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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.
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contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept,
grant, direction, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to
do so, let him understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the
Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine
Codification of the “received and approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Pentecost Sunday
Whitsunday
Ember Week
May 28, 2023
Our Lord laid the foundations of His Church during His public life, and after His resurrection He gave it the powers necessary for its mission. It was by the Holy Ghost that the apostles were to be trained and endued with strength from on High (Gospel). At Pentecost we celebrate the first manifestation of the Holy Ghost among our Lord’s disciples and the foundation of the Church itself. Hence the choice of the basilica dedicated to St. Peter for today’s station.
We read in the Gospel that our Lord foretold the coming of the Paraclete to His disciples and the Epistle shows us the realization of that promise.
It was at
the third hour of the day (Tierce, nine o’clock) that the Spirit of God
descended upon the Cenacle and a mighty wind which blew suddenly upon the
house, together with the appearance of tongues of fire within, were the
wonderful tokens of His coming. Taught
by the “light of Thy Holy Spirit” (Collect), and filled by the gifts of the
same Spirit poured out upon them (Sequence), the apostles become new men to go
forth and renew the whole world (Introit).
It is at High Mass, at the third hour, that we also receive the Holy
Spirit whom our Lord “going up above all the heavens, on this day sent down…on
the children of adoption” (Preface); for each of the mysteries of the cycle
brings forth its fruits of grace in our souls on the day which the Church keeps
as its anniversary.
During Advent we raised to the Incarnate Word the cry: “Come Lord, and purge the sins of Thy people”; at this season let us, with the Church, say to the Holy Ghost, “Come, O Holy Spirit, and fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love” (Alleluia).
Of all the ejaculatory prayers this is the most beautiful and necessary, for from the Holy Ghost, that “sweet Guest of our soul” flows all our supernatural life.
INTROIT:
Wis 1,7. The Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world, alleluia; and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Ps 67. Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and let them that hate Him flee from His face. Glory be, etc. The Spirit of the Lord, etc.
COLLECT:
O God, who on this day didst teach the hearts of Thy faithful people by the light of Thy Holy Spirit, grant us by the same Spirit to have right judgment in all things and ever rejoice in His holy consolation. Through our Lord, etc.
EPISTLE: Acts, 2, 1-11.
When the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue. And they were all amazed and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak Galileans? And how have we heard every man our own tongue wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
Why does the Church celebrate
this day so solemnly?
To praise and thank God for sending the Holy Ghost, Who gave so many spiritual
graces and fruits to men.
Why did the Holy Ghost appear
under visible signs?
It was done to attract attention, and to indicate outwardly what took place
inwardly. The roar of the mighty wind, according to the language of the
prophets, pointed to the approaching Godhead, and was intended to announce
something extraordinary. The appearance of tongues signified the gift of
languages, and the division of them the difference of gifts imparted by the
Holy Ghost. The fire which lightens, warms, and with which the apostles, and
mankind through them, should be filled, and indicated the rapid extension of
Christianity.
What were the effects of the
descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles?
Being enlightened and made acquainted with all truth, freed from all fear and
faith-heartedness, and undaunted, the apostles preached everywhere Christ
crucified, and for love of Him endured with joy all sufferings. Their
discourses were understood by all present, as if they had carefully learned
each particular language. From that time Christianity spread with wonderful
rapidity throughout the whole world. Pray the Holy Ghost today to enlighten you
also, to inflame you with holy love, and to give you strength daily to increase
in all goodness.
GREAT ALLELUIA: Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. 103. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created, and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth, alleluia,
(All kneel) Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful: and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.
SEQUENCE: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Holy Ghost! Lord of light! From Thy clear celestial height, Thy pure, beaming radiance give:
Come, Thou, Father of the poor! Come, with treasures which endure! Come, Thou light of all that live!
Thou of all consolers best, Visiting the troubled breast, Dost refreshing peace bestow:
Thou in toil art comfort sweet; Pleasant coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe.
Light immortal! Light divine! Visit Thou these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being fill.
If Thou take Thy grace away, Nothing pure in man will stay; All his good is turn’d to ill.
Heal our wounds-our strength renew; On our dryness pour Thy dew; Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will; Melt the frozen, warm the chill; Guide the steps that go astray.
Thou, on those who evermore Thee confess and Thee adore, In Thy sevenfold gifts descend.
Give them comfort when they die; Give them life with Thee on high; Give them joys which never end. Amen. Alleluia.
GOSPEL: John 14, 23-31.
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: If any one love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and will make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words. And the word which you have heard is not Mine: but the Father's Who sent Me. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. You have heard that I said to you: I go away and I come unto you. If you loved Me, you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father: for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe. I will not now speak many things with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and in Me he hath not anything. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given Me commandment, so do I.
Why is the Holy Ghost called
a spirit, and the Holy Spirit?
Because He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and is, as it were, the Spirit
of the Father and the Son.
What does the Holy Ghost
effect in men?
He renews their hearts, by cleansing them from sin, by imparting to them the
sanctification and likeness to God gained through Christ, together with all
these supernatural gifts and graces by which they can become holy and happy,
and brings forth in them wonderful fruits of sanctity.
Which are these seven gifts of the Holy Ghost?
1. The gift of wisdom, which teaches us to value
the heavenly more than the earthly, infuses into us a longing for the same, and
points out to us the right means to salvation.
2. The gift of understanding, which enlightens
us to rightly understand the mysteries and doctrines of our holy religion.
3. The gift of counsel in doubtful cases, which
enables us to know what to do or omit, and what to advise others. This gift is
particularly necessary for superiors, for those who are changing their state of
life, and for those who are entangled in perplexing and unfortunate marriage relations.
4. The
gift of fortitude, which banishes all timidity and human respect, strengthens a
man to hate sin, and steadfastly to practice virtue; preferring contempt,
temporal loss, persecution, and even death, to denying Christ by word or deed.
5. The gift of knowledge, by which the Holy
Ghost enlightens us with an inner light, that we may know ourselves, the snares
of self-love, of our passions, of the devil, and of the world, and may choose
the fittest means to overcome them.
6. The
gift of piety and devotion, which infuses into us veneration for God and divine
things, and joy in conversing with Him.
7. The
gift of the fear of God, that childlike fear, which dreads no other misfortune
than that of displeasing God, and which accordingly flees sin as the greatest
evil.
Which are the fruits of the
Holy Ghost?
They are the twelve following: 1. Charity, 2. Joy, 3. Peace, 4. Patience,
5. Benignity, 6. Goodness, 7.
Long-suffering,
8. Mildness, 9. Faith, 10. Modesty, 11. Continency, 12. Chastity. These fruits should be visible in the Catholic, for thereby men shall know that the Holy Ghost dwells in him, as the tree is known by its fruit.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 67. Continue this, O God, which Thou hast wrought in us; in Thy temple which is in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to Thee, alleluia.
SECRET:
Sanctify, we pray, O Lord, the gifts that we offer, and cleanse our hearts by the light of the Holy Spirit. Through our Lord, etc.
PREFACE FOR PENTECOST:
It is truly meet and just, right and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God: through Christ our Lord. Who going up above all the heavens, and sitting at Thy right hand, on this day sent forth the Holy Ghost, as he had promised, on the children of adoption. Wherefore does the whole world rejoice with exceeding great joy all the earth over, and the hosts above and the angelic powers also join in singing the hymn of Thy glory, saying without ceasing: Holy, holy, holy, etc.
COMMUNICANTES:
We pray in union with and keep the most holy day of Pentecost, whereon the Holy Ghost appeared to the Apostles in countless tongues; and also reverence the memory, first, of the glorious Mary, ever a virgin, etc.
HANC IGITUR:
Wherefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, graciously to receive this oblation which we thy servants, and with us thy whole family, offer up to thee on behalf of these also whom thou hast vouchsafed to bring to a new birth by water and the Holy Ghost, giving them remission of all their sins; dispose our days in thy peace; etc.
COMMUNION:
Acts. 2. Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind coming, where they were sitting, alleluia; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, speaking the wonderful works of God, alleluia, alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION:
May the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, O Lord, cleanse our hearts, and so bedew them through and through with His grace that they may be fertile for good works. Through our Lord, etc.
“If any one love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and will make Our abode with him. He that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words.”
The spirit of
independence and of false liberty, which is nowadays so rife amongst us, is a
great enemy to the fear of God; and one of the miseries of our age is, that
there is little fear of God. Familiarity
with God but too frequently usurps the place of that essential basis of the
Christian life. The result is, that
there is no progress in virtue, such people are a prey to illusion; and the
sacraments, which previously worked so powerfully in their souls, are now
well-nigh unproductive. The reason is,
that the gift of fear has been superseded by a conceited self-complacency. Humility has no further sway; a secret and
habitual pride has paralyzed the soul; and seeing that these people scout the
very idea of their ever trembling before the great God of heaven, we may well
ask them if they know who God is.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year on the Gift of Fear
“But before
all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity
coevereth a multitude of sins.”
1 Peter 4:8
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 28th:
28 |
Sun |
Pentecost Sunday (St. Augustine of Canterbury, BpC) |
d1cl |
R |
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Mass 9:00 AM & Noon; Members Ss. Peter &
Paul; Rosary of Reparation 8:30; Confessions 8:00 |
29 |
Mon |
Pentecost Monday (St. Mary
Magdalen del Pazzi,V) |
d1cl |
R |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
30 |
Tue |
Pentecost Tuesday (St. Felix
I, PM) (St.
Ferdinand III, King of Castile) (St. Joan
of Arc, V) |
d1cl |
R |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
31 |
Wed |
Pentecost Wednesday St. Petronilla, V (Queenship of BVM transferred to
6-5) BVM, Mediatrix of All Grace BVM, Queen of All Saints &
Mother of Fair Love |
sd |
R |
F/PA |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass Ember Wednesday |
1 |
Thu |
Pentecost Thursday St. Angela
Merici, V |
sd |
R |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
2 |
Fri |
Pentecost Friday St. Marcellinus & Comp., Mm FIRST FRIDAY |
sd |
R |
F/A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation before Mass Ember
Friday; Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart with Benediction |
3 |
Sat |
Pentecost Saturday St.
Barnabas, Ap FIRST SATURDAY |
sd |
R |
F/PA |
Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:30; Ember Saturday; Holy Hour of Reparation to the
Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart with Benediction |
4 |
Sun |
Trinity Sunday 1st Sunday after Pentecost (St. Francis Caracciolo, C) |
d1cl |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM & Noon; Members Ss. Peter &
Paul; Rosary of Reparation 8:30; Confessions 8:00 |
During the ages of faith,
the Church (which is the only source of all true progress), succeeded in giving
one common language to all the nations that were in union with her. For centuries, the Latin language was the
bond of union between civilized countries.
However distant these might be from one another, there was this link of
connection between them; it was the medium of communication for political
negotiations, for the spread of science, or for friendly epistolary
correspondence. No one was a stranger,
in any part of the west, or even beyond it, who could speak this language. The great heresy of the sixteenth century
robbed us of this as of so many other blessings; it dismembered that Europe
which the Church had united, not only by her faith, but by her language.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of Pentecost
When the Holy Ghost
is come, he will convince the world of sin, because they believed not in
me. How great must, indeed, be the responsibility of
them that have been witnesses of Jesus’ wonderful works, and yet will not
receive his teaching! Jerusalem will be
told that the Holy Ghost has come down upon the disciples: and she will receive
the news with the same indifference as she did the miracles which proved Jesus
to be her Messias. The coming of the
Holy Ghost will serve as a sort of signal of the destruction of the deicide
city. Jesus adds: The Paraclete will convince the world of
justice, because I go to the Father, and ye shall see me no longer. The Apostles, and they that believe their
word, shall be just and holy by faith: they will believe in him that is gone
to the Father in him whom they are to see no longer in this world.
Jerusalem, on the contrary, will remember him only to blaspheme him; the
holiness, the faith, the justice of them that shall believe, will be her
condemnation, and the Holy Ghost will leave her to her fate. Jesus continues: The Paraclete will convince the world of
judgment, because the prince of this world is already judged. They that follow not Christ Jesus, follow
Satan: he is their prince, but his judgment is already
pronounced. The Holy Ghost warns the
followers of the world that their leader is already in eternal
torments. Let them reflect well upon
this; for, the pride of man has no right to reckon upon indulgence; let
it but think of the hell into which even the angels were cast because
they were proud.
St. Augustine
“Non vos relinquam orphanos, alleluia; Vado, et venio ad vos, alleluia,
et gaudebit cor vestrum, alleluia.”
Magnificat Antiphon
“Light immortal!
Light divine!
Visit Thou these hearts of Thine,
And our inmost being fill.
If Thou take Thy grace away,
Nothing pure in man will stay;
All his good is turn’d to ill.”
The coming of the Holy
Ghost is not only an event, which concerns mankind at large: each individual of
the human race is invited to receive this same visit, which today renews the
face of the earth. The merciful
design of the sovereign Lord of all things is to contract a close alliance with
each one of us. Jesus asks but one thing
of us: that we love Him and keep His word. If we do this, He promises us that the Father
will love us, and will take up His abode in our soul. He tells us that the Holy Ghost is to come;
and He is coming that He may, by His presence, complete the habitation of God
within us. The sacred Trinity will turn
this poor dwelling into a new heaven, until such time as we shall be taken,
after this life, to the abode where we shall see our infinitely dear Guest,
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, whose love of us is so incomprehensibly great.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Pentecost
What festival is this?
It is the day on which the Holy Ghost descended in the form of fiery tongues, upon the apostles and disciples, who with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, were assembled in prayer in a house at Jerusalem (Acts 2).
Why is this day called
Pentecost?
The word “Pentecost” is taken from the Greek, and signifies fifty. As St. Jerome explains it, this was the last of the fifty days, commencing with Easter, which the early Christians celebrated as days of rejoicing at the resurrection of the Lord.
Why is this day observed so
solemnly?
Because on this day the Holy Ghost, having descended upon the apostles, the law of grace, of purification from sin, and the sanctification of mankind, was for the first time announced to the world; because on this day the apostles, being filled with the Holy Ghost, commenced the work of purifying and sanctifying mankind, by baptizing three thousand persons who were converted by the sermon of St. Peter; and because on this day the Church of Jesus became visible as a community to the world, and publicly professed her faith in her crucified Saviour.
Why did the Holy Ghost descend on the Jewish Pentecost?
Because on their Pentecost the Jews celebrated the anniversary of the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, and God would show by sending the Holy Ghost on this days that the Old Law had ceased and the New Law commenced. God also chose this time, that the Jews who on this day came together from all countries to Jerusalem to celebrate the Pentecost, might be witnesses of the miracle, and hear the New Law announced by the apostles.
Why is the baptismal font
blessed on the vigil of Pentecost, as on Holy Saturday?
Because the Holy Ghost is the Author of all sanctity and the Fountain of baptismal grace, and because in the Acts (1, 5) the descent of the Holy Ghost itself is called a baptism.
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in
every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have
neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for
the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would
bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of
legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those
who toil and suffer. ... Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither
revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.
Pope Saint Pius X, Our Apostolic Mandate, 1910
We must be thoroughly
convinced that if the Holy Ghost works in our souls to assimilate us to Christ,
He can do so only by opening to us the way of the Cross. Jesus is Jesus Crucified; therefore, there
can be no conformity to Him except by the Cross, and we shall never enter into
the depths of the spiritual life except by entering into the mystery of the
Cross…. Whenever we find ourselves looking for things that are easier, more
commodious, or more honorable; whenever we notice that we are satisfying our
self-love, our pride, or see that we are attached to our own will, let us
remind ourselves that all this is far removed from the inspirations of the Holy
Ghost and, what is worse, it is an obstacle to His action in us.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, Divine Intimacy
For who can fail
to see that society is at the present time, more than in any past age,
suffering from a terrible and deep-rooted malady which, developing every day
and eating into its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction? You
understand, Venerable Brethren, what this disease is - apostasy from God, than
which in truth nothing is more allied with ruin.
St. Pius X, Arduum sane munus, 1903
“Reflect every day on the
fact that He Who has granted you the morning has not promised the evening, and,
should He grant this, He gives no assurance of the following morning. Spend
each day, therefore, as if it were the last; cherish nothing but the will of
God, for you will have to render a strict account for every moment.”
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat
Among the works
comprised in charity to our neighbor the following are the most important:
advice, counsel, succor, forbearance, pardon, edification. These are so
strongly linked with charity that the practice of them indicates the progress
we have made in the practice of charity.
Ven. Louis of Granada, The Sinner’s Guide
Presence
of God
‑
Come, Holy Spirit, fill my heart and enkindle in it the fire of Your Love.
MEDITATION:
1. Pentecost is the plenitude of God's gift to
men. On Christmas Day, God gives us His only‑begotten Son, Christ Jesus,
the Mediator, the Bridge connecting humanity and divinity. During Holy Week,
Jesus, by His Passion, gives Himself entirely for us, even to death on the
Cross. He bathes us, purifying and sanctifying us in His Blood. At Easter,
Christ rises, and His Resurrection, as well as His Ascension, is the pledge of
our own glorification. He goes before us to His Father's house to prepare a
place for us, for in Him and with Him, we have become a part of the divine
Family; we have become children of God, destined for eternal beatitude. But the
gift of God to men does not end there; having ascended into heaven, Jesus, in
union with the Father, sends us His Spirit, the Holy Spirit. The Father and the
Holy Spirit loved us to the point of giving us the Word in the Incarnation; the
Father and the Word so loved us as to give us the Holy Spirit. Thus the three
Persons of the Trinity give Themselves to man, stooping to this poor nothing to
redeem him from sin, to sanctify him, and to bring him into Their own intimacy.
Such is the excessive charity with which God has loved us; and the divine gift
to our souls reaches its culminating point in the gift of the Holy Spirit, who
is the Gift par excellence: Altissimi Donum Dei, Gift of the Most High
God. The Holy Spirit, the bond and pledge of the mutual love of the Father and
the Son, He who accepts, seals, and crowns their reciprocal gift, is given to
our souls through the infinite merits of Jesus, so that He will be able to
complete the work of our sanctification. By His descent upon the Apostles under
the form of tongues of fire, the Holy Spirit shows us how He, the Spirit of
love, is given to us in order to transform us by His charity, and having
transformed us, to lead us back to God.
2.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is not a temporary gift, but a permanent one; in
fact, for a soul who lives in charity, He is the sweet Guest who dwells within
it. “If anyone love Me,” says Jesus in the words of today's Gospel, (Jn. 14,
23‑31), . . . “We will come to him and will make Our abode with him.”
However, this indwelling of the Trinity and hence of the Holy Spirit in the
soul which is in the state of grace, is a gift which can and should increase;
it is a continual giving. The first donation was made when we were baptized; it
was renewed later, confirmed, in a special way, by the Sacrament of
Confirmation, the Sacrament that is, so to speak, the Pentecost of every
Christian soul. Progressive renewals of this gift were made with every increase
in charity. And what of the present? The Holy Spirit, in union with the Father
and the Son, continues to give Himself to the soul more completely, more
profoundly and possessively. Today's Gospel speaks very forcefully about
charity, which is at the same time both the condition for and the result of the
indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our souls. It is the condition, because,
according to Jesus Himself, the three divine Persons dwell only in a soul who
loves; it is the result, because “the charity of God is poured forth in our
hearts by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us” (Rom 5, 5). Divine love
completely preceded us at baptism; without merit on our part and solely through
the merits of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was given to us, and His charity was
gratuitously diffused in us. Thereafter, each time we corresponded to the
divine invitations, by making generous acts of charity, He renewed His
invisible visit to our soul, giving us always new grace and charity. Thus our
supernatural life has developed under the action of the Holy Spirit; it is
caught up in the life‑giving transforming current of His love. In this
way we understand how the Feast of Pentecost can and should represent a new out‑pouring
of the Holy Spirit in our souls, a new visit in which He fills us with His
gifts:
Veni,
Creator Spiritus ‑ mentes tuorum visita; Imple superna gratia ‑
quae tu creasti pectora.
Come,
Holy Ghost, Creator blest, And in our hearts take up Thy rest,
Come
with Thy grace and heavenly aid, To fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
COLLOQUY:
“O Holy Spirit, substantial Love of the
Father and the Son, uncreated Love dwelling in the souls of the just, come down
upon me like a new Pentecost and bring me an abundance of Your gifts, of Your fruits,
and of Your grace; unite Yourself to me as the most sweet Spouse of my soul.
“I consecrate myself entirely to You;
invade me, take me, possess me wholly. Be the penetrating light which illumines
my intellect, the gentle motion which attracts and directs my will, the
supernatural energy which gives energy to my body. Complete in me Your work of
sanctification and love. Make me pure, transparent, simple, true, free,
peaceful, gentle, calm, serene even in suffering, and burning with charity
toward God and my neighbor.
“Accendat in nobis ignem sui amoris et
flammam aeternae caritatis, kindle in me the fire of Your love and the
flame of eternal charity. Multiply in me these holy transports of love which
will bring me rapidly to transforming union.
“Make not only my will, but all my senses
and faculties completely submissive to Your divine will, so that I shall no
longer be ruled by my pride, but solely by Your divine impulse. Then everything
in me will be moved by love, in love, in such a way that when I work, I shall
work through love, and when I suffer, I shall bear everything through love.
Grant that the supernatural may become the ‘natural’ atmosphere in which my
soul moves.
“Make me docile and prompt to follow Your
inspirations. Grant that I may never neglect even one, but may always be Your
faithful little spouse. Make me ever more recollected, more silent, and more
submissive to Your divine action, more alert to receive Your delicate touches.
Draw me into the inmost depths of my heart where You dwell, O sweet, divine
Guest, and teach me to ‘watch continually in prayer.'
“Come, O life‑giving Spirit, to this
poor world and renew the face of the earth; preside over new organizations and
give us Your peace, that peace which the world cannot give. Help Your Church,
give her holy priests and fervent apostles. Fill with holy inspirations the
souls of the good; give calm compunction to sinful souls, consoling refreshment
to the suffering, strength and help to those who are tempted, and light to
those in darkness and in the shadow of death” (Sr. Carmela of the Holy Spirit,
O.C.D.).
“No one shall pray in common with heretics and
schismatics.”
Council of Laodicea
These gifts of the Holy
Ghost are for us, as it were, a divine source whence we draw the living
knowledge of the precepts of Christian life. Moreover, by them we can know
whether the Holy Ghost dwells in us. Catechism of the Council of Trent
For who can fail to see
that society is at the present time, more than in any past age, suffering from
a terrible and deep-rooted malady which, developing every day and eating into
its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction? You understand, Venerable
Brethren, what this disease is - apostasy from God, than which in truth nothing
is more allied with ruin.
St. Pius X, Arduum sane munus, October 4, 1903
“It is not enough to
enter upon the ways of God: we must walk in them, and ever press forward. To refuse to go on is to consent to stand
still for long. In the interior way to which
God introduces us, it is He also Who regulates our speed, causing some to
advance more rapidly, others more slowly.
Our part is never to resist the hand that is urging us on, and to do
nothing to retard our progress…. This progress is retarded by cowardice, faint-heartedness,
infidelity, inconstancy, and by a great number of tiny faults into which we
fall, either for want of vigilance over ourselves, or of attention to what God
is telling us in the depths of our heart…. ‘One thing I do: forgetting the
things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before, I
press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of God in Christ
Jesus’ (Phil 3, 13-14).”
Fr. Nicholas Grou, S.
J., Spiritual Maxims
The just man, that is to say, he who lives
the life of divine grace and acts by the fitting virtues as by means of
faculties, has need of those seven gifts, which are properly attributed to the
Holy Ghost. By means of them the soul is furnished and strengthened so as to be
able to obey more easily and promptly His voice and impulse. Wherefore these
gifts are of such efficacy that they lead the just man to the highest degree of
sanctity; and of such excellence that they continue to exist even in heaven,
though in a more perfect way. By means of these gifts the soul is excited and
encouraged to seek after and attain the evangelical beatitudes which, like the
flowers that come forth in the springtime, are the signs and harbingers of
eternal beatitude. . . .
These sublime truths, which so clearly show
forth the infinite goodness of the Holy Ghost towards us, certainly demand that
we should direct towards Him the highest homage of our love and devotion.
Christians may do this most effectually if they will daily strive to know Him,
to love Him, and to implore Him more earnestly. . . . What should be chiefly
dwelt upon and clearly explained is the multitude and greatness of the benefits
which have been bestowed, and are constantly bestowed, upon us by this divine Giver.
. . . We owe to the Holy Ghost love, because He is God. . . . He is also to be
loved because He is the substantial, eternal, primal Love, and nothing is more
lovable than love. . . . In the second place it will obtain for us a still more
abundant supply of heavenly gifts; for whilst a narrow heart contracts the hand
of the giver, a grateful and mindful heart causes it to expand. . . . Lastly,
we ought confidently and continually to beg of Him to illuminate us daily more
and more with His light and inflame us with His charity: for, thus inspired
with faith and love, we may press onward earnestly towards our eternal reward,
since “He is the pledge of our inheritance.”
Pope Leo XIII, Divinum
illud munus, 1897
Jews,
Moslems and Catholics Do Not Worship The Same God! What Jew and Moslems in fact
do is attribute attributes of the true God to their idols that they worship.
Jesus saith: I am
the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me
(John 14:6)… I and the Father are one (John 10:30)… All things are delivered to
me by my Father. And no one knoweth the
Son, but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he
to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him (Matt. 11:27).... That all men
may honour the Son, as they honour the Father.
He who honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, who hath sent
him (John 5:23)… Whosoever denieth the
Son, the same hath not the Father… He that confesseth the Son, hath the Father
also (1 John 2:23)… Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me (John 14:11)? Whosoever revolteth,
and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same
hath both the Father and the Son (2 John 1:9)… He that hath the Son, hath
life. He that hath not the Son, hath not
life (1 John 5:12)… He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he
that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
him (John 3:36)… For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the
Son also to have life in himself (John 5:26)… Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father. He that
confesseth the Son, hath the Father also (1 John 2:23).
Codex Iuris Canonici (1917)
It is illicit for Catholics in any way to
assist actively or take part in sacred worship of non-Catholics (c. 1258, §1).
Passive or merely material presence, for the sake of civil courtesy, duty, or
respect, for a grave reason which in case of doubt should have the approval of
the Bishop may be tolerated, at the funerals, weddings, and other such
celebrations of non-Catholics, provided there is no danger of perversion or of
scandal (c. 1258, §2).
