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But, the writings of the Early Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church show a different story.
What we shall experience as the remnant Church may not at all resemble the early Church, which was centered from the earliest days on the basilica and the cathedral. The apostles were the bishops. The bishops organized the dioceses. These things are not "accretions".
However, as we face the destruction of Western Civilization, our world will more resemble the wrecked societies and cultures, the burnt cities and cathedral ruins of Western Africa after the onslaught of the enemies of the Church in the Seventh Century.
We may not have cathedrals, basilicas, schools, as those could be ruined or taken over by the Modernists, just as the Arians took over diocese after diocese in the Third and Fourth Centuries.
The one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church will witness the attack of many enemies. It is obvious we are heading for schism in the States.
So, what should our remnant Church look like and what can we do as Catholics now?
One may check the links at the end of this post, but here are a few ideas for now.
1) Moving close to other Catholics who are strong. NOW.
2) Building loving relationships which can endure persecution.
3) Realizing that one will not be able to endure great suffering alone or in a family isolated from others.
4) Developing a prayer life which is independent of the Mass, Adoration and other sacraments, as we very well may not have these.
I have at least 290 posts on community and podding.
Check these out for review.
16 Jul 2014
Responding to The Remnant. Posted by Supertradmum. This is a bit late, but better late than never. In the May 20th, 2014 issue of The Remnant, Father Celatus has. a list of issues, comments and events which he claims are ...
30 Jan 2014
Second, the remnant is saved by grace, by election, that is chosen by God, and are those who have kept the Ten Commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is baptism. Third, the remnant is those who ...
13 Feb 2014
There, people will find excellent confessors before the Sunday morning Mass, the sermons are orthodox and hard-hitting. The Mass is beautiful. I believe the remnant will last because of the Byzantine and TLM communities ...
30 Sep 2013
After slightly less than three months, I am leaving Ireland for the third time. This visit has been the best of the three. If there is a next time, I would love to visit the Galway area. Ireland changed while I was here, and formally ...
02 Feb 2014
This series will be called "February 24, 303." This was the day which witnessed the largest and worst persecution of Catholics in Rome, called after Diocletian asked the Oracle of Apollo approval for such an empire-wide ruling ...
04 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 XI. Posted by Supertradmum. In the times of the Great Persecution, the army was re-organized to become even more faithful to the emperor. The financial life of the empire was re-organized with new taxes.
11 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 XV. Posted by Supertradmum. The Romans had done persecutions before. What was the difference? Diocletian helped calm down the stress of financial difficulties. He increased taxes, built up the army, ...
04 Feb 2014
In the last analysis, the Great Persecution of Diocletian was a huge failure. If as many as 20,000 Catholics were killed in the Roman Empire, in all the provinces, the spread of Catholicism outweighed the death of the martyrs.
01 May 2014
Second, the remnant is saved by grace, by election, that is chosen by God, and are those who have kept the Ten Commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is baptism. Third, the remnant is those who ...
27 Feb 2013
At this time, on this day in history, we should all return to Augustine's City of God. If any book of the Classical Period would give us perspective on the events of today, it is Augustine's critique of Rome and his understanding of ...
19 Aug 2014
In Sermon 96, the great Doctor of the Church preaches on persecution, a reality in his day and the need for holiness. As in the City of God, Augustine in this sermons talks about two worlds, the world of the good and the world ...
21 Aug 2014
This eighth sentence, which goes back to the starting-point, and makes manifest the perfect man, is perhaps set forth in its meaning both by the circumcision on the eighth day in the Old Testament, and by the resurrection of the Lord after ... as it is said of the soul of the Church by the mouth of the prophet, “All the beauty of the king's daughter is within;” for outwardly revilings, and persecutions, and disparagements are promised; and yet, from these things there is a great ...
01 Mar 2013
Our last pope, Benedict XVI, is a great Augustinian scholar. I am sure he will have time to read this Doctor of the Church in the next two months, with this room with a view, if Benedict so desires.
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05 Feb 2012
Crivelli's Agatha and Augustine are a strange juxtaposition of saints. but I have been thinking of both of them today. The painting fits into my theme today of youth, love and sacrifice. ... And though I cannot do this fully in this life, yet let me improve from day to day till I may do so to the full. Let me know You more and more in this life, that I may ...... Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics. Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as ...
03 Sep 2014
Catholics who trust in politics rather than Divine Providence will wake up one day realizing they had chosen a false god. There is a fema camp two hours from where I am today. ... Possidius, in his life of Augustine, tells how the bishop restored property donated to the church by one of the wealthy townsmen who, despite having no further legal claim to the land, asked for it back on behalf of his son. Augustine returned it, and refusing a large sum which the man sent for ...
20 Jul 2012
That they all were priests, then bishops, handing down the priesthood through Ordination to our own day is one of the great blessings and treasures of the Church. The Old ... St. Augustine started a community of celibate men.
