..... this missal is
hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of
incurring any penalty, judgment or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used
..... Nor are superiors, administrators,
canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or religious, of whatever title
designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass otherwise than as enjoined by Us. ..... Accordingly,
no one whatsoever is permitted to infringe or rashly 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 traditional
Roman Rite of the Mass.
Third Sunday after the
Epiphany
St. Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr
January 26, 2020
The
third, fourth, fifth and sixth Sundays after Epiphany have the same Introit,
Gradual, Offertory and Communion which testify to our Lord’s divinity, to the
fact that He worked miracles, and to the worship which we owe Him. In fact, throughout this time after Epiphany,
the Church does not cease to manifest our Lord’s divinity and therefore His
kingship over men. He is King over Jew
and Gentile alike; and thus, from St. Matthew, the Church chooses a Gospel which
records two miracles worked by our Lord to prove His divine Sonship
to both. The first of
these as on behalf of a leper, the second of a centurion. The one, as a member of the chosen race was
bound by the law of Moses; the other, as our Lord
Himself implies, was not of the house of Israel. By one word from our Lord the leper is
cleansed, and his cure is to be made known to the priest as “a testimony unto
them” of the divinity of Christ (Gospel).
The centurion, himself bears witness that our Lord is God, by his words
of humility and trust, which the Church puts on our lips daily in the Holy
Mass. Moreover, he gives the same
testimony by the argument which he builds up; taking his own office as an
illustration, he affirms that our Lord has only to speak the word and illness
will obey Him; thus the faith obtains the great miracle which he asked.
All
nations will share in the heavenly feast in which the divinity of our Lord will
be the food of their souls. And just as
in a banqueting hall all is warmth and light, so the pains of hell, the
punishment of those reject that divinity, are well described by the cold and
the night which reign outside, the “exterior darkness” which contrasts with the
dazzling brilliance of the marriage chamber.
The
two miracles mentioned in today’s Gospel are put by St. Matthew at the end of
the Sermon of the Mount, at which “the
people were in admiration,” and so they confirm the fact, that truly it was
“from the mouth of God” that that doctrine proceeded, which caused so much
wonder in the synagogue at Nazareth (Communion). Let us make acts of faith in our Lord’s
divinity, and that we may enter into His kingdom, let us by deeds of charity
“heap upon the head” of those who hate us “coals of fire” (Epistle), that is, feelings
of confusion inspired in them by our magnanimity, giving them no rest until
they have righted the wrongs which they have done. In this way we shall make the mystery of the
Epiphany a reality in our own lives; that of Christ’s kingship over all men who
unite themselves to Him by their common faith, and who must henceforth love
each other as brethren. As St. Augustine
says, “Charity is the effect of the grace of faith in Jesus Christ.”
St.
Polycarp, a disciple of St. John, was by him invested with full sacerdotal
powers (Introit) and made bishop of Smyrna.
In a letter he writes to the Philippians, he quotes the first Epistle of
his master, of which a passage is read in today's liturgy. “Whoever,” he declares after St. John, “does
not confess that Christ has come in the flesh is an anti-Christ.” He claims for Jesus the reality of His
quality of Son of God against the heretics of his day who affirmed that the
Incarnation of the Word was only a semblance.
One day when the heretic Marcion asked him if
he was known to him, the holy bishop replied “that he knew him as the eldest
son of Satan.” And today's Epistle
enables us to distinguish “the sons of God from those who are the sons of
Satan.” Those who,
like Christ, love their brethren, and, like Him, give their lives for them, are
of God. That is what St. Polycarp
will do. Martyred in the persecution
under Commodus, he bore testimony to Christ (Gospel). He was burned in the middle of the
amphitheatre and then struck with the sword, in the year 166. He was 86 years old.
Like
Polycarp (which name signifies much fruit) let us produce much fruit by loving
our neighbour for Jesus' sake.
INTROIT:
Ps. 96. Adore God, all you His angels: Sion heard, and was glad, and the daughters of Juda rejoiced.
Ps. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice;
let the many islands be glad. Glory be, etc. Adore God,
etc.
COLLECT:
Almighty and everlasting God,
mercifully look upon our infirmities, and stretch forth the right hand of Thy
Majesty to help and defend us. Through
our Lord, etc.
O God, Who makest us glad with
the yearly festival of blessed Polycarp Thy Martyr and Bishop: mercifully grant
that, as we now observe his heavenly birthday; so we may likewise rejoice in
his protections. Through our Lord, etc.
O God, Who through the fruitful
virginity of blessed Mary didst bestow on mankind the rewards of eternal
salvation, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may experience her intercession
through whom we have deserved to receive the author of Life, Jesus Christ Thy
Son our Lord. Who liveth and reigneth,
etc.
EPISTLE: Rom. 12, 16-21.
Brethren,
be not wise in your own conceits. To no man rendering evil
for evil: providing good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the
sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as is in you, having peace
with all men; not revenging yourselves, my dearly beloved but give place unto
wrath; for it is written: Revenge is mine; I will repay, saith
the Lord. But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst,
give him to drink; for doing this, thou shalt heap
coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by
good.
When are we overcome by
evil?
When we wish
to take revenge. “Revenge is no sign of courage,” says St. Ambrose, “but
rather of weakness and cowardice. As it is the sign of a very weak stomach to
be unable to digest food, so it is the mark of a very weak mind to be unable to
bear a harsh word.” “Are you impatient,” says the same saint, “you are
overcome; are you patient, you have overcome.”
What should we do if our
reputation is injured?
We
should leave its revenge, or its defense and protection to God, who has
retained that for Himself. “But as a good name,” says St. Francis de Sales, “is
the main support of human society, and as without it we could not be useful to
that society, but even hurtful to it on account of scandal, we should feel
bound, for love of our neighbor, to aim after a good reputation, and to
preserve it.” We should not be too sensitive about this, however, for too great
a sensitiveness makes one obstinate, eccentric, and intolerable, and only tends
to excite and increase the malice of the detractors. The silence and contempt
with which we meet a slander or an injustice, is generally a more efficacious
antidote than sensitiveness, anger, or revenge. The contempt of a slander at
once disperses it, but anger shows a weakness, and gives the accusation an
appearance of probability. If this does not suffice, and the slander continues,
let us persevere in humility and lay our honor and our soul into the hands of
God, according to the admonitions of the Apostle.
How do we “heap coals of
fire on the head of our enemy?”
When we return him good for evil,
for seeing our well meaning towards him, the flush of shame reddens his face
for the wrongs he has done us. St. Augustine explains these words thus: “By
giving food and drink or doing other kindnesses to your enemy, you will heap
coals, not of anger, but of love, upon his head, which will inflame him to
return love for love.” Learn therefore, from the example of Christ and His
saints, not to allow yourself to be overcome by evil, but do good to those that
hate and persecute you.
ASPIRATION Ah,
that I might, according to the words of St. Paul, so live that I may be a child
of the Heavenly Father, who lets His sunshine on the just and the unjust!
GRADUAL:
Ps. 101. The Gentiles shall fear Thy name,
O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Thy glory. For the Lord hath built up Sion, and He shall be seen in His majesty. Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. 96. The Lord hath reigned; let the
earth rejoice; let the many islands by glad.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL:
Matt. 8, 1-13.
At that time, when Jesus was come
down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him; and behold, a leper came
and adored him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And
Jesus, stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I
will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed. And
Jesus saith to him, See thou tell no man: but go,
show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony unto them.
And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came
to him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying: Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grievously
tormented. And Jesus saith to him: I will come and
heal him. And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that
thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the
word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority,
having under me soldiers; and I say to this man: Go, and he goeth;
and to another: Come, and he cometh; and to my servant: Do this, and he doeth
it. And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to
them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in
Israel. And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and
shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the
children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior darkness: there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as
thou hast believed, so be it done to thee; and the servant was healed at the
same hour.
Why did the leper say:
“Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean”?
He believed Christ to be the
promised Messiah, who as true God had the power to heal him. From this we learn
to have confidence in the omnipotence of God, who is a helper in all need (Ps.
106; 6, 73, 19), and to leave all to the will of God, saying: Lord, if it be
pleasing to Thee, and well for me, grant my petition.
Why did Jesus stretch
forth His hand and touch the leper?
To show that He was not subject to
the law which forbade the touching of a leper through fear of infection, which
could not affect Jesus; to reveal the health-giving, curative power of His
flesh, which dispelled leprosy by the simple touch of His hand; to give us an
example of humility and of love for the poor sick, that we may learn from Him
to have no aversion to the infirm, but lovingly to assist the unfortunate sick
for the sake of Jesus who took upon Himself the leprosy of our sins. The saints
have faithfully imitated Him in their tender care for those suffering from the
most disgusting diseases. Oh, how hard it will be for those to stand before the
Tribunal of God at the Last Day, who cannot even bear to look at the poor and
sick!
Why did Christ command the
leper to tell no man?
To instruct us that we should
not make known our good works in order to obtain frivolous praise (Matt. 6, 1),
which deprives us of our heavenly reward.
Why did Christ send the
healed leper to the Priest?
That he might observe the law
which required all the healed lepers to show themselves to the priests, to
offer a sacrifice, to be examined and pronounced clean: that the priest if he
beheld the miracle of the sudden cure of the leper, might know Him who had
wrought the cure, to be the Messiah; and finally, to teach us that we must
honor the priests because of their high position, even when they do not live in
a manner worthy of their dignity, as was the case with the Jewish priests.
What it taught by the
centurion's solicitude for his servant?
That masters should take care of
their sick servants, see that they are attended to in their illness, and above
all that they are provided with the Sacraments. It is unchristian, even cruel
and barbarous, to drive from the house a poor, sick servant, or to leave him lying
in his distress without assistance or care.
Why did Christ say: I will
come and heal him?
Because of His
humility, by which He, although God and Lord of lords, did not hesitate to
visit a sick servant. Here Christ's humility puts to shame many persons
of position who think themselves too exalted to attend the wants of a poor
servant.
Why did the centurion say:
Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under
my roof?
Because he recognized Christ's
divinity and his own nothingness, and therefore regarded himself
as unworthy to receive Christ into his house. From this we learn to humble
ourselves, especially when we receive Christ into our hearts, hence the priest
in giving holy Communion uses the centurion's words, exhorting those to
humility who are about to receive.
Why did he add: But only
say the word, and my servant shall be healed?
By this he publicly manifested
his faith in Christ's divinity and omnipotence, because he believed that
Christ, though absent, could heal the servant by a word. If a Gentile centurion had such faith in
Christ, and such confidence in His power, should not we Christians be ashamed
that we have so little faith, and confidence in God?
What is meant by: Many shall
come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be
cast into the exterior darkness?
This was said by Christ in
reference to the obdurate Jews who would not believe in Him. Many pagans who
receive the gospel, and live in accordance with it, will enjoy heavenly bliss
with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were the most faithful
friends of God, while the Jews, God's chosen people, who as such, possessed the
first claim to heaven, will, because of their unbelief and other sins, be cast
into outer darkness, that is, into the deepest abyss of hell, where there will
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Thus it will be with those
Christians who do not live in accordance with their faith. Therefore, fear lest
you, for want of cooperation with God's grace, be eternally rejected, while
others who have faithfully corresponded to the divine inspirations will enter
into your place in the kingdom of heaven.
ASPIRATION
O Jesus, rich in consolations! grant me the leper's
faith and confidence, that in all things I may rely upon Thy omnipotence, and
may resign myself to Thy divine will, and may ever honor Thy priests. Grant me,
also, O most humble Jesus! the centurion's humility,
that for Thy sake, I may compassionately assist my neighbor, and by doing so
render myself worthy of Thy grace and mercy.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 117. The right hand of the Lord hath
exercised power, the right hand of the Lord hath
exalted me: I shall not die, but live, and shall declare the words of the Lord. Alleluia.
SECRET:
May this victim, O Lord, we
beseech Thee, cleanse our offenses, and sanctify the bodies and minds of Thy
subjects to celebrate this sacrifice.
Through our Lord, etc.
Sanctify, O Lord, the gifts dedicated to Thee, and through
them, by the intercession of Blessed Polycarp thy Martyr and Bishop, do Thou
graciously regard us. Through our
Lord, etc.
By Thy merciful forgiveness, O
Lord, and the intercession of the blessed Mary ever Virgin, may this oblation obtain
for us peace and prosperity, now and forever.
Through our Lord, etc.
COMMUNION:
Luke 4. They all wondered at these
things, which came from the mouth of God.
POSTCOMMUNION:
As Thou dost grant us, O Lord, to
deal with so great mysteries, so vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, to make us worthy
to enjoy their fruits. Through our Lord,
etc.
We,
who are refreshed by partaking of Thy holy gift,
beseech Thee, O Lord our God, that
through the intercession of blessed Polycarp Thy Martyr
and Bishop, we may experience the fruits of that
which we worship. Through our Lord, etc.
May this communion, O Lord,
cleanse us from our sins, and through the intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, make us partakers of
this heavenly remedy. Through our Lord,
etc.
“And I say to you that many shall come from the east
and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom
of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the exterior
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR
THE WEEK OF JANUARY 26th:
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Sun
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3rd Sunday after Epiphany
St. Polycarp, BpM
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sd
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G
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Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation
8:30 AM; Mass for the members of Mission
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27
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Mon
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St. John Chrysostom, BpCD
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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28
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Tue
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St. Peter Nolasco, C
St. Agnes, VM [2nd time]
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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29
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Wed
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St. Francis de Sales
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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30
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Thu
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St. Martina, VM
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sd
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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31
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Fri
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St. John Bosco, C
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass
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1
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St. Ignatius, BpM
FIRST SATURDAY
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R
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Mass 8:30 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 AM; Benediction & Holy Hour of Reparation
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2
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Sun
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Purification of the BVM
4th Sunday after Epiphany
[Candlemas Day]
Our Lady of Good Success
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d2cl
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Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for the members of Mission
12:00 Benediction & Holy Hour of Reparation for the
intention of the purification of the Church
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Be firm and
immovable in the faith. Love the
brethren. Be affectionate to one
another, being bound together in the truth.
St. Polycarp
He was a disciple of
St. John the Evangelist, whom he imitated by zealously opposing the heretics,
who were then striving to corrupt the faith.
In obedience to the command of his holy Master, he refused to hold
intercourse with Marcion, the heresiarch, whom he
called the first-born of Satan.
This energetic adversary of the proud sect that denied the mystery of
the Incarnation wrote an admirable Epistle to the Philippians, in which we find
these words: Whosoever confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is
an Antichrist. Polycarp, then, had a right to the honour
of standing near the Crib, in which the Son of God shows himself to us in all
his loveliness, and clothed in flesh like unto our own.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St.
Polycarp
I have his pledge, and on that I trust, not on my own strength. I have his written promise. That is my staff, and my guarantee, and my
tranquil port. What matters it to me if
the whole world be upset—have I not his written word? Have I not his
letters? There is my rampart. And there my defense.
What letters? I am with you all days, even to the
consummation of the world. Christ is with me—of whom shall I be
afraid? Though stormy billows should
rise up against me, though the sea should open to swallow me, though the wrath
of kings should be enkindled against me, I will heed them no more than if they
were so many spider’s webs. Had not my love for you kept me, I would have
started this very day on my exile, for this is my constant prayer: “O Lord! Thy will
be done. I will do thy will; not what such or such an one may will,
but what thou willest.” If he will me to
remain here, I will give him thanks.
Yea, whithersoever he wills me to go, I will
bless his holy name.
St. John Chrysostom, his last homily before
going into the exile that would take his life
ON RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD
Lord, if thou wilt (Matt. 8, 2).
Those who in adversity as well as
in prosperity, perfectly resign themselves to the will of God, and accept
whatever He sends them with joy and thanks, possess heaven, as St. Chrysostom
says, while yet upon earth. Those who have attained this resignation, are
saddened by no adversity, because they are satisfied with all that God, their
best Father, sends them, be it honor or disgrace, wealth or poverty, life or
death. All happens as they wish, because they know no will but God’s, they
desire nothing but that which He does and wills. God does the will of them that
fear Him (Ps. 144, 10). In the lives of the ancient Fathers we find the
following: The fields and vineyards belonging to one farmer were much more
fertile and yielding than were his neighbors’. They asked how it happened and
he said: they should not
wonder at
it, because he always had the weather he wished. At this they wondered more than ever: How
could that be? “I never desire other weather,” he replied, “than
God wills; and because my desires are conformable to His, He gives me the
fruits I wish.” This submission to the divine will is also the cause of that
constant peace and undimmed joy of the saints of God, with which their hearts
have overflowed here below, even in the midst of the greatest sufferings and
afflictions. Who would not aspire to so happy a state? We will attain it if we
believe that nothing in this world can happen to us except by the will and
through the direction of God, sin and guilt excepted, for God can never be the
cause of them. This the Holy Ghost inculcates by the mouth of the wise man:
Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God (Eccles.
11, 14), that is, are permitted or sent by God; all that which comes from God,
is for the best, for God doeth all things well (Mark 7, 37). Whoever keeps
these two truths always in mind, will certainly be ever contented with the will
of God, and always consoled; he will taste while yet on earth the undisturbed
peace of mind and foretaste of happiness which the saints had while here, and
which they now eternally enjoy in heaven, because of the union of their will
with the divine will.
INSTRUCTION FOR MASTERS AND SERVANTS
The master of a house should be
careful to have not only obedient, faithful, willing, and industrious servants
in his home, as had the centurion in the gospel, but still more, pious and
God-fearing ones, for God richly blesses the master because of pious servants.
Thus God blessed Laban on account of the pious Jacob
(Gen. 30, 30), and the house of Putiphar because of
the just Joseph (Gen. 39, 5). The master should look to the morals and
Christian conduct of his servants, and not suffer irreligious subjects in his
house, for he must, after this life, give an account before the tribunal of
God, and he makes himself unworthy of the blessing of God, often liable to the
most terrible punishment by retaining such. Will not God punish those masters
and mistresses who suffer those under them to seek the
dangerous occasions of sin, keep sinful company, go about at night, and lead
scandalous lives? Will not God, one day, demand the souls of servants from
their masters? The same punishment which will befall those who deny their faith, will rest upon careless masters and mistresses, for
St. Paul the Apostle writes:
But if any man
have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (I. Tim. 5, 8).
Subjects should learn from the
centurion’s servants who obeyed his only word, that they also should willingly,
faithfully, and quickly do every thing ordered by
their masters, unless it be something contrary to the law of God. They should
recollect that whatever they do in obedience to their superiors,
is done for God Himself. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to
the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart,
fearing God. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart as to the Lord, and not to
men: knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance.
Serve ye the Lord Christ (Col. 3, 22-24).
Subjects should learn from the
centurion’s servants who obeyed his only word, that they also should willingly,
faithfully, and quickly do every thing ordered by
their masters, unless it be something contrary to the law of God. They should recollect that whatever they do
in obedience to their superiors, is done for God
Himself. Servants, obey in all things
your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men,
but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart as to the Lord, and not to men:
knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord
Christ (Col 3, 22-24).
There is no fault
committed by another man of which we ourselves are not
capable if we were placed in the same circumstances and surrounded by the same
evil examples from the time of our youth.
St. Augustine
Sent to “preach the word of God
to the Calvinists of Chablais, he brought back sixty
thousand to the Catholic Faith” (Breviary).
Having become the father of the Church at Geneva and founder of the
Order of the Visitation, he shed over this double family (Communion) the rays of
his apostolic zeal and of his gently holiness.
“May your light shine before
men, so that seeing your works they may glorify your Father who is in heaven”
(Gospel). It is especially God’s
goodness which this saint revealed. “If
we must fall into some excess,” St. Francis would say, “let it be on the side
of gentleness.”
“I wish to love him so much,
this dear neighbour, I wish to love him so much! It has pleased God so to make my heart! Oh! When shall we be impregnated with gentleness
and in charity towards our neighbour?”
St. Francis de Sales died at
Lyons in 1622.
Let us
remember this saint’s two sayings: “You can catch more flies with a spoonful of
honey than with a hundred barrels of vinegar.”
“What is good makes no noise, noise does no good.”
St. Francis de Sales
Fight, therefore, with
great determination. Do not let the weakness of your nature be an excuse. If
your strength fails you, ask more from God. He will not refuse your request.
Consider this ------ if the fury of your enemies is great, and their numbers
overwhelming, the love which God holds for you is infinitely greater. The Angel
who protects you and the Saints who intercede for you are more numerous… All He
asks of you is that you defend yourself courageously, and that, despite any
wounds you may receive, you never lay down your arms or leave the battleground.
You must not shirk your
duty. This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy
of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly
impossible.
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual
Combat
The Ransomer
of Captives, St. Peter Nolasco, is thus brought
before us a few days after the Feast of his master, St. Raymund
of Pennafort.
Both of them offer to the Divine Redeemer the thousands of Christians
they ransomed from slavery. It is an
appropriate homage, for it was the result of the Charity which first began in
Bethlehem, in the heart of the Infant Jesus, and was afterwards so fervently
practiced by these two Saints…. Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldst not,
neither are they pleasing to thee; but a Body thou hast fitted unto me. Then said I, Behold I come: that is, Behold,
I come to offer myself as a Sacrifice. Divine Infant has deigned to call us
his brethren, and has given himself for our salvation; it is this same spirit
of charity which made St. Peter Nolasco devoted his
life to his suffering fellow-men.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Peter Nolasco
God loves with
intensely tender love those of us who are happy enough to abandon ourselves
entirely to his fatherly care, letting ourselves be
governed by his divine providence without wasting time by considering if the
effects of this providence will be useful, profitable, or harmful for us. We
can be assured that from all that has been sent to us from his fatherly and
lovable heart, God will draw goodness and value, provided that we have placed
all our confidence in him and that we say willingly: “I place my spirit,” -- my
soul, my body, and all that I am -- “into your blessed hands” to do with as you
wish.
I recommend to you holy
simplicity. Look straight in front of you and not at those dangers you see in
the distance. As you say, to you they look like armies, but they are only willow
branches; and while you are looking at them you may take a false step. Let us
be firmly resolved to serve God with our whole heart and life. Beyond that, let us have no care about tomorrow. Let us
think only of living today well, and when tomorrow comes, it also will be today
and we can think about it then. In all this we must trust and be resigned to
God's providence. We must make provision for enough manna for the day, and no
more. Let us not doubt that God will provide more for us tomorrow, and the day
after tomorrow, and all the days of our pilgrimage.
Let's not waste time in
willing and wishing for things, but let God arrange them. We should “cast all
our care upon him, since he cares for us,” as the apostle Peter says. And note
that he says: “all our care,” that is, all our concern about what comes to us
from the events of life as well as what comes to us from what we want or don't
want. “He will take care” of the success of these things and he wishes for us
whatever is best.
St. Francis de Sales on
the Providence of God
When
the Pope does not walk “uprightly unto the truth of the gospel”
“But when Cephas (Peter) was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented, so that
Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation. But when I saw that they
walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel....” Gal 2:11-14
Let no man deceive
himself. Both the things which are in heaven, and the glorious angels, and
rulers, both visible and invisible, if they believe not in the blood of Christ,
shall, in consequence, incur condemnation. “He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” Let not [high] place puff any one
up: for that which is worth all is a faith and love, to which nothing is to be
preferred. But consider those who are of a different opinion with respect to
the grace of Christ which has come unto us, how opposed they are to the will of
God. They have no regard for love; no care for the widow, or the orphan, or the
oppressed; of the bond, or of the free; of the hungry, or of the thirsty. They
abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the
Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness,
raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur
death in the midst of their disputes.
St. Ignatius of
Antioch, Apostolic Father, Epistle to the Church in Smyrna
We must distinguish between the error which we may tolerate on
questions not diligently examined and not yet defined by the full authority of
the Church, and the error trying to upset the very foundations of the Church,
which we cannot tolerate.
St Augustine
Take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and
take courage, O Jesus, the son of Josedec, the High
Priest; and take courage, all ye people of the land; for thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Yet one little while, and I will
move the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will move all nations; and the Desired
of all nations shall come; and I will fill this House with glory. Great shall be the glory of this House, more
than of the first; and in this place I will give Peace, saith
the Lord of hosts.
Aggeus
2, 5-10
The Order of
Mercy (Mercedarians) for the Ransom of Captives
founded by St. Peter Nolasco, with the help of St. Raymund of Pennafort and King
James of Aragon, was a militant order. It was founded about twenty years after
St. Felix of Valois and St. John of Matha founded the
Trinitarian Order for the Ransom of Captives dedicated to Our Lady of Good
Remedy which was strictly a religious society. The original title of St.
Peter's order was: The Royal, Military and Religious Order of Our Lady of Mercy
for the Redemption of Captives. It
admitted both knights and religious. The knights
were to guard the coasts against the Saracens, but were obliged to choir when
not on duty. Its purpose was to employ
whatever means necessary to rescue Catholics held as slaves by the
Moslems. St. Peter himself was never ordained priest; and
the first seven generals or commanders were chosen out of the knights, though
the friars were always more numerous. St. Peter Nolasco
was buried wearing a cuirass and bearing a sword. It is estimated that in our present day more
than 125,000 Christians are killed annually by Moslems worldwide while Pope
Francis sings their praises and begs for “mutual respect.” He offers the Muslims “respect for their
religion, its teachings, its symbols, its values.... its religious leaders and
its places of worship” while at the same time he holds in contempt the
immemorial ecclesiastical traditions of the Roman Catholic Church and the
Catholics who are faithful in the defense of these necessary attributes of our
faith.
“..... Turning to mutual
respect in interreligious relations, especially between Christians and Muslims,
we are called to respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols,
its values. Particular respect is due to religious leaders and to places of
worship. How painful are attacks on one or other of these! It is clear that,
when we show respect for the religion of our neighbours
or when we offer them our good wishes on the occasion of a religious
celebration, we simply seek to share their joy, without making reference to the
content of their religious convictions. Regarding the education of Muslim and
Christian youth, we have to bring up our young people to think and speak
respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or
denigrating their convictions and practices. We all know that mutual respect is
fundamental in any human relationship, especially among people who profess
religious belief. In this way, sincere and lasting friendship can grow.”.... Pope Francis, July 10, 2013
St. Peter Nolosco and his knights were laymen, not priests, and yet
they considered the salvation of their neighbour
entrusted to them. We can each of us by
counsel, by prayer, but above all by holy example, assist the salvation of our
brethren, and thus secure our own.
Fr. Henry Sebastian
Bowden, Lives of Saints
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I send my Angel, and he shall
prepare the way before my face. And
presently the Lord whom you seek, and the Angel of the Testament whom you
desire, shall come to his Temple. Behold
he cometh, saith the Lord of
hosts: and who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? And who shall
stand to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb:
and he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purity the
sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold and as silver, and they shall offer
sacrifices to the Lord in justice. Malachy, 3
O Lord, Thou dost
dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word in Peace, because my eyes
have seen Thy Salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all
peoples- a Light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people
Israel.
