Chastisement Watch:
Ireland Votes Yes to Same Sex "Marriage"
Ireland was the latest to fall wayside in their vote to legalize same sex "marriage".
It is not a matter of "if God will punish the world", the only question remains "when will God's Justice arrive?"
Same-sex "couples" will soon be able to walk down the aisle in the Emerald Isle.
Voters
in Ireland overwhelmingly chose to change their nation's constitution
Friday, becoming the first country in the world to legalize same-sex
marriage through popular vote.
The
official results were announced Saturday at a Dublin Castle press
conference: 1,201,607 voted in favor of the landmark referendum, while
734,300 voted against it, said Ríona Ní Fhlanghaile, an elections
official.
Voter turnout in the majority Catholic nation was more than 60%, according to Fhlanghaile.
Despite
speculation in the run-up that opposition to the measure might have
been understated because people were too shy to tell pollsters that they
planned to vote "no" -- the outcome was lopsided, with the measure
passing by just over 61% of the total vote cast.
Only one of the country's 43 parliamentary constituencies failed to pass it.
Christ speaks against the Homosexuals to St. Catherine of Siena
12 Quotes Against Sodomy That Every Catholic Should Know
For millennia the Catholic Church has consistently opposed unnatural vice. Here is a brief sampling of useful quotes from Saints, Doctors of the Church, Church Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers who condemn homosexual vice in their writings.
1. Athenagoras of Athens (2nd Century)
Athenagoras
of Athens was a philosopher who converted to Christianity in the second
century. He shows that the pagans, who were totally immoral, did not
even refrain from sins against nature:
"But though such is our
character (Oh! why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the
things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves
the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and
established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile
pleasure – who do not abstain even from males, males with males
committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and
comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair
workmanship of God."1
2. Tertullian (160-225)
Tertullian
was a great genius and apologist of the early Church. Unfortunately,
after an initial period of fervor, he succumbed to resentment and pride,
left the Church and adhered to the Montanist heresy. Because of works
written while still in the Church, he is considered an Ecclesiastical
Writer and, as such, is commonly quoted by Popes and theologians. His
treatise On Modesty is an apology of Christian chastity. He clearly
shows the horror the Church has for sins against nature. After
condemning adultery, he exclaims:
"But all the other frenzies of
passions–impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes–beyond the
laws of nature, we banish not only from the threshold, but from all
shelter of the Church, because they are not sins, but monstrosities."2
3. Eusebius of Caesarea (260-341)
Eusebius
Pamphili, Bishop of Cæsarea in Palestine and the “Father of Church
History,” writes in his book, Demonstratio Evangelica:
“[God in
the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all
unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.”3
4. Saint Jerome (340-420)
Saint
Jerome is both Father and Doctor of the Church. He was also a notable
exegete and great polemicist. In his book Against Jovinianus, he
explains how a sodomite needs repentance and penance to be saved:
“And
Sodom and Gomorrah might have appeased it [God’s wrath], had they been
willing to repent, and through the aid of fasting gain for themselves
tears of repentance.”4
5. Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Saint
John Chrysostom is considered the greatest of the Greek Fathers and was
proclaimed Doctor of the Church. He was Archbishop and Patriarch of
Constantinople, and his revision of the Greek liturgy is used until
today. In his sermons about Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, he
dwells on the gravity of the sin of homosexuality:
"But if thou
scoffest at hearing of hell and believest not that fire, remember Sodom.
