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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 5:35:06 GMT
For Father to preach like this, there must have been a need for it.
As someone stated on CI:
“…if soft-spoken sermons and advice were working, he [Fr. Pfeiffer] wouldn't feel the need to hammer it home like this in order to keep souls from suffering in Hell for eternity… calling him crazy for doing his actual job as a priest is wrong and a sin.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2018 23:48:58 GMT
The following was received via email and is gratefully reprinted here with permission of the author: February 12, 2018Dear Soldiers of the Christ, Attached is a post from the website “The Catacombs” related to the John Pfeiffer attacks on Fr. Pfeiffer for his “sexual perversion” sermon (titled – Cesspool of Impurity) and his and Fr. Hewko’s replies. Please see thread here: thecatacombs.org/thread/271/sermons-warn-impurity If you have not read this thread, please read first before you go on to read my comments! Why read mine?? Well if you go on the web many, many others have given theirs!! So here is mine… My father (who was a very wise man and my main mentor) told us in the very early 1950’s (1951 or 1952) that and I quote: “ So goes the Catholic Church, so goes the world”. We asked him to please explain. He said that not only does most of the world hate anything Catholic but that Catholic Rome – the Vatican has had great influence on all of the world even though they or anybody else wants to admit it!! (He was quite right!) His words were proven with the arrival of the Vatican II Council and its disastrous results. Bishop Williamson comments that the 1950’s Catholics were weak…O contraire! The Catholics who are the weak ones are the people of today who call themselves Traditionalist. These people who have previously and presently drink the kool-aid of these liberal/modern teachings and preachings of today in Tradition, think they are not being influenced but are. Post Vatican II priests were told and trained to give “nice” sermons. “no more fire and brimstone sermons on any subjects. Especially no fire and brimstone on: 1. No salvation outside of the Catholic Church 2. It is okay to criticize another priest from the pulpit. 3. Don’t ever talk sex in any way. 4. Don’t preach to husbands and fathers. 5. Preach that all should be good and “nice” to everyone. When I was young we got fire and brimstone sermons almost weekly. “Queers” and perverts ran for cover and rarely showed their ugly heads. It was Vatican II that allowed them “out” and let them recruit to swell their ranks. LaVonne has many times asked parents who “homeschool” – “What are you doing to prepare your children for the world after they leave home??” She has always received blank looks!! My six children are now all in their 50’s and believe me…they learned back when they were teens that “abortion is murder” and “homosexuality” is not only wrong but a “malfunction”. LaVonne and I had to do our own fire and brimstone sermons to our children because the “new reformed” Catholic Church did not!!!! To Catholic parents I say “If you are keeping and raising your children in a “bubble” expect a disaster!!!” Regards and God bless us everyone André Thomas deMeules Our Lady of Good Success – Minneapolis
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2018 17:40:45 GMT
Even the state governments are publicly 'preaching' and taking action against various forms of impurity:
Florida declares pornography a ‘public health risk’
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, February 21, 2018 ( LifeSiteNews) — Lawmakers in the Florida House of Representatives declared pornography a public health risk on Tuesday. The resolution, approved by legislators, “recognizes the public health risk created by pornography and acknowledges the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change to protect citizens of this state.” Republican Rep. Ross Spano, one of the sponsors, had addressed Florida's House Health and Human Services Committee in January about the dangers of porn, saying there is a link between porn use, mental illness and dangerous sexual behavior. “Research has found a correlation between pornography use and mental and physical illnesses, difficulty forming and maintaining intimate relationships, unhealthy brain development and cognitive function, and deviant, problematic or dangerous sexual behavior," said Spano, who announced last year he would run for state Attorney General. The full resolution cites addiction, greater risk of low self-esteem and eating disorders among the dangers while noting that porn objectifies women and fuels sex trafficking. The media criticized the move to recognize porn as a public health risk after last week’s devastating school shooting in Florida and the resulting Second Amendment debate. But the Florida House is not alone in recognizing pornography as a public health crisis. Numerous studies have found porn to be destructive to marriages, families, mental health, brain function, and a healthy sex life, along with promoting sexual violence. The state of Utah has officially declared pornography a public health crisis and a number of other states have acted to similarly declare porn harmful. A Daily Wire report picked up on the Florida House’s approval of the resolution and listed examples of porn’s prevalence and its damaging effects, including studies linking porn with sex crimes and negative effects on the brain. Author Matt Walsh wrote in November about the rate at which Americans consume porn. "We dedicated well over four and a half billion hours to watching porn on one porn site in 2016,” he said. “Just on Porn Hub, humanity spent twice as much time viewing porn in a year as it has spent existing on planet Earth. The site had over 90 billion video views and 44,000 visitors every minute of every day. It all adds up to over 500,000 years’ worth of porn consumed in the span of 12 months. Since 2015, human beings have spent one million years watching porn."The National Center on Sexual Exploitation also works to combat the public health crisis created by porn. It provides resources, raises awareness, and engages in policy advocacy.
