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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 traditional
Roman Rite of the Mass.
Second Sunday after the
Epiphany
St. Anthony, Abbot
January 17, 2021
Almighty God, faithful to His
promise to Abraham and his children, sent His Son to save His people; while in
His mercy He willed to redeem the heathen as well. Therefore Christ is the King whom, as its
Redeemer, the whole world must hail and adore (Introit and Gradual). It was through His death on the Cross that He
became our King and it is through the Eucharist, the memorial of Calvary, that
by applying the merits of His Redemption to our souls, He exercises His kingship
over us. In this miracle at Cana, a type
of the Holy Eucharist, did our Lord formally manifest His divinity, i.e. His
character as divine and therefore royal, and “His disciples believed in
Him.” The turning of water into wine is
a type of transubstantiation, called by St. Thomas the greatest of all
miracles, by which the wine of the Eucharist becomes the blood of the covenant
of peace which God has made with His Church.
Since also the divine King wishes to espouse our souls and since, as
Bossuet says, it is through the Eucharist that this mystical marriage is
consummated. The marriage feast at Cana also signifies the union of the Word
with His spouse the Church. “Having been
invited to the wedding feast at Cana in Galilee,” says St. Augustine, “our Lord
attended, that being alone the author of the sacrament of Matrimony, He might
confirm conjugal chastity.” He also
meant to make known to us the mystery of which these nuptials were the sign, that is the union of Christ with His Church. For even those who, by a vow, have bound
themselves to almighty God in the virginal state are not without nuptials
since, with the whole Church, they have a part in the nuptials in which Christ
Himself is the Spouse, and in this case, our Lord is typified by the bridegroom
who kept to the end the good wine, that is, the Gospel.
INTROIT:
Ps. 65. Let all the earth adore Thee, O
God, and sing to Thee: let it sing a psalm to Thy name, O Thou most high. Shout with joy to God, all the earth, sing ye
a psalm to His name: give glory to His
praise. Glory be,
etc. Let all the earth
adore, etc.
COLLECT:
Almighty and eternal God, who rulest
all things in heaven and on earth, mercifully hear the prayers of Thy people,
and grant us Thy peace in our days. Through our Lord, etc.
May the pleading of blessed Anthony, the
Abbot, make us acceptable unto Thee, O Lord, we pray; that what we may not have
through any merits of ours, we may gain by means of his patronage. Through our Lord, etc.
O God, who through the fruitful virginity
of the blessed Mary didst bestow on mankind the rewards of eternal salvation,
grant, we beseech Thee, that we may experience her intercession through whom we
have deserved to receive the author of life, Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord. Who
liveth and reigneth, etc.
EPISTLE: Rom. 12, 6-16.
Brethren, Having
different gifts, according to the grace that is given us: either prophecy, to
be used according to the rule of faith; or ministry, in ministering; or he that
teacheth, in doctrine; he that exhorteth,
in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he
that ruleth, with carefulness; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without
dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good:
loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honor preventing one
another: in carefulness not slothful; in spirit fervent: serving the Lord:
rejoicing in hope: patient in tribulation: instant in prayer: communicating to
the necessities of the Saints: pursuing hospitality. Bless them that persecute
you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that
weep: being of one mind one towards another: not minding high things, but
consenting to the humble
EXPLANATION.
St. Paul in this epistle exhorts every Christian to make good use of the gifts
of God; if one receives an office, he must see well to it, so that he can give
an account to God of the faithful performance of his duties. He exhorts
especially to brotherly love which we should practice by charitable works; such
as, receiving strangers hospitably, giving alms to those who are in need, and
to those who by misfortune or injustice have lost their property; he commands
us, at the same time, to rejoice in the welfare of our neighbor, as we rejoice
at our own good fortune, and to grieve at his misfortunes as we would over
those which befall us.
How is
brotherly love best preserved?
By the virtue of humility which
makes us esteem our neighbor above ourselves, consider his good qualities only,
bear patiently his defects, and always meet him in a friendly, respectful, and
indulgent manner. Humility causes us to live always in peace with our
fellowmen, while among the proud, where each wishes to be the first, there is
continual strife and dissatisfaction (Prov. 13:10).
What
lesson does the Apostle give us in this epistle?
That we should hate that which is evil, and love that which is good; that we
should love one another, and practice works of mercy; that we should be
solicitous and fervent, as in the service of God. We should cooperate with the
grace of God, and pray instantly.
Aspiration
O God, give us Thy grace to
follow faithfully what St. Paul teaches us of humility and charity, that we may
have compassion on
all who are
in need, and not exalt ourselves above our neighbors, but, humbling ourselves
with the humble, may merit, with them, to be exalted. Amen.
GRADUAL:
Ps. 106. The Lord sent His Word, and
healed them: and delivered them out of
their destruction. Let the mercies of
the Lord give glory to Him: and His wonderful works to the children of
men.
Alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 148. Praise ye the Lord, all His angels,
praise ye Him all his hosts. Alleluia.
GOSPEL: John 2, 1-11.
At that time there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee: and the Mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was
invited, and His disciples, to the marriage. And the wine failing, the Mother
of Jesus saith to Him: They have no wine. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to Me
and to thee? My hour is not yet come. His Mother saith
to the waiters: Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye. Now there were set there
six water-pots of stone, according to the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
containing two or three measures apiece. Jesus saith
to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
And Jesus said to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief steward of the
feast. And they carried it. And when the chief steward had tasted the water
made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the
water: the chief steward calleth the bridegroom, and saith to him: Every man at first setteth
forth good wine: and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but
thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in
Cana of Galilee; and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
Why
was Jesus present at the wedding with His Mother and disciples?
1. In order there to reveal His
majesty, and by that means to establish and confirm the belief in His divinity.
2. To show that marriage is
pleasing to God. 3. To let
us understand how pious the bridegroom and bride were. 4. To teach us that those pleasures are
permitted which are in accordance with reason and Christianity, and neither
sinful nor leading to sin.
Why
did Mary intercede for the bride and bridegroom when the wine was failing?
She was sorry for them, for she is the tenderhearted mediatrix
of the afflicted and destitute. Besides, the number of the guests had been
considerably increased by the presence of Jesus and His disciples, so that the
wine was not sufficient for all.
What
is the meaning of the words, "Woman, what is that to Me
and to thee”?
According to the idiom of the Hebrew language, they mean as much as,
"Mother, be not anxious; I will provide the wine as soon as the hour
appointed by My Father is come." Jesus did not mean to rebuke His Mother,
but He thus gave her, and all who were present, to understand that He had not
received the power of working miracles as the son of woman, but that He
possessed it as the Son of God, and should use it according to the will of His
Father.
What are we taught by the
words: “My hour is not yet come”?
These words teach us that we
should in all things await God's appointed time, and
in things belonging to God and His honor, act only by divine direction, without
any human motives.
What
does the scarcity of wine signify?
In a spiritual sense the want of
wine may be understood to signify the lack of love between married people,
which is principally the case with those who enter this state through worldly
motives, for the sake of riches, beauty of person, or who have before marriage
kept up sinful intercourse. These should ask God for the forgiveness of their
sins, bear the hardships of married life in the spirit of penance, and change
the wrong motives they had before marriage; by doing so God will supply the
scarcity of wine, that is the lack of true love, and change the waters of
misery into the wine of patient affection.
Why did Christ command them
to take the wine to the steward?
That the steward, whose office
required him to be attentive to the conduct of the guests, and to know the
quality of the wine, should give his judgment in regard to the excellence of
this, and be able to testify to the miracle before all the guests.
ASPIRATION O my
most merciful Jesus! I would rather drink in this world the sour wine of misery
than the sweet wine of pleasure, that in heaven I may taste the perfect wine of
eternal joy.
