The Crisis in the Church, The Causes - The Remedies
Conference at Montreal, originally in French Oct. 21 ?, 1992
Incomplete.
These are simply my personal Notes, as I listened to an old audio cassette, and not official.
The second half of the tape:
The Four Remedies :
1. Fundamental principle, unescapable, is to fully grasp that the solution to the present Crisis, to return / restoration, one must use Supernatural means: the Faith: without Faith it is impossible to please God. Faith must be total. You cannot possibly have half of the Faith. There are IMMENSE errors in the Church today!! There is only ONE Faith!, it is the Catholic Faith. A supernatural Faith. The hierarchy must watch, and proclaim the entire Faith. God so wills it.
Different levels:
Hierarchical ...the teaching Church It is a role of the Church. The deposit of the faith was confided to Her, and no one else. She must proclaim clearly, absolutely, heroically if necessary, all the Faith. In order to maintain the purity of the doctrines, sanctions are sometimes necessary.
Level of the Faithful: to adhere to the catechisms pre Vat. II. Believe wholeheartedly ALL the truths.
2. Grace: What is the Church? It is Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lord continued, diffused in time and in space. Simply...that's it. She carries the mission of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to save mankind. Supernatural order is needed: by Faith and by Grace. This the Church must do.
Sanctifying grace promised to mankind, firstly by the Sacraments.
" As far as this concerns the Hierarchy as a means of a remedy to the crisis, the Hierarchy must be vigilant, an apply the utmost vigilance as to the VALIDITY OF THE SACRAMENTS. A valid sacrament requires three things: the Form, the Matter, and the Intention of the minister of the sacrament. - three things that must be kept absolutely.!
When we examine today's Sacraments, it is clear that we must return to Forms which exclude any ambiguity, any ambiguity that possibly allow error to creep in; and then to its invalidity. We must take absolutely valid rites."
And the faithful must remove obstacles that would diminish the effects of the sacraments.
3. The Cross
What is a Catholic? Someone who signs himself with the Sign of the Cross. Prots despise this. Sign of the Cross sends a message that one is identified with the Cross of Jesus, fixed, planted. The Spirit of Sacrifice. Our Lord lived principally for His Cross. Union with the Cross. Mass is not a banquet. Do not only assist at Mass, participate, so as to have a part in the Sacrifice.
St Augustine: [ Augustine begins his discussion in x. 5 by making a distinction between the exterior sacrifice (offered in the public cult) and the interior sacrifice (the offering of oneself to God in the human heart). The relationship between them is one of sign to thing signified.]
per Ipsum, et cuм Ispo, et in Ipso...in union with this Sacrifice.
No restauration without this Sacrifice.
4. Our Lady
Crusher of all heresies.
Genesis 3 , God announces Our Lady.
Apocalypse - Signum Magnum again refers to Our Lady.
This is surely the worst crisis in the history of the Church. Thus we must practice Marian devotion. Our Lady constantly warns mankind of punishments: La Salette, Fatima etc.
Pray the Rosary. Pope St. Pius X recommends it. Who venerates Our Lady, it is a sign of predilection. Necessity to venerate Our Lady. When St. Elizabeth greeted Mary, what did Our Lady do? She announces God with Her most sublime Magnificat, really the best praise.
Our Lady told Sister Lucy that devotion to the Immaculate Heart is the LAST help God gives to the world. The LAST!!
What about + Huonder?, "Ordinary Rite of Mass?? etc etc.
Pray!