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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Book review by Dr Horvat: Poem of the Man-God
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2019, 10:25:50 AM »
Quote from: cebu on March 13, 2019, 09:12:27 AM
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, they are having to drag out Marian Horvat to justify their argument against Maria Valtorta.

We don't need to justify anything.  Church put her on the Index.  End of argument.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Book review by Dr Horvat: Poem of the Man-God
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2019, 10:27:34 AM »
Quote from: cebu on March 13, 2019, 09:12:27 AM
Perhaps you missed this link  

No, just don't care.  Let em see:  Stephen Austin vs. the Holy Office.  Hmmm.  I have to ponder that one a long time.
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Offline jvk

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« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2019, 10:54:35 AM »
I have to admit...even the sections that are quoted above, even if not vulgar, are so sappy and syrupy it about makes me sick.   
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Online Pax Vobis

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Re: Book review by Dr Horvat: Poem of the Man-God
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2019, 11:05:20 AM »
The fact that there's such a cult following for this book and people defend it so passionately makes me think something's off.  As a Catholic, you're supposed to strive after indifference to most everything of the world, and even spiritual things.  How many stories were there of saints who, in the middle of having visions/apparations with Our Lady and Our Lord, were called by their superiors to a task, and they had to leave Our Lady/Our Lord and go be obedient?  Many stories of this nature.  And Our Lady/Our Lord told the saints that their obedience was more important than the apparation. 

Moral of the story:  You should strive to be disinterested and to be unattached to things in this life, even if they are (or appear to be) holy things.  This especially goes for "the peom" because the Church hasn't been 100% orthodox for 100 years (since St Pius X) so there's lot of garbage out there that a normal, orthodox, catholic heirarchy would've restricted.  If you are so attached to "the poem" that you can't allow it to be criticized or analyzed for errors (which is the Church's normal process in private apparations), then your promotion/support of this book is disordered and anti-catholic.
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Offline ihsv

Re: Book review by Dr Horvat: Poem of the Man-God
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2019, 11:18:52 AM »
My father started reading Poem of the Man God to the family many years ago.  I don't think we got more than a quarter of the way through the first book before he decided to stop.  I have, since then, read more of it, and it's clear that it is naturalistic at best.  Not at all as edifying as Blessed Mary of Agreda's City of God, or even Anne Catherine Emmerich's Life of Christ.  Those works portrayed Christ as God, as Divine.  They portrayed Our Lady as noble, perfect, and completely free of concupiscence and the other effects of Original Sin.

Christ's love toward the Apostles was shown to be a Divine Love, not a sentimental, sappy (as jvk so perfectly describes it), emotional "love".

We came to this conclusion before the internet, before realizing that it had ever been put on the Index.  The fact that it had been put on the index in the first place should give people pause.  It is, on that account alone, suspect.

Whether it had ever been removed or not, I don't know.  I'll leave that to the rest of you to argue.  I'm satisfied enough to have made my own decision on the matter.
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