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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 26, 2018 1:23:53 GMT
Since I have posted an excerpt from Fr. René François Rohrbacher`s work titled: Histoire Universelle de l`Église Catholique (Universal History of the Catholic Church), I feel that everyone would like to know his biography. I have translated it directly from the Universal History of the Catholic Church book series. This work of his consists of 29 volumes, it begins at the creation and goes till his days. It is only available in French and German. I have the third edition and I have already translated some parts, which I will be posting in the future.
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Post by Elizabeth on Dec 2, 2018 19:54:01 GMT
Death is the great minister of God for the government of the world. It is through it that God strikes His great blows, His blows of the state, which terrifies the universe, to remind him, that if man proposes, it is God who disposes: terrible, unforeseen blows, which later, in the blink of an eye, consume a joyful troop of travelers in chariots, and by the very fire which brings them back from a feast, sometimes bury a mercantile population under the smoking debris of a city crumbling upon itself; blows formidable and prolonged, which strike not only individuals, rich and poor, young and old, emperors and popes, kings and pontiffs, but also the peoples and nations, kingdoms and empires, but all of mankind.
In the journey we make with the Church of God through time, to return to the eternity from which she left, we saw all men condemned to death in their first father; we have seen the whole human race buried in the flood; we saw the death of the empire of Nineveh and Babylon, the empire of Medes and Persians, the empire of the Greeks and Romans; we have seen the Jewish people die and see it scattered arid bones on the face of the whole earth, just until the moment the Spirit of God will breathe new life; we see die and rot the anti-Christian empire of Mohammad, and his four or five grave-diggers, the kings of Europe, much embarrassed by his corpse. Alone, in the midst of the dying and the dead, the Church of the living God survives all empires, especially those who opposed to it more. The Roman Empire, through its Diocletian and Nero, flattered itself with annihilating this growing Church, and in advance celebrated funerals; despite its legions and Caesars, the Roman Empire is dead, and from its remains and scattered bones the Church has formed living and Christian kingdoms, and who live more so, that they are more united to this always living Church. The anti-Christian empire of Mohammad, constantly armed with the sword, threatened to kill the adolescent Church; and after a battle of nearly twelve centuries, this empire is dying of rest and corruption; and, through the dislocation of its members, we see new populations that the Church resurrects to the Christian life. The impious revolution of Luther and Calvin, followed by their natural child, the revolutionary impiety of France, boasted of slaughtering the adult Church, as Nero and Mohammed the growing and adolescent Church; and today it is the Protestants of Germany and England, it is among the incredulous French that the Church draws its most ardent supporters, her most zealous apostles, apostles and defenders who justify her against the preventions of her own children. Where does that come from? It is because in the Church there is that Spirit of truth, strength and life that the world would neither know nor receive, and who, in the most unexpected moments, revives and resuscitates what appears to be the most dead.
As this Spirit of God abides eternally with the Church of God, it is not surprising, that in the most diverse centuries, in the most diverse circumstances, this Church thinks and acts always with the same spirit, although she does not always do the same thing.
- Fr. René Francis Rohrbacher
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Post by ajnc on Dec 3, 2018 7:34:17 GMT
Death is the great minister of God for the government of the world. It is through it that God strikes His great blows, His blows of the state, which terrifies the universe, to remind him, that if man proposes, it is God who disposes: terrible, unforeseen blows, which later, in the blink of an eye, consume a joyful troop of travelers in chariots, and by the very fire which brings them back from a feast, sometimes bury a mercantile population under the smoking debris of a city crumbling upon itself; blows formidable and prolonged, which strike not only individuals, rich and poor, young and old, emperors and popes, kings and pontiffs, but also the peoples and nations, kingdoms and empires, but all of mankind.
