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2 Corinthians 11:3- “But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Pope Leo XIII, Octobri Mense (#2), Sept. 22, 1891: “That she [the Church] may teach men the truth and may guide them to eternal salvation, she must enter upon a daily war; and throughout the course of ages she has fought, even to martyrdom…”
John 3:30- “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Pope Leo XIII, Exeunte iam anno (#9), Dec. 25, 1888: “For Jesus Christ redeemed the human race once by the shedding of His blood, but the power of so great a work and gift is for all ages; ‘neither is there salvation in any other’ (Acts 4:12).”
Fr. De Smet: “The Indians know no blasphemous words, and often pass years without an angry word being spoken. But when drunk – and now they get drink in large quantities – all the good qualities of the Indian disappear, and he no longer resembles man; one must flee from him. Their cries and howls are terrible; they fall upon each other, biting noses and ears, mutilating each other in a horrible manner. Since our arrival, four Otoes and three Potawatomies have been killed in these drunken orgies.” (The Life of Fr. De Smet, pp. 83-84)
Pope Leo XIII: “Miserable it is to live in a barbarous state and with savage manners: but more miserable to lack the knowledge of that which is highest, and to dwell in ignorance of the one true God.” (Quarto abeunte saeculo #4, July 16, 1892)
St. Anselm: “If thou wouldst be certain of being in the number of the elect, strive to be one of the few, not of the many. And if thou wouldst be quite sure of thy salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few… Do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer… that they may attain everlasting blessedness.”
St. Fulgence, The Rule of Faith, (526): “Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all the pagans but also all the Jews and all the heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.”
St. Francis Xavier: “… one is what he is before God… and nothing more, even if… everyone else thinks otherwise.”
Pope Pius X: “… it is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to innovate anything touching on the substance of the sacraments…” (Ex quo, Dec. 26, 1910)
St. Alphonsus: “Man’s life is short: he cometh forth as a flower, and is destroyed’ (Job 14: 1,2). The Lord commanded Isaias to preach this very truth: ‘Cry,’ He said to him, ‘all flesh is grass… indeed the people is grass. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen’ (Is. 40:6-7). The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.”
Pope Martin V: “This holy synod… declares, defines and decrees that the said John Wyclif was a notorious and obstinate heretic who died in heresy, and it anathematizes him and condemns his memory. It decrees and orders that his body and bones are to be exhumed, if they can be identified among the corpses of the faithful, and to be scattered far from a burial place of the church…” (Council of Constance, Session 8, “Condemnation of Wyclif,” May 4, 1415)
“Lucia found Jacinta sitting alone, still and very pensive, gazing at nothing. ‘What are you thinking of, Jacinta?’ ‘Of the war that is going to come. So many people are going to die. And almost all of them are going to Hell.’” (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, p. 94)
Pope Leo XIII: “One day St. Francis was absorbed in ardent contemplation of the wounds of Jesus crucified, and was seeking to take to himself and drink in their exceeding bitterness, when an angel from heaven appeared before him… at once St. Francis feels his hands and feet transfixed, as it were, with nails, and his side pierced by a sharp spear.” (Auspicato #16, Sept. 17, 1882)
St. Robert Bellarmine: “… thieves are detestable even to thieves…” (De Gratia et Libero Arbitrio, Book 4, Chap. 10)
St. John Chrysostom: “… it is not possible for a virtuous person who travels by the straight and narrow path and follows Christ’s commands to enjoy the praise and admiration of all people, so strong is the impulse of evil and the resistance to virtue.” (Homily 23 on Genesis)
Pope St. Gregory the Great (595): “As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.”
St. Athanasius: “For never at any time did Christian people take their title from the Bishops among them, but from the Lord, on whom we rest our faith. Thus, though the blessed Apostles have become our teachers, and have ministered the Savior’s Gospel, yet not from them have we our title, but from Christ we are and are named Christians. But for those who derive the faith which they profess from others, good reason is it they should bear their name, whose property they have become.” (First Discourse Against The Arians, Chap. 1, c. AD 360)
St. Basil, Letter 277, 4th Century: “Human affairs are fainter than a shadow; more deceitful than a dream. Youth fades more quickly than the flowers of spring; our beauty wastes with age or sickness. Riches are uncertain; glory is fickle. The pursuit of arts and sciences is bounded by the present life; the charm of eloquence, which all covet, reaches but the ear: whereas the practice of virtue is a precious possession for its owner…”
Pope Pius X, Communium rerum (#18), April 21, 1909, concerning 11th century England: “Then indeed was it necessary to fight for the altar and the home, for the sanctity of public law, for liberty, civilization, sound doctrine, of all of which the Church alone was the teacher and the defender among the nations…”
St. Louis De Montfort: “… the greatest saints, the souls richest in graces and virtues, shall be the most assiduous in praying to our Blessed Lady, and in having her always present as their perfect model for imitation and their powerful aid for help.” (True Devotion to Mary #46)
Pope Leo XIII: “The defense of Catholicism, indeed, necessarily demands that in the profession of doctrines taught by the Church all shall be of one mind and all steadfast in believing…” (Immortale Dei #46, Nov. 1, 1885)
St. Basil, Letter 257, 4th century: “Remember that it is not the multitude who are being saved, but the elect of God. Be not then affrighted at the great multitude of the people who are carried here and there by winds like the waters of the sea.”
