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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2018 0:26:06 GMT
Quotes of Cardinal Pie of Poitiers "Jesus Christ is not optional!""Pope [St.] Pius X told the students of the French Seminary, Rome, on audience, that he had read and re-read the works of Cardinal Pie, who was Bishop of Poitiers from 1849 to 1880. Other Sovereign Pontiffs, [the Venerable] Pius IX, Leo XIII, Benedict XV, have added their encomiums to those of Pius X. I may say that the great Cardinal's ideas permeate every chapter of this book." So wrote the redoubtable Holy Ghost priest, Father Denis Fahey, in the preface of his monumental The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society. The Evils of NaturalismNaturalism is more than a heresy: it is pure undiluted antichristianism. Heresy denies one or more dogmas: Naturalism denies that there are any dogmas or that there can be any. Heresy alters more or less what God has revealed; Naturalism denies the very existence of revelation. It follows that the inevitable law and the obstinate passion of Naturalism is to dethrone our Lord Jesus Christ and to drive Him from the world. This will be the task of Antichrist and it is Satan's supreme ambition.... The great obstacle to the salvation of the men of our day, as the Vatican Council (Ed.note: the true Catholic Council of 1870) point out in the first Constitution on Doctrine, what hurls more people into hell nowadays than at any other epoch, is Rationalism or Naturalism.. Naturalism strives with all its might to exclude our Lord, Jesus Christ, our one Master and Savior, from the minds of men as well as from the daily lives and habits of peoples, in order to set up the reign of reason or of nature. Now, wherever the breath of Naturalism has passed, the very source of Christian life is dried up. Naturalism means complete sterility in regard to salvation and eternal life." Persevere! "My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progress; to the night: you are light; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: Qui adhaeret Deo unus spiritus est ( cf. I Cor 6:17) . The Courage of One's Convictions
"Wills are without strength, characters without decision; because intelligence is without light, without conviction. Plans are weak, resolutions uncertain because the mind that conceives them has no clear and decisive views. Through a just judgment of God, the weakening of faith has resulted in the weakening of reason and natural sense. Our era has the reputation of being one of "strong minds". But history will someday judge it to have been the era of weak minds. "Cowardice" is the right word! When I ask today's wise people what is the biggest plague of present society, the answer everywhere is the deterioration of character, the weakening of souls... But this answer gives rise to another question. Where does this serious symptom of the weakening of character come from? Wouldn't it be true to say that it is the natural and inevitable consequence of the weakening of doctrines, of beliefs and, to use the right word, the weakening of Faith? Courage, after all, is only justified in as much as it serves a conviction. The will is a blind power when it is not enlightened by intelligence. One is not on a firm footing when one walks in darkness or only in twilight. Therefore, if today's man goes forward by groping his way, would it not be, O Lord, that your word is no longer the light which guides our steps, nor lights up our paths? Our fathers, in all things, looked for guidance in the teaching of the Gospel and the Church; our fathers walked in full daylight. They knew what they wanted, what they repulsed, what they loved, what they hated, and because of that, they were strong in action. As for us, we walk in the dark. We have nothing definite anymore, nothing firm in mind and we are no longer aware of the goal to reach. As a consequence, we are weak and hesitant. Draw from the pure and flowing sources of Christian faith. Do not be satisfied with these middle-of-the-road doctrines. Will this impoverished, debilitated Christianity ever produce again the vigorous characters and strongly ordered temperaments of former times? No." [Nov. 7, 1859]  |
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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2018 0:07:00 GMT
Cardinal Pie of Poitiers CARDINAL PIE: A VOICE FOR OUR APOSTATE TIMES
”People can talk all they like of the Rights of Man: there are two of them that must never be forgotten. Every man is born with the right to death and the right to hell.” - Cardinal Pie [Rights of Man: Masonic slogan in frequent use during the masonic French Revolution.] Louis-Edouard Cardinal Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, is certainly one of the greatest figures of the Church of France in the XIX century. He was the champion of orthodoxy against the error of liberalism and rationalism and a great leader in the battle against the Revolution. He wrote two synodal instructions against “the errors of the present days and of philosophy” that would become a basis for the Encyclical Letter Quanta cura and the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX. He was also a great artisan of the proclamation of the dogma of Pontifical Infallibility. In France, he contributed in a large measure to the restoration of religious life. “He created many parishes, established in his seminary a canonical faculty of theology, founded for the missions of the diocese the Oblates of Saint Hilary, and brought the Jesuits to Poitiers and the Benedictines to Solesmes and Ligugé.” ( Catholic Encyclopedia by Herbemann) In 1879, Leo XIII created him Cardinal, just one year before he passed away. Pope Saint Pius X was a fervent admirer of Cardinal Pie and paid a tribute to him when he gratified the Cathedral of Poitiers with the title of minor basilica in 1912. Referring to “Saint Hilary, the intrepid champion of the divinity of Christ against the Arians,” the Pope added: “but alongside of him it is sweet to remember Louis-Edouard Pie, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, who, like a second Hilary-alter Hilarius-avenged the integrity of the Faith against the modern Arians by his victorious eloquence.” We know that the writings of Cardinal Pie were among the favorites readings of Saint Pius X. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Here are some excerpts of the Cardinal's works that are very relevant today.
