MEDJUGORJE | NEWS... WHERE GRACE BLOSSOMS...???

MEDJUGORJE | JANSENISM and the new SEMI-PELAGIANISTS

...it seems curious that the Mother of God should promote emotive humanism over faith and reason...yet this is precisely what one sees in the message which is purveyed on a popular MEDJUGORJE blogloid....

Dear children, pray and open your inner self to the Lord so that He makes of you a harmonious and beautiful flower for Paradise.

-message December ,18, 1986

...so it seems the Mother of God is espousing  the heresy of Semi-Pelagianism...such that humans on their own intiative may dispose themselves to the interior workings of grace through their own power...by asking us to open our inner self..the Mother of God is directly contradicting the council of Trent teaching on Justification....

CANON III.-If any one saith, that without the prevenient inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and without his help, man can believe, hope, love, or be penitent as he ought, so as that the grace of Justification may be bestowed upon him; let him be anathema.

Trent Session 6 Canon 3

....indeed one may open themselves up to the working of the Holy Spirit...yet this prompting or Prevenient aid must precede the intiative of the person...and this is echoed in the Gospel...

 I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

John 15:5 Douay Rheims

...and so we must carefully discern what sort of spirit is at work in these subtle messages which craftily put us ahead of the working of God...indeed this is the hallmark of the MEDJUGORJE phenomenon...putting oneself ahead of the judgement of the magisterium....let us all proceed with prudence temperance and in a spirit of obedience...amen

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 | 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..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 | 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

MEDJUGORJE UPDATE | GOD IS NOT A BODY...

MEDJUGORJE... GOD IS NOT A BODY

 

...From the Summa Contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas we have Chapter 20- God is not a Body..

 

 

from his disputations we see how those people who believe that wisdom  dwells in the bodily refreshment of apparitions of those things which are divine..such are greatly deceived since God is not a body..God is a spirit and those who wish to love him with the naked intention of the total dispensation of their will would do well to seek God in SPIRIT and TRUTH..through obedience to the precepts of his CHurch and those agents which he has vested with his authority....

 

from the Summa Contra Gentiles

 

[2] Every body, being a continuum, is composite and has parts. But, as we have shown, God is not composite, and is, therefore, not a body.

 

[3] Again, everything possessed of quantity is in a certain manner in potency. For a continuum is potentially divisible to infinity, while numbers can be increased to infinity. But every body has quantity and is therefore in potency. But God is not in potency, being pure act, as has been shown. Therefore, God is not a body.

 

[9] Again, no infinite power is a power in a magnitude. But the power of the prime mover is an infinite power. Therefore, it is not in any magnitude. Therefore, God, Who is the prime mover, is neither a body nor a power in a body

 

[11] That the power of the first mover is infinite is proved thus. No finite power can move in an infinite time. But the power of the first mover moves in an infinite time because the first motion is endless. Therefore, the power of the prime mover is infinite. The first proposition is proved thus. If the finite power of some body moves in an infinite time, a part of that body, having a part of the power, will move in a shorter time; for the greater the power of a mover, the more it will be able to keep up its motion in a longer time. Thus, the aforementioned part will move in a finite time, and a greater part will be able to move in a longer time. Thus, as we add to the power of the mover, we shall always add to the time according to the same proportion. But after a certain addition has been made, the addition will reach the quantity of the whole or even exceed it. So, too, an addition of time will reach the quantity of time in which it moves the whole. But the time in which it moved the whole was said to be infinite. Therefore, a finite time will measure an infinite time—which is impossible

 

[30] No motion, furthermore, which is from a corporeal mover can be continuous and regular, because in local motion a corporeal mover moves by pulling and pushing. Now, what is pulled or pushed is not uniformly disposed towards its mover from the beginning to the end of the motion, since at times it will be nearer and at other times farther away. Thus, no body can move with a continuous and regular motion. But the first motion is continuous and regular, as is proved in Physics VIII [7]. Therefore, the mover of the first motion is not a body.

 

 

..these are just a few of the many arguments  Aquinas gives to show that God is  pure spirit not contained within any body...

 

..true it is easier for the human mind to construct through the imagination forms of God to aid one in directing their devotion to a particular attribute of God..or even to remind one of those we love such as a Mother or a Father figure..however if we are to love in a more chaste sense then we will abandon the notion that God is a body and that the refreshment one recevies from  spectres and apparitions only prove to put obstacles between  our being and the TRUTH and the secundum quid EVIDENCE of what  God is...

 

..by chasing apparitions we put barriers between ourselves and God ..yet many are deceived at MEDJUGORJE since they have not been educated correctly in the spirit...we must seek God in spirit and abide by the precepts of Holy Church.....

