The Apocalypse In Instalments

Submitted by LocutusOP on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 23:54
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 Joseph Wilson ,  John J. Marren, Jr. ,  Mundabor, beautifulbeaufort (@beautifulbeauf1)  ,  Mary K Jones ,  Mike Yerian, Christina,  louiseyvette, Stephen Lowe, Joseph D'Hippolito       

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Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 23:45
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The Apocalypse In Instalments
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  • Joseph Wilson | September 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    Our Lady of Fatima was not obeyed, hence the situation we are now in but have no fear the chastisement is coming. God will not be mocked and He will clean His House.

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  • John J. Marren, Jr. | September 2, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    Sobering observations….but the doctrine of causality makes it clear that nothing happens unless God permits it.
    A lot of gloom and doom out there but one of Michael Matts posts points to a resurgence of the Faith (Traditional) in France. Nice to read about some positive activity.
    Reprobate and elect…great point. No matter what happens if God has numbered you among the elect you’ll have sufficient grace to persevere until the end.
    Much after Mass and email “discussions” about the doctrine of Predestination. Molinist accusations abound.
    I seem to remember you doing a piece about predestination.
    What’s your take on holding the belief that God desires all men to be saved according to His Antecedent Will but not all men will be saved according to His Consequent Will?
    Finding out that most Catholics don’t have a clue about the Churches teaching on Predestination…we have one gentleman server at a local TLM Mass and one time seminarian at Saint Charles here in Philly who dismisses predestination as a Calvinist doctrine – go figure.

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beautifulbeaufort (@beautifulbeauf1) | September 2, 2019 at 3:14 pm

 

Bingo. For those of us who have been following the decline and destruction of our beautiful Church closely, more bad news is not going to be a surprise. However, you are 100% right — we have gotten the priests, cardinals and Pope we deserve. We have been too comfortable. We haven’t lived in a mortified fashion. We haven’t pursued holiness. We’ve just been . . . comfortable.
Time for us to stand up and be the Catholics we are supposed to be and in the meantime stand up to our leadership, take no guff and demand – of all of us – a strong, sacrificial Catholicism. And it will probably come as this chastisement (of our own making) grows.
God bless you.

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  • Mary K Jones | September 2, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    I want to agree with you. I am trying to envision this occurrence. How would this appear to us, and, perhaps, more important, how would we know it occurred? I cannot picture the MSM announcing something of this nature. I can’t picture a bishop even having access to the pope to contradict him, without being whisked away. This is a serious question. I don’t have a very good imagination, I think.

    • Mundabor | September 3, 2019 at 8:59 am

      We will die in these confused times, and it is for us to make the best of it.
      There. No imagination required..:;

    • Mary K Jones | September 3, 2019 at 4:14 pm

      I should be more clear: how would we know if bishops/cardinals did take on the pope? More than one or two of them…Would that news be squelched by the Vatican and the MSM?

    • Mundabor | September 5, 2019 at 6:27 am

      No it wouldn’t.
      Three Cardinals stand up and declare the Pope officially a heretic.
      The whole world will know within hours.
      If in doubt, they could say that in a press conference, or directly to Breitbart.

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Mike Yerian | September 3, 2019 at 1:47 am

  • Cdls Burke and Sarah are contemptible for their inaction,

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Christina | September 3, 2019 at 3:29 am

  • I was hopeful that the hierarchy would put a stop to Francis’ anti-Catholic maneuverings, but the Bishops and Cardinals have really let us down. They spent the last six years waiting for the Pope to die, not wanting to jeopardize their careers nor cause a schism, although an unofficial schism is here anyway.
    Due to their failure to act, Francis has, over time, appointed enough perv Cardinals to march in a gay pride parade through the streets of Rome. The next conclave will consist of South American leftists, Western homosexualists, and unknowns from the peripheries who will gratefully vote as expected. It is virtually assured that a junior evil clown will succeed the Evil Clown, so, in a sense, he will still rule from beyond the grave. The alphabet people, the CINO’s, and the SJW’s must be thrilled at the direction that Francis has taken the Church. I agree that only Divine Intervention and much prayer can save us now.

