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this missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience
or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment or censure, and may freely and
lawfully be used ..... Nor are
superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or
religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass
otherwise than as enjoined by Us.
..... Accordingly, no one whatsoever is permitted to infringe or rashly
contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept,
grant, direction, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to
do so, let him understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the
Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine
Codification of the “received and approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Second Sunday in Advent
St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor
St. Barbara, Virgin & Martyr
December 4, 2022
The whole of today’s liturgy is filled with
the thought of Isaias (whose name means ‘The Lord Saves’), since he is beyond
all others, the prophet who proclaims the coming of Christ the Redeemer. He foretold seven centuries before that “a
virgin” should “conceive and bear” a son, “Emmanuel” (Is. 7, 14), and that God
would send His “angel”; that it is John the Baptist who should “prepare His way
before Him,” (Gospel) and the Messias should come clothed with the power of God
Himself to free all nations from the bondage of Satan. “The ox,” says Isaias, meaning the Gentiles,
“knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib, but Israel hath not known me
and my people have not understood” (Is. 1,3).
“The root of Jesse,” he goes on, “shall rise up to rule the nations
(Epistle), and the deaf and the blind, plunged in darkness, that is the heathen,
shall hear the words of release and shall see (Gospel). Then shall the true Jerusalem, that is the
Church, “tremble with joy” (Communion), for all the nations, sanctified by
Christ shall flow unto it (Gradual).
“The Messias,” as Isaias explains, “will
establish salvation in Sion and glory in Jerusalem,” “Sion shall be strong, for
the Lord shall be its wall and its bulwark,” that is, its powerful protector.
The Station takes place at Rome in the
church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem which was built by St. Helena to receive
the relic of the Holy Cross.
St. Peter gained the name Chrysologus, which means “speech of gold,” by his great eloquence. As the Collect reminds us, his promotion to the See of Ravenna (A.D. 433), owing to an apparition of the Apostle St. Peter to Pope Sixtus III, was miraculous.
“You are the salt of the earth…and the light of the world,” says the Gospel. “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, entreat, rebuke…do the work of an evangelist,” continues the Epistle. That was what St. Peter did: he composed more than one hundred and sixty homilies, full of learning, which earned him the title of Doctor of the Church. It was he who wrote this well-known saying: “He who amuses himself with Satan cannot rejoice with Christ.” He died at Imola in 450
INTROIT:
Is. 30:
People of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to
save the nations; and the Lord shall make the glory of His voice to be heard in
the joy of your heart.
Ps. 79: Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel, Thou that leadest
Joseph like a sheep. Glory be, etc. People of Sion, etc.
COLLECT:
Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to
make ready the ways of Thine only-begotten Son, that by His coming we may be
worthy to serve Thee with purified minds.
Who liveth and reigneth, etc.
O God,
Who didst decree that the illustrious Doctor Peter Chrysologus should be
divinely pointed out and elected to rule and teach Thy Church, grant, we pray,
that we may have him for our advocate in heaven, who on earth taught us the way
of life. Through our Lord, etc.
O
God, Who among the marvels of Thy power hast given the victory of martyrdom
even to the weaker sex, grant in Thy mercy that we who keep the birthday of
blessed Barbara, Thy Virgin and Martyr, may, by her example, draw nearer to
Thee. Through our Lord, etc.
EPISTLE:
Rom. 15, 4-13.
Brethren,
what things soever were written, were written for our learning, that through
patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope. Now the God of
patience and of comfort grant you to be of one mind one towards another,
according to Jesus Christ: that with one mind, and with one mouth, you may
glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive one
another, as Christ also hath received you unto the honor of God. For I say that
Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm
the promises made unto the fathers. But that the Gentiles are to glorify God
for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord,
among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name. And again he saith: Rejoice, ye
Gentiles, with his people. And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and
magnify him, all ye people. And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of
Jesse, and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles
shall hope. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that you may abound in hope, and in the power of the Holy Ghost.
What does St. Paul teach
in this epistle?
The Jews and Gentiles who had been converted to the Christian faith were disputing among themselves at Rome, in regard to abstinence and the use of certain kinds of food, reproaching each other severely; the Jews boasted that the Savior, according to promise, was born of their nation, thus claiming Him from the Gentiles, who, in their turn, reproached the Jews for their ingratitude in having crucified Him. To restore harmony St. Paul shows that each had reason, the Jews and Gentiles alike, to praise God, to whose grace and goodness they owed all; that each had in Him a Redeemer in whom they could hope for salvation; and he warns them not to deprive themselves of that hope by contentions. By these words the Apostle also teaches that we too, have great reason to praise God, and to thank Him for calling us, whose forefathers were heathens, to the Christian faith, and to guard against losing our salvation by pride, envy, impurity, etc.
Why should we read the
Scriptures?
That we may know what we are to believe, and do in order to be saved, as all Scripture inspired by God is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice (11 Tim. 3:16); that we may learn from what Christ has done for us, and the saints for Christ, to be patient in our sufferings, and to be consoled and encouraged by their example. To derive this benefit from the Scriptures, the Catholic must read them by the light of that Spirit through whose assistance they came into existence, who lives and remains for ever with the Church: that is, the light of the Holy Ghost must be sought, that their meaning may be read according to the sense of the Church and not be explained according to the reader’s judgment. For he who reads the holy Scriptures by the light of his own private judgment, must, as experience shows, of necessity diverge from the right path, become entangled in manifold doubts, and at last, lose the faith entirely. For this reason the Catholic Church has very properly limited the reading of the Bible, not as has been falsely asserted, unconditionally forbidden it, but she allows the reading of those editions only, which are accompanied by notes and explanations that the unity of faith may not be disturbed, and that among Catholics there may not be the terrible bewilderment of the human intellect which has taken place among the different heretical sects who have even declared murder, bigamy and impurity to be permissible on the authority of the Bible. We are to consider also, that Christ never commanded the Bible to be written or read, and that not the readers but the hearers and the followers of the word of God by which is meant those who hear the word of God in sermons, and keep it, will be saved!
Further instruction in regard to the doctrine of faith on this subject will be found in the “Instruction for Easter Tuesday.”
Why is God called a God of patience, of consolation, and of hope?
He is called a God of patience because He awaits our repentance, of consolation, because He gives us grace to be patient in crosses and afflictions, and so consoles us inwardly, that we become not faint‑hearted; of hope, because He gives us the virtue of hope, and because He desires to be Himself the reward we are to expect after this life.
ASPIRATION
O God of patience, of consolation and of hope, fill Our hearts with peace
and joy, and grant that we may become perfect in all good, and by faith, hope
and charity, attain the promised salvation.
GRADUAL:
Ps. 40: Out of Sion the loveliness of His
beauty, God shall come manifestly.
Gather ye together His saints to Him who have set His covenant before
sacrifices.
Alleluia, alleluia. Ps.
121: I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: we shall go into the
house of the Lord. Alleluia
GOSPEL: Matt. 11, 2-10.
At that
time, when John had heard in prison the works of Christ, sending two of his
disciples, he said to him: Art thou he that art to come, or do we look for
another? And Jesus making answer, said to them: Go and relate to John what you
have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the
deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them: and
blessed is he that shall not be scandalized in me. And when they went their
way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, What went you out
into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind? But what went you out to
see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold, they that are clothed in soft
garments are in the houses of kings. But what went you out to see? a prophet?
yea I tell you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written,
Behold, I send my Angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Why was John in prison?
He was in prison, and lost his life, because he had rebuked king Herod for his adulterous marriage with his brother’s wife (Mt. 14:31). Truth, as the proverb says, is certainly a very beautiful mother, but she usually bears a very ugly daughter: Hatred. St. John experienced that speaking the truth very often arouses hatred and enmity against the speaker. Let us learn from him to speak the truth always, when duty requires it, even if it brings upon us the greatest misfortunes, for, if with St. John we patiently bear persecution, with St. John we shall become martyrs for truth.
Why did St. John send his
disciples to Christ?
That they should learn from Christ, who had become illustrious by His teachings and miracles, that He was really the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world, whom they should follow.
Why did Christ say to the
disciples of St. John: “Go and say to John, the blind see, the lame walk,
etc.”?
That they should, by His miracles, judge Him to be the Messiah because the prophets had predicted that He would work such miracles (Is. 35:5‑6). “Christ,” says St. Cyril, “proved that He was the Messiah by the grandeur as well as by the number of His miracles.”
Why does Christ add: “And
blessed is he who shall not be scandalized in me”?
Christ used these words in reference to those who would be scandalized by His poverty, humility and ignominious death on the cross, and who for these reasons would doubt and despise Him, and cast Him away; though “man,” as St. Gregory says, “owes all the more love to the Lord, his God, the more humiliations He has borne for him.”
What was our Lord’s object
in the questions He asked concerning St. John?
His object was to remove from St. John all suspicion of failing in faith in Him; and to praise the perseverance with which, although imprisoned and threatened with death, he continued to fill his office of preacher, thus constituting him an example to all preachers, confessors and superiors, that they may never be deterred by human respect, or fear of man, or other temporal considerations, from courageously fulfilling their duties. Our Lord commended also rigorous penance, exhibited by St. John’s coarse garments and simple food that we may learn, from his example, penance and mortification.
Why does Christ say that
John was “more than a prophet”?
Because St. John was foretold by the prophet Malachias as was no other prophet; because of all the prophets he was the only one who with his own eyes saw Christ and could point Him out, and was the one to baptize Him: and because like an angel, a messenger of God, he announced the coming of the Savior, and prepared the way for the Lord.
How did St. John prepare
the way for the Savior?
By his sermons on penance, and by his own penitential life He endeavored to move the hearts of the Jews, that by amending their lives, they might prepare to receive the grace of the Messiah, for God will not come with His grace into our hearts if we do not prepare His way by true repentance.
ASPIRATION
O Lord Jesus, by the praise Thou didst accord to Thy forerunner St. John,
for his firmness and austerities, inflame our hearts with love to imitate his
steadfastness and penance, that we may never do anything to please man which
may be displeasing to Thee; grant us also Thy grace that we too, like St. John,
may have those who are confided to our care, instructed in the Christian doctrine.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 84: Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life, and Thy people shall rejoice in Thee: show us, O Lord, Thy mercy, and grant us Thy salvation.
SECRET:
Be appeased, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the prayers and sacrifices of Thy humble servants; and where no merits can be pleaded on our behalf, do Thou still come to our succor and aid. Through our Lord, etc.
May the pious prayer of holy Peter Chrysologus, Thy Bishop and illustrious Doctor, be not wanting to us, O Lord, but make our offerings acceptable to Thee and ever win for us Thy mercy. Through our Lord, etc.
Accept, O Lord, the gifts we bring on the festival of blessed Barbara, Thy Virgin and Martyr, by whose patronage we hope to be delivered. Through our Lord, etc.
COMMUNION:
Bar. 5 & 4: Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high and behold the joy that cometh to thee from thy God.
POSTCOMMUNION:
Filled with the food of spiritual nourishment we suppliantly implore Thee, O Lord, that, by the partaking of this mystery Thou wouldst teach us to scorn the things of earth and love the things of heaven. Through our Lord, etc.
May blessed Peter Chrysologus, Thy Bishop and illustrious Doctor, intercede for us, O Lord, that this Thy sacrifice may obtain for us salvation. Through our Lord, etc.
Let the mysteries of which we have partaken help us, O Lord; and throught the prayers of blessed Barbara, Thy Virgin and Martyr, may we ever enjoy their protection. Through Christ our Lord, etc.
But what went you out to see? a prophet? yea I tell you, and more than a prophet. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my Angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 4th:
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4 |
Sun |
2nd Sunday
of Advent St. Peter
Chrysologus, BpCD St. Barbara, VM |
sd |
V |
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Mass 9:00 AM;
Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM |
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5 |
Mon |
Ferial Day St. Sabbas, Ab |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
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6 |
Tue |
St. Nicholas, BpC |
d |
W |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
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7 |
Wed |
St. Ambrose, BpCD Vigil of the Immaculate Conception |
d |
W |
F/A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
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8 |
Thu |
Immaculate
Conception of the BVM |
d1cl |
W |
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
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9 |
Fri |
Within the Octave |
sd |
W |
A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
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10 |
Sat |
Within the Octave St. Melchiades, PM |
sd |
W |
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Mass 9:00 AM;
Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM |
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11 |
Sun |
3rd Sunday
of Advent - Gaudete St. Damasus I, PC Within the Octave |
sd |
Rose |
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Mass 9:00 AM;
Confessions 8:00AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 |
What reverence and awe
are shown to that inner chamber of a king, where he sits in all the majesty of
his power! Therein no man may enter that
is a stranger, or unclean, or unfaithful.
The usages of courts require, that when men came to pay their homage,
everything must be the best, and fairest, and most loyal. Who would go to the palace-gate in rags? Who would go, that knew he was odious to the
prince? So it is with the sanctuary of
the divine Spouse. No one is permitted
to come nigh, but he that is of God’s family, and is intimate, and has a good
conscience, and has a fair name, and leads a holy life. Within the holy place itself God receives but
the Virgin, and spotless virginity.
Hence learn, O Man, to examine thyself: who thou art, and what thou art,
and what merits thou hast. Ask thyself,
after this, if thou mayst dare to penetrate into the mystery of the birth of
thy Lord, or canst be worthy to approach that living sanctuary, wherein reposes
the whole majesty of thy King, and thy God.
St. Peter Chrysologus,
On the Virgin Mary during her expectation
Tropologically, a
reed is a light man, inconstant, tossed to and fro at one time impelled by the
cords of flatterers, he asserts something again being driven by detractors, he
denies it, as a reed is blown in different directions by different winds. A reed is one who is devoid of truth, virtue,
and consistency, as a reed has no strength, or stamina. A reed is he who has no fruit of good works
to show, since a reed bears no fruit. It
is he who is delighted with, and feeds upon, the fluctuating pleasures of the
world. For a reed is dry yet it grows beside the waters. Whence it is called, “the river reed.”
