Is Msgr Bux a prophet of doom too cynical to see the good of the past 50 years that eventually is going bring about a new springtime for the Church? Has the papacy of Pope Francis revealed to two new generations why the confusion of the mid 1960’s throughout the 80’s needed to be corrected by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI?
Excerpts from LIFESITE’S article:
We have forgotten what a church is for and why it is dedicated with solemn rite. We have committed abuses, profanations in the sacred liturgy and unbearable deformations, insults and irreverence, we have gone so far as to say that the grace of God can coexist with a situation of habitual sin, authorizing sacrilegious Communions given to unrepentant sinners.”
“Now the Pope, so worried about the ‘pueblo,’ has remained without people. Priests, so intoxicated with participation, are without the faithful. The faithful, so accustomed to community liturgies, suffer abandonment.”
Most Catholics, Bux explained, “have not been trained in adoration, recollection on their knees, personal prayer done in secret, where the Father alone sees us.”
“The churches are desolate, faithful and pastors are now as exiles,” the theologian said.
Bux pointed out the difficulty many people have with the idea of a God who punishes. Up until the previous century, processions took place and vows were made in order for chastisements to stop, he recalled.
“Today, the word ‘chastisement’ arouses scandal even among churchmen, because they have forgotten that, at the beginning of world history, after love, there is sin, anger, and judgment.”
“It is true that, in Jesus Christ, we adore the mystery of divine love which, with patience and mercy, obtains the conversion of the sinner,” Bux said. However, “ignorance, plague, hunger, war, suffering, and death reveal to man his situation as a sinner.”
Bux then begged God to deliver his people from the “wrath of judgment.”
“Great is our sin, but greater is your love. Take away our sins for the glory of your name. In the intimacy of the soul, we prostrate ourselves and implore divine mercy. From the wrath of judgment, deliver us … Forgive us our mistakes, heal our wounds, guide us with your grace to the Easter victory,” Bux prayed.
The theologian and liturgical scholar concluded by calling the chastisement “providential,” expecting it to bear fruit.
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Msgr. Bux is simply bringing clarity to a Church that has been subject to confusion and misinformation for several generations.
While I, in no way, question the personal holiness of Pope John Paul II, I believe he is partly responsible for much of the mess that we are still dealing with. Some of the most horrible bishop appointments came from him, including Cardinals Law, Bernardin and Mahony as well as appointing future Cardinal Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of Milwaukee. I do not judge Pope John Paul, but I would HAVE to question his decision to invite all of the pagan leaders to Assisi, creating an atmosphere of Indifferentism. I believe that Pope John Paul WANTED to correct the Church's path, but several things he did seemed to be just the opposite. Ultimately, I think he should have spent more time at home seeing to the governance of the Church and less time on the road doing PR for the Church.
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