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From Resurrection to Eucharist: A Unique Catholic Traveler's Tale with Denise Mercado
Website: www.denisemercado.com | Denise Mercado, an award-winning author, blogger, and solo traveler, as she discusses her latest book, "Stations of the Resurrection." Discover the unexpected inspiration behind this unique devotional book that takes readers on a journey from the crucifixion to Pentecost. Denise's personal story as a solo traveler creates fascinating stories in her writing process and opens new spiritual insights.
ABOUT DOMINIC DE SOUZA
SmartCatholics founder, Dominic de Souza, is a convert from radical traditionalism - inspired by WherePeterIs, Bishop Robert Barron, and Pope Francis. He is passionate about helping ordinary Catholics break the ‘bystander effect’, and be firstresponders. “We don’t have to be geniuses. We just have to show up with witness and kindness. Christ does the rest.” Today he hosts the SmartCatholics community. smartcatholics.com
ABOUT DOMINIC DE SOUZA
SmartCatholics founder, Dominic de Souza, is a convert from radical traditionalism - inspired by WherePeterIs, Bishop Robert Barron, and Pope Francis. He is passionate about helping ordinary Catholics break the ‘bystander effect’, and be firstresponders. “We don’t have to be geniuses. We just have to show up with witness and kindness. Christ does the rest.” Today he hosts the SmartCatholics community. smartcatholics.com
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Why does Pope Francis critcize 'Faithful' Catholics? Pedro Gabriel & Ridigity
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Is it true that the more faithful we are, we become a more rigid remnant? Pedro Gabriel argues no: Pope Francis' challenges to rigidity are intended to create more effective evangelizers in our world. Rigidity - or laxity - are precisely the temptations that faithful Christians must overcome. Get the Book: enroutebooksandmedia.com/rigidity/ Follow Pedro: x.com/pedrogabwriter Website: pedrogabri...
Rigidity and Fundamentalist Extremes? Pedro Gabriel on Faithfulness or Heterodoxy
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Pedro Gabriel breaks down the dangers of rigidity and laxity in faith and morality in his latest discussion. He lays it out clearly: both extremes distort the point of religious laws and teachings, which is to guide and help people, not to be followed blindly or ignored. Using historical examples and Pope Francis' wisdom, Pedro champions a balanced, person-centered approach open to the "God of ...
Rigidity: The Sober Truth with Pedro Gabriel | Faithfulness or Heterodoxy
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Pedro Gabriel tackles the themes of rigidity, faithfulness, and the need for discernment in his latest book, "Rigidity, Faithfulness, or Heterodoxy." He shatters the myth that rigidity equals true faithfulness, breaking down Pope Francis' message against rigidity and why it's so often misunderstood. Pedro's straightforward writing style makes complex history and theology easy to grasp. He shows...
She kicked the radtrad hornets nest: Miss Happy Catholic (Laura) and TradRecovery
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Website & Conference: tradrecovery.com | Support Laura: www.paypal.com/donate/?business=GMCY3VXDGYCVN | Join Laura, aka Miss Happy Catholic, in a breathless overview of her journey through radical traditionalism to creating TradRecovery.com and the upcoming Catholics in Communion conference. Learn her beginnings, her personal story, the challenges she faced, and how she is now creating a health...
Dignitas Infinita
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Dominic and Paul wrap up this season with a conversation about the new document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Dignitas Infinita, about the infinite dignity of the human person. We discuss the main themes of the document before moving on to sharing our positive and negative reactions to it. “Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his o...
Throwback Episode - The Dignity of the Human Person
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In this throwback episode (from Season Two) Paul and Dominic discuss the first of the four principles of Catholic Social Teaching, the dignity of the human person. We are all tempted to reduce the value of others, to, as Pope Francis puts it, “despise the limit that another’s value imposes.” Since Vatican II, the Church has emphasized the infinite dignity of every human being and has explained ...
Throwback Episode - Brad Jersak - Faith after Deconstruction
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We have a Throwback Episode for you this week, all the way from Season Three. Paul and Dominic interviewed the Orthodox theologian Brad Jersak about new book, “Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction.” They talked about what it looks like to follow Jesus in the midst of suffering and trauma, even when the harm is coming from the Church. Brad Jersak is the Dean of Theology & Cult...