St. Luke 2, 29
The Most Holy Virgin in
these lasts times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the
recitation of the Rosary, to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter
how difficult it is, whether temporal, or above all, spiritual, in the personal
life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world or of
religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations that cannot
be solved by the Rosary. There is no
problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by
the prayer of the Rosary! With the Holy
Rosary we will save ourselves. We will
sanctify ourselves. We will console our
Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima on
the Rosary
Ignatius stands near to
Peter, the Feast of whose Chair we kept a few days since; for the Prince of the
Apostles made him his second successor in his first See of Antioch. From so honoured a
position Ignatius derived that courage which made him resist a powerful Emperor
even to his face, defy the wild beasts of the amphitheatre, and triumph by a
glorious martyrdom. As it were to show
the supremacy of the See of Rome, Divine Providence
willed that he, with his chains upon him, should go to see Peter, and
finish his course in the Holy City, and thus mingle his blood with that of the
Apostles.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
The decadence which
exists in the world is without any doubt the consequence of the lack of the
spirit of prayer. Foreseeing this
disorientation, the Blessed Virgin recommended recitation of the Rosary with
such insistence, and since the Rosary is, after the Eucharistic liturgy, the
prayer most apt for preserving faith in souls, the devil has unchained his
struggle against it… The Rosary is the most powerful weapon for defending
ourselves on the field of battle.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima on
the Rosary
For these ills caused
by carnal pride the Fathers (of the Church) offer the usual triple medication,
three nostrums which won’t eliminate the disease entirely, but will at least
relieve the painful symptoms: 1) Make it a practice to always to place
ourselves below others, both mentally and actually. Even the necessary exercise of authority is
no obstacle to this, if we remember that authority is essentially a service to
those we must govern. 2) Bear all
affronts with patience, meditating the while on our Lord’s Passion and all
He endured even though He was the Son of God and supremely innocent. 3) Keep in mind at all times the shortness
of this life, which renders the solicitations of pride hardly worth the
trouble.
Solange
Hertz, Sin Revisited
As in the order of
nature a child must have a father and a mother, so likewise in the order of
grace, a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his
Mother; and if anyone should glory in having God for his Father and yet has not
the love of a true child for Mary, he is a deceiver, and the only father he has
is the devil.
St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of Mary
I am the way… No man
cometh to the Father but by Me (Jn. 14, 6).
I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also
(Jn. 13, 15). Learn of Me because I am meek and humble of heart (Mt. 11, 29).
First, let us have a habitual desire to imitate Christ
in everything that we do, conforming ourselves to His life; upon which life we
must meditate, so that we may know how to imitate it and to behave in all
things as Christ would behave.
St. John of the Cross, Ascent
of Mt. Carmel
JESUS WELCOMES
EVERYONE THIRD
SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑ O divine Savior, I, too,
am a poor leper; receive me: “If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean!”
MEDITATION:
I.
Today’s Gospel (MI 8, 1‑13) places before us two miracles of Jesus, two profound
lessons in humility, faith, and charity.
Observe the humble faith of the leper: “Lord,
if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.” He is so certain that Jesus can heal him
that he feels nothing else is necessary for his cure other than the Lord’s will.
Christian faith does not wander about in subtle reasonings;
its logic is simple: God can do all that He wills; therefore, His will alone is
necessary. Yet the leper does not insist; one who lives by faith knows that God
always wills whatever is best for him, even if it brings him suffering. Therefore,
instead of insisting, he prefers to abandon himself to God’s good pleasure.
Next comes the centurion.
The strong, proud Roman soldier is not ashamed to personally beg Jesus, a
Galilean, to help his paralyzed servant. Our Lord is touched by this humble,
charitable act, and says at once, “I shall go and heal him!” But the centurion
continues, “I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter
under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.” At this
point humility becomes still more profound, and faith reaches its maximum: it is not, necessary for the Lord to go; His
power is so great that a word spoken from afar suffices to perform any miracle.
Jesus Himself “marveled and said: `Amen I say to you, I have not found so great
faith in Israel!’” Is this not a complaint against those who live so close to
Him, who perhaps live in His own house, receiving constant favors from Him,
while their faith remains very weak and therefore inefficacious?
2.
According to Jewish law, lepers were kept apart from society and no one was allowed
to go near them; likewise, the pagans were to be shunned because they did not
belong to the chosen people. Jesus goes beyond the old law and in the name of
universal charity He welcomes and heals the leper, listens to the foreign
centurion and cures his pagan servant. Thus Christ teaches us to make no
distinction of persons, not to despise sinners and infidels, but to welcome all
with loving kindness. He does not wish the good to enclose themselves in a little
circle, but to open the doors to everyone, doing good to
all without concerning themselves about the traits and opinions of others. All
men are children of God; and our charity, like the mercy of our heavenly Father,
should extend to all. This is the dominant thought of today’s Epistle (Rom 12,
16‑21), where St. Paul exhorts us to practice charity, especially toward
our enemies. “To no man rendering evil for evil .... If it be possible, as much
as in you, have peace with all men. Revenge not yourselves…. but if thy enemy
be hungry, give him to eat .... Be not overcome by
evil, but overcome evil by good.”
Jesus conquered evil, both physical and moral
evil, by His mercy and love. This must be our strategy too. Whatever the evil around
us, whatever the suffering it may cause us, we shall never overcome it by
arguments and discussions or by taking a stand and adhering rigidly to it. This
can only be accomplished by a delicate charity which understands intuitively
the mentality, the tastes, and the needs of others, and which knows precisely
when to intervene, to condescend and to sacrifice itself for the good of
another, even if that other is unfriendly toward us‑only
such charity can triumph over evil.
COLLOQUY:
“Being what we are and having our free will, when
we do not receive what pleases us, we sometimes refuse what the Lord gives us,
even though the gift might be the best one possible .... But no, my God, no, no
more trust in anything which I can desire for myself: do You desire for me that
which You are pleased to desire; for that is my desire, since all my good
consists in pleasing You. And, if You, my God, should be pleased to please me,
by fulfilling all that my desire asks of You, I know that I should not be lost”
(T. J. Way, 30 ‑ Exc, 17).
O my
Jesus, I trust You, I abandon myself to You, dispose of me, of my health and of
all that concerns me, according to what You know is best for my spiritual
advancement. I beg but one thing: heal my poor soul. I too, spiritually, am a
poor leper, a poor paralytic. My pride and vanity are always ready to impair
and vitiate the little good I accomplish. Sloth and inertia seek to paralyze my
efforts toward perfection. Behold me at Your feet, O
Lord; I need Your help like the leper and the paralytic servant. I too, O Lord,
believe that, if You will, You can heal me.
“Miserable though I am, I firmly believe that
You can do what You will; and the greater are Your marvels that I hear spoken of,
and the more I reflect that You can work others still greater, the stronger grows
my faith and the greater is the resolution with which I believe that You will
hear my requests” (T.J. Exc, 4).
O sweet Jesus, I beg for a little of Your overflowing charity, which is so universal, so kind. You
well know the difficulties I sometimes encounter when practicing this virtue,
especially toward those whose ways of acting and thinking are so different from
mine. O Lord, fill my heart with warm, sincere kindness toward them. Only the
charity which comes from You will give me strength to
overcome all the conflicts which arise from differences in temperament, education
and ideas. Only this charity can enable me to sacrifice myself generously for
those who hurt me and to continue to act kindly toward those whom I naturally
dislike.
O Jesus, You came on earth to enkindle the fire
of charity: enkindle in me an ardent love for my neighbor.
Both the habit and the
act of faith are necessary both as means of salvation and by precept. A necessary means of salvation is an absolute condition without which it is
impossible to attain to eternal life. A precept makes something obligatory for
salvation when a special command is made by a legitimate superior who imposes
something as a condition of salvation but not in such an absolute fashion that
salvation could not be obtained otherwise.
Therefore no excuse is permissible when there is a question of a
necessary means; on the other hand, moral impossibility is usually taken to
excuse from things that are necessary from precept.
Rev. Dominic Prummer, Handbook of
Moral Theology
Our Lord Jesus Christ .
. . has inspired you with this resolution (which is worthy of your zeal for the
Catholic faith), to endeavor, by delivering yourselves and your kingdom from a
woman’s passion, to restore it to its ancient obedience to this holy Roman See
. . . and if, in maintaining the Catholic faith and the authority of this Holy
See, even death should be encountered by you and your blood should be shed, it
is far better for the confession of God’s truth to pass quickly to eternal life
by the short road of a glorious death, than to live on in shame and ignominy,
to the loss of your souls, in bondage to a feeble woman’s passion. For think
not, beloved sons in Christ, that those Bishops, or other leading Catholics (principibus Catholicis) of your
country whom you mention, have made an unhappy end; who, for their refusal to
give up their confession of the Catholic faith, have been either cast into
prisons, or unjustly visited with other penalties. For their constancy, which
has been encouraged by the example (still, as we believe, effective) of the
blessed Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, can be praised by none as much as it
deserves. Imitating this same constancy yourselves, be brave and firm in your
resolve! and abandon not your undertaking through fear
or threat of any dangers.
Pope St. Pius V, Letter
to the St. Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and to his friend, the Earl of
Westmoreland, regarding the moral right to rebel, February 22, 1570
St. Francis de Sales to
reproach the Church with this intolerance is to reproach her with being and
with believing herself necessary truth. It belongs to truth to exclude
all that is contrary to it, and consequently not only is true religion
intolerant, but so also is all science. There is nothing more intolerant than
mathematics, for the reason that it is founded on invariable principles. The
Church, by the very fact that she is certain of possessing religious truth in
its entirety, must inexorably condemn all error. Thus Bossuet acknowledged that
“the Catholic religion is the most severe and the least tolerant of all
religions;” and Jules Simon, a contemporary naturalist philosopher, confesses
that “the lawfulness of ecclesiastical intolerance is beyond dispute.”
We readily acknowledge that, in this sense, the other religious societies are
not intolerant. J. J. Rousseau could say of Protestantism: “The Protestant
religion is tolerant in principle, it is essentially tolerant, it is as tolerant
as it is possible to be, since the only dogma it does not tolerate is that of
intolerance.” But such praise is the most crushing refutation of a religious
doctrine.
Rev. Walter Devivier, S.J., Christian Apologetics: A Defense of the
Catholic Faith
The Church of Christ IS the Roman
Catholic Church
“On this the Earl, turning towards the
people, said: ‘I should have been content to meet my death in silence, were it
not that I see it is the custom for those who undergo this kind of punishment
to address some words to the bystanders as to the cause of their being put to
death. Know, therefore, that, from my earliest years down to this present day,
I have held the Faith of that Church which, throughout the whole Christian
world, is knit and bound together; and that in this same Faith I am about to
end this unhappy life. But, as for this new Church of England, I do not
acknowledge it.’
“Here Palmer, interrupting him, cried out
in a loud voice: ‘I see that you are dying an obstinate Papist; a member, not
of the Catholic, but of the Roman Church.’
“To this the Earl replied: ‘That which you
call the Roman Church is the Catholic Church, which has been founded on the
teaching of the Apostles, Jesus Christ Himself being its corner-stone,
strengthened by the blood of Martyrs, honoured by the
recognition of the holy Fathers; and it continues always the same, being the
Church against which, as Christ our Saviour said, the
gates of Hell shall not prevail.’
“When Palmer tried a second time to
interrupt him, the Earl said: ‘Cease, pray, to further trouble me, for of this
truth my mind and conscience are most thoroughly convinced.’ And when Palmer
still would not be silent, the Earl, turning to the people, said: ‘Beware,
beloved brothers, of these ravening wolves, who come to you in the clothing of
sheep, whilst, meantime, they are the men that devour your souls.’ At this,
rushing straight down from the platform, as though he had received a blow,
Palmer left the Earl free to finish his address.
“To me it has been a grievous sorrow,’ he
continued, ‘that, in consequence of an occasion furnished in a manner by
myself, so many of the common people have been put to a violent death for the
zeal with which they strove to further God’s religion, and clung also personally
to myself. Would that by my own death I might have saved their lives! and yet I have no fear but that their souls have obtained
the glory of Heaven.’
“‘As to other matters brought against me,
they are already fully explained in my answers to the questions set me by the
Privy Council; but I know that in them there is no room for mercy, and
therefore from them I expect none: but from Him alone, whom I know to be the
author of all mercy, who will, as I truly believe, grant mercy to me.’
“After commending to his brother’s care his
children (four daughters, the eldest but ten), his servants, and some small
debts, he begged all present to forgive him, declaring that he on his part
forgave all from his heart. Then kneeling down he finished his prayers.
“Then, after kissing a cross, which he
traced upon the kidder of the scaffold, with his arms so folded on his breast
as to form a cross, he stretched himself upon the block; and as soon as he had
said, ‘Lord, receive my soul!’ the executioner struck off his head. At that
same instant, a great groan, which sounded like a roll of thunder, burst from
the weeping spectators, as with one voice they called on God to receive his
soul into eternal rest.
“It was thought very wonderful that, from
the moment of his laying himself upon the block, he gave not even the smallest
sign of fear, and made no movement whatsoever, either of head or body.
Martyrdom of St. Thomas Percy,
Earl of Northumberland, August 22, 1572, Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary;
Taken from, Lives of the English Martyrs
by Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B. St. Thomas’ father, also
Thomas Percy, was martyred under the reign of Henry VIII.
The
Religion of Sloth
If we are going to turn away
from spiritual joy, we are going to look for joy elsewhere. And so the slothful
man ends by putting something else in the place of the revealed spiritual good.
For the mainstream
Catholic clergy, ecumenism is that something else. It is the substitute for the
Divinely revealed spiritual good. It has been the
driving force of every papacy since John XXIII’s; the overarching concern of
most every precept and policy to issue from Rome these past 40-some years. It
is the reason there is a New Mass. It is the reason we are identified as
traditionalists. We are resisting the new religion fashioned by sloth. We are
the declared enemies of ecumenism. We are, quite simply, Catholic.
And because we
are Catholic, we are either despised or ignored by the vast majority of the
Catholic hierarchy. We are not of their faith. We do not attend their Mass. And
we are an irritating, hateful reminder of the spiritual good from which they
have turned away.
Edwin Faust, Catholic commentator
Unto
the Angel of the Church of Ephesus write: …
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity
(Apocalypse 2:4).
St. Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus for more
than 40 years, showed himself to be somewhat lax in preaching of the word of
God to the Ephesians in the work for their conversion. The reason for this was
that he had to face the pertinacity of both the Jews and adorers of Diana
against his apostolate. Hence, moved in part by pusillanimity and moderation
and in part by human prudence, he considered it more convenient to become
softer so as not to disturb the life of Religion by an excessive zeal or to
provoke the fury of the Gentiles against him and his flock, as happened with
St. Paul, who had to face the mob shouting against him: ‘Hail the great Diana
of Ephesus’ (Acts 19: 34). So, the first ardor of St. Timothy in preaching the
Gospel grew weaker, and this was his sin, not mortal but venial.
This also happens with persons who have authority. They sin more often by
tepidity disguised as prudence, than by imprudence under the appearance of
zeal.
The counsel of Christ given through St. John to St. Timothy corrected his
fault, and he returned to his first fervor. Actually he reproved the adorers of
Diana so ardently that he received martyrdom by their hands in the year 109 of
the Lord, on the 24th day of January, whose memory is registered in the sacred
annals of the Church.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentarii
in Sacram Scripturam,
regarding St. Timothy
The American Novus Ordo
Church has lost every cultural battle since Vatican II to defend the moral
order. Why? They “know neither Jesus
Christ & the Catholic Faith nor the enemy that seeks to destroy it.”
“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
Dogmas are not Precepts – They are Divinely Revealed
Truths
The dogmas of the Faith are to be held only according to their
practical sense; that is to say, as preceptive norms
of conduct and not as norms of believing, Condemned Proposition.
St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane
Popes
and the corruption of Dogma, of worship, and the undermining of morals
Although it clearly follows from the circumstances that the Pope can
err at times, and command things which must not be done, that we are not to be
simply obedient to him in all things, that does not show that he must not be
obeyed by all when his commands are good.
To know in what cases he is to be obeyed and in what not, it is said in
the Acts of the Apostles: “One ought to obey God rather than man,”; therefore,
were the Pope to command anything against Holy Scripture, or the articles of
faith, or the truth of the sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine
law; he ought not to be obeyed, but in such commands, to be passed over.
Juan Cardinal de Torquemada, O. P., Summa
de Ecclesia, quoted by St. Robert Bellarmine
There
is a fitting irony that it was on the 500th anniversary of the
Luther’s revolt that Pope Francis should embrace divorce and adultery when he
publically proclaimed his personal belief in the heretical doctrines of Martin
Luther!
By his teaching on the impossibility of continency
either in celibacy or In marriage, he paves the way to
the sanction of a bigamic marriage, at least In the
case of the Landgrave Philip von Hessen. In union with Melanchton
and Bucer, Luther acts the spiritual adviser, with
counsel pertinent to the matter in hand. On account of the sensation caused by
the bigamic marriage, the Landgrave Is recommended to deny it, but secretly he may keep the trull—”Metze”—as a “conjugal
concubine.” In principle, Luther had already enunciated these tenets after his
interior apostasy from the Church. They only prove his bent and readiness with
regard to lying, cunning, and deception.
Rev. Heinrich Denifle, O.P., Luther and Lutherdom
Why
is John Henry Cardinal Newman regarded by Modernists as their Spiritual Father?
– Because he was! So why do
“Conservative Catholics” admire Newman?
Because he explained how dogma can be discarded.
“Dr. Newman is the most dangerous man in England. And you will see that
he will make use of the laity against your Grace. You must not be afraid of
him. It will require much prudence, but you must be firm, as the Holy father
sill places his confidence in you; but if you yield and do not fight the battle
of the Holy See against the detestable spirit growing up in England, he will
begin to regret Cardinal Wiseman, who knew how to keep the laity in order.”
Msgr. George Talbot, Papal Chamberlain, Letter to Cardinal Henry Edward
Manning, after Pope Pius IX suppressed a plan for Dr. John Henry Newman going
to Oxford to establish an inter-faith oratory.
An English Catholicism, of which Newman is the highest type, is the old
Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church... In
one word, it is a worldly Catholicism, and it will have the worldly on its
side, and will deceive many.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, on Dr. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Another influential writer during the last century was Lord Acton (Sir
John Dalberg), who was famous for his critical
historicism and also renowned for his friendship with (Rev. Johann von) Dollinger (a Munich priest and professor at the University,
excommunicated for rejecting the dogma of papal infallibility). Acton was
almost excommunicated, as Dollinger was, but managed
to maintain the appearance of orthodoxy and remain in the Church. As liberal as
Lord Acton was, and although he sided with Newman in fighting the dogma of
Infallibility, he came to the same conclusion as (Cardianl
Henry Edward) Manning regarding Newman’s heterodox position. In a letter
written by Acton a few weeks before Manning’s death, after mentioning the
‘personal aversion to Manning’ displayed by Newman he said, “Many will wonder
how anybody who saw much of him (Newman) could remain a Catholic — assuming
that Newman really was one.” Acton, although an ally of Newman in editing the
liberal journal The Rambler, was not baffled by
Newman’s prosaic tact. Acton went much further than Manning in his strictures
on his old ally. He described Newman as “a sophist, the manipulator and not the
servant of truth.” When men of diametrically opposed beliefs, as Acton and
Manning, agree in their judgment of another man whom they so well knew, the
assumption that they are not both in error is not unreasonable.
John Edward Courtenay Bodley, On Cardinal
John Henry Newman
“For
there will rise up false Christs and false prophets,
and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if
it were possible) even the elect.” Mark 13:22
Apparently,
They Think We are Fools, By Christopher A. Ferrara
Beware of
“moral theologians” in pastel blue...
As Pope Francis continues his long
tirade against the imaginary Catholic Pharisees who defend the Church’s
teaching on the indissolubility of marriage and the integrally related
Eucharistic discipline, he and his collaborators are busily engineering
neo-Pharisaical escape hatches from the negative precepts of the divine and
natural law emanating from the Sixth Commandment.
Determined to quell any Catholic
opposition to his moral subversion, Francis has slapped the label Authentic Magisterium® on his outrageous opinion that in “complex
circumstances” wherein it is not “feasible” to live as brother and sister, two
people who are not married can be admitted to Holy Communion without ceasing
extra-marital sexual relations so long as they engage in an ill-defined
“process of discernment.” As Father Brian Harrison has so trenchantly
observed, this means that people embroiled in adultery can receive Holy Communion
while they “discern” that they should not be receiving Holy Communion because
they are embroiled in adultery.
Do they think we are fools?
Then there is the endlessly
double-talking Cardinal Müller. In a recent interview
concerning Rocco Buttiglione’s verbal contortions
aimed at demonstrating that the administration of Holy Communion to public
adulterers is consistent with the Church’s bi-millennial prohibition of
precisely that, Müller proposed this preposterous
“solution” to a “problem” that does not exist:
It is possible that the penitent may be convinced in
conscience, and with good reasons, of the invalidity of the first marriage even
though they cannot offer canonical proof. In this case the marriage valid
before God would be the second one and the pastor could grant the sacrament,
certainly with the appropriate precautions as not to scandalize the community
of the faithful and not to weaken the conviction of marriage indissolubility.
The Cardinal knows this is moral
and canonical nonsense. No Catholic, whether or not he consults a priest, can
declare for himself that his marriage in the Church was invalid, especially
when—indeed because—he lacks canonical proof of invalidity. Moreover,
absent an annulment granted by the competent Church tribunal, a purported
“second marriage” can only be an invalid civil ceremony and thus a thinly
disguised form of continuous public adultery. Cardinal Burke, whom Francis
sacked as head of the Church’s highest tribunal because he was a major
impediment to the conspiracy culminating in Amoris Laetitia (AL), has observed the obvious in this regard:
Such cases do not exist. No priest has the authority to
declare a marriage null in the internal forum. Marriage is a public state in
the Church, and the judgment regarding an accusation of nullity of marriage
must be made in accord with the long practice of the Church. If a college of
judges in a matrimonial tribunal is not able to arrive at moral certitude
regarding the nullity of a marriage after a careful and thorough examination of
the petition of nullity, how can an individual priest be capable of making such
a judgment having to do with the eternal salvation of the soul in question?
The only case in which a priest could admit a person
living in an irregular matrimonial union to receive the Sacraments of Penance
and Holy Eucharist is the case of a couple who agree to live “as brother and
sister”, that is to respect the marriage to which they are bound by not living
in a marital way with another person. Even then, the priest would have to
insist that the couple living in continence receive the Sacraments in a place
in which they are not well known, lest other faithful be led to believe that
persons living in an irregular matrimonial union may receive the Sacraments.
Does Cardinal Müller
think we are fools? Some of us apparently are, or at least are willing to
serve as knowing dupes by defending neo-Pharisaical sophistry that would
produce “a discipline alien to the entire Tradition of the Catholic and
Apostolic faith.”
Apparently, they think they can
fool us in the next phase of the program of moral subversion that this
incredible Pope seriously expects us to believe is an imperative of “mercy”:
the justification of contraception in “complex cases” to which “discernment” must
be applied. Consider the recent declaration by one of Francis' new appointments
to the Pontifical Academy for Life, whose entire membership he sacked and whose
constitution he ordered rewritten to neutralize it. In a lecture at the
Gregorian, one Father Maurizio Chiodi, a “moral
theologian” of the post-Vatican II variety, proposed that “an artificial method
for the regulation of births could be recognized as an act of responsibility
that is carried out, not in order to radically reject the gift of a child, but
because in those situations responsibility calls the couple and the family to
other forms of welcome and hospitality.”
That is, Francis’ man at the
reconstituted Pontifical Academy declares openly that there is a duty to contracept! Chiodi’s sole “authority”
for this lie from the pit of hell is nothing more than Chapter 8 of AL, the
only document of its kind in the entire history of the Church. AL will
doubtless be providing cover for a whole new line of Authentic Magisterium® products, all of which will be utter fakes,
including some form of “pastoral integration” of homosexual unions.
Evidently, they do think we are
fools or willing to play the fool in exchange for the benefits of respectable
conformity in the midst of an unparalleled debacle for the Church. (Consider
the example of Catholic Answers, which “defends the Faith” while refusing to
recognize that it is under ferocious attack from the very vertices of the
Church. Silence at best is the price it must pay for remaining in good standing
with the pro-homosexual bishop Francis has installed in San Diego.)
But we are not fools. And God will
not be mocked. Francis and all his designs will ultimately come to
nothing. Meanwhile, ours is but to keep the Faith and protest before God and
man the blows now raining down against the Church, even when they come from a
wayward Roman Pontiff at her summit. Indeed, especially then.
DOGMA IS THE PROXIMATE RULE OF FAITH; DOGMA is revealed
doctrine formally defined by the Church. The pope is the necessary but
insufficient means by which DOGMA is declared.
Hence, the distinction is made betewen
the Remote and the Proximate Rule of Faith.
The remote Rule of Faith is the Objective Deposit, [Scripture and
Tradition], It contains revealed truths which - for some reason or other - were
forgotten, obscure, or not sufficiently understood. Hence, they were broght into discussion, or
denied without injury to the Faith until they became clear or werer defined by
the Church. The Proximate Rule of Faith
is the teaching of the Church sufficiently proposed and manifestly promulgated
to the Faithful, [DOGMA]. If this
Proximate Rule of Faith proclaims anything as belonging to the Remote Rule of Faith, it can no longer be challenged without
shipwreck of the Faith. For unity of
faith is whole and entire only while there is no dissent with the Proximate
Rule of Faith. On this point Gregory of
Valentia declares: “The Church has from darkness brought to light wth her
infallible authority some doctrines which, through human negligence or malice
or perversity of mind, remained concealed.
And mayhap there are some still hidden in the Church.”
Msgr. George Agius, D.D., J.C.D.,
Tradition and the Church
“I saw a pope who is casting
out the bad clergy, who thought to be able to act out of themselves, without
Christ and without the traditional Church manners.”
Blessed Anna
Katherine Emmerich, August 28, 1820
First of all, he admonished the Churches
of every city that, most of all, they shopuld avoid heresies, which already had
begun to break out, and advised them to hold firmly to the Traditions of the Apostles.
St. Eusebius, the historian of the early
Church in the 4th cenutry, on St. Ignatius of Antioch, the first successor of
St. Peter
I firmlly admit and accept the Apostolic
and Ecclesiastical Traditinos and all the other observances and constitutions
of the Church.... I also accept and admit the received and approved rites of
the Catholic Church in the solemn administratin of all the Sacraments.
Tridentine Profession of Faith
ON
THE FEWNESS OF THOSE WHO FIND SALVATION
“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
“I tremble when I see how many souls are lost these days. They fall into Hell like leaves from the
trees at the approach of winter.”
St. John Mary Vianney
“So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few
are saved!”
St. Philip Neri
“How narrow is the gate and how strait the way that leads to life, and
few there are who find it.”
Jesus Christ, Mt. 7, 13-14
For those in
the state of grace every act is meritorious or demeritorious.
St. Thomas
Aquinas
Worth
Repeating: The SCHISM is already HERE!
COMMENT: This book in the article below
provides an interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoria Laetitia. It is addressed to bishops with a “merciful
heart” and offers an interpretation that is consistent with the interpretation
approved in the private letter sent by Pope Francis to the bishops of Argentina
as well as with the interpretation of Cardinal Schornborn
who Pope Francis has publically identified as its ‘official interpretor.’ These bishops say that the proper
understanding and application is that any Catholic living in public adultery
based upon their own private judgment in the internal forum can declare themselves worthy to receive Holy Communion and absolution
in the sacrament of Penance and therefore cannot be denied these
sacraments. It is given semi-official
approval by its publication in L’Osservatore
Romano.
