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religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass
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contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept,
grant, direction, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to
do so, let him understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the
Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine
Codification of the “received and approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Seventeenth Sunday after
Pentecost
Holy Guardian Angels
October 2, 2022
Tobias seems to have lived in the reign of
Salmanasar towards the end of the eight-century before Christ, at the time of
the deportation to Assyria of the Israelites of the northern kingdom. This holy man gave proof, like Job, of his
constancy and fidelity to God in the midst of all his trials. “He…. forsook not the way of truth: but every
day gave all he could get to his brethren, his fellow captives that were of his
kindred. And when he was younger than
any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.”
The Introit psalm can be applied to him
because it speaks of a young man who from his youth up, has walked in the Law
of the Lord. “These and such like
things,” says Holy Scripture, “did he observe when but a boy according to the
Law of God. But when he was a man, he
took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her whom he called after
his own name. And from his infancy he
taught him to fear God and remembered God with all his heart, and went about
looking for his fellow captives to whom he gave ‘wholesome admonitions’,
comforted them and distributed to everyone as he was able out of his
goods. He fed the hungry and gave cloths
to the naked, and was careful to bury the dead and those that were slain.”
Later
on almighty God allowed Tobias to be stricken with blindness, so that his
patience, like that of holy Job, might be an example to posterity. For whereas he had always feared God from his
infancy and kept his commandments, he repined not against God, because the evil
of blindness had befallen him: but continued immovable in the fear of God,
giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
“We are,” said he, “the children of saints, and look to that life which
God will give to those that never change their faith in Him.”
When his wife spoke offensively about his
misfortune, Tobias lamented, and began to pray with tears, using nearly the
same words as those of the Introit: “Thou art just, O Lord, and all Thy
judgments are just; and all Thy ways mercy and truth and judgment….And now, O
Lord, deal with me according to Thy will.”
Later, when giving what he thought was a final charge to his son, he
said: “My son….all the days of thy life have God in thy mind and take heed thou
never consent to sin. Give alms out of
thy substance and turn not away thy face from any poor person. According to thy ability be merciful. See thou never do to another what thou
wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.”
Here we have that same precept of love to
God and our neighbor, translated into practice, which is taught in the Epistle
and Gospel for today. “Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul and with thy
whole mind,” and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Gospel). “Walk…. with all humility and mildness, with
patience supporting one another in charity, careful to keep the unity of the
Spirit with a bond of peace” (Epistle).
When Tobias sent his son to Gabelus at
Rages under the guidance of the archangel Raphael, during the journey the angel
told the young man to “draw to” him a fish that wanted to devour him, and to
keep its liver as a means of driving away all kinds of devils. Again, he showed him how to take his kinswoman
Sara to wife without coming to any harm at the hands of the devil who had
killed her seven former husbands.
“They,” said the angel, “who in such manner receive matrimony, as to
shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to
their lust….over them the devil hath power.”
So we pray in the Collect: “Grant unto Thy
people, O Lord, to withstand the temptations of the devil: and pure in heart,
to follow Thee, the only God.”
“We,” said Tobias to Sara, “are children of
saints: and we must not be joined together like heathen that know not
God.” So they prayed earnestly both
together, “to the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the
fountains, and the rivers and all creatures,” that health might be given them. And God blessed their marriage, as He has blessed
that of the Patriarchs, that they might have children of the race of Abraham
(Gradual).
Tobias then returned home with Sara and
cured his father’s blindness, whereupon the old man sang a hymn of thanksgiving
in which the most magnificent Messianic prospects were disclosed. Jerusalem had been chastised for her deeds,
but she would shine with a glorious light, and rejoice forever. Nations from afar should come to her, bringing
gifts and adoring the Lord in her. They
that despise her should be accursed, and they that blasphemed her
condemned. “Blessed,” he goes on, “are
all they that love thee…. Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed to
see the glory of Jerusalem. The gates of
Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire and of emerald: and all the walls thereof
round about of precious stones. All its
streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and Alleluia shall be sung
in its streets… Furthermore the destruction of Nineveh is at hand: for the word
of the Lord must be fulfilled.”
Here
indeed is the “new canticle” which the Gradual psalm bids us sing (v.
3ff). “the word of the Lord is right….
The Lord bringeth to naught the counsels of nations…and casteth away the
counsels of princes…. Blessed is…. the people whom He hath chosen for His
inheritance…Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in Thee.”
And the Communion psalm adds that God has
broken all hostile forces, scattered proud kings and destroyed their
armies. “Vow ye and pay…. to Him that is
terrible, for He has looked favorably upon the people upon whom His name is
invoked” (Offertory).
By Jerusalem where God reigns and to which
all nations come to praise the Lord is meant the kingdom of God, the heavenly
Jerusalem. To her all are summoned by an
universal call, to form “one body” that is the Church, called by St. Gregory a
new creation (Gradual), and quickened by “one Spirit”, the Holy Ghost given at
Pentecost, for there exists for all but “one Lord, one faith, one baptism”
(Epistle).
This
is Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of David, whom “the one God and Father
of all” has made to sit on His right hand until His enemies have become His
footstool (Heb. 1, 13).
INTROIT:
Ps.
118. Thou
art just, O Lord, and Thy judgment is right; deal with Thy servant according to
Thy mercy.
Ps. Blessed
are the undefiled in the way; who walk in the law of the Lord. Glory be, etc. Thou art just, etc.
COLLECT:
Grant to Thy people, we pray, O
Lord, to avoid the defilements of the devil: and with a pure mind to follow
Thee, the only God. Through our Lord,
etc.
O God, who in Thy unspeakable
providence dost vouchsafe to send Thy holy angels to keep watch over us: grant
that Thy suppliants may always be shielded by their protection, and may rejoice
in their fellowship for evermore.
Through our Lord, etc.
EPISTLE: Ephes. 4, 1-6.
Brethren, I, a prisoner in the
Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called.
With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in
charity, careful to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. One body
and one spirit, as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one
faith, one baptism. One God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,
and in us all. Who is blessed forever and ever. Amen.
ADMONITION: Implore God continually for grace to accomplish and make certain your vocation by practicing these virtues, recommended by St. Paul.
GRADUAL:
Ps.
32. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord:
the people whom He hath chosen for His inheritance. By the word of the Lord the heavens were
established; and all the power of them by the spirit of His mouth. Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. 101. O Lord,
hear my prayer; and let my cry come unto Thee.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL: Matt. 22,
35-46.
At that time, the Pharisees came to Jesus, and one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment of the law? Jesus said to him: Thou shaft love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying: What think you of Christ; whose son is he? They say to him: David’s. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord; saying: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool? If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
What is meant by loving God?
It means to find one’s pleasure, happiness and joy in God, because He is he highest and most perfect Good; to rejoice in His infinite majesty and glory; to direct one’s thoughts, words, and actions towards Him as our only end: to do His will in all things, and be prepared always rather to lose everything, even life itself, than His friendship.
What is meant by loving God
with our whole heart, our whole soul, etc.?
These different expressions all properly mean the same thing, namely, that we should cling to God with a true, sincere and heartfelt love, but by our heart our will may be understood, that power by which we wish God all glory, and desire nothing more than that He be known, loved, and honored by all men. The soul signifies the intellect by means of which we should endeavor to arrive at the knowledge and love of God, praise and glorify Him above all things. The mind may signify our memory, with which we continually remember God and the innumerable benefits bestowed on us by Him, praise Him for them, thank Him, and always walk irreproachably before Him. Finally, we love God with all our strength, if we employ all the powers and faculties of our body in His service, and direct all our actions to Him as to our last end.
Is it true love, if we love
God only because He is good to us?
This is grateful love, which is good and praiseworthy, but it is not perfect love, because the motive is self-love and self-interest.
What, therefore, is perfect
love?
When we love God only because He is in Himself the highest Good, and most worthy of all love. In this manner we should endeavor to love Him; not through self-interest not through hope of reward, not through fear of punishment, but only because He, as the greatest Good, contains all goodness and, therefore, deserves to be loved only on account of Himself. Such love had St. Francis Xavier, which he very beautifully expressed in the canticle, composed by himself:
O God, Thou art the object of my love, not for the hope of endless joys above,
nor the fear of endless pains below, which those who love Thee not must undergo.
For me, and such as me, Thou once didst bear, the ignominious cross, the nails, the spear
A thorny crown transpierced Thy sacred brow; what bloody sweats from every member flow!
Such as then was and is Thy love for me, such is and shall be still my love for Thee;
Thy love O Jesus, will I ever sing-----O God of love, sweet Savior, dearest King!
Can fear exist with love?
Servile fear cannot, but filial fear may. Servile fear is rather a fear of punishment than a fear of offending God. Where such fear exists, love cannot dwell; for in love, writes St. Augustine (in Joann. Tr. 9), there is no fear, for perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4, 18). Filial fear, on the contrary, is the fear of offending God. This fear leads to love and is also an effect of love; it is the beginning of wisdom (Eccles. 1, 16). Let us cherish this fear, for it will drive away sin, as sentinels expel thieves (Ecclus. 1, 16): it will replenish us with joy, and gladness, and obtain for us in our last moments divine blessings and a holy death (Ecclus. 1, 27).
How may we obtain a perfect
love of God?
By meditating on His infinite, divine perfections, such as His almighty power, His wisdom, His splendor, His beauty, etc.; by contemplating His boundless love for us, in the incarnation, sufferings, and death of His only-begotten Son; by frequently practicing this virtue; by fervent prayer; and by making acts of love, such as are found in good prayer-books.
When should we practice the virtue of love of God?
As soon as we have arrived at the age of reason; when the world, the devil and the flesh, endeavor to withdraw us from God, by their apparent goods and pleasures; when we have separated ourselves from God by mortal sin; when we receive the holy Sacraments, particularly holy Communion; when we receive a particular grace from God; when we use food and drink and other lawful enjoyments; when we contemplate God’s creatures; often during the day; and especially in the hour of death.
Why is the commandment to
love God and our neighbor called the ‘greatest commandment’?
Because in it are contained all the other commandments, for Christ says, in it consists the whole law. He who loves God with his whole heart, does not separate himself from God by infidelity, does not practice public or private superstition and idolatry; he does not murmur against God, does not desecrate the name of God by cursing and swearing; he does not profane the Sabbath, because he knows that all this is displeasing to God. On the contrary, he hopes in God, keeps Sundays and days of obligation holy, and observes all the commandments of the Church, because God wishes that we hear the Church; he honors his parents, inflicts no evil upon his neighbor; does not commit adultery, does not steal, calumniates no one, does not bear false witness, does not judge rashly, is not envious, malicious or cruel, but rather practices the corporal and spiritual works of mercy; and all this, because he loves God and his neighbor.
What is the meaning of the
question, “What think you of Christ?”
Christ asked the Pharisees this question in order to convince them, from their own answer, that He was not only the Son of David, but that He as the only-begotten Son of God was the Lord of David and of all men from eternity (Ps. 2, 7). Unhappily, even today there are men who like the Pharisees deny the divinity of Christ, the Son of the living God, consider Him merely a very wise and virtuous man, and do not receive His doctrine, confirmed by so many miracles. Beware, my dear Christian, of these men who rob you of the peace of the soul, and the consoling hope of a future resurrection and eternal life, together with faith in Christ, the divine Redeemer. But if you believe Christ to be the Son of God and our Lord, Lawgiver, Instructor, and Redeemer, follow His teaching, and do not contradict indeed what you profess with your lips.
PRAYER: O most amiable Jesus! Who hast admonished us so affectionately to love God and our neighbor, pour the fire of Thy love into our hearts, that all our deeds and actions, our thoughts and words may begin and end with Thy love. Grant, that we may love Thee with all the powers of our body and soul, and thereby be so united to Thee, that, like St. Paul, no temptation, no tribulation, no danger, not even death, may be able to separate us from Thee. Grant us also, that we may love our neighbors, friends, and enemies as ourselves for Thy sake, and thus be made worthy to possess Thee as our Redeemer and merciful judge.
OFFERTORY:
Dan.
9. I,
Daniel, prayed to my God, saying, hear, O Lord, the prayers of Thy servant;
show Thy face upon Thy sanctuary, and favorably look down upon this people,
upon whom Thy name is invoked, O God.
SECRET:
We
humbly implore Thy majesty, O Lord, that these holy mysteries we celebrate may
rid us of past offenses and keep us from wrong-doing in the future. Through our Lord, etc.
Receive, O Lord, the gifts which we bring Thee in honor of Thy holy
angels; and mercifully grant that by their unceasing watchfulness we may be
delivered from present dangers, and may attain unto everlasting life. Through our Lord, etc.
COMMUNION:
Ps.
75. Vow
ye, and pay to the Lord your God. All you that round about Him bring presents:
to Him that is terrible, even to Him who taketh away the spirit of princes; to
Him who is terrible to all the kings of the earth.
POSTCOMMUNION:
By Thy holy rites, O almighty
God, may our vices be cured, and remedies be given us that will avail everlasting. Through our Lord, etc.