 

...in order to Love God we must Love in humility and Obedience and through poverty of spirit which is abnegation of the will...so that it is God doing the willing..and this is how we put off the old person and put on the new person in CHrist... amen

MEDJUGORJE WEB-SITE NEWS UPDATE

MEDJUGORJE A SPIRITUAL APOSTROPHE

 

 

 

 

"Is this dagger which i see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

Come, let me clutch thee!

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."

 

-Shakespeare -  Macbeth

 

…here Shakespeare utilizes apostrophe when he scripts Macbeth envisioning an imaginary dagger which is symbolic of the internal conflict he feels owing to his estranged mental state before murdering Duncan…

..the etymology of the word apostrophe comes from the Greek (to turn away) and this is exactly what we see happening at MEDJUGORJE…the turning away of the faithful from the Church as it is towards a fabricated Church as it is not or as it exists in the minds of those who construct an imaginary notion of what they wish it to be…

 

..in literature apostrophe is a figure of speaking whereby one detaches themself from reality and addresses an imaginary character...such a device allows one to describe a latent feeling or to frame an abstract idea so as to make it more palpable..

 

...now by utilizing all traditional means of discernment that have been established by Churchmen and women throughout the ages one comes to the plausible conclusion that what we see occurring at MEDJUGORJE is a spiritual apostrophe...

 

...whereby people are trying to express through visions and fantasy betrayals of the world and loneliness which have made their lives dreary and bleak...by organizing themselves around this spiritual apostrophe they are better able to come to terms with their inner psychological athetosis...in this way such a make believe phenomenon helps assuage their inner turmoil...

 

..however such cleaving to things apparently seen signal something wrong with the faith..since the faith is characterized by hope in the things not seen which bolsters a spiritual poverty and humility towards authority of Christ and his Agents...

 

..so this is why we see so much disobedience to Church authority at MEDJUGORJE since such adherents have attached themselves to spiritual apostrophe which deals in abstraction and feeling which are the fruits of the self and entirely subjective...while the Church deals with a spirituality that is concrete and actual since it emanates from God who is pure act and pure reality....

..let us all protect ourselves from error and encompass ourselves by an aspect of recollection in silence and truth as it flows from God as he really is not as we wish him to be.....amen

MEDJUGORJE COMMISSION HAS FINISHED ITS WORK OFFICIALLY

MEDJUGORJE COMMISSION HAS FINISHED ITS WORK OFFICIALLY

..CARDINAL PULJIC says he is Fed Up with the MEDJUGORJE study..

..if one puts two and two together and adds the recent comments of the POPE who tells us that Mary is not a post mistress sending messages everyday one should be able to mark the course of the current leading the  Barque of Peter  scudding ahead the gale of another temporal spiritual tempest( Medjugorje)...

....the duly authorized Agents of God on this matter are giving us hints regarding the phenomenon at Medjugorje...The good Cardinal is telling us that he is tired of beating a dead horse..if the outcome was favourable and positive then the good Cardinal would be quite honoured to be a part of Church history however the reverse is true..in fact Medjugorje is a part of Church infamy....he is repelled by what is not part of the bosom of the Church..as Pope Eugene has said in the past...

" The Church Teaches Ex Cathedra: "The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, and heretics, and schismatics, can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire "which was prepared for the devil, and his angels," (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this Ecclesiastical Body, that only those remaining within this unity can profit from the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and that they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, almsdeeds, and other works of Christian piety and duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441) "

..this being a tenet of the universal and extraordinary magisterium is binding..however since those who through no fault of their own adhere to another religion but who seek God with a sincere heart and or perfect contrition may not be precluded we should note that schismatics, those who have deliberately cut themselves off from the temporal head of the Church the Pope by ignoring seminal canons (ie 823) and who willfully disobey CDF decrees and local Ordinarial directives may be in grave danger of fracture from the bosom of the Church....

..ignorance is no excuse and is removable if through reasonable diligence a conscientious person had shown sincere resolve & deliberation in seeking answers to matters which regarded the fate of one's eternal salvation according to their intellectual capacity and or conditioned customs and available resources...however if through innocent ignorance one was not baptised but would have been baptized had they known then such a desire would not disregard one from salvation (CC1260)

1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery." Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.

..the Vatican Radio has also recently stated that the commission of Medjugorje has sent its findings to the CDF and Pope..

2014-01-18 Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, confirmed on Saturday that the international commission investigating the events in Medjugorje held its last meeting on 17 January. The commission, created by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is presided by Cardinal Camillo Ruini.

