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Offline Ekim

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Re: “Experiment of Tradition”
« Reply #30 on: May 04, 2024, 07:29:11 AM »
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  • Dear Ekim, I think, rather, you are getting around with your max-black sunnies!
    I understand your discouragement, with Bishop Fellay and the neo-SSPX derailing the fight for the Faith, and now all the division in Tradition at large and in the Resistance... yes, how much more glorious it might have been. Undoubtedly, the heydays are over, but heydays they were!
    This decline does not make the "experiment of Tradition" a failure. Don't confuse the "experiment of Tradition" with the betrayal of Tradition! Our current predicament demonstrates the cunning of the enemy we are up against, which is using the "masterstroke of obedience" all over again in an attempt to destroy what has been gained.
    God knows what is best for our salvation. Would we have kept the Faith ourselves if God had not woken us up with this new and unexpected fight? Perhaps we would have become too comfortable and started sliding with the world...
    Certainly, we have all been shocked by just how few priests and faithful really understood the fight for the Faith. Yet is spite of this, there are many outside of the "faithful few" who are profiting from the fruits of the fight of the last half century to live the traditional faith.
    Anyway, take off those dark glasses or you won't be able to see in the years ahead. I think it is unrealistic now to expect anything other than a downward spiral into the purifying chastisement foretold by Our Lady which, after the consecration of Russia, will bring us to that wonderful but all too brief reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May we all live to see it!
    Thank you for your kind reply.  No dark glasses here.  You and I have the same vision.  Traditional clergy are plagued with the same dastardly sins as the NO and even in places where chapels see growth due to closing of NO Latin Masses, the new parishioners trend towards liberalism often taking the congregation with them as opposed to them becoming more conservative. You are correct , it is a miracle in this crazy world that Tradition still exists.  Let us continue to cling to it, uncompromisingly, with all our strength. All in Gods time.  Let us Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry!


    Offline Seraphina

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    Re: “Experiment of Tradition”
    « Reply #31 on: May 04, 2024, 11:14:24 PM »
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  • I like a chapel that stays the same.  God stays the same.  There has to be a secure anchor in this world of constant change.  Too many mistake novelty for progress.  Just because it’s new does not mean it’s improved.  


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    Re: “Experiment of Tradition”
    « Reply #32 on: May 07, 2024, 11:57:31 AM »
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  • The opening to this question was “Pardon me while I play Devils Advocate”.

    I was hoping someone would have some insight as to why “Traditional Catholicism” or just “Catholicism” as Matthew rightly stated, is not flourishing as a beacon in this corrupt society as it seemed to in the past dark ages, occasionally punctuated by heaven with mystics, miracle workers, Saints, and miraculous phenomenon for all the world to see.

    I know that no one can truly answer this question, for only God knows.

    The answers I received were interesting.  I was surprised that no one simply replied that such things are in the hands of our good Lord.  All we can do is cling to the truth; and as Padre Pio says “Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry”.
    My husband and I think the Church is going through the same thing that Christ did in His last hours.  At V2 the Church appeared to die, and now the body (Rome) and the Soul (Tradition) have been split.  Everything was quiet and confused while Christ was in the tomb.  We now are just awaiting a beautiful Resurrection.  Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry is sound advice for our times.
    1 Corinthians: Chapter 13 "4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; 5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;"