The best decision I ever made was to become a Catholic. It has made me a better woman, wife and mother💕 My greatest joy has been to be able to co-create with Our Lord through my marital union with my wonderful husband to make more in his image and likeness! Praise be Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever ✝️♥️🙏🕊🎉
It's not about the religion...religion won't save anyone, not your church, your pastors, your bishops, the pope, the priests, your good works, BUT by Jesus Christ alone....
@@VinNord We know very well the Lord Jesus saves, and only He. Tell us something we don't know. We also know He founded a Church (gospel of St Mathew) not churches, A Church. Cheers.
Matt, Thursday & PWA team, I'm appreciating the editing effort being put into these more recent clip videos (stitching in, mixing background audio, etc.). It's not unnoticed! Keep up the good work.
Guess I should have read the comments before I commented lol (see above). Looks like others noticed that one too. Maybe it's just because I've only been Catholic for just over a year-ish (officially anyway), but I have to say that little remark at 5:02 smarted a bit for me as a Canadian. We need Catholics in other nations to think of Canada and pray for us. The Church here is in a battle just as anywhere else on the globe, and the larger narrative in the media about the increasing liberalism and apostasy doesn't detract from the fact that the invisible Church and the Catholics who, as Ralph said, "know the voice of the true Jesus Christ," continue to wage that battle fiercely and daily. Please don't hear a rebuke here, simply a comment about how I heard Matt's remark and my initial response. Blessings to you.
And just like the Anglican Church, it will go into schism. The faithful will be small in number and will join forces with the faithful of the Orthodox and Protestants while the fraudulent “Catholics” will join forces with the unfaithful Orthodox and Protestants.
Trust the Holy Spirit. We’ve survived massive and popular heresy before. There will be a small core of faithful who will then grow. All through history this has happened. But God prevails.
I keep my eyes open for “signs of the times” but try to focus more on whether I’m ready to meet God face to face TODAY. After all, even if Christ’s 2nd coming is next week, I have no guarantee I’ll live to see it. In a way, our “end times” are a perpetual now.
4:10 PLEASE DON'T add in dramatic music to these clips. I just want to listen to the discussion. Let the drama of the truth being discussed carry its own weight.
@@aldo_0032 They really don't need to innovate with their format or how they upload their clips (in my opinion). I guess turning down the volume is an OK compromise if this is the direction they really want to go, but I'd rather just cut the music out entirely.
@@SteubenThursday I appreciate the willingness to try new things. In terms of adding music, I'd abstain from it. Stitched-in related clips that add to the discussion are good, like at 2:05.
When discussing the Great Apostasy around 5:02, Matt, when Ralph was pointing out places that used to be Catholic and have walked away, he said, "think of Canada," and you said quietly that you try not to. I'm a Canadian and chose to become Catholic in the midst of the first Covid lockdowns, and I need to gently (but perhaps a bit sternly) ask you to please think of us, and ask your viewers to think of us and pray for us. So many Canadian Catholics likely watch Pints with Aquinas, find freedom through STRIVE21, and seek the eternal continuation of Conservative Catholic values. I chose to become Catholic because the Church of Rome seems to be the only one that has the WHOLE truth, and the only one OFFICIALLY keeping its values intact, despite the fact that some deep cracks in some of the clergy's theological and philosophical solidity can be detected (including perhaps even the Holy Father's). I know it was maybe just a bit of a flip response on your part, but it hurt a little, and so I'll ask for you and your viewership to consider Canada and pray for her and the Church within her borders. We need your prayers as desperately as the Church in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. And I will pray for you as well, brother. Bless you for all you do to advance the faith and herald the coming Kingdom.
I will absolutely be praying for all of you. A whole half of my family is Canadian and continues to hold on to the faith. As long as there are faithful laity and priests (Fr. Mark Goring and his order are a good example) there is hope. God Bless you brother!
