Papal preacher Raniero Cantalamessa: Our culture isn't en route to Hell but is journeying to an encounter with God...?
Please pray for these modernists they are far out in "left field" |
“We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we
are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and
loves us more than mother and father.” (Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, see here).
Only a delusional mind could advance such a hypothesis. At a time when children are being slaughtered in the womb, governments are promoting sodomy and so-called "gay marriage," terrorism and other forms of violence are on the rise, there is general immorality with people engaging in and condoning various mortal sins, and the Churches are emptying, we are supposed to believe that we are not heading for the void but for the Kingdom of God?
Only a delusional mind could advance such a hypothesis. At a time when children are being slaughtered in the womb, governments are promoting sodomy and so-called "gay marriage," terrorism and other forms of violence are on the rise, there is general immorality with people engaging in and condoning various mortal sins, and the Churches are emptying, we are supposed to believe that we are not heading for the void but for the Kingdom of God?
What rock is the Papal Preacher "living under"? |
In his powerful classic entitled, "The Flight from God," the eminent
Swiss philosopher Max Picard writes: "In every age man has been in
flight from God. What distinguishes the Flight to-day from every other
flight is this: once Faith was the universal, and prior to the
individual; there was an objective world of Faith, while the Flight was
only accomplished subjectively, within the individual man. It came into
being through the individual man's separating himself from the world of
Faith by an act of decision. A man who wanted to flee had first to make
his own flight. The opposite is true to-day. The objective and external
world of Faith is no more; it is Faith which has to be remade moment by
moment through the individual's act of decision, that is to say, through
the individual's cutting himself off from the world of the Flight. For
to-day it is no longer Faith which exists as an objective world, but
rather the Flight; for every situation into which man comes is from the
beginning, without his making it so, plainly a situation of flight,
since everything in this world exists only in the form of the Flight."
(The Flight from God, Gateway Editions, 1951, pp.1-2).
Picard goes on to explain in this critically important work that, "The man of the Flight cannot bear the feeling that there is one thing and one thing only: the Flight. He needs something wholly other, something, now threatening, now friendly, which is above him, like a heaven beneath which he can make his journey...This is Art...The very existence of Art in a sphere of its own already means that it is 'wholly other,' and from the beginning it is other than reality itself. The strange thing about Art is that a work of art is indeed made by man, but that once it is made it stands there independently of man. This gives it a semblance of otherness." (The Flight from God, pp. 138-139).
Picard goes on to explain in this critically important work that, "The man of the Flight cannot bear the feeling that there is one thing and one thing only: the Flight. He needs something wholly other, something, now threatening, now friendly, which is above him, like a heaven beneath which he can make his journey...This is Art...The very existence of Art in a sphere of its own already means that it is 'wholly other,' and from the beginning it is other than reality itself. The strange thing about Art is that a work of art is indeed made by man, but that once it is made it stands there independently of man. This gives it a semblance of otherness." (The Flight from God, pp. 138-139).
This is of the utmost importance for "modern man" as he flees from his
God Who is Wholly Other. Nature abhors a vacuum after all. And so, in
his flight from the Divine Other, man in the flight substitutes "Art"
for the Divine Being as the Wholly Other." Picard explains that the
cinema "..is the perfect Flight" and that here is where "men may learn
how best to flee." For this reason, "..cinemas are everywhere erected,
examples of the Flight. The figures on the screen are fashioned only for
the Flight, they are disembodied. Like one in a hurry who drops his
luggage, the figures have laid down their bodily substance somewhere in
the background, while they themselves make off in the foreground of the
screen, outlines only of their bodies. Sometimes they are still for a
moment, looking backwards fearfully, as if there was one who pursued
them. Alas, it is only a game, they do but pretend to be afraid. No one
can reach them, these things without being. And now, as if they want to
fool the one who pursues them, they move more slowly, they even
translate a movement which ought o be fast into a slow one; they
demonstrate slowness in the Flight, so sure are they that nothing can
reach them, these things without being. Here in the cinema it is as if
there were no more men, as if the real men were somewhere in safety, had
for long been in safety, and as if these shadows had been left behind
simply to flee in place of the real men. They only pretend to be in
flight and even the men who sit in front of the screen in order to gaze
at the shadows there seem nothing but dummies, arranged to complete the
illusion,while the real men have long since departed." (pp. 8-9).
