I feel this kind of happened in Rhwanda during the genocide.all at once, one tribe turned and killed the other tribe. It was like evil took over them. Our Lady of Kibeho warned them in the 1980’s of something horrible would happen if they didn’t pray and turn to God.
As much as we are told, urged to pray, I think many don't take Her seriously enough. Myself included...as much as I encourage others, how often do I head that urging. Am I a hypocrite for not praying a daily rosary? I often blend a rosary & DM chaplet. 1) it takes me an hour for a rosary, 2) praying a couple decades from the heart plus pleading for mercy for certain things & people seem like a great alternative. But Blessed Mother said the Rosary.
I pray the rosary along with Ewtn Plus online at Come Pray the Rosary It keeps a prayer momentum that I really need Sometimes I do pray on my own or in the car
The Dogma of Papal Infallibility still counts. I believe any Pope who tried to counteract this would be struck dead on the spot . The only difficulty being that this might not apply to an anti Pope.
I think the problem is that if we must wait for the church to solemnly define that someone was an antipope, then we must be linked to this antipope until the last day of his antipontificate, through the duty of being in full communion with the Roman pontiff (as a factor indispensable for salvation).
"Love the Pope!" - no ifs, and no buts: For Bishops, priests, and faithful, Saint Pius X explains what loving the Pope really entails The struggle against Modernism had taken a great toll on Pope Saint Pius X as he spoke 100 years ago, in November 1912, to the members of the Apostolic Union of Clergy, a confraternity of secular priests in union with the Holy See. He knew that despite every effort, he was being disobeyed and disregarded in so many places, by priests and even by bishops. He knew "learned" scholars despised him, and wished their authority to take the place of the Apostolic voice. In a cry coming deep from his holy heart, the Pope summoned all the Church to understand what love for the Pope, any Pope, the one who holds the Keys, truly entails: a hard message that, exactly one century later, must be heard and obeyed by the clergy and by the lay faithful. ________________________________ Distracted with so many occupations, it is easy to forget the things that lead to perfection in priestly life; it is easy [for the priest] to delude himself and to believe that, by busying himself with the salvation of the souls of others, he consequently works for his own sanctification. Alas, let not this delusion lead you to error, because nemo dat quod nemo habet [no one gives what he does not have]; and, in order to sanctify others, it is necessary not to neglect any of the ways proposed for the sanctification of our own selves. ... The Pope is the guardian of dogma and of morals; he is the custodian of the principles that make families sound, nations great, souls holy; he is the counsellor of princes and of peoples; he is the head under whom no one feels tyrannized because he represents God Himself; he is the supreme father who unites in himself all that may exist that is loving, tender, divine. It seems incredible, and is even painful, that there be priests to whom this recommendation must be made, but we are regrettably in our age in this hard, unhappy, situation of having to tell priests: love the Pope! And how must the Pope be loved? Non verbo neque lingua, sed opere et veritate. [Not in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth - 1 Jn iii, 18] When one loves a person, one tries to adhere in everything to his thoughts, to fulfill his will, to perform his wishes. And if Our Lord Jesus Christ said of Himself, "si quis diligit me, sermonem meum servabit," [if any one love me, he will keep my word - Jn xiv, 23] therefore, in order to demonstrate our love for the Pope, it is necessary to obey him. Therefore, when we love the Pope, there are no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed; when we love the Pope, we do not say that he has not spoken clearly enough, almost as if he were forced to repeat to the ear of each one the will clearly expressed so many times not only in person, but with letters and other public documents; we do not place his orders in doubt, adding the facile pretext of those unwilling to obey - that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him; we do not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority; we do not set above the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, who, even though learned, are not holy, because whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope. This is the cry of a heart filled with pain, that with deep sadness I express, not for your sake, dear brothers, but to deplore, with you, the conduct of so many priests, who not only allow themselves to debate and criticize the wishes of the Pope, but are not embarrassed to reach shameless and blatant disobedience, with so much scandal for the good and with so great damage to souls. Saint Pius X Allocution Vi ringrazio to priests on the 50th anniversary of the Apostolic Union November 18, 1912 https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/11/love-pope-no-ifs-and-no-buts-for.html
Saint Pius X seems to point to a type of unconditional obedience to the Pope that seems unsustainable given what is happening in the Vatican today. So, how should we wait for the church's solemn definition of Francis' legitimacy and, at the same time, not jump into the abyss that Francis is leading humanity into?
