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Thursday, October 13, 2005




ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE

The following quote is an excerpt from an online book by Tevas Raimundas OFM, titled Vatican II : The Church is opening up to the modern world. The book is favorable to Vatican II.

The schema on revelation is considered the most important theological text of Vatican II. On that committee is Father Congar, Mgr. Philips and Fr. Benoit, director of the Biblical School of Jerusalem. The Church does not draw from Scripture alone her certitude of all that has been revealed. Scripture is always read within tradition. Tradition transmits the word of God integrally. Old Testament: a preparation for the Gospel. Magisterium: he receives the "charisma of truth" : St. Ireneus. Scripture: the soul of theology.
Father de Lubac: "This is a great document. The schema is essential for relations with the Orthodoxy and is capable of reconciling us with them. I think that this document is the milestone which indicates that we have gone beyond the Counter-Reformation and anti-modernism."
Pastor Max Thurian: "The Catholic Church have brought to a more authentically traditional understanding of the problem of God's revelation to his people. It is one more proof that in the future the Catholic Church cannot live and progress unless she maintains dialogue with all Christians.


Pastor Max Thurian, a Calvanist according to some sources, was one of the Protestant Observers at Vatican II. And he was something else according to this anti-Novus Ordo website:

Novus Ordo worship service was written in the 1960s by a Freemason (Archbishop Annibale Bugnini ) and six Protestant ministers. In 1970 a photograph was published showing Paul VI posing with the Protestant ministers that had worked with Anibale Bugnini, head of the Consilium ad Exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia [Council to Carry out the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy], to draft the Novus Ordo worship service.

Not only were these six individuals heretics personally, but they were there acting in their official capacity as such. The six were Dr. George, Canon Jasper, Dr. Shepherd, Dr. Kunneth, Dr. Smith, and Brother Max Thurian, representing respectively the World Council of Churches, the Anglican and Lutheran communions, and the French Protestant Taize community.

After the Consilium had met and finished its work of suppressing the Traditional Latin Mass and replacing it with the New Order worship service, Dr. Smith, the Lutheran representative, publicly boasted, "We have finished the work that Martin Luther began."

Brother Thurian had been the subprior at Taize from its foundation in the late 1940s. In 1969 he expressed his satisfaction with the Novus Ordo Missae by stating that Protestants could now celebrate the "Lord's Supper" with the same prayers as Catholics. On May 12, 1988, the French daily Le Monde announced that Max Thurian had not only become a Catholic, but had been ordained to the Catholic priesthood by Cardinal Ursi of Naples, without being received into the Church, without the Profession of Faith, etc., a known scandal in Rome at the time.


Thurian's presence at the Council and leadership position at Taize is confirmed in an article at Latin Mass Magazine website by Cardinal Stickler:

It did not rework the Roman rite, which it was asked to do by the Liturgy Constitution of Vatican II, but uprooted it. Shortly before his death, the well-known Prior of Taize, Max Thurian, a Catholic convert who was previously a Calvinist, expounded his view of the reform in a long article entitled "The Liturgy as Contemplation of the Mystery" in L'Osservatore Romano (May 27-28, 1996, p. 9).


Yet despite the Latin Mass Magazine's claim that Thurian was a Catholic, at Vatican II he represented the Protestants, and he supervised a Protestant ecumenical community.

I wonder who is playing on the Roman Catholic team these days?

I wonder if there is a Roman Catholic Team?

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!



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