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Offline Jehanne

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You can look them up here:

http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/florence.htm

And, here they are:

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Since by grace a person is incorporated in Christ and is united with his members, the consequence is that grace is increased by this sacrament in those who receive it worthily, and that every effect that material food and drink produce for corporal life — sustaining, increasing, repairing and delighting — this sacrament works for spiritual life.


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The holy synod especially condemns and censures, in the book, the assertion which is scandalous, erroneous in the faith and offensive to the ears of the pious faithful, namely: Christ sins daily and has sinned daily from his very beginning, even though he avers that he does not understand this as of Christ our saviour, head of the church, but as referring to his members, which together with Christ the head form the one Christ, as he asserts. Also, the propositions, and ones similar to them, which the synod declares are contained in the articles condemned at the sacred council of Constance, namely the following. Not all the justified faithful are members of Christ, but only the elect, who finally will reign with Christ for ever. The members of Christ, from whom the church is constituted, are taken according to the ineffable foreknowledge of God; and the church is constituted only from those who are called according to his purpose of election. To be a member of Christ, it is not enough to be united with him in the bond of charity, some other union is needed. Also the following.


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These propositions and others springing from the same root, which are to be found in the said book, this holy synod condemns and censures as erroneous in the faith. Lest it come to pass that any of the faithful fall into error on account of such teaching, the synod strictly forbids anyone to teach, preach, defend or approve the teaching of the said book, especially the aforesaid condemned and censured propositions, and its supporting treatises. It decrees that transgressors shall be punished as heretics and with other canonical penalties. By these measures the synod intends to detract in nothing from the sayings and writings of the holy doctors who discourse on these matters. On the contrary, it accepts and embraces them according to their true understanding as commonly expounded and declared by these doctors and other catholic teachers in the theological schools.


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Also, if truly penitent people die in the love of God before they have made satisfaction for acts and omissions by worthy fruits of repentance, their souls are cleansed after death by cleansing pains; and the suffrages of the living faithful avail them in giving relief from such pains, that is, sacrifices of masses, prayers, almsgiving and other acts of devotion which have been customarily performed by some of the faithful for others of the faithful in accordance with the church's ordinances.


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Statements from the Council of Florence which support Baptism of Desire.
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2014, 12:11:16 PM »
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    You can look them up here:

    http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/florence.htm

    And, here they are:

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    Since by grace a person is incorporated in Christ and is united with his members, the consequence is that grace is increased by this sacrament in those who receive it worthily, and that every effect that material food and drink produce for corporal life — sustaining, increasing, repairing and delighting — this sacrament works for spiritual life.


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    The holy synod especially condemns and censures, in the book, the assertion which is scandalous, erroneous in the faith and offensive to the ears of the pious faithful, namely: Christ sins daily and has sinned daily from his very beginning, even though he avers that he does not understand this as of Christ our saviour, head of the church, but as referring to his members, which together with Christ the head form the one Christ, as he asserts. Also, the propositions, and ones similar to them, which the synod declares are contained in the articles condemned at the sacred council of Constance, namely the following. Not all the justified faithful are members of Christ, but only the elect, who finally will reign with Christ for ever. The members of Christ, from whom the church is constituted, are taken according to the ineffable foreknowledge of God; and the church is constituted only from those who are called according to his purpose of election. To be a member of Christ, it is not enough to be united with him in the bond of charity, some other union is needed. Also the following.


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    These propositions and others springing from the same root, which are to be found in the said book, this holy synod condemns and censures as erroneous in the faith. Lest it come to pass that any of the faithful fall into error on account of such teaching, the synod strictly forbids anyone to teach, preach, defend or approve the teaching of the said book, especially the aforesaid condemned and censured propositions, and its supporting treatises. It decrees that transgressors shall be punished as heretics and with other canonical penalties. By these measures the synod intends to detract in nothing from the sayings and writings of the holy doctors who discourse on these matters. On the contrary, it accepts and embraces them according to their true understanding as commonly expounded and declared by these doctors and other catholic teachers in the theological schools.


