A mediocrity is 1 who hates better than himself due to the fact that their presence disturbs his peace. Mediota lives in fear of trial. He's afraid of polemics and controversy. He hates genius and virtue, loves mediocrity and what he calls a means. People who follow holy tenacity are intolerant. The model of sacred tenacity is the Immaculate, writes Italian historian, prof. Roberto de Mattei.
Persistence is the firmness with which individual defends their ideas. It is sacred erstwhile these ideas are religious; not any religion, but the actual one, founded by Jesus Christ, God-Man, the Redeemer of mankind. The top tenacity 1 can imagine is expressed by the dogmas of the Catholic Church, which are so actual that they can be described as infallible.
In order to defend the name of Christ and his teaching, countless Christians in past faced persecution, suffering, and death. Martyrs were witnesses of Christ, the only Way, fact and Life (cf. Jn 14:6). In the times of the Roman Empire, as in today's domination of relativism, it was thought that all religions should be treated as equal. In the ancient pantheon all religions had to be subject to the cult of the goddess Roma; in the modern pantheon they must be subject to the cult of relativism. Relativism refuses any religion the right to be defined as absolutely true, announcing them all false. For this reason modern society can be described as internally atheistic, even if the dictatorship of relativism does not yet extend to bloody persecution of the early centuries of the Church.
Those who full accept the doctrine of relativism are a minority, as are the minority, those who hold holy tenacity at this hour. Most people, present and then, are made up of mediocrity, which hates everything that leads to a clash of ideas. The mediocrity is the 1 who hates people better than himself, due to the fact that their presence disturbs his peace, which is not a classical Tranquillitas ordinis – that is, the peace provided by the order of absolute values – but is his own selfish interest. A better man is 1 who follows noble and selfless principles of life and thinking. He is simply a man of firm and consistent ideas, of surviving principles.
French author Ernest Hello devoted the memorable pages to the “meernots”. A mediocre man, writes Hello, is the 1 who lives in fear of being tested. He's afraid of polemics, controversy. He hates genius and virtue; he loves moderation and what he calls a "happy means." 1 of its characteristics is respect for the public. He doesn't talk, he repeats. He respects those who succeed, but fears those against whom the planet fights. He would go so far as to search the favors of his worst enemy if he were honored by the world, but is willing to distance himself from his best friend erstwhile the planet attacks him.
Miernota loves to introduce herself as “moderate”. Moderately, erstwhile it is true, it is simply a virtue, but it has nothing to do with “moderateness”, which is simply a life practice opposed to the relentlessness of the 1 who fights for the truth. For the hyper-moderate fact seems to be an excess—like error.
In an article published in the diary “Catolicismo” in September 1954, prof. Plinio Corraa de Oliveira explained this issue well:
"The characteristic feature of modernism is that in practice it heads towards the position of 'third force', between fact and error, between good and evil. If there is simply a City of God on 1 pole whose children effort to spread good and fact in all forms, and on the another pole is the City of Satan, whose followers effort to spread mistake and evil in all forms, it is clear that the conflict between the 2 cities is inevitable: 2 forces operating in the same field and in other directions must necessarily fight each other. It follows that there cannot be any spreading of fact and good, which does not entail fighting mistake and evil; and vice versa, there cannot be no spreading of mistake and evil, which does not entail fighting fact and good, with those who spread fact and work for good."
Moderate and mediocre man hates a man who follows his own ideas. He describes him as intolerant. Intolerance, indeed, is not a virtue, nor is tolerance. Like tolerance, however, intolerance can be the consequence of practicing virtue. Intolerance can be associated with same - love, arrogance, bitter zeal; but it can besides consequence from relentless love for truth. Similarly, tolerance: it can be due to love and discretion, but it can besides be a kid of relativism and a spirit of compromise.
"Intolerance" is an offensive word which enlightened philosophers, specified as Wolter, have applied to sacred tenacity. He who professes holy tenacity has a pattern in the Blessed Virgin Mary. In another article in “Catolicismo” of March 1954, this time devoted to Immaculate and Sacred Pertinence, prof. Corraa de Oliveira, after describing the era of confusion and moral corruption of the times preceding Christ’s birth, writes:
"The ancient planet was shaken by all these things; but who was the Blessed Virgin, created by God in the age of full decadence? She was the most complete, relentless, categorical, unambiguous and extremist antithesis of her time. [...] «Undefiled» is simply a word denies. Etimologically, it means a deficiency of fault, and thus the absence of any error, even the smallest, and any sin, even the smallest and least significant. This is integrity in religion and virtue. It is so an absolute, systematic, unrelenting inflexibility; it is an absolute, deep and diametric aversion to any kind of mistake or evil. Sacred tenacity in fact and good is orthodoxy and purity, as long as it opposes heterodoxy and evil. To love God without measure, Our woman loved with all her heart everything that came from God. And due to the fact that she hated evil without measure, she hated Satan, his manifestations and his works without measure; she hated the devil, the planet and the flesh [“For all that is in the world, that is, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of this life come not from the Father, but from the world. The planet is passing away, and with it its desire; but whoever does the will of God, he abides forever" (cf. 1 Jn 2:16-17). Our woman of Immaculate Conception is the woman of Sacred Perseverance.”
Therefore, let us boldly follow the school of “holy perseverance”.
Roberto de Mattei
Source: Voice of the Family
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