Eve Tushnet - Blessing Same-Sex Couples
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This week, Paul has a conversation with Eve Tushnet about Fiducia Supplicans, the new document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith permitting priests to bless same-sex couples. Eve has written a couple of recent articles about this document and, in the course of that, interviewed several LGBTQ Catholics and pastors. She shares some of those experiences with us. Eve was on the podca...
Matthew Shadle - Francis’s Theological Paradigm Shift
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This week, Dr. Matthew Shadle joins the podcast to discuss the theology of Pope Francis in the context of Vatican II. Specifically-responding to some of the critics Pope Francis’s recent apostolic letter, Ad Theologiam Promovendam-we talk about how the pope’s theology fits in terms of the Ressourcement theology that dominated at the Second Vatican Council and its development since then. After m...
Sara Larson - Waking up to Abuse in the Church
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On this episode, Paul speaks with Sara Larson, the executive director of Awake, a Catholic nonprofit that supports and advocates for survivors of abuse in the Church. Sara talks about the history and mission of Awake and the great work it does in and for the heart of the Church. Sara also shares how working with survivors of abuse has changed her own faith life and relationship with the Church....
Bernard Prusak - Institutional Vice
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This week, Paul and Dominic talk with Dr. Bernard Prusak. They discuss an up-and-coming article (being published later this year by Liturgical Press) that Bernard wrote about Institutional Vice and the coverup of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Using the story of the disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick as an example, Bernard’s article attempts to explain how otherwise goo...
Colleen Dulle - Synodality and Spiritual Crises
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This week, Colleen Dulle is back on the podcast for another great conversation. They talk about the ongoing Synod on Synodality and the likelihood that it will actually provoke real reform in the Church. They also spend time discussing Colleen’s upcoming book, “Struck Down, Not Destroyed”, about the spiritual crises that result from reporting on the endemic problems of the Catholic Church. Thro...
Dawn Eden Goldstein - Antisemitism in the Church
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Dawn Eden Goldstein - Antisemitism in the Church
Brian Armbrustmacher - Vocation and Discernment
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Brian Armbrustmacher - Vocation and Discernment
Jordan Daniel Wood - Hell and Universalism
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Jordan Daniel Wood - Hell and Universalism
Jordan Daniel Wood - Grace, Theosis, and Virtues
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Jordan Daniel Wood - Grace, Theosis, and Virtues
Can Catholics disagree with Church Teaching? with Dr Robert Fastiggi
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Can Catholics disagree with Church Teaching? with Dr Robert Fastiggi
The Vocation of the Theologian & St. Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Daniel Wood
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The Vocation of the Theologian & St. Maximus the Confessor with Jordan Daniel Wood
Faith after Deconstruction with Brad Jersak | The Gospel in Chairs
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Faith after Deconstruction with Brad Jersak | The Gospel in Chairs
Can a Catholic be Woke? Gloria Purvis on Pope Francis Generation
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Can a Catholic be Woke? Gloria Purvis on Pope Francis Generation
Great interview. Laura and her Trad Recovery are great! Very important work she os doing. I loved your questions. Prayers for you.
Paying women to stay home with children doesn’t address the ideas that 1) women have talents in the same amount as men and want to use those talents to the same degree as their male counterparts in the public sphere, 2) women want to and should be allowed to access positions that would allow them to shape policy and society at large, which requires a lot of time to be devoted to it. So rather than or in addition to paying those who choose to stay at home with their children, how about either 1) normalizing remote work for ALL workers and allow them to multitask family and work responsibilities without penalty (and without rewarding those who don’t multitask) and perhaps even providing in home childcare services to offer assistance during the day while a parent is home working as a job perk (beats a gym or a break room stocked with snacks why day, if you ask me), or 2) normalizing the presence of children in the office, including breastfeeding in meetings and at one’s desk, encouraging employees to look out for their coworkers’ children like they would children in their own neighborhoods, and perhaps constructing in office schools whereby the children of the janitorial staff can be educated alongside the children of the CEO. I’m thinking a model that looks something like the television program Star Trek Deep Space Nine, where the families of the officers lived and worked on the space station as well. Anyway, my point is that like men, women have gifts, but unlike men, women’s vocations as mothers can get in the way of them being able to use those gifts in the same way and to the same extent as men. So, to make sure it doesn’t anymore, let’s radically restructure the way work “works” for both men and women to make it more accommodating for family life (which everyone during the pandemic realized is something they actually want) for both mothers and fathers. Then, we can make sure that women will truly be free to use their gifts to make society better, and nothing needs to be sacrificed.
The TLM is amazing and the people I met there were good people, no abuse at all and while u may be telling the truth, I get the democrat vs republican propaganda feeling here. I think u are full of💩I’m forced to attend the NO because of this evil collumny by these propagandists and those that lie and hate people that just want to worship in reverence.
12:37 this implies repentance…mercy is indeed for those who repent. But today it seems as though mercy is something else, an approval of what cannot be approved.
The problem is that of those faithful Catholics there are those who feel that the Pope is addressing specifically them for being faithful not because they are trying to hold others to a standard that they are not willing to hold themselves to. Those that do behave this way, even on the left, taking about mercy but not being merciful think that the Pope isn’t speaking to them.
this chap Pedro Garbriel blocked me in twitter for confronting his claims on a topic about an year back. Pedro was rigid about blocking me
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Our lady is asking for the church to remain firm, that much i know. When the thruth is no longer in the church. God will not be in the Eucharist. Many will return to the church, and He is no longer there. When i heard this reminded me of the story of the Virgims, when they came to get their oil was to late. Wow for the man that brings this about. Our lady said to Pedro Reis in Brazil.
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I absolutely loved this interview and this channel and these 2 speakers! Pope Francis is my absolute favorite Author! Those who claim claim Francis teaches heresy and error, are themselves ignorant of Catholic teaching and Canon Law and Holy Scripture! As lies were told of Jesus Christ at His trial, so too even now of Pope Francis by modern day elders! Keep up the GOD work! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!
Sorry, but as a Catholic from Argentina (country in wich Francis is native to) he has a very negative image not only coming from anti Catholics, but Catholics also. He venerated pagan ceremonies like Pachamama and Carnaval, he defended Maduro, he defender Milagros Sala (a former gangster, fortunately in prison), he defended the ideas related to Peronism in Argentina, covered under the rug the massive rape incident that happened in Pennsylvania, authorized homosexual marriage in the church (as if they don't have their own heretical church anyways, called progressive church) and I can keep going on with a lot of things he did wrong... He literally made the Catholic Church a whore. Sounds crude, but I for one can't feel identified with the Pope. The whole concept of the Pope being infallible went out the window since he started to allow non-Catholic customs and ideals in the Vatican. And because he is te Pope, most communities will listen to him without questioning the religious morality behind every decree he will make
This is helpful, thank you. I wonder how this looks practically though. It seems like any teaching on conscience is intrinsically gaslighting when there is also an infallible teaching authority. As an example, if I can’t accept the immaculate conception on conscience (due to convictions on hamartiology and the fall), what would it even mean to personally hold a conviction against infallible teaching of the church?
Dominic here. In my understanding, friend, Paul goes further into this with followup convos on conscience. He recognizes that even when something is infallibly defined, a person's conscience may be yet unable to accept it. So the invite is to trust, and continue to discern the wisdom of the position, or accept that we may be in an irreconcilable situation. In those places, we may be 'martyrs for the truth', and it is possible that the application or articulation of a defined doctrine requires improvement. Paul's convos with Jordan Daniel Wood come back to this a lot, since Universalism is not the defined position of the Church.
Biden is pro-choice president, he himself once solemnised a same sex marriage. the Pope finds him a 'good catholic'. Catholics should not be rigid towards such practices?
The pope sucks. Catholicism is a joke.
Wonderful interview! I enjoyed it so much, and I’m excited to learn more about Denise’s books.
Jesus is Jewish messiah and he didn't start a new religion but instituted natural continuation of Judaism under the new covenant with his salvation for entire mankind and his first followers who were all Jews started this new covenant Judaism with the basic traditions like tabernacle alter menohra priesthood etc intact and eucharist as the new passover ritual which nobody disputes until the satanic cult of sola scriptura a man made tradition invented by a devil possessed man was introduced just five hundred years ago
Allow me to point out that the Pope, in this instance, is speaking in his role of head of the Latin Church (i.e., Patriarch of the West), and not as Ecumenical Pontiff. As a Melkite Greek Catholic, this has nothing to do with me. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Thank you Pedro Gabriel for a great and very useful book on Rigidity.
Great interview! inmediatelly start reading this book, God bless you guys
Why? It's very simple: Because he is not a Catholic.
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One comment? How encouraging is this show? 😢
Rigidity is 2 Peter 3:16, the ignorant and unstable, who twist St Paul's writings to their own destruction. This is the mentality of people suffering rigidity.
