Stop calling the Earth "Mother," as the pagans do.
Pope Pius XI— Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe, is not a believer in God:
Take care, Venerable Brethren, that above all, faith in God, the first and irreplaceable foundation of all religion, be preserved in Germany pure and unstained. The believer in God is not he who utters the name in his speech, but he for whom this sacred word stands for a true and worthy concept of the Divinity. Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe, by either lowering God to the dimensions of the world, or raising the world to the dimensions of God, is not a believer in God. (Pius XI. Encyclical Mit brenneder sorge, no. 7, March 14, 1937)
The Three Mothers of a Catholic (Rejection of False Mothers)Adelante la Fe:
The Three Mothers of a Catholic (Rejection of False Mothers): Let us get straight to the point: a Catholic has only three mothers—no more. First, a mother who conceives him and raises him in the Christian faith with love; second, a Mother full of mercy—the Most Holy Virgin Mary—who is the Mother of my mother, my own
Mother, and the Mother of all Catholics, and whom Christ gave to us from the Cross; and third, a Mother who is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman, and who bears the name of the Catholic Church. Our Mother the Church, who makes us children of God through Baptism.
A Catholic does not have a "Mother Earth"—a pseudo-mother with Teilhardian, Third-Worldist, Indigenist, and pagan leanings. Consult any *serious* history of the Church, and not only will one fail to find such utter folly, but, on the contrary, one will discover condemnations issued against such purported "maternities."
Deuteronomy 5:7 “You shall have no other gods besides me.
Exodus 23:32: “You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
Pope Leo XIII —They can in no wise be counted among the children of God, unless they take Christ Jesus as their Brother and Church as their mother:
And with the same yearning Our soul goes out to those whom the foul breath of irreligion has not entirely corrupted, and who at least seek to have the true God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, as their Father. Let such as these take counsel with themselves, and realize that they can in no wise be counted among the children of God, unless they take Christ Jesus as their Brother, and at the same time the Church as their mother. (Leo XIII. Encyclical Satis cognitum, no. 16, June 29, 1896)
In religious communities, within the context of spiritual motherhood, we find nuns who serve as superiors of a religious community, as well as the mothers of the community's founders—such as Mama Margarita, the spiritual mother of the Salesians.
St. Pius X: What this most prudent Virgin said to the servants at the marriage feast of Cana she addresses also to us: "Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye" (John ii., 5). Now here is the word of Jesus Christ: "If you would enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. xix., 17). Let them each one fully convince himself of this, that if his piety towards the Blessed Virgin does not hinder him from sinning, or does not move his will to amend an evil life, it is a piety deceptive and Iying, wanting as it is in proper effect and its natural fruit.
Council of Trent (Ecumenical XIX)
Divine Adoption Cannot be Achieved Without Baptism
But though He died for all, yet all do not receive the benefit of His death, but those only to whom the merit of His passion is communicated […] In which words is given a brief description of the justification of the sinner, as being a translation from that state in which man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Savior. This translation however cannot, since promulgation of the Gospel, be effected except through the laver of regeneration or its desire, as it is written: Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (Council of Trent. Chapter III, Session VI. Who are justified through Christ. A Brief Description of the Justification of the Sinner and its mode in the State of Grace. Celebrated on the thirteenth day of January, 1547 under Pope Paul III)
Saint Thomas Aquinas
All are Obliged to Receive Baptism
Men are bound to that without which they cannot obtain salvation. Now it is manifest that no one can obtain salvation but through Christ; wherefore the Apostle says (Rm 5, 18): “As by the offense of one unto all men unto condemnation; so also by the justice of one, unto all men unto justification of life.” But for this end is Baptism conferred on a man, that being regenerated there by, he may be incorporated in Christ, by becoming His member: wherefore it is written (Ga 3, 27): “As many of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.” Consequently it is manifest that all are bound to be baptized: and that without Baptism there is no salvation for men. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica III, q. 68, a. 1)
Through Baptism, we are freed from sin and regenerated as children of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church, and are made sharers in her mission (cf. Council of Florence: DS 1314; CIC, can. 204 §1; 849; CCEO 675 §1).
1 Thessalonians 4:3
It is the will of God that you should lead a life of sanctity. You must refrain from sexual immorality.
Tertullian of Carthage:
Happy, no doubt, is faith, if it is to obtain gifts which the enemies of God and Christ not only use, but even abuse, "worshipping the creature itself in opposition to the Creator!"
The idolaters who worship the earth, in their contempt for God, are the ones who call the earth "Mother."
Pope Pius XI denounced the socialist system as a “threatening danger that seeks to overthrow the Christian social order,” which “rejects the wisdom of the Gospel and resurrects paganism.”
For by worshiping and serving the creature rather than the Creator they have not wished to be a temple of the one true God. By wishing to have him along with many other things, they have been more successful in not having him at all than in having him along with many false gods.
St. Cyprian of Carthage:
Of this same thing to the Romans: "And they worshipped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator. Wherefore also God gave them up to ignominious passions."
Athanasius the Apostolic:So far did their impiety go that they proceeded to worship devils and proclaimed them as gods, fulfilling their own lusts.
Romans 1: 24-25
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas commenting on Romans 1:
(Rm 6,23): The wages of sin is death. All their idols will be burned in the fire ((Micah 1,7). And it is noteworthy that the Apostle very reasonably assigns to vices against nature, which are very serious among carnal sins, the punishment of idolatry (...)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons
Being the disciples of those mentioned, render such as assent to them worse than the heathen. For the former "serve the creature rather than the Creator"
Leo Affirms Francis’ Blessing Of Gay Couples
Clement Of Rome: Those who do such things are hateful to God—and not only those who do them but those who take pleasure in those who do them.
Callistus I of Rome: And therefore the laws not only of the Church, but of the world, condemn those who are guilty of this crime; and not only those indeed who actually conspire, but those also who take part with such.
Caesarius of Arles Those who do not admonish adulterers make us suspect that the reason for this failure of reproof is that they commit similar sins themselves.
“I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commandments.” (Ps 119: 158) (Saint Augustine. Exposition of Psalm 30, Sermon 2, n.4)
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