Apparently today is to be the End of the World.
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The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.
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Well it is already the 15th here in Australia and we are still here!! However, take Father’s advice, ‘Go to confession!’
“Apparently today is to be the End of the World”
That was last Sunday.
Spooky indeed. We had a 5.7M earthquake here in Christchurch, New Zealand on the 14th and our much loved and brilliant Bishop, Barry Jones DD died on the 13th. Please pray for his soul, his successor and our diocese.
“Apparently today is to be the End of the World.”
And I feel fine. (Holy Mass last evening, Stations of the Cross today [with 4″ of snow outside”])
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TEOTWAWKI?????????????????????
Thanks be to God…it was announced in a clip & not for real. I did not get to Confession this week…missed going yesterday…missed the Stations of the Cross Friday…& missed Mass & ashes on Ash Wednesday … all due to snow. Did make it to the TLM Mass today…Thanks be to God. Praying the Rosary is good…but it helps to have everything the Church offers us. And in my case…it is all needed…badly.
You can never trust aliens!
It was for somebody. The Bear was defense counsel on many, many murders. Nobody plans on getting murdered. It was the farthest thing from the minds of the people the Bear viewed in crime scene photographs. Just ordinary people, most of them. The Bear suspects in some cases that they might have spent their day differently if they had known. But they didn’t. It happens a lot. And that’s not to mention heart attacks, car wrecks, plane crashes and the occasional Bear attack. (Do NOT assume a fetal position! Distract the Bear with fish.)
The Bear recently had a heart attack scare. Funny, his mind was on the next world the entire time. And he didn’t feel ready to be judged. What he wouldn’t have given to have had a confession more recent than three weeks. His sins loomed large. One day, it will be more than a scare.
@St. Corbinian’s Bear,
Sound spiritual advice, Bear. I believe I’ll follow your future postings just to see what Catholic honey turns up.
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Well, if that news is really true, I’m glad I’m here at home on the homestead and not sitting in the bus station in Billings, Montana, as I was one day quite a number of years ago when the world was *also* going to end.
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So last chance mass really was my last chance?
Now, just how many times have the Jehovas’ Witnesses predicted the end of the world?!
On a rather more serious note though, Jesus told his disciples that no one knew when that day would be except The Father and he excluded himself from this knowledge. Now that has always had me perplexed since Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is God and God knows everything!
Now I’m quite sure that Jesus was not denying his divinity when he said that!
So!?
The only explanation that I have been able to offer to myself is that, well, Jesus does know when the end of the world will be but, that knowledge is proper to The Father and hence, not part of his concern and so he will not divulge that knowledge to anyone else! So stop asking when it will be because you will get no answer!
Yesterday?
Already too late!