We have received, O Lord, Thy
divine mysteries, rejoicing in the festival of the holy angels; by their
protection, we pray that we may ever be delivered from the wiles of our enemies
and guarded against all harm. Through
our Lord, etc.
LAST GOSPEL: Matt. 18,
1-10.
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Jesus said to him: “Thou shaft love the Lord thy God
with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is
the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2nd:
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17th Sunday after Pentecost Holy Guardian Angels |
sd |
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Mass 9:00 AM, Confessions 8:00 AM, Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for the members of Ss. P & P |
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St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, V |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
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4 |
Tue |
St. Francis of Assisi, C |
dm |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
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5 |
Wed |
St. Placidus & Comp., Mm |
sp |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
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Thu |
St. Bruno, C |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
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7 |
Fri |
The Most Holy Rosary St. Mark, PC St. Sergius & Comp., Mm FIRST FRIDAY |
d2cl |
W |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass;
Benediction & Holy Hour of Reparation |
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Sat |
St. Bridget, W |
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Mass 9:00 AM; 8:30 AM Confession & Rosary of
Reparation |
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9 |
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18th Sunday after Pentecost St. John Leonard, C St. Dionysius & Comp., Mm |
sd |
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Mass 9:00 AM, Confessions 8:00 AM, Rosary of Reparation
8:30 AM; Mass for the members of Ss. P & P |
It is from the lowest of
the nine choirs, the nearest to ourselves, that the Guardian Angels are for the
most part selected. God reserves to the
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones the honour of forming His own immediate
court. The Dominations, from the steps
of His throne, preside over the government of the universe; the Virtues watch
over the course of nature’s laws, the preservation of species, and the
movements of the heavens; the Powers hold the spirits of wickedness in
subjection. The human race in its
entirety, as also its great social bodies, the nations and the churches, are
confided to the Principalities; while the Archangels, who preside over smaller
communities, seem also to have the office of transmitting to the Angels the
commands of God, together with the love and light which come down even to us
from the first and highest hierarchy.
Thus, then, the admirable distribution of offices among the choirs of
heavenly spirits terminates in the function committed to the lowest rank, the
guardianship of man, for whom the universe subsists. Such is the teaching of the School; and the
apostle, in like manner, says: “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to
minister for them, who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?”
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of the Guardian Angel
“A religious error is the
main root of all social and political evils.”
Pope Leo XIII, Inscrutabili
Dei Consilio
JESUS hath now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom,
but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many that are desirous of consolation,
but few of tribulation. He finds many companions of His table, but few of His
abstinence. All desire to rejoice with Him, but few are willing to endure
anything for His sake. Many follow Jesus to the breaking of bread, but few to
the drinking of the chalice of His Passion. Many reverence His miracles, but
few follow the ignominy of His Cross. Many love Jesus as long as they meet with
no adversity; many praise Him and bless Him as long as they receive some
consolations from Him. But if Jesus hide Himself, and leave them for a little
while, they either murmur or fall into excessive dejection. But they that love Jesus for Jesus’ sake, and
not for the sake of some consolation of their own, bless Him no less in
tribulation and anguish of heart than in the greatest consolation.
Thomas a Kempis, Following of Christ
Few
are Saved
“For Many Are Called, But Few
Are Chosen.”
Jesus Christ, (Mark 20:16)
“Do not be deceived; there are
only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to
death and is wide. There is no middle way.”
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
“What do you think? How many of the inhabitants of this city may
perhaps be saved? Out of this thickly
populated city, not one hundred people will be saved! I doubt whether there will even be as many as
that!”
St. John Chrysostom
“Scarcely anyone is
saved.”
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori
“So vast a number of miserable souls
perish, and so comparatively few are saved!”
St. Philip Neri
“The number of the saved is as
few as the number of grapes left after the pickers have passed.”
St. John Mary Vianney
“Only a few will be saved; only
few will go to Heaven. The greater part
of mankind will be lost forever.”
St. John Neumann
“There are a select few who are
saved.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“The number of the Elect is so
small – so small – that, were we to know how small it is, we would faint away
with grief. One here and there,
scattered up and down the world!”
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
“How narrow is the gate and how
strait the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it.”
Jesus Christ, (Matthew 7:
13-14)
INSTRUCTION ON THE ONE ONLY SAVING FAITH
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. (Ephes. 4, 5-6)
These words of the great Apostle of the Gentiles show clearly, that it is not a matter of indifference, what faith or religion we profess. Yet in our times so poor in faith, we often hear the assertion from so-called enlightened men: “It is all the same to what religion we belong, we can be saved in any, if we only believe in God and live uprightly.” This assertion is impious! Consider, my dear Christian, there is but one God, and this one God has sent only one Redeemer; and this one Redeemer has preached but one doctrine, and has established but one Church. Had God wished that there should be more than one Church, then Christ would have founded them, nay, He would not have preached a new doctrine, established a new, Christian Church; for the Jews also believed in one God. But Jesus cast aside Paganism and Judaism, promulgated a new religion, and founded a new Church. Nowhere does He speak of Churches, but always of one Church. He says that we must hear this Church, and does not add, that if we will not hear this Church, we may hear some other. He speaks of only one shepherd, one flock, and one fold, into which all men are to be brought. In the same manner He speaks always of one kingdom upon earth, just as there is only one kingdom in heaven; of only one master of the house and one family, of one field and one vineyard, whereby He referred to His Church; of one rock, upon which He would build His Church. On the day before His death, He prayed fervently to His Heavenly Father, that all who believe in Him, might be and remain one, as He and the Father are one, and He gave His disciples the express command to preach His gospel to all nations, and to teach them all things, whatsoever He had commanded them. This command the apostles carried out exactly. Everywhere they preached one and the same doctrine, establishing in all places Christian communities, which were all united by the bond of the same faith. Their principal care was to prevent schisms in faith, they warned the faithful against heresy, commanded all originators of such to be avoided, and anathematized those who preached a gospel different from theirs. As the apostles, so did their successors. All the holy Fathers speak with burning love of the necessary unity of faith, and deny those all claim to salvation who remain in schism and separation from the true Church of Christ.
Learn hence, dear Christian, that there can be but one true Church; if there is but one true Church, it naturally follows that in her alone salvation can be obtained, and the assertion that we can be saved by professing any creed, is false and impious. Jesus who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life , speaks of but one Church, which we must hear, if we wish to be saved. He who does not hear the Church, He says, should be considered as a heathen and publican. He speaks furthermore of one fold, and He promises eternal life only to those sheep who belong to this fold, obey the voice of the shepherd and feed in His pasture. The apostles were also convinced that only the one, true Church could guide us to salvation. Without faith it is impossible to please God, writes St. Paul to the Hebrews (11, 6), and this faith is only one, he teaches the Ephesians (4, 5). If the apostles had believed that we could be saved in any religion, they would certainly not have contended so strenuously for unity, they would not have declared so solemnly, that we should not belong to any other than to Christ alone, and that we must receive and obey His doctrine. As the apostles taught so did their successors and all the Fathers agree that there is no salvation outside of the true Church. St. Cyprian writes: “If any one outside Noah’s ark could find safety, then also will one outside the Church find salvation” (De unit. eccl. c. 7). From all this it follows, that there is only one true Church which insures salvation, out of which no one can be saved.
But which is this Church? The Roman Catholic, Apostolic Church, for she alone was founded, by Christ, she alone was watered with the blood of the apostles and of thousands of holy martyrs, she alone has the marks of the true Church of Christ, against which He has promised that the powers of hell shall not prevail. Those who fell away from the Church nearly five hundred years ago do, indeed contend that the Church fell into error and no longer possessed the true, pure gospel of Jesus. Were they right, Jesus might be blamed, for He established this Church, promising to remain with her and guide her through the Holy Ghost until the end of the world. He would, therefore, have broken His word, or He was not powerful enough to keep it. But who dare say this? On the contrary, she has existed for nearly two thousand years, whilst the greatest and most powerful kingdoms have been overthrown, and the firmest thrones crumbled away. If she were not the only true and saving Church, founded by Christ, how could she have existed so long, since Jesus Himself said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up (Matt. 15, 13.) If she were not the Church of Christ, she would have been destroyed long ago, but she still stands today, whilst her enemies who battled against her have disappeared, and will continue to disappear; for the gates of hell shall not prevail against her, says our Lord. He has kept His promise and will keep it, notwithstanding all the oppositions and calumnies of her implacable enemies.
You see, therefore, my dear Christian, that the Catholic Church is the only true, the only saving Church; be not deceived by those who are neither cold nor warm, and who say: “We can be saved in any religion, if we only believe in God and live uprightly,” and who wish to rob you of your holy faith, and precipitate you into the sea of doubt, error, and falsehood. Outside of the Catholic Church there is no salvation; hold this firmly, for it is the teaching of Jesus, His apostles, and all the Fathers; for this doctrine the apostles and a countless host of the faithful have shed their blood. Obey the teaching of this Church, follow her laws, make use of her help and assistance, and often raise your hands and heart to heaven to thank God for the priceless grace of belonging to this one, true Church; forget not to pray for your erring brethren, who are still outside of the Church that the Lord may lead them into the only Ark of Salvation, that His promise: ‘There will be one fold, and one shepherd’, may be fulfilled in them.
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“There
is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is
saved.” Pope Innocent III,
Fourth Lateran Council, 1215
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“We
declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the
salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam
Sanctam, 1302
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“The
most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of
those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and
heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will
go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels,
unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the
unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity
can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can
receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other
works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his
almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the
Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity
of the Catholic Church.” Pope
Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441
O humility, humility! It is the lack of this which
prevents us from making progress, for the foundation of the whole spiritual
edifice is humility, and, if you have not true humility, the Lord will not
raise it very high for it lacks solidity.
St. Teresa of Avila
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding
to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.”
Psalm 110:10
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom
and instruction.”
Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the
holy is prudence.”
Proverbs 9:10
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and was created with
the faithful in the womb, it walketh with chosen women, and is known with the
just and faithful.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 1:16
“The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth
before glory.”
Proverbs 15:33
“The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, filling up peace and the
fruit of salvation:”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 1:22
“For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and discipline: and that which is
agreeable to him,”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 1:34
“And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and
to depart from evil, is understanding.”
Job 28:28
My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offenses and
blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
1.
Blasphemies
against the Immaculate Conception.
2.
Blasphemies
against Her perpetual Virginity.
3.
Blasphemies
against Her Divine Maternity, in refusing at the same time to recognize Her as the
Mother of men.
4.
The
blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children
indifference or scorn, or even hatred of this Immaculate Mother.
5.
The
offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images.
Our Lord to Sr. Lucy on the motives for First Saturday
reparation to His Mother’s Immaculate Heart
And
Today? Who would is left to talk with?
“The Apostles and their disciples had such a horror of heresy, that
they would not speak one single word to those who had corrupted the
truth.”
St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Church Father
“Only Our Lady of the Rosary
can help you.”
To save them [poor
sinners who are on the road to hell], God wishes to establish in the world
devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will
be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not
cease offending God, a worse war will break out during the reign of Pius XI.
When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great
sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by
means of war, famine, and persecutions against the Church and against the Holy
Father.
To prevent this, I
shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and
the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If My requests are heeded,
Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her
errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions against the Church.
The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various
nations will be annihilated. In
Portugal, the dogma of faith will always be persevered, etc. [then follows the
third secret yet to be revealed]…. Only Our Lady of the Rosary can
help you.
Blessed Virgin Mary to
the children at Fatima
O Jesus, the duty of
souls admitted to Your intimacy is to suffer with You, to raise the Cross on
high, not to allow it to leave their hands, whatever the perils in which they
find themselves, and not to let themselves be found wanting in suffering. Now that You have shown me what a single
blessing it is to suffer trials and persecutions for Your sake, I find I cannot
cease from desiring trials; for those who follow You must take the way which
You took, unless they want to be lost.
Blessed are their labors which, even here in this life, have such
abundant recompense! O Jesus, what greater
proof of Your love could You give me than to choose for me all that You willed
for Yourself? To die or to suffer: this
is what I should desire.
St. Teresa of
Jesus
Pro-life groups
estimate that around 53,000,000 unborn children have been killed since 1973,
which is at the same rate that Jews were killed during the Shoah. Given that about 40 percent of these are
Catholic children, and that another 40 percent are children of other
denominations that may consider themselves Christian, these numbers indicate a
failure of Catholics, and others, to protect their own. This is not something to be proud of, nor is
it a sign of progress. The World Almanac
and Book of Facts 2009 shows that the most dangerous place for an American to
be is in the womb of his mother. In
1980, near the height of the abortion boom in the USA, there were 3.6 million
live births and 1.3 million abortions.
In 1997, the last year abortion statistics were received from all 50
states by the Center for Disease Control, there were 3.88 million live births
and about 1.2 million abortions. While
the number of abortions dipped, a full 21 percent of all pregnancies resulted
in the child being sucked into a sink before birth.
