In Christ alone there is salvation.
Jesus Christ is the Sole Son of the Father in Whom alone there is Salvation.
St. Athanasius Contra MundumSometimes we may be given to say “I wonder what it was like to live many centuries ago” or “we don’t really know what it was like” and other such things as men are wont to say when musing on things. We needn’t wonder. The Church Fathers give us a very clear account. When we read from St. Athanasius [feastday May 2] in his book Against the Heathen, we see the idolatry and depravity from which Jesus Christ redeemed us from to have no part in. St. Athanasius was the defender of the Church against Arianism, the attempt to return on the part of churchmen to a “reasonable” synthesis with paganism. In other words, apostasy. In fact if one looks at false ecumenism and the world wide return to paganism and moral depravity and the horror of the human sacrifice of abortion (according to Human Life International many abortion providers are training their people to offer the murdered babies to mother goddess Gaia via magic) then we are living in the time that St. Anthony of the Desert [feastday Jan. 17], in 335 A.D. foretold would happen when he thundered into Alexandria and denounced the Arians as the forerunner of the Antichrist. The question at hand is what is our duty to God in resisting heresy and sin?
ST. ATHANASIUS ON HUMAN SACRIFICE AND MORAL DERAVITY
From Fr. Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints
May 2.-ST. ATHANASIUS, Bishop.
ATHANASIUS was born in Egypt towards the end of the third century, and was from his youth pious, learned, and deeply versed in the sacred writings, as befitted one whom God had chosen to be the champion and defender of His Church against the Arian heresy. Though only a deacon, he was chosen by his bishop to go with him to the Council of Nicaea, in 325, and attracted the attention of all by the learning and ability with which he defended the faith. A few months later, he became Patriarch of Alexandria, and for forty-six years he bore, often well-nigh alone, the whole brunt of the Arian assault. On the refusal of the Saint to restore Arius to Catholic communion, the emperor ordered the Patriarch of Constantinople to do so. The wretched heresiarch took an oath that he had always believed as the Church believes; and the patriarch, after vainly using every effort to move the emperor, had recourse to fasting and prayer, that God would avert from the Church the frightful sacrilege. The day came for the solemn entrance of Arius into the great church of Sancta Sophia. The heresiarch and his party set out glad and in triumph. But before he reached the church, death smote him swiftly and awfully, and the dreaded sacrilege was averted. St. Athanasius stood unmoved against four Roman emperors; was banished five times; was the butt of every insult, calumny, and wrong the Arians could devise, and lived in constant peril of death. Though firm as adamant in defense of the Faith, he was meek and humble, pleasant and winning in converse, beloved by his flock, unwearied in labors, in prayer, in mortifications, and in zeal for souls. In the year 373 his stormy life closed in peace, rather that his people (the monks of St. Anthony) would have it so than that his enemies were weary of persecuting him. He left to the Church the whole and ancient Faith, defended and explained in writings rich in thought and learning, clear, keen, and stately in expression. He is honored as one of the greatest of the Doctors of the Church.
Reflection.-The Catholic Faith, says St. Augustine, is more precious far than all the riches and treasures of earth; more glorious and greater than all its honors, all its possessions. This it is which saves sinners, gives light to the blind, restores penitents, perfects the just, and is the crown of martyrs.
St. Athanasius, Against the Heathen
§25. Human sacrifice. Its absurdity. Its prevalence. Its calamitous results.
But some have been led by this time to such a pitch of irreligion and folly as to slay and to offer in sacrifice to their false gods even actual men, whose figures and forms the gods are. Nor do they see, wretched men, that the victims they are slaying are the patterns of the gods they make and worship, and to whom they are offering the men. For they are offering, one may say, equals to equals, or rather, the higher to the lower; for they are offering living creatures to dead, and rational beings to things without motion. 2. For the Scythians who are called Taurians offer in sacrifice to their Virgin, as they call her, survivors from wrecks, and such Greeks as they catch, going thus far in impiety against men of their own race, and thus exposing the savagery of their gods, in that those whom Providence has rescued from danger and from the sea, they slay, almost fighting against Providence; because they frustrate the kindness of Providence by their own brutal character. But others, when they are returned victorious from war, thereupon dividing their prisoners into hundreds, and taking a man from each, sacrifice to Ares the man they have picked out from each hundred. 3. Nor is it only Scythians who commit these abominations on account of the ferocity natural to them as barbarians: on the contrary, this deed is a special result of the wickedness connected with idols and false gods. For the Egyptians used formerly to offer victims of this kind to Hera, and the Phœnicians and Cretans used to propitiate Cronos in their sacrifices of children. And even the ancient Romans used to worship Jupiter Latiarius, as he was called, with human sacrifices, and some in one way, some in another, but all without exception committed and incurred the pollution: they incurred it by the mere perpetration of the murderous deeds, while they polluted their own temples by filling them with the smoke of such sacrifices. 4. This then was the ready source of numerous evils to mankind. For seeing that their false gods were pleased with these things, they forthwith imitated their gods with like misdoings, thinking that the imitation of superior beings, as they considered them, was a credit to themselves. Hence mankind was thinned by murders of grown men and children, and by licence of all kinds. For nearly every city is full of licentiousness of all kinds, the result of the savage character of its gods; nor is there one of sober life in the idols' temples [2] save only he whose licentiousness is witnessed to by them all ( i.e. among the licentious worshippers the lifeless image is theonly one free from vice, although the worshippers credit him with divine attributes, and therefore, according to their superstition, with a licentious life.)
