I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Don’t let the heretics and the idiots drive you out of the Church. The worse things get, the more Pope Frances undermines the Church, the more your minister may give silly sermons, the more you need to go to church and receive the sacraments.
If your local priest can’t do confession properly, go somewhere else. As long as he says the proper words at the consecration, and doesn’t mess up that part of the Mass, it can be presumed that the sacrament is there for you to receive.
For the sake of the Church, we need to resist the heretics and try to show a good example. And for our own sakes and that of our families, we need to receive the Sacraments regularly. Don’t let people like Francis drive you out. If you leave, you are just helping him realize his aims.
And if you stay you are voting for him with your presence and dollars.
Good post.
I’d just say it’s almost as difficult for a priest to not “do confession properly”.
As long as he says the words of absolution properly, your sins have been forgiven (assuming a true desire for repentance on one’s part too of course). He’s been given the authority by the Church, and therefore Jesus, to forgive sins no matter how lefty he is.
Now, some priests are better confessors than others of course. If one needs competent spiritual direction, that takes some effort to find of course.
But for one in a state of mortal sin, any hippy-dippy priest will do, so long as he’s in good standing as well. It’s more important to regain friendship with God than to confess one’s sins to a purely orthodox priest, if one is in a state of mortal sin.
>> Don’t let people like Francis drive you out. If you leave, you are just helping him realize his aims.
That is a serious charge of blaspheme. And not one that I disagree with.
True; let the LEFTIST!!! pope and the PEDOPHILE priests do it instead.
We'll see how you guys do in this thread.
Good place to practice.