Yes we are coming closer to the end! Jesus is coming soon. Jesus! I PRAISE you! Even as I’m struggling providing for my children. I will keep faith. I won’t allow the devil to manipulate my spirit. Please pray for me. Since covid I can’t seem to get back on my feet. I lost my job for declining the vaccine. I declined due to my health conditions. I suffer from lupus, and heart disease. I’m now waitressing and so thankful to be working but I’m not making nearly enough to get by. I have two beautiful boys both are autistic. I’m overwhelmed because they require so much from me. I recently started homeschooling them because they were having so many issues with bullying. I feel so alone. It’s only because of the kindness of strangers I still have a place to call home. I’m fearful because every month is a struggle to not end up on the streets with my boys. Jesus hear my cries I’m so tired of not being able to afford simple things like food and clothes for my children. I will keep faith I believe in Jesus and I know he will provide. Amen! ❤
Consider this…one of the arguments we Catholics have used against non-Catholics is that they want to be their own pope. They want to decide what is the truth, and what is not…are we now in the same position?
Ralph Martin is a very holy man. When Ralph Martin speaks openly about the state of the current Church like this then alarm bells better be going off in your head.
@Anthony Hulse I am skeptical of the idea that our society is more lawless than, say, the American West during the 19th century or the East End of London during the 19th and early 20th centuries, just to name a couple. We might be seeing more lawlessness in our local areas now than we have during our lifetimes in our own, but that doesn't make it uniquely bad. For that matter, I'm not even seeing any noticeable increase in lawlessness where I live, though I hear about it in places like New York City and San Francisco.
I find that the further our world descends into evil and madness, the stronger my faith in God becomes. I don't understand how you can lose faith in God while the rest of the world proves you can't put any faith in it. Thar being said, i still struggle with sin on a daily basis and pray I can overcome it.
Hmm, I know what you mean and I sort of agree! However, there's a niggling in the back of my mind about the great apostasy. I'm at the half century mark in my life and the fall I've witnessed here in Ireland has been unbelievable, truly unbelievable. We were the first country in the world to actually vote in Abortion and that was just after Gay marriage. Now, we on the great trans train. My beautiful Country is unrecognisable..
@@MonicaMoraal That's a gross misunderstanding of Scripture at best, at worst it's an intentional manipulation of the Word of God in order to justify the evil of abortion. That said, even if it were true that God "commits" abortion, He is God! He has the authority to decide when someone lives & dies, as humans we do not unless it's in self-defense or defense of someone else - and an abortion is NEVER in self-defense or defense of someone else because that baby is an innocent party that had no part in any crime at all.
I think Mr Martin's analysis is very Western centered. Just because the US is going through a rough time politically and socially, and the Church is having problems in the West generally, doesn't mean that we're in the end times. The Church is flourishing in big parts of Africa and Asia for example, and the kind of depravity we can observe in the West is not prevalent in other areas of the world. Jesus did the unexpected at every turn, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the time of His return will play out the same way.
Doesn't this indicate there's something to be said for "low-church" Christianity? These days it is the bureaucracy that seems to be getting in the way, as the high-church strains turn down paths I find myself unable to follow. As a US Protestant, I'm highly conscious of the deficits of my own tradition. I'm quite sympathetic towards Catholicism, I love the mass, and have thought of converting, but so few of my Catholic friends know their Bibles. The real dangers of Protestant fundamentalism aside, it is really a spectacular achievement of Protestantism to get Bibles available for anyone to read. Scripture is plain on the important things. We must believe this. It is my hope that we are moving towards greater ecumenicism to stand strong against the evil one. Really appreciate this channel and its content.
You don’t convert or decide your fate on your friends’ deficient of faith or character. You enhance yours and bring them with you. Join the faith and join a layman order to help teach the Catholic truths to others from the Bible. God be with you.
Every day we come closer to the end. All we can do is practice faith and obedience in the face of adversity. But event X happening now doesn’t mean the end times any more than past events (some of them worse than what we ever experienced) are signs of it. Our Lord said nobody can know the day. So, when we are aware of our own failings, that is the time to repent. When we are aware of others failings, let us practice charity in response, remembering Our Lord’s words about beams and splinters.
Amen! Concern about the "end times" profits us nothing in terms of our faith. There is nothing that the knowledge of coming "end times" would change in regard to how we should live our faith lives. Meanwhile, becoming overly anxious of the matter might actually cause our faith lives to suffer.