§26. The moral corruptions of Paganism all admittedly originated with the gods.
Women, for example, used to sit out in old days in the temples of Phœnicia, consecrating to the gods there the hire of their bodies, thinking they propitiated their goddess by fornication, and that they would procure her favour by this. While men, denying their nature, and no longer wishing to be males, put on the guise of women, under the idea that they are thus gratifying and honouring the Mother of their so-called gods. But all live along with the basest, and vie with the worst among themselves, and as Paul said, the holy minister of Christ: “For their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness.” (Rom: 1: v. 26,27) 2. But acting in this and in like ways, they admit and prove that the life of their so-called gods was of the same kind. For from Zeus they have learned corruption of youth and adultery, from Aphrodite fornication, from Rhea licentiousness, from Ares murders, and from other gods other like things, which the laws punish and from which every sober man turns away. Does it then remain fit to consider them gods who do such things, instead of reckoning them, for the licentiousness of their ways, more irrational than the brutes? Is it fit to consider their worshippers human beings, instead of pitying them as more irrational than the brutes, and more soul-less than inanimate things? For had they considered the intellectual part of their soul they would not have plunged headlong into these things, nor have denied the true God, the Father of Christ.
FROM ST. IRENAEUS' AGAINST HERESIES BOOK III
CHAP. V. -- CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES, WITHOUT ANY FRAUD, DECEPTION, OR HYPOCRISY, PREACHED THAT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, WAS THE FOUNDER OF ALL THINGS. THEY DID NOT ACCOMMODATE THEIR DOCTRINE TO THE PREPOSSESSIONS OF THEIR HEARERS.
1. Since, therefore, the tradition from the apostles does thus exist in the Church, and is permanent among us, let us revert to the Scriptural proof furnished by those apostles who did also write the Gospel, in which they recorded the doctrine regarding God, pointing out that our Lord Jesus Christ is the truth,(7) and that no lie is in Him. As also David says, prophesying His birth from a virgin, and the resurrection from the dead, "Truth has sprung out of the earth."(8) The apostles, likewise, being disciples of the truth, are above all falsehood; for a lie has no fellowship with the truth, just as darkness has none with light, but the presence of the one shuts out that of the other. Our Lord, therefore, being the truth, did not speak lies; and whom He knew to have taken origin from a defect, He never would have acknowledged as God, even the God of all, the Supreme King, too, and His own Father, an imperfect being as a perfect one, an animal one as a spiritual, Him who was without the Pleroma as Him who was within it. Neither did His disciples make mention of any other God, or term any other Lord, except Him, who was truly the God and Lord of all, as these most vain sophists affirm that the apostles did with hypocrisy frame their doctrine according to the capacity of their hearers, and gave answers after the opinions of their questioners,--fabling blind things for the blind, according to their blindness; for the dull according to their dullness; for those in error according to their error. And to those who imagined that the Demiurge alone was God, they preached him; but to those who are capable of comprehending the unnameable Father, they did declare the unspeakable mystery through parables and enigmas: so that the Lord and the apostles exercised the office of teacher not to further the cause of truth, but even in hypocrisy, and as each individual was able to receive it!