Aspiration
I thank Thee, O Jesus, for the
grace of knowing Thy divinity; grant that I may persevere in this knowledge
till death, in order to enjoy the contemplation of Thy Godhead in eternity.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 65. Shout with joy to God, all the
earth, sing you a psalm to His name; come and hear, all you who fear God, and I
will tell you what great things He hath done for my soul. Alleluia.
SECRET:
Sanctify,
O Lord, the gifts which we offer, and cleanse us from the stains of our
sins. Through our Lord, etc.
May the
holy Abbot Anthony obtain from Thee, O Lord, we pray, that the offerings laid
on Thy holy altar may avail us unto salvation.
Through our Lord, etc.
By Thy
merciful forgiveness, O Lord, and the intercession of the blessed Mary ever
Virgin, may this oblation obtain for us peace and prosperity, now and
forever. Through our Lord, etc.
COMMUNION:
John
2. The Lord saith, Fill the water-pots with water, and carry to the
chief steward of the feast. When the
chief steward had tasted the water made wine, he saith
to the bridegroom: Thou hast kept the
good wine until now. This first miracle
did Jesus before his disciples.
POSTCOMMUNION:
Be there
increases in us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the workings of Thy power, that
thriving on these divine sacraments, we may be prepared by Thy bounty to
receive what they promise. Through our
Lord, etc.
May Thy
sacrament which we have taken, and the pleading of blessed Anthony, the Abbot,
protect us, O Lord; that we may both follow his glorious example, and receive
the help of his intercession. Through
our Lord, etc.
May this
communion, O Lord, cleanse us from our sins, and through the intercession of
the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, make us
partakers of this heavenly remedy.
Through our Lord, etc.
His Mother saith to the
waiters: Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye.
St. Anthony, in the year 339, saw in a
vision, under the figure of mules kicking down the altar, the havoc which the Arian
persecution made two years after in Alexandria, and clearly foretold it, as St.
Athanasius, St. Jerome, and St. Chrysostom assure us. He would not speak to a heretic, unless to
exhort him to the true faith; and he drove all such from his mountain, calling
them venomous serpents. At the request of the bishops, about the year 355, he
took a journey to Alexandria to confound the Arians, preaching aloud in that
city that God the Son is not a creature, but of the same substance with the
Father; and that the impious Arians, who called him a creature, did not differ
from the heathens themselves, "who worshipped and served the creature
rather than the Creator." All the people ran to see him, and rejoiced to
hear him; even the pagans, struck with the dignity of his character, flocked to
him, saying, "We desire to see the man of God." He converted many,
and wrought several miracles: St. Athanasius conducted him back as far as the
gates of the city, where he cured a girl possessed by the devil. Being desired
by the duke or general of Egypt to make a longer stay in the city than he had
proposed, he answered: "As fish die if they leave the water, so does a
monk if he forsakes his solitude."
St. Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony
All mischief, every scandal, comes from the clergy. We black robes are to blame for
everything.... A priest without the spirit of penitence is Satan's toy.
St. Clement Mary Hofbauer
PROPER OF THE
SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 17th:
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2nd Sunday
after Epiphany
St. Anthony, Ab
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Mass 9:00 AM &
Noon; Confessions & Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for the members of
Mission
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Mon
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St. Peter’s Chair at
Rome
St. Paul, Ap
St. Prisca, VM
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass
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St. Marius &
Comp., Mm
St. Canute, King, M
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass
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Ss. Fabian, P &
Sebastian, Mm
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass
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St. Agnes, VM
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass
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Ss. Vincent & Anastasius, Mm
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Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass
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St. Raymund of Pennafort, C
St. Emerentiana, VM
Betrothal of St. Joseph and BVM
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Mass 9:00 AM;
Confession & Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM
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3rd Sunday
after Epiphany
St. Timothy, BpM
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sd
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Mass 9:00 AM &
Noon; Confessions & Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for the members of
Mission
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Protestantism strove to
throw doubts on St. Peter’s having lived and died in Rome… It was in order to
nullify, by the authority of the Liturgy, this strange pretension of the
Protestants, that Pope Paul IV, in 1558, restored the ancient Feast of St.
Peter’s Chair at Rome, and fixed it on the 18th of January. For many centuries the Church had not
solemnized the mystery of the Pontificate of the Prince of the Apostles on any
distinct feast, but had made the single Feast of February 22nd serve
for both the Chair at Antioch and the Chair at Rome. From that time forward, the 22nd
of February has been kept for the Chair at Antioch, which was the first
occupied by the Apostle.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Peter’s
Chair at Rome
Octave Prayer from the Chair of St. Peter to the Conversion of St. Paul
(January 16th to January 24th inclusive for the conversion of heretics
and schismatic to the Catholic Church outside of which there is no salvation.)
That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee, that
they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me.
V: I say to thee, that
thou art Peter
R: And
upon this rock I will build my Church
Let Us Pray
Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst say to Thine Apostles;
peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, look not upon my sins, but
upon the faith of Thy Church; and vouchsafe unto her that peace and unity which
is agreeable to Thy will; Who livest and reignest God forever and ever. AMEN (plenary indulgence under the usual
conditions)
Novena to SS. Peter and Paul
(begins
January 17th and ends on the feast day)
O glorious SS. Peter and Paul, filled with compassion for those who
invoke you, with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my
troubles, I kneel at your feet and humbly beg you to take my present need under
your special protection (mention intention).
As disciples of Christ and the first pastors of
the early Church you both knew disappointment and suffering. Lead me out of my troubles as you have so
many to Christ our Lord. Cease not to
intercede for me until my request is granted.
Above all, obtain for me the grace to one day meet God face to face, and
with you and Mary and all the angels and saints praise Him through all
eternity.
O most powerful SS. Peter and Paul, do not let me lose my soul, but obtain for me the grace of winning my way to heaven.
O holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, I choose you this day and forever to
be my special patrons and advocates; thee, Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles,
because thou art the Rock, upon which Almighty God hath built His Church; thee,
Saint Paul, because thou wast fore-chosen by God as
the Vessel of election and the Preacher of truth in the whole world. Obtain for me, I pray you, lively faith, firm
hope and burning love; unshakable confidence in the merciful providence of God,
complete detachment from myself, contempt of the world, patience in adversity,
humility in prosperity, attention in prayer, purity of heart, a right intention
in all my works, diligence in fulfilling the duties of my state of life,
constancy in my resolutions, resignation to the will of God and perseverance in
the grace of God even unto death; that so, by means of your intercession and
your glorious merits, I may be able to overcome the temptations of the world,
the flesh and the devil, and may be made worthy to appear before the chief and
eternal Shepherd of souls, Jesus Christ, who with the Father and the Holy Ghost liveth
and reigneth for endless ages, to enjoy His presence
and love Him forever. AMEN
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be
§
V. Thou shalt make
them princes over all the earth,
§
R. They shall be mindful of Thy name, O Lord.
Let
us pray
O God, whose right hand raised up blessed Peter, when he walked upon
the water and began to sink, and thrice delivered his fellow-Apostle Paul from
the depths of the sea, when he suffered shipwreck: graciously hear us and
grant, by the merits of them both, that we also may attain unto everlasting
glory: Who livest and reignest
world without end.
AMEN
We must picture to
ourselves a young soldier, who tears himself away from all the ties of his home
at Milan, because the persecution there was too tame, with anxiety at the
thought that perhaps some of the Christians in the Capital may be losing
courage. He has been told that at times
some of the Emperor’s soldiers, who were soldiers also of Christ, have gained
admission into the prisons, and have roused up the sinking courage of the
confessors. He is resolved to go on the
like mission, and hopes that he may also receive the blessing of
martyrdom. He reaches Rome, he is
admitted into the prisons, and encourages to martyrdom such as had been shaken
by the tears of those who were dear to them.