David Wemhoff, Culture
Wars
At the hour of death that soul having committed so many mortal sins, to
whom shall she turn her eyes? To the eternal Father, being so long despised? To
the Son, being so many times crucified? Or to the angels, being always ready to
lift up their sword to punish that soul? Or to the Saints who participate in
the glory of the happiness of heaven? To whom then must she turn her eyes? Ah,
to the Mother of God, Mary, the only Refuge of sinners. We have recourse to
thee, O Mary.
St. Charles of Mt. Argus, C. P., Sermon
We met the dawn within
sight of the settlement, having walked all night without the least
distress. While we were still in sight
of the town, some inhabitants of the place came out to welcome us. I inquired whether there were any sick
people. They said no – only that an old
lady had died the day before and they were getting ready to bury her. We arrived at the town and I asked for the
Indian woman’s house. They told me not
to bother going to see her since she was already dead. “Let us go,” I replied; “I will say a few
responsories for her.” I entered the
house. It was so murky that nothing of
her could be seen. I asked aloud, “Where
is the dead woman?” The woman answered,
“Here I am, Father. I am not dead; I am
waiting to go to confession to you.” I
heard her confession with great consolation to myself. Her confession over, she lost her power of
speech and handed her soul to the Creator, who so greatly values those souls of
his who were redeemed by his blood.
Fr. Antonio Ruiz de
Montoya, S. J., The Spiritual Conquest,
Personal Account of the Jesuit Paraguay Reductions
Think not that these
calamities were reserved for the Jewish people only. All the nations that have
known God’s law and despised it have been the objects of His just and terrible
anger. “Did not I bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines
out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene? Behold the eyes of the Lord
God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the
earth” (Amos 9:7-8). From this we can understand that wars and revolutions, the
downfall of some kingdoms and the rise of others, are due to the sins of men.
Ven. Louis of Granada, The
Sinners’s Guide
St. Peter also describes the grace of our vocation in the most beautiful
terms, and assures us that the very design of God in calling us was that we
might make a suitable return to Him by declaring His praises. “Ye are a chosen
generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that ye may
declare the virtues (or praises) of Him Who hath called you out of darkness
into His admirable light” (1 Pet. 2: 9). How great an obligation does all this
lay us under of living good and studying in all things to do the will of God,
especially when Christ Himself expressly says, “So let your light shine before
men, that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your Father Who is in
Heaven!
Bishop George Hay of Scotland, The Sincere Christian
“Meekness makes a man master of himself.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
The chief elements of
this duty (as Catholics) consist in professing openly and unflinchingly the
Catholic doctrine, and in propagating it to the utmost of our power. For, as is
often said, with the greatest truth, there is nothing so hurtful to Christian
wisdom as that it should not be known, since it possesses, when loyally
received, inherent power to drive away error.
Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae,
January 10, 1890
A Prayer for the Virtue of
Meekness
O Holy Ghost, give me a
simple heart which will not retire within itself to savor its own sorrows, a
heart magnanimous in giving itself, easily moved to compassion, a faithful,
generous heart, which does not forget any favor received, nor hold resentment
for any injuries done to it. Make my
heart meek and humble, quick to forgive and capable of bearing tranquilly all
opposition, a heart which will love without expecting love in return, content
to vanish in the hearts of others, sacrificing itself before the heavenly
Father, a great and indomitable heart, that no ingratitude can close and no
indifference can weary, a heart tormented by the glory of Jesus Christ, wounded
by His love, with a wound which cannot be healed except in heaven.
Fr. Leonce de
Grandmaison, S. J.
The world is on
fire. Men try to condemn Christ once
again, as it were, for they bring a thousand false witnesses against Him. They would raze His Church to the ground… It
breaks my heart to see so many souls traveling to perdition. I would the evil were not so great… I felt
that I would have laid down a thousand lives to save a single one of all the
souls that were being lost.
St. Teresa of Jesus
FRATERNAL
UNION SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑
O my God, give me the grace to preserve union with my neighbor by the bonds of
charity and peace.
MEDITATION:
I.
As Jesus during His earthly life never ceased to recommend fraternal charity
and union, so the Church in the Sunday Masses continually preaches this virtue.
She does it today by making use of a passage in St. Paul’s Epistle to the
Ephesians (4, 1‑3).
“I,
therefore . . . beseech you, that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are
called, with all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another
in charity, careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” The
call which we have received is the vocation to Christianity, which is to say,
the vocation to love. God, infinite Charity, adopts us as His children, that we
may so emulate His charity that love becomes the bond which unites us all in
one heart, as the Father and Son are united in one Godhead by the bond of the
Holy Spirit. “As Thou, Father, in Me, and I in Thee; that they also may be one
in Us” (Jn 17, 21), was the prayer of Jesus for us.
To “keep unity in the bond of peace” is easy
and difficult at the same time. It is easy because when the heart is truly
humble, meek, and patient, it bears everything with love, carefully trying to
adapt itself to the feelings and desires of others, rather than asserting its
own. It is difficult because, as long as we are here below, self‑love,
even when mortified, always tends to rise and assert its rights, thus creating
continual occasions of clashes, the avoidance of which calls for much self‑renunciation
and much delicacy toward others. We should be persuaded that all that disturbs,
weakens, or worse still, destroys fraternal union, does not please God; it does
not please Him even if done under pretext of zeal. We should always prefer to
renounce our own ideas‑although they be good‑rather than dispute
with our neighbor, except when it is a question of fulfillment of duty or
respect for the law of God. An act of humble renunciation for the sake of union
and peace among our brethren gives much more glory to God than a glorious deed
which might cause discord or disagreement.
2.
Very often the cause of division among good people is excessive self‑assertion:
the desire to do things one’s own way. Given our limitations, there can be
nothing so absolute in our ideas that it cannot give way to the ideas of
others. If our ideas are good, upright, and brilliant, those of others may be
equally good, or even better. Therefore, it is much wiser, more humble and
charitable to accept the views of others and to try to reconcile our views with
theirs, rather than to reject them, lest we be obliged to give up our personal
ways and views. This individualism is the enemy of union; it is a hindrance to good
works as well as to spiritual progress.
In today’s Epistle, St. Paul puts before us
all the reasons why we should preserve union with our neighbor. Be “one body
and one spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.” If God has willed to save and
sanctify us all in Christ, uniting us in Him in one body, giving us one same
vocation, one faith, and one hope, and being Himself the Father of all, how
shall we pretend to save and sanctify ourselves if we are not united with one
another? If we do not wish to frustrate God’s plan and endanger our salvation
and sanctification, we should be ready to make any personal sacrifice
whatsoever in order to maintain and strengthen union. Let us bear in mind that
Jesus has asked for us not only union, but perfect union: “That they may be
made perfect in one” (Jn 17, 23).
Today’s Gospel (Mt 22, 34‑46)
also strengthens this exhortation to union, since in it Jesus repeats that the
commandment to love our neighbor is, together with the commandment to love God,
the basis of “the whole law,” that is, of all Christianity. Let us not turn a
deaf ear to these repeated appeals for charity and union; the Church insists on
these points because Jesus has insisted on them, and because charity is “the
precept of the Lord; if this only is done, it is enough” (St. John the
Evangelist).
COLLOQUY:
“O Word, Son of God, You look with more
complacency on one work done in fraternal union and charity than on a thousand
done in discord; one tiny little act, like the closing of an eye, performed in
union and charity, pleases You more than if I were to suffer martyrdom in
disunion and without charity. Where there is union, You are present, for You
call Yourself charity: ‘Deus caritas est,’ God is charity. You call
Yourself the God of peace and union: ‘Deus pacis,’ God of peace. You are
the source of all peace, and without You there can be neither true peace nor
union. False is the peace and union among sinners; it cannot last long, because
as their hearts are dominated by the tyranny of sin and of passions, the bond
which unites them quickly breaks; it is a weak bond no stronger than a thread
of tow. Therefore, from You alone, O God, comes perfect union, and where there
is disunion, confusion reigns because of sin and the devil. With what great
desire should we seek this union and love it with all our heart! Where there is
union, there is all good, there is an abundance of all things, of all celestial
and terrestrial riches.
“O Most Holy Trinity, give us, then, the grace
to live always united with one another, preserving union of spirit, having one
will and opinion, imitating the indivisible unity which exists among the three
divine Persons” (St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi).
“Where charity and love are, You are there
also, O Lord! Your love, O Christ, has united us in one body and one heart;
grant, then, that we may love one another with a sincere heart. Keep far from
us all quarrels and contentions; grant that our hearts may be always united in
You, and do You dwell always in our midst” (The Liturgy).
If
the shoe fits, wear it!
The Saint
Prophesies great Schisms and Tribulations in the Church
A short time before the holy Father’s death, he called together his
Children and warned them of the coming troubles, saying: ‘Act bravely, my
Brethren; take courage, and trust in the Lord. The time is fast approaching in
which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions,
both spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold,
and the malice of the wicked will increase. The devils will have unusual power,
the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured
that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff
and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this
tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate,
who, by his cunning, will endeavour to draw many into error and death. Then
scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be
entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.
There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people, the
religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to
the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not
specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God. Then
our Rule and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and terrible
trials will come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown
of life; but woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall fall into
tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for
the proving of the elect. Those who preserve their fervour and adhere to virtue
with love and zeal for the truth, will suffer injuries and persecutions as
rebels and schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits,
will say they are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent
men from the face of the earth. But the Lord will be the refuge of the
afflicted, and will save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their
Head, these, the elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will
purchase for themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man,
they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to perish rather than consent to
falsehood and perfidy. Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and
others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in
derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord
Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.
The Works of the Seraphic Father
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Missionary
Spirit of St. Francis Xavier among the Japanese
On Francis refusing to dine with the Prince
the young monarch said: “My Friend and Father, I know well you have no need of
my table; but if you were a Japanese you would know that a ruler cannot give a
greater sign of his favour and good-will than by inviting anyone to eat with
him. I love you and desire to show my love. Therefore, O Father Bonze, you must
needs dine with me. I shall hereby receive a greater honour than I bestow. Francis bowing low kissed the royal scimitar,
a mark of profoundest respect in Japan, and said : “I entreat the God of Heaven
to reward your Majesty for the kindnesses you have shown me by bestowing on you
the light of faith and all Christian virtues, to the end you may serve God
faithfully during life, and enjoy Him eternally after death.” Then the Prince
embraced the Saint and hoped they might be together in Heaven.
The bonzes present at all these outward
marks of esteem were choking with stifled rage. And more so when they saw how
all these honours brought great multitudes to hear the Apostle. Whole days and
nights were spent in instructing and baptizing, so that his Portuguese friends
remonstrated on the physical strain to which he was subjecting his body. He
would beg them not to mind it, for his meat and drink and sleep were to snatch
souls from the slavery of Satan…
Great was the grief of the Prince on
hearing of his departure, for he loved Father Francis as a father. The chains
of the flesh hindered him from embracing Christianity then. But his esteem for the new religion was very
marked, and several years after, like St. Augustine, he made the great
renunciation. He took in baptism the name of Francis, and was foremost among
the saints of Japan. Wherever Francis put his foot it was as a conqueror. This
fact so infuriated the bonzes that they determined to make a final effort to
overthrow him. To this end they invited to Funai a celebrated bonze, called
Fucarandono, promising him if triumphant, to carry him back on their shoulders
to his monastery.
Just as the farewell interview between the
Father and the Prince was ending, there arrived at the palace the retinue of
bonzes headed by their chief. The Prince was much troubled at this inopportune
challenge, for he feared a defeat for his father and friend from the formidable
foe. But the Saint, reading his thoughts, said: “Trouble not yourself for me, O
Prince! The law I teach is no earthly science; neither can all the bonzes of
Japan, nor all the scholars of the world prevail against it any more than the
shades of night can withstand the beams of the rising sun.” The dispute began.
So completely and at every point was Fucarandono defeated, that he burst out
into coarse and revolting abuse. His insolence roused the anger of the Prince
and the court, who bade his removal by force. In revenge for this overthrow,
the bonzes closed all the temples, saying the angry gods could only be appeased
by the expulsion of the Portuguese. These fled in terror to their ships. But
Francis remained unmoved to all their entreaties, saying he was as much bound
to guard his infant flock as they their merchandize; and that to die for Christ
was a privilege he was unworthy of. Courage is infectious. So come what might,
all were determined to stay with the Saint and face all odds.
Sr. Mary Bernard, Japan’s
Martyred Church
It is proper to grace to strive against nature. Therefore, we must
expect that it will frequently, or rather continually, demand of us such things
as are contrary to our vicious or imperfect tendencies, and that consequently nature will offer a
violent resistance, and will not yield until the last moment. The will,
however, must always be on the side of grace. By the word 'will', I do not mean
certain ineffective desires, certain repugnances or aversions which are not free,
but a firm and determined resolution - not I
would, but I will, triumphant
equally over likes and dislikes. .... There is a great difference, said a holy
man who spoke from experience, between sacrificing one's life to God in a
transport of fervour, and doing the same thing at the foot of the gallows. the
true disposition of the will is to be judged at the actual moment of the
sacrifice, when the temporary effect of the heavenly warmth is withdrawn, and
the soul has cooled down and returned to a state of ordinary grace. Therefore
we ought not lightly to imagine that we have this good will: rather we should
always fear that we have it not. We are not, indeed, to be pusillanimous, but
we are bound to mistrust ourselves always and rely solely on help from heaven,
confident that it will never fail us in time of need.