The commission has reportedly completed its work and will submit the outcomes of its study to the Congregation.

....amen

MEDJUGORJE UPDATE: THE LIE

MEDJUGORJE UPDATE: THE LIE

 

 

..lying in itself is a vice opposed to truth..it is a hindrance to communication and charity in that it subverts or privates a person’s right to know and in this way it is also opposed to the virtue of justice...if a person does not have the knowledge they need to act rightly then this gravely subverts the natural order and leads to chaos...  

 

..defined lying can be said to be any statement that is made which is in variance to the mind... and so a person has the intention to say what is false or in opposition to the construction or idea of reason as it rests in their mind...this is where we get the word mendacity from which means to be in opposition of the mind....indeed there are different degrees of lie and culpability..indeed if someone says what is false without the intention to deceive then they cannot be formally guilty of the lie since the guilt lies in sloth or complacency and ignorance however if the will is to deceive then the guilt appears and if voluntary falls within the phylum of  a lie formal...

...according to the catholic encyclopedia there are three classifications of lies..officious, jocose, & injurious... 

..thomas Aquinas in his summa theological has further broken down the classes of lies to include habitual (those who lie for the lust of lying)...

..the officious lie is intended to either help someone or to save them from danger..the jocose lie is intended in jest or as a form of entertainment..and the mischievous or injurious lie contains other subclassifications but is intended to harm in its worse sense however other senses follow such as the injurious lie which profits no one however injures some..and this is the sort of lie we have seen at the phenomenon in MEDJUGORJE where at the beginning of the apparitions the children were asked what they were doing on the mountain and they replied watching sheep but later recanted and admitted to smoking..this mischievous lie they told the bishop himself..and so this type of lie although seemingly officious and not harming anyone indeed has harmed many since when the phenomenon at MEDJUGORJE is deemed false then many would have saved the price of admission to this spiritual circus if they had known at the outset that behind the apparitions were a troupe of devious youngsters who mischievously lied to an ambassador of Christ...indeed depending upon the maturity of the children’s faculties at the time maybe their culpability could be diminished although lying to a high ranking prelate is quite a grave matter especially about the Virgin Mary....setting the stage for scandal among the faithful and so we have the butterfly effect...and so the saying..

 

One lie begets another.  Once committed, the liar has to go on

   in his course of lying;  it is the penalty of the liar’s transgression

                                         -F. Jacox

 ..and of course the devil will always try to negate the severity of his offence by trying to pawn off an injurious or mischievous lie as an officious or jocose lie since the devil is a devious joker and trickster by nature...

 

..indeed owing to the pastoral directives the sacramental outpouring of grace has benefitted many however the deception which underlies the whole affair is hard to ignore yet it is kept hidden from the scores of innocent faithful who travel to this place...

As Thomas Aquinas says about the penalty of lying...

A lie may be in itself contrary to charity by reason of its false signification. For if this be about divine things, it is contrary to the charity of God, whose truth one hides or corrupts by such a lie; so that a lie of this kind is opposed not only to the virtue of charity, but also to the virtues of faith and religion: wherefore it is a most grievous and a mortal sin. If, however, the false signification be about something the knowledge of which affects a man's good, for instance if it pertain to the perfection of science or to moral conduct, a lie of this description inflicts an injury on one's neighbor, since it causes him to have a false opinion, wherefore it is contrary to charity, as regards the love of our neighbor, and consequently is a mortal sin. On the other hand, if the false opinion engendered by the lie be about some matter the knowledge of which is of no consequence, then the lie in question does no harm to one's neighbor; for instance, if a person be deceived as to some contingent particulars that do not concern him. Wherefore a lie of this kind, considered in itself, is not a mortal sin

and from the Catholic Encyclopedia...

But if the common teaching of Catholic theology on this point be admitted, and we grant that lying is always wrong, it follows that we are never justified in telling a lie, for we may not do evil that good may come: the end does not justify the means......St. Augustine held that the naked truth must be told whatever the consequences may be. He directs that in difficult cases silence should be observed if possible...

..indeed there are special cases such as the use of mental reservations may be apt however the Church does not promote the utility of such machinations excepting those which are lawful....


..so we see at MEDJUGORJE there have been instances where a false signification has been made for instance regarding the great sign that should happen (a shrine erected in the 1980’s) which never did occur and this type of lie which had as its subject matter divine things or acts of God is more grave and scandalous as well since it is made in a public arena all the more so we should pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who have participated in this sordid affair so that reparation forgiveness and unity might take place and as one we may move forward as the Church militant conquering the errors of modernism and consequentialism.....amen...