Some of the gaolers, converted by witnessing
his faith and his miracles, become martyrs themselves;
and one of the Roman Magistrates asks to be instructed in a religion which can
produce such men as this Sebastian. He
has won the esteem of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian
Hercules for his fidelity and courage as a soldier; they have loaded him with favours; and this gives him an influence in Rome which he
so zealously turns to the advantage of the Christian religion, that the holy
Pope Caius calls him, the Defender of the Church.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St.
Sebastian
Having resolved to
write a book on virginity, I think myself happy in being able to begin it on
the feast we are keeping of the Virgin Agnes.
It is the feast of a virgin; let us walk in the path of purity. It is the feast of a martyr; let us offer up
our Sacrifice. It is the feast of St.
Agnes; let men admire and children not despair; let the married wonder, and the
unmarried imitate. But what can we speak
worthy of this Saint, whose very name is not void of praise? As her devotedness is beyond her years, and
her virtue superhuman so, as it seems to me, her name is not an appellation,
but a prophecy, presaging that she was to be a martyr.
St. Ambrose on St.
Agnes
The eleventh century
gave to the Church and various States of Europe a great number of saintly
Kings. Among them St. Canute IV of
Denmark stands pre-eminent by reason of the aureole of his martyrdom. He had every quality which forms a Christian
prince: he was a zealous propagator of the faith of Christ, he was a brave
warrior, he was pious, and he was charitable to the poor. His zeal for the Church (and in those days
her rights were counted as the rights of the people) was made the pretext for
putting him to death: he died in the midst of a sedition
as a victim sacrificed for his people’s sake.
His offering to the new-born King was that of his blood; and in exchange
for the perishable crown he lost, he received that which the Church gives to
her Martyrs, and which can never be taken away.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, St. Canute of
Denmark
INSTRUCTION FOR SUPERIORS
Those
have to expect a severe sentence from God, who merely for temporal gain, seek
profitable offices, and thrust themselves therein whether capable or not, and
if capable care very little whether they fulfill the duties required, or
perhaps make the fulfillment of them depend upon bribes. Of such God makes
terrible complaint: Thy princes (judges) are faithless, companions of thieves:
they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the
fatherless; and the widow's cause comes not into them (Is. 1:23). A most severe
judgment shall be for them that bear rule (Wisd. 6:6).
ASPIRATION
Grant us, O Lord, Thy grace, that according to Thy will, we may follow the
instructions of St. Paul in regard to humility and love, have compassion upon
all suffering and needy, think little of ourselves, and descend to the lowest,
that we may, one day, be elevated with them in heaven.
O my soul, be humble
and forget not that the more thou art exalted in thy own esteem the more wilt
thou be shamed and confounded at the judgment day. For then, as says the
prophet, "Man shall be humbled" (Isa. 5, 15), and only the humble
will be able to glory "in his exultation" (Jas 1, 9). Remember that
according to the saying of Isaias,
the day of judgment has been appointed especially to humble the proud:
"Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be on every one that is proud
and high-minded, and he shall be humbled" (Isa. 2, 12), and thou shouldest regard as though specially directed to thyself
that prophetic voice from God which says: "Behold I come against thee, O
proud one, saith the Lord, for thy day is come, the
time of thy visitation. And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and
there shall be none to lift him up" (Isa. 1, 31).
Fr. Cajetan
Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
INSTRUCTION ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF
MATRIMONY
What is Matrimony?
Matrimony is the perfect,
indissoluble union of two free persons of different sex, for the purpose of
propagating the human race, mutually to bear the burdens of life and to prevent
sin (I Cor. 7:2).
Who instituted Matrimony?
God Himself, the
Creator of all things (Gen. 1:27-28). He brought to man the helpmate,
whom He formed from one of the ribs of Adam, that she who came from his heart,
might never depart therefrom, but cling to him in the
indissoluble bond of love (Gen. 2:18, 24). To this original, divine institution
Christ refers (Mt. 19:4-6), and the Church declares the bond of marriage
perpetual and indissoluble.
Is Matrimony a Sacrament?
Yes; according to the testimony of
the Fathers, the Church has held it such from the times of the apostles, which
she could not do, had Christ not raised it to the dignity of a Sacrament. St.
Paul even calls it a great Sacrament, because it is symbolical of the perpetual
union of Christ with His Church; and the Council of Trent declares: "If
any one says that Matrimony is not really and truly one of the seven Sacraments
of the Church instituted by Christ, but an invention of men that imparts no
grace, let him be anathema" (Conc. Trid., Sess.
XXIV, can. 1).
What graces does this
Sacrament impart?
The grace of preserving
matrimonial fidelity inviolate: the grace of educating children as Christians;
of patiently enduring the unavoidable difficulties of married life, and of
living peaceably with each other. Married people are indeed greatly in need of
these graces, in order to fulfill their mutual obligations.
What is the external sign in
the Sacrament of Matrimony?
The union of two single persons in
Matrimony, which according to the regulations of the Council of Trent (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXIV, can. 1), must be formed publicly in the
presence of the pastor, or with his permission before another priest, and two
witnesses.
What preparations are to be
made to receive the grace of this Sacrament?
1. The first and best
preparation is a pure and pious life. 2. The light of the Holy Ghost
should be invoked to know whether one is called to this state of life. 3.
The parents and the father-confessor should be asked for advice. 4. The
choice should be made in regard to a Christian heart,
and a gentle disposition rather than to beauty and wealth. 5. The
immediate preparation is, to purify the conscience, if it has not already been
done, by a good general confession, and by the reception of the most holy
Sacrament of the Altar. Before their marriage the young couple should ask their
parents' blessing, should hear the nuptial Mass with devotion, with the
intention of obtaining God's grace to begin their new state of life well, and
finally they should commend themselves with confidence to the protection of the
Blessed Virgin Mary and her spouse St. Joseph.
Why are there so many
unhappy marriages?
Because so many people prepare the
way by sins and vices, and continue to sin without interruption, and without
true amendment until marriage, therefore always make sacrilegious confessions,
even perhaps immediately before marriage. Besides this many enter the married
life on account of carnal intentions, or other earthly motives; in many cases
they do not even ask God for His grace; without any proper preparation for such
an important, sacred act, on their marriage day they go to church with levity
and afterwards celebrate their wedding with but little modesty. Is it any
wonder that such married people receive no blessing, no grace, when they render
themselves so unworthy?
Why did God institute
married life?
That children might be brought up
honestly and as Christians, and that they should be instructed especially in
matters of faith; that married people should sustain each other in the
difficulties of life, and mutually exhort one another to a pious life; and
lastly, that the sin of impurity might be avoided. For they who in such manner
receive matrimony as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and
to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule which have not understanding,
over them the devil hath power (Tob. 6:17).
With what intentions should
the married state be entered?
With such intentions as the young
Tobias and his bride had, who before the marriage ceremony, ardently prayed God
for His grace, and took their wedding breakfast in the fear of the Lord (Tob. 14:15). Hence God's blessing was with them until
death. If all young people would enter the married state thus, it would
certainly be holy, God-pleasing and blessed, and the words of St. Paul, spoken
to wives, would come true unto them: Yet she shall be saved by bearing
children, if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification with sobriety
(I Tim. 2:15).
Why are the bans of marriage
published three times in Church?
That all
impediments which would render the marriage unlawful may be made known.
Such impediments are: consanguinity, clandestine marriages, etc. Therefore, any one who is aware of such impediments is bound to make
them known to the pastor.
