[Greek] ἐκλείπω (ekleipō), [Latin] deficere, [French] se detacher, [French] abandonner, [German] abfallen

[Greek] ἐκλείπω (ekleipō), [Latin] deficere, [French] se detacher, [French] abandonner, [German] abfallen: to eclipse, to fail, to leave out, to cease, to die, to omit, to end; Lk.16:9, Lk.22:32, Lk.23:45, Heb.1:12

While the TLM Mass continues to thrive (where allowed), the Novus Order Mass, which undermined and minimized the sacrificial nature of the Mass, continues to have sparse attendance. Shocker!

 

Background information:

Greek Hellenism: This term means to leave out, to pass over, to abandon, to fail, to eclipse, to die, to faint, to be lacking, to be left, to depart, end, and to postpone.

Aeschlyus’ Prometheus Bound 827: “The weary tale I shall leave out.”

Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound 827: “I will describe the toils she has endured before she came here.”

Lysias’ Accusation of Calumny 8.16: “The pretexts you clearly invented about me have failed you.”

Plato’s Menexenus 234b: “For the vigor which once I had has gone from me.”

Old Testament: This term means to die, to fail, to leave off, to stop, and to eclipse (overshadow).

New Testament: This term means to fail, to end, and to cease.

Lk.16:9: “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth (mammon), so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” (One must make prudent use of one’s wealth. One must have constant trust and fidelity to those in positions of responsibility. There is an incompatibility of serving God and being a slave to riches.)

Parable of the Disabled Steward:

1. The dishonest steward wrote generous notes to ingratiate himself with the debtors.
2. Mammon (earthly treasures) fail because they do not last.
3. One must make prudent use of one’s earthly material wealth.
4. Making friends means showing kindness (mercy) in using these goods for the poor and less fortunate.
5. While earthly goods are finite (temporary), heavenly spiritual treasures are longer lasting.
6. Through the charitable, prudent, and creative use of earthly goods, one can accumulate permanent spiritual treasures in heaven.
7. Faith is inadequate. Works (actions) are also required.
8. The eternal dwellings represent the heavenly abodes.

Lk.22:32: “Satan has demanded to sift all of you sifted like wheat. But I have prayed that your won faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” (Jesus hopes that Peter does not fail in his role as leader of the apostles. Jesus warns that Satan will test and try the apostles’ faith. But the Holy Spirit will strengthen them.) 

Satan will sift of you like wheat:

1. May tempt you with trials or temptations.
2. Will test your faith.
3. Will try to confuse you (make your wheat [faith] look like chaff [sin and corruption]).
4. Will seek to lead you astray.

[Greek] λείπω (leipō), [Latin] deficiente, [Latin] indigere, [German] fehlen:

Lk.18:22: “When Jesus this He said to them, ‘There is still one thing left for you: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come follow me.'” (Jesus calls us to be mindful of the poor who lack food and clothing. Jesus also calls us to remove our attachments to material possessions. By following Him one may hope to find lasting spiritual treasures.)

Jas.1.4-5: “And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it.”

Perseverance in trials:

1. These trials can be considered joyful in allowing God to intercede, strengthen, nourish and bless us.
2. God’s discipline seeks to strengthen us and to prune us of our imperfections (weaknesses).
3. God generously gives us wisdom when we ask for it.
4. Wisdom is a gift that God readily grants to all who ask in faith in times of trial.

Jas.2:14-15: “What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? But you do not help a brother or sister who has nothing to wear?”

Faith and works:

1. What good is it if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
2. How does only having faith help someone who has nothing to wear?
3. Faith of itself, without works, is dead.
4. Was not Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
5. Faith is completed by works.
6. A person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Modernists (Synodalists): who often fall into the dark shadow of their ideology, actions, statements, arrogance, and hard-heartedness.

1. The people’s rights and desires to worship are continually REFUSED and IGNORED. Custodes Traditiones has restricted the TLM.
2. Modernists and Synodalists claim that the Church ecclesiology has changed (as if they know better). Tradition is rigid and backward looking.
3. There is more focus on MAKING A BETTER WORLD/SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE WORLD rather than on BRINGING SOULS INTO HEAVEN.
4. There continues to be more doctrinal (liturgical) confusion, human traditions, questionable ecumenism, and heresy.
5. Cardinal Cupich either shows ignorance or willful gaslighting when he claims that the TLM impoverishes and the NOM nourishes.
6. Further gaslighting: Synodality provides further reform and renewal. “We must finish what Vatican II started.
7. GREAT WARNING SIGNS TO COME WITH SYNODALITY: The German synodal Church is “renewing” and “reforming” itself into decline and heresy.
8. Lived experiences redefine and reduce religion, doctrine, and Church teachings. Objective supernatural morality and sin are often eclipsed or ignored.
9. Vatican II: Pope Paul VI worked with a commission of Protestant theologians to make the NOM look more like a community meal rather than a sacrifice. Let that sink in!

