[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 (where allowed) continues to thrive, the NOM continues to have sparse attendance. Cardinal Fernandez’s document Venite ad Me admits generations have lost the faith. This is an acknowledgement that Vatican II and Synodality HAVE BEEN A FAILURE!

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.

[Greek] ἐγκαταλείπω (egkataleipō), [Latin] derelinquere, [Latin] deserere, [French] abandonner, [French] separer, [Old English] forsacan

2 Cor.4:8-9: “We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”

1. Although Paul and his fellow workers faced opposition, suffering, hostility, imprisonment, and persecution, God did not abandon them.
2. Christ’s servants were afflicted but not destroyed. God’s power sustains them.
3. Faithful obedience sometimes lead through circumstances that cannot be explained by human wisdom.
4. Persecution was not evidence that God had abandoned Paul. God remains faithful with His people in every trial. The power sustaining such endurance is not human strength, but God’s power.
5. Present suffering cannot destroy their eternal hope.

ἀπολείπομαι (apoleipomai), [French] abandonner, [French] quitter

Heb.10:26-27: “If we sin deliberately after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sin but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.”

1. Willful persistence in sin describes a settled turning from Christ.
2. Israel’s rebellion in the wilderness brought judgment because it despised the Lord’s word.
3. To reject Christ after receiving such light rejects the fulfillment of God’s promises.
4. Whoever knowingly rejects His finished sacrifice reject the only sacrifice capable of bring forgiveness.)

Modernists’ (Synodalists’) moral failings: 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!
10. The Synodal Church continues to teaching or state Church teachings against homosexuality. Their LGBTQ “outreach” seems to TAKE PRECEDENCE.
11. Continuing to push the doctrinal envelope: more questionable Church appointments, continued appeasement to the German bishops and other faiths

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
6. The adversary continues to undermine Church divine authority because subtly encouraging the re-defining and blurring of vocations/”rights”. Vocations are now becoming political rights.

Conclusion:

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

Update: The USCCB continue to double down on immigration, rather than on spiritual matters. They continue to be more focused on MAKING A BETTER WORLD/SEEKING FAVOR WITH THE WORLD rather than with bringing souls into heaven.

It has been shown that Cardinal Cupich has bestowed an award to a Democratic billionaire who fund abortion.

Continuing to fail to be “synodal”: The Vatican welcomes all different faiths and the LGBT community but continues to shun and marginalize the SSPX.

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 ups more worldliness and spirit of undermining (“smoke of Satan”).  The Synodal study group states that homosexual relationships may NOTG be sinful. This redefining Church teachings in order to conform to the culture.

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

The USCCB continue to double down on immigration. US funding was shut down due to corruption, fraud, questionable practices, child-trafficking, and unlawful immigrant trafficking. The USCCB wants the US government to turn on the money spigot.

It has been shown that Cardinal Cupich has bestowed awards to a Democratic billionaire who funds abortion.

Making friends with dishonest money: The US government had to shut down funding for immigration programs: fraud, waste, questionable practices, left-wing causes, abortion, child trafficking, immigrant trafficking.  Yet the USCCB wants the US government to turn the money supply back on.

Satan continues to sift Church teachings: ignoring, paying lip service, “being pastoral”, undermining Church teachings and even celebrating sinful behavior.

Satan continues to sift Church teachers and theologicians: clergy disregarding Church teachings and leading others to sin. These clergy will receive their judgment before the Lord.

Synodal failing to close the door on woman priests and deacons: Synodality has intentionally and deliberately have keep these ideas open, because they want this to happen.

Failing to uphold Traditional Catholic teaching: Cardinal Fernandez believe that the transmission of faith is “scholastic”,  “dogmatic”, and “moralistic”. This redefining Church teachings, doctrine, and morality. Shocker

Cardinal Fernandez’ document Venite ad Me acknowledges that the people have lost the faith. Vatican II and Synodality have become a failure. What is the solution for this? more Synodality (accommodating the Church to the world and culture). Let that sink in!

Being trapped in their own Synodal hard-heartedness and delusion: They think Synodality will solve the Church’s problems. We need only to look at how the German Synodal Church is “renewing” and “reforming” itself in decline and heresy.

Failing to uphold Church teachings: “We must first change attitudes before even thinking about changing what the Church teaches on a particular issue.” Pope Leo XIV.  He is already open to the idea that Church teachings/doctrine can be changed by attitudes. Let that sink in.

Traditional and conservative Catholics and Christians continue to be marginalized by the Synodal Church leadership. This is not be synodal.

Failing to uphold the Church’s magisterial teaching: Laity is already sharing decision-making authority with the clergy in the Church. There are now e

Synodality (lived experiences) quite often TAKES PRECEDENCE over Church teachings. This is Synodality becoming an IDOL!

Many states are still failing to present their voting rolls to the US government concerning illegal voting and voting irregularities. They can keep saying voter fraud is rare. Then what is problem in complying with these orders?

Becoming a Church more and more unrecognizable from the Church that Jesus established: The Synodal Church continues to re-make itself in the image of man and his lived experiences.

Synodal failing to honor Christ the King’s divine authority in society? Instead, the Synodal Church continues to celebrate and elevate man (humanity). The Synodal Church is being remade in the image of man and his lived experiences.

“Behind Communion in the hand–I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can–is a weakening, a conscious, and deliberate weaking of the faith in the Real Presence.” Fr. John Hardin