Our Cup Runneth Over

Folks,

This evening Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV could well be speaking about the couple of liberal clerics assigned to here in New Hanover County area. (Fortunately, though, we still have some good priests.)

Our Cup Runneth Over


As has often been pointed out at this blogsite, liberal clerics would do well to re-read Ezekiel 34:1-10. John the Baptist warned their spiritual forefathers, the Pharisees, in Luke 3:7-9:

"You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

We see that happening as Baptists and Pentecostals who actually BELIEVE in the Word of God proselytize more and more Catholics disaffected with the lukewarmness of such clerics, becoming in some sense those children of Abraham raised from the stones themselves. If the Church in America were not so lukewarm and liberal, then that would NOT be happening. What was it that the angel said to the Church at Laodicea in Revelation 3:15-19 that is so applicable to the Church in America?

"I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, 'I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,' and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed, and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent."

Wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked - are there better adjectives to describe the spiritual condition of a liberal Catholic cleric, or the USCCB as a whole?