| ArchLector_Sejanus | Date: Wednesday, 21 May 14, 8:19 AM | Message # 1 |
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| The worm turned. The Arch Lector was tired of the lack of success the Prophet had enjoyed at Ord Wylan and indeed if he could not hold one world and had just abandoned it, he was being defeated, and defeat was a sign that the Prophet was indeed no prophet but a false peddlar of lies. So with his loyal inner circle he would make the following declaration of excommunication on Rex for his actions and try and save the Church by showing outward obedience to the Republic. Most of the Church who remained on Eriadu were with him, the more conservative who had been hesitant about the idea of a prophet and crusading an now with the failure of the prophet the daggers were out, it was thus that the Church schismed. The Arch Lector gambling on winning Republic and Sector Government support for his schismatic sect by virtue of being useful to them.. The Arch Lector, cosigned by a quorum of Bishops and Arch Bishops of the Church of the Good Deity made the following excommmunication
Through the power given him from the Deity, the Arch-Lector has been appointed to administer spiritual and temporal punishments as each case severally deserves. The purpose of this is the repression of the wicked designs of misguided men, who have been so captivated by the debased impulse of their evil purposes as to forget the fear of the Lord, to set aside with contempt canonical decrees and apostolic commandments, and to dare to formulate new and false dogmas and to introduce the evil of schism into the Church of the Good Deity-or to support, help and adhere to such schismatics, who make it their business to cleave asunder the seamless robe of our Redeemer and the unity of the orthodox faith.
Hence it befits the Arch-Lector, lest the vessel of the faith appear to sail without pilot or oarsman, to take severe measures against such men and their followers, and by multiplying punitive measures and by other suitable remedies to see to it that these same overbearing men, devoted as they are to purposes of evil, along with their adherents, should not deceive the multitude of the simple by their lies and their deceitful devices, nor drag them along to share their own error and ruination, contaminating them with what amounts to a contagious disease.
It also befits the Arch-Lector, having condemned the schismatics, to ensure their still greater confounding by publicly showing and openly declaring to all faithful Members of the Church of the Good Deity how formidable are the censures and punishments to which such guilt can lead; to the end that by such public declaration they themselves may return, in confusion and remorse, to their true selves, making an unqualified withdrawal from the prohibited conversation, fellowship and (above all) obedience to such accursed excommunicates; by this means they may escape divine vengeance and any degree of participation in their damnation.
Nevertheless Gerrard Rex himself-and it gives us grievous sorrow and perplexity to say this-the slave of a depraved mind, has scorned to revoke his errors within the prescribed interval and to send us word of such revocation, or to come to us himself; nay, like a stone of stumbling, he has feared not to write and preach worse things than before against us and this Holy Church and the faith, and to lead others on to do the same. He hath preached the breaking of the peace, which is most sacred among the Church of the Good Deity, and has openly declared himself at war with the Republic by his actions, the Republic to whom we are most loyal citizens and bear no ill will not defiance.
He has now been declared a heretic; a false prophet; and so also others, whatever their authority and rank, who have cared nought of their own salvation but publicly and in all men's eyes become followers of Gerrard Rex's pernicious and heretical sect, and given him openly and publicly their help, counsel and favour, encouraging him in their midst in his disobedience and obstinacy, or hindering the publication of our said missive: such men have incurred the punishments set out in that missive, and are to be treated rightfully as heretics and avoided by all faithful worshippers of the Good Deity, as the first Arch Lector preached.
Our purpose is that such men should rightfully be ranked with Gerrard Rex and other accursed heretics and excommunicates, and that even as they have ranged themselves with the obstinacy in sinning of the said Martin, they shall likewise share his punishments and his name, by bearing with them everywhere the title "Pius Dea" and the punishments it incurs.
On all these we decree the sentences of excommunication, of anathema, of our perpetual condemnation and interdict; of privation of dignities, honours and property on them and their descendants, and of declared unfitness for such possessions; of the confiscation of their goods and of the crime of treason; and these and the other sentences, censures and punishments which are inflicted by canon law on heretics and are set out in our aforesaid missive, we decree to have fallen on all these men to their damnation.
We add to our present declaration, by our Lectorial authority, that states, territories, camps, towns and places in which these men have temporarily lived or chanced to visit, along with their possessions-cities which house cathedrals and metropolitans, monasteries and other religious and sacred places, privileged or un-privileged-one and all are placed under our ecclesiastical interdict, while this interdict lasts, no pretext of Apostolic Indulgence (except in cases the law allows, and even there, as it were, with the doors shut and those under excommunication and interdict excluded) shall avail to allow the celebration of mass and the other divine offices. We prescribe and enjoin that the men in question are everywhere to be denounced publicly as excommunicated, accursed, condemned, interdicted, deprived of possessions and incapable of owning them. They are to be strictly shunned by all faithful worshippers of the Church, who shall render unto the Republic what is the Republics.
To each and every rector of the parish churches, to the rectors of all the Orders, even the mendicants, privileged or unprivileged, we enjoin in the same terms, on the strength of their vow of obedience, that appointed by the Lord as they are to be like clouds, they shall sprinkle spiritual showers on the people of the Good Deity, and have no fear in giving the widest publicity to the condemnation of the aforesaid articles, as their office obliges them. It is written that perfect love casteth out fear. Let each and every one of you take up the burden of such a meritorious duty with complete devotion; show yourselves so punctilious in its execution, so zealous and eager in word and deed, that from your labours, by the favour of divine grace, the hoped-for harvest will come in, and that through your devotion you will not only earn that crown of glory which is the due recompense of all who promote religious causes, but also attain from us and the said Church the unbounded commendation that your proved diligence will deserve.
No obstacle is afforded to our wishes by the ecumenical constitutions and orders, or by anything in our aforesaid earlier missive which we do not wish to stand in the way, or by any other pronouncements to the contrary.
No one whatsoever may infringe this our written decision, declaration, precept, injunction, assignation, will, decree; or rashly contravene it. Should anyone dare to attempt such a thing, let him know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty Deity and of the blessed Arch Lectors of the Church who are with the Goddess in the beyond.
The Most Holy and Thrice Blessed Lord Sejanus
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Arch-Lector of the Church of the Good Deity
Vicar of the Feminine Divine,
Patriarch of all Men, Supreme Head of the Universal Church.
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