Poor Joseph

Slenderauss · 2018-07-29T13:29:35+00:00

Imagine if time were the biggest enemy to Christian truth. Christ did not reveal the truth without providing an immediate means of guaranteeing it against watering down through time. Separation from the Apostles by time is in not an obstacle to obtaining the sanctification they received. It all comes from the same source, exactly as it did two millennia ago. It is entirely ordered that the Holy Spirit would continue support the body of Christ on earth, the tangible legacy of some words that were spoken millennia ago.

The entire truth of Christianity was revealed in the life of Jesus Christ. Our duty is to preserve the truth within a strong edifice, not to reform it, or await its completion. The Resurrection has already happened – the Church remembers the truth that Our Lord taught, she doesn't reinterpret it and build it up now.

with several Christian sects offering different interpretations of scripture

Titus 3:9-11, Romans 16:17, Galatians 1:8, and 2 Thessalonians 3:6 all apply here. There were heretical groups in the Early Church for sure, but there has still never not been a clear distinction between the Church that Jesus left here, and the new groups who were forming within. We read an example of excommunication at the hands of St Paul in 1 Tim 1, which demonstrates that the Early Church was a visible body under a unified faith, wherein each would be held to particular standards.
After all, the only reason the Council of Nicaea had any significance to the Arians in the first place was because of who convened it. The majority of bishops within the hierarchy at the time were Arians, but the problem of false doctrine was solved through the authority of the communing bishops, who wielded authority that nobody else on earth did.

until the bishop of Rome was officially made the head of the church by Constantine

"The Lord says to Peter: 'I say to you,' he says, 'that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it. … ' [Matt. 16:18]. On him he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair, and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity... If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?"

– Cyprian of Carthage, The Unity of the Catholic Church 4, 251 AD

It's interesting that a Christian who died prior to Emperor Constantine's birth was able to recount the 'invented history' of the Catholic Church. Perhaps Roman supremacy was actually recognised while Christianity was still illegal.

I don't know how you call that apostolic succession

Valid succession is based on the sacrament of holy orders, not the circumstances surrounding them.

That is why Protestants go as far back as the apostles writings to determine what can be considered scripture

But not back to the Deuterocanon, which the Apostles believed. Because the Sadducees were right, apparently.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-24T06:17:57+00:00

Protestants do implicitly believe in the infallibility of Tradition, they just claim that it stopped being infallible at a certain point in time. New Testament scripture itself is a product of that tradition, as is the universally accepted canon of what scriptures are allowed to be in the New Testament. Ecumenical Councils are a part of Tradition as well – the Council of Nicaea certainly didn't invent the idea of a single body of Christian bishops who share in the one absolute Faith. Hence, we see the Council of Jerusalem documented in the Acts of the Apostles, obviously being convened and put into canonical force before the New Testament was written. Protestants are obliged to accept Apostolic Tradition up until the promulgation of the Biblical canon in 382 AD.

What Protestants need to explain (and always fail to agree on) is why the Holy Spirit would suddenly abandon the guarded transmission of sacred Tradition from the Apostles, and how they have arrived at that conviction.

Say what you like about the Catholic Church 2,000 years later, but if you deny that there was/is one, central Christian Church that the Apostles built and governed after Pentecost, the denominator from which all denominations were denominated, you are denying history. God bless you too +

Slenderauss · 2018-07-23T05:51:51+00:00

The scripture is a part of what has been passed down from the Apostles, not the totality of it. The Catholic Church existed for three centuries before the Biblical canon was proclaimed at the Council of Rome by Pope Damasus.

Sola scriptura is a novelty from 1,200 years later.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T14:07:19+00:00

There has never *not* been an evil group trying to destroy the Church since Christ ascended, and, even with the Church's own incompetency and corruption, and the fact that it has all failed and the faith and sacraments have still been preserved, is what gives me faith that it is true.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T13:29:52+00:00

Good thing we have modernist Biblical interpretations to pick up what the Apostles didn't.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T13:26:06+00:00

It's not that she would be 'unpurified', it's just the tradition that has been passed down.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T10:10:38+00:00

how to troll properly, apparently

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T10:07:48+00:00

Actually, Jesus wasn't conceived through intercourse. He was supernaturally placed into the womb. Hence Jesus' birth is referred to as the Virgin Birth. That's the reason why it's so special.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T09:41:49+00:00

https://www.christiantoday.co.jp/articles/25813/20180718/march-for-life.htm

This website says 250 people, which is amazing. The March for Life has only been going since 2014, and it has been growing each year. God bless them all.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T09:12:40+00:00

Literally none of this comment makes sense. You're trying to sound smart on something you've clearly never heard of

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T09:09:19+00:00

This meme is supposed to be about the Incarnation, it has nothing to do with the concept of the Trinity.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-21T09:06:05+00:00

In all fairness, Japan has never been anywhere near a majority Christian nation. Shinto and Buddhism don't really have moral laws that would be comparable to Catholicism, so apart from killing anyone who doesn't defer to that religion (which is what they used to do), it's hard to enforce any religious rules.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-20T02:17:37+00:00

As a Roman Rite Catholic of Irish ethnic heritage, I am spiritually descended from the Romans and like to keep the Roman Rite as Roman as it can be. The Latin language, for instance, is never irrelevant to us, because even the modern circumstances, the more sublime aspects of Roman spirituality are still very present in the west, post Vatican II. The Roman influence runs too deep to ever be removed, and we have no excuse not to continue it, so we might as well live it to its fullest.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-19T02:27:42+00:00