Rev. John Nicholas Gou, S.J., Spiritual Maxims
In these days, prelates and
preachers are chained to the earth by the love of earthly things. The care of souls is no longer their concern
they are content with the receipt of revenue... The preachers preach to please
princes and to be praised by them. They have done worse. They have not only destroyed the Church of
God, they have built up a new church about their own pattern. Go to Rome and see. Dost thou not know what I
tell thee? What doest thou O Lord? Arise and come to deliver Thy Church from the
hands of devils, from the hands of tyrants, from the hands of iniquitous
prelates.
Savonarola
The apostles and their successors are God’s vicars in governing the
Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as
they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another
faith, nor institute other sacraments.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III, 64, ad. 3
These
“Rights,” legally affirmed, flow from Moral Obligations
Among the rights of the faithful
—which the Pope is bound to respect according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law—
are the right to make known their spiritual needs to the pastors of the Church;
the right and even the duty to manifest their opinion on matters that pertain
to the good of the Church;
the right to receive help from the sacred pastors out of the spiritual goods of
the Church, especially the Word of God and the Sacraments; the right to worship
God according to the prescriptions of their own rite; the right to a Catholic
education; and the right not to have their reputation damaged or their privacy
violated.
Canon Law Commentary
Pope John XXIII said
that the Church must leave her mark on every epoch and every land – not vice
versa. But today what do we see?… What
we are seeing is not the struggle against the Prince of this world who is
present in so-called ‘progress’; not the attempt to imprint the Church’s image
on the age. We are witnessing the very
opposite; the poison of our epoch is slowly seeping into the church herself,
and many have failed to recognize the apocalyptic decline of our time.
Dietrich von
Hildebrand, Devastated Vineyard, published 1973
Difference
between Schism and Disobedience for Novus Ordo Dummies
St. Thomas Aquinas explains
that schism pertains to the moral order and that “the essential is that
which is intended...” This brings us to the subject of schism. Schism is
defined in Canon 751 as the obstinate post-baptismal refusal of submission
to the Roman Pontiff and of communion
with the members of the Church subject to him. A Catholic who breaks the strict
letter of Canon Law in order to uphold the Faith cannot be accused of Schism.
It is explained in the article on schism in the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, the greatest Catholic
reference work ever published, that schism and disobedience are often confused.
Every act of schism involves disobedience, but not every act of disobedience is
schismatic. The true meaning of schism, as expounded within the context of
Catholic theology by such theologians as Aquinas and Cajetan, is that the act
of schism is found primarily in the intention of the accused person. The guilt
of schism, properly so-called, is incurred only when a baptized Catholic
intends to sever himself from the unity of the Church by rejecting the
existence of the papal office itself, that is by denying that the Pope has the
right to Command, or by refusing communion with those Catholics subject to him,
that is, by refusing to recognize them as fellow Catholics. The refusal, even
the pertinacious refusal, to obey the Pope in a particular instance does not
constitute schism. St. Thomas Aquinas explains that the sin of schism pertains
to the moral order, and that in the moral order “the essential is that which
is intended. ...Accordingly, schismatics properly so-called are those who
willfully and intentionally separate themselves from the unity of the church.”
By no possible stretch of the imagination could it be claimed that Archbishop
Lefebvre intended to do this. If he had wished to do so he could have ordained
bishops years before 1988, and he would not have entered into protracted
negotiations with the Holy See.
[....] Even if it is accepted that
Archbishop Lefebvre could not be considered schismatic for consecrating the
four bishops, it can still be argued that he incurred excommunication in any
case because this offense carries an automatic penalty of excommunication. But
any laws in the Code which establish a penalty are subject to what is called a
strict interpretation. Where any doubt exists, these laws must be interpreted
in favor of the accused.
[.....]Canon 1323 states that if one
violates a law in the code because a state of necessity or emergency exists
that person does not incur a penalty. If, therefore, a state of emergency does
exist in the Church Archbishop Lefebvre was not even excommunicated. But let us
argue that there is not a state of emergency in the Church. Let us argue that
everything is marvelous and that Mass attendance is rising rather than
declining each year, that the religious orders are holier than they have ever
been, and that children in Catholic schools are learning more and sounder
Catholic doctrine than ever before. Would this mean that the penalty was
incurred and the excommunication was
valid? By no means. Canon 1323, which has just been cited, also states that a
penalty has not been incurred if the person accused believes that a state of
emergency exists. There can be no doubt at all about the fact that Archbishop
Lefebvre believed a state of emergency existed, which means that he did not
incur the penalty of excommunication.
Michael Davies, Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre
An
“Encounter” with Martin Luther to Learn Where He “Stands Before God” –
You
may have to go to Hell to find out!
The
question: what is God’s position towards me, where do I stand before God? –
Luther’s burning question must once more, doubtless in a new form, become our
question too, not an academic question, but a real one. In my view, this is the
first summons we should attend to in our encounter with Martin Luther.
Pope
Benedict XVI, with the Lutherans in Erfurt, Germany
The spirit of
Protestantism, or the spirit of revolt against God and his Church, sprung up
from the Reformers’ spirit of incontinency, obstinacy, and covetousness.
Luther, in despite of the vow he had solemnly made to God of keeping
continency, married a nun, equally bound as himself to that sacred religious
promise; but, as St. Jerome says, “it is rare to find a heretic that loves
chastity.”
Father Michael Müller,
C.S.S.R, The Great Revolt Against Christ
The Damnable Doctrine of
Martin Luther
1.God’s commandments are all
equally impossible. (De Lib. Christ., t. ii., fol. 4.)
2.No sins can damn a man, but only unbelief.
(De Captiv. Bab., t. ii., fol. 171.)
3.God is just, though by his own will he lays
us under the necessity of being damned, and though he damns those who have not deserved
it. (Tom. ii., fol. 434, 480.)
4.God works in us both good and evil. (Tom.
ii., fol. 444.)
5.Christ’s body is in every place, no less than
the divinity itself. (Tom. iv., fol. 3)
6.Believe strongly that you are absolved, and
absolved you will be, whether you have contrition or no. (11th
article against Pope Leo)
7.The contrition which is acquired by examining, recollecting, and
detesting one’s sins, whereby a man calls to mind his life past, in the
bitternesses of his soul reflecting on the heinousness and multitude of his
offenses, the loss of eternal bliss, and condemnation to eternal woe,-- this
contrition, I say, makes a man a hypocrite, nay, even a greater sinner than he
was before. (6th article against Pope Leo)
Pope Galesius in his 9th Letter (Chap. 26) to the Bishops of Lucania
condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving
the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the
Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum:
“Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused
this ministry.” We too have forbidden this practice in the same words....
Pope Benedict XIV, Allatae Sunt, 1755
“His Majesty desires and loves
courageous souls if they have no confidence in themselves but walk in
humility.”
St. Teresa of Jesus
Obedience
is governed by the virtue of Religion, which is itself perfected by the Gift of
Piety
Incited by that profound cry of
“Father!” (Gal. 4, 6) which the Holy Ghost repeats within us, we rise toward
heaven, longing to win God’s heart and to behave in all things as His true
children…. This is how the gift of piety helps virtue of justice as well as the
virtue of religion…..If we aspire to live in close union with God, it is right
for us to desire and pray for the gift of piety. Under its influence our prayer will become
more affectionate, more filial, and we shall attend with greater facility to
all that concerns divine worship. Let us
ask for this gift, especially when we seem to be very dry and cold, so that in
time of trial and interior suffering by its help we shall go to God as a child
to its Father. Furthermore, our
diligent, constant application to prayer, notwithstanding the lack of sensible
devotion, is one of the best dispositions for bringing us the life-giving
breath of the gift of piety.
Rev. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy
DOGMA is the Proximate Rule of
Faith
Modernism is condemned because it virtually destroys
Christian dogma by denying that the dogmas of faith are contained in the
revelation made by the Holy Spirit to the Catholic Church and subsequently
defined through the supreme authority of the same Ecclesia docens{1}. Once the Holy
Spirit, speaking through the supreme magisterium{2} of the Church,
defines a doctrine as de fide{3} the dogma in question remains, both in se{4} and in its external formula or terminology,
unchanged and unchangeable, like God, Whose voice it communicates to us, in the
shape of definite truth. Modernism tells us quite the reverse.
{1} Ecclesia
docens -- i.e., 'the teaching Church.'
{2} Magisterium = 'teaching authority.'
{3} De fide = 'what is of faith.'
{4} In se = 'in itself.'
Rev. Father Norbert Jones, C.R.L., Old Truths, Not
Modernist Errors, Exposure of Modernism and Vindication of its Condemnation by
the Pope, 1908, (footnotes in original)
“The Catholic Church…. Demands”?
The Catholic Church firmly advocates that due recognition be given to
the public dimension of religious adherence. In an overwhelmingly pluralist
society, this demand is not unimportant. Care must be taken to guarantee that
others are always treated with respect. Mutual respect grows only on the basis
of agreement on certain inalienable values that are proper to human nature, in
particular the inviolable dignity of every single person. Such agreement does
not limit the expression of individual religions; on the contrary, it allows
each person to bear witness explicitly to what he believes, not avoiding comparison
with others.
Pope Benedict XVI to the Muslims in Germany
COMMENT: Rights are derived from duties. God has imposed no duty to worship false
gods. So how is it that the “Catholic
Church firmly advocates” and “demands” that “due recognition be given to the
public dimension of religious adherence” to false gods? How does it follow that treating one “with
respect… allows each person to bear witness explicitly to what he believes”?
The Spirit of Vatican II – A
Cowardly Denial of Reality
St. Thomas Aquinas, the
great teacher of Western Christianity, endeavored to express the Christian
image of man in seven theses, which can be summarized in the following manner:
First: the Christian is
one who, in faith, becomes aware of the reality of the triune God. Second: the Christian strives, in hope, for
the total fulfillment of his being in eternal life. Third: the Christian directs himself, in the
divine virtue of love, to an affirmation of God and neighbor that
surpasses the power of any natural love.
Fourth: the Christian is prudent; namely, he does not allow his
view on reality to be controlled by the Yes or No of his will, but rather he
makes this Yes or No of the will dependent upon the truth of real things. Fifth: the Christian is just; that is,
he is able to live “with the other” in truth; he sees himself as a member among
members of the Church, of the people, and of any community. Sixth: the Christian is brave, that
is, he is prepared to suffer injury and, if need be, death for the truth and
for the realization of justice. Seventh:
the Christian is temperate; namely, he does not permit his desire to
possess and his desire for pleasure to become destructive and inimical to his
being.
Josef Pieper, A
Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
The term nature
is not abstract. Human nature is the essence of man, that is what he is before
being a person. Man is a person, a holder of inalienable rights, because he has
a soul. And he has a soul given that, unlike any other living being, he has a
rational nature. Natural is not what originates from the instincts and desires
of man, but what corresponds to the rules of reason, which must in turn,
conform itself to an objective order and immutable principles. The natural law
is rational and immutable,[thus]because it is immutable inasmuch as it is
spiritual, it is the nature of man. All individuals of the same nature act or
should act in the same manner, since the natural law is written in the nature
not of this or that man, but in human nature regarded in itself, in its
permanence and stability.
Professor Roberto
de Mattei, defending Natural Law against Cardinal Kasper
Martin Luther,
Liturgical Visionary
“Let all the vestments, the
altar, the candles be until they get used up, or we decide to change them – and
if somebody wants to do things differently, let him do it. But for the real Mass among true Christians,
the altar should not remain in its current form, and the priest should always
face the people.”
Martin Luther
But the Novus Ordo is an “arbitrary” man-made creation,
not in “obedience to the faith” but rather a product of servile human respect
for the sensibilities of heretics, and therefore, it has no “religious respect
of the mystery of the liturgy.”
For
this reason no sacramental rite may be modified or manipulated at the will of
the minister or the community. Even the supreme authority in the Church may not
change the liturgy arbitrarily, but only in the obedience of faith and with
religious respect for the mystery of the liturgy.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church, 1125
Conservative
Catholics: Some at least recognize that unqualified obedience is non-Catholic.
The power that Christ conferred
upon Peter and his Successors is, in an absolute sense, a mandate to serve. The
power of teaching in the Church involves a commitment to the service of
obedience to the faith. The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and
desires are law. On the contrary: the Pope’s ministry is a guarantee of
obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but
rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in
the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of
opportunism. […..] To put this question into sharp relief: the feet of
whom should be washed in the Mass of Maundy Thursday? Those of men or of women?
The feet of Christians or non-Christians? Why? With all due respect I submit
that any answer based solely on “. . . because the pope did it” is insufficient
if not downright ultramontane. Such reasoning will not do. Such positivism is
simply foreign to the Catholic faith. Papal preference is not the arbiter of
the church’s liturgy: sound liturgical and theological principles are. The
Bishop of Rome exercises his authority rightly when, in liturgical matters, he
bases his judgments on these principles. If he ignores them in his judgments or
personal practice he risks causing confusion, scandal, and disunity. The
exercise of authority in respect of the sacred liturgy and the personal
liturgical behavior of all popes, prelates, other clergy, and laity are rightly
evaluated according to these criteria.
