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Fatima versus Martin Luther’s Revolution: the Church in 2017...

    "I see that the high priests of the House of God have become soft in their ways. They cater to their bodies and do not wish to sacrifice and make penance. There will be no easy road to the Kingdom. They will get down on their knees, and they will starve their worldly bodies until they rid themselves of the demons within them.
     "Unless you listen now to my words of caution, you will fall into the trap that is being set for you. The enemy is within the House of God. He will seek to remove your Vicar from among you, and when he does he will place a man of dark secrets upon the Seat of Peter!" - St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972 

"I  WARNED  YOU"
"As I warned you in the past and you did not listen, unless you prayed more, did more penance, sacrifice, communism would go throughout your world, ravishing nations, destroying your Faith, entering into the highest places of My Son's House. Can you deny what is happening now in your world? Remove the blindness from your eyes and look! Come out of the darkness before it is too late, for a House in darkness wears a band of death about it! I repeat: a Church in darkness will close its doors." - Our Lady, March 18, 1977

FATIMA  
"My child, how many warnings have I sent upon the world, and yet they go unheeded.
   "I wish that you make known, or refresh the memory of My children with My visit to the land of Fatima." - Our Lady, April 13, 1974

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OnePeterFive.com reported on January 20, 2017:

by Christian Browne

The new year will be one of great commemorations in the Church. We will mark the 500^th anniversary of the commencement of the Reformation, dated from October 31, 1517, when, on the vigil of the patronal feast of All Saints’ Church at Wittenberg, the Augustinian priest Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” in the church square.

In May, the Church will celebrate the centenary of the mysterious and mystical appearances of the Blessed Mother to three peasant children outside their small rural hometown of Fatima in Portugal.

The two commemorations will stand juxtaposed. Each not only will cause a re-examination of the times and events it marks, but will also illuminate the conflicting currents coursing through the life of the Church in 2017.

The Reformation

To apprehend it in its widest and most profound sense is to understand the beginning of the Reformation as the very onset of modernity itself. In the life of the Church, the Reformation only began in earnest five centuries ago. It has been, and is today, a current event, rolling on continuously, in various guises – religious, political, philosophical, and cultural – across the Western world in every epoch of the last half-millennium, up to and including the present.

The Reformation draws continued relevance not from the concepts with which it is often most readily associated – the debates over the means of justification and the extent of man’s free will. Rather, it remains a living force due to the quasi-political ideas to which Luther gave voice and that came to undergird the whole modern order.

In the three years between his posting at Wittenberg on All Hollow’s Eve and his burning of the bull of excommunication published against him in 1520, Luther became a radical. By the close of 1520, Luther had completed his “Three Treatises,” wherein he would dismantle the whole foundation of the Church as it had been built up over preceding millennium and a half.

In To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Luther indicted the institution of the papacy as an evil corruption that trampled upon the liberties of the German people. It is here that he proclaimed his notion of the “priesthood of all believers,” the grand egalitarian principle that obliterates any distinctions among the lowliest layman, the priest, the bishop, and the Roman pontiff himself. “As for the unction by a pope or a bishop, tonsure, ordination, consecration, and clothes differing from those of laymen – all this may make a hypocrite or an anointed puppet, but never a Christian or a spiritual man. Thus we are all consecrated as priests by baptism, as St. Peter says: ‘Ye are a royal priesthood, a holy nation’ (1 Peter ii. 9); and in the book of Revelations: ‘and hast made us unto our God (by Thy blood) kings and priests’ (Rev. v. 10).” Here, then, is the beginning of the modern attack on religious life, as well as upon the concept of hierarchy and ecclesial authority. It is the seed of modern egalitarian thinking.

He would proceed from this principle to advocate for a disparate array of “reforms” that will ring familiar to us in the present day: the elimination of priestly celibacy as an unnatural and useless burden (deconstruction of the sacral nature of the priesthood), the vast reduction of feast days so people could tend to work instead of marking religious festivals (secularization of daily life), the abandonment of canon law (doctrine equated with un-Christian, fabricated legalism).

In addition, Luther called for the civil government to stand over and govern the Church. Because he held that there is no difference between layman and priest, Luther asserted that any Christian king had as much right – indeed, a greater prerogative – to rule over the Church as had the Roman pontiff. Fourteen years after the publication of To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Henry VIII declared himself the head of his own national church, and the modern ascendancy of the secular power over the religious took flight.

