December 2018 – Page 9 – The Stumbling Block

04Dec 2018

Canon212 Update: Evil Francis, Tim Cook, Cardinal Napier, Simcha Fisher, and the Chicom Gov’t Cooperate to Stamp OutTruth

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GLOBAL WARMING IS ONLY PLANETARY COMMUNISM, BUT SUDDEN GLOBAL COOLING IS A REAL POSSIBILITY

HOW COULD A CATHOLIC EVER BE IN SCHISM BECAUSE OF A FRANCIS?

MASSACHUSETTS DEACON SAYS HE’S BEING PUNISHED FOR PRAYING FOR BUFFALO DEACON WHO CALLED FOR NOTORIOUS BP. MALONE TO RESIGN

FRANCIS’ CHINESE SOCIAL JUSTICE UTOPIA: PROPAGANDA AND CULTURE SHOWS INSTEAD OF SUNDAY MASS

IF ONLY BRAZIL’S BOLSONARO WERE MORE OF A HOLY FRANCISPRESIDENT!

THE HOLY NAPIER WINS SHEAPRAISE: AN AFRICAN CARDINAL PUSHES BACK AGAINST RAYMOND ARROYO!

AS SHE CALLED GENERAL FRANCO TO PROTECT HER FROM THE FORCES OF DEGENERACY AND MARXISM IN SPAIN, THE CHURCH IS NOW CALLING HER CHILDREN TO DIRECT POLITICAL ACTION AGAINST THE FORCES OF CULTURAL MARXISM

THE HOLY FRANCIS ON GAY PRIESTS: “IMPLICITLY AFFIRMING THE OFFICIAL DOCTRINE WHILE SUBTLY UNDERMINING IT WITH A LESS STRINGENT PASTORAL TEACHING.”

“THE WAY THINGS ARE IS SUMMED UP IN THE WAY I FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT IN RAYMOND ARROYO’S INTEGRITY THAN CARDINAL NAPIER’S, SADLY”

FATHER JAMES MARTIN’S NEW ROSARY-MEDITATE ON LBGTQ COUPLES AND MOTHER EARTH

WHY WOMEN ARE WEARING CHAPEL VEILS AGAIN

MAN URINATES ON AND DESTROYS ANGEL STATUES OUTSIDE OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION CHURCH, WILLIAMSBURG, VA

FRANCIS MAY BREAK YOUR HEART BUT DON’T LET HIM AND HIS FLUNKEYS BREAK YOUR FAITH.

“DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN AND HELL. THE RELIGIOUS ARE CONSECRATED TO REMIND THE FAITHFUL ABOUT THESE FOUR LAST THINGS”

IT’S OUR SACRED DUTY! – UKRAINIAN BISHOPS ALL-IN AGAINST RUSSIAN ‘AGGRESSION’

THE HOLY FRANCISMOTTO: NON ESTIS HUMILES, EGO SOLUS HUMILIS, WHICH MEANS “YOU ARE NOT HUMBLE, ONLY I AM HUMBLE.”

WHY DOES THE GRACIOUS TOLERANCE OF AUSSIE FRANCISBISHOP COLERIDGE NOT ALSO APPLY TO PAEDOPHILES?

VERRECHIO: I HAVE NEVER FANCIED MYSELF A MEMBER OF TEAM SSPX, OR TEAM FSSP, OR ANY SUCH THING. MY ONLY DESIRE IS TO NEVER BE MISLED IN MATTERS OF FAITH

TOLERANT EU WILL NOT TOLERATE RUSSIA’S INTOLERANCE

CARDINAL NAPIER, RICK STIKA, POOR EXCUSES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS

AFTER BERGOGLIO, THE WASTELAND?

04Dec 2018

“Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The Religious are consecrated to remind the faithful about these Four Last Things”

by fgwalkers@att.net

A bishop condescendingly asked John Henry Newman, “Who are the laity?” To which the great saint, and, one hopes, future Doctor of the Church, replied that the Church would look foolish without them.

The same might be said of those who are consecrated in the Religious life. The difference is that most of the Church consists in laypeople, while monks, nuns, and other consecrated Sisters and Brothers are a small fraction of the People of God, but are needed to remind all the baptized that our true home is in heaven. The distinctive habits that they wear are reminders of their role.

Since the Second Vatican Council, many ill-advised Religious have abandoned conventual life and even those Religious habits. It was an abuse of the Council’s modest prescriptions for updating the consecrated life, and in fact, it often fostered dissent from the Faith itself. Since 1965 the number of women Religious in the United States has dropped from 181,421 to fewer than 47,000 today. Eighty percent are older than 70, so the death rattle is ominous in at least 300 of the 420 Religious institutes. Yet, many refuse to admit their mistakes, rather like the definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

But there is also a dramatic upsurge in Orders that live the traditional counsels, teaching, caring for the poor and sick, and not wasting their time in “workshops” on climate change and nuclear weapons.

Some of these new communities are growing dramatically: the Dominican Sisters of the Sacred Heart, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, and our own New York-based Sisters of Life (who share our parish’s hospitality), among others. The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, whose mother house is in Michigan, have grown in just twenty years to more than 140 Sisters with an average age of 32. They teach in preschool through college throughout the United States and this coming year will open another large convent in Texas for 115 sisters.

A choir of these Sisters in their traditional habits was invited to sing at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington. This is a big change from just a few years ago when an earlier Administration threatened to sue the venerable Little Sisters of the Poor for maintaining Catholic moral principles.

The Advent season bids us to think more deeply about Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The Religious are consecrated to remind the faithful about these Four Last Things. “See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess” (Deuteronomy 30:15-16.).

-Fr. George William Rutler

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