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentary
St. Nicholas, Bishop of
Myra was one of the three hundred and eighteen bishops, who proclaimed, at
Nicaea, that the Word is consubstantial with the Father. The humiliations of the Son of God did not
scandalize him. Nether the lowliness of the flesh, which the sovereign Lord of
all things assumed to Himself in the womb of the Virgin, nor the poverty of the
crib, hindered him from confessing the Son of Mary to be Son of God, equal to
God; and for this reason, God has glorified this His servant, and given him the
power to obtain, each year, for the children of the Church, the grace of receiving
this same Jesus, the Word, with simple faith and fervent love.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Nicholas
“Listen and let it penetrate your heart my dear little son. Do not be troubled or weighed down with grief. Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle? In the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need?”
Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Juan Diego
“The fear of God sets us free from the fear of His enemies.”
St. Ambrose
Some among you, inflated like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive
by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the
sense of the heavenly pages . . .to the philosophical teaching of the
rationals, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science . .
. these, seduced by strange and eccentric doctrines, make the head of the tail
and force the queen to serve the servant.
Pope Gregory IX regarding the 13th century Modernists of his day
If Jesus came to
sanctify all, if it is God’s will that “all should be saints,” then sanctity
cannot consist in extraordinary gifts of nature and grace, which depend solely
upon God’s liberality. Sanctity,
therefore, must consist in something that all souls of good will, even the
simplest and most humble, can attain, sustained by the divine assistance. Sanctity is the perfection of the Christian
life. It is the full development in us
of the supernatural life, whose beginnings are sanctifying grace, the infused
virtues, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost…
When the influence of grace extends effectively to all our actions,
directing them solely to God’s glory and uniting us wholly to Him be means of
charity, then we have reached the fullness of Christian life, sanctity.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy
Act of
Abandonment to the Divine Will
O my God, I know not
what must come to me today; but I am certain that nothing can happen to me
which Thou hast not foreseen and ordained from all eternity: that is sufficient
for me. I adore Thy impenetrable and eternal
designs, to which I submit with all my heart; I desire, I accept them all, and
I unite my sacrifice to that of Jesus Christ, my divine Saviour; I ask in His
name, and through His infinite merits, patience in my trials, and perfect
submission to all that comes to me by Thy good pleasure. Amen
St. Joseph Pignatelli,
S. J., who lived his life as a Jesuit during the 40 years of their suppression
dying three years before their official restoration by Pope Pius VII in
1814. He is considered the “restorer of
the Society of Jesus.”
“Religion
holds the first place among the moral virtues”
The supernatural virtue of
Religion is, in the first place, an abiding, persevering disposition inclining
us to render unto God the worship due Him. Ease and readiness in the
performance of supernatural acts of religion is the fruit of faithful exercise
and is obtainable by our own exertions assisted by divine grace. Charity and
all the infused moral virtues are inseparably united with sanctifying grace,
whilst the two theological virtues of faith and hope (habitus fidei et spei)
can still exist even after sanctifying grace has been lost…. Religion holds the
first place among the moral virtues. Although, like all other moral virtues,
the virtue of religion is inferior in merit and dignity to the divine virtues
of faith, hope and charity, it is, nevertheless, most intimately connected with
them, for it regulates the conduct of man toward God. It holds the first rank
among the moral virtues, because it approaches nearer to God than the others,
in so far as it produces and has for its primary object those acts which refer
directly and immediately to the honor of God — that is, whatever acts pertain
to the divine service…. We read in the epistle of St. James (i. 27) these
words: “Religion (religio) clean and undefiled before God and the Father is
this; to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one’s
self unspotted from the world.” The meaning of the above is — that if we would
honor God the Father in a sincere and proper manner, we must be assiduously
intent upon assisting the poor, the abandoned and the distressed, upon
consoling and comforting them, and, at the same time, endeavor, amid the
universal corruption of the world, to serve God alone and to please Him by purity
of heart and the righteousness of our ways. Thus the virtue of religion will
produce abundant fruits “that in all things and above all things God may be
glorified” (ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus).
Rev. Nicholas Gihr
Within a few blocks around Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel there are
at least five protestant Hispanic churches.
These souls have been lost to the Catholic Church being wholly ignorant
of the doctrinal and moral teachings which must necessarily be believed to save
their souls. December 4 we will begin a
novena to our blessed Mother for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York
to the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Novena to Our
Lady of Guadalupe for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York
(Novena begins
December 4th and ends on December 12th)
Our Lady of Guadalupe, according to your
message in Mexico I venerate you as the Virgin Mother of the true God for whom
we live, the Creator of all the world, Maker of heaven and earth. In spirit I kneel before your most holy image
which you miraculously imprinted upon the cloak of the Indian Juan Diego, and
with the faith of the countless numbers of pilgrims who visit your shrine, I
beg you for this favor: (the conversion of the Hispanic population of York to
the true Church).
Remember, O immaculate Virgin, the words
you spoke to your devout client: “I am a merciful mother to you and to all your
people who love me and trust in me and invoke my help. I listen to their lamentations and solace all
their sorrows and sufferings.” I beg you
to be a merciful mother to me, because I sincerely love you and trust in you
and invoke your help. I entreat you, our
Lady of Guadalupe, to grant my request, if this should be the will of God, in
order that I may bear witness to your love, your compassion, your help and
protection. Do not forsake me in my
needs.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for
us. (Hail Mary three times)
NOTE:
The miracle of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in her expectation imprinted
on the tilma of St. Juan occurred on December 12 of the Julian calendar. The
date remained fixed on the 12th after the correction of the Gregorian
calendar. The actual date of the miracle
on the Gregorian calendar would be December 21 which is the winter solstice
whose meaning was not lost on the Aztecs.
The
Trial of St. Thomas Becket
Whatever credit may be due to reports originating with men, whose great
object it was to bring the religious orders into disrepute, and to terrify them
into the surrender of their property, there is one proceeding, which, on
account of its singularity and absurdity, deserves the attention of the reader.
It had been suggested that, as long as the name of St. Thomas of Canterbury
should remain in the (liturgical) calendar, men would be stimulated by his
example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of their sovereign. The kings’s
attorney was therefore instructed to exhibit an information against him and
“Thomas Becket, some time archbishop of Canterbury,” was formally cited to
appear in court, and answer to the charge. The interval of thirty days allowed
by the canon law was suffered to elapse: still the saint neglected to quit the
tomb in which he had reposed for two centuries and a half; and judgment would
have been given against him for default, had not the king of his special grace
assigned him a counsel. The court sat at Westminster: the attorney general and
the advocate of the accused were heard; and sentence was finally pronounced;
that Thomas, some time archbishop of Canterbury, had been guilty of rebellion,
contumacy, and treason; that his bones should be publicly burnt, to admonish
the living of their duty by the punishment of the dead; and that the offerings
which had been made at his shrine, the personal property of the reputed saint,
should be forfeited to the crown. A
commission was accordingly issued; the sentence was executed in due form; and
the gold, silver, and jewels, the spoils obtained by the demolition of the
shrine, were conveyed in two ponderous coffers to the royal treasury. Soon
afterwards a proclamation was published, stating that, forasmuch as it now
clearly appeared, that Thomas Becket had been killed in a riot excited by his
own obstinacy and intemperate language and had been afterwards canonized by the
bishop of Rome as the champion of his usurped authority, the king’s majesty
thought it expedient to declare to his loving subjects, that he was no saint,
but rather a rebel and traitor to his prince, and therefore strictly charged
and commanded that he should not be esteemed or called a saint, that all images
and pictures of him should be destroyed, the festivals in his honour be
abolished, and his name and remembrance be erased out of all books, under pain
of his majesty's indignation and imprisonment at his grace's pleasure.
Archbishop John Milner, D.D., History
of England
“Charity… unites man with God so that he
no longer lives for himself but for God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Angel being come in,
says the Gospel; the expression “come in,” leads us to believe that Mary was
“within” her house. The Angel reveals to
her in God’s name what will take place in her.
“The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High
shall overshadow thee. And therefore
also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God” (Lk
1, 35). From that moment God made
Himself present in Mary in a very special way, present not only by essence,
knowledge, and power, as He is in all creatures; present not only by grace as
He is in the souls of the just; but, far more, the Word of God was in Mary by
“corporal presence,” as St. Albert the Great says.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D, Divine Intimacy
For all the gods of the
Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens. Ps. 95, 5
Wanting to reconcile the Faith with the modern spirit leads not only to
a weakening of the Faith, but also to its total ruin.
Pope St. Pius X
CONSOLATION IN SUFFERING
"The God of patience and
of comfort, the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing" (Rom.
15:5-13).
What gives us the greatest
consolation in adversities?
The strong and fervent belief that each and every thing that happens to us, comes to us for our own good from God, and that whatever evil befalls us, is by the will or permission of God. Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God (Ecclus. 11:14). If we have received good things at the hand of God (Job 2:10), saith the pious job in his affliction, "why should we not receive evil?"
We should be fully convinced that without the permission of God not a single hair of our head shall perish (Lk. 21:18), much less can any other evil be done to us by man or devil (Job 1); we should have a steadfast confidence that if we ask Him, God can and will assist us in our sufferings, if it be for our salvation. Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee in my hands (Is. 49:15‑16); we should hope for abundant reward in the future life, which we will merit by patience in our sufferings, for that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory (II Cor. 4:17); we should remember that all complaints and murmurs against the dispensation of God are useless, and lead only to harm and shame; Who hath resisted Him, and hath had peace? (Job 9:4) we should have a vivid remembrance of our sins, for which we have long since deserved the eternal punishments of hell - hence the well-known saying of St. Augustine: O Lord, here cut, here burn, but spare me in eternity. No other way leads to the kingdom of heaven than the way of the cross, which Christ Himself, His sorrowing mother, and all the saints had to tread. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into His glory? (Lk. 24:26) Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God (Acts 14:21). And we should not forget that sorrows and adversities are signs of God's love, and manifest proofs of being His chosen ones. Whom the Lord loveth He chastiseth, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth (Heb. 12:6. compare 7-11).
PRAYER IN SORROW O almighty, kind and merciful God! who hast said: "Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me" (Ps. 49:15), behold relying upon Thy word, I take refuge in Thee in my trouble. Give honor to Thy name, therefore, and deliver me, if it be pleasing to Thee and beneficial for me, that all may know, Thou art our only help. Amen.
Catholic doctrine ought thus to be proposed and set forth totally and
in its entirety: one ought not to
pass over in silence or cover with ambiguous words what Catholic truth teaches on
the true nature and means of justification, on the constitution of the Church,
on the primacy of jurisdiction of the Roman pontiff, on the only true union which is achieved by the return of dissidents to
the one true Church of Christ. It is taught that they, by returning
to the Church, do not lose any part of the good that, by the grace of God, has
up to now been born in them, but that with their return this good is rather
completed and perfected. There is no
need to discuss this subject as though these people should believe that by
their return to the Church they should bring it some essential element that
they have lacked up to now.
Pius XII, Instruction
of the Holy Office on Ecumenism, Dec. 20, 1949
THE LORD WILL NOT
DELAY SECOND SUNDAY OF
ADVENT
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑
I place myself in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, to receive His
two‑fold invitation to confidence and repentance, contained in today's
liturgy.
MEDITATION:
I.
After we have considered the sublime program of sanctification which we should follow,
it is very consoling to consider the magnificent texts of today's liturgy. They
invite us to have complete trust in God's help. "Thy salvation cometh
quickly: why art thou wasted with sorrow?... I will save thee and deliver thee,
fear not .... As a mother comforteth her sons, so will I comfort thee, saith
the Lord" (RB). God does not want anxiety or discouragement. If He
proposes to us an exalted way of sanctity, He does not leave us alone, but
comes to help and sustain us.
Today's Mass shows clearly how Jesus comes
not only for the people of Israel, for a small number of the elect, but also
for the Gentiles, for all men. "Behold the Lord shall come to save the nations"
(Introit), therefore, let us have confidence and rejoice, as St. Paul exhorts
us: "Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing
that you may abound in hope" (Ep: Rom 15, 4‑13). And in order to
stimulate our hope in Christ, the Gospel (Mt 11, 2‑10) presents His
wonderful works: "The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cured, the deaf
hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them."
There is no physical or moral misery which Jesus
cannot cure. He asks only that we go to Him with a heart dilated by faith, and
with complete trust in His all‑powerful, merciful love.
2.
In today's Gospel Jesus directs our attention to the strong, austere figure of John
the Baptist. "What went you out to see? A reed shaken by the wind?... A
man clothed in soft garments? "
If we want to prepare our hearts for Jesus' coming,
we, like St. John the Baptist, must detach ourselves from all the goods of
earth. John had left everything and gone into the desert to lead a life of penance.
His example invites us to retire into the interior desert of our heart, far
from creatures, to await the coming of Jesus in deep recollection, silence, and
solitude, insofar as the duties of our state in life permit. We must persevere
in this waiting, in spite of aridity and discouragement. "The Lord shall
appear and shall not deceive us: if He make any delay, wait for Him, for He
will come and will not tarry" (RB).
To our interior recollection, let us add a greater
spirit of penance and mortification. Let us examine our generosity in practicing
the penances and mortifications prescribed by our Rule, and those which we have
imposed upon ourselves with the approval of our confessor or superior. If we
discover that we are lax in this regard, it would be well to resolve to do
something more: some mortification at meals, in our rest, or in our clothing,
some work that is hard or painful to nature.
If we wish to taste the sweet joys of
Christmas, we should know how to prepare ourselves with these dispositions
which the Church invites us to pray for today: "We beseech You, O Lord, to
teach us. . . to despise the things of earth and to love those of heaven" (RM).
COLLOQUY:
O my Savior, Word of God, how can I doubt
that are coming upon earth to save and sanctify me? Why I do not go to You with
complete, loving confidence, when You have spared nothing to show me Your infinitely
merciful love? Your Incarnation, Your infant tears, Your humble hidden life,
Your apostolate, Your miracles, Your sorrow Passion and death, all Your
precious Blood poured out, shall they not be enough to make me believe in Your
love, open my heart in the most complete confidence?