- "Hear this maxim, O you, Catholics full of temerity, who so quickly adopt the ideas and the language of your time, you who speak of reconciling the faith and of reconciling the Church with the modern spirit and with the new law. And you who accept with so much confidence the most dangerous pursuits of what our age so pridefully labels ‘Science,’ see to what extent you are straying from the program set out by the great Apostle, ‘O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so-called’ (I Tim. 6:20). But take heed. With such temerities, one is soon led farther than he first had thought. And in placing themselves on the slope of profane novelties—in obeying the currents of so-called science—many have lost the Faith.
Have you not often been saddened, and taken fright, my venerable brothers, on hearing the language of certain men, who believe themselves still to be sons of the Church, men who still practice occasionally as Catholics and who often approach the Lord's Table? Do you still believe them to be sons, do you still believe them to be members of the Church, those who, wrapping themselves in such vague phrases as modern aspirations and the force of progress and civilization, proclaim the existence of a ‘consciousness of the laity,’ of a secular and political conscience opposed to the ‘conscience of the Church,’ against which they assume the right to react, for its correction and renewal? Ah! So many passengers, and even pilots, who, believing themselves to be yet in the barque, and playing with profane novelties and the lying science of their time, have already sunk and are in the abyss.
(Homily , Nov 25th 1864)
- "Is not ours an age of miss lived lives, of unmanned men? Why?...Because Jesus Christ has disappeared. Wherever the people are true Christians, there are men to be found in large numbers, but everywhere and always, if Christianity wilts, the men wilt. Look closely, they are no longer men but shadows of men. Thus what do you hear on all sides today. The world is dwindling away, for lack of men; the nations are perishing for scarcity of men, for the rareness of men...I do believe: there are no men where there is no character; there is no character where there are no principles, doctrines, stands taken; there are no stands taken, no doctrines, no principles, where there is no religious faith and consequently no religion of society. Do what you will: only from God you will get men." (Homily for Christmas 1871)
- "My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progress; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit."
"Do you know why during the past half century we have seen perish among us every form of government, including even that to which we are returning today? I am going to tell you. All these forms in which society has dressed itself have perished because, beneath the forms, a soul was lacking. Now, it may be wonderfully provided with joints and a network of muscles, but a body without a soul is a cadaver, and it is the lot of a cadaver eventually to fall apart. The soul of every human society is belief, doctrine, religion, God. Our modern societies have been too long divorced from God.” (1848)
- "Neither in His Person, nor in the exercise of His rights, can Jesus Christ be divided, dissolved, split up; in Him the distinction of natures and operations can never be separated or opposed; the divine cannot be incompatible to the human, nor the human to the divine. On the contrary, it is the peace, the drawing together, the reconciliation; it is the very character of union which has made the two things one: 'He is our peace, Who has made both one. . .' (Eph. 2:14). This is why St. John told us: 'every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and is now already in the world' (1 John 4:3; cf. also 1 John 2:18, 22; 2 John: 7). When I hear certain talk being spread around, certain pithy statements [i.e., 'Separation of Church and State,' for one, and the enigmatic axiom 'A free Church in a free State,' for another- both masonic mouthings!] prevailing from day to day, and which are being introduced into the heart of societies, the dissolvent by which the world must perish, I utter this cry of alarm: Beware the Antichrist !"