I've read about this "prodigy" before. One of many false Christ's i expect. Didn't Jesus tell the Jews "I come in my Father's Name and you will not believe. But there is one coming in his own name and him you will believe."
Thanks, HH. I respect the calm, forthright delivery of the good Bishop. His thinking is clear, tempered, and to the point; even in interviews you sense no promotion of himself, but rather a profound love of Christ and His Church. God bless Bishop Athanasius Schneider!
Give the Papacy respect and obey in all things lawful. Don’t look to the right or left, and don’t borrow trouble. God is working things out. Have faith as of a grain of mustard seed.
The angel also assured the apostles, He will return the same way He left, on clouds down from Heaven.
Some new age groups describe Christ as a divine statesman, which provides the basis for a possible imitation of the return of Christ resignified in a purely spiritual coming (in a Docetist sense) or in a kind of reincarnation in the person of a global leader. I believe this biblical passage is a key to unmasking the antichrist and the false prophet when they emerge on the global political stage.
In reply to someone on this thread that asked about Saint Annibale Di Francia: St. Annibale was the Extraordinary Confessor to the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarretta. He was founder of the Rogationists and Daughters of Divine Zeal. In His Address to the Rogationist Fathers on the Centennial Anniversary of the Foundation of the Congregation of Rogationist Fathers of the Heart of Jesus, on May 16, 1997, Pope John Paul II said: “The modern means that human sciences and contemporary technology make available and that you rightly try to use in your apostolic work will only be effective if they are sustained and guided by the original charismatic inspiration of the blessed founder, who saw in the "Rogate" the means God himself had provided to bring about that "new and divine" holiness with which the Holy Spirit wishes to enrich Christians at the dawn of the third millennium, in order to "make Christ the heart of the world". On July 7, 2010 Benedict XVI blessed a marble statue of St. Annibale Maria di Francia (1851-1927), founder of the Congregation of the Rogationist Fathers of the Heart of Jesus and of the Daughters of Divine Generosity. The statue is positioned in an external niche of the Vatican Basilica near the Arch of the Bells. Luisa: “I was feeling very afflicted, not only because of the privations of my sweet Jesus, but also because I had received the unexpected news of the death of Reverend Father Di Francia. He was the only one left to me, to whom I could open my poor soul. How well he could understand me – it was to a saint that I would entrust myself, who had very much comprehended all the value of what Jesus had told me about the Divine Will. He had so much interest in it that, with insistence, he had taken all the writings with himself in order to publish them.” Saint Annibale talks about the writings of the Book of Heaven: “They are writings that we must make known to the world. I believe they would do much good. Since this knowledge of the Divine Will is so sublime, these writings which come from celestial dictation will present it with great clarity. In my opinion, no human intelligence could have created them.” St. Annibale died on June 1, 1927 Pope Benedict XVI said in his Encyclical Letter, Deus Caritas Est, when he affirmed: “The love-story between God and man consists in the very fact that this communion of will increases in a communion of thought and sentiment, and thus our will and God’s will increasingly coincide: God’s Will is no longer for me an alien will, something imposed on me from without by the commandments, but is now my own will, based on the realization that God is in fact more deeply present to me than I am to myself.” Pope St. Paul VI in his message Urbi et Obi, April 4, 1971 said: “The unity of the world will be. The dignity of the human person shall be recognized not only formally but effectively. The inviolability of life, from the womb to old age… Undue social inequalities will be overcome. The relations between peoples will be peaceful, reasonable and fraternal. Neither selfishness, nor arrogance, nor poverty…(shall) prevent the establishment of a true human order, a common good, a new civilization.”
By the way, we had that weird storm Sunday night. It came up the coast from Florida and merged with a storm from the west, over Maryland. It then went on to trouble the Northern states. It was untimely. 4 inches of rain followed by wind gusts up to 40 mph.