”Presessionsim,” funny bleep, nevertheless, like the false teaching of supersessionism it is an illusionary, made-up, false narrative. Romans 11; Nostra Aetate; the Vatican document: "For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable" (Rom 11:29); and “A Church in Dialogue The Catholic Church and Interreligious Dialogue”.
I came into the Church being attracted to the TLM, but quickly lost interest because the people associated with it often hated the Pope more than any of the extremist Baptists I grew up around. In many TLM groups even if the Priests are FSSP and in full communion with the Pope, and affirm the NO and Vatican II as fully legitimate, a huge chunk of their parishioners just make up their own theology or are even sedevacantists. I actually did not find the TLM a good place for my wife and small children, and I found my local NO Parish to be exceedingly excellent. These days I am not comfortable attending TLM masses in most cases because I just don’t want to be around a bunch of hateful schismatics, which flock to the TLM. It also seems like the legit TLM groups don’t do enough to address the heresy, schism and hate within their laity either. So I see them as partly at fault now as well.
Not all TLM people are bad but good & faithful & friendly people. Please don’t judge all of them.
@@janetplonka8110 I don’t judge all of them by any means. I would affirm most are great Catholics. But I would also say based on experience a big chunk of many FSSP parishioners are indeed schismatics or some sort. I don’t think the good Catholic laity or Priests at the FSSP are aggressive enough in dealing with this problem, but it isn’t for me to decide. What I can do is avoid taking my family there and away from the unaddressed extremism.
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Thank you for these conversations!
Rigidity sounds an awful lot like scrupulosity, of which I'm well familiar. Ironic that today is the feast day of Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
Scrupulosity is chapter 2 of my book and I cite St. Alphonsus Liguori in there. But there are other kinds of rigidity, which I explore in the other chapters
@@pedrogabrielwriter I suffer from scrupulosity, in large part because some of the "rad trads" tried to impress on me that the TLM is where the "real Jesus" is. Some of that audience will tell me that I'm outside the Church by being a Novus Ordo Catholic. It took me a few years to get through that mess, with the help of counselors.
@@carld3218 I’m sorry for what you had to go through and happy that you got better
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Christian sexual repression leads to sexual abuse. According to the French government, the Roman Catholic Empire raped over 32O,OOO innocent French children. Just since 195O. If we extrapolate from this French datum for the at least 8 other Roman Catholic dominant countries, we end up with over 3 million children raped by Roman Catholics just since 195O. The FBI is currently investigating the rampant level of sexual abuse of women and children in the Southern Baptist Convention. Which is the largest Christian denomination in America. Liberty University, the famous Evangelical University, recently was fined 14 million dollars for just ignoring the significant level of rape on their campus for many, many, many, decades. Christian sexual repression is not innocent, as it leads to an ugly level of sexual abuse. So take care whenever you are in the sexually toxic Christian community. Especially the child raping Roman Catholic Empire. Remember that idealism is always, always, always, based on denialism. This is why the Christian community is again attacking the LGBT community as being sexually dangerous. LGBT folks are not groomers. As the evidence demonstrates the actual groomers are largely sexually repressed Christian males. They are just engaging in ugly and hateful deflection to hide and conceal their own sexual toxicity. They are just scapegoating and distracting from their own sexually criminal behavior and history. "Look over there, not over here." So don't be fooled by all of their ugly and hateful lies. And remember that if Drag Queens are all about love, then it begs the question as to what Christianity is actually all about? So therefore perhaps Drag Queens can help Christians learn how to love better. As currently they all seem so love disabled.💙
I am praying for vocations. I know Sr. Bernadette from grade school and high school. I thank her for praying for me, and everyone. I have been healed from a very heavy mental health cross. He needs me to publish my book very soon. The Lord has been placing in my heart that He has the married life planned for me in His time. I told the Lord that I desire to marry the man who will claim me from the Lord, Himself. I surrendered to Him in June. I am at peace. I told Him "I surrender all." He needs others to surrender all to Him. Have a very blessed day. May the Lord bless everyone today and always.📿🙏♥️
I´m sorry but don´t see how someone who knows Scripture can be at peace with so much error that has resulted from Vatican II. I´m not a Trad. I´m just someone who wants to be Catholic and faithful to 20 centuries of Catholic doctrine.
Not one error resulted from Vatican II. The fact is Vatican II was a severe blow to Satan, and he works hard to convince some laity to try to overthrow it. He does whatever he can to disparage it and finds susceptible people to serve his interests against it. If you are on the wrong side of the Pope, you are always wrong. This was true during the Arian heresy and it’s true of Vatican II. Take the side of Christ’s vicar.
Paulo, please provide evidence where Vatican 2 teaches anything contrary to Church teaching or Canon Law or Holy Scripture? Best of luck to you! You are in my prayers as you journey toward Truth! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!
The supposed error that has resulted from Vatican II is always the result of false interpretations and/or misinformation
As a traditinal catholic, i can reapect so much who leaves rad trads and stays in the church, some trads are truly abusers without even knowing
It literally makes me sick how you are painting those that love Tradition with a broad brush. There are problems in all institutions. I have gone to the TLM for years. It was where I finally fell in love with Jesus.
Catholicism is Scripture and Tradition. The Magisterium. Sola Tradition is just as wrong as Sola Scripture.
Not to be crude, but why watch this then if this makes you sick?
Thanks for this channel and glad to see Laura on here. Il be honest I’ve never really fallen into Chad thinking though. I’ve always been kind of interested in it and what gets me is that people that still believe the same thing. Sure sometimes my alarm go off even looking at the videos from people on this channel, but at times I think what we need to realize is that, we’re all Catholic and we are valid and we are all wanting to go to the same mass and the same. This has been something that has always annoyed me as somebody who Catholic, but somebody who believes in the church. I’m not a lesser Catholic just because I don’t go to the right mass, or because my wife works, or because we have one kid (even if that’s due to health issues. I’m guessing a lot of trades sadly would be very judge of a family with one kid unless they were super open about their fertility issues which has to be kind of annoying as well not everybody wants to be public with that stuff.) it just annoys me because we’re really not all that different and yes, you can say 2000 years and blah, blah blah and all this, but at the end of the day it just seems like people trying to be special or maybe even in some cases people trying to cover up for their horribly simple nature, but focusing on external rather than internals and looking at themselves. Basically, I guess what I love about this and what I’m finding is that as Catholics should be for self improvement and working towards heaven. From the heart. It is not gonna come from doing so many prayers or treating it like it’s a video game manual or a ritual that if we don’t do this exact, we might as well be doing it wrong. It’s funny how and someways, some traditionalist think this is how it goes and yet it’s more can a magic spell and Harry Potter where if you say the wrong word well you didn’t do it right. Kind of funny how the end of the day it seems as our whole society just wants spirituality to be this kind of magical list spell rather than an encounter with God. So I guess thanks for this channel and sorry for the rant, God bless y’all
Thanks for this channel and glad to see Laura on here. Il be honest I’ve never really fallen into Chad thinking though. I’ve always been kind of interested in it and what gets me is that people that still believe the same thing. Sure sometimes my alarm go off even looking at the videos from people on this channel, but at times I think what we need to realize is that, we’re all Catholic and we are valid and we are all wanting to go to the same mass and the same. This has been something that has always annoyed me as somebody who Catholic, but somebody who believes in the church. I’m not a lesser Catholic just because I don’t go to the right mass, or because my wife works, or because we have one kid (even if that’s due to health issues. I’m guessing a lot of trades sadly would be very judge of a family with one kid unless they were super open about their fertility issues which has to be kind of annoying as well not everybody wants to be public with that stuff.) it just annoys me because we’re really not all that different and yes, you can say 2000 years and blah, blah blah and all this, but at the end of the day it just seems like people trying to be special or maybe even in some cases people trying to cover up for their horribly simple nature, but focusing on external rather than internals and looking at themselves. Basically, I guess what I love about this and what I’m finding is that as Catholics should be for self improvement and working towards heaven. From the heart. It is not gonna come from doing so many prayers or treating it like it’s a video game manual or a ritual that if we don’t do this exact, we might as well be doing it wrong. It’s funny how and someways, some traditionalist think this is how it goes and yet it’s more can a magic spell and Harry Potter where if you say the wrong word well you didn’t do it right. Kind of funny how the end of the day it seems as our whole society just wants spirituality to be this kind of magical list spell rather than an encounter with God. So I guess thanks for this channel and sorry for the rant, God bless y’all
I have only experienced people who come for the Mass at the TLM. I could care less what others think of where I go. If we reallly loved others, we would leave them alone wherever they choose to honor the Lord's Day. All of those that I know that attend the TLM do so with sometimes much sacrifice. They do it out of wanting to honor God and form their children as they see fit.
