[Greek] καινός (kainos), [Latin] novos, [German] neu: new, novelty; 44 scriptures
Synodality has become a new novelty in the Church. Lived experiences and asking people what they want in the Church TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER making disciples and bringing souls into heaven. Let that sink in!
Background information:
Greek Hellenism: This term means new, fresh, newly invented, novel, strange gods, innovations, little of anything new, and nothing to be surprised at.
Euripides’ Medea 298: “If you bring novel wisdom to fools, you will be regarded as useless, not wise.”
Plato’s Euthryphro 3b: “So he has brought the indictment against you, for making innovations in religion, knowing slanders on such subjects are readily accepted by the people.”
Old Testament: This term means new, recent, not old, not previously known, and different.
New Testament: This term means new and fresh. Kainos indicates quality. Neos indicates age.
Mt.9:17: “People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- New wine indicates newly aged [neos] wine.
- Fresh [kainos] wineskins indicate better quality wineskins.
- Jesus’ teaching (new wine) cannot be contained in Judaism and the Law (old wineskins).
- There is an incompatibility in combining the old with the new.)
Mt.13:52: “And Jesus replied, ‘Then every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.” (Like a store-holder, the scribe is acquainted with the gospel and the truth. The scribes hold the old treasures (law and the prophets) and new treasures (teachings of Jesus).
Mk.1:27: “All were amazed and asked one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey Him.'”
- Astonishment and amazement: (Jesus speaks with gracefulness, gravity, and majesty. Jesus does not repeat what the scribes and rabbis said. Jesus casts out demons without the need of invocations.)
- New teaching (doctrine): (Jesus’ teaching was not based on the scribes and Rabbis. Jesus had the authority to cast out demons. The power to cast out demons [for demons to obey Jesus] was a novel idea for Jewish exorcist.)
Acts 17:19: “They took Paul and led him to the Aeropagus and said, ‘May we learn what this new teaching is that you speak of?'” (The Aeropagus refers to the hill where the Council of Athens settled legal issues. The Athenians were becoming interested in this new religion of Christianity.)
Acts 17:21: “All the Athenians and foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new.” (Athens remained a celebrated center competing ideas, religions, customs, and philosophies. Public debate and intellectual discussion could become an end in itself. Paul confronted them about accepting a new teaching about the living God. The gospel was not another philosophy for debate.)
Paul in Athens:
- While in Athens, Paul grew exasperated at the sight of the city full of idols.
- The Athenians thought that Paul brought strange notions to their ears.
- Paul states that the Athenians are very religious. Paul appeals to the Athenians’ religiosity.
- Paul sees that the Athenians worship an “Unknown God”.
- Paul proclaims that this “Unknown God” made the world and all that is in it.
- Paul proclaims that this “Unknown God” does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands nor served by human hands (because He needs anything).
- Paul states we are the offspring of God, divinity is not like an image fashioned from gold, silver, stone or stone by human art and imagination.
2Cor.5:17: “So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things come.” (Christ’s death produces a whole new order [mode of perception]. The natural fleshy mode is replaced by a spiritual mode. The old creation is of weakness, powerlessness, folly, and death. The new creation is of wisdom, power and life.)
Novel and heretical Synodality thinking by Cardinal Ratcliffe:
- Those who seek to celebrate the TLM are the ones who are divisive. (This clearly illustrates his animosity to traditional Catholic worship.)
- He stated that Catholics should not begin asking whether conduct is permitted or forbidden. Instead, one should ask, “how far is it Eucharistic.”
- He states that even gravely sexual acts can be considered “expressive of Christ’s self-gift.” (He just ignores the fact of Jesus’ self-giving of Himself to remove sin.)
- He states that Church teaching is already developing and is being “refreshed by lived experience” (He is essentially drinking in “koolaid” of Synodality.)
- He was happy to be present to celebrate the blessing of a same-sex couple.
