MEDJUGORJE BANNED: CANON 823

MEDJUGORJE BANNED: CANON 823

 

..from Canon 823 we see that the dissemination of private revelation falls under the discernment of the local Ordinary...in the case of MEDJUGORJE and the recent letter of the CDF we see that the decrees of the local Ordinary are still enforceable...

 

Can. 823 §1 In order to safeguard the integrity of faith and morals, pastors of the Church have the duty and the right to ensure that in writings or in the use of the means of social communication there should be no ill effect on the faith and morals of Christ's faithful. They also have the duty and the right to demand that where writings of the faithful touch upon matters of faith and morals, these be submitted to their judgement. Moreover, they have the duty and the right to condemn writings which harm true faith or good morals.

§2 For Christ's faithful entrusted to their care, the duty and the right mentioned in §1 belong to the Bishops, both as individuals and in particular councils or Episcopal Conferences; for the whole people of God, they belong to the supreme authority in the Church

..so we see that the duty of the dissemination of any information emanating out of MEDJUGORJE falls on the authority of the Bishop until the Vatican makes a definitive ruling...

...however from the current CDF letter we see that the Vatican has sided with the Episcopal conference the Bishops of Zadar stating nothing supernatural in regards visions can be said to be occurring....this letter does not speak about the supernaturality of apparitions it only speaks of the CDF studying certain doctrinal and disciplinary anomalies associated with MEDJUGORJE...meaning it has already been established by the Zadar commission that nothing supernatural is happening and that based on the CDF study MEDJUGORJE may indeed be condemned consequently as not worthy of belief....

 here is a link to the letter.....

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cdf-bars-participation-in-events-assuming-truth-of-medjugorje/

 

..at the place of MEDJUGORJE we have a spirit of contention and credulous anxiety...if truth can be defined as the end of inquiry and it follows that the devil himself is an enemy of truth..we see that the devil himself will push for incessant scrupulosity and endless questioning...a battle of anxiety and curiosity against certitude and calm...the spiritual battle....we are told by many adherents to the messages at MEDJUGORJE that the study continues and that the Church has not made a pronouncement..indeed this is a spirit of rebellion since the Church itself has said nothing supernatural can be maintained regarding the manifestation of providential wraiths (holy apparitions)...indeed the most recent letter published by the CDF has exhorted the faithful not to participate in any public celebrations in Churches or otherwise which presuppose the authenticity of apparitions..such gatherings would indeed foster scandal and be seen as an affront to Christ’s magisterium (the Bishops of medjugorje)...

..indeed some adherents to MEDJUGORJE tell us nothing can be done until the visions cease however this is not the case since the false visionary Montanus who led the poisonous charismatic sect of the Montanists was condemned by the authoritative Ordinary (bishop) while the spectacles were alleged still occurring...

.....as well we are told by some proponents that Ivan the seer is not banned from parishes in which he has his apparitions..if used intentionally this is a sly fallacy of logic know as amphiboly (ambiguous use of grammar and syntax)...of course Ivan is not banned from parishes in which he has apparitions he is free to go to any parish and have an apparition in his home if he wishes..however he cannot do this in public or in gatherings and by so doing spread these apparitions as authentic manifestations of the mother of God...by saying Ivan is banned there is a veiled jab at the magisterium of the Church which is implied..one takes away from this statement that the Church is a many tendrilled theocratic hegemony led by a medieval despot  with opprobriative organs everywhere intent on censuring and policing..the opposite is true...the Church is the protector of truth and a bastion of charity...the Church in its magisterium is the personification of the Good Shepherd...amen

MEDJUGORJE APPARITIONS BANNED/FORBIDDEN

MEDJUGORJE Vatican Commission: Censure on Apparitions

 

...according to a letter sent to the Conference of US Bishops by the Vatican..all alleged apparitions by Medjugorje Visionaries which occur in U.S. churches are censured as well the letter goes on to say...

all faithful and priests...

"are not permitted to participate in meetings, conferences or public celebrations during which the credibility of such 'apparitions' would be taken for granted."

..the letter can be seen at this link....

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cdf-bars-participation-in-events-assuming-truth-of-medjugorje/

...any such gathering would require a repudiation of official approbation or supernaturality in some explicit form...
 

…indeed the good angels themselves surely inveigh against the poor spiritual example the seers at MEDJUGORJE evince through their continued disobedience to ecclesiastic authority….

According to St. Bonaventure in his Mind’s Road to God there are six powers of the soul by which we ascend to God ....

 

. Therefore, according to the six stages of ascension into God, there are

six stages of the soul's powers by which we mount from the depths to the

heights, from the external to the internal, from the temporal to the

eternal--to wit, sense, imagination, reason, intellect, intelligence, and

the apex of the mind, the illumination of conscience ("Synteresis"). These

stages are implanted in us by nature, deformed by sin, reformed by grace,

to be purged by justice, exercised by knowledge, perfected by wisdom.

 

…and so we see at MEDJUGORJE the sense and the imagination have scattered the reason and the intellect…proponents have felt a stirring at this place and through the imagination have conjured up many pious feelings and devotions however this is not based in reality…the reason and the intellect tell us that the Church itself has not come to the same conclusion and so we must put presumption aside as Thomas Aquinas tells us regarding pusillanimity(fear of acting within one’s power) and presumption…indeed many proponents are also guilty of pusillanimity through shrinking from the greatness they might have attained in charity if they had worked to achieve obedience which indeed was in their power to apprehend..yet through inordinate zeal they have become complacent and fallen victim to acedia and many other unseemly habits...

 

“According to its proper species pusillanimity is a graver sin than presumption, since thereby a man withdraws from good things, which is a very great evil according to Ethic. iv. Presumption, however, is stated to be "wicked" on account of pride whence it proceeds"

..indeed we see presumption stems from the stalk of complacency, the root of which is pride..it is an evil habit to be avoided..let us look to the humility of the saints to guide us through the contentious difficult times so that we may find unity in truth and peace thereafter….

..thank God that the Vatican has censured the unorthodox Pharisee patterned spirituality of MEDJUGORJE..and by so doing has sent a message that devotion to Mary is a good practice yet disobedience to her Son’s Bishops is not so edifying or mystically apposite….amen