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Fr. Pfeiffer, 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Aug. 18th, 2013, St. Mary's KS
Truth vs. Lies, 9 Trads were cured and went to hell, one Protestant was
cured and went to heaven.
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The leper has some good skin and some leprous skin,
and he has a mix of good and bad skin. Likewise, one
who has leprousy of the Faith believes some truth and
he believes some heresy, and the two are mixed.
At the Synod of Pistoia, some believed that only that
which was defined must be believed, but that was not
true, and the Synod of Pistoia was condemned.
There are no
obiter dicta in Sacred Scripture.
At the time of St. Augustine there was no word "heresy"
so he said that any falsehood is a leprosy.
What do modern idiots say? "You must distinguish
between heresy and non-heresy!" Speaking to Bishop
Tissier only a few weeks ago, Fr. Hewko and myself:
what did he say? "Religious liberty is a heresy" is what
we said to him. He said, "No, it's not. It's not a heresy.
It's only an error against the Faith." Now, what happens?
First of all, it IS a heresy. But let's suppose {for sake of
discussion} that it's
'only an error against the Faith'. If you believe that which is an error against the Faith,
claiming that it's not a heresy, what happens? You are in
the state of mortal sin. You are with the devil and you
are on the path to hell.
When we consider also, look at the lie, when it was
commanded
many times as with St. Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc was
not told to believe in a heresy, she was only told to deny
the truth. And what truth? The truth that St. Michael,
and St. Catherine and the other saints appeared to her,
it was not about the Faith directly. It was only a private
revelation. And the private revelation was not even for
all men; it was to charge here, and to do that, and it
wasn't even important things in the big scheme of things,
but because Joan of Arc lied - that's the truth, she lied;
she lied because she was afraid of the fire. And she lied,
only once, and she signed a paper saying "I did not see
Michael, I did not hear the angels, I did not speak to the
saints, I was deceived by the devil. And when she said
those words, she lied. And what would have happened
to her if she had not recanted from that one lie? She
would be in hell right now. And how long would she be
in hell? Forever.
But she took it back; she said it was a lie; she said "I
said falsely, and the truth is, I did speak with St.
Michael, I did speak with the saints, and therefore this
is the truth, and even if the bishop tells me I must tell a
lie, and if the priests tell me I must tell a lie, or else they
will condemn me to die the death of a heretic, let them
condemn me to die the death of a heretic: I will not lie.
And when she took back the lie, and recanted the lie,
the Blessed Virgin appeared to her: you have saved
yourself, and you will now have the victory of martyrdom.
But when you signed that paper, you signed your own
damnation.
To believe a lie is to believe unto damnation.
Now, what has happened in the Society of St. Pius X, and
in the modern tradition, with modern Catholics in not only
the last 50 years, but the last 150 or 200 years? They
have taken in erroneous doctrines - they have allowed
leprosy into the Church, and they have NOT KEPT THE
LEPERS AFAR OFF.
St. Augustine says, the lepers are kept afar off, and when
the lepers want to be forgiven, what do they do? St.
Augustine says, The Church abhors leprosy.
The Church abhors the leper because with every leper,
there is both truth and lies, and the leprosy lives. He says,
when there is a cancer inside the stomach, what happens?
We die. But the leper lives a long time. And he spreads
his leprosy, and his leprosy he is proud of, he shows it to
all men. He says, when you are normally sick, it's inside
of your belly, it's inside of your heart, it's inside of your
internal organs and others cannot see the sickness, and
these "sicknesses" are taken away by the sacrament of
Penance, by Confession.
Leprosy is on the skin. And leprosy is shown to others,
And leprosy spreads like a contagion. And leprosy always
has the mixture of truth and lies.
And so, what happens?
We expose ourselves to those that teach erroneous
doctrine. Does it matter if it is called heresy by the Church,
or if it is erroneous doctrine that is called proxima heresy,
or that it's erroneous doctrine that is called error in
philosophy or insonorous to pious ears? These doctrines
are always erroneous, and are sinful if we believe them,
knowing that they are contrary to the teaching of the
Fathers, contrary to the teaching of the Church, contrary
to the truth. It is always sinful, and when they are sins
that are about the Faith, it will always lead to eternal
damnation, and not only for ourselves but for others.
If we know they are erroneous and we believe
them anyway, it is a sin. What do SSPX priests say today
about the error of evolution? They say: "Well, the
Church didn't say that Charles Darwin was a heretic."
You won't find any definition that says, if anyone says
that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs can get married, let him be anathema.
There is no definition that proclaims that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs
cannot save their souls as ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs. There is no
definition that says you cannot space your children.
It says nowhere in Denzinger that we must believe in
Purgatory. Do we believe in Purgatory? Yes, we do. You
don't believe in Purgatory, you go to hell.
{I have heard modern priests proclaim with apparent
authority that Purgatory is not
de fide and we are not
required to believe in its existence.}
Error is error and it is the greatest abomination in any man
who loves the truth.
Pope Urban VI said, "If any man who says that the sun
does not move about the earth, let him be anathema."
If any man says that the sun does not go in its orbit
aroundthe earth, as it is said in Sacred Scripture, let him
be anathema, and this is heresy! That is what the Church
defined in 1616 and repeated again in 1632, and we hear,
"Well, they didn't think the word 'heresy' meant heresy
back then."
But that's what the Church says. Pagans are accepting it.
Scientists are accepting it. But Catholics today will not.
The truth is the truth. To deny the truth is to deny God.
You cannot deny the truth that the Catholic Church did
say, as one example only, that to deny that Joshua made
the sun stand still, which Fr. Foscarini did, in the First
Sunday of Advent, 1615, in his sermon in northern Italy
-- if any man says that this is not a real fact, and it was
only speaking according to appearances, let him be
anathema.
Because, when we attack the truth, what happens? All
truth is destroyed!
And now, we're afraid -- we say, I'm only going to believe
in the infallible truths -- and that is why Bishop Fellay tells
Fr. Gruhn, back in the 1990's, "You cannot publish your
book against evolution, which I gave you permission to
write." He gave him permission to write it because he
thought he never would. But Fr. Grün, the German priest,
Fr. Johannes Grün, I was stationed with him in Ridgefield,
Connecticut, he wrote the book! He didn't expect him to
finish it, and so "You can't publish it." "Why can't I publish
it??" "Because I don't want the Society of St. Pius X's
name on FUNDAMENTALISM.
{It sounds to me like HEBF was already thinking in terms of
BRANDING the Society in 2009!}
So, to believe that God created the world as He said he
created it -- which St. Thomas tells us (and St. Thomas
was a pretty smart guy!) the St. Thomas that is said to be
the Doctor of the Church, THE Doctor of doctors, THE
Teacher of teachers, and St. Thomas tells us, we cannot
know about the origin of the earth, EXCEPT by divine
revelation! It is only by faith that we can know! We can
observe the trees and with our own eyes, and see whether it
has leaves or whether it has a trunk {and what its cellular
structure is, and its DNA, and how it grows and reproduces,
etc.}, but we cannot know the first tree. We cannot know
the origin of trees unless God reveals to us the origin of
trees, and He didn't have to reveal it, but He did. We can
know that He created the trees but we cannot know when
was the first tree. We cannot know how the first tree came
into being, unless God reveals it to us. It is only a matter of
faith and there is no other way that we can know the origin
of the universe: so says St. Thomas Aquinas, and St.
Augustine and all the Fathers of the Church.
And how do we know the origin? Because it is a matter of
divine and Catholic faith, but then these heretics, among
many are found in our Catholic pews in the Society of St.
Pius X, many of these heretics, they came into being 150
years ago. They came in the Liberal Catholic movement.
And they went and changed the doctrine of the Church, and
they said, "Well, these errors: these aren't heresies! These
are only -- aaahh, I don't see any anathema! -that says we
have to believe that God created water on the first day and
that he separated the firmament on the second day; how
can we know that? -because it doesn't define it {it is not
defined}; how can we know that Moses crossed the Red
Sea? -because there's no dogma that says,
If Any Catholic
Says That Moses Didn't Cross the Red Sea, let him be
anathema!"