Dom Alcuin Reed, 2014
In an age, when every
effort to arrest the world in its headlong downward career seems vain, has not
man greater need than ever to fall back upon God? The enemy is aware of it; and therefore the
first law he imposes upon his votaries is, to forbid all access to the way of the
counsels, and to stifle all life of adoration, expiation, and prayer. For he well knows that, though a nation may
appear to be on the verge of its doom, there is yet hope for it as long as the
best of its sons are prostrate before the Majesty of God.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year on the Feast of St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusian Order
Life passes so quickly
that it is obviously better to have a most splendid crown and a little
suffering, than an ordinary crown and no suffering. When I think that, for a sorrow borne with
joy, I shall be able to love You more for all eternity, I understand clearly
that if You gave me the entire universe, with all its treasures, it would be
nothing in comparison to the slightest suffering…. O Jesus, since You have made me understand
that You would give me souls through the Cross, the more crosses I meet, the
more ardent my thirst for suffering becomes.
I am happy not to be free from suffering here; suffering united with love
is the only thing that seems desirable to me in this vale of tears.
St. Therese of the
Child Jesus and Holy Face
Warning from God to
Pope Clement VI at Avignon delivered through St. Bridget of Sweden
Arise; make peace between the kings of
France and England; and go into Italy to preach the year of salvation, and to
visit the place watered by the blood of saints.
Consider how, in the past, thou hast provoked My anger, doing thy own
will and not thy duty; and I have held My peace. But now my time is at hand. If thou wilt not obey, I shall require of
thee an account of the unworthiness wherewith thou hast passed through all the
degrees by which I permitted thee to be exalted in glory. Thou wilt be answerable for all the avarice
and ambition that have been rife in the Church in thy days. Thou couldst have done much towards a
reformation, but being carnal-minded thou wouldst not. Repair the past by zeal during the rest of
thy life. Had not My patience preserved thee,
thou wouldst have fallen lower than any of thy predecessors. Question thy conscience, and thou wilt see
that I speak the truth.
Note: The judgment of Pope Clement VI was revealed to St. Bridget; she
saw its terrible chastisement, which however was not eternal, and was tempered
by hope. Remember our duty to pray for
Pope Benedict for the grave responsibilities he bears.
You
do not have enough trust. You have too much fear before the good God. I can
assure you that He is grieved over this. You should not fear Purgatory because
of the suffering there, but should instead ask that you not deserve to go there
in order to please God, Who so reluctantly imposes this punishment. As soon as
you try to please Him in everything and have an unshakable trust He purifies
you every moment in His love and He lets no sin remain. And then you can be
sure that you will not have to go to Purgatory.
St.
Therese of Lisieux to a fellow sister on Purgatory
“Only the Prudent man can be brave.”
Josef Pieper
Soliman II, the
greatest of the Sultans, taking advantage of the confusion caused in the west
by Luther, had filled the sixteenth century with terror by his exploits. His son Seim II was left the prospect of
being able at length to carry out the ambition of his race…The Turkish fleet
had already mastered the greater part of the Mediterranean, and was threatening
Italy, when, on October 7, 1571, it came into action, in the Gulf of Lepanto,
with the pontifical galleys supported by the fleets of Spain and Venice. It was Sunday; throughout the world the
confraternities of the Rosary were engaged in their work of intercession. Supernaturally enlightened, St. Pius V
watched from the Vatican the battle undertaken by the leader he had chosen, Don
John of Austria, against the three hundred vessels of Islam. In honor of the great triumph, St. Pius
perpetuated the memory by the annual commemoration of our Lady of Victory. His successor, Gregory XIII, altered this
title to our Lady of the Rosary.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year
Before beginning to recite
the Rosary, let the soul think of whom it is going to address, and who it is
that is speaking, that it may speak to Him with due respect… those who are so
fond of repeating a large number of vocal prayers in a great hurry, as though
they were anxious to finish their task of repeating them daily cannot really
nourish the interior life; they will bring little fruit to the soul and little
glory to Mary. On the other hand, if
recited with a real spirit of devotion, the Rosary becomes an effective means of
cultivating devotion to Mary and of bringing us into intimacy with Our Lady and
her divine Son.
St. Teresa of Avila, on
the recitation of the Rosary
. . . .He ascended
gladly like a meek lamb led to the slaughter (and) extended his arms and opened
his right hand and placed it on the cross. Those savage torturers monstrously
crucified it, piercing it with a nail through that part where the bone was more
solid. And then with a rope, they pulled violently on his left hand and
fastened it to the cross in the same manner. Finally they extended his body on
the cross beyond all measure; and placing one of his shins on top of the other
the fastened to the cross his feet, thus joined, with two nails… Then the crown
of thorns, which they had removed from his head when he was being crucified
they now put back, fitting it onto his most holy head. It pierced his awesome
head with such force that then and there his eyes were filled with flowing
blood and his ears were obstructed. . . . And as I, filled with sorrow, gazed
at their cruelty, I then saw his most mournful Mother lying on the earth, as if
trembling and half dead. She was being consoled by John and by those others,
her sisters, who were then standing not far from the cross on the right side.
Then the new sorrow of the compassion of that most holy Mother so transfixed me
that I felt, as it were, that a sharp sword of unbearable bitterness was
piecing my heart.
St. Bridget vision of
our Lord’s Passion, Birgitta of Sweden, Life and Selected Revelations
But a resounding explicit confirmation came from Benedict XVI
himself, who, during an unexpected pilgrimage to Fatima on May 13, 2010,
affirmed: “He
deceives himself who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.” He added: “there are indicated future
realities of the Church which little by little are manifesting themselves… and
therefore it is the sufferings of the Church which are announced.”
But
could such prophecies be found in that text [of the vision]?
These
two phrases of the Pope in that discourse at Fatima prompt reflection:
“Man has the power to unleash a cycle of death and terror, but he is not able
to stop it.” And then: “The faith in vast regions of the earth risks being
extinguished, like a flame without fuel.”
From
these words of Pope Benedict one discerns, therefore, that there is truly
something else in the Third Secret and that it is dramatic for the world and
the Church. Perhaps it is precisely due to that visit by the Pope that this
book was released, from which another precious little piece of the truth
filters out.
The
volume in fact draws from the letters of Sister Lucia and from the unpublished
diary “My Way.” Impressive, among things previously unpublished, is the account
of how Sister Lucy overcame the terror that prevented her from writing down the
Third Secret.
The Unpublished Account
At
around 4 p.m. on January 3, 1944, in the chapel of the convent, before the
Tabernacle, Lucia asked Jesus to make known His will: “I then felt a friendly
hand, maternal and affectionate, touch my shoulder.”
And
the Mother of God said to her: “be at peace, and write what I have commanded
you, but not, however, that which has been given to you to understand its
meaning,” intending to allude to the meaning of the vision which the Virgin
herself had revealed.
Immediately
afterward, said Sister Lucia, “I felt my spirit inundated by a mystery of light that is God and in
Him I saw and heard: the point of a lance like a flame that is detached,
touches the axis of the earth, and it trembles: mountains, cities, towns and
villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, the rivers, the clouds,
exceed their boundaries, inundating and dragging with them, in a vortex, houses
and people in a number that cannot be counted. It is the purification of the
world from the sin in which it is immersed. Hatred, ambition, provoke the
destructive war. After I felt my racing heart, in my spirit a soft voice
said: ‘In time, one faith, one baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic.
In eternity, Heaven!’ This word ‘Heaven’ filled my heart with peace and
happiness in such a way that, almost without being aware of it, I kept
repeating to myself for a long time: Heaven, Heaven.”
From
this came the strength to write the Third Secret.
Antonio
Socci, APOCALYPTIC NEWS FROM FATIMA (THE LATEST MYSTERY: THE SILENCE OF THE SISTERS, BUT WHO IS SILENCING THEM?, August 17, 2014
Prayer of St. Francis of
Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
In an age, when every
effort to arrest the world in its headlong downward career seems vain, has not
man greater need than ever to fall back upon God? The enemy is aware of it’ and therefore the
first law he imposes upon his votaries is, to forbid all access to the way of
the counsels, and to stifle all life of adoration, expiation, and prayer. For he well know that, though a nation may
appear to be on the verge of its doom, there is yet hope for it as long as the
best of its sons are prostrate before the Majesty of God.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Bruno, Founder of the Carthusians
Be of good cheer,
Dominic, the remedy for the evils which you lament will be meditation on the
life, death and glory of My Son, uniting all with the recitation of the angelic
salutation (Hail Mary) by which the mystery of redemption was announced to the
world. This devotion, which you are to inculcate by your preaching, is a
practice most dear to My Son and Me. The faithful will obtain by it innumerable
advantages and shall always find me ready to aid them in their wants. This is
the precious gift which I leave to you and to your spiritual children.
The Blessed Virgin to
St. Dominic while giving him the Rosary
In its present form, the Rosary was made known to the world by St. Dominic
at the time of the struggles against the Albigensian. It was then of more avail than armed forces
against the power of Satan; it is now the Church’s last resort. It would seem that the ancient forms of
social prayer being no longer relished by the people, the Holy Ghost has willed
by this easy and ready summary of the liturgy to maintain, in the isolated
devotion of these unhappy times, the essential of that life of prayer, faith,
and Christian virtue, which the public celebration of the Divine Office
formerly kept up among the nations.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of the Holy Rosary
Fifteen Promises for Praying the Most Holy
Rosary
1) Whoever shall faithfully serve Me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2) I promise My special protection and the greatest graces to all who shall recite the Rosary.
3) The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies. (Actually, were that the only promise, we should pray it for that reason. Because what have we in our world today? We are surrounded by, wherever we are in the world, vice, sin and heresy.)
4) It will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5) The soul which recommends itself to Me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.
6) Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death. If he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.
7) Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8) Those who are faithful in reciting the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces. At the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.
9) I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10) The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11) You shall obtain all you ask of Me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12) All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.
13) I have obtained from My Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
14) All who recite the Rosary are My sons, and brothers of My only Son, Jesus Christ.
15) Devotion to My Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
How
to Pray the Rosary with True Devotion
Before beginning a decade, pause for a
moment or two----depending upon how much time you have----and contemplate the
mystery that you are about to honor in that decade. Always be sure to ask of
Almighty God, by this mystery and through the intercession of the Blessed
Mother, one of the virtues that shines forth most in this mystery or one of
which you stand in particular need.
Take great care to avoid the two
pitfalls that most people fall into during the Rosary. The first is the danger
of not asking for any graces at all, so that if some people were asked their
Rosary intention they would not know what to say. So, whenever you say your
Rosary, be sure to ask for some special grace. Ask God's help in cultivating
one of the great Christian virtues or in overcoming one of your sins.
The second big fault a lot of people
make when saying the Holy Rosary is to have no intention other than that of
getting it over as quickly as possible! This is because so many of us look upon
the Rosary as a burden which is always heavier when we have not said
it----especially if it is weighing on our conscience because we have promised
to say it regularly or have been told to say it as a penance more or less
against our will.
It is really pathetic to see how most
people say the Holy Rosary----they say it astonishingly fast and mumble so that
the words are not properly pronounced at all. We could not possibly expect anyone,
even the most unimportant person, to think that a slipshod address of this kind
was a compliment and yet we expect Jesus and Mary to be pleased with it! Small
wonder then that the most sacred prayers of our holy religion seem to bear no
fruit, and that, after saying thousands of Rosaries, we are still no better
than we were before! Dear Confraternity members, I beg of you to temper the
speed which comes all too easily to you and pause briefly several times as you
say the Our Father and Hail Mary. I have placed a cross at each pause, as you
will see:
Our Father Who art in Heaven, 
hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
At first, you may find it difficult
to make these pauses because of your bad habit of saying prayers in a hurry;
but a decade that you say recollectedly in this way will be worth more than
thousands of Rosaries said all in a rush----without any pauses or reflection.
Saint Louis de
Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary
Pope
Francis, in corrupting the Sacrament of Matrimony, has perpetrated a terrible
injustice to countless Catholics!
Many Catholic families had hoped that the Synod on the Family would address the serious problem of the divorce epidemic and its long-term damage to youth, innocent spouses, the sacrament of marriage, the culture, and the Church. (It did not!) The divorce plague has inflicted severe pain upon Catholic families worldwide. Married couples need to be encouraged by the Church not to give up on their marriages during stressful, unhappy times, and to persevere in loyalty to their marital vows. [.....] Over the past forty years, I have never worked with a Catholic marriage in which both spouses wanted a divorce. In the majority of marriages under stress, one spouse remains happy with the marriage, believes the conflicts can be resolved and is loyal to the sacramental bond.
The spouses who are not happy
and who want to pursue divorce and a decision of nullity most often refuse to
address their own weaknesses. Instead, they portray themselves as victims of
insensitive treatment or emotional abuse.[......]