Luther’s second treatise of 1520, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, built on the first. The Babylonian Captivity is devoted to the demolition of the sacramental theology of the Church, with a particular focus on a reformulation of the Mass. Luther recasts the Mass as a kind of memorial where a person of faith may hear the words of Christ, accept them, and cherish them, and then take and eat and drink of the sacrament as a sort of symbolic re-enactment of the Last Supper. He takes great pains to deny absolutely that the Mass is, in any way, a sacrifice offered to God. (To read Luther’s passages on the Mass in The Babylonian Captivity and to deny that he is, indeed, the first architect of our Novus Ordo is folly.) For good measure, Luther’s motu proprio reduces the number of sacraments to two.

At the heart of The Babylon Captivity we find not only the specific theological precepts Luther proposes, but the notion that a single man’s ideas can triumph over centuries of Tradition, of the received teachings of popes, councils, doctors, and saints. From here comes forth the modern conceit that continuity with the past is neither wise nor necessary in light of the novel genius of modern man. Herein lies the difference between legitimate, measured “reform” and the unfettered “revolution” that would characterize the modern political ideologies, from Henry VIII to the French Revolution to the rise of the Bolsheviks. It is a fundamentally un-Catholic outlook and one with which the Church has ever been at odds, or was up until the throwing open of the windows in the 1960s.

The last of Luther’s treatises of 1520, The Freedom of a Christian, was enclosed as part of Luther’s “open letter” to Pope Leo X, offered as an attempt, halfhearted at best, to reconcile with Rome. Here Luther rhapsodizes about the nature of spiritual freedom in Christ, a freedom that flows from faith in Christ and His promises – and from faith alone. “A Christian has no need of any work or any law in order to be saved since through faith he is free from every law and does everything out of pure liberty and freely.”

While there is much to admire in The Freedom of a Christian, the practical political ramifications of Luther’s incessant insistence on the total freedom that results simply from faith are far more apparent than the work’s theological applications. Thus, only four years after the publication of The Freedom of a Christian, the catastrophic Peasants’ Revolt took its inspiration, in part, from the political dimension of Luther’s teaching. After initially expressing sympathy with the peasants’ grievances, Luther was horrified by their anarchy. He strongly advocated for the revolt’s violent destruction. The revolt ended with deaths of approximately 100,000 peasants. Luther and his movement never fully recovered.

In Luther and his movement, therefore, we find the germ of modernity and the ideological constructs that the Church would labor against in the coming centuries: radical egalitarianism; individualism that begets a subjective relativism; aversion to ecclesial authority and the propriety of hierarchy; the elevation of the power of the state and the insistence on a thoroughly secular society; and the utter disregard, and contempt, for Tradition.

This is the living legacy of the Reformation.

Fatima

The miracle of Fatima occurred in 1917, just as the catastrophic effects of all the modern ideologies were coming crashing down upon the world. Into the this chaos came the Blessed Mother, appearing in a small backwater to poor, unknown little children.

The Fatima event is, in its essence, anti-modern – a rebuke to modernity, in fact. Luther and his successors held the “miraculous” in varying degrees of contempt, and yet into a modern world dominated by mere rationalism came a mysterious and shocking vision from Heaven, given to these simple shepherd children.

The visions offered at Fatima give a divine condemnation to the manifestations of the modern ideological madness that had taken hold in Luther’s wake. It had reached new levels of depravity with the French Revolution and finally morphed into the Marxist Communism that arose in Russia. This ideology the Blessed Mother declared an “error,” and she seemed to further warn of the coming of the most hideous form of this godless system, soon to be known as National Socialism.

The children were also given an allegory of the suffering Church, of persecuted priests and religious, and of “a bishop in white,” affirming that, contrary to Luther’s theology, the special character of religious life has heavenly sanction, as does the papacy.

Perhaps the most important part of the Fatima messages is that which concerns sin and Hell itself. Against the modern aversion to the concepts of guilt and judgment, the Blessed Mother showed the children of Fatima a terrifying vision of souls suffering in torment. While she spoke to them of grace and mercy, the Virgin nonetheless granted to us, through the children, a fearful warning and a call for reparation, prayer, and penance.

