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It is 100% certain you're headed for Hell ...
for rejecting the Catholic Dogma ...
Warning: There are no bishops or priests in these times
1. The Original Sin of Adam closed Heaven for all men (sanctifying grace was lost) ... Hell became the only possible destination for the immortal souls of men.
7. One can still be Catholic and get to Heaven with a proper baptism in water
[Section 7] ... believing the Dogmas ... and keeping free from mortal sin. [Section 10.1]
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The entering into the Catholic Church of Alphonse Ratisbonne
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Alphonse Ratisbonne as banker ~ Basilica Sant Andrea delle Fratte (Rome) ~ Alphonse as Priest
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Marie Alphonse Ratisbonne was born at Strasburg France, on 1 May, 1814. He was the son and heir of a wealthy, aristocratic family of bankers who were in the jew brand of un-baptized paganism. When Alphonse Ratisbonne was still a child his older brother, Theodor, converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest. The family Ratisbonne reacted with hostility and horror. Alphonse resolved never to communicate again with his older brother, and developed a violent antipathy to the Catholic faith and to all things Catholic. In 1842, at 28 years old, he became engaged to his own niece, Flore Ratisbonne, whom he planned to marry the following August. He began a tour of Europe and the East, partly for pleasure and partly for his health; one last fling before settling down with Flore and assuming a partnership at his uncle's bank. Ratisbonne decided to go to Naples, to spend the winter in Malta, to strengthen his delicate health.
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In Naples he had mistaken the road and instead of coming to the reservation office for Palermo, as he intended, he arrived at the stage-coach for Rome. Even after he realized what he had done, he remained there and booked his passage on the steamer to Rome. He left Naples on the 5th and arrived in Rome on the 6th, the feast of the Three Kings. So he was making the best of it, avidly touring Roman ruins and museums in the company of a paid guide. On January 8, Ratisbonne was called by name on the street. It was his old classmate from Strasburg, Gustavo de Bussières, a heretic. The two rekindled their friendship. Later, when Alphonse called on Gustave, he encountered the latter's older brother, the Baron Theodore de Bussières, a convert to the Catholic Church and a close friend of Alphonse's priest-brother. Alphonse felt instinctive abhorrence toward this zealous Catholic convert, but he knew the baron was an expert on Constantinople, which Alphonse planned to visit, so he agreed to call upon him for travel advice. De Bussières saw it as his mission to convert any unbeliever who crossed his path in life, to God’s Catholic truths. He and Ratisbonne became friends, but Ratisbonne's sarcasm and blasphemy irritated him enormously.
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Finally, the Baron made an extraordinary proposition. "Since you abhor superstition and espouse such liberal views," he asked Alphonse, "would you consider submitting to a simple test?" Alphonse: "What test?" "To wear something I'm going to give you. It's a medal of the Holy Virgin. It appears quite ridiculous to you, no doubt. But as for me, I attach great importance to it." And he showed Alphonse the Miraculous Medal attached to a cord. Alphonse was dumbstruck. He could scarcely believe the Baron's impertinence. But as a man of the world, he didn't want to seem to be making too much of a trifle. So he consented, breezily quoting a line from The Tales of Hoffman: "If it does me no good, at least it will do me no harm." The Baron's little daughter put the miraculous medal around Alphonse's neck. And Alphonse burst out laughing: "Here am I, a Roman, Apostolic Catholic!" But this was not enough for De Bussières. "And now", he said, "you must complete the test. Every morning and evening recite the Memorare (shown below), a short and efficious prayer, which St. Bernard composed to the Virgin Mary". Ratisbonne said: "Let it be! I promise to recite this prayer. If it will not do me any good, it will not do me any harm!"
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In fact, the Baron's effort to help Alphonse's immortal soul was starting to get on Alphonse's nerves. Far from drawing him toward the Catholic Church, it was repelling him further away. The Baron, undaunted, did not rely on communicating the Faith alone. He was also praying very hard. And so were his friends, his fellow members of Rome's tight-knit community of aristocratic French expatriates. Notable among these friends was the Count Laferronays, ex-diplomat, once a notorious rogue and now a devout, fervent Catholic. Moved by the Baron's pleas, the Count went into a Church and fervently prayed "more than 20 Memorares" for the conversion of the young, separated from truth, Alphonse. That very same evening, the Count suffered a fatal heart attack. After receiving his final Sacraments, he died devoutly, surrounded by his loving family.
