Last Tradhican comes off pharisaic to me







Lord I thank thee that I am not like these other trads.

Its kinda sad he's being encouraged in that. IMO.  I'm not a 100 percent sspx apologist (contra what some people on here might think) but I seriously have a hard time believing "nobody takes the faith seriously but me" should be taken seriously

It's hard to say he's being pharisaic. He's not implying it as a judgment on other Catholics in comparison with himself, but merely making a statement that we cannot just presume we are going to be saved because we are traditionalists. Many, many saints of the Church would meditate on the fewness of the saved out of a humble recognition that God's judgment is severe. Simply being a trad contrary to the wider Godless, hedonistic culture is not a guarantee of an escape from the judgment that God has with all of His children. Whether this is a small percentage of even those who are traditionalists, as Tradhican states, is utterly unknown. It could be as few as 1% of all traditionalists, or as many as 49.9%, or even 90%. We will not know until we die.

The best we can do is avoid sin, receive the Sacraments in good faith, accept the state in life God has given us and do His will within that state to the best degree possible with the hope of dying in a state of grace. Some trads have the blessing of being able to rear their whole families as Catholic traditionalists, others the bitter cross (like me) of the difficulties brought on by a later conversion, while others go it completely alone or have limited access to the true Mass. We each get our lot in life and have to accept it as God's will and do our best with what we are given.

Or they’ll be converted.  Recall Last Trad that you didn’t always live a good Catholic life ... by your own admission.  God could have just as easily “abandoned” you.

God will use a chastisement to wake people up, not only the lukewarm but also many of the bad.  God alone knows the state of each soul.  I don’t believe that God ever abandons anyone while in this life.  They abandon Him.

Pride can be a bigger reason for separation from God than lukewarm-ness, a bigger obstacle to God’s grace.

It’s OK to call out lukewarmness out of charity, but only God can judge souls.

The slide down to a totalitarian world will continue at the current lightning speed,  till enough Catholics return to LIVE the faith. It only took 10 good men to save Sơdơm & Gomorrah, nevertheless, they were not to be found. Similarly today, it does not take every Catholic to save the world, however,  I see scarcely any Catholics really living the faith

3. For all things, whether they be known or unknown, are in My sight; nor is there any thing hidden from My eyes.
Yet, searching I will search the heart, from the first dawn of its reason, even to the last breath of its life.
From it will I draw forth every will, be it public or private: whether its own work, or that of another; whether great or small; whatever thou hast committed by thought, and word, and deed, and omission.
And not only of things evil, but also of those that are vain, or idle, or useless, will I exact an account.
Nay more, justice itself will I judge: I will weigh, in the scales of the sanctuary, even thy good deeds, and see what was wanting in them; either in the motive, in the manner of doing, or in the end intended, scrutinizing whether all was supernatural and perfect.
Then, many things, which, during life, appeared good, shall be found void and evil.
Then, the showy semblances of the virtues of the lukewarm, shall be seen as they are, and shall be cast aside, as dry stubble, fit only to be burnt.
And searching still further, I will seek out the fruit of all the favors which I bestow, of all the graces, of all the means of salvation and perfection. 
Yea, I will summon time itself against thee, and I will thoroughly investigate in what manner thou didst use it.
4. What shalt thou do then, O sinner, when even the just shall hardly be secure?
Above thee thou shalt descry a heaven uncertain; below, the yawning abyss; at thy right, Angels as witnesses; at thy left, demons enraged; before thee, the Supreme Arbiter of life and death. -ch. XXIV, p. 140-141

I do not see any relation between this response and the subject of the OP.

The writer above read what I wrote, got it,  and accepted it without any seeing anything personal against him in it. It reminds me of the first time I heard Bp. Williamson saying that men should not wear shorts, and why. I had never heard that before. I immediately stopped wearing shorts. I had no attachment to shorts.

(* The OP is about  that no worldly solution has ever or will ever stop the downward spiral into totalitarianism we are witnessing today and that only Catholics really living the faith can save the world.)