Fighting the Good Fight (1Tim.6:12)
NOTE: Not an endorsement for sedevacantism
“Fight
the good fight of the faith,” says St. Paul (1Tim.6:12). If we are to
fight that good fight, we must first know our faith. Those who are not
well instructed in the Catholic Faith easily fall prey to the heretics
and the predators. They don’t know how to defend their faith when it is
under attack, with the result that their faith is damaged, or even lost.
St. Peter warns:
“Among
you there will be lying teachers who will bring in destructive sects.
They even disown the Lord who bought them, thus bringing upon themselves
swift destruction. And many will follow their wanton conduct, and
because of them the way of truth will be maligned. And out of greed they
will with deceitful words use you for their gain. Their condemnation,
passed of old, is not made void, and their destruction does not slumber”
(2Pet.2:1-3).
How
hard a fight it has been for the Holy Catholic Church to preserve the
truths of the Faith taught by Our Lord! At one time the great
missionaries and martyrs, like the Apostles themselves, willingly gave
up their lives to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations, as He
commanded. But now, the false prophets of Vatican II say it is not
necessary to preach the Gospel. People are saved wherever they are, and
whatever they believe. Just enter into dialogue with them, and have
“respect” for their religions.
The
first Christians were believing Jews who knew Jesus or listened to the
preaching of the Apostles. St. Paul, one of them himself, admonished
them:
“Therefore
ought we the more earnestly to observe the things that we have heard,
lest perhaps we drift away. For if the word spoken by angels proved to
be valid, and every transgression and disobedience received a just
punishment, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? For
it was first announced by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by those
who heard him…” (Heb:2:1-3).
But
the apostate Jews, clinging to their no longer valid religion,
preferred to go on shedding the blood of calves and goats rather than
trusting in the Blood of Christ shed on the Cross for the sins of the
world. Even among those who had become Christian, there were the
Judaizers, who insisted on keeping customs and practices that were no
longer necessary, like circumcision.
In
every age the Church has had to defend herself from heresies, from
Gnosticism to Protestantism. And in these days the Church must defend
herself from what Pope St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all
heresies,” Modernism. Vatican II was controlled by Modernists who set
about to destroy the Catholic Faith. Former Modernist Benedict
XVI believes there has been “a profound evolution of dogma” since
Vatican II.
Look
at Antipope Francis Bergoglio, just returned from Sweden, where he took
part in ecumenical events on October 31, 2016, celebrating the 500th
Anniversary of Martin Luther’s Protestant so-called Reformation. There
Rev. Martin Junge, Secretary General of the Lutheran World Federation,
issued the following plea:
“…may
God find us building bridges so that we can draw closer to each other,
houses where we can meet together, and tables – yes, tables – where we
can share the bread and wine, the presence of Christ, who has never left
us and who calls us to abide in him so that the world may believe.”
Notice
his insistence on tables “where we can share the bread and wine,” not
the Body and Blood of Christ. Here he shows his Lutheran horror for the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is offered, not on a table, but on an
altar. And they “share the bread and wine” in which Christ is presumed
to be spiritually present. And not a word of objection from Bergoglio!
Of course, the so-called Catholic Mass of Vatican II, also offered on a
“table”, is barely more than a Protestant Communion service. Consider
this condemnation of by the Council of Trent:
“If
anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist
there remains the substance of bread and wine together with the body and
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular
conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and the
entire substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread
and wine only remaining, a change which the Catholic Church most
fittingly calls transubstantiation: let him be anathema” (Denziger 884).
Note this sobering prediction from Catholic author, Yves Dupont:
“The
New Missal is indeed a radical attack on our Faith. It will destroy the
Mass more effectively than Luther’s brutal efforts. Having destroyed
the Mass, it will inevitably destroy the Church. Having destroyed the
Church, it will – inevitably again – destroy the world. For when the
Blood of Christ is no longer offered on the Altars of our churches, then
the blood of men will have to be spilled on the asphalt of our streets”
(Catholic Prophecy, Tan, p.115).
We are now living in the time of the false prophets. But be attentive to what you have learned, says St. Paul:
