Author Topic: Our Lady's Warning to St. Bridget that Pope who is lax on celibacy will be lost! (Read 746 times)

Nishant Xavier · « **on:** March 29, 2019, 02:54:14 AM »

Given the times and the danger Mother Church is in, the revelations Our Lady made to St. Bridget seem to be as relevant now more than ever. Pope Francis may even be the Pope in need of the Warning of Our Lady. Let us all redouble our prayers and sacrifices for the Pope and for the Church in this Hour of Crisis. http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/spirituality/82-spirtuality/607-pope-and-priestly-marriage-st-bridget.html

"Vision of St. Bridget: The Pope, that lifts celibacy, will go to hell

Our Lady explained to St. Bridget of Sweden, that a pope that would allow priests to marry, would go to hell. Mary to the visionary:

“But now I shall tell you God’s Will in this matter ...

Know this too: that if some Pope concedes to priests a license to contract carnal marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body’s blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that Pope who were to go against the aforementioned pre-ordinance and Will of God and concede to priests such a license to contract marriage.

For that same Pope would be totally deprived by God of his spiritual sight and hearing, and of his spiritual words and deeds. All his spiritual wisdom would grow completely cold; and finally, after his death, his soul would be cast out to be tortured eternally in hell so that there it might become the food of demons everlastingly and without end.” https://gloria.tv/article/PRV2YJx1AKsU1dKu88KDWnLmf

Only 7 months left to pray for the Holy Father and the Bishops of the Amazon now, which will be in October of this year. Thoughts?

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/10/25/analysis-will-the-2019-synod-discuss-married-priests/

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"Last year, the National Catholic Register reported that Pope Francis wanted a synod on married priests – only for the proposal to be voted out by the synod council.

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But it appears that a different meeting of bishops may now focus on the proposal: October 2019’s synod for the Pan-Amazon region, which Pope Francis announced earlier this month.

One influential bishop from the Pan-Amazon region, Bishop Erwin Kräutler, has told Kathpress that he thinks the synod might consider the ordination of married men, as well as women deacons."

Edit: And since a wrong argument from Eastern rites is sometimes brought up, (1) Eastern rite Bishops are never married. (2) While sometimes Eastern rite married men can be ordained, no ordained man ever marries or re-marries (even after wife's death). Priests often remained continent permanently after being ordained, in the early Church. (3) Eastern rites promote celibacy in other ways, but today the norm and principle itself of celibacy is being attacked.

An article on that: "St. Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) stated, "Holy Church respects the dignity of the priesthood to such a point that she does not admit to the deaconate, the priesthood or the episcopate, nor even to the subdeaconate, anyone still living in marriage and begetting children. She accepts only him who if married gives up his wife or has lost her by death, especially in those places where the ecclesiastical canons are strictly attended to." The local, Spanish Council of Elvira (306) imposed celibacy on bishops, priests, and deacons: "We decree that all bishops, priests, deacons, and all clerics engaged in the ministry are forbidden entirely to live with their wives and to beget children: whoever shall do so will be deposed from the clerical dignity." Later, the Council of Carthage extended the celibacy requirement to the subdeaconate ... At the ecuмenical Council of Nicea I (325), Bishop Hosius of Cordova proposed a decree mandating clerical celibacy, including for those clergy already married. Egyptian Bishop Paphnutius, unmarried himself, rose in protest, asserting that such a requirement would be too rigorous and imprudent. Rather, those members of the clergy already married should continue to be faithful to their wives, and those who were unmarried should personally decide whether or not to be celibate. As a consequence, no church-wide requirement for priests to be celibate was mandated. For the Western Church several popes decreed celibacy: Damasus I (384), Siricius (385), Innocent I (404), and Leo I (458). Local councils issued edicts imposing celibacy on the clergy: in Africa, Carthage (390, 401-19); in France, Orange (441) and Tours (461); and in Italy, Turin (398). By the time of Pope Leo I (d. 461), no bishop, priest, deacon, or subdeacon could be married. Nevertheless, the rules were not always as enforced as they should have been": https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/apologetics/celibacy-in-the-priesthood.html

Author Topic: Our Lady's Warning to St. Bridget that Pope who is lax on celibacy will be lost! (Read 746 times)

Nishant Xavier

Our Lady's Warning to St. Bridget that Pope who is lax on celibacy will be lost!