[end of quote from St. Irenaeus]
LET US REMAIN TRUE TO CHRIST AND THANKFUL TO HIM FOREVERMORE
LET BE ACCURSED, ANY GOSPEL OTHER THAN, THAT WHICH WAS PREACHED AT THE BEGINNING, RECEIVED NOT FROM MAN BUT FROM CHRIST JESUS, THOU ALONE, IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH THY ALL HOLY INFINITELY PURE AND UNDEFILED BLOOD, THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS, WHO IN THE FUTURE SHALL RECREATE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, CALLED BY THINE SPECIAL CHOICE, WHO BEFORE HOPED IN CHRIST WITH ALL WHO HEARD THE WORD OF TRUTH AND BELIEVED, SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE PROMISE, WHO IS THE PLEDGE OF OUR INHERITANCE, TO THE REDEMPTION OF THE POSSESION, FOR THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, IN FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS, AND OF LOVE FOR ALL THE SAINTS IN UNCEASING INTERCESSION OF ALL THE ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS OF GOD, VIRGINS, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING, THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GRANT US THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION IN DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF HIM; THE EYES OF OUR MINDS BEING ENLIGHTENED, TO KNOW THE HOPE OF HIS CALLING, THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF HIS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS, AND THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF HIS POWER TOWARDS US WHO BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY POWER WROUGHT IN CHRIST THE ONLY FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH RAISED ABOVE ALL THINGS HE MADE SUBJECT UNDER HIS FEET, WE WHO HOLD HIM THE HEAD DIRECTLY AND NO OTHER, CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR IMMORTAL SON OF THE IMMORTAL FATHER IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE IMMORTAL HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE UNTO THE AGES OF THE AGES. AMEN.
GRANT US TO BE FAITHFUL TO YOU O LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR LIVING AND REIGNING AND RULING WITH GOD OUR FATHER IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE, WITH AND BY THE PRAYER AND COMPANY OF ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY, ESPECIALLY SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GABRIEL, SAINT ENOCH IN THE FLESH AND SAINT ELIJAH IN THE FLESH, YOUR HOLY PROPHETS YET TO RETURN, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING, WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING FOR ALL YOUR GIFTS AND MERCIES TO US UNCEASINGLY: ESPECIALLY YOUR ALL HOLY ALMIGHTY GIFTS OF OUR CREATION, REDEMPTION, YOUR GIFTS OF YOUR CREATION TO US CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR, YOUR LIFE AND TEACHING, YOUR INCARNATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE ONLY IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, AND BIRTH TRULY BORN IN THE FLESH FROM MARY,YOUR EPIPHANY, YOUR TRANSFIGURATION, YOUR MOST HOLY CROSS, HOLY BLOOD, HOLY SPIRIT OF YOU OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF THE FATHER, YOUR RESURRECTION, THE ONLY FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH, YOUR ASCENSION ASSUMPTION IN THE SAME FLESH BACK TO THE FATHER'S BOSOM IN THE THIRD HEAVEN AT HIS RIGHT HAND IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE, THE GIFT OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE AT PENTECOST AND THROUGHOUT ALL TIME AND CREATION INDWELLING US FROM THE FIRST ADAM TO THE LAST SAINT, BRINGING WITH HIM YOU GOD OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME, YOUR MOST HOLY EUCHARIST WHICH YOU ALONE GOD OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE GIVE TO US, JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR INFINITELY PURE AND UNDEFILED TRULY MADE MANIFEST AGAIN IN THE BREAD THE WINE AND THE WATER WHOM WE RECEIVE IN FAITH WITH ALL THANKSGIVING, YOUR PAROUSIA, CHRIST JESUS, IN THE FLESH IN THE FUTURE AT THE END OF THIS AGE AT THE TIME KNOWN TO YOU ALONE O HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY BLESSED TRINITY HOLY UNITY, WITH ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS, OUR RESURRECTION IN THE FLESH AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE JUST, OUR SAME SPIRITS SOULS AND BODIES REUNITED, WE WITH ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS WORSHIPPING YOU JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR IN THE GLORY OF GOD OUR FATHER IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE FACE TO FACE UNCEASINGLY UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME, FOR YOUR SIMPLE GIFTS OF FOOD AND DRINK, FOR ALL YOUR GIFTS AND MERCIES AND THIS NEW DAY, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US WITH ALL THANKSGIVING UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME, BIND AND CAST FROM US FOREVERMORE ALL SPIRITS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE OF: THE DRAGON, THE DEVIL, THE SERPENT OF OLD, THE SON OF PERDITION, THE FALSE PROPHET, CALLING YOUR CREATION EVIL, CLAIMING THAT MEN ARE CREATED EVIL, EVOLUTION, THEURGY, CLAIMING TO HAVE CONTROL OVER YOU, BABYLON, THE GREAT APOSTASY, THE UNHOLY ROMAN APOSTASY, THE PROTESTANT/EVANGELICAL APOSTASY, ALL APOSTASY, ALL THOSE WHO CLAIM YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE OF NO REGARD, UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME.
Was St. Ambrose right in terming the Jews the perfidious race?
Absolutely not as what we mean by “race”. This wasn’t St. Ambrose’s meaning though. His meaning is concerning those Jews who as a nation were gathered around the teachings of the Rabbis and thereby opposing Our Lord Jesus Christ and the True God and turning aside on purpose to Satan and denying the humanity of all men other than themselves. In this they were Satan worshippers and racist and totally apostate from The God they pretended to confess. They, in fact, blasphemed the Holy Spirit and have no salvation. Any one of so-called Jewish background today who is ignorant of all this could still come to Jesus Christ and confess Him and be baptized and be saved, but would have to absolutely abjure Talmudic Judaism. Talmudic Judaism has totally infected all Judaism for the last 2,000 years. It is all condemned.
From:
http://fatherfeeney.org/point/57-jun.html
The prime incentive for reading God’s word is always, of course, just that: it is God’s word — the thundering, inspired account of man’s long climb from Genesis to Apocalypse; how he fell from grace, how he was redeemed, what he must do to be saved.
But there is another reason also why now, particularly, we ought to take our Scriptures off the shelves. The notion has got around (at whose prompting, we will let you guess) that the Bible is a book which celebrates the Jews; and that since we Catholics are supposed to reverence the Bible, we ought also to honor the race to whom it is devoted.
The number of people who have been deceived by this artful dodge indicates one thing: how crass and colossal is our present-day ignorance of Holy Scripture.
No one could possibly read the seventy-two books which constitute God’s revelation and conclude that Jews deserve the esteem of Catholics. For albeit the Bible presents Jewish history, it is not the sort of history the Anti-Defamation League would approve. It is the story of how a few faithful Jews in each generation championed God against the rest of their race —a proud, stubborn, ungrateful, and unbelieving multitude. Far from promoting love for the Jews, the Bible is thus the font of Christian anti-Jewishness. No other book gives such a strong, sure taste of their perfidy.
It is in the New Testament that the Jews are shown at their ultimate worst — when they are confronted with the Messias, reject Him, crucify Him, call down His Blood as a curse upon them, and then do their utmost to prevent His gospel from being spread through the world. A partial report on this New-Testament portrayal of the Jews appears below. But even under the Old Law it is evident what the Jews are coming to. Prophet after prophet castigates them for their wickedness and warns them that they are going to be rejected by God in favor of the Gentiles; and prophet after prophet is killed by the Jews in defiant retort. As early as the book of Exodus, God has said to Moses: “See that this people is stiff-necked. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them: and I will make of thee a great nation.” (Exodus 32:9)
Plainly, it is not for their own sakes, or for any goodness inherent in the race, that the Jews are kept at the center of the Old-Testament stage. It is, rather, because through some Jews — a holy, beleaguered handful, like Moses and Joshua and David and the prophets — the true Faith is kept alive down to the time of Our Lord. And the other reason for God’s sustained interest in the Jews is that eventually from their thorny midst there will blossom His one perfect creature, the Virginal Mother of His Son.
One of many notable Jewish-Zionist-Communist projects of total evil:
Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps)
Known as the Gulag.
Lenin and Stalin murdered 90 million Christian Slavs, while at the same time as Stalin, Hitler murdered 30 million Christian Slavs.
Whether a Hitler or an Oesterreicher, a racist is a racist and is a purveyor of evil.
From:
http://fatherfeeney.org/point/56-feb.html
[excerpt]
The same Catholics who well knew that the program proposed by Hitler was hardly the Church’s solution to the Jewish question, knew quite as well that Father Oesterreicher did not have the answer either.
As Hitler proceeded across Europe, Father Oesterreicher managed to keep several towns ahead of him, and finally, in 1941, turned up as a curate in New York City. Since there were in our whole country only about a dozen Jewish-convert priests, Father Oesterreicher proved to be a popular novelty. He was the object of much parochial curiosity and foundno difficulty in gathering an inquisitive crowd for the lectures he started to give within six months of his arrival here. His message was invariably of one theme. Always there was the appeal to respect, to admire, to love, to fall down in the mud and worship the Jewish race. And always the appeal was subtly charged with what Father Oesterreicher hoped would pass for the binding authority of the Catholic Church.
Zionism is of the Devil
Jn:8:44:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. (DRV)
The Judaic Role in the Black Slave Trade
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1966135525893447110&q=The+Judaic+Role+in+the+Black+Slave+Trade
Is the Holocaust a Hoax?
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/holohoax.htm
The Israeli-ZioNazis are the ones perpetrating a false-holocaust. Holocaust is a biblical term meaning an blood offering to God. It refers to the lamb or other animal in the old testament that the Israelites offered to God according to the regulations that God gave Moses. The Israeli-ZioNazis are the ones perpetrating a false-holocaust. The reason it is false is that first, the Old Testament sacrifice of animals is ended with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and second, the murdering of one’s neighbor has never been allowed by God.
See: Israelis Deep into Organ Trafficking
http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/outrageous/organtraffic.asp
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