Catholic during the Great Apostasy

The beloved Saviour called the temples ‘the synagogue of Satan”, and expressed himself of the Pharisees and scribes as follows:

““Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of decay.  In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” (Matt. 23. 27 -28).

And yet no one heard him consider whether the high priest and the clergy of the day were properly chosen or not. Why ?

The answer is simple – like everything the Gospel communicates to us. What does it matter the position, or whether he was rightly chosen or not, if he is stuck in sin and heresy? All that matters to God is the soul – pure, untainted by sin – not human positions. One would have to be crazy to claim that if someone utters blasphemies and heresies in public, or even in private, he or she is someone of value to God. We are not talking here about ordinary people, but about those who have been called to lead and guard the sheep. Those who deceive the little ones, and so had better hang a stone around their necks – as our Lord said. Those who twist, falsify the Gospel, are simply cursed as St Paul says.

The resistance movement against the invasion of the deviants is arguing about something that is completely irrelevant to God. And if it is not for Him, why argue about something that is unimportant. All that matters is God and His most holy will, and the rest is just the dust of this earth and worthless human talk.

Some lecture and write entire books, claiming that Francis is the Pope, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a schismatic – while others accuse them of heresy, claiming that Francis is not the Pope. And so the years pass, and Francis quietly continues his blasphemies and leads souls to perdition.

And the modernists obfuscate their hands and don’t even have to do anything, as their opponents fight among themselves. And people, seeing no place for themselves anywhere, fall into the snares of some pseudo-charismatics, and false prophets

But where in all this human chaos is God? I don’t think anyone knows, but everyone thinks He is where they imagined.

A good example of this is the behaviour of, for example, Rorate ceali, which recognised Francis as Pope all along, but after he introduced restrictions on the traditional Mass, they withdrew his picture from the website and began to prove that Benedict is still Pope – using a kind of theology at the behest of the viewer. Besides, they are not the only ones doing this; this is the way of all pseudo-traditionalists – a road to nowhere, or rather to hell.

Let us look at this problem from another angle. The so-called lefebvrists recognise the post-conciliar popes, but they don’t really listen to them – the sedevacantists don’t recognise them, and therefore even less listen to them. Clearly the effect is the same – they don’t listen and reject heretical teachings. And it’s not that I’m equating them with each other – I’m merely showing what it looks like for someone looking from the sidelines. The search for “hidden sedevacantists” among traditionalists is the order of the day on any social network. However, hardly anyone realises what this actually entails. All one has to do is throw in the slogan: “sedevakantist” – and the matter is settled. It works similarly to the modernists throwing the slogan: “vilifies John Paul II”. One can notice one regularity in such action. You practically never point out where someone is lying. Doesn’t this remind you of the situation when our Lord Jesus Christ was struck down by an executioner. when he was brought before the Sanhedrin?

Where am I lying, point them out, and if not why are you beating me up?

If you see and reject the lie; if you accept with St. Paul that “every one even an Angel from heaven” – and so it is logical that the Pope, the bishops and all the clergy too – if he preaches a different Gospel from that handed down to us by our Lord Jesus Christ – then you are simply a Catholic . Not a traditionalist, a lefebvrist, or a sedavacantist , but a Catholic. As you can see, there is no distinction here, because there cannot be, whether privately or officially – it is cursed

As a matter of fact, they all, at least in theory, should want a true Catholic to sit on the throne of Peter at last. And those who think he is empty, and those who just don’t listen to him – so the goal is also one . Isn’t it better to leave the arguments to the theologians and to work together to save the souls that the modernists are now sending to hell unhindered. Maybe it’s time to come to your senses and hide your contempt for others, perhaps the less informed. The sense of superiority over other people does not come from God! Why is it palpable in some and in others, and even turns into aggression?

How is it that Catholic teaching speaks of looking for even one lost sheep, but you treat such sheep as black sheep?

Why is it that people who do not understand much in these times of apostasy, but seeing the evils of the modernists turn to you encounter a wall of superiority, ridicule and derision from omniscient people?

Who was Saint Paul before his conversion ? A persecutor. And how do you treat those who want to convert ? Did you receive Paul as the apostles did? Rather with cold distrust and rejection .

The enemy is one – Satan, whose representatives on earth now are the modernists. And it is precisely by raising awareness and converting, not by exalting and closing oneself within the walls of one’s own knowledge, that one must fight him. Otherwise, you will become these “whitewashed tombs” – wise on the surface and full of knowledge and regulations, but rotting on the inside. Sadly, it is already apparent that some are slowly imbibing modernism, which is leading to schisms, while others who have become Pharisees full of formulas and rules are constantly dividing themselves….

Are these signs of development ? Rather not. Perhaps it is worth remembering that the Mother of God spoke of people’s deviation and punishment as early as 1917, a time when the Sacrifice was offered in all the churches. God, after all, you know this, abhors sacrifices whose intention is not to fulfil His will, but their own lusts and desires, or overgrown ambitions and lack of humility.

The Modernists take in everyone and confirm them in their sins and so, instead of saving, they doom them to perdition. They are Judas-traitors for whom the gallows on the brink of hell await. But every soul rejected by you will have the same burden of betrayal as the thousands there , for this is not how our Lord Jesus Christ commands to receive the prodigal sons.

How is it that someone has seen the outstretched hand of God saving him from sin and goes towards you, and you who should be looking for such sheep do not see this?

It should be noted here that in Poland the problem of this struggle is practically non-existent. The Poles have been properly introduced to the heresies of modernism by Radio Maryja and the myth of Karol Wojtyla . Just looking at the number of places where the traditional mass is celebrated – which is very small, even in comparison with supposedly left-wing France – and adding to this the number of people supporting a total ban on abortion, one can conclude that Catholicism in Poland occurs in trace amounts.

Belief in God can change everything. The truth can free us from the snares of evil, but it is best to start by realising the truth about ourselves as dust and worthless worms crawling at the feet of God – and only then to fight against the lies of this world. This will allow us to see who the enemy really is.

2022

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Arkadiusz Niewolski