In the journey we make with the Church of God through time, to return to the eternity from which she left, we saw all men condemned to death in their first father; we have seen the whole human race buried in the flood; we saw the death of the empire of Nineveh and Babylon, the empire of Medes and Persians, the empire of the Greeks and Romans; we have seen the Jewish people die and see it scattered arid bones on the face of the whole earth, just until the moment the Spirit of God will breathe new life; we see die and rot the anti-Christian empire of Mohammad, and his four or five grave-diggers, the kings of Europe, much embarrassed by his corpse. Alone, in the midst of the dying and the dead, the Church of the living God survives all empires, especially those who opposed to it more. The Roman Empire, through its Diocletian and Nero, flattered itself with annihilating this growing Church, and in advance celebrated funerals; despite its legions and Caesars, the Roman Empire is dead, and from its remains and scattered bones the Church has formed living and Christian kingdoms, and who live more so, that they are more united to this always living Church. The anti-Christian empire of Mohammad, constantly armed with the sword, threatened to kill the adolescent Church; and after a battle of nearly twelve centuries, this empire is dying of rest and corruption; and, through the dislocation of its members, we see new populations that the Church resurrects to the Christian life. The impious revolution of Luther and Calvin, followed by their natural child, the revolutionary impiety of France, boasted of slaughtering the adult Church, as Nero and Mohammed the growing and adolescent Church; and today it is the Protestants of Germany and England, it is among the incredulous French that the Church draws its most ardent supporters, her most zealous apostles, apostles and defenders who justify her against the preventions of her own children. Where does that come from? It is because in the Church there is that Spirit of truth, strength and life that the world would neither know nor receive, and who, in the most unexpected moments, revives and resuscitates what appears to be the most dead.
As this Spirit of God abides eternally with the Church of God, it is not surprising, that in the most diverse centuries, in the most diverse circumstances, this Church thinks and acts always with the same spirit, although she does not always do the same thing.
- Fr. René Francis Rohrbacher
Right across the globe things look much more pessimistic for the Catholic Church today.But do the Novus Ordoites believe this to be the case? And this question may well be asked: Where is the Catholic Church today? |
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Post by Elizabeth on Dec 11, 2018 3:05:01 GMT
The holy man deplored so great a calamity it was revealed to him that God had permitted it because of the crimes of the people, of the clergy, and chiefly of three prelates. (Thomas, archbishop of Spalatro; regarding the punishment of the city of Varazdin by the Muslims)
- Fr. René Francis Rohrbacher taken from Apud Rayn., 1241, n. 20, note of Mansi.
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Post by Elizabeth on Dec 11, 2018 3:29:52 GMT
Priests and religious sometimes complain that the world, even the Christian world, is unjust to them. This may be true for particular moments and cases; but in general, and in the long term the world is more just than we believe. Priests and Religious of all ages and of all countries, be what you ought to be, be saints, be wise, be charitable, be zealous for the salvation of the world, and the world tolerates you, and the world admires you, and the world loves you, and the world gives itself to you and by you to God. But if you are not what you ought to be, if you are not neither saints, nor scholars, nor charitable, nor zealous; if, instead of being the light of the world and the salt of the earth, you are extinguished and you soften yourselves, is it not right, as you are predicted in the Gospel, that ye be cast out and trampled underfoot? Yet this is at the bottom the Providential Secret of these great upheavals among the Christian nations that we call revolutions.
In general, all the good and all the evil that is in the world come from the priests. Jesus Christ, who saved the world by His death on the Cross, is the priest by excellence. The apostles and their imitators, who, by infinite labors, convert to Jesus Christ and civilize the nations, are priests. But also, Judas, who sells Jesus, Christ by avarice, is a priest; the pontiffs of Jerusalem, who buy Him and crucify Him by envy, are priests. It is a priest and parish priest of Alexandria who attacked His divinity; a priest of Antioch, becomes bishop of Constantinople, who attacks the unity of His person; a priest and monk of Constantinople, who attacks the distinction of His two natures; these three heresies, each one apart, but especially resumed in that of Mohammed, seduce and corrupt entire nations, and for centuries, in Europe, Asia and Africa. A German monk, a French parish priest, will revolutionize the populations of Germany, France and England, and will light the volcano of impiety and anarchy, which probably will not be extinguished until there will be nothing left to consume. We see it, the good priest in the hand of God is an instrument of all good, the bad priest under the hand of hell is an instrument of all evil. There is nothing worse than the corruption of the best.
What exposes the priest and the religious more commonly to corruption is attachment to the goods of the earth. It is by this that Judas sold and betrayed the Son of God; it is by this that the priests of the Jews bought Him and crucified Him. By this, more than one religious order, as more than one secular priest, initially fervent and exemplary, ended by nullity or even scandal.
- Fr. René Francis Rohrbacher
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