Milo "noted how Consecrating oneself to St. Joseph was a Way in which to Suitably Commit to a Chaste Lifestyle"
"Our Lady of America... visionary reported that St. Joseph said about himself: 'I became, in union with my holy spouse, co-redemptor of the human race. Through compassion for the sufferings of Jesus and Mary I co-operated, as no other, in the salvation of the world.' Of course, Joseph means this in the sense that Mary and Joseph are 'auxiliary' co redeemers and not equal co-redeemers with Jesus." - Fr. Regis Scanlon
Catholic revert Milo Yiannopoulos recently said St. Joseph is his “spiritual father figure" and he "noted how consecrating oneself to St. Joseph was a way in which to suitably commit to a chaste lifestyle."
The disciple of the Apostle John named St. Ignatius called St. Joseph "the father given to Him [Jesus]" by God the Father.
Might the “spiritual father figure" St. Joseph, who co-operated in salvation history, be called a co-redeemer?
Does St. Joseph have the same mission as Joseph of the Old Testament?
In a dream, the Old Testament Joseph was told how to save Egypt and
therefore later he could bring the people of God into that country to
save them from death by famine.
In a dream, St. Joseph was told how to save the people of God which
consisted of Jesus and Mary by bringing them to Egypt to save them from
being killed by King Herod.
What did a disciple of the Apostle John who Jesus made the son of Mary (and Joseph) on the cross say about St. Joseph?
The disciple of the Apostle John named St. Ignatius (30-107) wrote:
"Unknown to thee [Satan]... the removal into Egypt... the name [Joseph] of the father given to Him [Jesus] who did not beget."
(The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians, Chap.
VIII. - Continuation Ignorance of Satan, American Reprint of Edinburgh
Edition)
The early Church Father St. Ignatius called St. Joseph "the father given
to Him [Jesus]" by God the Father who Satan is powerless against in
"remov[ing Jesus] into Egypt" to save Him from the murderous Herod.
As the Old Testament dreamer Joseph was the protector of the people of
God, so is the dreamer St. Joseph now the protector of the New Testament
people of God: Jesus, Mary and the Church?
And so now, as the secular and Church Herods, in this greatest Church crisis in salvation history, are trying to kill the
people of God - the Church, again; might St. Joseph, the protector of the
Church, also be a co-redeemer?
Here is theologian Fr. Regis Scanlon's take on the above question:
Recently, when six U.S bishops met to consider the efficacy of
devotion to Our Lady of America, they rejected the devotion — not
because it contained “doctrinal error” — but because the visionary
reported that St. Joseph
said about himself: “I became, in union with my holy spouse,
co-redemptor of the human race. Through compassion for the sufferings of
Jesus and Mary I co-operated, as no other, in the salvation of the
world.” Of course, Joseph means this in the sense that Mary and Joseph
are “auxiliary” co redeemers and not equal co-redeemers
with Jesus. Without further explanation, it appears that the bishops
declared that the entire vision could not be supported for general
public devotion just because the statement about St. Joseph was an
“error.”
But why is the statement incorrect?
St. Joseph saved the pregnant Mother of God from being stoned by law
and saved the baby Jesus from Herod’s massacre. He dedicated his entire
life to taking care of Jesus and Mary. If this doesn’t reveal St.
Joseph’s co-operation in the history of salvation, what does?
Beyond that, St. Joseph has the same duty as every Christian in the
salvation process. Each one of us must participate in God’s redemptive
plan, which, quite literally, by God’s design, makes us co redeemers.
This truth that each one of us must freely choose to be saved is
contained in Sacred Scripture and the Sacred Tradition of the Church.
Jesus said: “But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him
before My Father who is in heaven” (Matt 10:33). And the Second Vatican
Council says in no. 14 of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church:
“Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made
necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not
be saved.”
So, one has to say “yes” to Jesus in order to be saved.
Without that yes Jesus cannot save us. That “yes” may be infinitesimally
small compared to Jesus’ act of redemption but it is our own. It is
something we freely must do. Each Christian that becomes saved, and
hopefully that includes you and I, are a co-redeemer of ourselves.
So, it would be good if the 6 bishops offered a further explanation
as to why the statement that St. Joseph is a co-redeemer is an “error.”
It would be helpful to lay people to know exactly what is incorrect
about the statement.
Personally, I believe that the 6 bishops who say that it is an
“error” to refer to St. Joseph as a co-redeemer do not really object to
the idea that St. Joseph cooperated in the redemption of the world.
Rather, they were probably objecting to the attempt to create a special
title “St. Joseph as Co-redeemer.” Nor do I believe that the visions of
the Our Lady of America was expressing more than the teaching of St.
John Paul II in no. 20 of “Guardian of the Redeemer”
that “there can be no doubt but that Joseph approached as no other
person ever could that eminent dignity whereby the Mother of God towers
above all creatures.” Our Lady was saying that, after herself, no other
person co-operated more than St. Joseph in the salvation of the world.
[http://frregisscanlon.com/index.php/2020/06/07/what-does-it-mean-to-say-that-st-joseph-is-a-co-redeemer/]
"Saint Joseph's Rosary" on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/B2StzBb2fbo
Yiannopoulos appears to confirm that St. Joseph may be an "'auxiliary' co redeemer... not equal co-redeemers with Jesus" in his return to the Catholic faith:
Yiannopoulos mentioned how he was pointed to the {St. Joseph] devotion by a friend: “there are these moments where everything just seems to hang together so perfectly and to align so beautifully.”
He noted how consecrating oneself to St. Joseph was a way in which to suitably commit to a chaste lifestyle, focussed on combatting “gender identity madness.” As such, “as an entry point into this way of living, St. Joseph was kind of the perfect point of commonality with all of the things that have preoccupied me professionally and spiritually, as the patriarch, as the spiritual father, as the head of the holy family.”
Nor is Yiannopoulus alone in his decision. He mentioned how the devotion to St. Joseph is often recommended by pious people, for any man who is a “philanderer…or have some sort of runaway sexual appetite as a man,” in order that one might “come to Christ through St. Joseph because of his perfect representation of virtuous masculinity, and of the heroic manly virtues.”
[... ]
“That’s what I’ve always aspired to be professionally, to the disaffected young men that I’ve always been speaking to through my journalism,” he said, adding, “whether I’m talking about men who give up on women and disappear into porn or video games, or whether it’s Gamergate.”
Yiannopoulos indicated that this devotion to St. Joseph was also a timely and important one for the modern age, since “there’s this huge religious revival among young conservatives at the moment, who unfortunately are looking at the Catholic Church and seeing a sick, corrupted, degenerate institution, and saying ‘nope,’ and instead looking East and getting drawn into Eastern Orthodox Church.”
“I felt that he [St. Joseph] was the perfect person for me to do this with, publicly, because it just seemed to be very congruent with how I feel about what’s lacking in the world, and what I would like to see more of in myself.” [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-gay-milo-yiannopoulos-reveals-importance-of-st-joseph-due-to-his-perfect-representation-of-virtuous-masculinity]
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
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