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(Mat 16:18-19) And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
CATHOLIC STAND: True Ecumenism Leads To The One, True, Holy Catholic Church
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X: Catholic convert and former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II (as well Eternal Christendom Advisory Board member), @gavinashenden, perfectly describes the mindset of what he calls “Ecumaniacs”:
“A common fantasy for living in a world of unreality where nobody pays the price for anything.”
This perfectly describes how many converts see those (on both sides) who so often try to obscure the differences between non-Catholic sects and the Catholic Church, or pretend dogmatic contradictions can co-exist. Where is truth? Either something is true, or it isn’t. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either Christ established one Church and promised to be with Her until His return, or He didn’t. It’s either the Catholic Church, or it isn’t.
Make up your mind.
This effeminate attempt to pretend 2 and 2 can actually make something other than 4 is an affront to the harsh and unrelenting demands of Truth, who commands us: “Take up your cross and follow me…He who does not take up his cross and follow me IS NOT WORTHY OF ME.”
He doesn’t command us to be constantly groping for this hermaphroditical excluded middle with no cross, or a less hard cross, or a nice cross, that doesn’t exist except in weak imaginations.
The true cross includes being part of the one family He established. He requires us to maintain the unity of that family to be saved, as He so plainly states, and as Christians have believed from the beginning.
It’s a command because it is hard. It’s often times not pleasant. The family often has lots of dysfunction going on. Children can be brats. Fathers can be weak and abusive. Family members can be obnoxious, degenerate, and lukewarm. But they can also be saintly and holy beyond all worldly comprehension.
You take the good with the bad. You don’t get to choose who God’s family is, who your siblings are, or who your fathers are. Those are given to you. You choose to accept them or not, confident in Christ’s promises to the family, and to its kingdom. You take up the cross of God’s family—and thereby save your soul—or you don’t.
For those animated by love and humility—which requires a willingness to suffer, including the suffering of doubt—all family circumstances, good and bad, will conduce to their salvation.
As St. Augustine so often observed, those objectively heretical and schismatic people who remain aloof from the Catholic Church so often do so “that they might be righteous, that they might not have the ungodly with them” (Exposition of Psalm 120).
But that’s not an option God left us. The Master had Judas—and yes, even a Peter who was sometimes weak and cowardly. We are not greater than the Master.
Take up the cross, or don’t. Endure the suffering, or don’t. But for God’s sake, and the sake of your soul, stop pretending a third option is available.
Jesus is Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. It stands to reason the Church He founded presents us with the same options.
The Catholic Church, the fullness of His Body, does just that: it is true, it is false, or it is crazy (another species of false). There is no middle option.
God forgive those shepherds on all sides who have preferred pleasant conversations over tea and crumpets in a world of unreality to—as Gavin says—paying the price of following the Truth, and calling all sheep to do the same.
Eternity is on the line.
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July 1, 2024(Mat 16:18-19) And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
CATHOLIC STAND: True Ecumenism Leads To The One, True, Holy Catholic Church
THE DAILY KNIGHT: The Masonic Plan to Destroy the Catholic Church with Ecumenism
X: Catholic convert and former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II (as well Eternal Christendom Advisory Board member), @gavinashenden, perfectly describes the mindset of what he calls “Ecumaniacs”:
“A common fantasy for living in a world of unreality where nobody pays the price for anything.”
This perfectly describes how many converts see those (on both sides) who so often try to obscure the differences between non-Catholic sects and the Catholic Church, or pretend dogmatic contradictions can co-exist. Where is truth? Either something is true, or it isn’t. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either Christ established one Church and promised to be with Her until His return, or He didn’t. It’s either the Catholic Church, or it isn’t.
Make up your mind.
This effeminate attempt to pretend 2 and 2 can actually make something other than 4 is an affront to the harsh and unrelenting demands of Truth, who commands us: “Take up your cross and follow me…He who does not take up his cross and follow me IS NOT WORTHY OF ME.”
He doesn’t command us to be constantly groping for this hermaphroditical excluded middle with no cross, or a less hard cross, or a nice cross, that doesn’t exist except in weak imaginations.
The true cross includes being part of the one family He established. He requires us to maintain the unity of that family to be saved, as He so plainly states, and as Christians have believed from the beginning.
It’s a command because it is hard. It’s often times not pleasant. The family often has lots of dysfunction going on. Children can be brats. Fathers can be weak and abusive. Family members can be obnoxious, degenerate, and lukewarm. But they can also be saintly and holy beyond all worldly comprehension.
You take the good with the bad. You don’t get to choose who God’s family is, who your siblings are, or who your fathers are. Those are given to you. You choose to accept them or not, confident in Christ’s promises to the family, and to its kingdom. You take up the cross of God’s family—and thereby save your soul—or you don’t.
For those animated by love and humility—which requires a willingness to suffer, including the suffering of doubt—all family circumstances, good and bad, will conduce to their salvation.
As St. Augustine so often observed, those objectively heretical and schismatic people who remain aloof from the Catholic Church so often do so “that they might be righteous, that they might not have the ungodly with them” (Exposition of Psalm 120).
But that’s not an option God left us. The Master had Judas—and yes, even a Peter who was sometimes weak and cowardly. We are not greater than the Master.
Take up the cross, or don’t. Endure the suffering, or don’t. But for God’s sake, and the sake of your soul, stop pretending a third option is available.
Jesus is Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. It stands to reason the Church He founded presents us with the same options.
The Catholic Church, the fullness of His Body, does just that: it is true, it is false, or it is crazy (another species of false). There is no middle option.
God forgive those shepherds on all sides who have preferred pleasant conversations over tea and crumpets in a world of unreality to—as Gavin says—paying the price of following the Truth, and calling all sheep to do the same.
Eternity is on the line.
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