Why is the marriage
performed in the presence of the parish priest?
Because the Catholic Church
expressly declares that those marriages which are not performed in presence of
the pastor, or with his permission before another priest, and two witnesses,
are null and void (Conc. Trid., Sess. XXIV can. 1);
and because the blessing of the priest, which he imparts in the name of the
Church, gives the couple, if they are in a state of grace, strength, fortitude
and grace to be faithful to each other, to endure all trials patiently, and to
be safe from all the influences of the evil enemy."
Why do they join hands
before the priest, and two witnesses?
By this they bind
themselves before God and His Church to remain true to each other, and to be
ready to assist each other in all adversities. The bridegroom puts a ring on
the bride's finger which should remind her of her duty of inviolable fidelity;
to this end the priest signs and seals this holy union with the unbloody Sacrifice of the New Law.
Can the bond of marriage be
dissolved in the Catholic Church?
A valid marriage, contracted with
the free consent of each of the parties, can according to the plain doctrine of
the Scriptures, the constant teaching and practice of the Church, be dissolved
only by the death of one of the parties. If the pope or a bishop, for important
reasons, gives a divorce, this is only partial, and neither can marry again
while the other lives. Such a marriage would not be valid. How pure and holy
are the doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church in this the most important
and sacred of all human relations, preserving its inviolability and sanctity;
while, on the contrary, by means of the wanton doctrine of the heretics, which
for trivial reasons entirely dissolves the marriage contract, this sacred union
is made the deepest ignominy of mankind, and the play-ball of human passions
and caprice!
What is thought of mixed
marriages, or marriages between Catholics and Protestants?
The Catholic Church has always
condemned such marriages, because of the great dangers to which the Catholic
party is unavoidably exposed as well as the offspring. Such marriages promote
indifference in matters of religion, by which the spiritual life of the soul is
destroyed; they are a hindrance to domestic peace, cause mutual aversion,
quarrels, and confusion; they give scandal to servants; they interfere with the
Christian education of the children, even render it impossible, and they
frequently lead to apostasy and despair. But the Catholic Church condemns
especially those mixed marriages, in which either all or a number of the
children are brought up in heresy, and she can never bless and look upon those
as her children who do not fear to withdraw themselves and their own children
from the only saving faith, and expose them to the danger of eternal ruin.
Therefore, those Catholics who enter the matrimonial union with Protestants,
although the marriage if lawfully contracted is valid, commit a mortal sin if
they permit their children to be brought up in heresy, and should it not be
their full intention to bring up their children in the Catholic faith at the
time of their marriage, they would commit a sacrilege.
What should the newly
married couple do immediately after the ceremony is performed?
They
should kneel and thank God for the graces received in this holy Sacrament, in
such or similar words: "Ratify, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that which by Thy
grace Thou hast wrought in us, that we may keep that which in Thy presence we
have promised unto the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." That they may keep
their promise made at the altar, they should always remember the duties laid
down to them by the priest at the time of their marriage, and the exhortations
which are taken from the epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians (Eph. 5: 29, 31),
wherein he instructs married people how they should comport themselves towards
each other, and recalls to them as an example the union of Christ with His
Church, and His love for her. To the husbands he says, they should love their
wives as Christ loved His Church, for which He even gave Himself up to death;
from this is seen, that men should assist their wives even unto death, in all
need, and not treat them as servants. To the wives St. Paul says, that they as
the weaker should be in all reasonable things obedient to their husbands, as
the Church is obedient to Christ; for as Christ is the head of the Church, so
is the husband the head of the wife. Experience proves there is no better way
for women to win the hearts of their husbands than by amiable obedience and
ready love, while, on the contrary, a querulous, imperative deportment robs
them of their husbands' affections, and even causes them to be regarded with
aversion. St. Paul says further; that husbands should love their wives (and
consequently wives their husbands) as their own bodies, because married people
are, as it were, one. They shall be two in one flesh; no man ever hated his own
flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth
it, as also Christ doth the Church (Eph. 5:29, 31). How unjustly and
barbarously do those act, who, instead of loving one
another, rather hate and outrage each other, and cause the loss of their
property, and by detraction steal their honor! These do not consider that he
who hates and disgraces his partner in life, hates and disgraces himself; while
according to the words of St. Paul he who loves her, loves himself. If married
people would remain in constant love and unity, it is most necessary that they
should patiently bear with each other's infirmities, wrongs, and defects,
exhort one another with mildness and affection, keep their adversities, trials,
and sufferings as much as possible to themselves, and complain in prayer only
to God, who alone can aid them. By impatience, quarrels, and complaints the
cross becomes only heavier and the evil worse. Finally, not only on their wedding
day, but often through life, they should earnestly consider that they have not
entered the married state that they may inordinately serve the pleasures of the
body, but to have children who will one day inhabit heaven according to the
will of God; as the angel said to Tobias: "For they who in such manner
receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves and from their mind, and
to give themselves to their lust as the horse and mule, which have not
understanding, over them the devil hath power" (Tob.
6:17).
PRAYER Most
merciful Jesus! who didst work Thy first miracle at the wedding in Cana by
changing water into wine, thereby revealing Thy divine power and majesty, and
honoring matrimony: grant we beseech Thee, that Thy faithful may ever keep sacred
and inviolate the holy sacrament of Matrimony, and that they may so live in it
truthfully, in the fear of the Lord, that they may not put an obstacle in the
way of obtaining heaven for themselves, and their children.
“He that
hath the Son hath life. He that hath not
the Son, hath not life” (1 Jn. 5, 12).
The grace which
sanctifies our souls is, in its essence, identically the same as that which
adorns the sacred soul of Jesus (St. Thomas, IIIa,
q.8, a.5). Of course, they differ
immensely in measure and perfection, but the nature of the grace is the very
same. Hence grace in us has the same
sanctifying power, the same tendencies as it has in the soul of Jesus. Thus it can sanctify us, making us live in
union with God and for His glory. By
giving us grace, Jesus has truly communicated His life to us; He has planted in
us the seed of His sanctity, so that we can live a life similar to His
own.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy
God wills only our
good; God loves us more than anybody else can or does love us. His will is that
no one should lose his soul, that everyone should save and sanctify his soul: “Not
willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance."
"This is the will of God, your sanctification." God has made
the attainment of our happiness, His glory. Since He is by His nature infinite
goodness, and since as St. Leo says goodness is diffusive of itself, God has a
supreme desire to make us sharers of His goods and of His happiness. If then He
sends us suffering in this life, it is for our own good: "All things
work together unto good." Even chastisements come to us, not to crush
us, but to make us mend our ways and save our souls: "Let us believe
that these scourges of the Lord have happened for our amendment and not for our
destruction."
Saint Alphonsus de Ligouri, Uniformity
with God's Will
THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑
O Jesus, transform my soul as You once transformed the
water for the bride and bridegroom at Cana.
MEDITATION:
I. Now that the cycle of Jesus'
childhood has ended, the liturgy begins to speak of His public life. During the
days following the Epiphany, it recalled Our Lord's baptism in the Jordan, the
event which marked the beginning of His apostolate. Today it tells us about His
first miracle, destined, like the Epiphany and His baptism, to manifest to the
world His glory as the Son of God.
"And the third day, there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee; and the Mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus also was
invited . . . to the marriage" (Gosp: Jn 2, 1‑11). For the first time, we see the Blessed Virgin
in her maternal function as mediatrix of all graces.
