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Offline Cantarella

Re: Eleison Comments - Prison Survival (no. 549)
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2018, 11:42:23 PM »
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Possess nothing, be detached from everything, and you will have the calm and freedom of mind to judge serenely of people and circuмstances.

This is very good. It applies to earthly life in general. Not only prison. "When God wants to attract a soul to Himself, He begins by inspiring in him the emptiness and nothingness of created things and a distaste for the world".

The Christian vocation is first of all a grace of separation from the world. Christian perfection is death to the world!
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Offline Clemens Maria

Re: Eleison Comments - Prison Survival (no. 549)
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2018, 09:04:33 PM »
Quote from: Cantarella on January 21, 2018, 11:42:23 PM
This is very good. It applies to earthly life in general. Not only prison. "When God wants to attract a soul to Himself, He begins by inspiring in him the emptiness and nothingness of created things and a distaste for the world".

The Christian vocation is first of all a grace of separation from the world. Christian perfection is death to the world!
Yes, we are reminded of this when we meditate on the Third Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary.  We can follow St Louis de Montfort’s method and pray through the mystery and by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the grace of contempt for the world.
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Offline victim of the sspx

Re: Eleison Comments - Prison Survival (no. 549)
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2018, 09:11:06 PM »
Quote from: Clemens Maria on January 22, 2018, 09:04:33 PM
Yes, we are reminded of this when we meditate on the Third Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary.  We can follow St Louis de Montfort’s method and pray through the mystery and by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the grace of contempt for the world.
On the one hand you claim to be motivated by "Love", on the other you want to have "Contempt" for the world.
Is this a "love hate" relationship to the rest of humanity then?
Is that why so many of you are single into your 40s and 50s?
Is that why you wont bother trying to convert people outside your trusted circle in the chapel?
Because you have "CONTEMPT" for the world? What did the people do to deserve your "CONTEMPT"?
Is it jealousy against people who are happy? Does the church exist to make everyone miserable supremacists living in a straitjacket whose inner frustration makes them anti social people with personalities of sugar hiding a psyche full of acid?
Contempt for the world. Disgusting belief. Hideous people. Sociopaths. Narcissists advocate this.
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Offline 1st Mansion Tenant

Re: Eleison Comments - Prison Survival (no. 549)
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2018, 03:43:02 AM »



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On the one hand you claim to be motivated by "Love", on the other you want to have "Contempt" for the world.
Is this a "love hate" relationship to the rest of humanity then?
Is that why so many of you are single into your 40s and 50s?
Is that why you wont bother trying to convert people outside your trusted circle in the chapel?
Because you have "CONTEMPT" for the world? What did the people do to deserve your "CONTEMPT"?
Is it jealousy against people who are happy? Does the church exist to make everyone miserable supremacists living in a straitjacket whose inner frustration makes them anti social people with personalities of sugar hiding a psyche full of acid?
Contempt for the world. Disgusting belief. Hideous people. Sociopaths. Narcissists advocate this.
I think you may be confused by the secular usage of the word contempt vs the way it is used in Catholic writings to describe a certain type of detachment from the things of this world in favor of things holy. The height of Catholic perfection is to obtain the grace to love God above all things, therefore to consider things of this world unimportant except as means to obtain heaven. Thus the phrase "contempt for the world". You might have come across this idea when you were considering a life of monasticism but using a different term.
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Offline Incredulous

Re: Eleison Comments - Prison Survival (no. 549)
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2018, 09:55:12 AM »
Quote from: 1st Mansion Tenant on January 21, 2018, 10:21:52 PM
H.E. must think time is getting very close.

Glad you mentioned this.

I pondered it a bit, after having not thought about the FEMA camps for awhile.

It is a good theme to consider for a Holy Lent.

I hope Bp. Williamson will give us more spiritual pep talks and consolations on the subject.

As HE says, martyrdom is the fastest escalator to Heaven.  

I just fear I will blow the opportunity, if & when my time comes.  :pray:
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