world is full of evil, but there is always a hope of salvation."
Lucia: "No Father, many will be lost."
Father Lombardi remembered that Lucia had seen Hell and added: "Her words disturbed me. I returned to Italy with that grave warning impressed on my heart."
St John the Evangelist, who of course is authoritative while Lucia's theological speculations are not, wrote in the Book of Revelations that he saw a vast crowd of the saved in heaven "that no man could number".
I submit that Our Lord is always there for the repentant sinner. Problem is that many refuse to accept that they are in sin. Our Lord is constant… we are fickle.
How do we know that many refuse with finality to accept that they are in sin? And how can we know how to define "many"?
We simply do not know the proportion of the saved to the unsaved in the end. We should always trust in and hope for the efficacy of Jesus' saving mission and power and desire. We should never go around thinking that most people will end up in hell.
Because scripture tells us precisely this. Don’t you recall the verse about wide is the road to perdition and many are those who take it and narrow is the road to heaven and few take it??? We choose which path we take and just look at the state of the world today. Clearly many are choosing the wide road.
Scripture does not say that few take the road to heaven, it says that few find it. It does not say that only few are eventually introduced to it.
Recall that Jesus spoke of his "little flock". He was speaking to all of us who are His flock. Yet Scripture also says that the number of the saved is so great that no man can count them.
To God a vast number can be little. Perhaps similarly, to God a lesser number can be many.
In like manner, Scripture says that with God a thousand years are as a day, and a day as a thousand years.
Well if you listen to Our Lord and the Blessed Mary and several saints… people falling into hell is akin to snow falling from Heaven. So unfortunately many do wind up in Hades. There are numerous reasons as to why but that’s beyond this comment. Point is one should be aware and try to avoid falling into the pit. 🤷♂️
I have a really hard time believing that either Our Lord or Our Lady would use such an inappropriate analogy as to say that people falling into hell are like snowflakes. What happens to snowflakes that fall into a fire? They get totally annihilated. So the snowflakes analogy as regards hell would seem to imply that souls going to hell are annihilated. But only heretics say this.
Your hardness of heart is going to be something you eventually regret. Our Lord Himself told us that few choose the narrow road (this few are saved). It’s clear as day and yet you refuse to accept it. That’s your prerogative but it does come at a serious consequence. With that attitude, you also are choosing it.
STFU you truly stupid person…I’d call you a level one thinker but that would be an insult to level one thinkers. The point is that many so call good intentioned people go to Hell because they do not mend their ways nor use the sacraments. The snowflake example was to stress the point how many people fall into the abyss ,,,, you stupid putz. So I say this with all sincerity….wise up…otherwise….GFY.
I don't think it was Jesus or Mary that said that but one of the saints.
Keep in mind that one unrepentant mortal sin leads a soul to hell & Our Lady of Fatima revealed to young Jacinta Marto that "More souls go to hell on account of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." Not that they are more serious than some other sins but because so many don't repent of them, thinking that they are not hurting anyone.
You’ve written the truth! Thank you!!!
Dr. Fastiggi came to our local parish several years ago and gave a talk in the church in the Presence of Our Lord. We were urged to bring our family, but only I was able to go. To my shock, Dr. Fastiggi used horrible 4 letter words. I was horrified. I was grateful that my family did not attend. There is something wicked going on with Dr, Fastitggi which he covers up with his demure and kind demeanor.
You can see him blowing up on camera in the video I provided.
Blessings and appreciation from Leeds England. A diocese with a homosexual parish priest made by bishop Marcus Stock.
Of course, anyone with a teaching position in a diocesan seminary is a modernist. Period. There are varying degrees, of course, but its like pitting Burke/Muller/Schneider/Strickland vs Fr. James Martin, etc. Or BXVI vs Francis. Like Taco Bell, the presentation might be different, but its the same 7 ingredients for everything on the menu.
The old joke about Taco Bell is that the menu makes you "run for the border". Given the current sympathies of the USCCB, I think the joke lands.
