MEDJUGORJE | IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE..MEDJUGORJE SHOES..???

MEDJUGORJE | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE MEDJUGORJE...

..as the great philosopher of social communication theory Marshal McCluhan once said...when trying to describe the effects of hedonistic consumerism on its proponents and practitioners...

Consumerism consumes itself

...now a current development in the MEDJUGORJE saga has encapsulated the phenomenon for what it is..a movement characterized by the spirit of the world...

..now available from an independent (claimed) purveyor of fashion are MEDJUGORJE silver glitter pumps..

http://crownofstars.blogspot.ca/2015/03/its-hard-to-believe.html

..it seems just as the ruby slippers in OZ..someone if they purchase the MEDJUGORJE silver glitter pumps  can transport themselves to MEDJUGORJE in spirit...in particular in a spirit of consumerism which all to eerily echoes the words of the Lord ...

 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

-Isaiah 55:8

.. one calls to mind the erotic symbolism associated with the red shoes of Hans Christian Anderson and his fairy tale 'The Red Shoes'...the shoes themselves symbolize erotic desires and material urges..as well the hollow-ness of the shoes speak of the need for someone to fill them with their bodily passions thus characterizing the spirit of the world and its fall into concupiscence...

...indeed it is a sad indictment on the state of affairs in MEDJUGORJE..and just as Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ was told by the Glinda the good witch of the North to tap her heels together and repeat after her there's no place like home...indeed the honorific owners of the MEDJUGORJE silver glitter pumps may do the same...closing their eyes and tapping their heels they can repeat the said spell..three times..THERE'S no PLACE LIKE MEDJUGORJE..

..let us be on our guard against the spirit of the world..with its fantasy spirituality..and trust in the Church ...amen

  

MEDJUGORJE | IVAN CANCELS U.S.A. COMEBACK...A HOUSE DIVIDED...???

MEDJUGORJE| A HOUSE DIVIDED...

...the latest news from the MEDJUGORJE camp reveals IVAN the alleged seer cancelling his trip to U.S.A....

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Medjugorje-Today/267099289994777

,,.since according to sources there is no reason as to why this is so we might presume based on vehemence that it is owing to the Vatican directive forwarded to the U.S.A. Bishops which states no public gathering is allowed which takes for granted the supernaturality of the events appended to the phenomenon of MEDJUGORJE...

..however we are told by the seers themselves that the VIRGIN MARY has entrusted them with a mission to restore the CHURCH...so is this a case of a house divided...

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 

MARK-3:25

        ....is it true that the VIRGIN MARY is at odds with the CHURCH...has she divided herself from the magisterium...one wonders..if this is the case...are the alleged seers credible..or is this a cleverly orchestrated affinity scheme...

...let us all walk in faith and reason..letting the staff of prudence and temperance (fear of the LORD) guide us in the way of rectitude...amen

...GET A MEDAL THAT THE VIRGIN MARY BLESSED....????

MEDJUGORJE- THE PRICE IS RIGHT...SPIRITUAL SWEEPSTAKES

....from a popluar Medjugorje Tabloid site...we hear that the adoring laity...if the price is right ...will come into the possession of one of 5 miraculous medals which the VIRGIN MARY herself has blessed...

...from medjugorje today...

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All things temporal are annexed to spiritual things, as to their end, wherefore it is lawful to sell temporal things, but their relation to spiritual things cannot be the matter of a lawful sale.

because sale is opposed to the source of spiritual things, since they flow from the gratuitous will of God. Wherefore Our Lord said (Matthew 10:8): "Freely have you received, freely give."

Therefore by buying or selling a spiritual thing, a man treats God and divine things with irreverence, and consequently commits a sin of irreligion.

-summa theologica Thomas Aquinas

.....of course the matter at hand here is the relation between the price of admission and the commodity of or the value of the VIRGIN MARY'S blessing...in this case we see the sin of the simony since the proper dispensation has not been received...the CHURCH herself has never verified the authenticity of the blessing of the VIRGIN MARY...as well this site has no authority to sell blessings of the saints..since they are not Church sanctioned .....

