Not an "Accident of History that Pope Pius XII, in the Year 1950, on the Cusp of the Descent... into the Filth of the Sexual Revolution, Solemnly Defined the Bodily Assumption of Mary into Heaven"
It is of great significance that St. Paul weds the final answer and
solution to all our pains and sorrows in this life not only to our
adoption as the sons of God, but also to the redemption of our bodies (which unlike Mary’s Bodily Assumption, will not occur until the Final Judgment). Nor
is it an accident of history that Pope Pius XII, in the year 1950, on
the cusp of the descent of both the world and the Church into the filth
of the sexual revolution, solemnly defined the Bodily Assumption of Mary
into Heaven.
We might tend to think that Mary’s Bodily Assumption is merely an
additional privilege granted to Her by a merciful God, and we might
further possess what is probably a mostly unconscious attitude which
considers the presence of our own bodies in Heaven as being a
not-all-that- important adjunct to our attaining to the Vision of God’s
Essence (the Beatific Vision). In this, we would be very wrong. As St.
Paul also writes, “For we who live are always delivered unto death for
Jesus’ sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
And lest we are tempted to believe that this “life of Jesus in our
mortal flesh” refers only to the soul and its presence in mortal flesh
during this life. - James Larson
We must keep fighting for the restoration of the Church by exposing the falsehoods and evil that have entered the Church.
We must keep doing this, but we will fail if we don't pray at Mass and outside Mass for the restoration.
Jesus Christ will restore the Church through His Mother. Independent scholar James Larson explained why:
Rosary to the Interior: For the Purification of the Church
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything from the beginning…. I
was with him, forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing
before him at all times. Playing in the world: and my delights were to
be with the children of men. (Proverbs 8: 22, 30-31).
“For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain,
even till now. And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the
first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8: 22-23).
The two above-quoted passages from Holy Scripture present absolutely
contrasting images of human life on this earth. The first, which is
applied by the Church to Mary on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(in the Missal of the Traditional Latin Mass), depicts the delight of
spiritual childhood, playing before God with the innocence and purity
which began for Mary on this earth with the Immaculate Conception, and
which culminated with Her Glorious Assumption, Body and Soul, into
Heaven. The second resonates with the loss of this spiritual childhood
through both original and actual sin, which is the experience of each
one of us. The first speaks of radiant perfection and joy achieved; the
second, of painful labor, waiting, and hope.
It is of great significance that St. Paul weds the final answer and
solution to all our pains and sorrows in this life not only to our
adoption as the sons of God, but also to the redemption of our bodies (which unlike Mary’s Bodily Assumption, will not occur until the Final Judgment). Nor
is it an accident of history that Pope Pius XII, in the year 1950, on
the cusp of the descent of both the world and the Church into the filth
of the sexual revolution, solemnly defined the Bodily Assumption of Mary
into Heaven.
We might tend to think that Mary’s Bodily Assumption is merely an
additional privilege granted to Her by a merciful God, and we might
further possess what is probably a mostly unconscious attitude which
considers the presence of our own bodies in Heaven as being a
not-all-that- important adjunct to our attaining to the Vision of God’s
Essence (the Beatific Vision). In this, we would be very wrong. As St.
Paul also writes, “For we who live are always delivered unto death for
Jesus’ sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
And lest we are tempted to believe that this “life of Jesus in our
mortal flesh” refers only to the soul and its presence in mortal flesh
during this life, we also have the following from St. Paul:
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall all indeed rise again: but we
shall not all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at
the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise
again incorruptible: and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must
put on incorruption; and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor. 15: 51-53).
What we are dealing with here is an extraordinary work of God’s Mercy, a
mercy which applies not only to our souls, but also to our bodies which
must eventually be gloriously united to our souls in order to
constitute what it means to be fully human.
