In this era of
apostasy, there is much confusion about how to know the Christian truth. Many
millions of people who called themselves “Pentecostals” depend exclusively on
the bible and on the opinions of those who started their religion.
Just yesterday, a
friend told me he is studying theology! I asked him where he mentioned an
obscure Pentecostal college! I asked one question: What is Patristics?
He failed woefully! He
has never heard of that! He needs to fail because of his own version of
Christianity depends only on the Bible without Tradition. Patristics is the
study of the writings of the fathers, that is those who were with the Apostles
(and those who were with those who were with the apostles) and wrote down
things about what the Apostles did.
So IF you tell them
that it is Christian Tradition to abstain from meat on Fridays, they will be
looking for an explicit injunction from the Bible.
But in actual fact,
this injunction has its foundations in the Bible!
The evil religion
occupying the Vatican and Catholic parishes worldwide also has secretly removed
this august Tradition from their religion or at least they allowed it to die!
Since the mission in that religion is to kill souls, why would they promote
such Tradition?
As soon as they got
Catholic Bishops to sign on to their heresies, removing them from the Church as
from November 21, 1964, they immediately began to dismantle everything that is
Catholic in their new false religion. The Mass was the first target. Already
scandalously tampered by anti-Pope John XXIII in 1960-1962, who specifically stated
that he was implementing Pius XII's own work, Hannibal Bugnini's Conciliar
Implementation Commission immediately began to issue decrees to corrupt the
Mass.
Meanwhile, ALL Novus
Ordo organs were rapidly corrupting all things Catholic. One of the most
celebrated of these actions was to attempt to suppress the Friday abstinence
from flesh meat that had been observed by Christians since Apostolic times. The
Novus Ordo functionaries tried to pass the Friday abstinence off as merely a “disciplinary”
matter, but in fact it was a major rejection of Apostolic Tradition, an action
that was tantamount to heresy.
In fact, abstinence
from meat on Fridays got explicitly mentioned in a document from the end of the
first century A.D., the “Didache [Teaching] of the Apostles,” as well as by St.
Clement of Alexandria, one of the early Apostolic Fathers, and Tertullian in
the third century. The perpetual tradition of the Church is clear beyond the possibility of a mistake on this matter. The Friday abstinence was the universal
custom from the very beginning, as Friday was dedicated to the memory of the
Passion of Our Lord as a day on which we should make a special effort to
practice penance.
So, not eating meat on
Friday is in recognition of the fact that Christ suffered and died and gave up
his human flesh and life for our sins on a Friday that Catholics do not eat
flesh meat on Fridays. Also, the Friday abstinence reminds us of Adam and Eve's
sin, and the Blood of Christ that was shed on Calvary in the atonement of the
Original Sin.
By our abstinence on
Friday, we recall, and participate, in some small way, in the great sacrifice
of Our Lord for us on that Good Friday. Moreover, by abstaining from flesh meat,
we give up what is, on the whole, the most pleasant, as well as the most
nourishing food, and so make satisfaction for the temporal punishment due to
sin even when its guilt has been forgiven. The law of abstinence forbids under
pain of Mortal Sin flesh meat those over seven years of age. All other kinds of
food are allowed.
Many in Protestanism/Pentecostalism
will protest that it is against the Bible to avoid any food! The Novus Ordo
members will say “Ah…. I did not know”! Yes, they do not know because they are
not Catholics!
The abstinence from
flesh meat on Fridays is an ecclesiastical law with associations to Divine
Positive Law for the incorruptible crown, as expressed, for example, in St.
Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (9:25) and Second Epistle to the
Corinthians (6:5).
It has long obliged
under pain of Mortal Sin, since Pope Nicholas I in the ninth century. Pope
Innocent III at the beginning of the 13th century confirmed this teaching, and
Pope Alexander VII anathematized those who would minimize the character of a
breach as only venially sinful. Traditional Catholics know full well that they
have a grave obligation of maintaining this immemorial practice since the
Apostles. They must confess a knowing and willful breach as a Mortal Sin.
What does it mean when
Novus Ordo religion turns its back on such an Apostolic practice of the Church?
It is another sign that Novus Ordo is not the Catholic Church.
Can we not do such a
little self-mortification for our spiritual health by abstaining from flesh meat
on that one day of the week, which so many non-Catholics do so do anyway for
reasons of mere bodily health or "to save the whales"?
The question is would
you join the world in ignoring the Church’s law? Or would you join the Catholic
Church in penance for the sanctification of your soul?
By Malachy Igwilo, 4th
February 2020, Feast of St. Andrew Corsini
