"One should NEVER attack a priest, even when he's in error, rather one should ray and do penance that I'll grant him My grace again. He alone fully represents Me, even when he doesn't live after My example!
"When a Priest falls we should extend him a helping hand through prayer and not through attacks! I myself will be his judge, no one but I! Whoever voices judgment over a priest has voiced it over me; child, never let a Priest be attacked, take up his defense. Child, never judge your confessor, rather pray much for him and offer every Thursday, through the hands of My Blessed Mother, Holy Communion (for Him). Never again accept an out-of-the-way word about a priest, and speak no unkind word (about them). Even it were TRUE! Every Priest is My vicar and My Heart will be sickened and insulted because of it~ If you hear a judgment (against a Priest) pray a Hail Mary."
"If you see a Priest who celebrates the Holy Mass unworthily then say nothing about him, rather tell it to Me alone! I stand beside Him on the altar! Oh pray much for my priests, that they'll love purity above all, that they'll celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with pure hands and heart. Certainly the Holy Sacrifice is one and the same even when it's celebrated by an unworthy priest, but the graces called down upon the people is not the same!"
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I've certainly felt more tempted to criticise, but I remember reading this from the Pieta book too.
I do pray for our priests.
God bless you Mrs. L!
Beutiful words. Saint Francis said:
"We ought also to visit Churches frequently and to reverence clerics not only for themselves, if they are sinners, but on account of their office and administration of the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which they sacrifice on the altar and receive and administer to others.
And let us all know for certain that no one can be saved except by the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the holy words of the Lord which clerics say and announce and distribute and they alone administer and not others."
Thank you for posting this.
I have a serious problem with that quote. First of all who is Mutter Vogel? Whenever I try to search out who she was, if her apparition or locutions have ever been studied or accepted by the Church, I find only this quote from the Pieta. My husband searched thoroughly and there is no record of the book existing at all in the world anywhere. I think this can be taken too far, not criticizing a priest. What if a particular priest is a child predator, someone who has purposely entered Holy Orders to get children? Would Our Lord be happy with us if we remained silent and let this man continue to destroy the innocence of children... I think not!!
The Legion of Christ's founder instituted a similar vow that no one under pain of serious sin could criticize their superiors. It turned out that he is not only accused (with much good evidence to suggest it is true) molested young boys, but also fathered more than one child out of wedlock. He was protected and affirmed in his disorders by the secrecy and lack of criticism that he perpetuated.
If I see a priest sinning I will speak out, to him, then bring someone along, to the Bishop etc. no matter what Mutter Vogel says.
God bless,
Adele
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