The majority of spouses who pursue divorce — in our experience with several thousand couples — have never worked on these issues. This explains, in part, why the national survey of divorced men and women, conducted by the Office of Survey Research at the University of Texas at Austin, found the honest response that only one in three divorced spouses claimed that both they and their ex-spouses worked hard enough to try to save their marriage. There is reason to be hopeful about the resolution of marital difficulties. In a major study from the University of Chicago among spouses who rated their marriages as very unhappy, 86 percent of those who persevered reported themselves as happily married five years later.
One grave danger to Catholic marriages and families from
the changes made in canon law made by the Holy Father (without a careful study
by a commission of experts) is that spouses will not be motivated to engage in
the hard work of addressing personal psychological and spiritual weaknesses.
Instead, they will pursue divorce and with a belief that they are entitled to a
decision of nullity if they can meet the criteria cited, including the new one,
“etcetera.”
With all due respect, the determination of nullity by only one priest or by a bishop after 30 to 45 days, is seriously flawed because they lack the proper mental health training to uncover and evaluate the numerous complex psychological conflicts that lead to a decision for divorce. This new process is a grave injustice and, therefore, a manifestation of a severe lack of mercy towards the sacrament of marriage, innocent spouses, children, and Catholic families.
In his closing talk at the Synod, the Holy Father criticized bishops and priests, whom he claimed hide behind rigid doctrines and ignore wounded families. In fact, his radical change in canon law in regard to annulments, made prior to the Synod, will weaken and harm Catholic marriages and families. [.....]
Rick Fitzgibbons, Psychological Science and the Evaluation of Nullity,
published by “The Catholic Thing”
A Word on the
Origin of the Saying: “Roma Locuta, Causa Finite”
Pope Zosimus, in the presence of the Roman clergy, recognized as
orthodox the heretical statements of Pelagius, which had been condemned by Pope
Innocent I and the two Councils of Carthage. Pelagianism, which denied the
doctrine of Original Sin and man’s need for grace, was a virulent heresy of the
time, against which St. Augustine wrote numerous tracts (The Remission of Sins
and the Baptism of Children, The Spirit and the Letter, Letter to Hilary,
Nature and Grace, Perfect Justice, The Acts of Pelagius, The Grace of Christ,
and Original Sin). The Pope condemned those who held the orthodox Catholic
faith as calumniators (Letter Postquam
nobis, November 21, 417; Letter Magnum
pondus) and demanded a formal retraction from the orthodox African bishops,
St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Aurelius of Carthage. In response, St. Augustine
and St. Aurelian took a solemn oath with God as witness (obtestatio), affirming
that the prior Catholic doctrine prevailed over the judgment of the Pope, which
was upheld by a plenary council of all Africa assembled. Confronted with
resistance to his part in perpetuating heresy, Pope Zosimus finally recanted
and renewed the excommunication of the heretic Pelagius. It was around this
time that St. Augustine uttered the famous words: Roma locuta est; causa finita est, in a Sermon CXXXI of September
417. Pope Zosimus was waffling on his predecessor’s, Pope St. Innocent I’s,
anathema against the heretic Pelagius. St. Augustine meant by his statement
since Rome had already spoken on the matter (a reference to Pope St. Innocent
I’s anathema against Pelagius), the case ought not to be reopened, even by Pope
Zosimus, who ought to give his assent to the solemn judgment of his
predecessor. St. Augustine made his statement, then, at a time when a Pope was
in the process of lending aid and comfort to heretics, when he should have been
holding fast to what his predecessor had decreed. The great Saint was not
saying that every decision of Rome must be blindly obeyed; otherwise, he would
have supported the reigning Pope. He was warning people, the Pope included,
that Rome had already spoken on this matter and that it would be gravely wrong
for anyone (even, presumably, a Pope) to attempt to reverse a solid and sound
judgment on a matter of Catholic doctrine.
TRADITIO: www.traditio.com
The
Sin of Calumny always takes two: a big mouth and an itching ear!
Cardinal Müller:
I heard it from some houses here, that people working in the Curia are living
in great fear: If they say one small or harmless critical word, some spies will
pass the comments directly to the Holy Father, and the falsely accused people
don’t have any chance to defend themselves. These people, who are speaking bad
words and lies against other persons, are disturbing and disrupting the good
faith, the good name of others whom they are calling their brothers.
The Gospel and the words of Jesus are very strong against those who
denounce their brothers and who are creating this bad atmosphere of suspicion.
I’ve heard that nobody speaks; everyone is a little afraid because they can be
snitched on. It’s not the behavior of adult people, but that of a boarding
school.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller; excerpt from interview on September 12 with
Professor Claudio Pierantoni, one of the signatories of the recent “Filial
Correction” of Pope Francis, published by LifeSiteNews on September 29, 2017
Apparently,
the “morality underlying Amoris Laetitia” does not forbid lying!
In fact I hear many comments – they are respectable for they come from
children of God, but wrong – concerning the post-synod apostolic exhortation.
To understand Amoris Laetitia you
need to read it from the start to the end. Beginning with the first chapter,
and to continue to the second and then on … and reflect. And read what was said
in the Synod
A second thing:
some maintain that there is no Catholic morality underlying Amoris Laetitia, or at least, no sure
morality. I want to repeat clearly that the morality of Amoris Laetitia is Thomist, the
morality of the great Thomas. You can speak of it with a great theologian, one
of the best today and one of the most mature.
Cardinal
Schönborn.
“Charity seeks not its own
convenience. We must give the spur to
this jade of a body of ours, to make it trot on and get forwards. The good soldier dies in battle, the good
sailor on the sea, and the good minister of the sick in the hospital.”
St. Camillus of Lellis
“Artificial,
superficial, clear divisions” like, Married and Not-married?
My great joy
as a result of this document resides in the fact that it coherently overcomes
that artificial, superficial, clear division between ‘regular’ and ‘irregular.’
Cardinal
Christoph Schonborn, on Amoris Laetitia
To this we are
exhorted by the Holy Ghost, saying, by the mouth of David, the royal prophet:
“commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it” (Psalm 36:5).
And in another place, “Cast thy care upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee”
(Psalm 54:23). And, speaking through St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, He
advises us to cast all our cares and worries upon God, since He watches over
us, “Casting
all your care upon him, for he hath care of you” (1 Peter 5:7). This
is what Our Lord said to St. Catherine of Sienna: “Daughter, forget thyself and
think of me, and I will ever think of thee.” Accept this teaching as if
addressed to you personally and to no one else. Let your chief care be to avoid
everything that displeases Our Lord, trying to serve and love Him perfectly,
and He will turn everything, every your faults, to your advantage.
St. John Eudes, The Life and Kingdom of Jesus in Christian
Souls
“Since one
cannot help everyone, one has to be concerned with those who by reason of
place, time, or circumstances, are by some chance more tightly bound to you.”
St. Augustine,
On Christian Doctrine
St.
Thomas Aquinas:
§
“Three
things are necessary for the salvation of man: to known what he ought to
believe; to know what he ought to desire (that is, to love), and to
know what he ought to do.” St.
Thomas Aquinas
§
“Love
takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“For
loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good (that which we
love) is found by going to the thing, whereas the true (that which we known) is
found when the thing comes to us.” St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“Better
to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths
than merely to contemplate.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“There is
but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it
was not possible for anyone to be saved.
St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“Good can
exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.” St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“To teach
in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each
believer.” St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“Man has
free choice to the extent that he is rational.” St. Thomas Aquinas
§
“To bear
with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with
patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of
actual sin.” St. Thomas Aquinas
“I want to say
this so that you can help those who believe that morality is purely casuistic. Help
them understand that the great Thomas possesses the greatest richness, which is
still able to inspire us today. But on your knees, always on your knees…”
Pope Francis,
Attributing the vulgar immorality of Amoris
Laetitia to St. Thomas, interview Sept 28, 2017
Pope
Francis does not qualify for a Christian Burial for no “favourable construction
can be found”!
“Quibus viventibus non communicavimus mortuis
communicare non possumus (We cannot hold communion in death with those who in
life were not in communion with us).” Pope Leo the Great
It has further been recognized as a principle that the last rites of
the Church constitute a mark of respect which is not to be shown to those who
in their lives have proved themselves unworthy of it. In this way various
classes of persons are excluded from Christian burial — pagans, Jews, infidels,
heretics, and their adherents (Rit. Rom., VI, c. ii) schismatics, apostates,
and persons who have been excommunicated by name or placed under interdict. If
an excommunicated person be buried in a church or in a consecrated cemetery the
place is thereby desecrated, and, wherever possible, the remains must be
exhumed and buried elsewhere. Further, Christian burial is to be refused to
suicides (this prohibition is as old as the fourth century; cf. Cassian in
P.L., XL, 573) except in case that the act was committed when they were of
unsound mind or unless they showed signs of repentance before death occurred.
It is also withheld from those who have been killed in a duel, even though they
should give signs of repentance before death. Other persons similarly debarred
are notorious sinners who die without repentance, those who have openly held
the sacraments in contempt (for example by staying away from Communion at Easter
time to the public scandal) and who showed no signs of sorrow, monks and nuns
who are found to have died in the possession of money or valuables which they
had kept for their own, and finally those who have directed that their bodies
should be cremated after death. In all such cases, however, the general
practice of the Church at the present day has been to interpret these
prohibitions as mildly as possible. Ordinarily the parish priest is directed to
refer doubtful cases to the bishop, and the bishop, if any favourable
construction can be found, allows the burial to proceed.
Christian Burial, Catholic Encyclopedia
Faith:
the principle cause and sign of unity in the Church; Dogma is the proximate
Rule of Faith!
The apostles
and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on
faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute
another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other
sacraments.
St. Thomas
Aquinas, ST III, q. 64, a. 2, ad 3
Biden
Keeps “Promise”: United States Commits Act of Terrorism Against European
People!
Nord Stream Gas Lines to Germany Sabotaged by the United States who
alone has the strongest motive and the material means to commit this crime
against humanity!
President Biden:
“If Russia invades… then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring
an end to it.”
Reporter:
“But how will you do that, exactly, since… the project is in Germany's
control?”
Biden: “I
promise you, we will be able to do that.”
Joint Press Conference with President Biden and German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ABC NEWS, February 7, 2022
“If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not
move forward.”
Victoria Nuland, Jewish Neo-Con
Undersecretary of State, January 27, 2022
The
War is getting HOT and will be getting HOTTER!
Yet
as always, ‘Man preposes, God disposes!’
“This is about what we are doing here today. Why is the family an
enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these
questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because
everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no
longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves. And so they
attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender
identity, they attack family identity. I can't define myself as Italian,
Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent
2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have
an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of
financial speculators. The perfect consumer. That's the reason why. That's why
we inspire so much fear. That's why this even inspires so much fear. Because we
do not want to be numbers. We will defend the value of the human being. Every
single human being. Because each of us has a unique genetic code that is
unrepeatable. And like it or not, that is sacred. We will defend it. We will
defend God, country and family. Those things that disgust people so much. We
will do it to defend our freedom because we will never be slaves and simple
consumers at the mercy of financial speculators. That is our mission. That is
why I came here today. (G. K.) Chesterton wrote, more than a century ago...
‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be
drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.' That time has arrived. We are
ready. Thank you.”
Giorgia
Meloni, the new Prime Minister of Italy, which the bureaucratically appointed
dictator of the European Union has threatened to punish Italy for electing.
Remember
in your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mothers: Claudia Gergely,
For the health and spiritual welfare of
Peggy Cummings, the neice of Camila Meiser, who is gravely ill,
Kaitlyn
McDonald, for the
recovery of her health and spiritual welfare,
Rodolfo
Zelaya, the brother
of Claudia Drew, who is gravely ill following an accident,
Roco
Sbardella, for his
health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the spiritual and physical
welfare of the Rende Family,
The welfare of the Sal
Massinio family is the petition of the Drew’s,
The Vargas’ request our prayers for the spiritual welfare of their
son, Nicholas,
Monica Bandlow petitions prayers for Kathy Simons, Regina Quinn, James Mulgrew and Ruth Beaucheane,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for the spiritual and physical welfare
of Frank McKee,
For the welfare of Lazarus
Handley, his mother, Julia,
and his brother, Raphael, with
Down’s Syndrome, is the petition of Monica Bandlow,
Nancy
Bennett and Julia McDonald, for the recovery of their health,
Kathy Elias,
who is
gravely ill in hospital with heart problems,
Richard Giles, his conversion for a holy death,
For
the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts,
a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Monica
Bandlow requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kopczynski,
Philip
Thees asks our prayers for the recovery of Bridget
McGuigan, recent hand injury,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Scott Nettles, who is gravely ill and in need of conversion,
Michael Brigg requests our prayers for the health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene
Peters who underwent recent cardiac surgery,
Conversion of Anton
Schwartzmueller, is the paryer request of his children,
Stacy Fernandez requests are prayers for the heath of Terry Patterson, Steven Becerra, and
Roberto Valez,
Christine
Kozin, for her
health and spiritual welfare,
Teresa
Gonyea, for her
conversion and health, is the petition of her grandmother, Patricia McLaughlin,
Nolan Moran, a three year old diagnosed with
brain tumor, and his family,
For the health of Sonia
Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our prayers for her brother who is gravely
ill, John Lee,
Rose Bradley asks our prayers for the health and spiritual welfare
of her granddaughter, Meg Bradley,
Timothy
& Crisara, a couple
from Maryland have requested our prayers for their spiritual welfare,
Roger &
Mandy Owen Family,
for their welfare is the request of Monica Bandlow,
Celine
Pilegaard, the seven
year old daughter of Cynthia Pilegaard, for her recovery from burn injuries,
Rafaela de
Saravia, for her
health and welfare,
Mary Mufide,
requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien
Dutertre, traditional
Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X. McLaughlin, for the recovery of his health
from a serious work injury,
Nicholas
Pell, for his
health and spiritual welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye
Petr, her health
and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev. Fr.
