Author Topic: Traditional priest talking of christ's return (Read 472 times)

Änσnymσus · « **on:** August 14, 2020, 04:34:46 AM »

He implied Christ returns in secret and the church fathers left that ambiguous, is there a church teaching on this?

Croixalist · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2020, 04:55:27 AM »

xavierpope, Christ will reign as King on Earth during the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. He will return in all His glory at the very end of the world. Otherwise, I have no idea what your priest is talking about, but perhaps next time you should try to ask him yourself.

Nadir · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2020, 05:03:07 AM »

Quote from: Anonymous on August 14, 2020, 04:34:46 AM

He implied Christ returns in secret

Or you are misinterpreting his words. Ask him about it. Talk to him about your anxiety and ask for spiritual guidance.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2020, 05:17:17 AM »

As lightening comes from east to west so will the son of man

what came from east - china - Wuhan flu - reign of antichrist

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2020, 07:26:06 AM »

Have you been taking some kind of medication recently, Xavier? You're behaving very strangely.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2020, 07:50:09 AM »

the problem is ive committed two mortal sins this year and I feel pretty bad concidering the times were in.

I don't know how common mortal sins are … but I feel like there are no more pardons. I think that is the route of the problem.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2020, 10:45:57 AM »

A soul in a state of grace has nothing to fear of demons who are cowards. -- St. Therese
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Get yourself in a state of grace and put your fidelity in God's love.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2020, 11:25:40 AM »

Quote from: Anonymous on August 14, 2020, 07:50:09 AM

the problem is ive committed two mortal sins this year and I feel pretty bad concidering the times were in.

I don't know how common mortal sins are … but I feel like there are no more pardons. I think that is the route of the problem.

Nowhere does Scripture say and nowhere does the Church teach that there are no more pardons. Sins may be forgiven right up until the moment of death.

Nadir · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2020, 07:12:02 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous on August 14, 2020, 07:50:09 AM

the problem is ive committed two mortal sins this year and I feel pretty bad concidering the times were in.

I don't know how common mortal sins are … but I feel like there are no more pardons. I think that is the route of the problem.

Mortal sins are as common as sand.
That is why Jesus came to save us by dying on the Cross. He rose from death.

Do not belittle His Power or His Mercy by ungratefully wallowing in remorse. Sure, your mortal sins have caused Him pain. He assures us that our sins are forgotten, once forgiven.

Have you not confessed and been pardoned? If not, get yourself to the priest.
You need to study the saints. So many of them lived lives of grave sinfulness until they turned to Him in their hearts and begged mercy and forgiveness.

Here is St John of God:

John Cuidad was born into Portuguese obscurity in Monte Mor-il-Nuovo, Portugal, on 8 March 1495. Nothing in John’s early life foreshadowed his future sanctity. Raised a devout Catholic, he left it all behind. Following a traveler whose description of Madrid had captivated his imagination, this only son of his parents ran away from his home. Soon regret and misery overtook him, but he was ashamed to return to his abandoned parents.

He led a misspent wild youth, and travelled over much of Europe and north Africa as a mercenary soldier. He was not fighting in defence of Portugal or his king; he killed for pay. He fought whoever needed fighting: the French for Spain; the Turks in Hungary. He sold slaves in Morocco.

When he was about forty years of age, feeling profound remorse for his life which lacked order and purpose, he returned to his home village, only to learn of the death of both his parents. “I am not worthy to see the light of day!” exclaimed the grief-stricken voyager. He visited the cemetery, suffocated by his sobs, and cried out, “Pardon, pardon! O mother! Eternal penance!”

He exchanged weapons for commerce and drifted back into obscurity, peddling religous books and pictures in Gibraltar, though without any religious conviction himself. He was homeless and disillusioned, yet he felt a strong attraction to improve the situation of the many men, women and children, who like himself, were homeless and marginalized from the mainstream of society. He was struggling to put his life back together again.

Finally the hour of grace struck. At Granada a sermon by the celebrated John of Avila shook his soul to its depths. It stirred him so deeply that he experienced a religious conversion so dramatic that many people though he was insane. The authorities, fearing for his own safety, put him in an asylum for a time.

When John of Avila got word of what had come to pass, he visited John of God in the asylum. He instructed John of God simply to do good works, and this was perhaps the more profound conversion, from madness, from despair, from burning remorse, from death to life. St. John of God somehow found within himself the will to begin to care for others, first in the asylum where he himself was confined, then later in a house in Granada in 1539, where he gave shelter to anyone who needed it: cripples, paralytics, lepers, the deaf and dumb, the insane, people with diseases, the old, pilgrims, prostitutes and vagrants.

Initially John collected wood and sold it for money to feed and clothe his ragtag band. Later he begged rich women to support his work, a more profitable pursuit and much easier on his back. His care and devotion to the sick brought him the admiration of the townspeople and recognition from the bishop. One of his best-known miracles occurred during a fire at the Grand Hospital in Granada, when John rescued all the inmates by passing through the fire unharmed.

One night Saint John found in the streets a poor man who seemed near death, and he carried him to the hospital, laid him on a bed, and went to fetch water to wash his feet. When he had washed them, he was awestruck: the feet were pierced, and the print of the nails shone with an unearthly radiance. He raised his eyes, and heard the words, “John, it is to Me that you do all that you do for the poor in My name. It is I who reach forth My hand for the alms you give; you clothe Me; Mine are the feet that you wash.” And then the gracious vision disappeared, leaving Saint John filled at once with confusion and consolation.

Eventually John was joined by others who wanted to emulate his dedication to the poor. In this way his work was carried on after his death.

He died on his fifty-fifth birthday, 8 March 1550 at Granada, Spain while praying before a crucifix, of an illness brought on by the attempt to save a drowning boy.

In 1570 the Order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of God was constituted and John of God would be considered its founder. He was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690, and two centuries later Pope Leo XIII made him the patron saint of hospitals and the dying. Hospitals throughout the world bear his name. He is also patron saint of alcoholics; booksellers; the sick and the dying; firefighters; heart patients; hospitals; hospital workers; nurses; the mentally ill.

“Labor without stopping; do all the good works you can while you still have the time.”
Saint John of God

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2020, 08:58:35 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous on August 14, 2020, 07:50:09 AM

ive committed two mortal sins this year

Not to lessen the gravity of sin, but there are lots of people who’d be thrilled to trade places with you. Only two?
In all seriousness, it sounds as if you listen to the lunatic fringe of Pentecostal preachers on shortwave radio late at night. Catholics know not to put any stock in speculation of matters outside their concern.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #10 on:** August 15, 2020, 11:35:36 AM »

Quote from: Anonymous on August 14, 2020, 08:58:35 PM

Not to lessen the gravity of sin, but there are lots of people who’d be thrilled to trade places with you. Only two?
In all seriousness, it sounds as if you listen to the lunatic fringe of Pentecostal preachers on shortwave radio late at night. Catholics know not to put any stock in speculation of matters outside their concern.

Well, you did not achieve your goal. Starting with "not to lessen the gravity of sin," lessens the gravity of sin.
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Many a saint would have rather died than commit even one venial sin.
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OP, Get yourself in a state of grace and put your fidelity in God's love.

Remember, God is all merciful.

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