Dear Francis Berger,
Today you took exception to Bishop Robert Brown's appeal for Catholic's to return to Mass. I can see that you are very angry and some of that is indeed righteous anger. Our shepherds have let us down. They closed down the churches to all but a few for several months and thus relinquished the "last" of their authority to the System.
They were already in the process of abdicating to the System before the Covids hit through allowing the System to dictate what is taught in Catholic schools, allowing non-Catholic procedures in what were once Catholic hospitals and giving only token resistance to System sanctioned sins such as abortion and same sex "marriage".
Added to this we have the sexual abuse scandals within the Church. This helped to whittle away the Church's moral authority in the world. It stopped the Church from insisting upon that moral authority. She had to remove the plank from her own eye.
We have also been suffering under 2 Popes. One is virtually silent and the other makes ambiguous statements hoping to mollify the System.
Most of these things were already happening prior to the Covid and it made me think that because the prophecies of the End Times predicted the cessation of the Mass then the End Times were a long way off since who would persecute such an innocuous institution. It rolls over for every command of the System. Little did I realise that it was the rolling over that would cause the Mass to stop.
So there you are, many reasons for righteous anger. If only we were Jesus and could stay on anger's righteous side. For mixed up in the righteousness is also spite. You say, to leave the Church and follow to a new unprecedented form of Christianity for this is where salvation lies. I say that salvation still lies within the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church unlike the American constitution does not need virtuous citizens to be effective, she was designed by God for sinners, which is lucky for us. Jesus said that she would last until the end of time and the gates of Hell would not prevail against her. (Matt 16:18.) and it is Jesus who gives her her authority. It is also within the Church that we find the sacraments, including the Eucharist and these are for our benefit; a gift from God. We do not need to follow the Bishops who push the vaccine or agree with the Pope's view on climate change. We do need to follow the Magisterium, the truths that the Church has held since the beginning. This includes that the Mass and the Eucharist are essential. The Church was wrong when she prevented us from going and receiving. She is right when she asks us to come back. As Fr Clovis said back in 2017, "It is self-evident that the Catholic Church and the anti-Church currently co-exist in the same sacramental, liturgical and juridical space." It is our job to discern the way the truth and the life and to stay in the Catholic Church and stay out of the anti-Church.
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