Martin Skierka, who produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of Katie
Wess, John Gentry, Vincent Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and James O’Gentry
is the petition of Camilia,
Marieann
Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
Thomas
Thees, recently
hospitalized,
Thomas A.
Nelson, long time
faithful traditional Catholic the founder and former owner of TAN Books &
Publishing, suffered a recent stroke,
The Joseph Cox Family,
their spiritual welfare,
The Thomas Dube Family, for
their conversion and spiritual welfare,
Luis Rafael
Zelaya, the
brother of Claudia Drew, who is seriously ill,
For the health of Kim
Cochran, the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Brenda Cochran, the wife of
their son Joshua,
Louie
Verrecchio, Catholic
apologist, who has a health problem,
John
Minidis, Jr. family, for help in their spiritual
trial,
John and Joann DeMarco, for their health and spiritual
welfare,
Regina
(Manidis) Miller, her
spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa
Elena Levitt, her
conversion, and welfare of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
The health and spiritual welfare of Tom Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex Estrada,
Conversion of Annette
Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers for the Keith Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes
Family, and the Mike and
Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert
Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donaghy, who is recovering from a stroke,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and Joann
DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a traditional Catholic from
India has asked our prayers for her welfare and he family members, living and
deceased,
Mary and
Bill Glatz, the
welfare of their family,
Barbara
Harmon, who is
ill, and still cares for her ailing
parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children who
has been seriously injured,
For the health and welfare of Sorace
family,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for the health and spiritual welfare
of Brian Abramowitz,
Thomas
Schiltz family, in
grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Welfare of Bishop
Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the greater battles to
come,
John Rhoad, for his health and spiritual
welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her
welfare,
Joyce
Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Michael J.
Brigg & his family,
who have helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and conversion to
the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul
Diaz, who was
baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul, asks our prayers for his spiritual welfare,
The conversion of Rene McFarland, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman and family, David
Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, Costanzo Family, Kathy Scullen,
Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and Time Roe are the petitions of
Gene Peters,
For the conversion of Ben
& Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer
family,
Fr. Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill, and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
For the health and welfare of Kathryn
Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr.
Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe & Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy
Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family,
the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane
Boyle, who is failing health,
Mel Gibson
and his family, please
remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins requested our prayers for the welfare
of his Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for the Andreas & Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce Paglia has asked prayers for George Richard Moore Sr. & his children, and her
brother, George Panell,
For the welfare of Anthony
& Joyce Paglia, who are responsible for the beautiful statuary in our
chapel,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin Family, the welfare
of Dan & Polly Weand, the
conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, John Calasanctis, Tony Rosky, James Parvenski and Kathleen Gorry.
Pray
for the Repose of the Souls:
Robert
Kolinsky, the
husband of Sonja, died September 18,
Gabriel Schiltz, the daughter of Thomas & Gay Schiltz, died
August 21,
Mary Dimmel, the mother –in-law of Victoria Drew Dimmel, died July
18,
Michael Nesbit, the brother-in-law and dear friend of the Drew's,
died July 14,
Thomas
Thees, the brother of Philip, died June 19,
Juanita
Mohler, a friend of
Camella Meiser, died June 14,
Michelle
Donofrio McDowell, the
cousin of Monica Bandlow, died March 5, and Patricia Fabyanic, the Prefect of Our Lady’s Sodality, March
8,
Hernan
Ortiz, the brother
of Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, died February 3,
Mary Ann
Boyle, the mother
of a second order Dominican nun, a first order Dominican priest, and a SSPX
priest, died January 24,
John
DeMarco, who attended
this Mission in the past, died January23,
Charles
O’Brien, the father
of Marlene Cox, died December 30,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the repose of the souls of
her parents, Mehmet & Nedime,
Kathleen
Donelly, died
December 29 at 91 years of age, ran the CorMariae website,
Monica Bandlow requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kinney, died December 21,
Matthew
O'Hare, most
faithful Catholic, died at age 40 on November 30,
Rev. Patrick
J. Perez, a Catholic
priest faithful to tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians, Garden Grove,
CA, November 19,
Elizabeth
Benedek, died
December 14, requested by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores
Smith and Richard Costello, faithful Catholics, died
November,
Frank
D’Agustino,a friend of
Philp Thees, died November 8,
Fr.
Dominique Bourmaud, of
the SSPX, Prior of St. Vincent in Kansas City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel
Silva, the brother of Elizabeth Vargas, died August
18,
Rose
Bradley, a member of Ss. Peter & Paul, died July
14,
Patricia
Ellias, died June 1,
recently returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown
scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose
Bradley, died May 18,
William
Muligan, died April
29, two days after receiving the last sacraments,
Robert
Petti, died March
19, the day after receiving the last sacraments,
Mark
McDonald, the father
of Kyle, who died December 26,
Perla Otero,
died
December 2020, Leyla Otero,
January 2021, cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet
Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph
Gravish, died
November 26, 100 year old WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome
McAdams, the father
of, died November 30,
Rev. James
O’Hara, died
November 8, requested by Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth
Batko, the
sacristan at St. John the Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First
Saturday November 7 wearing the brown scapular,
Fr. Anthony Cekada,
a
traditional Catholic priest, died September 11,
William Cox,
the father
of Joseph Cox, who died September 3,
James
Larson, Catholic
apologists, author of War Against Being
publication, died July 6, 2020,
Hutton
Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina
Cordis, Immaculate
Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Leslie Joan Matatics, devoted Catholic wife and mother of nine children,
died March 24,
Victoria
Zelaya, the
sister-in-law of Claudia Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo DeSilva, died November 16, our prayers
requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Roland H.
Allard, a friend of
the Drew’s, died September 28,
Stephen
Cagorski and John
Bogda, who both died
wearing the brown scapular,
Cecilia
LeBow, a most faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct 23,
Sandra
Peters, the wife of
Gene Peters, who died June 10 receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s
scapular,
Rev. Francis
Slupski, a priest who
kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha Mochan,
the sister
of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George
Kirsch, our good
friend and supporter of this Mission, died February 15,
For Fr. Paul J. Theisz,
died October 17, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio
Fregapane, died Jan
12, was not a traditional priest but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir
Peterson, a priest
who often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound advice,
died December 4,
Fr.
Constantine Bellasarius, a faithful and always charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite
priest, who left the Roman rite, died November 27,
Christian
Villegas, a motor
vehicle accident, his brother, Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former editor of Catholic
Family News, and for his family’s welfare,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel Waters,
died October 17,
Joseph
DeMarco, the nephew
of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died September 25 after
receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church wearing the brown
scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna Marbach,
died September 9,
Fr. Eugene
Dougherty, a faithful
priest, fittingly died on the Nativity of the BVM after receiving the
traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis
Schlafly, died
September 5,
Helen
Mackewicz, died August
14,
Mark A. Wonderlin, who died August 2,
Fr. Carl
Cebollero, a faithful
priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica
Cortes, a young
mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances
Toriello, a life-long Catholic
faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred Heart, and her
husband Dan, died in
1985,
John
McLaughlin, a friend of
the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela
Montesano, who died
April 30, and her husband, Salvatore,
who died in July 3, 2013,
Charles Schultz, died April 5, left behind nine children
and many grandchildren, all traditional Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas, the aunt of
Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo Suelo, a faithful priest defending our
traditions who was working with Fr. Francois Chazal in the Philippines, died
February 19,
Conde McGinley, a long time laborer for the
traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests your prayers
for Ida Fernandez and Rita Kelley, parishioners at
St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen
Somerville, a
traditional priest who repented from his work with the Novus Ordo English
translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo
DeMaio, a priest
that helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable advice, died
December 2,
J. Paul
Carswell, died
October 15, 2015,
Solange
Hertz, a great
defender of our Catholic faith, died October 3, the First Saturday of the
month,
Paula P.
Haigh, died
October 22, a great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and natural
science,
Gabriella
Whalin, the mother
of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary
Catherine Sick, 14 year
old from a large traditional Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul
Trinchard, a
traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J.
Melnick, Jr., died on
August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband and father, from
Philadelphia,
Patricia
Estrada, died July
29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas
Gruner, a devoted
priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima message,
died April 29,
Sarah E.
Shindle, the
grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline
Vennari, the mother
of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador
Baca Callejas, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle
accident November 29,
Catherine
Dunn, died
September 15,
Anthony
Fraser, the son of
Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette
Rhoad, the
grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees, died
August 9,
Sarah
Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four
children, died July 28,
Msgr. Donald
Adams, who offered
the Indult Mass, died April 1996,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth
Walker, a young
traditional priest of the FSSP who was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for Gilberte Violette, the mother of Fr. Violette, who died May
6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers for his brothers, Michael, died May 9, and James, died October 20, his
sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip
Marbach, the father
of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude in Philadelphia, died April
21,
Richard
Slaughtery, the
elderly sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette
Marie Evans nee Toriello, the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a faithful
Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie
Cagorski, died march
23,
Anita Lopez
de Lacayo, the aunt
of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario
Palmaro, Catholic
lawyer, bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of his
widow and children,
Daniel Boyle, the uncle of Ryan Boyle, died
March 4,
Jeanne
DeRuyscher, who died
on January 25,
Arthur
Harmon, died
January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
January 17,
Joseph
Proctor, died
January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional Catholic
who made the vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January 8,
Brother
Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell), an early supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard
Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers for his
sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton
Creager, the son of
Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher
Lussos, age 27, the
father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett
Ebeyer, 16 year
old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the Kolinsky’s,
Catherine
Nienaber, the mother
of nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA after Mass,
10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of Frances Toriello,
died October 11, 2013 at 105 years of age,
Mary Rita
Schiltz, the mother
of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H.
(Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic
author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of death unknown,
Alfred
Mercier, the father
of David Mercier, who died August 12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August
23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass at our
Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond
Peterson, died July
28, and Paul Peterson, died
February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret
Brillhart, who died
July 20,
Msgr. Joseph
J. McDonnell, a priest
from the diocese of Des Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick
Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using the New, All English Canon,
and for a series of newsletters which were published as The Robber Church, died
May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop
Joseph McFadden, died
unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy
Foley, the
brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in April,
William
Sanders, the uncle
of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for the repose of the soul of Mark Polaschek, who died March
22,
Eduardo
Gomez Lopez, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia
Thees, died
February 24,
Elizabeth
Marie Gerads, a nineteen year old, the oldest
of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael
Schwartz, the
co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W.
Moore, passed
away in December 16, and Gerard (Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19, who
attended this Mission in the past,
Louis
Fragale, who died
December 25,
Fr. Luigi
Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About Face!
detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael
Jarecki, a faithful
traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who died September 10,
Jennie
Salaneck, died
September 19 at 95 years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia
(Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are still at home, died
August 19,
Stanley
Spahalski, who died
October 20, and his wife, Regina
Spahalski, who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis Lester, her son,
Julia
Atkinson, who died
April 30,
Antonio P.
Garcia, who died
January 6, 2012 and the welfare of his teenage children, Andriana and Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who died
February 27,
Fr. Timothy
A. Hopkins, of the
National Shrine of St. Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and the
welfare of his wife, Delores,
Eduardo
Cepeda, who died
January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of
twelve who died December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their
family,
Sister Mary
Bernadette, M.I.C.M.,
a founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died December
16,
Joeseph
Elias, who died
on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters, who
died September 7,
Donald
Tonelli, died
August 1,
Rev. Fr.
Gregory Hesse, of
Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary
Dullesse, who died
April 12, a Catholic convert who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of Andre Ebert,
who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D.
Barr, died March
5, and the welfare of his family,
Judith Irene
Kenealy, the mother
of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son, George Richard Moore, who
died May 14,
For Joe Sobran
who died September 30,
Fr. Hector
Bolduc, a great and
faithful priest, died, September 10, 2012,
John Vennari asks our prayers for Dr. Raphael Waters who died August 26,
Stanley
Bodalsky, the father
of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel
Kilfoyle Humphreys,
a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John
Campion, who
offered the traditional Mass for us every first Friday until forbidden to do so
by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph
Montagne, who died May 5,
For Margaret Vagedes,
the aunt of Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. Michael
Shear, a Byzantine
rite Catholic priest, died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James
Francis Wathen, died
November 7, 2006, author of The Great
Sacrilege and Who Shall Ascend?,
a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique
Rueda, who died
December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli, and the six
priests ordained with him.
