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beautiful quote, can i use it? blesssings.
The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Spirit reveals God’s truth through Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium. Any “catholic” that is in open dissent of the Magisterium is not really a Catholic. In their arrogance and pride they believe that they can “form their own conscience” and do whatever they want. This is not real Catholicism in any way, shape, or form. In fact, it is the same mistake made by historical figures like Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, etc. Authentic Catholics are humble and are obedient to the Magisterium because it has received the teaching authority directly from Jesus Christ our Lord. I absolutely love the way that St. Ignatius of Loyola expresses this absolute and complete loyalty to the Church:
To feel with the Church implies rejecting sectarianism. There must be a disposition in the mind and the heart of the baptized which is always willing to follow the one who Jesus Christ himself put as head of his Church, that is, St. Peter and his successors (Vicarius Christi). So says the first rule of the Spiritual Exercises, “All judgment laid aside, we ought to have our mind ready and prompt to obey, in all, the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, which is our holy Mother the Church Hierarchical.”
In the thirteenth rule of the Spiritual Exercises St. Ignatius says it in a most beautiful way, because it is an exaggeration, but St. Ignatius uses a hyperbole precisely to reveal the force of this principle: **“To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it” **Consider this: I see the wall as white but the Magisterium of the Church tells me it is black: it is black! And St. Ignatius gives the reason for this: “believing that between Christ our Lord, the Bridegroom, and the Church, His Bride, there is the same Spirit which governs and directs us for the salvation of our souls; because by the same Spirit and our Lord Who gave the ten Commandments, our holy Mother the Roman Catholic Church is directed and governed.”
Ad majorem Dei gloriam !