Thursday, June 25, 2015
Saturday, June 20, 2015
The Counter-Encyclical
Against the Errors of Environmentalism
Brother
Alexis Bugnolo, one of the world's foremost experts on St. Francis of
Assisi and Franciscanism, and editor of the Franciscan Archive,
presents a counter-encyclical to the Laudato Si' of Pope Francis.
Ostensibly
written by a future Pope, its full title is “On the Honor and Glory
Due to the Divine Majesty of the Most Holy Trinity – Against the
Errors of Environmentalism. It “affirms and declares” that the
totality of Laudato Si' and all its parts are to be considered merely
as the personal
doctrine of Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, and not of the Apostolic See of St. Peter.
Some
highlights of the counter-encyclical
“We
consider it necessary to remove a grave scandal which has shaken the
whole world: namely, that which emanated from the once unsullied
throne of this Apostolic See. I speak of the encyclical letter,
Laudato Si' of my predecessor, Francis, of infelicitous memory . . .
promoting in an official papal document, into which he mixed many
half-truths, the falsehood of environmentalism unto the deception of
the entire Catholic world.”
The
counter-encyclical enumerates many reasons to attest that “it is not
man who is the lord and master of creation, but God; that it is not
man who is first and foremost responsible for the heavens and the
earth and all these contain, but God. . . For this reason it is
theologically an effrontery to God to say or concede that the
environment of this planet earth depends upon mankind.”
“To
say or imply, therefore, that man's activities in general make this
world ugly or pollute it is false, erroneous and implicitly
heretical, inasmuch as it impugns the Divine Goodness, Providence and
Wisdom of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
“This
sinful obsession with earthly things is, as the glorious Doctor of
the Church, the Seraphic Saint Bonaventure frequently notes, the
necessary consequent of a human spirit bent down to face earthly
things by the weight of his own sins and vices and concupiscences.”
“We
recognize and declare, that since God at the beginning had both made
all things and declared them together with man, 'very good' (Genesis
1:30 and throughout), that it is a mortal sin of blasphemy to call
them or their use evil, and thus, likewise a grave error and sin, to
say that their non-use or discarding, is of itself, or according to
its genus a sin.”
Brother
Alexis Bugnolo links to this work Here
and Here.
A printable version of the text is made available by this blog,
Here
Posted 06/19/2015 by Frank Rega, www.frankrega.com
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Our Lord's Words to Luisa Piccarreta
From the Church-approved volume six of her spiritual "Diary," the Book of Heaven.
Imprimatur of Archbishop Joseph Leo and Nihil Obstat of (now Saint) Fr. Annibale Di Francia.
____________________________________________________________________________________
"My daughter, when the soul does all of her actions for the sole purpose of loving Me, and wants no other recompense for her work but my love alone, she walks always in daylight - it is never nighttime for her."
"My daughter, true love forgets himself, and lives of the interests, of the pains, and of everything that belongs to the beloved."
"Indeed, there is no beauty that equals suffering for the love of God alone."
"My daughter, in the Creation I gave my image to the soul; in the Incarnation I gave my Divinity, divinizing humanity."
"Therefore, hold peace as your greatest treasure if you cherish being united with Me."
"Oh, how difficult it is to enjoy pleasures, to dress luxuriously on the outside, and to despise those things internally! On the contrary, the opposite occurs - that is, one loves in his interior, and enjoys, what surrounds him externally."
"My daughter, my Life manifests Itself in the creatures through words, through works, and through sufferings, but what manifests It more clearly are the sufferings."
"The Life of God in the soul is Hope, and the more you hope, the more Divine Life you contain within yourself. Therefore, hope -- hope always."
"In fact, if the soul lets herself be dominated by the cross, the cross destroys three evil kingdoms in her, which are the world, the devil and the flesh, and it constitutes in her three more good Kingdoms: the Spiritual, the Divine and the Eternal Kingdom."
"Not only this, but since the other things had been created for man, and man for God alone and for His Delight, as a consequence he was not only to encompass all creation within himself, but he was to surpass it to the point of receiving the image of the Supreme Majesty within himself."
"How much attention it takes so as not to let material things enter inside, if by necessity she has to deal with them! You, my daughter, be attentive; otherwise, if I see anything which is not divine in you, I will not make Myself seen anymore."
"Stability alone is what reveals the progress of Divine Life within the soul, because, since God is immutable, one who possesses Him shares in His immutability in good."
"Daughter, let everything in you be sealed by love. If you think, you must only think of love; if you speak, if your work, if you palpitate, if you desire . . . If even just one desire which is not love comes out of you, restrict it within yourself, convert it into love, and then give it the freedom to go out."
