The Marks of a Cult - Apr 24 - Homily - Fr Terrance

[@bernadette573]

This homily was very helpful. Thank you, Father Terrance.

[@imbonnie]

I love his clarity and directness.

[@strita1540]

Very informative. God bless you holy men and Mary protect you 🙏😇✝️📿🕊️

[@triciagarea9576]

Thank you Fr Terrance, for this great homily. I am going to listen to it again. I had to become a fool to become wise through suffering.

[@lydiapereira1942]

I come from a Catholic family,sadly my sister, age 70 joined this Cult only because of financial help.The Satan has brainwashed her.Please pray for her .Father Terrance God Bless you for your beautiful homily.Though I have been to Church, I love to listen to your homily. I wish we had a Priest like you.From London

[@rogerresendiz2416]

It also very powerful if you pray and en abstinence For her. You are blood related. More power if you pray the rosary. And offer your suffering for her soul. God bless

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

Most Merciful Lord, please grant us a humble and charitable mind, with a correct spirit of discernment. Our Lady intercede for us.

[@lorrainebrown7099]

Thank you for this clear teaching so badly needed in this day

[@happy1831]

14:33 Never apologize for what was a real gift to me this day. A powerful homily that time wasn’t even considered, just the gift you are!! Obedience and charity 🙏🏻 best of luck next week, but Our Lord and Our Lady already know the ultimate result. Thank you, Fr Terrance 🌹

[@williamyork7296]

Thanks Fr. Terrance, we must always look to embrace the Cross, and avoid seemingly easy solutions that are but illusions

[@adjesumpermariam8070]

Thank you, Fr. Terrance! This needs to be said today with the divisions in the Church.

[@DigitalLogos]

This aligns with precisely what I began noticing about sedevacantism while I was one. Each group proclaims itself as having the fullness of the truth and anathematizes everyone else. It's ridiculous cult thinking. Now I'm reconciled with Rome, attending a diocesan NO Mass and couldn't be more at peace.

[@franciscanfriars]

Amen! Glad you're home. - Fr. Terrance

[@deirdrehastings5672]

Thanks for your teaching Fr. Terrance in this climate of negativity especially towards our Pope.May God protect us from effects of cult mentality. Jesus, I trust in You!!!!

[@chrisjanej.8747]

Yes! God bless Pope Francis! I love him out of love for my Savior!

[@shelbycramer9054]

🌺 Thank you for speaking the truth in love and strengthening our unity, Father.

[@raymondhastings7036]

This is a very important homily, I had two brushes with charismatic groups that displayed exactly the characteristics you have described. It is so important to stick with the teachings of the Church and sacred scripture.

[@nycitalianess7825]

Thank you, Lord GOD for giving us Fr. Terrance. Thank you for teaching us how to protect ourselves from the evil one, so to never fall for his hypnotic trickery. May our Souls be Sealed in the Sacred Heart Of Jesus Christ for Eternity. May God keep you as our blessed Shepherd, dearest Fr. Terrance. Today's homily can catapult us out of the darkest harm's way and into The EverLight of our Savior and our Mother❤️💙

[@ApacheTim]

Again, I pray for the individuals that have chosen to dislike Father's homily!

[@ciaranclancy3296]

Thank you so very much Father Terrance for a brilliant homily 👍 😊 the devil can imitate humility but not obedience, May Our Blessed Mother 🙏 and the Holy Spirit 🙏 protect us all and guide us on this path and especially the Holy Father and the Universal Church 🙏 God Bless You All at the Friary Fr Terrance 🙏🙏 😊🇮🇪☘

[@happy1831]

Thank you for the notes in the description area. Most helpful to those of us extremely interested in staying on the right path and avoiding any too good to be true forks in the road. 🌹

[@hawthornetree646]

I love the altar. The sermon was excellent. Concise and I’m taking notes.

[@sacredwondersmaine3310]

Great homily. Thank you so much. +JMJ+

[@tatesc4252]

Amen Rev. Father Terrance. Thank you for an excellent homily. You are endowed with the gift of the Holy Spirit to inspire and defend the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. May God bless.

[@annieoakley7749]

Father Terrance 🙏✝️♥️

[@VinceDynamicOFFICIAL]

definitely not too long, Father. thanks for this.

[@adiboena123]

God bless You Father and other Fathers as well. In Jesus and Mary. Amen.

[@mariemorrison6278]

Great homily, thanks

[@maangeleshg]

Thank you father Terrance 🙏🏻

[@beverlysteele8754]

You are a Blessing to me! Bless you.

[@sweet_littleroses1261]

Amen.🙏❤ That's true Fr.," the holier than thou people."