Pope Leo XIII: “The Church in respect of its unity belongs to the category of things indivisible by nature, though heretics try to divide it into many parts.” (Satis Cognitum #4, June 29, 1896)
“…the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” (Deut. 4:24)
“Do you see that by works a man is justified and not by faith alone?... For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” (James 2:24-26)
[The Appearance of the Angel to the Fatima Children – 1916]: “Then, rising up, the Angel took the Chalice and the Host, and kneeling on the flat rock, held the white disk before him, saying: ‘Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly insulted by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.’” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 42.)
Pope Eugene IV: “The Holy Roman Church, founded by the voice of our Lord and Savior, firmly believes, professes, and preaches one true God, omnipotent, unchangeable, and eternal, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost… These three persons are one God, and not three gods, because of the three there is one substance, one essence, one nature, one divinity, one immensity, one eternity… It [the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects and anathematizes all who think opposed and contrary things, and declares them to be aliens from the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” (Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra)
St. Alphonsus: “David calls the happiness of this present life a dream of one awakening: ‘As the dream of them that awake’ (Ps. 72:20)… The goods of this world appear great, but in fact are nothing; like sleep, they last but a little while, and then all vanishes.”
Pope Gregory XVI: “We are thankful for the success of apostolic missions in America, the Indies, and other faithless lands… They fearlessly fight the Lord’s battles against heresy and unbelief by private and public speech and writings… They search out those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to summon them to the light and life of the Catholic religion.” (Probe Nostis #6, Sept. 18, 1840)
“For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved, may be manifest among you.” (1 Cor. 11:19)
Pope St. Leo IX: “The holy Church built upon a rock, that is Christ, and upon Peter or Cephas, the son of John who first was called Simon, because by the gates of Hell, that is, by the disputations of heretics which lead the vain to destruction, it would never be overcome.” (In terra pax hominibus, Sept. 2, 1053, Denz. 351)
St. Louis De Montfort: “All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father. This is the reason why the reprobate, such as heretics, schismatics and others, who hate our Blessed Lady or regard her with contempt and indifference, have not God for their Father, however much they boast of it, simply because they have not Mary for their Mother.” (True Devotion to Mary #30)
Fr. De Smet: “New priests are to be added to the Potawatomi Mission, and my Superior, Father Verhaegen gives me hope that I will be sent. How happy I would be could I spend myself for the salvation of so many souls, who are lost because they have never known truth!” (Jan. 26, 1838 - Fr. De Smet was a great missionary to the American Indians)
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “For there are three who give testimony – Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. (1 Jn. 5:4-8) In other words, the Spirit of Sanctification and the Blood of Redemption and the water of Baptism. These three are one and remain indivisible. None of them is separable from its link with the others.”(Dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon, 451)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “And thus is perfectly fulfilled that assurance of the Truth, by which we learn that ‘narrow and steep is the way that leads to life’; and whilst the breadth of the way that leads to death is crowded with a large company, the steps are few of those that tread the path of safety. And wherefore is the left road more thronged than the right, save that the multitude is prone to worldly joys and carnal goods? And although that which it desires is short-lived and uncertain, yet men endure toil more willingly for the lust of pleasure than for love of virtue. Thus while those who crave things visible are unnumbered, those who prefer the eternal to the temporal are hardly to be found.” (Sermon 49, 5th century)
Fr. De Smet: “I have often remarked that many of the children seem to await baptism before winging their flight to heaven, for they die almost immediately after receiving the Sacrament.” (Dec. 18, 1839 - Fr. De Smet was the Apostle of the Rocky Mountains, the great missionary to the American Indians)
St. Louis De Montfort: “If devotion to the most holy Virgin Mary is necessary to all men simply for working out their salvation, it is still more so for those who are called to any special perfection…” (True Devotion to Mary #43)
Pope Leo XII: “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum #14, May 5, 1824)
“So shall it be at the end of the world, the angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all these things? They say to Him: Yes.” (Matthew 13:49-51)
Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 46: “… remember that your works of mercy will only then profit you, and your strict continence only then bear fruit, when your minds are unsoiled by any defilement from wrong opinions. Cast away the arguments of this world’s wisdom, for God hates them, and none can arrive by them at the knowledge of the Truth…”
“And the Lord said to Abraham: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake… What if there be five less than fifty just persons?... And He said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty. Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? I will not do it, if I find thirty there…What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty. I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And the Lord said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten. And the Lord departed… And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And He destroyed these cities, and all the country about…” (Genesis, Chapters 19-20)
Pope Benedict XIV: “Surely it is not in vain that the Church has established the universal prayer which is offered up for the faithless Jews from the rising of the sun to its setting, that the Lord God may remove the veil from their hearts, that they may be rescued from their darkness into the light of truth.” (A Quo Primum # 4, June 14, 1751)
St. John Eudes (17th century): “Experience, as well as faith, teaches us that the wicked shall find no peace. But on the contrary: those who love and serve God shall enjoy peace in abundance, which shall render their lives a thousand times sweeter and more agreeable than are the lives of those who follow their own inordinate inclinations.”
