There is a "pilgrim cross" making the rounds in our churches nowadays. It is not the World Youth Day Cross.
Nah.
Too Latin looking.
It is the Sierra Madre Cross.
Here is their promotional poster.
Here is the close-up
Yup. That is the hideous looking cross.
The Inquirer reported about it:
To dramatize the government’s failure to stop the destruction of the Sierra Madre mountain ranges, environmentalists, religious and nongovernment organizations started on Good Friday a pilgrimage of a 7-foot cross across 10 Luzon provinces and Metro Manila.
Fr. Pete Montallana, chair of the Save Sierra Madre Network, said over the phone that through the pilgrimage of the Sierra Madre cross, they “want government officials and the public to see and feel that the continuous destruction of the mountain is no different from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.”
Oh my....
The salvation of our souls........likened to the destruction of the planet.
Avatar alert?
No surprise there actually.
This is totally Wiccan.
The pagan religion disguised as a Catholic effort to save the planet.
To work for the conservation of our planet is laudable. No problem with that. But to blur it with our own salvation history. Just plain apostasy!
Here is a part of the liturgy that is being passed around:
"Let us greet the East which bring the light of the Sun. Father Sun, in your blinding radiance, give us strength, light, at knowledge."
For the ordinary Catholic, this seems harmless, right? But no.
This was how pagans worshiped. And this is not how Christians worship.
We do not call the sun, Father!
Head on over to Fr. Zerrudo's blog and get blown away at how pagan some in the Catholic Church have become.
O Spirit of the North Stone
ReplyDeleteAncient one of the Earth
I call you to attend this circle
Charge this by your powers, Old Ones
O spirit of the East Stone
Ancient one of Air
I call you to attend this circle
Charge this by your powers, Old Ones
O spirit of the South Stone
Ancient one of Fire
I call you to attend this circle
Charge this by your powers, Old Ones
O spirit of the west stone
Ancient one of water
I call you to attend this circle
Charge this by your powers, Old Ones
The "spells" that I placed here TPC are copied from the book Wicca; A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner written by one of the most revered Wiccans in Amercia, Scott Cunningham. And I find it quite chilling that the prayers proposed as a liturgy by certain priests posted in the blog of Fr.Z are almost facsimiles of this Pagan prayers. By the way, the four directions together with their "Watchers" are invoked every time a Wiccan wishes to cast a circle. And by casting a circle, a Wiccan is trying to to make a sacred space between this world and the world of "the spirits". It is also used as a preliminary ritual in doing Magical Evocations. A Magical Evocation is the ritual for summoning spirits. For Wiccans, this spirits are referred to as nature spirits, guides, angels or any other benevolent spirits. But for us Christians, we only have one word for it, and it starts with a "D".