who knew George Washington and John Wayne were such evil men???
Posted on 06/19/2015 3:56:05 PM PDT by ebb tide
Courtesy of Vox Cantoris, we are alerted to the astonishing end of the encyclical, Laudato Si. I wonder if any paragraph worse than this could have been written by any Pope.
The text is below. This is not a draft. It is the official version from the Vatican site.
246. At the conclusion of this lengthy reflection which has been both joyful and troubling, I propose that we offer two prayers. The first we can share with all who believe in a God who is the all-powerful Creator, while in the other we Christians ask for inspiration to take up the commitment to creation set before us by the Gospel of Jesus.
A prayer for our earth
All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, hat we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction. Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light. We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for justice, love and peace.
A Christian prayer in union with creation
Father, we praise you with all your creatures. They came forth from your all-powerful hand; they are yours, filled with your presence and your tender love. Praise be to you!
Son of God, Jesus, through you all things were made. You were formed in the womb of Mary our Mother, you became part of this earth, and you gazed upon this world with human eyes. Today you are alive in every creature in your risen glory. Praise be to you!
Holy Spirit, by your light you guide this world towards the Father’s love and accompany creation as it groans in travail. You also dwell in our hearts and you inspire us to do what is good. Praise be to you!
Triune Lord, wondrous community of infinite love, teach us to contemplate you in the beauty of the universe, for all things speak of you. Awaken our praise and thankfulness for every being that you have made. Give us the grace to feel profoundly joined to everything that is.
God of love, show us our place in this world as channels of your love for all the creatures of this earth, for not one of them is forgotten in your sight. Enlighten those who possess power and money that they may avoid the sin of indifference, that they may love the common good, advance the weak, and care for this world in which we live. The poor and the earth are crying out. O Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future, for the coming of your Kingdom of justice, peace, love and beauty. Praise be to you! Amen.
It is difficult to believe the level of satanical disorientation promoted by this man.
He publishes two prayers, because he insists in having non-Christians praying in their non-Christian way; not only downplaying their error, but positively encouraging them in persisting in it! Can you imagine Pius XII writing a prayer tailored for the use of Muslims, or Hindus, or Freemasons?
The prayer is in two flavours, is the clear message. Vanilla is for Freemasons and other vague Deists. Chocolate is the choice of us who happen to have a preference for Christ. But we are all good, of course. We all pray together for our common cause. The common cause sanctifies us all. We would never be so tactless as to say that Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We don’t do that anymore, in the Age of Mercy.
The horrible Prayer Of The Freemason obviously ignores Christ and the Holy Ghost. It actually also ignores God the Father as God the Father. It does not even ask to come one day to embrace the fullness of the Truth in the Church. No. This is a prayer by praying which the infidel can be, if no special grace is given to him to embrace Truth notwithstanding Francis’ encouragement to persist in error, surely damned when he dies. And a Pope writes such a prayer for infidels, and encourages them to pray it! Note how many things God should help them to achieve; but True Faith, and therefore Salvation, is not one of them!
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, making them pray the God of the poor”.
Francis is secular through and through. As I have written many times, to him Christianity is merely an excuse to push his agenda. Nowhere is this more evident than here, where Christianity is clearly the excuse, and the environ-mental message is clearly the main point.
Unbelievable?
Not in the Age of Francis.
M
Gaotu. Curious... Is Jesus Christ the way, the truth and the life? No one will come to the Father except through Jesus Christ?
One major problem with Freemasonry is that in stopping at a generic “god figure,” even if in the case of most Americans that is God The Father, the Divinity and Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ are denied by gross omission.
There is no generic God the Father.
However, we are a fraternity that recognizes other faiths.
Our prequisite is: You must believe in a higher power and and afterlife.
Obviously, Muslims believe in a different god, as do Jehovas Witness.
But mostly, you will find Christians in Masonry.
Praying to the same God, revering the same God as Christians.
We have no secret God, as ther is only creator and giver of life.
We celebrate God the Father, The Holy Spirit and Christ.
How else could we live? (Rhetorical)
Jesus Christ is the “Only” way, The Truth and Life....(unless you are a Mormon, then you must pass by Joseph Smith, with a passport before entering and obviously we, as Christians, reject that notion)
Albert Pike was a liar...Period...
Which does nothing to acknowledge the Divinity and Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ. That's why stuff like this recent encyclical with its two prayers (one for Catholics, one for others), is called Masonic. Some people dismiss such as kooky conspiracy theories, but the truth is that even if Freemason persons aren't explicitly involved, the troubling material is undeniably Masonic in nature -- generic, not focused on Jesus, and seeking fraternity with false religions.
Their God the Creator is the same as the Triune God. They just don't understand that.
What’s wrong with asking non-Christians to convert to the One, True Faith, and praying for them to do so, rather than preparing prayers for them to pray in their false religions?
This pope doesn’t give a hoot about saving souls; he’s more interested in saving seals and snails.
Like I said, “We” are a fraternity.
Think of it like any college fraternity or maybe a police fraternity. They worship the same God we all do for the most part. However, there are people of different faiths in those fraternities.
The fraternity is not a religion but, may open and close meetings asking for God’s blessing, guidance, strength, etc.
There really is no difference except we have rites and rituals, all of which are steeped in Biblical history and the humanities.
For a good example you might look at the following, which I only gave a cursory look and hope it is helpful:
http://www.masoniclibrary.org.au/research/list-lectures/106-the-importance-of-the-second-degree.html
And as a result, Francis publishes separate prayers for his adoring crowd to pray. Gotta please everyone all the time, except for those sour-pussed, rosary counting, Pelagians.
Did Jesus Christ teach an alternative prayer to the Pater Noster to appease the Jews?
They just don't understand that.
And Francis just doesn't understand "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus". Apparently you don't either.
Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh to the Apostolic See, set up in the City which Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles, consecrated by their blood; to that See, We repeat, which is "the root and womb whence the Church of God springs,"[27] not with the intention and the hope that "the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth"[28] will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government. Would that it were Our happy lot to do that which so many of Our predecessors could not, to embrace with fatherly affection those children, whose unhappy separation from Us We now bewail. Would that God our Savior, "Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,"[29] would hear us when We humbly beg that He would deign to recall all who stray to the unity of the Church! In this most important undertaking We ask and wish that others should ask the prayers of Blessed Mary the Virgin, Mother of divine grace, victorious over all heresies and Help of Christians, that She may implore for Us the speedy coming of the much hoped-for day, when all men shall hear the voice of Her divine Son, and shall be "careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."[30] MORTALIUM ANIMOS
Sure! There's two prayers, not one.
The Sign of the Cross does. Ever heard of it? Ever made it?
So? Do you believe in two gods? If not, why separate prayers?
who knew George Washington and John Wayne were such evil men???
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