"I repeat with all confidence the humble
prayer of the publican. Most of all do I imitate the behavior of Magdalen, for her
amazing ‑ rather I should say her loving ‑ audacity, which delighted
Your heart .... I am certain that even if I had on my conscience every
imaginable crime, I should lose nothing of my confidence, but would throw myself,
my heart broken with sorrow, into Your arms, for I remember Your love for the
prodigal son who returns to You" (T.C.J. St. 12).
With this confidence, O my Jesus, I will resume
my way and begin again my poor efforts.
During this Advent You invite me to greater recollection,
to greater interior and exterior silence, so that I may be able to hear Your
voice and prepare for Your coming. Help me, then, to quiet my continual chatter
about useless things, the discordant voices of nature, self‑love, sensitiveness,
the distracting prattle of my fantasies, imaginations, thoughts and useless
preoccupations.
I acknowledge that often my mind and heart
are like a raging sea in which the waves thunder continually; and yet, if You
wish, a sign from You will be enough to make calm return and all be silent.
Yes, You teach me that interior silence
exacts detachment from self and from creatures, exacts interior and exterior mortification.
For love of You I will mortify my curiosity, the curiosity of my eyes, ears,
thoughts, and imagination. I also want to silence my passions and, therefore, I
resolve to be more generous in the practice of corporal mortification.
O eternal Word, my Savior, draw all my powers
to Yourself; fasten my interior gaze upon Yourself, so that I shall no longer seek
or hear anything or anyone but You alone, eternal Word of my eternal God!
Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts,
have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them
all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart…. Be Thou King of
all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism,
and refuse not to draw them all into the light and Kingdom of God.
Consecration to the Sacred Heart, Raccolta
An
Example of the “Universal and Ordinary” engagement of the Magisterium of the
Church to teach Infallibly; “universal” because it is “based on the sources of
revelation” and “ordinary” because it is the subject matter of a papal
encyclical!
Some say they are not
bound by the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter [Mystici Corporis]
of a few years ago, and based on the sources of revelation, which
teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are
one and the same thing.
Pius XII, Humani
Generis
“An Unjust Law is Not a Law”
When Pope Nicholas II ordered the
suppression of the Ambrosian Rite, he was opposed by the Catholics of Milan who
refused his order. This order was
subsequently overturned by Pope Alexander II who declared it to have been most
manifestly “unjust.” Human law, even the
highest form of human law imposed by the pope, has all the limitations of every
human law. That is, it must be a promulgation of reason, by the proper authority,
promoting the common good, and not in any way opposed to Divine or natural law.
As St. Thomas has said, “an unjust law is not a law.” The pope had no authority
to bind an unjust law and therefore the Catholics of Milan were completely
within their rights to refuse the order of Pope Nicholas II in his attempt to
suppress their immemorial traditions. Traditional Catholics are, like them,
within their rights to refuse any liturgical innovations to their immemorial
customs.
I am worried by
the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about
the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of
altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all
around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the
universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse
for Her historical past.
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church
will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become
God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God
awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask,
“Where have they taken Him?”
Pope Pius XII, Roche, Devant
L'Historie, p. 52-5
“Whosoever
therefore is not united with the Body is no member thereof, neither is he in
communion with Christ its Head.”
Pius XI, Mortalium
Animos
“The highest perfection
consists not in interior favors, or in
great raptures, or in visions, or in the spirit of prophesy, but in the
bringing of our wills so closely into conformity with the will of God that, as
soon as we realize He wills anything, we desire it ourselves with all our
might, and take the bitter with the sweet.”
St. Teresa of Avila
The portion of the Roman senate
still pagan instigated the prefect of Rome to ask the emperor for the
re-erection of the altar of victory in the Capitol, under the pretext of
averting the misfortunes which threatened the empire. Ambrose, who had said to these politicians,
“I hate the religion of the Neros’,” vehemently opposed this last effort of
idolatry. He presented most eloquent
petitions to Valentinian, in which he protested against an attempt which aimed
at bringing a Christian prince to recognize that false doctrines have rights,
and which would, if permitted to be tried, rob the one only Master of nations
of the victories which He had won.
Valentinian yielded which taught him that a Christian emperor can honour
only one altar - the altar of Christ.”
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical
Year, Feast of St. Ambrose
Ecumenism of St. Ambrose
The Lord severed the
Jewish people from His kingdom, and heretics and schismatics are also severed
from the kingdom of God and from the Church.
Our Lord makes it perfectly clear that every assembly of heretics and
schismatics belongs not to God, but to the unclean spirit.
St. Ambrose, Commentary
on St. Luke
Therefore, none of the
heretics holds the truth; the Church alone is in possession of the truth.
St. Ambrose, On Psalm
118
Thus does Satan
manufacture heretics; thus does he weaken the faith. Therefore, do not let a heretic ensnare you
just because he can quote a few examples from Scripture. The devil also makes use of texts from
Scripture, not to teach but to deceive.
St. Ambrose, Commentary
on St. Luke
The portion of the
Roman senate still pagan instigated the prefect of Rome to ask the emperor for
the re-erection of the altar of victory in the Capitol, under the pretext of
averting the misfortunes which threatened the empire. Ambrose, who had said to these politicians,
“I hate the religion of the Neros’,” vehemently opposed this last effort of
idolatry. He presented most eloquent
petitions to Valentinian, in which he protested against an attempt which aimed
at bringing a Christian prince to recognize that false doctrines have rights,
and which would, if permitted to be tried, rob the one only Master of nations
of the victories which He had won.
Valentinian yielded which taught him that a Christian emperor can honour
only one altar - the altar of Christ.”
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Ambrose
Novena Prayer to the Infant of Prague
O Dearest Jesus, tenderly
loving us, Thy greatest joy is to dwell among men and to bestow Thy blessings
upon us! Though I am not worthy that Thou should behold me with love, I feel
myself drawn to Thee, O dear Infant Jesus, because Thou gladly pardon me and
exercise Thy almighty power over me.
So many who turned with confidence to Thee and
have received graces and had their petitions granted. Look upon me as I kneel
in spirit before Thy miraculous image on Thine altar in Prague and lay open my
heart to Thee, with its prayers, petitions and hopes. Especially the affair
of... I enclose in Thy loving Heart. Govern me and do with me and mine
according to Thy holy will, for I know that in Thy Divine wisdom and love Thou
will ordain everything for the best. Almighty, gracious Infant Jesus, do not
withdraw Thy hand from us, but protect and bless us forever. Amen
Sanctity
properly consists only in conformity to God’s will, expressed in a constant and
exact fulfillment of the duties of our state in life.
Pope Benedict
XV
This moreover is true if you
consider the mass of mankind. For by far the greater portion of men are
Infidels, Turks, Saracens, or heretics. S. Augustine (lib. 4 contr. crescent.
c. 53) compares the Church to a threshing-floor in which there is far more chaff
than grains of wheat, more bad than good, more who will be damned than will be
saved. Yet others, with greater mildness, think it probable that the greater
portion of professing Christians will be saved, because most of them receive
the Holy Sacraments before they die. And they justify sinners, not only those
who have contrition, but who have attrition. But this seems to be true of those
who have not lived in constant and habitual sins, such as fornication, usury,
hatred. For such, when they are sick, conceive with difficulty any serious and
efficacious purpose of amendment, or if they do conceive it, God in just
punishment of their past sins suffers the demon of their bygone lusts to tempt
them, and he furbishes and sharpens their memory, and so the sick man in
consequence of his habits easily yields, and consents in his heart to sin, and
thus he falls and is damned. Of this there are many examples.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide,
Commentary on St. Matthew
“In the Church, I perceive two kinds of persecutions:
the first in its beginnings, under the Roman Empire, in which violence
inexorably prevailed; the second at the end of time, when seduction will
reign.” Bishop
Jacques-Benigne
Bossuet
At this moment, O Lord, I freely
consecrate my will to You without reserve… Grant that Your will may always be
fulfilled in me, in the way which is most pleasing to You. If You wish me to do this by means of trails,
give me strength and let them come. If
by means of persecution and sickness and dishonor and need, here I am, my
father, I shall not turn my face away.
St. Teresa of Avila, Way of Perfection
Jesus Christ
Received the Throne of David from St. Joseph
It may be yet further asked,
why S. Matthew unfolded the genealogy of Joseph rather than of Mary, since
Christ was born of her alone, being a Virgin? I answer : First, because among
the Jews, and other nations, genealogy is customarily reckoned through fathers
and husbands, not through mothers and wives. Second, because Joseph was the
true and lawful father of Christ, after the manner which I shall explain
presently. And Christ was the heir of David’s throne and sceptre, not through
Mary, but through Joseph, according to Gods promise to David, 2 Sam. vii. 12;
Ps. lxxxix. and cxxxii. The sceptre, therefore, of Judah devolved upon Jesus
Christ, not only by the promise and gift of God, but by the right of hereditary
succession. For if, by common right, sons succeed to their fathers’
inheritance, when they are only accounted their sons by common repute, how much
more was Christ Joseph’s, his father’s, heir, since He was the Son of his wife,
by the power and the gift of the Holy Ghost? Wherefore as Joseph had a parent’s
right over Christ, indeed, all rights which parents have over sons, so on the
other hand, Christ had, with reference to Joseph, all the rights which sons
have in respect to their parents. He had therefore a right to the kingdom of
Israel after Joseph’s death. Hence the question of the Magi (ii. 2), “Where is
he that is born King of the Jews?” This was what S. Matthew wished to
demonstrate, who, as S. Augustine says, insists, most of all the Evangelists,
upon the kingship of Christ. And this explains why he gives the genealogy of
Joseph, rather than of Mary. For she could not be the heiress of the kingdom,
so long as heirs male, like Joseph and others, survived. Whence also it must be
said, as a consequence, that the father and other ancestors of Joseph were
first-born, or at least eldest surviving sons of their fathers, so that the
right of reigning devolved upon them.
This is what is meant in the
first chapter of S. Luke by the words, “And the Lord God will give unto him the
throne of his father David.” So likewise in Gen. xlix. to, “The sceptre shall
not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come,” that is, Christ, who was to restore to Judah the sceptre, iniquitously
taken away by Herod; yea, who was to raise their kingdom to a far higher
grandeur, by making it spiritual instead of corporeal, heavenly instead of
earthly, and, instead of temporal, eternal.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide,
Commentary on St. Matthew
Home
School? - an added benefit, Education!
“(The results
show a) picture of educational stagnation.... We must invest in early education,
raise academic standards, make college affordable, and do more to recruit and
retain top-notch educators.”
Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, commenting on the U.S.A. results from
the three-yearly Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the
knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked
the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for
science and a below-average 25th for mathematics. U.S. averages $10,599.00 for a 15 year old's
education.
Modern “theologians” ignorant of scholasticism and thus,
any sense of true theology, should know, the Summa was intended for
“beginners.”
Because the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the
proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As unto
little ones in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not meat. 1 Cor. 3, 1-2), we
propose in this book to treat of whatever belongs to the Christian Religion, in
such a way as may tend to the instruction of beginners. We shall try, by God’s help, to set forth
whatever is included in this Sacred Science as briefly and clearly as the
matter itself may allow.
St. Thomas Aquinas, prologue to the Summa
The silkworm starts to spin its silk and to build the house in which it
is to die…. On then, my daughters, let us hasten to perform this task and spin
this cocoon. Let us renounce our
self-love and self-will, and our attachment to earthly things. Let us practice penance, prayer,
mortification, obedience, and all the other good works that you know of…. Let
the silkworm die – let it die, as in fact it does when it has completed the
work which it was created to do. Then we
shall see God and shall ourselves be as completely hidden in his greatness as
is this little worm in its cocoon… And let us see what becomes of this
silkworm, for all that I have been saying about it is leading up to this. When it is in this state of prayer, and quite
dead to the world, it comes out a little white butterfly. Oh, greatness of God, that a soul should come
out like this, after being with him for so short a time.
St. Theresa of Avila
If you love Me,
keep My commandments… If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love;
as I also have kept My Father’s commandments, and do abide in His love. John 14, 15; 15, 10
“Pray, they are ringing the Angelus.”
St. Clement Maria Hofbauer’s last words
Whoever dwells
in the protection of the Almighty, may say to God: “You are my refuge and my
castle, Lord, whom I trust”.
Psalm 90: 1-2, Invocation of
St. Clement Maria Hofbauer, taught to him by his mother
The more joyfully souls do His will, the greater is their perfection.
St. Therese of the Child Jesus
Father of
Modernism: Novus Ordo “Saint” John Henry Newman
It has always been incomprehensible
to me why Manning’s hostility to Newman should be imputed to him as a sin,
while Newman’s hostility to Manning is held to be a virtue. [.....] Yet at the
present hour, when the Modernists have claimed Newman as their precursor,
supporting their contention with many a passage from his writings, it would
seem that Manning, as the exponent of orthodox doctrine, was justified in his
appreciation of Newman’s teaching.[....] Manning had everything to lose by
becoming a Catholic, Newman had everything to gain. [....]This is shown by the
willingness with which (Manning) threw aside ambition, comfort, and prosperity,
when as the high road to the foremost and pleasantest preferments in the Church
of England, to enter upon the tedious life of a Roman Catholic mission priest.
His new durance called forth from him no moaning such as Newman poured out when
he was sent to work in Ireland. [.... ] Manning’s religion was free from all
pious affectation. Yet in close contact with him one felt that he was always
living in the presence of an unseen Power, not as a pompous agent, but as its
simple and humble messenger. It has been my lot to witness some of the most
imposing religious ceremonies of modern Christendom; but nothing so impressive,
so faith-inspiring has ever met my eyes as the sight of the noble old
Englishman in his threadbare cassock kneeling alone before the altar of his
bare chapel.”