St. Robert Bellarmine: “Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart (Acts 2:37)… Therefore the Gospel not only consoles but even terrifies. For compunction is born from terror.” (De Justificatione, Book 4, Chap. 2)
St. Louis De Montfort: “When the Holy Ghost, her Spouse, has found Mary in a soul, He flies there. He enters there in His fullness; He communicates Himself to that soul abundantly, and to the full extent to which it makes room for His Spouse. Nay, one of the great reasons why the Holy Ghost does not now do startling wonders in our souls is because He does not find there a sufficiently great union with His faithful and inseparable Spouse.” (True Devotion to Mary, # 36)
Pope Gregory XVI: “Therefore, they must instruct them in the true worship of God, which is unique to the Catholic religion.” (Summo Iugiter Studio # 6, May 27, 1832)
Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 39: “… understand that the more zealous we are for our salvation, the more determined will be the assaults of our opponents.” (5th century)
Pope Benedict XIV: “Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (Chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: ‘Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.’ We too have forbidden this practice in the same words in Our oft-repeated constitution Etsi Pastoralis, sect. 6, no. 21.” (Allatae Sunt #29, July 26, 1755)
“And the angels [who became devils], who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighboring cities, in like manner having given themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.” (Jude, verses 6-8)
Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 40: “For there are no works of power, dearly-beloved, without… trials… there is… no contest without a foe, no victory without conflict. This life of ours is in the midst of snares, in the midst of battles; if we do not wish to be deceived, we must watch: if we want to overcome, we must fight.” (5th century)
St. Alphonsus: “Whoever once enters Hell shall never quit it for all eternity. This thought caused David to tremble, saying: ‘Let not the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me’ (Psalm 68:16).”
St. Louis De Montfort: “There has been no name given under heaven, except the name of Jesus, by which we can be saved.... Every one of the faithful who is not united to Him as a branch to the stock of the vine, shall fall, shall wither and shall be fit only to be cast into the fire. Outside of Him there exists nothing but error, falsehood, iniquity, futility, death and damnation.” (True Devotion to Mary, #61)
“… eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him.” (1 Cor. 2:9)
St. Francis De Sales: “And to say that the Church has failed - what else is it but to say that all our predecessors are damned. Yes, truly; for outside the Church there is no salvation, out of this Ark everyone is lost.” (The Catholic Controversy, p. 59)
St. Louis De Montfort: “In the heavens Mary commands the angels and the blessed. As a recompense, God has empowered her and commissioned her to fill with saints the empty thrones from which the apostate angels fell by pride.” (True Devotion to Mary, #28)
Pope Eugene IV: “Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, ‘unless we are born of water and the Spirit, we cannot,’ as the Truth says, ‘enter into the kingdom of heaven’ [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water.” (Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” 1439)
St. John Eudes (17th century): “If you [while in mortal sin] perform any good works, they merit no recompense in Heaven; for those whom mortal sin deprives of sanctifying grace, can merit nothing for Heaven, so long as they remain in that state. Their labors and sufferings, which might satisfy for the pain due to their past sins, and acquire for them, at the same time, new degrees of grace and merit, cannot produce these happy effects, because they lose their rewards through sin.”
Pope Pius XI, Rappresentanti in terra (#22), Dec. 31, 1929: “… this work of the Church in every branch of culture is of immense benefit to families and nations which without Christ are lost, as St. Hilary points out correctly: ‘What can be more fraught with danger for the world than the rejection of Christ?’”
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