"Reason attests that there are objects of the human act which are by their nature "incapable of being ordered" to God, because they radically contradict the good of the person made in his image. These are the acts which, in the Church's moral tradition, have been termed "intrinsically evil" (intrinsece malum): they are such always and per se, in other words, on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances." (Veritatis Splendor, n. 80 St. John Paul II)
"Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive, that a lesser evil is to be preferred to a greater one, or that such intercourse would merge with procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it -- in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong." (Humanae Vitae, n. 14 Blessed Paul VI)
From Douay Catholic Catechism of 1649:
A. The sin of Sodom, or carnal sin against nature, which is a voluntary shedding of the seed of nature, out of the due use of marriage, or lust with a different sex.
Q. 929. What is the scripture proof of this?
A. Out of Gen. xix. 13. where we read of the Sodomites, and their sin. “We will destroy this place because the cry of them hath increased before our Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them,” (and they were burnt with fire from heaven.)
from the CCC:
1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are “sins that cry to heaven”: the blood of Abel, the sin of the Sodomites, the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan, injustice to the wage earner.
I am going to print these words while I have the chance.
Sodomy is a serious sin, which cries out to God for vengeance.
Fornication is always, always wrong.
"A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting "in order to be seen by men"). The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts - such as fornication - that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil." (CCC, n. 1755).
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Need Prayers
Please, dear Readers, I am in great need of prayer for certain reasons I cannot share at this time.
Dire need for the next several days.
Dire need for the next several days.
French Catholics, Please Consider This Group
For those in France, I highly suggest joining the Auxilium Christianorum
Here is the website. There is so much spiritual warfare in the country, Catholics need to consider praying with the thousands of others in this group. There is safety in numbers, in prayers.
Here is the website. There is so much spiritual warfare in the country, Catholics need to consider praying with the thousands of others in this group. There is safety in numbers, in prayers.
Hard Words for Gay Priests
Years ago, on this blog, I referred to Catherine of Siena's vision of Christ, when He condemned priests who were homosexuals.
Michael Voris has been quoting her as well this week.
Cannot be clearer....cannot.
Michael Voris has been quoting her as well this week.
Cannot be clearer....cannot.
Romero Cause Going Ahead
http://ncronline.org/news/people/report-vatican-theologians-declare-romero-martyr
Martyrdom and being prepared for martyrdom brings a person very quickly into the Illuminative and Unitive States.
I, for the record, think there is enough proof of Romero being declared a real martyr.
Martyrdom and being prepared for martyrdom brings a person very quickly into the Illuminative and Unitive States.
I, for the record, think there is enough proof of Romero being declared a real martyr.
A Few Get It
Yesterday, I talked with a person who is "awake". I shall not give details, but like me, he is aware that the EU, and other nations, have declared war on the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, and most Catholics simply do not care. I think this person is a saint.
Why do most Catholics not care?
One, they are thinking like nationalists and not Catholics, looking only at what is in front of them daily and are missing the big picture.
Two, they refuse to face the reality that the Catholic Church is the one, largest institution on earth which stands up against modernism and all the isms.
Three, they are not willing to not be comfortable.
Four, they do not want to be saints, but conformists.
Pray and wake up, EU Catholics....
Psalm 12 NRSVCE
Plea for Help in Evil Times
To the leader: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.
2 They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.
2 They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail;
our lips are our own—who is our master?”
the tongue that makes great boasts,
4 those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail;
our lips are our own—who is our master?”
5 “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord;
“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
6 The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure,
silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
I will now rise up,” says the Lord;
“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
6 The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure,
silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
purified seven times.
7 You, O Lord, will protect us;
you will guard us from this generation forever.
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among humankind.
you will guard us from this generation forever.
8 On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among humankind.
Feast Day of St. Hilary, Doctor of The Church
15 Mar 2013
Part 84: DoC: A Hymn of St. Hilary. Posted by Supertradmum · Hail This Joyful Day's Return. Hail this joyful day's return. hail the Pentecostal morn,. morn when our ascended Lord. on his Church his Spirit poured! Alleluia!
