Ye shall know Them…
by their fruits?
It is incomprehensible to me… honestly incomprehensible. We Orthodox are viewed as schismatic by the infallible and supreme jurisdiction of the papacy for what? For maintaining the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed in its original trinitarian formulation, for not bowing the knee to that infallible supremacy, for not accepting the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and yet, he does this? It’s as some of us said after the Vatican II documents were promulgated: the only time “traditional” language was used was when talking about the papacy. Everywhere else, it was jettisoned for a mishmash of fuzzy modernist claptrap… the only thing they are interested in is the papal power. What ever the pope does makes whatever he does “ok”. Traditional catholic doctrine - Roman, Orthodox, Anglican, whatever - be … I can’t even say it… but the words from the Orthodox anathemata of the papacy come to mind: anathema marana’tha.
Attack on being human in full swing unscrupulously on all levels. Spiritual war in plain view.
The “modernist” movement and changes ongoing since at least mid 19th century, culuminating in the Vatican II pivot and the sequallae thereof, had me wonder about the succession of authority within the Roman Church. Would Jesus have given assent to sacrifice of any sort? Hardly! Would He have given assent to the removal of key and basic elements within the Magisterium since VatII. Hardly! What was his intent withinthe instruction to the disciples "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Matthew 18.18). Knowing the apostasy within the church would happen, and observing the principle of free will, was this in fact an imprimatur or a warning? The more time progresses, the more I’m inclining towards the latter and try to practice the traditional / Latin cathechism pre-1962. This is even becoming more difficult, compelling perhaps the need to find another home within which to practice.
Read to see who participated. Catholic clergy:
Letter from Gen.Alesandro Luzano to Mussolini
Duce! My immeasurable devotion towards You gives me, I hope, the right to, sometimes, bypass strict military protocol. That is why I feel free and obliged to promptly describe you one event which, three weeks ago, I have personally witnessed. Patrolling in towns Stolac, Capljina andLubinye (about 60 to 130km north of Ragusa i.e Dubrovnik) I heard from our intelligence officers that Pavelich’s army- ustashas have in the previous day done some crime in village Prebilovci, and that, when they hear about it, nearby Serbs are certainly going to be upset yet again. I miss words to describe what I found there. In big classroom, I found slaughtered teacher and 120young pupils! No child was older than 12 years! Crime is not an appropriate, it is too innocent a word – that was above any madness! Many have their severed heads put orderly on school desks. From their severed bellies bowels were, like New Year’s tinsels, spread across the classroom and nailed to the roof! The flies and unbearable smell did not allow us to spend more time there. I have noticed an opened bag of salt in the corner and I was stunned to realize that they have slaughtered them slowly, salting their necks first! As we were just about to depart, from the back of the classroom we have heard a child rattling. I have sent two soldiers to see what it was. They found one pupil, still alive, breathing with throat half cut! I took the poor child in my own car to our military hospital, and there we were able to awake him and from him we found out the full truth about the tragedy. The criminals have first, taking turns, raped the Serbian teacher (her name was Stana Arnautovich)and then, in front of the children, they have slaughtered her. They raped even the eight-year-old girls. During all that time, a Gypsy band brought there was forced to play music and hit tambourines! To the utter disgrace of our, Roman church, one priest participated in all this! The boy that we saved recovered quickly. And as soon as the wound healed, he was able to run away from the hospital because of our inattention, and he run back to his village looking for his relatives. We send a patrol for him, but to no avail: they find him in front of his house, slaughtered! From more than a thousand souls in the village there is no-one left! The same day (that we discovered later) when the crime in school was perpetrated, ustashe rounded 700 inhabitants of village Prebilovci and drop them into foiba, or killed them in the most bestial way on the road to the pit. Only 300 men saved themself: they were able to break ustashi lines and to run to the mountains! These 300 survivors are stronger than the most elite Pavelich’s ustashe division. All that they have to lose, they lost! Children, wives, mothers, sisters, houses, possessions. They are free even from the fear of death. The only meaning of their lives is in revenge, in the horrible revenge – they are, in a way, even ashamed that they have survived! And villages, such as Prebilovci, are all around Herzegovina, Bosnia, Lika and Dalmazia. Slaughter of Serbs has reached such proportions, that, in these areas, even water resources are polluted. Fromone spring in Popovo Polye, near the pit in which 4000 Serbs were thrown, a reddish water ran, I have seen it myself! On conscience of Italy and our culture a dark stain will fall forever if we do not distance ourselves from ustashe and their demented crimes.
Orthodox Christian martyr getting cut to pieces by Catholic ustashes. True story and this fresco is painted in the wall of an Orthodox Christian church in Chicago: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cs0ZXBVCs8M/TdFDiNIXyUI/AAAAAAAAQB8/JMdwoSePbWk/s1600/vikusin.jpg
Then the Jesuits began to torture them, at first the one while his companion was a witness. They cut off one of the joints of his feet, and then the other joint. Then they cut the first joint on the fingers of his hands, and then the other joint. Then they cut off his feet, and his hands. The blood flowed, but the martyr endured all and firmly repeated one thing: ‘I am a Christian.’ He died in such suffering, due to a loss of blood. The Jesuit also promised to torture his comrade to death the next day.
The act istself is a grave sin which may be confessed , but if causes others to sin, well that will be some conversation with the Boss.
It causes others to sin.Multitude of them.Like for example…this one…
or…the…
…etc…
and it is a grave sin…
…and one may pay attention to the text of this song…and the meaning of it…
