Divine Mercy Devotion - Problems
During the time of Pope John XXIII, the Church prohibited the "Divine Mercy" devotion as received by Sr. Faustina with a decree on November 19, 1958 . The Holy Office condemned it, establishing that "it is not evident that the revelations made to Sr. Faustina are supernatural."
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The Problem With the "Divine Mercy" Devotion
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The "devotion" graphically eliminates the Most Sacred Heart which the Chair of St. Peter had already presented as the true image of God's "Merciful Love" (St. Therese). The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, crowned with thorns, dripping with the Most Precious Blood, calls for a devotion of reparation as the successors to the Chair of St. Peter had consistently insisted (from the time of the institution of the Sacred Heart devotion) for the true God Whom an authentically orthodox Catholic Theology proclaims is the God of BOTH mercy AND JUSTICE - the divine justice must be satisfied also by reparation. The "Divine Mercy" devotion graphically eliminates therefore the Catholic concept of the "God of Justice" - demanding reparation and propitiation for sins - which forms a necessary part of the equation, so to speak, of who-the-true-God-is. And when the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) adopted the "New 'Catholic Theology'"
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it's no great surprise that Pope John Paul II, avowed advocate of Vatican II "norms and directives," defied the previous Papal ban, without satisfying the supernatural requirement, and even propagated the "devotion": for the New "Catholic" religion must have its fitting devotion!
A true and solid devotion, since it touches on an orthodox and solid Spiritual Life, must be orthodox in doctrine, that is, in conformity with the Sacred Scripture and the traditional teachings of the Church. "Indeed," says Fr. Frederick Faber of the Oratorians, "a mistake in doctrine is doubly dangerous when it is worked up into the spiritual life." And the 'double danger' is that "it poisons everything, and there is no mischief which may not be predicted of the unfortunate soul which is the subject of it" (in the spiritual classic "Growth in Holiness," p.43).
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