I attend both NO and TLM. I believe each can enhance the other, as Pope Benedict recommended in SP. The High Mass is sublime and, when celebrated devoutly, the NO is beautiful too. Both allow us to access the very centre of our faith, to be in communion with Jesus in the Eucharist. I cannot understand the growing emnity between the two. There are too many stereotypes being created on both sides. One does not have to get involved in the politics, if that is what is causing division. All I want to be is a Catholic, one who sees the beauty in both liturgies It's difficult to fathom why the Vatican is so intent on suppressing the Latin Mass, even if its only from an appreciation of its history as well as its aesthetics. It's puzzling to me. Please explain why one has to 'recover' from the tradional Mass?
I too love both the NO and TLM and attend both. Sadly, many on the TLM side do not see things this way. Many of them see the NO as an inferior Mass, constructed by a non-valid Council (Vat II) and believe Pope Francis is a heretic. Some even say St. Pope John XXIII, St. Pope Paul VI, and St. Pope John Paul II were not valid canonizations. These are very grave errors of the faith and need to be stopped. It does not seem to go the other way. I don't know of anyone who only attends the NO and makes these false accusations against Francis, the TLM, Vat II, or canonizations, etc.
@@RobertC-1966 That's not been my experience of the TLM attendees, even the SSPX. They are very alert to 'modernism' , but I haven't heard any disrespectful comments about Pope Francis. In fact I'm on a thread with a SSPX group, and any criticism of Pope Francis is very much discouraged. In private conversations, however, people do discuss their concerns about what is coming out of Rome. And I think there are things about which we should be concerned. Some of the appointments, for example, are, at best, questionable as are some recent documents. I don't get into debates now about them. I trust certain sources and my own reason and faith. I avoid the really controversial Catholic media. It's not profitable psychologically and spiritually to imbibe negativity, and some media go way too far. Christ left us the fruits of His Church during bad times and good times. We have the sacraments, the Catechism, the Rosary and many charisms and devotions. He will never leave us orphans.
@@murielkinsella3526I'm glad you have had a positive experience in the TLM community although many of us haven't. The Holy Father has to maintain unity amongst Catholics and sadly many in TLM community want it their way or the highway. If they had just left well enough alone and stopped their attacks on the NO things might have gone a different route.
@@vickyvd9381 I really think you're wrong on this. I can't remember anything coming from the traditionalists side to the Vatican, but I do remember many very hurtful and negative statements issuing from the Vatican to the TLM people. I go to both Masses, but I'm very careful now where I attend the NO. Thank God I have located a church where the Mass is celebrated with great reverence. The priests are Opus Dei, and while I have no attraction to the lay organisation, I can't speak more highly of the priests
The problem is the TLM, while an excellent liturgy, is serving as a battery for schismatics. That’s not the intent of the TLM and 99% of Priests who celebrate it are probably well and good. But if you go to any TLM and start to get involved and meet people you notice a massive amount of extremely heterodox and frankly extreme to the point of being anti-Catholic opinions on the Pope and Vatican II. In fact, I know a lot of TLM-onlyists and I can’t say I’m sure any one of them are actually Catholic and not somehow self-excommunicated based on their beliefs about Papal authority alone.
Interesting. I’m not a “rad trad” but I have attened 28:22 Latin Mass 4 or 5 times. I think your work is important.
Eating flesh, drinking blood... O.K.
Sorry it shows immaturity. The TLM existed for a long time and the liturgy etc brings people closer to God but it requires a great deal of spiritual maturity. We are all at different levels, I am in a schola and we sing the mass. The TLM is not the end in itself but rather a means to the end which is to love and worship God in humility. It is not emotionalism but time honoured rubrics which makes us keenly aware of the majesty of God. There is a sacred silence in that. Of course people get caught up and become or can be scrupulous etc but these are baby steps. Our spiritual journey lasts a lifetime and we fail and we fall. Our spirituality is also the working of God’s grace on us. We are asked to pray continually. Unfortunately the current Pontiff wishes to eliminate the TLM and declare ONE way. While Jesus is THE way, to try to erase the universality of the TLM and to replace it with the NO is something I dont understand and produces no fruit. Are people spiritually immature? Of course! I was baptized by Apollo, I by Gaius etc. We need to pray ceaselessly with love and mercy. What is required of you o man? ( find the answer in Malachi)
An insightful, charitable and gentle response to the topic. I really commend you.
