HOLY MEN!

[littyfam 790]

 

---

 

H O L Y   M E N !

 

---

 

Pay heed now, wanton fools! Fools are made of us all - by the Deceiver and his unholy retinue. So it has been, and so it shall be, until the Days of Auspice.

 

Look now: what do these so-called Curiates say, unto the greater Priesthood of Owyn? That we are misled by idiotic minds; that we are bound in half-hearted thoughts; that we are unaware of the greater machinations of the Lord God’s world.

 

I tell you now: we are not. It is the false priest who would name himself absolute, above all Tradition, above all Precedent. For so long as these two pillars have stood - proverbial Towers of Aemon and Daemon - has the Mother Church of the Lord God and His Holy Word stood at ease. It is in the so-called High Priest’s absconding from both that their rejection is evident. No High Priest, no High Pontiff - not among the Exilic nor the Aeldinic - shall derive his authority but from that Tradition established under the Exalted Owyn, and continued by will of Godfrey, and then by the greater priesthood, until this present day. It is the schismatic who would reject it.

 

I shall not linger overlong on word, nor on argument; where men shall find precedent, they shall find it in their own understanding of the history of the faith and her Mother Church. What I shall say, is merely this:

 

Holy Men

We find a duty upon ourselves that some many dozen men - perhaps hundreds, I would not know - have found set upon them afore now. 

It is a faith we must restore, as in the days of Everard the First - sinful as revision might see him - and James the First, and Radomir the First, and Thomas the First and Daniel the Second, and Lucien the Fifth, and Daniel the Sixth, and Everard the Sixth, and all those now-estranged men of the Pontificate, of the benign and venerable and blessed and saintly; in their spirit, we must our Mother Church restore.

Thus do I, and all my fellow priests, and monastics, and acolytes, and laymen, in await of righteous restoration, await and will the coming of a true Ecumenical Council, swayed only by the will of the Priesthood of Owyn and none other.

With God as our guide,

 

Theodorus Manfred

 

---

 

[Borin 7645]

Spoiler

welcome to church alcoholism club litty we're v happy to have u

 

[MRCHENN 4741]

"We shall fix the Darfeyist revisionism, together." says Father Drusco.

[Yeetboy0206 1574]

Maddock grew excited. "A reformation? Exciting!"

[Limonhearted 174]

 

To whom it concerns,

 

Let no man be deceived by the thunder of dissidents who cover their pride within piety. The Church is of unbroken consecration, of the Apostolic inheritance. She is a lineage born of the Exalted, stewarded by the Prophets, and sustained through rite and succession. Her authority is not derived through one priest, nor by the clamor of a crowd, but passed hand to hand by the Prophets since the days of Owyn. You invoke the names of holy men—Everard I, Lucien V—as if they stood with your rebellion. They were High Pontiffs, bearers of the Keys of Horen, successors to the Prophets themselves. Their reforms were not demands shouted from the fringe; they were decrees issued from the very throne you now reject. 

 

Do not mistake your cause for theirs. It was not men like Lucien V who tore the Church; it was men who claimed to act in the name of reform while undermining Her divine constitution. And it is in their footsteps you now walk, cloaking schism in the guise of righteousness. Saint Lucien of Ulmsbottom did not rise through rebellion or vanity; His prayer was not a cry for self-glory, “Let me become the storm that strikes the enemy from Your sight.” 

 

You wave his name like a banner, yet forget that it was his banner, his legacy, that sustained a strong Pontificate with absolute authority. And it is that legacy which was battled by the very same schemes that perverted the True Faith. By name, men such as Daniel the Reader—or more accurately, Simon of Khazav—rejected Lucien and mocked his memory. It was their spirit, not his, that brought about the ruin of the Church and the rise of the Caesaropapist distortion in the waning days of the Chivay Empire.

 

You speak of Tradition and Precedent, but tradition without obedience is dead, and precedent without faith is vanity. You appeal to the “Priesthood of Owyn,” yet deny the one to whom that priesthood is entrusted in each age: the High Pontiff, consecrated by the rite of succession. Did not Godfrey restore the Church to it’s place, wielding both temporal and spiritual might in service of unity? You appeal to precedent, yet ignore the very precedent you claim to uphold: no priest, however devout, stands above the truth of our Creator and Lord, GOD. You demand a Council, but no rebel calls a Council. The right to summon one lies only with the Vicar of GOD, consecrated through the rites of apostolic succession, not with monks, not with angry priests, not with “the many.” 

The Church has weathered louder men than you, always in the name of purity, always wearing the face of zeal. But She endured. She endures because the faithful don’t follow every loud accuser; their faith resides with their shepherd.

 

Return to the flock, to the See. You need not rebel to be righteous.

 

With open arms,

François Claude De Dieu