As we go deeper into Advent, we are called to open our hearts and welcome Jesus, our Saviour, into our lives more fully. It also is an invitation to know Him better. So, how well do we know Jesus? How well do we know the Father and the Holy Spirit? Do we know — or accept — that Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit are one divine being? Michael Vorris from RealCatholicTV explains.
We cannot know everything about Him, but we can some things, even many things, about Him.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, formerly the Archbishop of Montreal and now Pope Benedict’s newly appointed Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops said this recently, directed to his fellow bishops:
(Bishops) need spiritual discernment and not just political calculation of the risk of the possibility of the message being received. … We have to dare to speak to the deep heart, where the Spirit of the Lord is touching people beyond what we can calculate.
It makes perfect sense: How can anyone think they can gain more souls for the Lord by circumventing His Word? There is no way to comprehend His plan and how He touches peoples’ hearts. Our bishops are to ensure their flocks are getting and comprehending His Word and not worry about what people think of it. God will take care of the rest.
Come to think of it, this is applicable to priests at the parish level as well. Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV has the rest:
Cardinal Marc Ouellet tells the bishops to end calculation and return to The Truth. Stop telling the people what you think they want to hear and tell The Truth, for it is The Truth and The Truth alone that saves.
A recent Wall Street Journal article chronicled the problem evangelical churches are having keeping young members. It’s an interesting turn of media events, so to speak: After years of pounding the Catholic Church for its declining attendance at the expense of rising protestant churches with charismatic pastors, now it seems the media is examining the flight of young evangelicals to other churches.
It’s important for Catholics to understand why this is happening. While many of our dioceses went through (or are still in) a period of “hipness” to ”attract” young people, that’s exactly what drove them away — a lack of substance. While trying to be “relevant” to the young (and even not so young) the Church watered down the Mass and its emphasis on certain Church teachings. While evangelicals got a bump for a number of years by its sheer emotional pull, people soon find out that after a service, when the “alleluias” are over, there isn’t much there, there.
The American Church must never forget the substance and challenge of The Faith. For too long “Modern” Catholicism focused on emotion, not substance. But emotion does have a place — as a tool, not an end. It’s a lesson the Church in America has had to learn the hard way. Sadly, some still have not learned. Perhaps, this new exodus from the evangelical movement will give Catholic dioceses an opening to present the Truth to those so desperately seeking it.
As usual, Michael Voris at RealCatholicTV gets to the heart of the matter. Please take a view and let us know what you think.
Can the Catholic Church learn from the exodus of many from evangelical “mega churches”?
Here is a recent installment of The Vortex from RealCatholicTV’s Michael Voris. It is an excellent testimonial to The Faith and its mission to resolve evil in the world: Four priests prayed at a Rockford, Ill., abortion center and saved lives! It’s not because they are priests, but the power of their faith.
Four priests and the power of The Faith saved lives at an abortion center.
In April, we posted the first two videos of Michael Voris’ series on progressives in the Church for RealCatholicTV. Here are parts three and four. Very informative, but very disheartening and disturbing at the same time. However, to reinvigorate the Church, we must first face the certain facts and truths. Please watch and let us know what you think. I’ll post his final installment in this series this week.
If some says he or she is a “progressive Catholic,” he or she is no Catholic at all.
By the numbers: We, as Catholics, are not doing our job and progressives are the major roadblock.
I hate to beat a dead horse. No one likes to hammer at fellow Christians, much less Catholics. But Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV is one who is not afraid to promulgate the truth, and that’s something we need a lot more of these days, especially as so many Catholics are willing to sell out themselves, their faith and their Church for the holy grail of a mythical and unsustainable “social justice” through government running as much of our lives as possible. It is a sell out not only for its false promises, but for the actual harm it causes in the advancement of the culture of death.
Michael Voris explains how we’ve gotten to the precipice of socializing our health care system and creating an abortion-on-demand society.