Now in the Novus Ordo
which may be nothing more than a memorial meal as initially defined by Pope
Paul VI, perhaps giving the Novus Ordo communion
wafer to a person in objective mortal sin is not a real problem. But what is certainly a grave sin it that
these persons can expect to be absolved by a confessor in the sacrament of
Penance without confessing or repentance of mortal sin. Pope Francis and his CDF puppet, Cardinal
Muller, will not be answering the Dubia in any
official capacity. This does not
represent a change in the Church’s teaching.
It represents the active effort of a Francis and his minions to destroy
the Catholic doctrine and morality. As
we announced during the synod, the schism has long been present. It is more evident each passing day and every
Catholic will have to pick sides. God
cannot let an open attack upon the sacrament of marriage go unpunished. Their hypocrisy is oozing from every
pore. Imagine if a Catholic with
“humility, discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere
search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it”
arrives at traditional Catholicism, what kind of response can be expect from
the local bishop and Rome? If you want
to know read our OPEN LETTERS!
“If, as a result of the process of discernment, undertaken with
“humility, discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere
search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” (Amoris Laetitia 300), a separated
or divorced person who is living in a new relationship manages, with an
informed and enlightened conscience, to acknowledge and believe that he or she
are at peace with God, he or she cannot be precluded from participating in the
sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (see AL, notes 336 and 351).”
Bishops Charles J Scicluna and Mario Grech, Guide for the Interpretation
of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia:
An Invitatiion to the Bishops of Merciful Hearts. This received semi-official approbation by
being featured in the publication, L’Osservatore
Romano, 1-2017
What belongs to the foundation of the Faith is one thing, but it is a
different proposition when, in good faith, the most learned and the best defenders
of the Faith do not agree - with the result that one may say something better
and truer than another.
St. Augustine
“Those who do
not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.”
Pope Francis
the Vanishing, quoted by Eugenio Scalfari
“We Embraced
Each Other” - What Francis Confided to Scalfari
Pope Francis gives another exclusive interview with his favorite
reporter, the atheist Eugenio Scalfari, published in
La Repubblica, on January 14, 2020. Scalfari wrote the article entitled: “Francis, Ratzinger, and the Salvation of the Earth” on January
20. Scalfari
attributes the following quotes to Pope Francis:
·
“The
Church is forced to become more modern: to be with the poor and the weak, not
with the rich and strong.”
·
“The
planet is under threat, the climate must be our first
concern.”
·
“I am
only driven by the desire that our church survive by adapting our collective
spirit to modern civil society.”
The “Church is forced to become more
modern”? By whom and for what ends? And what does
being “more modern” have to do with being with the “poor and the weak” and less
“modern” have to do with being with the “rich and strong”? Where in the gospels does Jesus Christ give a
mandate to His Church as their “first concern” any supposed questions of
“climate”? But poor Francis is “only
driven by the desire that our church survive by adapting our collective spirit
to modern civil society.” This
proposition is a direct paraphrase of a condemned proposition of the heresy of
Liberalism and Modernism:
The Roman Pontiff
can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress,
liberalism and modern civilization.- -Allocution “Jamdudum
cernimus,” March 18, 1861, Condemned proposition #80,
Syllabus of Errors, Bl. Pope Pius IX
Scalfari's
Report of Pope Francis' comments over Cardinal Sarah's and Benedict/Ratzinger's book defending
priestly celibacy after Vatican pressures Sarah to remove Benedict/Ratzinger's name from book!
Scalfari,
a professed atheist, refers to Pope Francis as "Our pope"!
Sarah thought he opposed the
positions of Francis and had hoped that Ratzinger
would associate himself with his own positions. Benedict had provided a text
and on the basis of this Sarah sent to press a co-authored book with very
polemical content. Almost all the major Italian newspapers prominently
highlighted this news which, if it had been true, would have produced a
considerable crisis by gathering, under the banners of a cardinal and Pope who
had resigned but was still fully active, a number of bishops more or less
discontent with the current pontificate, and thus putting Pope Francis in
considerable difficulty.
This being the situation, Ratzinger had made it known that he had not sided with Sarah
at all nor had he ever authorized a co-authored book with him.
Benedict therefore showed
Francis all his solidarity. Our Pope [Francis] did not take the attempt of a
group of cardinals backing Sarah seriously at all, and he accepted Ratzinger’s friendly and even fraternal offer the day
before our meeting.
As for me aware of Sarah’s
attempt, I asked at the beginning of our meeting what his inner reaction was to
the existence of a group in opposition to his pontificate.
The answer was that there is
always someone opposed in an organization that embraces hundreds of millions of
people around the world. The issue with Ratzinger was
therefore closed and the small or great opposition that still remains standing
ought to be considered a fairly normal phenomenon in such structures.
Source: LifeSiteNews,
1-21-2020
Despite
his faults, President Trump has done far, far more to defend the God given
right to life of children in the womb than all the other Republican presidents
together!
Hundreds of
thousands to protest abortion, hear Trump speak at March for Life today
Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to attend the March for Life
in person.
LifeSiteNews | WASHINGTON, D.C. | January 24, 2020— Pro-life activists from
countless backgrounds across the United States are marching the streets of
Washington, D.C. today for the annual March for Life, where President
Donald Trump is anticipated as the first U.S. president to attend and
speak at the event.
Wednesday was the 47th anniversary of the
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which, along with its sister case Doe v.
Bolton, imposed abortion on demand across the nation in 1973. At least 60
million preborn children have been slaughtered over the last 47 years. The
theme of this year’s march is “Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.”
Trump’s planned appearance was announced
Wednesday evening.
“See you on Friday...Big Crowd!” he
tweeted. Trump previously addressed marchers via recorded or live video
message. Vice President Mike Pence spoke from the March for Life stage last
year. Today, Pence is occupied meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Trump will the first US President to attend the March For Life!
In addition to President Trump, speakers at
Friday's March will include abortion survivors Claire Culwell
and Melissa Ohden, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of New
Jersey, Louisiana state senator Katrina Jackson, Focus on the Family’s Jim
Daly, Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List head Marjorie Dannenfelser,
Pastor David Platt of McLean Bible Church in D.C., and more, including yet to
be announced guests.
“We’ve come a long way from ‘safe, legal,
and rare’ to ‘shout your abortion,’” March for Life president
Jeanne Mancini said. “We know this message about women and abortion is both
deceptive and hurtful.”
On Tuesday evening, Trump declared this
year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade to be “Sanctity of Life Day.” The contenders
for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, meanwhile, marked the occasion
by promising to appoint pro-abortion judges and force American taxpayers to
fund unrestricted abortion. [.....]
Remember in your charity the following pray requests:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mother: Victoria Dimmel,
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 health and
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 Donahy, 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,
Mary and
Bill Glatz,
the welfare of their family,
Barbara
Harmon, who is gravely 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 Kolinsky and Sorace families,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers
for the health and spiritual welfare of Brian
Abramowitz,
Janine
Mullen, for her health and help
for her family,
Thomas Schiltz family,
in grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Carlo A.
De Porto, who is in failing health,
Welfare of Bishop
Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the greater battles to
come,
John Rhoad, for
his health and spiritual welfare,
Angelina
Montesano family & Helen Snyder,
for their health and spiritual welfare,
Kathy
Boyle, requests our prayers for
her welfare,
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 David
Keithley and the welfare of the Nathaniel Miller
family, Rene McFarland, Scott Osborn, Larry Hitsman, Mrs. Shoup, Cary Shipman
and family, David Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, and Cayden Costanzo, are
the petitions of Gene Peters,
The Drews ask your
intercession for the welfare of Brendan
McGuire, a young father of three, who has been diagnosed with cancer,
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,
Rose Cuono, who is
in failing health,
For the health and welfare of Kathryn Lederhos, the aunt of
David Drew,
Fr. Peterson asks our prayers for Charles Valenti, and his wife, Julia,
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, prayers for his mother, the Mission of St. Philomena in
Miami, and the welfare of 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 conversion of Bruce
Heller, & Janet Gardner,
the welfare of Dan Polly Weand, the conversion of Sophia Herman, Tony
Rosky, and Carl Ropeter, the welfare Nancy Erdeck,
the wife of the late Deacon Erdeck, and the welfare of Frank D’Agustino who
is ill, the health of Charles Kanaskie, and the health of his brother, Thomas Thees,
John Calasanctis,
Stephen Cagorski,
Tony Rosky,
John Bogda, Maryann Reutter, James Parvenski, Kathleen Gorry,
and Cecilia LeBow.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
Ricardo DeSilva, died
November 16, our prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Joyce Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Roland H.
Allard, a friend of the Drew’s, died September 28,
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 17, 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 Haigh, died
October 21, 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,
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 Wather, 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.
“Through the deceit of evil
men….. (who are) most 
certainly going to perish
forever…”
Now we come
to another very fertile cause of the evils by which, we are sorry to see, the
contemporary Church being afflicted. This
is indifferentism, or that
wicked opinion which has grown up on all sides through the deceit of evil men. According
to this opinion, the eternal salvation of the soul can be attained by any kind
of profession of faith, as long as a man’s morals are in line with the standard
of justice and honesty. You must
drive out from the people entrusted to your care this most deplorable error on
a matter so obviously important and so completely clear. For, since the Apostle has warned that there is
one God, one faith, one baptism, those who pretend that the way to [eternal]
beatitude starts from any religion at all should be afraid and should seriously
think over the fact that, according to the testimony of the Savior Himself,
they are against Christ because they are not for Christ; and that they are
miserably scattering because they are not gathering with Him; and that
consequently, they are most certainly going to perish forever, unless they hold
the Catholic faith and keep it whole and inviolate.
Pope Gregory
XVI, Mirari Vos
Catholic
Dogma: Only the sacrament of Baptism received by those who hold the true faith
can make men “children of God” and members of His Church!
In this crowd,
in this range of religious, there is only one certainty we have for all: we are
all children of God. I hope you will spread my prayer request for this month:
That sincere dialogue among men and women of different faiths may produce the
fruits of peace and justice. I have confidence in your prayers.
Pope Francis
the Indifferent, Prayer intention for January 2016
Dogmas “are to give light, not to receive light from
human reason”!
I
answer: The obligation to believe what God says is a natural duty,
it is a natural law, dictated by the common sense of reason which the Creator
has deposited in every human soul. The Church only enforces this law, which
existed before she herself existed, because from all eternity it was a truth
that the creature is bound to believe the word of the Creator. If the Church
allows no denial, no doubt, no alteration or misconstruction of any of her
dogmas, it is because the veracity of the Son of God, who has revealed these
truths, is attacked when any of His doctrines are denied or doubted. These
dogmas are so many fixed stars in the firmament of holy Church. They cannot be
reached by the perversity and frivolity of man. He may close his eyes against
them and deny their existence; he may misrepresent them and look at them
through glasses stained the color of every prejudice; but he cannot do away
with them altogether, nor change in any way their natural brightness and
brilliancy. Like the stars that deck the vault of heaven, they are to give
light, not to receive light from human reason. They are the word of God, and
what God says is truth, that cannot be made untruth. The mind that receives
truth is enlightened thereby; the mind that denies or misrepresents it is
darkened and corrupted.
Besides,
every dogma of faith is to the Catholic cultivated mind not only a new increase
of knowledge, but also an incontrovertible principle from which it is able to
draw conclusions and derive other truths. They present an endless field for
investigation so that the beloved Apostle St. John could write at the end of
his Gospel, without fear of exaggeration: “But there are also many other things
which Jesus did: which if they were written every one, the world itself, I
think, world not be able to contain the books that should be written.”
The
Catholic Church, by enforcing firm belief in her dogmas—which are not her
inventions, but were given by Jesus Christ—places them as a bar before the
human mind to prevent it from going astray and to attach it to the truth; but
it does not prevent the mind from exercising its functions when it has secured
the treasure of divine truth, and a “scribe thus instructed in the kingdom of
heaven is truly like a man that is a householder, who bringeth
forth out of his treasure new things and old.” …. They are new because newly
enacted, declared, defined; they are old because they contain no new revelation
or any assumption of power never granted by Christ, but simply old truths under
new forms, the old power exercised under new circumstances.
Rev. Joseph Prachensky,
S.J., The Church of the Parables and True Spouse of
the Suffering Savior
“Don’t get me wrong Sisters. I
am sure your hearts are in the right place.
OK, but you know, somebody has got to lift the scab, the festering scab
that is the Vatican.”
Jerry Fletcher, Conspiracy Theory,
addressing two nuns, 1997
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright
thee;
All things are passing; God never changeth;
Patient endurance attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth in nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
Bookmark of St. Teresa of Jesus
How beauteous is the courage which we find,
with childlike confidence in God combined!
Who fears his God shall know no other fear -
He heeds not pitying smile, nor unkind sneer.
"The virtue of
fortitude protects a person from loving his life so much that he loses
it."
Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human
Heart
"Prayer draws its merits from charity; but its
imperative efficacy comes from faith and confidence."
St. Thomas
“Only take heed to yourself
and guard your soul diligently.” (Deut 4:9)
"It is a sin
to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!"
Blessed
Pope Pius IX
PREVIOUS BULLETIN POSTS BELOW THAT REMAIN TIMELY:
It is “Unthinkable” to Question Vatican II only for those
who do not think. Or what they mean to say is that there is only one immutable
“dogma” in the Church – Vatican II. Yes, for the NeoModernist,
there is no such thing as immutable dogma except the dogma of the mutability of
all truth! Here Card. Koch declares the Holy Father cannot deny “his own
personal (magisterium) teaching” based upon his grace
of state but can deny the infallible teaching (Magisterium)
of the Church if it does not agree with his own!
Those who deny Jesus Christ are not the “elder brothers”
of those who worship Jesus Christ!
JEWS-CATHOLICS: CARD. KOCH (HOLY SEE), “UNTHINKABLE” TO
QUESTION THE COUNCIL
“Absolutely not”: the Catholic Church
cannot change her position on the Second Vatican Council and the Nostra Aetate Declaration “because she cannot question the
Council. That is unthinkable. And the Holy Father cannot deny his Magisterium.” Card. Kurt Koch
It is the
FAITH itself they hate, and every one of its perfect images!
Novusordoism is the
cult of Man. This is what the New Religion is made of; this is its
constituent stuff: religiously indifferentist, specifically anti-creedal, humanistic,
secular, horizontalist, man-centered with a few
little Scriptural references tacked on as a fig leaf. It’s easy for a person
caught up in it, like a half-boiled frog, not to know he’s no longer a creedal
Catholic, but objectively it just isn’t the same business. This bishop’s (Rev. Derio Olivero, Appointed as
bishop of Pinerolo, Italy by Bergoglio)
public refusal to confess the Creed of the Catholic religion at an ostensibly
Catholic Mass on one of the highest feast days of the year just shows that
it’s finally coming out of the closet.
Hilary White,
No Creed? No surprises in the NuChurch!
For all the gods of the
Gentiles are devils; but the Lord made the heavens.
Ps. 44
Pope Francis
denigrates traditional Catholics as schismatics and regards
those who keep the immemorial ecclesiastical customs of our Faith as "neo-Pelegians." If
the members of Ss. Peter & Paul were really "schismatics"
or "Pelegian heretics," we would then have
their "respect" for us, and "respect (for our) religion, its
teachings, its symbols, its values.... (for our) religious
leaders and (our) places of worship." The immemorial ecclesiastical traditions they
mock are the work of God. Those that
they "respect" are not.
....Turning to mutual respect in interreligious
relations, especially between Christians and Muslims, we are called to
respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols, its values.
Particular respect is due to religious leaders and to places of worship. How
painful are attacks on one or other of these!
It is clear that, when we show respect
for the religion of our neighbours or when we offer
them our good wishes on the occasion of a religious celebration, we simply seek
to share their joy, without making reference to the content of their religious
convictions.
Regarding the education of Muslim and
Christian youth, we have to bring up our young people to think and speak
respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or
denigrating their convictions and practices.
We all know that mutual respect is
fundamental in any human relationship, especially among people who profess
religious belief. In this way, sincere and lasting friendship can grow.....
Pope Francis,
greeting to Mohammedans at the end of Ramadan
Just what is
this comment intended to mean?
Francis: Same-sex couples
pose new educational challenges
The Pope
mentioned this in his speech to Superiors-General of religious orders. We must be
careful not to “administer a vaccine against faith” to children of same-sex
couples vatican insider staff: rome
01/ 4/2014
From an
educational point of view, same-sex unions “provide us with new challenges
which sometimes are difficult for us to understand,” (Pope) Francis said in the
speech he gave to superiors general last 29 November, published by Italian
Jesuit journal, La Civiltà
Cattolica. We must be careful not to administer a
vaccine against faith to the children of same-sax couples.
A fair question! - IS Pope Francis not just a supporter
but a bona fide member of the homosexual lobby?
“I remember the case of a very sad little
girl who finally confided to her teacher the reason for her state of mind: ‘my
mother’s (female) fiancé doesn’t like me.’ The percentage of children studying
in schools who have separated parents is very high. The situation in which we
live now provides us with new challenges which sometimes are difficult for us
to understand. How can we proclaim Christ to these boys and girls? How can we
proclaim Christ to a generation that is changing? We must be careful not to
administer a vaccine against faith to them.”
Pope Francis, address to Superiors-General of Religious
Orders, Civiltà Cattolica
N.B.: The English translation says
"mother's fiancé" leaving out the of word
the gender which is incorrect. The original Italian text quoting the words of
the Pope said that the “little girl” is “sad” because her mother’s “fidanzata” did not like her — fidanzata,
that is, her “fiancée” (a woman engaged to be married), not “fiancé” (a man
engaged to be married), as translated.
Readers Digest
Version of an Encyclopedic Discourse
Pope Francis confesses grave doubts
about his own “Hypocritical” religious formation. He admits to getting the “Creeps.” Directs Religious Superiors to end the “Novice Business” and
“Caress Conflicts” with “Tenderness.”
Confesses that religious orders have been producing “Heartless... Little Monsters” over last fifty years that have been “Forming the
People of God” into “Little Monsters” populating an “Unfeeling World” largely
overseen by his great predecessors, Benedict XVI-Ratzinger
and John Paul II. Identifies “Fundamentalism” with anti-neomodernism. And so on, and so on, and so on, and so
on.....
Pope Francis
said, “You have to form the heart, or we will make little monsters. And then,
these little monsters form the people of God. That gives me the creeps.” Among
other topics covered, the Jesuit magazine Civiltà Cattolica writes: “the complexity of
life between grace and sin, the Prophetic being in our world; the brotherhood,
the indictment of the novice trade; hypocrisy and fundamentalism; praise for
Pope Benedict XVI's fight against (sic) child sexual abuse by clergy and the
importance of charisms and the pressing challenges;
the relationship between the religious and the bishops, the need of
tenderness 'to caress conflicts,' and a
'jolt to awaken our unfeeling world.'”
Pope Francis,
Address to Superiors-General of Religious Orders, Civiltà Cattolica, November 29, 2013
“As Time Goes
By”:
“John Paul II
for Dummies,” by Dummies:
And where is the picture of the Moslem kissing the “commemorative coin”?
Or, what would JP II have done if they handed him a
toilet plunger?
Question for the Dummies: Why did JP II,
who kisses the Sacred Scripture, kiss the Koran that contains blasphemies
against Jesus Christ and His blessed Mother?
“The answer is simple: Same lips, different
reason. The pope had been advised that
in the Near Eastern culture, when a gift is received, it is normally kissed as
a sign of respect to the gift’s giver.
The pope would have kissed whatever gift was given to him, whether it
was the Koran or commemorative coins which is actually
what the pope gives to visiting guests.”
Rev. John Trigilio,
Phd, ThD, Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, PhD, & Rev. Jonathan Toborowsky,
MA, John Paul II for Dummies
After all,
even Clerical Pedophiles need a patron saint!
JP II, who the Dummies
call, “the people’s pope,” know very well that his duty is to be the “vicar of
Christ,” and not a popular cult figure, presided over the greatest decline over
the shortest period of time in the history of the Catholic Church. Now there is mounting evidence that he may
have actively participated in the cover-up of homosexual predator priests and
the homsexual bishops he appointed, yet these Dummies
“firmly believe and trust [that JP II] will one day be proclaimed John Paul the
Great and Doctor of the Church, the Luminous Doctor, just as St. Thomas Aquinas
was known as the Angelic Doctor and St. Bonaventure as the Seraphic Doctor.”
JP II the
Grate - if somehow he made it to Purgatory -
ask him to turn out the lights and lock the place up when he is the last
to leave.
John
Paul II was a pope under whose reign we had the most horrific scandal in the
Church's 2000-year history. Thousands of
children were molested by priests and bishops he ordained. By the end of his pontificate, lawsuits were
bankrupting Catholic Churches all over the world; and between one third and one
half of the clergy (sources available upon request) were admittedly homosexual,
with a significant percentage being pederasts whom the pope didn't even admit
existed when he was told of their crimes, much less did anything to stop them,
even when stark evidence was brought before him, as in the case of Legionnaires
leader Marciel Maciel. At the same time he hid other clerics from
prosecution, as in the case of Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.
This
was the pope who allowed the Vatican Bank's corruption that started under Paul
VI to continue with little or no reform; and who protected its chief
perpetrator, Bishop Paul Marcinkus, from
prosecution. He did nothing to
investigate the suspected murder of John Paul I, the very pope who made it
known in the first days of his reign that he was going to clean up the
financial misdealings of his curia. This was the pope who took 250 million
dollars of the Vatican's money and gave it to Solidarity in Poland, thereby
making the Church a political institution instead of a spiritual one. By the same token he condemned Liberation
theology because if its tendency to get involved in politics.
This
was the pope who went to the hut of an African witch doctor in 1985 and
afterward wrote, "the prayer meeting in the
sanctuary at Lake Togo was particularly striking. There I prayed for the first time with
animists." In December 1984 he sent
a
Vatican representative to
the laying of the foundation of the largest mosque in Europe. In
September 1989 he wrote to Muslim leaders and said: "In the name of the
same God we adore," without any qualifications whatsoever. In May 1999 he kissed the Koran in a public
ceremony; and in 2000 asked John the Baptist "to protect Islam." In February 1986 he received the red dust of
the Hindu religion on his forehead in honor of the goddess Shiva. In March 1986 in New Delhi he stated that "collaboration
between all religions is necessary for the good of mankind... as Hindus,
Buddhists, Jainists, and Christians, we unite to
proclaim the truth about man."
This
was the pope who invited all the world's non-Christian and pagan religions to
pray for world peace at Assisi in 1986 and Assisi in 2002 (with five additional
Assisi-like gatherings in the 1990s in various countries) and never once in
those 16 years did he preach the Gospel to them about conversion to Christ for
salvation. Instead he sent them all back
to their countries encouraging them to continue to pray to their false gods,
the very opposite that St. Paul did in Acts 17.
He paid no attention to any of his high-placed clerical advisors who
told him these acts were abominations.
This
was the pope who, against two millennia of Catholic tradition, told husbands to
be mutually submissive to women; dispensed with head coverings for women; and
allowed women and girls to be communion ministers, altar girls, and directors
of chanceries, thereby increasing the feminization of the Church amidst an
already feminized clergy who were by this time at least a third homosexual,
while another significant portion were receiving paternity suits.
This
was the pope who profusely apologized for the ecclesiastical policies of
previous popes; who had his Vatican envoy sign the 1998 Lutheran/Catholic Joint
declaration which, in direct contradiction to the Council of Trent, said
"man is justified by faith alone."
This was the pope who told the Lutherans they had a "profound
religiousness and spiritual heritage" and that Martin Luther was driven by
a "burning passion of the question of eternal salvation," and who
told the Lutheran bishops that Rome's excommunication of Luther had expired,
and that "There is a need for a new evaluation of the questions raised by
Luther and his teaching." This was
the pope who implied or taught universal salvation and that hell may not be
applicable to any human being. This was
the pope who at the very beginning of his pontificate in the 1979 encyclical Redemptor Hominis used
the word "church" 150 times but never once mentioned the word
"Catholic." This was the pope
who continually sided with liberals like Karl Rahner,
Urs von Balthasar and
Raymond Brown but who would hardly give an ear to those, such as Archbishop
Lefebvre, who wanted to preserve the tradition and who decried the
anti-Catholic innovations being foisted on the Catholic populace. (Fortunately, Pope Benedict XVI saw John Paul
II's mistake and reversed the decision against Lefebvre). This was the pope who was criticized by his
own admirers for failing to discipline wayward clerics, both in their doctrinal
aberrations and moral laxity (Charles Curran, Edward Schillebeeckx,
Hans Kung, et al). Ironically, the only
cleric that was excommunicated was Lefebvre, yet he was one of the most
doctrinally sound and morally upright clerics the Church had ever known.
This
was the pope who in 1981, contrary to tradition, implied or taught that the
Jewish Old Covenant is not revoked and that Jews have a special relationship
with God, as does Paragraph 121 of his papally-signed
1994 Catechism. He continued to
propagate confusing and doctrinally fallacious teaching about the Jews and
Judaism through his cardinals who taught that the Jews did not need to convert
to Christianity to be saved since they have their own covenant with God
(Kasper, Keeler, Willebrands, George, Ratzinger, et al).
This was the first pope in history to visit Israel and who then placed
himself under Judaism by praying at the Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. This was the pope who, for the first time in
the history of the papacy, visited and prayed in Jewish synagogues - the
religion that denies more than any other that Jesus Christ is God.
Last
but not least, this was the pope who changed the Church's criterion for
sainthood, which now allows him and all his fellow 20th century popes to be
easily canonized in the face of the fact that there have been only three popes
canonized since 1294 (Pius X, d. 1914; Pius V, d. 1572; Celestine V, d.
1294). As such, the very popes who lived
and reigned during the Church's worst corruptions and scandals are now being
exonerated and place in heaven.
Robert Sungenis,
Ph.D., Letter to Editor, Culture Wars
Magazine
Remedial
Catechism 101: Pope Francis identifies a Pagan as a Christian “who doesn't want
to serve.”
It is an ugly
thing when you see a Christian who doesn’t want to humble himself, who doesn’t
want to serve, a Christian who struts about everywhere: it’s ugly, eh? That is
not a Christian: that’s a pagan!
Pope Francis,
General Audience, Vatican Radio, 12-18-13
Pope Francis betrays the Catholics of China!
"May the Lord not permit the realization of these
desires, the desires of those who want the death of the true faith in my
beloved homeland. Lord, have mercy!" Cardinal
Joseph Zen
Cardinal Joseph Zen To His Brother Cardinals: The
Church is Being Killed In China
Marco Tosatti |
January 8, 2020
Dear friends and enemies … we are
publishing a letter that Cardinal Joseph Zen sent some time ago to all the
cardinals, and that he has now decided to make public. Needless to say, the
latest news coming from mainland China only confirms and augments the concerns
expressed for some time by many people about the interim agreement signed by
representatives of the Holy See and the government of Beijing. Happy reading.
Omnem sollicitudinem vestram proicientes in Eum, quoniam Ipsi cura
est de vobis.
[“Cast all your cares on him, because he cares for
you” 1 Pt 5:7 (Episcopal motto of Cardinal Zen)]
27
September 2019
Dear
Eminence,
Please forgive
me for the disturbance that this letter will cause you. I am writing you
because, in conscience, I believe that the problem that I am presenting
concerns not only the Church in China, but the entire Church, and we cardinals
have the grave responsibility to help the Holy Father in guiding the Church.
Now, based on my analysis of the
Document of the Holy See (June 28, 2019) “Pastoral guidelines of the Holy See
concerning the civil registration of clergy in China” it is absolutely clear
that it encourages the faithful in China to enter into a schismatic Church
(independent of the Pope and under the orders of the Communist Party).