13 Jan 2012
Today is the Feast of St. Hilary, Doctor of the Church, and Hammer of the Heretics. He was not afraid to excommunicate the Arians, possibly the largest group of heretics, until modern times, who were publicly against him and ...
10 Jan 2014
Catching up on St. Hilary. Posted by Supertradmum. Defender of the Incarnate Word. Today, is the feast of St. Hilary, and the beginning of Hilary Term in England. But, he has been This is from theCatholic Encyclopaedia on ...
08 Mar 2014
In the Western Church there were many names as great: Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Leo the Great, St. Gregory the Great; most famous of all, St. Augustine and St. Jerome, of whom the former was so ...
VIP Pope denounces fundamentalist Islam
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-denounces-deviant-forms-of-religion-1421067797
Raissa's Journal Perfection Series VIII Part XXXX
This will be the last posting on Raissa'a Journal, at least for a while. I shall move on to another book soon.
I want to merely highlight three things in this post and move on.
Several selections from her book follow. She addressed someone who hated the idea of God, who actually hated her and who hated Catholics. She engaged elegantly in the arguments necessary to aid conversion, but her telling description of this man's state of mind reveals the mindset of many today of those who want to turn over all the goodness of Western Civilization.
In a letter, she writes, "Do you really find in the paganism that precede those twenty centuries (of Christianity), the true direction of life which the blood of Christians has turned aside from its course? I that the direction in which you want to go? Towards subjugation to the gods of the city, towards cruelty in the service of luxury, towards the slavery which alone would sustain such a civilisation? No, doubtless. It would not be worth the trouble of wanting to change everything; our capitalist and atheist society, itself the result of the so-called Renaissance, has almost rediscovered the tradition..."
Raissa notes that God cannot be driven out of societies which want justice and mercy. But, for those societies which do not want justice or mercy, loyalty or love, God can be driven out to a certain extent.
But, as she states, "It is difficult to drive God our altogether. Invariably he returns humbly disguised under one name or another; and under the name we have chosen he makes himself loved without our knowledge."
Such are the saints, who remind us of God in the world through holiness and a type of purity given to them. This leads to another point on the command of love by Love, who is God.
Let me share her insights here: "Passivity...in the sense of the first and principal action of the Holy Spirit in the mystical life, is ontologically the essential characteristic. Psychologically, this passivity, passio divinorum, is expressed not only by the ligature and (apparent)death of our natural faculties, but also, in certain cases, by the heightening of them..."
"In contemplation, this passivity manifests itself above all by ligature, powerlessness, annihilation, because our faculties of knowing are utterly disproportionate to the object of contemplation, which is God in Himself. Here the intellect must recognise its incapcity, and submit to love which, through the infusion of divine Wisdom, connaturalises the soul with God and makes it know him with an obscure and ineffable certainty.
By the other Gifts, whose object is in some way more particularised, the Holy Spirit, on the contrary, heightens our faculties and proportions them to arduous, heroic, saintly acts, by setting them to work himself, by enlightening them and strengthening them."
In the passivity of the Dark Night, this passivity leads to the obscurity, the darkness of the purifying Night.
Again, Raissa on this point, "....the purifying Night, infinitely painful, which ceases when the soul has attained the degree of purity and holiness willed by God....St. John of the Cross says: 'the fire begins by blackening the wood; it does not set it aflame until it has dried it out.' Therefore one has to pass through nights, through all the anguishes and terrors of the night, see oneself engulfed in darkness and be dried up with suffering, before the soul is truly set on fire, kindled into flame that does not consume like natural fire, the vivifying flame of eternal life."
Lastly, "God is perceived as Love because he attracts and unites, makes one suffer, or gives one joy, reveals himself to the soul as its end, its repose, its beatitude."
Raissa, like myself and another friend of mine, makes the connection between Love of God, God's Love and Romantic Love. One is allowed to suffer in Romantic Love. Raissa writes "The demands of Christ as regards his disciples are absolutely inhuman; they are divine. There is not doubt about it, he who wishes to be Christ's disciple--must hate his own life. The image of Jesus Crucified is for the disciple.
...it is not the sinner, the "worldly" one, who has the greatest fear of God---rather it is those who, having been chosen as disciples, know that they are, and will be, more severely treated. From these, all in demanded."