So they got the gift of Tranfiguration. All of them. They were eating in a village outside Jerusalem and nobody knew in which house. :)) Amazing story. Great warriors. Absolutely great.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: Jesus “does not describe the end of the world, and when he uses apocalyptic images, he is not acting the prophet. On the contrary, he wants to stop his disciples of every epoch from being curious over dates and forecasts, and wants to give them the key to... the right road to walk today and tomorrow to enter into eternal life.” While Catholics believe the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is true, one cannot take individual biblical quotes or passages and say each one is literally true.”
Christ built His Church upon St Peter, not schismatics. This isn't just 2023, it's the 2023rd year of our Lord. Act like it. All the time. Also: nice edit.
I’m not trying to start a fight, but I’m pretty sure you just made the case for Orthodox ecclesiology and against the absolute necessity of Rome’s inerrancy. “Anti-church” and “anti-Pope” seems like the theological get out of jail free card for when the inerrant church…is in error. 🤷♂️ and Matt’s a smart guy, he knows this and can see the move. He was asking the right questions.
Whether we are in the end times or not we are in our end times, each of us is mortal and sinful and we should worry about that instead of the end of the world. People have been trying to predict the end of the world for hundreds of years. Also every heretical group in history has had an “ends times” apocalyptic angle to it. Just something to think about.
I affirm this word from Dr Martin. There is no doubt that the Church is splitting between those who are the faithful remnant and anti-church and anti-Gospel, creating their own Golden Calf. We know what happens after that.
This is why we need to take care of the liturgy. In the Anglican church people divide into parishes based on the form of liturgy they prefer - unlike Catholic church the 'high' church tends towards liberal and the evangelical towards conservative. I don't like to even use these words, but I believe it's essential that we celebrate all forms of liturgy in a single parish. And keep dialogue and praying with one another going. It also concerns me that social media is a divisive force where theological / pastoral discourse disintegrates into a place where differences are emphasised . For sure there are important issues at stake but thank God, in England at the moment our parishes are holding together and I don't see what seems (on the basis of these kinds of programmes) to be happening in the US.
I just find it so hard to believe we're in the end times. Everyone around me seems to believe it, but that makes me think we're not. I really don't understand why it's so hard to believe
You don’t have to believe we’re in the end times. It’s more important to be ready for your own end and to help prepare others for their particular judgment. More souls for the everlasting kingdom of God!
I don't see any reason to believe that we are in the end times. Looking at history and particularly Church history can really give you a sense that our era is not unique in presenting terrible trials for humanity and the Church. Imagining what it must have been like for Catholics during events like the French Revolution, the Black Death, or the Second World War, it is not hard to conceive of those times - without the benefit of hindsight - seeming to be the worst of all times. So, also, as we are concerned for Church and society, we can think about great and widespread heresies like Arianism and Protestantism. Or, for that matter, the tremendous sundering of the faithful between East and West in the Great Schism. It's easy to see our own era as the worst because we live in it, we know its evils well, and we don't have the hindsight to know how it all will turn out. But, in reality, we've faced great evils before and likely will again - quite possibly long after our own mortal lives have run their course. I see no reason that to say that, when Christ returns, humanity won't be travelling between the stars and living on many different planets. Or it could be tomorrow. I certainly don't know the day or the hour, following what Christ said about the subject.
As Christy said, you don't have to believe it. We should approach this matter with great care and with prudence, it's doubtful whether we can check all the boxes yet. The Great Apostasy - maybe; on the one hand there definitely has been a massive loss of faith across the western world but don't forget: the Western world isn't the whole world. Unrestrained lawlessness - I think it can still get a lot worse and "persecution" so far has been relatively mild in the West, we know way harder scenarios than what we're seeing right now. I also couldn't point to a great number of false miracles at the current moment. I think we shouldn't underestimate the situation but also judge the circumstances critically and cautiously.
Kindly said, I think it's a good idea to add backgroud music. Please keep in mind, however, to have the background music low, because it took away my attention from the vital speech by Ralph Martin. May God bless you all!
Serious question: why can’t the pope excommunicate the German bishops and appoint new bishops who are not schismatic? Why can’t he excommunicate McElroy for rejecting Church teaching and appoint a faithful bishop? Why do we have to accept the schisms that weaken the faith of those who believe?
Read the church by Hus well before Luther and he makes it clear what the church ultimately is and its not what Rome claims (of course he got burned at the stake for it but he was telling the truth).