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At midday, January 20, 1842, when the Baron was arranging the funeral of his friend Count Laferronays in the Basilica of St. Andrea delle Fratte in Rome he asked Ratisbonne to wait for him in the Church. When the Baron came back to the Church he found Ratisbonne on his knees in prayer. In Ratisbonne's own words: "I was scarcely in the Church when a total confusion came over me. When I looked up, it seemed to me that the entire Church had been swallowed up in shadow, except one Chapel. It was as though all the light was concentrated in that single place. I looked over towards this Chapel whence so much light shone, and above the altar was a living figure, tall, majestic, beautiful and full of mercy. It was the Most Holy Virgin Mary, resembling her figure on the Miraculous Medal. At this sight I fell on my knees right where I stood. Unable to look up because of the blinding light, I fixed my glance on her hands, and in them I could read the expression of mercy and pardon. In the presence of the Most Blessed Virgin, even though she did not speak a word to me, I understood the frightful situation I was in, my sins, and the beauty of the Catholic Faith."
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The Baron helped Ratisbonne outside and into his carriage and took him to the Hotel Serny, where Alphonse was staying. Alphonse was still clasping his Miraculous Medal, murmuring thanks to God. At last he turned to the Baron and said: "Take me to a confessor! When can I receive baptism, without which I can no longer live?" "What has happened?" exclaimed the Baron. "What have you seen?" "That," says Alphonse, "I can only reveal on my knees and to a priest." So ... the Baron took him to the Gesu, the Jesuit mother-Church, to see Father Villefort. There, Alphonse tried to explain himself, at last he calmed down, took the Miraculous Medal from his neck, held it up, and cries: "I saw Her! I saw Her!"
Note: There are no Catholic priests or bishops in these times, since the takeover of our formerly Catholic properties by the Vatican-2 jew-heretic cult in 1965. The Vatican-2 group leaders who are dressed like Catholic bishops and priests are all automatically excommunicated for physical participation in a heretical society (the Vatican-2 cult). See Sections 12 and 13 (and their subsections) and Section 13.2 (automatic excommunication) of this site.
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Alphonse Ratisbonne confessed and thought that his family would believe he was insane and would ridicule him. So he preferred to flee totally from the world, its chatter and its judgments. He entered the convent of the Jesuits to make a retreat under the guidance of Father Villefort. On January 31, 1842, he received from the hands of His Eminence Cardinal Patrizi, the Vicar of His Holiness, baptism, confirmation and his first Holy Communion. The following month, the Vatican held a canonical process to investigate the circumstances surrounding Alphonse's conversion. After a lengthy investigation and many depositions, it concluded that his sudden conversion was entirely miraculous; an act of God wrought through the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin. In May 1842, only a few months after the apparition, a painting of the Madonna of the Miracle was placed for veneration in exactly the same spot and in the same form as She appeared to Alphonse. The canvas was painted by the artist Natale Carta, who according to tradition, followed the description of Ratisbonne himself. In the same year, after a formal inquest about the apparition of January 20, the Vicar General of Pope Gregory XVI, Cardinal Patrizi, declared on June 3, 1842, that it was a Divine miracle operated through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and permitted the publication and distribution of texts recording the miracle.
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After his conversion, Alphonse assisted his brother, Theodor, in founding the Sisterhood of Our Lady of Sion in 1843, and was ordained priest himself in 1847 - entering the Society of Jesus. Desirous, however, to devote himself entirely to the conversion of the un-baptized pagans who refer to themselves as jews, he left the Society with the consent of Pope Pius IX, transplanted the Sisters of Sion to Jerusalem in 1855, and built for them in 1856 the large Convent of Ecce Homo with a school and an orphanage for girls. In 1860 he built the Convent of St. John on the mountain at Ain Karim, together with a Church and another orphanage for girls. Here Alphonse laboured with a few companions (Pères de Sion) for the conversion of the people who call themselves jews and for the mohammedans until his death. He died on May 6, 1884 after 37 years as a priest. Ratisbonne did try to get in contact with Catherine Labouré, but never succeeded, as the Sister was shielded from the outside world. There were so many miracles operated by the Blessed Virgin in the Shrine, that on January 17, 1892, Pope Leo XIII coronated the venerated icon with a diadem.
This apparition to Alphonse Ratisbonne in Rome was fully approved by the Holy See on June 3, 1842.
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Memorare:
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled
to thy protection, implored thy assistance or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Virgin of Virgins, our Mother.
To thee do we come; before thee do we kneel, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not our petitions, but in thy clemency hear and answer them. Amen.
Memorare prayer by: St. Bernard of Clairvaux, died: 21 August 1153
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Immaculate Heart of Mary ~ Our Lady of Good Remedy ~ Our Lady of La Salette ~
Immaculate Heart of Mary ~ Wear the Brown Scapular as the Blessed Virgin instructed us ... as Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~
Truth of the super-natural order:
Ignorance of God's Catholic Dogma ... which is being aggressively hidden with malice ... is not a "loophole" into Heaven.
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