On July 10 I presented my “dubia” to the Pope. His Holiness, on July 3, promised me
that he would be interested in it, but until now I have heard nothing.
Cardinal
Parolin says that when we speak of the independent
Church today, we should no longer mean that this independence is absolute,
because the agreement recognizes the role of the pope in the Catholic Church.
First
of all, I cannot believe that there is such a statement in the agreement and I
still have not seen it (among other things, why should such an agreement be
secret and not even given to me, a Chinese cardinal, to see it?), but, even
more clearly, the whole situation after the signing of the agreement shows that
in reality nothing has changed.
Cardinal
Parolin quotes a phrase from the letter of Pope
Benedict completely out of context, indeed, in such a way that it is
diametrically opposed to the whole meaning of the paragraph [from which it
comes].
This
manipulation of the thought of the Pope Emeritus is a grave lack of respect;
indeed, it is a deplorable insult to the person of the very meek still-living
pope.
It
also disgusts me that they often declare that what they are doing is in
continuity with the thought of the preceding pope, when in fact the opposite is
true. I have good reason to believe (and I hope that one day I will be able to
prove it with archival documents) that the accord that has been signed is the
same one that Pope Benedict had, at the time, refused to sign.
Dear
Eminence, can we passively witness this killing of the Church in China on the
part of those who should be protecting and defending it from its enemies?
Begging you on my knees, your brother
Cardinal Joseph ZEN, S.D.B.
“Dubia” of Cardinal Zen on the Pastoral Guidelines
of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of the clergy in China
(updated July 8, 2019)
First
of all, it seems strange that such an important document is issued by the “Holy
See” without specifying which dicastery and with no
signature of an authority who is responsible for it.
In
paragraphs 1 and 2 the document sets out the problem and the general line of
the solution.
1) The problem is that the government
abandons its promise to respect Catholic doctrine, and in the civil
registration of the clergy it almost always requires them to accept the
principle of independence, autonomy, and self-administration of the Church in
China (it should be completed with what is said in the letter of Pope Benedict
XVI section 7.8: “to adopt attitudes, make gestures, and undertake commitments
that are contrary to the dictates of their conscience as Catholics”).
2) In the face of a complex situation
that is not always the same everywhere, the Holy See
gives a general line of how to behave:
On
the one hand, it does not intend to force consciences, and so it asks (omitting
to say explicitly “of the government”) that the Catholic conscience be
respected;
On
the other hand, it lays down as a general principle
that “the clandestine condition is not a normal feature of the Church’s life”
(Letter of Pope Benedict 8.10), that is, it is normal for it to come out in the
open.
Regarding
the citation of the Letter of Pope Benedict XVI section 8.10, permit me to
include the entire paragraph here
(a) “Some of them (bishops), not
wishing to be subjected to undue control exercised over the life of the Church,
and eager to maintain total fidelity to the Successor of Peter and to Catholic
doctrine, have felt themselves constrained to opt for clandestine
consecration.”
(b) “The clandestine condition is not a
normal feature of the Church’s life,”
(c) “and
history shows that Pastors and faithful have recourse to it only amid
suffering, in the desire to maintain the integrity of their faith”
(d) “and to
resist interference from State agencies in matters pertaining intimately to the
Church’s life.”
Father
Jeroom Heyndrickx and
Cardinal Parolin love to quote only part (b); Pope
Francis (in his message of September 26, 2018) also adds part (c); but to me it
seems that parts (a) and (d) are also important.
The
paragraph shows clearly that non-normality is not a choice of those who are
clandestine; the choice is unavoidable. It is the situation that is abnormal!
Perhaps today this situation has changed?
3) The long paragraph 3 [of the Holy
See document] attempts to prove that what it will suggest in paragraph 5 is
justified.
First
proof: the Constitution guarantees religious freedom.
I
ask: But what does the long history of persecution say to us, despite the
Constitution?
Second
proof: After the Agreement, “logically,” independence should no longer be
understood as absolute independence, but only relative to the political sphere.
First
of all I say: if I have not seen the text of the Agreement, it is difficult for
me to believe that they have truly recognized the “role that is peculiar to the
Successor of Peter.”
I
ask then: Is there anything logical in totalitarian systems? The only logic is
that, as Den Xiaoping said, “a white cat is the same as a black cat,” so long
as it serves the purposes of the Party.
Immediately
after the Agreement, nothing changed in the party’s religious policy;
everything was officially reaffirmed, and the facts prove it.
Third
proof: The context of “consolidated” dialogue
I
ask: But does the document not recognize that the government has gone back on
its promises, as stated in both paragraph 1 and paragraph 9?
Fourth
proof: All the bishops are legitimate.
This
proves only the infinite generosity of the pope or perhaps the almighty
pressure of the government, but in those forgiven and “rewarded” we do not see
any change, no sign of repentance, but rather clear acts of audacious triumph,
laughing at the others who got on the wrong horse.
4) Paragraph 4 says that the reasons
given above justify a new approach. Here at least there is the honesty to say
that what is being proposed is a novelty, and that thus it is not in continuity
with the past, but negates the past as being already in the past, that is, as
no longer valid.
It
says also that the Holy See is seeking to agree with the government on a
formula (that will have the best of both worlds).
But
we ask ourselves: “A formula”? What the government asks for is not a
declaration of a theory: it is all a system, in which there will no longer be pastoral
freedom, but in everything the orders of the Party will be followed, including
the prohibition of minors under the age of 18 from participating in any
religious activity.
5) In paragraph 5 contains the true
pastoral guidelines. In short: sign everything the government asks you to sign,
possibly followed by a written clarification that denies what you have signed.
If such a written clarification is not possible, do it verbally, either with a
witness or without one. It is enough that you have the intention to not accept
in conscience what you have actually signed.
A
text is signed contrary to the faith and what is declared is that the intention
is to favor the good of the community, a more adequate evangelization, and the
responsible management of the Church’s assets.
This
general norm is obviously contrary to every principle of morality. If it is
accepted, it would justify apostasy.
6) In paragraph 6 it says that the Holy
See understands and respects those who in conscience do not accept the above guideline.
Obviously this is compassion towards a “stubborn” minority who have not yet succeeded in “understanding” the new guideline.
Their attitude is wrong, but the Holy See “temporarily” tolerates them.
7) Paragraph 7 speaks of certain duties
of the bishops, citing a document that has nothing to do with this question.
8) In paragraph 8 it says that the
faithful welcome the decision of their pastors. What does this mean? Do they
not have the freedom to make this choice for themselves? Should not their conscience
be respected?
To
my brothers who ask me what to do, I always give the same answer: respect the
choices of others and remain firm in the conviction of your own conscience.
This is because I do not have any authority to impose on others my judgement of what is right or wrong.
But
does not the Holy See have the authority and thus the duty to clarify for the
members of the Church what is right and what is wrong? Has it done this with
these “Guidelines”? Is leaving clandestinity to be
encouraged while remaining in clandestinity is only
tolerated? Do bishops and priests have a choice while the lay faithful do not?
9) In paragraph 9 it says that the Holy
See in the meantime asks (again omitting to say “of the government”) that there
be no intimidating pressures placed against non-official Catholic communities,
as happened previously. (Not naming the government is a bit like the
traditional reverence shown for the Emperor in not mentioning his name.)
Finally, all are encouraged to discern the will of God with “patience and
humility.” But I ask myself: when did it stop encouraging firmness in the
faith?
Then
it says that “the present journey is marked by much hope but also by enduring
difficulties.” To me it seems, instead, that the facts destroy every basis for
human hope. As for hope in God, it can never be separated from the sincere
desire to be ready to suffer according to His will.
Conclusion
This document has radically
reversed what is normal and what is abnormal, what is a duty and what is to be
tolerated.
The hope of its redactors is
perhaps that the pitiable minority will die a natural death. By this minority I
mean not only clandestine priests (who for some time have not been given
bishops when the old bishops die, but only more Delegates, because the official
bishop of the diocese is already considered legitimate), but also many of our
brothers in the official community who have worked for a change with great
tenacity, hoping to be supported by the Holy See, but now instead being
encouraged to accept submission to the government and derision from their
opportunistic conquerors.
May the Lord not permit the
realization of these desires, the desires of those who want the death of the
true faith in my beloved homeland. Lord, have mercy!
COMMENT: Reports are sketchy
but confirm that a petite Chinese woman attempted to plead with Pope Francis
for the persecuted Catholic Church in China only to have her hand repeatedly
slapped by Francis the Thug. He behaved
disgracefully responding as if she had bitten his hand. After gauging the
world-wide response, Francis offered a self-serving apology to everyone but the
victim.
Instead of
returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in the Temple, causing
great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find him. For this little
“escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his parents. The Gospel
doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume it.
Pope Francis,
babbling another stupid “presumption” on which his faith is established
Our “duty” is to “obey international institutions... to
put the human person at the center.”
Pope Francis pitches for one-world humanistic religion.
Pope renews call for global pact promoting ‘new humanism’ in address to
Vatican diplomats
When the Vatican launched the Global Education Pact back in September,
Pope Francis omitted any reference to the prerogatives of parents as the
primary educators of their children.
LifeSiteNews | Diane Montagna
| Rome | Jan 9, 2020 In a renewed and enthusiastic endorsement of globalism in 2020, Pope
Francis today 
repeated his call for international and religious leaders
to sign a “Global Education Pact” in May at the Vatican, saying it is all the
more urgent in light of the sexual abuse crisis.
In
his annual New Year’s audience with the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy
See, the Pope looked back at key events of 2019, including last February’s
Vatican sex abuse summit.
He told diplomats that “given
the gravity of the harm involved [in the sexual abuse crisis], it becomes all
the more urgent for adults not to abdicate their proper educational
responsibilities, but to carry out those responsibilities with greater zeal, in
order to guide young people to spiritual, human and social maturity.”
“For
this reason,” the Pope continued, “I have planned a worldwide event to take
place on 14 May next with the theme: Reinventing the Global Compact on
Education.”
When
he launched the initiative last September, Pope Francis said that “a global
educational pact is needed to educate us in universal solidarity and a new
humanism.”
A
Vatican-backed website to promote the pact added: “Educating young people in fraternity, in learning to
overcome divisions and conflicts, promote hospitality, justice and peace: Pope
Francis has invited everyone who cares about the education of the young
generation to sign a Global Pact, to create a global change of mentality
through education.”
Citing
his September 2019 message for the launch, in his address to diplomats on
Thursday, the Pope explained that: “This gathering is meant to ‘rekindle our commitment to and with young
people, renewing our passion for a more open and inclusive education, including
patient listening, constructive dialogue and better mutual understanding.’”
“‘Never before has there been
such need to unite our efforts in a broad educational alliance, to form mature
individuals capable of overcoming division and antagonism, and to restore the
fabric of relationships for the sake of a more fraternal humanity,’” he said.
Repeating Hillary Clinton’s
favorite aphorism, “It takes a village to raise a child,” Pope Francis
asserted the need to create an “educational village” to face new
challenges.
“All change, like the epochal
change we are now experiencing, calls for a process of education and the
creation of an educational village capable of forming a network of open and
human relationships,” he said.
The Pope asserted that in order to
reach the objectives of the Global Education Pact, as a “village” we must “put
the human person at the center, investing creatively and responsibly in
long-term projects” that “train individuals willing to offer themselves in
service to the community.”
“What is needed,” he said, “is
an educational vision that can encompass a broad range of life experiences and
learning processes, in order to enable young people, individually and
collectively, to develop their personalities.” [.....]
In
comment to LifeSiteNews following today’s papal
audience, Eduard Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, who was
present at the address, said: “In a time of globalization it is important not
to forget the first right of children is to one father and one mother and the
first right of parents is to educate their own children according to their
values.” [.....]
In his address to diplomats,
Pope Francis highlighted two key areas related to the Global Educational Pact:
climate change and interreligious dialogue.
He said that one of the places
where many young people “have become active in calling the attention of
political leaders to the issue of climate change.”
“Care
for our common home ought to be a concern of everyone and not the object of
ideological conflict between different views of reality or, much less, between
generations,” he said.
“Young
people are telling us that … at every level we are being urgently challenged to
protect our common home and to ‘bring the whole human family together to seek a
sustainable and integral development,’” he said. “They remind us of the urgent
need for an ecological conversion, which ‘must be understood in an integral
way, as a transformation of how we relate to our sisters and brothers, to other
living beings, to creation in all its rich variety and to the Creator who is
the origin and source of all life.’”
The second area Pope Francis
linked to the educational pact is interreligious dialogue.
Recalling
his February 2019 visit to Abu Dhabi, and co-signing of the Document on Human
Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Pope
said, “it is particularly important to train future
generations in interreligious dialogue, the main road to greater knowledge,
understanding and reciprocal support between the members of different
religions.”
Readers
will recall that the Abu Dhabi document aroused controversy for stating that
the “diversity of religions” is “willed by God.”
In
launching the Global Education Pact last September, Pope Francis mentioned the
Abu-Dhabi document and said that in this new global village, “the ground must
be cleared of discrimination and fraternity must be allowed to
flourish.” Conferences and events will be held throughout 2020 to prepare
for the May 14 signing of the “Global Pact” on education.
In May 2019, Pope Francis made a
strong push for globalism, calling for a supranational, legally constituted
body to enforce United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to implement
“climate change” policies.
More recently, during an inflight press conference on his return from a seven-day
apostolic visit to Africa, Francis said our “duty” is to “obey international
institutions,” such as the United Nations and the European Union.
Is Pope
Francis a member of the Church that he governs?
From this definition it can be easily gathered what men belong to the
Church and what men do not. For there are three parts of this definition: the
profession of the true Faith, the communion of the Sacraments, and the
subjection to the legitimate Pastor, the Roman Pontiff.
By reason of the first part are excluded all infidels, as much those who have
never been in the Church, like the Jews, Turks and Pagans; as those who have
been and have fallen away, like heretics and apostates.
By reason of the second, are excluded catechumens and excommunicates, because
the former are not to be admitted to the communion of the sacraments, the
latter have been cut off from it.
By reason of the third, are excluded schismatics, who
have faith and the sacraments, but are not subject to the lawful pastor, and
therefore they profess the Faith outside, and receive the Sacraments outside.
However, all others are included, even if they be reprobate, sinful and wicked.
St. Robert Bellarmine
Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the
first place among all the sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ
and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe
through the first man, “unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we
cannot,” as the Truth says, “enter into the kingdom of heaven” [John 3:5].
The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water.
Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” Nov. 22, 1439
We want to
thank all the people, those little people behind the scenes that get next to no
credit in the dioceses of Harrisburg and Philadelphia, who with their worm-like
petty and pedantic dedication to detail, none of this would have been possible!
By heresies,
the sons of the Catholic Church are awakened from sleep as by thorns, so that
they may make progress in the knowledge of Holy Writ…. There is much good in
the world which would not exist were there no evils. There would be no patience
of the just, for instance, were there no malice of persecutors.
St. Thomas
When the
“means” are necessary to achieve the “ends”, then the “means” must be “judged”
in the same “respect” as the ends, that is, they must be judged without
“measure,” “within no limits.”
One must judge
one way in respect to the end and another in respect to the means. With regard
to the latter, there is measure; not so with regard to the end itself. Every
one attains it as best he may. The commandment of the love of God, which is the
end of the Christian life, is confined within no limits, as if a certain
measure fell under the commandment, but a greater love came under the counsel
as an achievement transcending the bounds of the commandment. Each and every
one is commanded to love God as best he can, and this is evident from the form
of the commandment, 'thou shalt,' etc. Each and every
one fulfills it according to his capacity, one more perfectly, another less
perfectly.
St. Thomas
In 2005 the Dover, PA electorate removed the School Board
members that permitted Intelligent Design to be considered in as a possible
explanation for the natural order found in the material universe. Scientists,
while affirming that the natural order in the universe must necessarily be the
result of mechanical chance, “listened with a vast radio telescopic network for
signals (from outer space) that resembled coded intelligence and were not
merely random” for evidence of intelligent life in the universe. If these scientists affirm that the DNA code
of biological life, which is clearly goal directed, is “merely random” and not
a sign of “intelligence” how can they be open to recognize any sign of
intelligible communication!? Is this WSJ article evidence that there is no
intelligence design in the Dover, PA electorate or in modern science?
Science
Increasingly Makes the Case for God
The odds of life existing on
another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?
Eric Metaxas: Dec. 25, 2014
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover
story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s
obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain
the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature.
More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a
surprising place—science itself.
Here’s
the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer
Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to
support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that
star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 27 zeros—planets in the
universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets
capable of supporting life.
With
such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a large,
expensive collection of private and publicly funded projects launched in the
1960s, was sure to turn up something soon. Scientists listened with a vast
radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were
not merely random. But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the
universe was deafening. Congress defunded SETI in 1993, but the search
continues with private funds. As of 2014, researches
have discovered precisely bubkis—0 followed by nothing.
What
happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that
there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two
parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially
life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. The number dropped to a few
thousand planets and kept on plummeting.
Even
SETI proponents acknowledged the problem. Peter Schenkel
wrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: “In light of new
findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest .
. . . We should quietly admit that the early estimates . . . may no longer be
tenable.”
As
factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero,
and kept going. In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the
universe supporting life, including this one. Probability said that even we
shouldn’t be here.
Today
there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support
life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls
apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw
away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds
against life in the universe are simply astonishing.
Yet
here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account
for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident?
At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the
result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an
intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith
than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the
inconceivable odds to come into being?
There’s
more. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing
compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all. For
example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental
forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the “strong” and “weak” nuclear
forces—were determined less than one millionth of a second after the big bang.
Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the
ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been
off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in
100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free
to gulp.
Multiply
that single parameter by all the other necessary conditions, and the odds
against the universe existing are so heart-stoppingly
astronomical that the notion that it all “just happened” defies common sense.
It would be like tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion
times in a row. Really?
Fred
Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was
“greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense
interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and
biology…. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming
as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
Theoretical
physicist Paul Davies has said that “the appearance of design is overwhelming”
and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about
our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in
credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
The
greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is
the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined
brightness of every star to something—or Someone—beyond
itself.
Mr.
Metaxas is the author, most recently, of “Miracles: What They Are, Why They
Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life” (Dutton Adult, 2014).
Queers Always Hang Together
“Sodomy Is a Gift from God…. Those
who oppose sodomy should be debarred from church seminaries.”
Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., Pope
Francis’ appointment to the Pontifical Council of Justice
QUESTION:Who are they who want to replace the
traditional feast of the Circumcision and why do they want to do this?
ANSWER: Novus Ordites want to suppress this feast because it directly
addresses two revealed truths they deny.
It is the first shedding of the Precious Blood, the price of our
redemption, and it takes place in the rite that prefigures the sacrament of
Baptism. It is from the shedding of the
Precious Blood that merits the graces conferred in holy Baptism that
incorporates the faithful recipient into the divine life making him a child of
God. Without this incorporation into
Jesus Christ by grace that takes place only through the sacrament of Baptism
with faith in the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, there is no
possibility of salvation, there is no union with the Mystical Body of Jesus
Christ, that is the Catholic Church, there is no entering by Charity into the divine
life of the Trinity. It was on the feast
of the Circumcision that Christ received His name, JESUS, which means
Savior. Those who attack the true
evangelization by claiming that "proselytism is solemn nonsense" deny
these dogmatic truths.
Christmas Message:
“Without faith, it is impossible to please
God.” The primary duty of every Catholic is to profess and defend the Catholic
faith. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission defends the right of every
Catholic to the immemorial ecclesiastical traditions, in particular, the
“received and approved rites customarily used in the solemn administration of
the sacraments” (Council of Trent), that without which the faith can neither be
known nor communicated to others. This is done, and can only be done, by defending
Catholic dogmas as dogma. That is,
revealed truths of divine revelation that have been
formally and infallibly defined by the Magisterium
and constitute the proximate rule of faith for every Catholic. Many Catholics
are granted by legal concession a privilege to practice the traditions of our
Church on the condition that they will regard these traditions as matters of
mere discipline, that is, simple accidents that can be changed or eliminated at
the discretion of the legislator at any time and for any reason, and what is
worse, they agree to keep their mouths shut when the dogmas of our faith are
trampled underfoot by enemies of the Catholic faith within the hierarchy of the
Church. Simply said, these Catholics have traded the Catholic faith for crumbs
from the table pleading that obedience will excuse their supine cowardice. Our
gift to them this Christmas is to let them know that it will not.
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no
sense. We need to get to know
each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around
us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas
are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people,
listen, expand the circle of ideas.
Pope Francis
“Nicolas, the
PROSELYTE of Antioch”
And the saying
was liked by all the multitude. And they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas,
a proselyte of Antioch.
Acts of
Apostles 6:5
Where did Pope Francis get the idea that
Proselytism is “solemn nonsense” and why is the document of Aparecida
the working outline of his pontificate?
The Church does
not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by “attraction”- just as Christ
“draws all to himself” by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice
of the Cross, so the Church fulfills her mission to the extent that, in union
with Christ, she accomplishes every one of her works in spiritual and practical
imitation of the love of her Lord.
Benedict XVI, Aparecida in 2007, a gathering of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the
Caribbean (CELAM) which had a great impact on Cardinal Bergoglio. (Note: the Aparecida
document from the South American Bishop's Conference
is the structural outline for the “new evangelization.”
There are differences in style between Francis and Benedict but not in
matters of faith – Archbishop Georg Gänswein By Deacon Nick
Donnelly, on October 11th, 2013
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect
of the Pontifical Household and the personal secretary of Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI, has said in an interview in the German magazine Bunte that there are differences in style between Pope
Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict but not in matters of faith. The Tablet
reports: ‘Asked how close the relationship between Pope Francis and his
predecessor was, Archbishop Gänswein differences lay
in certain matters of style and taste but not in matters of faith. The biggest
difference between them was the way they approached people, Archbishop Gänswein said. Pope Francis walked straight up to people
and loved to embrace everyone while Pope Benedict was more reticent, loved
peace and quiet and tended to withdraw from crowds, he said.’ [.....] Bunte reports:
‘Pope Francis often visits his predecessor and phones him.” This relationship
between the two is warm and trusting,” Archbishop
Gänswein also talks about his relationship with Pope
Francis, ‘We have a very cordial relationship. Francis Pope says clearly
what he wants and what he does not. He is decisive and appreciates the direct
word. He listens to advice and takes reasonable suggestions like.’ Protect the
Pope comment: After the series of interviews that Pope Francis has given to the
press which have unsettled at best, or deeply upset and alienated at worse,
faithful and loyal Catholics, it is time that the Holy Father and his inner
circle reach out to to real Catholics. Archbishop
Georg Gänswein’s interview with Bunte may be the first step in such overtures. There is a
long way to go and a lot of bridges have to be re-built.
“Faith then
cometh by hearing.”
For if thou confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised
him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For, with
the heart, we believe unto justice; but, with the mouth, confession is made
unto salvation. For the scripture saith:
Whosoever believeth in him, shall not be confounded.
For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over
all, rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord, shall be saved. How then shall they call on him, in whom they have
not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And
how shall they hear, without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good
things! But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report? Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.
St. Paul, Romans 10:9-17
[Footnote: Thou shalt be saved; To “confess
the Lord Jesus,” and to “call upon the name of the Lord” is not barely the
professing a belief in the person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of
his whole doctrine, and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him
Lord will save no man. St. Matt. 7. 21.]
COMMENT: The Frenetic
“New Things...Church of Motion” -
Another application of the old dictum, 'Form Follows Function' - “Pope Francis
means by reform: making sure that instruments and structures better serve the
mission of the Church.” We ask, What
“Mission”? The reply, “We are not
presented with any specific goals or any specific picture of how tomorrow’s
Church will need to be organized to achieve this (unknown) goal.” He might just as well have said - 'If we
don't do something people will think we don't know what we are doing. Anyway, at least, if you are moving they
won't think you're dead.' “Moving” is
another word for “Change”
and St. Pius X teaches in Pascendi that perpetual
change is a foundational doctrine of the Modernist heretics.
Fr.
Lombardi: “For the Pope reform is above all about the Gospel not about new
structures” 
The
director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr.
Federico Lombardi, talks to Vatican
Radio about Francis’s work and actions: vatican insider staff - Rome - 12/27/2013
[......] “Pope Francis really has set the
Church on its way, with great strength and he has set it on its way with his
example, his effort and with various messages and initiatives – think of the
new Synod on the family; think of how he has encouraged the renewal of the
Church and of our lives,” Lombardi said.
I believe that what distinguishes Pope Francis’ spirituality and
leadership in a special way is the fact that we are constantly in motion,
trying to find the new things which God asks of us in our daily lives. We
are now part of a Church in motion. We are not presented with any specific
goals or any specific picture of how tomorrow’s Church will need to be organized
to achieve this goal.”
“The purpose or value of the all-important
structural changes, the reforms that everyone is talking about, is primarily to
ensure that the Church’s structures, instruments and organizations are indeed
serving the spirit and announcement of the Gospel. This is what Pope Francis
means by reform: making sure that instruments and structures better serve the
mission of the Church.”
REPLY: First of all they lay down the general
principle that in a living religion everything is subject to change, and must
change, and in this way they pass to what may be said to be, among the chief of
their doctrines, that of Evolution. To the laws of evolution everything
is subject - dogma, Church, worship, the Books we revere as sacred, even faith
itself, and the penalty of disobedience is death. The enunciation of this
principle will not astonish anybody who bears in mind what the Modernists have
had to say about each of these subjects.
St. Pius X, Pascendi
We have not heard this kind of naïve
prognosticating since the halcyon days of Vatican II
Christ is preparing a new spring time all over the
earth. I have seen its first fruits and
I know that others will joyfully reap the full harvest.
Pope Francis, CELAM, 7-28-13
The Neo-Iconoclasts who have spent their lives destroying
the doctrinal and spiritual foundations that formed countless Catholic Saints -
now offer a....
“Revolution of tenderness.... nearness and encounter” -
Pope Francis,
CELAM address, 2013
Who regard
traditional Catholics as....
The Pelagian
solution. This basically appears as a
form of restorationism. In dealing with the Church’s
problems, a purely disciplinary solution is sought, through the restoration of
outdated manners and forms which, even on the cultural level, are no longer
meaningful. In Latin America it is usually to be found in small groups, in some
new religious congregations, in tendencies to doctrinal or disciplinary
“safety”. Basically it is static, although it is capable of inversion, in a
process of regression. It seeks to “recover” the lost past.[....]
Every utopian (future-oriented) or restorationist
(past-oriented) impulse is spiritually unhealthy. God is real and he shows
himself in the “today”.
Pope Francis,
CELAM, 2013
COMMENT: Bishop Ronald Gainer recently met with Pope
Francis the Destroyer in an ad limina visit.
The exchanges between the bishop and the pope are
"confidential" so what is released for public consumption is intended
by Bishop Gainer to serve for propaganda purposes, that is in this case, we are
to believe the sex abuse scandal by clerics is on the front-burner and being,
as we speak, actively corrected from the very top. But such words as "homosexual" or
"pederast" nowhere surface in the conversation. So whatever Harrisburg and Rome are doing to
correct the sex abuse crisis in the Church cannot work because the nature of
the problem has been studiously left unidentified as to its true cause. Those who refuse to properly identify the
problem are by definition members of the HomoSexual
Lobby.