The Cana miracle, Jesus' first, was worked precisely because of her
intercession which was so powerful that it made Jesus anticipate
His hour. "My hour is not yet come," the Savior had answered His
Mother, and Mary was neither dismayed by this apparent refusal nor did she
insist on her request. Secure in the knowledge of her Son and full of loving
confidence in Him, she says to the servants, "Whatsoever He shall say to
you, do ye." Her humility, consideration for others, faith, and trustful
abandonment with Jesus, and to show us the greatness of her power over His
divine heart, He grants her wish; the miracle takes place.
Mary's
faith is admirable; and also worthy of admiration is the faith and prompt
obedience of the servants who, following Mary's advice, immediately carry out
the orders of Jesus; they fill the water pots with water and then pour from
them. Not a moment of doubt, not a protest‑ they simply obey. May we not
learn from them how to believe, how to obey? Shall we not have recourse to Mary's
powerful intercession?
2.
"The water was made wine." A miracle much more wonderful than the one
which Jesus performed at Cana is repeated daily on our altars; a little bread
and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ, and given to us as the
Food of our souls. The Communion antiphon of today's Mass repeats the passage
in the Gospel which speaks of the water made wine. Yes, for us preeminently,
Jesus has "kept the good wine until now." It is the precious wine of
the Holy Eucharist, inebriating our souls with His Body and Blood.
There
is another wonderful transformation which Jesus accomplishes in our souls by
means of grace; the water of our poor human nature becomes a sharer in God's divine nature; it is transformed into the
sacred wine of the life of Christ Himself. Man becomes a member of Christ, the
adopted child of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Today our Lady tells us
how we can and should foster this precious transformation; she says to us as
she once did to the servants at the Cana feast, "Whatsoever He shall say
to you, do ye." In these words, Mary invites us to that complete
transformation in Christ which is effected by the
generous practice of all that He teaches and commands. Let us, then, with humble,
docile hearts, with lively faith and perfect abandonment, entrust ourselves to
Jesus through Mary's hands.
COLLOQUY:
How
encouraging it is, O Lord, for me to find Your sweet
Mother beside You today! Everything becomes simple and easy near Mary, beneath
her maternal eye, under the protection of her powerful intercession. How good You were, O Jesus, to give us Your dear Mother to be the
Mother of our spiritual life! I will follow Mary's precious advice and do
everything You tell me, everything You wish me to do.
I want to imitate the blind, prompt
obedience of the servants at the wedding feast: to obey You as they did, always
and in everything, Your instructions, counsels, and precepts‑ to obey You
likewise in the person of my superiors, even when I do not see the reason for
their orders and arrangements, even when they expect difficult things of me or
something which seems to me absurd. Furthermore, I want to imitate Your
Mother's complete abandonment when, in her great thoughtfulness, she confided
to You her wish to help the bride and bridegroom in
their difficulty. Your apparent refusal did not trouble her; she did not
persist in her request, but she was sure, absolutely sure, that Your infinitely good and tender heart would provide, and
provide abundantly.
O
Lord, with a like confidence and trust, I lay my needs before You today. Do You see them? My soul
is like the water pots at the feast: full of water, the cold, insipid water of
my frailty and weakness, which I never seem to overcome completely. I can say
with the Psalmist: "The waters have come even unto my soul" (Ps 60,
1), and they submerge me and I am as one drowned in incompetence and weakness.
O Lord, I believe that, if You will, You can change
all this water into the precious wine of Your love, Your grace, and Your life.
You are so powerful, so merciful, that my wretchedness, great as it is, does
not astonish You, because in comparison with You, who
are infinite, it is always very small. Just as in the Mass the few drops of water
which are poured into the chalice are changed with the wine into Your Blood, O
Lord, take my wretchedness, plunge it into Your heart,
make it disappear in You.
The Church of Ss. Vincent
& Anastasius:
First, “put off the light”
and, “then commit crimes.”
The first church and monastery dedicated to Ss.
Vincent and Anastasius was built by Pope Honorius I
in 626 and given to the Benedictines.
The present church facing the Trevia fountain
was completed in 1650 by architect Martino Longhi the
Younger and located in close proximity to the Quirinal Palace, for which it
served as parish church. It is notable as the place where the precordia and embalmed hearts of 25 popes from Sixtus V to Leo XIII are preserved.
Originally Roman Catholic,
since 2002 the church has been used by the Saints Cyril
and Methodius Bulgarian Orthodox parish in Rome. The façade features 18
columns so that it earns the nickname of Reed Bed. At
the corner between Via del Lavatore
and the fountain's square there is an 18th century icon of the Virgin Mary. Below,
there is a street lamp. Often the icons of Mary were
placed above street lamps to deter thieves or wrongdoers who would first put
off the light, and then commit crimes.
True Charity
is Always Allied with Truth
When the apostate Marcion met St. Polycarp at
Rome, he asked the aged Saint if he knew him.
“Yes,” St. Polycarp answered, “I know you for the firstborn of
Satan.” These were the words of a Saint
most loving and most charitable, and specially noted for his compassion to
sinners. He had drunk deep of the spirit
of St. John, that beloved master whose words were ever in his mouth. “Who dissolveth
Jesus is not of God” (1 John 4:3). He
hated heresy because he loved God and man so much.
Rev. Henry Bowden
The decadence which
exists in the world is without any doubt the consequence of the lack of the
spirit of prayer. Foreseeing this
disorientation, the Blessed Virgin recommended recitation of the Rosary with
such insistence, and since the Rosary is, after the Eucharistic liturgy, the
prayer most apt for preserving faith in souls, the devil has unchained his
struggle against it… The Rosary is the most powerful weapon for defending
ourselves on the field of battle. Sr.
Lucy of Fatima on the Rosary
He who does not contemplate My littleness upon
earth will not behold My greatness in heaven.
Our Lord to St. Angela of Foligno
For the doctrine of the
faith which God has revealed is put forward not as some philosophical discovery
capable of being perfected by human intelligence, but as a divine deposit
committed to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly
promulgated. Hence, too, that meaning of
the sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained which has once been declared by holy
mother church, and there must never be any abandonment of this sense under the
pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding. For the holy Spirit was promised to the
successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some
new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and
faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the
apostles.
Vatican Council I
Hence the Fathers of
the Church never hesitated to pronounce all those forever lost who die out of
the Roman Catholic Church: "He who has not the Church for his
mother," says St. Cyprian, "cannot have God for his Father;" and
with him the Fathers in general say that, "as all who were not in the ark
of Noe perished in the waters of the Deluge, so shall
all perish who are out of the true Church." St. Augustine and the other
bishops of Africa, at the Council of Zirta, A. D.
410, say: "Whosoever is separated from the Catholic Church, however
commendable in his own opinion his life may be, he shall, for the very reason
that he is separated from the union of Christ, not see life, but the wrath of
God abideth on him." Therefore, says St.
Augustine, "a Christian ought to fear nothing so much as to be separated
from the body of Christ (the Church). For, if he be separated from the body of
Christ, he is not a member of Christ; if not a member of Christ, he is not
quickened by his Spirit." (Tract. xxvii. in Joan., n. 6,
col. 1992, tom. iii.)
Rev. Michael Müller, C.SS.R, The Catholic Dogma
“The union of
your will with the divine will is more pleasing to God than fasting and other
mortifications of the flesh.”
St. Clement
Mary Hofbauer
Where is the New Theology
leading us to? It is taking us in a straight line right back to modernism by
way of whims, errors and heresy.
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P
“Taking this excellent cup [….] rendering thanks also unto thee…”
You cannot be silent when stung by pain? I would not have you silent! I wish you to give thanks. It is this which
will repel the devil and bring you help from God.
St. John Chrysostom
The love of
God be your motivation, the will of God your guiding
principle, the glory of God your goal.
