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Hello everybody, just a few quick announcements from the owner of this account....
1) This account isn't monetized. I don't even know what that means, nor do I have any real desire to know. If someone tried to give me money for sharing this content, I'd give it back.
2) Somehow, in spite of that, we've reached 1,500 followers, which (while modest) is still amazing to me personally. Thank you for sticking around.
3) Having shared over 4,000 quotes from Frs. Rumble and Carty, I'm actually on the verge of "running out" of content from my original repository.
4) I'm in the middle of gathering a new and improved collection of quotes (with less importance given to the character limit since this account is now premium) and will return even better than before. Things might slow down in the meantime, however.
5) Above all, whatever you do, trust in God and keep praying - including offering prayers for the souls of these two Catholic heroes as I'm sure they would both appreciate.
Thank you!
Today, with the revival of the old paganism, even though without its worship of the ancient gods, under the modern form of sheer secularism and unbelief, there is a new need for the active zeal of the Catholic laity similar to that which prevailed in the early Church.
We are not talking of religious traditions; we are talking of God's law; and there is wickedness in the suggestion that men are free to modify or even abolish God's law instead of obeying it.
Marriage is a human contract based upon man's rational will. It is not based upon passing emotion and passions. Man is a little nobler, after all, than the mere animal who mates according to the lust of the moment.
The mere fact that men were ordered to carry on the work of Christ Himself shows that they were not free to form new Churches according to their own ideas. That would be their own work, not Christ's work.
The early Christians frequently gave Communion even to infants. However, the Church requires in her present discipline that children attain sufficient reason to know that the Blessed Sacrament differs from ordinary food, and that by receiving it they are receiving Christ.
Q: Why do Catholics cling to their position so rigidly?
A: Because it is certain that the Catholics have the true religion. And, therefore, Catholics cling to their religion for the love of God, and of Christ, and of their own souls.
The power by which a priest causes the presence of the Creator in the Eucharist is not a power independent of God. It is God's own power vested in the priest, and it is operative only when the priest fulfills duties appointed by God according to conditions established by God.
Loving the truth, the Church is intolerant of error; loving virtue, it is intolerant of vice. But loving all humanity, it is tolerant towards mistaken people subject to error; and of weak and sinful people subject to vice. They are viewed with nothing but compassion and charity.
At the resurrection, it is the common opinion of Catholic theologians that the bodies of all, whether of children or of the aged, will rise in a state of perfect development, yet wholly changed and spiritualized in character.
Protestants won't accept the authority of the Pope, believing his claims arrogant. Then each proceeds to set himself up as his own Pope.
If a man is unaware of the truth, or does not realize his own moral obligations, then he is obliged by his conscience and must be granted liberty to obey it. If he wants to be free, not only in his own conduct but to inflict his views upon others, then other considerations arise.
If God is one, and men are one in Christ, then there can be but one Church, a divine yet human organization, of which Christ is the Head, the Holy Spirit the Soul, and all men members.
By prayer we express our love of God, and our gratitude to Him, as also our sorrow and regret for such sins as we have committed against Him.
Since the Sacrament operates independently of the faith or morals of the human agent, and derives all its efficacy from the will and merits of Christ, you can see that the faith or virtue of the minister does not of itself affect the validity of Baptism.
With many people, tolerance seems to mean that no religion is so certain that it is worth defending or fighting for; as if all that matters is good fellowship all round, no regard being paid at all to what has to be sacrificed. But that is simply irreligion, not really tolerance.
For members who accept the spiritual authority of the Church, rebellion against that authority involves sin and spiritual penalties no one with a spark of faith would wish to incur.
Feelings belong to our sensitive natures, not to our rational natures. We don't believe things with our feelings. We believe them with our minds.
