The Time After Pentecost: No way ordinary!
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| A post on the Facebook page of a Modernist-dressed-as-Catholic Major Seminary pouring out the modernist 'ordinary time' gibberish... the blind leading the blind: most certainly! |
Preamble:
We have affirmed in the recent past with all the strength we could muster that there is nothing ordinary at any point in the Christian year.
However, as also noted:
"for whatever reason, be it ecumenical or some other modernist motive, Sundays after Epiphany and Sundays after Pentecost are rebranded as “Sundays in ordinary time” by modernist liturgical revolutionists and wrecknovators in the attempt to update Catholic liturgical year to a standard pleasing to the modern man in his ordinary self: I.e. modern man who has no use for divine revelation or mystery, but is content with his religious sense welling up from his subconsciousness.
In this present post, for the edification and instruction of the brethren, we shall present briefly the character of the time after Pentecost in the Liturgical year of the Roman Catholic Church, that Church to whom the Modernists are "the most pernicious of her adversaries."
Noteworthy is that this 'Time after Pentecost', the long period between Trinity Sunday and Advent, comprising nearly half of the liturgical year, coincides with the summer season.
The Character of the Time After Pentecost.
Bishop Angrisani, in his "Daily Breviary Meditations" gives a captivating picture of the character of this period in the Church's year. He notes that:
After the reign of the Father over the people of God, which the season of Avent recalls; after that of the Son, which began with His birth at Christmas and ended with His ascension; and which the seasons of Christmas and Easter recall, the liturgy celebrates the reign of the Holy Spirit, which extends over the whole Church and is made manifest from Pentecost to the end of the world,, mentioned on the twenty-fourth or last Sunday after Pentecost. during the first half of the ecclesiastical year, Avent to Pentecost, the Church has reconstructed the whole life of Christ. During the second half, Trinity to Advent, she retraces the life of the Church, striving to reproduce in her saints the virtues of the Master.
The summer season with its exuberant growth serves as an image and a reminder of the growth and fruitfulness of the Church in Christ at this time. This fruitful growth takes place through the operation of the Holy Ghost, Who is also the Church's visible Teacher and Guide bringing to her mind all that Christ had taught.
...the long period between Trinity Sunday and Advent, comprising nearly half the liturgical year, represents the daily history of the Church throughout the ages, a history which begins with the first Christian Pentecost and comes to a close with the second coming of Christ as Judge at the end of the world. The Church as the kingdom of God on earth stands in continual opposition to the kingdom of Satan, that is, to the world, by which is meant all those who have fallen from God or have rejected Christ and are therefore ruled by the devil. our Lord predicted the hatred and persecution of the world against the Church whose earthly pilgrimage is therefore one of continual hostility against the powers of evil. Hence, the Church on earth has become known as the Church Militant. The militant character of the Church is reflected also in the lives of her children who must constantly struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil...
Our esteemed reader can see that there is absolutely nothing ordinary about the period between Trinity Sunday and Advent!
Dom Gueranger weighs in:
While describing the "mystery of the time after Pentecost", the renown Dom Gueranger notes that our life of regeneration in Christ is signified and expressed during the 'Time after Pentecost', a time to be spent on modelling ourselves on Christ under the direction of His Spirit. He goes on to say that:
Two objects here offer themselves to our consideration: the Church and the Christian soul. As to holy Church, the Bride of Christ, filled as she is with the Paraclete Spirit, who has poured himself forth upon her, and, from that time forward, is her animating principle,—she is advancing onwards in her militant career, and will do so till the second Coining of her heavenly Spouse. She has within her the gifts of Truth and Holiness. Endowed with Infallibility of Faith and Authority to govern, she feeds Christ's flock, sometimes enjoying liberty and peace, sometimes going through persecutions and trials. Her divine Spouse abides with her, by his grace and the efficacy of his promises, even to the end of time; she is in possession of all the favours he has bestowed upon her; and tile Holy Ghost dwells with her, and in her, forever. A11 this is expressed by this present portion of the Liturgical Year. It is one wherein we shall not meet with any of those great events which prepared, and consummated the divine work; but, on the other hand, it is a season when holy Church reaps the fruits of that holiness and doctrine, which those ineffable mysteries have already produced, and will continue to produce, during the course of ages. It is during this same season, that we shall meet with the preparation for, and, in due time, the fulfilment of, those final events which will transform our Mother's militant life on earth into the triumphant one in heaven. As far, then, as regards holy Church, this is the meaning of the portion of the Cycle we are commencing...
...Such is the Mystery of this portion of the Liturgical Cycle, which is called The Time after Pentecost. It includes also the use of green Vestments; for that colour expresses the hope of the Bride, who knows that she has been entrusted, by her Spouse, to the Holy Ghost, and that he will lead her safe to the end of her pilgrimage. St. John says all this in those few words of his Apocalypse: The Spirit and the Bride say: Come!
You see? there is nothing, absolutely nothing ordinary about the mystery of the 'Time After Pentecost'.
The Modernists' 'Ordinary' Project:
The Modernists, true to their character as the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church, are ever intent on transforming her from within. Thinking themselves to have succeeded -by means of their astute infiltration and de facto occupation to-date of Catholic structures and institutions, they project the product of the figments of their imagination to the whole world as the 'Catholic Church' which is no longer militant but conciliary, and the greatest of the great participants in the almighty dialogue required for the world's peace.
Now:
- While the Militant Church has not given up her just claim as The Infallible Church of Christ, Modernist impostors tell the world that the Church of Christ merely "subsists in" the Catholic Church, i.e., it is not identified with it, but is present in it, and is a reality larger than it. That, the Catholic Church, not being infallible, has taken upon herself to enter into dialogue with other legitimate 'ecclesiastical communities' having the sanction of the Holy Spirit as means of salvation... [note: that is what 'ecumenism' is all about...]
- While the Militant Church continues to insist on everyone's duty to the Truth and the Only One True Religion; the modernist impostors tell the whole world that at Vatican II the Catholic Church changed her mind on indifferentism; that she made bold to reconcile with the world so as to be relevant to the modern man in his ordinary self... that, now, there is no such thing as 'one only religion': all religions are more or less true and salutary, thus all must simply enter into dialogue to learn from each other and enrich each other, focusing on what unites them all -the religious sense welling from the subconscious; and avoiding what divides -any claim to absolute truth and insistence of flight from error to the truth... [note: that is what the doctrine of the Modernists on religious liberty; and the practice of interreligious dialogue and inter-faith worship etc., is all about...]
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