St. Thomas, in considering the question as to what constitutes the greatest act of God’s Mercy, writes the following:
“A work may be called great in two ways: first, on the part of the
mode of action, and thus the work of creation is the greatest work,
wherein something is made from nothing; secondly, a work may be called
great on account of what is made, and thus the justification of the
ungodly, which terminates at the eternal good of a share in the Godhead,
is greater than the creation of heaven and earth, which terminates at
the good of mutable nature.” (ST I-II, Q. 113. A, 9)
The angels were created, and offered a simple choice – whether to submit
to God and His plan for creation, or not. Depending on this single
choice – yes, or no – they were either instantly admitted to the
Beatific Vision, or were irremediably sentenced for all eternity to
Hell. The reason for this is that the angels are pure spirits who
apprehend and will “immovably”, and therefore their initial choice,
either for or against God and His divine order, was immovable and
unchangeable. There could therefore be for them no “justification of the
ungodly”.
A very different situation exists with human beings. As long as any man
is alive, he exists with a potentiality either to accept or reject God
and His Ways. The work of “justification of the ungodly” is therefore
exclusively reserved to men. God’s greatest work, His supreme act of
Mercy, was therefore reserved for men.
It can be of great profit to us to meditate a bit on the mystery of
God’s mysterious creation of such “flesh-bound”, fragile, moveable,
changeable creatures as are men. God certainly could have created only
purely spiritual creatures (angels) from nothing; and, in St. Thomas’s
words, this would have still been the greatest work according to its
mode (the creation of something from nothing). But in creating man, he
chose to unite an eternal, spiritual soul to what is virtually the
smallest, weakest, and inconsequential thing imaginable – a mutable
physical body possessing an incredible dependence upon the working of an
enormous complexity of fragile and intricate parts and systems with all
their growth and change, all of this being integrated with an
extraordinarily rich complexity of neurological reactions and
sensations, and united to an intellect and will, ever subject to change,
and which is called upon to make fundamental free choices in the midst
of all this mutability. It might almost seem to us as though God’s mercy
could not rest until he reached out and offered Beatitude to the
smallest and weakest thing conceivable.
At the very center of this Great Mystery stands Jesus Christ in Whom,
for all eternity, was willed the unity of God with man – the
Incarnation. And alongside Him, willed and conceived for all eternity in
the Heart of the Trinity, was the creation of the Immaculate Body and
Soul of a Woman Who was to be His Mother, completely united with Him in
His work of redemption, and therefore also the Mother of all men. What
began to be on this earth with the Immaculate Conception of Mary within
the womb of her mother Anne, was present with God from endless ages.
Appropriately, in the first reading for the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception in the Traditional Latin Mass missal (and tragically omitted
from this Feast in the Novus Ordo Mass) is the following description of
both this eternal design, and the fundamental choice which inevitably
must be made by every human being:
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made
any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old
before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already
conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: The
mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before
the hills I was brought forth:
“He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the
world. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain
law and compass he enclosed the depths: When he established the sky
above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea
with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass
their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with
him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him
at all times. Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the
children of men.
“Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my
ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the
man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at
the posts of my doors. He that shall find me, shall find life, and
shall have salvation from the Lord:
“But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.” (Proverbs *: 22-36)
The last two paragraphs of this passage of scripture set before us an
eternal enmity. On the one hand are those who attain to spiritual
childhood, find our Lady (and of course also Wisdom, Our Lord, and the
Holy Spirit), keep her ways, and find life; and, on the other hand, are
those who sin against her, “hurt” their own souls by so doing, and “love
death”. It is the same enmity which we read about in the Garden of Eden
between the Woman Who shall crush Satan’s head, and the Serpent who
“lies in wait for her heel”. (Genesis 3:15). In Mary this victory is
fully accomplished in Her Immaculate Conception and Her Assumption, Body
and Soul, into Heaven. In each and every man and woman, and in the
Church, this victory awaits those who “keep her ways”, and die to this
world and the ways of “fallen flesh” in order “that the life also of
Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
- 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."
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- "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.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
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