General Social Survey (GSS). 9 out of 10 American cradle Catholics are leaving the Church:

1. In each successive years, higher percentages of Catholics have left the Church.
2. The GSS illustrates reliable data. This is a problem of great concern.
3. SYNODALITY CONTINUES WHAT VATICAN II HAS CAUSED.
4. The Novus Order Mass consistently has sparse Mass attendance. Huge red flag!
5. In contrast, the Traditional Latin Mass consistently has high Mass attendance (when it is not prohibited).

Moral failings in the Church and clergy:

1. The Church continues fail to continue to strongly state Church teachings toward homosexuality.
2. The Church continues its questionable LGBTQ outreach.
3. There continues to be a large percentage of clergy who live a homosexual lifestyle. And you wonder why we continue to have clergy sexual abuse, and financial settlements
4. The Vatican continues to fail to strongly criticize and repudiate the German bishop’ desire for homosexuality and same-sex blessings.

Etymology: The Greek verb ekleipo means to leave (-leipo) out (ek-). The Latin noun eclipsis is a darkness or a failing of appearing.

Conclusion:

Eclipse, deficiency, deficient, abandon, fall, fell, indigent, defect

Update: The USCCB, Catholic agencies, and Catholic charities have been making friends with dubious organizations pertaining to illegal immigration and child trafficking. This has involved secretive financial transactions with governmental agencies. Fortunately, the money spigot has turned off. The American people are happy about this.

Satan continues to sift the clergy in his efforts to undermine the clergy in the Church from within.

1. Satan seeks to undermine the individual priest and undermine Church teachings.
2. It is important to note that Pope Paul VI stated that the “smoke of Satan” has entered into the Church.
3. The “smoke of Satan” refers to the moral and doctrinal confusion, upheaval, and ambiguity in the Church.
4. It has been alleged that a large percentage of clergy are in engaged in a homosexual lifestyle. And you wonder why there are many pro-LGBT clergy in the Church.
5. St. Peter Damian famously criticized the clergy and laity for engaging in the homosexual lifestyle

Failing to remove oneself from attachments, worldliness, and politics:

1. Laity often have difficulties in removing themselves from material possessions and in giving to the poor.
2. Too many clergy tell us to focus on immigrants of other nations rather than on the needy person nearby. These become inverted priorities.

Failing to be synodal: The Vatican welcomed the LGBTQ community to the Vatican Jubilee 2025, but not the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (SSPX). Not a good look!

Failing in being educated in the faith: The parishioners at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church seem be triggered by traditional Catholic teaching, discipline, practices, and liturgical music implemented at this church.  The parishioners were angered by a priest who upset their liberal attitudes.

The diocese of Oakland will close 13 parishes because of declining attendance, shortage of priests, and lawsuits for sexual abuse claims.

The archdiocese of New York has agreed to a nearly $1 billion settlement for sexual abuse victims.

Moral failings of both the Vatican Synodal Church  and the German Synodal Church:

1. There Germans are evidently “hell-bent” on formulizing same-sex blessings.
2. Pope Frances tepidly criticized the German bishops “for moving too fast”, but not for the German bishops to stop this practice. Did Pope Francis think that the rest of the Church will accept this practice in the future?
3. The Vatican (and Pope Francis) produced Fiducia Supplicans [to allow for “informal blessings for same-sex unions”] to placate the German bishops.
4. The Vatican released 2024 letter rebuking the German bishops’ efforts to formulize blessing for same-sex unions
5. Pope Leo also criticized the German bishops efforts but has also essentially officially endorsed Fiducia Supplicans. Does Pope Leo think he is going to credit for doing this?

Synodality: the “gift” that keeps giving us more worldliness and “smoke of Satan” ===> Synod report suggests that homosexual relationships may NOT be sinful. Re-defining Church teachings according to the culture. Let that sink in!  St. Peter Damian preached against this. Not a good look for this synodal Church.

“Not to oppose error is to approve it. and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage it.” Pope St. Felix II

“All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.” Pope Pius V   (This applies to both clergy and laity.)

“The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.” Pope Pius X