Manliness Vs Sissydom
“[The Modernists] want to be treated with oil, soap and caresses,” [St. Pius X] said of his antagonists. “But they should be beaten with fists. In a duel, you don’t count or measure the blows, you strike as you can.”
“Lambs. Not a fool but a lamb. Lamb. With Christian cunning, but always a lamb. A lamb Because if you are a Lamb, He will defend you. But if you feel as strong as a wolf, He will not defend you, He will leave you alone, and the wolves will eat you alive. Like a lamb.
Mundabor
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Posted on February 15, 2014, in Catholicism, Conservative Catholicism, Traditional Catholicism and tagged Pope Francis, St. Pius X. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
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So according to Pope Francis, strength is a vice? What about the gift of the HS fortitude? What would he say to Our Lord telling the apostles to bring swords with them to the Garden? What would he say to Our Lord whipping the dealers in the Temple? We are not called to be lambs…but sheep. Sheep cannot handle burdens, defend themselves and can’t lead themselves either…which is why we have a Shepherd who carries our burdens, gives us the grace to fight and defend, and leads us into battle against evil incarnate. Yes, Our Lord won’t help you if you go off fighting b/c your flesh says so…but if Our Lord tells us to fight for Him…for righteousness…then as Psalm 108:13 states per the Jerusalem Bible version “with God on our side, we shall fight like heroes.” Thanks for showing us a true man in Pope St. Pius X. God bless you Mundy!
The man is very disquieting.
Truly, everything that has been always considered positive (doctrinal security, strenght, zeal) is in a way wrong with him, though always with some jesuitical qualification.
How on earth can doctrinal security be “excessive”. How can one who strongly trusts in the Lord be left alone by the Lord?
Is he just being stupid, or there is a calculated deception behind it?
M
Eww! What is Francis, the Bishop of Rome, saying? Seems like more hogwash!
He doesn’t say but hogwash.
When he says something orthodox, you know he is feeding the pigeons; I suspect whenever he says something orthodox he is reading texts prepared by others; good souls who try to do their best to inspire the Pope to just read the text rather than giving us more of his “off the cuff” supposed wisdom.
M
I am not the most learned of individuals when it comes to the Faith, by the time I came along my parents had pretty much put aside the sacraments. I was, thanks be to God baptized. Anyway, my point here is that whenever the Holy Father puts out a statement like this, I come away not knowing what he is saying. Somehow the explanation of bad translation just doesn’t explain this to me anymore. I’ve never understood the necessity to change the church to make it attractive to men of the 21st century. I thought we were to change for God not the other way around.
May God bless us all and strengthen us in faith.
You thought correctly.
No, it’s not a translation problem.
I read much of what he says in Italian.
M
“Oil, soap and caresses”, indeed….
This week I tried to charitably (by private msg.) point out to an FB friend that her link to one Fr. Barron’s Lenten reflections for use this Lent might not be a good suggestion considering his views on Hell (his position is that it is reasonable to believe all men will be saved). I provided her a link to Michael Voris’ 10/31/13 Vortex episode dealing with Fr. Barron’s position.
Throwing a Voris link in there was my mistake. She came back all about him, not Fr. Barron, how uncharitable Mr. Voris is, and that he will not win people with his style. She never would acknowledge the issue of Fr. B’s heretical views. And she left his link in place.
I doubt she would been crazy about St. John the Baptist’s style either.
My impression is that your friend – like many others – wants to be popular.
Father Barron helps. Michael Voris doesn’t.
Hence the hostility.
M
And yet St Mark is represented as a winged lion. In his Gospel, Mark describes St John the Baptist as “a voice crying out in the wilderness.” And John’s voice was likened to the roaring of a lion.
I find the Bishop of Rome hard to follow.