[......] “I became a Catholic
off my own bat” (Manning) exclaimed to indicate the lack of conviction in the
Oxford converts. Afterwards the conversation moved to theological ground, and
Manning’s tone changed. “From an observation you made”, he said, “I gather that
you are under the impression that Doctor Newman is a good Catholic.” I replied
that such was my vague belief. He retorted: “Either you are ignorant of the
Catholic doctrine, or of the works of Doctor Newman” - he always said ‘Doctor
Newman’ in Oxford fashion, and never gave him the title of Cardinal. After
asking me which of Newman’s books I had read, he proceeded to tick off on his
tapering fingers, in his usual way, ten distinct heresies to be found in the
most widely-read works of Dr. Newman.” [.....] To Msgr. Talbot Manning wrote,
“. . an English Catholicism, of which Newman is the highest type. It is the old
Anglican, patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church... In
one word, it is a worldly Catholicism, and it will have the worldly on its
side, and will deceive many. [....] He is the most dangerous man in England.”
Richard Sartino, Another Look at
Cardinal Newman, quoting J. E. C. Bodley, a Protestant and Mason, on
Cardinal Newman and Cardinal Manning
St.
Ignatius on the Question of Penance
Neither mortification of the body nor that of the passions should be
deferred to old age, old age is uncertain, and does not allow of severity being
used towards it. [....]Penance is divided into that which is interior and
exterior. Interior penance consists in sorrow for one’s sins, accompanied by a
firm resolution not to fall again into the same sins nor into any other.
Exterior penance is a fruit of the former, and consists in punishing oneself
for one’s past faults; which may be practised chiefly in three ways. First,
with regard to food. As to which it must be remembered that cutting off what is
superfluous is not penance but temperance. That only is penance when we deprive
ourselves of something which we might properly take; and, in this sense, the
more we succeed in cutting off, the greater and more praiseworthy is the
penance, provided it does not go so far as to destroy our strength and to
injure our health notably. Secondly, with regard to sleep. As to the manner of
taking it, it should be remarked that it is not penance to cut off what only
tends to gratify our delicacy and our sensuality. There is penance only in
depriving ourselves of part of the things which we might properly use; and, in
this sense, the more we succeed in cutting off, the better we shall do,
provided we do not greatly injure health and no notable weakness ensues. As to the
time to be given to sleep, nothing should generally be cut off from what is expedient
unless with the view of correcting the evil habit of sleeping too much and
arriving at a right measure. Thirdly, with regard to the body. It consists in
causing it to suffer sensible pain by wearing haircloth, cords, or iron chains
on the flesh ; by taking the discipline. What appears to be most suitable and
least dangerous on this point is, that the pain should only he felt by the
flesh, and not penetrate to the bone so that the penance should cause pain and
not infirmity.
Exterior penances are used
chiefly for three purposes: first, as a satisfaction for past sins; secondly,
in order to overcome oneself, that is to say, in order that sensuality may be
obedient to reason, and all the inferior parts of the soul be more subjected to
the superior; thirdly, in order to seek and find some grace or gift which a
person wishes for and desires: as, for example, if he desires to have an
interior sorrow for his sins, or to weep much for them, or for the pains and
sufferings which Christ our Lord endured in His Passion, or in order to obtain
the solution of some doubt he is in.
Fr. Xavier De Franciosi, S.J., Spirit of St. Ignatius
Indulgences for the Blue Scapular, (the Scapular of
the Immaculate Conception)
“As for me, I would take all scapulars. But above
all you must know that the scapular of the Immaculate Conception, which is
blessed by the Theatine Fathers, besides all its partial indulgences, has all
the indulgences granted to whatever religious order, whatever devotion,
whatever person there can be. And particularly that by reciting six times Pater,
Ave, and Gloria, in honor of the Most Holy
Trinity and Mary Immaculate, can be gained each time all the indulgences of
Rome, of Portiuncula, of Jerusalem, and of Galicia, which amounts to 533
plenary indulgences, without speaking of partial indulgences, which are
innumerable.”
St. Alphonsus
Liguori, Glories of Mary. These indulgences have been confirmed by
Gregory XVI in a decree dated July 12, 18
For decades the South American
Church has been falling into ruin, its crisis the greatest on the planet: the
latest data, just published by the Pew Center, confirming the precipitous drop
of membership in the Catholic Church in Latin America. Now that same recipe for failure is being
applied to the whole Church. And so we soon we will see the same
ruins. The Bergoglio Effect.
Antonio Socci, Italian
journalist and author
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity – Even JPII did not deny this dogma!
Pope
Francis Teaches:
We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with
God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable”
(Rom.11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an important part of the Sacred
Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant and their faith as one of the
sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf. Rom. 11:16-18). As Christians,
we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews
among those called to turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes.
1:9). With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with them
we accept his revealed word. Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
The Church officially recognizes that the People of Israel continue to
be the Chosen People. Nowhere does it say: “You lost the game, now it is our
turn.” It is a recognition of the People of Israel. Pope Francis, On Heaven and Earth
The
Catholic Church Teaches:
Hebrews 7:18: “On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness…”;
Hebrews 10:9: “Then he says, ‘Behold, I come to do your will.’ He takes away the first [covenant] to establish the second [covenant]…”;
2 Corinthians 3:14: “For to this day when they [the Jews] read the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away”;
Hebrews 8:7: “For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another”;
Colossians 2:14: “Having canceled the written code, with its decrees, that was against us and stood opposed to us; He took it away nailing it to the cross”;
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, para. 29: “…the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished…but on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross”;
The Catechism of the Council of Trent: “…the people, aware of the abrogation of the Mosaic Law…”;
Council of Florence: [This council] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
Council of Trent: “but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom”;
Cardinal Ratzinger: “Thus the Sinai [Mosaic] Covenant is indeed superseded” (Many Religions – One Covenant, p. 70).
St. John Chrysostom: “Yet surely Paul’s object everywhere is to annul this Law….And with much reason; for it was through a fear and a horror of this that the Jews obstinately opposed grace” (Homily on Romans, 6:12); “And so while no one annuls a man’s covenant, the covenant of God after four hundred and thirty years is annulled; for if not that covenant but another instead of it bestows what is promised, then is it set aside, which is most unreasonable” (Homily on Galatians, Ch 3);
St. Augustine: “Instead of the grace of the law which has passed away, we have received the grace of the gospel which is abiding; and instead of the shadows and types of the old dispensation, the truth has come by Jesus Christ. Jeremiah also prophesied thus in God’s name: ‘Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah…’ Observe what the prophet says, not to Gentiles, who had not been partakers in any former covenant, but to the Jewish nation. He who has given them the law by Moses, promises in place of it the New Covenant of the gospel, that they might no longer live in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the spirit” (Letters, 74, 4);
Justin Martyr: “Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one; and an eternal and final law – namely, Christ – has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy…Have you not read…by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…’” (Dialogue with Trypho, Ch 11).
John Paul II: “Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law.” (Redemptoris Mater)
Taken from
Robert Sungenis, The Old Covenent:
Revoked or Not Revoked?
Fly then to arms; let a holy
rage animate you in the fight, and let the Christian world resound with these
words of the prophet, “Cursed be he who does not stain his sword with blood!”
If the Lord calls you to the defense of His heritage think not that His hand
has lost its power. Could He not send twelve legions of angels or breathe one
word and all His enemies would crumble away into dust? But God has considered
the sons of men, to open for them the road to His mercy. His goodness has
caused to dawn for you a day of safety by calling on you to avenge His glory
and His name.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux,
preaching the 2nd Crusade
“God's word is brief. Believe me, I speak from long experience; the
more you say, the less people will remember, and the less you say, the more
they will profit. Those who load their hearers' memory destroy it, just as you
extinguish a lamp by filling it too full or kill plants by unmeasured watering.
When a discourse is too long, the end makes one forget the middle and the
middle puts out the beginning. Indifferent preachers are bearable if they are
brief, but even good preachers become intolerable when they are lengthy. Depend
upon it, there is no more detestable quality a preacher can possess than
tediousness.”
St. Francis de Sales
Unto the Angel
of the Church of Ephesus write: …
But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity (Apocalypse
2:4).
St. Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus for more than 40 years, showed himself
to be somewhat lax in preaching of the word of God to the Ephesians in the work
for their conversion. The reason for this was that he had to face the
pertinacity of both the Jews and adorers of Diana against his apostolate.
Hence, moved in part by pusillanimity and moderation and in part by human
prudence, he considered it more convenient to become softer so as not to
disturb the life of Religion by an excessive zeal or to provoke the fury of the
Gentiles against him and his flock, as happened with St. Paul, who had to face
the mob shouting against him: ‘Hail the great Diana of Ephesus’ (Acts 19: 34).
So, the first ardor of St. Timothy in preaching the Gospel grew weaker, and
this was his sin, not mortal but venial.
This also happens with persons who have authority. They sin more often by
tepidity disguised as prudence, than by imprudence under the appearance of
zeal.
The counsel of Christ given through St. John to St. Timothy corrected his
fault, and he returned to his first fervor. Actually he reproved the adorers of
Diana so ardently that he received martyrdom by their hands in the year 109 of
the Lord, on the 24th day of January, whose memory is registered in the sacred
annals of the Church.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentarii in Sacram Scripturam
Seek more immediately our Divine Master Himself, I mean His most holy
gifts, embrace them, and be closely united to them. This is the happiest and
most blessed path, that which leads to, and is concerned with, eternal life. By
these gifts I mean such as it is not in our power to have when we desire them,
but which are simply bestowed on us by the Giver of all good, to Whose almighty
power no blessing is too great: such are, for example, with regard to the
Divine Majesty, intensity of faith, hope, and charity, spiritual joy and rest,
tears, deep consolations, elevation of mind, Divine impressions and
illuminations, and all other spiritual tastes and sentiments relating to such
gifts, such as humility, and profound respect for the holy Church our Mother,
for those who govern it, and for its teachers. Every one of these holy gifts
should be preferred to all bodily acts, which are only good in so far as they
aim at acquiring these gifts, or at least part of them. I do not mean by this
that we ought to seek them solely for the pleasure which we find in them:
certainly not. But recognizing that without these gifts, all our thoughts,
words, and deeds are confused, cold and troubled, we should desire these gifts
in order that by means of them they may become ardent, clear, and just, for the
greater service of God. From this it follows that we ought to wish for these
precious gifts wholly or in part, and these spiritual graces, so far as with
their help we may promote God’s greater glory. As when the body is in danger,
in consequence of excessive labours, the best thing to do is to seek for these
gifts by acts of the understanding and by moderate exercises : so, not only
will the soul be healthy, but, as a healthy mind animates a body which is so
also, the whole will become more healthy, and more fit to serve God.
Fr. Xavier De Franciosi, S.J., Spirit of St. Ignatius, St.
Ignatius’ Letter to St. Francis Borgia regarding his "excessive austerities.".
“A lamentable spectacle is that
presented by the aberrations of human reason when it yields to the spirit of
novelty, when against the warning of the Apostle, it seeks to know beyond what
it is meant to know, and when relying too much on itself it thinks it can find
the truth outside the Catholic Church wherein truth is found without the
slightest shadow of error.”
St. Pius X, Pascendi
It is most just that the soul, which was the first to fall, should be
the first to rise. Let us therefore defer caring for the body, until the day
when Jesus Christ will come and reform it by the Resurrection; for, in the
first coming, the Precursor says to us: “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sins of the world.” Observe, he says not the maladies of the body, nor
the miseries of the flesh; he says sins, which are the malady of the soul, and
the corruption of the spirit. Take heed, then, thou my body, and wait for thy
turn and time. Thou canst hinder the salvation of the soul, and thine own
safety is not within thy reach. Let the soul labour for herself, and strive
thou too to help her, for if thou sharest in her sufferings thou wilt share in
her glory. Retard her perfection, and thou retardest thine own. Thou wilt not
be regenerated until God sees His own image restored in the soul.
St. Bernard
Many men sin against Faith in an even more subtle way through the sins
against the Holy Ghost, namely, the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence,
obstinacy, resisting the known truth and envy of someone else's spiritual
good. The sins against the Holy Ghost
are not sins of weakness or ignorance.
They are sins of certain malice.
By despair a man rejects God's goodness and mercy. By presumption he rejects God's justice. By impenitence he refuses to turn from sin to
God. By obstinacy a man hardens his will
in sin. A man sins in resisting the
known truth because he does so in order to sin more freely. Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's
spiritual good because he hates the increase of God's grace in the world. In all these sins there is great danger for
man because these sins mean that man is deliberately refusing to consider those
truths and motives which would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to God. It is for this reason that the sins against
the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable.
It is not that God is unwilling to forgive any sins. It is rather that in these sins a man shows
that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St.
Thomas
“No sin has greater power over the soul than the one of cursed sodomy,
which was always detested by all those who lived according to God's law. ...
Such passion for untenable practices borders on madness. This vice disturbs the
intellect, unbalances an elevated and generous state of soul, drags lofty
thoughts down to base ones, makes men pusillanimous and irascible, obstinate
and hardened, servilely soft and incapable of anything. Furthermore, the will,
agitated by the insatiable drive for pleasure, no longer follows reason but
rather the tumult of the passions. ... One who lives practicing the vice of
sodomy will suffer more pain in Hell than anyone else, because this, the worst
sin that exists.”
St. Bernardine of Siena, on the sin of Sodomy
The
Death of the Blessed Margaret Pole, the Mother of Cardinal Reginald Pole who
was the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, by order of the founder of the
Anglican Church, a womanizing serial killer.
The part which the Cardinal Reginald Pole (who was a grandnephew of
King Edward IV and Kind Richard III) had taken in the negotiation (between Pope
Paul III, Emperor Charles V, and King Francis I of France) inflamed the hatred
of Henry. Judgment of treason was pronounced against him; foreign princes were
solicited to deliver him up; and he was constantly beset with spies, and, as he
believed, with ruffians hired to take his life. At home, to wound him in the
most tender part, Henry ordered his mother, the venerable countess of
Salisbury, to be arrested and examined by the earl of Southampton, and the
bishop of Ely: but she behaved with such firmness of character, such apparent
consciousness of innocence, as completely disconcerted her accusers. Unable to
extract from her admissions sufficient matter for a criminal prosecution,
Cromwell consulted the judges, whether a person accused of treason, might not
be attainted (i.e.: convicted by a bill of attainder) without a previous trial
or confession. They replied that it would form a dangerous precedent: that no
inferior tribunal would venture on so illegal a proceeding; but that the court
of parliament was supreme, and an attainder by parliament would be good in law.