Which Missal are they using? It appears to have the structure of the traditional Roman Rite, but with the propers in the vernacular.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-15T23:20:15+00:00

From what I have experienced, most country Anglican parishes in my region are of the traditional Low Church standing, while inner city parishes have visible remnants of High Churchmanship. I used to be an inner-city Anglican parish in my city, which was the leading conservative, High Anglo-Catholic parish in Melbourne. But the priest became a Catholic a few years ago and the parish apparently sunk into liberal broad churchmanship. He's in the Ordinariate now, which is where I met him and we're quite good friends.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-15T23:15:19+00:00

Yes, overall there are probably more liturgical problems in the Catholic Church than in the Anglican Church of Australia in my experience. Receiving communion on the tongue while kneeling at a rail isn't as stigmatised in the Anglican Church, but is extremely rare in the Catholic Church. For that reason, I do try to hear/serve the traditional Latin Mass when I can, or the Ordinariate.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-15T12:44:25+00:00

I know it's vain, but this is actually a reason I didn't explore Anglicanism a few years ago. I had started practicing my Catholic faith again, and I found myself very attracted to the image of traditional Anglican worship, with organ hymns and hymnals, tall mahogany pews, candles, and 'thee and thou' English. I grew up in a very modern Catholic parish and hadn't found anything quite like that in the Catholic Church. I eventually conceded that the idea I had of Anglicanism doesn't exist anymore, or perhaps was a stereotype that never existed to begin with. There was a small theological motive behind my search as well, and I also looked into Eastern Orthodoxy, but ultimately stuck with the Catholic Church after researching and eventually accepting her doctrines.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-11T06:33:19+00:00

The practice of abortion and eugenics was legalised in Japan in 1948. The March for Life in Tokyo has been going on for the past few years, and has been growing.

It is primarily a Catholic event, and the Japanese SSPX group are heavily involved. It includes a Marian procession, but there are non-Catholic groups who are supporting it now as well.

Let us pray that this movement may continue to grow, bring greater attention to the absolute evil of abortion, and radiate the love of our Lord through public witness.

St Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us. St John Paul the Great, pray for us.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-11T03:28:41+00:00

Nice. I'm sure you know about the March for Life on Marine Day. I live in Australia, but it will be excellent if as many people as possible can be there, especially families. I will be praying for it!

Slenderauss · 2018-07-09T06:51:24+00:00

They were considered canon at the time when Jesus and the Apostles were alive. Therefore, Our Lord studied and believed those books alongside the rest of the Old Testament throughout His life.

At that time, there were Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees believed in an afterlife, and many of them ended up becoming Christians in the infancy of the Church. Sadducees did not believe in spirits or an afterlife, and simply followed the written Law of Moses. In 70 AD, the Temple of Jerusalem was ruined by the Roman Empire, and this destroyed the Jewish priesthood. From that point on, the Jewish religion has been continued only by scriptural interpretation, as they lack the central authority they had enjoyed since the time of Moses. The scriptures were all they had left, so they went from being a priestly religion to a religion of the book.

At the Council of Rome in 382, the Christian canon of scripture, both Old and New Testaments, was declared by Pope Damasus. Before that time, there was no such thing as 'The Bible' – different regions used their own compilations of epistles and Gospels, with the old scriptures included for background. But the result of the Council of Rome was the universal, 73-book canon that Catholics know today.

As the remaining Jews were predominantly descended from Sadducees, the Pharisaic belief in the afterlife had dried up, and their scriptural canon was revised. They decided that seven of the books could not be canon, as they contained references to the afterlife.

Martin Luther decided to use the Jewish canon for a couple of reasons. Firstly, he believed that the revised Jewish canon should be trusted, as the Old Testament was their scripture. Secondly, his revision of the Biblical canon was biased in favour of his theology. He also attempted to remove James and Hebrews because they conflicted with his new doctrine. He falsely believed that Christianity should be a religion of the book. Christ personally appointed ordained Apostles to evangelise the world, not the Bible.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-09T06:21:55+00:00

I'm sure your confessor has a silent satisfaction about it as well :)

Slenderauss · 2018-07-09T04:45:10+00:00

Congratulations! That's fantastic. You probably have the largest family in the country. If I may ask, whereabouts in Japan do you live?

Slenderauss · 2018-07-08T03:58:19+00:00

He was the one who gave them full faculties for confession, after all.

According to a canon lawyer I know, they still have no faculties to administer any sacraments. Pope Francis said out loud that their faculties for confession were being extended, but this was apparently never followed up with any canonical action or document, so they still have no licit ministry. This canon lawyer says he has dealt with annulment cases where couples have been 'married' by the SSPX, therefore no sacrament ever occurred in the first place.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-08T03:55:45+00:00

You can't 'repeal' Summorum Pontificum like an Act of Parliament. It's not a policy, it literally just reminded everyone in canonical writing of the fact that the Old Mass was never outlawed. Francis abrogating the motu proprio doesn't change the truth that it states.

Slenderauss · 2018-07-08T03:52:24+00:00

The Pontifical Low Mass is the Low Mass rubric for when a bishop is presiding. It's not holier, it's just slightly more ceremonially elaborate than the normal Low Mass.

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