[@linakoh4206]

Thank you Father Terrance.. esp in cult practises i have encountered afew indeed, this is a brilliant guidance and teaching in highlighting this as thats what exactly i witnessed ! Thank you Father .. my prayers never cease in my daily prayers from afar for you Father Ignatius, Fathers and sweet Brothers, for graces, virtue and guidance 🕊🌹

[@godisinchargesueowl8599]

Too many Catholics are unaware that the Holy Spirit guides the Church . Every RC should know that God cannot deceive . Wolves in sheeps clothing refer to people who refuse this ,starting their own groups ,taking and accepting what suits them . Not everyone wants to obey a Priest ,prideful men arent subserviant . They want their own authority over people . Ive noticed this with many ex catholics turned Protestant . They expect women to kiss their boots in utter silence and obedience , and want to be the ones to teach other men . Meanwhile they themselves refuse any authority above them . Some cults its impossible to get out . Jim Jones ...Unfortunatly there will always be bad Priests ,there will always be cults as well . Stay with the Church , better be safe than sorry. God bless

[@funnynickline]

Amen Priest 🙏✝️🙇‍♂✝️🙏.

[@marytygett4189]

Prayers continue for SSPX 🙏😞

[@lourdesriate7984]

My sister and I had a little bit of discussion about the practices of being a catholic. She’s claiming that she’s still a catholic but stopped going to church as it is a waste of her time, don’t believe in sacraments, do not believe that Catholic Church is real, that reading about saints doesn’t make her a better person. I told her I will pray for her as she has become a confused soul and that she is a lost sheep. Please pray with me for my sister.

[@glennlanham6309]

Since I was in Comunita Cenacolo, I wanted to watch this!!! (7 years by the way)

[@Ver-oni-ca]

Hallelujah 💕

[@reemsuekar8112]

Thank you.

[@blessingc7105]

God Help me🙏🏾

[@kjorsss429]

This is such a relief to hear. I was caught up in a Protestant cult before I converted to the Catholic faith. I am so thankful to be free from false doctrine & am now having to relearn truth as I learnt alot of untruths & false doctrine at Hillsong. My Parish Priest told me the Catholic Church did not recognise my Baptism in a pentecostal church, as it is a sect, so I had to be re-Baptised to become a Catholic. But my Parish plays Hillsong music in the services for youth. (I don't think my Parish Priest would know they are songs from Hillsong Church as he does not select the music). I find it confusing & hypocritical- if the Catholic Church don't recognise Hillsong - then why can their music find it's way into my local Parish (& others I have been to)? I actually have PTSD from what I experienced at Hillsong. Becoming Catholic has healed me & restored my faith (& it's ongoing).

[@sharonthompson8061]

I often tell my husband (Catholic from birth) that the music played is Protestant! I’m a convert (2015!) and am now aged 68. Better late than never! 👍🙏🏻✝️❤️

[@michaelhaywood8262]

I have never heard of Hillsong. I prefer traditional Catholic hymns etc, but also some modern ones such as those by James Quinn. Musicians and singers need to realise that they are there to lead worship and are not there to entertain. I particularly dislike Taize music.

[@jeffanderson3962]

With respect Fr. It seems Charity DOES need to be explained to most Catholics. There is an illusion that it just means "being nice".

[@fr.terrancechartier601]

Thanks for the observation, Jeff, but most of the people who listen to our channel & attend our Masses know that charity is more than just being nice. At the parish level, it certainly needs to be made clear what charity is and what it isn't. God bless you!

[@sharonthompson8061]

I have seen Catholics very uncharitable by condemning other Catholics who attend NO. It is true some NO have lost their focus and appear to be in the entertainment business, however some are very focussed on ensuring respect and reverence is given to Our Lord and it is foremost in their Mass) I attend both due to travel, day and time. 🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Thankyou Franciscan Friars

[@Karmingiry]

Thank you for this very illuminating homily Fr. Terrance. I didn't mind it's length haha.

[@raymondmartin318]

Another superb homily from Fr Terrance and not too long at all. Without sounding too self indulgent I could listen to Fr Terrance all day long and there are not many clerics I would say that about. He highlights in a very positive way what often causes great sadness and grievance to the People of God. The terrible fact that Satan clouds himself in light and moves like a lion amongst the Church faithful waiting to attack. Yet rarely does Satan attack in full horror and despite the modern trend for horror movies, stories and the like that pepper the internet his usual advance is hidden behind a smile with charm or a kiss on the cheek. Sadly perhaps nearly all have seen a loved one bedazzled by the brilliance of a cult that can trip up unsuspecting souls. Such quick and happy answers are often presented to us at our most critical moment or when the certainties of a faithful Church seem uncaring. Sadly the Church in what it has sometimes done historically or has failed to do can make it appear tarnished and dull before the easy answers provided by cults that thrive in form without true substance. How often do we encounter the professed creed of being spiritual rather than religious? Yet without structure this flimsy ideal has no depth and may be blown away in a simple wind resulting in naked despair. Hence the Church uses foundations of Traditional Faith, tested by the depth of Scripture to give sure footing to a fluid world of ideas and trends that are as elusive as fashion. Nonetheless, cults provide easy answers to complicated theological, social and emotional questions that continue to cause harm to the Church. Fr Terrance rightly points out that some come from inside the Church such as the SSPX that deny Obedience yet damn the loyalty owed to the Pope, Magisterium or Church Councils. These mischief makers are especially wicked because they live in open Mortal sin and yet claim traditional loyalty. Like the Pharisees in Holy writ they remain condemned by Scripture for the harm they have caused in this life. Indeed woe unto these false idylls, mirages of grace, sinful cruelties. We must however retain Hope and in the Faith hold true to that which has been given unto us. Obedience and Loyalty to the Teaching of Mother Church and repudiation of the many quick fixes that plague our world as they always have.