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    Also, if truly penitent people die in the love of God before they have made satisfaction for acts and omissions by worthy fruits of repentance, their souls are cleansed after death by cleansing pains; and the suffrages of the living faithful avail them in giving relief from such pains, that is, sacrifices of masses, prayers, almsgiving and other acts of devotion which have been customarily performed by some of the faithful for others of the faithful in accordance with the church's ordinances.


    Can I help the feeneyites out here?

    1.  The council did not mean what it said.

    2.  The council did not say what it meant.

    3.  Councils can err.

    4.  It was mistranslated.

    5.  It was misunderstood.

    6.  Feeney, Wathen, SBC and the Dimonds cannot be wrong therefore (#'s 1 - 5 above or something else).  But it does not mean what it says or say what it means.  And you are going to Hell if you believe what it seems to say.  If it really meant what it said it would have been Vatican 2 hundreds of years earlier.  Glad that's settled.  

    Later much heretics   :heretic:

    Wow this feeneyite thing is fun.  Who else can I damn to Hell?
    "I receive Thee, redeeming Prince of my soul. Out of love for Thee have I studied, watched through many nights, and exerted myself: Thee did I preach and teach. I have never said aught against Thee. Nor do I persist stubbornly in my views. If I have ever expressed myself erroneously on this Sacrament, I submit to the judgement of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience of which I now part from this world." Saint Thomas Aquinas the greatest Doctor of the Church


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    Statements from the Council of Florence which support Baptism of Desire.
    « Reply #2 on: June 24, 2014, 01:27:15 PM »
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  • The Council of Florence declared infallible the clearest definition of EENS, a definition that all the BODers say does not mean what it says. Then Jehanne posts some obscure lines with no precise references and says it teaches whatever. BODers deny clear language then they hold others to accept their obscure unclear, out of context quotes.

    Meanwhile they ALL deny the need to believe in Christ and the Trinity for salvation.

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    Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, 1441, ex cathedra:

    The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church , not only pagans but also Jєωs or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church's sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody  can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.


    Not one BODer has EVER produce a dogmatic decree declaring BOD, ever. Meanwhile, the believers in EENS as it is written have almost innumerable dogmatic decrees that declare John 3:5 as it is written. The BODers have no dogma to turn to to teach what they believe, all they have is theological speculation.

    Sorry Jehanne, you did not invent anything, you "did not break the code".

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    « Reply #3 on: June 24, 2014, 01:42:01 PM »
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  • It does not really matter because what they are talking about is not Baptism of Desire anyway, but the heretical novelty of salvation of non Catholics by implicit desire. Baptism of Desire as understood by the Church is actually irrelevant. BOD and invincible ignorance as an exception to the EENS salutary dogma (which is what they really defend and obsess about) are actually different doctrines.
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.

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    « Reply #4 on: June 24, 2014, 01:55:33 PM »
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  • There are no known exceptions to Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus as Fr. Feeney would say. This was the error of the Archbishop of Boston, coming from the modernist liberal interpretation of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. The error was carried over into Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium 16, which is interpreted by the liberals as invincible ignorance being an exception to the dogma EENS.  

    There are no visible exceptions to the traditional teaching and most salutary EENS dogma. All non Catholics with no exception, need to convert formally, visibly, into the Catholic Church for salvation, to avoid Hell.
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.


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    « Reply #5 on: June 24, 2014, 02:08:18 PM »
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  • Quote from: Jehanne
    You can look them up here:

    http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/florence.htm

    And, here they are:

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    Since by grace a person is incorporated in Christ and is united with his members, the consequence is that grace is increased by this sacrament in those who receive it worthily, and that every effect that material food and drink produce for corporal life — sustaining, increasing, repairing and delighting — this sacrament works for spiritual life.


    I'll just look at the first one here to show how blatantly dishonest the BoDers are.  They continue literally hell-bent on their crusade to undermine EENS.