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  • louiseyvette | September 3, 2019 at 5:15 am

    It just occurred to me today that we are in the Zombie Apocalypse. Obviously, just going by statistics, of the billions of people currently walking around, the vast majority must be in mortal sin, and therefore spiritually dead. Lord, have mercy.

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Stephen Lowe | September 3, 2019 at 3:07 pm

 

Speaking as a nomad Catholic (surrounded by NO parishes well grounded in fellowship like their Protestant brothers) and having to travel far and wide to a traditional parish, I am conflicted….happy to have an opportunity to witness the ancient Mass and angry that they are tucked in out of the way corners of the diocese. Please note there is a weekend vacant church (a cathedral nonetheless) in the downtown district in the states capitol that would draw a big crowd from the suburbs but no, the diocese would rather have it empty with the occasional wedding or funeral. What a disgrace. This is a spit in the eye from the bishop and his cohorts. Not one red dime to the bishops annual appeal (should be named the perpetual appeal). I find the average Catholic in this diocese to be flip flop wearing ostriches. Do they see what is happening in the church? Heck no.,.they are concerned with selling more raffle tickets or improving fish fry attendance. I need to move. Sorry to vent.

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Aneas | September 4, 2019 at 3:17 am

This is what I don’t like about Michael Matt’s “unite the clans” article. He basically says we need to give the FSSP a pass for their silence in the face of Francis’ numerous blasphemies and heresies and their failure to criticize the poison of Vatican II. But their silence has allowed, in part, the disease of Vatican II/FrancisChurch to spread! And I’ve NEVER heard any FSSP priest publicly criticize the Pope OR Vatican II. I’m sick of homilies about how nice the windows are while the building is on fire. And FYI- I go to the Church of All Saints that is mentioned in the article and some people there are frustrated with the FSSP for the same reason.

Love your blog, and I’ve been reading it for some time now. Keep up the great work.

 

  • Mundabor | September 5, 2019 at 6:30 am

    Like Mr Matt, I prefer the FSSP to keep doing their job for the care of souls rather than see them disbanded.
    The problem is the silence of bishops and cardinals.
    We can’t have the Catholic net on the ground destroyed.
    Let the priest form good Catholics, and the Bishops fight for the faith. Bishops have the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, they are called first.

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Joseph D'Hippolito | September 4, 2019 at 5:40 am

 

“Congratulations, Cardinal Burke & Co. Your empty virtue signalling has now virtually – bar Divine intervention – guaranteed us a closeted homosexual Francis II, an openly homosexual Francis III and, who knows, a gender fluid Francis IV.”

The bishops and their episcopal sycophants are nothing but company men — first, foremost and always. That’s been true for centuries. Canon lawyers have long been emasculated.

This is what happens when Catholics give the reverence due only to God to institutional leaders who claim to represent Him yet do anything but.

 

 

Own comment: 

Even I had some hope that Bergoglio would be, if not stopped, at least opposed in his attempts to destroy the Church. These hopes have long disappeared. We are all alone in this; the NOChurch bishops are not going to give up, or even risk, their cushy comforts to impeded this enemy of Christ and His Holy Church.

The commenter Christina  sums it up well:

I was hopeful that the hierarchy would put a stop to Francis’ anti-Catholic maneuverings, but the Bishops and Cardinals have really let us down. They spent the last six years waiting for the Pope to die, not wanting to jeopardize their careers nor cause a schism, although an unofficial schism is here anyway.
Due to their failure to act, Francis has, over time, appointed enough perv Cardinals to march in a gay pride parade through the streets of Rome. The next conclave will consist of South American leftists, Western homosexualists, and unknowns from the peripheries who will gratefully vote as expected. It is virtually assured that a junior evil clown will succeed the Evil Clown, so, in a sense, he will still rule from beyond the grave. The alphabet people, the CINO’s, and the SJW’s must be thrilled at the direction that Francis has taken the Church. I agree that only Divine Intervention and much prayer can save us now.