Is this blog meant to be mean? - No
Is this blog meant to offend? - Potentially...only insofar as a truth offends some people and will cause an adverse reaction (Mt 10:22, Jn 15:18, 2 Thess 2:10, etc.)
Is this a personal attack? - No. This is an attack on heresy, lies, deceits and untruths, rooted in the purest zeal for the salvation of souls. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of God, that we may all one day be partakers in the Beatific Vision.
Am I an official representative of the Holy Roman Catholic Church? - No. I am a baptized lay person wishing to fulfill the divine mandate to go and baptize all nations (Mt 28:19).
Isn't what is being written overly polemical? Can't we just get along? - No. We cannot just get along...we must resist error and combat untruth. That is to say, we must wage war against the "principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places." (Eph 6:12) We must have the courage to confront differences in doctrine and belief so that, as our Lord prayed, we will all be one (Jn 17:21).
This is crucial...and I hope that anyone who reads this blog will pray for humility, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, meekness, patience, faith, hope and, above all, charity...pray for me and I for you.
Finally, this blog is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, without whom we would have no redemption (for we would have no Savior), and without whom I would have never made my way back to the Truth of the Catholic Faith.
The Most Holy Rosary wins souls, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph in the end.
“There is no scandal greater, more dangerous, more venomous, than a good outward life, manifested by good works and a pious mode of life. That is the grand portal, the highway that leads to damnation.” - Martin Luther
Key Quotes
- HOLY BAPTISM: "Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." - John 3:5
- PENANCE (CONFESSION): "When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." - John 20:22-23
- HOLY COMMUNION: "Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed." - John 6:53-55
- CONFIRMATION: "For he was not as yet come upon any of them; but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost." - Acts 8:14-15
- HOLY MATRIMONY: "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife. And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." - Mark 10:7-9
- HOLY ORDERS: 1 Timothy 3-5
- EXTREME UNCTION: "Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him." - James 5:14-15
- CELIBACY, RELIGIOUS LIFE: "For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it." - Matthew 19:12
- AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself...For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead." - James 2:17,26
- AGAINST SOLA FIDE: "Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: BUT HE THAT DOTH the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 7:22
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." - 1 Timothy 3:15
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you." - 1 Corinthians 11:2
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle." - 2 Thessalonians 2:15
- AGAINST SOLA SCRIPTURA: "Understanding this first, that no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation." - 2 Peter 1:20
- AGAINST DENOMINATIONS: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment...Is Christ divided?" - 1 Cor 1:10,13
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them." - Matthew 7:15-16
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many." - Matthew 24:4-5
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you by any means..." - 2 Thessalonians 2:3
- AGAINST FALSE PROPHETS: "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them." - Ephesians 5:6-7
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