Then he later broke his promises as a monk, even ridiculing monks... “I was a good monk, and I kept the rule of my order so strictly that I may say that if ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery it was I. Don't make a promise to St. Anna you will later break.
Luther = schism ....proceeded by a lightning strike. Stay in the Church. The evil one will look to rob souls on both sides.
Lightning divides the sky into two parts, which seems to represent the division of the church on earth. I initially had this impression when the lightning struck the top of St. Peter's Basilica on the day of Benedict XVI's resignation.
Remember your Baltimore Catechism... Church? A. By the indefectibility of the Catholic Church is meant that the Church, as Christ founded it, will last until the end of time. * This indefectibility of the Church is in conformity with the will of Christ, who promised to be with His Church until the end of time. * > "For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes" (1 Corinthians 11:26). * Q. 166. Are all obliged to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved? A. All are obliged to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved. * The principle, "It makes no difference what religion a person practices so long as he leads a good life," is deceptive because it attaches the same importance to the teaching and practice of a false religion as it does to the teaching and practice of the one, true religion revealed by Christ and taught by His Church. No one can be saved without sanctifying grace, and the Catholic Church alone is the divinely established means by which grace is brought to the world and the full fruits of Our Lord's Redemption are applied to men. * > "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that those who believe in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting" (John 3:14-15). * > "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me' " (John 14:6). * > "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God has raised from the dead, even in this name does he stand here before you, sound. This is 'The stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the comer stone.' Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:10-12). * Q. 167. What do we mean when we say, "Outside the Church there is no salvation?" A. When we say, "Outside the Church there is no salvation," we mean that those who through their own grave fault do not know that the Catholic Church is the true Church or, knowing it, refuse to join it, cannot be saved. * "Outside the Church there is no salvation" does not mean that everyone who is not a Catholic will be condemned. It does mean that no one can be saved unless he belongs in some manner to the Catholic Church, either actually or in desire, for the means of grace are not given without some relation to the divine institution established by Christ.
from the Catholic Dictionary: INDEFECTIBILITY Imperishable duration of the Church and her immutability until the end of time. The First Vatican Council declared that the Church possesses "an unconquered stability" and that, "built on a rock, she will continue to stand until the end of time" (Denzinger 3013, 3056). The Church's indefectibility, therefore, means that she now is and will always remain the institution of salvation, founded by Christ. This affirms that the Church is essentially unchangeable in her teaching, her constitution, and her liturgy. It does not exclude modifications that do not affect her substance, nor does it exclude the decay of individual local churches or even whole dioceses.
The day of Jorge Mario Bergoglio's birth... December 17, [1936] St. Faustina's diary... December 17, [1936].I have offered this day for priests. I have suffered more today than ever before, both interiorly and exteriorly. I did not know it was possible to suffer so much in one day. I tried to make a Holy Hour, in the course of which my spirit had a taste of the bitterness of the Garden of Gethsemane. I am fighting alone, supported by His arm, against all the difficulties that face me like unassailable walls. But I trust in the power of His name and I fear nothing. - Diary of St. Faustina, 823 Are we willing to suffer for the Church and priests? Do we offer our sufferings with thanksgiving...or complain about them?
A heart-breaking plea to the Holy Father from the persecuted Church in China. God help and preserve us all.
The Diary of Saint Faustina from the entry on December 17, 1936 doesn't end with the statement of how much she suffered that day for priests. It tells of a secret Our LORD told her.