    You read an imaginary "by grace [alone]" into the quote.  What it's referring to is the grace of Baptism.  Cf earlier.

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    Holy baptism holds the first place among all the sacraments, for it is the gate of the spiritual life; through it we become members of Christ and of the body of the church. ... Since by grace a person is incorporated in Christ and is united with his members, the consequence is that grace is increased by this sacrament in those who receive it worthily, and that every effect that material food and drink produce for corporal life — sustaining, increasing, repairing and delighting — this sacrament works for spiritual life.


    Your fantasy interpretation of this quote would have Florence DENYING THE NECESSITY OF THE SACRAMENTS FOR SALVATION.

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    « Reply #6 on: June 24, 2014, 02:15:04 PM »
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    The holy synod especially condemns and censures, in the book, the assertion which is scandalous, erroneous in the faith and offensive to the ears of the pious faithful, namely: Christ sins daily and has sinned daily from his very beginning, even though he avers that he does not understand this as of Christ our saviour, head of the church, but as referring to his members, which together with Christ the head form the one Christ, as he asserts. Also, the propositions, and ones similar to them, which the synod declares are contained in the articles condemned at the sacred council of Constance, namely the following. Not all the justified faithful are members of Christ, but only the elect, who finally will reign with Christ for ever. The members of Christ, from whom the church is constituted, are taken according to the ineffable foreknowledge of God; and the church is constituted only from those who are called according to his purpose of election. To be a member of Christ, it is not enough to be united with him in the bond of charity, some other union is needed. Also the following.


    This does NOT say that this bond of charity can be achieved without Baptism and does not teach justification "by charity alone".  If you actually READ the quote it's talking about an error which states that only those predestined for salvation in the Church are actually members of Christ.   It's another twist on an invisible Church that's actually only a subset of the visible Church composed only of the elect known to God and it's referring to this election or predestination as "some other union".  This has absolutely nothing to do with Baptism of Desire.  But the simpletons who hate the dogma EENS see Baptism of Desire behind every bush.

    In addition, if you take this YOUR way, you're attributing error to Florence because in fact even those who are not united by the bond of charity (e.g. those in mortal sin) are still members of Christ so long as they do not also lose the faith.

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    « Reply #7 on: June 24, 2014, 02:19:25 PM »
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    Also, if truly penitent people die in the love of God before they have made satisfaction for acts and omissions by worthy fruits of repentance, their souls are cleansed after death by cleansing pains; and the suffrages of the living faithful avail them in giving relief from such pains, that is, sacrifices of masses, prayers, almsgiving and other acts of devotion which have been customarily performed by some of the faithful for others of the faithful in accordance with the church's ordinances.


    This is nothing more than a teaching about Purgatory.  By truly penitent it means that if you're in a state of grace without any eternal punishment due to sin while still having temporal punishment to pay for, then you go to Purgatory.

    Only the twisted EENS-hating mind could POSSIBLY read BoD into this passage.

    In your OP, Jehanne, you are implying salvation by grace alone or salvation by charity alone.  You thereby anathematize yourself by denying Trent's dogmatic teaching regarding the necessity of the Sacraments for salvation.



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    « Reply #8 on: June 24, 2014, 02:20:38 PM »
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    Who else can I damn to Hell?


    Only yourself.  Unfortunately, you appear to be well on your way to doing just that.

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    « Reply #9 on: June 24, 2014, 02:22:12 PM »
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  • I find this hatred of EENS among so-called Traditional Catholics to be absolutely mind-boggling.

    You hide behind Baptism of Desire and use it as a smokescreen when your true intent is to undermine EENS.

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    « Reply #10 on: June 24, 2014, 03:57:46 PM »
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    I find this hatred of EENS among so-called Traditional Catholics to be absolutely mind-boggling.

    You hide behind Baptism of Desire and use it as a smokescreen when your true intent is to undermine EENS.


    It is because most traditionalist orders still erroneously adhere to the Letter of 49, which contained the misinterpretation of invincible ignorance, carried over Vatican II docuмents and not yet corrected but actually spread globally by the modernist elites. Just like Drew said they are as "worthless soldiers who does not even know where the front is".