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Post by Roger Slemmer on Feb 28, 2018 8:35:15 GMT
I have wanted to respond, but wanted to listen to the sermon again. To be honest, it is not something I relish doing, but since I joined this discussion and am very much affected by the fallout from this sermon, a split in my Resistance parish, I need to probably listen to it again twice. I have been affected by the emotional responses of others and I see all of your points. I listened to the sermon after the local crisis started, so I have to admit that I was biased against it already. But I also was shocked at the relentlessness of the references to all forms of impurity. He did not soften his words at all. I had the impression that he was being intentionally shocking to people. "To those who are pure, all things are pure." But if someone who was pure and innocent is subjected to imagining in their mind base impurity of a graphic nature, how can they be unaffected?
I have impurity in my past. It is one of the reasons I converted from Evangelical Protestantism. Saving myself by "just believing" didn't do squat for my problem with this vice. Once I understood the confessional, I knew this was what I needed and it did indeed end up to be my remedy. Having a good confessor helped too. Keeping a pure mind has been my base and stay. I remember Fr's sermon giving me too many mind pictures and reminders and it upset me. I could see why it upset the others.
Of course, Father could be rightly trying to shock people out of sin. I need to listen to it again with a more open mind before I comment more extensively on this. I have more also to say about Fr. Rafael's comments to some of us about this, but I'll wait that too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 4:40:13 GMT
I have wanted to respond, but wanted to listen to the sermon again. To be honest, it is not something I relish doing, but since I joined this discussion and am very much affected by the fallout from this sermon, a split in my Resistance parish, I need to probably listen to it again twice. I have been affected by the emotional responses of others and I see all of your points. I listened to the sermon after the local crisis started, so I have to admit that I was biased against it already. But I also was shocked at the relentlessness of the references to all forms of impurity. He did not soften his words at all. I had the impression that he was being intentionally shocking to people. "To those who are pure, all things are pure." But if someone who was pure and innocent is subjected to imagining in their mind base impurity of a graphic nature, how can they be unaffected? I have impurity in my past. It is one of the reasons I converted from Evangelical Protestantism. Saving myself by "just believing" didn't do squat for my problem with this vice. Once I understood the confessional, I knew this was what I needed and it did indeed end up to be my remedy. Having a good confessor helped too. Keeping a pure mind has been my base and stay. I remember Fr's sermon giving me too many mind pictures and reminders and it upset me. I could see why it upset the others. Of course, Father could be rightly trying to shock people out of sin. I need to listen to it again with a more open mind before I comment more extensively on this. I have more also to say about Fr. Rafael's comments to some of us about this, but I'll wait that too. Thank you for your comments Mr. Slemmer. If I can offer for you in the same sincerity, you actually answered your own question. You mentioned you had a subjective problem with that temptation and tried to offset it with a strong vigilance, rightly, so ANYTHING that is remote to it is a problem. I understand this. As the mere sight of alcohol is strong for an intemperant. It is relative. However, your need for a strong vigilance is not the same for other individuals. St. Paul had a sting in his side (impurity) that assailed him. Not everyone has that degree of temptation. When one has strong inclinations for the sin of anger, an imbalance of justice (pride), it is the practice of generosity and meekness that is the antidote (humility). Growing in virtue, one should not expect the temptation to go away, or not wanting to hear of it, rather, to walk like a giant to face it -- and slay it. Never to go away or back down. There is the growth; made in strength. Our Lord said temptation tries souls. It is a matter of providence. He is the ultimate spiritual director guiding every moment of the day to strengthen and guide. So being sensitive knowing what assails and where is the good, is God helping one what He is preparing for grace; not what we want when we want it. Unfortunately we are in a Church crisis that does not explain virtue and its workings as something normal. As it is, the priests we have are worn thin always having to deal with the barrage of heresies more damning to the soul needing to spend a lot of time on it explaining the fundamentals of the catechism. Thus when such sermons of temptation and virtue do come by, the laity could think it to be a "shock"; yet, the same laity live within a carnal society 6 other days of the week...without a "shock". Why is that? So to portraying it as you did, I can see your reaction, but that is not the reaction of the universal Church. Considering sermons will teach and instruct on temptations at some point and the seven vises, each person listening will react differently in proportion to their weakness and strengths they are afflicted with. This doesn't mean the Church should be silent from the pulpit when so many souls are being damned with diverse vices hardened by soft mediocre sermons comforted by indulged passivity. Our Lady didn't open the earth to show the visual and audio screams of hell to little children if it were not grave to "shock" the spoiled generations laxed in the sight of God. Sermons do so at times too... It is imperative to understand the objectivity of the Church and have understanding of human nature as it applies universally, not how one portrays it in relation to singular struggles, as it would burden the Church adding new trials She does not need from innocent lack of understanding. Going to the sacraments of Redemption are there for mercy and growth, true, but there is a measure of knowledge all Catholics must have not to be complacent and ignorant before what one receives. St. Paul said he would not leave one ignorant and fall, but to fill with the knowledge of God. Indeed to see God, one must be clean of heart our Lord said on the Mount. To be clean of heart, one must be clean of mind. That mind needs to be tempered in trials, mortified and mature fixed on the remediation of the cross ready to face all things in fortitude within the particular generation God wanted us born in. Our time is not just filled with carnality, that is an effect, the cause comes from the false promise of the snake in the garden -- you will be like gods. It is the faculty to understand truth that is under attack. All the rest is mute. So Sursum corda (lift up your hearts), time is at hand to serve God. Conviction is the antidote.
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