This was sufficient for the king, who sought not justice but revenge; and in a
bill of attainder, containing the names of several individuals who had been
condemned in the lower courts, were introduced those of Pole’s mother the
countess, of his nephew the son of lord Montague, and of Gertrude, relict of
the marquess of Exeter, though none of them had confessed any crime, nor been
heard in their own defence. With the fate of the young man we are not
acquainted: the marchioness obtained a pardon at the expiration of six months;
and it was hoped that the king would extend the same mercy to the countess. She
was more than seventy years of age, the nearest to King Henry in blood of all
his relations, and the last in a direct line of the Plantagenets, a family
which had swayed the English sceptre through so many generations. Henry kept
her in the Tower, probably as a hostage for the behaviour of her son, or her
friends, but at the end of two years, on account of some provocation in which
she could have had no share, ordered her to be put to death. In the prison and
on the scaffold she maintained the dignity of her rank and descent; and when
she was told to lay her head on the block, “No,” she replied, “My head never
committed treason: if you will have it you must take it as you can.” She was
held down by force and while the executioner performed his office, exclaimed,
“Blessed are they who suffer persecution for righteousness’ sake.” Her death,
or rather murder which seemed to have no rational object, proclaimed to the
world that the heart of the king was not less steeled to the feelings of
relationship and humanity, than it was inaccessible to considerations of
justice and honour; and proved an awful admonition to his subjects, that
nothing short of unlimited obedience could shield them from the vengeance of their
sovereign.
Rev. John Lingard, D.D., History of England
I also warn and exhort the same
brothers that, in the preaching they do, their words be fire-tried and pure for
the utility and edification of the people, announcing to them vices and
virtues, punishment and glory, with brevity of speech because the Lord made His
words short while He was upon this earth.
St. Francis of Assisi
Consecration
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
By St. Louis de
Montfort
O Eternal and incarnate Wisdom! O sweetest and
most adorable Jesus! True God and true man, only Son of the Eternal Father, and
of Mary, always virgin! I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of
Thy Father during eternity; and I adore Thee also in the virginal bosom of
Mary, Thy most worthy Mother, in the time of Thine incarnation.
I give Thee thanks for that Thou hast
annihilated Thyself, taking the form of a slave in order to rescue me from the
cruel slavery of the devil. I praise and glorify Thee for that Thou hast been
pleased to submit Thyself to Mary, Thy holy Mother, in all things, in order to
make me Thy faithful slave through her. But, alas! Ungrateful and faithless as
I have been, I have not kept the promises which I made so solemnly to Thee in
my Baptism; I have not fulfilled my obligations; I do not deserve to be called
Thy child, nor yet Thy slave; and as there is nothing in me which does not
merit Thine anger and Thy repulse, I dare not come by myself before Thy most
holy and august Majesty. It is on this account that I have recourse to the
intercession of Thy most holy Mother, whom Thou hast given me for a mediatrix
with Thee. It is through her that I hope to obtain of Thee contrition, the
pardon of my sins, and the acquisition and preservation of wisdom.
Hail, then, O immaculate Mary, living
tabernacle of the Divinity, where the Eternal Wisdom willed to be hidden and to
be adored by angels and by men! Hail, O Queen of Heaven and earth, to whose
empire everything is subject which is under God. Hail, O sure refuge of sinners,
whose mercy fails no one. Hear the desires which I have of the Divine Wisdom;
and for that end receive the vows and offerings which in my lowliness I present
to thee.
I, N______ a faithless sinner, renew
and ratify today in thy hands the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan,
his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate
Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more
faithful to Him than I have ever been before. In the presence of all the
heavenly court I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and
consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and
exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future;
leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that
belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the
greater glory of God in time and in eternity.
Receive, O benignant Virgin, this
little offering of my slavery, in honor of, and in union with, that subjection
which the Eternal Wisdom deigned to have to thy maternity; in homage to the
power which both of you have over this poor sinner, and in thanksgiving for the
privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored thee. I declare that I wish
henceforth, as thy true slave, to seek thy honor and to obey thee in all
things.
O admirable Mother, present me to thy
dear Son as His eternal slave, so that as He has redeemed me by thee, by thee
He may receive me! O Mother of mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true
Wisdom of God; and for that end receive me among those whom thou lovest and
teachest, whom thou leadest, nourishest and protectest as thy children and thy
slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all things
so perfect a disciple, imitator and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus Christ
thy Son, that I may attain, by thine intercession and by thine example, to the
fullness of His age on earth and of His glory in Heaven. Amen
St. Anselm, in his work, “Cur
Deus Homo?” says, “As the right order requires that we should first believe the
deep things of the Christian faith before we presume to discuss them by
reason,” so it seems to me to be negligence if, after we are confirmed in the
faith, we do not study to understand what we believe. …. A knowledge and belief
of the existence of God has never been extinguished in the reason of mankind.
The polytheisms and idolatries which surrounded it were corruptions of a
central and dominant truth, which, although obscured, was never lost. And the
tradition of this truth was identified with the higher and purer operations of
the natural reason, which have been called the intellectual system of the
world. The mass of mankind, howsoever debased, were always theists. Atheists
were anomalies and exceptions, as the blind among men. The theism of the
primeval revelation formed the intellectual system of the heathen world. The
theism of the patriarchal revelation formed the intellectual system of the
Hebrew race. The theism revealed in the incarnation of God has formed the
intellectual system of the Christian world. “Sapientia
aedificavit sibi domum.” The science or knowledge of God has built for
itself a tabernacle in the intellect of mankind, inhabits it, and abides in it.
The intellectual science of the world finds its perfection in the scientific
expression of the theology of faith. But from first to last the reason of man
is the disciple, not the critic, of the revelation of God: and the highest
science of the human intellect is that which, taking its preamble from the
light of nature begins in faith; and receiving its axioms from faith, expands
by the procession of truth from truth.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning,
1890
Nothing
is more evident than this –
Pope
Francis knows nothing of the Mother of God, he knows nothing of the spiritual
life!
The Gospel does not tell us
anything: if she spoke a word or not... She was silent, but in her heart, how
many things told the Lord! “You, that day, this and the other that we read, you
had told me that he would be great, you had told me that you would have given
him the throne of David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and
now I seen him there!” Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire
to say: “Lies! I was deceived!”
Pope Francis, sermon December
20, 2013, published by Vatican News Service
Evil
is the Depravation of a Necessary Good – Therefore, the Novus Ordo is
Objectively Evil
“Although God knows evil, still there is no
ideal of evil in the Divine Mind. For evil is not a positive formation, but a
difformity or deformation of things; it is not a work of the Divine Wisdom nor
a work of God at all.”
Scheeban’s
Manual of Catholic Theology
His friends
just call him “Bergoglio”!
We were close for a few days,
the three daily meals and have shared other moments both public and private. We
talked about everything: about dialogue, but also about the journey that we
will do together to Israel [.....] Together we have celebrated the beginning of
Shabbat, he was by my side when I recited the Kiddush and has broken challah,
which Zion Evrony, the Israeli Ambassador, brought to the Holy See. They were
unforgettable days and I think that they have a value that goes beyond the
affection and confidence that has always connected us [.....] "Important
signal": "I see great value in Bergoglio's comments against
proselytism. It is a point on which he insists with a special emphasis and gets
even more weight when we think of the evangelizing framework within which these
statements were made...... But now, the Pope speaks of it (of evangelization)
only to introduce Catholics to the faith.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka from
Argentina, interview for the Jewish monthly Pagine
Ebraiche, which was reproduced in Osservatore
Romano November 25, about his visit to the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome
as a "personal guest of Bergolio in Santa Maria."
Conspiracy
Theory 101: Who/What does he mean by “we”?
We are on the verge of a global
transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will
accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller
Pope Francis
Declares: ‘Pro-Life Christians Have No Humanity’
By Shoebat | November 15, 2022
Pope Francis recently stated that he nominated Mariana Mazzucato, a
pro-choice professor, to the Pontifical Academy of Life, to “bring some
humanity” to the Academy, implying that the pro-Life Christians have no
humanity. As we read in wPolityce:
“While returning
to Rome from an apostolic pilgrimage in Bahrain, journalists on board the plane
asked Francis about the matter that has outraged many Catholics around the
world. It is about the recent nomination to the Pontifical Academy of Life of
atheist and avowed supporter of abortion, Mariana Mazzucato. Francis replied
that it was his personal decision because he wanted to ‘bring some humanity’ to
the Academy.”
In truth and with anger, I find it a daunting task to see how people
could take the Vatican in a serious manner. With the thousands of sexual
predators who call themselves priests, to the Pope calling for gay “civil
unions”, to the appointing of a pro-choice professor to an academy meant to be
against abortion, it would not be a far-fetched thing to say that the fox is
ruling the hen house, and the hens have all been slaughtered, and all that is
left are foxes dressed as hens.
Its official, for the first time in Catholic history, a pope has come
out in support of homosexual “civil unions” which is really just secular
marriage under a state. During an interview for a documentary which premiered
at the Rome Film Festival, Francis stated:
“Homosexual people
have the right to be in a family. They are children of God… You can’t kick
someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this. What we have
to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.”
Of course, the priests who are acolytes of Sodom are praising Pope
Francis for this, with priests of Sodom like Fr. James Martin saying: “The
pope’s speaking positively about civil unions also sends a strong message to
places where the church has opposed such laws”. This is coming from a priest
who for years has been pushing for the idea of ‘building bridges’ between the
Church and Sodom. Well, its obvious that that bridge has been built… and that
it has been crossed. […..]
DOGMA AS THE PROXIMATE RULE OF FAITH
"We teach and
define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman pontiff speaks ex cathedra, that is, when,
1. in the exercise of
his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians,
2. in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority,
3. he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals
to be held by the whole church,
he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed
Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine
concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Roman
pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the church,
irreformable."
VATICAN I
COUNCIL
The ‘Remote
Rule of Faith’ is Scripture & Tradition constitute; The ‘Proximate Rule of
Faith’ is Dogma!
The definitions of the church have something of the character of
criminal jurisprudence. They are not a part of the revelation,—are not necessary
to her positive enunciation of the word, or essential to its life and
operation; but they are required to vindicate it from error, as criminal courts
pass sentences to vindicate the law which has been violated. Nobody who
comprehends any thing of the matter restricts the word to the definitions of
the church, or supposes that the definitions either make the faith or cover the
whole of the revealed word. It is not to be supposed that nothing is believed,
or to be believed that is not formally defined by the church, for her
definitions touch only so much of the faith as has been controverted or denied.
But all theological
questions, however unsound they may be, that have not been condemned or declared to
be contrary to the faith, may be held without incurring the
note of heresy, and be freely discussed, pro
and con. according to the judgment or prejudices of
theologians.
Orestes Brownson, Faith and Theology
COMMENT: Heresy has both a legal and moral definitions. A legal heretic is a
baptized Catholic who denies a revealed doctrine of faith that has been
formally defined (i.e.: a Dogma). Few of the revealed truths of the Catholic
Faith have been dogmatically defined. The dogmatic definition of Jesus Christ's
divinity was made at the Council of Nicaea in 312. Therefore, the arch heretic
Arius was a legal and moral heretic after the dogmatic declaration at the
Council. Before the Council Arius was a moral heretic. Could an Arian be saved
before the Council of Nicaea while denying the divinity of Jesus Christ? No,
but all determinations of moral culpability are in the hands of God and known
to Him alone. On the other hand, a legal heretic is guilty of manifest sin
because the imputability of guilt has been revealed to all by God in the dogma
itself. “And if he will
not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or
three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will not
hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to
thee as the heathen and publican” (Matt 18:16-17).
All the
“daughters” of “Sodom” and the “daughters” of “Samaria” will suffer the same
punishment!
“However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom (homosexuality) and her
daughters, and of Samaria (religious syncretism) and her daughters, and your
fortunes (Phariseeism) along with them, so that you may bear your disgrace and
be ashamed of all you have done in giving them [Sodom and Samaria] comfort. And
your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will
return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what
you were before. You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of
your pride, before your wickedness was uncovered.”
Ezekiel 16:54-57
Reported
exchange NOT yet confirmed by our Vatican Sources:
'Please
accept this as an honest and sincere token of my undying passionate devotion to your sweet person!'