St. Clement
Mary Hofbauer
It is
"Unthinkable" to Question Vatican II only for those who do not Think
Those who deny
Jesus Christ are not the “elder brothers” of those who worship Jesus Christ
JEWS-CATHOLICS: CARD. KOCH (HOLY SEE), “UNTHINKABLE” TO QUESTION THE
COUNCIL
“Absolutely not”: the Catholic Church cannot change her position on the
Second Vatican Council and the Nostra Aetate
Declaration “because she cannot question the Council. That is unthinkable. And
the Holy Father cannot deny his Magisterium.” Card.
Kurt Koch, President of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the
Jews, commented in an interview with SIR on the “concerns” raised by the
process of dialogue between the Holy See and the Priestly Society of St. Pius X
(Lefebvrians). “The Jews - the cardinal said - are
our elder brothers: particularly in Benedict XVI’s vision of the unity of the
two Testaments, we are inextricably linked with the Jews. This point is clear
even in the light of the Council Declaration ‘Nostra Aetate’.
There is no doubt in the Catholic Church that this Declaration is still valid
today. It is rejected only by a small group, the Lefebvrians,
who are opposed to ecumenical dialogue, relations with the Jews and religious
freedom. The latter are actually key points in the Magisterium
of the Holy Father, and if a group does not accept the Council or the Magisterium, it should ask itself whether it is Catholic.
This is the fundamental question”. The cardinal then recalled what Fr. Lombardi
said about bishop Fellay’s statements: “anti-Semitism
in all its forms is a non-Christian act and the Catholic Church must fight this
phenomenon with all her strength.”
N.B.: The "Magisterium,"
that is, the attribute of the Church founded by Jesus Christ to teach without
the possibility of error, was not engaged during Vatican II. The "magisterium
of the Holy Father," to which Cardinal Koch is referring, is the teaching
authority of the Pope grounded upon his grace of state. This teaching authority is most worthy of
respect but by no means is it infallible and when it in any way contradicts the
infallible dogmas of the Catholic faith or promotes any novelty,
we must obey God rather than any man.
The resolute soul fights more courageously. She knows that, come what may, she will never
turn back. She is like a soldier in
battle who knows that he may expect no mercy if he is conquered and that if he
does not die in battle, he will surely die if captured. It seems to me certain that he will
accordingly fight much more obstinately with the intention of selling his life
dearly, as they say, and will have less fear of blows, for he will always be
thinking of what victory will mean to him and that only by winning can he save
his life.
St. Teresa of Jesus, Way of Perfection
Mother Teresa, A Saint?
Yet documents obtained by SF Weekly suggest that Mother Teresa knew one
of her favorite priests was removed from ministry for sexually abusing a Bay
Area boy in 1993, and that she nevertheless urged his bosses to return him to
work as soon as possible. The priest resumed active ministry, as well as his
predatory habits. Eight additional complaints were lodged against him in the
coming years by various families, leading to his eventual arrest on sex-abuse
charges in 2005.
The priest was Donald McGuire, a former Jesuit who has been convicted
of molesting boys in federal and state courts and is serving a 25-year federal
prison sentence. McGuire, now 81 years old, taught at the University of San
Francisco in the late 1970s, and held frequent spiritual retreats for families
in San Francisco and Walnut Creek throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He also
ministered extensively to the Missionaries of Charity during that time.
Peter Jamison, Tainted Saint: Mother Teresa Defended Pedophile Priest,
1-11-12
As the clean and
purified spirit can find rest only in God, having been created for this end, so
there is no place save Hell for the soul in sin, for whose end Hell was
ordained by God. When the soul is in
mortal sin as it leaves the body, then in the instant in which spirit and body
are separated, the soul goes to the place ordained for it, guided by nothing
save the nature of its sin. And if at
that moment the soul were bound by no ordinance proceeding from God's justice,
it would go to a yet greater Hell than that in which it abides, for it would be
outside His ordinance, in which divine mercy so disposes that God gives the
soul less pain than it deserves. The
soul, finding no other place at hand nor any holding less evil for it, casts
itself by God's ordinance into Hell as into its proper place. [.....] After death free will can never return, for
the will is fixed as it was at the moment of death. Because the souls in Hell were found at the
moment of death to have in them the will to sin, they bear the guilt throughout
eternity, suffering not indeed the pains they deserve but such pains as they
endure, and these without end. [.....] Oh, how dangerous is sin committed in
malice! Rarely does a man repent of it,
and without repentance he will bear its guilt for as long as he perseveres -
that is, for as long as he wills a sin committed or wills to sin again.
St. Catherine of Genoa,
On Purgation and Purgatory, revealed to
her by God
His “Bad
Dream”, Our Nightmare
I see the spirit and
principles of the Revolution working their way into Christian clergy and
people, just as the principles entered medieval society and produced the
pseudo-Reformation. Many among the
clergy have yet to see the errors of the Revolution and are still not resisting
it. Others among the clergy love the
Revolution as an idealistic cause, as it were, propagating it and collaborating
with it. They persecute the Revolution’s
adversaries, calumniating and impeding their apostolate. Most pastors say nothing. Others espouse the errors and spirit of the
Revolution and support it either in public or in secret, like the pastors in
the days of Jansenism… We must take note of the deadly battle being waged
against the Church in every field, identify the enemy, decipher his strategy
and battle tactics and observe his logic, psychology and dynamism, in order to
be able to interpret every stage of this war correctly and organize a properly
directed counter-offensive. For six
centuries our implacable enemy... has been waging war to the death, slowly and
systematically overturning and destroying nearly the whole Catholic order,
actually the City of God,.. in order to construct the city of man
in its place, with a whole new order of human life, a society and humanity
without God, without the Church, without Revelation, based on sensuality,
greed, and pride… Yet many Catholic leaders dismiss what I am saying as a bad
dream.
Archbishop Gerald de Proenca Sigaud, Bishop of Jacarezinho in Brazil, Excerpt from his letter expressing
his concerns to the Preparatory Commission for Vatican II, August 22,
1959. The orthodox preparatory work was
thrown out at the Council onset.
Fight, therefore, with great determination. Do not let the weakness of
your nature be an excuse. If your strength fails you, ask more from God. He
will not refuse your request. Consider this ------ if the fury of your enemies
is great, and their numbers overwhelming, the love which God holds for you is
infinitely greater. The Angel who protects you and the Saints who intercede for
you are more numerous… All He asks of you is that you defend yourself
courageously, and that, despite any wounds you may receive, you never lay down
your arms or leave the battleground.
You must not shirk your duty. This war is unavoidable, and you must
either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and
arbitration with them is utterly impossible.
Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, The
Spiritual Combat
How can one be free who
is separated from the Most High? What
harder or more miserable captivity is there than for the soul to have escaped
from the hand of its Creator? Happy are
they who find themselves laden with the strong fetters and chains of the gifts
of God's mercy, so that they are unable to gain the power to set themselves free... O free will,
thou art the slave of thine own freedom, unless thou
be pierced through with fear and love for Him who created thee!
St. Teresa of Jesus, Conceptions of the Love of God, Exclamations
of the Soul to God
“Through the deceit of evil men….. (who are)
most certainly going to perish 
forever…”
Now we come to another very
fertile cause of the evils by which, we are sorry to see, the contemporary
Church being afflicted. This is indifferentism, or that wicked opinion which has grown up on all sides
through the deceit of evil men. According to this opinion,
the eternal salvation of the soul can be attained by any kind of profession of
faith, as long as a man’s morals are in line with the standard of justice and
honesty. You must drive out from the people entrusted to your care this most
deplorable error on a matter so obviously important and so completely clear. For, since the Apostle has
warned that there is one God, one faith, one baptism, those who pretend that the
way to [eternal] beatitude starts from any religion at all should be afraid and
should seriously think over the fact that, according to the testimony of the
Savior Himself, they are against Christ because they are not for Christ; and
that they are miserably scattering because they are not gathering with Him; and
that consequently, they are most certainly going to perish forever, unless they
hold the Catholic faith and keep it whole and inviolate.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos
Catholic
Dogma: Only the sacrament of Baptism received by those who hold the true faith
can make men “children of God” and members of His Church!