11 Jan 2013
“Assyrian wickedness served as God's scourge for the Hebrews[26]'' is St. Augustine's comment on this text. And our Lord himself ... Marveling at these deeds, since his life was no more exemplary than the lives of the other monks, the superior asked him one day what was the cause of these miracles. He replied that he ... Do not get stuck on your favourite aspects of the spiritual life if these are contrary to the guidance and teaching of the Church. You will not be holy.
21 Jul 2012
It is in fact the case that not only the flourishing Church in Asia, which was once the vibrant heart of the Church, but also the Church in North Africa vanished entirely beneath the tempests of Islam. Of course, the force applied ...
21 Feb 2012
I have many Christian friends who want to ignore what is happening in the Middle-East and Africa, to their own peril. Some of my posts have followed certain trends. See below. The great Spencer sent this note on the move to ...
26 Dec 2012
They then set fire to the church," said Usman Mansir, resident of Peri village, near Potiskum, the economic capital of Yobe state. Mansir specified that a branch of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) was the ...
28 May 2012
... one was injured and nothing was broken in the church, located along the Avenue Jean Moulin, the parishioners, many of whom are elderly, were greatly shocked by the disrespectful act of the youths of North African origin.
07 Dec 2013
What would have become of us if we had been born in Asia, in Africa, in America, or in the midst of heretics and schismatic? He who does not believe is lost. He who does not believe shall be condemned. And thus, probably ...
13 Feb 2014
A martyr is specifically a person who dies witnessing the Faith of the Catholic Church and Jesus Christ. In other words, those Christians in Africa and in the Middle East who are actually being killed because they are Christians ...
02 Feb 2014
An agnostic, this scholar notes that in the unsettled economic times of the late 240s, the Church had grown and was beginning to be accepted in some circles as a force in society. But, alongside of that fact, was the hardening ...
30 Jan 2014
Fifth, the remnant has always really been small, contrary to romantic history of the Church. Sixth, the one ... They did not become Shinto as in Japan or muslims as in the mideast and north Africa over the centuries. PS....when ...
03 Feb 2014
Europe, the Middle Eastern provinces, Africa, including Egypt, all saw the imposition of the laws against Catholics. The great ... We know that the Church spread throughout the continents because of the Christian diaspora.
17 Nov 2013
All those dioceses up and down the Levant in the early days of the Church are gone. All those great basilicas and cathedrals which served the huge Catholic communities in Northern Africa are long gone. ... You can also, of course, say that the mindset of the churches has something to do with it...in my parish, which is run by Dominicans, we always have men enter the priesthood. Our province of Dominicans has 70 men in formation at the House of Studies in D.C.
07 Sep 2013
Prosperous cities of northern Africa completely disappeared after the destruction by the Vandals. Where there were villas, ...... Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics. Too many Church leaders do ...
04 Feb 2014
Christianity spread quickly throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East. Further persecutions would continue in all ...... Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics. Too many Church leaders do not think, ...
24 Aug 2014
We see daily the increase of those who hate Christianity wreaking havoc on communities in the Middle East, Africa. and through suppressive laws in all Western countries. The culture of ...... The Church Must Not Be Defensive
27 Aug 2014
No Angela of Foligno, no Augustinian martyrs of Africa...and more. One woman's prayers began all of this. ...... Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics. Too many Church leaders do not think, or do ...
03 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 V. Posted by Supertradmum. Diocletian re-introduced the draft, or conscription. The Persians had attacked the empire, but were successfully defeated. However, Diocletian, being an uber-organizer, seized ...
03 Feb 2014
Aurelius, Aetius, Gaius, and Lucius are sitting at cena, talking about the latest news concerning the February 24, 303 law. The wives are in the culina, with the maids, getting more wine for the evening's conversation.
04 Feb 2014
This would be a sequel to http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/02/february-24-303-ix.html) The "Villa of the Vineyards" was the talk of the city. Builders and artisans worked day by day restoring the old ...
03 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 VI. Posted by Supertradmum. With the ruins of the churches in Rome and in all the provinces, in the cities and in the countryside, with the destruction of the Scriptures and libraries of the cathedrals and ...
08 Feb 2014
If you missed February 24, 303. Posted by Supertradmum. Please take a look at these if you missed them... . http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-series-this-week-february-24-303.html
04 Feb 2014
What most people do not know, because the history of Western Civilization stopped being taught in most high schools in the 1980s, is that Diocletian came into power with an agenda because of the serious economic ...
02 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 III. Posted by Supertradmum. Moving from the established fact that totalitarian states guard the status quo by eliminating threats, and that such resulting persecutions are legal. one can state that such times of ...
