Yes time scale in prophesy is never easy. The Lord has a different kinda clock than the rest of us. It seems to tick in centuries, rather than minutes. 2 Peter 3:9 The Day of the Lord …8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be dissolved in the fire, and the earth and its works will not be found.… But the feeling I get is one of huge urgency.
I was walking the dogs last night , it was very dark and cold and windy. I came to a bus stop and there were a few people there, waiting for a bus to take them into the city for a night out. Two of them, a husband and wife were arguing with other and being nasty. A small group of young men, it seemed to me were very alert and hostile. It reminded me of something Fr Malachi Martin said many years ago of , 'Grace draining from the world'. Of course things are a thousand times worse now. When I was young it was safe to walk about at nights....well relatively, but nowadays not without tow fierce dogs. All around me I see people to whom God is not even a figment in their minds. Proudly boasting that they are atheists and agnostics. Of course we always had unbelievers but we have reached a point now were their parents and even their grandparents never went near a Church. My feeling is that the bad apples are about to fall from the tree and we are about to reap what we have sown. This is not the fashionable modern view of course. The modern view is that everyone is basically good and doing their best and things are getting better and brighter. I beg to differ. No I feel a great storm right upon us. A huge storm.
Come on F/S even you must get fed up with people throwing the Pharisee tag around like confetti. It really does get boring. Why not rigorist or self absorbed promethean neo-pelagianist? Now the latter is a real classy insult
Into the bargain, I suspect that people who come new to the forum gun-slinging others as Pharisees in their first post are probably former members who have been booted off. They are quite easy to spot!
Pharisee does fit...not really a insult. When the rigidity of Law takes over without the understanding we are all sinners. Let's go deeper into the passage just read this Sunday. Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Oops, I guess many of us have just broken the 7th commandment. It's not time for what many of you are doing. A saint foretold me something more scary then all your predictions. The hardening of hearts and minds is starting to take over. May Gods Will be Done
Lets be real. When Pope Francis first used the word Pharisee he did so to label people he vehemently disagreed with to try shame them and shut them up. Liberals are masterful at name calling. But look how they take an evil abuse like baby killing and call it pro-choice. Interestingly enough, Jesus did not call the Pharisees hypocrites and frauds because of keeping with the commandments or laws of God, they were abusing the laws of man-made disciplines. Pope Francis calls those who are faithful to doctrines "rigid" and "Pharisees". Liberals are great at labeling people they don't agree with as somehow they feel this makes them superior in thought and action. They are mean spirited in their pursuit of change. American's just got through with 8 years of this crap with Obama. We don't need it from our pope.
You cannot compare liberal politics in your country to this discussion. To say Our Holy Father believes 1. Abortion 2. Contraception 3. Euthanasia 4. Homosexual Marriage 5. Gender Neutral 6. Female Priest 7. Married Priest That my friend is a joke. He has spoken against these things many times. What people don't like is that He is saying God COULD forgive them. That's it. That is all he is saying in a nutshell. All this nonsense that he doesn't believe in the real body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of Holy Communion is nonsense. Everyday he sits one hour in front of the Holy Eucharist praying for all of us. Abomination desecration is hogwash. Yes...this doesn't make you happy but it is reality. This is not Obama...this is a Saint who has come to show mercy. When fire and brimstone does take over...many of us will see our true sinful nature. Yes Brian, you will say it is false mercy. But with so much evil in the world...our Holy Father is trying to save souls. The hour has not come yet...but it is coming. May Gods Will be Done
The Francis freakout, continued The danger for critics at all times: they stop listening to what their opponents have to say. Tom Hoopes February 13, 2017 I think if my book came out in 2014 and 2015, it would have had a bigger market. By 2016 and 2017, it seems many critics had already written off the Holy Father and no longer care What Pope Francis Really Said. I wish they did. Francis’ critics serve a vital purpose when they stick to the facts and correct the pope’s extravagances from the context of Church teaching. The danger for critics at all times — in our personal, political and, yes, papal, relationships — is to put our opponent in a box, decide we understand where they are coming from, and stop listening to what they say. The danger for critics is that we freak out. The latest example: the furor over the Holy Father’s recent comments about religious vocations and “restorationist” orders. I was alarmed at the speed with which posters on Facebook decided they knew exactly what he meant, and felt free to denounce him to the world for it. Pope Francis doesn’t like the wonderful, faithful religious orders that give us such hope, they fumed. Here is what Crux reported Francis saying about vocations: “When they tell me that there is a congregation that draws so many vocations, I must confess that I worry,” he said. “The Spirit does not follow the logic of human success.” He went on to say he worries about congregations of “soldiers who seem ready to do anything for the defense of faith and morality, and then some scandal emerges involving the founder [male or female].” God bless Legionary Father Matthew Schneider. He easily could have been offended by what Pope Francis said. Clearly, the pope had Father Schneider’s Legionaries of Christ in mind, at least as one example. That description fits who they were, and what happened to them. But on Facebook, Father Schneider didn’t get defensive. “Context, context context!” he said. Linking the Italian original, Father Schneider described the pope’s remarks about vocation-boasting orders. “First he says that they are in general a good thing. Then he lists some problems he sees in some new communities. …. What he presumably refers to are communities whose main selling point, as many of those he lists have or do say, is many vocations. It isn’t that many vocations are a bad thing but that if that’s the first thing you say about a community, it might indicate something is a little off balance.” Exactly. And the Legionaries are a great example of all that is great and troublesome about the communities Francis is pointing out. The charm of the