- "France will be Christian, or she will not be!" [Sadly she chose not to be!]
- "When The Lord taught His Apostles the Our Father, He made it clear that none of His followers could accomplish the first act of religion, which is prayer, without putting himself in relation with all that can advance or retard, favor or hinder, the reign of God on earth and he must do this in proportion to his intellectual attainments and to the extent of the Horizon open before him." The Kingship of Christ - Cardinal Pie of Poitiers
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2020 14:56:30 GMT
Excerpts from Third Synodal Instruction, 1863, of Cardinal Pie to the clergy & his last Sermon given in 1880
- “Man has replaced God with Man! Step by step the daily lives of men have been deprived of God. God has been pushed away from men’s minds and hearts, from academic life and political life; so that little by little, the Revolution has taken over!
- “The Revolution is satanic and therefore our present crisis is satanic! The Modern spirit consists in living purely in the Natural Order, rejecting any higher reason for submission, rejecting any higher order than itself; it is the wholesale rejection of the Supernatural Order! This is the Modern spirit! This is the same spirit that animated Satan!
- “The Fathers of the Church point out that the religion of Satan was due to the fact that he refused submission to the Incarnate Word, that he re-fused to bow down his angelic nature and his angelic dignity before a Man! Even if that Man was the Son of God Incarnate! [Namely, Our Lord Jesus Christ.]
- “So what did he [Lucifer] demand from God? ‘I demand my natural dignity, my natural rights, my natural exigencies, and I will not relinquish these for anything! I refuse an increase of glory, an increase of merit, and I refuse the Light that is going to come to me through the Incarnate Word!’
- “So, opposed to the order of the Incarnation, Satan held up the order of his own creation. Against the order of the free gift of God, he held up the order of his own personal, natural right. To the order of Grace he opposed the order of Nature. It is in this manner that the Modern spirit repeats the rebellion of Satan; the refusal of Grace and the Supernatural Order and the demand for the preservation of one’s own natural, personal rights.
- “Therefore, confronted with this world where the Revolution has triumphed, what must we do? There is only one thing we must do; fight!When the Revolution is triumphant the Church has to be militant! The Church is militant! We are the Church Militant! The Church Triumphant is in Heaven. The Church Suffering is in Purgatory. The Church Militant means we must fight against the enemy while we live on this earth! For this reason our fight is constantly to oppose the Revolution, the ideals of the Revolution, the whole mindset of the Modern world!
“To the Church has been promised the words given to Christ: ‘Dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum - Rule Thou in the midst of Thy enemies!’ (Psalm 109:2). It means the Church will always be Queen, but she will always be in battle, she will always have to fight! She will always be attacked, she will always be at war!
“The Church will preserve the spirit of God only on the condition of being at war against the contrary spirit; the spirit of Man. The Church must attack, She must defend herself, it is her right and duty! What was said to her Divine Spouse is also her history: ‘Rule Thou in the midst of Thy enemies!’ Always Queen, always under attack, while on earth the Church always has to be militant!
- “More than once she seemed to be defeated. In the last times her external reign will appear to decline. The prophet had said: ‘Et bellabunt adversum te, et non praevalebunt - And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail’ (Jeremias I:19).“But the prophet of the Last Age (i.e. St. John) has another language. In the Apocalypse we read: ‘It was given unto him [the Beast] to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.’ (Apocalypse XIII:7).
But in this last moment, victory will be the prelude to the Beast’s coming defeat and definitive ruin. All of you, my brethren, if you are condemned to see the triumph of Evil, never approve it, never praise it! Never say to Evil: ‘You are Good’, never say to Decadence: ‘You are Progress’; never say to Darkness: ‘You are Light’; Never say to Death: ‘You are Life!’. Sanctify yourselves in the times that God has placed you. Groan under the evils and disorders that God tolerates. Oppose to them the energy of your works and efforts, of your whole life, while, keeping pure, free from errors, and free from following evil inclinations!”
[St. Pius X called him: “My Master”]
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