02 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 IV. Posted by Supertradmum. Anxiety and stress, one terrorist attack of any medium size and a financial downturn could set off persecution. The Irish classical scholar, E. R. Dodds wrote Pagan and Christian ...
03 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 VIII. Posted by Supertradmum. A reminder in this series that the Great Persecution occurred throughout the entire Roman Empire. Europe, the Middle Eastern provinces, Africa, including Egypt, all saw the ...
03 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 VII. Posted by Supertradmum. Diocletian was seen as a "saviour", a reformer of good, old fashioned Roman values. He was successful in targeting a few groups which were increasingly seen as threatening ...
03 Feb 2014
Diocletian retired and left his empire's laws against the Catholics on the books. In fact, after he abdicated on May 1, 305, some of the provinces saw less persecution. However, in the eastern one, under Galerius and Maximian, ...
02 Feb 2014
February 24, 303 II. Posted by Supertradmum. from Mosiacarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio 6.4, qtd. and tr. in Clarke, 649; Barnes,Constantine and Eusebius, 19–20. "the immortal gods themselves will favour and be at ...
16 Mar 2014
Quoting United Nations figures, it says some 300,000 people have fled their homes over the past year. "Even if the government can't stop the attacks, at the very least, it can meaningfully assist the people who have been most devastated by them," says HRW's Africa director Daniel Bekele. Boko Haram was founded in ...... Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics. Too many Church leaders do not think, or do not think as Catholics click here ...
02 Feb 2014
Sunday, 2 February 2014 .... 24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. 25 Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. 26 If therefore they ...
12 Feb 2014
Read my last February 24, 303 post. http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/02/february-24-303-xv.html. Why tribulation? Here is Garrigou-Lagrange on the final stage of purification just before the ...
18 Jul 2012
Most French Muslims hail from the country's former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa. There is also further evidence that mosques are being erected at a much faster rate than Catholic churches. Mohammed ...
21 Jul 2012
Contrast the state of our society today and its past with the state of the Islamic culture that is spread out through various countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This is very ...... The Church Must Not Be Defensive.
30 Aug 2014
Many Catholic young people have asked me "Where can I find a Catholic lay community?" I have one answer. At the foot of the Cross... Those who love Christ and are willing to suffer for Him in their daily lives form your ...
30 Jan 2014
To insist on an Easterner from New York understanding and living a Midwest lifestyle can be a sign of the lack of love, and the lack of spiritual foundation of a community. Some of us fit into certain cultures better than others.
30 Jan 2014
The two communities wherein I was involved from age 23 to age 30 plus, were communities wherein people actually sold their houses when houses came up for sale next to another community house and people created ...
13 Jan 2014
I especially remember one young man and his wife who were very keen on community, but could not get anyone interested in their Catholic family, their town, or their parish. If there is a community there in his small town, ...
30 Jan 2014
It is sad that the very leaders who could be helping the laity form base communities have either sold out to the secular world-view or have made idols of their own communities so as not to reach out any longer. Compromise in ...
31 Jan 2014
The only thing about the community idea that prairies me is how quickly these things can turn into cults. Years ago the Dc diocese had a big problem with the Mother of God community. People are still talking about that one.
04 Feb 2014
I have been "restless" and your community series and Feb 24 series are something I have thought about. Live in AR and Catholics are 6% of population - maybe a little more now. Grew up in Iowa in a Catholic county , school ...
12 Feb 2014
Wednesday, 12 February 2014 ... too old for this. God has a place, but it has not been shown to me yet. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest. Labels: community, February 24, Men of the West, persecution ...
31 Jan 2014
Community builds on the first and second conversions. Only when one is dedicated to the life of perfection, can one succeed in community. First, a conversion to Christ and then a conversion to the baptismal promises and the ...
21 Jun 2014
If you are in Louisiana or Nebraska , pray that you run into those who are interested in podding. I am not going to be a hub for podding on this blog, but ask that you trust in the Holy Ghost to lead you to those men and women ...
13 Feb 2014
Happy confirmation from, of all saints, St. Etheldreda on the podding post. To have a pod is to have an ark. http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/02/last-post-on-community-podding.html.
02 Mar 2014
Check out this map if you are considering podding. Posted by Supertradmum · http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/01/where-in-the-u-s-are-there-heightened-protections-for-religious-freedom/.
17 Feb 2012
The blogging community has characteristics different than other groups already. Firstly, the people in the group are technically savvy to a certain degree, have time to blog and post, and want information. This narrows the ...
10 Feb 2014
Reminder to myself from myself through a brother-That is "community". Posted by Supertradmum · James Toups @Toupsfamily Feb 9. "This seeking of perfection, and the desire to love God, is THE call of our life." via @ ...
29 Jan 2014
Go where there are solid, orthodox priests. Plan to either set something up now or go.....if you are not thinking of these possibilities, you are not looking, seeing, hearing the signs of the times. Read my posts on community, as
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