Thursday, October 15, 2015

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila today

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, October 15

 | October 14, 2015
Known to her family as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, she became the reformer of Carmel, mother of the Discalced Carmelite nuns and friars, “spiritual mother” (as is engraved under her statue in the Vatican Basilica), patron of Catholic writers (from 1965) and Doctor of the Church (1970), the first woman with Saint Catherine of Siena to ever receive this last title. She was born at Avila in Castile, Spain, on 28th March 1515 and died in Alba de Tormes, near Salamanca, on 4th October 1582 (a correction due to the Gregorian reform of the calendar that year, as the following day was officially 15th October). She was beatified in 1614, canonised in 1622 and her feast day occurs on 15th October.

Her life needs to be understood in the light of the plan which God had for her, with the great desires experienced in her heart, with the mysterious illness to which she was subject in her youth (and with the ill health from which she suffered throughout her life), and with the “resistance” to divine grace for which she blamed herself more than she should has. Running away from home, she entered the Carmel of the Incarnation in Avila on 2nd November 1535. As a result, partly of the prevailing conditions in the community and partly from her own spiritual difficulties, she had to struggle before arriving at what she called her conversion at the age of 39. But, benefiting from various spiritual directors, she then began to make great strides towards perfection.
In 1560, the idea first emerged of a new Carmel, where the Rule could be followed more closely, and this was realized two years later when the monastery of St. Joseph was founded without any endowments and “following the Primitive Rule”: a phrase that needs to be clearly understood because both then and later it was a notion which was more nostalgic and “heroic” than practical. Five years later Teresa obtained from the Prior General of the Order, John Baptist Rossi, then visiting Spain, permission to increase the number of monasteries and a licence to found two communities of contemplative Carmelite friars (later to be called Discalced) who would be the spiritual counterparts of the nuns and, as such, able to help them. At the death of Saint Teresa, there were 17 monasteries of nuns in the Reform, and the communities of friars also quickly outstripped the original number, some founded with permission from the Prior General Rossi but others, especially those in Andalusia, established against his will, relying on the approval of the apostolic visitators, the Dominican Vargas and the young Discalced Carmelite Jerome Gracian (a close spiritual companion of Teresa, for whom she vowed to do whatever he asked her, as long as it was not contrary to God’s law).

There followed a series of unedifying quarrels, made worse by the interference of the civil authorities and other outsiders, until in 1581, the Discalced were formed into a separate Province. Saint Teresa was then able to write, “Now all of us, Discalced and Calced, are at peace and nothing can hinder us from serving the Lord”.
Saint Teresa is among the most important figures of all time for Catholic spirituality. Her works – especially the four best known (The Life, The Way of Perfection, The Mansions and The Foundations) – together with her more historical works, contain a doctrine which encompasses the whole of the spiritual life, from the first steps right up to intimacy with God at the centre of the Interior Castle. Her Letters show her occupied with a great variety of everyday problems. Her doctrine on the unity of the soul with God (a doctrine which was intimately lived by her) follows the Carmelite tradition which had preceded her and to which she herself contributed in such a notable way, enriching it as well as passing the tradition on, not only to her spiritual sons and daughters, but also to the whole Church which she served so unsparingly. When she was dying, her one joy was to be able to affirm that “I die a daughter of the Church”.
http://www.carmelites.net/news/feast-of-st-teresa-of-avila-october-15/

Huffington Post interprets Vatican Council II with the Baltimore error

The Huffington Post
This shift included the Catholic Church's attitude toward other religions. Before Vatican II, Catholics weren't supposed to visit other denominations' houses of worship. "Catholics looked down on other religions and thought of them as condemned to hell," Ryan said.
But one document from the council acknowledged that these disparate faiths had a common belief in God, said Ryan, who described it as nothing less than "a revolutionary approach."
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Perhaps the biggest of these changes came in the church's approach to Judaism. Before Vatican II, Jews were stigmatized as the people who killed Jesus Christ. That changed with the council, when the Catholic Church acknowledged its Jewish roots and Jews' covenant with God, Ryan said.1

