Lunar Ecclesiology

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The Church passes through seasons… of persecution and of peace … moments of trial followed by calm just as the moon passes through phases of waxing and waning. Thus, the Fathers of the Church developed a sort of Lunar Ecclesiology to describe the various trials the Church will face down through time. According to this analogy, the Church is seemingly abandoned by God and allowed to be stripped like Our Lord on Calvary (thus the seeming waning of the Church) so that He will fill Her up anew later (thus the waxing of the Church). Chastisements (like these times in which we live) are followed by times of peace and expansion (the promised Age of Peace/Age of Mary… triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart). The bigger the chastisement, the broader the expansion. As members of the Church, we are part of the whole. If the Church at large is enduring a passion, so will we. Perhaps you are in one now. What to do? We must pray, and pray well. “Lord, save us, we perish.” We must stay the course, and keep our faith in tact. When in trouble, study the faith, read the Sacred Scriptures, learn from the lives of the saints…keep to your duties of state in life! Thus, the reason Our Lord said, “O ye of little faith.” Finally, we must not be afraid… “Why are you fearful?” Faith and Hope tell us that this too will pass… that something good… Peace and victory are just ahead… victories that are merited by our enduring a passion with Our Lord’s Mystical Body, the Holy Catholic Church. For more please visit http://www.reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest