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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by Marulus Fidelis on Today at 02:32:18 AM »
P. S. The fact that you have only now been made aware of your marital situation and that your "priest" hasn't told you anything about the matter should be an indication of who is of the Truth.
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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by Marulus Fidelis on Today at 02:27:54 AM »
Quote from: StrivingCatholic on Today at 12:38:34 AM
The news of the church being so divided when Jesus promised that no gates of Hell will prevail against it, being told that there is no leadership or power in the Church that can lead the laity or deal with my annulment, or we can't even trust priests....all these show me (a novice Catholic) that the fruits produced pertaining to these are strife, confusion and dissent, that or Jesus lied when he said no gates of Hell will prevail against the Church.

All these confusion, anguish and turmoil I face now that I am at the position that I either have faith in what He promised, or if I am not careful, I fear I might just abandon it all together again. Somehow I find it hard to believe that despite the politics, the trials of the Church and the human errors within the Church, that God would leave the leadership unmanned. The damage cause by the divisions among the laity and the Church is very devastating, and souls get lost due to such fruits.

That would not be love and mercy at all if the Chair of St Peter is redundant now, and letting the laity float around lost in confusion, while having to deal with their own afflictions in their daily lives. This whole thing opened a whole new can of worms, so yes something is definitely not right here, unfortunately. :'(
Precisely because the gates of hell cannot prevail do we have to conclude that these impostors are not the hierarchy. 

You've used the term 'gates of Hell', but do you know what it means?

The gates fo Hell are defined as the "death-dealing tongues of heretics" or "the disputations of heretics".

If the Church were led by the notorious heretics leading the fake Novus Ordo Church, then that would mean the gates of Hell have prevailed.

But since that's impossible, the only possible conclusion is that they're not true popes and bishops of the Catholic Church.

With regard to the confusion, it's in line with the maxim "strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered". It's just more evidence of the shepherd being missing.

Regarding your idea that God wouldn't allow this to happen, that's just your feeling, and as they say, facts don't care about your feelings.

Father Edmund James O'Reilly, The Relations of the Church to Society - Theological Essays, 1882, Page 287-288: "The great schism of the West suggests to me a reflection which I take the liberty of expressing here. If this schism had not occurred, the hypothesis of such a thing happening would appear to many chimerical. They would say it could not be; God would not permit the Church to come into so unhappy a situation.Heresies might spring up and spread and last painfully long, through the fault and to the perdition of their authors and abettors, to the great distress too of the faithful, increased by actual persecution in many places where the heretics were dominant. But that Catholics should be divided on the question of who was Pontiff, that the true Church should remain between thirty and forty years without a thoroughly ascertained Head, and representative of Christ on earth, this would not be. Yet it has been and we have no guarantee that it will not be again, though we may fervently hope other wise. What I would infer is, that we must not be too ready to pronounce on what God may permit. We know with absolute certainty that He will fulfil His promises; that He will not allow anything to occur at variance with them; that He will sustain His Church and enable her to triumph over all enemies and difficulties ; [...] But we, or our successors in future generations of Christians, shall perhaps see stranger evils than have yet been experienced, even before the immediate approach of that great winding up of all things on earth that will precede the day of judgment. I am not setting up for a prophet, nor pretending to see unhappy wonders, of which I have no knowledge whatever. All I mean to convey is that contingencies regarding the Church, not excluded by the Divine promises, cannot be regarded as practically impossible, because they would be terrible and distressing in a very high degree."
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Politics and World Leaders / Re: "doesn't exist here"
« Last post by Godefroy on Today at 02:16:39 AM »
The constitution has been applied arbitrarily since almost the very start. The United States lasted from 1776 to 1861. Since then it has become a messianic enterprise that regards the rest of the world with the same disdain as it regarded the american indians, who had the misfortune of simply existing in the territories that protestants coveted. 
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The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers / Re: Newly Baptised and Struggling
« Last post by StrivingCatholic on Today at 12:38:34 AM »
Quote from: St Giles on Yesterday at 12:01:28 PM
Don't lose hope. It's only another trial. All is worth it for an eternity with the infinite God. I have to say, I'm baffled by this recent development. Something just doesn't seem right. Surely there's some resolution in this current crisis in the church. Perhaps some sort of supplied jurisdiction for the case of this marriage to be judged if the authority of the apostates in Rome can't be trusted.

Read up on Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, his letters, speeches, sermons, and also Bishop Antonio de Castro Meyer. It's incredible they persevered against the Pope and their colleagues, but they knew they were thoroughly backed by the truth of Tradition.

God has brought you this far, even to this forum, don't stop now.

"But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?"
The news of the church being so divided when Jesus promised that no gates of Hell will prevail against it, being told that there is no leadership or power in the Church that can lead the laity or deal with my annulment, or we can't even trust priests....all these show me (a novice Catholic) that the fruits produced pertaining to these are strife, confusion and dissent, that or Jesus lied when he said no gates of Hell will prevail against the Church.

All these confusion, anguish and turmoil I face now that I am at the position that I either have faith in what He promised, or if I am not careful, I fear I might just abandon it all together again. Somehow I find it hard to believe that despite the politics, the trials of the Church and the human errors within the Church, that God would leave the leadership unmanned. The damage cause by the divisions among the laity and the Church is very devastating, and souls get lost due to such fruits.

That would not be love and mercy at all if the Chair of St Peter is redundant now, and letting the laity float around lost in confusion, while having to deal with their own afflictions in their daily lives. This whole thing opened a whole new can of worms, so yes something is definitely not right here, unfortunately. :'(
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Politics and World Leaders / Re: "doesn't exist here"
« Last post by Viva Cristo Rey on Today at 12:11:03 AM »
For this communist luciferian judge to say that the second amendment doesn’t exist is criminal.  
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Politics and World Leaders / AZ senate candidate's abortion ad
« Last post by Geremia on Yesterday at 11:31:02 PM »
Quote from: Geremia on April 11, 2024, 12:49:11 PM

U.S. Senate candidate Gallego's anti-Lake ad actually portrays her positively (considering her recent abortion backpedaling):
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Politics and World Leaders / Terrisa Bukovinac for President 2024
« Last post by Geremia on Yesterday at 11:25:43 PM »
https://terrisa2024.com
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The Library / Re: Writings of the saints and lives of the saints
« Last post by kerrysky on Yesterday at 11:07:56 PM »
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Crisis in the Church / Re: St Teresa de Avila
« Last post by Twice dyed on Yesterday at 11:03:30 PM »

St Teresa of Avila:
her given name was Teresa Ali Fatima Corella Sanchez de Capeda y Ahumada.
One of the most inspiring saints.
Here is one of her sayings: 'May God protect me from gloomy saints'
or, near the end of her life, being paralysed and ill, seeking solitude: ' Prayer is an act of love, words are not necessary'.
So as a general rule in this sickly society: the media will announce something stupid, and some will lose the Faith...It's very common. I saw a web site announcing that the Blessed Virgin Mary was God!
Pray. 

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Funny Stuff for Catholics / Re: Can you name the band (without searching)?
« Last post by Seraphina on Yesterday at 10:46:31 PM »
No idea!  I don’t understand what this song is talking about.  An army in disguise?  
What genre of music is it?
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