" PAST " ALL SAINTS DAY AND THE DEFORMATION

 

Could there be a more diverse group of people? The Saints the Catholic Church has elevated to the Honours of the Altar are an extraordinarily diverse group.

The young and the old, the halt and the lame, the hale and the hearty, the poor and the wealthy,workers and Kings, doorkeepers and Emperors,housewives and nuns, dashing young men and aged scholars -apart from their very real humanity, the only thing they have had in common is their heroic holiness and virtue.

To-day the Church celebrates their achievement of eternal life with God in Heaven. She holds them up to us as gleaming examples of the reality that we can all, no matter what our station in life, respond successfully to the universal call to holiness.

Sadly on this same date, 1st November we look back to yesterday with its concentration  on the occult and evil, when some protestants have come to choose to  commemorate the day in 1517 when the less than saintly Martin Luther nailed his personal manifesto to the church door in the German city of Wittenberg,setting in train the events which were to constitute the protestant Deformation of the Church Christ founded. This anniversary will no doubt loom larger as we approach the 500th Anniversary of the tragic event.

 

As Catholics, we need to be prepared to counter the inevitable barrage in the media. Completely devoid of interest in truth, the modern media concentrates on sensation -  sensation sells, it generates income. They will unthinkingly assimilate the word "Reformation"( most Catholics do the same) and, leaping from that springboard will, with relish, rehash clerical abuse scandals in events which mainly occurred 30/40 years ago.

 

 We need to be ready to highlight:

the reality of "Deformation"( not reformation),

the corrupt personality of Luther - drunkard,liar,vicious anti-semite,hypocrite, blasphemer,toady to political power .All of these aspects of his being we will progressively evidence often out of his own mouth( for his followers kept detailed accounts of his table talk - interestingly, we have the same knowledge of Adolf Hitler who felt such an admiration for Luther).

So let us celebrate the Saints in Heaven whilst we regret and lament the perverse life of the once obscure cleric Martin Luther. And let us be prepared to take the initiative in defense of the Truth against those who would seek to deny it and who would celebrate  the Deformation of Christ's Church. 

TONY DIXON

" PAST " SERVING WITH THE ANGELS CATHOLIC AGAIN

 

                                                            Martin Luther Death Mask

Serving with the Angels


CATHOLIC  AGAIN!      Acolyte was recently reflecting on his Family Tree. On the Paternal side Irish Catholic.

On the Maternal side German ( Lutheran)and English (Protestant Church of England...sort of). My Mother’s conversion to Catholicism brought back to the Faith branches of the Family Tree which had strayed for over 450 years.

“The evil that men do lives after them….”Shakespeare has Mark Antony say, it is so very true! In the cases of Martin Luther – the drunken, blasphemous, sacrilegious and bitterly anti-Semitic beginner of Protestantism and King Henry VIII the hypocritical, sex-obsessed plunderer and persecutor of the Church, it is clear that at some stage in the late 1500’s they both set in motion forces that compelled or induced my German and English ancestors to abandon the Faith into which they were born and which had sustained their , and my, earlier ancestors for at least 1,000 years since their conversion from paganism.

The outrageous nature of such an act comes sharply into focus when we consider Our Lord’s description of our relationship in the Church to Him: “I am the Vine; you are the branches…..”These two sinning, arrogant, lustful men literally tore the branches away from the Vine.”And not just once, but on and on for generation after generation.

KING HENRY VIII

That was not the limit of this atrocity. Like every person in serious error, these successive generations sought to justify their false position by greater and greater error. So we see a multiplying of the number of Protestant sects and at a constantly increasing rate-Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Mormons, Latter Day (!!) Saints and on and on , at such a rate that in the U.S.A. alone the number of Protestant sects has gone from 20,000 to 40,000 in about 60 years. And Henry’s Church of England in its decrepitation, has long since gone beyond parody.

Scientists have very recently reported the discovery that Cancer cells are very much more sophisticated than they had believed. Not only do they multiply at an alarming rate, but they actively disable the defences of healthy cells adjoining them. The cancerous growth of Protestantism has sought to invade the Church since before Vatican II through the back door with false ecumenism. “Niceness” has become prized by some in place of Truth, “Shared Values” in place of Principles and Sacred Tradition which come to us from the Apostles they would put aside, to accommodate the inclinations of our “separated brethren”.

Thank God for our truly Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, who gently but firmly cuts through humbug and falsity and vigorously pursues authentic ecumenism which leads those in error back to unity in the Catholic Church.

The errant behavior of Luther and Henry VIII are for God Himself to judge. The sad results for hundreds of millions since their time are difficult to address and have required a long term view. The broken branches have withered where they fell and fertilized myriad coarse weeds. We need to pray for the Holy Father’s success to increase more and more, adding luster to his well earned title of the Pope of Christian Unity.

Catholic Again indeed! Thanks be to God.

Acolyte
Copyright This article first appeared in the May,2010 issue of FOUNDATION.