The Catholic WITNESS - The Newspaper of the Diocese of Harrisburg
Ad Limina Meeting
Engaged Bishops in ‘Open and Frank’ Conversation with Pope Francis
By Jen Reed | The
Catholic Witness | December 20, 2019
The bishops of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey engaged in a "free-flowing, open and frank" conversation with
Pope Francis during their ad limina visit to Rome
Nov. 25-29. Bishop Ronald Gainer told The Catholic Witness Dec. 9 that the 20
bishops of Region III who met with the holy father for more than two hours on
Thanksgiving Day experienced honest discussion of several topics, including
clergy sexual abuse of minors. "What is clear is that they are very aware
of our situation," Bishop Gainer said of Pope Francis and the heads of
several Vatican offices with whom they met, including those of the Secretariat
of State, the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for Clergy.
"And it came up because we also raised it," the bishop said. The
bishops participated in meetings with 12 different offices over the course of
four days. Their meeting with Pope Francis was on Thanksgiving Day. Bishop
Gainer spoke of a significant difference in the format of the ad limina meetings under the current pope. Prior to Pope Francis’
pontificate, ad limina meetings with the pope and the
heads of Vatican congregations included a prepared speech by the congregation
head, followed by questions from the bishops. Pope Francis changed the format
to an open conversation, allowing the bishops to ask questions or present
topics for discussion. "In all of the meetings with the congregations,
there were no pre-pared presentations. They simply wanted to know what we
wanted to talk about," Bishop Gainer said. "They really did address
very thoroughly the issues that we raised." Pope Francis spent more than
two hours with us. It was an amazing, free-flowing, open conversation," he
said, maintaining the confidential nature of the meeting. "We had
extensive conversations about the scandals, and he was very much aware of the
Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report," Bishop Gainer said. "He was willing
to hear our concerns and respond frankly."The bishops inquired about the
status of the Vatican’s report on its investigation into former cardinal
Theodore E. McCarrick. He had served in two New
Jersey dioceses and as archbishop of Washington before his resignation from the
College of Cardinals and dismissal from the clerical state for sexual abuse of
seminarians and minors. "The bishops have been asking for a report, of who
knew what and when. We were told during the meetings that it is being
translated into Italian for the holy father to
read," Bishop Gainer said. "No one indicated to us what’s in it, but
we’re hopeful that it will be very thorough and answer all our questions when
it is released.
Aspects
of an Ad Limina Visit
An ad limina is
short for ad limina apostolorum,
which means "to the thresholds of the apostles." The visits, which
take place typically every five to seven years, are an occasion for diocesan
bishops to draw inspiration and guidance from the center of Catholicism, and to
visit the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul. The visits also call upon each
bishop to give an account of his Diocese to the pope and to the various Vatican
offices. Six months prior to his ad limina visit,
Bishop Gainer presented the Vatican an exhaustive, 300-page report, known as a Quinquennial Report, on every aspect of the Diocese. Bishop
Gainer spoke to the three aspects of an ad limina
visit. "First, it is a pilgrimage," he said. The bishops celebrated
Mass at Rome’s four major basilicas: St. Peter’s, St. Paul Outside the Walls,
St. John Lateran and St. Mary Major. "I’ve had the privilege of living and
studying in Rome, so I’ve been to these basilicas many times, but you never
lose the awe," he said. "Each time you visit is like the first time.
The four major basilicas are so amazingly beautiful. The history, the
magnificence of the artwork and architecture can’t help but overwhelm
you." The second aspect of the visit is giving an account of the state of
the Diocese. "Submitting the Quinquennial Report
recognizes the universal jurisdiction of the pope," Bishop Gainer said.
"He has clear jurisdiction over each Diocese‑ therefore,
to make a report to him has become a requirement of Church law." The third
aspect of the ad lim-ina visit is "the
opportunity to be received in audience by the Successor of Peter and to receive
his counsel and to interact with him," he said. "Pope Francis was
very relaxed. It was a very easy conversation. He is a very sincere, prayerful
and humble person, and a very good listener," he observed. "Having
been with the holy father and those offices that assist him in the daily
shepherding of the Church, despite the stormy seas in which we’re now
navigating, brings me back to the center," Bishop Gainer said of the ad limina visit. "The opportunity to
pray with my fellow bishops and be with Pope Francis helped to focus on what
really matters as we go forward in hope."The U.S. bishops’ ad limina visits are divided into 15 regions. The visits began
the first week of November, and are expected to conclude by the end of
February.
This letter sent by Archbishop of Zaragoza,
Spain, Vicente Jiménez Zamora, to Fr. Philippe Brunet
Superior of the FSSPX in Spain Casa San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid). Fr. Brunet submitted a
formal request to Archbishop Zamora to renew the Indult for his community to
offer the Extra-ordinary form of the Roman rite, i.e., the 1962 Bugnini transitional Novus Ordo
Missal. This letter is the denial
of that request.
This letter is important because it proves
two things that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission has said for many
years. Firstly, it proves that the SSPX
has already been regularized by Rome. This has not been revealed by the inner
circle of SSPX leadership to the rank and file priests or the faithful who
attend their chapels and finance their operations, but it has been evident from
necessary canonical deductions drawn for a long time from actions of their
leadership.
Secondly, it demonstrates that the 1962
Missal, aka, the Extra-ordinary form, an Indult and grant of legal privilege,
can be denied by any authority for any reason whatsoever. Anyone who has
accepted this grant, by so doing, has accepted in principle that it is a
privilege, and therefore has conceded that he possess no legal or moral
recourse to its denial.
Those who are intent upon defending the
Catholic faith and passing it their children cannot do so by supporting the
Indult community or any of its institutional structures.
English Translation:
Zaragoza,
December 18, 2019 The Archbishop of Zaragoza Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of
the FSSPX in Spain Casa San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid)
Dear Fr. Philippe:
I
received your kind letter of 13 December 2019, in which you ask me to renew the
Indult to celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form, which my predecessor,
Bishop Manuel Ureña, granted aloud, through the
priest D. Waldir Consuega,
former pastor of Calaceite. In reply to this
letter, I communicate the following:
1. I had no knowledge of the subject until now.
2.
I am not renewing the permit because I know that in Calaceite
there are not enough people to celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary
Form. The participants belong to other parishes which are not in the
Diocese of Zaragoza. Moreover, it is not practical for the full communion
of the parish community of Calaceite.
3. With the same date, I am sending a copy of this letter to the present parish
priest, Rev. Mr. Arturo Hollman Ladino Gutiérrez, in order not to authorize Father José M Jiménez, in charge of the Region of Catalonia and Aragon,
to celebrate in any of the parishes, which he has entrusted to his pastoral
care.
With my affection and blessing,
+
Vicente Jiménez Zamora Archbishop of Zaragoza
“Living Tradition,” synonym for Immanentism
of the Modernist
The term, “living
tradition,” a novelty of modernist construction given official standing at
Vatican II, conflates the subjective understanding with the objective truth, is
part of the theological justification to replace our received traditions with
novelties grounded in fantasy.
The root of this schismatic act can be discerned in an
incomplete and contradictory notion of Tradition. Incomplete, because it does
not take sufficiently into account the living character of Tradition, which, as the Second Vatican Council clearly taught, “comes from
the apostles and progresses in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit.
There is a growth in insight into the realities and words that are being passed
on. This comes about in various ways. It comes through the contemplation and
study of believers who ponder these things in their hearts. It comes from the
intimate sense of spiritual realities which they experience. And it comes
from the preaching of those who have received, along with their right of
succession in the episcopate, the sure charism of
truth”.
John Paul II, explaining
the problems with Archbishop Lefebvre’s consecration of four bishops from his
failure to understand the novel Vatican II definition of tradition
“Pearls of
Great Price” – Every single one of our Immemorial Ecclesiastical Traditions
which the “dogs” despise!
What are these
mysteries? What are these good pearls? They are not only every doctrine of
Jesus Christ and every dogma of His Church, but every holy sacrament, every
pious practice, every rule and ordinance of the Church; every means of practicing
and advancing virtue and good works; every means of conferring and increasing
the sanctifying grace of God, consequently sanctity and holiness of life, which
is a pearl of infinite value, and adorns the soul with such transcendent beauty
that the mind of man can never conceive its inestimable grandeur and
loveliness. Moreover, each of these heavenly gifts was purchased at the
infinite price of the precious blood of Jesus, from which it derives all its
beauty and virtue. The least of them is worth buying, even the risk of losing
all that a man holds dear in this life. Even a drop of holy water or a blessed
medal is to time pious believer a “holy thing,” a valuable pearl. “The sensual
man, who perceiveth not the things that are of the
Spirit of God,” despise them; they are “foolishness to him.” But the true
Christian believes that “every creature is sanctified by prayer and the word of
God,” and when sanctified it is a “holy thing” and not to be given to dogs —
that is to say, to such as would have no more respect for them than a dog, if
it were given to him.
Rev. Joseph Prachensky, S.J., The Church of the
Parables and True Spouse of the Suffering Savior
“It is not to be excluded
that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic Church.”
Pope Francis,
concluding remarks attributed to him in the Der
Spiegel article on the Crisis in the Catholic Church.
COMMENT: As
if that is not Pope Francis' intention and what in fact he has long been doing?
The question remains as to what name in history will Francis be known? But
let's leave that for later. The truth is that Conservative Catholics have never
gotten anything in its right hierarchical order. They stupidly thought the
“split” in the Church began when traditional Catholics were disobedient by
resisting the overthrow of our Ecclesiastical Traditions by which alone the
Faith can be known and communicated to others. Conservative Catholics are only
now turning to face the front of this conflict but they are unarmed for the
fight. Pope Francis, professing the same doctrine as his conciliar
predecessors, has only driven the wedge far deeper into the Bark of Peter to
“split” the Church. The Conservative Catholics are at last alarmed because the
Ship is taking on massive amounts of water. Unfortunately, the poor
Conservative Catholics who are raising their voices against the corruption of
Francis will surely fail. Let's call them the Dubiaists.
The Dubiaists have doubts but no real convictions.
They will fail because they turned their backs against the literal meaning of
DOGMA long ago and now have nothing from which to mount their defense for DOGMA
is the one and only weapon against an abusive authority. Authority is subject
only to Truth.
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Pope Francis Teaches:
If someone comes to you and feels something
must be removed from him, but perhaps he is unable to say it, but you understand … it’s all right, he
says it this way, with the gesture of coming. First
condition. Second, he is repentant. If someone comes to you it is
because he doesn’t want to fall into these situations, but he doesn’t
dare say it, he is afraid to say it and then not be able to do it. But if he cannot do it, ad impossibila
nemo tenetur.
And the Lord understands these things, the language of gestures. Have open
arms, to understand
what is inside that heart that cannot be said or said this way
… somewhat because of shame … you
understand me. You must receive everyone with the language with which they can
speak. Pope Francis the Faithless
Catholic Church Teaches:
If any one denieth, that, for the entire and perfect remission of
sins, there are required three acts in the penitent, which are as it were the
matter of the sacrament of Penance, to wit, contrition, confession,
and satisfaction, which are called the three parts of penance; or saith that there are two parts only of penance, to wit, the
terrors with which the conscience is smitten upon being convinced of sin, and
the faith, generated (a) by the gospel, or by the absolution, whereby one believes
that his sins are forgiven him through Christ; let him be anathema. Council of
Trent, Canon IV on the sacrament of Penance
Pope Francis
"feels bitterness" because a pagan and a heretic become members of
the Church founded by Jesus Christ outside of which there is no salvation! This
crime is called "proselytism." So if proselytism is so wrong to
convince non-Catholics to become members of the Church, why is it that Novus Ordites always try to "proselytize" traditional
Catholics demanding unconditional obedience, to "subjugate" them, to
destroy their "freedom," to "violate their conscience"?
When a principle is invoked and yet clearly seen to be applied only to produce
a given end, it is evidently not a principle at all, but an ideological
weapon.
This is exactly
what Jesus condemns in the Pharisees of his time. I’ve said it many times:
proselytism is not Christian.
Today I felt a certain bitterness after a meeting with young people. A woman
approached me with a young man and a young woman. I was told they were part of
a slightly fundamentalist movement. She said to me in perfect Spanish: “Your
Holiness, I am from South Africa. This boy was a Hindu and converted to
Catholicism. This girl was Anglican and converted to Catholicism.” But she told
me in a triumphant way, as though she was showing off a hunting trophy. I felt
uncomfortable and said to her, “Madam, evangelization yes, proselytism no.”
What I mean is
that evangelization is free! Proselytism, on the other hand, makes you lose
your freedom. Proselytism is incapable of creating a religious path in freedom.
It always sees people being subjugated in one way or another. In evangelization
the protagonist is God, in proselytism it is the I.....
Indeed, the very identity of the Church involves evangelizing. Unfortunately,
however, not only in the sects, but also within the Catholic Church there are
fundamentalist groups. They emphasize proselytism more than evangelization....
Evangelizers never violate the conscience: they announce, sow and help to grow.
They help. Whoever proselytizes, on the other hand, violates people’s
conscience: this does not make them free, it makes them dependent.
Pope Francis,
September 5, 2019, addressing the Jesuits Provence of Zimbabwe-Mozambique
Pope Francis tells teens they’re not a ‘disciple of Jesus’ if they try
to convert non-believers
LifeSiteNews | ROME, December 23, 2019 — In an
apparent repudiation of the Great Commission to baptize and teach all 
nations (Matthew
28:16-20), Pope Francis has recently told a group of high school students in
Rome that speech should never be used in order to convince a non-believer of
the truths of the Catholic Faith.
Citing
a fictional 11th century account of an episode of forced conversion, attributed
to the eighth century emperor Charlemagne, Pope Francis implied that the belief
that positive efforts should be made to convert non-Christians to the Gospel
through argument entails coercion to the faith. [.....]
Describing
the fictional passage that recounts the forced conversion of Muslims in the
Song of Roland, he said, “This happened in history! … What happened here to me
is shameful because it is a story of forced conversion, of disrespect for the
dignity of the person.”
Asked
by a school boy how one ought to give a reason for one’s own faith, the Pope
replied: “With a non-believer the last thing I have to do is try to convince
him. Never. The last thing I have to do is talk. I
have to live in accordance with my faith.”
A
theologian whom LifeSite consulted said that
“although Charlemagne was guilty of attempting forced conversion, this occurred
in Saxony and not in Islamic Spain, and he was rebuked for this by leading
Churchmen of the day, including his adviser Alcuin.” [.....]
Pope
Francis is strident in his opposition to the verbal communication of
Christianity.
“I
have to live in accordance with my faith. And it will be my testimony that will
awaken the curiosity of the other who says: ‘But why do you do this?’ And that’s
where I can talk. But listen, never, ever advance the
Gospel through proselytism. If someone says he is a disciple of Jesus and comes
to you with proselytism, he is not a disciple of Jesus. We shouldn’t proselytize, the Church does not grow from proselytizing.”
Commenting
on the Pope’s exchange with Roman high schoolers, the
theologian consulted by LifeSite said, “Instead of
converting non-believers, Pope Francis insists that our message to the
non-believer should be: ‘Be consistent in your faith
and that consistency is what will make you mature.’ Pope Francis seems to see
the various confessions as a variety of cultural patrimonies, not as competing
claims concerning the truth about God,” he observed. “Insofar as passage from
one religion to another is permissible, it will come only because one person’s
patrimony, lived well, becomes for another person an interesting lifestyle
choice.”
“It would be as inappropriate
for a Catholic to try to convert a Muslim to Christianity as it would for a
German to try to convince a Frenchmen to repudiate his nationality and become
German,” he added. “Whereas for Benedict Christianity is precisely the religion
of the Logos, the Word or Reason, because it is in accordance with reason and
so communicable through speech instead of violence. The way you turn bits of
France into Germany is by invading France, but the way you convert Pagans to
Christianity is by preaching the Gospel.”
“The
Church did not launch the crusades in order to convert Muslims to Christianity,
the Church launched the crusades in order to prevent Muslims from invading
Christian countries and forcing Christians to become Muslims,” the theologian
explained, adding: “The Muslims think this is legitimate because, like Pope
Francis, they do not think religion a matter of persuasion.” [.....]
In
his December 20 remarks to students in Rome, Pope Francis said he was deeply
affected by his experience of multiculturalism in the Argentina of his
youth.
“‘There
is a Jew, ah Russian ... Come on, come on! I’m the friend of the Russian!’ They
said Russian because the majority of Jews came from Odessa, some from Poland
but the majority from Odessa. Then there were some Arabs, Lebanese, Syrian ... ‘Ah, Turkish! Come on, come on!’ This one was
Mohammedan; this one was Jewish ... But we all played football together. We
were all friends. This taught me so much, that we are
all the same, all children of God, and this purifies your gaze, it humanizes
it.” [.....]
Those who
choose to be faithful to God must move toward God and away from sin. Those who
do nothing, who try not to choose at all will have the
choice made for them. They will by default be turned away.
There are
moments in our life and in the history of the Church in which one is obligated
to choose between two sides, without ambiguity and compromise. The Spiritual
Exercises of Saint Ignatius and theology of history of Saint Augustine in The
City of God do nothing other than emphasize the Gospel maxim according to which
“no one can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other
or love the one and hate the other” (Matthew 6:24). Seen in this light, the
recent publication in AAS of the letter of Pope Francis to the bishops of
Buenos Aires reduces the matter to two diametrically opposed positions. The
line of thinking of those cardinals, bishops, and theologians who maintain that
it is possible to interpret Amoris Laetitia in continuity with Familiaris
Consortio 84 and other documents of the Magisterium has been reduced to dust. Amoris
Laetitia is a document which serves as a litmus test:
it must be either accepted or rejected in toto. There
is not a third position, and the insertion of Pope Francis’ letter to the
Argentine bishops [into AAS] has the merit of making this clear.
Professor
Roberto de Mattei
Our refuge in temptation
LET us take two very simple practical
rules. One is: when we are tempted by any approach of evil, to fix our eyes inwardly
upon Him hanging upon the Cross. Let us then call to mind His five wounds, and
His crown of thorns. This will abate our pride, break our will, and cast out
our evil thoughts. If the temptation be strong and abiding, keep your eyes upon
him until you are delivered. Look upon Him, as upon the true Serpent of brass,
till the fever and the poison of your sin be healed.
Go, if you can, into some secret place, and kneel down in His sight; and,
there, stay upon your knees till the sting of sin is allayed, and the
temptation passed away.
The other rule is: to pray, day by day,
that our will may be crucified with Him. This prayer, if we persevere, will, by
His grace, slay the enmity that is in us, and make us, not enemies, but lovers
of His Cross. St. Paul says, “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts;” (Gal. v. 24.) and again, he says still more, “I
am crucified with Christ;” (Gal. ii. 20.) This shall be even our state at last.
Happy and blessed are they who are dead to themselves, alive to Him alone. Let
us, therefore, pray Him so to unite us to the spirit of His crucifixion, that
we may die to sin, to the world, to our own will; to all that flatters,
fosters, strengthens the love of ourselves. As in
Baptism we were signed with His life-giving sign, and charged to fight manfully
under His banner, so let us pray, that in life and in death we may be under the
shadow of His Cross. Howsoever He may fulfil this
prayer, be not afraid. It may be He will send you sickness, or sorrow, or
contradiction of sinners, or suffering of some kind. For your prayer is an
appeal to His Passion. He may suffer you to receive the stigmas which the world
printed on Him. Be it so. Let come what may, if only we have upon us the mark
of our crucified Master at that day when the sign of the Son of Man shall
appear, and the angels “shall gather His elect from the four winds of heaven.”
Cardinal Henry Manning, sermon
“As regards the bishops, very few of them
possess genuine zeal for souls … So we have to pray to Jesus Christ that he
would give us as head of the Church one possessed of more spirit and zeal for
the glory of God than of learning and human prudence. He should be free of all
party attachments and devoid of human respect. If, by chance, for our great
misfortune, we should get a Pope that does not have the glory of God as his
sole purpose, the Lord will not help him greatly and things from their present
condition will go from bad to worse.”
St. Alphonsus
Marie Liguori, excerpt from letter commenting on the
Papal Conclave, October 24, 1774
Revolutionary France: Civil
Constitution of the Clergy, Title II, Article XXI
Things
began to change quickly in 1789. On August 4, the newly assembled National Assembly
drafted the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,’ and over the next
year completely dismantled French society and rebuilt it from the ground up.
Part of this included nationalizing all Church lands and transferring ownership
to the state. By June 1790 the Assembly had officially abolished the nobility,
and on July 12 passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.[.....]
The
most contentions aspects of the constitution, however, involved how new bishops
would be appointed to office and the duties required of them. The Church was
now essentially completely incorporated as a branch of government, and bishops
were to be elected by popular vote. This was received with outrage by many
clergy, as it not only completely up-ended the top-down appointment system of
the Church, but would then allow Protestants, Jews, and atheists to directly
influence Church matters. What would cause the greatest problems though, was
Article XXI of Title II. This required bishops to take an oath before municipal
officials asserting their loyalty to the nation of France before all other
things, or their office would be declared vacant.[.....]
The
oath of loyalty created a massive schism within the clergy. Many lower clergy
had supported revolutionary calls for reform, even reform within the Church,
but this was beyond the pale. Thousands of priests, monks, and nuns now had to
choose between refusing the oath and risking arrest and punishment, or taking
the oath and risking their salvation. In March 1791, the Pope forced the issue
by issuing a papal bull officially condemning the Revolution's actions towards
the Church and leveling excommunication upon any clergy who took the oath.
The
clergy was then split into juring priests (those who
took the oath) and non-juring or refractory priests
(those who refused). ....
Wikipedia
COMMENT: The situation in revolutionary
France is analogous to the revolutionary Church that is known as the
"Church of the New Advent."
Article XXI of Title II required of every Catholic priest as a necessary
condition to function as a priest that he take an oath placing the authority of
man above the authority of God. Today, the Church of the New Advent imposes the
1989 Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity upon every priest in the Church
as a necessary condition to exercise any authority. This Profession includes an
unconditional oath of submission of the mind and will, or as Lumen Gentium say, submission of the soul, to the authentic magisterium of the pope. The "authentic magisterium" is a term that only identifies the person
who occupies the office of the papacy. The Profession of Faith and Oath of
Fidelity demand an unconditional submission of the mind and will to a man as
man. Unconditional submission of the mind and will can only be given to God and
to God alone. It is time that those priests in the Church of the New Advent be
referred known as "juring" priests as it
will become more and more evident with the passage of time when they will be
required to go along with Pope Francis' overturning all Catholic morality.
The Barbarian hopes —
and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will
consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection
and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has
he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline
seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marvelling
that civilization, should have offended him with priests and soldiers.... In a
word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make:
that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every
Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been
true. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches
of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic
inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But
as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these
faces there are no smiles.
Hilaire Belloc
“Give not that
which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine...”
I reproached a
woman some months ago in a parish because she was pregnant with her eighth child,
after having had seven C-sections. But does she want to leave the seven as
orphans? This is to tempt God. I speak of responsible paternity. This is the
way, a responsible paternity. [......] Therefore, the key word, to give you an
answer, and the one the Church uses all the time, and I do too, is responsible
parenthood. How do we do this? With dialogue. Each
person with his pastor seeks how to do carry out a responsible
parenthood. That example I mentioned shortly before about that woman who
was expecting her eighth child and already had seven who were born with
caesareans. That is an irresponsibility. That woman
might say ‘no, I trust in God.’ But, look, God gives you means to be
responsible. Some think that – excuse the language – that in order to be good
Catholics, we have to be like rabbits. No. Responsible
parenthood.
Pope Francis,
from his “authentic magisterium” during return flight
from the Philippines, 1-19-2015
Pope Francis wants a “Church of the poor.” If he gave the
money to the poor then they wouldn't be poor anymore and we would end up with a “Church of the rich.” So it is clearly better if
Pope Francis just keeps the money for himself.
St. Martha's house is as well appointed as any five-star hotel.
Only 10% of Vatican’s $55 million ‘Peter’s Pence’ actually goes to
poor, Wall Street Journal claims
LifeSiteNews | NEW YORK, December 11, 2019 – Only about
10 percent of donations made to the Holy See’s “Peter’s Pence” actually goes to
the poor while the majority of the annual collection, worth about $55 million
USD, goes to plug Vatican budget deficits, a top U.S. financial newspaper is
claiming.
Catholics from all over the world donate to
a special papal fund called Peter’s Pence every year.
The money is ostensibly used to support charitable enterprises dear to the
pontiff’s heart. Today the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) alleged in a piece titled
“Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit” that most of
the over $55 million collected by the fund annually “goes toward plugging the
hole in the Vatican’s own administrative budget.”
According to the WSJ’s unnamed sources,
only 10% is “spent on charitable works.”
“The little-publicized breakdown of how the
Holy See spends Peter’s Pence, known only among senior
Vatican officials, is raising concern among some Catholic Church leaders that
the faithful are being misled about the use of their donations, which could
further hurt the credibility of the Vatican’s financial management under Pope
Francis,” wrote Francis X. Rocca for the
WSJ.
According to the Vatican’s own webpage,
Peter’s Pence is “the name given to the financial support offered by the
faithful to the Holy Father as a sign of their sharing in the concern of the
Successor of Peter for the many different needs of the Universal Church and for
the relief of those most in need.”
The custom of sending money to the pontiff
is believed to have begun with the Anglo-Saxons in the 11th century, when every
household in England gave one penny towards the papal fund. The modern Peter’s Pence, international in scope, was established in
1871 by Pope Pius XI. The collection is taken up from church-attending
Catholics on the Sunday closest to June 29, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and
Paul.
As the WSJ reported, the official Peter's Pence website gives little indication that much of the funds
may actually be going to support the Vatican’s administrative
budget.
“The Peter’s Pence collection is a gesture
of solidarity. Through it, every member of the faithful can participate in the Pope’s
activity. It is an activity that supports the most needy
and ecclesial communities in difficulty who approach the Apostolic See for
help,” the site reads.
In its
“Works Realized” section, readers can find a gallery of recent
donations made by Pope Francis to various communities around the world, which
range from 100,000 € ($110,794 US) sent to Albania in the wake of this
November’s earthquake to undisclosed sums given to a boys’ school in
Syria.
However, the WSJ notes that under church
law, the pope may use Peter’s Pence fund in “any way
that serves his ministry, including the support of his administration.” There
is also an allusion on the Peter’s Pence webpage to
funding ecclesial structures, but in a way that suggests these are
predominantly in mission territories:
“The Pope’s charitable works, supported by Peter’s Pence, extend […] to the whole of humanity, at whose
service the structures of the Church exist,” the webpage states. “For this
reason, Peter’s Pence also contributes to the support
of the Apostolic See and the activities of the Holy See, as Pope John Paul II
recalled: “It is known that the needs of the apostolate and ecclesial
communities are growing especially in mission territory. […]”
But about 75% of the Peter’s
Pence fund is used to fill a budgetary hole at the Vatican, the WSJ’s
sources said.
“In 2018, the budget deficit reached
roughly €70 million on total spending of about €300 million, reflecting chronic
inefficiencies, rising wage costs and hits to investment income,” the financial
broadsheet reported.
The WSJ also quoted its sources in saying
that donations to Peter’s Pence have dropped from over 60 million €
($66,842,700 US) in 2017 to over 50 million € ($55 million US), thanks to
Catholics’ concern about the clerical sex abuse crisis and lack of financial
transparency in the Vatican.
