Does it matter if we believe and practice tradition or
traditional Scripture or is it better to follow the crowd and change so we go
with the flow? We have become a very complacent lot, we Catholics, and we
are willing to trust far too much. Just because someone wears a collar or
some particular habit does not make him holy or trustworthy. We have learned
that very painful lesson in recent years.
Average Catholics do not seem to pay enough attention to
their faith to know when they are being led down a false path and so many, if
not most, are in that very dangerous zone called lukewarm. When
Jesus stated that He would vomit the lukewarm from His mouth, He makes it sound
like heaven will not be an option. That wording in that Scripture has, in
recent years, been changed from vomit to spew. The
former was just far too graphic and people might glean the possibility of hell
from Christ’s words and hell is a place not to be mentioned in Catholic circles
these days. If you notice, many people now, when reciting the Nicene
Creed, say “descended to the dead,” not hell. The Council of Nicea wrote
“hell,” but who are they to tell us, in these now modern times, what to say as
we pray?
Do you remember when we all knew from Scripture that the
Blessed Virgin Mary would crush the serpent’s head? Well, that just isn’t
so today. The Scripture has been changed and now it says “he will crush the serpent’s head.” Notice the lower case h on
he; this also had to be changed. You see, in these modern days,
there is no reason to express the divinity of Christ by capitalizing He, Him or
His and the like. And in regard to our Blessed Mother, I guess we will
have to throw away all the statues of her with her foot on the head of the
snake. It doesn’t matter anyway since most of the statues have been sent
to the dump because we wanted to be like the Protestants so they would like
us. Not familiar with the auto-demolition of the traditional church?
It will be showing at your parish soon.
That brings up another trashed tradition, that of being the
Church militant, which means rebellious, confrontational and combative. We have
lost all sense of militancy and have lowered the bar so far that we can feel the
flames: the loss of true vocations and true teaching. Christ called us to
defend His Bride. Martyrs died to stand up for the very truths that we
deny today. If you are old enough and bright enough, faithwise, you would know
that there are three dogmas that state who does and who does not make it into
heaven. If you read these dogmas aloud today, or cite them in your
conversation, you will be called a heretic. You see, our dogmas have evolved to
mean exactly the opposite of what was taught and believed for a couple of
thousand years. This is the new age—get with it.
Christ taught that you have to be baptized and believe in Him
to be saved. Today we are taught that this is not so. This must mean
that Jesus did not know the truth and today’s geniuses have to straighten Him
out and repair all His mistakes. Who’s the fool here?
It is all called “The New Evangelization,” and, in reality,
it is no evangelization at all. Yet this is exactly what we are called to
do because the religious of today teach that we all worship the same god and so
this generic god will somehow save all. But their god is not the
true God and I have a hard time swallowing the idea that they and all their
followers will see heaven unless they repent. Today’s new way says that to
evangelize Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Protestants, protesters, those who deny the
sacraments and even those who deny Christ is out of step with the new
evangelization.
So who is it that the new evangelization calls to be
evangelized? Who would have ever “thunk” it? It is you and me!
Catholics have to be evangelized into running away from our tradition and true
teaching to embrace this false generic god. Employing the very same
ecumenical strategy for which the true God chastised King Solomon and his son,
is the very thing we are called to do today. Can’t you hear the
Protestants laughing as they say, “We are winning the Catholics over”? “We
got them to change their Mass to a mass much closer to our version. We got
them to change the Our Father and add, “For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and
the glory forever.” I can’t bring myself to say this at Mass. And somehow
we completely lost the “amen,” not only from the Our Father at Mass, but in
almost every recitation of that prayer everywhere. It’s almost disappeared.
Other changes are far worse than that. There are those
who question if the new mass is even valid all the time. Father Malachi
Martin spent his last years trying to alert Catholics to the disastrous
direction in which the Catholic Church is headed. He was a firm believer in Pope
Pius X and his observation that smoke has entered into the sanctuary of Christ’s
Church. Father Martin worked in the Vatican for many years and confirmed
that many there were homosexual, masons and Satanists. He spoke of a
conspiracy to overthrow the Catholic Church and emerge with a new world order
church that would not be militant, but very complacent. He spoke of the
false church of the future and that it is already here, one in which all will
get along and all proclaim the same God.
Because of that new direction that does seem to have emerged,
even the words of Christ at the Consecration have been changed. Example?
When consecrating the host, the words “Take this, all of you, and
eat it” have replaced “Take and eat ye all of this,” a totally
different meaning. The same is true with the consecrating of the
wine. What was, “For this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and
eternal testament: the mystery of faith, which will be shed for you and for many
unto the remission of sins” is no longer. The main change here is that
many has been changed to all, again a totally different
meaning. Has this been done to possibly lead us to believe that the
Word, Christ’s exact words, are not important or that we are actually more
spiritually-guided than Saint Jerome, who was inspired by God to write the Latin
Vulgate? The fruit of the tree says not. As we push forward
in our super-desire to change and modernize everything, we see the Church fall
more and more apart. At what point does someone announce that enough is
enough. The term spousal abuse is now coming to be used to explain
what all the change in the Church is actually doing. Can anyone explain
some form of good fruit that this obviously sickly tree is producing or can we
bring ourselves to believe that the church is falling into
apostasy?
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