Lionel:
'This shift included the Catholic Church's attitude toward other religions. '
The 'shift' was possible with the use of an irrational premise and inference to interpret LG 16 etc.So there was a non traditional conclusion.The error originated in the 1808 Baltimore Catechism when being saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire were considered explicit baptisms like the baptism of water and were placed in the section on Baptism and its necessity for salvation.
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Lionel:
Before Vatican II, Catholics weren't supposed to visit other denominations' houses of worship. "Catholics looked down on other religions and thought of them as condemned to hell," Ryan said.
According to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, defined by three Church Councils, non Christians and non Catholics need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.Since LG 16, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2 etc refer to invisible for us cases they are not explicit exceptions to this dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.
For the Huffington Post and the Jewish Left, LG 16 refer to explictly known cases in 2015.This is the contemporary Magisterium's political position too. It is magisterial heresy.
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But one document from the council acknowledged that these disparate faiths had a common belief in God, said Ryan, who described it as nothing less than "a revolutionary approach."
Lionel:
Ryan does not say that there is nothing in Vatican Council II to contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and that LG 14 and AG 7 support the dogma.
Secondly, according to the Catholic Church,only believing in God is not enough for salvation.
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Perhaps the biggest of these changes came in the church's approach to Judaism.
Lionel:
Jews need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation(AG 7, LG 14). Outside the Church there is no salvation and all need 'faith and baptism' (AG 7, LG 14).Catholics are the new people of God, the elect, the chosen people (NA 4). They have the Promised Messiah and the new Covenant, the everlasting covenant.The Catholic Church is the continuation of the Jewish religion.

 Before Vatican II, Jews were stigmatized as the people who killed Jesus Christ. That changed with the council, when the Catholic Church acknowledged its Jewish roots and Jews' covenant with God, 
Lionel:
Jews need to convert is the message of Vatican Council II (AG 7, LG 14).Jews are outside the Church and outside the Church there is no salvation. They all need to  become formal members of the Church with 'faith and baptism' to avoid the fires of Hell.
Vatican Council II is in agreement with the traditional, centuries old interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Vatican Council II can be intepreted with Feeneyism ( no exceptions to the dogma EENS) or with Cushingism( there are known exceptions to the dogma EENS). The Huffington Post uses irrational Cushingism to interpret Vatican Council II.There correspondents are unaware of the irrationality which has come into the Church from the 1808 Baltimore Catechism.So for them LG 16 etc refers to an explicit exception to the dogma (Cushingism) instead of being an unknown case and a  non exception to the dogma(Feeneyism).
-Lionel Andrades


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Vatican II Changed The Catholic Church -- And The World

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/vatican-ii-catholic-church-changes_n_1956641.html


Reuters Religion Editor Tom Henegan also interprets Vatican Council II with the Baltimore Catechism error http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2015/10/reuters-religion-editor-tom-henegan.html


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No denial from Phillip Pullela and Nicole Winfield

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2015/10/huffington-post-interprets-vatican.html



Reuters Religion Editor Tom Henegan also interprets Vatican Council II with the Baltimore Catechism error

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Here is a 2012 report by Tom Henegan, Religion Editor of  Reuters who was not aware of the Baltimore Catechism error which he used in the interpretation of Vatican Council II II. He makes the same mistake as Phillip Pullela (Reuters) and Nicole Winfield (AP).


