Belated Hat-Tip to The Heresy Hunter

The Heresy Hunter wrote, as his very fine and salutary New Year message:

On the eve of the new year, figured that some comments from St. Francis de Sales would be worthwhile to ruminate upon:


The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: "Here is the wolf!" when it enters the flock or anywhere else.


Cogitation upon the words of Blaise Pascal would be a supplemental mental exercise (nabbed from Acts of the Apostasy):


...I beseech you to consider that, just in proportion as Christian truths are worthy of love and respect, the contrary errors must deserve hatred and contempt... two things also about errors - an impiety, that makes them horrible, and an impertinence that renders them ridiculous. For these reasons, while the saints have ever cherished towards the truth the twofold sentiment of love and fear... they have, at the same time, entertained towards error the twofold feeling of hatred and contempt, and their zeal has been at once employed to repel, by force of reasoning, the malice of the wicked, and to chastise, by the aid of ridicule, their extravagance and folly.
 
You can read it in full - here - http://heresy-hunter.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-clappy-new-year.html