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Offline SeanJohnson

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The Last Catholic
« on: July 06, 2019, 06:03:48 PM »
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  • The 2003 movie The Last Samurai is about the battle for the Church at and aftere Vatican II.

    Here is the cast:

    Katsumoto = Archbishop Lefebvre (Fighting to retain the old traditions of Japan against dissolving Western modernism)

    The Emperor = Poep Benedict XVI (Love tradition, but loves modernism more)

    The Samurai = the old SSPX (Committed to fighting modernism)

    The Imperial Army = Conciliar bishops (Committed to fighting Tradition)

    Omura = Freemasaonry (The driving force beehind the modernist bishops/Imperial Army)


    More parallels:

    1) The narrator says (in Tom Cruise's voice): "I am surprised to learn that Katsumoto believes himself to be fighting in the service of the emperor," just asa Archbishop Lefebvre believed himself to be the best friend of the conciliar popes (for recalling them to their senses), while they in turn viewed him as an attacking enemy.

    2) Modern Japan (conciliar "catholicism") triumphed over the samurai (SSPX), and ever since then, first by having dealings with Western modernism in the late 1800's, and particularly after the death blow of WWII, Japan has been irreparably severed from its traditions, and the way of the samurai now exists in that country only as history/nostalgia.

    Conversely, after the death of Katsumoto/Archbishop Lefebvre, modernism conquered the Samurai/SSPX because it too loved modernism more than tradition.  The death blow awaits them, but they are already inextricably bound to that fate.

    3) After the defeat of the SSPX/Ssamurai, a few leaderless Ronin (Tom Cruise and other unknown survivors) wander about, retaining Tradition on their own, but with no real hopes of restoration.

    That is where the parallels end, because the visible society of samurai was not divinely protected by indefectability and the four marks (particularly visibility).

    That visibility is still retained in Tradition (SAJM, Avrille, Santa Cruz, MCSPX, et al), while the pilot light which was the SSPX shares the same fate as the samurai:

    It was not the SSPX which was indefectible, but the Church, and because the SSPX is leaving Tradition, its light and time are passing, as it is steadily dissolved into conciliarism.
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


    Offline Kazimierz

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    Re: The Last Catholic
    « Reply #1 on: July 07, 2019, 02:21:15 PM »
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  • A very interesting analogy. :)

    Brings to mind a line from the first Star wars movie (Samurai and Victor Charlie in spaaaace!)

    "Their (the Jedi) fire has gone out in the universe." So the SSPX within Catholicism.

    Menzigen, a wretched hive of scuм and villiany, we must be cautious."
    Da pacem Domine in diebus nostris
    Qui non est alius
    Qui pugnet pro nobis
    Nisi  tu Deus noster