The
character of a moral act which makes it attributable to a certain person is
called imputability. The imputability of a crime depends on the malice (dolus)
of the culprit or on his culpability (culpa) in being ignorant of the law or in
failing to use due diligence; hence all causes which increase, diminish, or
excuse from malice or culpability, automatically increase, diminish, or excuse
from the imputability of a crime (c. 2199).
Malice here means the deliberate will to violate
the law; opposed to it on the part of the mind is want of knowledge, on the part
of the will, want of freedom (c. 2200, §1). When an external violation of
the law has been committed, malice is presumed in the external forum until the
contrary is proved (c. 2200, §2).
If any ecclesiastic or
layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews or to the meeting-houses of the
heretics to join in prayer with them, let them be deposed and deprived of
communion If any Bishops or Priest or Deacon shall join in prayer with
heretics, let him be suspended from Communion.
Council of Constantinople
III
O Holy Ghost, Soul of
my soul, I adore Thee. Enlighten me,
guide me, fortify me, console me. Tell
me what I should do, give me Thine orders.
I promise to be submissive to all that Thou dost ask of me and to accept
everything that Thou doest permit to happen to me. Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal
Mercier
Certainly such movements as these cannot gain the approval of Catholics.
They are founded upon the false opinions of those who say that, since all
religions equally unfold and signify- though not in the same way - the native,
inborn feeling in us all through which we are borne toward God and humbly
recognize His rule, therefore, all religions are more or less good and
praiseworthy. The followers of this theory are not only deceived and mistaken,
but since they repudiate the true religion by attacking it in its very essence,
they move step by step toward naturalism and atheism. Hence it clearly follows
that anyone who gives assent to such theories and undertakings utterly abandons
divinely revealed religion.
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
The Gifts are like the wind that fills the sail; the Virtues are like
the oars
The Gifts of the Holy Ghost are
habits accompanying sanctifying grace whereby a man is well disposed to receive
the inspirations and movements of the Holy Ghost. In the gifts, therefore, it is the Holy
Ghost Himself who inspires man towards goodness; in the virtues man is moved by
right reason sided by grace. The
gifts of the Holy Ghost are seven in number; wisdom, understanding, knowledge,
counsel, piety, fortitude, and the fear of God.
Each corresponds to a specific virtue.
The Fruits of the Holy Ghost which St. Paul lists as twelve in number,
charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness,
faith, modesty, continence, and chastity, are human acts which result from the
gifts of the Holy Ghost and refresh man with holy and sincere joy. The beatitudes (St. Matthew lists eight) are
external acts of the virtues and gifts which in their own special way lead man
to happiness both on earth and especially in heaven.
Rev. Dominic Prummer, Handbook
of Moral Theology
All ceremonies are professions of faith, in which the interior worship
of God consists. Now man can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as
well as by words: and in either profession, if he make a false declaration, he sins
mortally.
St. Thomas Aquinas, (ST, I-II,
Q. 103, Art. 4)
“To-day the head of the serpent of old was crushed by her”
Leaving aside charity towards God, who
can contemplate the Immaculate Virgin without feeling moved to fulfill that
precept which Christ called peculiarly His own, namely that of loving one
another as He loved us? “A great sign,” thus the Apostle St. John describes a
vision divinely sent him, appears in the heavens: “A woman clothed with the
sun, and with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars upon her
head” (Apoc. xii., 1). Everyone knows that this woman signified the
Virgin Mary, the stainless one who brought forth our Head. The Apostle
continues: “And, being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in
pain to be delivered” (Apoc. xii., 2). John therefore saw the Most Holy
Mother of God already in eternal happiness, yet travailing in a mysterious
childbirth. What birth was it? Surely it was the birth of us who, still in
exile, are yet to be generated to the perfect charity of God, and to eternal
happiness. And the birth pains show the love and desire with which the Virgin
from heaven above watches over us, and strives with unwearying prayer to bring
about the fulfillment of the number of the elect.[….] And let all, with humble prayer and
entreaty, implore of God, through the intercession of Mary, that those who have
abandoned the truth may repent. We know, indeed, from experience that such
prayer, born of charity and relying on the Virgin, has never been vain. True,
even in the future the strife against the Church will never cease, “for there
must be also heresies, that they also who are reproved may be made manifest among
you” (I Cor. xi., 19). But neither will the Virgin ever cease to succor
us in our trials, however grave they be, and to carry on the fight fought by
her since her conception, so that every day we may repeat: “To-day the head of
the serpent of old was crushed by her” (Office Immac. Con., 11. Vespers,
Magnif.).
Pope St. Pius X, Ad Diem Illum
Laetissimum, On the Immaculate Conception, 1904
Bear not the yoke with
unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what
fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever? And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will
dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people. Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing: And I will receive you; and I will be a
Father to you; and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty
(2 Cor. 6:14-18).
We decree that those
who give credence to the teachings of heretics, as well as those who receive,
defend, or patronize them, are excommunicated... If anyone refuses to avoid
such accomplices after they have been ostracized by the Church, let them also
be excommunicated.
Lateran Council IV
“The efficient cause [of our justification] is the
merciful God who washes and sanctifies gratuitously (I Cor. 6: 2), signing and
anointing with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the pledge of our
inheritance” (Eph. 1: 13 f.).
Council of Trent
Kindness is a virtue that does not think about its own interest; does
not wait for the call of duty; has no need of aesthetic attraction to solicit it;
but is instinctively the more drawn towards its object, the more the object is
wretched, poor, forsaken, and, humanly speaking, contemptible.
Rev. Jean Baptiste
Henri Lacordaire, O. P.
“Cut off from the Church: One must neither
pray nor sing psalms with those who are cut off from the communion of the
Church, whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.”
Council of Carthage
All the virtues when separated
from charity fall very short of perfection, since they cannot in default of
this virtue fulfill their own end, which is to render man happy. I do not say that, without it, they cannot be
born and even develop; but they are dependent on charity for their perfection,
for their completeness to draw therefrom the strength to will in God and to
receive from His mercy the manna of true merit and of the sanctification of
those heart wherein they are found.
Charity is among the virtues as the sun among the stars - it gives to
all their brightness and their beauty.
Faith, hope, fear, sorrow ordinarily precede charity into the soul,
there to prepare its abode, but once love arrives they obey and minister to it
like all other virtues; charity, by its presence, animates, beautifies and
vivifies them all. St. Francis de Sales
In this way, the Pope would, without doubt, fall into schism: ...He
would do that if he did not observe that which the Universal Church observes in
basing herself on the Tradition of the Apostles, or if he did not observe that
which has been ordained for the whole world by the universal councils or by the
authority of the Apostolic See. Especially is this true with regard to the
Divine Liturgy, as, for example, if he did not wish personally to follow the
universal customs and rites of the Church. This same holds true for other aspects
of the liturgy in a very general fashion, as would be the case of one unwilling
to celebrate with priestly vestments, or in consecrated places, or with
candles, or if he refused to make the sign of the cross as other priests do, or
other similar things which, in a general way, relate to perpetual usage in
conformity with the Canons.... By thus
separating himself apart, and with obstinacy, from the observance of the
universal customs and rites of the Church, the pope could fall into schism.
Cardinal Juan de Torquemada
The
Same Standard applies to Conciliar Heretics!
Before answering the accusation (that Popes Liberius and Honorius were
heretics and formally taught heresy), we must once more remind our opponents that,
in order to overturn our thesis (of papal infallibility), they must prove not
merely that Liberius or Honorius has spoken or written what is contrary to
faith, or denied it, but that he did so as Pope, teaching in matters of faith
or morals, and thereby binding the Universal Church. If they cannot prove this, they prove
nothing, for the fallibility would then be only personal and private, and would
no more affect the infallibility of the Pope as Universal teacher, than the
denial of Peter in the Court of the High Priest injured his infallibility as
Prince of the Apostles. They must, then,
first produce good, historical evidence of the fact; secondly, they must prove
that it was a definition or teaching contrary to truth in matters of faith;
and, thirdly, that the Pope intended, by his teaching, to bind the Universal
Church to believe it.
Rev. F. X. Weninger, S.J., D.D., On
the Apostolical and Infallible Authority of the Pope, when teaching the
faithful, and on his relation to a General Council
“For,” as she declared
to the Baudricourt, the Dauphin’s representative, “the kingdom does not
appertain to the Dauphin, but to my Lord.
But it is the will of my Lord that the Dauphin should be made king and
should hold the kingdom in commendam.”
“And who is thy Lord?,” asked Baudricourt. “My Lord is the King of heaven,” replied
Joan….. To the Dauphin Charles she said: “I am called Joan the Virgin, and
through me does the King of heaven give you to understand that you shall be
vice-regent of the King of heaven who is King of France. To the Duke of Burgundy, who was in alliance
with the enemy, she said: “I tell you by
order of the King of heaven, that all who make war on the said holy kingdom,
make war on the King Jesus, the King of heaven and of all the earth.”
St. Joan of Arc, Virgin
Tip for a
Judicial Vicar on framing officious sounding charges:
The said accused has called up
demons and evil spirits, consulted and frequented them, and entered into pacts
and treaties with them... She has fallen
into many and divers and most evil errors, all infected with heresy. She has said, declared, voiced, uttered, and
impressed on the hearts of simple people certain false and lying propositions
both tinged with heresy and actually heretical.
They are contrary to our Catholic faith, against the statutes delivered
and approved by the General Councils; they are scandalous and sacrilegious,
contrary to good customs, and offensive to pious ears; she had given counsel,
aid and favor to those who have said, uttered affirmed, and promulgated these
propositions.
St. Joan of Arc, Virgin,
Canonical Charges First & Third Articles
I commit myself to Our Lord,
Who sent me, to our Lady, and to all the blessed saints of Paradise. Our Lord and the Church are all one, so why do
you make difficulties?
St. Joan of Arc, Virgin, in
reply to her accusers’ demand for obedience
"The last thing I ask of you—and I ask it in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ—is that you love him alone, that you trust implicitly in him and
that you encourage one another continually to suffer for the love of him."
St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi, Last words to her sisters at Carmel
A Saint for Our Times
In our time more than
ever before, the greatest asset of those disposed toward evil is the cowardice
and weakness of good men, and all the vigor of Satan’s reign is due to the
easygoing weakness of Catholics. Oh! if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the
Prophet Zachary did in spirit (Zach. 13:6a): ‘What are those wounds in the
midst of Thy hands?’ The answer would not be doubtful: ‘…With these I was
wounded in the house of them that loved me’ (Zach. 13:6b). I was wounded by my
friends, who did nothing to defend me, and who, on every occasion, made
themselves the accomplices of my adversaries. And this reproach can be leveled
at the weak and timid Catholic of all countries.
St. Pope Pius X, at the beatification of Joan of Arc, December 13, 1908
Treachery and
Ingratitude in Christ’s Anointed is not only a modern problem
When all the arguments as to
responsibility have been heard, there remains one certain fact: French priests
and lawyers tried and condemned Joan, and every witness against her was
French. None of them need have taken
part in the trial. They could have left
the dirty work to an English ecclesiastical court. As it was, five bishops, thirty-two doctors
of theology, sixteen bachelors of theology, nine doctors of civil law and canon
law, seven doctors of medicine, and more than eighty other priests and lawyers
were involved in her trial. Except five,
every one of them was French. Only a
handful of them were obviously well disposed toward Joan, at least in the
earlier stages of her trial.
John Beevers, St. Joan of Arc
The life of this Spouse of
Christ was one continued miracle. Her ecstacies and raptures were almost of
every day's occurrence. The lights given to her regarding the Mysteries were
extraordinary; and in order to prepare her for those sublime communications,
God would have her go through the severest trials of the spiritual life. She
triumphed over them all; and her love having found its nourishment in them, she
could not be happy without suffering; for nothing else seemed to satisfy the
longings of the love that burned within her. At the same time, her heart was
filled to overflowing with charity for her neighbour: she would have saved all
mankind, and her charity to all, even for their temporal well-being, was
something heroic. God blessed Florence on her account; and as to the City
itself, she so endeared herself to its people, by her admirable virtues, that
devotion to her, even to this day, which is more than two (it is now four
hundred years) hundred years since her death, is as fervent as ever it was.
One of the most striking proofs of the divine origin and holiness of the Church
is to be found in such privileged souls as Magdalene de Pazzi, on whom we see
the Mysteries of our salvation acting with such direct influence. God so loved
the world, as to give it his Only Begotten Son (St. John, 3, 16); and this Son
of God deigns to love some of His creatures with such special affection, and to
lavish upon them such extraordinary favours, that all men may have some idea of
the love wherewith His Sacred Heart is inflamed for this world, which he
redeemed at the price of His Blood. Happy those Christians that appreciate and
relish these instances of Jesus' special love! Happy they that can give Him
thanks for bestowing such gifts on some of our fellow-creatures! They have the
true light; whereas they that have an unpleasant feeling at hearing of such
things, and are angry at the thought that there can be an intimacy between God
and any soul of which they are not worthy, this class of people prove that
there is a great deal of darkness mixed up with their faith.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, St. Mary Magdalen de’Pazzi
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its
imperfections… You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow
and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
St. Mary Magdalen de'Pazzi, Carmelite
He decreed that the Holy
Sacrifice should be offered up on their tombs.
The Church still keeps this law in mind by requiring that all altars,
whether fixed or portable, must have, amongst the relics that are placed in
them, a portion of some belonging to the martyrs.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Felix I, Pope and Martyr
Prayer ought to be humble, fervent, resigned, persevering, and
accompanied with great reverence. One should consider that he stands in the
presence of a God, and speaks with a Lord before whom the angels tremble from
awe and fear.
St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi
The landing of the
Roman missioners, and their marching through the country, to the chant of the Litany;
the willing and almost kind welcome given them by king Ethelbert; the influence
exercised by queen Bertha, a French Catholic, in the establishment of the faith
among the Saxons; the baptism of ten thousand neophytes, on Christmas day, and
in the bed of a river; the foundation of the metropolitan see of Canterbury,
one of the most illustrious Churches of Christendom on account of the holiness
and noble doing of its Archbishops; all these episodes of England’s conversion
are eloquent proofs of God’s predilection…. But who can help feeling sad at the
thought that a country, favored as England has been with such graces, should
have apostatized from the faith; have repaid with hatred that Rome which made
her Christian; and have persecuted with unheard-of cruelties the Benedictine
Order to which she owed so much of her glory?
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, The Feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury
Sacramental
Baptism was traditionally administered on the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost,
however, in cases of necessity, what was held as necessary was never withheld!
“In a case of necessity any time is allowable for baptism.
Wherefore, as it is quite clear that these two seasons (Easter and Pentecost)
of which we have been speaking are the rightful ones for baptizing the elect in
Church, we admonish you, beloved, not to associate other days with this
observance. Because, although there are other feasts also to which much
reverence is due in God’s honor, nevertheless a rational and mystical exception
must be observed by us for this principal and greatest sacrament: not, however,
prohibiting the license to succor those who are in danger by administering
Baptism to them at any time. For while we put off the vows of those who
are not pressed by ill health and live in peaceful security to those two
closely connected and cognate feasts, let us not at any time refuse this which
is the only safeguard of true salvation to anyone in peril of death, in the
crisis of a siege, in the distress of persecution, in the terror of shipwreck.”
Pope St. Leo the Great, Letter #6, 447AD
“Let him heed what the blessed apostle Peter preaches, that
sanctification by the Spirit is effected by the sprinkling of Christ’s blood (1
Pet. 1:2)… It is He, Jesus Christ, who has come through water and blood, not in
water only, but in water and blood. And because the Spirit is truth, it
is the Spirit who testifies. For there are three who give testimony –
Spirit and water and blood. And the three are one. (1 Jn. 5:4-8) In
other words, the Spirit of Sanctification and the Blood of Redemption and the
Water of Baptism. These
three are ONE and remain indivisible. None of them is separable from its link
with the others.
Pope St. Leo the Great, Dogmatic letter to Flavian, Council of Chalcedon,
451AD
“You have read,
therefore, that the three witnesses in Baptism are one: water, blood, and the
spirit; and if you withdraw any one of these, the Sacrament of Baptism is not
valid. For what is water without the cross of Christ? A
common element without any sacramental effect. Nor on the other hand is
there any mystery of regeneration without water: for ‘unless a man be born
again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ [John
3:5] Even a catechumen believes in the cross of the Lord Jesus, by which
also he is signed; but, unless he be baptized in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he cannot receive the remission of sins nor be
recipient of the gift of spiritual grace.”
St. Ambrose, De Mysteriis,
390-391AD
“But
let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is
of evil.” (Matt. 5:37)
The “terrible mess”
has already been made!
“Pope Francis said, ‘If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried,
you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won’t speak plainly,
do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the
conclusions.’ Typical of a Jesuit.”
Abp. Bruno
Forte quoting Pope Francis’ strategy for overturning Catholic doctrine without
appearing to overturn Catholic doctrine in his “merciful application” of
unchanging infallible Catholic doctrine.
DEFINITION: “Climate
Denier” = Progressive popular term used by ideologues of the Gaia Religion, a
pantheistic pagan earth worshiping cult, to identify and stigmatize ‘infidels’.
The religion employs “infallible” teleologically formulated computer climate
models designed to demonstrate that global warming is in fact theoretically
occurring. It is an unstated presupposition taken on faith that this alleged
global warming is induced by western culture and is everywhere and always
harmful to Mother Earth. The cult demands the ritual murder through forced
abortion and euthanasia of 5.5 billion people as a necessary blood offering to
placate Mother Earth.
We are bound, under pain of anathema, to believe the Church in all
things, as is evident from Matthew xviii: ‘And if he will not hear the Church
let him be to thee as the heathen and publican’ (i.e.: let him be anathema).
All the councils, moreover, declare anathema against those who do not assent to
the Church’s decrees. (i.e.: her dogmas). But it would be an iniquitous thing
to be bound under so heavy a penalty to assent to things that would be
uncertain and might sometimes be false…. Our opinion is that it is absolutely
impossible for the Church to err, either in things which are absolutely
necessary or in others which she proposes to us to be believed or to be
performed by us, no matter whether they are or are not expressly contained in
the Scriptures. And when we say that the Church cannot err, we understand this
boon of all the faithful and of all the bishops, so that the sense of the
proposition that the Church cannot err is, that all the faithful hold as of
faith must needs be true and of faith, and, likewise, that what all the bishops
teach as belonging to the faith must needs be true and of faith.
St. Robert Bellarmine, The Church
Militant, cap. XIV, vol. XXXI, no. LXII
His life was one of
exploits, and each was a victory, Cordova, the city of the Caliphs, was
conquered by this warrior Saint. At once
its Alhambra ceased to be a palace of Mahometan effeminacy and crime. Its splendid Mosque was consecrated to the
divine service, and afterwards became the Cathedral of the City. The followers of Mahomet, 500 years
previous, had robbed the Church of St.
James at Compostella of its bells, and had them brought in triumph to Cordova;
Ferdinand ordered them to be carried thither again, on the backs of the
Moors.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Ferdinand of Castile
"Disorder in society is the result of
disorder in the family."
St. Angela Merici
Patient Waiting on God
It was not till 1535, after forty long years of
discouragement and delay, that St. Angela Merici was able, with twelve young
companions, to lay the first foundation of her institute. Her children , she says in the rules, are to
be true virgins of Christ, living in their own homes, but sacrificing themselves
for the poor, the ignorant, and the afflicted, as Christ their Spouse had given
Himself for them. That her name might be
unknown, she placed her institute under the care of St. Urusla. During St. Angela Merici’s long period of
uncertainty, she started on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to obtain light from
God. When off Crete she was suddenly
struck with blindness. She visited,
however, the Holy Places, and the keenness of her faith made good her want of
sight. On the homeward voyage her sight
was miraculously restored. When the
vessel was almost lost, Angela’s perfect calm inspired the very sailors with
heart and courage. And when on her
landing in Italy, Pope Clement VII offered her an asylum in Rome, Angela
preferred to return to Bresica and wait there till God should make known His
will.
Fr. Henry Bowden, Life of St. Angela Merici
The day when society, forgetting the Church’s doctrinal decisions
(i.e.: dogmas), has asked the press and the tribune, newspapers and assemblies,
what is truth and what is error, on that day error and truth are confounded in
all intellects, society enters on the regions of shadows, and falls under the
empire of fictions….. The doctrinal intolerance of the Church has saved the
world from chaos. Her doctrinal intolerance has placed beyond question
political, domestic, social, and religious truths, - primitive and holy truths,
which are not subject to discussion, because they are the foundation of all
discussions; truths which cannot be called into doubt for a moment without the
understanding on that moment oscillating, lost between truth and error, and the
clear mirror of human reason becoming soiled and obscured… Doubt perpetually
comes from doubt, and skepticism from skepticism, as truth from faith, and
science from truth.
Donoso Cortes, Essays
What took 700
years to accomplish will soon be lost by one feckless generation of apostates
grown soft with the slogans of "religious liberty"!
When Al-Mamsur
conquered Santiago de Compostela and razed its church, he forced the Catholics
to carry the large church bells to Cordoba, his capital. Five hundred years
later, St. Ferdinand re-conquered Cordoba and obliged the Moslems to return the
same bells to Compostella.
The
Authority of the Pope, as it is with every one of the faithful, is subject to
the Faith and not vice versa as the Neo-Modernists would have it!
v “Peter
is called a rock, and the foundations of the Church are planted in his faith.”
St. Gregory of Nazianzen
v “Faith
is the groundwork of the Church, because of the faith, and not of the person of
Peter, it was said, that the gates of death should never prevail against it.”
St. Ambrose
v “He
(Christ) called him Peter, that is, the rock, and praised the foundations of
the Church which was built on the Apostle’s faith. St. Augustine
v “Peter
was made for us a living rock, on which, as on a foundation, the faith of the
Lord rests, and on which the Church is erected.” St. Epiphanius
v “He
(Christ) did not say Petrus, but Petra, because He did not build His
Church upon the man, but upon the faith of Peter.” St. John Chrysostom
v “Peter
so pleased the Lord by the sublimity of his faith, that, after being admitted to
the fruition of bliss, he received the solidity of an immovable rock, on which
the Church was so firmly built, as to bid defiance to the gates of hell and the
laws of death. St. Leo the Great
v “On
this rock, namely, on the unshaken faith, to which thou owest thy name, I will
built my Church.” Caesarius the Cistercian
Quotations taken from Fr. F. X.
Weninger, D.D., On the Apostolical and
Infallible Authority of the Pope when teaching the faithful and on his relation
to a General Council
“I will not pray with
you, nor shall you pray with me; neither will I say “Amen” to your prayers, nor
shall you to mine.”
St. Margaret Clitherow
addressing heretics at her execution
He who, when he has once knocked, is angry because he
is not forwith heard, is not a humble petitioner, but an imperious
exactor. However long He may cause thee
to wait, do thou patiently tarry the Lord’s leisure.
St. Peter Chrysologus
"I am more afraid of
the curse of one poor woman, than of all the Saracen armies together.
St. Ferdinand of Castile
God
cannot be offered anything less than everything!
God is Sufficient to Himself
and Does Not Need Any Creature:
Let us consider that the first
reason why we are useless servants arises from the greatness, sufficiency and
plenitude of God, Who calls Himself Sadai,
that is, “sufficient to Himself,” because He is so sufficient to Himself and
replete with good, that He has no need of us nor of any creature of heaven or
earth. Even the God-Man, Jesus Christ our Lord, says: “I have said to the Lord:
Thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods” (Ps 15, 2).
The fact that God has no need
of our goods is an infallible mark of His divinity. That is why, when we
offer or give anything to God, we sacrifice it to Him, that is, annihilate it
before Him, to testify thereby that He has no need of anything. If anyone
presented a valuable horse to a governor and were to kill the animal when
offering it, the governor would not be pleased because the gift would be useless
to him. But the greatest service we can render to God is to sacrifice and
annihilate our offerings, to testify thereby that He has no need of them. This
why Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself on the Cross. Now, if Jesus Christ is not
necessary to God, and if all the angels and saints and the Blessed Virgin can
say: “We are unprofitable servants,” with how much greater truth can we
say it?
Let us rejoice that God is so
replete with every conceivable good; let us be glad to be useless because He is
quite sufficient to Himself.
St. John Eudes, Meditations on
Various Subjects: 8th Meditation on Humility
External
Profession of Faith
Both God and
the Church command the external profession of faith.
The DIVINE PRECEPT to profess one’s
faith externally is easily gathered from the words of St. Paul: “The heart has
only to believe, we are to be justified; the lips have only to make confession,
if we are to be saved” (Rom. x, 9-10), and it follows from the very nature man
himself who must worship God not only with his mind but also with his body.
This precept is both affirmative and negative in character. Its negative aspect
forbids man to deny his faith externally, which he may do either directly—by
formal infidelity—or indirectly, by some action which externally gives a clear
indication of denial of faith even though the agent himself has no intention of
denying his faith. Thus, for example, a person indirectly denies his faith by
partaking of the Protestant communion even though in his own mind he does not
believe that Christ is present in that communion. It is never permissible to
deny one’s faith either directly or indirectly, because every denial of faith
is a grave insult to God since it undermines the authority of God and the reverence
due to Him. Hence Christ’s threat: “Whoever disowns me before men, before my
Father in heaven I too will disown him” (Matt. X, 32). But although it is never
lawful to deny one’s faith, occasions do arise when it is permissible to
conceal or dissemble one’s faith, as will be explained later.
According to St. Thomas the
divine precept obliges man to make an external profession of his faith when
failure to do so would detract from the honour due to God or cause injury to
the spiritual welfare of one’s neighbour.
1.
The honour due to God demands an external
profession of faith: a) when a man is questioned by public authority (not by
private persons) about his faith; b) when a person is provoked even by private
individuals through hatred of religion to a denial of his faith in word or
deed.
2.
The spiritual welfare of our neighbour
requires an external profession of faith when grave scandal would ensue from
its omission (v.g., Libellatici
amongst the early Christians).
Dominic Prummer, Handbook Moral
Theology
NOTE: Our immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions are necessary attributes of the Faith because,
without them, there can be no “external profession of the faith.”