In my humble opinion, the remnant will be and is made up of the disciples, only. for the times will be so difficult that only those who give all to God, who seek His Love, will be able to survive and not be confused.
In a post, soon, I shall described some of the remnant people's I have met, who are suffering already and becoming saints in the process.
I want to merely highlight three things in this post and move on.
Several selections from her book follow. She addressed someone who hated the idea of God, who actually hated her and who hated Catholics. She engaged elegantly in the arguments necessary to aid conversion, but her telling description of this man's state of mind reveals the mindset of many today of those who want to turn over all the goodness of Western Civilization.
In a letter, she writes, "Do you really find in the paganism that precede those twenty centuries (of Christianity), the true direction of life which the blood of Christians has turned aside from its course? I that the direction in which you want to go? Towards subjugation to the gods of the city, towards cruelty in the service of luxury, towards the slavery which alone would sustain such a civilisation? No, doubtless. It would not be worth the trouble of wanting to change everything; our capitalist and atheist society, itself the result of the so-called Renaissance, has almost rediscovered the tradition..."
Raissa notes that God cannot be driven out of societies which want justice and mercy. But, for those societies which do not want justice or mercy, loyalty or love, God can be driven out to a certain extent.
But, as she states, "It is difficult to drive God our altogether. Invariably he returns humbly disguised under one name or another; and under the name we have chosen he makes himself loved without our knowledge."
Such are the saints, who remind us of God in the world through holiness and a type of purity given to them. This leads to another point on the command of love by Love, who is God.
Let me share her insights here: "Passivity...in the sense of the first and principal action of the Holy Spirit in the mystical life, is ontologically the essential characteristic. Psychologically, this passivity, passio divinorum, is expressed not only by the ligature and (apparent)death of our natural faculties, but also, in certain cases, by the heightening of them..."
"In contemplation, this passivity manifests itself above all by ligature, powerlessness, annihilation, because our faculties of knowing are utterly disproportionate to the object of contemplation, which is God in Himself. Here the intellect must recognise its incapcity, and submit to love which, through the infusion of divine Wisdom, connaturalises the soul with God and makes it know him with an obscure and ineffable certainty.
By the other Gifts, whose object is in some way more particularised, the Holy Spirit, on the contrary, heightens our faculties and proportions them to arduous, heroic, saintly acts, by setting them to work himself, by enlightening them and strengthening them."
In the passivity of the Dark Night, this passivity leads to the obscurity, the darkness of the purifying Night.
Again, Raissa on this point, "....the purifying Night, infinitely painful, which ceases when the soul has attained the degree of purity and holiness willed by God....St. John of the Cross says: 'the fire begins by blackening the wood; it does not set it aflame until it has dried it out.' Therefore one has to pass through nights, through all the anguishes and terrors of the night, see oneself engulfed in darkness and be dried up with suffering, before the soul is truly set on fire, kindled into flame that does not consume like natural fire, the vivifying flame of eternal life."
Lastly, "God is perceived as Love because he attracts and unites, makes one suffer, or gives one joy, reveals himself to the soul as its end, its repose, its beatitude."
Raissa, like myself and another friend of mine, makes the connection between Love of God, God's Love and Romantic Love. One is allowed to suffer in Romantic Love. Raissa writes "The demands of Christ as regards his disciples are absolutely inhuman; they are divine. There is not doubt about it, he who wishes to be Christ's disciple--must hate his own life. The image of Jesus Crucified is for the disciple.
...it is not the sinner, the "worldly" one, who has the greatest fear of God---rather it is those who, having been chosen as disciples, know that they are, and will be, more severely treated. From these, all in demanded."
In my humble opinion, the remnant will be and is made up of the disciples, only. for the times will be so difficult that only those who give all to God, who seek His Love, will be able to survive and not be confused.
In a post, soon, I shall described some of the remnant people's I have met, who are suffering already and becoming saints in the process.
Monday, 12 January 2015
If you want to understand STM, read this book, which I wrote about two years ago.
None Other Gods, by Robert Hugh Benson
It is online here.....http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17627/17627-h/17627-h.htm
None Other Gods, by Robert Hugh Benson
It is online here.....http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17627/17627-h/17627-h.htm
When I finally get to where I am going
I shall have something very interesting to share with you all.
