IF LOVE OF GOD DOESN'T MOTIVATE CATHOLICS WILL FEAR OF HELL?

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Is there a connection between the revision of the Mass after Vatican II with its emphasis on community, feel good, hand holding theology where the church building focuses on the human enclosed circle, what is called the horizontal in worship, rather than facing God collectively as though one person with the priest facing the same direction? Is there a connection between what is written below and the focus on the Mass pertaining to our understanding of prayers that are directed to God by the Church collectively so much so that there is now a disdain for liturgical Latin and silent liturgical prayer before God uttered by the Priest who acting in the Person of Christ brings the Church's prayer to God and God's love to us in the Liturgy? Has a misunderstanding of Vatican II and all its documents led to the disintegration of the potency of Church teaching as we become a narcissistic community even at Mass? I report, you decide.

For example people like Pater Ignotus and others think that the congregation really needs to hear and understand all liturgical prayers uttered at Mass by them or the priest, when in fact all prayer in Latin whether aloud or silent is directed to God by the Church, it is the Church's prayer, not just individuals' prayers and pious sentiments, including the ordained priest, which is directed to God, not to us! And have we forgotten that God understands our prayers all of them even before we offer them and even when we ourselves can't understand what we need to ask or what we are saying? And does this mean that praying in tongues and quiet, silent contemplation is forbidden too?

For yet another example, as sad as it is, our recent Bishops' meeting in Baltimore raised issues facing the Church today, not the least of which is the HHS mandate, homosexual marriage and the like and the bishops focus on all these problems and the capitulation of Catholics toward these sociological and government trends not from the religious point of view of these Catholics losing their eternal salvation and being condemned to the everlasting fires of hell, but purely from a sociological point of view and what life in this world will be like if we abandon our Catholic moral teachings. What the hell is going on here when even our bishops don't get it or do not communicate it, a grotesque failure of communication in fact, first about the Church's responsibility out of the love of God and for sinners to keep Catholics and the world from going to hell?


We need to teach what the Church teaches about morality and that the Church's teaching on homosexuality is not as radical as the far left or the far right and that what is taught is based upon the love of the sinner, to help him or her to fare well at the hour of death and his/her personal judgment which will culminate ultimately in either heaven or hell. Out of love for the sinner, we must teach the four last things, death, judgment, heaven and hell. (Heaven presumes purgatory for anyone in purgatory goes to heaven never to hell and purgatory is a pit stop not a final destination).

This video is quite good. Fr. Dawid and I have encounter some the the attitudes this priest has encountered in teenagers, college students and older:


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The priest in the video asks that we hand on the truths of the Church "Before it is too late?" But he doesn't explain what "too late" means--before we lose all our Catholics to secular humanism or before we lose all our Catholics to eternal damnation? I would suggest that this priest and his film crew make the four last things, death, judgement, heaven and hell abundantly clear otherwise there is a failure to communicate!

So much of the discourse on morality, any type of morality, today focuses purely on the here and now. Most people, including most Catholics, approach morality on the basis on narcissism. What's in it for me. How can my life be happier? If no one appears to be hurt, why not do it. Why pick up the cross and follow Jesus, that's too much trouble and sometimes it hurts.

So we have conspicuous consumption to the point that we have a new cottage industry of warehouses for our stuff, buildings we can rent to put our things that won't fit in the basement or attic. Then we forget about these things all the while paying rent on these public storage places.

We promote pro-choice ideologies and the control a woman should have over her body and no interference from anyone about these kinds of highly personal decisions, which is a fiercely highly individualistic approach to morality to say the least.

We tell kids that homosexual sex is on an even par with heterosexual sex and the goal of both is to have fun; it is a form of recreation and release. Since so many sexual encounters are recreational it too focuses on selfish needs. That's what happens when Divine law discovered through natural law, Scripture and Church teaching are thrown out the window even by Catholics unfortunately

But here's the problem. If Church teaching was just about making a person feel good about themselves and to help them to live a libertarian life in this world with nary a thought on the four last things, death, judgement, heaven and hell, what then is the point of the Church's moral tradition? We might as well capitulate to trends and fads and join the rest of society in setting ourselves up as god and forgetting about eternal salvation and taking advantage of all there is in this world to make life like Utopia, after all, all there is, is death after this life, no judgment, heaven or hell. This is practical atheism. If I believed that about the after life, I'd leave the Catholic Church, do what I wanted and if I wanted to help others, I'd become pink lady or join some service organization that does some good works, but I'd live my life with reckless abandon but never really intentionally try to hurt anyone. Sounds like fun to me, until I begin to wonder if the Church's teaching about judgment, heaven and hell is true, which then makes me wonder if I shouldn't take a more conservative approach to my moral choices.

So, today because our current ecclesial fads have focused more on the things of this world than on the four last things, as well as Divine law discovered in natural law, Scripture and Tradition, our Catholics are now pro-choice, pro-homosexual marriage, materialistic, believe in euthanasia or at least are pro-choice there too and use Church like they use drugs, sex and alcohol, but usually abstain from Church unlike drugs, sex and alcohol.

And our Catholic kids think the Church to be a bigoted, out of date institution when it comes to homosexuality and artificial birth control because they don't believe in judgment, heaven or hell or they think salvation is automatic regardless of their life choices in religion, politics or morality.

It is our job as leaders in the Church to teach the truth and to prepare each and every Catholic for death, judgment, heaven or hell. Technically the choice between heaven and hell is ours and it actually begins in this life. Heaven and hell are a continuation of what we prefer in this life as evidenced by our free will, full consent of the will to choose hell over heaven by choosing evil over God and God's ways revealed in natural law, Scripture and Tradition.