NATURE AND
KINDS OF VIRTUE
DETINITION: Virtue which
confers goodness on its owner makes his acts good (Aristotle). This definition
is primarily true of the moral virtues which make both man himself and his acts
good. Another definition is that given by St. Augustine, referring to the
infused virtues: virtue is a good quality of the soul enabling man to live
well, which no one can use for evil, produced in man by God without man’s
assistance. The nature of virtue is understood more clearly by comparing it
with the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost and with the beatitudes.
THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST are habits accompanying
sanctifying grace whereby a man is well disposed to receive the inspirations
and movements of the Holy Ghost. In the gifts, therefore, it is the Holy Ghost
Himself who inspires man towards goodness; in the virtues man is moved by right
reason aided by grace. The gifts of the Holy Ghost are seven in number: wisdom,
understanding, knowledge, counsel, piety, fortitude, fear.
The gift of wisdom (corresponding
to the virtue of charity) is a habit infused by God which makes the soul
responsive to the Holy Ghost in the contemplation of divine things and in the
use of Gods ideas to judge both created and divine matters,—The first effect of
wisdom is a filial fear of God, but its supreme effect is a welcome peace in
the heart of man.
The gift of understanding
is a supernatural enlightenment given to man in the form of a habit whereby he
grasps revealed truths easily and intimately.
The gift of knowledge
(the science of the saints) enables man through some form of spiritual relish
and warmth of charity to judge everything in its relationship to his
supernatural end by means of inferior causes— The gifts of understanding and of
knowledge aid and perfect the virtue of faith.
The gift of counsel
(which aids and perfects the virtue of prudence) enables man to judge and
command individual acts.
The gift of piety (which
aids and perfects the virtue of justice) enables man to show reverence both for
God as a most loving Father and for men as the sons of God.
The gift of fortitude
(which aids and perfects the virtue of fortitude) gives the soul a singular
strength in resisting evil and attaining to everlasting life.
The gift of fear (which
aids and perfects the virtue of hope) impels man to a profound respect for the
majesty of God.
THE FRUITS OP THE HOLY GHOST which St. Paul lists as twelve
in number (charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,
mildness, faith, modesty, continence, chastity) are human acts which result
from the gifts of the Holy Ghost and refresh man with holy and sincere joy.
The beatitudes (of which St.
Matthew lists eight, St. Luke four) are external acts of the virtues and gifts
which in their own special way lead to happiness both on earth and especially
in Heaven.
Rev. Dominic Prummer, Handbook of Moral Theology
“Neither any priest nor bishop, nay, not even
the Pope, can give you permission to violate any of the commandments.”
Fr. Michael Muller, God the Teacher of
Mankind
“If any one saith, that the received and approved
rites of the Catholic Church, wont to be used in the solemn administration of
the sacraments, may be contemned, or without sin be omitted at pleasure by the
ministers, or be changed, by every pastor of the churches, into other new ones;
let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Canon XIII, On the Sacraments
“The favorite comeback of progressives is
that ‘the liturgy kept developing over time, so you can’t say that Catholics
‘always’ worshiped this or that way.’ But that is a superficial response. The deeper
truth is that Catholics have always worshiped according to the liturgy they
have received, and any development occurred within this fundamental assumption
of the continuity of the rituals, chants, and texts. The work of the Consilium
of the 1960s rejected (N.B. actually, rejected by Rev. Annibale Bugnini in
1948) this assumption in altering almost every aspect of the liturgy, adding
and deleting material according to their own theories. Therefore what they
produced is not and can never be an expression of Catholic tradition; it will
always remain a foreign body.”
Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
“With
them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spake unto them, they fought
against me without cause.” (Ps. cxix) “Forty years long was I nigh unto that generation,
and said: They do always err in their heart; and they have not known My ways to
whom I swore in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest.” (Ps. xciv)
“In the later editions of the Talmud the
allusions to Christianity are few and cautious compared with the earlier or
unexpurgated copies. The last of these was published at Amsterdam in 1645. In
them our Lord and Saviour is ‘that One,’ ‘such a One,’ ‘a fool,’ ‘the leper,’
‘the deceiver or Israel,’ &c.; efforts are made to prove that He is the son
of Joseph Pandira before his marriage with Mary. His miracles are attributed to
sorcery, the secret of which He brought in a slit in his flesh out of Egypt.
His teacher is said to have been Joshua, the son of Perachlah. This Joshua is
said to have afterwards excommunicated Him to the sound of 800 rams’ horns,
although he must have lived seventy years before His time. Forty days before
the death of Jesus a witness was summoned by public proclamation to attest his
innocence, but none appeared. He is said to have been first stoned and then
hanged on the eve of the Passover. His disciples are called heretics, and
opprobrious names. They are accused of immoral practices; and the New Testament
is called a sinful book. The
references to these subjects manifest the most bitter aversion and hate.”
Dr. Joseph Barclay, LL.D, Rector of Stapleford, Hertfordshire, London, The Talmud, 1878, from Introduction, p.
30
“Neither Jewish ethics
nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very
far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have
before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other
body of laws in the world: ‘Ye shall blot them out to the last man.’”
Yitzhak Shamir,
Israeli Prime Minister 1986-1992, 1943 Quote
taken from “Document: Shamir on Terrorism
(1943)” Middle East Report 152
You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were
not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic
hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of
human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the
“Russian Revolution.” It was an invasion
and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific
crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in
the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter
of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is
proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators. We cannot state that all Jews are Bolsheviks. But: without Jews there would have been no
Bolshevism. For a Jew nothing is more
insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists murdered
sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel-Prize winning novelist,
historian and victim of Jewish Bolshevism
The “New
Evangelization” and the “New Ecclesial Realities”
The “new evangelization”
identifies “new ecclesial realities” as the “work of the Holy Spirit” and thus,
regards them as the means by which God will bring about a rebirth of Christian
faith since the collapse following Vatican II.
These “ecclesial realities” include such entities as the Neocatechumenal
Way, Communion and Liberation, the Focolare Movement, and the Charismatic
Renewal. They all embody the novel
teachings of Vatican II, which the hierarchy denies as having any causal
relationship with the collapse of faith that the “new ecclesial realities” are
expected to restore. These “ecclesial
realities” have developed more in Europe and Latin America than in the United
States. The most obvious reason for this
is that the U. S. is already a religious pluralistic society that has similar
entities as these “ecclesial realities” in every city. The Masonic brotherhood religion for world
peace has a lot in common with Focolare.
The Neocatechumenal Way is comparable to a Baptist Evangelical church
and they have a Lutheran theological conception of the Holy Eucharist. The common thread among all these
“ecclesiastical realities” is that they seek an encounter with Christ without
the burden of dogma or moral restrictions that dogma imposes. Cardinal Ratzinger nevertheless at the World
Congress of Ecclesial Movements, May 27, 1998, compared these “ecclesial
realities” to St. Anthony of the Desert and the early monastic movement, to St.
Francis and St. Dominic, St. Ignatius and the Jesuits, St. Teresa of Avila and
St. Catherine of Siena. JP II addressed
them on the vigil of Pentecost in 1998 and said:
With the Second Vatican Council, the Comforter recently gave the
Church, which according to the Fathers is the place “where the Spirit
flourishes” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 749), a renewed
Pentecost, instilling a new and unforeseen dynamism. Whenever the Spirit
intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of amazing newness;
he radically changes persons and history. This was the unforgettable experience
of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council during which, under the guidance of
the same Spirit, the Church rediscovered the charismatic dimension as one of
her constitutive elements: “It is not only through the sacraments and the
ministrations of the Church that the Holy Spirit makes holy the people, leads
them and enriches them with his virtues. Allotting his gifts according as he
wills (cf. 1 Cor 12:11), he also distributes special graces among the faithful
of every rank.... He makes them fit and ready to undertake various tasks and
offices for the renewal and building up of the Church” (Lumen gentium,
n.12). […….] Today the Church rejoices at the renewed confirmation of the
prophet Joel's words which we have just heard: “I will pour out my Spirit upon
all flesh” (Acts 2:17). You, present here, are the tangible proof of this
“outpouring” of the Spirit. Each movement is different from the others, but
they are all united in the same communion and for the same mission. Some
charisms given by the Spirit burst in like an impetuous wind, which seizes
people and carries them to new ways of missionary commitment to the radical
service of the Gospel, by ceaselessly proclaiming the truths of faith,
accepting the living stream of tradition as a gift and instilling in each
person an ardent desire for holiness.[….] In our world, often dominated by a
secularized culture which encourages and promotes models of life without God,
the faith of many is sorely tested, and is frequently stifled and dies. Thus we
see an urgent need for powerful proclamation and solid, in-depth Christian
formation. There is so much need today for mature Christian personalities,
conscious of their baptismal identity, of their vocation and mission in the
Church and in the world! There is great need for living Christian communities!
And here are the movements and the new ecclesial communities: they are the
response, given by the Holy Spirit, to this critical challenge at the end of
the millennium. You are this providential response.
John Paul II, speech addressing “ecclesial movements and new
communities.” May 30, 1998, Vigil of Pentecost
Now, Pope Francis, who took
credit for introducing the Charismatic movement into Argentina, addressed these
“new ecclesial realities” on the vigil of Pentecost and looks to them as the
hope for the “new evangelization.” Pope
Francis, who has knelt before Protestant evangelical charismatics to receive
their “blessing,” cannot possible have a clue regarding discernment of
spirits. St. Francis and Peter Waldo
embraced radical poverty but they were of an entirely different spirit. One was a saint, the other a heretic. There is no encounter with Christ without
believing His revealed truth, that is, all dogma as formal objects of Divine
and Catholic faith, and keeping His commandments. None of the saints identified by Cardinal
Ratzinger ever held any of our ecclesiastical traditions in contempt as these
“new ecclesial realities” clearly have done.
And every one of these saints gave evidence of personal holiness and
performed the remarkable miracles as a testimony to the truth of their
mission. The winter of Vatican II will
be getting a colder and darker.
St. John Eudes: “That there is a special contract made between God and man in Baptism.”
THE name of contract is given to any agreement entered into by two or more persons, in which the parties contracting incur mutual obligations. This clearly shows that a contract. has been entered into by the most Blessed Trinity and you in Baptism; since you have incurred many obligations towards the Blessed Trinity, and the Blessed Trinity has also obliged itself in regard to you. What is the nature of this contract? It is a reciprocal contract of gifts, the highest and most entire that can “enter into the heart of man to conceive;” for in making it you are obliged to give yourself entirely and forever to God; you have renounced all things to be united to Him, and for Him, and God on his part has given Himself entirely to you. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, come to you and take up their abode in your soul, in order to confer honors and benefits on you. They enrich you ‘with spiritual treasures to render you worthy of their three divine Persons.
It is a contract of adoption, since God the Father has taken you for his child, and has conferred on you the right of his inheritance with his only Son, and you have taken God for your Father, and have promised to entertain for him all the love and respect which a child owes to a so good a parent. “Consider,” writes St. John the Evangelist, “what love the Father has testified to you in wishing that you should be called, and that you should, really, be his children.”
Behold the admirable effect of the contract which you have made with God in Baptism, from being the child of wrath and an heir of hell, you have become the child of God and an heir to heaven! What you should not do to acknowledge the infinite goodness of God in your regard?
It is a contract of alliance with the Son of God, since in receiving Baptism you have united yourself to him as to your head, your master, and your sovereign, and since the Son has taken you for His servant and one of the members of his body, which is his Church. How great is the goodness of God, says St. Paul to the newly converted Christians of Corinth; “By whom you arc called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”
What were you before Baptism but the unhappy slave of Satan, and subject like him to eternal punishment? But by Baptism you have been delivered from this unhappy subjection, through the divine alliance which you have contracted with Jesus Christ, which procures you the enjoyment of eternal happiness, if you observe all its conditions.
Finally, it is a contract of alliance with the Person of the Holy Ghost; for faith teaches us, that the Holy Ghost takes the Christian soul as his spouse, and that the Christian reciprocally takes the Holy Ghost for his spouse. In consequence of this sacred alliance, the Holy Ghost calls you “his sister and his spouse,” and as, of yourself, you are poor indeed, he adorns your soul with all the gifts necessary to render it worthy of him, and he comes to take up his abode in it, and to consecrate it as his temple and his sanctuary. […..]
When you had been presented to the church to receive Baptism, you were treated as a person in the possession of the devil, for the priest pronounced over you the exorcism of the church, commanding the wicked spirit to depart from you, and to give place to the Holy Ghost.
This ceremony teaches you that by original sin you were really in possession of the devil, and that he abided in you, but that, through Baptism, he has been cast out of you; that your soul has been purified from the horrible stain which disfigured it, and that the Holy Ghost, having sanctified and ornamented it with his grace, comes to take up his abode in it. […..]
That Baptism imprints in your soul a spiritual character, which no sin can efface. This character is a proof that from this time you do not belong to yourself, but that you are the property of Jesus Christ, who has purchased you by the infinite price of his blood and of his death. You are not of yourself, but you are of Christ’s therefore, St. Paul concludes, “that the Christian should no longer live for himself, but for Him who died and rose again for him;” that is to say, that the Christian should live a life of grace, and that he should consecrate to his Redeemer his spirit, his heart, and all his actions. […..]
The Priest introduced you into the Church, by saying, “Enter into the house of God, that you may have eternal life.” This ceremony teaches you that Baptism enables you to enter into the Society of Jesus Christ, and of all the faithful who compose the house or family of God. By this entry, you begin to partake of all the good works of the faithful and you acquire a right to the sacraments, to the prayers, and to all the other good works which are done in the Church. Moreover, in entering into the Church, you have become her child, and have been made a child of God, the heir of God, and co-heir of Jesus Christ; you entered into society and communion with the angels and all the blessed who are in Heaven. By this ceremony you are likewise taught that, in order to be united to Jesus Christ, and to have eternal life, it is necessary to be a member of the Church, and to persevere therein to the end, believing all she teaches, obeying all she commands.
St. John Eudes, excerpt from Man’s
Contract with God in Baptism
COMMENT: St. John Eudes makes clear what every faithful Catholic should already
know, that is, it is by virtue of the sacrament of Baptism received with Faith
that makes a person a Child of God. The Neo-modernist popes since Vatican II
heretically teach that everyone is a child of God by virtue of the Incarnation
of the Logos, the Word becoming flesh, where the second Person of the Trinity,
by personally uniting Himself with our human nature, thereby elevated all
humanity to being children of God by virtue of this shared humanity. For them,
Baptism is only an outward sign signifying
what has already taken place. It reduces Baptism from a performative sign that is necessity
of means for salvation to a simple necessity
of precept which obligates only those who feel some inner compulsion to
obey. It is this fundamental corruption of revealed truth that makes modern
ecumenism with such events as the blasphemous “Prayer Meeting at Assisi”
possible. For them the “spiritual character” imprinted on the soul at Baptism
is meaningless. The “spiritual character” is both the sign of and cause of the
adoption as Sons of God. The character is like a receptacle that makes the
reception of the sacramental grace of adoption possible. Those who have the
character of the sacrament without the sanctifying grace of adoption will
suffer the greatest torments of all in hell.
It is an unfortunate fact that the many traditional Catholics and
conservative Catholics believe this tripe and profess that any “good-willed”
Protestant, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, etc., etc. can be a child of God, a
member of the Church, a temple of the Holy Ghost and an heir to heaven by
virtue of being a “good” Protestant, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.,
etc. This error is derived essentially
from the more fundamental error of denying Dogma
as Dogma, by overturning Dogma in its
very nature. For these Neo-modernists, Dogma is not the revealed truth of God
but only a human axiom open to unending refinement and new
interpretations.
But the truth is that Dogma is divine revelation formally and
infallibly defined by the Magisterium of the Church. It is irreformable in both the truth it
declares and the words that it uses to define. It constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith
and is the proximate rule of faith for
every faithful child of God. Not until every traditional Catholic
recognizes and defends this truth will any effective resistance to
Neo-modernist error be effectively mounted.
Pope to
Italian Bishops: A synodal Church is open to everyone
As the Italian
Bishops conclude their 77th General Assembly, Pope Francis urges the Italian
Church to continue journeying together on the synodal path to promote the
"co-responsibility" of laypeople and clergy and build a less clerical
Church.
Vatican News | Lisa Zengarini | May 23, 2023
Pope Francis on Thursday encouraged the
Italian Church to continue its synodal process “with courage and
determination”, above all by “valuing the potential” present in its parishes
and Christian communities.
The Pope was addressing the bishops and diocesan representatives of the
synodal path in Italy in the Paul VI Audience Hall, as the Italian Bishops’
Conference (CEI) concluded its 77th General Assembly focused on the synodal
process in the lead up to the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality.
A unique spiritual
experience of conversion and renewal
The Holy Father introduced his speech by noting that the process is a
“unique spiritual experience of conversion and renewal” which can make
ecclesial communities “more missionary and more prepared to evangelize today's
world”.
As the Italian Church concludes the two-year listening phase and enters
the discerning phase, he therefore offered four recommendations responding to
some questions submitted by the CEI Permanent Committee regarding the pastoral
priorities for the Italian Church, how to overcome objections and concerns, and
the participation of clergy and lay people.
Keep walking
guided by the Holy Spirit
The first indication he gave was to “keep walking guided by the Holy
Spirit”, always serving the Gospel and cultivating “the freedom and creativity”
of those who bear witness to the good news of God's love by “staying grounded
in what is essential”.
“A Church weighed down by structures, bureaucracy, formalism – said the
Pope - will struggle to walk through history, in step with the Spirit, meeting
the men and women of our time”.
Ecclesial
co-responsibility
The second instruction the Pope gave was to make Church together, that
is enhancing “ecclesial co-responsibility” by involving all the baptized in
the life and mission of the Church as called for by the Second Vatican Council.
“We need Christian communities in which space expands, where everyone
can feel at home, where the structures and pastoral means favor not the
creation of small groups, but the joy of being and feeling co-responsible.”
Church ministry – the Pope stressed – can never be exercised without
others. This applies to bishops, whose ministry cannot do without that of
priests and deacons and to priests and deacons themselves, but also to the
entire community of the baptized, “in which each one walks with other brothers
and sisters at the school of the one Gospel and in the light of the Spirit”.
“We must ask the Holy Spirit to make us understand and experience how
to be ordained ministers and how to exercise the ministry in this time and in
this Church: never without the Other with a capital "O”.”
An open Church
The third point highlighted by Pope Francis was to be a Church open to
everyone, able to listen to the voices of young people, women, the poor, those
who are disillusioned, those who have been hurt in their lives, as opposed to
what is still perceived as “self-referential” and clerical Church.
Clericalism is a perversion and a clerical bishop or priest is
perverse, but a clericalist layman or laywoman are even worse.
“The Synod”, the Pope insisted “calls us to become a Church that walks
joyfully, humbly and creatively in our time, aware that we are all vulnerable
and need one another”.
A
"restless" Church
Finally, the last instruction Pope Francis gave to be a
"restless" Church “that welcomes the challenges of our time, that
knows how to go out to everyone to proclaim the joy of the Gospel”, without
prejudices.
“We are called to collect the anxieties of history and to allow
ourselves to be questioned, to bring them before God, to immerse them in
Christ's Passover.”
The Holy Spirit is
the protagonist of the synodal process
Bringing his address to a close, Pope Francis again encouraged the
Italian Church to continue this journey together, trusting in the Holy Spirit,
“the protagonist of the synodal process”. “It is He who opens individuals
and communities to listening; it is he who makes dialogue authentic and
fruitful; it is he who enlightens discernment; it is he who directs choices and
decisions. It is he above all the One who creates harmony and communion
in the Church”, Pope Francis concluded.
“Let's entrust ourselves the Holy Spirit. He is harmony. He causes all
this disorder, but He is capable of creating harmony which is something totally
different from the order that we could create by ourselves.”
COMMENT:
Proselytism is considered "solemn nonsense" and clearly
antagonistic to the "Synodal Way" because it is
"self-referential". The Catholic Church is
"self-referential" in the sense that the Church is the Mystical Body
of Jesus Christ and the essence of salvation is conformity to Jesus Christ.
Therefore those who want to find salvation can only do so by conformity of
Jesus Christ and His Church and that is why the Catholic Church's Mission must
necessarily be to proselytize and has been so from the first Pentecost. On the
first Pentecost, "They therefore that received (St. Peter's) word, were
baptized; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls (Acts
2:41) i.e.: three thousands souls were proselytized to the Catholic Church.
This was done in direct obedience to the Mission of the Church given by Jesus
Christ who said, "All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even
to the consummation of the world" (Matt. 28:18-20).
So just what is the Mission of this "restless" Church of the
New Advent, this "open Church" of the New Evangelization, this Church
of the Synodal Way that through "dialogue" is "collecting the
anxieties of history"? It claims its Mission is to bring about a
"unique spiritual experience of conversion and renewal" that denies,
or rather more to the point, is in direct opposition to the necessity for
salvation to conform to the Truth revealed by God or to keep His commandments.
This cannot be a "unique spiritual experience" because it is the path
followed by every damned soul that has ever lived because, as St. Augustine
said, it 'seeks the love of self to the contempt of God'. The sin against the
Holy Spirit that cannot be forgiven in this world or the next was spoken of by
Jesus Christ in the context of the Pharisees attributing the miracles done by
the power of God to the work of the devil. It is just as blasphemous to
attribute the work of the devil to the Holy Ghost. What is certain is that the
Holy Ghost is NOT the "protagonist of the synodal process". It is
manifestly the work of the devil because only the devil can "cause all
this disorder". We have seen and know their fruit.
Remember in
your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mothers: Erika Zepeda,
The health and spiritual welfare of Nate Schaeffer is the petition
of Gene Peters,
Peg Berry requests our prayers for her brother, William Habekost,
Louise
McCarthy, who
has recently suffered a stroke,
For the health and welfare of Katherine Wedel,
Robert
Hickson,
a faithful Catholic apologist who is in failing health and for his wife, Maike, and children,
For the spiritual welfare of the Carmelite nuns in Fairfield, PA,
Geralyn
Zagorski, recovery of her health and spiritual welfare, is
the petition of Philip Thees,
For the grandson of
Joe & Liz Agusta,
The health of Joseph
Cox,
Fr. Waters requests our
prayers for the health and spiritual welfare of Elvira Donaghy,
For the health and
conversion of Stephen Henderson,
Fr. Paul DaDamio requests our
prayers for the welfare of Rob Ward, and his sister, Debra
Wagaman,
For the health and
spiritual welfare of Peggy Cummings, the neice of Camila Meiser,
who is gravely ill,
Kaitlyn McDonald, for the recovery of her health and spiritual
welfare,
Roco Sbardella, for his health and spiritual
welfare,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the spiritual
and physical welfare of the Rende
Family,
The welfare of the Sal Massinio family is the petition of the Drew’s,
The Vargas’ request our prayers for the spiritual
welfare of their son, Nicholas,
Monica Bandlow petitions prayers for Kathy Simons, Regina Quinn, James
Mulgrew, Ruth Beaucheane, John Kopczynski, Roger & Mandy Owen Family,
for the welfare of Lazarus Handley,
his mother, Julia, and his
brother, Raphael, with Down’s
Syndrome,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for the spiritual and
physical welfare of Frank McKee,
Nancy
Bennett and Julia McDonald, for the recovery of their health,
For the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts, a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for the recovery of Bridget McGuigan, recent hand
injury,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Scott Nettles (who is in need of
conversion) and his father-in-law, Charles
Harmon, who are gravely ill,
Michael Brigg requests our prayers for the health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene Peters,
Conversion of Anton
Schwartzmueller, is the paryer request of his children,
Stacy Fernandez requests are prayers for the heath of
Terry Patterson, Steven Becerra, and
Roberto Valez,
Christine
Kozin, for
her health and spiritual welfare,
Teresa
Gonyea,
for her conversion and health, is the petition of her grandmother, Patricia
McLaughlin,
Nolan Moran, a three year old diagnosed
with brain tumor, and his family,
For the health of Sonia Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our prayers for her brother who
is gravely ill, John Lee,
Rose Bradley asks our prayers for the health and
spiritual welfare of her granddaughter, Meg
Bradley,
Timothy
& Crisara, a couple from Maryland have requested our prayers for their spiritual
welfare,
Celine
Pilegaard, the seven year old daughter of Cynthia Pilegaard, for her recovery from
burn injuries,
Rafaela de
Saravia, for
her health and welfare,
Mary Mufide,
requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien
Dutertre,
traditional Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X. McLaughlin, for the recovery of his
health,
Nicholas
Pell,
for his health and spiritual welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye
Petr,
her health and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev.
Fr. Martin Skierka, who produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of Katie Wess, John Gentry, Vincent Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and
James O’Gentry is the petition of Camilia,
Marieann
Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
Thomas 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, spiritual welfare,
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,
Joann
DeMarco, for her health and spiritual
welfare,
Regina
(Manidis) Miller, her spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa
Elena Levitt, her conversion, and welfare of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
The health and spiritual welfare of Tom Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex
Estrada,
Conversion of Annette
Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers
for the Keith Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes Family, and the Mike and Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donaghy,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and
Joann DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a traditional Catholic from
India has asked our prayers for her welfare and he family members, living and
deceased,
Mary and
Bill Glatz,
the welfare of their family,
Barbara
Harmon, who
is ill, and still cares for her
ailing parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children,
recovery of his health,
For the health and welfare of Sorace family,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for the health and
spiritual welfare of Brian Abramowitz,
Thomas Schiltz
family,
in grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Welfare of Bishop
Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the greater battles to
come,
John Rhoad, for his health and
spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for
her welfare,
Joyce
Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Michael J.