Items may be sold; blessings may not. Any blessed item that is sold should be sold for its intrinsic value apart from the blessing. To sell the blessing itself would amount to simony.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses this:

Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things. To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!” Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: “You received without pay, give without pay.” It is impossible to appropriate to oneself spiritual goods and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in God. One can receive them only from him, without payment. ...CATHOLIC ANSWERS APOLOGIST...JIM BLACKBURN

 .,...let us all be vigilant so that the CHURCH will not suffer..due to disengenuous proposals...amen

MEDJUGORJE | UTILITARIANISM IN VIENNA....

MEDJUGORJE | UTILITARIANISM IN VIENNA....

“Thank you to Our Lady of Medjugorje who has changed so many lives in the world for the better.” 

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
Vienna, November 16, 2014

...According  To Cardinal Christoph Schonborn...a staunch advocate for the MEDJUGORJE phenomenon...he has been quoted in public forums...as affirming the supernaturality of MEDJUGORJE...yet..the Vatican itself has never affirmed the supernaturality of the visions..and so this is an occaison of scandal..since it leads others to have an incorrect understanding of the Church position on the phenomenon of MEDJUGORJE..and so fosters sin against the virtue of obedience...

..for we see...

According to St. Thomas (II-II:43:1) scandal is a word or action evil in itself, which occasions another's spiritual ruin. It is a word or action, that is either an external act—for an internal act can have no influence on the conduct of another—or the omission of an external act, because to omit what one should do is equivalent to doing what is forbidden; it must be evil in itself, or in appearance; this is the interpretation of the words of St. Thomas: minus rectum. It is not the physical cause of a neighbor's sin, but only the moral cause, or occasion; further, this moralcausality may be understood in a strict sense, as when one orders, requests, or advises another to commit thesin (this is strictly inductive scandal, which some call co-operation in a broad sense), or in a large sense, as when a person without being directly concerned in the sin nevertheless exercises a certain influence on the sin of his neighbor, e.g. by committing such a sin in his presence (this is inductive scandal in a broad sense)

....also...

..we have the concept of Utilitarianism at play here in the Cardinal's words...since the Church itself has cautioned us not to do evil so that a good may come out of it...and by disregarding the official Church proclamations of not allowing the dispersion of any messages concerning MEDJUGORJE to be verified as supernatural we see open defiance of Church norms...

..since the Church in the Catechism has condemned the error and notion of Utilitarianism...

CCC 1755 A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting "in order to be seen by men").

The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts - such as fornication - that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil.

CCC 1756 It is therefore an error to judge the morality of human acts by considering only the intention that inspires them or the circumstances (environment, social pressure, duress or emergency, etc.) which supply their context. There are acts which, in and of themselves, independently of circumstances and intentions, are always gravely illicit by reason of their object; such as blasphemy and perjury, murder and adultery. One may not do evil so that good may result from it.

....we the faithful must have recourse to prudence and also eschew the error of Utilitarianism..for if we reach a good end through a bad action then we cancel out the good...and when we destroy the notion of good without justification..then we do not seek GOD out as he is in himself..since GOD is lacking in evil...and to do evil in order to gain GOD..is a paradox..and so in the end..we may  fool ourselves into mistaking concord of wills for peace..and Quietism for Contemplation...let us all examine ourselves according to the Norms of Mother Church ......and seek unity...amen 

MEDJUGORJE | UPDATE....THE TREES OF VIRTUE...

MEDJUGORJE....THE TREES OF VIRTUE....

.....according to the tenets of Catholic Faith we must walk in faith and virtue...without prudence to guide the faculties and appetites of the soul our frailties make us falter..without obedience to the spiritual precepts of our superiors our will cannot be inclined to God..since God is the one who through the Holy Spirit has moved our superiors to act in his stead...when our superiors act within reason and do not condone sin then we are bound by the vows of Baptism and Confirmation to obey without enmity or rancor...for not to do so would allow spiritual poison to fester within the soul..thereby cutting off the living waters of grace...

...as we hear it told from the Prophet Ezekiel.....47:1-12

The vision of the holy waters issuing out from under the temple: the borders of the land to be divided among the twelve tribes.

[1] And he brought me again to the gate of the house, and behold waters issued out from under the threshold of the house toward the east: for the forefront, of the house looked toward the east: but the waters came down to the right side of the temple to the south part of the altar. [2]And he led me out by the way of the north gate, and he caused me to turn to the way without the outward gate to the way that looked toward the east: and behold there ran out waters on the right side. [3] And when the man that had the line in his hand went out towards the east, he measured a thousand cubits: and he brought me through the water up to the ankles. [4] And again he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up to the knees. [5] And he measured a thousand, and he brought me through the water up to the loins. And he measured a thousand, and it was a torrent, which I could not pass over: for the waters were risen so as to make a deep torrent, which could not be passed over.

[1] Waters: These waters are not to be understood literally (for there were none such that flowed from the temple); but mystically, of the baptism of Christ, and of his doctrine and his grace: the trees that grow on the banks are Christian virtues: the fishes are Christians, that spiritually live in and by these holy waters, the fishermen are the apostles, and apostolic preachers: the fenny places, where there is no health, are such as by being out of the church are separated from these waters of life.

[6] And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man. And he brought me out, and he caused me to turn to the bank of the torrent. [7] And when I had turned myself, behold on the bank of the torrent were very many trees on both sides. [8] And he said to me: These waters that issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to the east, and go down to the plains of the desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go out, and the waters shall be healed. [9] And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come. [10] And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

[11] But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits. [12] And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine

.....and so one sees mystically...that the fruits of virtue will never fail...since they will yield up fruit every month..which is to say corresponding to the 12 gifts of the Holy Spirit...charity, joy, generosity, peace, patience, goodness, self-control, chastity, modesty, gentleness, kindness, modesty...this is why Ezekiel tells us that each month the gifts of the spirit shall yield their virtues...which is to be taken in a mystical  sense and not as a span of measure...now if we do not have Obedience..we have obstacles to sanctified grace within..since as Jesus told his Apostles in scripture....

He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me

Luke 10:16

....and so we say that those who willfully ignore directives from the CDF and the Bishops in charge of the MEDJUGORJE phenomenon...such people willfully reject God...who has deigned that such Bishops impose their precepts for the safety of the faithful....we may say that such people may display virtue due to the actions of the phenomenon at MEDJUGORJE..however such people display only a character of a figure of virtue..in an outward sense...but inwardly they are void of such virtues and gifts since they willfully disobey Church directive by disseminating said messages as supernatural in public forums....amen....

MEDJUGORJE | UPDATE..MARY THE MODEL CONTEMPLATIVE...

MEDJUGORJE | UPDATE..MARY THE MODEL CONTEMPLATIVE...

And they came with haste; and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. [17] And seeing, they understood of the word that had been spoken to them concerning this child. [18] And all that heard, wondered; and at those things that were told them by the shepherds. [19] But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart. [20] And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God, for all the things they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

LUKE 2:16-20

…anyone who is beholden of the spirit of discernment will understand that the Virgin Mary herself was a model of the contemplative…for the Gospel itself is a witness to this fact…Mary ever meek, humble & quick not to dare silence…ever kept the mysteries of Christ hidden under the mantle of her inner faculties of imagination and intellect…so she was wont to speak..lest she betrayed the hidden life of Christ…

..however  one sees the OPPOSITE in the phenomenon of MEDJUGORJE..we have a Mary who is not the model of contemplation..but the model of an astute quidnunc..which is to say from the early days of the history of the phenomenon..Mary was always industrious in the ways of chatter-hearts fault finders and gossipers…for she did not keep her promise of ending the alleged apparitions after three days..but continued on apparently to this day..in an apparently aeviternal mode of insipid heraldry…

…for we hear it told from the visionaries themselves in tape recordings and from interviews that the Gospa was to appear only three more times..yet apparently the Gospa had a defect of intention for she did act evidently through an acute mental mendacity by telling the children one thing and proceeding consequently in the contrary…

·         Mica IVANKOVIC: …Then I told them to ask if the Blessed Virgin Mary would be willing to appear in the church. They responded that she smiled and said that she would. Then Mirjana asked at what time. I didn’t ask them this. The Gospa said: “At the same time.”

And she asked more. How many [more] times she was going to appear to them. They said in unison: “Three times.” Then Mirjana-I don’t remember now whether it was Mirjana or somebody else-asked [her] to leave a sign.

JAKOV: That was me.

..from the HIDDEN SIDE OF MEDJUGORJE pg 361...from taped interviews at the BISHOP OF MOSTAR office...

·         Mica IVANKOVIC: Then only Mirjana asked: “At what time?” She [the Gospa] said: “At the same time!” Then Mirjana asked again how many more times she would appear. She said: “Three more times!”

? (most probably Father KOSIR): Who said that?

ONE of the visionaries: The Gospa.

? (most probably Father KOSIR): Which of you said that?

MIRJANA (most probably): I.

?:… (incomprehensible). Ivo Sivric’s remark: Everyone is talking at once.

Father ZOVKO: Well, this interests me. “Three more times!” Well, when is all this going to end?

ALL the visionaries (in unison): On Friday.

Mica IVANKOVIC: Later on they said: “On Friday.”

Father ZOVKO: Where is it going to end on Friday?

JAKOV: In the church.

MIRJANA: Except perhaps if the Gospa tells us that she would prefer to appear on the hillside on the last day…

...from THE HIDDEN SIDE OF MEDJUGORJE..pg. 371..transcriptions from the taped interviews..found at the BISHOP of MOSTAR office...

FATHER IVO SIVRIC O.F.M.

LOUIS BELANGER

AUTHOR (FATHER SIVRIC) AND EDITOR( LOUIS BELANGER) OF..THE HIDDEN SIDE OF MEDJUGORJE

..and so since the facts do not reflect the reality of the situation we see that the reality of the situation does not reflect the TRUTH...and what has been occurring in a protracted sense is the officious concealment of evidence for the sake of building a pilgrimage industry upon the credulity of sincere souls...as AGUSTINE tells..the truth must be told ..for a lie is repugnant to the nature of GOD who is perfect goodness...and so through lies we will not reach GOD..for the Gospel bears testimony to this fact....

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. [22] Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? [23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. [24] Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, [25] And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock

-Matthew 7:21-25

..here the rock represents spiritually faith of the will and intellect which is bound to the reasonable deliberations & proclamations of those commissioners of Christ's exhortation...in the case of private revelations it is the Local Ordinary..until further study of an episcopal conference (ZADAR COMMISSION)..which has been done at Medjugorje...and finally the Pope...(at this time the POPE's decision is that  of the conference)..it is one of not affirmed supernatural and so promotion of the messages of medjugorje as supernatural utterances cannot be exercised in public forums or gatherings of the faithful....

….amen

MEDJUGORJE | POPE BLESSES MEDJUGORJE STATUE....

MEDJUGORJE | THE BLESSING’S THE THING...

 

THE BLESSING’S THE THING WHEREIN I WILL CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING

 

Hamlet:
I'll have grounds
More relative than this—the play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

 

 

..In the Play of Shakespeare known as HAMLET..the anti-hero is told by a GHOST that his uncle KING has killed his Father..and to prove the veracity of the GHOST’s revelation Hamlet writes a play that includes lines with which to insinuate Regicide and to attempt to elicit a response from said uncle who will attend said play...

 

...In the saga of MEDJUGORJE we are told by the Ghost..or the GOSPA..some have called her...that the good Bishop of MEDJUGORJE is unjust..and so he will meet with the judgement of MARY and her SON JESUS..if he does not desist from reproof of the seers..in short the GOSPA is telling us that the BISHOP has murdered the good name of his office by working against the visionairies...

 

..is this most recent blessing of the statue of the GOSPA at the Vatican the thing which will ruin the conscience of the BISHOP of MEDJUGORJE...will this blessing prove the GHOST (GOSPA) is correct??..the answer is ..NO

..of course there are many forms of blessings...there is the solemn rite of blessing in which an object is made Holy for its use in the Glorification of GOD..however this blessing which has been done at the VATICAN by the POPE is not such a blessing...

..such blessing as we see done here is not a verification of the supernaturality at MEDJUGORJE...or a solemn ceremony of dedication recognizing and dedicating MEDJUGORJE to the service of the DIVINE...

..for there is a sort of blessing which is done to make articles and the users of such articles go in the inspirational grace of God..to be wise servants eschewing evil and seeking harmony...

..such a blessing is conferred on farm animals...or implements used to work in the field..or even someone’s automobile...

From the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

..such a blessing...

 is used to express a wish or desire that all good fortune, especially of a spiritual of a supernatural kind, may go with the Person or thing, as when DAVID says: "Blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee" (Ps. cxxvii, 2).

 

..so in effect the POPE is wishing that all good help of GOD go with the people and the statue of the VIRGIN..so that they may walk in the ways of GOD…and partake more fully in the previent graces and or operational , cooperational, and grow in habitual grace...

..because the POPE is a man who is framed by reasonable solicitude for his flock..he must take a diplomatic approach…he cannot castigate harshly those people who come to him with sincerity…and good measure…who out of vincible ignorance..do not understand the difference between good visions and dubious..and so one sees the POPE through his blessing wishes all the good of GOD for those who travel to MEDJUGORJE..despite the fact that the CHURCH has never recognized any supernatural visions at this place…amen

MEDJUGORJE | IF I HADN'T BEEN DRUNK.....THEN MY HOUSE WOULD HAVE BURNED

MEDJUGORJE | EQUIVOCATION..An APPEAL TO CONSEQUENCES...

MEDJUGORJE | IF I HADN'T BEEN DRUNK THEN MY HOUSE WOULD HAVE BURNED

 

 

 

 

..There  was once or most actually now exists  a Drunk who during a bleary November rain noticed his living room ceiling was leaking...after this drunk taking on a night of disciplined carousing awoke to the patter of rain drops on his forehead askew on the living room floor...intruded upon by his drunken requiem and the sloth of his past ..his roof had become quite rotten..since he was a devoted drinker he spent most of his money on drink and least on upkeep of his house..now after a delicate reality bite he decided to take action...and he dressed rather abstractedly and hurried out to the hardware store to fetch a can of pitch..

..after procuring the pitch he proceeded..to charge up into his attic and paint the entire threshold with leak stop...now after admiring his handiwork...he left the scene of his good deeds..and put forth into more imbibing..after the prescribed hours had passed he decided to check his handiwork..yet his attic was without lights and so he brought a cigarette torch with him..once availed of the right angle of sight he proceeded to light the torch to emit the required amount of light so he could survey the scene..when to his surprise the leak-stop being quite flammable wicked alight....

..in his furious bewildered consternation he deliberated quickly yet brilliantly he thought and using the most available source of water proceeded to urinate on his attic ceiling..for he reasoned he had not the time to trapse back to the kitchen.to fetch the water..and lucky to his enterprising spirit he had consumed quite enough beer to produce enough urine with which to quell the flames...

..now to his delight he reasoned that the moral nut of his dilemma had been cracked...

 

...drunkeness is good since it yields positive consequences...

.. he had decided that if he had not been so drunk his house would have burned down..since he would not have been able to pronounce from his body as much urine as he did...

..what a clever chap...

 

...the logical fallacy of moral equivalence seeks to make the end justify the means..such a sort of logical appeal to consequences usually results from the fruit of a subjective disposition and lack of prudence...from such reasoning many other fallacious arguments arise..so one sees at MEDJUGORJE as a result of appeal to consequence of a belief and due to rash presumption and spiritual acedia and lack of careful deliberation we have many pundits cleaving to the fantasy mind projection fallacy...

..As Jesus educated using simple parables we can take the above anecdote of the drunk and the Church to mean the difference between those who are not drunk on the affections and passions..and those who have used reasonable deliberation and proceeded with cautioned vis Church norms...

 

..so similar to the habitual drunk many souls lean on the bad habit of relying on the passions and they do not use an intellect tamed by prudence...and so the holes in their spiritual house (creeping syncretism) they seek to patch with more unordained prayer & disobedience (pitch ..black as sin) and they seek to put out the fire in God’s house caused by sloth and rash presumption ..with more defiance of the living magisterium..they use their own bodily spiritual effluviance  (lack of discretion) rather than the water of grace (holy-obedience) as it emanates from the infinite merits of Christ and the saints...the communion of the saints...yet this is madness...and since they feel better about themselves they believe they are doing a great service to the Church..and so they fall into the fallacy of paralysis of analysis & the fallacy of justification...consequentialism..and consequently we lose the scope of the principles which the rock of faith are founded...

 

..instead of taking what the local Ordinary has to say to heart and abiding by Church canons 823 & 824..such souls obstinate to reproof and fraternal correction are doing more harm to unity within the house of God..while they are blind to the damage done due to pride and inordinate self- love....

 

..let us all contain our unordained affections..and for the sake of unity of cause proffer discernment to the apposite sources..so that we proceed as a strong Church miltant...united...amen