Author Topic: Critical point about Why the Resistance (Read 4901 times)

Matthew · « **on:** September 24, 2013, 06:35:16 AM »

Have you thought to yourself, "What good does it do to begin resisting NOW rather than waiting till later, when things are more obviously bad?"

Just look at Vatican II.

Some people left in disgust right away, and immediately began forming the "Traditional Movement". They were willing to give up their "normal" parish life, etc. for the sake of keeping the Catholic Faith, which was being changed/attacked by the Modernism in the form of the New Mass and the new religion being preached.

Other people, however, who were apparently "stronger", stuck it out. How did they fare?

Some eventually got disgusted with the Church itself, and ceased being Catholic. Others were assimilated into the new religion -- today they are indistinguishable from Protestants in their beliefs, morals, and culture.

So they went from "over-trusting" the Church authorities, to abandoning the Church altogether. Such is the frailty of human nature. We must not let that happen to ourselves, or to those we love in the SSPX.

Those who calmly and rationally rejected the first changes turned out to be the more balanced, and the ones taking the safer road.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #1 on:** September 24, 2013, 07:25:44 AM »

You forgot the other group. We grew up questioning the Church about hypocrisy and modernism. The hippie like mushy stuff like holding hands and raising them in the air.

We wanted to remain "Catholic" and not go to atheism, Protestantism, new age or, Wicca like our peers.

We didn't know about sspx, cmri. Etc.

Dana · « **Reply #2 on:** September 24, 2013, 07:28:51 AM »

If not for the Grace of God and the efforts of those first Catholics who "resisted" in the wake of Vatican II, the Catholic Church would not be with us in the traditional sense it is today. How blessed we are to have been given persons with the guts to do the "right" things. The actions of Bp. Thuc, Abp. Lefebvre, Fr. DePauw, Fr. McNamara and many others allowed for pockets of very good Catholics to survive in some very "bad" places in the world.

We ought to pray very much in thanksgiving, and continue the Catholic example shown to us by our Fathers. In the midst of great adversity, sometimes guts is the greatest asset of all, (after the Faith of course).

Tiffany · « **Reply #3 on:** September 24, 2013, 07:42:01 AM »

Quote from: Viva Cristo Rey

You forgot the other group. We grew up questioning the Church about hypocrisy and modernism. The hippie like mushy stuff like holding hands and raising them in the air.

We wanted to remain "Catholic" and not go to atheism, Protestantism, new age or, Wicca like our peers.

We didn't know about sspx, cmri. Etc.

That was me in RCIA. Wanted to be Catholic but was repulsed by the new age, moral relativism they were teaching.

Unbrandable · « **Reply #4 on:** September 24, 2013, 10:04:07 AM »

I think we should also resist NOW to "make a statement" - to show that we know what they're up to, we won't obey blindly, and that we don't agree with this new direction of the SSPX.

If we don't openly resist, they'll interpret it to mean that we accept and agree with all they're doing, and we don't.