The Blessed Mother asked for the establishment of a devotion to her Immaculate Heart, for the recitation of the rosary, and for the observance of the First Saturday – all heavenly endorsements of traditional modes of popular piety within the Church.

The Anniversaries in the Church of 2017

It is a contradiction to celebrate both the Reformation and the messages of Fatima. But the Church plans to do both in 2017, and the dual commemorations will serve to highlight the conflicting strains of thought within the Church that have caused so much disarray for more than 50 years. They will encapsulate the schizophrenia that has divided the Church between what Pope Benedict famously called “the hermeneutic of rupture” and “the hermeneutic of continuity.” The great debate between the hermeneutics has taken on unprecedented stakes in the marriage controversy unleashed by Amoris Laetitia.

Lutheranism lies at the heart of the rupture hermeneutic. In myriad ways, the so-called “spirit of Vatican II,” manifested by the manner in which the teachings of the Council were implemented, was the application of Luther’s thinking four and a half centuries after such thinking was rejected at Trent. Now, despite all of the ample evidence of decline over the decades, the Lutheranizers still do not recognize that their approach is bound to fail, because the essential character of Catholicism and the essential character of Luther’s modernizing Protestantism cannot coexist. We cannot be at once Catholic and Protestant.

The Church is not a modern institution – not chronologically, theologically, or philosophically. Since we are bound by Tradition, and since our Tradition began and developed over centuries that long precede that fateful night in Wittenberg, the Church can never fully reconcile itself to modernity. The efforts of these last 50 years to force the Church to do so, given renewed emphasis in the present pontificate, have resulted in a tragic and unprecedented auto-demolition of religion.

This is not to say the Church is fated to remain forever at war with the present and future ages. On the contrary, the Church can and must again lead the modern world, pointing it to the reality beyond what its work-a-day and rationalistic outlook would otherwise permit it to see, proclaiming the Gospel, and offering in the sacraments the ancient, sacred, and mysterious access to the grace of God, necessary for salvation. But the Church can do none of these things if it does not retain its essential character and remains marred by division, confusion, and ideological cancers that destroy its very mission and purpose.

The messages of Fatima call us back to those essentials. Fatima reminds us that the Church is here to save souls through the teaching of pious practices and moral living. It tells us that God’s judgment is just as much a reality as is His mercy. It is a message given in modernity for modernity, and it is a challenge to modernity.

So commemorate the Reformation, but do not celebrate or laud it. Mark Fatima, but do not treat it with sentimentality. Rather, let the Church heed the message of the Blessed Mother: the Church is charged with saving souls from sin and death through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It has no other or greater end.

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CURIA
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ONLY  TRUE  RELIGION
"O My children, I will not go into a long discourse now with you about charity and love for your neighbor, but you must understand: you cannot judge your neighbor. You must pray for them. However, you cannot become weak and permissive. You must stand forth as bearers of the light, carriers of the truth. You have been given by your baptism entrance into the only true religion upon earth, the Roman Catholic Church under My Son, Jesus. Though man in his arrogance and pride has forgotten His role and His rule, you must carry it forward. Retain the Faith and the truth in the hearts of mankind." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978 

YOUR  BIRTHRIGHT
"As in the past, rejection has been the start of a fallen man. Sin has become a way of life with many. You live in a delusion if you believe that you can offend the Eternal Father and then gain eternal life in the Kingdom. No, I say to you: many are called, but few are chosen. 
   "Ask and you shall receive, believe and you will be given the way. But you must merit the Kingdom. Your birthright was a start, but you must make your way to the Kingdom. Others may gain these graces for you by prayer and acts of sacrifice, but you will accept or reject the key." - Jesus, May 26, 1976 

ONE TRUE CHURCH
"My child and My children, you are all My children. I judge you not by color or race, and I do not judge you by your creed; however, should the knowledge of the One True Church be given to you, and the way to Heaven along the narrow road be given to you, you will follow it or you will be rejected." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985

RELIGION  OF  THE  CROSS
"There is only one religion that can save your country and all of the countries of the world: the religion of the cross and My Son's sacrifice upon that cross." -Our Lady, November 25, 1978 