Brigg & his family, who have helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and conversion
to the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul
Diaz, who
was baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul, asks our prayers for his spiritual
welfare,
The conversion of Rene McFarland, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman
and family, David Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, Costanzo Family,
Kathy Scullen, Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and Time Roe are
the petitions of Gene Peters,
For the conversion of Ben & Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert,
and Fahnauer family,
Fr. Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill,
and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
For the health and conversion of Kathryn Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe & Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith
& Robert Drew, Christy Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael
Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family,
the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle, who is failing health,
Mel Gibson
and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins requested our prayers for the
welfare of his Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for the Andreas & Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce Paglia has asked prayers for George Richard Moore Sr. & his
children, and her brother, George
Panell,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin Family, the welfare
of Dan & Polly Weand, the
conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, John Calasanctis, Tony Rosky, James Parvenski and Kathleen Gorry.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
Richard
Giles,
who died April 29, the father of Traci Sentmanat who converted to the Catholic
faith last All Saints' Day,
Monica Bandlow request our prayers for the repose of
the soul of Fr. Christopher Darby,
SSPX who died on March 17,
Joseph
Sparks,
a devout and faithful Catholic to tradition died February 25,
Joyce Paglia, died
January 21, and Anthony Paglia,
died January 28, who were responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Richard Giles and Claude Harmon who converted to
the Catholic faith shortly before their deaths,
Robert Arch
Ward, a
friend of Monica Bandlow, died January 10,
Rodolfo
Zelaya, the brother of Claudia Drew,
died January 9,
Elizabeth Agosta petitions our prayers for Joseph Napolitano, her brother,
who died January 2,
Michael Dulisse,
died on December 26,
Michael
Proctor, a close friend of the Drews,
died November 9,
Richard
Anthony Giles, the father-in-law of Joe Sentmanat converted to the Catholic faith on
All Saints Day, died November 5,
Robert
Kolinsky,
the husband of Sonja, died September 18,
Gabriel
Schiltz,
the daughter of Thomas & Gay Schiltz, died August 21,
Mary Dimmel, the
mother –in-law of Victoria Drew Dimmel, died July 18,
Michael
Nesbit,
the brother-in-law and dear friend of the Drew's, died July 14,
Thomas
Thees, the brother of Philip, died
June 19,
Carmen Ragonese,
died June 22,
Juanita
Mohler, a friend of Camella Meiser,
died June 14,
Monica Bandlow request our prayers for Michelle Donofrio McDowell, her
cousin, died March 5, and Patricia
Fabyanic, the Prefect of Our Lady’s Sodality, March 8, John Kinney, died December 21,
and Willaim Price, Jr. who
died December,
Kathleen
Elias, died February 14,
Hernan Ortiz, the
brother of Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, died February 3,
Mary Ann
Boyle,
the mother of a second order Dominican nun, a first order Dominican priest, and
a SSPX priest, died January 24,
John DeMarco, who
attended this Mission in the past, died January23,
Charles
O’Brien, the father of Marlene Cox,
died December 30,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the repose of
the souls of her parents, Mehmet
& Nedime,
Kathleen
Donelly,
died December 29 at 91 years of age, ran the CorMariae website,
Matthew
O'Hare,
most faithful Catholic, died at age 40 on November 30,
Rev. Patrick
J. Perez, a Catholic priest faithful to
tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians, Garden Grove, CA, November 19,
Elizabeth
Benedek,
died December 14, requested by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores
Smith and Richard Costello, faithful Catholics, died
November,
Frank
D’Agustino,
a friend of Philp Thees, died November 8,
Fr.
Dominique Bourmaud, of the SSPX, Prior of St.
Vincent in Kansas City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel
Silva, the brother of Elizabeth
Vargas, died August 18,
Rose Bradley, a
member of Ss. Peter & Paul, died July 14,
Patricia
Ellias, died June 1, recently
returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose
Bradley, died May 18,
William
Muligan, died April 29, two days after
receiving the last sacraments,
Robert Petti, died
March 19, the day after receiving the last sacraments,
Mark
McDonald, the father of Kyle, who died
December 26,
Perla Otero, died December 2020, Leyla Otero, January 2021,
cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph
Gravish, died November 26, 100 year old
WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome
McAdams,
the father of, died November 30,
Rev. James
O’Hara, died November 8, requested by
Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth
Batko, the sacristan at St. John the
Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First Saturday November 7
wearing the brown scapular,
Fr. Anthony
Cekada, a traditional Catholic
priest, died September 11,
William Cox, the
father of Joseph Cox, who died September 3,
James Larson, Catholic
apologists, author of War Against Being
publication, died July 6, 2020,
Hutton
Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina
Cordis,
Immaculate Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Leslie Joan
Matatics, devoted Catholic wife and
mother of nine children, died March 24,
Victoria
Zelaya, the sister-in-law of Claudia
Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo
DeSilva,
died November 16, our prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Roland H.
Allard,
a friend of the Drew’s, died September 28,
Stephen
Cagorski
and John Bogda, who
both died wearing the brown
scapular,
Cecilia
LeBow, a most faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct 23,
Patrick
Rowen,
died March 25, and his brother, Daniel
Rowen, died May 15,
Sandra
Peters, the
wife of Gene Peters, who died June 10 receiving the sacraments and wearing our
Lady’s scapular,
Rev. Francis
Slupski, a
priest who kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha
Mochan, the
sister of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George
Kirsch,
our good friend and supporter of this Mission, died February 15,
For Fr.
Paul J. Theisz, died October 17, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio
Fregapane,
died Jan 12, was not a traditional priest but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir
Peterson,
a priest who often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound
advice, died December 4,
Fr.
Constantine Bellasarius, a faithful and always
charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite priest, who left the Roman rite, died
November 27,
Christian
Villegas,
a motor vehicle accident, his brother, Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former editor of
Catholic Family News, and for his family’s welfare, April 4,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel
Waters, died October 17,
Joseph
DeMarco,
the nephew of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died September 25 after
receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church wearing the brown
scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna
Marbach, died September 9,
Fr. Eugene
Dougherty,
a faithful priest, fittingly died on the Nativity of the BVM after receiving
the traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis
Schlafly,
died September 5,
Helen
Mackewicz,
died August 14,
Mark A.
Wonderlin,
who died August 2,
Fr. Carl
Cebollero,
a faithful priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica
Cortes,
a young mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances
Toriello, a
life-long Catholic faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred
Heart, and her husband Dan, died
in 1985,
John
McLaughlin, a friend of the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela
Montesano,
who died April 30, and her husband, Salvatore,
who died in July 3, 2013,
Charles Schultz, died
April 5, left behind nine children and many grandchildren, all traditional
Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas,
the aunt of Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo Suelo, a
faithful priest defending our traditions who was working with Fr. Francois
Chazal in the Philippines, died February 19,
Conde McGinley, a long time laborer
for the traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests
your prayers for Ida Fernandez and Rita Kelley,
parishioners at St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen
Somerville,
a traditional priest who repented from his work with the Novus Ordo English
translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo
DeMaio,
a priest that helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable
advice, died December 2,
J. Paul
Carswell,
died October 15, 2015,
Solange
Hertz, a
great defender of our Catholic faith, died October 3, the First Saturday of the
month,
Paula P.
Haigh,
died October 22, a great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and
natural science,
Gabriella
Whalin,
the mother of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary
Catherine Sick, 14 year old from a large traditional Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul
Trinchard,
a traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J.
Melnick, Jr., died on August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband
and father, from Philadelphia,
Patricia
Estrada,
died July 29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas
Gruner,
a devoted priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima
message, died April 29,
Sarah E.
Shindle,
the grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline
Vennari,
the mother of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador
Baca Callejas, the uncle of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle
accident November 29,
Catherine
Dunn,
died September 15,
Anthony Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser,
died August 28,
Jeannette
Rhoad,
the grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees,
died August 9,
Sarah
Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four
children, died July 28,
Msgr. Donald
Adams, who
offered the Indult Mass, died April 1996,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth
Walker,
a young traditional priest of the FSSP who was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for Gilberte Violette, the mother of
Fr. Violette, who died May 6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers for his brothers, Michael, died May 9, and James, died October 20, his
sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip
Marbach,
the father of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude in Philadelphia,
died April 21,
Richard
Slaughtery,
the elderly sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette
Marie Evans nee Toriello, the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a
faithful Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie
Cagorski,
died march 23,
Anita Lopez
de Lacayo,
the aunt of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario
Palmaro,
Catholic lawyer, bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of
his widow and children,
Daniel Boyle, the
uncle of Ryan Boyle, died March 4,
Jeanne
DeRuyscher,
who died on January 25,
Arthur
Harmon,
died January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
January 17,
Joseph
Proctor,
died January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional
Catholic who made the vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January
8,
Brother
Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell), an early supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard
Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers for
his sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton
Creager,
the son of Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher
Lussos,
age 27, the father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett
Ebeyer,
16 year old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the
Kolinsky’s,
Catherine
Nienaber,
the mother of nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA
after Mass, 10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of Frances
Toriello, died October 11, 2013 at 105 years of age,
Mary Rita
Schiltz,
the mother of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H.
(Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of
death unknown,
Alfred
Mercier,
the father of David Mercier, who died August 12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August
23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass at
our Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond
Peterson,
died July 28, and Paul Peterson,
died February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret
Brillhart,
who died July 20,
Msgr. Joseph
J. McDonnell, a priest from the diocese of Des Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick
Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using
the New, All English Canon, and for a series of newsletters which were
published as The Robber Church, died May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop
Joseph McFadden, died unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy
Foley,
the brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in April,
William
Sanders,
the uncle of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for the repose of the
soul of Mark Polaschek, who
died March 22,
Eduardo
Gomez Lopez, the uncle of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia
Thees,
died February 24,
Elizabeth
Marie
Gerads, a
nineteen year old, the oldest of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael
Schwartz,
the co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W. Moore, passed away in December 16,
and Gerard (Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19, who attended this Mission in
the past,
Louis
Fragale,
who died December 25,
Fr. Luigi
Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About
Face! detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael
Jarecki,
a faithful traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who died
September 10,
Jennie
Salaneck,
died September 19 at 95 years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her
life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia
(Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are still at
home, died August 19,
Stanley
Spahalski, who died October 20, and his wife, Regina
Spahalski, who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis Lester, her son,
Julia
Atkinson,
who died April 30,
Antonio P.
Garcia,
who died January 6, 2012 and the welfare of his teenage children, Andriana and
Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who
died February 27,
Fr. Timothy
A. Hopkins,
of the National Shrine of St. Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and
the welfare of his wife, Delores,
Eduardo
Cepeda,
who died January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of twelve
who died December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their family,
Sister Mary
Bernadette, M.I.C.M., a founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died
December 16,
Joeseph
Elias,
who died on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters,
who died September 7,
Donald
Tonelli,
died August 1,
Rev. Fr.
Gregory Hesse, of Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma
Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary
Dullesse,
who died April 12, a Catholic convert who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of Andre
Ebert, who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D.
Barr,
died March 5, and the welfare of his family,
Judith Irene
Kenealy,
the mother of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son, George Richard
Moore, who died May 14,
For Joe
Sobran who died September 30,
Fr. Hector
Bolduc,
a great and faithful priest, died, September 10, 2012,
John Vennari asks our prayers for Dr. Raphael Waters who died
August 26,
Stanley
Bodalsky,
the father of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel
Kilfoyle Humphreys, a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John
Campion,
who offered the traditional Mass for us every first Friday until forbidden to
do so by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph
Montagne, who
died May 5,
For Margaret
Vagedes, the aunt of Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. Michael
Shear, a
Byzantine rite Catholic priest, died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James
Francis Wathen, died November 7, 2006, author of The
Great Sacrilege and Who Shall
Ascend?, a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique
Rueda,
who died December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli, and the six
priests ordained with him.
Philip Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck,
Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano, Connie DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas,
Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata,
and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier
Bonneterre,
the author of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional
priests,
Brother
Francis, MICM, the superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in
Richmond, NH, who died September 5,
Rodolfo
Zelaya Montealegre, the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis
Clifford,
a devout and humble traditional priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin
Sorace, the
uncle of Sonja Kolinsky.
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these
predators from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protections. That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the
Diocese’s financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make
restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our
ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and
related entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide
funding to the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling
insurers will contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust
amount to $18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for
survivors of clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be
established by early March. More details related to the Trust are included in
the Plan, which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan
website. Once established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will
determine compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450.
Western
Civilization is at its end! Either conversion to the Catholic faith or complete
descent into barbarism are the only options!
Since civilization is the
reign of social law issuing in social stability and in the security of life,
limb and property, and a stable relation of mutual confidence and trust between
man and man, it is quite obvious that such stability must rest upon an ethical
basis, that is to say, upon the virtues of honesty, truthfulness, good-will,
respect for the rights and feelings of others, self-restraint and submission to
just law. It is obvious, too, and history confirms it a thousand times, that
these virtues can have no stability or binding power in society so long as they
rest only on the quicksand of mere external propriety and expediency. No, my
good Friends, the virtues which make up a civilization require a more solid
foundation than mere convenience and self-interest, and this bed-rock of
civilization can only be the moral law
accepted as an imperative duty—as the
Will flowing from the Nature of a Divine Lawgiver.
Rev. Demetrius Zema, S.J., The
Thoughtlessness of Modern Thought, 1933
It is perfectly clear and evident, that the very notion of civilization
is a fiction of the brain, if it rest not on the abiding principles of truth
and the unchanging laws of virtue and justice, and if unfeigned love knit not
together the wills of men and gently control the interchange and character of
their mutual service. ... Undoubtedly
that cannot be by any means accounted the perfection of civilized life which
sets all legitimate authority at defiance; nor can that be regarded as liberty
which, shamefully and by the vilest means spreading false principles, and
freely indulging the sensual gratification of lustful desires, claims impunity
for all crime and misdemeanor, and thwarts the goodly influence of the
worthiest citizens of whatever class.
Pope Leo XIII, Inscrutabili,
1878
You speak to us of progress, liberalism and civilization, just as if we
were savages, and did not know the meaning of the words. But these grand words,
which you take out of their proper sense, it is we who taught them to you, and
have given you the real meaning of them and the realities they represent. Every
one of these words has and will have, forever, a thoroughly Christian
signification; and on the day when that sense perishes all sincere liberalism,
all real civilization, will perish also.
Msgr. Felix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1802-1878), Bishop of Orleans,
defending Blessed Pius IX Syllabus of Errors against its liberal critics.
OPEN LETTER
Very Rev. John Bateman, J.C.L., V.F.
FrBateman@stpatrickyork.net
April 30, 2023 St. Patrick Church,
York, PA Bulletin Post
BULLETIN
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE YORK DEANERY REGARDING ST. PETER & PAUL MISSION
Periodically,
groups which are not affiliated with the Catholic Church attempt to portray
themselves as truly Catholic. Their ministers may present themselves as
Catholic priests and their services may contain elements of Catholic Mass. One
of these groups is Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission on S. Beaver
Street in York City (just 1 block from our church). The Diocese of Harrisburg
wishes to remind all faithful Catholics that this and other similar groups in
the area are not in any manner affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Their
prayers and services are not licit sacraments. Attendance at their services
does not satisfy the obligation of Catholics to participate in the Mass on
Sundays and Holy Days of obligation. It is important for Catholics to remember
that an essential element of Catholic identity is communion with the local
bishop and with the successor of Peter, the Pope. This and other similar groups
lack this element of Catholic identity and many of their doctrines deny
authentic Catholic teaching. Any Catholic who willingly joins or embraces the
teaching of one of these dissident sects or groups is in danger of schism with
the Catholic Church and could be subject to the penalty of excommunication.
Fr. Bateman,
Your publication at the direction of Bishop
Gainer in the parish bulletin (appended) on April 30 regarding Ss. Peter &
Paul Roman Catholic Mission was brought to our attention. This circular tripe
is reposted by the diocesan officials from time to time with the same mindless
belief that reiteration is the greatest and only evidence of truth. The post is
a canned smear containing erroneous presuppositions and corrupted definitions
to make indefensible charges which are inexcusable from anyone, but to be
published by a man with your academic credentials and experience should be,
well, embarrassing. The fact that it is not speaks volumes on the formation of
the modern clerics.
For nearly twenty-five years Ss. Peter
& Paul Roman Catholic Mission has been trying to get the bishops of Harrisburg
(Dattilo, Rhoades, McFadden, and Gainer), either themselves or by means of
their appointed representatives, to enter into a public written debate (or if
you prefer, dialogue) regarding the doctrinal, liturgical, moral and canonical
claims on which the Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is founded for
the purpose of bringing those in error back to the truth. We have received no
takers but we keep the letters of request and of reply from the diocese posted
on our web page. The only reply is the canned publication that you parrot.
I am formally asking you to take up this
challenge. Unlike American jurisprudence which seeks an accommodation of error,
canon law is intended to find truth and bring those who have deviated back to
truth. Certainly as a canon lawyer you have some devotion to the truth? It is
reasonable to assume that the Diocese of Harrisburg does not want a canonical
process because they fear truth and, like Pontius Pilate, they prefer to walk
away. The former parishioners of St. Patrick who attend our Mission are seeking
truth. They came here only after reading the Mission's web page published
letters and found our claims and arguments compelling. Looking to their parish
priest and the diocese of Harrisburg they have heard nothing to refute them.
Well, what are you going to do about it?
Would you like a litany of Catholic saints who spent their lives, often losing
them, to bring back erring Catholics to the truth to remind you of your
religious obligations? Or does that sound too much like proselytism that Pope
Francis calls "solemn nonsense"? The exchange will be published on
our Mission web page without redaction or editing of any sort. It will be an
opportunity to proselytize your former parishioners who now attend Ss. Peter
& Paul Roman Catholic Mission where they hear Catholic doctrine and morals
preached without compromise or qualifications and they can participate in the
most perfect and acceptable worship of God according to the "received and
approved" immemorial Roman rite of Mass of the Catholic Church.
Believe, Fr. Bateman, I do not presume to
be any smarter or more clever than you or any other cleric in the diocese of
Harrisburg, rather quite the opposite, but after fifty years of debating with
Novus Ordo clerics, it gets easier every time only because truth has its own
luminosity, its own brilliance, and the Novus Ordo record of rotten fruit of
heresy, moral corruption and cowardism can no longer be excused by cheap, empty
headed slogans like, "Time is greater than space."
Sincerely in Christ,
David Drew
Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission
cc: Bishop Ronald Gainer
Bishop Timothy Senior
When arguing
with a Neo-Modernist Novus Ordite Remember -
Modern Mind,
Modern Thought: Don't be surprised when you at last discover that the Modern
Mind is Mindless and Modern Thought is Thoughtless!
Modem Thought shirks definition. In all truth it is a giant’s task to
extract a clear-cut and intelligible statement of what it exactly means by the
terms it uses. For a definition requires thought; it requires a close
examination and analysis of the nature of the thing to be defined, an accurate
discrimination between its essentials and accidentals, and a painstaking
comparison of that thing with similar things in order to discern what it has in
common with them, and then to pick out just that specific note which makes it
the thing that it is and different from everything else. All that, I say, calls
for accurate and connected reasoning, and Modern Thought is quite unequal to the
task. For it moves in a twilight of half-intelligence where it sees vague
shapes and transforms them into monsters. Make the experiment of this for
yourselves; if you will, take up the print of Modern Thought, some of which I
shall presently indicate, and see what travesties it can make of the ideas of
“dogma,”“faith,”“theology,”“metaphysics,”“God,”“morality,” etc., as well as of
“civilization,”“culture,”“science” and “progress.” To whatever other tortures
it may subject these words, or with whatever welter of brilliant sentences it
may mix them—define them it does not.
All this is the same as saying that Modern Thought is flippant,
cynical, skeptical, irrational and thoughtless—no one of which is the mark of thought
truly so-called. In the face of searching questions, Modern Thought is as
irresponsible as Boccacio’s “Cymon,” who:
shunned the Church and
used not much to pray,
He trudged along,
unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went
for want of thought.
It is difficult to speak of a flippant thing without oneself seeming to
indulge in flippancy. Yet, were I to take Modern Thought very seriously and to
define its most serious aspect, I could do no more than say that it is an
attitude of mind which prefers to interpret life and judge the world not in the
light of principles, tradition and authority, but according to a mood prompted
by the moment and by the expediency of immediate environment—or the gravitation
of man’s lower nature.
In justice to Modern Thought let it be said that at is not consistent
with itself, for, while it spurns authority, it will nevertheless place the
blindest reliance on any “authority” that serves its mood and temper, and this
mood can, with the greatest ease, swing from the namby-pambiest optimism to the
murkiest pessimism. And, if besides being observant persons you are moderately
well read in history, it will soon break upon your realization that, after all,
there is nothing modern about this mental affliction. It is as ancient as the
day when Adam and Eve maimed their souls and bodies in Paradise in a fit of
independence; it is as ancient as Heracitus, Epicurus, and the classic pagans.
Its mood and their mood are essentially the same, the setting alone is
different, the chief difference being that to-day the printing-press, the
cinema and the radio (the T.V. and the
Internet) offer the neo-paganism so many more facilities to waft itself
abroad and spread the contagion of its mood.
Rev. Demetrius Zema, S.J., The Thoughtlessness of Modern Thought,
Conference at Fordham University, 1933
Vatican recognizes Copts beheaded by Islamic State as martyrs
Adding members of the Orthodox religion to the list of those who have
died for their faith is a sign of communion between the two churches, the
Pontiff said
HomeWorldNews | 12 May, 2023
Pope Francis flanked by Leader of the
Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II blesses attendees during a general
audience in the
Pope Francis has said that 21 Coptic
Orthodox Christians beheaded by Islamic State in Libya in 2015 will be
considered martyrs by the Catholic Church.
The Pontiff made the announcement on
Thursday during a meeting at the Vatican with Pope Tawadros II, head of the Egypt-based
Coptic Orthodox Church, which has an estimated 10 million followers in North
Africa and the Middle East.
Pope Francis said the inclusion of the
slain Copts in the Roman Martyrology had been decided with the consent of Pope
Tawadros, and that it was a “sign
of the spiritual communion that unites our two Churches.”
“These
martyrs were baptized not only with water and the Spirit, but also in blood, in
a blood that is the seed of unity for all followers of Christ,” the Pontiff said.
The execution of the group of Copts, 20 of
whom were from Egypt and one from Ghana, took place on February 15, 2015 at a
beach in the Libyan city of Sirte. Footage of the beheadings shared by the
extremists online showed the men dressed in orange jumpsuits and praying as
they were killed.
Their bodies were exhumed in 2018 and
brought to a shrine in the Egyptian settlement of El-Aour, from where most of
them hailed.
It is not the first time non-Catholic
Christians have been added to the Roman Martyrology (the list of saints
celebrated liturgically in the Catholic Church).
In 2001, several Orthodox saints were
added, including Sergius of Radonezh and Stephen of Perm, who are revered by
the Russian Orthodox Church.
COMMENT: The
Coptic Orthodox Church became schismatic and heretical after 451 when they
refused to accept the Council of Chalcedon under the direction of Pope St. Leo
the Great and its dogmatic judgment that Jesus Christ has two natures being
fully God and fully man in one person. In rejecting this Council and Pope St.
Leo they also reject the universal jurisdiction of the Pope of Rome, the See of
St. Peter.
The Coptic representatives at the Council
of Florence in 1442 established union with the Catholic Church but this was
rejected by the populace and clergy at home. There were many efforts to convert
the Coptic Orthodox Church. For example, a Franciscian Mission was established
in the early 17th century. A Capuchin priest from that Mission, St. Agathangelo
of Vendome was martyred in Ethiopia in 1638. The Jesuits came in 1675. In 1713,
the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria again submitted to Rome but, as after the
Council of Florence in 1442, the union did not last long. In 1741, Coptic bishop Anba Athanasius of Jerusalem
became a Catholic. In 1781, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV as vicar
apostolic of the less than 2,000 Egyptian Coptic Catholics. There are to this
day Coptic Catholics.
The Catholic Church has dogmatically defined:
“There is but one universal Church of the
faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.”
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council,
1215
“We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the
salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Pope Boniface VIII, Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302
“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none
of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews
and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they
will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels,
unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the
unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity
can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can
receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other
works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his
almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be
saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.”
Pope Eugene IV, Bull Cantate Domino, 1441
Pope Francis is a heretic. The definition
of heresy is the denial of an article of "divine and Catholic faith",
that is, the denial of DOGMA. These unfortunate men who were killed by Islamic
terrorists were apparently NOT Catholic and the "canonizations" of
Pope Francis cannot change this fact. The "canonization" is
apparently of a similar order as the canonizations of the Vatican II
conciliarist popes.
The Heart of Francis is Rotten
Pope Francis talks with Hungarian Jesuits, as reported by Jesuit
periodical La Civiltà Cattolica:
Question: The Second Vatican Council talks about the
relationship between the Church and the modern world. How can we reconcile the
Church and the reality that is already beyond the modern? How do we find God’s
voice while loving our time?
[This question may have been better phrased: Vatican II was about getting
the Church united with the Modern world while the Modern world had already
turned to Post-Modernism. We started out so far behind the curve how is it
possible for us to catch up? And now "our time" is so clearly vulgar
and corrupt, if we "love are time", how can we ever find God?]
Francis: I wouldn’t know how to answer that theoretically, but I
certainly know that the Council is still being applied. It takes a century for a Council to be assimilated, they say. And I know the resistance to its
decrees is terrible. There is incredible support for restorationism, what I
call “indietrismo” (backwardness), as the Letter to the Hebrews (10:39)
says: “But we do not belong to those who shrink back.” The flow of history and grace goes from the roots
upward like the sap of a tree that bears fruit. But without this flow
you remain a mummy. Going backwards does not preserve life, ever. You must
change, as St. Vincent of Lérins wrote in his Commonitory when he remarked that
even the dogma of the
Christian religion progresses, consolidating over the years, developing with
time, deepening with age. But this is a change from the bottom up. The
danger today is indietrismo, the reaction against the modern. It is a nostalgic
disease. This is why I decided that now the permission to celebrate according
to the Roman Missal of 1962 is mandatory for all newly consecrated priests.
After all the necessary consultations, I decided this because I saw that the
good pastoral measures put in place by John Paul II and Benedict XVI were being
used in an ideological way, to go backward. It was necessary to stop this
indietrismo, which was not in the pastoral vision of my predecessors.
COMMENT: I think Pope Francis
understood the question and is dodging it because he and the contemporary world
are of one mind and one love. He takes the opportunity to provide an answer to
his own question that is troubling him, that is: What are we to do about those
nasty Catholic faithful who are opposing my work to destroy the Catholic
Church? We might ask: Who says that "it takes a century for a Council to
be assimilated"? Take for example the Council of Chalcedon. It was
immediately accepted by the Catholic world and immediately rejected by the
schismatic Oriental Orthodox that Pope Francis now accepts without reservation
while turning his back on the faithful Coptic Catholic Church. Who does he have
real communion with? Is the "resistance to its (Vatican II) decrees"
terrible? Or is the resistance Catholic against a cancer that has invaded the
Mystical Body of Christ? Francis corrupts the words of St. Paul and St. Vincent
Lerins making them look like liars to enroll them in his anti-Catholic tirade.
