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Servus_Pio_XII
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As I read through progressivist “propaganda”, I find an underlying theme of “well, it was that way in the early Church”. And so, here and now, I ask you: Do you really, honestly want to go back to 3rd Century Catholicism?
Such very little of what we now know to be truth was fully grasped. The Church was just coming out of a persecution, with it’s foot barely in the door in Roman society. Do you think they would have been grandiose? No, of course not! But not because they wouldn’t have liked it: they couldn’t!
All of the theological lights that had yet to come: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Asissi, the first monastics. All of these had yet to exist in the Church! They had little understanding, compared to to-day, of what and how they were supposed to do. They were testing things, and with God’s guidance separating the wheat from the chaff.
Personally, I see this new movement to “go back” to early Christianity as absolute lunacy. It is like having separated the weeds from the grain, worked hard and enjoying the fruit of your labours, and then having someone come by and suggest throwing the weeds into the silo back with the grain.
The Church was not all-pure in the early days. It was, as is demonstrated by St. Paul’s and indeed every other early Saint’s writings, trying to discern true teaching and developing practises. And the hurch evolves. It always has. If one wishes to seek purity in the Church, and to worship God in the best way possible, one must propagate the natural progress of the Church, not seek to return an adult to infancy!
And so, I ask: Who here wants to be a 3rd Century Catholic? I know I don’t.
Such very little of what we now know to be truth was fully grasped. The Church was just coming out of a persecution, with it’s foot barely in the door in Roman society. Do you think they would have been grandiose? No, of course not! But not because they wouldn’t have liked it: they couldn’t!
All of the theological lights that had yet to come: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Asissi, the first monastics. All of these had yet to exist in the Church! They had little understanding, compared to to-day, of what and how they were supposed to do. They were testing things, and with God’s guidance separating the wheat from the chaff.
Personally, I see this new movement to “go back” to early Christianity as absolute lunacy. It is like having separated the weeds from the grain, worked hard and enjoying the fruit of your labours, and then having someone come by and suggest throwing the weeds into the silo back with the grain.
The Church was not all-pure in the early days. It was, as is demonstrated by St. Paul’s and indeed every other early Saint’s writings, trying to discern true teaching and developing practises. And the hurch evolves. It always has. If one wishes to seek purity in the Church, and to worship God in the best way possible, one must propagate the natural progress of the Church, not seek to return an adult to infancy!
And so, I ask: Who here wants to be a 3rd Century Catholic? I know I don’t.