Speaking of ecumenism
"It has been given to me by my spiritual leaders a stern reprimand, that I had received too much of the praise of religious heretics, it was said to me, whether I did not longer knew who I was and who I belong. I was a consecrated virgin of the Catholic Church and bound by sacred vows. I should praise God in the Church and for heretics to pray with heartfelt compassion. I would know more what the Church than others, and why should the members of Jesus Christ in the Churches, in his Physical praise, but those were, torn from the body, and taught him so terrible wounds me to lament and pray for their conversion. With the praise of the disobedient to take part in their debt. Even such praise was not love, because the true zeal will for the salvation of souls weakened only. It happened to me right that I was being punished for it is not right to leave to go to that sacred things like that. Well I see many good people among them and have great compassion for them, but I also see that they are children of their origin, the flow out, the split among themselves. Stir now and then an impulse of devotion in the Catholic strain in them, so running but a dark unyielding drive of defiance, of turning away from the mother side of it. You want to be very happy even pious, not just Catholics. If they say the same always, the ceremonies at the dead form of consideration are not, we must in the spirit of serving God, stick yet now they are very stubborn on the form and that of a blind, self-made, and therefore ever-changing shape that no match is not a body of mind, but a dead case. They may use so do not bend, and all suffer from the arrogance. How should they acquire a humble heart, because they learn from young people not to humiliate himself by confessing their sins, their misery, never, never be used, like a child to accuse the Church in the sacrament of penance before the representative of God with heartfelt remorse and shame! Therefore, I see myself in the best of them something incorrect, opinionated, rigid, arrogant. Only those heretics, who, without knowing the only true church, something so pure as they are able walk, are in no way evil. Once they are God but the slightest hint or doubt, they are called and must search for the truth. Through Holy Baptism, although the heretics, if they receive the same right to become members of the church and live alone and have nothing from the church of spiritual food than what they accrue from the church can, but they are not related to the children of the house at the table, they stand out in defiance, boastful or languishing. When I see in visions baptized heretics, which unite with the church, so it is as if they were allowed to emerge from the walls of the church before the altar and the Blessed Sacrament, during my unbaptized, the Jews, Turks (Muslims) and Gentiles, if they convert, as will be shown the door by kicking in.. "
Anna Katharina Emmerich (Schmöger, Volume I, 1867, p. 463/464)
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