Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Competing Calls to and From spiritual Babylon

God's Call to Come Out Of Babylon:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 
Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4
 
 
Babylon's Call to Come Into Babylon:
"Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors
Did not the ancestors of those who are now entangled in the errors of Photius and the reformers, obey the Bishop of Rome, the chief shepherd of souls? Alas their children left the home of their fathers, but it did not fall to the ground and perish for ever, for it was supported by God. 
Let them therefore return to their common Father, who, forgetting the insults previously heaped on the Apostolic See, will receive them in the most loving fashion. For if, as they continually state, they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to enter the Church, "the Mother and mistress of all Christ's faithful"?
Let them hear Lactantius crying out: "The Catholic Church is alone
in keeping the true worship. This is the fount of truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God: if any man enter not here, or if any man go forth from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and salvation. Let none delude himself with obstinate wrangling. For life and salvation are here concerned, which will be lost and entirely destroyed, unless their interests are carefully and assiduously kept in mind
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Pope Pius XI 1928