The Anti-Christ's work has already been done, numerically speaking there are no Catholics living the faith.
QuoteThe Anti-Christ's work has already been done, numerically speaking there are no Catholics living the faith.
Even among the insignificant handful that go to the traditional mass you have a majority of the young that did not live through the 1960-1980's, and are living a superficial Catholic life like the Catholics of the 1950's, and the older Catholics have become comfortable with just having a mass. Scarcely even any real traditionalists are left, the majority go just for the mass.
I'm not sure I would want to determine who was a "real" Catholic and who was not. Might get a little subjective in some cases don't you think?
Let's say that a jobless single man of 42, for example, is telling a married man with 9 children that he is not a "real catholic" or a "superficial Catholic' because he is allowing or even encouraging his daugher to go to university?
Or the father of 9 attends the new mass but has, despite all the problems, managed to keep his family practicing the faith and saying the Rosary? While fully practicing families are not common in the Novus Ordo world I dare say they outnumber Traditionalists globally so I am not sure they can be written off.
You paint a gloomy picture. What would you suggest the solution is?
Should we just wait for the Chastisement?
..."Judging" matters not. The point is there are scarcely any Catholics left in the world, I doubt if 1% of the supposed 1 million baptized Catholics, live the faith and even their children have lost or are loosing the habit.
We are living in the time after the anti-Christ, the whole world has lost the faith, and nobody knows it.
There is no "solution", it has already happened. What you need to do is live the faith, and don't fall for the subterfuge.
What greater chastisement is there than that everyone has lost the faith? The entire world is going to hell, and the only people that could warn them, the Catholics and the Conciliar Church, have been teaching that everyone who is "good" is saved.
"...observe that Christ did not say that those were few in number who walked in the path to heaven, but that there were but few who found that narrow way...The path leading to heaven is so narrow and so rough, it is so overgrown, so dark and difficult to discern, that there are many who, their whole life long, never find it. And those who do find it are exposed constantly to the danger of deviating from it, of mistaking their way and unwittingly wandering away from it, because it is so irregular and overgrown." This St. Jerome says, in his commentary on the passage in question. Again, there are some who when they are on the right road, hasten to leave it, because it is so steep and toilsome. There are also many who are enticed to leave the narrow way by the wiles and deceits of the devil, and thus almost imperceptibly to themselves, are led downwards to hell. From all that has been said we may gather that those are but few in number who find the way to heaven, and yet fewer are those who persevere in following it unto the end."
; and those who live a careless life and indulge their senses are repeatedly warned that eternal death will be their portion. Listen to the admonition Christ addresses to the votaries of this world and the lovers of its luxuries: "Woe to you that are rich, for you have your consolation. Woe to you that are filled, for you shall hunger; woe to you that now laugh, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when men shall bless you," that is, when men of bad principles, opposed to the maxims of religion, applaud your words, your actions, your opinions. This denunciation from Our Lord's lips may well fill us with dismay. What object in life have the great majority of mankind? What is it that they strive after and crave for? They desire to be rich, to be prosperous, to live in luxury, and to be praised by their fellow men. Nobody considers this to be a sin. And yet Our Lord declares that everlasting death will be the doom of such persons, and He denounces them in forcible language.
St. Catherine Sienna: "O unhappy sinners, do not rely upon the greatness of God's mercy; believe me, the more you provoke the anger of this merciful God by willful sin, the deeper you will be cast into the abyss of perdition."
St. Gregory: "Let him who does all that he can, rely firmly upon the mercy of God. But for him who does not do all that lies within his power; to rely upon the mercy of God would be simple presumption."
Several of the Fathers of the Church consider that from the fact that at the time of the deluge only eight persons were saved, at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha only four - namely, Lot, his wife and his two daughters - escaped with their lives, and of the 600,000 able men who departed out of Egypt, not more than 2 reached the Promised Land, the others all dying in the desert, it may be concluded that the number of the elect amongst Christians will be proportionately small. This agrees with what St. John Chrysostom said on one occasion when he was preaching in the city of Antioch: "....
If thou wouldst be saved, follow the counsel of St. Anselm, when he says: "If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say: Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or by night, that they may attain everlasting felicity."
The Cause of Modernism: Proximate cause is a perversion of the mind...the remote causes are curiosity and pride....But it is pride which exercises an incomparable greater sway over the soul to blind it and plunge it into error, and pride sits in Modernism as in its own house...It is pride which fills the Modernist with that confidence in themselves and leads them to hold themselves up as the rule for all, pride which puffs them up with that vainglory which allows them to regard themselves as the sole possessors of knowledge, and makes them say, inflated with presumption, We are not as the rest of men....
When I read about how few are saved I get scared. I know I am not doing all I can to save my soul. Yes, I pray the rosary every day, 15 decades, and I attend the true Mass, but I do not dedicate the rest of my life to Christ. I know I do more than most people so I have a better chance than most, but if only like ten people in my city of 8 million who die above the age of reason are saved, what chance do I have even though I am better than most?
When I read about how few are saved I get scared. I know I am not doing all I can to save my soul. Yes, I pray the rosary every day, 15 decades, and I attend the true Mass, but I do not dedicate the rest of my life to Christ. I know I do more than most people so I have a better chance than most, but if only like ten people in my city of 8 million who die above the age of reason are saved, what chance do I have even though I am better than most?
The interesting thing is, the Protestants called practically every good pope an Antichrist: the popes that taught EENS, the popes that were doing their Catholic duty by trying to save the Protestants' souls..............
.....But now that the pope is an (or the) Anti-Christ, for he teaches the Protestants that they are OK where they are, no Protestants consider him to be the Antichrist.