Meanwhile, the sources say that the fund’s
assets are shrinking, too, dropping to about 600 million € ($668 million US)
from the 700 million € ($779.5 million US) it comprised early in Francis’
reign. This is apparently because of unfortunate investments.
Vatican investments and other aspects of
its financial endeavors have been much in the news of late, thanks to the
thwarted attempts of Cardinal Pell and others to stem suspected money-laundering
and other forms of economic corruption, this October’s Vatican police raid on
the Secretariat of State, revelations that an Italian businessman made huge
profits on a Vatican purchase of a luxury property in London, and the discovery
that Peter’s Pence helped finance a biographical film about Elton John that
contained depictions of homosexual activity.
Beverly Stevens, editor of Regina Magazine,
once taught Finance at the University of
Maryland's European Military Campus and was a financial writer for 20 years.
She told LifeSiteNews that Vatican leadership is
firmly to blame for the misuse of Peter’s Pence.
“All organizations reflect the management
policies and ethos of their head,” Stevens said via social media.
“The Church is no different. Based on what
we have seen at the Vatican level in this pontificate (investing in posh London
flats & Elton John biopics) and the diocesan
level (Bishop Bransfield's million-dollar lifestyle,
Archbishop Gregory's Atlanta McMansion, Cardinal
Tobin's live-in Italian actor) it looks pretty simple,” she
continued.
“The operating principle is 'talk big about
the poor and the marginalized while living like princes' -- and don't be too
'rigid' about accounting rules or other pesky details.”
In November, Pope Francis defended the use
of Peter’s Pence in investment schemes, saying, “When
the money from Peter’s Pence arrives, what do I do? I put it in a drawer? No.
This is bad administration. I try to make an investment and when I need to
give, when there is a need, throughout the year, the money is taken and that
capital does not devalue, it stays the same or it increases a bit.”
Official Heresy –which every bishop of the “Church of the
New Advent” has sworn to unconditionally obey!
The fact that the pope requested that his letter
and the interpretations of the Buenos Aires bishops be published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS) means that His Holiness has given
these documents a particular qualification that elevates them to the level of
being official teachings of the church. While the content of the pope’s letter
itself does not contain teachings on faith and morals, it does point toward the
interpretations of the Argentine bishops and confirms them authentically
reflecting his own mind. Thus together the two documents became the
Holy Father’s authentic magisterium for the whole church.
Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio,
Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
The work of the
devil will creep even into the Church in such a way that cardinals will be
opposed to other cardinals, and bishops against bishops. The priests who
venerate me, will be despised and hindered by their brethren… the Church will
be full of those who accept compromises.
Blessed Virgin
Mary, Our Lady of Akita
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity – Even JPII did
not deny this dogma!
Pope Francis Teaches:
We
hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has
never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable”
(Rom.11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an important part of the Sacred
Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant and their faith as one of the
sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf. Rom. 11:16-18). As Christians,
we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews
among those called to turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes.
1:9). With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with them
we accept his revealed word. Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
The
Church officially recognizes that the People of Israel continue to be the
Chosen People. Nowhere does it say: “You lost the game, now it is our turn.” It
is a recognition of the People of Israel.
Pope Francis, On Heaven and Earth
The Catholic Church Teaches:
Hebrews
7:18: “On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its
weakness and uselessness…”;
Hebrews
10:9: “Then he says, ‘Behold, I come to do your will.’ He takes away the
first [covenant] to establish the second [covenant]…”;
2
Corinthians 3:14: “For to this day when they [the Jews] read the Old
Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it
taken away”;
Hebrews
8:7: “For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no
place would have been sought for another”;
Colossians
2:14: “Having canceled the written code, with its decrees, that was against
us and stood opposed to us; He took it away nailing it to the cross”;
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, para. 29:
“…the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished…but
on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened
the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross”;
The
Catechism of the Council of Trent: “…the people, aware of the
abrogation of the Mosaic Law…”;
Council
of Florence: [This council] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that
the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law, which
are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because
they were established to signify something in the future, although they were
suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been
signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and
that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law
and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ
could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after
the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been
observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but
after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed
without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time
observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it
declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate
in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
Council
of Trent: “but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom”;
Cardinal
Ratzinger: “Thus the Sinai [Mosaic] Covenant is indeed superseded” (Many
Religions – One Covenant, p. 70).
St.
John Chrysostom: “Yet surely Paul’s object everywhere is to annul this
Law….And with much reason; for it was through a fear and a horror of this that
the Jews obstinately opposed grace” (Homily on Romans, 6:12); “And so while no
one annuls a man’s covenant, the covenant of God after four hundred and thirty
years is annulled; for if not that covenant but another instead of it bestows what
is promised, then is it set aside, which is most unreasonable” (Homily on
Galatians, Ch 3);
St.
Augustine: “Instead of the grace of the law which has passed away, we have
received the grace of the gospel which is abiding; and instead of the shadows
and types of the old dispensation, the truth has come by Jesus Christ. Jeremiah
also prophesied thus in God’s name: ‘Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah…’ Observe what the prophet says, not to Gentiles, who had not been
partakers in any former covenant, but to the Jewish nation. He who has given
them the law by Moses, promises in place of it the New Covenant of the gospel,
that they might no longer live in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness
of the spirit” (Letters, 74, 4);
Justin
Martyr: “Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it,
and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous
one; and an eternal and final law – namely, Christ – has been given to us, and
the covenant is trustworthy…Have you not read…by Jeremiah, concerning this same
new covenant, He thus speaks: ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of
Judah…’” (Dialogue with Trypho, Ch 11).
John Paul II: “Christ fulfills the
divine promise and supersedes the old law.” (Redemptoris Mater)
Taken from Robert Sungenis, The Old Covenent: Revoked or Not Revoked?
This is the expected fruit from the blasphemous 1989
Profession of Faith which demands a vow of unconditional obedience to man on
his own authority. Unconditional
obedience can only be given to God!
Pope Francis Promulgates Buenos Aires Guidelines Allowing Communion for
Some Adulterers in AAS as his “Authentic Magisterium”
This week, the Vatican's organ for
promulgating the Official Acts of the Apostolic See, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), has
published its October 2016 issue, containing Pope Francis' infamous Letter to the Buenos Aires
Bishops. AAS not only published this letter, declaring that there are "no
other interpretations" ("No hay otras interpretaciones") of
Amoris Laetitia other than those of the Buenos Aires bishops, but it also
published the full Buenos Aires guidelines themselves, which permit Holy
Communion in some cases for couples in a state of permanent and public adultery
who are not committed to living in complete continence.
Rorate Caeli
Reported
exchange NOT confirmed by our Vatican Sources:
'Please
accept this as an honest, sincere token of my undying passion and devotion to
your sweet person!'
'Oh
thank you snookems, I could just pinch your cheek!' (Smack, Smack, Smack)
On 13 June 1525, after weeks of
speculation, Martin Luther secretly married Katharina von Bora, a former nun,
in a private ceremony officiated by city preacher Johann Bugenhagen and
attended by jurist Johann Apel, professor Justus
Jonas, and artist Lucas Cranach and his wife. Over the last centuries,
scholars, writers, artists, Wittenberg citizens—in their popular, annual
Lutherhochzeit [Luther’s wedding] festival—and even a recent filmmaker have
characterized this event as one of the iconic episodes of the Lutheran
Reformation. Yet Luther’s marriage neither legalized nor heralded an immediate
acceptance of priestly marriage even in reformed territories. Luther certainly
was not the first cleric to marry. Three of the witnesses at his wedding—Apel,
Bugenhagen, and Jonas—were former Catholic clergy who had all married by
mid-1523, a full two years before this event. Only a few weeks prior to this
event, Luther expressed hesitation about marriage even for political reasons,
suggesting perhaps he would agree to a chaste marriage, a Josephehe, to support married clergy. Luther’s marriage does
illustrate many aspects of the ongoing reform process. His mixed feelings about
marrying, the atmosphere that led him to a decision, the subsequent outcry
about marriage, and the personal trials that faced him and his wife in their married
life had much in common with the many clergy who married before and after him
in the first decades of the German Reformation.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western
Kentucky University, From Priest’s Whore
to Pastor’s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early
German Reformation
The Barbarian
hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.
He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of
selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor
indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being.
Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marvelling that
civilization, should have offended him with priests and soldiers
.... In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that
he cannot make: that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and
of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that
has been true.
Hilaire Belloc,
Defender of the Faith
The Fall of Simon the Magician and his “lying wonders”
For there shall
arise false Christs, etc. Signs, wrought by art magic,
by the power of the devil, whom many heresiarchs have had
as a familiar spirit, as I have shown in I Tim. 4:1. Such was their great prince Simon Magus
(Simon the Magician), who deluded Nero and the Romans, so that they erected a
statue to him at Rome; but at length he himself, flying through the air by the
aid of the devil, was dashed down to the earth by the prayers of St. Peter, and
falling upon a stone, broke his knees “so that he who had attempted to fly was
not able to walk; and he who had taken wings, lost his legs,” as S. Maximus
says (Hom. 5, de SS. Petro et Paulo).
Rev. Cornelius
a Lapide, The Great Commentary, Matt 24:24
RATZINGER/HEGELIAN
VERSION OF DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT - the interplay between truth and error,
between good and evil!
In contrast to
the Hermeneutic of Continuity/Discontinuity we have the Hermeneutic of Reform.
The nature of Reform lies in the interplay on the different levels between
continuity and discontinuity.
Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger
Within a few blocks around Ss.
Peter & Paul Chapel there are at least five protestant Hispanic
churches. These souls have been lost to
the Catholic Church being wholly ignorant of the doctrinal and moral teachings
which must necessarily be believed to save their souls. December 4 we will begin a novena to our
blessed Mother for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York to the
Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Novena to Our Lady of
Guadalupe for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York
(Novena begins
December 4th and ends on December 12th)
Our Lady of Guadalupe, according to your
message in Mexico I venerate you as the Virgin Mother of the true God for whom
we live, the Creator of all the world, Maker of heaven and earth. In spirit I kneel before your most holy image
which you miraculously imprinted upon the cloak of the Indian Juan Diego, and
with the faith of the countless numbers of pilgrims who visit your shrine, I
beg you for this favor: (the conversion of the Hispanic population of York to
the true Church).
Remember, O immaculate Virgin, the words
you spoke to your devout client: “I am a merciful mother to you and to all your
people who love me and trust in me and invoke my help. I listen to their lamentations and solace all
their sorrows and sufferings.” I beg you
to be a merciful mother to me, because I sincerely love you and trust in you
and invoke your help. I entreat you, our
Lady of Guadalupe, to grant my request, if this should be the will of God, in
order that I may bear witness to your love, your compassion, your help and
protection. Do not forsake me in my
needs.
Our Lady of
Guadalupe, pray for us. (Hail Mary three times)
Note: The Feast day of December
12 is the date on which the miraculous image was imprinted on St. Juan Diego's
tilma. This was before the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar.
Upon the adoption of this calendar, ten days were lost in the change. The
actual date of the miracle of our Lady would be December 21, the winter
solstice which is seen in the constellations of the image.
Another Creepy Clown sighting!
“He was born a female, a girl, and he
suffered greatly because he felt that he was a boy but physically was a girl.
He told his mother, when he was in his twenties, at 22, that he wanted to have
an operation and so forth. His mother asked him not to do so as long as she was
alive. She was elderly, and died soon after. He had the operation. He is a
municipal employee in a town in Spain. He went to the bishop. The bishop helped
him a great deal, he is a good bishop and he “wasted” time to accompany this
man. Then he got married. He changed his civil identity, he got married and he
wrote me a letter saying that it would bring comfort to him to come see and me with his bride: he, who had been she, but is
he. I received them.”
Pope Francis the Weird, CEO of the
Homosexual Lobby, comment during in flight press conference from Azerbaijan,
October 2, 2016
Pope Francis
and his “subtle” sins against the Catholic Faith
Many men sin
against Faith in an even more subtle way through the sins against the Holy
Ghost, namely, the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence, obstinacy,
resisting the known truth and envy of someone else's spiritual good. The sins against the Holy Ghost are not sins
of weakness or ignorance. They are sins
of certain malice. By despair a man
rejects God's goodness and mercy. By
presumption he rejects God's justice. By
impenitence he refuses to turn from sin to God.
By obstinacy a man hardens his will in sin. A man sins in resisting the known truth
because he does so in order to sin more freely.
Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's spiritual good because he
hates the increase of God's grace in the world.
In all these sins there is great danger for man because these sins mean
that man is deliberately refusing to consider those truths and motives which
would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to God. It is for this reason that the sins against
the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable.
It is not that God is unwilling to forgive any sins. It is rather that in these sins a man shows
that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter
Farrell, O.P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St. Thomas
Book
on Pope Francis the Humbler than Thou
Father (Peter Hans) Kolvenbach (superior
general of the Jesuits from 1983 to 2008) accused Bergoglio of a series of
defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to deviousness,
disobedience concealed under a mask of humility, and lack of psychological
balance; with a view to his suitability as a future bishop, the report pointed
out that he had been a divisive figure as Provincial of his own order. It is
not surprising that, on being elected Pope, Francis made efforts to get his
hands on the existing copies of the document, and the original filed in the
official Jesuit archives in Rome has disappeared.
Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator Pope
“Family Ties” within the Homosexual Lobby
Notorious
homosexual Cardinal Terrance ("Blanche,
'call-me-Uncle Teddy'") McCarrick was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Cardinal Francis ("Franny") Spellman of New York who also
ordained the notorious homosexual Cardinal Terence ("Cookie") Cooke
who took the notorious homosexual McCarrick as his "personal secretary"
and consecrated McCarrick an auxiliary bishop.
Cardinal Donald (Whirly Girl) Wuerl was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Bishop Francis Fredrick Reh of Charleston, SC who was consecrated a
bishop by the notorious homosexual Spellman.
Wuerl became the "private secretary" to the notorious
homosexual Cardinal John Wright who was Prefect for the Congregation of the
Clergy and represented Wright at the conclave that elected John Paul II who
consecrated Wuerl a bishop and made McCarrick a cardinal. It was Benedict/Ratzinger, formally head of
the CDF responsible for cleaning up the Homosexual Lobby, who made Wuerl a
cardinal. The homosexual Wuerl ultimately followed in the line of the
homosexual Wright as Archbishop of Pittsburg and was himself followed the
homosexual McCarrick in Washington. The
Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, 900 plus pages citing Wuerl's name more than
200 times, charges
that Wuerl as Archbishop of Pittsburgh for eighteen years repeatedly covered
for the Homosexual Lobby.
The
mansion that housed Wuerl and the local branch of the Homosexual Lobby in the
Diocese of Pittsburgh was obtained by his homosexual predecessor Cardinal
Wright and was appraised twenty years ago for $1.5 million. It was sold after
Wuerl's departure. The Jacobethan
Revival house along Fifth Avenue, at 9,842 square feet (914.4 m2)
with 39 rooms including 11 bedrooms, six full baths, and a half-bath is one of
the largest homes in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It housed an
extensive collection of antiques, Oriental rugs and art during Wuerl's
residency.
Just
as Wuerl had covered up for the Homosexual Lobby in Pittsburgh, he did the same
for McCarrick in Washington claiming to know nothing about McCarrick's
perversion. McCarrick was Cardinal
Archbishop of Washington 2001 to 2006.
Homosexual McCarrick's "personal secretary" was the current
Archdiocesan Vicar General Monsignor Charles Antonicelli who subsequently
became the "personal secretary" to Homosexual Cardinal Wuerl. When Antonicelli was McCarrick's
"personal secretary" in Washington, the Dioceses of Trenton,
Metuchen, and Newark in 2004 and 2006 paid settlements for $100,000 and $80,000
to two men who had been abused by McCarrick while they were in
the seminary as well as after they had become priests. It is, believe it or not, Antonicelli who now
claims that he and Wuerl knew nothing about the homosexual escapades of
McCarrick.
Compiled from information from Randy Engel,
Rite of Sodomy, published in 2006, and recent articles from LifeSiteNews and
WikiPedia
Francis the Apostate
Pope Francis: ‘Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?’
LifeSiteNews
| VATICAN CITY, October 9, 2019 – During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis today insinuated that
Catholics who hold strongly to the orthodox teachings of the Church are
ideologues and, like Saul of Tarsus, are in need of conversion.
“Ideologues” who “desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ,” said the pontiff.
Pope Francis recounted the story of St.
Paul’s conversion in the Acts of the Apostles saying that up until that time,
he was an ideologue who persecuted members of the early Church and that
“fratricidal fury” compelled him.
“The young Saul is portrayed as
intransigent, that is, one who shows intolerance towards those who think
differently from him,” he said. Saul “absolutizes his political or religious
identity and reduces the other to a potential enemy to
fight.”
“For Saul, religion had turned into
ideology: religious ideology, social ideology, political ideology,” he
said.
“The
angry condition – because Saul was angry – and Saul's conflictual situation
invites everyone to ask themselves: How do I live my
life of faith? Am I going to meet others or am I against others?” asked Pope
Francis.
“Do I belong to the universal
Church – with the good and the bad, all of us – or do I hold a selective
ideology?” he continued. “Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?”
Pope Francis added, “What is my religious
life like? Does professing faith in God make me friendly or hostile towards
those who are different from me?”
“An attack against a member of the Church
is an attack against Christ himself! And those who are ideologues because they
desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ himself.”
Pope Francis concluded: “Let us ask the
Father to let us too, like Saul, experience the impact of his love that can
only make a heart of stone a heart of flesh, capable of embracing ‘the same
sentiments of Christ Jesus.’”
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments,”
Jesus sys in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John. “Whoever has my
commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.”
COMMENT: Saul was an ideologue before his
conversion. An ideology is a man-made system of thought and action that is
grounded upon merely human presuppositions that form their first principles and
are assumed as incontrovertible. What was the ideology of Saul? His was the
ideology of the Pharisee that is the ideology of the Talmudism practiced by
Jews today. It is this ideology that Jesus said was a merely human construct
for the purpose of nullifying the commandments of God. Its purpose is therefore
to put an end to the love of God. Yet Francis has no problem with Jewish
ideology. The same is true for the religion of Mohammedanism.
The Catholic faith is
believing what God has revealed on the authority of God the revealer,
therefore it is not an ideology. Catholic charity is doing the will of God by
keeping His commandments and therefore the action is not ideologically driven.
Dogma is divine revelation that has been infallibly defined and constitutes the
formal object of divine and Catholic faith. Dogma is the proximate rule of
faith for every Catholic. No faithful Catholic would ever drive a wedge between
the “love of God” and the “love of dogmatic formulations” for they constitute
the same love. God is truth. What Pope
Francis believes is that the Catholic faith is nothing more than a human
construct. He is not just a heretic. He is an apostate.
Pope Francis who rejects Proselytism to the Catholic
Church wants to Proselytize Catholics to his Gaia Cult Religion!
The Amazon Synod and the Church as Laughingstock
OnePeterFive | Maureen Mullarkey | November
25, 2019
The synod is done. But the mutant thing
lives on in its final document, “Amazonia: New Ways for the Church and for a
Holistic Ecology.” Prudence and discretion, rationality itself, are baffled by its opening hysteria.
The Amazon rainforest … is in an unbridled race to death. It requires
radical changes with great urgency, a new direction that can save it. It is
scientifically proven that the disappearance of the Amazonian biome will have a
catastrophic impact for the whole planet!
In all its turbulent history, the Church
has never made a laughingstock of itself. Not until now. Scientifically proven? Our bishops
have lost the ability to distinguish between contention and settled fact. They
concentrate their indignant energies on facile borrowings from the climate
change script, conventional academic leftism (e.g., multiple references to
“extractivism,” the “technocratic paradigm,” the argot of victimology), and
what Pascal Bruckner called “the racism of the anti-racists.”
When they are not sermonizing, the bishops
descend into guidance counseling: “The Church’s job is to accompany them [young
people] to deal with any situation that destroys their identity or damages
their self-esteem.” Emphasis on the “rights of the young” serves to spotlight
the cruel silence of the Vatican on — to take one example — China’s tyrannical
exclusion of anyone under 18 years of age from entering a church. In reality,
the Vatican is no more interested in the young of the Amazon than they are in
the Chinese. What matters is the utility of the one,
and the non-utility of the other, in positioning the Vatican as a bureau within
the United Nations.
The prose alone is an embarrassment. It is
easy to imagine the document having been written by undergraduate journalism
majors over a beer with middlebrow social justice warriors:
We note that human intervention has lost its “friendly” character, to
assume a voracious and predatory attitude that tends to squeeze reality until
the exhaustion of all available natural resources. … Together with the
Amazonian peoples, we request that governments stop considering the Amazon as
an inexhaustible pantry.
Chapter One, “Amazon: From Listening to
Integral Conversion,” takes the cue for its title from Hillary Clinton, who
made listening tours famous: “Listening to the Amazon, in the spirit of a
disciple and in the light of the Word of God and of Tradition, leads us to a
profound conversion of our plans and structures to Christ and his Gospel.”
Throwing itself at the feet of climate-change dogmatism and pop-culture
psychosis, the Church contorts itself to what it has heard.
Note the direction conversion takes. The
synod reverses two millennia of evangelization by urging us to convert
ourselves to “the voice and song of the Amazon.” Free-range bishops have
discerned a proto-Gospel in the ancient ways of indigenous peoples. From the
rainforest come extra-biblical insights that beckon Western man back to the
Pleistocene for the salvation of his venal colonizing soul.
Overall, the text testifies to a morally
and intellectually exhausted Vatican, one that mocks itself with manic
complicity between religious references and a secular ideology with a tainted
history. Its ideological core germinated outside the Church and in
contradiction to it.
Turgid with religiosity, there is little
recognizably Christian about the final document unless you accept fashionable
loathing for Western identity as a central dogma of the Church. Michael Pakaluk
is one of the few who grasped the document’s failures on the ground of its
animus toward Western civilization: “The contempt it shows for the West and,
indeed, for the existing Church as inserted in Christendom compels the
inference that it means ultimately to replace the one with the other.” The
“other” refers to a sanitized version of traditional indigenous culture.
The single most damning aspect of the synod
was inadvertently divulged by Bishop Erwin Kräutler, friend of Pope Francis and
coauthor of the instrumentum
laboris. Ten years ago, he admitted knowledge of the continuing practice
of infanticide among various indigenous tribes. He remains opposed to
prosecuting it as a crime. Maike Hickson writes in LifeSiteNews:
Kräutler explicitly rejects the idea that the state could prosecute
those who commit such crimes. He is, rather, in favor of “convincing the
people, with pastoral patience, that the culturally prescribed death of a child
is anachronistic and undercuts their own strategy of life.”
“We have always fought for the physical and cultural survival of the
Indians,” he continues, “and we do so on the
foundation of the Gospels, and not with help of the gospel of fundamentalism.”
Thus, he rejects ideas of penalizing infanticide, because “here, in the
name of human rights and under the pretext of suppressing infanticide, a broad
ethnocide, a cultural murder, is being installed.”
Note the wording. Infanticide is
“anachronistic” and not optimal for a “strategy of life” — whatever that means.
But unlike murder, it appears not to violate divine command. Any culturally
insensitive suggestion to the contrary can be dismissed as “fundamentalism.” In
that one statement, Kräutler exposes the covert truth that “a Church with an
Amazon face” entails more than an indigenous liturgy. It establishes a separate
moral order as well.
In Kräutler’s view, suffocating a newborn —
strangling him, or bashing his skull against a tree or a rock
— is a lamentable folkway. This, while in the wider
Church, even non-abortive contraception has been deemed an intrinsic evil.
The disjunction will not be lost on Catholic consciences in the developed world
where the Church is already in decline.
Remembering
Earlier Ecological Prophecies
“The battle to
feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve
to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date
nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate...”
Paul Ehrlich,
1968, Jewish Liberal Hysteria, The Population Bomb
Any Catholic who contributes to the Novus Ordo Church is
Partaking of their Sin!
EVIL USCCB GIVES $750.000.00 to Promote Sodom
Lepanto
Institute | November 22, 2019 Over the summer, the
Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an anti-poverty program run by
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), provided a
$750,000.00 Strategic National Grant to the Ignatian Solidarity Network
(ISN). Shortly after the June announcement of the grant, the Lepanto
Institute reported that the ISN regularly held workshops promoting homosexual
and transgender activism. In response to concerned Catholics regarding
the promotion of sexual perversion from ISN’s workshops – which included
presentations by same-sex “marriage” advocacy organizations like New Ways
Ministry and Dignity USA – the USCCB’s Communications Manager for Social
Mission, Alexandra Carroll claimed that ISN “was not encouraging or
promoting anything contrary to Catholic teaching.”
But over this
past weekend, from November 16-18, ISN held its annual Ignatian Family
Teach-In for Justice, which again included condemned homosexual advocacy groups
and pro-homosexual messaging. As with previous events, the Teach-In
included pro-homosexual speakers and workshops on homosexual integration into
the life of the Catholic Church. The difference in this year’s Teach-In,
in contrast with all the previous ones, is that this year’s was funded, in
part, by the CCHD.
It should be
noted that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is explicitly clear that
homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity” and are “intrinsically
disordered.” [.....]
The Pagan Idol that Francis Blessed and
brought into the St. Peter Basilica
INCAS
SACRIFICED BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN TO PACHAMAMA
Giuseppe Nardi | Lima,
Peru | November 17, 2019
The work
of archaeologists in Peru was reported at the end of September without any
direct connection with the Amazon Synod. It was a research activity that
has particular relevance in view of the recent, so pervasive presence of
Pachamama portrayals.
The Pachamama, which literally means "World Mother," rather than
"Mother Earth," was a deity of South America that ruled over one of
several worlds (Pacha means world, Pachakuna are the worlds), which also means
cosmos and era.
The Incas, the high culture of South America encountered by the Spaniards as
they explored the newly discovered continent, worshiped the Pachamama as a
dragon goddess. They sacrificed animals to their gods and other deities,
as well as humans on special occasions. The human sacrifices that could
be proven so far were all children.
The archaeologists now know so much: These children, who were sacrificed to the
pagan gods by the Incas and who were found by archaeologists on the tops of
volcanoes, could come from different parts of the empire. The
archaeologists, especially Polish, know at least a dozen places in Peru where
the Incas sacrificed some 500 years ago to their gods on the tops of mountains
or volcanoes. These human sacrifices were part of the Capacocha ritual.
Dagmara Socha, bio-archaeologist of the Centro de Estudios Andinos (CEAC) of
the University of Warsaw in Cuzco, studied together with Rudi Chavez Perea,
director of the Santuario Andinos Museum of the Catholic University of Santa
Maria (Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria) in Arequipa (Peru), carried out the
project on the remains of these children for several years.
This year, researchers focused on the children sacrifices placed on two
volcanoes, the 6,288 meter high Ampato and the 5,665 meter high Picchu
Picchu. Several decades ago, the American anthropologist Johan Reinhard
found the mummies of these children in a sitting position on stone platforms.
At present, these ice mummies are kept refrigerated at the Museo
Sancturios Andinos.
According to Dr. Socha believed the Incas that at the time of sacrifice,
children would become mediators between the gods and humanity. The Incas,
said the scientist, considered the children as pure and immaculate.
Therefore the human sacrifices had to be impeccable and virginal. Accordingly,
they were carefully selected. Their status should have made it easier for
the gods to make concrete decisions.
