This is bound to get me some thumbs down from people, but I just gotta say I can't help but notice that in Frs. Pheiffer and Chazal's sermons about the crisis, and Fr. Voight's essay, they use the words "attack, kill, die" and the like very often when describing the way they have been treated by +F and others. These sound kind of hyperbolic to me when you are discussing actions which ( though they are understandably hurtful, angering, etc.) do not involve actual physical violence. When they speak of the higher-ups in the SSPX of trying to kill them, or telling them they must die, etc, it sounds a tad over the top. I get that they mean this figuratively, spiritually, or in the realm of their Priesthood , but if some one didn't quite know what was going on, well... just sayin'
It makes it seem like they are afraid to start their cars in the morning...
A lot of people don't quite know what's been going on. That's the problem.
These sermons and letters and conference talks are being given in an attempt
to wake up the slumbering complacent sheep who are not up to speed. If we
do not prepare ourselves for the imminent chastisement, we will be caught
unawares, if not by the physical, worldwide events soon to transpire, but
perhaps then by our own personal death that comes before that time. The
evil never sleeps, and it has become evident that he is 'pulling out the stops'
gearing up for some major push in the world, similar to what has happened
so any times in the past.
Will it be WWIII? A world wide banking collapse? Famine? Natural disasters?
Plague? Riots? Revolution? Any combination thereof? Who knows? But something
is in the works, and these good priests are trying to prepare us, at least
spiritually.
Attack, kill and
die are themes not unheard of in the history of the Church.
The faith has been
attacked, and martyrs have been
killed when they
die for
the Faith.
Are you aware that it is now becoming
illegal in Germany to say things like
"attack" or "kill" or "die" in public? Maybe you'll be happier because of that
new law. Maybe you helped to write the legislation. Are you trying to promote
the idea that it's okay to persecute priests for speaking like St. Athanasius or
St. John Chrysostom?
Just because they use these words does not mean they are "afraid" of anything.
That's your own subjective interpretation, not to be found in their words, but
yours.
The truth shall make you free. (Jn viii. 32)
Remember the lines of the traditional hymn, Faith of our Fathers:
Faith of our fathers living still,
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword,
Oh, how our hearts beat high with joy
When e'er we hear that glorious word.
Faith of our fathers, holy faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
Our fathers chained in prisons dark
Were still in heart and conscience free.
How sweet would be their children's fate,
If they, like them, could die for thee:
Faith of our fathers, holy faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
Faith of our fathers, we will strive
To win all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
Mankind shall then indeed be free.
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
[Someone wrote in a replacement 3rd verse on a copy I have:]
Faith of our fathers! Mary's prayers
Shall keep our country fast to thee;
And thro' the truth that comes from God,
Oh, we shall prosper and be free!
Faith of our fathers, holy faith,
We will be true to thee till death.
[interesting comment left on that website page:]
Nov. 7, 2010 Bruce A. Wilson Charleston, WV, United States This hymn was written in celebration of the Catholic Emancipation Act, by which it became legal for the first time since the Reformation for Roman Catholics to worship openly in England. The bit about 'our father's chained in prisons dark' -- nobody had gone to prison for a while just for being Catholic, but there would have been English Catholics who were old enough to have remembered stories from their childhoods of it having happened to people of the immediately preceding generation.
Source:
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/830#ixzz2A9OEHezoThere's nothing new under the sun. It's already happened before, in England,
even. People were killed there for being Catholic. St. Edmund Campion was
hanged, drawn and quartered, for what? For traveling in secret, when it was
against the law to do so, to give "missions" and say Mass, baptize, hear
confessions, bring viaticuм to the sick, Extreme Unction to the dying, against
the legitimate authority of the state, because it was all illegal to do these things.
And now, as we speak, it is once again becoming illegal to do these things. Why?
Because if traditional priests were in 'conformity with the law' they would be doing
what the tyrant in Menzingen dictates, making accommodation with error. You
start on that slippery slope, and there is "no end to the things" (EC 275) you will
learn to do to accommodate error.
This is how
Modernism, "the sewer of all heresies" (Fr. Pfeiffer's 10-21) gets under
your skin and becomes part of you, without your knowing it. It's part of the air
we breath in 2012, because it
has been so for 50, 60 or 70 years, already. One of
the symptoms of
this spiritual disease is, you don't know you're infected. It's not
going away, any time soon, if ever. Perhaps Our Lady can do something to slow
it down for a while, but the mystery of iniquity will one day consummate the
history of the world when the pride of satan will attempt to usurp the authority of
God Himself. And it might not be all that too far off..............................
Topic: Fr. Pfeiffer Sermon "New Theology of St. Pius X" 102112 (Read 4186 times)