MEDJUGORJE UPDATE: HOLY PRUDENCE..it is better to be cautious 100 times than to be slain once....

MEDJUGORJE UPDATE: HOLY PRUDENCE

 

...of the four cardinal virtues one may see that the exercise of holy prudence in all circumstances is essential for anyone to proceed on the paths of holiness....and so from Augustine to Aristotle to Boethius and Lombard we are told that without prudence a person undermines every action they undertake and in the end what one thought to be a good is rendered a bad out of the utility of acting without right reason....

 ...prudence itself as defined by Aristotle in summary ...recta ratio agibilium..or..RIGHT REASON APPLIED TO PRACTICE...may be rendered towards an intellectual habit which aids us in discerning what is a virtuous course of action and what is not...in a sense Holy Prudence is a light to the reason..and as Jesus was described by John the evangelist as a light of which the darkness knew it not...we see when we apply the light of Jesus to a mortified will and a tamed intellect we proceed more efficiently in the paths of beneficence...

 According to the Catholic Encyclopedia ...

 Prudence, therefore, has a directive capacity with regard to the other virtues. It lights the way and measures the arena for their exercise. The insight it confers makes one distinguish successfully between their mere semblance and their reality. It must preside over the eliciting of all acts proper to any one of them at least if they be taken in their formal sense. Thus, without prudence bravery becomes foolhardiness; mercy sinks into weakness, and temperance into fanaticism

 ...indeed in MEDJUGORJE we have naive young converts to the paths of spirituality who without the aid of holy prudence have fallen into fanaticism and foolhardiness since they believe against the spiritual fathers that disobedience to a Vatican initiative and a local Ordinary’s directives is a logical and prudent venture of the reason...however if it were not for two thousand years of magisterial discernment and Vatican directive there would be no edifice on which to stand and so we see that ignoring such an appeal to reason is rash, negligent and thoughtless…and so it follows we see such traits emergent among the proponents of MEDJUGORJE…. 

 Sins against prudence fall into two categories those from defect namely rashness, negligence and thoughtlessness… and sins of excessive appetite which transgress a reasonable prudential disposition..sins of excess include imprudence of flesh and emotion, astuteness, and undue solicitude about the temporal future which causes one to neglect provisions required for an eternal state of the soul…

 ...imprudence  a defect of foresight in regards to the practical order of creation…..

 Rashness: implies someone who has deliberated and made a decision without due consideration of the ramifications of such a decision…and so we see in MEDJUGORJE people have decided that belief in an apparition justifies disunity in the mystical body of the Church…

 Negligence: does not allow a mind time for deliberation…as we are told when we buy a car for instance to take practicality into consideration and not do purchase based on emotion however in MEDJUGORJE people have not done this…and in the long run have made a bad purchase spiritually by selling their soul to presumption and division..instead of operating on unity and mercy and filial charity….

 Objurate imperious Astuteness: if astuteness implies one who through devious trickery aims at misconstruing absolute directives and tries to find loopholes to procure their own prerogatives then we see this occurring in MEDJUGORJE…many people seek to deviously subvert Church policy in order to push their own agenda..an appeal to conscience as a guide or an appeal to justification that the Church says it is not wrong to visit such a place however  if one weighs all the details in the balance as one should before proper deliberation is made then one must say that to follow seers over a Church built on two thousand years of trust and hope and charity is indeed a precipitous and dangerous stake of one’s faith and mind….   

 Undue Solicitude for temporal condolence..we see this occurring in a great conflux at MEDJUGORJE..people feel good and so they follow this feel good feeling however the feel good appears justified by a call to pray and fast  confess and adore (scrupulosity) yet it ignores the Gospel message of generosity...if we do not give of ourselves..we will not receive..as Jesus said he who gives his life will save it and he who keeps it will lose it..

as scripture tells...

Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, [25] Itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal.

John 12:24

...Jesus is here speaking of holy obedience ..;poverty of spirit...and mortification of the will..it is a spirituality of generosity rather than scrupulosity...of which the Peligians are known..
...  indeed if one is disobedient to Church directives and magisterial decrees then such a person is outside the Church spiritually they have set themselves at odds they in effect have become tiny islands unto themselves…and are not in union with Christ and his shepherds…..indeed the Vatican has told us that no claims on the supernaturality of the visions may be made in a public manner which calls for further Church study if necessary..as it stands it can not be proven by the Church that these visions are manifest supernature and so indeed may be preternatural or an artifice of men…yet we see all over the world wide web that Mary is appearing..indeed this is against prudence it is rash ..it is an appeal to foolishness..and so it goes the Church is seen by the world as a foppish collection of clowns who seek to curry their carnival appetite through a theatre of the absurd as it is portrayed in MEDJUGORJE…..

 

…..let us see what the saints have to say about the virtue of PRUDENCE….

It is not good (prudent) to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises: it is better to
undertake a little, and go on with it; for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily bring us to omit it a second time, and, more easily still, a third, until all our pious practices will, at last, melt away.

 -St. Philip Neri

 

Prudence must precede every action which we undertake; for, if prudence be wanting, there is nothing, however good it may seem, which is not turned into evil.

 -St. Basil

There are two sorts of prudence, the one human, the other Christian. Human, carnal, or worldly prudence is that which has only worldly prosperity in view, and is indifferent about the means, provided it attains its object. Christian prudence takes Eternal Incarnate Wisdom for its guide in every thought, word, and work. It is regulated in every emergency, not by fatuous, glimmering light of its own, or by worldly judgment, but by the maxims of faith.