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    Modernism as a heresy has as its ultimate aim the destruction of all dogma.  There is not a dime's worth of difference in principle between Fr. Kramer, Ambrose, Paolo, et. al. and radical Modernists like Fr. Karl Rahner.  While Fr. Rahner is generous in making everybody an Anonymous Christian, Fr. Kramer is petty and stingy.  Should it be any surprise of someone who would have Paolo the Babbler as his spokesman?  Fr. Rahner was honest enough to fairly and accurately judge the teaching of the Church Fathers on the question of the necessity of baptism for salvation while Fr. Kramer keeps lying to himself and anyone else who will listen.

     

     
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.


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    « Reply #11 on: June 24, 2014, 09:11:17 PM »
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    The holy synod especially condemns and censures, in the book, the assertion which is scandalous, erroneous in the faith and offensive to the ears of the pious faithful, namely: Christ sins daily and has sinned daily from his very beginning, even though he avers that he does not understand this as of Christ our saviour, head of the church, but as referring to his members, which together with Christ the head form the one Christ, as he asserts. Also, the propositions, and ones similar to them, which the synod declares are contained in the articles condemned at the sacred council of Constance, namely the following. Not all the justified faithful are members of Christ, but only the elect, who finally will reign with Christ for ever. The members of Christ, from whom the church is constituted, are taken according to the ineffable foreknowledge of God; and the church is constituted only from those who are called according to his purpose of election. To be a member of Christ, it is not enough to be united with him in the bond of charity, some other union is needed. Also the following.


    This does NOT say that this bond of charity can be achieved without Baptism and does not teach justification "by charity alone".  If you actually READ the quote it's talking about an error which states that only those predestined for salvation in the Church are actually members of Christ.   It's another twist on an invisible Church that's actually only a subset of the visible Church composed only of the elect known to God and it's referring to this election or predestination as "some other union".  This has absolutely nothing to do with Baptism of Desire.  But the simpletons who hate the dogma EENS see Baptism of Desire behind every bush.

    In addition, if you take this YOUR way, you're attributing error to Florence because in fact even those who are not united by the bond of charity (e.g. those in mortal sin) are still members of Christ so long as they do not also lose the faith.


    Your interpretation is absurd, for the following reason:

    Quote from: Errors of Michael du Bay
    1031 31. Condemned Error:  Perfect and sincere charity, which is from a "pure heart and good conscience and a faith not feigned" [1 Tim. 1:5], can be in catechumens as well as in penitents without the remission of sins.

    1032 32. Condemned Error:  That charity which is the fullness of the law is not always connected with the remission of sins.

    1033 33. Condemned Error:  A catechumen lives justly and rightly and holily, and observes the commandments of God, and fulfills the law through charity, which is only received in the laver of baptism, before the remission of sins has been obtained.


    http://denzinger.patristica.net/#n1000

    The above errors were condemned in the Papal Bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus published on October 1, 1567 by Saint Pope Pius V, the Roman Pontiff who confirmed the decrees of the Council of Trent!!!

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    « Reply #12 on: June 24, 2014, 10:07:41 PM »
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  • Jehanne, you too are a heretic for denying the necessity of the Sacraments for salvation.  You ignore the fact that Baptism is the instrumental cause of this grace, and it has nothing to do with the passage.

    You really expect to have any credibility when you mistook a passage on the doctrine of Purgatory as a promotion of BoD?



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    « Reply #13 on: June 24, 2014, 10:25:49 PM »
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    Quote from: Errors of Michael du Bay
    1031 31. Condemned Error:  Perfect and sincere charity, which is from a "pure heart and good conscience and a faith not feigned" [1 Tim. 1:5], can be in catechumens as well as in penitents without the remission of sins.

    1032 32. Condemned Error:  That charity which is the fullness of the law is not always connected with the remission of sins.