No more talks with Catholic rebels - Vatican official
by Tom Henegan, Religion Editor of Reuters
PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters)- The Vatican plans no more talks with
rebel Catholic traditionalists who insist the Church must revoke
modernising reforms launched five decades ago, Pope Benedict's
main doctrinal official has told a German interviewer.
Lionel:
By modernising reforms of Vatican Council II he means interpreting LG 16 etc as being explicit and known to us in the present times, instead of invisible and known only to God in personal cases.Tom Henegan was not aware of the irrationality in the Baltimore Catechism which was repeated in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney.
Archbishop Gerhard Mueller, who took up his post as head of
the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in
July, said in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday that the
Church could not negotiate away the fundamentals of its faith.
Lionel:
By 'fundamentals of the faith', he means Vatican Council II interpreted with an irrational inference.
His comments to North German Radio (NDR) were the first from
the Vatican on deadlocked talks meant to reintegrate the
Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) into the Church after a 21-year
schism over its implacable opposition to 1960s reforms.
Lionel:
They would be integrated if they accepted Vatican Council II in which LG 16 etc are explicit instead of implicit and so the Council would be a  break with the pre-1808 ecclesiology of the Church.
In recent weeks, SSPX leaders have indicated a two-year
series of talks with the Vatican had hit an impasse because
Rome's insistence that they accept reforms of the 1962-1965
Second Vatican Council was a deal breaker for them.
Lionel:
Tom Henegan is not aware that LG 16 etc can be interpreted as being invisible for us in the present times. So there are two options. Vatican Council II can be accepted as a break with the old ecclesiology or in harmony with the old ecclesiology.Neither the contemporary Magisterium or the SSPX seems aware of the choice.
"We cannot give away the Catholic faith in negotiations,"
Mueller said according to a pre-broadcast report by NDR.
"There will be no compromises here," he said. "I think there
now will be no new discussions."
Lionel:
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He means the SSPX has to compromise and interpret Vatican Council II with an irrationality which produces an irrational conclusion which is accepted by the Left.
So Vatican Council II becomes an irrational break with the spirituality and ecclesiology of St. Teresa of Avila whose feast day is celebrated today. The Council becomes a break with the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church.
The German-born Pope Benedict and the CDF, which the pontiff
led for over two decades under Pope John Paul, will now have to
decide what to do next with the SSPX, Mueller said.
The Swiss-based SSPX broke away from Rome in 1988 in protest
against the 1960s Council reforms that replaced Latin with local
languages at Mass, forged reconciliation with Jews and admitted
that other religions may also offer a path to salvation.
Lionel:
Vatican Council II admits that a person can be saved in another religion, if God wants it, but does not state that these cases are explicit or an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.It's not there in the text.The Council also says all need faith and baptism for salvation (AG 7, LG 14). This would include the Jews.
NO BREAK WITH CATHOLIC TRADITION
Since becoming pope in 2005, Benedict has met the head of
the SSPX, promoted the old Latin Mass it champions and lifted
excommunications imposed on the group's four bishops when they
accepted ordination against Vatican orders.
Benedict's concessions to the SSPX caused a storm of protest
from Catholics, Jews and Germans in 2009 when it emerged that
one of the bishops whose excommunication was lifted was a
notorious Holocaust denier and the Vatican did not even know it.
Lifting the excommunications meant the four bishops were
once again full members of the 1.2-billion member Church, but
they and the SSPX - which claims to have 500 priests and a
million followers - had no official position or role within it.
In 2010, the Vatican launched closed-door theological
discussions with the rebels aimed at an agreement that would
make the SSPX a "personal prelature" or autonomous institution
in the Church similar to the conservative group Opus Dei.
Benedict insisted they must declare the Vatican Council and
Church doctrine since then as valid Catholic teaching.
Lionel:
They can still declare Vatican Council II as valid Church teaching by clarifying there are no known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus  in real life and that Vatican Council II does not mention any.LG 16 refers to theoretical possibilities known only to God and these cases too would be followed with the baptism of water, since this is the dogmatic teaching of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Would the political Left and the contemporary Magisterium be willing to accept this rational interpretation of Vatican Council II ? Presently the contemporary Magisterium is using fantasy theology by alleging people in Heaven are there, without the baptism of waterand that these cases are known and seen in the present times( false premise). Then it is assumed that these cases are explicit exceptions to the traditional interpretation of Vatican Council II and the old ecclesiology( irrational inference).
Reuters has been repeating this irrationality as if it is important propaganda.
Denying this has been a core SSPX principle from the start
and SSPX leaders have said their discussions with the Vatican
aimed to "convert Rome" to return to the pre-Council Church.
Lionel:
In the pre-Conciliar Church before 1808 there were no known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The thrice defined dogma is central to both interpretations of Vatican Council II, the rational and irrational one.
Mueller, who crossed swords with SSPX traditionalists while
he was archbishop of Regensburg in Germany before going to Rome,
rejected the group's central argument that the Council broke
with a Church's 2,000-year traditions.
Lionel:
If LG 6, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2 refer to explicit, objective cases in 2015 then the Council is  a break with the 2000-year traditions.
If LG 16 etc refers to implicit, invisible cases in 2015 then the Council is not a break with Tradition. 
For Tom Henegan LG 16 etc is explicit. This is irrational.
"The Second Vatican Council does not contradict the Church's
overall tradition, but only some false interpretations of the
Catholic faith," he said.
Lionel:
For Cardinal Gerhard Muller also, LG 16 etc refers to objective cases. This can be read in an interview he gave to Edward Pentin for the National Catholic Register. Pentin asked him specifically about extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 -Lionel Andrades