HIGHEST MITRES
"Do not be misled by the outer clothing of man, for there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, wearing the apparel of rank. Know that many have given themselves to satan.
     "Pray, pray much for those who wear the highest mitres, for they, too, have set themselves onto the road to hell. Your prayers and your acts of sacrifice and those who hear My voice, pray much for the Red Hats that have gone onto the wide road."  - Our Lady, October 2, 1974

HIGHEST PLACES OF THE CHURCH
"We ask that you pray much. Pray for those in the House of God who have lost their way. Many mitres are now going onto the road to perdition. Pray for them, for it is of great sorrow to Our hearts to see a man of God fall from his mission.  
     "Satan has entered into the highest places of the Church.
     "Pray much. I have asked you in the past to help patch the cracks. The bark of Peter flounders.
     "You will stand fast with Our Vicar. Do not allow your hearts, through your ears and human senses, to be misled. The enemies of God send out false interpretations.”  - Our Lady, April 13, 1974

"YOU  DID  NOT  LISTEN" 
"My Mother came to you at Fatima warning that unless man stopped his path to perdition, Russia would spread her errors throughout your world causing misery, sufferings, and death and enslavement. My children, you did not listen and act upon Her counsel then, just as many now do not listen and act upon Her counsel. It is a part of human nature to exercise too free a will to reject. And this, I say, falls also onto My pastors who are scattering My sheep in My House." - Our Lady, May 27, 1978

TRUE  PEACE  
"For peace, My child . . . there is much asked for peace upon earth. I must tell you this: There will be no peace, My children, until what has happened in the past with My visit to Fatima is consummated. Now this has to be done, My children: I repeat this anew, as I have repeated it, as I have gone hinder and yon across the earth to try to enlighten My children as to the road to true peace-you must now cast aside, abrogate the union of Rome with Russia. For Russia must be consecrated to My Immaculate Heart for a true peace." -  Our Lady, June 6, 1987

"MAKE  KNOWN" 
Jesus-"Make known the journey of My Mother at Fatima."
Veronica-Oh, this one. I will print more. Jesus says I will print more words to give to the people of the story of the journey of His Mother at Fatima. It is most important. - June 16, 1973

MUST  NOT  BE  KEPT  HIDDEN 
"My child and My children, I came to you many years ago at Fatima, with a plan for the salvation of mankind. And I must say to you this evening, as your Mother, that none of My words must be kept hidden any longer, for it is urgent that the world make this final atonement." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

FIRST  SATURDAYS 
"My child, you can well understand that they have been doing well lately. That is because, though We cry for prayers, atonement, and sacrifice, and the First Saturdays-which I've asked of you since Fatima-they have not been acceded to." - Our Lady, June 18, 1987

NOT  AN  EARLY  PEACE 
"The world will go through great trial, but there will be peace. I cannot promise you an early peace as I did in Fatima, for all was conditional, and man did not respond, My child." - Our Lady, June 24, 1976

"THEY  HAVE  BURIED  MY  MESSAGE" 
"My child, please tell the world, spread the message that I gave many years ago. Much of it remains hidden to the world-the message of Fatima. Jacinta has been forgotten. They have buried My message as they will try to bury My message here on these sacred grounds. However, it is too late now, My children. You must warn and awaken the clergy. They are being tested." - Our Lady, July 25, 1974

CAST  ASIDE 
"My warnings at Fatima were cast aside as they are being cast aside now, My children. It is a failing of human nature, My child, that that which does not give pleasure to the carnal nature of man is not accepted. Man shall blind himself to the truth, as he does not wish to face the truth. And those who seek to bring him the truth are cast aside and do much penance, My child." - Our Lady, September 13, 1975

NOT  HEEDED 
"My child, you will make it known that My message at Fatima must be followed through. The warnings have not been heeded throughout the world." - Our Lady, September 28, 1973

 

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Cardinal Ratzinger said, "The minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it." He did not say 'could,' or 'may,' but that he "must,"  Barbara Kralis, July 6, 2004
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Prohibition is worthless without enforcement, Barbara Kralis, June 24, 2004
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Is not murder just as evil as lust in the eyes of God? Barbara Kralis, June 8, 2004
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Ten questions regarding the denial of the Eucharist, Barbara Kralis, May 24, 2004
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