Greek] μίγνυμι (mignymi), [Latin] miscere, [German] mischen, [French] mélange, [French] meler

[Greek] μίγνυμι (mignymi), [Latin] miscere, [German] mischen, [French] mélange, [French] meler: to mix, to mingle; Mt.27:34, Lk.13:1, Rev.8:7, Rev.15:2

St. Albert the Great warns all of us about mixing and mingling our faith with the world. This can lead to worldliness. (watered-down faith or lack of faith)

Background information:

Albertus Magnus (1200-1280):

1. He is also more widely known as St. Albert the Great.
2. He was was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, bishop, and medieval philosopher and thinker.
3. He was canonized in 1931 and designated as a Doctor of the Church.
4. He taught theology at the University of Paris. His most famous student was Thomas Aquinas.
5. He was asked to preach the eighth Crusade in German-speaking countries.
6. He is known for founding Germany’ oldest university.

Old Testament: This term means to exchange, to disperse, to pulverize, to mix, to engage, and to place upon.

New Testament: This term means to mix and to mingle.

Mt.27:34: “They gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when He had tasted it, He refused to drink.” (This alludes to Psa.69:22, in which a persecuted just man prays for deliverance in the midst of great suffering. In this suffering there is also a great confidence his prayer will be heard.)

Lk.13:1 “At that same time some people who were present there told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.” (Luke provides a timely reminder of the need for all to repent, for the victims of these tragedies should not be necessarily immune from judgement or punishment.)

Spiritual harlotry: This is a intercourse (MIXING) of heavenly (spiritual) values with worldly values (idolatry, paganism, worldliness, and sin). Abandoning the Lord for a foreign god was called prostitution or adultery. Against God, the harlot prostitutes oneself with idolatry, paganism, and sin.

Modern-day syncretism (harlotry) of Christianity with worldly values, idolatry, and sin in the world:

1. Allowing sacrilegious gatherings, non-Catholic clergy, pagan idols and inculturated Masses.
2. Relaxing or downplaying teachings to allow for new situational moralities (Fiducia Supplicans, Amoris Laetitia, Mater Populi, Fidelis)
3. Vatican II and Synodality focusing more on MAKING A BETTER WORLD/SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE WORLD rather than BRINGING SOULS INTO HEAVEN.
4. Allowing the German Bishops to continue their “renewal” and “reform” leading to decline and heresy. The is the ultimate consequence of Synodality
5. Synodality: shared decision-making authority between clergy and laity, redefining Church authority, redefining vocations and women’s role in the Church
6. Popes making problematic and heretic statements about other faiths under the guise of ecumenism.
7. Continuing an LGBTQ “outreach”: ignoring and disregarding Church teachings against homosexuality, empowering pro-LGBTQ bishops, de-stigmatizing and normalizing homosexuality, clergy living homosexual lifestyles

Confusing tolerance with intolerance:

1. Tolerance is not a Christian virtue. It is never an end in itself [Archbishop Chaput]
2. Tolerance applies only to person, but never to principles. [Archbishop Sheen]
3. Intolerance applies only principles, but never to persons. [Archbishop Sheen]
4. Tolerance is the ‘virtue’ of a man without convictions. [GK Chesterton]
5. Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it seeks to silence good. [Archbishop Chaput]
6. Our society’s obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. [Charles Colson]
7. The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes. [Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange]
8. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe. [Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange]

Jesus’ teachings of tolerance?? (This is a great fallacy!)

1. What does this even mean? Following Jesus is a binary choice. You either follow Him or you do NOT follow Him.
2. Jesus stated that if you choose to follow Him, you must sin no more. Jesus is being intolerant in saying, “Sin no more.” (Jn.8:11)
3. Jesus associated with sinners, but He DOES NOT tolerate their sinful lifestyles and sinfulness.
4. Jesus stated that if you DO NOT follow Him, you are walking in darkness (Jn.8:12). Jesus does not sound tolerant when He said this.
5. Jesus is tolerant to the extent of being infinitely merciful to us. But conversion must follow forgiveness.
6. Many people are often confused about what tolerance and intolerance means.
7. Many people may often mistakenly truly think that a merciful Jesus would be tolerant of their lifestyle.

Conclusion:

Mix, mess, messy, melee

Update: The Modernists, in their efforts to create a synodal Church, continue to mix and mingle faith with worldliness, ecumenical placating other faiths, secularism, situational moralities, sin, and evil.

This synodal Church is essentially moving with the world, becoming a Church made in the image of man (and his lived experiences.)

We are all finding out that the USCCB, Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, and other charitable organization are mixing their priorities and money for dubious purposes. They have lost their mission to focus on spiritual priorities: abortion, pro-life, Eucharist, and the salvation of souls.

Jn. 8:12 clearly states, “If you do not follow Jesus [by sinning], YOU WALK IN DARKNESS. What does this say about the Synodal Church not following Jesus’ command to SIN NO MORE!

If the Church was serious in promoting Church teachings, the need for the LGBTQ “outreach” would decrease (as there would be more turning away from this lifestyle.) But instead, the LGBTQ “outreach ” continues to expand.

Unfortunately, too many people (including clergy and laity) are confusing vocations with job positions. They are not! Many women now believe that they are entitled to have these “positions”.  Priests, in acting in the person of Christ, the Bridegroom, must only be men!

More people are seeing that the clergy and the Vatican are becoming more politicized (mixing faith and politics). Traditional and conservative Catholics (and Christians) are now being politicized as “right-wing.”

“Hate what the world seeks and seek what it avoids.” St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Strive to preserve your heart in peace. Let no event of the world disturb it.” St. John of the Cross

“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” C.S. Lewis

Pope Pius Xi called ecumenism “an error so great that it would destroy utterly the foundations of the Catholic faith.” Mortalium Animos, 1928