Catholic Love-Romantic Love-Musings
Other peoples, and I confine my discussion to the West, did not have this ideal, which grew into the cult of Romance one sees in French history, literature, and music, spilling into England early in the Middle Ages.
The ideal of courtly love is missing among many peoples. I am not going to point to various groupings, but one can make the connections one's self.
A brilliant friend of mine noted that the secular humanists align themselves with others who do not understand romantic love, or agape, Christian love.
Here are two quotations from the CCC from St. Basil and St. Augustine:
Part 3: Life in Christ 1828-1829
"The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the Children of God. He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear, or as mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to the love of him who "first loved us."
1829
"Love is itself the fulfillment of all are works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest. "Readers can go back into my archives and look at the commentaries on the Pope Emeritus's encyclical on love.
The point of this post is that without an understand that God is Love, some people either secularists, or those from other man-made religions, cannot move towards repentance, conversion and a life of sacrificial love.
Secularists see this type of life as perverted, as one atheist professor at a major Catholic university told me.
He said bluntly that any type of sacrificial love was unnatural and to be discouraged, choosing instead a like of hedonism. His view is that Christ's message is actually dangerous.
It is dangerous. This message creates martyrs. This message of love creates heroes.
Now, back to Romantic Love.
Without a sense that we are all children of God through baptism and united as such and without the idea that the goal of life is living in love, a person's viewpoint of the world becomes one of the necessity for power and violence.
A brilliant friend of mine, an "Arab expert", taught the religion and language of those areas for years, and spent a long time in the Middle East. Recently, he wrote this to me,
I remember that many of the Iraqis who were not overt "religious people" were trying to understand romantic love. They loved romantic novels and stories about falling in love because it is something that Islam could not give them. Islam gave them a sadistic orgiastic culture. The consciences of some revolted against this and this is something in natural law that tells them that something is wrong. Islam and Secularism are prisons of desperation.
It is interesting that the Hindus have a sense of Romantic Love, as seen in Bollywood stories.
The understanding that all women deserve love and honor is foreign to some seculars and others.
Of course, the love the Church has for Our Lady Mary fed into the cult of Romantic Love. Mary became the knights' "Lady".
To be continued...
Reposts involving meditations on death, sin, the universe
09 Jul 2012
The Four Last Things form a topic which has been the subject preached from the pulpits of the world, that is, until recent times. Now, it is both politically incorrect and indecent, apparently, to speak of Death, Judgment, Hell and ...
23 Oct 2014
We are, as Catholic, to think about the Four Last Things. These are, as some of you know, Death, the Last Judgment, Hell and Heaven. These things are rarely spoken of from the pulpits of either America or Europe, to the ...
09 Jul 2012
Catholics seem to be doing a run around the goal by not talking about the four last things nor teaching their children that we must prepare for our particular judgment. Many Catholics do not know what the particular judgement ...
27 Oct 2014
Again, synchronicity considering I just wrote about the Four Last Things. He stressed that we should consider death daily. He shared his e-mail with me and I shall write to him. God makes new doughnuts every day. Yesterday ...
18 Feb 2012
... 1595; St-Omer, 1610; London, 1867; his "Fourfold Meditations of Four Last Things" (once attributed to Southwell ), London, 1895; his "Verses on the Passion", by the Cath. Record Soc., VI, 29. from the Catholic Encyclopedia ...
01 Jul 2014
One cannot "rage" into the night. As much as I love the poetry of Dylan Thomas, I disagree with his famous poem. He missed the point, which is that we must prepare AT ALL TIMES to die. Thinking on the Four Last Things is ...
15 Jul 2014
The priest's fault, according to the diocesan school office, would be that he had spoken to his young students about The Four Last Things, among which he mentioned hell and purgatory; “lessons not suitable for children at ...
28 Jul 2014
If one does not face death, one will pretend one is immortal. So many young people think they are immortal. This idea is dangerous. It is time for priests to begin to preach about death and the four last things again. We all need ...
13 Jun 2014
Noise blocks out thoughts of sin, of the four last things. Noise covers up the need for listening to God. Cardinal Manning writes this in his chapter on “The Gift of Counsel”: “…the characteristic mark of these latter days; I mean ...
