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How many places can you find in Scripture where it is to be seen the following doctrine?
"It is very hard for such as have
apostatized from the Faith,
after having received many graces,
to return again to the happy state
from whence they fell."
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Some say it is well-nigh impossible.
Certainly, one cannot be re-baptized so as to achieve such a return!
For it is obviously impossible for such as have fallen after Baptism,
to be again baptized.
That may have been the sense traditionally viewed in the main, for
such Scriptural material, however, now IN THE LIGHT OF VATICAN II..
(that is, properly understood! -- the "light of Vat.II" shows
us the BAD FRUIT and by the bad fruit we can know them)
..We have some adjustments to make!
No longer may we get away with extracting only the principle of
no re-baptism; while it is very true, it is nonetheless inadequate
in this faithless generation!
For now, it is well-nigh totally out of the question to expect
the wholesale re-conversion of a truly anti-Church as a whole
and likewise of its leading proponents, and this we can base
on Holy Scripture itself.
Therefore, the words of +W in his recent EC (last week) in
which he touches on the latent hope of Rome's conversion, and
this week where he states that he has been lying low for a year
in wait for such prospects, yet none are forthcoming: "...to
watch and wait to see how things would develop within the
SSPX, but they are not getting any better, alas," are to be
better understood,
IN THE LIGHT OF VATICAN II!!
He could easily quote St. Paul as he is often wont to do, but
perhaps he's waiting for a more powerful moment:
"For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated,
have tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of
the Holy Ghost, have moreover tasted the good word of God,
and the powers of the world to come, and are fallen away: to
be renewed again to penance, crucifying again
themselves to the Son of God, and making him a mockery."
One foreign language translation of this Scripture lends an
interesting touch to it here:
"As for those people who were once brought into the light,
and tasted the gift from heaven, and received a share of the
Holy Spirit [should be 'Ghost'], and appreciated the good
message of God and the powers of the world to come and
yet in spite of this have fallen away -- it is impossible for
them to be renewed a second time" (Heb. vi. 4-6).
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One is also reminded of the admonition of Our Lord in Matt.
xii. 43-45: "And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a
man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and
findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house
from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty,
swept, and garnished. Then he goeth, and taketh with him
seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they
enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is
made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this
wicked generation."
If one good turn deserves another, then why would not one
unclean spirit deserve seven more? And if Our Lord's words
duly apply to our age, and I propose that they do, why would
not His terminology be equally apropos: the unclean spirit
of Vatican II?
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It is incuмbent upon good Catholics in this time of conspicuous
apostasy to remain unconditionally loyal to the Faith of our
Fathers, and to unconditionally love the Church. For as there
is no salvation outside the Church, so too, our loyalty and
fealty to God demands that we brook no restraint in our love
for his One, True Church.