Posted on 08/19/2018 6:09:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
Satan plays a long game. We know from the Gospel of Luke that Satan intended to sift like wheat Peter and the apostles.
Writing recently in National Review, Fr. Benedict Kiely has called the Church’s present trial the “summer of shame.” Before our eyes, the successors of the apostles are being sifted as well. Many Catholic commentators are saying the weakness of these wicked prelates is finally being exposed. I fear they may be wrong. Perhaps it is the diabolical strength of these prelates on display.
This moment has been building for centuries. Steve Skojec recently observed that “only a structure already compromised could fall so far so fast.”
In the context of this “summer of shame,” Bishop Robert Barron recently recalled that during the previous go-round of shame 20 years ago, he intuited that the whole sordid mess was “too thought-through, too well-coordinated, to be simply the result of chance or wicked human choice.”
Can we really now allow ourselves to think that we’ve got Satan on the run? That some episcopal hand-wringing will restore Catholic doctrine? That a few resignations will purge the Church of wicked priests, bishops, and cardinals?
I have no expectation that the perpetrators of this scourge are about to give up what has taken centuries to achieve. In fact, they may perceive this summer as their moment of triumph.
Consider the culture into which the apostate hierarchy has blended the Church:
To fight the scourge that afflicts the Church is to fight the culture. Is today’s Catholic ready to reject it and stand up to it?
I believe that the Satanic cabal now running the Church are counting on social pressure from the culture to see them past this “summer of shame” and beyond to a new “Catholic spring.” How cleverly they are being sifted.
The Gospel of Luke predicts that Peter will survive his trial. Jesus tells Peter, “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.”
Then follows this never quoted passage, which the online Bible of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops captions “Instructions for the Time of Crisis”:
When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, did you want anything?
But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath not, let him sell his coat, and buy a sword.
For I say to you, that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me: And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end. (Luke 22: 35-37)
Jesus says His contemporaries counted Him among the wicked. Are not those who hew to the constant moral teaching of the Catholic Church today vilified as haters? His instructions, for the time of crisis to come after the Scriptures had been fulfilled, were to fight. It is our turn and our time to fight.
If Hell is like a walled city, its gates have been closing, imperceptibly, for centuries. If nothing is done, they could soon trap all within. But Jesus assured Peter that the gates of Hell would not prevail against his Church. Prevail in what? In the fight that must be waged.
Then-monsignor Fulton J. Sheen in the 1930s warned of “tolerance” as the problem with the American culture. He defined tolerance as “an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil.” Eighty years on, patience toward evil has progressed to acceptance of evil. The culture has reached the point where evil now is normal. This where the wicked priests, bishops, and cardinals will take refuge. This is where we must take the fight.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, founder of the Militia of the Immaculata, pray for us.
The Church is in civil war.
Thank-you.
Hell is not “gihanna”. Gihanna is the place of the damned.
The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church means the Church shall not be stopped from entry, to rescue the dead, by hell’s gates.
It could also mean, perhaps, that the Church defeats death.
Probably both.
How can that be, but it is a fact. It’s true.
It is so bad that many faithful have a near physical revulsion toward entering these “liturgical spaces”, attending out of obedience to our Lord in these evil times, but in no way able to receive Eucharist, properly disposed.
So, one attends and sees and hears pablum grade liturgy topped off with agenda driven homilies. Mass is a true suffering to attend. Pray that the utter misery is salvific. “To Endure” is a very hard work.
“This kind will only be driven out by prayer and fasting.”
Our Carmelite priests told us, “We think the Church will right itself once the 60’s generation has died off.” It sure will be better, that’s for sure. The younger priests coming in are on fire for the Lord.
I am not leaving Our Lord when His Cross is the heaviest.
Isn’t it the other way around — the Lordwill not leave you when your cross is the heaviest?
Trump is putting the child molesters of all types on notice
DC has had a major pedo culture for decades
The Catholic Church. Centuries of cover up
The major issue is pedophilia. NOT homosexuity
It is both ways.
Most of the Pennsylvania victims were post-pubescent. Most of the problem certainly IS homosexuality. And of course there is also pedophilia, but that is apparently a minority of cases.
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