However, the scientists do not yet know the exact criteria in choosing the
sacrificed children. Socha told Szymon Zdziebłowski of Science in
Poland, a website of the Polish Ministry of Science, that they needed
"extraordinary qualities" such as beauty or a certain social
background. In one of the girls, whose remains were found on a platform
on the Picchu Picchu, the researchers found a deliberate deformation of the
head, which was extended specifically. It is well known that this
practice was not applied in the mountains, but in the plains and coasts of the
Inca Empire. This could mean that this girl came from a family living in
a region far from the place of sacrifice.
Using their teeth, the scientists were able to determine that the girl
had either starved for a certain time or had suffered a severe trauma at the
age of three. At the time, the girl was allegedly brought to Cusco by her
parents to be prepared for her offering for three years. The trauma may
have been caused by the separation from the parents, either first in Cuzco or
already at home. Then the child would have been brought to the capital by
representatives of the theocratic Inca Empire.
Some of the mortal remains of six children examined by Dagmara Socha this year
were mummified, if not all. Other remains are poorly preserved and some
have burn marks. Socha explains that the Incas erected sacrificial
platforms in places exposed to lightning. There is ample evidence that
these platforms have been repeatedly hit by lightning. In the cosmology
of the Incas, lightning represented
connections between the various god-worlds (Pachakuna) and the human world.
While the altitude of the sacrificial sites meant that the sacrificed children
were preserved as permafrost corpses, so-called ice mummies, some were indeed
very well preserved, this is not always due to the lightning strikes for their
clothes.
According to the Incas, a person struck by lightning was being bestowed with
great honor, as a god expressed interest in him.
The mummies studied by the Polish archaeologist are now in a similar state as
before their discovery. The mummies did not have to be moved.
Scientists used X-rays to minimize interference with the remains.
This made it possible to discover also many objects that were given to
the children as grave goods: gold brooches for fastening the robes, wooden
objects such as ritual cups, but also a gold tube and even petals.
The best-known example of a surviving human sacrifice of the Incas is the boy
from El Plomo, who was found in 1954 near the summit of the 5424 meter high
Cerro El Plomo in Chile. At the time of his sacrifice, he was eight years
old. His skin was soft at the time of the discovery, as if he had just
passed away. The sacrifice was almost 500 years back. The boy then
was mummified by being transported to lower altitudes and becomes almost rock hard.
All in all, 192 sacrificial ceremonial sites have been located on 192 mountains
in the former Inca Empire. So far, 27 surviving human sacrifices of the
Capacocha ritual have been discovered on 14 mountains. All were found
over 5400 meters above sea level, which explains their conservation.
The Capacocha ritual was part of the religiously motivated state cult in the
Inca Empire. The boy of El Plomo was sacrificed after 1483, when central
Chile was incorporated into the Inca Empire, and before 1533, when the
Spaniards reached the area and put an end to the human sacrifices.
According to the scientists, the children were stunned with coca leaves and
fermented drinks before being "buried" alive. At least in the
high-altitude sacrificial sites, they quickly froze, largely maintaining the
squatting posture in which they had to sit. In this position they were
then worshiped - eerily scary - like living dead.
Don Felipe Waman Puma de Ayala, an Indio, born around 1550 in the Spanish
Viceroyalty of Peru, in what is now southern Peru, wrote a history of more than
a thousand pages of Andean peoples, including 398 drawings (see illustration)
). His mother tongue was Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire.
As a boy, he learned Spanish. One of his drawings also shows how a
child sacrificed on a mountain is worshiped. His chronicle ends with his
death in 1615. The description describes that in pre-Christian (pre-Columbian)
time, human sacrifice was common. The mentioned drawing expresses this,
but also that at the beginning of the 17th century the sacrificed children were
still worshiped by some of the Indians.
In detail, Don Felipe Waman portrays Puma de Ayala's sacrificial customs for
the various deities, including Pachakamaq. All were sacrificed in
addition to other offerings and children in greater or lesser numbers.
Its primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno was made fully accessible on the
Internet a few years ago by the Copenhagen-based Congolese Bibliotek, in whose
possession it is located.
Basically, it should be not that in past epochs ago, more or less, human
sacrifices existed in all peoples and cultures in pre-Christian times.
That
the true God does not want human sacrifices, He made clear already in Genesis,
the First Book of the Bible, in the prevented sacrifice of Isaac by his father
Abraham. In the time of Abraham, and long after that, human sacrifices in
the Middle East were obviously common practice. In Divine Pedagogy, the
great work of civilization, God led Abraham and his descendants away from human
sacrifice for the time being because of the incomprehension of human beings, as
an intermediate stage, as an animal sacrifice, although God Himself did not
want that. Where Christianity came, this cruelty was overcome, which
illustrates its outstanding civilizational significance - and makes the contrast
to the return of pagan amazons as the Pachamama in the context of the Amazon
Synod all the more evident.
Abp Viganò decries Pope-approved plan to build ‘Abrahamic’ religious
site with Muslims, Jews
LifeSiteNews | ROME, November 21, 2019 —
Invoking the blasphemous Tower of Babel, whose builders sought to attain to
heaven by their own power, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has
denounced plans approved by Pope Francis to erect a monument to “Human
Fraternity” uniting Islam, Judaism and Catholicism, calling it “a Babelesque
enterprise, designed by the enemies of God.”
The “House of the Abrahamic Family” will
house a mosque, a synagogue, and a church symbolically united on one
foundation.
In a Nov. 19 article published by
Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli on Duc in Altum, Archbishop
Viganò writes: “In the garden of Abu-Dhabi the Temple of the World Syncretic
Neo-Religion is about to arise with its anti-Christic dogmas. Not even the
most hopeful of the Freemasons would have imagined so much!"
The “House of Abraham” project was
presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican on November 15, during an audience
with the Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheik of Al-Azhar (main photo),
members of the Abu Dhabi government, and representatives of the Higher
Committee for achieving the goals contained in the Document on Human Fraternity
for World Peace and Living Together, signed last August. […..]
[Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò continues]
Sir David Adjaye Obe is the creator of this
architectural project, which will rise in the opulent and extravagant Abu
Dhabi. It is the House of the Abrahamic Family, a sort of New Tent of Universal
Brotherhood that evokes that other Tent of Reception in which the Old Testament
Patriarch hosted three mysterious Angels (cf. Gen 18), the prefiguration of the
Trinitarian God who was fully revealed to the legitimate Abrahamic posterity
through faith in Jesus Christ.
Abrahamic Family House is therefore the
name of this structure that will house a synagogue, a mosque and a church,
naturally dedicated to the Poverello [St. Francis of Assisi].
Sir David’s project
envisages the three different places of worship united by unique foundations
and placed inside a garden, evoking a New Eden, a Gnostic and Masonic re-edition
of the paradise of the First Creation.
As explained to Pope Bergoglio, this
“structure ... will serve as a place of individual worship, but also for
dialogue and interreligious exchange.” In fact, a fourth building is also
planned, the headquarters of the Centre for Studies and Research on the Human
Fraternity, whose objective, which is inferred from the Abu Dhabi document,
will be to “make the three religions known.” The ceremonies for the
presentation of the Human Fraternity Award will also take place here.
The building of the House of the Abrahamic
Family appears like a Babelesque enterprise, designed by the enemies
of God, of the Catholic Church and of the only true religion capable of saving
man and the whole created from destruction, both present as well
as eternal and definitive. The foundations of this “House,” destined to
give way and crumble, precisely where, at the hands of the same builders, the
Only Corner Stone is incredibly about to be removed: Jesus Christ, Savior and
Lord, on whom stands the House of God. “Therefore,” warns the Apostle Paul,
“let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no other foundation can
anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 3:10) [……]
COMMENT: If any
doubt where this is all headed, take a look at this YouTube video of the
darling Cardinal Schonborn, the sweet-heart of Pope Francis, and his demonic
display in the Cathedral in Vienna: https://youtu.be/CFEaDILDnF0
This could equally
be said by one who, in alliance with the forces of hell, is aflame with the
fire of revenge!
“One deceives himself who thinks that the
prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.”
Pope Benedict XVI,
May 2010
Francis the Apostate
Pope Francis: ‘Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?’
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY, October 9,
2019 – During his weekly
general audience, Pope Francis today insinuated that Catholics who hold
strongly to the orthodox teachings of the Church are ideologues and, like Saul
of Tarsus, are in need of conversion.
“Ideologues” who “desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ,” said the pontiff.
Pope Francis recounted the story of St.
Paul’s conversion in the Acts of the Apostles saying that up until that time,
he was an ideologue who persecuted members of the early Church and that
“fratricidal fury” compelled him.
“The young Saul is portrayed as
intransigent, that is, one who shows intolerance towards those who think
differently from him,” he said. Saul “absolutizes his political or religious
identity and reduces the other to a potential enemy to
fight.”
“For Saul, religion had turned into
ideology: religious ideology, social ideology, political ideology,” he
said.
“The angry condition – because Saul was
angry – and Saul's conflictual situation invites everyone to ask themselves: How do I live my life of faith? Am I going to
meet others or am I against others?” asked Pope Francis.
“Do I belong to the universal Church – with the good and the bad, all
of us – or do I hold a selective ideology?” he continued. “Do I love God or
dogmatic formulations?”
Pope Francis added, “What is my religious
life like? Does professing faith in God make me friendly or hostile towards
those who are different from me?”
“An attack against a member of the Church
is an attack against Christ himself! And those who are ideologues because they
desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ himself.”
Pope Francis concluded: “Let us ask the
Father to let us too, like Saul, experience the impact of his love that can
only make a heart of stone a heart of flesh, capable of embracing ‘the same
sentiments of Christ Jesus.’”
“If you love me, you will keep my
commandments,” Jesus sys in the 14th chapter of the Gospel of John. “Whoever
has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.”
COMMENT: Saul was an
ideologue before his conversion. An ideology is just a man-made system of
thought and action that is grounded upon merely human first principles that
assumed as incontrovertible. What was the ideology of Saul? His was the
ideology of the Pharisee that is the ideology of the Talmudism practiced by
Jews today. It is this ideology that Jesus said was a merely human construct
for the purpose of nullifying the commandments of God. Its purpose is therefore to put an end to the
love of God. Yet Francis has no problem with Jewish ideology. The same is true
for the religion of Mohammedanism.
The Catholic faith is
believing what God has revealed on the authority of God the revealer
therefore, it is not an ideology. Catholic charity is doing the will of God by
keeping His commandments and therefore is action that is not ideologically
driven. Dogma is divine revelation that has been infallibly defined and
constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith. Dogma is the
proximate rule of faith for every Catholic. No faithful Catholic would ever
drive a wedge between the "love of God" and the "love of
dogmatic formulations" for they constitute the same love. What Pope
Francis believes is that the Catholic faith is nothing more than a human
construct. He is not just a heretic. He has committed apostasy.
“Where will the correction come from?” There is only on possible answer, and it is not
from conservative Catholics. That answer is a restored Catholic Church and that
will only happen when the true faith revealed by God is believed and defended,
and the true worship of God is practiced.
The Mission of Ss. Peter & Paul is fighting the only fight worth
fighting. It is the only fight where any
possible hope of victory lies both in this life and in the life to come!
So tell me where the Salvation to come
from, other than that Jesus comes back – and we wouldn’t recognize him if he
did. These are all symptoms of a society
that’s in a deeper malaise and my analysis of that is that it is what Alexander
Mitscherlich, the German psychoanalyst who fought the Nazis, was referring to
when he wrote a book called Society
Without the Father, and he talked about the Sibling Society in which there
would be no adults, or generations of half-adults. So that’s all we have now:
generations of half-adults. Adulthood is the ingredient that is missing from
everything, from politics, from media, from academia, from all these central
institutions which have been vital for the maintenance of civilization there
are no adults in them. There are no adults left. This is one of the fundamental
problems with our civilization. Without responsible adults, without leadership,
without a conversation, there’s no hope. There are all these trends that show
that the world actually is in a final meltdown. There is nowhere it can come
back from. This is the mistake that people are making, that somehow there will
be a correction, but then you have to ask ‘where will the correction come
from,’ from what sector of humanity will the correction come? There’s no
possibility because the educational trends are continuing, the media trends are
continuing, the social media trends are continuing, and they will continue to
have the influence that they’ve had unless we actually stop them – unless we
literally take Twitter off the air then you won’t get a change in our cultural
drift.
The Catholic Church is the repository of
the wisdom of the ages, the mainstay of the old civilization which retained the
archives of knowledge and wisdom that had been accumulated through the ages; it
is the voice of God in the world; the other religious are not relevant. In one
of my books I talked about an occasion when I was at a meeting of Atheist of
Ireland: I walked in with a friend of mine and just sat there, listening, and
one guy was actually a well-known figure stood up and said, ‘We have to make
alliances with Moderate Islam against Catholicism’ – well, that’s brutality!
Look, this is a kind of sabotage of our culture. They’re actually welcoming
hordes of Islamists into Ireland; this is one of the hotspots of Jihadism in
Europe because it’s not Catholic….. They’re not really Catholics. (The climate
change ideologues and their campaign) is only a tactic; the LGBT do that as
well. The Church has been destroyed not be its enemies, but from within; it is
no longer the Catholic Church.
John Waters, Irish conservative Catholic,
journalist and author, most recently of the book, Give Us Back the Bad Roads.
He is a contributor to the journal, First
Things. Comments on the current state of Ireland, interviewed by Geraldine
Comiskey, published in Culture Wars Magazine.
AMAZON SYNOD:
Why does the “New Evangelization,” not just permit, but require a married
clergy?
In his
Encyclical Menti Nostre, Pope Pius
XII declares, “The priest is... the organ of the communication and increase of
life in the Mystical Body of Christ. Far from losing the gift and the office of
paternity because of his celibacy, the priest increases them immeasurably,
since if he does not beget children for this passing life on earth, he begets
them for that of life which is heavenly and eternal.”
Parents of
children collaborate with God on the natural level in the communication of life
to new human beings, of rearing and educating them for the glory of God. The
priest has an “immeasurably” higher calling to beget children of God, that is,
of being the material cause of proselytizing human beings to faith in the
truths which God has revealed and obedience to the laws which God commands. The New Evangelization radically
opposes proselytizing anyone to the Catholic faith therefore,
the priest no longer begets children to God and turns to begetting of natural
progeny. The New Evangelization is spiritually sterile. The Novus Ordo priest
is a clerical gelding. He is worthless to both man and God.
100 priests, lay scholars call Pope Francis to repent for Pachamama
idolatry at Amazon Synod
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò added his name this morning to the
statement urging Pope Francis to repent for Pachamama idolatry.
LifeSiteNews | November 12, 2019 – An
international group of 100 priests and lay scholars published a statement today
to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took place last month during the
Amazon Synod in Rome with Pope Francis' active participation and apparent
support. They called upon
the Pope to “repent publicly and unambiguously of these objectively grave sins”
and asked bishops’ around the world to “offer fraternal correction to Pope
Francis for these scandals.”
Titled
“Protest against Pope Francis's
Sacrilegious Acts,” the statement (read full below) highlights Pope
Francis' personal responsibility for the worship of a pagan idol in Rome.
Among
the signatories, which include more than 20 priests and deacons, are
Professor John Rist, Professor Roberto de Mattei, Professor Claudio Pierantoni,
Professor Josef Seifert, as well as Professor Anna Silvas. There are also to be
found twenty priests and deacons, among them Father Brian Harrison and the
outspoken critic of Pope Francis, Father Cor Mennen. The prominent German
Catholic laywoman, Gloria Princess of Thurn und Taxis, also signed, in addition
to authors such as Henry Sire, José Antonio Ureta, and Dr. Gerard J.M. van den
Aardweg.
The priests and scholars
“protest against and condemn the sacrilegious and superstitious acts committed
by Pope Francis, the Successor of Peter, in connection with the recent Amazon
Synod held in Rome,” and they give detailed evidence of the different
incidences of pagan worship during the Amazon Synod.
Most prominently, Pope Francis
hosted a pagan ceremony with Pachamama statues in the Vatican Gardens on Oct. 4
and even blessed one of the statues. Additionally, he prayed in front of the
Pachamama statue at St. Peter's Cathedral on October 7 and then accompanied it
in procession into the synod hall.
As the statement points out,
“Pope Francis himself confirmed that these wooden images were pagan idols. In
his apology for the removal of these idols from a Catholic church, he
specifically called them Pachamama, a name for a false goddess of mother earth
according to pagan religious belief in South America.”
The signers make it clear that
pagan worship by Catholics is unacceptable.
They
state that “the rendering of worship to anyone or anything other than the one
true God, the Blessed Trinity, is a violation of the First Commandment,” and
that therefore “absolutely all participation in any form of the veneration of
idols is condemned by this Commandment and is an objectively grave sin,
independently of the subjective culpability that only God can judge.”
The
authors also quote Professor Josef Seifert with regard to Pope Francis' claim
that these statues had been used “without idolatrous intentions.”
Stated Seifert: “Even if there is no subjective idolatrous intention
behind this, as Pope Francis affirms, the objective fact of putting idols in a
Church, let alone in St Peter's, is an offence against God and an objectively
sacrilegious act.”
For
the signers, the Pachamama worship that took place under Pope Francis'
leadership “was anticipated by the statement titled 'Document on Human
Fraternity', signed by Pope Francis and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of
Al-Azhar Mosque, on February 4, 2019.” That document states that the “diversity
of religions” is “willed by God.” “Pope Francis’ involvement in idolatrous
ceremonies,” the signers continue, “is an indication that he meant this
statement in a heterodox sense, which allows pagan worship of idols to be
considered a good positively willed by God.”
Additionally,
the statement refers to the many cardinals and bishops who have already
condemned the Pachamama veneration in Rome (among them Cardinals Burke, Müller,
Brandmüller, Urosa; and Archbishop Viganò, as well as Bishops Eleganti,
Voderholzer, and Azcona). And the statement also quotes a passage from Holy
Scripture which makes clear that “the things which the heathens sacrifice, they
sacrifice to demons, and not to God” and that “you cannot be partakers of the
table of the Lord, and of the table of demons” (St. Paul).
“We
respectfully ask all the bishops of the Catholic Church,” the signers conclude,
“to offer fraternal correction to Pope Francis for these scandals, and to warn
their flocks that, according to the divinely revealed teaching of the Catholic
faith, they will risk eternal damnation if they follow the present examples in
offending against the First Commandment.” [.....]
NEW DOCTRINAL
DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE SSPX AND ROME?
COMMENT: The SSPX has announced that it will resume its "doctrinal
discussions" with Rome. Who will
pretend to represent Catholic tradition in these discussions? The SSPX is sending
Bishop Bernard Fellay, with Frs. Nealy and Pfluger. No, this not meant to be a joke. They are pretending to be serious and
actually sending Bishop Fellay, the ignoramus whose sacramental theology is so
shallow that he actually believes that a disaffected priest, like Marlin the
Magician, can maliciously consecrate an entire bakery or a wine cellar by
reciting the words of consecration. Rest assured that these
"discussions" will have nothing to do with "doctrine."
Fellay apparently thinks dogma is just another word for bitch. Lieutenant
Colonel James Bogle, the former head of Una Voce International, has publically
confirmed on Gloria TV that the SSPX under Fellay, with the help of Nely and
Pfluger, was formally regularized by the Novus Ordo Church but has kept the
truth of this concealed from the rank and file members as well as those who
attend their chapels where the 1962 Indult Missal in dialogue style is
offered. Bogle personally confirmed that
Fellay is currently a member of the Roman Rota.
The purpose of dialogue is to arrive at opinion. For both parties involved, the true faith is
just another opinion.
New Evangelization in the Diocese of
Harrisburg - Bishop Ronald Gainer the Insipid and his own inner
Pachamama."Healing"
what? "Hope" for what? Dialogue, which is the nothing more than an
exchange of opinions, presupposes a denial that the Catholic Church possesses
truth, for those who possess truth have no interest in exchanging opinions.
"Responding to division" assumes that the division between good and
evil can be bridged. The stupidity is evident in exchanging "opinion"
with a woman masquerading 
as a "bishop."
Day of Dialogue Addresses Hope in Midst of Division
The Catholic WITNESS | Chris Heisey |
November 8, 2019
Responding to division is society and in the Christian Church, the
annual LARC Day of Dialogue brought together clergy and parishioners of local
Christian traditions for prayer and discussion. The annual event is a
joint effort of the Lutheran, Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in central
Pennsylvania for prayer and greater cooperation between the Churches. Titled
“Division on Society, Division in the Church: Healing and Hope for the 21st
Century,” the gathering was Oct. 28 at the Diocesan Center in Harrisburg. The Day
of Dialogue featured three speakers, prayer in the three Christian traditions
and a panel discussion. It is hosted annually by the Diocesan Office of
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, directed by Father James Lease. Dr.
Maria Erling, a Professor of Modern Church History and Global Mission at the
United Lutheran Seminary, spoke on what ecumenism holds today. The Very Rev.
Dr. Amy Doyle Welin, Dean of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral in Harrisburg,
addressed pastoral theological Christian unity. The third speaker was Eric
Failing, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, who spoke
on reshaping debate to achieve wisdom. The event is an extension of the LARC
Covenant, signed in 1993 by the Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania,
the Lower and Upper Susquehanna Synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America, and the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. Its aim is to bring clergy and
laity together to work in the cause of Christian unity. For information about
ecumenical and interreligious activities in the Diocese, visit
www.hbgdiocese.org/about/diocesan-offices/ecumenical/ or contact Father Lease
at frjlease@hbgdiocese.org.
Vatican II condemned out of their own
mouths!
Cardinal Blase Cupich: Vatican
II permits pagan “inculturation” of Catholic worship
CHICAGO, November 8, 2019 - Archbishop
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended the use of the “Pachamama” statues
during the Amazon Synod, saying the church has “always adopted pagan
elements in its traditions and especially its liturgical rites” while quoting
from a Vatican document about “inculturation.”
Writing in the diocesan newspaper Chicago Catholic on Wednesday, Cardinal
Cupich asserted that the “artwork” at the Vatican depicting Pachamama – a
fertility goddess venerated by indigenous people of South America – was merely
“a pregnant woman, a symbol of motherhood and the sacredness of life, that
represents for indigenous peoples the bond humanity has with our mother earth,
much as St. Francis of Assisi portrayed in his Canticle of the Creatures.”
Cupich was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in November 2016.
The
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
and other “highly
reductive ideological views”
Bishop Guido Marini, Pope Benedict’s Master
of Ceremonies, said that there is
no difference in the traditional Church before Vatican II (1962-1965) and
after. He stated: “Terms like ‘preconciliar’ and ‘postconciliar,’ belong to an
outdated language, and if they are used with the intention of indicating a
discontinuity in the Church’s journey, I maintain that they are mistaken and
typical of highly reductive ideological views.”
Cardinal
Kasper teaches:
…
today we no longer understand ecumenism in the sense
of a return, by which the others would ‘be converted’ and return to being
Catholics. This was expressly abandoned by Vatican II.
Cardinal
Walter Kasper, Prefect of Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Feb.
26, 2001
The Church Infallibly Teaches:
… the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting
the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
The Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only
pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life
and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives….
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate
Domino
Cardinal
Kasper teaches:
The
old theory of substitution (of the New Covenant for the Old) is gone since the
Second Vatican Council… Therefore, the Church believes that Judaism, that is,
the faithful response of the Jewish people to God’s irrevocable covenant, is
salvific for them, because God is faithful to his promises.
Cardinal
Walter Kasper, Prefect of Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, May 1,
2001
The Church Infallibly Teaches:
The Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old
Testament, of the Mosaic Law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites,
sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something
in the future, although they were suited to divine worship at that time, after
our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the
New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in
these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for
salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned
mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the
promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were
believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that
they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation.
All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation of the Gospel) observe
circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares
alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal
salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
There is no
difference between this example of Jewish “truth” and Novus Ordo theology and
praxis?
Lying is now a “heightened
version of reality” because it may be “true in a higher metaphysical sense”!?
. . . . What anti-Semites keep insisting are “fake
Holocaust stories” need to be seen in a more positive light as “the truth of
imagination,” to quote the famous phrase of the poet John Keats. If something
is perceived as true by the mind, though
strictly speaking it may not have happened, and if that event is subsequently
seen as a living truth in the minds of millions of other good people who have
been exposed to that same heightened version of reality, then it must on no
account be dismissed as a “lie” ( . . . ) All such stories are
true in a higher metaphysical sense, and to deny them is a sacrilege
( . . . ) We have a sacred obligation to the six million who
died under the tyranny of the evil Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to remember the
dead and dismiss with contempt all attempts to deny the Holocaust by referring
to “fake Holocaust stories.” I repeat: there is no such thing
as a fake Holocaust story. Every Holocaust story is true, 100 per cent true,
whether it happened or not. ( . . . ) In the sublime words of Elie Wiesel: “In literature, certain things
are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not true, even if they did
happen.”
Seymour Zak,
defending “fake Holocaust stories” after Herman Rosenblat’s holocaust story, An Angel at the Fence, was publically
exposed as a pure fabrication. Hollywood
was unmoved. The film production based
upon the book proceeded as planned.
Dogma is the
proximate Rule of Faith. Deny this Catholic truth and this is what follows. So
now we have an infallibly infallible magisterium and a
infallibly non-infallible magisterium! The pope become
the revealer of truth rather than its divine appointed guardian!
This false
accusation railed against Pope Francis, claiming that he is teaching or prompting
heresy in part of his Ordinary Magisterium is in effect a denial of the one of
the essential truths behind the teaching authority of the Roman Pontiff, who is
granted Divine assistance which prevents him from erring in matters of faith
and morals, even when teaching non-infallibly.
So while there
may be certain deficiencies present in the Ordinary Magisterium, the faithful
are still required to submit their will and intellect to its higher prudential
judgment by giving religious assent, and such deficiencies can never fall into
error in matters of faith and morals through the promise of Divine assistance
accorded to even these non-infallible pronouncements.
Emmett O'Regan,
published by Vatican Insider
And,
lastly, to sum all up in a word.
As the Incarnation is God’s Book of Life, the knowledge of his Sacred Heart is
the interpretation and the unfolding of that Book. The whole mystery of God and
of man, and the relations of God and man in grace and in glory, are all written
in the Sacred Heart. They that know the Sacred Heart know God; they that love
the Sacred Heart love God; and they that are made like to the Sacred Heart are
made like to God. It is the compendium of the whole science of God, of the
whole way of salvation, of the whole gospel of eternal life.
Cardinal Henry
Edward Manning, The Sacred Heart, God's Way of Love
"I love
them that love Me: and they that in the morning early
watch for Me shall find Me."
Prov. 8:17
Religious Liberty from Vatican II has its root in the Americanist
Heresy
On every side the dread phantom of war
holds sway: there is scarce room for another thought in the minds of men. The
combatants are the greatest and wealthiest nations of the earth; what wonder,
then, if, well provided with the most awful weapons modern military science has
devised, they strive to destroy one another with refinements of horror. There
is no limit to the measure of ruin and of slaughter; day by day the earth is
drenched with newly-shed blood, and is covered with the bodies of the wounded
and of the slain. Who would imagine as we see them thus filled with hatred of
one another, that they are all of one common stock, all of the same nature, all
members of the same human society? ....We implore those in whose hands are
placed the fortunes of nations to hearken to Our
voice. Surely there are other ways and means whereby violated rights can be
rectified. Let them be tried honestly and with good will, and let arms
meanwhile be laid aside.
