“Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies on non-Catholics which aim to associate together under a single agreement everyone who, in any way, lays claim to the name of Christian? In the negative!…It is clear, therefore, why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics. There is only one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ those who are separated from her.” (Pope Pius XI, Mortaium Animos). Comment: Anyone who believes it is alright to go to ecumenical services during Thanksgiving and Lent/Easter (Sunrise service), and any other time, needs to read that encyclical. For some 1920 years,(33 AD TO 1958 AD), the Church has been vigilant on warning her children to stay away from such gatherings.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law states: “If anyone prays with heretics, he is a heretic.” #2338.2 St. Pope Agatho I SCN.
A true believer is a Catholic who believes what the Catholic Church teaches. In the early Church, were the souls who followed Christ called Christians or protestants? Christians. “At Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.” Acts 11:26. Were there any protestants in Christ’s time, concerning His doctrines? Yes. When Our Lord first taught that we must eat His flesh and drink His blood for the life of our souls, the first protestants, the Jews, said, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” St. John 6:53. But Christ was no ordinary man. He was God in the flesh, who had power to lay down His life and raise it up again. “I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again.” John 10:18. As one man said, “Any man who can raise his own body from the dead can say pretty much whatever he wants about himself.” So then Jesus reaffirmed to the Jews most solemnly, “Amen, amen, I say unto you: Then Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.” St. John 6:54,55. So were these first protestant – who rejected the doctrine of the true presence – united to Christ, or did they walk no more with Him? Scripture says, “After this many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.” vs.67. You see? A rejection of Christ’s doctrine is a rejection of him. They were protesting. These disciples – who walked no more with him – apparently believed in him at one time, but when they rejected his teaching, they rejected him. “They walked no more with him.”
The story of so many Catholics, who once believed in the Holy Eucharist, but have now left the true faith and walk no more with him. They go to the protestant churches and say, “Oh! I’ve found Jesus!” But they left him in the Eucharist. Does anyone truly think they are saved? We must do more than believe in him – we must also follow what he taught. “And why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say?” Luke 6:46. Yet how many Catholics seem to have no problem with their siblings leaving the true Church for a false protestant religion, and saying they’ve accepted Christ as their personal Saviour, while at the same time rejecting and blaspheming him in the Eucharist? Where is their faith? And where is their charity, when they will not even admonish them to get back in the true Church? “It is a very grave error in which some Catholics are unhappily engaged in, who believe that men living in error, and separated from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain eternal life.” – Pope Pius IX, #1677 – Sources of Catholic Dogma. St. Paul says we should admonish them. “Yet do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. [2 Thessa- lonians 3:15]. A saint once said, “Just as it is a sin to speak when we should be silent, so likewise it is a sin to be silent when we should speak.” How many Catholics do not have the charity to admonish their family members in their error, but yet let them go on their merry way to damnation. It was the truth that got Jesus Christ killed, his words infuriated them, not his good works, because he was telling them things they didn’t want to hear. “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites…O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” [Matthew 12:34]. “You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?” [Matthew 23:33]. One who does not admonish his brother does not love his soul.
Nowadays you have Catholic (?) clergy going to protestant churches giving talks. “If you eat the words of God in the Church, and also eat them in the synagogue of the Jews, you transgress the commandment which says, In one house shall it be eaten.” Ex. 12:46. (Origen).
“How does a Catholic sin against the faith?” A Catholic sins against faith by Apostasy, heresy, indifferentism, and, by taking part in non-Catholic worship.” (Catechism of the Council of Trent, and The Baltimore Catechism).
“For if they have doctrines opposed to ours, it is not fitting to be mixed up with them for this cause alone…What do you say? ‘Their faith is the same; these men are orthodox?’ Why then are they not with us?” – St. John Chrysostom.
“It is therefore unlawful, and a profanation, and an act the punishment of which is death, to love to associate with unholy heretics, and to unite oneself to their communion.” St. Cyril of Alexandria.
“You help the ungodly, and you are joined in friendship with those who hate the Lord; and therefore you did indeed to deserve the wrath of the Lord.” 2 Paralipomenom 19.2. Drbo.org.
“Saints Peter and Paul have loathed heretics, and in their Epistles have warned us to avoid them.” – St. Cyprian. Do we see the same today, or do we see a prophecy of Our Lady being fulfilled? “Rome will lose the faith, and become the seat of the antichrist.” – Our Lady of LaSalette, 1846, a Church approved prophecy. I suggest you read the whole message of Our Lady. The children saw her weeping, and she bitterly complained of the clergy, even way back then.
“St. John, the disciple of Our Lord, (the Apostle of love), going to bathe at Ephesus, and finding Cerinthus inside, rushed out of the bathhouse without bathing, shouting: “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, for Cerinthus, the enemy of truth is inside!” And Polycarp himself replied to Marcion, who met him on one occasion, asking, “Do you know me?’ ‘I do know you,’ replied Polycarp. ‘I know you to be the firstborn of Satan!’ Such was the horror which the Apostles and their disciples had against even holding verbal communication with any corrupters of truth.” – St. Irenaeus of Lyons.
“In respect to their guilt whereby they are opposed to God, all sinners are to be hated, even one’s father or mother or kindred, according to St. Luke 14:26, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” ‘For it is our duty to hate in the sinner his being a sinner.”- St. Thomas Acquinas, STL 11-11, Q. 25 Art.6. Note, we are to hate the sinner, but we should love his soul, and pray and make sacrifices for sinners as Our Lady of Fatima instructed us. For Our Lord, although Scripture tells us he hateth sinners, “Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity,” Psalm 5:7; nevertheless, he loved their souls and died for them: “But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls.” Wisdom 11:27. Who is a wise man? He that doeth the will of God. “For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom. Wisdom 7:28.