The church may be the only people who hold on to the original church. It's hard to believe that Rome can fail and they sitting on top of all the Original writings of the apostles.
O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free! From far and wide, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada! Where pines and maples grow. Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow. How dear to us thy broad domain, From East to Western Sea, Thou land of hope for all who toil! Thou True North, strong and free! God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise, To keep thee steadfast through the years From East to Western Sea, Our own beloved native land! Our True North, strong and free! God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. Ruler supreme, who hearest humble prayer, Hold our dominion within thy loving care; Help us to find, O God, in thee A lasting, rich reward, As waiting for the Better Day, We ever stand on guard. God keep our land glorious and free! O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. Us Canadians should sing the fourth verse more often. Maybe that would be a catalyst in saving the nation.
Does the great apostasy or falling away mean the once faithful church falling away or just general society falling away from Biblical truths like homosexuality, transgender, abortion etc. Unfortunately I don’t think most people who call themselves Christian are actually Christian, they say they believe in Jesus Christ but show little evidence of it. The true church is much smaller and they don’t fall away
What would the great apostasy look like, where infallible magisterial teachings are contradicted and new beliefs, under the guise of “development of doctrine”, are disseminated?
I wonder if another requirement that would need to bet met before the end times is union between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church? Or, at the very least we would come to the others' aid if needed.
Matt - I am troubled by this interpretation of 1 Thess 2. First of all, it hinges on a futurist interpretation right out of Protestant dispensationalism, a modern innovation. There are plenty of preterist interpretations in the history of the Catholic Church. These interpretations could not abide a future fulfillment of 1 Thess 2 (it refers to the apostasy at the time of to the 1st century Jewish War according to this view), but neither can I personally easily accept that the Catholic Church would fail in this way. You see how it hinges on eschatology, a subject which has quite a variety of views in Catholicism. But I have noted that this “final apostasy” interpretation is also in the Catechism. Yet the Catechism also was recently arbitrarily changed to denounce capital punishment. I do not expect the Magisterium to conform to my expectations. However, how exactly are we supposed to regard the Catechism itself, given the various editions? We just stick to the latest one and that’s that, regardless of how its details vary from edition to edition? Thanks for your excellent work.
We really don't have a church. There may be some Catholic churches where the priest is truly a Christian but I haven't been to one of those since the 1980s. 1 Corinthians 5 10-11.
Great apostasy is equal to global corruption or losing of long held traditional beliefs. Example: All Christian believes that the Blessed Lord has crucifixion marks. Sooner or later, there will be a lot of people Christians and Non-Christians will believe otherwise.
I'm curious to hear from Catholics as to what their views are on Malachi Martins claims that a sinister sect has infiltrated it's ranks. Do many take his claims seriously? Thanks :)
Can someone PLEASE tell me: if the Vatican itself fails or apostatizes, has the Catholic Church failed? Does this not refute the Church's own teaching about what it means for the gates of hell to not prevail against the visible Catholic Church? Genuinely seeking understanding here.
Jesus promised that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church built upon Peter/rock. That being said even if the pope were a heretic, he cannot teach it formally and would in effect excommunicated himself. Arianism nearly took out the Church, but Jesus sent and made sure that there were still some orthodox Catholics remaining (Saint Anthanasius and the pope who through the help of the Holy Spirit manage to overthrow the heresy which denied Jesus's divinity.
I would like to know the opinion of Ralph Martin on Benedict being that restraint? that`s what I´ve heard an historian to tell. Other say it is the mass, the holy sacrifice...
remember christ had 12 disciples tasked with the great commission..... the catholic church is not the only church of christ..... we also have the orthodox, etc etc. Its only much later in church history that some insecure yet arrogant people in vatican declared itself the only church of christ.... *Anyway, even if the catholic church is divided, and if even many and many in the hierarchy turns away... i bet no matter what happens, many of the silent majority that faced and survived the intimidations, persecutions and tribulations will remain faithful to Christ til the end* .
Here's the dilemma: An "infallible pope / papacy" could, so far as it seems with the trends we're seeing, teach or preach that which is unbiblical, so is the dogma of infallibility correct, absolutely?
