PAPAL UNION A NECESSITY FOR SALVATION Obedience is the key with which Heaven is opened. Christ sweet Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for, as you know, He left His Vicar, Christ-on-earth, whom you are all obliged to obey until death -and whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation. - St. Catherine of Siena Whoever is not subject to my injunctions will be cast out of the body of the faithful and will be liable to eternal damnation. - Pope St. Siricius Saint Ursula gave her life, together with that of all her friends, for the sake of that faith which I am describing to you, and think how contrary is the religion you profess to that which they professed; and that Saint Lucius, King of England, was so obedient to the Roman Apostolic See and had so great a respect for the Chair of Peter, that every year he sent to Rome rich gifts and jewels as tokens and tributes of his recognition. So also did all his descend- ants until Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. And consider how you and all your flock, misled, are following a road that ends in Hell! - St. Peter Claver Therefore, if you fear to leave this Catholic unity, outside which there is no salvation ... beware of the artifices and subleties of these men. - Bl. Pope Pius IX These miserable wretches, refusing to acknowledge the Rock as Peter, and to believe that the Church has received the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, have lost these very keys from their own hands. - St. Augustine He who dares to withdraw from the unity of Peter is excluded from the Divine Mysteries. - Pope St. Leo the Great He who is not with Peter is not with the Church, and he who leaves the Ark will perish in the time of the flood. - St. Anthony Mary Claret To be subject to the Roman Pontiff, is absolutely necessary for slavation. - St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are obstinate toward the authority of the Church and the Roman Pontiff ...cannot obtain eternal salvation. - Bl. Pope Pius IX No one can stand without danger unless he keeps the Divine constitutions and decrees of the Apostolic See. - Pope St. Hilary E-MAIL HOME----------SAINTS-----------QUOTE OF THE WEEK----------MEMORABLE QUOTES www.catholictradition.org/Saint/saintly-quotes26b.htm