To all the Catholic, sometimes Catholic, fall away Catholic, was once Catholic & sometimes wonders about their return to the Catholic faith, friends; I ask you to please listen to Michael Voris here for a few moments. I know he may not be everyone’s “cup of tea” & I can understand why BUT…please try to get past the delivery of the message & listen TO the message (on both video's). With the exciting upcoming changes to Mass that will be upon us in 5 days, wouldn’t it be a GREAT opportunity in the same spirit as this change (to bring us more in line with what we lost in the Mass at the time of translation from Latin) to take this opportunity to try & make even SOME of the changes that would bring us back in line with what for centuries made us authentically Catholic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-mS8EPWP8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R4jjYshP4qo
I get that Voris turns people off at times with his aggressive, "in your face" approach to his talks but I for one love this kind of person. Someone who exudes confidence & speaks well with authority. He so nails it here (as he does on so many occassions). Our prayers in the Mass was not the only thing we have lost in translation since Vatican II. In an attempt to please more people with a "feel good" approach to our faith, (which meant to the people making the changes, that learning the Catechism was less important than teaching it is good enough to live life as good person & God is love.) By the changes made, we have lost nearly everything that has made us authentically Catholic. It has dumbed us down to the point where attending Mass is a shallow act (because we don't understand it...we don't understand fully why we are there.) To look around at everyone in their sports gear & sweats, that is pretty obvious. It is the reason why we find it so easy to turn our backs on the faith & walk away when a PERSON within the Church angers us. The richness of a deep understanding is all but lost so we have no problem allowing anger at a person to turn us away from our only chance at salvation and turn our back on our faith. I think as a society as a whole, we shy away from hard work these days....being authentically Catholic is hard work. So many are leaving in droves to either forgo any type of organized religion (because the Church has failed to teach us how exciting and beautiful and rich with tradition and culture our faith truly is) or head to some type of Catholic "light" faith, that makes one feel better about the choices they make, that there are no consequences for actions, and that "works & deeds" or the following of "all the rules" are not needed to get to Heaven. It's an easy path that still makes us feel good about remaining religious.
Is it truly any wonder that while all these "changes" were happening in the Church that at the same time all the seminaries were being infiltrated by men who had no intention at all to be stewards of the faith or holy men but were using the all male society and position of authority as a hiding place to carry out the wicked acts that has virtually neutered the Church today? I contend that when so much effort went into removing all aspects of what we knew as authentic Catholicism & replaced it with this Kumbaya approach that mirrors more Protestant faiths today than anything Catholic...I think we let our guard down in a major way. We wanted so badly to accept EVERYONE and see everything in such a new light, we were far less stringent in who we accepted as our leaders. All the changes that have taken place has only proven that the ones making the changes were somehow embarrassed or felt there were flaws in being Catholic. But by looking around today we can see that this excersise has left generations of us confused & ingnorat to our true faith & there is no wonder that so few recognize a calling to religious life...when we don't understand why we should be in love with our faith to begin with...how could we?
God bless!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-mS8EPWP8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R4jjYshP4qo
I get that Voris turns people off at times with his aggressive, "in your face" approach to his talks but I for one love this kind of person. Someone who exudes confidence & speaks well with authority. He so nails it here (as he does on so many occassions). Our prayers in the Mass was not the only thing we have lost in translation since Vatican II. In an attempt to please more people with a "feel good" approach to our faith, (which meant to the people making the changes, that learning the Catechism was less important than teaching it is good enough to live life as good person & God is love.) By the changes made, we have lost nearly everything that has made us authentically Catholic. It has dumbed us down to the point where attending Mass is a shallow act (because we don't understand it...we don't understand fully why we are there.) To look around at everyone in their sports gear & sweats, that is pretty obvious. It is the reason why we find it so easy to turn our backs on the faith & walk away when a PERSON within the Church angers us. The richness of a deep understanding is all but lost so we have no problem allowing anger at a person to turn us away from our only chance at salvation and turn our back on our faith. I think as a society as a whole, we shy away from hard work these days....being authentically Catholic is hard work. So many are leaving in droves to either forgo any type of organized religion (because the Church has failed to teach us how exciting and beautiful and rich with tradition and culture our faith truly is) or head to some type of Catholic "light" faith, that makes one feel better about the choices they make, that there are no consequences for actions, and that "works & deeds" or the following of "all the rules" are not needed to get to Heaven. It's an easy path that still makes us feel good about remaining religious.
Is it truly any wonder that while all these "changes" were happening in the Church that at the same time all the seminaries were being infiltrated by men who had no intention at all to be stewards of the faith or holy men but were using the all male society and position of authority as a hiding place to carry out the wicked acts that has virtually neutered the Church today? I contend that when so much effort went into removing all aspects of what we knew as authentic Catholicism & replaced it with this Kumbaya approach that mirrors more Protestant faiths today than anything Catholic...I think we let our guard down in a major way. We wanted so badly to accept EVERYONE and see everything in such a new light, we were far less stringent in who we accepted as our leaders. All the changes that have taken place has only proven that the ones making the changes were somehow embarrassed or felt there were flaws in being Catholic. But by looking around today we can see that this excersise has left generations of us confused & ingnorat to our true faith & there is no wonder that so few recognize a calling to religious life...when we don't understand why we should be in love with our faith to begin with...how could we?
God bless!
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Awesome insights Liz!
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