EN
FR
By Anna Von Reitz,
Oh, to be sure, the Church had enriched itself via improper means for centuries prior to Vatican II. It had created monarchies and oppression, funded the Inquisition, dreamed up the concept of “income taxes”, and sold “indulgences”, twisted the meaning of “commonwealth” into The Holy Roman Empire, and committed many other atrocities and sins prior to Vatican II.
Despite all of this, at rock bottom, the Church still stood for something, still offered Catholics and other Christians a moral compass. Prior to Vatican II, the Church still knew that it was wrong to kill people, wrong to lie, cheat, or steal, wrong to break one’s word, wrong to cheat on one’s spouse, wrong to envy and covet– and certainly wrong to kill babies or teach that sodomy is “okay”.
You could go into any Roman Catholic Church in the world and find the same liturgy, the same Mass, the same common language — Latin, and if you asked a question about doctrine, you’d get the same answer. Not so today. In the almost sixty years since Vatican II, all that has eroded away.
Today, there is only the form of the liturgy and offices remaining, which gives an appearance of continuance much as the existence of court rules and procedures continues to give an “appearance” of justice.
Communion, where and when it is available, has become a solitary act. People line up, six feet apart, not talking, not touching, not even looking at each other, march into an empty room, grab a packet of communion bread, and use their own hands to wolf it down in the parking lot.
Somehow, this is supposed to bring comfort and spiritual solidarity?
All the evils which always plagued the Church continued to wheedle away, year after year, and without a common language and commitment to moral purpose, the Church strayed farther and farther away from its mission and became increasingly embroiled in its investments and in managing all the property that it “received in trust”.
A good example of the result is the recent Peter’s Pence Scandal.
The original Peter’s Pence was an income tax imposed in the 12th century to help defray the cost of the Crusades. It was collected by the Inquisition on April 15th, just as it still is, today. Only in addition to this “secular tax”, the Church also began collecting a new Peter’s Pence on June 15th as a special offering to give the Pope funds to distribute to the victims of war, displacement, natural disasters, and disease.
Faithful Catholics donated $500 million to this cause, and later found out that instead of using the money for disaster relief, the Pope and his consultants invested the money in things like luxury condos, new bank buildings, and Hollywood movie productions.
Questioned about this, the Church leadership bridled up and made excuses about being responsible to invest the money —- even though investment was never mentioned as any part of the purpose of the collection.
The simple good faith honesty of spending the money on what they collected the money for, eluded these men. They have become double-minded, saying one thing, and doing another. And nobody at the Vatican even noticed. They took it for granted that they would collect the money under False Pretenses, and spend it otherwise.
Since Vatican II, when the Church incorporated itself as part of the UN Corporation, such moral and fiscal turpitude has been the rule, not the exception.
Selling the body and blood of Jesus is the ultimate fornication of the Church. This is where the analogy of the “whore” comes in — the selling of the body for money.
But it is a body that is not theirs to sell.
As we all move forward the Church leadership is standing silent. Silent in the face of teaching sodomy in public schools. Silent in the face of abortion. Silent in the face of race riots. Silent in the face of gay marriage. Silent in the face of the gross mismanagement of the Municipal United States Congress. Silent in the face of their own corruption. No confession. No repentance. No condemnation of evil. No resolve to do better.
Certainly it is this final fact that yields condemnation, the point wherein we all condemn ourselves and find no escape for lack of repentance.
My husband and I have removed ourselves from association with any incorporated Church. We deem it impossible to be a pagan Christian, and similarly impossible to be an incorporated Church.
For the Roman Catholic Church, that reality was borne home with Vatican II. The resulting surrender to the secular world with its focus on money and property management and investments, “mainstreaming” and “popular theology” and “do as you will” has borne its fruits ever since.
Still, there will always be a remnant and that remnant will find leadership growing out of the stricken roots of the ancient Church. The teachings of Jesus will endure all tests. The Holy Spirit will win. In that we can all have faith and confidence, regardless of the failures of men and institutions.
So be of good cheer as we sit among the ruins and contemplate the folly that brought us to this point. The Church has failed. The Governments have failed.
We know how we got to this point:—in a word, incorporation.
We have allowed legal fiction entities to proliferate and promulgate without oversight, until the men running corporations — including incorporated churches — run roughshod over the people who granted these corporations the right to exist.
Yes, we know how we got here. The only question is— where to now?
—————————-
Source: www.annavonreitz.com
Your Tax Free Donations Are Appreciated and Help Fund our Volunteer Website
Disclaimer: We at Prepare for Change (PFC) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news, and therefore may seem controversial. The opinions, views, statements, and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted, endorsed, espoused, or agreed to by Prepare for Change, its leadership Council, members, those who work with PFC, or those who read its content. However, they are hopefully provocative. Please use discernment! Use logical thinking, your own intuition and your own connection with Source, Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not. By sharing information and seeding dialogue, it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm.
Here in the UK the political party who came 2nd is the party who sit opposite those in power, why is this? We the people should form our own party and be the ones sitting opposite the party in power. They work for us. They should run everything by us first, not another party who are fighting for team elite. This to me is the way we take it all back. It has to be funded by the people for the people. Once we get elected, then we can audit the last 40+ years of tory rule and bring back hanging for treason. Wouldn’t YOU want to actually know where all your money has been really going? It certainly hasn’t been spent on any roads repairs, lifting the poorest out of poverty, or been spent on anything to make life easier for those at the bottom of the pile, the working classes.
I don’t like the tone of the video much, any pomp and circumstance that makes the lie or truth bigger than it is and add sarcastic and sniggering comments, to put some “juice” to it, isn’t my cup of tea. In my own comments, I try to stay away from that style, in writing.
The decline of moral standards in the Catholic Church and the fraudulent practices such as demanding money from members in order to absolve them from their sins is the most criminal and ridiculously misleading measure ever invented within so-called religious circles.
Those payments to the Catholic Church, even from the poorest, are proof of how strong the power of money had grown in those days. I’m not from a Catholic background, but as a child, I marvelled at the artefacts, trinkets and decorations in a Catholic Church. In the church where my father preached as a Calvinistic minister, no decoration or embroidery, statue or candles were allowed. Only with Xmas, we had a Xmas tree with silver-coloured baubles and a few candles here and there. There was always 1 vase with flowers all year round. I looked at it often, when sitting in church twice on Sundays, for 1 and a half hour at 8.30 am and 15.30 pm No separate room in the church for children, or toys and colouring pencils with paper. That souplesse came much later. My years in church were the 50’s+60’s.
The last line of this article “Yes, we know how we got here. The only question is— where to now?” holds the answer in its folds, as I perceive it. At least, when you approach the question as a matter of finding answers in your own personal life. To me, that’s where the seeds begin to grow, showing 1 individual plant at first and slowly beginning to form an entire forest.
The sprouting seed isn’t concerned with the forest, just with itself growing into one tree. And to me, that’s how each of us finds the answer to the question “where to now?” The direction that involves our existence as a human being, can only be found from within, by moving through the doors of perception into an expanded consciousness that is a flowering also.
For once you’ve figured out where you ARE (present) knowing how you got there, you will have worked out the past and can direct your attention to focus on the moment where you ARE and hatch an answer as if the present moment is an egg. By knowing what you don’t want, you’ll know what it is that you want. Isn’t that how we often learn in the world of 3D?
A revelation that is a seed grown out of the transformation of the flower. To me, humanity’s awakening, faster now than ever before, through suffering and tribulations, is a fact that is written in stone, part of our planetary duty almost, or planetary service? But I expect to see the choices and manifestation of these choices, practical, to be part of our free will in action.
The freedom of our spirit and the liberation that sprouts from it will restore our ability to connect in many more ways than just keeping each other company while making efforts to live in freedom of expression. Telepathy and our intuition will be the qualities that connect us without giving lies a chance to infiltrate and divide. All will be exposed in the light of truth.
May the day arrive soon, that we will leave the hypnosis of, and addiction to physical form.
I’ve spent a large part of my youth & middle years chasing God. & I have found The Creator/Creators in The Heavens just as The Scriptures say, “Look To The Heavens” (aka known as the sky) & The Kingdom is Near (yes it’s right in front of us, The Earth we live on) Considering the Ugly history of Not just Christianity but also Islam & Judaism, at what point do We All realize They are All designed to just Control us & benefit financially along the way. If you walk outside & start to recognize The Sun. literally, it actually starts to get Brighter. The Sun is & always was the Father, Giver of Life. It is in Fact the Only God that can be Proven, Every single Morning it Rises in The East.
The sun does not rise in the East. The Earth turns to face the sun, after turning from the sun to face the dark at night. The dark energies are concentrated energies for manifestation, a gift of God, without the Goddess nothing can be created.
Because the church does not recognize but has turned from the other half of God, His/Her Goddess energies, it has built arrogance among men who’s only desire is to feed the ego and absolute control over others. It is time we seek balance within both men and women. Without Goddess energy, the god worshipped by men can only become cruel and arrogant – history proven!
The Earth does Not move. The ancient people knew this & forever recorded that. They studied The Constellations & understood it’s Movements. The Bible is a great Piece of Literature & this is too all recorded as such. Psalm 19:1-6 Sun runs circuit above circle Earth. Psalm 93 :1 Foundations & Job 38:4-7. Psalm 104:5 Motionless Earth, Earth does not move. Genesis 1: 6-10 Dome (aka Firmament) Job 38 :31-33 Constellations never change. (you can not have the same constellation pattern all year if you were tilting or flying around space. Fact) We need to seek back to the Only Giver of Life ‘The Sun’
& NASA has already admitted that All Photos are CGI (Computer Graphics Image) There are No photos of Earth from Space. We have Never been to the Moon. It gets more interesting in The Antarctic