For we have seen, surely we have seen, even in this present life, a
semblance of hell. For since many would utterly disbelieve the things to
come after the resurrection, hearing now of an unquenchable fire, God
brings them to a right mind by things present. For such is the burning
of Sodom, and that conflagration!…
"Consider how great is that
sin, to have forced hell to appear even before its time!… For that rain
was unwonted, for the intercourse was contrary to nature, and it deluged
the land, since lust had done so with their souls. Wherefore also the
rain was the opposite of the customary rain. Now not only did it fail to
stir up the womb of the earth to the production of fruits, but made it
even useless for the reception of seed. For such was also the
intercourse of the men, making a body of this sort more worthless than
the very land of Sodom. And what is there more detestable than a man who
hath pandered himself, or what more execrable?5
6. Saint Augustine (354-430)
The
greatest of the Fathers of the West and one of the great Doctors of the
Church, Saint Augustine laid the foundations of Catholic theology. In
his celebrated Confessions, he thus condemns homosexuality:
"Those
offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to
be held in detestation and punished; such were those of the Sodomites,
which should all nations commit, they should all be held guilty of the
same crime by the divine law, which hath not so made men that they
should in that way abuse one another. For even that fellowship which
should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature of which
He is author is polluted by the perversity of lust."6
7. Saint Gregory the Great (540-604)
Pope
Saint Gregory I is called “the Great.” He is both Father and Doctor of
the Church. He introduced Gregorian chant into the Church. He organized
England’s conversion, sending Saint Augustine of Canterbury and many
Benedictine monks there.
"Sacred Scripture itself confirms that
sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire
and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom
for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose
emphasized the shame of that crime. For sulfur stinks, and fire burns.
So it was just that Sodomites, burning with perverse desires arising
from the flesh like stench, should perish by fire and sulfur so that
through this just punishment they would realize the evil they had
committed, led by a perverse desire."7
8. Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072)
Doctor
of the Church, cardinal and a great reformer of the clergy, Saint Peter
Damian wrote his famous Book of Gomorrah against the inroads made by
homosexuality among the clergy. He describes not only the iniquity of
homosexuality, but also its psychological and moral consequences:
"Truly,
this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it
surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains
everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing
pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.…
"The miserable
flesh burns with the heat of lust; the cold mind trembles with the
rancor of suspicion; and in the heart of the miserable man chaos boils
like Tartarus [Hell]…. In fact, after this most poisonous serpent once
sinks its fangs into the unhappy soul, sense is snatched away, memory is
borne off, the sharpness of the mind is obscured. It becomes unmindful
of God and even forgetful of itself. This plague undermines the
foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of
charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance,
blunts the keenness of prudence.
"And what more should I say
since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the
human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the
doors were pulled out."8
9. Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Commenting
upon Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (1:26-27), Saint Thomas
Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, explains why the sin of homosexuality is so
grave:
"Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans]
sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led
them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore,
that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He
brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature;
not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to
evil....
"If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of
condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that
which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation
are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal
nature....
"Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when
he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason.
In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man’s nature,
because it is against man’s right reason....
"Secondly, man
sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to
say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural
order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards
conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that
cannot lead to conception is opposed to man’s animal nature."9
10. Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Saint
Catherine, a great mystic and Doctor of the Church, lived in troubled
times. The Papacy was in exile at Avignon, France. She was instrumental
in bringing the Popes back to Rome. Her famous Dialogues are written as
if dictated by God Himself:
"But they act in a contrary way, for
they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that
impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are
all naturally inclined (although reason, when free will permits, can
quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not
bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin
against nature, and as blind and fools, with the light of their
intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they
are. It is not only that this sin stinks before me, who am the Supreme
and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease me so much and I hold it in
such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a divine
judgment, my divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin
not only displeases me as I have said, but also the devils whom these
wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them
because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally
angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of
the actual commission of this enormous sin.10
11. Saint Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444)
Saint Bernardine of Siena was a famous preacher, celebrated for his doctrine and holiness. Regarding homosexuality, he stated:
"No
sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has
always been detested by all those who live according to God.… Deviant
passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect, destroys
elevation and generosity of soul, brings the mind down from great
thoughts to the lowliest, makes the person slothful, irascible,
obstinate and obdurate, servile and soft and incapable of anything;
furthermore, agitated by an insatiable craving for pleasure, the person
follows not reason but frenzy.… They become blind and, when their
thoughts should soar to high and great things, they are broken down and
reduced to vile and useless and putrid things, which could never make
them happy.... Just as people participate in the glory of God in
different degrees, so also in hell some suffer more than others. He who
lived with this vice of sodomy suffers more than another, for this is
the greatest sin."11
12. Saint Peter Canisius (1521-1597)
Saint
Peter Canisius, Jesuit and Doctor of the Church, is responsible for
helping one third of Germany abandon Lutheranism and return to the
Church. To Scripture’s condemnation of homosexuality, he added his own:
"As
the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly
sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved
sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: 'The
scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have
become grave beyond measure.' So the angels said to just Lot, who
totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: 'Let us leave this
city....' Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led
the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In
fact, in Ezechiel we read: 'Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom:
pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of
her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and
the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me;
and I took them away as thou hast seen' (Ezech. 16: 49-50). Those
unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never
sufficiently execrated depravity."12
Our Lady of Akita is a little known prophecy to non-Catholics that concern the Great Chastisements to come. Could the early part of 2017 ( 1ooth year anniversary of Fatima) be the time of the arrival of these cataclysms?