For the record, dogma does NOT progress. In fact dogma by definition is divine
revelation formally and infallibly defined for all times and for all peoples so
that the denial of dogma is the definition of heresy. Dogma is fixed. The
implications that can be drawn from dogma progress in response to the changing
errors of different ages but dogma itself is fixed. Francis wants faithful
Catholics to believe that the dogma has changed and now Catholics should stop
believing what was always held and start believing the new "dogma" of
Vatican II and the Neo-modernist Church of the New Advent. If Pope Francis was
himself a faithful Catholic, he would not oppose any traditional Catholic
expression, he would take no offense in it. He is content that the Coptic
Orthodox keep their traditions because those traditions have not prevented them
from converting from schismatic heretics. He opposes traditional Catholicism
because it is a bulwark against heresy. The fruit of Vatican II is toxic and
trying to hide this fact by claiming it takes a century to be assimilated and
"time is greater than space" is a lot of tripe! Pope Francis is a
boring, ignorant, crude, tyrannical, cynical and heretical manipulator. Pray
God that he either convert him or send him to his eternal reward.
“Of all divine things, the most godlike is to co-operate with God in
the conversion of sinners.”
St. Denis the Areopagite
"Only take heed to yourself
and guard your soul diligrntly." (Deut 4:9)
"It is a sin to believe there
is salvation outside the Catholic Church!"
Blessed Pope Pius IX
“Whom the gods destroy they
first make mad.”
Euripides
Last Words of Catholic Martyrs
Whosoever dieth
out of the Catholic Church he dieth in the state of damnation.
St. John Shert, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed during the
reign of Elizabeth I on May 28, 1582
Benedicat
nos omnipotens Deus, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus, Father
Roberts has told you the reason why we are to suffer death, and so it is not
necessary that I should repeat more than one thing. I did not refuse to take
the oath because I refused any sort of allegiance that her Majesty the Queen
could justly demand of me. I refused on account of the matters of Faith
included in that oath, and that is why it has been forbidden by His Holiness
the Pope, whom all of us who are sheep of Christ are bound to obey in matters
of Faith. I pray you all therefore and exhort you to be obedient to the chief
Shepherd of the Church of God. Out of the Church there is no salvation.
St. Thomas Somers, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on the
same day as St. John Roberts
Memorare
novissima tua — Let man remember his end. Quia nos omnes
manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi — We must all appear before the
judgment-seat of Christ there to render an account of our Faith and of our
deeds. Those who have done well will have eternal life, and those who have done
evil will suffer eternal torments. Extra ecclesiam nulla est salus —
Outside the true Church of Christ there is no salvation.
St. John Roberts, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on December 10, 1610
Admission of Heretical
Ambiguity introduced into Vatican II Documents
In many places, [the
Council Fathers] had to find compromise formulae, in which, often, the
positions of the [conservative] majority are located immediately next to those
of the [modernist] minority, designed to delimit them. Thus, the conciliar
texts themselves have a huge potential for conflict, open the door to a
selective reception in either direction.
Walter Cardinal Kasper,
former assistant to Vatican II peritus Hans Kung. Kasper at one time had his
theological teaching faculties suspended by the Vatican because he rejected
Catholic teaching on contraception and papal infallibility, April 12, 2013, L'Osservatore
Romano
Worth Reading Again from Previous Year:
Open Letter by “Papal
favorite” calling for End of Summorum
Pontificum
OPEN LETTER on the “State of Liturgical Exception” |
Andrea Grillo, April 29, 2020
To all theologians, scholars, and students of theology:
The great liturgical tradition, which has always accompanied and
supported the Church in her history of grace and sin, hears the groaning of
individuals and nations in this pandemic crisis, which brings suffering and
affliction to those who are sick, and fear, isolation and loneliness to
everyone else. The ordinary rhythm of the Lenten and Paschal journey is
altered and subverted, in solidarity with our common suffering. We would never
have thought, however, that a small but not marginal suffering would also come
at the same time through the exercise of ecclesial authority and through the
decrees Quo magis e Cum sanctissima, which the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published on 25 March 2020.
It is no surprise that This Congregation should devote its
attention to the liturgy. But special and singular is the fact that it modifies
the ordines, introduces prefaces and formularies for
feasts, and modifies calendars and criteria of precedence. And it does this on
a 1962 missal. How is this possible? The Congregation, as is known, in this case moves in the space
of an exceptional authority, which dates back 13 years, in accordance with motu
proprio Summorum pontificum. But since time is greater than space, what is possible on
the regulatory level is not always appropriate. Therefore, it is crucial
to engage in critical reflection on the logic of this development.
Time, in fact, has unveiled to us the paradox of a competence on
the liturgy being taken away from the Bishops and the Congregation of Worship:
this was arranged, in Summorum pontificum, with an
intention of solemn pacification and generous reconciliation, but soon it
changed into a serious division, a widespread conflict, and became the symbol
of a “liturgical rejection” of the Second Vatican Council. The greatest
distortion of the initial intentions of the motu proprio can be seen today in
those diocesan seminaries where it is expected that the future ministers will
be trained at the same time in two different rites: the conciliar rite and the
one that denies it. All this reached its most surreal point the day before
yesterday, when the two Decrees were released. They mark the culmination of a
distortion which is no longer tolerable, and which can be summed up as follows:
· the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith acts as a
substitute in exercising competences conferred by the Second Vatican
Council on Bishops and the Congregation for Divine Worship;
· it undertakes to elaborate ”liturgical variants” of
the ordines without having the historical, textual,
philological and pastoral competences;
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
· it seems to underestimate the disruptive effect this
“exception” will have on the ecclesial level, by immunizing a part of the
community from the “school of prayer” that the Second Vatican Council and the
liturgical reform have providentially given to the common ecclesial journey.
A “state of exception” is also happening today on the civil
level, in its harsh necessity, and this fact allows us greater ecclesial
foresight. To return to an ecclesial normality, we must overcome the state of
liturgical exception established 13 years ago in another world, with other
conditions and with other hopes, by Summorum pontificum. It
no longer makes sense to deprive diocesan bishops of their liturgical powers;
neither does it make sense to have an Ecclesia Dei Commission (which has in fact already been
suppressed), or a Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
which take away authority from diocesan Bishops and the Congregation of Divine
Worship; it no longer makes sense to enact decrees to “reform” a rite that is
closed in the historical past, inert and crystallized, lifeless and without
vigor. There can be no resuscitation for it. The double regime is over; the
noble intention of SP has waned; the Lefebvrians have raised the barhigher and
higher and then run away, insulting the Second Vatican Council and the present
pope along with all three of his predecessors. Continuing to nourish a
“state of liturgical exception” – one that was born to unite, but does nothing
but divide – only leads to the shattering, privatization, and distortion of the
worship of the Church. On the basis of these considerations, we
resolve together to request that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
immediately withdraw the two decrees of 25/03/2020 and restore all powers
concerning the liturgy to the diocesan Bishops and the Congregation for Divine
Worship.
Obviously, we ask this without prejudice to the powers that this Congregation
retains in doctrinal matters.
So let us leave the “state of liturgical exception”. If not
now, when?
With best wishes to all colleagues and students, besieged but
not conquered in life, during these bitter yet still generous times.
“Time is greater than space” – The ideological lynchpin of Pope Francis
the Great Equivocator
This
liturgical OPEN LETTER structures its argument around the phrase: Time is
Greater Than Space.” This slogan of Pope Francis, “Time is greater than space”
(TGTS), appeared in his first two encyclicals, Lumen Fidei and Laudato
Si’. It surfaced again in the apostolic exhortations, Evangelii Gaudium
and Amoris Laetitia.
From
Lumen Fidei:
“Let us refuse to be robbed of hope, or
to allow our hope to be dimmed by facile answers and solutions which block
our progress, ‘fragmenting’ time and changing it into space. Time is always
much greater than space. Space hardens processes, whereas time propels towards
the future and encourages us to go forward in hope.”
Evangelii
Gaudium is more revealing
as to the cryptic meaning of this phrase:
222. 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.
223. This principle enables us to work
slowly but surely, without being obsessed with immediate results. It helps us
patiently to endure difficult and adverse situations, or inevitable changes in
our plans. It invites us to accept the tension between fullness and limitation,
and to give a priority to time. One of the faults which we occasionally observe
in sociopolitical activity is that spaces and power are preferred to time and
processes. Giving priority to space means madly attempting to keep everything
together in the present, trying to possess all the spaces of power and of
self-assertion; it is to crystallize processes and presume to hold them back.
Giving priority to time means being concerned about initiating processes rather
than possessing spaces. Time governs spaces, illumines them and makes them
links in a constantly expanding chain, with no possibility of return. What we
need, then, is to give priority to actions which generate new processes in
society and engage other persons and groups who can develop them to the point
where they bear fruit in significant historical events. Without anxiety, but
with clear convictions and tenacity.
St.
Pius X said in Pascendi that Evolution is the fundamental principle
of the heresy of Modernism. This error is practically applied when Modernists
embrace Becoming and reject Being. This neologism of Francis, TGTS,
is just a repacking of this old philosophical error of Modernism. Francis is
trying to sound clever by putting a little make-up and bow-tie on the pig. But
the pig remains a pig because that is his Being.
Fr. Réginald Marie
Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. explained this error in his great essay, Where is the New Theology Leading Us?, that
was published in the Angelicum in
1946.
It should be remembered that on December 1, 1924, the Holy Office
condemned 12 propositions taken from the philosophy of action, among which was
number 5, or the new definition of truth: “Truth is not found in any particular
act of the intellect wherein conformity with the object would be had, as the
Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of becoming, and
consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with life, indeed a
certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to develop and
explain that which experience presents or action requires: by which principle,
moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or fixed.” The last
of these condemned propositions is: “Even after Faith has been received, man
ought not to rest in the dogmas of religion, and hold fast to them fixedly and
immovably, but always solicitous to remain moving ahead toward a deeper truth
and even evolving into new notions, and even correcting that which he
believes.”
Many, who did not heed these warnings, have now reverted to these errors.
……
It revisits modernism. Because it accepted the proposition which was
intrinsic to modernism: that of substituting, as if it were illusory, the
traditional definition of truth: aequatio rei et intellectus (the adequation of
intellect and reality), for the subjective definition: adequatio realis mentis
et vitae (the adequation of intellect and life). That was more explicitly
stated in the already cited proposition, which emerged from the philosophy of
action, and was condemned by the Holy Office, December 1, 1924: “Truth is not
found in any particular act of the intellect wherein conformity with the object
would be had, as the Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of
becoming, and consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with
life, indeed a certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to
develop and explain that which experience presents or action requires: by which
principle, moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or
fixed” (v. Monitore ecclesiastico, 1925. t. I; p. 194.)
The truth is no longer the conformity (of judgment) to the intuitive
reality and its immutable laws but the conformity of judgment to the exigencies
of action, and of human life which continues to evolve. The philosophy of being
or ontology is substituted by the philosophy of action which defines truth as
no longer a function of being but of action.
Thus is modernism reprised: “Truth is no more immutable than man himself,
inasmuch as it is evolved with him, in him and through him. As well, Pius X
said of the modernists, “they pervert the eternal concept of truth.”
……
The traditional definition truth is no longer for them the conformity of
judgment to intuitive being and the immutable laws of non-contradiction, of
causality, etc. For them, the truth is no longer that which is but that which
is becoming — and is constantly and always changing.
For
the Modernist heretic, Pope Francis, “Time is greater than space,” “Time” means
the process of becoming through evolution and “Space” is the limitation
of static being. A library could be
filled with analyzing the implications of this error but suffice for the
present there are two obvious to everyone: Firstly, the very definition of heresy
is the rejection of DOGMA. For the faithful Catholic, DOGMA is NECESSARILY the
proximate rule of faith. This is directly rejected by the Modernists. They
replace Dogma with the person of the pope as the proximate rule of faith and he
is free to corrupt the revealed truth in whatever manner he pleases. The second
obvious error is that they deny the philosophical meaning of substance. They follow modern
reductionist Scientism that resurrected the Greek philosopher Democritus’
(460-370 B.C.) theory that the fundamental nature of all that existed is “atoms
and the void.” Since all reality is just the recombination of atoms and the
void between them, then there cannot be such thing as a fixed substance in which accidents adhere. Consequently, we have Benedict/Ratzinger denying substance and making the accident of relationship the fundamental ground of all reality. It is therefore
not surprising when he denies the Dogma of Transubstantiation. And what becomes
of the Dogma that the Father and the Son are Consubstantial? Francis follows in
the same manner and never kneels before the Blessed Sacrament. No argument can
touch these blighted minds, if you call something that never thinks a “mind.”
It matters not what wreckage and ruin that has followed since Vatican II
because the being of the wreckage
cannot overcome their ideological fantasy of becoming as Pope Francis looks to his “brighter horizon of the utopian future… for progress in
building a people.”
The
truth is just the opposite, ‘Space is Greater than Time.’ God revealed His name
to Moses, “I AM.” Jesus applied this name to Himself. God is perfect BEING; He
is perfect ACT: “Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow
of alteration” (James 1:17). Ultimately time will end in a changeless
eternity where the faithful will be with God in a space prepared by Him
for each one of us. “In my Father's house there are many mansions. If
not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. And
if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will
take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be” (John 14:2-3).
Andrea Grillo gives as a reason for the suppression of the Latin
Mass granted to the Indult crowd:
·
it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic level, a
grave conflict between the lex orandi and the lex credendi,
since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a
significant division in the faith;
He to believes with Francis that TGTS.
Latin Mass Catholics are stuck in space
while the Catholic Church is moving in time
to a new “dogmatic level” that will inevitably “lead to a significant
division in the faith.”
The two rites he says represent a “grave conflict between the lex orandi and
the lex credenda.” Are we to congratulate Grillo for this
insight?Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine for the Faith with
his Interventionin in 1969 said the same thing! This is a truth
that faithful Catholics have known for more than 50 years! Yet Indultists
publicly deny this truth professing that both the Novus Ordo and the
traditional Latin rite express an identity of “lex orandi /lex credendi.” This is the price they have
paid for their Indult; a mind that turns its back on the first principle of the
understanding cannot even be called a “mind”!
Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission’s purpose is to make a public
profession of the Catholic faith before our local ordinary and Rome.
Foundational to this purpose is that DOGMA IS divine revelation infallibly
defined by the Magisterium of the Church, which is irreformable both in its
truth (form) and its terminology employed (matter), IS the “formal object of
divine and Catholic faith” and constitutes the proximate rule of faith for all
the faithful. Furthermore, our immemorial ecclesiastical traditions are
necessary attributes of the faith by which alone the faith can be known and
communicated to others. Since God has imposed a duty upon His faithful to
profess their faith and worship Him in the public forum, every Catholic
possesses the inalienable right to our immemorial traditions by which alone
these duties can be fulfilled. Those who have accepted the Latin Mass by virtue
of Indult and/or grant of legal privilege want a non-confrontational modus vivendi with Modernist heretics.
This has never worked in the past and it will not work now. Being neither ‘cold
nor hot’, they please no one and will soon learn that having traded their birth
right for bowl of pottage there is nothing left to eat.
Neo-Modernism
Postulates the grave error that there exists a disjunction between DOGMA and
the Words used to formulate the dogmatic definition. This error became the
overarching theme of Vatican II!
[…..] In theology some (i.e., Neo-Modernists) want to reduce to a minimum the meaning
of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the
Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to
bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of
speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish
the hope that when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be
extrinsic to divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the
dogmatic opinions of those who are separated from the unity of the Church and
that in this way they will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of
Catholic dogma with the tenets of the dissidents.
Moreover, they assert that when Catholic doctrine has been reduced to
this condition, a way will be found to satisfy modern needs, that will permit
of dogma being expressed also by the concepts of modern philosophy, whether of
immanentism or idealism or existentialism or any other system. Some more
audacious affirm that his can and must be done, because they hold that the
mysteries of faith are never expressed by truly adequate concepts but only by
approximate and ever changeable notions, in which the truth is to some extent
expressed, but is necessarily distorted. Wherefore they do not consider it
absurd, but altogether necessary, that theology should substitute new concepts
in place of the old ones in keeping with the various philosophies which in the
course of time it uses as its instruments, so that it should give human
expression to divine truths in various ways which are even somewhat opposed,
but still equivalent, as they say. They add that the history of dogmas consists
in the reporting of the various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed,
forms that have succeeded one another in accordance with the different
teachings and opinions that have arisen over the course of the centuries.
It is evident from what We have already said, that such tentatives not
only lead to what they call dogmatic relativism, but that they actually contain
it. The contempt of doctrine commonly taught and of the terms in which it is
expressed strongly favor it. […..]
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
A
Illustrative Example of the Heresy of Neo-Modernism
It is not enough to find a new language in which to articulate our
perennial faith; it is also urgent, in the light of the new challenges and
prospects facing humanity, that the Church be able to express the ‘new things’
of Christ’s Gospel, that, albeit present in the word of God, have not yet come
to light.
Pope Francis the Destroyer, Address, October 11, 2018
A
Illustrative Example of the Catholic Faith
If there are any present-day teachers making every effort to produce
and develop new ideas, but not to repeat “that which has been handed down,” and
if this is their whole aim, they should reflect calmly on those words which
Benedict XV proposes for their consideration: “We wish this maxim of our elders
held in reverence: Nihil innovetur nisi quod traditum — let nothing new be introduced,
but only what has been handed down; it must be held as an inviolable law in
matters of faith, and should also control those points which allow of change,
though in these latter for the most part the rule holds: non nova sed noviter—not new
things but in a new way.”
Pope Pius XII,
Si Diligis, Allocution to
Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops on the Canonization of St Pius X, May 31,
1954.
The Church that knows how to celebrate Easter is synodal
Vatican Insider | Paolo
Scarafoni and Filomena Rizzo | 4-20-21
“It is a matter of putting Jesus Christ at
the centre of community life and of living a new Pentecost. The paradigm
remains the Second Vatican Council: once it began, at the moment of real sharing, precisely on the
subject of the «liturgical celebration», it was no longer possible to harness
the Holy Spirit and keep him under the control of a few, and so the novelty
could enter the world.”
COMMENT: The blasphemy never
ends. These Modernist heretics have the effrontery to say that before Vatican
II, that Holy Spirit was “harnessed” and “kept under control” to prevent Him
from inflicting His liturgical “novelty” on the Church. The “received and
approved” Roman rite of Mass is the object of Dogma. It is therefore the work
of the Holy Ghost as all true worship of God is and always has been from the
beginning to this day. For these heretics, the countless saints, martyrs and
confessors that fill the history of the Church never “put Jesus Christ at the
centre of community life and the living a new Pentecost.” The Novus Ordo Church
knows nothing about the celebration of Easter because they know nothing about a
penitential exercise of Lent. They want the joy of the Resurrection without the
contradiction of the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ. That is the “novelty”
they pursue. It is the same that the Pharisees wanted: “Let Christ the king of
Israel come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe” (Mark 15:32).
These constitute the “many” who will one day hear our Lord say: “Not every one
that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he
that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied
in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy
name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you
that work iniquity” (Matt 7:21-23). They have betrayed the Faith and yet
promise themselves heaven as if it were possible that the Truth of Christ could
be immaterial to His friendship. Jesus Christ said that there is a sin that
will not be forgiven in this world or the next: the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Why? It may very well be because the “many” believe they possess the grace of
God and therefore cannot repent of a sin they are blind to. Pray God to deliver
us sins of ignorance.
Usury: Making
fertile what is by nature sterile!
Antonio: Or is
your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shylock: I
cannot tell. I make it breed as fast.
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Ecumenism
with Lutherans requires abandoning both Reason and Free Will which helps
explain why Modernists are both stupid and reckless!
“Reason is a
whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of
spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine
Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
Martin Luther
“This error of
free will is a special doctrine of the antichrist.”
Martin Luther
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Martin Luther:
“God does not save factious sinners. Be a
sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ every more boldly. No
sin will separate us form the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and
murder a thousand times a day.”
Martin Luther
“When I awoke last night the Devil came and
wanted to debate with me arguing that I was a sinner. To this I replied, “Tell
me something new, Devil! I already know that perfectly well; I have committed
many a solid and real sin. Indeed there must be good honest sins not fabricated
and invented ones for God to forgive.”
Martin Luther
In translating St. Paul, “We account a man
to be justified by faith” (Romans 3:28), Luther added the word, “alone.” In answer to those who objected to his
mutilating Sacred Scripture, he answered:
“If your Papist annoys you with the word (alone), tell him straightway:
Dr. Martin Luther will have it so. Whoever will not have my translation, let
him give it the go-by; the devil’s thanks to him who censures it without my
will and knowledge.
Dr. Martin Luther will have it so, and he
is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom.”
Pope Francis the Lutheran:
“I think that Marin Luther's intentions were not mistaken. He was a reformer.... And today, Luther and
Catholics, Protestants, all of us agree on the doctrine of justification. On
this point which is very important, he did not err.”
Pope Francis, public interview, June 26,
2016
Catholic Faith: Council of Trent: Selected DOGMAS on
Justification
v
CANON
IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such
wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the
obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary,
that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be
anathema.
v
CANON
XII.-If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in
the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that this confidence
alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema.
v
CANON
XIII.-If any one saith, that it is necessary for every one, for the obtaining
the remission of sins, that he believe for certain, and without any wavering
arising from his own infirmity and disposition, that his sins are forgiven him;
let him be anathema.
v
CANON
XIV.-If any one saith, that man is truly absolved from his sins and justified,
because that he assuredly believed himself absolved and justified; or, that no
one is truly justified but he who believes himself justified; and that, by this
faith alone, absolution and justification are effected; let him be anathema.
v
CANON
XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who is born again and justified, is bound of
faith to believe that he is assuredly in the number of the predestinate; let
him be anathema.
v
CANON
XIX.-If any one saith, that nothing besides faith is commanded in the Gospel;
that other things are indifferent, neither commanded nor prohibited, but free;
or, that the ten commandments nowise appertain to Christians; let him be
anathema.
v
CANON
XXIX.-If any one saith, that he, who has fallen after baptism, is not able by
the grace of God to rise again; or, that he is able indeed to recover the
justice which he has lost, but by faith alone without the sacrament of Penance,
contrary to what the holy Roman and universal Church-instructed by Christ and
his Apostles-has hitherto professed, observed, and taugh; let him be anathema.
v
CANON
XXXIII.-If any one saith, that, by the Catholic doctrine touching
Justification, by this holy Synod inset forth in this present decree, the glory
of God, or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ are in any way derogated from,
and not rather that the truth of our faith, and the glory in fine of God and of
Jesus Christ are rendered (more) illustrious; let him be anathema.
How did Pope
Francis become a heretic? The Novus Ordo Mass and its Lutheran “mode of
liturgy”?
“There was corruption and worldliness in the (Catholic) Church; there
was attachment to money and power. That was the basis of his (Marin Luther’s)
protest. He was also intelligent, and he went ahead, justifying his reasons for
it. Nowadays, Lutherans
and Catholics, and all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of
justification: on this very important point he was not mistaken. He
offered a ‘remedy’ for the Church, and then this remedy rigidified in a state
of affairs, a discipline, a way of believing, a way of acting, a mode of
liturgy.”
Pope Francis the Lutheran, 2017, commenting on the Joint Declaration on
the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic
Church (signed October 31, 1999). Once the “mode of liturgy” was changed to the
Novus Ordo, the heretical Protestant doctrine of Justification by “faith alone”
followed.
DOGMA is the
proximate rule of faith: Those that keep DOGMA are called the faithful; Those
who corrupt DOGMA are called heretics!
St. Thomas
(II-II:11:1) defines heresy: "a
species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt
its dogmas". The right Christian faith consists in giving one's
voluntary assent to Christ in all that truly belongs to His teaching. There
are, therefore, two ways of deviating from Christianity: the one by refusing to
believe in Christ Himself, which is the way of infidelity, common to Pagans and
Jews; the other by restricting belief to certain points of Christ's doctrine
selected and fashioned at pleasure, which is the way of heretics. The subject-matter of both faith and heresy
is, therefore, the deposit of the faith, that is, the sum total of truths
revealed in Scripture and Tradition as proposed to our belief by the Church.
Catholic
Encyclopedia, 1907
Even with a bad knee, Pope Francis cannot resist kicking
Catholics faithful to Tradition!
Pope decries divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans
PICTURE: Pope Francis speaks at an audience
with nuns and religious superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday,
May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, was wheeled to the audience after he has been suffering
from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He revealed he
recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain. (AP
Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
ROME (AP) - May 5, 2022 - By FRANCES
D'EMILIO
—
Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions
of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground of the
issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the church.
Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against
traditionalists, whose prominent members include some ultra-conservative
cardinals. They have resisted restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican,
on celebrations of the old Mass in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more
generally, for years have disparaged the modernizing reforms of the Second
Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and
students of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Francis said, “I emphasize
again that the liturgical life, and the study of it, should lead to greater
Church unity, not division. When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of
division, there is the stench of the devil in there, the deceiver. It’s not
possible to worship God while making the liturgy a battleground for issues that are nonessential
questions, indeed, outdated
issues, and to take sides starting with the liturgy, with ideologies
that divine the Church.”
Francis has made clear he prefers Mass
celebrated in local languages, with the priest facing the congregation instead
of with his back to the pews. That was the way Mass was celebrated before the
revolutionary Vatican Council reforms, more than a half century-ago, which
aimed at making rank-and-file Catholics feel more connected to liturgical
celebrations.
COMMENT: Once again we find
Pope Francis the Deceived landing not far from the truth but again missing it
all together. Pope Francis/Bergoglio always sees things in light of an
“ideology” because he himself is an ideologue. The Faith is not an ideology but
a revealed truth and theological virtue from God. Pope Francis/Bergoglio views
the faith through an ideology drawn from modern philosophy that is not only
dated but boring. If he were not the pope his opinions would be shared by no
one. The “battleground” causing “divisiveness in the church” is caused by those
with a modernist ideology who have attempted to overthrow the immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions, especially the “received and approved” Roman rite of
the Mass because these traditions are effective signs of the faith they hate.