09 Jun 2012
He mentioned the emphasis on the Four Last Things, which has been lost. His emphasis on the spirituality of the TLM and Trent was great and a much needed conversation. This is a huge subject which I hope he continues on ...
12 Dec 2012
My generation was raised with manners, but we never used this word "tact"to criticize strong feelings regarding heaven, hell, or the four last things. Some Millenials do not want to hear the Truth unless is comes in a nice ...
31 Jul 2013
... and the Jesuits . According to Randy Engels and Steven Brady a homosexual Priest hates speaking and even thinking of the four last things which answered a lot of my questions regarding contemporary preaching.
19 Jun 2013
... as we were working in an very affluent area, as well as with others not so affluent, and with youth who were narcissistically caught us in themselves and needed some good old fashioned awareness of the four last things.
28 Oct 2014
No teaching about cohabitation,contraception,or any teaching on the four last things;or actual and sanctifying grace;or redemption,.Instead we are fed a diet of missy messy pottage of love-love-lone.My mind aches and i pray ...
09 Jul 2012
Four, the goal is self-realization, not god of God, really. Five, the early Christians threw out this nutsy stuff as part of the occultic thinking of both the West and East, realizing that myth, paganism and magic would not save one, ...
09 Jul 2012
The last episode, which happened in January, was covered by very few news agencies. No one is reporting these abuses but about six sites which I found, and all are Christian based. Why? And, why are not the feminists in ...
10 Dec 2013
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-four-last-things.html · http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-fear-of-death-among-catholics.html and more from St. Alphonsus.... 1.
18 Sep 2013
It is so sad, as none of these things are true and we do not even need to follow private revelations anyway. So why do .... As you know, there are more posts on this in the last three or four days, so check those out. God is a ...
24 Aug 2014
(Mt. 24:4–31). Thus, these things that are now happening to Christians are not new or sudden; since the good and righteous, and those who are devoted to God in the law of innocence and the fear of true religion, advance always through afflictions, wrongs, the severe and manifold penalties of troubles, and in the hardship of a narrow path. Thus, at the very beginning of the world, ..... We are in the beginning of the last stage. But, many Catholics think that persecution ...
04 Sep 2014
Thursday, 4 September 2014 ... One of my dear friends, in her early forties, and an excellent cook, told me last March that people in her generation do not know how to cook. She is a Gen Xer. Their moms did not teach them how to cook, sew, can, clean, ... How many kids have never done anything like fix steps, paint walls, plan and take care of an entire garden, learn easy plumbing jobs for maintenance, make things, bake. Two generations are lost. I am not sure they can be found.
28 Aug 2013
As Montessori writes, the child of four knows the difference between the water in the holy water stoup and that of the sink where he washes his hands. Here are her words, ... They has machines for making hosts, all without electricity, and all of these things wheat and hosts were part of the Bishop's procession on Corpus Christi. The grapes were ... Also, the reference to the Last Supper with little characters of Jesus and the Twelve can be part of this. If little peasant ...
01 Feb 2013
I strongly disagreed with Bl. John Paul II's apologies concerning some things in our Catholic past, as these merely added to the vilification and did not end such weak thinking. If one grew up as I did in the Lutheran Midwest, ...
People Die
One of the results of the recent horrors here in France is the realization of the brevity of life.
People die. In the West, we have sheltered ourselves from death. In past centuries, war and disease made death more real, and less frightening for most people. But, the vulnerability of life is such that one must stop and think of the last four things.
I have several posts on this.
Stay in sanctifying grace, stay holy, make God your priority in life.
Realize that life is short, very short.
People die. In the West, we have sheltered ourselves from death. In past centuries, war and disease made death more real, and less frightening for most people. But, the vulnerability of life is such that one must stop and think of the last four things.
I have several posts on this.
Stay in sanctifying grace, stay holy, make God your priority in life.
Realize that life is short, very short.
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Traveling Again
I am just moving through and leaving soon. I hope to post from Ireland, where I intend to go very soon.
Pray for my travel arrangements. Thank you.
Pray for my travel arrangements. Thank you.
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