    1033 33. Condemned Error:  A catechumen lives justly and rightly and holily, and observes the commandments of God, and fulfills the law through charity, which is only received in the laver of baptism, before the remission of sins has been obtained.


    http://denzinger.patristica.net/#n1000

    The above errors were condemned in the Papal Bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus published on October 1, 1567 by Saint Pope Pius V, the Roman Pontiff who confirmed the decrees of the Council of Trent!!!


    Yeah, I'm sure that the Council of Florence needs to be interpreted by a FUTURE Papal Bull that has nothing to do with this.

    You guys just throw piles of manure at wall hoping that some of it will stick.

    31 and 33 essentially reduce to 32 and what's being condemned is the question of whether there can be charity without the remission of sins.  du Bay had this notion of a kind of charity that could exist in the soul while at the same time the guilt of sin would remain.

    du Bay is saying essentially, in 31, that a catechumen can have a kind of charity but yet would not be saved if he died in that state because his sins would not have been remitted.  There was some talk among even mainstream theologians of what was called the amor initialis, the beginning love of incipient charity that was a precursor to true supernatural charity.  du Bay simply took that discussion too far.

    33 is stating that even when the catechumen receives charity in the laver of Baptism this takes place before the remission of sins has been obtained.  So evidently du Bay believed that even when charity is received in Baptism there wasn't always an immediate remission of sins.

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    « Reply #14 on: June 25, 2014, 07:52:17 AM »
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    Quote from: Errors of Michael du Bay
    1031 31. Condemned Error:  Perfect and sincere charity, which is from a "pure heart and good conscience and a faith not feigned" [1 Tim. 1:5], can be in catechumens as well as in penitents without the remission of sins.

    1032 32. Condemned Error:  That charity which is the fullness of the law is not always connected with the remission of sins.

    1033 33. Condemned Error:  A catechumen lives justly and rightly and holily, and observes the commandments of God, and fulfills the law through charity, which is only received in the laver of baptism, before the remission of sins has been obtained.


    http://denzinger.patristica.net/#n1000

    The above errors were condemned in the Papal Bull Ex omnibus afflictionibus published on October 1, 1567 by Saint Pope Pius V, the Roman Pontiff who confirmed the decrees of the Council of Trent!!!


    Yeah, I'm sure that the Council of Florence needs to be interpreted by a FUTURE Papal Bull that has nothing to do with this.

    You guys just throw piles of manure at wall hoping that some of it will stick.

    31 and 33 essentially reduce to 32 and what's being condemned is the question of whether there can be charity without the remission of sins.  du Bay had this notion of a kind of charity that could exist in the soul while at the same time the guilt of sin would remain.

    du Bay is saying essentially, in 31, that a catechumen can have a kind of charity but yet would not be saved if he died in that state because his sins would not have been remitted.  There was some talk among even mainstream theologians of what was called the amor initialis, the beginning love of incipient charity that was a precursor to true supernatural charity.  du Bay simply took that discussion too far.

    33 is stating that even when the catechumen receives charity in the laver of Baptism this takes place before the remission of sins has been obtained.  So evidently du Bay believed that even when charity is received in Baptism there wasn't always an immediate remission of sins.


    Of course, you responded to all of my citations from Florence, except for this one:

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    These propositions and others springing from the same root, which are to be found in the said book, this holy synod condemns and censures as erroneous in the faith. Lest it come to pass that any of the faithful fall into error on account of such teaching, the synod strictly forbids anyone to teach, preach, defend or approve the teaching of the said book, especially the aforesaid condemned and censured propositions, and its supporting treatises. It decrees that transgressors shall be punished as heretics and with other canonical penalties. By these measures the synod intends to detract in nothing from the sayings and writings of the holy doctors who discourse on these matters. On the contrary, it accepts and embraces them according to their true understanding as commonly expounded and declared by these doctors and other catholic teachers in the theological schools.


    As for du Bay, you admit that he "is saying essentially, in 31, that a catechumen can have a kind of charity but yet would not be saved if he died in that state because his sins would not have been remitted" is a condemned statement.