The Ghost and man's Freewilll

 The Holy Ghost and Man's Freewill. 

"No violence is offered to man’s freewill; the Holy Spirit permits him to attempt what opposition he lists; but the work of God must go forward. A Decius may succeed in causing a four years’ vacancy in the See of Rome; anti-popes may arise, supported by popular favor, or upheld by the policy of Emperors; a long schism may render it difficult to know the real Pontiff amidst the several who claim it: the Holy Spirit will allow the trial to have its course, and, whilst it lasts, will keep up the faith of his children; the day will come when he will declare the lawful Pastor of the flock, and the whole Church will enthusiastically acknowledge him as such.

In order to understand the whole marvel of this supernatural influence, it is not enough to know the extrinsic results as told us by history; we must study it in its own divine reality. 

[culled from Lit Yr, Wednesday in Whitsun week]

=> modernists, the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church, intent on transforming the Church according to their imagined dogma-less quicksand of errors in line with liberal Protestantism, have infiltrated her institutions, usurped and now occupy her buildings and impersonate her authority with pride: even this the Holy Ghost has permitted - no violence is done to their freewill... 


=> some take their obvious usurpation, de facto occupation and impersonation of Catholic legality to be by right! even this gross misunderstanding, the Holy Ghost has permitted...

"the Holy Spirit will allow the trial to have its course, and, whilst it lasts, will keep up the faith of his children; the day will come when he will declare the lawful Pastor of the flock, and the whole Church will enthusiastically acknowledge him as such: In order to understand the whole marvel of this supernatural influence, it is not enough to know the extrinsic results as told us by history; we must study it in its own divine reality" 

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