Legionaries and its lay group, Regnum Christi, was the willingness to think big, as the best movements in the Church did — from the small band that set out from Palestine to baptize every nation to the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island and went on to build cathedrals. But in the Legion and Regnum Christi, the cart was in front of the horse. Instead of following the classic model of religious congregations, settling into a community, serving its needs, and building organically into something greater, the Legion started out going for “greater.” In America, at least, their method was to start Regnum Christi sections across the country and then try to sustain and grow them. When I used to list the fruits of Regnum Christi and the Legion, I listed numbers — territories entered, schools built, vocations won — not the fruits of the Holy Spirit, which aren’t so easily counted. Pope Francis has been warning against that kind of “business attitude” toward spiritual realities for a long time. When he met with religious during his U.S. visit, he put it this way: “We can get caught up measuring the value of our apostolic works by the standards of efficiency, good management and outward success which govern the business world. … The cross shows us a different way of measuring success.” When Mother Teresa said the same thing, she put it more succinctly: “Success is not a Gospel category.” If Fr. Schneider is any indication, it seems the Legionaries have learned that lesson, too. The hard way. But what I love is that Fr. Schneider is a great model of a son of the Church. He looks at the Holy Father not as an iffy boss and not as a dangerous rival, but as a family member who deserves the respect of a full hearing and an open heart (he did the same thing in his recent discussion of Amoris Laetitia). Don’t get me wrong. Critics of the pope do a great service. They call B.S. on the intellectual laziness that says, “If a pope says it, I’m for it. No questions asked.” The danger, of course, is that the critical mind engenders its own form of intellectual laziness, which says, “If this pope says it, I’m against it. No questions asked.” Let’s not do that. Let’s ask questions. And listen — carefully and patiently — to the answers. http://aleteia.org/2017/02/13/the-francis-freakout-continued/
I have thought for awhile that there were evil spirits of wrath and envy and violence abroad in the world. Murder heading the pack. You can see it everywhere. In my own household we simply cannot discuss politics or the fabric of our union would be torn apart into sectarianism because we are on such opposite sides of every issue. it is disheartening but we both maintain a neutral zone where neither of us venture, in order to stay united. I see this happening in governments and political parties, in households, in individual hearts and scariest of all within the Church that was always the bulwark against it. The storm is truly upon us. (as I look outside it is blizzarding like crazy--no visibility, chill winds--a real metaphor)
How nice. When is Pope Francis going to clean up his own Jesuit back yard? In 2014, the Vatican found Jesuit Georgetown University to be in violation of its Catholic identity after investigating a complaint against his alma mater by (since deceased) William Peter Blatty, author of "The Exorcist". On Cardinal Wuerl's recommendation, the University wasn't stripped of its Catholic identity, the Vatican deciding that it wasn't necessary to pursue the "well founded complaint" to its end. They chose, instead, to use their own plenary authority to deal with Georgetown's serious violations. On receiving the Vatican's decision, Mr. Blatty's lawyer, Manuel A. Miranda said: “We looked to the law of the Church and we applied the facts. The Vatican has accepted our compliant as well-founded, now it is up to the Holy Father to show whether he is more Pope than Jesuit and give us some relief, as Christ taught us when he rebuked the money changers. “In other words, we approached the Holy See like a lawyer would, and they responded as the Vicar of Christ does. As we lawyers say, that is ‘a good result’,” said Miranda. “The question correctly asked now is whether we trust that Pope Francis will do the right thing and walk his talk,” he added. https://cardinalnewmansociety.org/d...law-suit-released-reveals-extensive-concerns/ http://www.gupetition.org/ Has Pope Francis walked his talk in respect of Georgetown? Reading to the end of the report on the Cardinal Newman Society's website, it would appear not. Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood was invited to speak at Georgetown last year. Georgetown appears to be on quite good terms with the Vatican. Last year they hosted the Pope's friend and the Soros Open Society's favoruite in the Vatican, Cardinal Rodrigez, for a presentation about Amoris Laetitia last year. And John Podesta was chosen to be the first person to respond (with questions) to the Cardinal. Given the Pope's track record, there's a better chance of his effecting personnel changes in the Newman Society than cleaning up Georgetown. And then there's the religious communities that need never fear being condemned by the Pope for adhering rigidly to the law. Nuns on the bus for example. Sr. Campbell is a huge fan of Pope Francis and followed his advice to "meddle in politics". I believe that she coined the phrase "Pope Francis Catholics". https://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/29/nuns_on_the_bus_at_the Ah yes, Pope Francis, the gift that keeps on giving. Saint how are ya.
Amazing. Dolours post had nothing whatever to do with the post I made. It was just yet another complaint post to add to the hundreds she has already made against Francis. And AED likes her style! Amazing....
Yes bad spirits everywhere. Padre Pio was asked one time if there were many demons in the world. He went quiet fora while looked to the sky and said, 'There are so many demons they block out the sky!!' ' That was back in the '50's things are far,far worse now than back then. Worse than that Catholics often don't even believe in demons.
Actually, it did have something to do with what you posted: "Pope Francis has been warning against that kind of “business attitude” toward spiritual realities for a long time. When he met with religious during his U.S. visit, he put itt his way: “We can get caught up measuring the value of our apostolic works by the standards of efficiency, good management and outward success which govern the business world. … The cross shows us a different way of measuring success.” When Mother Teresa said the same thing, she put it more succinctly: “Success is not a Gospel category.” If Fr. Schneider is any indication, it seems the Legionaries have learned that lesson, too. The hard way. When will Jesuit Georgetown be told to learn its lesson and start correcting the guilty as charged offences? Or will the charges against that "success" be buried?
