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At Pascendi's Forum one of their members said that Benedict XVI defended the EENS dogma in his Palm Sunday homily.  Here is the homily.  Warning:  If you are anything like me, this will make you want to ram your fist into the wall at full speed and with full power.  So put gloves on before reading.

"Humbly believing with the Church, like being bound together in a roped party ascending to God, is an essential condition for following Christ. Not acting as the owners of the Word of God, not chasing after a mistaken idea of emancipation -- this is also part of being together in the roped party. The humility of "being-with" is essential to the ascent. Letting the Lord take us by the hand through the sacraments is another part of it. We let ourselves be purified and strengthened by him, we let ourselves accept the discipline of the ascent, even if we are tired.

Finally, we must again say that the cross is part of the ascent toward the height of Jesus Christ, the ascent to the height of God. Just as in the affairs of this world great things cannot be done without renunciation and hard work (joy in great discoveries and joy in a true capacity for activity are linked to discipline, indeed, to the effort of learning) so also the way to life itself, to the realization of one's own humanity is linked to him who climbed to the height of God through the cross. In the final analysis, the cross is the expression of that which is meant by love: Only he who loses himself will find himself.

Let us summarize: Following Christ demands as a first step the reawakening of the nostalgia for being authentically human and thus the reawakening for God. It then demands that one enter into the roped party of those who climb, into the communion of the Church. In the "we" of the Church we enter into the communion with the "Thou" of Jesus Christ and therefore reach the way to God. Moreover, listening to and living Jesus Christ's word in faith, hope and love is also required. We are thus on the way to the definitive Jerusalem and already, from this point forward, we already find ourselves there in the communion of all God's saints.

Our pilgrimage in following Christ, then, is not directed toward any earthly city, but toward the new City of God that grows in the midst of this world ...

Anti-Pope Benedict XVI
Homily for Palm Sunday
March 28, 2010

[1] The Zenit article has the following note: The Pope is using a mountaineering metaphor here. Groups of climbers often rope themselves together when they scale mountainsides. This is the meaning of a "roped party." The Italian word is "cordata".

They actually think he's saying there's no salvation outside the Church because he uses the metaphor of a "roped party," the communion of believers.  Perhaps they missed this part?

"Not acting as the owners of the Word of God, not chasing after a mistaken idea of emancipation -- this is also part of being together in the roped party."

I don't know what "not chasing after emancipation" means.  It looks ominously like "not chasing after salvation."  But the underlined part is pretty clear, I think.  

Some other things about this speech I'd like to mention.  Isn't the reference to mountain-climbing an homage of sorts to the Alpinist Pius XI, who was extremely favorable to trades-unions and Catholic social action while unfavorable to anything that smacked of reactionary, monarchical Catholicism that was against the Judaizing trend?  Also note the feeble Heideggereanism of the "being-with" in humility with Christ.  

It's all nonsense.  Why can't he just speak plainly like a Catholic instead of all of this moderninst mumbo-jumbo?

He is saying "Church" not "Catholic Church."  Who knows what he means by "Church"?  Is this the mega-church that the Catholic Church "subsists" in?

To those at Pascendi's Forum, I call you "delusional" with all good will.  I shouldn't use pejorative terms but none other applies to a breed as strange and self-contradictory as a "Novus Ordo Feeneyite."  You talk about "the dogma" and you are part of a dogma-less anti-Church. The only reason that they still allow the Feeneyites of the St. Benedict Center is because they are playing mind games, don't you see that?  

 :wink:

Following Christ demands as a first step the reawakening of the nostalgia for being authentically human and thus the reawakening for God.

Here is John Paul's theme: one turns to God when one turns to humanity.  The humanization of man is equivalent to his divinization.  Thus Jesus revealed man to himself and consequently his status as a son of God.  To realize this fact, we must simply realize our humanity.

"Humbly believing with the Church, like being bound together in a roped party ascending to God, is an essential condition for following Christ. Not acting as the owners of the Word of God, not chasing after a mistaken idea of emancipation -- this is also part of being together in the roped party. The humility of "being-with" is essential to the ascent. Letting the Lord take us by the hand through the sacraments is another part of it. We let ourselves be purified and strengthened by him, we let ourselves accept the discipline of the ascent, even if we are tired.

Finally, we must again say that the cross is part of the ascent toward the height of Jesus Christ, the ascent to the height of God. Just as in the affairs of this world great things cannot be done without renunciation and hard work (joy in great discoveries and joy in a true capacity for activity are linked to discipline, indeed, to the effort of learning) so also the way to life itself, to the realization of one's own humanity is linked to him who climbed to the height of God through the cross. In the final analysis, the cross is the expression of that which is meant by love: Only he who loses himself will find himself.

Let us summarize: Following Christ demands as a first step the reawakening of the nostalgia for being authentically human and thus the reawakening for God. It then demands that one enter into the roped party of those who climb, into the communion of the Church. In the "we" of the Church we enter into the communion with the "Thou" of Jesus Christ and therefore reach the way to God. Moreover, listening to and living Jesus Christ's word in faith, hope and love is also required. We are thus on the way to the definitive Jerusalem and already, from this point forward, we already find ourselves there in the communion of all God's saints.

Our pilgrimage in following Christ, then, is not directed toward any earthly city, but toward the new City of God that grows in the midst of this world ...

Pope Benedict XVI
Homily for Palm Sunday
March 28, 2010

[1] The Zenit article has the following note: The Pope is using a mountaineering metaphor here. Groups of climbers often rope themselves together when they scale mountainsides. This is the meaning of a "roped party." The Italian word is "cordata".

What a terrible homily. It's like you can't even label it a specific heresy since its so vague; you don't even know what to say. I hope all of us here are "reawakening the nostalgia for being authentically human" during Holy Week. :bob-marley: What?

Great quotes on your sig line, Caraffa.