They are the neo-iconoclasts and the immemorial images are anathema to
them. It is indeed ‘devil inspired” but
it is Francis/Bergoglio doing the bidding of the devil. Francis/Bergoglio is
dead on when he says, “It’s
not possible to worship God while using the liturgy as a ‘battleground’”
for the Novus Ordo does not worship God and it is the worship of God that he
wants destroyed. The Novus Ordo is a man-made liturgy directed to the worship
of man. It is the offering of Cain, the “fruit of the earth and the work of human hands.”
Francis/Bergoglio is lying when he says that this battle is over things that
are “nonessential
questions.” If they were “nonessential” he would be indifferent to the
matter because every Catholic is free to do as he pleases in “nonessentials.”
It is most “essential” to him because he knows that in destroying the images of
our faith he will destroy the very means by which it can be known and
communicated to others. By destroying the “received and approved” rite of Mass
he is destroying the very means by which God communicates His grace.
Liturgical rites that are “received and
approved”, although different, do not lead to “division” but have unity in
their expression of the same faith. The Council of Florence mandated that every
priest must celebrate the Mass according to the custom of his rite. The Council
of Trent dogmatized the “received and approved” rites and forbade any pastor in
the Churches whomsoever to introduce new rites. This dogma was included in the
Tridentine Profession of Faith. The Novus Ordo ideologues rejected the
“received and approved” rite because they rejected the faith. They introduced a
man-made liturgical fabrication that expresses a different faith and worships a
different god. Even for Pope Francis the Deceiver this question is most
“essential” and is not “outdated.”
The Church is one in faith and worship.
Francis/Bergoglio does not possess the faith “without which it is impossible to
please God” and his worship is an abomination for which he will soon have to
answer.
“...the Novus Ordo Missae—considering
the new elements susceptible to widely different interpretations which are
implied or taken for granted—represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking
departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in
Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The ‘canons’ (i.e.: dogmas) of the rite
definitively fixed at that time erected an insurmountable barrier against any
heresy which might attack the integrity of the Mystery.”
Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, A Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo
Mass (The Ottaviani Intervention),
written after seeing the ‘reverent’ version of the Novus Ordo in Latin
celebrated at the Sistine Chapel
“The
liturgical reform has made a giant step forward and we have drawn quite close
to the liturgical forms of the Lutheran Church.”
Fr. Annibale
Bugnini, L’Osservatore Romano,
October 13, 1967
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these
predators from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protections. That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the
Diocese’s financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make
restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our
ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and
related entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide
funding to the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling
insurers will contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust
amount to $18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for
survivors of clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be
established by early March. More details related to the Trust are included in
the Plan, which is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan
website. Once established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will
determine compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450.
Doctrine
may develop in itself in "due proportion".... with "no variety
of its definition." Dogma cannot develop in itself because its
"proportion" and "definition" are fixed by God. It can only
develop in its implications!
“Shall we then have no advancement of
religion in the Church of Christ? Let us have it indeed, and the greatest . . .
But yet in such sort that it be truly an advancement of faith, not a change (sed ita tamen ut vere profectus sit ille
fidel, non permutatio), seeing that it is the nature of an advancement,
that in itself each thing (severally) grow greater, but of a change that
something be turned from one thing into another. . . . Let the soul’s religion
imitate the law of the body, which, as years go on, develops indeed and opens
out its due proportions, and yet remains identically what it was. . . . Small
are a baby’s limbs, a youth’s are larger, yet they are the same. . . . So also
the doctrine of the Christian religion must follow those laws of advancement;
namely, that with years it be consolidated, with time it be expanded, with age
it be exalted, yet remain uncorrupt and untouched, and be full and perfect in
all the proportions of each of its parts, and with all its members, as it were,
and proper senses; that it admit no change besides, sustain no loss of its
propriety, no variety of its definition. Wherefore, whatsoever in this Church,
God’s husbandry, has by the faith of our fathers been sown, that same must be
cultivated by the industry of their children, that same flourish and ripen,
that same advance and be perfected.”
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium, nfl. 28, 29
“The
doctrine which God has revealed has not been proposed as some philosophical
discovery to be perfected by the wit of man, but has been entrusted to Christ’s
Spouse as a Divine deposit to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared.
Hence sacred dogmas must ever be understood in the sense once for all (semel) declared by Holy Mother Church;
and never must that sense be abandoned under pretext of profounder knowledge
(altioris intelligentiae).”
Vatican Council I, Sess. iii. chap. 4
Pope Paul VI - Evidence that he experienced intermittent
but remarkable periods of lucidity of thought and clarity of expression
“We believed that after the Council would
come a day of sunshine in the history of the Church. But instead there has come
a day of clouds and storms, and of darkness of searching and uncertainties…And
how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that may be, we
ourselves admit in free discussion, that may be unfounded, and that is that
there has been a power, an adversary power. Let us call him by his name: the
devil. It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from
some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.”
Pope
Paul VI, June 29, 1972, Sermon
“The Church finds herself in an hour of
anxiety, a disturbed period of self-criticism, or what would even better be
called self-destruction. It is an
interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which nobody expected after
the Council. It is almost as if the Church were attacking
itself. We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of
conceptions which matured in the great
sessions of the council. But ... one
must notice above all the sorrowful
aspect. It is as if the Church were
destroying herself.”
Pope Paul VI, December 7, 1968, Address, Lombard
Seminary at Rome
“Don't be surprised at Our answer and don't
write it off as simplistic or even
superstitious: one of the Church's
greatest needs is to be defended against
the evil we call the Devil.”
Pope
Paul VI, November 15, 1972, General Audience
“There is a great uneasiness, at this time,
in the world and in the Church, and that which is in question is the faith. It
so happens now that I repeat to myself the obscure phrase of Jesus in the
Gospel of Saint Luke: “When the Son of man returns, will He still find faith on
earth?” (Luke 18:8). It so happens that there are books coming out in which the
faith is in retreat on some important points. The episcopates are remaining
silent and these books are not looked upon as strange. This to me is strange. I
sometimes read the Gospel passage of the
end times and I attest that, at this time, some signs of this end are emerging.
Are we close to the end? This we will never know. We must always hold ourselves
in readiness, but everything could last a very long time yet. What strikes me
when I think of the Catholic world is that within Catholicism there seems
sometimes to predominate a non-Catholic way of thinking, and it can happen that
this non-Catholic thought within Catholicism will tomorrow become the stronger.
But it will never represent the thought of the Church. It is necessary that a
small flock subsist, no matter how small it might be.”
Jean
Guitton, The Private life of Pope Paul VI
“The tail of the devil is functioning in the
disintegration of the Catholic World. The darkness of Satan has entered and
spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit. Apostasy, the loss of
the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within
the Church”
Pope
Paul VI, October 13, 1977 address on the 60th anniversary of Fatima
“The Conciliar Church has embarked on a course of its own
destruction. The words of Paul VI to the
Lombard Seminary (regarding the smoke of Satan entering the Church) bear
eloquent witness to that undeniable yet desperately denied reality. The zealots of the Novus Ordo never tire of saying that the Holy Spirit guides the
Church, like the ancient Israelites who ignored the warnings of the prophets,
saying “The Temple, The Temple” -- yet the Temple was destroyed. Our blessed Saviour's promise that the gates
of hell will never prevail against the Church will avail them nothing, for it
was not of their church that He
spoke.
The churches of northern Africa departed from the orthodox tradition of
Catholicism and were swept away in the tide of Islam. A church that breaks away from tradition is a
branch that breaks away from the tree of life, and is therefore destined to
perish. Such is the inevitable destiny
that awaits the Conciliar Church -- It declared its own death sentence when it
broke with Tradition. Our Lord's
promise, “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world” is directed
only to those who remain faithful to Tradition.
His promise remains with them even though they be few in numbers, for
“Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the
ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ” (St. Athanasius).”
Fr. Paul L. Kramer, B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L., The Suicide of Altering the Faith in the Liturgy
Even
Paul VI proclaimed the necessity of PROSELYTISM! He was progressive but
apparently not progressive enough for Francis the Apostate!
“Through this wordless witness these Christians stir up irresistible
questions in the hearts of those who see how they live: Why are they like this?
Why do they live in this way? What or who is it that inspires them? Why are
they in our midst? Such a witness is already a silent proclamation of the Good
News and a very powerful and effective one. […..] Nevertheless this always
remains insufficient, because even the finest witness will prove ineffective in
the long run if it is not explained, justified – what Peter called always
having ‘your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that
you all have’ – and made explicit by a clear and unequivocal proclamation of
the Lord Jesus. The Good News proclaimed by the witness of life sooner or later
has to be proclaimed by the word of life. There is no true evangelization if
the name, the teaching, the life, the promises, the kingdom and the mystery of
Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, are not proclaimed.”
Pope Paul VI, Evangelii nuntiandi
“I’ve said it many times: proselytism is not Christian. Today I felt a certain
bitterness when a woman approached me with a young man and a young woman, and
said to me: ‘Your Holiness, I am from South Africa. This boy was a Hindu and
converted to Catholicism. This girl was Anglican and converted to Catholicism.’
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’.”
Pope Francis the Apostate, to Jesuit community in Mozambique, September
2019
COMMENT: In about twenty years we will be celebrating the 500th
anniversary of the beginnings of Jesuit missionary work throughout the world.
These missionaries provided regular detailed journal submissions to their
superiors regarding the work of proselytism which included exactly to whom they
preached the Gospel with their successes and failures in gaining Catholic
converts, the very purpose of their work. Many of these documents are available
on line. A brief review of them is enough to see what a vulgar reprobate they
would consider Francis/Bergoglio. He actively works to obstruct the grace of
God in the work of salvation of souls.
Culture Wars: WOKE vs. ANTI-WOKE
"If good people beat bad people, it
serves them right; if bad people beat good people, the good people achieve glory;
if good people beat good people, it is a misunderstanding; without beatings,
you do not get acquainted and then no longer need to beat them."
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), also known as
Madame Mao as Mao Zedong's fourth wife, Chinese communist revolutionary, former
Chairman of the Communist Party after Mao's death, and leader of 'Gang of Four'
who controlled the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976.
COMMENT: The Cultural
Revolution using Marxist revolutionary principles with a "Chinese
character" divided Chinese society into the Five Black Classes ("bad
people") and the Five Red Classes (good people). The Five Black Classes
included religious, educated, landlords, "rich" farmers,
counter-revolutionaries, traditional cultural defenders, and anyone else the
government did not like. The government organized and facilitated students and
workers of the Five Red Classes with police and army support to persecute,
publicly beat, and murder members of the Five Black Classes. The police and
army would intervene only if the Five Red Classes were beginning to lose.
In the United States the ruling oligarchs
have identified their own category of Black Classes and Red Classes with an
"American character". We are in the early stages of organized violent
state attacks against their identified categories of enemies. The January 6th
non-violent unarmed Trump supporters are still languishing without bail in
Washington, D.C. prison while the Black Livers Matter (BLM) supporters who did
hundred-millions of dollars of property damage and murder have never been
charged with any crime. Trump supporters are in the Five Black Classes and BLM
supporters are in the Five Red Classes. Since the overturn of Roe/Wade there
has been repeated damage to right to life clinics, support centers and to
Catholic Churches yet there has not been a serious investigation and no arrests
by federal police agents and prosecutors. And the same time a Mark
Houck, a Catholic
anti-abortion activist was arrested by a federal swat-team at gun point and charged
and tried for the hate crime of 'assaulting' an abortion worker. The local
authorities in Philadelphia found no evidence of any crime and no arrests or
charges were ever made. The federal charges were without merit and Mr. Houck
was acquitted of all charges after a federal jury trial. Abortionists are Five
Red Class members; Anti-abortionists are Five Black Class members. Other Five
Red Class members include the homosexual lobby with its LGQBT ideology, gender
identity perversion with the sexual mutilation of children, public school
teachers promoting WOKE indoctrination, feminism and other identified victim
classes all receiving large corporate and government grants. The entire WOKE
ideology is an attempt to employ Marxist ideology to divide Americans into
defined friend/enemy classes for the end to impose a communist regime of the
oligarchs in permanent state power by use of controlled civil violence by the
deep state.
Thanks to Mr. James Lindsay
Freemason Anglican bishop celebrates ‘Mass’ in papal basilica with
Protestant clergy
Vatican authorities gave the Anglican clergy permission to say ‘Mass’
in St. John Lateran Basilica, the ‘Mother of all the Churches of Rome and of
the world.’ Pope Francis later greeted the group after his weekly general audience.
LifeSiteNews | Vatican City | Michael
Haynes | Apr 19, 2023
Led by a “re-married” Freemason, over 30
Anglican clergymen celebrated “Mass” in the Papal Basilica of St. John Lateran
this week, sparking outrage among faithful Catholics.
On April 18, a group of Anglican clergy
from the Anglican suffragan Diocese of Fulham, England, were granted permission
to celebrate a liturgy in the historic Basilica of St. John Lateran. Led by
their bishop, Johnathan Baker of Fulham, over 30 clergymen took part in the
event, which was held at the altar of the cathedral in the basilica.
Footage from one of the participants shows
the clergymen processing up to the altar, kissing it, and then moving across to
the choir stalls. Baker, who has led the Anglican see of Fulham since 2013, can
be seen leading the “Mass.”
St. John Lateran is traditionally known as
the “Mother of all the Churches of Rome and of the world” and is the seat of
the bishop of Rome, the Pope. The basilica is thus technically ranked as more
important for Catholics than the Vatican. [.....]
COMMENT: "Bishop
Johnathan Baker" is layman; the communions service he and his 'clergy'
offered is not a Mass. Baker was previously a Freemason. While a student at
Oxford University, he joined the Apollo University Lodge, a masonic lodge
associated with the university, and served as its Worshipful Master. He held
the senior position of Deputy Grand Chaplain in the United Grand Lodge of
England. After twenty years membership, he left the organization upon being
appointed a bishop, stating that the criticism from some members of General
Synod threatened to overshadow the inauguration of his episcopal ministry (sic)
(WIKI).
In a letter dated 22 October 2014, Baker
wrote to his clergy informing them that he had been given permission by
'Bishop' Richard Chartres of London and 'Archbishop' Justin Welby of Canterbury
to remarry following his divorce. Until 2010, Church of England clergy who had
been divorced and remarried could not become bishops.
So congratulation to "Bishop"
Johnathan Baker are in order. He is certainly one on the periphery of perverse
Anglican sect identified by Pope Francis who likes to travel to the periphery
to find fellow travelers. He is a real breaker of established traditions: he is
the first Masonic bishop divorced and re-married of the Anglican heresy who has
personally desecrated the high altar of the pope's Church with the blessing of
Pope Francis the Blasphemer.
Pope Francis gives relics of Christ’s Cross to King Charles for
Anglican coronation ceremony
King Charles III's coronation will be marked by a procession led by
relics from the True Cross, gifted by Pope Francis
LifeSiteNews | Westminster, U.K. | Michael
Haynes | Apr 19, 2023
Pope Francis has given the Protestant King
Charles III two relics of the True Cross on which Our Lord died, which will be
blessed and then used by Anglican ministers as part of the King’s upcoming
coronation ceremony next month.
Leading the procession for the much
anticipated coronation of King Charles III on May 6 will be the Cross of Wales,
which is now adorned with two relics from the true Cross of Christ thanks to a
gift from Pope Francis to the English monarch.
The Anglican Church in Wales announced that
“in a significant ecumenical gesture, the Cross of Wales will incorporate
a relic of the True Cross, the personal gift of Pope Francis to His Majesty The
King to mark the Coronation.”
The True Cross is that on which Jesus
Christ was crucified and died in 33 A.D., and as such Catholics hold relics of
it as some of the most venerable in the Church, to be afforded due reverence
and veneration. These particular relics were reportedly given by Holy See
representatives to members of the Royal Household at the Chapel Royal at St.
James’s Palace last week.
Despite the fact that Charles III is leader
of the Church of England, (divorced and remarried), heavily promotes other
creeds such as Judaism and Islam, and also promotes globalist policies on
“climate change” and population control, Pope Francis has thus gifted the
monarch some of the most treasured relics of the Catholic faith.
The relics will now be seen by millions
around the world, as they are embedded in the center of the Cross of Wales,
which will be carried at the head of the procession into Westminster Abbey on
May 6 for the Anglican coronation ceremony of Charles III. The ceremony will be
led by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
The Cross of Wales is a processional cross
gifted by King Charles to the Anglican Church in Wales, to mark the Welsh
Anglican church’s centenary and the King’s coronation. [.....]
COMMENT: Res ipsa loquitor; the thing (SIN) speaks for itself
Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered:
Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the
world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the
truth, heareth my voice. (John 18:37)
My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me. (John
10:27)
Abp. Viganò: Our elites’ adherence to lies and falsehood shows them to
be servants of Satan
The
true reset is returning to the truth of Christ, of the one who said of Himself:
'I am the way, the truth, and the life.'
“Brothers: Clear out the old yeast so that
you may be a new dough, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has
been sacrificed. Therefore, let us feast: not with the old leaven, nor with the
ferment of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.” — 1 Cor 5: 7–8
The modern world is held hostage by lies.
Everything that is theorized by the elite, affirmed by the institutions, and
propagandized by the media is a lie, a falsehood, and a deception.
The psychopandemic emergency is a lie, all
on account of a virus created in a laboratory for the sake of a mass
vaccination that is as ineffective as it is harmful to health. Gender theory is
a lie, which denies the distinction of the sexes willed by the Creator, and
which seeks to cancel the image and likeness of God in man. Climate change is a
lie, based as it is on the false premise of man-made climate crisis and on the
even more false chimera that the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in
certain countries can even minimally change the earth’s temperature.
The Ukrainian crisis is a lie, which was
provoked in order to destroy the social and economic fabric of European nations
through unreasonable sanctions against the Russian Federation. The Agenda 2030
is a lie, which is being imposed by a gang of subversives in order to enslave
humanity. Woke ideology is a lie, which causes the cancellation of our
identity, our history, and our faith in order to impose the infernal religion
of the New World Order and the barbarism of the Great Reset.
What is most disconcerting is that this
fraud against the peoples – perpetuated by those in authority who ought instead
to be protecting and defending them – has also infected the ecclesial body,
where other no less serious falsehoods corrupt the purity of the faith,
offending the Divine Majesty and causing the damnation of many souls, whom the
Lord has paid for dearly, redeeming them with His Most Precious Blood.
Ecumenism is a lie, which abases the living
and true God to the level of the idols of the nations. The Synodal Way is a
lie, which subverts the divine constitution of the Church intended by Christ
under the false pretext of listening to the people of God. The liturgical
reform is a lie, introduced with the excuse of making the Mass understandable
to the faithful, with the sole intention of taking honor from God and pleasing
the heretics.
The feminine diaconate is a lie, which with
the alibi of giving a role to women attacks the Mass and the sacraments and
tampers with the Holy Orders instituted by Our Lord. The possibility of
divorced and cohabitating couples receiving Holy Communion is a lie, the
blessing of homosexual unions is a lie, the entrance of transsexuals into the
seminary is a lie: morality does not follow the fashions of the day, whatever
Bergoglio may say.
The acceptance of sodomy is a lie, which
too often seems to want to legitimize the conduct of many prelates and clergy
rather than saving the souls of poor sinners.
These lies have the effrontery to manifest
themselves as obvious falsehoods, deprived of any rational or credible
arguments. They are not the lies with which one clumsily tries to hide
something: they are the arrogant affirmation of falsification, of the
subversion of logic, of the negation of the truth.
But why do so many people voluntarily
choose to renounce their own critical judgment and accept blatant lies as
rational and true? Because adherence to error is the price that the world asks
of its adorers, of those who do not want to be marginalized, criminalized, and
persecuted. And who is the prince of lies if not Satan, the father of lies, he
who was a murderer from the very beginning?
Satan, who tempted our first parents with a
no less brazen lie: “If you eat of this fruit, you will be like gods.” This was
a brazen falsehood, and by believing it Adam and Eve chose to abdicate reason
and disobey God in order to follow a false promise made by a repugnant
creature.
What Satan promises Our Lord when he
tempted Him in the desert was also a lie: “All this will be yours” for the sake
of something of which Christ was not only already the master but also the
Creator.
In the Epistle of the Mass on this most
holy day on which we celebrate the resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ from
the dead, the apostle exhorts us to eliminate the old leaven: expurgate vetus fermentum.
Anyone who is familiar with the ancient
methods of making bread knows that the mother dough is that portion
of flour and water which, when left to ferment, becomes the leavening mass. It
can be kept for decades, periodically re-kneaded with new flour and new water,
so that today’s bread is substantially linked to all the preceding bread going
back in time. But if the fermentum is vetus, if the leaven is
old, this affects the new dough and the new bread.
Purging the old leaven means starting over
from the beginning, accomplishing a true “great reset” of each individual soul
and of the social body, cancelling the ferment of malice and perversity, and
starting afresh with unleavened bread, a figure of the Holy Eucharist and
Blessed Sacrament of the new and eternal covenant made by Christ with His
Church, made new in grace and not subject to the changes of time, fashion, and
circumstances.
This is why St. Paul speaks of
the azymes, of the unleavened bread. A bread of austerity, the bread of
those who do not have time to preserve the mother dough alive, the bread of
those who prepare with their loins girt to eat the lamb without blemish and the
bitter herbs before abandoning the land of Egypt and crossing the Red Sea.
The reset, the new creation, the new
Passover, is fulfilled in Christ, the unique, indispensable, eternal truth, the
living and true Word of the Eternal Father. The true reset is
returning to the truth of Christ, of the one who said of Himself: “I am the
way, the truth, and the life.” A Truth that is, while error in contrast
has no existence. A Truth that demands sincerity on our part – in azymis
sinceritatis – as a necessary response to light of truth – et veritatis.
Satan, the ape of God, grotesquely mimics
creation, engaging in monstrosities that any sensible person recognizes as
such. He mimics the redemption even more grotesquely, promising men a good that
is unknown to him and which he does not himself first possess, asking in
exchange that men acknowledge him as their god. We ought to recognize this law
of his for what it is; we ought to reject and fight against it.
If we fight for the truth – for any truth,
not just theological truth – we align ourselves on the side of Christ; on the
side of the one who was not lying when He announced to His Apostles His own
death and resurrection.
If instead we choose not to fight for the
truth, or even to allow error to be proclaimed or to spread it ourselves, we
align ourselves on the side of Satan, the prince of lies, on the side of the
one who makes promises and does not keep them, for the sole purpose of dragging
us into that abyss of damnation into which he chose to sink when, committing
the sin of pride, he believed he could put himself in the place of God and
decide what is and what is not, that is, what is true and what is false, what
is good and what is evil, what is beautiful and what is ugly. And in fact, the
infernal world we are rushing headlong into today is composed of lies, malice,
and ugliness. Nor could it be otherwise.
It is not by chance that Satan is called
the prince of this world: he is not king; his power is ephemeral and permitted
by God only until the time comes to end the period of trial and the moment of
judgment comes.
It is no different for Satan’s servants.
Even if their power seems to overwhelm us, even if the means at their disposal
seem unlimited and overwhelming, their end is inexorably approaching as Christ
takes back His universal kingdom.
Oportet
illum regnare, it is necessary that this happens, it is in the order willed
by God, and no one, not even all of hell combined, can prolong the apparent
triumph of evil by a single instant.
Only two days ago we were contemplating the
mysteries of the Passion and death of the Lord, after the maneuvers of the Sanhedrin,
the uproar of the crowd, and the tortures of the executioners. Along with
Joseph of Arimathea and the pious women we accompanied the lifeless body of
Jesus towards the sepulcher. We remained in prayer in the bare silence of our
churches.
But “Consummatum
est” does not mean “everything is lost,” but rather, “everything has come
to its fulfillment,” that is, “the work of the redemption has been
accomplished.”
Χριστὸς
ἀνέστη is the Greek Easter greeting: “Christ is
Risen.” To which the response is given: Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη
– Truly He is Risen – Surrexit
Dominus vere. That ἀληθῶς, that vere, contains the reality of the
resurrection of the Savior, the truth of that historical event in
which the mercy of the Man-God has repaired the sin of Adam caused by the lie
of Satan, who continued to lie when he accused Christ with false witnesses, and
who still lies today, trying to frustrate the fruits of the redemption.
Today, after the solemn notes of the Exsultet have announced the glory
of the resurrection, let us celebrate the triumph of Christ over death and sin,
His victory over Satan.
Let us also celebrate the victory of the
Church and Christian civilization over earthly enemies, because the fate of the
mystical body was decreed in the moment in which its divine head nailed the
ancient serpent to the Cross. Mors
et vita duello conflixere mirando: Dux vitæ mortuus, regnat vivus.
Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
April 9, 2023
THE PARABLE OF THE SCRIBE:
Introduction:
DOGMA is revealed doctrine that has been formally defined by the Church
and proposed to all the faithful as a formal object of “divine and Catholic
faith”. The material and instrumental cause of DOGMA is the perennial
Magisterium of the Church engaged by the Pope. The formal and final cause of
DOGMA is God. DOGMA is irreformable in both its matter and form. The form is
the truth revealed and the matter are the words chosen by God to reveal the
truth. Divine revelation constitutes the rule of faith. The remote rule of
faith are Scripture and Tradition. The proximate rule of faith is DOGMA.
"The
scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is a
householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old."
Outside the Catholic Church there can be no proper understanding of the
Doctrine of Jesus Christ.
To heretics who attack the Catholic Church,
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 is 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, would 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.” He
may bring forth new illustrations, new arguments and proofs; he may show new
applications of the same truths, according to times and circumstances; he may
show new links which connect the mysteries of religion with each other or with
the natural sciences— as there can be no discord between the true faith and
true science; God, being the author of both, cannot contradict Himself and teach
something by revelation as true which He teaches by the true light of reason as
false. In all, these cases the householder “brings forth from his treasure new
things and old.” They are new inasmuch as they are the result of new
investigations; and old because they are contained in the old articles of faith
and doctrine as legitimate deductions from their old principles.
And now, if a single individual, a scribe
instructed in the kingdom of heaven, be such a householder, how much more the
holy Church of Jesus Christ, headed by the successor of St. Peter! Long before
our Saviour had actually given to St. Peter the supreme charge of his Church
St. Peter asked Jesus regarding this parabel: “Lord, dost thou speak this
parable to us (the apostles), or likewise to all?” Jesus replied to Peter:
“Who, thinkest thou, is that faithful and wise steward whom the Lord hath set
over His family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?” (St. Luke
12:41-42).