'Oh
thank you my snookems, (wink, wink) I could just pinch your cheek!' (Smack, Smack,
Smack)
On 13 June 1525, after weeks of speculation, Martin Luther secretly
married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in a private ceremony officiated by
city preacher Johann Bugenhagen and attended by jurist Johann Apel, professor
Justus Jonas, and artist Lucas Cranach and his wife. Over the last centuries,
scholars, writers, artists, Wittenberg citizens—in their popular, annual
Lutherhochzeit [Luther’s wedding] festival—and even a recent filmmaker have
characterized this event as one of the iconic episodes of the Lutheran
Reformation. Yet Luther’s marriage neither legalized nor heralded an immediate
acceptance of priestly marriage even in reformed territories. Luther certainly
was not the first cleric to marry. Three of the witnesses at his wedding—Apel,
Bugenhagen, and Jonas—were former Catholic clergy who had all married by
mid-1523, a full two years before this event. Only a few weeks prior to this
event, Luther expressed hesitation about marriage even for political reasons,
suggesting perhaps he would agree to a chaste marriage, a Josephehe, to support married clergy. Luther’s marriage does
illustrate many aspects of the ongoing reform process. His mixed feelings about
marrying, the atmosphere that led him to a decision, the subsequent outcry
about marriage, and the personal trials that faced him and his wife in their
married life had much in common with the many clergy who married before and
after him in the first decades of the German Reformation.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western Kentucky University, From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife:
Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation
Remember
in your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mothers: Liana Henderson, Claudia Gergely, and Andrea Ebert,
Geralyn
Zagorski and Michael
Dulisse, recovery of their
health and spiritual welfare, is the petition of Philip Thees,
For the grandson of Joe & Liz
Agusta, who is in neonatal intensive care,
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,
Carmen Ragonese, the grace of a holy death,
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,
Rodolfo
Zelaya, the brother
of Claudia Drew, who is gravely ill following an accident,
Roco
Sbardella, for his
health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the spiritual and physical
welfare of the Rende Family,
The welfare of the Sal
Massinio family is the petition of the Drew’s,
The Vargas’ request our prayers for the spiritual welfare of their
son, Nicholas,
Monica Bandlow petitions prayers for Kathy Simons, Regina Quinn, James Mulgrew and Ruth Beaucheane,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for the spiritual and physical welfare
of Frank McKee,
For the welfare of Lazarus
Handley, his mother, Julia,
and his brother, Raphael, with
Down’s Syndrome, is the petition of Monica Bandlow,
Nancy
Bennett and Julia McDonald, for the recovery of their health,
Kathy Elias,
who is
gravely ill in hospital with heart problems,
For
the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts,
a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Monica
Bandlow requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kopczynski,
Philip
Thees asks our prayers for the recovery of Bridget
McGuigan, recent hand injury,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Scott Nettles, Richard
Giles, and Claude Harmon
who are gravely ill and in need of conversion,
Michael Brigg requests our prayers for the health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene
Peters who underwent recent cardiac surgery,
Conversion of Anton
Schwartzmueller, is the paryer request of his children,
Stacy Fernandez requests are prayers for the heath of Terry Patterson, Steven Becerra, and
Roberto Valez,
Christine
Kozin, for her
health and spiritual welfare,
Teresa
Gonyea, for her
conversion and health, is the petition of her grandmother, Patricia McLaughlin,
Nolan Moran, a three year old diagnosed with
brain tumor, and his family,
For the health of Sonia
Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our prayers for her brother who is gravely
ill, John Lee,
Rose Bradley asks our prayers for the health and spiritual welfare
of her granddaughter, Meg Bradley,
Timothy
& Crisara, a couple
from Maryland have requested our prayers for their spiritual welfare,
Roger &
Mandy Owen Family,
for their welfare is the request of Monica Bandlow,
Celine
Pilegaard, the seven
year old daughter of Cynthia Pilegaard, for her recovery from burn injuries,
Rafaela de
Saravia, for her
health and welfare,
Mary Mufide,
requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien
Dutertre, traditional
Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X. McLaughlin, for the recovery of his health
from a serious work injury,
Nicholas
Pell, for his
health and spiritual welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye
Petr, her health
and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev. Fr.
Martin Skierka, who produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of Katie
Wess, John Gentry, Vincent Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and James O’Gentry
is the petition of Camilia,
Marieann
Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
Thomas Thees,
recently
hospitalized,
Thomas A.
Nelson, long time
faithful traditional Catholic the founder and former owner of TAN Books &
Publishing, suffered a recent stroke,
The Joseph Cox Family,
their spiritual welfare,
The Thomas Dube Family, for
their conversion and spiritual welfare,
Luis Rafael
Zelaya, the
brother of Claudia Drew, who is seriously ill,
For the health of Kim
Cochran, the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Brenda Cochran, the wife of
their son Joshua,
Louie
Verrecchio, Catholic apologist,
who has a health problem,
John
Minidis, Jr. family, for help in their spiritual
trial,
John and Joann DeMarco, for their health and spiritual
welfare,
Regina
(Manidis) Miller, her
spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa
Elena Levitt, her conversion,
and welfare of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
The health and spiritual welfare of Tom Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex Estrada,
Conversion of Annette
Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers for the Keith Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes
Family, and the Mike and
Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert
Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donaghy, who is recovering from a stroke,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and Joann
DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a traditional Catholic from
India has asked our prayers for her welfare and he family members, living and
deceased,
Mary and
Bill Glatz, the
welfare of their family,
Barbara
Harmon, who is
ill, and still cares for her ailing
parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children who
has been seriously injured,
For the health and welfare of Sorace
family,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for the health and spiritual welfare
of Brian Abramowitz,
Thomas
Schiltz family, in
grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Welfare of Bishop
Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the greater battles to
come,
John Rhoad, for his health and spiritual
welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her
welfare,
Joyce
Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Michael J.
Brigg & his family,
who have helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and conversion to
the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul
Diaz, who was
baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul, asks our prayers for his spiritual welfare,
The conversion of Rene McFarland, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman and family, David
Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, Costanzo Family, Kathy Scullen,
Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and Time Roe are the petitions of
Gene Peters,
For the conversion of Ben
& Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer
family,
Fr. Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill, and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
For the health and welfare of Kathryn
Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr.
Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe & Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy
Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family,
the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane
Boyle, who is failing health,
Mel Gibson
and his family, please
remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins requested our prayers for the welfare
of his Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for the Andreas & Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce Paglia has asked prayers for George Richard Moore Sr. & his children, and her
brother, George Panell,
For the welfare of Anthony
& Joyce Paglia, who are responsible for the beautiful statuary in
our chapel,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin Family, the welfare
of Dan & Polly Weand, the
conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, John Calasanctis, Tony Rosky, James Parvenski and Kathleen Gorry.
Pray
for the Repose of the Souls:
Michael Proctor, a close fried 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,
Juanita
Mohler, a friend of
Camella Meiser, died June 14,
Michelle
Donofrio McDowell, the
cousin of Monica Bandlow, died March 5, and Patricia Fabyanic, the Prefect of Our Lady’s Sodality, March
8,
Hernan
Ortiz, the brother
of Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, died February 3,
Mary Ann
Boyle, the mother
of a second order Dominican nun, a first order Dominican priest, and a SSPX
priest, died January 24,
John
DeMarco, who attended
this Mission in the past, died January23,
Charles
O’Brien, the father
of Marlene Cox, died December 30,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the repose of the souls of
her parents, Mehmet & Nedime,
Kathleen
Donelly, died
December 29 at 91 years of age, ran the CorMariae website,
Monica Bandlow requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kinney, died December 21,
Matthew
O'Hare, most
faithful Catholic, died at age 40 on November 30,
Rev. Patrick
J. Perez, a Catholic
priest faithful to tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians, Garden Grove,
CA, November 19,
Elizabeth
Benedek, died
December 14, requested by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores
Smith and Richard Costello, faithful Catholics, died
November,
Frank
D’Agustino,a friend of
Philp Thees, died November 8,
Fr.
Dominique Bourmaud, of
the SSPX, Prior of St. Vincent in Kansas City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel
Silva, the brother of Elizabeth Vargas, died August
18,
Rose
Bradley, a member of Ss. Peter & Paul, died July
14,
Patricia
Ellias, died June 1,
recently returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown
scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose
Bradley, died May 18,
William
Muligan, died April
29, two days after receiving the last sacraments,
Robert
Petti, died March
19, the day after receiving the last sacraments,
Mark
McDonald, the father
of Kyle, who died December 26,
Perla Otero,
died
December 2020, Leyla Otero,
January 2021, cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet
Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph
Gravish, died
November 26, 100 year old WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome
McAdams, the father
of, died November 30,
Rev. James
O’Hara, died
November 8, requested by Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth
Batko, the
sacristan at St. John the Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First
Saturday November 7 wearing the brown scapular,
Fr. Anthony
Cekada, a
traditional Catholic priest, died September 11,
William Cox,
the father
of Joseph Cox, who died September 3,
James
Larson, Catholic
apologists, author of War Against Being
publication, died July 6, 2020,
Hutton
Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina
Cordis, Immaculate
Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Leslie Joan Matatics, devoted Catholic wife and mother of nine children,
died March 24,
Victoria
Zelaya, the
sister-in-law of Claudia Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo
DeSilva, died
November 16, our prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Roland H.
Allard, a friend of
the Drew’s, died September 28,
Stephen
Cagorski and John
Bogda, who both died
wearing the brown scapular,
Cecilia
LeBow, a most faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct 23,
Sandra
Peters, the wife of Gene
Peters, who died June 10 receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s
scapular,
Rev. Francis
Slupski, a priest who
kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha
Mochan, the sister
of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George
Kirsch, our good
friend and supporter of this Mission, died February 15,
For Fr. Paul J. Theisz,
died October 17, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio
Fregapane, died Jan
12, was not a traditional priest but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir
Peterson, a priest
who often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound advice,
died December 4,
Fr.
Constantine Bellasarius, a faithful and always charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite
priest, who left the Roman rite, died November 27,
Christian
Villegas, a motor
vehicle accident, his brother, Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former editor of Catholic
Family News, and for his family’s welfare,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel Waters,
died October 17,
Joseph
DeMarco, the nephew
of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died September 25 after
receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church wearing the brown
scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna Marbach,
died September 9,
Fr. Eugene
Dougherty, a faithful
priest, fittingly died on the Nativity of the BVM after receiving the
traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis
Schlafly, died
September 5,
Helen
Mackewicz, died August
14,
Mark A.
Wonderlin, who died
August 2,
Fr. Carl
Cebollero, a faithful
priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica
Cortes, a young
mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances
Toriello, a life-long
Catholic faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred Heart, and
her husband Dan, died in
1985,
John McLaughlin, a friend of the Drew’s, died May
22,
Angela
Montesano, who died
April 30, and her husband, Salvatore,
who died in July 3, 2013,
Charles Schultz, died April 5, left behind nine children
and many grandchildren, all traditional Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas, the aunt of
Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo Suelo, a faithful priest defending our
traditions who was working with Fr. Francois Chazal in the Philippines, died
February 19,
Conde McGinley, a long time laborer for the traditional
faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests your prayers
for Ida Fernandez and Rita Kelley, parishioners at
St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen
Somerville, a
traditional priest who repented from his work with the Novus Ordo English
translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo
DeMaio, a priest
that helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable advice, died
December 2,
J. Paul
Carswell, died
October 15, 2015,
Solange
Hertz, a great
defender of our Catholic faith, died October 3, the First Saturday of the
month,
Paula P.
Haigh, died
October 22, a great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and natural
science,
Gabriella
Whalin, the mother
of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary
Catherine Sick, 14 year
old from a large traditional Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul
Trinchard, a
traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J.
Melnick, Jr., died on
August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband and father, from
Philadelphia,
Patricia
Estrada, died July
29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas
Gruner, a devoted
priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima message,
died April 29,
Sarah E.
Shindle, the
grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline
Vennari, the mother
of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador
Baca Callejas, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle
accident November 29,
Catherine
Dunn, died
September 15,
Anthony
Fraser, the son of
Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette
Rhoad, the
grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees, died
August 9,
Sarah
Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four
children, died July 28,
Msgr. Donald
Adams, who offered
the Indult Mass, died April 1996,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth
Walker, a young
traditional priest of the FSSP who was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for Gilberte Violette, the mother of Fr. Violette, who died May
6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers for his brothers, Michael, died May 9, and James, died October 20, his
sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip
Marbach, the father
of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude in Philadelphia, died April
21,
Richard
Slaughtery, the
elderly sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette
Marie Evans nee Toriello, the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a faithful
Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie
Cagorski, died march
23,
Anita Lopez
de Lacayo, the aunt
of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario
Palmaro, Catholic lawyer,
bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of his widow and
children,
Daniel Boyle, the uncle of Ryan Boyle, died
March 4,
Jeanne
DeRuyscher, who died
on January 25,
Arthur
Harmon, died
January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
January 17,
Joseph
Proctor, died
January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional Catholic
who made the vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January 8,
Brother
Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell), an early supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard
Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers for his
sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton
Creager, the son of
Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher
Lussos, age 27, the
father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett
Ebeyer, 16 year
old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the Kolinsky’s,
Catherine
Nienaber, the mother
of nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA after Mass,
10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of Frances Toriello,
died October 11, 2013 at 105 years of age,
Mary Rita
Schiltz, the mother
of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H.
(Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic
author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of death unknown,
Alfred
Mercier, the father
of David Mercier, who died August 12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August
23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass at our
Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond
Peterson, died July
28, and Paul Peterson, died
February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret
Brillhart, who died
July 20,
Msgr. Joseph
J. McDonnell, a priest
from the diocese of Des Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick
Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using the New, All English Canon,
and for a series of newsletters which were published as The Robber Church, died
May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop
Joseph McFadden, died
unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy
Foley, the
brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in April,
William
Sanders, the uncle
of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for the repose of the soul of Mark Polaschek, who died March
22,
Eduardo
Gomez Lopez, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia
Thees, died
February 24,
Elizabeth
Marie Gerads, a nineteen year old, the oldest
of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael
Schwartz, the
co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W.
Moore, passed
away in December 16, and Gerard (Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19, who
attended this Mission in the past,
Louis
Fragale, who died
December 25,
Fr. Luigi
Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About Face!
detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael
Jarecki, a faithful
traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who died September 10,
Jennie
Salaneck, died
September 19 at 95 years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia
(Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are still at home, died
August 19,
Stanley
Spahalski, who died October
20, and his wife, Regina Spahalski,
who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis
Lester, her son,
Julia
Atkinson, who died
April 30,
Antonio P.
Garcia, who died
January 6, 2012 and the welfare of his teenage children, Andriana and Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who died
February 27,
Fr. Timothy
A. Hopkins, of the
National Shrine of St. Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and the
welfare of his wife, Delores,
Eduardo
Cepeda, who died
January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of
twelve who died December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their
family,
Sister Mary
Bernadette, M.I.C.M.,
a founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died December
16,
Joeseph
Elias, who died
on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters, who
died September 7,
Donald
Tonelli, died
August 1,
Rev. Fr.
Gregory Hesse, of
Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma
Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary Dullesse, who died April 12, a Catholic
convert who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of Andre Ebert,
who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D.
Barr, died March
5, and the welfare of his family,
Judith Irene
Kenealy, the mother
of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son, George Richard Moore, who
died May 14,
For Joe Sobran
who died September 30,
Fr. Hector
Bolduc, a great and
faithful priest, died, September 10, 2012,
John Vennari asks our prayers for Dr. Raphael Waters who died August 26,
Stanley
Bodalsky, the father
of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel
Kilfoyle Humphreys,
a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John
Campion, who
offered the traditional Mass for us every first Friday until forbidden to do so
by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph
Montagne, who died May 5,
For Margaret Vagedes,
the aunt of Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. Michael
Shear, a Byzantine
rite Catholic priest, died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James
Francis Wathen, died
November 7, 2006, author of The Great
Sacrilege and Who Shall Ascend?,
a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique
Rueda, who died
December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli, and the six
priests ordained with him.