 -St. Vincent DePaul

                                             -the topsy turvy world- peter breugel the elder

 [14] A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him. [15] The innocent believeth every word: the discreet man considereth his steps. No good shall come to the deceitful son: but the wise servant shall prosper in his dealings, and his way shall be made straight.

[16] A wise man feareth and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over and is confident. [17] The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful. [18] The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent, shall look for knowledge.

-Douay Rheims Bible , Proverbs 14:14-18

 

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent. Let him who has no intelligence or talent rejoice and do as much as he can with the little that he has; for he has been freed from many occasions of sin.

 - St. Bridget of Sweden

 …………amen………….

MEDJUGORJE

MEDJUGORJE VATICAN COMMISSION CARDINAL RUINI: the Song remains the same MEDJUGORJE WHERE IS IT SPIRITUALLY

"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up – Hosea 8:7

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. Proverbs 11:29

Because the advocates of the apparitions of MEDJUGORJE sow wind so too will they reap a whirlwind of spiritual unrest..indeed it is an upright and steadfast inclination to frequent the sacraments however approaching the sacraments is only a small portion of the execution of the sacrament…to live the sacraments through a life examined thoroughly is necessary so that the flow of grace is unencumbered…the sacraments tether a soul to what is sacred…the sacred works the sacred words the sacred traditions all must be obeyed if one’s aim is to love God with their every fibre of being….to choose one’s own opinion over the opinion of an established successor to an apostle is to break the obeyance of the sacred chain…here is where the tragedy of medjugorje occurs…a spiritual rift occurs where one becomes lost in their own impetuosity…emotion replaces the spirit.. so a soul is tangled in a skein of subjectivity and relativism….. the end justifies the means and justice and prudence become separated from constancy and reason…consequentialism opens the door to latitudinarianism and indifferentism…and so since justice implies mercy and the perpetual unchanging will of God we see that someone who is a slave to their own subjective opinion is divorced from the sacred and so breaks the chain of grace that one may expect from the sacraments..this places the church in jeopardy…and so a vigilante magisterium evolves around this rebellious will…we see that the teleological principle of the church is threatened by the encroachment of the self….the notion of right and wrong are objective and the notion of merit and guilt fall on the subjective component of ethics…if one is to be ethically just and responsible towards their neighbor then one must approach a decision as to the veracity of such apparitions which have a universal impact on the belief of millions by an objective stance..one can only get an objective ruling from the church itself…the church itself has stated through its bishops that there is nothing supernatural occurring at MEDJUGORJE outside the miracle of the Eucharist and the freeing of sin which is happening by way of the sacraments..to make a decision based on a subjective stance then one is placing the salvation of many in jeopardy since a wrong conclusion can impute the guilt of one wrong decision onto others who may be influenced through inordinate zeal and imprudence…indeed what we see in MEDJUGORJE is a case of the blind leading the blind…

…we see even among the wise biblical figures that God has exhorted us to keep watch and be wise…placing all our trust in the church and the pastors whom God has  hierarchically stationed to keep watch over and withhold the catena aurea of faith and tradition….as it says in the song of Solomon…

[1] I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys. [2] As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. [3] As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate. [4] He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me. [5] Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.

[1] I am the flower of the field: Christ professes himself the flower of mankind, yea, the Lord of all creatures: and, ver. 2, declares the excellence of his spouse, the true church above all other societies, which are to be considered as thorns.

[6] His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. [7] I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please. [8] The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills. [9] My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices. [10] Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.

  [8] The voice of my beloved: that is, the preaching of the gospel surmounting difficulties figuratively here expressed by mountains and little hills.

[11] For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. [12] The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land: [13] The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come: [14] My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely. [15] Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard hath flourished.

[15] Catch us the little foxes: Christ commands his pastors to catch false teachers, by holding forth their fallacy and erroneous doctrine, which like foxes would bite and destroy the vines.

[16] My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies, [17] Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.-Canticle of canticles Chapter 2..Douay Rheims+Challoner notes ….

...you see in this instance the little foxes are the ones who nip at the vines of the church by advocating disobedience to the pastors which is a condescension to the word of God found in the Song of Songs….indeed Christ stands behind the wall of the edifice and the tradition and teaching of the church…he peaks through the lattices…by way of the mysteries of the faith we can glimpse him…however if we place visionaries in the place of apostles we weaken the wall of tradition and tear down the edifices of our own house...we are left in the darkness of our desire to see with our worldy eyes what can only be seen with faith..and so this is how the devil sifts the faithful as wheat...one by one he divides the flock to conquer through subjectivism....

The devil wishes to sift you as wheat….

And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:....Luke 22:31

...by ourselves and by following our own will we will be sifted by the snares of the devil..we are single husks with shells hardened by the spirit of the world and sin and through the fall we are more disposed to cling to concupiscence and feelings of the flesh and emotion rather than divine reason...however when we are joined to the body of Christ and base our decisions on trust in his church and his pastors we cannot be sifted so easily

....we will be strong as one..we will be leavened by the virtue of obedience...all the wheat will commune together..confected at the Eucharist and through obedience to all the church’s doctrines and the mysteries of the faith we will unite ..unless a grain dies to the self it cannot become food for many...one bread one body...amen