Joseph Prachensky, S.J., The Church of the
Parables, 1880, The Parable of the Scribe
COMMENT: St. Luke (12:46-50)
continues with our the words of our Lord regarding those stewards who are
unfaithful to their calling:
“The lord of that servant will come in the
day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate
him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers. And that servant who
knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to
his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did
things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever
much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed
much, of him they will demand the more. I am come to cast fire on the earth;
and what will I, but that it be kindled? And I have a baptism wherewith I am to
be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?”
Our shepherds are uniformally Neo-modernist
heretics in that they deny the very essence of DOGMA and because they discard
what is old of the faith they can
bring forth nothing new except
absolute corruption. Anything deduced from absolute truth is absolutely true.
Our modern clerics induce from observations and arrive at opinions which they
dialogue with others of like mind.
“Back then everything was covered up. [Pope John Paul’s decisions must
be] interpreted with the hermeneutics of the respective time.” Pope Francis
Pope Francis’ comment to the Argentinean
newspaper, La Nacion, when asked about
the recent publication of evidence that Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of
Krakow actively covered up for several homosexual predator priests after they
sexually abusing boys and moved them to other assignments where the abuses
continued. The book, Maxima Culpa,
written by Dutch journalist Ekke Overbeek, was researched from Polish archives
for over three years. In the book he documents that he “found concrete cases of
concrete priests in the archdiocese of Krakow,” when the late pope was its
Archbishop from 1964 to 1978 where “The future pope knew of them and yet
transferred these men. That led to new victims.”
COMMENT: This is really not
surprising. There is plenty of evidence that JPII was willing to look over the
crimes of homosexual pederasts that devastated the Church during his long
pontificate such as his cover up for the serial rapist Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the
Legionaries of Christ. That only thing new is that he was doing it long before
he became pope which may have been one of the reasons he was elected. The
comment of Pope Francis is disgusting! What can be said about every Catholic
saint is that they are conformers to Jesus Christ crucified and NOT conformers
to the world. Francis thinks otherwise. Vatican II goal was to conform the
Church to the world and that is the chief characteristic of Vatican II popes,
conformity to the world. The comment by Francis portrays JPII as a victim of
historical circumstances, “Back then everything was covered up.” This is proof
that JPII was no saint in the Catholic sense. Francis’ comment does however
open a can of worms: Since “back then everything was covered up,” what else
besides pederasty by homosexual clerics was “covered up”?
“By their fruits you shall know them.”
Survey: US Latinos identifying as Catholic drops to 43%
NCR | April 13, 2023 | Aleja
Hertzler-McCain
The number of U.S. Latinos who identify as
Catholic is continuing to decline steadily, with only about 43% now affiliating
with the faith tradition, according to a new report from the Pew Research
Center released April 13.
Likewise, the percentage of religiously
unaffiliated Latinos has risen dramatically, with 30% now saying they do not
have a faith affiliation, according to the report.
Despite the decline, Catholics remain the
largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, the report says.
Latinos also remain about twice as likely as U.S. adults overall to identify as
Catholic, and considerably less likely to be Protestant, according to the
report.
The percentage of U.S. Hispanics who
identify as Catholic declined from 67% in 2010 to 49% in 2018 and 43% in 2022,
while the percentage of U.S. Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated
increased from 10% in 2010 to 20% in 2018 and 30% in 2022, according to the report.
Since the 2000s, U.S. births rather than
new immigration have driven U.S. Hispanic population growth. Forty-nine percent
of U.S. Latinos ages 18-29 identify as religiously unaffiliated, while 30%
identify as Catholic and 15% identify as Protestant. […..]
Clerics as FBI Informants?
April 12, 2023 | Ari Blaff
As part of its effort to identify
extremists in the Catholic Church, the FBI recruited at least one “undercover
employee” to “develop sources among the clergy and church leadership,”
Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) revealed Monday.
Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee, issued a subpoena demanding FBI director Christopher Wray testify
and provide more information to Congress about the federal agency’s
intelligence-gathering initiative targeting Catholic Americans.
“This shocking information reinforces our
need for all responsive documents, and the Committee is issuing a subpoena to
you to compel your full cooperation,” Jordan claimed in the letter.
Pray for your enemies, but don’t forget, they are your enemies!
COMMENT: The FBI has sought to infiltrate traditional Catholic
communities because they are concerned that these communities are 1) opposed to
open borders that destroy national identity, 2) opposed to LGBTQ agenda that
corrupts divine and natural law, 3) opposed to the willful murder of children
by abortion, and 4) anti-Semetic in the sense that they recognize and oppose
Jewish political power that promotes open borders, LGBTQ agenda, and abortion.
The FBI has become an enforcement arm of the national policy of Wokeism.
Traditional Catholics in the state of grace, grounded in the God’s revealed
Truth and the perennial philosophy, will never accept this perverse ideology
and the national government understands this. They may change their modus operandi but they will be back and
very likely with the encouragement and endorsement of the Novus Ordo
Wokesters.
Another Poll Reveals Bishops’ Utter Failure to Evangelize The Laity
Catholic Culture | April 12, 2023
75% of Catholics back same-sex
marriage.
The Public Religion Research Institute’s
American Values Survey has found that 75% of white Catholics, 75% of Hispanic
Catholics, and 76% of other Catholics of color support same-sex marriage.
Overall, 69% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
According to the survey, “10% of Americans
identify as LGBTQ, including 3% who identify as gay or lesbian, 4% who identify
as bisexual, and 2% who identify as something else.” 46% of adults who
“identify as LGBTQ” are between the ages of 18 and 29; 33% are between the ages
of 30 and 49.
[Modernism
is the] synthesis of all heresies [whose] system means the destruction not of
the Catholic religion alone, but of all religion.... [Modernists] partisans of error are to be
sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; but what is to be most dreaded
and deplored, in her very bosom, and are all the more mischievous the less they
keep in the open.... They put themselves forward as reformers of the Church
[though they are] thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the
enemies of the Church.... They assail
all that is most sacred in the work of Christ.... [They are] the most
pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church... They lay the axe not to the
branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the Faith and its
deepest fibers.... The most absurd tenet of the Modernists, that every
religion according to the different aspect under which it is viewed, must be
considered as both natural and supernatural.
It is thus that they make consciousness and revelation synonymous. From this they derive the law laid down as
the universal standard, according to which religious consciousness is to be put
on an equal footing with revelation, and that to it all must submit, even the
supreme authority of the Church.
St. Pius X, Pascendi
Therefore: In the Novus Ordo Church of Sweet Dreams where
harshness is always frowned upon harshly!
· Religious Liberty is the doctrinal validation of
“Religious Consciousness.”
· Ecumenism is the collectivization and synthesis through
dialogue of the individual’s “Religious Consciousness.”
· “Faith” is the affirmation of the subjective
“Religiousness Consciousness” on the authority of the believer.
· “Dogma” is the historical and transitory expression of
“Religiousness Consciousness” for a particular age.
· “Tradition” is the historical perceptions from which the
present “Religious Consciousness” has evolved.
For
Those defending Catholic Tradition and the divine Worship of God
"Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justice for they
shall be filled" (Matt 5:6). This beatitude is the fruit of the virtue and
gift of Fortitude which in turn forms the necessary bedrock for the virtue of
Justice to grow and flourish. St. Thomas says, "The Lord wishes us to
thirst after that justice which consists in rendering.... to God first of all
what is His due. He wishes us never to be satiated on earth... but rather that
our desire should grow always... Blessed are they that have this insatiable
desire; they will receive eternal life and here below an abundance of spiritual
goods in the accomplishment of the precepts, according to the words of the
Master: 'My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, that I may perfect His
word.'"
The first and essential subsidiary virtue under Justice is the virtue
of Religion which is giving "to God first of all what is His due."
The virtue of Religion itself governs the virtue of Obedience. Any act of
obedience that violates the virtue of Religion is a sin and itself manifests an
evident absence or serious defects of the virtues of Justice, Fortitude, and
Temperance. Those Catholics faithful to tradition who have born the insults,
calumny and ridicule of Novus Ordites should remember that the gift of Piety
corresponds to the virtue of Justice and the fruit of this virtue and this gift
is the beatitude, 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'. We are not going anywhere, we are not
changing anything, and our victory is foreordained.
It's the same old scam in new scam-skins! Preparation for
the 'S on S' in October 2023
Synod on Synodality: “The Church of God is convoked in synod.”
That is supposed to sound profound. The Synodal Church (AKA: Church of the New
Advent; Church of the New Evangelization; Church of the People of God; Church
of the Third Millennium; Novus Ordo Church; Vatican II Church; etc.) is about “communion, participation and
mission.” The vademecum sates
that “The Mission of the Church is to evangelize” but has a real problem in
defining “evangelization.” Still, exclusion is permitted to no one. “There are
three inseparable keys at the heart of Synodal Church, communion, participation
and mission” and “participation
in the Church’s missionary synodality to serve the world must be shared by all
(sic).” As Rev. James (HOMO-BOY)
Martin, S.J. said, “Part of the synodal process is rediscovering church as
community in which we all
have to be the protagonist.” So everybody gets to be the leading
character in the new drama. That is everybody excepting Catholic faithful to
Dogma and Tradition who do not know how to play "communion, participation
and mission." Traditional Catholics recognize this scam because we have
seen this stupidity before. This is nothing but a redressing of the
touchy-feely "encounter groups" foisted upon religious orders and
secular groups in the 1960s and 1970s.
This
psychological technique for mass indoctrination and control was derived
directly from the Human Potential Movement (HPM). Wikkipedia says, "The
emergence of HPM is linked to humanistic psychology. The movement is strongly
influenced by Abraham Maslow's (Jewish) theory of self-actualization as the
supreme expression of a human's life." Maslow was a member of the
Frankfurt School which tells you everything you really need to know. It was
these same psychological techniques of Maslow along with his disciple, Carl Rogers,
that the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) nuns, along with other religious orders
(such as, the Jesuits) were subjected to in the 1960s which ultimately
destroyed them. Dr. William Coulson, who was a disciple of Rogers,
repented of what he had done and described the techniques in an interview with
Dr. William Mara, philosophy professor at Fordham University, published in
Latin Mass Magazine article about 25 years ago entitled: "We Overcame
Their Traditions, We Overcame Their Faith," in which he explains exactly
how it was done. The Jesuits were no exception. It was this scam that formed
the modern Jesuit Novus Ordo spirituality which gave us the likes of Pope
Francis. The HPM is antithetical to the Catholic faith. It begins assuming
either agnosticism or atheism, denies original sin, but faced with its
consequences, proposes phony programs to cure the problems of modern man.
Take
a look at the modern meaningless "synodal" cant.
KEY WORDS: Lexicography of Synodality
Discernment; Hopeful dialogue; Openness;
Empowering; Oneness; Authentic listening; Grassroots takeover; Excitement;
Humility (not to be confused with the virtue but rather describes one who goes
alone with the program); Engaged; Connection; Community; Diversity; Welcome;
Understanding; Acceptance; Affirmation; Listening with our hearts; Respect for
the laity; etc., etc.
Whenever they use real words, they employ a
foul duplicity in corrupting the meaning.
The
word “Mission,” and its cognates, occurs 48 times in document and is only
defined in vague platitudes but it does admit that the “Mission of the Church
is to Evangelize.” Unfortunately, the word “evangelization” and its cognates,
while occurring 5 times, is never defined. We must look back on the Synod of
the New Evangelization 2012 to try to get a sense for the entirely “new”
meaning of evangelization.
Synod
of Bishops: "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian
Faith" 2012 said, “The goal of evangelization today is, as always, the
transmission of the Christian faith” and that they “accomplish this task by
proclaiming and bearing witness to the Christian life through the
catechumenate, catechesis and works of charity.”
It
is true that a holy “Christian life” is the most effective and enduring of
Catholic witnesses, particularly when that witness is the life of a saint and
one given in martyrdom (witness), but the essential task of evangelization is
first and foremost “bearing witness to the Christian faith” and only then, to
“bearing witness to the Christian life.” Without the faith it is impossible to
please God, conform to the truth and obtain salvation. So what is the meaning
of “faith”? Vatican I defines faith as believing what God has revealed on the
authority of God the revealer. The richer the faith, the more virtuous the life
and the greater the witness. Evangelization, new or old, requires that
transmission of the revealed truth of God for the end of bringing others to the
life of grace through the sacraments and salvation. Why does all this become so
unintelligible with Neo-modernism since Vatican II? True evangelization is
destroyed because Neo-modernists do not possess the Catholic faith and what
they do not know, they cannot transmit to others. That is why for the
Neo-modernist evangelization no longer means "proselytism" which is
referred to by Francis as "solemn non-sense."
Get a load of this drivel:
In this sense, it is clear that the purpose of this Synod is not to
produce more documents. Rather, it is intended to inspire people to dream about
the Church we are called to be, to make people’s hopes flourish, to stimulate
trust, to bind up wounds, to weave new and deeper relationships, to learn from
one another, to build bridges, to enlighten minds, warm hearts, and restore
strength to our hands for our common mission (PD, 32). Thus the objective of
this Synodal Process is not only a series of exercises that start and stop, but
rather a journey of growing authentically towards the communion and mission
that God calls the Church to live out in the third millennium.
This journey together will call on us to renew our mentalities and our
ecclesial structures in order to live out God’s call for the Church amid the
present signs of the times. Listening to the entire People of God will help the
Church to make pastoral decisions that correspond as closely as possible to
God’s will (ITC, Syn., 68) The ultimate perspective to orient this synodal path
of the Church is to serve the dialogue of God with humanity (DV, 2) and to
journey together the kingdom of God (cf. LG, 9; RM, 20). In the end, this
Synodal Process seeks to move towards a Church that is more fruitfully at the
service of the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
Vademecum Document for the Synod on Synodality, Official Handbook for
Listening and Discernment in Local Churches, Diocesan and Bishops’ Conferences
in preparation for Synod on Synodality October 2023
So
God's will is discerned by directing the masses to endorse whatever you want to
do? Call it the new sensus fidei and
therefore the will of God? This is no more reliable than reading tea leaves or
examining the bowels of dead birds. What is uniformly true is that the
Neo-modernists cringe when you hold up examples of true Catholic evangelization
by Catholic saints like St. Peter and St. Paul recorded in the Acts of the
Apostles. Their example were faithfully followed by Ss. Augustine to the
English, Boniface to the Germans, Dominic, Francis, Hyacinth, Vincent Ferrer,
Bernadine of Siena, John Capistran, Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Peter
Claver, Peter Canisius, the North American Martyrs, etc., etc. The
Neo-modernists are not complete idiots. They can see clearly that their methods
used over the last fifty years have been an utter failure by every statistical
measurement. They pretend to have a greater vision, even claim to have the
vision of God, clinging to slogans like Pope Francis', "Time is greater
than space." Don't let immediate failures concern you for in the end we
will be proven right. Blah, blah, blah! The truth is they know exactly what
they are doing. The spirit they are following is not the Holy Ghost but the
devil. They are committed enemies of the faith. This is most evidently
confirmed in that their "living the Christian life" is rocked with
scandal after scandal. Again, the hypocrisy is evident when they claim a
synodal process is necessary to determine the will of God from the masses but
when the masses are not lining up for the next novelty, they claim to have
direct knowledge of the divine Will and then everyone is told to just shut-up
and trust them because, "time is greater than space."
Sensus fidei for the Neo-Modernist: Goal is to direct the mob and use the mob to confirm their heterodoxy!
“The Second Vatican Council highlights that ‘all human beings are
called to the new people of God’ (LG, 13). God is truly at work in the entire
people that he has gathered together. This is why ‘the entire body of the
faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of
belief. They manifest this special property by means of the whole people’s
supernatural discernment in matters of faith when from the Bishops down to the
last of the lay faithful, they show universal agreement in matters of faith and
morals’ (LG, 12).” Vademecum on Synodality
Syndod
COMMENT: The
word “universal” is corrupted to exclude the attribute of time. A universal by
definition necessarily includes the attribute of time without which it is not a
universal. The sensus fidei that
excludes time considering only the current mass of Catholics at one specific
historical period looks only to popular trends and not Catholic truth. If every
Catholic in the Church at one given time holds a doctrine or moral position
that is contrary to the traditional teaching or practice, then it is not
evidence of the sensus fidei but
rather evidence of general apostasy and nothing more. “When the Son of man
comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). The implied answer is No! He
will find apostasy and He will not call it a new sensus fidei.
Pope
Francis the Heretic: His mind denies truth, his will is set against the good.
“And it comes
to my mind to say something that may be foolish, or perhaps a heresy…”
“It is not
licit to convince them of your faith. Proselytism is the strongest venom
against the ecumenical path.”
“Do you need
to convince others to become Catholic? No, no, no!”
“This is a
very grave sin against ecumenism: proselytism. We should never proselytize the
Orthodox!”
“I think that
Martin Luther’s intentions were not mistaken. Nowadays, Lutherans and
Catholics, and all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of
justification: on this very important point he was not mistaken.”
“I’m a
firm believer in the principle of the slippery slope—the principle that the
logic of ideas, once accepted, will be worked out to their most extreme
consequences. Unless
rejected in principle.” Marc
Wauck
St. Dominic Painting
The
picture in the vestibule is a canvas print of a painting of St. Dominic (d.
1221) by Fra Bartolomeo Della Porta (d. 1517).
Fra Bartolomeo was considered the greatest Dominican painter after the
great Blessed Fra Angelico (d. 1455). He
was brought into the Dominican Order by Jerome Savonarola, O.P. (d. 1498) and
was one of his most ardent admirers.
Tradition relates that Fra Bartolomeo was one of the armed friars and
citizens that tried to defend the convent of San Marco when Savonarola was
captured by his enemies. He most
certainly was a witness when the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, got his revenge by
having Savonarola burned as a “heretic.”
Fra Bartolomeo gave up painting for many years after the death of
Savonarola because, with his death, also ended the elevated principles of
artistic purpose which he brought to Florence. Only under obedience did he once more begin to
paint. One of his best known paintings
is that of Savonarola. That painting
hung in the cell of St. Catherine de Ricci (d. 1589), one of the greatest
Dominican saints who bore the stigmata for 47 years. Her body remains incorrupt to this day. The painting of St. Dominic emphasis the
spiritual importance of silence in the Dominican life as of essential
importance to fulfill the key to the Dominican vocation “to live, defend and
propagate the faith.” The axiom, “the
word of the Preacher must flow from a soul of silence.” St. Dominic, pray for us.
The Holy Office Letter of 1949 –
The Novel Doctrine of Salvation by
Implicit Desire
This
Heretical Letter Is the Doctrinal Foundation for Modernist Ecclesiology and
Ecumenism
“It is not always
required that one be actually incorporated as a member of the Church (for
salvation), but this at least is required: that one adhere to it in wish and desire.
It is not always necessary that this be explicit . . . but when a man labors under invincible
ignorance, God accepts even an implicit will, called by that name because it is
contained in the good disposition of soul in which a man wills to conform his
will to the will of God.”
Holy Office letter to Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, August 9, 1949, DS 3870
NOTE: The Holy Office letter of 1949 was never
entered into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis
and therefore it has no greater authority than a private letter from one bishop
to another. The quote provided authoritatively referenced a citation from the
encyclical of Pope Pius XII, Mystici
Corporis. The citation was
mistranslated to entirely corrupt the meaning of what Pope Pius XII said. The 1949 Letter was then published by
Cardinal Cushing of Boston, MA in 1952, one year after the death of its author,
Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. The letter was included in the 1962
edition of Denzinger, not by virtue of the authority of the letter, but rather
by the modernist agenda of its editor, Rev. Karl Rahner. This letter has come
to be the doctrinal foundation for the new Ecumenical Ecclesiology being
referenced in the decree Lumen Gentium
at Vatican II. The new Ecumenical
Ecclesiology has replaced St. Robert Bellarmine’s traditional definition that
the Catholic Church “is the society of Christian believers united in the
profession of the one Christian faith and the participation in the one sacramental
system under the government of the Roman Pontiff.” It is this new Ecclesiology
that is the underpinning for the Ecumenical transmutation of nearly every
Tradition in the Latin rite since Vatican II, the most important of which is
the traditional “received and approved” Roman rite of the Mass. The 1949 letter is the foundation of sand on
which John Paul II’s ecumenical prayer meeting at Assisi stands.
"This sense of imminent
crisis, of the pressing need for moral reform and spiritual renovation, runs
through all the religious thought of the twelfth century. That century which seems to us the Golden Age
of medieval Catholicism - the age of St. Anselm and St. Bernard, the age of the
Crusades and the Cathedrals, of the new religious Orders and the new schools -
appeared to contemporaries dark with the threat of the coming doom. Their attitude is summed up in the opening
lines of Bernard of Morlais' great rhythm, de
contemptu mundi:
Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus; Ecce minaciter imminet
arbiter ille supremus...
The world is very evil; the times are waxing late; Be sober and keep
vigil; the Judge is at the gate".
Christopher Dawson, Religion
and the Rise of Western Culture
High Treason: “Betrayal of your sovereign by acts of aid and
comfort to the monarch’s ‘enemies’.”
On the one hand, therefore, it is necessary
that the mission of teaching whatever Christ had taught should remain perpetual
and immutable, and on the other that the duty of accepting and professing all
their doctrine should likewise be perpetual and immutable. “Our Lord Jesus Christ, when in
His Gospel He testifies that those who not are with Him are His enemies, does
not designate any special form of heresy, but declares that all heretics who
are not with Him and do not gather with Him, scatter His flock and are His
adversaries: He that is not with Me is against Me, and he that gathereth not
with Me scattereth” (S. Cyprianus, Ep. lxix., ad Magnum, n. I).
The Church, founded on these principles and
mindful of her office, has done nothing with greater zeal and endeavour than
she has displayed in guarding the integrity of the faith. Hence she regarded as
rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children all who held beliefs on any
point of doctrine different from her own. The Arians, the Montanists, the
Novatians, the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, did not certainly reject all
Catholic doctrine: they abandoned only a certian portion of it. Still who does
not know that they were declared heretics and banished from the bosom of the
Church? In like manner were condemned all authors of heretical tenets who
followed them in subsequent ages. “There can be nothing more dangerous than
those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one
word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our
Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition” (Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa
contra Arianos).
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, On the Unity of the Church
Pope Francis – his “most gentle manner”!
They (our most holy
predecessors) knew the capacity of innovators in the art of deception. In order
not to shock the ears of Catholics, the innovators sought to hide the
subtleties of their tortuous maneuvers by the use of seemingly innocuous words
such as would allow them to insinuate error into souls in the most gentle manner. Once the truth had been compromised, they could, by means of slight
changes or additions in phraseology, distort the confession of the faith that
is necessary for our salvation, and lead the faithful by subtle errors to their
eternal damnation. This
manner of dissimulating and lying is vicious, regardless of the circumstances
under which it is used. For very good reasons it can never be tolerated in a
synod of which the principal glory consists above all in teaching the truth
with clarity and excluding all danger of error. Moreover, if all this is sinful, it cannot be excused in the
way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly
shocking affirmations
in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and
even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the
possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up
the personal inclinations of the individual – such has always been the
fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It
allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it. It is a
most reprehensible technique for the insinuation of doctrinal errors and one
condemned long ago by our predecessor St. Celestine, who found it used in the
writings of Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, and which he exposed in order
to condemn it with the greatest possible severity. Once these texts were
examined carefully, the impostor was exposed and confounded, for he expressed
himself in a plethora of words, mixing
true things with others that were obscure; mixing at times one with
the other in such a way that he was also able to confess those things which
were denied while at the same time possessing a basis for denying those very
sentences which he confessed.
Pope Pius
VI, Auctorem Fidei, 1794 papal bull
addressed to all the faithful condemning 85 propositions from the Council of
Pistoia, 1786
The Sacrifice of the Cross wrought the remission of sin in general; in Holy Mass the virtue of Christ’s Blood is applied to this and that person individually. By His death and Passion Christ collected the riches which in the Mass are dealt out to us. His death is a treasury, Mass the key that unlocks it… Observe, therefore, what it really means to say or to hear Mass. To do so is equivalent to causing God, who once died for all mankind, to die over again in a mystical manner for me and you, and for each one present, just as if He suffered death for the sake of each one individually.
Paolo Segneri, SJ,
1624-1694, famous Jesuit preacher who was made the theologian of the Paenitentiaria by Pope Innocent XII.
That fabled (Judeo-Christian)
tradition does not exist, nor does the “Judeo-Christian ethic.” Though sharing
a common origin in the Hebrew Scriptures, the two faiths read the scriptural
texts differently. They believe in God, but view Him through different lenses.
They each have a story, but they are not the same. They each have a concept of
man, but they are not the same. They are both ethical religions, but with
separate ideas of man’s nature, salvation and destiny.
Raymond Apple, emeritus rabbi of
the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia. Published in Jerusalem Post
True, Jesus has loved us with an immense,
infinite love, and He came on earth to suffer and die so that, gathered around
Him in justice and love, motivated by the same sentiments of mutual charity,
all men might live in peace and happiness.
But for the realization of this temporal
and eternal happiness, He has laid down with supreme authority the condition
that we must belong to His Flock, that we must accept His doctrine, that we
must practice virtue, and that we must accept the teaching and guidance of
Peter and his successors.
Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners
and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas,
however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He
instructed them in order to convert them and save them. Whilst He called to
Himself in order to comfort them, those who toiled and suffered, it was not to
preach to them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst He lifted up the
lowly, it was not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity independent
from, and rebellious against, the duty of obedience. Whilst His heart
overflowed with gentleness for the souls of good-will, He could also arm
Himself with holy indignation against the profaners of the House of God,
against the wretched men who scandalized the little ones, against the
authorities who crush the people with the weight of heavy burdens without
putting out a hand to lift them.
He was as strong as He was gentle. He reproved, threatened, chastised,
knowing, and teaching us that fear is the beginning of wisdom, and that it is
sometimes proper for a man to cut off an offending limb to save his body.
Finally, He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way of the Cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to apply only to one’s personal life in order to win eternal salvation; these are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism.