Philip Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck, Henry J. Phillips, Grace
Prestano, Connie DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker,
Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata, and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier
Bonneterre, the author
of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother
Francis, MICM, the
superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, NH, who
died September 5,
Rodolfo
Zelaya Montealegre,
the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis
Clifford, a devout
and humble traditional priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin
Sorace, the uncle
of Sonja Kolinsky.
For
Catholics, Advent is the Penitential Season of preparation for the celebration
during the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany.
For the modern world, Advent is a season of celebration followed by a
state of drunken stupor, depression and spiritual desolation during Christmas
and Epiphany.
IF our holy mother the Church
spends the time of Advent in this solemn preparation for the threefold coming
of Jesus Christ; if, after the example of the prudent virgins, she keeps her
lamp lit ready for the coming of the Bridegroom; we, being her members and her
children, ought to enter into her spirit, and apply to ourselves this warning
of our Saviour: “Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands, and
ye yourselves be like unto men who wait for their Lord !” The Church and we
have, in reality, the same hopes. Each one of us is, on the part of God, an
object of mercy and care, as is the Church herself. If she is the temple of
God, it is because she is built of living stones; if she is the bride, it is
because she consists of all the souls which are invited to eternal union with
God. If it is written that the Saviour hath purchased the Church with His own
Blood, may not each one of us say of himself those words of St. Paul, “Christ
hath loved me, and hath delivered Himself up for me”? Our destiny being the
same, then, as that of the Church, we should endeavour during Advent, to enter
into the spirit of preparation, which is, as we have seen, that of the Church
herself.
And firstly, it is our duty
to join with the saints of the old Law in asking for the Messias, and thus pay
the debt which the whole human race owes to the divine mercy. In order to
fulfill this duty with fervour, let us go back in thought to those four
thousand years, represented by the four weeks of Advent, and reflect on the
darkness and crime which filled the world before our Saviour’s coming. Let our
hearts be filled with lively gratitude towards Him who saved His creature man from
death, and who came down from heaven that He might know our miseries by himself
experiencing them, yes, all of them excepting sin. Let us cry to Him with
confidence from the depths of our misery; for, notwithstanding His having saved
the work of His hands, He still wishes us to beseech Him to save us. Let
therefore our desires and our confidence have their free utterance in the
ardent supplications of the ancient prophets, which the Church puts on our lips
during these days of expectation; let us give our closest attention to the
sentiments which they express.
This first duty complied
with, we must next turn our minds to the coming which our Saviour wishes to
accomplish in our own hearts. It is, as we have seen, a coming full of
sweetness and mystery, and consequence of the first; for the good Shepherd
comes not only to visit the flock in general, but He extends His solicitude to
each one of the sheep, even to the hundredth which is lost. Now, in order to
appreciate the whole of this ineffable mystery, we must remember that, since we
can be pleasing to our heavenly Father only inasmuch as He sees within us His
Son Jesus Christ, this amiable Saviour deigns to come into each one of us, and
transform us, if we will but consent, into Himself, so that henceforth we may
live, not we, but He in us. This is, in reality, the one grand aim of the
Christian religion, to make man divine through Jesus Christ: it is the task
which God has given to His Church to do, and she says to the faithful what St.
Paul said to his Galatians: “My little children, of whom I am in labour again,
until Christ be formed within you!”
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical
Year, excerpt from Practice
During Advent
RATZINGER/HEGELIAN
VERSION OF DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT
In contrast to
the Hermeneutic of Continuity/Discontinuity we have the Hermeneutic of Reform.
The nature of Reform lies in the interplay on the different levels between
continuity and discontinuity. Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger
The Fall of Simon the Magician and his “lying wonders”!
For there shall arise false
Christs, etc. Signs, wrought by art magic, by the power of the devil, whom many
heresiarchs have had as a familiar spirit, as I have shown in I Tim. 4:1. Such was their great prince Simon Magus
(Simon the Magician), who deluded Nero and the Romans, so that they erected a
statue to him at Rome; but at length he himself, flying through the air by the
aid of the devil, was dashed down to the earth by the prayers of St. Peter, and
falling upon a stone, broke his knees “so that he who had attempted to fly was
not able to walk; and he who had taken wings, lost his legs,” as S. Maximus
says (Hom. 5, de SS. Petro et Paulo).
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, The
Great Commentary, Matt 24:24
“Only a misguided
mind would seek to afford equal rights to both good and evil.”
Conservative
Catholics are double losers. Now that Summorum
Pontificum is revoked and with it their grant of legal privilege, they are now at the Indult and have renounced any
legal or moral grounds to complain because they accepted the legitimacy of the
Novus Ordo and Vatican II!
In the civil sphere, the deep
state has managed political and social dissent by using organizations and
movements that are only apparently opposition, but which are actually
instrumental to maintaining power. Similarly, in the ecclesial sphere, the deep
church uses the moderate “conservatives” to give the appearance of offering
freedom to the faithful. The Motu Proprio Summorum
Pontificum itself, for example, while granting the celebration in the
extraordinary form, demands saltem
impliciter that we accept the Council and recognize the lawfulness of the
reformed liturgy. This ploy prevents those who benefit from the Motu Proprio
from raising any objection, or risk the dissolution of the Ecclesia Dei
communities. And it instills in the Christian people the dangerous idea that a
good thing, in order to have legitimacy in the Church and society, must
necessarily be accompanied by a bad thing or at least something less good.
However, only a misguided mind would seek to afford equal rights to both good
and evil. It matters little if one is personally in favor of good, when he
recognizes the legitimacy of those who are in favor of evil.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Another Creepy Clown sighting!
“He was born a
female, a girl, and he suffered greatly because he felt that he was a boy but
physically was a girl. He told his mother, when he was in his twenties, at 22,
that he wanted to have an operation and so forth. His mother asked him not to do
so as long as she was alive. She was elderly, and died soon after. He had the
operation. He is a municipal employee in a town in Spain. He went to the
bishop. The bishop helped him a great deal, he is a good bishop and he “wasted”
time to accompany this man. Then he got married. He changed his civil identity,
he got married and he wrote me a letter saying that it would bring comfort to
him to come see and me with his bride: he, who had been she, but is he. I
received them.”
Pope Francis
the Weird, CEO of the Homosexual Lobby, comment during in flight press
conference from Azerbaijan, October 2, 2016
Pope
Francis and his “subtle” sins against the Catholic Faith
Many men sin against Faith in
an even more subtle way through the sins against the Holy Ghost, namely, the
sins of despair, presumption, impenitence, obstinacy, resisting the known truth
and envy of someone else's spiritual good.
The sins against the Holy Ghost are not sins of weakness or ignorance. They are sins of certain malice. By despair a man rejects God's goodness and
mercy. By presumption he rejects God's
justice. By impenitence he refuses to
turn from sin to God. By obstinacy a man
hardens his will in sin. A man sins in
resisting the known truth because he does so in order to sin more freely. Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's
spiritual good because he hates the increase of God's grace in the world. In all these sins there is great danger for
man because these sins mean that man is deliberately refusing to consider those
truths and motives which would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to
God. It is for this reason that the sins
against the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable. It is not that God is unwilling to forgive
any sins. It is rather that in these
sins a man shows that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P.,
S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St. Thomas
The
‘householder, bringeth forth out of her treasures new things and old.’
Dogma:
The proximate rule of faith - Old because it is a doctrine revealed by Jesus
Christ; New because it is formally and infallibly defined by the Magisterium.
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 Ho asked him, “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?” (Luke 41:42)
Whether St. Peter surmised at that time that he himself was to be raised to
that office, as the question addressed to him in preference to the other
Apostles insinuated, we will not discuss at present. So much, however, was
certain: that one was to be set over the whole household of the Lord by the
Lord Himself. In the present parable lie is called “a man that is a
householder”; again he is called “the faithful and wise steward whom the Lord
hath set over his family.” In both cases the individual thus placed above all
others has a treasure to dispose of according to the needs of times and
circumstances. In the parable he is described as one “instructed in the kingdom
of heaven” ; therefore he possesses full knowledge of the teaching and
government of the true Church of God. In the text above quoted he is a
“faithful and wise steward” — faithful to his trust, wise in his government and
dispensation of the goods entrusted to his care. All this perfectly agrees with
what he had said to St. Peter: “I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not,
and thou once converted confirm thy brethren.” “Feed My lambs, feed My sheep”
(or, in the literal translation of the original Greek text: “Be a shepherd of
My lambs, be a shepherd of My sheep” ). Thus we see that Christ conferred on
St. Peter and his successors, 1st, the prerogative of unerring faith,
comprising all the doctrines of Jesus Christ without alteration (“thy faith fail
not ”) ; 2d, the prerogative of the fulness of power in the dispensation of the
means of grace (“their measure of wheat”)—wheat is nourishment for the body;
the nourishment of the soul is divine grace (“life everlasting”) ; 3d, the
prerogative of supreme power of government over clergy and laity (“feed My
lambs, feed My sheep”). These prerogatives were to be exercised by St. Peter
and his successors, not all at once and everywhere indiscriminately, but
according to times and circumstances, as the good of the Church and the wants
of the faithful required (“to give them their measure of wheat in due season”).
But when or wherever they exercised them they acted the part of the
“householder bringing forth out of his treasure new things and old.” They are new because newly
enacted, declared, defined; they are old because they contain no new revelation
or any assumption of power never granted by Christ, but simply old truths under
new forms, the old power exercised under new circumstances, etc.
The Church of Christ, after existing almost nineteen hundred years, had
as good a right to meet in council in the Vatican at Rome, under the presidency
of Pius IX., the late successor of St. Peter, as it had in the first century of
its existence, when St. Peter presided in person, at the Council of Jerusalem.
Now, as then, it has a right to decide which of the prevailing opinions is in
conformity with the teaching of Jesus Christ and belongs to the sacred deposit
of faith “handed down to the saints,” (Jude 1:3) and which is against it and it
can say with as much truth as the Apostles : “It hath seemed good to the Holy
Ghost and to us.” (Acts 15:28) If it is true the Holy Ghost makes no new
revelation to the Church, nor does He teach her anything which Jesus Christ has
not taught her before; on the contrary, our Saviour says : “He shall glorify Me
: because He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it to you.” (John 16:14)
Hence the dogmatic definitions of the popes and general councils of the Church
are not new revelations, but a new definition, under the guidance of the Holy
Ghost, the Spirit of truth, that such a doctrine belongs to the sacred deposit
of faith preached by Jesus Christ, and consequently is received and approved of
by the Church, or that another is opposed to it, and therefore is rejected and
condemned. That same doctrine belonged to the Church or was opposed to it from
the first day when the law of Christ was promulgated. He Himself revealed the
articles of faith, but left to His Church, presided over by St. Peter and his
successors, “whose faith fails not,” to decide what was in accordance with His
teaching when, in the course of time, errors were started that threatened to
subvert it. Thus the Church, as a good ‘householder, bringeth forth out of her
treasures new things and old.’
Fr. Joseph Prachensky, The Church
of the Parables & True Spouse of The Suffering Saviour
Book on Pope Francis the Humbler than Thou
Father (Peter Hans) Kolvenbach (superior general of the Jesuits from
1983 to 2008) accused Bergoglio of a series of defects, ranging from habitual
use of vulgar language to deviousness, disobedience concealed under a mask of
humility, and lack of psychological balance; with a view to his suitability as
a future bishop, the report pointed out that he had been a divisive figure as
Provincial of his own order. It is not surprising that, on being elected Pope,
Francis made efforts to get his hands on the existing copies of the document,
and the original filed in the official Jesuit archives in Rome has disappeared.
Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator
Pope
“Family Ties”
within the Homosexual Lobby
Notorious
homosexual Cardinal Terrance (“Blanche,
'call-me-Uncle Teddy'“) McCarrick was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Cardinal Francis (“Franny”) Spellman of New York who also ordained
the notorious homosexual Cardinal Terence (“Cookie”) Cooke who took the
notorious homosexual McCarrick as his “personal secretary” and consecrated
McCarrick an auxiliary bishop. Cardinal
Donald (Whirly Girl) Wuerl was ordained by the notorious homosexual Bishop
Francis Fredrick Reh of Charleston, SC who was consecrated a bishop by the
notorious homosexual Spellman. Wuerl
became the “private secretary” to the notorious homosexual Cardinal John Wright
who was Prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy and represented Wright at
the conclave that elected John Paul II who consecrated Wuerl a bishop and made
McCarrick a cardinal. It was
Benedict/Ratzinger, formally head of the CDF responsible for cleaning up the
Homosexual Lobby, who made Wuerl a cardinal. The homosexual Wuerl ultimately
followed in the line of the homosexual Wright as Archbishop of Pittsburg and
was himself followed the homosexual McCarrick in Washington. The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, 900 plus
pages citing Wuerl's name more than 200 times,
charges that Wuerl as Archbishop of Pittsburgh for eighteen years
repeatedly covered for the Homosexual Lobby.
The mansion that housed Wuerl and the local branch of the
Homosexual Lobby in the Diocese of Pittsburgh was obtained by his homosexual
predecessor Cardinal Wright and was appraised twenty years ago for $1.5
million. It was sold after Wuerl's departure.
The Jacobethan Revival house along Fifth Avenue, at 9,842 square feet
(914.4 m2) with 39 rooms including 11 bedrooms, six full baths,
and a half-bath is one of the largest homes in the Shadyside neighborhood of
Pittsburgh. It housed an extensive collection of antiques, Oriental rugs and
art during Wuerl's residency.
Just as Wuerl had covered up for the Homosexual Lobby in
Pittsburgh, he did the same for McCarrick in Washington claiming to know
nothing about McCarrick's perversion.