In this crowd, in this range of religious, there is only one certainty
we have for all: we are all children of God. I hope you will spread my prayer
request for this month: That sincere dialogue among men and women of different
faiths may produce the fruits of peace and justice. I have confidence in your
prayers.
Pope Francis the Indifferent, Prayer intention for January 2016
"Up and
Onwards with a precious friendship"
A shared
commemoration of Nostra Aetate’s 55th
Anniversary
Vatican Insider | Lisa Palmieri-Billig* | 28
October 2020
Leaders and members of the
Catholic Church and world Jewry, in a shared spirit of friendship and esteem, celebrated
the 55th anniversary on October 28 of the Church’s groundbreaking (in the
contemporary idiom, we might call it “game-changing”) Vatican II
document, Nostra Aetate with formal letters
and statements. Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Vatican’s Commission for
Religious Relations with Jews and Rabbi Noam Marans,
Chair of the International Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC)
exchanged messages and issued a joint press release giving recognition to the
significant achievements of an ongoing reconciliation process that is helping to heal a two millennium
rift during which the «teaching of contempt» by many Christian clergy on all
levels planted the seeds of hatred that nourished repeated persecutions,
pogroms, and helped create a climate that led to the unfathomable crimes of the
Shoah.
Nostra Aetate as
a whole, redefined the Catholic Church’s relations
with world religions. Its most portent section, paragraph 4, is dedicated to
relations with Jews. Cardinal Koch refers to this as the “Magna Carta” of Catholic-Jewish relations. He points out a
fact that still encounters disbelief in many parishes despite the admirable
dedication of preachers and teachers, namely that «Christianity has its
roots in Judaism; the latter constitutes the nucleus of its
identity, Jesus is and remains a son of the people of Israel». He goes on
to say that Jesus «is shaped by that tradition and, for this reason, can
only be truly understood in the perspective of this cultural and religious framework».
[….]
Cardinal Koch recalls that IJCIC (which is considered the
most authoritative formal voice of world Jewry through its composition of
delegates from 11 of the major world Jewish organizations representing all
branches of Judaism such as ADL – Anti-Defamation League, AJC - American
Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith, Rabbinical Council of America, WJC - World
Jewish Congress, etc.) has «since its foundation in 1970 been the official
partner of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with Jews,
promoting and fostering Jewish-Catholic dialogue on the worldwide level». The
two organisms constitute the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee
(ILC) which generally holds meetings in different venues of the world every two
years. This year the ILC had been scheduled to meet these days in Sao Paolo,
Brazil, but obviously had to be canceled because of the pandemic. Koch reflects
that: «Even if we are not able to meet personally, our contact remains
steadfast, attesting to the fact that our friendship is stable and strong. Let
us give thanks to God the Eternal and Almighty for these bonds of friendship
and for all that has been achieved in the last decades of Jewish-Catholic
dialogue».
Rabbi Marans,
speaking for IJCIC in the organization’s message to Cardinal Koch, points
out Nostra Aetate’s recommendation that: «Since
the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great, this
sacred synod wants to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and
respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies as
well as of fraternal dialogues». He notes that the message «has been dramatically amplified by papal
visits to synagogues, to the horrific yet sacred sites of the Holocaust, and to
the State of Israel following the establishment of Vatican-Israel diplomatic
relations in 1993» and also «the Church’s teachings and initiatives since 1965
that expanded upon Nostra Aetate (no. 4)».
[….]
«Our destinies are inextricably
linked», Marans continues, «as we battle a pandemic
that does not distinguish between its victims, these values draw us closer as
guideposts for our religious lives».
«At a time when anti-Semitism is
on the rise and the physical threat to Jewish communities and individuals is
very real, we are grateful for the steadfastness of Pope Francis, who has
forcefully and repeatedly spoken out against this scourge. Early in his
pontificate, when Pope Francis met with IJCIC, he reminded the world
of Nostra Aetate (no.4)’s firm condemnation
of “hatred, persecution and all forms of anti-Semitism”. He added “Due to our
common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”».
Indeed, Francis has built solidly
on a path embarked on with firm commitment by all popes since the determined
step taken by the enlightened and humane pope, John XXIII, when he called for a
Vatican Council that would include «a document on the Jews». Perhaps the
greatest inroads were built later by St. John Paul II through his widely
acclaimed gestures and words with breakthroughs, among others, such as an
unprecedented visit to Rome’s Grand Synagogue where he referred to Jews as «our
elder brothers»; the great international interreligious prayer at Assisi that
same year of 1986; his moving visit on March 26,2000 to Jerusalem and the Kotel where he slipped note into a crack of the Western
Wall stating, «God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to
bring your Name to the Nations: we are deeply saddened by the behavior of those
who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and
asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with
the people of the Covenant. Amen».
This prayer was the apex of a
lifetime commitment against anti-Semitism by Pope Wojtyla.
Already in 1991 he declared, during a visit to the Hungarian Jewish Community,
that Anti-Semitism is a «sin to God and man». Pope Francis has fully and
totally embraced this same commitment.
Given the global surge of anti-Semitism in these troubled
times when health and economic crises often reinforced by perverse ideologies
seek a scapegoat that historically has nearly always been the Jews,
Catholic-Jewish solidarity becomes a foremost necessity in stemming this
frighteningly destructive tide.
Jews are known to consider the transmission of memory as
a fundamental value, a tradition dating back to pre-biblical times with the
oral recounting of the stories and ethical teachings that have become the
everlasting heritage of both Judaism and Christianity, and continue to be
passed down from generation to generation. Consequently the repeated
instruction to remember the past is part and parcel of the Jewish DNA.
[…..]
* Lisa Palmieri-Billig is Representative in
Italy and Liaison to the Holy See of AJC – American Jewish Committee
COMMENT: The entire Vatican II ecumenical dialogue process with Jewry is
based upon two erroneous
presuppositions. The first is that Jews today believe and practice the
religion of Abraham and Moses. They do not. And everyone knows it yet the
Modernists in Rome pretend otherwise. The Jewish religion is governed by the
traditions codified in the Talmud and not the Old Testament scripture. There is
no “spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews” and it is utterly false
and deceptive to claim that, “Christianity has its roots in Judaism; (and
Judaism) constitutes the nucleus of (Christian) identity.” The reason that the
Catholic Modernists and Jews “share a spirit of friendship and esteem”, even
camaraderie, is because the “common patrimony” they both share is a mutual
rejection of Jesus Christ. This friendship is evidence of their apostasy. The second erroneous
presupposition is that the Jews, because they are Jews, have their own
operative covenant with God whereby they obtain salvation. Again, they do not.
God is not impressed by “Jewish DNA”. As Jesus Christ said, “And think not to
say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our
father’. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise
up children to Abraham” (Matthew 3:9).
St.
Paul said of the Jews of his day that they are they, “Who both killed the Lord
Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are
adversaries to all men” (1Thess 2:15). The relationship between those who
“killed the prophets” and those who “killed the Lord Jesus” is not a literal
but a spiritual one. The analogous imputation is clear. There exists today and
historically a spiritual relationship between the Jews who literally “killed
the Lord Jesus” and their descendants who follow them in their rejection of
Jesus as the true and only Messias and persecute Him
in His Church, the Mystical Body of Christ.