Dr. Von Hildebrand was right when he said that, "Modern man has lost
that consciousness of being a creature which even the pagan possessed,
and he lives in the illusion that by his own powers he can transform the
world into a terrestrial paradise." (The New Tower of Babel, Sophia Institute Press, 1994, p. 21).
Progressivist papal preacher Cantalmessa |
Having decided against God, "modern man" has embraced the Flight. This
flight from the Divine Other has led to the decline of man's confidence
in the powers of human reason to attain reality and truth. Man in the
Flight has concluded today that all truth is relative. In the same way
that Pilate asked Our Lord, "What is truth?" and hastened in his flight
to the judgment-hall without waiting for an answer (John 18:38), so
"modern man," in his embrace of relativism, joins the flight without any
thought of inquiring for the truth. Instead, he settles for illusion,
rejecting the permanent authority of truth as founded by the Divine
Other in reality, reason and revelation while setting himself up as the
autonomous source of all truth:"Before Christ's second coming the Church
must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many
believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will
unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of a religious deception
offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of
apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of
the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in
place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh." (Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 675).
The Antichrist is behind the Flight, urging "modern man" to hasten in his Flight and not to look back. How will this Flight end? In the words of Romano Guardini:"One day the Antichrist will come: a human being who introduces an order of things in which rebellion against God will attain its ultimate power. He will be filled with enlightenment and strength. The ultimate aim of all aims will be to prove that existence without Christ is possible - nay rather, that Christ is the enemy of existence, which can be fully realized only when all Christian values have been destroyed. His arguments will be so impressive, supported by means of such tremendous power - violent and diplomatic, material and intellectual - that to reject them will result in almost insurmountable scandal, and everyone whose eyes are not opened by grace will be lost. Then it will be clear what the Christian essence really is: that which stems not from the world, but from the heart of God; victory of grace over the world; redemption of the world, for her true essence is not to be found in herself, but in God, from whom she has received it. When God becomes all in all, the world will finally burst into flower." (The Lord, p. 513).
Are we not approaching the Reign of Antichrist? "Modern man" strives to build a godless world where he is subject to no one but himself. Having eliminated God from this world, "modern man" deifies and absolutizes himself. Having rejected his place as a creature dependent upon God, "modern man" is moving, "..not toward divinity, but toward dehumanizing, toward the destruction of being itself through through the destruction of truth. The Jacobin variant of the idea of liberation...is a rebellion against being human in itself, rebellion against truth, and that is why it leads people - as Sartre percipiently observed - into a self-contradictory existence that we call hell." (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance, p. 248).
The Antichrist is behind the Flight, urging "modern man" to hasten in his Flight and not to look back. How will this Flight end? In the words of Romano Guardini:"One day the Antichrist will come: a human being who introduces an order of things in which rebellion against God will attain its ultimate power. He will be filled with enlightenment and strength. The ultimate aim of all aims will be to prove that existence without Christ is possible - nay rather, that Christ is the enemy of existence, which can be fully realized only when all Christian values have been destroyed. His arguments will be so impressive, supported by means of such tremendous power - violent and diplomatic, material and intellectual - that to reject them will result in almost insurmountable scandal, and everyone whose eyes are not opened by grace will be lost. Then it will be clear what the Christian essence really is: that which stems not from the world, but from the heart of God; victory of grace over the world; redemption of the world, for her true essence is not to be found in herself, but in God, from whom she has received it. When God becomes all in all, the world will finally burst into flower." (The Lord, p. 513).
Are we not approaching the Reign of Antichrist? "Modern man" strives to build a godless world where he is subject to no one but himself. Having eliminated God from this world, "modern man" deifies and absolutizes himself. Having rejected his place as a creature dependent upon God, "modern man" is moving, "..not toward divinity, but toward dehumanizing, toward the destruction of being itself through through the destruction of truth. The Jacobin variant of the idea of liberation...is a rebellion against being human in itself, rebellion against truth, and that is why it leads people - as Sartre percipiently observed - into a self-contradictory existence that we call hell." (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Truth and Tolerance, p. 248).
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The video about that idiot Cantalamessa isn't available on YouTube... Since he's more than likely actively welcomed a demon into himself (i.e., Charismatic "slain in the spirit"), anything he says should be automatically disregarded.
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