Uh....does anybody here think the present state of the Church is NOT a chastisement ITSELF?!
I think this IS the great chastisement:
To have to doubt 95% of the sacraments being offered by the "church" because 95% of the clergy has been invalidly ordained, using sacramental rites that are no longer "sacraments" because of invalid matter!
The gravity here is that Such priests (95% of Priests Identifying themselves as Catholic) offer:
1. Invalid Mass.
2. Invalid Confession.
3. Invalid Confirmation.
4. Invalid Unction.
5. Invalid Orders.
6. Valid marriage (With seriously compromised rites)
7. Valid Baptism (With Butchered Rites)
I am NOT the only one who sees this as a Chastisement, right?
By the way, we have no Supreme Pontiff that we know of (He may be underground), Almost all the theologians are compromised, the majority of the faithful don't know squat about the faith, and the Catholic church is now infected with tares (heretics, schismatics and apostates) to such a degree, that 95% of churches claiming to be Catholic no longer look ANYTHING like the Catholic Church. And realistically, the majority of people who attend them are not even REALLY Catholic anymore, effectively speaking.
What else needs to happen to be a chastisement?