- He inverts Jesus’ self-gift as a rationalization for sinful sexual activity. (This becomes a corruption of Catholic teaching on homosexuality.)
- His status of a Vatican spiritual advisor and Synodal retreat master speaks volumes about moral character of Vatican II and the Synodal Church.
Conclusion:
Novel, novelty, Novus Order, new
The new modern idea of bring in worldliness and “the smoke of Satan” [spirit of undermining] into the Church. This breaks the historical tradition of the Church being SEPARATE from the world. Something to ponder about!
St. Vincent lived in the 400’s A.D. He recognized novelties, human traditions, and innovations in the Catholic Church. This saint prophetically tells us to hold on to antiquity (Tradition).
Update: Cardinal Roche has stated that the Traditional Latin Mass is no longer compatible with the new ecclesiology of the Church. This cardinal sounds like an arrogant Pharisee (as if he knows better).
In the Synodal Church, holding onto traditional Catholic teachings will get you excommunicated. Let that sink in.
Modernists now believe that Tradition is now longer compatible for the Church. Modernism seeks to diminish, annual, and repudiate Tradition.
Clergy failing/unwilling to be instructed in the kingdom of heaven: We unfortunately have too many clergy who may ignore or criticize Catholic teachings.
Modernism/Synodality has offered a new sterile form of Catholicism. Just look a the ugly modern Church and questionable liturgical practices.
Tradition conveys the timeless quality of Catholicism. Just look at the majestic, beautiful, awe-inspiring churches.
Fr. Joseph Gelineau, a member of the Bugnini Consilium, the Protestant commission to develop the Mass, stated that the New Mass destroyed the Roman rite.
Modern Synodal novelty and arrogance: Pope Leo has decided that Vatican II, not traditional Catholicism before Vatican II has standard measuring stick for Catholicism.
Synodality focuses on lived experience and asks the people what they want in the Church. This novel teaching (doctrine) departs from Jesus’ command to make disciples and bring souls into heaven.
Counciliar/Synodal human traditions:
- Pope Paul VI meeting with Protestant ministers in a task force to “Protestantize” the Mass to make it look like a meal rather than a sacrifice.
- Receiving Communion in the hand.
- Allowing for many “Extraordinary” Eucharistic ministers. So many that they are no longer extraordinary.
- Removing altar rails (This is being continued by empowered Synodal bishops.)
- Clergy restricting the TLM (Evidently, promoting Modernist/Synodalist ideology is more important than the laity’s wishes and concerns.)
- Clergy and laity sharing decision-making authority about Church teachings, doctrines, and practices. Synodal committees and pontifical commissions saying that homosexuality/sodomy is no longer sinful.
- Clergy/laity vocations/”rights” continued to be blurred. There remains continued conversation about women priests/women deacons.
- The Conciliar/Synodal Church focuses more on MAKING A BETTER WORLD/SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE WORLD rather than on making disciples and bringing souls into heaven.
- Rather than finding the Church as a source of doctrinal truth and clarity, Synodality leads to a path of confusion, and ambiguity. This is quite a novelty.
Modernists seek to find an explanation for religion, doctrine, faith INSIDE THEIR MINDS (AND LIVED EXPERIENCES). Modernism begins with an agnostic world-view. These successive and subjective human errors ultimately lead to ATHEISM!
Consequences of endless “reform” and “renewal”: More and more people are seeing Modernism filled with liturgical confusion [chaos], human traditions, heresies, new teachings and innovations, and syncretisim (mixture of religion with secularism, inculturation, paganism, worldly values, and sin).
Quotes by Pope Pius X
“Modernism means the destruction not of the Catholic religion alone, but of all religion.”
“These reasons suffice to show BY HOW MANY ROADS MODERNISM LEADS TO ATHEISM and the annihilation of all religion.” (Modernism ===> Protestantism ===> chose your heresy ===> atheism)
“All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.” St. Vincent of Lerins
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