It’s nice to see a Bishop speak as bluntly and forthrightly as Bishop Schneider has on this issue. I know that some people are upset that he’s not calling for an imperfect council, but I have bad news for you:
There’s probably no such thing as an ‘imperfect council.’ That concept is born from the conciliar thinking that puts the body of Bishops on equal footing with the Petrine office, and that’s an error if there ever was one. The only person who can judge a pontiff a successor of his. Or, at least, such is my reading of the papacy and its primacy. I’ll go into that more in the future. For now, here’s the prayer Bishop Schneider mentions in his letter:
“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, receive through the hands of the Immaculate Mother of God and Ever Virgin Mary from our contrite heart a sincere act of reparation for the acts of worship of wooden idols and symbols, which occurred in Rome, the Eternal City and the heart of the Catholic world, during the Synod for the Amazon. Pour out in the heart of Our Holy Father Pope Francis, of the Cardinals, of the Bishops, of the priests and lay faithful, your Spirit, who will expel the darkness of the minds, so that they might recognize the impiety of such acts, which offended your Divine majesty and offer to you public and private acts of reparation.
Pour out in all members of the Church the light of the fulness and beauty of the Catholic Faith. Enkindle in them the burning zeal of bringing the salvation of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, to all men, especially to the people in the Amazon region, who still are enslaved in the service of feeble material and perishable things, as they are the deaf and mute symbols and idols of “mother earth”, to all people and especially to the people of the Amazonian tribes, who do not have the liberty of the children of God, and who do not have the unspeakable happiness to know Jesus Christ and to have in Him part in the life of your Divine nature.
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you the one true God, besides Whom there is no other god and no salvation, have mercy on your Church. Look especially upon the tears and the contrite and humble sighs of the little ones in the Church, look upon the tears and prayers of the little children, of the adolescents, of young men and young women, of the fathers and mothers of family and also of the true Christian heroes, who in their zeal for your glory and in their love for Mother Church threw in the water the symbols of abomination which defiled her. Have mercy on us: spare us, O Lord, parce Domine, parce Domine! Have mercy on us: Kyrie eleison!”
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God bless the heroes who disposed of that Pachamana idol in the Tiber! I never thought I would live to see the day of such a display of idolatry! Hence, we now have Coronavirus laying waste to the world, and hardest hit in Europe was Italy! Coincidence?? I don’t think so! Holy Father, take the hint!
I am glad they went in the river. Their “recovery” smoked out the real thinking of the man in white.
Alice oh god save us
Bless you and the wonderful work that you are doing. May God bless you and your family. Keep up the good work.