The TLM isn’t an issue. There’s nothing wrong with it . I share your love of it . But I think you are minimizing the real problems found in TLM communities by dismissing them as spiritual immaturity on the part of individuals . The real issiue is intrinsically connected to a schismatic mentally that is often spread in TLM communities within the Church , this mentality is spreading from another TLM groups that are schismatic like sedevacantist or other groups that operate outside the Church . My FSSP clergy have made a real effort to correct these ideas on the part of laity , Fr Ripperger even gave a talk about these problems, they recognize these problems. As more then just icolated cases of spiritual immaturity . It’s an ideology that has problems intrinsically connected to it . As one who grew up in one of these separatist groups , I can testify to the many problems intrinsically connected to a mindset that sees the universal Church and the post V2 hierarchy as enemies to the faith, and sees one’s self as the protector and preserver to the Faith over and above legitimate authority and everyone else who disagrees with you . The individual or the non authority the individual selects for himself become the new rule of faith . This of course leads to a multitude of problems, not the least of which is the root idea that God has somehow abandoned the Church after V2 .
@@mycatholicexperience8409 Well, as a Catholic who attends both forms of the Mass, I don't think I am minimising any problems with the TLM. The ire from Rome seems to be directed against traditionalists and conservatives
!Salus, Pope Francis loves the Latin Mass! Unfortunately, many Catholic Christians claim the Latin Mass is the only valid Mass, which of course would then exclude the Last Supper, also not said in Latin! Hence the restrictions! You are in my prayers as you journey toward Truth! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink
Thank you both! It’s such important work.
Thanks for your work!
I personally found more antisemitism in Evangelical Protestantism than Catholicism
This was incredible. Blows my mind that Theosis is not front and center of Catholic teaching.
I'm not a universalist, but am open to exploring it more. Thanks for the post!
interesting how dr blanchard excepts The Trinity. This is basically an idea that everything post-nicene is maleable?
Beautiful dialogue, thank you both! Karen Dear
I’ve been told multiple times that the Catholic Church has condemned universalism as heresy. How can it be heretical to believe Hod will and save all? How to would you reconcile this as Catholics? Or am I misinformed about the churches stance?
I recommend continuing to follow the research, and Jordan Daniel Wood's work. It's not clear to me that it is condemned. Many theologians have condemned it, but that's different.
Universalism is the clear teaching throughout the whole of scripture and was openly taught for the 1st 400-500 years of the church.
it's all made up mate, i wouldn't worry myself over it, until god actually decides to come and sort this mess out - and he won't cos there is no god - then why bother?
@@old_nick_the_so-and-so “there is no god” and you know this with 100% epistemic certainty? I don’t doubt your unbelief but you might want to incorporate some epistemic humility your worldview
@@CCiPencil of course i can't know 100% nut i do know as well as i know there is a sports car orbiting the sun and that santa has as much evidence as god. fallibilism. i'm eager, i;m not daft.
As much as I love this to be true there are so many verses that clearly talk of an eternal end place of conscious torment for some. What do you make of them?
@@raphaelepache5290 that is simply not the case. I have no idea which ones you are talking about since a place of eternal conscious torment isnt biblical nor Christian. Where in the Greek is this evil to be found?
I have had a positive experience with Desert Stream Ministries 1:12:16
NFP can be used to conceive and it should be publicly promoted with those benefits instead of the sterile ones it current runs on. As a young catholic wife.and mother I walked out of the NFP presentation during Pre Cana thinking it presumptive and bold. Once you marry you agree that children will come, God willing, and you will not place impossible standards on their arrival and upkeep. To turn around and place strict standards on how you will bring children into the world, to me, is a betrayal of marriage and NFP helps facilitate that. Spacing is absurd considering a woman can only have children back to back for a short window of her fertile time and many Catholics these days marry well after that window anyway due to college attendance. If catholic colleges only admitted women once they were married and mothers NFP wouldn't be so prevalent amongst those same women trained to fear child rearing and see it as a vocation devoid of intellectual responsibility.
Sister Sydney is an awesome servant of God. We are truly blessed that she has given her life to be His hands. Thank you Sister!!! :)
This reeks of a lot of supersessionsim and cigar smoke.
Perhaps presessionism...