tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146626046867730743.post8100295294543149323..comments2023-08-20T02:18:51.060+02:00Comments on Ignis Dei: Mary in the Sacred Scriptures: The Queen of MercyIgnis Deihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437565567176172342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146626046867730743.post-68847476627681334572012-05-31T14:46:46.646+02:002012-05-31T14:46:46.646+02:00St. Therese on the Blessed Virgin Mary - "Reg...St. Therese on the Blessed Virgin Mary - "Regina Decor Carmeli" (Queen Beauty of Carmel)<br /><br />In referring to our "Little Therese" who wrote on the Blessed Virgin Mary thus: "She is sometimes described as unapproachable, whereas she should be represented as easy of imitation. She is more Mother than Queen,” Gregory Houck, O.Carm. failed to point out that the great Saint of the Teresian Carmel of Lisieux was rather reacting against the attitude of those infected with Jansenism and not against the healthy Medieval paradigm the representatives of which were St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert the Great, St. Bernardine of Sienna, St. Alphonsus Liguori.<br /><br />St. Therese was a faithful daughter of St. Teresa of Jesus. St. Teresa in her "Vida" (her "Autobiography) underscores the importance of the humanity of Our Lord but then cautions us against any impious familiarity saying that we must consider the great dignity of Who we are speaking with. And as a faithful daughter of the Church constituted by God as a monarchically hierarchical/vertical Order, St. Teresa would consistently address her Beloved in her writings as "His/Your Majesty" - being the "King of kings" (1 Tim. 6.15) for all ages!Ignis Deihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437565567176172342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146626046867730743.post-86366088330531598332012-05-31T14:40:29.199+02:002012-05-31T14:40:29.199+02:00The New 'Mariology': A "Radical Depar...The New 'Mariology': A "Radical Departure"<br /><br />In the same post @ carmelites.net above, the "Novus Ordo" Calced Carmelite Gregory Houck wrote: "... The early Carmelites did something rather unexpected and rather radical. They looked at their official name, 'Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel,' and said, 'if we are her brothers, she must be our sister.' With that simple line, they moved their understanding and relationship with Mary from the hierarchical/vertical to the familial/horizontal – a RADICAL departure."<br /><br />If it were a SUBSTANTIAL departure, hence its radicalness, as a movement from the monarchically hierarchical/vertical ORDER (not only of things but also especially of relations), constituted by God Himself, to the rather familia[r]/horizontal order of things, the reference, including that to our dear "Little Therese's," [see the "Reply" below] is misleading. The hierarchical/vertical constitution of the Church, as we have pointed it out in our blog post "On the Sedevacantist Position: A Reply (II)", cannot change or mutate; if it were to change as is the "radical departure" since Vatican II, it is a "New Church" as was proclaimed by Hans Kung, the Council's leading theological expert (in our blog post "The Ultimate Delusion of Vatican II 'Catholicism'") - but with a Catholic semblance of course, hence, a counterfeit "Catholicism" (just as "Protestantism" is a counterfeit "Christianity"). The 'radicalness' might rather be seeming; but even then not so. The familial view of the early Carmelites is rather a distinguishing sign that Carmel is the school of Christian perfection "par excellence" in the Church. That is, being "transplanted" at the height of the Mount surmounted by the Cross, it should see and particularly give expression to the solution for the great classic occult hindrance in the progress of Christian Perfection - a "familial" view that is not the result, however, of a paradigmatic shift but the flowering of the gift of piety.Ignis Deihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437565567176172342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146626046867730743.post-72001576474321523432012-05-31T14:33:02.832+02:002012-05-31T14:33:02.832+02:00The "Novus Ordo": A New 'Catholic Th...The "Novus Ordo": A New 'Catholic Theology', A New 'Mariology'<br /><br />In his May 8, 2012 post "More Mother than Queen: A Carmelite View of Mary" @ carmelites.net, the "Novus Ordo" Calced Carmelite (O.Carm.) Gregory Houck revealed how their Order now views 'Mary':<br /><br />"I was once at a meeting with a cloistered Carmelite group of nuns where a question was brought to one of them: 'Why don’t the Carmelites have a strong devotion to Mary?' The nun’s response was memorable, '... We don’t look at Mary as someone extraordinarily special; RATHER, we JUST look at her AS ONE OF THE SISTERS WHO DONE GOOD.' In that moment THIS NUN SUMMED UP NOT ONLY THE WAY WE SEE MARY, but ALSO THE WAY THAT CARMELITES SEE GOD, AND OURSELVES."<br /><br />But the Word of God on the "extraordinarily special" [read: royal] privilege of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary as infallibly applied by the Tradition of the Church herself, "Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all" (Pr. 31.29), only unequivocally contradicts the New 'Mariology' which SUBTLY robs the glorious Queen of Heaven and Earth of that dignity accorded Her by the Divine Majesty and reduces Her position to the level of a mediocre "Novus Ordo" Calced Carmelite Nun "who [does] good" [in the Traditional Catholic Order of things, "heroic virtue" in "being what God wants us to be" (St. Therese of the Infant Jesus) as shown us by Our Lord is required for a soul to enter into heaven]!<br /><br />The New 'Mariology' should not be surprising since it only logically flows from the impious re-constructed Ecumenical view of [g]od current in the New 'Catholic' [Dis-]Order, cf., our post "The Ultimate Delusion of Vatican II 'Catholicism'," which the "Novus Ordo" Calced Carmelites [now as ordinarily "good" as the Buddhist monks who "[do] good"] sum it this way by implication: "The God of Catholicism is just one of those loved, worshipped and served outside its parish walls"* or "Jesus Christ is just one of those great founders of the world's great religions." Ridiculous.<br />---<br />* The Word of God on the gods of non-'Christians': "All the gods of the Gentiles are devils" (Ps. 95.5, DRV). And on the gods of non-Catholics: "If [they] will not hear the church [built on "Cephas" ("rock" plain and simple in the original Aramaic)], let [them] be to thee as the heathen... But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God" (Mt. 18.17; 1 Cor. 10.20).<br />---Ignis Deihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437565567176172342noreply@blogger.com