Peace
of Christ!
Having read in The Keene Sentinel (City
of Keene, New Hampshire) that a local Religious - Sister Joan Mary McDermott,
P.B.V.M. and the pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Keene - Rev. Gerard
Bertin, would be holding meetings at St. Margaret Mary in an attempt to promote
VOTF, I began a letter writing campaign in the pages of that same newspaper.
Happily, after a flurry of letters from
Catholics loyal to Magisterial teaching, and after what was described in The
Keene Sentinel as a very emotional first meeting, this local chapter decided
not to conduct another meeting.
VOTF must be opposed by faithful
Catholics. "Catholic" modernists, marching under the banner of
"The New Ecclesiology," are using the clergy abuse scandals as an excuse
to create a Church in their own image and likeness. Led by atheistic
philosophers and theological skeptics, these "New Church" Catholics
have abandoned the supernatural view of reality and now look at God and
Revelation in an immanentist rather than a transcendentist manner. This
is why they seek "structural change within the Church," even though
the Church, founded by Christ, constitutes a perfect society (see Mystici
Corporis, No. 63).
Pope
Pius XII, of happy memory, has already answered those deluded souls who would
attempt to use scandals within the Church as an excuse for promoting their own
conception of Church: "And if at times there appears in the Church
something that indicates the weakness of our human nature, it should not be
attributed to her juridical constitution, but rather to that regrettable
inclination to evil found in each individual, which its Divine Founder permits
even at times in the most exalted members of His Mystical Body, for the purpose
of testing the virtue of the Shepherds no less than of the flocks, and that all
may increase the merit of their Christian faith." (Mystici Corporis, No.
66).
Let
us not fail this test!
Pax
Christi sit semper vobiscum
Date: Fri
Dec 13 06:21:54 2002
Subject: letter campaign to thwart
votf in nh
Paul: God bless and protect you in your
efforts to expose votf's hidden agenda...your merits in heaven will surely be
multiplied.
Unfortunately, our pastor, at St. Louis
de Montfort Parish, Sound Beach, NY advertises their mtgs.from the
pulpit, in our church bulletin, and also in a pastoral letter placed in our
Bulletin.
Our bishop doesn't allow mtgs. on church property; but pastor still advertises their mtgs....pray for us.………..Ann , N.Y.