BRANDED/SEARED CONSCIENCES THE NEW PANDEMIC OF THE SOUL?
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“Creative" conscience—as advocated by the Catholic Church's current leadership with its publication of Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia—facilitates and encourages the separation of freedom and truth while having high appeal to "self-styled" Catholics that rely upon "situation ethics" and a "go along to get along" personal paradigm. "Creative" conscience helps generate this evil division as it ignores and/or squeezes out the Holy Spirit. This ignoring of God allows unfaithful messages to be fully considered in the human mind that originate in the heart. Therefore, “creative" conscience disrupts the heart and the mind with unholy work that also generates personal stress as the mind becomes focused on fleshly-centric thinking and related processes.
Saint Pope John Paul II, in his Encyclical Letter, Veritatis Splendor, The Splendor of Truth, Pages 78-79, (August 6, 1993), counsels about judgment of conscience:
The maturity and responsibility of these judgments—and, when all is said and done, of the individual who is their subject—are not measured by the liberation of the conscience from objective truth, in favor of an alleged autonomy in personal decisions,
but, on the contrary, by an insistent search for truth and by allowing oneself to be guided by that truth in one's actions.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity,
theft, false witness, blasphemy. These are what defile a person...
—Matthew 15:19-20
Because “creative" conscience provides the person a false Salvation pathway—with God squeezed out—to pursue judgments and make decisions with a "fleshly mindset”, the personal soul becomes depleted.
Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.
—Romans 7:25
...God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever...
—Romans 1:24-25
The personally destructive lust of the human heart—the fleshly way without God that clearly ignores the human conscience connected to God by the Holy Spirit—engages the human mind for evil support. This shutting out of the Holy Spirit from the personal conscience, either with the empowerment of personal Split-Conscience™ or Branded/Seared Conscience, collaborates with the heart in evil ways which engages the human mind to work lies and hypocrisy into its thinking, calculating, and decision making processes.
St. Paul explains how the unacknowledged God lets go when the "creative" conscience and the fleshly heart—combined with the undiscerning mind of the person—work together to squeeze out the Holy Spirit:
Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another.
Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.
—Romans 1:26-28
Because of the personal empowerment of "creative" conscience, the "fleshly" heart and undiscerning mind can collectively pursue an "ideal" of "situation ethics" that is personal choice and preference driven. A "go along to get along" individual paradigm to ensure personal gain and protect from personal loss. This “creative" conscience DANGER ZONE must be of great and profound concern to all Conscience Warriors protecting others from any leadership that continuously claims God makes mistakes.
The perverted and corrupt “fleshly heart”—also squeezing out the God-filled conscience— leads a person away from Salvation as it converts the mind into an undiscerning co-conspirator to help do the improper which nefariously confronts and is openly destructive to God’s Plan of Generations.
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter
through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.
—Matthew 7:13-14
— Anthony R. Souza, M.T.S.
Master of Theological Studies, Pontifical Lateran University in Rome
Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Catholic University of America
Copyright © 2020-2021 Anthony R. Souza. All rights reserved.
Credit: Spiritual direction from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's use of "self-styled" Catholic, "situation ethics", and related originated from his recent writings.
New Evangelization—Life is Primordial
Living Out Our Catholic Faith
Yes, all Catholics need to come home to their Catholic faith and integrate themselves with Saint Pope John Paul II’s call to Catholics for a “New Evangelization”.
To successfully live out our Catholic faith paid for by the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, we must fully accept the gift of the Holy Spirit and cherish the faithful struggle of fully embracing the Gospel every moment of our lives. This successful Faithfulness—ordered by Life is Primordial—will lead all Catholics to easily and readily reject the deception, false promises, and lies of those in bad faith. We must open up abundant room to protect the innocent and the most vulnerable—unborn and newly born—together with all young people and adults in harm’s way.
Life, as gift, is a never ending and rich blessing—connected to God at conception—for Salvation. Life should not be treated by the Catholic Church as just “one of many” ministries; Life must order the Church’s practices. Life is Primordial and of the First Order.
God’s Plan of Generations
At the heart of God’s Plan of Generations, Marriage & Family is the essential fruitfulness. The abundant blessings of Marriage & Family are both the beginning and the end of life here on earth and are an integral part of the Faithful pathway to eternal life. We are empowered with the unconditional and Faithful gift of the Holy Spirit sent to the personal conscience of all of mankind by Jesus Christ on Pentecost. The Holy Spirit is an invaluable and indestructible Divine gift for the certainty of personal Salvation. A full embrace of this blessed gift sent to all persons empowers the personal ability to consistently and constantly win against the massive, integrated, deceptive, corrupt, and powerful enemies of the soul.
As a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy and having served six years on active duty—which included 4 years at sea and a 2 year sea-going search and rescue command—I have worked tirelessly to build my entire entrepreneurial and spirited career around Marriage and Family. My ultimate goal is to help and inspire individuals to make sound and secure decisions for their future in communion with the Holy Spirit. We must dedicate ourselves to Sacred Scripture and Faithful Catholic Social Teaching as we Unite with the Holy Spirit in Truth.
Since receiving my Master of Theological Studies on Marriage & Family from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University America, this blessed experience has guided my Speaking Engagements on Marriage & Family and Catholic Social Teaching at the St. Thomas More Lecture Series, the Knights of Columbus/Catholic Information Center, Theology on Tap, and Adult Faith Enrichment classes at St. Mary’s Parish in Annapolis.