"Everything, everything should be enclosed in one single word: 'Love.' If the soul does not enclose everything in this, it can be said that she does not know a thing about loving Me, and according to how much the soul loves Me, so do I expand the gift of suffering."
"In fact, the mind nourishes itself with what it thinks, and by looking at God alone, of the things down here, she looks only at those that God wants, not bothering about anything else, and so she remains always in God."
"The weight of any action, be it even an indifferent one, increases according to the dose of love it contains, because I do not look at the work, but at the intensity of love that the working contains."
"Indeed that of the soul which pleases me most is perseverance, because perseverance is seal of eternal life and development of divine life."
"This is the order of my Providence, of my Justice and of my Love - that in each era I must have at least one with whom I might share all goods, and that the creature must give Me everything she owes Me as creature. . . This is precisely why I choose victim souls. . . During the time of My Passion I had my dearest Mother who, while I shared all my pains and all my goods with her, was most attentive as creature, on gathering within herself everything that creatures were to do for Me. Therefore in her I found all my satisfaction and all the gratitude, the thanksgiving, the praise, the reparation, the correspondence which I was to find in everyone else."
To learn more about the mystic Luisa Piccarreta, click Here.
Posted 06/18/2015 by Frank Rega, www.frankrega.com
Imprimatur of Archbishop Joseph Leo and Nihil Obstat of (now Saint) Fr. Annibale Di Francia.
____________________________________________________________________________________
"My daughter, when the soul does all of her actions for the sole purpose of loving Me, and wants no other recompense for her work but my love alone, she walks always in daylight - it is never nighttime for her."
"My daughter, true love forgets himself, and lives of the interests, of the pains, and of everything that belongs to the beloved."
"Indeed, there is no beauty that equals suffering for the love of God alone."
"My daughter, in the Creation I gave my image to the soul; in the Incarnation I gave my Divinity, divinizing humanity."
"Therefore, hold peace as your greatest treasure if you cherish being united with Me."
"Oh, how difficult it is to enjoy pleasures, to dress luxuriously on the outside, and to despise those things internally! On the contrary, the opposite occurs - that is, one loves in his interior, and enjoys, what surrounds him externally."
"My daughter, my Life manifests Itself in the creatures through words, through works, and through sufferings, but what manifests It more clearly are the sufferings."
"The Life of God in the soul is Hope, and the more you hope, the more Divine Life you contain within yourself. Therefore, hope -- hope always."
"In fact, if the soul lets herself be dominated by the cross, the cross destroys three evil kingdoms in her, which are the world, the devil and the flesh, and it constitutes in her three more good Kingdoms: the Spiritual, the Divine and the Eternal Kingdom."
"Not only this, but since the other things had been created for man, and man for God alone and for His Delight, as a consequence he was not only to encompass all creation within himself, but he was to surpass it to the point of receiving the image of the Supreme Majesty within himself."
"How much attention it takes so as not to let material things enter inside, if by necessity she has to deal with them! You, my daughter, be attentive; otherwise, if I see anything which is not divine in you, I will not make Myself seen anymore."
"Stability alone is what reveals the progress of Divine Life within the soul, because, since God is immutable, one who possesses Him shares in His immutability in good."
"Daughter, let everything in you be sealed by love. If you think, you must only think of love; if you speak, if your work, if you palpitate, if you desire . . . If even just one desire which is not love comes out of you, restrict it within yourself, convert it into love, and then give it the freedom to go out."
"Everything, everything should be enclosed in one single word: 'Love.' If the soul does not enclose everything in this, it can be said that she does not know a thing about loving Me, and according to how much the soul loves Me, so do I expand the gift of suffering."
"In fact, the mind nourishes itself with what it thinks, and by looking at God alone, of the things down here, she looks only at those that God wants, not bothering about anything else, and so she remains always in God."
"The weight of any action, be it even an indifferent one, increases according to the dose of love it contains, because I do not look at the work, but at the intensity of love that the working contains."
"Indeed that of the soul which pleases me most is perseverance, because perseverance is seal of eternal life and development of divine life."
"This is the order of my Providence, of my Justice and of my Love - that in each era I must have at least one with whom I might share all goods, and that the creature must give Me everything she owes Me as creature. . . This is precisely why I choose victim souls. . . During the time of My Passion I had my dearest Mother who, while I shared all my pains and all my goods with her, was most attentive as creature, on gathering within herself everything that creatures were to do for Me. Therefore in her I found all my satisfaction and all the gratitude, the thanksgiving, the praise, the reparation, the correspondence which I was to find in everyone else."
To learn more about the mystic Luisa Piccarreta, click Here.
Posted 06/18/2015 by Frank Rega, www.frankrega.com
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