Benedict XV, Ad beatissimi apostolorum, November 1, 1914
“We consider the establishment of our
country’s independence, the shaping of its liberties and laws, as a work of
special Providence, its framers ‘building better than they knew,’ the
Almighty’s hand guiding them. We believe that our country’s heroes were the
instruments of the God of nations in establishing this home of freedom; to both
the Almighty and to His instruments in the work we look with grateful
reverence. And to maintain the inheritance of freedom which they have left us,
should it ever–which God forbid—be imperiled, our Catholic citizens will be
found to stand forward as one man, ready to pledge anew ‘their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor.’”
Archbishop (soon to be Cardinal) James
Gibbons, addressing the American bishops at the Third Plenary Council of
Baltimore, 1884 attended by 14 archbishops and 61 bishops.
Moved to the very depths of our hearts by
the stirring appeal of the President of the United States, and by the action of
our national Congress, we accept whole-heartedly and unreservedly the decree of
that legislative authority proclaiming this country to be in a state of war.
Inspired neither by hate nor fear, but by the holy sentiments of truest
patriotic fervor and zeal, we stand ready, we and all the flock committed to
our keeping, to cooperate in every way possible with our President and our
national government, to the end that the great and holy cause of liberty may
triumph and that our beloved country may emerge from this hour of test stronger
and nobler than ever. Our people, as ever, will rise as one man to serve the
nation.
Pledge of U.S. Catholic Archbishops, April
18,1917; sent to President Woodrow Wilson by Cardinal
James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, the leading Catholic prelate in the
United States.
“The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty
to country. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his
country’s call.”
Cardinal James Gibbons,
Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), April 1917 in support of the U.S.
declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Balfour Declaration agreement
committed the British to deliver Palestine into Jewish hands in return for the
Jews bringing the United States into WWI in support of the British. Cardinal
James Gibbons was the chief propagator of the heresy of Americanism which
became settled Novus Ordo doctrine after Vatican II (religious liberty)
primarily by the work of Fr. John Courtney Murray who greatly admired Cardinal
Gibbons. Gibbons did his best to align American Catholics with Jewish interests
to bring the United States into the Great War. In doing so Gibbons worked
directly to undermine the peace plans of Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict
devised a generous peace plan and contacted Cardinal Gibbons to do what he
could to influence the United States government to back his offer of a
negotiated peace. Gibbons did nothing of the sort. While giving lip service to
the Pope's peace plan six months too late, he in fact never contacted President
Wilson or any official of the government to even mention Pope Benedict's peace
plan. Gibbons was too busy building the National Catholic War Council (NCWC)
and supporting the call of universal military service. The purpose of the NCWC
as Gibbons said in a letter to all American bishops was to form “the mental and
moral preparation of our people for the war.”
To Congar's
credit, he at least told the truth about what he helped destroy!
"It cannot
be denied that the Declaration on Religious Liberty does say materially something
else than the Syllabus of 1864; it even says just about the opposite of Propositions 15 and 77 to 79 of this
document..... I collaborated on the final paragraphs which left me less
satisfied. It involved demonstrating
that the theme of religious liberty was already contained in Scripture. Now, it
isn't there."
Cardinal Yves Marie Joseph Congar, O.P., forbidden to teach by the Church
and whose books were suppressed in the early 1950s, made a peritus at Vatican
II by Novus Ordo St. John XXIII, and is considered by many to have been the
most influential of all the periti. He was raised to the cardinalate by Novus
Ordo St. John Paul II. He rejected the dogmatic teaching of Trent which his
teacher and mentor, Fr. Marie-Dominique
Chenu, O.P., derisively called “Baroque theology”.
Excerpts from the Diary of Msgr. Joseph Fenton:
·
“He
[Cardinal Ottaviani] remarked that we were on the eve of the Council, and that
no one knew who the Council’s theologians were to be.” (Sept. 28, 1962)
·
“It is a crime
that we did not take the Anti-Modernist Oath. Poor O[ttaviani] must have failed
to have our own profession passed by the central commission. It contained
his condemnation of [Fr. John Courtney] Murray [the Americanist heretic who
structured the Council teaching on Religious Liberty].” (Oct. 9, 1962)
·
“I had
always thought that this council was dangerous. It was started for no
sufficient reason. There was too much talk about what it was supposed to
accomplish. Now I am afraid that real trouble is on the way.” (Oct. 13,
1962)
·
“I
started to read the material on the Liturgy, and I was shocked at the bad
theology. They actually have been stupid enough [to say] that the Church
is ‘simul humanam et divininam, visibilem et invisibilem’ [at the same
time human and divine, visible and invisible]. And they speak of the Church
working ‘quousque unum ovile fiat et unus pastor’ [until there be one fold
and one shepherd], as if that condition were not already achieved.” (Oct. 19,
1962)
·
“I do not
think that any little work on our part is going to bring good to the Church. We
should, I believe, face the facts. Since the death of [Pope] St. Pius X the
Church has been directed by weak and liberal popes, who have flooded the
hierarchy with unworthy and stupid men. This present conciliar set-up makes
this all the more apparent. [Fr.] Ed Hanahoe, the only intelligent and
faithful member of [Cardinal] Bea’s secretariat has been left off the list of
the periti. Such idiots as [Mgr. John
S.] Quinn and the sneak [Fr. Frederick] McManus have been put on. [Fr. George]
Tavard is there as an American, God help us. From surface appearance it
would seem that the Lord Christ is abandoning His Church. The thoughts of many
are being revealed. As one priest used to say, to excuse his own liberalism,
which, in the bottom of his heart he knew was wrong, ‘for the last few
decades the tendency in Rome has been to favor the liberals.’ That is the
policy now. We can only do what we can to overt an ever more complete
disloyalty to Christ.” (Oct. 19, 1962)
·
“[Fr.] Ed
Hanahoe gave me two books on Modernism. In one of them I found evidence that
the teaching in the first chapter of the new schema on the Church [that became
the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen
Gentium] and the language are those of [the excommunicated Modernist Fr.
George Tyrrell [who died outside the Catholic Church and was denied
ecclesiastical burial]. May God preserve His Church from that chapter. If it passes, it will be a great evil. I must pray
and act.” (Sept. 24, 1963)
Paul VI
declared Novus Ordo Saint. So just what is a “Novus Ordo Saint”?
A Novus Ordo
Saint is a man-made saint. Contrasted with Catholic saints
who are God-made saints. In virtue of their union with God they are
sanctified, and therefore, Catholic Saints exhibit heroic virtue in their
lives. God confirms their sanctity by working miracles through their
intercession and thus, a cult of veneration (dulia) develops and spreads
throughout the Church. The Church recognizes God's evidence that they are
saints and declares this fact to the universal Church. Contrary to this, Novus
Ordo Saints are man-made saints and their elevation to the title of sainthood
is for the purpose of promoting the human ideology exemplified in their lives.
There is no real cult of veneration (dulia) among the faithful to Novus Ordo
Saints. Since God does not work true miracles through the intercession of
man-made saints, only man-made miracles are required for the beatification of
man-made Novus Ordo Saints. Finally, the Novus Ordo beatification process does
have a promotor fidei, the so-called “devil’s advocate,” although his
role has been change as the promotor ideologiae. The greatest
difference between Catholic Saints and Novus Ordo Saints is that the former are
in heaven and the latter, very well may not be.
If the damned
were asked 'Why are you in hell?', they would answer:
'For having resisted the Holy Ghost.' If
the Saints were asked: 'Why are you in heaven?', they
would answer: 'For having listened to the Holy Ghost.'
St. John Mary Vianney,
Cure d'Ars
The necessary
first act of liturgical corruption is the 'Dialogue Mass' whose end is to
destroy liturgical recollection and contemplation!
In recollection
and contemplation - kindred but not identical attitudes - we encounter two more
basic constituents of religious life. Recollection is a condition of all truly
wakeful and deep modes of living, and hence indispensable for our
transformation in Christ. Contemplation,
again, is the source that feeds all
life in Christ, and at the same time, the end
in which that life finds its fulfillment.
Dietrich Von
Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ
Pope Pachapapa does believe in "proselytism" as
long as the proselyte is being converted FROM the Catholic faith and not TO it!
Conversion: of the Amazon, or of the Church?
CatholicCulture.org | October 25, 2019 — An
article published last week in Civilta Cattolica — the journal edited
by Father Antonio Spadaro, one the Pope’s closest associates — announces: “The
Synod of the Amazon is called to be an occasion for ‘conversion.’” Read the
whole essay carefuly (if you can plow through the blizzard of
ecclesiastical jargon), and you might have the impression that the goal is the
conversion of the Catholic Church, not the people of the Amazon region.
The call to conversion comes from the
peripheries, Civilta tells us, and “the Church is called to listen to
its voice and to assume the commitment to conversion.” The Synod, we are told,
can’t expect to change the people of the Amazon, because “the periphery can
contribute to the transformation of the center to the extent that it does not
lose its identity.”
So we are to transform the culture of the
Church, but not of the Amazon? That is, to put it mildly, not the attitude of
Catholic missionaries in previous generations. But then, one of the key figures
in this Synod is a bishop who boasts that he has never baptized a member of the
Amazon’s indigenous tribes.
And Civilta, too, takes a novel
approach to missionary work, as becomes evident a few paragraphs later in the
essay:
“If God’s dream is the redemption of
humanity,…”
God’s dream?
Official
Explanation of Light Show on the façade of Roman Catholic Basilicas? It apparently has not occurred to Francis
that a “bridge” between “historical reality and divine transcendence” has
already been perfectly accomplished in Jesus Christ and this truth is the very
reason for the basilicas themselves which they perfectly symbolize!
Disturbing light shows projected on Rome’s
churches at close of Amazon Synod
The organizers of the light show stated:
“The artistic light project recalls the perfect geometry of the architectural
structure of the Pantheon and therefore of the Basilica of Santa Maria ad
Martyres, transforming the oculus into a powerful light source: the light,
taken as a symbol of God's revelation and of its presence in history, it
emanates from the basilica as a bridge between the earth and the sky, as an
element of communion between historical reality and divine transcendence.”
(????????)
The project had cooperation from Italy’s
Ministry of Culture and the Vicariate of Rome, thus ensuring Vatican approval.
LIFESITENEWS
Santa
Maria sopra Minerva
AMAZON SYNOD:
Why does the “New Evangelization,” not just permit, but require a married
clergy?
In his
Encyclical Menti Nostre, Pope Pius
XII declares, “The priest is... the organ of the communication and increase of
life in the Mystical Body of Christ. Far from losing the gift and the office of
paternity because of his celibacy, the priest increases them immeasurably,
since if he does not beget children for this passing life on earth, he begets
them for that of life which is heavenly and eternal.” Parents of children collaborate
with God on the natural level in the communication of life to new human beings,
of rearing and educating them for the glory of God. The priest has an
“immeasurably” higher calling to beget children of God, that is, of
proselytizing human beings to faith in the truths God has revealed and
obedience to the laws which He commands. The New Evangelization radically
opposes proselytizing anyone therefore, the priest no
longer begets children to God and turns to begetting of natural progeny. The
New Evangelization is spiritually sterile. The Novus Ordo priest is a clerical
gelding. He is worthless to both man and God.
CLOSING
COMMENTS from the Pope Pachamama
The
"beam" in his "own eye"!
“How many times
do those who are prominent, like the Pharisee with respect to the tax
collector, raise up walls to increase distances,
making other people feel even more rejected.
Or by considering them backward and of little worth, they despise their
traditions, erase their history, occupy their lands, and usurp their goods….
Worship of self carries on hypocritically with its rites and ‘prayers,’
forgetting the true worship of God which is always expressed in love of one’s
neighbor.”
Pope Francis,
ending sermon from the Amazonian Synod
COMMENT: How the hypocrite Francis is blind to the
‘beam in his own eye.’ The arrogant pretense that he and his Novus Ordite cronies actually
know anything about the “worship of God” and the “love of one’s neighbor.” Catholic institutions of charity have
collapsed since Vatican II because these institutions were staffed by countless
vocations, men and women who gave their lives in the service of the love of
their fellow man for the love of God.
Vocations have dried up and these institutions have closed their doors
because without faith, there is no charity.
Furthermore, no
one, absolutely no one, has been considered of “little worth” more than
Catholics faithful to our “received and approved” traditions of the Catholic
Church which produced these vocations.
Faithful Catholics have had their “traditions despised,” their “history
erased,” their churches and shrines “occupied,” and their “goods usurped,” by
the philistines of Vatican II.
The Mission of
Ss. Peter & Paul has set out to recover and restore this despised heritage
by which alone the faith can be known and communicated to others, from which
alone true charity may once more abound.
May our Good God cleanse His Church from this corrupt pontificate of
Francis and everything he represents.
Do you want to
be sure of never resisting God? Then remember always our Lord's own words: The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh
is weak. We must watch and pray, as He bids us, that we enter not into
temptation. Watch, so as not to expose ourselves or give advantage to the
enemy; pray, in order that we may obtain from God the strength we need.
Abiding, thus, in the salutary fear of being unfaithful to grace, God will
preserve us from all evil. Or, if He permits us from time to time to realize
our weakness, it will never be by a deadly fall; He will interpose His own hand
between us and the blow, to prevent it from doing us harm. He will quickly
raise us up again, and we shall be all the stronger afterwards.
Rev. John Grou,
S.J., Spiritual Maxims
“Revelation manifests itself more and more
each day… it’s always moving.”
It is a dogma
of divine and Catholic faith that Revelation was completed at the death of the
last Apostle!
Ideologies are
bewitching; and so Paul says: “Oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?”
Those who preach with ideologies: everything’s right! They are bewitching: it’s all clear! But
look, God’s revelation isn’t clear eh? God’s revelation manifests itself more
and more each day; it is always moving. Is it clear? Crystal clear! It is Him,
but we have to find it along the way. Those who think they possess the whole
truth are not just ignorant, Paul goes as far as to call them ‘foolish’ for
letting themselves be bewitched.
Pope Francis,
sermon, October 6, 2016
Pope Francis open the Youth
Synod with novel ferula that is most fitting for his LGBT agenda!
Stang: The stang is a straight branch
with a fork or Y at one end, and is most used in ritual circle as a type of
centerpiece representing the magick of the three –the trinity– in the following
ways: Earth, Sea, and Sky; Body, Mind and Spirit; God, Goddess and Unity; the
three faced of the God; the three faces of the Goddess; and the crossroads of
life. Stangs used today are normally five to six feet in height and are often
decorated with ribbons and flowers that match the seasonal ritual. The stang
also relates to the legend of the World Tree, and in some ritual groups it is
the pole of libation, where gifts of food and liquid are arranged or poured by
the base in honor of the Gods. This is similar to the pole erected in the
center of a Voodoo rite, dedicated to Damballah, called the Ponteau Mitan. The
stang is normally place at the north (the seat of all power) or directly behind
the altar. A few groups, often with Druidic leanings, place the stang in the
center of the circle.
Definition provided by "Magickal
Necessities by Witches of the Craft"
A Forked Staff: Perfect Symbol for the Synod on Youth and with its
“synodal” Blah, Blah, Blah
Fatima Perspectives #1239; By Chris Ferrara
As one website observes, when the
Antichrist arrives to preach his lies among men, seducing “(if it were
possible) even the elect” (Mk. 13:22), his forked tongue “will have the
eloquence of angels, his honeyed words will pierce to the very heart of those
who hear him. His arguments and positions will be so well presented that even
those who recognize him will be hard pressed to resist what he has to say.”
The Antichrist will make the devil’s ultimate
sales pitch. For now, however, the forked tongue belongs to lesser
voices, lacking all eloquence and nuance, including those who will be spouting
empty demagogic slogans and emotivist rubbish at the Synod of Youth and Blah,
Blah, Blah now underway in Occupied Rome.
We have heard it all before at the last
phony Synod, which was merely a disguise for what Francis wanted from the
beginning and shamelessly passed off as the voice of the Holy Ghost. And
now — bearing a forked staff, appropriately enough — Francis has said it all
again in his homily at the beginning of this elaborate stage show for further
subversion of the Church:
For we know that our young people will be capable of prophecy and
vision to the extent that we, who are already adult or elderly, can dream and
thus be infectious in sharing those dreams and hopes that we carry in our
hearts…
May the Spirit grant us the grace to be synodal Fathers anointed with
the gift of dreaming and of hoping. We will then, in turn, be able to anoint
our young people with the gift of prophecy and vision…
Hope challenges us, moves us and shatters that conformism which says,
“it’s always been done like this”. Hope asks us to get up and look directly
into the eyes of young people and see their situations….
And this demands that we be really careful against succumbing to a self-preservation and self-centredness which gives
importance to what is secondary yet makes secondary what is important.
The gift of that ability to listen, sincerely and prayerfully, as free
as possible from prejudice and conditioning, will help us to be part of those
situations which the People of God experience….
This disposition protects us from the temptation of falling into
moralistic or elitist postures, and it protects us from the lure of abstract
ideologies that never touch the realities of our people….
Here we go again: “prophesy and vision,”
“dreams and hopes,” “see their situations,” eschewing “conformism,” moving
beyond what is “secondary,” freedom from “prejudice and conditioning,” rejecting
“moralistic or elitist postures” versus “the realities of our people.”
In other words: another poisonous dose of
situation ethics to follow the recent scandal of “permission” for Holy
Communion to be administered to people who intend to continue engaging in
sexual relations within “second marriages” which constitute “none other than
disgraceful and base concubinage, repeatedly condemned by the Church,” to quote
Blessed Pope Pius XI.
This preposterous sham of a Synod features
the attendance of two communist Chinese bishops handpicked by Beijing from the
ranks of the Catholic Patriotic Association, which, following the Vatican
sellout of the Underground Church, promptly declared its “independence” from
Rome. Francis ludicrously declared in his homily that the attendance of these
puppets of Beijing and its “independent” pseudo-Church means that “the
communion of the entire Episcopate with the Successor of Peter is yet more
visible thanks to their presence.”
The inevitable outcome of this sham
(barring a veritable miracle) will be a further erosion of the Church’s moral
foundations under the specious pretext of an expression of the “ordinary
Magisterium” that takes into account “situations” and “concrete realities” — as
if reality and morality were somehow opposed, when in fact it is conformity to
God’s moral law that leads a soul to the reality of true freedom.
God help us. God rescue us. Holy
Mother of God, intercede for us and obtain for the Church that holy and
courageous Pope who will put an end to this utter madness by doing at long last
what You requested of the Roman Pontiff nearly a century ago at Tuy: the
Consecration of Russia to Your Immaculate Heart.
Pope Francis
the Space Cadet
“Time is
Greater than Space: A constant tension exists between fullness and
limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession, while
limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do with
fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us,
while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression of
enclosure. People live poised between each individual moment and the greater,
brighter horizon of the utopian future as the final cause which draws us to
itself. Here we see a first principle for progress in building a people: time is greater than space.”
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, “Time is Greater than Space”
“God manifests himself in
historical revelation, in history. Time initiates processes, and space crystallizes
them. God is in history, in the processes. We must initiate processes, rather
than occupy spaces.”
Pope Francis,
Interview with Anthony Spadaro
Since “time
is greater than space,” I would make it clear that not all discussions
of doctrinal, moral, or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of
the magisterium. Unity of teaching and practice is certainly necessary in the
Church, but this does not preclude various ways of interpreting some aspects of
that teaching or drawing certain consequences from it. This will always be the
case as the Spirit guides us towards the entire truth (cf. Jn 16:13), until he
leads us fully into the mystery of Christ and enables us to see all things as
he does. Each country or region, moreover, can seek solutions better suited to
its culture and sensitive to its traditions and local needs. For “cultures are
in fact quite diverse and every general principle…needs to be inculterated, if
it is to be respected and applied.”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia
CATHOLIC PROPHECY
May 13, 1820: I saw also the relationship
between the two popes. . . I saw how baleful would be the consequences of this
false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the
city (of Rome). The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness. . .
Then, the vision seemed to extend on every side. Whole Catholic communities
were being oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of their freedom. I saw
many churches close down, great miseries everywhere, wars and bloodshed. A wild
and ignorant mob took to violent action. But it did not last long.
Once more I saw that the Church of Peter
was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect, while storms were damaging
it. But I saw also that help was coming when distress had reached its peak. I
saw again the Blessed Virgin ascend on the Church and spread her mantle [over
it]. I saw a Pope who was at once gentle, and very
firm. . . I saw a great renewal, and the Church rose high in the sky.
Sept. 12, 1820: I saw a strange church
being built against every rule. . . No
angels were supervising the building operations. In that church, nothing came
from high above. . . There was only division and chaos. It is probably a church
of human creation, following the latest fashion, as well as the new heterodox church of Rome, which seems of the same kind. . .
I saw again the strange big church that was
being built there (in Rome). There was nothing holy in it. I saw this just as I
saw a movement led by Ecclesiastics to which contributed angels, saints and
other Christians. But there (in the strange big church) all the work was being
done mechanically (i.e. according to set rules and formulae). Everything was
being done according to human reason. . .
I saw all sorts of people, things,
doctrines, and opinions. There was something proud, presumptuous, and violent
about it, and they seemed to be very successful. I did not see a single Angel nor a single saint helping in the work. But far away in the
background, I saw the seat of a cruel people armed with spears, and I saw a
laughing figure which said: “Do build it as solid as you can; we will pull it
to the ground.”
Blessed Anna Katherina Emmerich, Catholic
Prophecy by Ives DuPont
“Europe will return to the
faith or…. perish.”
Hilaire Belloc
“If you love me
you will keep my commandments… He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them;
he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall
be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him… If
you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my
Father’s commandments, and do abide in his love… In this we know that we love
the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments.” (John 14:15;
14:21; 15:10; 1 John 5:2)
Pope Francis
will learn, souls are “condemned for ever” who teach the Lutheran heresy of
justification & deny the Catholic dogma that to abide in “true charity” is
“conditional” upon keeping the commandments!
“The way of the Church is not to condemn anyone
for ever; it is to pour out the balm of God’s mercy on all those who ask for it
with a sincere heart… For true charity is always unmerited,
unconditional and gratuitous….
It is a matter of reaching out to everyone, of
needing to help each person find his or her proper way of participating in the
ecclesial com-munity and thus to experience being touched by an “unmerited,
unconditional and gratuitous” mercy. No one can be condemned for ever, because
that is not the logic of the Gospel!”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia, paragraphs 296 and 297
Open Enemies of the Kingship of Jesus Christ
“Someone could ask himself: why is the Pope
going with the Muslims and not just Catholics? With Muslims, we are descendants
of the same father, Abraham. There are many religions, but they always look
towards heaven; they look to God. What God wants is brotherhood among us, in a
special way with our brothers, sons of Abraham like us, the Muslims.”
Pope Francis the Mason, proselytizing for the
Masonic Brotherhood One World Religion
Devotions to the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Requiem aeternam dona eis domine; et lux perpetual luceat eis. Requiescant in pace.
Amen.
(Eleternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine
upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.)
· Sunday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood, which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in the Garden, deliver the
souls in purgatory, and especially that one which is the most forsaken of all,
and bring it into Thy glory, where it may praise and bless Thee for ever.
Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal
rest, etc.
· Monday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in His cruel scourging, deliver
the souls in purgatory , and among them all, especially that soul which is
nearest to its entrance into Thy glory, that it may soon begin to praise Thee
for ever. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary,
Eternal rest, etc.
· Tuesday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus that was shed in His bitter crowning
with thorns, deliver the souls in purgatory, and among them all, particularly
that soul which is in the greatest need of our prayers, in order that it may
not long be delayed in praising Thee in Thy glory and blessing Thee for
ever. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary,
Eternal rest, etc.
· Wednesday
O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech
Thee by the Precious Blood of Thy divine son Jesus that was shed in the streets
of Jerusalem whilst He carried on His sacred shoulders the heavy burden of the
Cross, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that one which is richest
in merits in Thy sight, so that, having soon attained the high place in glory
to which it is destined, it may praise Thee triumphantly and bless Thee for
ever. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary,
Eternal rest, etc.
· Thursday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Body and Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus, which He himself on the night
before His Passion gave as meat and drink to His beloved Apostles and
bequeathed to His Holy Church to be the perpetual Sacrifice and life-giving
nourishment of His faithful people, deliver the souls in purgatory, but most of
all, that soul which was most devoted to this Mystery of infinite love, in
order that it may praise Thee therefor, together with Thy divine Son and the
Holy Spirit in Thy glory forever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Friday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood which Jesus Thy divine Son did shed that day upon the tree of
the Cross, especially from His Sacred Hands and Feet, deliver the souls in
purgatory, and particularly that soul for whom I am most bound to pray, in
order that I may not be the cause which hinders Thee from admitting it quickly
to the possession of Thy glory where it may praise Thee and bless Thee for
evermore. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary,
Eternal rest, etc.
· Saturday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
precious Blood which gushed forth from the sacred Side of Thy divine Son Jesus
in the presence and to the great sorrow of His most holy Mother, deliver the
souls in purgatory and among them all especially that soul which has been most
devout to this noble Lady, that it may come quickly into Thy glory, there to
praise Thee in her, and her in Thee through all the ages. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
Heroic Act of Charity for the Souls on Purgatory
An “Heroic Act of Charity” is the offering of the
satisfactory value (not the merits) of all of our sufferings and
works of our rest of our lives and of any time we may spend in Purgatory
for the relief of the souls in Purgatory. We do this by first deciding to do
so, and then praying (using our own words or the more formal prayer below) to
offer these things to God through Mary’s hands.
Doing this is not a matter of taking a vow; it doesn’t bind under pain of sin,
and it is revokable (unless one vows never to revoke the Act). But it is a
tremendous sacrifice, hence the name. It is truly heroic, a giving up of one’s
own earned relief from the temporal effects of sin -- even relief of the
sufferings of Purgatory -- for the good of others.
In addition to asking God to use their satisfactory works for the souls in
Purgatory, those who make this Act also receive a plenary indulgence (under the
usual conditions) for the souls in Purgatory each time they receive Communion,
and each time they hear Mass on Mondays for the sake of the departed. Words to
a formal Act of Heroic Charity are as follows:
O Holy and Adorable Trinity, desiring to aid in the
relief and release of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, through my devotion to the
Blessed Virgin Mary, I cede and renounce, on behalf of these souls, all the
satisfactory part of my works, and all the suffrages which may be given to me
after my death. In their entirety, I offer them to Mary, the Most Holy Mother
of God, that she may use them, according to her good pleasure, for those souls
of the faithful departed whom she desires to alleviate their suffering. O my
God, deign to accept and bless my offering which I
make to Thee through the most august Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Amen.
Quotable Pope
Francis - BYOC (Bring Your Own Clarity)
Each one of us
has his own vision of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and to
fight the evil as he understands them. This would be enough to change the
world.
Pope Francis
Spiritual
interference in personal life is not possible.
Pope Francis
If a homosexual
person is of good will and is seeking God, I am no one to judge him. Religion
has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in
creation has made us free.
Pope Francis
Scalfari: “Is
there a single vision of the good? And who establishes it?”
Pope Francis:
“Each of us has his vision of the good. We must incite him to proceed toward
what he thinks to be the good.”
Vatican II,
inspired by Pope John and by Paul VI, decided to look to the future with a
modern spirit and to open to modern culture. The council fathers knew that
opening to modern culture meant religious ecumenism and dialogue with
nonbelievers. After then very little was done in that
direction. I have the humility and the ambition of wanting to do
it.
Pope Francis