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Traditional Catholic Faith => Crisis in the Church => Topic started by: TuAmigo on October 04, 2024, 07:21:03 PM
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When I stand before God at my particular judgement, I hope that I affirm the Catholic faith as the Nicene Creed concisely states it. More importantly, I hope that I joyfully accept any truth that my earthly ignorance prevented me from accepting in my earthly life.
If God reveals to you in your particular judgement that you were wrong in your understandings, such as God's approval of liturgical changes, papal authority, sedevacantism, etc., will you accept God's revelation or persist in your beliefs?
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If I meet God , I pray He has real mercy on me. I hope I make it to purgatory.
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If God reveals to you in your particular judgement that you were wrong in your understandings, such as God's approval of liturgical changes, papal authority, sedevacantism, etc., will you accept God's revelation or persist in your beliefs?
Do you yourself believe that God approved liturgical changes, as you mention above?
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Do you yourself believe that God approved liturgical changes, as you mention above?
Why are you asking this?
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If I meet God , I pray He has real mercy on me. I hope I make it to purgatory.
Viva Cristo Rey, my friend, I pray you, me, and everyone in this online forum, fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith as St. Paul told Timothy (2 Tim 4:7). Please pray for me and know you are in my prayers. :)
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" (2 Tim 4:7)
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Do you yourself believe that God approved liturgical changes, as you mention above?
Meg, sometimes I have a hard time understanding how those near and dear me feel on simple matters. ;)
Thus, I feel it would be unwise of me to try to guess how God feels about liturgical changes. Please pray for me.
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When I stand before God at my particular judgement, I hope that I affirm the Catholic faith as the Nicene Creed concisely states it. More importantly, I hope that I joyfully accept any truth that my earthly ignorance prevented me from accepting in my earthly life.
If God reveals to you in your particular judgement that you were wrong in your understandings, such as God's approval of liturgical changes, papal authority, sedevacantism, etc., will you accept God's revelation or persist in your beliefs?
When we stand before God at our particular judgement, we will be standing accused, naked and alone and in the presence of Truth itself. Then we will have no choice to make, our time for choosing was in this world. Now the judgement will be either for or against *all* of those choices we already made. Were those choices for or against the will of God? Now is the time, with God's help to figure it out. We have to run the race as if there is only one prize - and you mean to have it!
Fr. Wathen echoing St. Theresa: "...Among all the mysteries that we live amongst, is that of the fact that God saves those whom He wills. And yet those who are lost are lost because they will. No one is saved against his will and no one is damned against his will..."
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I don't know how many times at requiem Masses I've heard, or read Dies Irae, (https://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/DiesIrae.html) but it's still sobering every time.
THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day,
shall heaven and earth in ashes lay,
as David and the Sybil say.
What horror must invade the mind
when the approaching Judge shall find
and sift the deeds of all mankind!
The mighty trumpet's wondrous tone
shall rend each tomb's sepulchral stone
and summon all before the Throne.
Now death and nature with surprise
behold the trembling sinners rise
to meet the Judge's searching eyes.
Then shall with universal dread
the Book of Consciences be read
to judge the lives of all the dead.
For now before the Judge severe
all hidden things must plain appear;
no crime can pass unpunished here.
O what shall I, so guilty plead?
and who for me will intercede?
when even Saints shall comfort need?
O King of dreadful majesty!
grace and mercy You grant free;
as Fount of Kindness, save me!
Recall, dear Jesus, for my sake
you did our suffering nature take
then do not now my soul forsake!
In weariness You sought for me,
and suffering upon the tree!
let not in vain such labor be.
O Judge of justice, hear, I pray,
for pity take my sins away
before the dreadful reckoning day.
Your gracious face, O Lord, I seek;
deep shame and grief are on my cheek;
in sighs and tears my sorrows speak.
You Who did Mary's guilt unbind,
and mercy for the robber find,
have filled with hope my anxious mind.
How worthless are my prayers I know,
yet, Lord forbid that I should go
into the fires of endless woe.
Divorced from the accursed band,
o make me with Your sheep to stand,
as child of grace, at Your right Hand.
When the doomed can no more flee
from the fires of misery
with the chosen call me.
Before You, humbled, Lord, I lie,
my heart like ashes, crushed and dry,
assist me when I die.
Full of tears and full of dread
is that day that wakes the dead,
calling all, with solemn blast
to be judged for all their past.
Lord, have mercy, Jesus blest,
grant them all Your Light and Rest. Amen.