And so, they try to limit the truth! And this way, these heretics,
these enemies of Catholic doctrine, these LEPERS, enter the
Church. And these lepers mixed in with all kinds of Catholic
men, who entered the seminary without leprosy. They
entered the seminaries without error, and then the leprosy was
passed to them, and they became lepers. And then they
spread their leprosy, for these heretics, these preachers and
purveyors of erroneous doctrine, they are BOLD in their
purveying of erroneous doctrine!
One good thing about our times: "He that has ears to hear,
let him hear" (Mk. iv. 9, 23, vii. 16; Lk viii. 8, xiv. 35; Matt. xi.
15, xiii. 9, 43, cf. Apoc. ii. 7, 11, 17, 29, iii. 6,13, 22 ). {And
the logical corollary is:} He that has not, let him die of leprosy.
He that has ears to hear, let him hear. He that has eyes to
see, let him see.
{St. John cap. xii:
37 And whereas he had done so many miracles before them, they believed not in him:
38 That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
39 Therefore, they could not believe, because Isaias said again:
40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that
they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
41 These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
42
However, many of the chief men also believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast out of the ѕуηαgσgυє. 43 For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God. }
But there are many souls today that refuse the Catholic truth,
and why do you mock? And why do you question? And the
priest stands up and quotes the popes, and the priest stands up
and records {repeats} what Sacred Scripture says {records},
concerning the creation of the world, and concerning Galileo, the
heretic. He says, "Why are you afraid?" -because, to stand up
against the Pope, that's no big deal: he's only a pope.
But to stand up against modern science -- ooohhh! Shhh! You'd
better be careful! These guys are, what, doing drugs, and getting
big money, and they're important, and they've got big Ph. D.s and
S.O.B.s, and all kinds of beautiful letters behind their name! These
are serious guys! These are really serious people, who have
devoted their entire life to destroying God!
You don't stand up against those people! You can stand up against
the pope. He's just a pope.
Why? Because modern men who call themselves Catholics believe
that religion is a side show! Modern men that call themselves
Catholic believe that the only real truth, the only objective truth
is that which is revealed by the modern scientists, and that which
is revealed by the modern doctor, because {for example} we knew
it was an 'infallible truth' back in 1970 that butter was bad for your
health, and therefore we stayed away from butter and we got
margarine. But now, we learn this 'infallible truth' that margarine is
bad for your health, and butter is better, so now you don't buy
margarine any more in the store, you go to the store and you
can't find it! You can only buy butter {unless you go to commercial
suppliers, for restaurants still serve butter because it's cheaper
and they can save money, so the market still exists -- just go to
Denny's or IHOP or Coco's or Marie Callender's and ask for
margarine - they'll be happy to oblige you}.
But one priest told me a couple of years ago,
- A PRIEST OF THE
SOCIETY!! - He said to me, "It was TRUE in the 1970's that
butter was bad for your health! But then scientists learned,
that margarine was bad for your health!!My body never studied modern science! It doesn't like margarine!
And neither did the body of my grandpa! And he never studied
medicine. But when my great grandpa, or your great grandpa got
a piece of lead through his head, it was a BAD EXPERIENCE for his
health. Next thing you know, they buried him. But they never
bothered to study the science on it. The fact is, that our bodies
are the way God made them, and that which is good for it is good
for it, even if the modern idiot doesn't know that, and that which
is bad for it is bad for it, even if the modern idiot doesn't know
that. The modern moron does not make truth!
God created truth, God IS the truth, and God made all things as
they are, and many Catholics, including Catholics of Catholic
Tradition, who were not Catholics of Catholic Tradition, do not
believe this.
We are in a serious battle between heaven and hell, and half-
hearted and half-baked Catholicism won't work anymore. Either
accept the whole truth, and go and fight the devil, or be a leper,
and stay his friend, but don't be a half-and-half Catholic! This
will not work in our grave crisis.