This seems like a common misunderstanding of Papal Infallibility. Papal Infallibility is not a 24/7 effect. It is a protection called at a very specific instance that protects the Pope from binding the Church to a teaching that is in error. This has only used once in recent history. A Pope teaching something that is scandalous or perhaps sinful, would not be a sign of Ex Cathedra unless it meets very specific criteria. Usually he would have to define something in order to bind the Church to a teaching. Otherwise, him doing this would only be a sign of private teaching (His own interpretations and theological opinions).
You know them by their fruits...... even demon can become lightning angels Not everyone call me GOD... GOD.....we do many amazing think by your name.....can enter my father house....but someone who do what my father will When church starts talking about politics or spreading hates about others....at that time ask yourself is it our lord teach???
In these last days God is showing that Roman Catholicism is not what it claims to be (which should have been apparent before anyways) i.e " the one true church with the fullness" but Catholic apologists continue their spin and mental gymnastics to try and maintain the claim.
Protestantism is a false religion started by Luther. It violates Galatians 1:8 because prottys teach a new false religion. That’s why there are tens of thousands of protty denominations
"Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast. They worshiped the dragon because it gave its authority to the beast. They also worshiped the beast and said: ‘Who can compare to the beast, who can fight against it?’ The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months." ― Revelation 13: 3-4
I wonder if people realize that the way in which this judgment comes is through the preaching of the Gospel. It, in and of itself, is a judgment and an escape. How so? Jesus introduced the concept in John 3, the condemnation is that men loved darkness rather than light. As Ralph Martin mentioned, 2 Thessalonians 2 describes the apostasy. It is more than an apostasy of "Christians" it is a general and pervasive apostasy that happens to people who have been exposed to the Gospel. God will send them a spirit of delusion so that they will believe a lie "because they did not receive the love of the truth." That truth is Jesus Christ. Israel was presented with the truth. They rejected it. Jesus foretold the destruction of their temple and nation in Matthew 24 and Luke 21. That same principle applies to the Gentile world. Once the whole gentile world has been evangelized, or, had the opportunity to hear the gospel, the end will come. So, the western "Christianized" world is under a dangerous judgment right now. It is the fulfilment of Romans 1. When God is excluded from the conscious of men after they become unthankful of him and his truth, God gives them over to a reprobate mind. That is revealed in many ways: sexual immorality, violence, and an inability to even discern truth. We are at the very precipice of this. It is a sign that we are nearing the end of the "times of the Gentiles," and that "the fullness of the Gentiles" has almost come in. In our days we are witnessing the shift in focus. God once again will begin to graft in the Jews back into their root of Abraham. This will coincide with the arising of the Antichrist and his war against all faithful, but in particular against the newly believing Israel. What is that withholder? It is the Holy Spirit. Jesus said that when the Spirit comes he will "reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment." In Genesis 6, the sign time that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25, God said, "My spirit will not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years." In Romans 1 God said he would give men over to a reprobate mind. That judgment is of the worst kind. It means that God simply stops fighting man and allows him to fill his cup of wrath to the point where he has no choice but to judge. My friends, we are all but there. But, don't worry, our redemption draws nigh. Do what the Book of Hebrews says, exhort each other all the more to love and good works "as you see the day approaching."
Father Michele rodrigue is a false prophet…he doesn’t have his bishops approval on sharing his alleged prophesies and he’s been wrong already a couple times
Not every catholic church follows the German bischops, there are pockets of churches who faithfully follow Our Lord. Not all German bishops agree with the others either...Pray for us...
The Catholic Church in Germany consists mainly of apostates and they preach the same as the Unitarian Universalists but using a more Christian language. The problem lies deeper: The Catholic Church markets her unity as a proof for her truth. But that unity between neoorthodox and liberal Catholics is an illusion for liberal Catholics are not even Christians. If Pope Francis will not act, the German church will fall completely into heresy. In Germany, there are 85% of bishops liberal promoting homosexuality.
I feel like the Holy Father is exposing an evil that had been hiding in the shadows. The faithful in Germany now have to be stronger and stand for truth. Light and dark will become more obvious. It’s all purification. In what appears a heavy blow may actually be a blessing. His is purifying us.
“Therefore keep watch , because you do not know the day or the hour.” I had a great Catholic priest teacher who said “If you are picking weeds in your garden and someone comes walking down the street crying ‘THE END IS NIGH!’Just keep picking weeds.”
