MEDJUGORJE APPARITIONS
OF THE VIRGIN MARY??
....the presence of
the sacraments does not validate any apparition..only sound discernment can do this...
....the presence of
the sacraments as a pastoral redolence is a direct result of the exaggerated
sense of curiosity owing to the deceptions and the clear disobedience of some
who have chosen to go against clear directives of the spiritual superiors at
this place who have asked that all messages of the apparent Madonna be handed
over for review before being disseminated to the faithful..yet this has never
been done which is a direct transgression of Canon 823 & 824 regarding the
dissemination of private revelations...and so we can clearly see that the
virtue of HUMILITY is not being nurtured by the spirit of MEDJUGORJE..we see a
false humility which seeks to exhalt itself over the agents of God and such a
spirituality is anti-Christ...
..to wit the hall mark
of HOLY HUMILITY is subjection to the precepts of our spiritual superiors...so
as to ensure that holy precepts should
frame our actions and influence the movement of our will towards the things of
God so we may be conformed in unity and charity....so that we may see the will
of God in the will of his agents..namely his Bishops and prelates...
..and so let us guard
ourselves from false humility which ever seeks its itself and the will of
itself and ever loathes the rebukes of others for fear that it must look inward
and see the myriad faults..since this is the true path of the cross of
self-mortification...which Jesus speaks of in the Gospel....
..let us see what the
wise spiritual doyens say about the importance of the virtue of HUMILITY..
He does not show
humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?),
but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
-Saint John of the
Ladder
"The
virtue of humility consists in keeping oneself within one's own
bounds, not reaching out to things above one, but submitting to one's
superior"
- pride: by reason of defect, and
- a too great obsequiousness or abjection of
oneself, which would be an excess of humility. This might easily be
derogatory to a man's office or holy character; or it might serve only to
pamper pride in others, by unworthy flattery, which would occasion their
sins of tyranny, arbitrariness, and arrogance.”
-Saint
Thomas Aquinas
Nothing is more
opposed to God than pride, for self-deification is concealed in it, its own
nothingness or sin. Thus more than anything humility is acceptable to God,
which considers itself nothing, and attributes all goodness, honor, and glory
to God alone. Pride does not accept grace, because it is full of itself, while
humility easily accepts grace, because it is free from itself, and from all
that is created. God creates out of nothing. As long as we think that we can
offer something of ourselves, He does not begin His work in us. Humility is the
salt of virtue. As salt gives flavor to food, so humility gives perfection to
virtue. Without salt, food goes bad easily, and without humility, virtue is
easily spoiled by pride, vainglory, impatience - and it perishes. There is a
humility which a man gains by his own struggles: knowing his own insufficiency,
accusing himself for his failings, not allowing himself to judge others. And
there is a humility into which God leads a man through the things that happen
to him: allowing him to experience afflictions, humiliations, and deprivations.
-Saint Philaret of
Moscow
“God resisteth the proud,
and giveth his grace to the humble”
-Saint James (James
4:6)
“Learn of me,
because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls”
-Saint Matthew (
Matthew 11:29)
“Publicly proclaiming
oneself a sinner yet obstinately nurturing a bad opinion of an Agent of God without
trying to make remediation through obeyance of a precept is the worse form of hypocrisy and arrogance…since
by doing so one betrays the cloak of false humility which covers the interior
disposition of inordinate self love…thus perpetuating the spirit of the
Pharisees..”
-Anonymous
....................................amen...................
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