If we see Niburu/Planet X in the sky December 2016 then yes it will be...
In 1973, the Blessed Virgin Mary gave Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in Akita, Japan, three Messages.
On
August 3, 1973, the First Friday of the month, Sister Agnes received the
second Message from Mary:
“My
daughter, My novice, do you love the Lord? If you love the Lord, listen
to what I have to say to you. It is very important. You will convey it
to your superior.
“Many
men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him to
soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with My Son, for souls
who will repair, by their suffering and their poverty, for the sinners
and ingrates.
“In
order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is
preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. With My Son, I
have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I have
prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the
Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him
and form a cohort of victim souls.
“Prayer,
penance, and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger. I
desire this also from your community, that it love poverty, that it
sanctify itself and pray in reparation for the ingratitude and outrages
of so many men. Recite the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist with
awareness of its meaning; put it into practice: offer (whatever God may
send) in reparation for sins. Let each one endeavour, according to her
capacity and position, to offer herself entirely to the Lord.
“Even
in a secular institute, prayer is necessary. Already souls who wish to
pray are on the way to being gathered. Without attaching too much
attention to the form, be faithful and fervent in prayer to console the
Master.”
Fr. Martin (Read the Real 3rd Secret of Fatima): Chastisements Coming: No Where To Hide
It
was on Saturday, October 13, the anniversary day of the last Apparition
of the Virgin Mary to the three children of Fatima, that Mary gave to
Sister Agnes Her third Message, the most important and serious one:
“If
men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a
terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater
than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall
from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as
well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors
will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only
arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by
My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray
for the Pope, the Bishops and the priests." “...Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able to still save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in Me will be saved.”
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Disappointed that your blog seems to take the Irish referendum "result" at face value. Like most modern elections and referendums, this vote was clearly rigged. I don't have time to go into the details that prove that it was rigged, but Catholics - very much including Trad Catholics - really do need to start getting real about the corruption, thuggery, and lies of the forces ranged against them. The official result of this "referendum" may well have been a "chastisement", but only in the sense that the Irish people are being chastised by having their country run by crooks who rig elections and referendums and by a masonically controlled media that cover-up these dirty deeds.
ReplyDeleteInteresting...the 40% who did not vote was it because the thought it would not matter. As a republican living in massachusetts (overwhelmingly democratic) there have been times when I didn't bother to vote because the end appeared to be a foregone conclusion. Just wondering since one out of three showed up to voice there opposition. Final comment... heard the homosexuals put a great deal of pressure on Ireland because the othere homo marriage victories came from governments imposing the law(s) without public debate or input.
ReplyDeleteInteresting...the 40% who did not vote was it because the thought it would not matter. As a republican living in massachusetts (overwhelmingly democratic) there have been times when I didn't bother to vote because the end appeared to be a foregone conclusion. Just wondering since one out of three showed up to voice there opposition. Final comment... heard the homosexuals put a great deal of pressure on Ireland because the othere homo marriage victories came from governments imposing the law(s) without public debate or input.
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