Father Simon Henry has an excellent post on Offerimus Tibi Domine that encapsulates beautifully, the main issue facing the Catholic Church today, that of the enemy within.
Those who in OTD's words: hate the Church as it has manifested itself for hundreds of years, certainly hate the Pope, hate Rome and hate the Tradition which has been the vehicle of transmitting the Faith and the Scriptures down the generations.
And Father Ray Blake makes the same approach from a different aspect HERE.
It set me thinking as to what our Catholic lives would be like if we did not have that element of the demonic.
What difference would it make to our Faith, our spirituality, to be free of Bishops who persecuted any of their priests who showed a desire to celebrate the old rite of Mass, or priests who advocated abortion and same sex "marriage" or laity who were not spiteful in their attitude towards anything that smacked of reverence?
Those who in OTD's words: hate the Church as it has manifested itself for hundreds of years, certainly hate the Pope, hate Rome and hate the Tradition which has been the vehicle of transmitting the Faith and the Scriptures down the generations.
And Father Ray Blake makes the same approach from a different aspect HERE.
It set me thinking as to what our Catholic lives would be like if we did not have that element of the demonic.
What difference would it make to our Faith, our spirituality, to be free of Bishops who persecuted any of their priests who showed a desire to celebrate the old rite of Mass, or priests who advocated abortion and same sex "marriage" or laity who were not spiteful in their attitude towards anything that smacked of reverence?
I think that I can give a fairly accurate assessment as to what life would be like without the enemy within, here is a broad brush picture:-
1. Mass Ad Orientum - in every church
2. The Tridentine Latin Mass available in every parish on Sundays and Holydays of Obligation
3. Benediction, Plainchant, May Processions and more in every parish
4. Reception of Holy Communion only by kneeling and mouth
5. Catholic Education with integrity and rigour
6. Head on conflict with the State over Adoption, Abortion, Same Sex "Marriage" and more
7. Seminary intakes up dramatically
8. A return of those who have "left" the Faith
9. An increase in Baptisms and Church weddings
10. Full churches
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