[@michaelhaywood8262]

I was approached by a woman distributing JW literature this morning. The JWs seem to be cultish in some respects. Needless to say I declined to take it. i just told them that I was a Catholic [in fact I was on my way to Mass, although I didn't tell her that. The JWs also seem to be a revival of the Arian heresy.

[@wendyflanagan5738]

Is an individual family a small cult if they live without devotion to God? It concerns me as FB abd Twitter are full of interest groups abd campaign groups that could potentially be cults and manipulate.

[@MultiMeamore]

Sad but true. A religious group told me indirectly that my mint green luggage does not suit everything. The green color looks good for grasses. I prayed the rosay with them everyday for 2 weeks but never I heard a prayer for the intention of the Pope.

[@triciagarea9576]

Is FSSR are they in full communion with the church?

[@G-MIP]

FSSP is in full communion (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter). I’ve never heard of FSSR.

[@triciagarea9576]

Has anyone heard of FSSR?

[@fr.terrancechartier601]

@@triciagarea9576 It looks as though the group that you've mentioned now has a monastery in Montana. Here's a description of them from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_the_Most_Holy_Redeemer They are traditionalist, but it seems as though they are now in good standing in the Church. God bless!

[@triciagarea9576]

@@fr.terrancechartier601 Thank you Fr Terrance for this information.

[@Who63]

That NEO CATECHULMEN group who follows two lay people KIKI AND CARMEN and believe to sit at communion, oddball practices and dividing the holy Catholic Church. They also go door to door. This bothers me because all these modernization and Pentecostal movements are being allowed in. Why doesn’t the archbishops ever say anything?

[@beverlysteele8754]

Exactly. My situation was with a Pentecostal church.. Two, in two different States and turned out "connected". One, an older man leading a much younger newer man in the other State.

[@G-MIP]

There are many lay people who are canonized saints. Neo Catechumen Way is in union with the Catholic Church. Catholic Charismatic movements are in union with the Catholic Church. Sedavacantist movements are not. The Catholic Church is a big house with many rooms. That’s why there is hundreds of different religious orders, charisms and movements. Your comment expresses pride, disobedience and lacks charity. I would seriously do an examine of conscience and get on an obedient and humble program- before it’s too late. Peace.

[@time4grace8]

What are SSPX; how they look like?

[@Tyfoo81]

They are a "Traditionalist Catholic" group that rejects Vatican 2 and only celebrates the old Latin Mass. They heavily criticize the Novus Ordo Mass and those who participate in it.

[@Tyfoo81]

@@heatherwhitehead3743 Find a FSSP parish. They are a Traditional Latin Mass group that is in full communion with the Church.

[@mariawesthoff7313]

Just wondering, so is he against the TLM? Kind of calling those that attend, that they are in a cult?

[@josephthmas2070]

SSPX is a cult !!!

[@sadie4538]

Sorry, don’t trust this guy. He seems dishonest. He’s doing exactly what he’s accusing others of! People, beware!! Pray for this priest. Why divide further, Fr.? Why not be charitable? Yes, I’ll beware...of this misguided priest. 😥😥😥

[@fr.terrancechartier601]

Thanks for your prayers, Maria. God bless!

[@sadie4538]

@@fr.terrancechartier601 You’re welcome. God bless you and lead us all to the Truth.

[@lisaulmer8943]

Good message. (Terrible delivery.)

[@fr.terrancechartier601]

Thanks (it's the best I can do).

[@lisaulmer8943]

It's a great message, Father. Many of our priests could use some help with public speaking/delivery. No apology needed for longer homily with this content. Thank you.

[@sharonthompson8061]

This is a homily. It not a presentation at an educational facility whereby you need something to keep the attendees interested! 😄

[@sharonthompson8061]

@@fr.terrancechartier601 All good👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@victoria9381]

Is the adult baptism and confirmation I received at the SSPX 3 years ago invalid?

[@franciscanfriars]

My understanding is that you would need to still be received into the Catholic Church & make the Church's profession of faith. It would be best to talk to the chancellory of the diocese where you live, explain to them your sacramental situation, & ask them how to go about being formally received into the Catholic Church. God bless you! - Fr. Terrance

[@victoria9381]

@@franciscanfriars Thank you Father. I'll do what you suggested.