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In my previous post I mentioned that some people encounter difficulty reconciling three perspectives on the Catholic Church :

1. The Church as she should be: Perfect, full to the brim with people practicing the virtues, seeking their salvation and that of the rest of the world.

2. The Church as she is: presently enduring a major crisis that has been hundreds of years in the making. From the top to the bottom of the hierarchy there are corrupt,  weak men and women who want to remake the Catholic Church in their own image. Yet the Catholic Church remains the Church of Christ in spite of these evil members.

3. The Church as she can be: perfect in the Divine elements, and flawed in the human elements. The leaders of the Catholic Church often demonstrate the Divine support necessary to fulfill the words of OLJC that the gates of hell would not prevail.

The inability to deal with the reality of the situation leads many people to make bad decisions.

They effectively are scared poopless, oops Popeless.

Don't be scared, be Catholic in the truest sense of the word.

It is a Dogma that there will be a Pope until the end of the world. Our Lady said that Pope and bishops will consecrate Russia to her immaculate heart.

Our Lord Jesus Christ will win.

Our part is to make the Catholic Church stronger by being virtuous Catholics. By doing so you will help other Catholics via the communion of saints.

Let's face the first step: flee the new mass. Do what is right and find a Tridentine Mass that isn't sede-vacantist or "resistance " (the difference is vanishingly small).

The new mass doesn't make new Catholics, it makes new protestants. It's effects are insidious and dangerous to the faith of those who attend. Not because it isn't valid,  but because the expressions of Catholic truths have been ripped out.

Abiding by the truth is why the sspx is where it is canonically speaking.

Abide by the truth with fortitude and you will see where God wants to lead you.

P^3

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