McCarrick was Cardinal Archbishop of Washington 2001 to 2006. Homosexual McCarrick's “personal secretary”
was the current Archdiocesan Vicar General Monsignor Charles Antonicelli who
subsequently became the “personal secretary” to Homosexual Cardinal Wuerl. When Antonicelli was McCarrick's “personal
secretary” in Washington, the Dioceses of Trenton, Metuchen, and Newark in 2004
and 2006 paid settlements for $100,000 and $80,000 to two men who had been
abused by McCarrick while they were in the seminary as well as
after they had become priests. It
is, believe it or not, Antonicelli who now claims that he and Wuerl knew
nothing about the homosexual escapades of McCarrick.
Compiled from information from
Randy Engel, Rite of Sodomy, published in 2006, and recent articles from
LifeSiteNews and WikiPedia
Those
who contribute partake of the sin!
The United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development
contributed $17 million (or 30.4% of its budget) to groups supporting abortion,
Marxism, and the LGBT ideology and social agenda.
Lepanto
Institute, November 14, 2022
The “received and
approved rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the
administration of the sacraments”:
…..Because, as we will see, Catholics must celebrate only the “received and approved rites” of the Church as a matter of Divine Law.
God revealed this truth in Scripture through St. Paul. Before St. Paul
teaches the Corinthians liturgical and theological details concerning the Holy
Mass (consecration formula, Real Presence), he prefaces his teaching by
affirming: “For I have received
of the Lord that which I also delivered
unto you…” (I Cor 11:23). St. Paul says again: “For I delivered
unto you first of all, which I also received” (1Cor 15:3). In these and other
verses, St. Paul emphasizes that we must believe and practice only what we have
“received” from Christ and the apostles which has been “delivered” unto us, and
which includes the liturgical rites of the Church. This is a divinely revealed
truth and a matter of Faith.
The Church has taught this divine truth throughout her history. For
example, in the Papal Oath of Coronation, which originates at least as far back
as Pope St. Agatho in 678 A.D. (and which was set aside by Paul VI), every Pope
swore to change nothing of the “received tradition.” Pope
Pius IV’s Tridentine Profession of Faith, which is binding on the souls of all
Catholics, likewise expresses this principle by requiring adherence to the “received and approved rites of the
Catholic Church used in the solemn administration of the sacraments.” The “received and approved rites of the Church”
originate from the Spirit of Christ and the traditions of the apostles which
have been handed down to us through the ages.
Because the “received and approved rites” are part of the Church’s infallible
expression of the unchanging Deposit of Faith, as inspired and nurtured by the
Holy Ghost, they cannot be set aside or changed into new rites. This is why the
Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563) infallibly declared:
“If anyone says that the received and approved rites
of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the administration of the
sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers without sin and at
their pleasure, or may be
changed by any pastor of the churches to other new ones, let him be anathema.”
Because the Council declares anathema (that is, condemned, or severed
from the Body of Christ) anyone who would set aside or change into new rites
the already “received and approved
rites” of the Church, proves that adherence to the “received and approved rites” is a matter of Divine Law. The
absolute necessity to preserve the substance of the Church’s ancient liturgical
rites is a requirement of the Faith because the rites preserve and express that
Faith. To hold that the Church’s rites can change implies a belief that the
Church’s doctrines can change, because the rites preserve and express the
doctrines. Hence, those who do not preserve the Church’s rites (by omitting or
changing them) are objectively anathema
because they sin against the Faith itself.
In light of the foregoing condemnation, the
Holy Council of Trent directed that the Roman Missal be restored so that the
faithful would know once and for all what is the “received and approved rite” of Mass. To that end, Pope St. Pius V
issued his papal bull Quo
Primum Tempore to legally codify “the decrees of the Holy Council of Trent” and render a definitive
application of the Divine Law dogmatized by the Council. This judgment mandated
a single usage of the Roman rite for the Latin Church, with some minor
exceptions for usages greater than 200 years old, “in order that what has been handed down by the most holy Roman Church,
the Mother and Teacher of the rest of the churches may be accepted and observed
by all everywhere.” Hence, the sainted Pope declared the oft-called “Tridentine Mass” to be the “received and approved rite” of the
Church, and which precluded the creation of any “new rite” of Mass in the
future. Further, because Quo
Primum is an infallible application of Divine Law (that is, we must
use only the “received and approved
rites”), St. Pius V rightly declared the decree to be irreformable and
valid forever.
This brings us to the inevitable and
troubling question: Is the
Novus Ordo a “new rite” of Mass that comes under the anathema of the Council of
Trent, as definitively interpreted by St. Pius V in Quo Primum? The name of the
rite itself (Novus Ordo
which means “new order” or “new ordinary” of the Mass) certainly suggests the
same. More importantly, so do the words of Pope Paul VI. In his November 19,
1969 General Audience address, Paul VI refers to the Novus Ordo as a “new rite” of
Mass several times, for example: “We wish to draw your attention to an event
about to occur in the Latin Catholic Church: the introduction of the liturgy of
the new rite of the Mass.”
He also says, “In the new rite you will find the relationship between the
Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist...”
We also consider the statements of
the members of Paul VI’s liturgical commission that created the New Mass, such
as the secretary and head of the commission, Fr. Annibale Bugnini, who said:
“It is not simply a question of restoring a valuable masterpiece, in some cases
it will be necessary to provide new
structures for entire rites…it will truly be a new creation.” Bugnini’s
assistant, Fr. Carlos Braga, also stated that the New Mass has “an entirely new foundation of
Eucharistic theology” and whose “ecumenical requirements” are “in harmony with
the Church’s new positions.”
Fr. Joseph Gelineau, one of the most influential members of the commission,
also said: “To tell you the truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This
needs to be said without ambiguity: the
Roman rite as we knew it no
longer exists.” Therefore, both Paul VI and his appointed authors
of the Novus Ordo admitted that the New Mass is not the rite “received” from
tradition, but rather a rite created by innovation – an entirely unprecedented
act in the history of the Church.
But we should not rely on these
statements alone. While they may reveal the intent of the innovators, it is
still necessary to look at the substance of the Novus Ordo rite itself. As we have seen, the
Council of Trent and St. Pius V intended to preserve the substantial identity
of the Roman rite forever. If the New Mass does not preserve this identity,
then it cannot be considered the “received
and approved rite” of the Catholic Church no matter what anyone says. Even
the Second Vatican Council, which did not (and could not) mandate the creation
of a new rite of Mass, recognized this truth by directing that the rites “be revised carefully in the light of sound
tradition” with “due care being
taken to preserve their
substance.”
The Council of Trent’s condemnation
of omitting or changing the “received
and approved rites” into “new rites”
is best understood by referring to one of the oldest maxims of the Church’s
sacred theology: “legem credendi statuit lex orandi.”
This is a Latin phrase which means “the rule of prayer determines the rule of
faith” (often referred to as “lex
orandi, lex credendi”). In other words, the way we pray determines
what we believe. If a liturgical tradition which expresses a doctrine of the
Faith is altered or removed altogether, the underlying doctrine will
necessarily be compromised. This is why the “received and approved rites” must be faithfully preserved and
never transformed into “other new ones”
as declared by Trent.
…… However, the Novus
Ordo Missae deviates from the Roman Missal of St. Pius V to such an
extent that it no longer retains the substantial identity of the Roman rite.
Even before the introduction of such abuses as audible canons, vernacular and versus populum (toward the
people) celebrations, lay ministers, Communion under both species, Communion in
the hand to standing communicants and the like, Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci
advised Paul VI that “the Novus Ordo 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.”
Consequently, Cardinal Ottaviani (who, as head of the Holy Office, was
responsible for safeguarding the doctrine of the Faith), in his famous
intervention, concluded that the Novus Ordo was indeed a different rite of
Mass.
For example, Ottaviani says: “To abandon a liturgical tradition which
for four centuries stood as a sign and pledge of unity in worship, and to replace
it with another liturgy which, due to the countless liberties it
implicitly authorizes, cannot but be a sign of division – a liturgy which
teems with insinuations or manifest errors against the integrity of the
Catholic Faith – is, we feel bound in conscience to proclaim, an
incalculable error.” He also says,
“It is obvious that the New Order
of Mass has no intention of presenting the Faith taught by the
Council of Trent. But it is to this Faith that the Catholic
conscience is bound forever.” Accordingly, Ottaviani appealed to Paul VI “not to deprive us of the possibility of
continuing to have recourse to the integral
and fruitful Missal of St. Pius V, so highly praised by Your
Holiness, and so deeply venerated by the whole Catholic world.” Therefore,
both the critics and the
creators of the New Mass, including Paul VI himself, agree that the
Novus Ordo differs
in substance from
the Tridentine Missal and, hence, constitutes a “new rite” of Mass.
John
Salza, J.D., The Novus Ordo Mass and
Divine Law, excerpt from Catholic Family News
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Jesus Christ: “Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19)
Pope Francis the
Adjudicator: “Never, never bring
the gospel by proselytizing. If someone says they are a disciple of Jesus and
comes to you with proselytism, they are not a disciple of Jesus. In front of an
unbeliever, the last thing I have to do is try to convince him. Never! The last
thing I have to do is speak.” (Pope Francis addressing students at Rome’s
classical secondary school, Pilo Albertelli, 2020)
Latae sententiae crimes in
the external forum require a determination of guilt!
“A
sentence declaratory of the offence is always necessary in the forum externum,
since in this tribunal no one is presumed to be excommunicated unless convicted
of a crime that entail such a penalty.”
Pope
Benedict XIV, De syndod, X, I, 5
When the
Church is restored, Neo-Modernism condemned, it will not be just Vatican II
that is trashed but the utter uprooting of its foundations laid by Pius XII!
In the hope of making the seemingly incredible not only credible but
obvious, this study will ignore the Second Vatican Council as a cause and treat
it as an effect, the inevitable effect of a dedicated, single minded line of
actions begun decades before. John XXIII called the bishops of the world to
assemble; His summons will be seen not so much as a call for consultations as a
demand for signatures. With many of the transformations already in place and
many of the others well worked out on paper, John’s welcome to the long, slow
procession of high-mitered prelates on that October morning in 1962 will be
seen as the fulfillment of an extended, persistent undertaking.
In perspective, the Council appears to have been a bringing of the
hierarchy to Rome in order to show them
what was already happening, to give them the satisfaction of a very limited
amount of participation and then to exert strong moral pressure on them to put
their names to each and every document emerging from the skillfully managed
deliberations. Signatures were of the greatest importance, giving as they
would, credibility to the transformations, thus making it easier for the
bishops to face their flocks when they returned with a bag full of novelties.
[….]
Probably no pope in history has been as misunderstood (as Pope Pius
XII). He has been revered and scorned, loved and hated for all the things he
never did and never was. No pope in history did as much to change the Church;
yet, Catholic conservatives look on him as the last firm pillar of orthodoxy.
No pope in history ever did as much for the Jews; yet Jewish writers continue
to accuse him of indifference to their fate. No pope did as much to oblige the
Marxists; yet he is hailed in the West as an anti-Communist hero of the Cold
War. In his long years as Vatican diplomat when he pioneered what has bome to
be called Ostpolitik, in his decade as Secretary of State to Pius XI, in his
nearly twenty years as Supreme Pontiff to followed in extension through the
pontificate of his protégé and chosen heir, Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul
VI), the work of Pius XII spanned nearly a century.
Mary Ball Martinez, The
Undermining of the Catholic Church
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
Jesus Christ:
“Go therefore
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19)
Pope Francis
the Adjudicator on the Word of God:
“Never, never bring the gospel by proselytizing. If someone says they
are a disciple of Jesus and comes to you with proselytism, they are not a
disciple of Jesus. In front of an unbeliever, the last thing I have to do is
try to convince him. Never! The last thing I have to do is speak.” (Pope
Francis addressing students at Rome’s classical secondary school, Pilo
Albertelli, 2020)
Peace Plan of Our Lady of Fatima
1. WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF
FATIMA REQUEST?
At Fatima Our Lady said that God wished to establish in the world
devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady said that many souls would
be saved from Hell and the annihilation of nations averted if, in time,
devotion to Her Immaculate Heart were established principally by these two
means:
A) the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary by the Pope together with the world’s bishops in a solemn public
ceremony,
B) the practice or receiving Holy Communion
(and other specific devotions of about 1/2 hour in duration) in reparation for
the sins committed against the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the first Saturdays of
five consecutive months--a practice known to Catholics as “the First Saturday”
devotion.
2. HAVE THESE REQUESTS OF OUR
LADY OF FATIMA BEEN HONORED?
No, not entirely. A number of the Faithful practice the “First
Saturday” devotion, but Russia has yet to be consecrated to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary in a solemn public ceremony conducted by the Pope together with
the world’s Catholic bishops.
In 1982 the last Fatima seer, Lucia, when a cloistered nun living in
Coimbra, Portugal, was asked if an attempted consecration by Pope John Paul II
had sufficed. She replied that it did not suffice, because Russia was not
mentioned and the world’s bishops had not participated. Another attempted
consecration in 1984 likewise did not mention Russia or involve the participation
of many of the world’s bishops, and Sister Lucia stated immediately afterwards
that this consecration, too, had failed to meet Our Lady’s requirements.
3. WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF
FATIMA WARN?
It warns that if the requests of Our Lady of Fatima for the
Consecration of Russia and the First Saturday devotion are not honored, the
Church will be persecuted, there will be other major wars, the Holy Father will
have much to suffer and various nations will be annihilated. Many nations will
be enslaved by Russian militant atheists. Most important, many souls will be
lost.
4. WHAT DOES THE MESSAGE OF
FATIMA PROMISE?
The Message of Fatima promises that if the requests of Our Lady of
Fatima are carried out “My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will
Consecrate Russia to Me, which will be converted, and a period of peace will be
granted to mankind.”
“Only take heed to yourself
and guard your soul diligently.” (Deut 4:9)
“It is a sin to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!”
Blessed
Pope Pius IX
"The
Pontifical Academy for Life on Saturday announced Pope Francis’ appointment of
pro-abortion, World Economic Forum-linked economist Mariana Mazzucato as one of
its new 'Ordinary Academicians.'
Here's
a particularly forlorn historical date: More than 100 years ago, between the
19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and
civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian
Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also
known as Cheka. 
Vatican | Christopher White | Sep 22, 2022