When we stand before God, face to face, I believe with all my heart, He will not ask us what we thought of the man sitting in the chair of Peter. He will ask us, "DID YOU KEEP THE FAITH" and "What did you do with your life".
These Catholic who dare to tear down each other because they are SSPX, or Sedevacantist are doing the work of the devil.
When we stand before God, face to face, I believe with all my heart, He will not ask us what we thought of the man sitting in the chair of Peter. He will ask us, "DID YOU KEEP THE FAITH" and "What did you do with your life".
These Catholic who dare to tear down each other because they are SSPX, or Sedevacantist are doing the work of the devil.
Malleus
Thanks for the prayers, things at my home continue to decline. My husband who has always been the head of our family is now confused, with tumors throughout his body, bone, lungs, and now the brain. He has no chance according to the doctors. So I must adjust to my new roll, that is being his authority now, because he is slipping away daily.
Also I have my mom age 97, living with me, who is suffering from heart failure, so she too can go to her eternity at any time.
Please don't feel sorry for me, just pray for me to be strong enough to handle this heavy cross. My adult children live all around me, just minutes away, so I have it much better than many other who have had to step up to the plate.
Belloc, yes, cancer, treatment of radiation to ease the bone cancer pain, pain meds that make him sleepy, but bone cancer is very painful, and I can't stand to see him in that much pain. The pain meds, help me because at least I can watch him sleep instead of struggle with pain.
Please pray that the devil will not tempt him at the end, and that he will skip purgatory. That is my prayer for him.
Please pray that the devil will not tempt him at the end, and that he will skip purgatory. That is my prayer for him.
Quote from: MyrnaMPlease pray that the devil will not tempt him at the end, and that he will skip purgatory. That is my prayer for him.
Here is something I posted in another thread, which may console you as it would explain why Our Lord in His infinite wisdom and clement providence, has allowed your husband to undergo such unspeakable horrors: tribulations which you and your family share:
A Catholic who is noteworthy in the annals compiled by historians and lived a millennium or so ago may still be in Purgatory right now if he died in the state of grace but had one mortal sin or more duly absolved but for which he could not atone or make reparation.
Remember that Our Lady of the Rosary at Fatima told the shepherd children that a departed peer of theirs was to burn in Purgatory until Doomsday: what could a young girl in the rural countryside of one of the most Catholic countries in Europe (at that time) have done to deserve such a severe sentence?
One mortal sin alone, though duly absolved, according to St. Gertrude the Great and other Saints, can lead to a soul's imprisonment amidst the flames of Purgatory until Doomsday, for the malice of one mortal sin is infinite as it is an affront to the infinite sanctity and majesty of Our Lord, and the infinite graces He won for us during His Sacred Passion and distributed by the pure hands of the great Mother of God, the Mediatress of All Graces.
The just soul itself, separated from the body and immediately apprehending all things in the light of God's wisdom, would plunge itself in the flames of Purgatory as long as it takes before it is pure and worthy enough to appear before the Lord God whom it loves and for whom it yearns with all its energies. This same love and yearning serve to intensify the pains and purification of Purgatory all the more, because the soul at once loves God and yearns for His beatific embrace, and yet detests the stains of sin and longs to be thoroughly cleansed therefrom, making Purgatory a willing debt to be paid but with great pain and love.
However, such a soul does not merit thereby, because at death the soul cannot merit or demerit anymore. Purgatory is to be avoided by cultivating the interior life unto the ever-persevering progression through the purifying trials that are the threshold of the illuminative and unitive ways of the spiritual life: it is the life of mystical prayer which is the presage of heavenly beatitude and the state of the Saints' souls at death, who immediately transverse from this sublunary prison unto the celestial eternities of the beatific vision. This is the normal development of the life of prayer and grace, according to the teaching of Sts. Thomas Aquinas and John of the Cross, amongst others, as explained by such eminent theologians as Rev. Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
Like the holy Martyrs whose horrendous tortures served to purify their senses and souls and enter into the mystical ways of prayer and grace as they were being executed, so the victims of such devastating illnesses such as cancer are given the opportunity to hasten unto a more intense life of prayer and grace.
Even if the person cannot but say the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, such devout acts in the midst of terrifying pains will be a Purgatory upon earth.
Just pray at his side every day, and read to him from the works of the Saints and other approved authors. This will also serve as an illustrious example for your children and their families.
With my own eyes I have seen how much fruit such a practice has borne, so that to this day the children of the families of the dying matriarchs and patriarchs of our family remember the prayers and spiritual readings that my parents offered by their bedsides.
As for the thread, I agree with Malleus and Myrna. God is not going to ask us on Judgement Day whether or not we thought these Popes were true Popes, but instead He will ask us if we kept the Faith. Very well said, Myrna.
Some SSPXers and sedevacantists spend too much time arguing, as if the issue of a Pope is more important than the Faith itself. I don't mind discussions of the subject, but I have said before that such discussions can be a distraction.
I'm also against sedes who spend their time smearing Archbishop LeFebvre just because he wasn't a sede. He wasn't perfect, but he should be given credit just for having the courage to defend Tradition, just as all others at the time who defended Tradition should also be given their due credit, instead of being judged on whether or not they thought the Chair was empty.
Malleus
Thanks for the prayers, things at my home continue to decline. My husband who has always been the head of our family is now confused, with tumors throughout his body, bone, lungs, and now the brain. He has no chance according to the doctors. So I must adjust to my new roll, that is being his authority now, because he is slipping away daily.
Also I have my mom age 97, living with me, who is suffering from heart failure, so she too can go to her eternity at any time.
Please don't feel sorry for me, just pray for me to be strong enough to handle this heavy cross. My adult children live all around me, just minutes away, so I have it much better than many other who have had to step up to the plate.
Belloc, yes, cancer, treatment of radiation to ease the bone cancer pain, pain meds that make him sleepy, but bone cancer is very painful, and I can't stand to see him in that much pain. The pain meds, help me because at least I can watch him sleep instead of struggle with pain.
Please pray that the devil will not tempt him at the end, and that he will skip purgatory. That is my prayer for him.