Christian Clarity Review

Two?

Not one?

God Says:

1 John 4:8 He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.

God does not say He is “one part of a larger set of loves”.

How then, can loves be united to forge a supposed monolithic when in reality God cannot be divided? Is anti-Christ calling for a hotter heat to forge together disparate loves? If those to whom he calls are not already in Jesus Christ as new creatures and have a new heart, wherein the wiles of anti-Christ have no power, they will seek to do churchianity and religionism more vehemently per his call and seek to do so as earning a heaven for themselves exactly in line with the emotional response set anti-Christ puts in them as “love” …which to God is abomination.

excerpted from: “Uniting the love for God with love for the hierarchical Church”

Certainly and necessarily, during this Congregation you are carrying out an important work but it is not a “distraction” from your apostolic activity. As St Ignatius teaches you in the Spiritual Exercises you must with the same vision of the three Divine Persons, look at “the entire surface of the earth crammed with men” (n 102) Listening to the Spirit, the creator who renews the world and returning to the fonts to preserve your identity without losing your own lifestyle, the commitment to discern the signs of the times, the difficulty and responsibility of working out final decisions are activities which are eminently apostolic because they form the base of a new springtime of being religious and of the apostolic commitment of each of your brothers in the Society of Jesus.

Now the vision becomes broader. It is not only for your own Jesuit brothers that you provide a religious and apostolic formation. There are many institutes of Consecrated Life who, following an Ignatian spirituality, pay attention to your choices; there are many future priests in your Colleges and Universities who are preparing for their ministry. There are many peoples from both within and outside the Church who frequent your centers of learning seeking a response to the challenges which science, technology and globalization pose to humanity, to the Church, and to the faith, with the hope of receiving a formation which will make it possible for them to construct a world of truth and freedom, of justice and peace.

Your work must be eminently apostolic with a universal human, ecclesial and evangelical fullness. It must always be carried out in the light of your Charism, in such a way that the growing participation of laity in your activities does not obscure your identity but rather enriches it with the collaboration of those who, coming from other cultures, share your style and your objectives.

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The Church is waiting for a light from you to restore the sensus Ecclesiae. The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius are your specialty. The rules of sentire cum Ecclesiae form an integral and essential part of this masterpiece of Catholic spirituality. They form, as it were, a golden clasp which holds the book of The Spiritual Exercises closed.

You hold in your very hands the elements needed to realize and to deepen this desire, this Ignatian and Ecclesial sentiment.

Love for the Church in every sense of the word, – be it Church people of God be it hierarchical Church – is not a human sentiment which comes and goes according to the people who make it up or according to our conformity with the dispositions emanating from those whom the Lord has placed to direct the Church. Love for the Church is a love based on faith, a gift of the Lord which, precisely because he loves us, he gives us faith in him and in his Spouse, which is the Church. Without the gift of faith in the Church there can be no love for the Church.

I join in your prayer asking the Lord to grant you the grace to grow in your belief in and love for this holy, catholic and apostolic Church which we profess.

With sadness and anxiety I also see a growing distancing from the Hierarchy. The Ignatian spirituality of apostolic service “under the Roman Pontiff” does not allow for this separation.

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Ignatius placed himself under the orders of the Roman Pontiff “in order to not err in via Domini” (Const 605) in the distribution of his religious throughout the world and to be present wherever the needs of the Church were greater.

Times have changed and the Church must today confront new and urgent necessities, I will mention one, which in my judgment is urgent today and is at the same time complex and I propose it for your consideration. It is the need to present to the faithful and to the world the authentic truth revealed in Scripture and Tradition. The doctrinal diversity of those who at all levels, by vocation and mission are called to announce the Kingdom of truth and love, disorients the faithful and leads to a relativism without limits. There is one truth, even though it can always be more deeply known.

The non-harmless deceived among themselves hear anti-Christ as their speech and mind. He makes sense to them in a way that seems to parse out reality into chunks of ‘right and wrong’ within non-creation and the inevitable scarcity in non-creation of ‘right’ for its own sake that becomes in their minds riches. All they have ever seen is that scarcity equals value in non-creating speech. Otherwise they would not know “money”. Thus it is no big trick of anti-Christ to deceive them his version of ‘right’ is scarce and therefore valuable and they can and ought to work pennilessly for it both on earth and in reality eventually in heaven. Those not born again in Jesus Christ will follow it all day and forever if God had no grace on the elect among them. To those not born again and have not the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and Word of God, doing so makes the ONLY sense.

And we are supposed to say nothing merely to keep them happy in a political world.

It is better to be cast out and killed for speaking the truth as God does it through us than see the infamy of anti-Christ laughingly deceiving valuable and precious souls whose worth is based on God and God’s creating them as individuals ( and maintaining them as unique individuals and not on scarcity even though no two are alike ) go on to their destruction.

Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation. For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness , have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believes.

Col 2:20-23 If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances? Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch, (things which are all for destruction in the using of them :) according to the injunctions and teachings of men, (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to the satisfaction of the flesh.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen