...according to the seers of MEDJUGORJE...the alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary...has given us valuable tools that we may gain salvation through our own effort...such a formula for salvation reeks of the heretical notions adopted by the Semi-Pelagians...this heretical group was popular in the fourth and fifth century in France...and among the false beliefs this movement presented were three compromises to the workings of grace...
(1) the beginning of faith (though not faith itself or its increase) could be accomplished by the human will alone, unaided by grace;
(2) in a loose sense, the sanctifying grace man receives from God can be merited by natural human effort, unaided by actual grace;
(3) once a man has been justified, he does not need additional grace from God in order to persevere until the end of life
...we see from the message of MEDJUGORJE and its Five Stones of Salvation..that there is a parity between the two cults...when the Virgin of MEDJUGORJE tells us that we must pray the rosary, fast, read the bible, confess our sins monthly and receive Communion frequently...so by following this formula we are assured salvation..of course..this is false...it is evident that such a formula raises the work of human wills above the efficacy and buttressing power of grace...
...what good is Eucharist and penance without a proper examination of conscience, and what good is fasting without mercy, indeed...what good is any formula without proper instruction in the faith...as well a soul must live the Gospel in the active life...in order that it may defend itself from spiritual pride and gluttony...
..so one sees with -out the infused virtues of the spirit and the acquired virtues of living the Gospel..one cannot attain salvation by following a formula...for to say so is simply purveying the error of Semi-Pelagianism by telling the credulous faithful that natural human effort may merit the prize of more grace from God..such a belief undermines the omnipotence of God..and stays the power of coercion into the hands of the creature...let us all guard ourselves from false prophets...through the exercise of prudence....amen
