May Christ bless you!

 

In reference to your - The Game Plan  (1) - among other things, what struck me is that we need to be very careful when we recite the words of the Creed - Apostle's or that of the Council of Nicea. If I am in any way wrong in what I say here, please do correct me!

 

Specifically the phrase:" ....and I believe in one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic church (Nicene) or 'the holy Catholic church' (Apostle's)". I think that one must be very careful in uttering or mentally praying this. One must understand this as being "catholic" (lower case 'c', meaning the one universal church founded by Jesus & loyal to Him)....... NOT as "Catholic" (upper case "C") meaning the man-made organization run amuck, heaquartered in the Vatican - complete with its EENS so-called 'dogma". To understand and believe what we are praying here in these phrases as belief in the Faith........ not "the "Church". These phrases, drilled into our heads since childhood are spiritual/theological "tiger traps"!

 

On a related point (and I am NOT a Latin or Greek scholar!) in a TV presentation given by some Protestant minister, the point was made that the word "church" did not exist in the time of Christ; but the Latin word "ecclesia" (and its Greek root) did. There would seem to be a big difference between the two words/concepts. "Church" has its roots in German & Scandinavian languages ( i.e. kirk, kirche = church)...... which refers to both a physical building and to an "assembly"; which is the common understanding of the term in reference to a group/organization. On the other hand ":Ecclesia" (the word uttered by Christ) in its Greek root means something completely different. My understanding is that it means "out-calling" or "ones called out....... selected". "It is not too much of a stretch to see how this can be perceived to mean, by extension, "the Elect".

 

Therefore, if what I understand is correct (and explained properly here) this serves to reinforce what you have said about "the Rock" and the rest of the words which Our Lord spoke to Peter........ which have been misappropriated to refer to the Vatican. There is a big difference between what we call "the church" being the ones "called out from among men by God"........ and "an assembly....... building........ organization...... hiearchial structure....... multi-billion dollar/multinational money machine". Of course if you look in a dictionary you will find that "ecclesia" (and all of its grammatical offshoots) are claimed now to refer to "church".

In addition, I find a problem in the 2nd paragraph of the original Latin (or a COMPETENT translation into English - not what you find in a Missalette!). From said paragraph it would appear that Christ was either 'hatched' or the product of same-sex reproduction - long before Mary enters the picture. In English:


In latin:


Begotten = of natural procreation. If God has no beginning, is eternal, is uncreated, then this makes no sense - as this must apply to all three persons of the Trinity.That Jesus was 'born' in Time, via the action of the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary is another matter, described in a subsequent paragraph in the Nicene Creed.

I hope I am not misunderstanding something here or wasting your time.

 How utterly diabolical!

 

You remain in my daily prayers.

It's official: The Orthodox Patriarch of Ethiopia, Abuna Pauolos, announced yesterday in Rome that the Lost Ark is in Ethiopia and will be shown to the public and permanently exposed in a museum.

The Patriarch will meet the Pope this week and will make the official world announcement next Friday from Rome.

(a) The Ark was at the core of the Jewish Temple ... but didn't the Presence of God leave the Temple before the exile to Babylon, or certainly with the Crucifixion and the tearing of the veil in two?

(b) Why be concerned with a man-made (and once-blessed) Ark of the temple made with hands ... when Christ has entered the temple not made with hands and intercedes for us?

(c) If the Ark is a symbol or foreshadowing of the Real Presence, then it seems to me that the Eucharist - in which Jesus is present, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity - is greater than the Ark.

(d) In the Divine Liturgy (or some other Orthodox prayer), it is said that Mary is the Ark of the Covenant, since she bore Christ in her womb. If the ark was a symbolic box containing the Ten Commandment Tablets, wouldn't Mary - a living woman who "contained" Jesus till she gave birth to Him - be greater than any Ark?

For those who are pushing to build the Third Temple - Christians and Jews alike - the appearance of the Ark of the Covenant would signal the "go ahead" from Heaven to build the Third Temple - come the proverbial "hell or high water".

The Sacred Scriptures inform us that the general judgment will be preceded by these three principal signs: the preaching of the Gospel throughout the world, a falling away from the faith, and the coming of Antichrist. This gospel of the kingdom, says our Lord, shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come. The Apostle also admonishes us that we be not seduced by anyone, as if the day of the Lord were at hand; for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the judgement will not come. 

675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.576

676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,577 especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.578

677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.579 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.580 God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.581

680 Christ the Lord already reigns through the Church, but all the things of this world are not yet subjected to him. The triumph of Christ's kingdom will not come about without one last assault by the powers of evil.

- Para. 675 does warn against a "religious deception" that tempts men to apostasy, a defection from true Faith. But the last sentence of the paragraph is vague on whether the Antichrist/False Christ (AC/FC) is an individual, or a collectivity. It would have read very differently if it had said, "a pseudo-messianism by which a man glorifies himself in place of God ... "
 
- Para. 676 warns explicitly against the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism ... a warning that is on-target against Communism and against a Gorbachev-style New World Order ... but para. 676 leaves people unaware of the right-wing variant of the New World Order and of the churchly origins and claims of the deceiver(s).
 
- Para. 677 ties the Second Coming to the end of the world; as might be expected, there is no reference to a millennial reign of Christ.

Carefully note that what is meant by  "...this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism..."   is not the real thousand years spoken of in Revelation 20:1-10.

What the Catechism is warning the faithful about - maybe unknowingly - is the "falsification of the kingdom", that is, when the False Christ, about whom we have written and warned the faithful about, will try to convince people to work with him to achieve the real thousand years of peace and prosperity. This "falsification of the kingdom" would be  "the 'intrinsically perverse' political form of a secular messianism" that you alluded to in Paragraph No. 676.  and 

The Restructuring reforms began the process leading to the dismantling of the United State's economy and its replacement with a socialistic economy. However, the process arguably exacerbated already existing social and economic tensions within the United States, and no doubt helped to further socialism and fragmentation of the Federal Government into 10 political regions. The economic chaos that began with Restructuring helped both to empower organized crime and allowed businessmen with the right connections to amass great personal fortunes as oligarchs. Federal Government directors, regional Governors and Senior Military have become multi-millionaires; National leaders have become multi-billionaires. The economic constraints instituted by the Dictator (my comment: not Obama) under Restructuring and the problems caused by these reforms arguably helped to begin the unraveling of American society and hastened the end of the United States.

(Mr.) WS

A. To answer your question bluntly: Yes; that article is a harbinger and the Road map to the End of this Age.

We have been telling the world about Gorbachev's Agenda (2), an agenda which was not kept secret by him, but no one has bothered to believe it. He even went on Portuguese prime time TV to explain to a panel of interviewers that "My time has not come yet." (3) We watched the program in disbelief because the panelists acted as if they did not hear him. It was as if someone was saying: "It looks like rain." and the response given was "Pass the salt, please."

  The man has been calling for a New World Order since 1988! Three years before George Bush Sr. publicly endorsed it. (4)

"There should be a renewed becoming aware of our being Church and of the pastoral co-responsibility that, in the name of Christ, all of us are called to carry out," the Holy Father said. This co-responsibility should advance "respect for vocations and for the functions of consecrated persons and lay people," he added.

(5) Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. [2Thess. 2:3-4]

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