Saturday, May 10, 2014

ATTENTION : Fr.Fidenzio Volpi Ofm.Cap, Apostolic Commissioner, Franciscans of the Immaculate

ATTENTION : Fr.Fidenzio Volpi Ofm.Cap, Apostolic Commissioner, Franciscans of the Immaculate.
Implicit desire ( baptism of desire) is not known to us in personal cases in 2014.They are hypothetical. They are possibilities.They are not explicit for us. They are not visible. Invisible cases cannot be exceptions to the literal interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus according to Fr.Leonard Feeney of Boston.
Salvation in Heaven is only visible to God. You cannot name any exception.

Similarly in Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium 16 ( saved in invincible ignorance) 1, Nostra Aetate 2(saved with a ray of the Truth) 2,Unitatis Redintigratio 3 ( saved in imperfect communion with the Church) 3, and Ad Gentes 11 ( saved with seeds of the Word) 4 are not known exceptions to the dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.
 
Vatican Council II ( Ad Gentes 7) also agrees with extra ecclesiam nulla salus when it states 'all' need 'faith and baptism' 5 for salvation. All need to enter the Church 'as through a door'. Do you accept this?
Vatican Council II (AG 7) is saying all Buddhists, Jews, Muslims and other non Christians need 'faith and baptism' for salvation (to avoid Hell). All Protestants,Orthodox Christians and Pentecostals need Catholic faith, which includes the Sacraments and the traditional faith and moral teachings.
 
This is Vatican Council II. This is the text of Vatican Council II. The text does not say LG 16, NA 2, UR 3 are explicit for us.Possibilities cannot be exceptions.Do you accept this?
Do you want the Franciscans of the Immaculate and other Catholic religious communties to accept this tradtional interpretation of Vatican Council II ?
Could you affirm this rational interpretation of Vatican Council II in public and set an example for all religious communities ? Please affirm Vatican  Council II.
-Lionel Andrades
 
1.
 Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience.-Lumen Gentium 16.
 
2.
The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men.-Nostra Aetate 2
 
3.
 For men who believe in Christ and have been truly baptized are in communion with the Catholic Church even though this communion is imperfect.

4.
  let them gladly and reverently lay bare the seeds of the Word which lie hidden among their fellows.  

 5.
Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door. -Ad Gentes 7.

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