They have been working on destroying the Catholic Faith for
many years, and there is a wisdom. "Remember the lepers?"
-said St. Augustine. He has some good skin. He always says
something that is true, and he mixes the truth with the lies, and
this is the grave crisis going on right now in Catholic Tradition,
and within the Society of St. Pius X. They're mixing the truth
with lies. Do not allow this to happen!
There were ten lepers that were cured. But only one came back
to give thanks and to give glory to God. Where are the nine?
{They were expelled in 1984 and set up the SSPV.} They didn't
go to heaven. Only the one that gave glory to God, and this one
was a stranger. This one was a Samaritan.
We are in such a time now in the history of the Church. We will
find, that those who come to embrace the truth, once again,they
will be strangers. Very few of the chosen people, that is those
that are Catholics, of Catholic faith and Catholic tradition, very
few of them will embrace the truth. God will raise up strangers.
And the strangers will come. And they will grab onto the whole
truth, and they're not afraid of it. We've already met now, a
couple of Novus Ordo priests who came back to the Latin Mass,
who came back to Catholic Tradition, although they're not fully
back as they should be, because of fear of obedience, false
obedience. But they came back to Catholic Tradition because
of their study of Galileo. And now they're afraid to come all the
way back.
We are finding, those who study science are coming back to
God. Those who study astronomy are coming back to God.
But those who are calling themselves Catholics, and who were
baptized Catholics and who were raised with a comfortable
idea of Catholicism, which is to accept the comfortable truths,
but not the uncomfortable ones -- that's why Bishop Williamson
has to be thrown out, that's why there's no great scandal in the
Church, no great scandal in the Society from which Bishop
Williamson is thrown out, because he held some uncomfortable
truths, such as the denial of the h0Ɩ0cαųst. Or, political things -
what's he talking about 9-11 for? That's the number you dial
when your house is on fire. What's he talking about 9-11 for?
What's that got to do with the price of beans?
It has everything to do with the Catholic faith; because the
devil is using events; the devil is using lies, in order to do what?
To control your minds! To spread leprosy throughout your
being! To get you to be fellow lepers, spreading various degrees
of leprosy - leprosy always begins with something small! And
then it increases. So the leprosy is in our Church, it's in our world,
it's everywhere. We are not to accept any lie, and any man -
many pagans know this but Catholics don't know it anymore -
any man who knowingly accepts a lie, sins. If he embraces that
lie and never lets go of it, he sins mortally. And there can be
no lie, whether it be a lie of history, or whether it be a lie of
science, or whether it be a lie of faith. In fact there is only
one truth, and that is the truth of God and all the world that He
created, and there is only one. And there is only one lie, and
that's the lie that comes from the Father of lies. When we
embrace lies, we embrace the devil. When we embrace truth,
we embrace God. And it matters.
The Church of the past abhorred all error. It stamped out all
error. Which is why the Dominican in February of 1615 wrote,
1616 after the sermon of Fr. Foscarini, in February he said,
These people say, these Franciscans and these other men, they
say that words don't mean what they seem to mean. And they
can be taken to have a different meaning. Such as when
Joshua said that the sun stood still, he didn't mean that, he
was speaking according to the way that people speaking at
that time.
And when words don't mean what they seem to mean, all truth
is gone.
"If this is allowed to continue it will be the end of Chrisitanity."
- A Dominican in February of 1615.
"If this is allowed to continue it will be the end of Chrisitanity." Therefore the Church rose up, condemned as a heresy that
modern teaching of that time, which still goes on today,
commanded that priests study astronomy, made it part
of the seminary curriculum, that they might combat the errors
of modern scientists who are not real scientists but purveyors
of modern pseudo-science, who are using their science in order
to lead souls away from God and into hell. And therefore a
Catholic priest and a Catholic man, and a Catholic mother and
a Catholic child must be warriors against the modern errors,
and particularly the modern errors of modern false science, and
must be standing for all truth, without exception, lest the
leprosy of erroneous doctrine destroy our souls.
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