Philip Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck, Henry J. Phillips, Grace
Prestano, Connie DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker,
Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata, and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier
Bonneterre, the author
of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother
Francis, MICM, the
superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, NH, who
died September 5,
Rodolfo
Zelaya Montealegre,
the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis
Clifford, a devout
and humble traditional priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin
Sorace, the uncle
of Sonja Kolinsky.
Vatican
Council I listing the beneficial Fruits of the Council of Trent which are in
every detail exactly the opposite which we have seen from Vatican Council II
Now this
redemptive providence appears very clearly in unnumbered benefits, but most
especially is it manifested in the advantages which have been secured for the
Christian world by ecumenical councils, among which the council of Trent requires special mention, celebrated though it
was in evil days.
Thence
came:
1. a closer definition and more fruitful
exposition of the holy dogmas of religion and
2. the condemnation and repression of errors;
thence too,
3. the restoration and vigorous strengthening
of ecclesiastical discipline,
4. the advancement of the clergy in zeal for
·
learning and
·
piety,
5. the founding of colleges for the training
of the young for the service of religion; and finally
6. the renewal of the moral life of the
Christian people by
· a more accurate instruction of the faithful, and
· a more frequent reception of the sacraments. What is more, thence also
came
7. a closer union of the members with the
visible head, and an increased vigour in the whole Mystical Body of Christ.
Thence came:
1. the multiplication of religious orders and
other organisations of Christian piety; thence too
2. that determined and constant ardour for the
spreading of Christ’s kingdom abroad in the world, even at the cost of shedding
one’s blood.
While we recall with grateful hearts, as is
only fitting, these and other outstanding gains, which the divine mercy has
bestowed on the church especially by means of the last ecumenical synod, we
cannot subdue the bitter grief that we feel at most serious evils, which have
largely arisen either because
o the authority of the sacred synod was held in contempt by all too many,
or because
o its wise decrees were neglected.
First Vatican Council, Dogmatic
Constitution on the Faith, listing some of the manifold beneficial fruits from
the Council of Trent!
Priestly
Fraternity of St. Peter Sings the Swan Song
“If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a
defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every
battle.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The Motu proprio Traditionis
Custodes and its accompanying letter from Pope Francis have shocked us all.
We have not yet been informed of any definitive decisions regarding the future
of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and its apostolates….. The Roman
Congregation for Religious Orders, which in the future will be responsible for
us instead of the Ecclesia Dei Commission,
will also begin its work in a few weeks and will also make the first decisions
concerning the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. [….] With your help, the
Rosary will be prayed without interruption during the month of September. […..]
Each rosary should be prayed with the following intention: We pray for our Holy
Father and for all the bishops, as well as all those in authority in the Church
who will have to make significant decisions regarding the Priestly Fraternity
of St. Peter in the near future. We pray for all the priests and seminarians of
the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, that they may continue to carry out their
ministry in the Church with fidelity, reverence and obedience, giving guidance
to the faithful through a clear ecclesial and humble attitude. We pray for all
the faithful in our apostolates and for all the people attached to the
traditional Mass, that they will not lose heart, but will be able to accept
this time of trial and, with the help of God’s grace, come out of it stronger.”
Fr. Stefan Reiner, Chaplain General of the Confraternity of St. Peter
COMMENT: The
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter knows neither itself nor the enemy. They “will
succumb in every battle.” They have never understood that it is the faith
itself that is under attack and that the faith itself must firstly be defended
even at the cost of one’s life. They have never understood that Dogma is the
proximate rule of faith and that Dogma is irreformable in both its form and
matter. They have never understood that our immemorial traditions are images of
the faith grounded in dogmatic canons and that the destruction of these images
is heresy, a neo-Iconoclasm, already condemned. They have never understood that
obedience is only a virtue when properly regulated by the virtue of Religion
which under the virtue of Justice firstly “renders to God the things that are
God’s”. When obedience is not directed by the virtue of Religion, it is a sin.
They have never understood that subjecting what is of God in the faithful to
what is of man in the faithless is not humility but the act of a groveling
spineless coward.
Only the willfully blind would
be “shocked” by the action of Pope Francis. Let’s suggest a more manly
intention for the continual Rosary recitation for the month of September:
Grant
us our good God, Thine unworthy servants, through the intercession of the
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Thy beloved Mother, the gift of Understanding
so as to know the Truth; the gift Fortitude to defend the Truth and to
withstand to the face any authority who would betray the truths of our Faith
even at the cost of life; the gift of Knowledge to know the deep seated malice
of any ecclesiastical authority who would destroy the immemorial images of our
Faith by which alone the Faith can be known and communicated to others; the
gift of Fear of God that we may give no consideration to the strength of the
enemy or his malice; the gift of Piety that we may serve our good God without
weight or measure but offer all to Him who has given all for us; the gift of
Counsel to reject any and every voice of conciliation and accommodation with
error; the gift of Wisdom to seek only the glory of God and his holy will.
The Fraternity of St. Peter was
born in accommodation of error and it will be destroyed. May its priests
organize themselves under Our Lady of Battles for the war they have yet to
fight. Where is all this leading: Expect Rome to relent by offering the SSPX a
prelature and then herd all Indultist communities into one corral. The
hierarchy of the SSPX has already reached a sub
rosa accommodation with Rome and will be used as reeducation camps for
their followers. It is time to know yourself, to know the enemy, and to know
what the fight is about.
Men have imagined that the acknowledgment of the divinity of Christ
relieves them of the obligation of taking His words seriously. They have
twisted certain texts of the Gospel so as to get out of them the meaning they
want, while they have conspired to pass over in silence other texts which do not
lend themselves to such treatment. The precept ‘render to Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s’ is consistently quoted
to sanction an order of things which gives Caesar all and God nothing. The
saying “My Kingdom is not of this world’ is always being used to justify and
confirm the paganism of our social and political life, as though Christian
society were destined to belong to this world and not to the Kingdom of Christ.
On the other hand the saying “All power is given Me in heaven and earth’ is
never quoted. Men are ready to accept Christ as sacrificing Priest and atoning
Victim; but they do not want Christ the King. His royal dignity has been ousted
by every kind of pagan despotism, and Christian peoples have taken up the cry
of the Jewish rabble: ‘We have no king but Caesar!’ Thus history has witnessed
and we are still witnessing, the curious phenomenon of a society which
professes Christianity as its religion but remains pagan not merely in its life
but in the very basis of that life.
Vladimir Solovyev, 1853-1900, Russian theologian, philosopher, poet who
worked to bring the Orthodox into the Catholic Church. He made a profession of
faith before an Eastern rite unite Catholic priest and was received into the
Catholic Church in 1896. He died in extreme poverty.
“But if the faith communicated by the Church to Christian humanity is a
living faith, and if the grace of the sacraments is an effectual grace, the
resultant union of the divine and the human cannot be limited to the special
domain of religion, but must extend to all Man's common relationships and must
regenerate and transform his social and political life.”
Vladimir Solovyev, 1853-1900, Russia and the Universal Church
Looking ahead:
What is the ultimate goal of the ‘color revolution’ U.S. coup that traces its
support to the likes of George Soros, Norm Eisen, et al.?
“Let me tell you the
following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward
and upward: Herzl, the Zionist Congress, the English Uganda proposition (a
planned temporary Jewish settlement in East Africa abandoned in 1905), the future World War, the peace
conference where, with the help of England, a free and Jewish Palestine will be
created.”
Max Nordau, co-founder
with Theodor Herzl of the World Zionist Organization, addressing the Sixth
Zionist Congress in 1903
in Basle, Switzerland
Tikkun olam (Hebrew תיקון
עולם, literally, 'repair of the world') is
a concept in Judaism, often interpreted as aspiration to behave and act constructively
and beneficially. Documented use of the term dates back to the Mishnaic period
(ca. 10-220 AD), (that is, the time when the oral traditions of the Jews were
committed to the written form in the Mishna, also called the Oral Torah). Since
medieval times, kabbalistic literature has broadened use of the term. In the
modern era, among the post-Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment, 1770-1880)
movements, tikkun olam is the idea that Jews bear responsibility not only for
their own moral, spiritual, and material welfare, but also for the welfare of
society at large. For many contemporary pluralistic rabbis, the term refers to
"Jewish social justice" or "the establishment of Godly qualities
throughout the world". Wikipedia
COMMENT: Jews
repeatedly since the time of Jesus Christ are the passionate creators and
principle instigators of ideological movements conceived as necessary for the
moral and material improvement of political and social order. When one after
the other proves to be a political and social failure, it is simply dropped and
they move on to another. They recognize a ‘fall from grace’ because they
recognize the ‘world needs to be repaired.’ Since they have rejected Jesus
Christ, the incarnate Logos, the eternal Wisdom of the Father, they have rejected
His divine plan for the ‘repair of the world’ and in its place offer what Fr.
Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. described as “Organized Naturalism” in opposition to the
Supernatural Order of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is
that whoever is not working for God is working for the Devil. There is no
middle ground. As Jesus said, “He that is not with me, is against me: and he
that gathereth not with me, scattereth” (Matthew 12:30).
Where
Tikkun Olam can lead
OPINION:
Stalin’s Jews
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish
Israel News |
ynetnews | Sever Plocker
Here's
a particularly forlorn historical date: More than 100 years ago, between the
19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and
civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and
Sabotage, also known as Cheka.
Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest
state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few
years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to
KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was
responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at
least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger,
large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at
Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic
minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals,
artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were
defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party
itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World,"
Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind
devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet
revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal
Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed
internally.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their
deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror
officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges,
perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western
Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with
a kosher certificate.
All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though
the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened to the
public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have
been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's service. The
Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of "How
could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European nations, the
Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever
hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of
the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of
the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is
responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies
established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him
favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman
in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf."
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In
his Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star", Jewish historian Sebag
Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist
killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young
Jewish women.
Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central
Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the
"first Stalinist" and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine,
an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi
horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the
Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention
just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the
organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those
holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish
origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a
fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin
described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder,"
"fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out
that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become
great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet
Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as
Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and "Soviet people."
Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and "play dumb":
What do we have to do with them? But let's not forget them. My own view is
different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of
the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our
people when he does amazingly despicable things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our
hangmen," who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its
establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin.
“Don’t Jews still believe in a Messias to come?” asks
the credulous Christian. “And don’t they believe in the same Biblical Heaven
and Hell that we do?”
The answer to both these
questions is — no. And it is an emphatic “No!” as the subsequent Jewish
testimony will verify.
Concerning the Messias: The Jews of today reject the notion of a
personal redeemer who will be born of them and lead them to the fulfillment of
the Old Testament prophecies. The Jews believe that the whole Jewish race is to
be elevated to a position of prosperity and overlordship and that, when this
happy day arrives (the Messianic Age), they will have achieved all that is
coming to them by way of savior and salvation. In his recent book, The Messianic Idea in Israel, Jewish
theologian Dr. Joseph Klausner explains: “Thus the whole people Israel in the
form of the elect of the nations gradually became the Messiah of the world, the redeemer of
mankind.”
Concerning Heaven and Hell: A succinct summary of Jewish
teaching on “life after death” was given in the May, 1958 issue of B’nai
B’rith’s National Jewish Monthly. Under the caption, “What Can A Modern Jew Believe?” there
appeared: “Judaism insists that ‘heaven’ must be established on this earth. The
reward of the pious is life and happiness in this world, while the punishment
of the wicked is misery on earth and premature death … By hitching its star to
the Messianic future on this earth, Israel became the eternal people.” The
article goes on: “The best Jewish minds have always held that a physical
hereafter is a detraction from mature belief.” And the conclusion: “There is
neither hell nor paradise, God merely sends out the sun in its full strength;
the wicked are consumed by its heat, while the pious find delight and healing
in its rays.”
Fr. Leonard Feeney, MICM, The
Point, October 1958
Pope
Francis the HomoLobby CEO Church of the New Advent that "excludes no
one" except Catholics
Italian LGBT
advocates meet Pope Francis, discuss church 'that excludes no one'
Vatican | Christopher White | Sep 22, 2022
Rome — Pope Francis on Sept. 21 met Italian LGBT Catholic advocates who
say the pontiff encouraged their efforts to build a church "that excludes
no one."
According to the daily newspaper L'Avvenire, which is published by the
Italian bishops' conference, representatives from the LGBT organization The
Tent of Jonathan met with Francis following his Wednesday general
audience.
The organization, which was founded in 2018, aims to provide
"sanctuaries of welcome and support for LGBT people and for every person
affected by discrimination."
One participant, Fr. Gianluca Carrega, who heads the LGBT pastoral
ministry in the Archdiocese of Turin, reportedly asked for the pope's
permission to continue "building a hospitable church that excludes no
one."
Other delegates gave the pope a collection of letters from parents of
LGBT children who have faced "isolation and suspicion within the Christian
community." [....]
