by St Leonard of Port MauriceThanks be to God, the number of the Redeemer's disciples is not so small that the wickedness of the Scribes and Pharisees is able to triumph over them. Although they strove to calumniate innocence and to deceive the crowd with their treacherous sophistries by discrediting the doctrine and character of Our Lord, finding spots even in the sun, many still recognized Him as the true Messiah, and, unafraid of either chastisements or threats, openly joined His cause. Did all those who followed Christ follow Him even unto glory? Oh, this is where I revere the profound mystery and silently adore the abysses of the divine decrees, rather than rashly deciding on such a great point! The subject I will be treating today is a very grave one; it has caused even the pillars of the Church to tremble, filled the greatest Saints with terror and populated the deserts with anchorites. The point of this instruction is to decide whether the number of Christians who are saved is greater or less than the number of Christians who are damned; it will, I hope, produce in you a salutary fear of the judgments of God.
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THE CHURCH’S FORBIDDEN TEACHINGS
What your Catholic teacher should have told you, but was afraid to. These are the teachings once taught from the pulpit and in Catholic schools. Today they have been banished. We have heard teachers in Catholic schools tell us that if they teach them, their jobs are in jeopardy. And of course they cannot admit this publicly. The result is that the number of children graduating from Catholic schools and continuing to attend Mass is down around 2%. Given that Church discipline binds Catholics to Sunday Mass, these children are living in a constant state of sin. St Jerome estimates that the number of such souls saved is pitifully small. That is, Catholic children are overwhelmingly on the way to eternal damnation. These pages go over the teaching banned from the classroom. |