Pope St. Pius X, Apostolic Letter, Our Apostolic Mandate
“On earth, no
mortal should presume to reproach (redarguere) any faults to the
Pontiff, because he who has to judge (judicaturus) others, should not be
judged (judicandus) by anyone, unless he is found deviating from the Faith.”
Gratian, the
‘Father of Canon Law,’ Decree of
Gratian, (Pars I, D 40, c. 6)
The
Judgment of the Church against a Heretical Pope
“Further we declare that there are two wills and principles of action,
in accordance with what is proper to each of the natures in Christ, in the way
that the sixth synod, that at (6)Constantinople, proclaimed, when it also publicly rejected
Sergius, Honorius,
Cyrus, Pyrrhus, Macarius, those
uninterested in true holiness, and their like-minded followers.
“To summarize, we
declare that we defend free from any innovations all the—written and—unwritten
ecclesiastical traditions that have been entrusted to us.”
Seventh Ecumenical Council, reaffirming the condemnation of Monothelitism and the monothelite heretics by
the Sixth Ecumenical Council, including Pope Honorius
“Further, we accept the sixth, holy and universal synod (6
Constantinople III), which shares the same beliefs and is in harmony with the
previously mentioned synods in that it wisely laid down that in the two natures
of the one Christ there are, as a consequence, two principles of action and the
same number of wills. So, we anathematize Theodore who was bishop of Pharan,
Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul and Peter, the unholy prelates of the church of
Constantinople, and with
these, Honorius of Rome, Cyrus of Alexandria as well as Macarius of
Antioch and his disciple Stephen, who followed the false teachings of the unholy heresiarchs
Apollinarius, Eutyches and Severus and proclaimed that the flesh of God, while
being animated by a rational and intellectual soul, was without a principle of
action and without a will, they themselves being impaired in their senses and
truly without reason.” [……]
Eight Ecumenical Council, reaffirming the condemnation of Monothelitism and the monothelite heretics by
the Sixth Ecumenical Council which included the Councils judgment and
condemnation of Pope Honorius
And
what have we seen since the tyrannical imposition of the Novus Ordo?
If the sacrifice of the Mass were ever extinguished, we would not delay
falling into the depraved condition in which peoples tainted with paganism
found themselves, and such will be the work of the Antichrist. He will seek
every means of preventing the celebration of Holy Mass so that this great
counterweight may be overthrown and God will put an end to all things, having
no longer any reason to keep them in existence. We can easily understand this,
for since Protestantism, we notice far less strength in the heart of society.
Civil wars have arisen bringing desolation in their wake, and that solely
because the intensity of the sacrifice of the Mass is reduced. This is the
beginning of what will happen when the devil and his followers will be
unleashed over the world.
Dom Gueranger
Baptism:
Necessary to become a child of God and Necessary to become a member of His
Church, Outside of which there is NO SALVATION!
“What is Baptism, and is it necessary to all? This is the first
sacrament of the New Law and the most necessary, consisting in the external
washing of the body and the legitimate enunciation of the words in accordance
with Christ’s institution. It is a sacrament, I say, that is necessary not only
for adults but also for little ones, and is no less efficacious for them in
obtaining eternal salvation. All are born children of wrath; therefore even the
little ones need cleansing from sin, for they cannot be cleansed and be
regenerated as children of God without this sacrament. For as a general rule
our Lawmaker declared, ‘unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit
he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.’”
St. Peter Canisius, Doctor of the Church, Theologian at the Council of
Trent, Summa Doctrinae Christianae
“HoIy 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, 1439
“By one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death... so that in
them there may be washed away by regeneration, what they have contracted by
generation, ‘For unless a man Is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he
cannot enter the kingdom of God’” (John 3:5)
Council of Trent, Session 5 on Original Sin
“If anyone shall say that real and natural water is not necessary (de
necessitate) for baptism, and on that account should distort those words of Our
Lord Jesus Christ: ‘Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit’
[John 3:5] into some metaphor: let him be anathema.”
Council of Trent, Sess. 7, Canon 2 on the Sacrament of Baptism
Anti-Semitism’s “Working Definition”
The
International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance (IHRA) (until
January 2013, known as the Task Force
for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research
or ITF) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1998 which unites
governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education,
research and remembrance worldwide and to uphold the commitments of the
Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. The IHRA has
34 member countries, one liaison country and seven
observer countries. (Wikipedia)
The
IHRA’s working definition for Antisemitism that has been adopted by member
countries:
“Antisemitism
is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward
Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community
institutions and religious facilities.”
This “working definition,” although worded a little differently in light of their differing perspectives, is very close to the definition coined by Joe Sobran who said: “An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.” The IHRA’s definition it not grounded on any objective standard but solely on the subjective “perception of Jews.” You can expect this “working definition,” which has been adopted by U.S. government agencies to work its way into the United States legal code notwithstanding any legal niceties such as freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, etc. The Jewish religion is a race base belief that Jews possess a special salvific relationship with God because of their DNA irrespective of what they believe or what they do. Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews in part because he told them that this was not so. And like Jesus our Lord, the Catholic Church will necessarily fall under this definition of Anti-Semitism as well. Soon enough, the Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent will be calling faithful Catholics anti-Semites.
U.S. Politics: Jewish revolutionary, Saul Alinsky, died
6-12-1972 and will soon be celebrating his 50th year in hell. His
book, Rules for Radicals, enumerates twelve rules for effective political
organization:
·
RULE 1:
“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
·
RULE 2:
“Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
·
RULE 3:
“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
·
RULE 4:
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
·
RULE 5:
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
·
RULE 6:
“A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
·
RULE 7:
“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
·
RULE 8:
“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
·
RULE 9:
“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
·
RULE 10:
“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a
positive.”
·
RULE 11:
“The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
·
RULE 12:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The purpose of the “rules” is to impose the eight levels
of control that must be accomplished in the formation of a Godless socialist
state.
1.
Healthcare —
Control healthcare and you control the people.
2.
Poverty
—Increase the Poverty level as high as possible:’ poor people are easier to
control and wiIl not fight back if you are providing everything for them to
live.
3.
Debt —
Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase
taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4.
Gun Control—
Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are
able to create a police state.
5.
Welfare —
Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6.
Education —
Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children
learn in school.
7.
Religion —
Remove the belief in the God from the government and schools.
8.
Class
Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more
discontent, and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of
the poor.
Pope Francis: An Eschatological Overview
The massive emphasis on mercy–giving and receiving–is the key to
understanding the eschatological dimension of his pontificate
Vatican Insider | Stephen Walford | February 8, 2020
[….]This teaching on divine mercy is one
example where a beautiful convergence between authentic private revelation and
the magisterium has enabled the faithful to grasp an essential element of what
it means to live an authentic Christian life. But there is more to it than
that. In the Diary of St Faustina Kowalska, there is a little talked of, but
undeniable theme running through it: the Lord makes clear the season of divine
mercy is for the end times. St Faustina herself was told she would prepare the
world for the Lord’s second coming, while St John Paul II in 2002 referred to the
promise of Jesus to St Faustina that “a spark from Poland will prepare the
world for my final coming” as binding.
It is surely the case that Pope Francis
has–with the prompting of the Holy Spirit–taken what was in part embryonic in
the pontificate of St John Paul II, and placed mercy as the absolute key for
the future of the Church and the world. Its salvific message is plastered
across almost every page of the Holy Father’s writings in one way or another,
as the antidote to the ever increasing evil that offers only death and
destruction.
Fr Spadaro in his essay also touches upon
several teachings and attitudes that I too have long considered as of having
great importance in understanding this Pope: Francis shuns a millenarian view of the future of humanity
where some golden age of peace within history rules; his focus rests solely on
the criteria for a blessed Final Judgement as found in the Beatitudes. The
criteria, therefore is Jesus himself, since the Beatitudes are in essence, a
portrait of the Lord. Furthermore, the Pope sees opportunities
everywhere to build bridges and to invite reconciliation. No situation or soul
is beyond help or redemption in the time God allows for conversion.
This charism of the Pope is the great dividing line between those who
understand him and those who do not. How can he sting like St John the Baptist,
yet at other times appear far too generous? In reality, he is following the
criteria of Jesus to the letter–some may say even rigidly! He condemns
hypocrisy, narcissism, self- love, and a pharisaical attitude that divides
between “them” and “us.” He continually invites, even demands help for the poor
and marginalised. His constant criticisms in Santa Marta simply warn us
that we will be judged on love, and that no defence attorney will be present if
we live now as armchair Christians with a Jonah syndrome. No, the Holy Father
cares deeply, he knows Jesus recoils at hypocrisy and spiritual apathy and
therefore in his heart, he must give the Church some tough love. What Pope
Francis is obviously aware of, is the sad reality that for even many Catholics,
Jesus’ warning concerning “love growing cold” (cf. Matt 24:12) applies now more
than ever. How many refuse to forgive, to apologise, to give of themselves
generously? How many create their own moral code, with excuses and exemptions?
How many prefer to look after their own interests no matter how much suffering
they leave in their wake? This
in reality is apostasy from the central Christian message: to love God and
neighbour. And thus charity, repentance, mercy are watered down to such an
extent that they become meaningless.
In an eschatological sense, I see Francis trying to form a Church that
is far more conformed to Jesus himself; one that is authentically evangelical;
one that has its foundations in the dirt and dust of its precious flock; one in
which love and humility are never again overshadowed by the lust for prestige,
power and worldly success. In short, this is the vision of a Church that is
being prepared as the Bride fit for her meeting with the Bridegroom.
Many Traditionalists are right though: there is a war, there is a
powerful enemy, there is an apocalyptic battle being waged, but they are being
seduced by that same enemy. The enemy is Satan, not Pope Francis, or other
Catholics who they don’t agree with. Pope Francis, as a realist, knows the
depth of this spiritual war, but he also knows wounded souls (no matter how
those wounds came about) need love and mercy. They need salvation and are not
to be seen as enemies fighting for the other side. This attitude of mercy is
entirely in line with Jesus rebuking James and John, who suggested sending down
fire from heaven on those who did not welcome the Lord (Lk 9:54).
The division being caused by those opposed to the Holy Father, does
nothing other than serve the cause of Satan in creating confusion and doubt in
the hearts of ordinary Catholics. Satan, of course, does not care too much with
“the world” –he desires far more to destroy the Lord’s work in His Church; to
suffocate the sacramental life from souls and to present preaching as
hypocritical nonsense. He despises this Pope because Francis shines a
light on his deviousness, and because the Holy Father is willing to take risks
for the sake of the lost sheep.
Pope Francis has also contributed to the
Marian Era that began in the mid nineteenth century; a period of time
prophesied by St Louis de Montfort as preparation for the second coming of
Jesus. Not only his very personal Marian devotion, but his emphasis on the church
as Mother in imitation of Mary– including the new Feast of Mary Mother of the
Church– has enabled the Church to reflect ever more the Marian dimension in its
mission to bring the salvation of her Son to all. The Pope’s protection of Medjugorje should also be seen
in this context. This Marian dimension is essential in the years ahead
because it prepares for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, when
divine love will proclaim the final victory; it moulds the faithful into humble
souls who imitate Mary, and who follow her command to “do whatever He tells
you” (Jn 2:5).
Of course, Pope Francis, like his
predecessors shuns idle speculation and sees a danger in spending time immersed
in apocalyptic literature especially from private revelation. What is
important, is to keep an Advent spirit of watchfulness; to continually discern
the signs of the times, but always with a vision of hope for eschatological
glory, and not some intra historical era that will never come. Faith tells us
that we can see a dawn breaking on the horizon, from the East; we can see the
signs that summer is near (Matt 24:32), but we also know that until that Day
arrives, the spiritual war will become more intense. To remain loyal to the Pope and his magisterium is
to have a sure guide for what is still to come; it is to help avoid the
pitfalls that will inevitably hurt us, but above all, it will keep us close to
Jesus Christ.
In the magisterium and prophetic voice of Pope Francis, we are told to
strip ourselves of all that hinders a full adherence to the Gospel:
“Along this journey, the cultivation of all that is good, progress in the
spiritual life and growth in love are the best counterbalance to evil. Those
who choose to remain neutral, who are satisfied with little, who renounce the
ideal of giving themselves generously to the Lord, will never hold out. Even
less if they fall into defeatism, for “if we start without confidence, we have
already lost half the battle and we bury our talents… Christian triumph is
always a cross, yet a cross which is at the same time a victorious banner,
borne with aggressive tenderness against the assaults of evil”
Even if we do not know the day or the hour,
we do know how to keep our lamps lit; we know how to prepare. A revolution of love, tenderness
and mercy is Pope Francis’ answer to the reality of the Last Judgment, from
which no one can escape, and which in a very real sense is already in progress.
If holiness is grasped with both hands, then the apocalypse holds no fears; in
fact it presents a wealth of opportunities to serve the Lord.
Maranatha is the prayer that can and should live joyfully in the hearts
of the faithful in this season of mercy. We can take it to the poor, the sick,
the lonely, announcing that their liberation is near. And even if centuries are
still to pass by, the Church will live by a new evangelical urgency that will
ensure the torch of hope burns bright until the true light comes to illuminate
a transfigured creation. Pope Francis is playing a vital part in ensuring the
Church prepares well for whatever the Lords asks it to go through in the
future. Let us pray for him and his immensely important task.
COMMENTARY on Overview of the
Eschatology of Francis:
The first problem
with the theologian Stephen
Walford, and it is a huge problem, is that he makes the pope his
proximate rule of faith and not Dogma. He therefore cannot distinguish between
the pope’s personal magisterium based upon his grace of state and the
Magisterium of the Church based upon the attribute of Infallibility that Jesus
Christ endowed His Church. Whatever the current pope says or does becomes his
rule of faith and is necessarily, in his estimation, the work of the Holy
Ghost. Beginning with this colossal error, he works to build a bridge between
the teaching of a heretical pope and the Catholic faithful.
But
putting this error aside, he brings up a question that the Catholic faithful
must be able to answer clearly with the revealed truth of God. So what is wrong with the modern
popes emphasis of divine mercy? The problem is essentially that
emphasize divine mercy in opposition to divine justice and not as a different
facet of the same jewel. Walford seems to be correct in that the popes of the
Church of the New Advent believe that we are in the last age of the Church
before the second coming of Jesus Christ. They also believe that this age is
the time of mercy (as if other ages were not) and not justice (as if other ages
were). Benedict/Ratzinger held an interview with Jacques Servais, S.J.
conducted in October of 2015 on questions of Faith and Justification. The
interview was read by the Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Archbishop Georg
Gänswein, to a subsequent Conference in November 2015 on Justification and
published in March of 2016. In this interview Benedict/Ratzinger places in
constant opposition the attributes of God’s mercy and God’s justice repeatedly
characterizing His justice as “cruelty.” He quotes in support of his theology
John Paul II who was “deeply impregnated with this impulse,” and Pope Francis
whom he praises for his “pastoral practice (that) is expressed in the fact that
he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy.” These popes all point to the
gospel description of the last judgment in which the criteria for salvation or
condemnation are the corporal works of mercy. Therefore they conclude, what one
believes is of no importance but rather what one does for his fellow man. Thus,
after dividing justice and mercy, they drive a wedge between faith and charity.
It is from this that the term “evangelization” is redefined and distinguished
from “proselytism,” heretofore they have always been considered as necessary
compliments as a cause is to its direct effect. Proselytism, the traditional
fruit of evangelization, converting others to the true faith, is condemned as
“solemn nonsense” and the new evangelization becomes only dialogue to exchange
opinions for the end of promoting corporal works of mercy.
Wisdom
is the perfect knowledge of the most important things in their right order of
reference. Discounting malice, Pope Francis has no wisdom because he has no
right order of reference. “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” (Heb
11:6) Charity, which is the friendship between God and man through grace, is
greater than Faith, which is believing what God has revealed on the authority
of God, but without Faith, Charity is impossible. No one can have the
friendship of God who does not believe His Truth. Acts of Charity are an
extension of the virtue of Charity because they are entirely grounded upon
seeing the image of God in other men. There can be no Charity without Faith,
and although Charity is greater than Faith, Faith takes precedence in time. St.
Thomas considers sins against Faith as the greatest of all sins because they
radically separate the person from God and the possibility of Charity. In the
Acts of the Apostles, the apostles began the work of evangelization by making
proselytes out of the Jews and pagans. When the Faithful of the Church grew
from these labors, the obligation for works of Charity correspondingly
increased. What did the apostles do? They established the deaconate to attend
to works of Charity so that these works of Charity would not impede the work of
evangelization to make new proselytes.
The
second coming of Jesus Christ will be characterized by the Great Apostasy from
the Faith as described by St. Paul: “Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first,
and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...” (2 Thess. 2:3) Jesus
said, “Will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he
have patience in their regard? I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them.
But yet the Son of man,
when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:7-8)
We are now in the Great Apostasy for at no time in history has the apostasy
been so generalized and extended to the summit of Church authority.
Try
as they may, it is impossible to drive a wedge between God’s justice and God’s
mercy. God is perfect Act and infinite Simplicity. He is present wherever He
acts. There are no distinguished parts in God. Mercy is only possible in the
context of justice and vice versa, otherwise the entire Passion of Jesus Christ
becomes meaningless. Jesus does not suffer the cruelty of His passion from the
direct will of the Father but from sinful men by the Father’s permissive will.
It is not the cruelty of God but cruelty of sinful men. Jesus as the Son of Man
willingly suffers His Passion firstly gives honor and glory to the Father in
the name of mankind to the end of redeeming man from sin.
“Without
faith it is impossible to please God.” It is only through Faith that Charity
can exist without which the merits of the redemptive suffering of Christ’s
passions cannot be personally gained. “Therefore I said to you, that you shall
die in your sins. For if
you believe not that I AM he, you shall die in your sin. They said
therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning (I AM), who
also speak unto you” (John 8:24-25).
In
the last judgment when God makes a radical public distinction between “them”
and “us,” Jesus Christ will say, “When I was thirsty and you gave me to drink”
(Matt 35:25). The faithful will ask,
“Lord, when did we see thee… thirsty and give thee to drink?” (37). Jesus will
say, “Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren [that is, ‘As many
of you as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ’ (Gal 3:27) when
they were ‘born again by water and the Holy Ghost’ (John 3:5),] you did it to
me.” Only the faithful can see the image of God in other and the likeness
restored by the grace of Jesus Christ in the “brethren.”
Then
He will say to those on His left condemned to hell, “Amen I say to you, as long
as you did it not to one of these least (that is, the “brethren” of Christ),
neither did you do it to me” (45). Christ dwells in the souls of the faithful
by Charity. Those condemned did not see Christ in the faithful. Those who are
condemned may have given a drink to the thirsty but without faith, they did not
see the image of God in the other,
and therefore, they did not do it for Him. They were not works of Charity but
works of human philanthropy. Works of mercy do not profit for salvation without
Faith. While Faith can exist without Charity, Charity cannot exist without
Faith in this world. Faith will pass with death but Charity will remain. That
is why the last judgment is determined by acts of mercy and not articles of
Faith because at the Last Judgment everyone will believe.
The
modern Church of the New Advent is in true apostasy which is, by definition,
the actual denial of revealed truth. They do not do works of mercy that profit
for eternal salvation because they do not have faith. Yet Walford claims, in a
remarkable inversion of divine Wisdom, that apostasy is failure in works of mercy rather
than that apostasy is the failure of faith which in turn leads to the failure
of works of mercy. The rank hypocrisy in this claim is evident in that Catholic
institutions doing works of mercy have crumbled since Vatican II when the age
of mercy supposedly got underway. And still, the popes of the Church of the New
Advent do not get it. Only by preaching the faith will acts of mercy again
abound. Jesus said to St. John the Baptist who resisted baptizing Him, “For so
it becometh us to fulfill all justice” (Matt 3:15). The Church of the New
Advent cannot have part in the mercy of God because they have no part with Him
to “fulfill all justice.” The blasphemy is this: the modern popes believe they
are more merciful than God.
They
proclaim the era of mercy in opposition to God’s “cruel” justice while
essentially removing all penitential practices during Lent while accusing traditionalist
Catholics of being “seduced by Satan” and “serving the cause of Satan” by the
“division… creating confusion and doubt
in the hearts of ordinary Catholics” when they oppose the rank heresy of
Pope Francis. The implications of this division between justice-mercy and charity-faith
overturns the Catholic dogmas on justification. The Church of the New Advent
has a Lutheran conception of justification. In the Servais interview
Benedict/Ratzinger said, “It seems to me that in the theme
of divine mercy is expressed in a new way what is meant by justification by
faith. Starting from the mercy of God, which everyone is looking for, it is
possible even today to interpret anew the fundamental nucleus of the doctrine
of justification, and have it appear again in all its relevance.”
Benedict/Ratzinger “interprets anew” by mischaracterizing the Catholic dogmatic
teaching on justification as “the conceptuality of St. Anselm” which he says “has now become for us
incomprehensible” because it necessarily includes
the justice of God. He then adds, “Only where there is mercy does cruelty end, only with mercy do evil and violence end. Pope Francis is totally in
agreement with this line. His pastoral practice is expressed in the fact that
he continually speaks to us of God’s mercy. It is mercy that moves us toward
God, while justice frightens us before Him.” What is worse, Benedict/Ratzinger
adds that God “simply cannot leave 'as is' the
mass of evil that comes from the freedom that he himself has granted. Only He,
coming to share in the world's suffering, can redeem the world.” So God becomes
responsible for the “mass of evil” in the world because He is
responsible for granting man “freedom” and is therefore compelled by justice “to share in the world's suffering” to “redeem the world”! The end of this is that God has a necessary obligation in justice for
mercy. The corollary to this is that man has an unconditional right to divine
mercy.
God
is not compelled to anything outside Himself. He cannot positively will evil.
He can and does permit evil only because He and He alone is capable of bring
good out of evil. No man can earn God's mercy and eternal salvation on their
own merits.
“Charity is man’s friendship with God based
on man’s share in the Divine Life, in the happiness of God Himself. But man
cannot naturally share in God’s own life. Man’s participation in the Divine
Life is a free supernatural gift which God gives to man. Charity then cannot be
acquired by any purely human effort. It is a gift of God infused in man’s soul
by God’s goodness and generosity. Charity, like the other theological virtues,
is a supernatural virtue infused in the will by God Himself. Who can give man a
share in the Divine Love except God Himself?”
Rev. Walter Farrell, O. P., My Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St.
Thomas
A
faithful Catholic in the state of grace is able to merit eternal life and atone
for his sins because of his union by grace with Jesus Christ in Charity. This
is what gives value to his prayers, penances, and mortifications without which
they have no value at all in obtaining a supernatural end. This union of
Charity with Christ by grace permits the faithful to not only atone for their
own sins but also for the sins of others as St. Paul said, “Who now rejoice in
my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the
sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church” (Col
1:24). And thus:
“The observance of Lent is the
very badge of the Christian warfare. By it, we prove ourselves not to be
enemies of the Cross of Christ. By it, we avert the scourges of divine justice.
By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with
heavenly help. Should mankind grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would
be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a
danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted, but that such negligence
would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of
private woe.”
Pope Benedict XIV, encyclical, May 30, 1741
Without
the justice of God there could be no mercy and without God’s mercy there could
be no justice. The faithful rejoice in the justice of God for by it we are made
children of God and can merit eternal life. Those who divide God's mercy from
His justice and believe that eternal life awaits them without the necessity of
Faith and penance are whistling in the wind. There will not have any part with
God in eternal life. May God in His mercy keep us in the right Faith, a burning
Charity and a penitential spirit until our last breath.
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Modern Novel Opinion:
Archbishop Di Noia explains the fundamental change, the major shift, the
new concept that Traditionalists will not be able to accept immediately.
The Church’s deep commitment to
reconciliation with the Jewish People is personified today by Benedict
XVI. The Ecumenical Council wrought a fundamental change. Then John Paul II, above all
others, brought home Paul’s message that Judaism and Jews have a unique place
in salvation history. Nobody can deny that Karol Wojtyla’s Pontificate marked a
major shift in the theological understanding
of Judaism within the Catholic Church.
[....] Vatican II repudiated anti-Semitism and presented a positive
picture of Judaism. John Paul II took us further in recognizing the
significance of the Jewish People for Christianity itself. This is a new concept which we know the Traditionalists
will not be able to accept immediately. Convincing them will take time, and in
this respect we will have to be patient.
Archbishop
J. Augustine Di Noia, Adjunct Secretary for Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith & Vice-Prefect of Ecclesia Dei
Catholic Dogma:
Therefore I say to you, the
kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people yielding its
fruits.
Jesus
Christ, Matt. 21:43
The
Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of
those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews,
heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they
are to go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels, (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with
her; and that so important is the unity of this Ecclesiastical Body, that only
those remaining within this unity can profit from the sacraments of the Church
unto salvation, and that they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their
fasts, almsdeeds, and other works of Christian piety and duties of a Christian
soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he
pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved unless they abide
within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.
Council
of Florence
The most holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes, and teaches that the Mosaic Law cannot be observed without the loss
of eternal salvation. Every one, therefore, who observes circumcision and the
Sabbath and the other requirements of the Law, the Church declares not in the
least fit to participate in eternal salvation.
Council of Florence
Now
in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and
groweth old, is near its end.
St.
Paul, Heb. 8:13
Catholic Faith vs. Modernist Experience
“In
the Catholic sense, Revelation is something external, something that comes to
the soul from without, from the oral teaching of Christ and the Church, and
Faith is acceptance of that Revelation. In the Modernist sense, Revelation is
wholly internal, a psychological experience, and Faith is the souls response to
it. To the Catholic, Revelation is statement, and Faith is belief in the
statement made. To the Modernist, Revelation and Faith are experience. To the
Catholic, the content of Revelation, which is the object of Faith, is truth
addressed to the intelligence. To the Modernist, it is truth addressed to the
feelings, to the emotional faculty. That brings religion perilously near to
Matthew Arnold's definition of religion: Morality touched with emotion.”
Fr.
J. M. Bampton, S.J.
And if anyone would know, it would be Benedict!
“The
greatest persecution of the Church comes not from her enemies without, but
arises from sin within the Church.”
Pope
Benedict XVI
As we suffer under the moral and doctrinal Novelties of Pope Francis, it is evident why he wanted the Master of Novelty, Paul VI, to become another novel Novus Ordo saint. Montini is the man who coined the Spirit of Vatican II in one word: NOVELTY in order to please m