A hope filled note from an old friend.

5 Responses to A hope filled note from an old friend.

1. Cradle Catholic says:

   27 August 2018 at 1:00 AM

   A comment on 1P5 that I think is very good, so posting it here…as there is something more the laity can do in addition to prayer and fasting.
   Here’s the comment:
   IMPORTANT: please read the following link where Father Carlos Martin writes about his conversation with a friend in the Vatican. +Vigano’s credentials are impeccable. Read how impeccable they are in the link below where Vox has posted what Fr. Martin has written on his Facebook page.

   http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2018/08/bergoglio-responds-to-vigano-sort-of.html

   Fr. Martin finishes by saying:

   “Friends, my advice to you is to write your bishop and demand that he request a COMPLETE AND FULL INVESTIGATION into the allegations brought forward by Archbishop Viganò. We are at a watershed moment in the life of the Church. If we don’t protect her from the wolves that have crawled into her and dwell inside her, we then have only ourselves to blame when more sheep are eaten alive, and the Church loses even more credibility in the eyes of the world.

   Archbishop Viganò’s report is a call to all the sons and daughters of the Church to personally intervene for her own health and safety.

   Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Joseph Strickland (Bishop of Tyler, Texas) have already issued statements today calling for the same. Add your authority to theirs. Write your bishop today.”
2. originalsolitude says:

   27 August 2018 at 2:26 AM

   As we react these days to Archbishop Vigano’s statement and related matters, we need to be careful, for our own sakes, that we do not cross the line into sin. We need to care for our souls. Also, we go to priests and bishops to confess our sins expecting forgiveness; we now have a a chance for us to return the favour and extend forgiveness to them when they sin. I remember once hearing a priest say: “If we can excuse, we must excuse; if we cannot excuse, we must forgive.”
3. Rachel says:

   27 August 2018 at 2:29 AM

   I Googled “Vom Papstaustreiben” and I’m guessing it’s a Deformation-Era song against the papacy, but I can’t read the German…

   I’m glad to hear that others are motivated to get holy too. It reminds me of what Pope Benedict wrote decades ago as part of his famous prediction: “The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality. Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened….”
4. Imrahil says:

   27 August 2018 at 6:23 AM

   The German reads – for convenience to those unacquainted to Fraktur – as

   Vom Papstaustreiben

   Nun treiben wir den Papst heraus
   aus Christi Kirch und Gotteshaus,
   darin er mördlich hat regiert,
   unzählig viele Seel[e]n verführt.

   which translates to English as:

   On the Expelling of the Pope.

   No let us expel the Pope
   out of Christ’s Church and Temple
   wherein he has ruled murderously
   and seduced innumerously many souls.

   two notes: “expel”: austreiben; if related to the Devil the translation is “exorcize”, but it is also used for heathen practices concerning “expelling winter” in early spring and so forth.

   “seduce”: the intended meaning is not sexual, but intellectual/faith-wise.
5. Alice says:

   27 August 2018 at 2:03 PM

   As the organist for a Lutheran congregation, I know way more about Reformation hymnody than a nice Catholic girl should. May I suggest the following for the closing hymn? ;)

   “Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort,
   Und steur’ des Papsts und Türken Mord,
   Die Jesum Christum, deinen Sohn,
   Stürzen wollen von seinem Thron.”