Around 100 seminaries have closed in the US. With these kinds of changes, Weisenburger may be pounding the nail into the coffin of Sacret Heart. See: https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/the-golden-age-of-seminaries-delusion
Ultramontanism from the left, somehow they have managed to combine it with its antithesis of conciliarism. This internal chaos and contradiction and confusion is indicative of something, I wonder what🤔
Really the only solution I can see for all this is the promised Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I think we should all pray regularly that this comes as soon as God may will it to come.
Current scholarship would place Our Lord's birth at around 2 BC (because of calendar errors made in the past). That would put His Resurrection at 31 AD. And so the 2000 Jubilee of the Resurrection would be in 2031. How fitting for the Church to have her own sort of resurrection that year!
2031 is also the 500 Jubilee of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Soon after she appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 with the miracle of her tilma image, she converted ten million Mexicans to the Catholic faith. This was the biggest mass conversion in the history of the Church.
Finally, one of Padre Pio's friends (who is still alive today), relates the following in a book recently published in Italy:
In 1963 or 1964 Padre Pio was speaking to his spiritual sons. Padre Pio said their own children there, who were approximately 10 years old, would live to see the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
Those children would be 77 to 78 years old in 2031.
And to add; Conchita Gonzalez is 76 years old and holds the secret date from earlier visions at Garabandel about the Warning and the Great Miracle, Garabandel being a continuation of the message of Fatima. So it is coming soon to a sky near you.
Garabandal was not approved by the local bishop.
I myself have very serious doubts about it being supernatural.
There was resistance yes, but there are credible reports that Our Lady´s last message at Fatima made reference to San Sebastian (de Garabandel). Interviews with the shepherd children are recorded in Rev. Fr. Formigão’s 1921 book. The consistencies with Fatima are undeniable.
Reports of the Garabandal children running backwards at high speeds seem more indicative of the preternatural than the supernatural.
I've never seen anything about any message at Fatima making reference to anything related to Garabandal. I seriously doubt such a connection. In any case the local bishop's evaluation should be considered determinative.
The anti-papal V2 regimes exist to attack the Catholic Faith. Bp Williamson pointed out that WWI and WWII were 'great steps forward in the world revolution' against the Church. He added that Archbishop Lefebvre said V2 was 'WWIII' and was 'worse because it attacks the soul rather than the body.'
My wife and I are so delighted we’re out of the palace of perverts and gaslighters and frauds and creeps and malignant Screwtape-like paper pushers who every day pretend that THEY are the charitable servants and the people revealing them to be cockroaches are just, just, just AWFUL. It’s especially giggly when they try to say we’re going to the inferno for not playing their sex trafficking mind-twisting games.
My wife says “They’re more like Screwtape’s nephew Wormwood.”
".....trying to reconcile the contradictions of Vatican II with the faith of the ages". Ah, well right there is the problem. It's no longer acceptable to try and show how VII is really just the 'church doing church as it always has.' One has to cheer for breaking away from that awful rigid tradition that once was the Faith, and boldly go towards new and improved rainbow inspired celebratory 'faith' yay!
This will of course ensure a future full of even more therapriests! Helping the flocks they lead embrace and accept that God made them prone to sin anyway, so it's all good.... Yay!
“Nothing reeks of papolatry more than firing two respected scholars for politely questioning Francis….”
Not quite. Crusaders for Francis the False and Defenders of Francis are not defending the papacy or even a pope. “Anti-Papists” (Anti-Papolatry) is a more accurate term.
Just look at what they did to Benedict — The Last Catholic Pope.
Turning the tables is a very youknowWho..ish , tactic . Currently being employed universally .
Blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia.
The devil? Francis? Leo the Gaslight?
D. All of the Above.
Bishop Wisenheimer can not be bothered with such trivial things as doctrine and dogma. He is far too busy marching for illegal aliens in Detroit. Maybe he can hook up with the Florida biker bishop, the guy who thinks he is the Catholic answer to easy rider. Here is a thought, why not to something they were ordained to do like, oh, say perhaps, hear confessions.