A Litany for Heretics

residinginpurgatory:

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ hear us.

God the Father, Grounding of all Reality,
have mercy on us.
God the Son, Expression of Truth,
have mercy on us.
God, the Spirit of Right Guidance,
have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God of Truth and Justice,
have mercy on us.

On Simon Magus, the Father of All Heresies, Lord have mercy.
On Marcion and all who denounce Jewish
prophecy, Lord have mercy.
On Valentinius and all who deny Christ’s natural humanity, Lord have mercy.
On Arius and all who reject Christ’s eternality, Lord have mercy.
On Helvidius and all who doubt Mary’s perpetual virginity, Lord have mercy.
On Pelagius and all who downplay grace’s necessity, Lord have mercy.
On Luther and all who attack the Church’s
sanctity, Lord have mercy.
On Calvin and all who exaggerate man’s
depravity, Lord have mercy.
On Jefferson and all who ignore supernatural
reality, Lord have mercy.
On Feeney and all who limit God’s mercy, Lord have mercy.
On me, if I hold fast to some falsity, Lord have
mercy.

Mother Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies, pray
for us.
Saint Dominic, Apostle of the Rosary, pray for
us.
Saint Athanasius, Champion of Orthodoxy, pray
for us.
Saint Augustine, proponent of God’s Utmost
Majesty, pray for us.
Saint Thérèse, reminder of God’s loving leniency,
pray for us.
Saint Francis, symbol of what the Church should
be, pray for us.
Lord Jesus Christ, Source of All Authority, show
us Your Face.

Let us Pray:
We adore You, Lord, for You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We hope and
pray that, through Your Holy Spirit, we may come to know You ever more fully
and intimately. Help us learn to love You for who You are, and not who we think
You are. Correct our perceptions, clarify our confusion, and delight us with
Your Revelation. You are greater and more profound than we are capable of
imagining; conform us to Yourself, so that each lesson we learn fills us with a
profound joy and excitement. May we seek to receive an ever more detailed
portrait of You, until we see Your glory in light of the Beatific Vision. Amen.

that-catholic-shinobi:

catherine-of-alexandria:

tilthat:

TIL that Christian Atheism is a thing. Christian Atheists believe in the teachings of Christ but not that they were divinely inspired. They see Jesus as a humanitarian and philosopher rather than the son of God

via reddit.com

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

– C.S. Lewis

Lewis was making tea so hot we’re still drinking it in the year of our lord 2018

dietmountainmadewka:

tilthat:

TIL that some Christian denominations preach a concept called ‘hyper-grace’, which argued that Christians don’t have to fear or avoid sin, because God has already forgiven not only their past sins, but all their future sins

via reddit.com

those are what we call “heretics”