“If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of Communion. If any Bishops or priests or deacon shall join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from Communion.” III Council of Constantinople.
“That Christians and ecclesiastics should pray for Christian unity under the direction of heretics and , what is worse, according to an intention which is radically impregnated and vitiated by heresy, is absolutely impossible to tolerate!” – Blessed Pope Pius IX, Papal Teaching and the Church.
Cut off from the Church: “One must neither pray nor sing songs with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.” – Council of Carthage.
“No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” – Council of Laodicea.
“I will not pray with you, nor shall you pray with me; neither will I say ‘Amen’ to your prayers, nor shall you to mine!” – St. Margaret Clitherow, convert, martyr, saint.
“These men are protestants; they are heretics. Have nothing to do with them.” – St. Anthony Mary Claret.
“It is not lawful to go to a protestant church.” St. John Rigby. He who goes to a false church for worship violated the first commandment which forbids false worship.
“We decree that they who give credence to the teachings heretics, as well as those who receive, defend, or patronize them, are excommunicated…If anyone who refuses to avoid such accomplices after they have been ostracized by the Church, let them also be excommunicated.” – IV Lateran Council.
This is the voice of the Church, whom Christ has commanded us to hear. Let him who fears for his salvation hear the voice of the Church or be as the heathen: “If he will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.” St. Matt. 18:17.
“Make no mistke, my brethren, they shall suffer everlasting punishment who endeavor to corrupt the Church of Christ. Whosoever sets at nought His doctrine shall go to hell, and so shall everyone who listens to him.” – St. Ignatius of Antioch. “If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you. For he that saith unto him, God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works.” [2 John 1:10,11]
“Do not treat with a man without religion. Give no heed to them in any matter of council.” Ecclus. 37:12,14.
“Separation from the Elect necessarily implies the loss of salvation, and therefore damnation, since there is no middle way.” St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Complete Ascetical Works
“It is impossible for us to hold communion, after their death, with those who have not been in communion with us during their life.” Pope Innocent III. As St. John Vianney once told a protestant, “We cannot be together in heaven if we will not be together in life. Death makes no change in that.”
A protestant once approached St. John Vianney saying, “Though we are not together on earth, we hope we shall be together in heaven.” The Saint looked into the man’s eyes and said gently, “As the tree leans, so the tree falls. (He was quoting scripture). If we do not live together on earth, we will not live together in heaven. Death makes no change in that. Jesus Christ has established His Church, and commanded us to hear the Church, and He said, “If he will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.” The Protestant, upon hearing these gentle words of the Saint, considered them, renounced his error, and became a Catholic. The Apostles, who formed the Apostle’s Creed said, “I believe in the holy Catholic Church.” Look up the Apostle’s Creed.
A heretic is led by his own judgement rather than the teaching of the Church, and is lost, according to the words of the Apostle Paul, “A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid, knowing that he, that is such an one, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.” Titus 3:10-11. Notice St. Paul says we must avoid them, after they have been warned a couple times. Every man must be taught. The Ethiopian asked Philip how could he understand the Scriptures unless some man show him, Acts 8:31. Every man must be taught. Christ told his Apostles, the ministers of His Church, “Go and teach all nations.” St. Matt. 28:19. “He that believeth not , shall be condemned.” St. Mark 16:16. The protestants tell you to read the Bible to see what God says, but even they have Sunday school. Why have a school if everybody can understand it? Their actions belie their own words.
“Sinc these wretched souls will have to be separated from God and heaven for all eternity because their place will be in hell, already here on earthhey have to be separated from the company of Christ Our Lord and His servants and handmaids. Predestinate souls, you who are of God, cut yourselves adrift from those who are damning themselves.” St. Louis de Montfort. See? He is saying like St. Paul, do not associate with them.
“We have become cowardly, faint-hearted, and, so often, for some reason or other, we keep silence. We let ourselves be overcome by human respect, and cease to show ourselves as true followers of Our Lord before the world…Why? Because we are cowards. Oh! How we need to renew our faith, to rekindle our hearts in the sublime principles of our holy religion!” – St. Frances Xavior Cabrini, Saints to Know and Love.
Cowards, she calls us. How many of us have family members out of the Church that we have never admonished, or tried to instruct and encourage them to get back in the Church? How quick we are to get angry and defend ourselves when someone speaks against us, yet we remain silent with those who blaspheme Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, insult His Blessed Mother and condemn His Church! Where is our charity toward them who have rejected His Church like Martin Luther, and wound up in hell?
“What can we do to draw down the mercy of God upon the earth, so that everyone may join the holy Catholic Church, the tree of life, and be saved?” – St. Frances Xavior Cabrini, Travels of Mother Frances Cabrini, pg. 95. You see, the saints believed in no salvation outside the Church. Do you? “The Lord added daily to the Church, such as should be saved.” Acts 2:47.
Let us pray. Prayer of Pope St. Pius X: “Give thanks to God that He has made you a child of His Church which is always animated and governed by His Divine Spirit who was sent into the world on the day of Pentecost. Hear and follow the Sovereign Pontiff, who teaches infallibly through the Holy Ghost and the Church, which is the pillar and ground of truth. (1 Tim. 3:15). Hold fast to her doctrines, maintain her cause, defend her rights. Live always as becomes a child of God and a member of the true Church of God, so that after this life, you may receive heaven as your inheritance. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Amen.”
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