Modernists
Rome denies that Jews must accept Jesus Christ and be members of His Church to
obtain salvation. They deny what St. Peter, explaining the miraculous cure of a
cripple, affirmed to the Jewish high priest in the Temple that, “by the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised
from the dead, even by him this man standeth here
before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders,
which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any
other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be
saved" (Acts 4:10-12). Or as St. John simply said, “He that hath the Son,
hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life” (1 John 5:12). The
Modernists believe the absurd Jewish racial theory that Jews, because of
“Jewish DNA”, irrespective of what they believe or of what they do, are still
in a salvific relationship with God without
Jesus Christ. The attribution of historical “persecution” of Jews is likewise
adapted to the Jewish racial theory and thus historical opposition to Jews is
always seen as being motivated by racial hatred and not what in fact Jews have
historically done. Catholics, according to their estimation in a clear example
of Jewish racial projection, are therefore racists guilty for “a two millennium rift during
which the ‘teaching of contempt’ by many Christian clergy on all levels planted
the seeds of hatred that nourished repeated persecutions, pogroms, and helped
create a climate that led to the unfathomable crimes of the Shoah.”
Modern
Jewish messianic theology holds that the Jews as a people constitute a
collective Messias, the Holocaust is their passion, and the establishment of
the State of Israel their resurrection. They believe in fact that the
collective Jewish Messias will one day rule the world
from Jerusalem. The Jews have followed many false Messiasse
since their rejection of Jesus Christ and every one of these has invariably led
to ruin. This false Messias will be no different and
perhaps, much worse.
Anti-Semitism
is the hatred of Jews because of their race. This is a sin. There is no greater
manifestation of anti-Semitism, and thus no greater sin, than refusing to tell
a Jew, because and only because he is a Jew, that that there is no hope of
salvation outside of Jesus Christ and His Church. This racial theory of
salvation is a door that will necessarily lead to abject ruin.
I consider it as being,
without possible comparison, the best book ever written on St. Thomas…
Everybody will no doubt admit that it is a “clever” book, but the few readers
who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and how,
perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot
fail to perceive that the so-called “wit” of Chesterton has put their
scholarship to shame… He has said all that which they were more or less
clumsily attempting to express in academic formulas.
Etienne Gilson, comment
on G. K Chesterton’s book, St. Thomas
Aquinas
The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in
which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary,
to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is,
whether temporal, or above all, spiritual, in the personal life of each one of
us, of our families, of the families of the world or of religious communities,
or even of the life of peoples and nations that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot
resolve by the prayer of the Rosary! With the Holy Rosary we will save
ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console our Lord and obtain the
salvation of many souls.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima to Fr. Fuentes
The decadence which exists in the world is
without any doubt the consequence of the lack of the spirit of prayer.
Foreseeing this disorientation, the Blessed Virgin recommended recitation of
the Rosary with such insistence, and since the Rosary is, after the Eucharistic
liturgy, the prayer most apt for preserving faith in souls, the devil has
unchained his struggle against it . . . The Rosary is the most powerful
weapon for defending ourselves on the field of battle.
Sr. Lucy of Fatima to Dom Umberto Pasqual
“I have always
something to repent for after having talked, but have never been sorry for
having been silent.”
St. Arsenius, a Desert Father, d. 445 at 95 years of age
Where
is the United States headed? An immoral people cannot be free. Therefore, the
deep state promotes immorality because they do not want a free people!
“The domestic
spying, impeachment, and election irregularities of the Trump presidency matter
because of what they tell us about the managerial system. All the public talk
of democracy is for show; the whole point of the bureaucracy and the party
system is to prevent any popular, democratic movement that would threaten the
ruling class’ privileges. As President Trump put it, ‘They don’t hate you
because they hate me. They hate me because they hate you’.”
Christopher
Roach, Political Commentary
Remember in your charity the following
pray requests:
Remember
the welfare of our expectant mothers: Erika
Zepeda and Andrea Ebert,
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,
Rosemary Bradley, who is in failing health, for her welfare,
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 health and conversion, and welfare of her
children,
For
the grace of a holy death, Nancy
Marie Claycomb,
The
health and spiritual welfare of Tom
Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex Estrada,
Conversion
of Annette Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent
Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers for the Keith Family,
The
welfare of the Schmedes Family, and the Mike and Mariana Donohue Family,
The
spiritual welfare Robert Holmes
Family,
For
the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin
Kwiat,
Fr.
Waters asks our prayers for Elvira 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 Robert
Kolinsky and his family, and the Sorace family,
Fr.
Waters asks our prayers for the health and spiritual
welfare of Brian Abramowitz,
Janine Mullen, for her health and help for her family,
Thomas Schiltz
family, in grateful appreciation
for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Carlo A. De Porto, who is in failing health,
Welfare
of Bishop Richard Williamson,
for strength and courage in the greater battles to come,
John Rhoad, for his health and spiritual welfare,
Angelina Montesano family & Helen
Snyder, for their health and
spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her welfare,
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, Scott Osborn, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman and family, David
Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, and Costanzo
Family, are the petitions of Gene Peters,
The
Drews ask your intercession for the welfare of Brendan McGuire, a young father
of three, who has been diagnosed with cancer,
For
the conversion of Ben & Tina
Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer
family,
Fr.
Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill, and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
For
the health and welfare of Kathryn Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
Fr.
Peterson asks our prayers for Charles
Valenti, and his wife, Julia,
For
the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The
Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe
& Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert
Drew, Christy Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit
and Michael Nesbit families,
and Gene Peters Family, the John Manidis Family, the
Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan
Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle,
who is failing health,
Mel Gibson and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev.
Timothy A. Hopkins, prayers for his mother,
the Mission of St. Philomena in Miami, and the welfare of Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s
request our prayers for the Andreas
& Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce
Paglia has asked prayers for George Richard Moore Sr. & his children, and her
brother, George Panell,
For
the welfare of Anthony & Joyce Paglia, who are responsible for the beautiful
statuary in our chapel,
Philip
Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin Family, the welfare
of Dan Polly Weand,
the conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky,
the welfare Nancy Erdeck,
the wife of the late Deacon Erdeck, and the welfare of Frank D’Agustino who
is ill, and his brother, Thomas Thees, John
Calasanctis, Tony
Rosky, Maryann Reuter, James Parvenski
and
Kathleen Gorry.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
Mark McDonald, the father of Kyle, who died December 26,
Perla Otero, a cousin of Claudia Drew, died December 2020,
Mehmet Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph Gravish,
died November 26, 100 year old
WWII veteran and daily communicate,
Jerome McAdams, the father of Daniel, 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,
Hutton Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina Cordis, Immaculate Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five
years, died May 12,
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 Haigh, died October 21, a great defender of our Catholic
faith in philosophy and natural science,
Gabriella Whalin, the mother of Gabriella Schiltz,
who died August 25,
Mary Catherine Sick, 14 year old from a large traditional Catholic
family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul Trinchard, a traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J. Melnick,
Jr., died on August 21, a
long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband and father, from Philadelphia,
Patricia Estrada, died July 29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for
her soul,
Fr. Nicholas Gruner, a devoted priest & faithful defender of Blessed
Virgin Mary and her Fatima message, died April 29,
Sarah E. Shindle, the grandmother of Richard Shindle,
died April 26,
Madeline Vennari, the mother of John Vennari,
died December 19,
Salvador Baca Callejas, the uncle of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle accident November 29,
Catherine Dunn, died September 15,
Anthony Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette Rhoad, the grandmother of Devin Rhoad,
who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees,
died August 9,
Sarah Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four children, died July 28,
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 Wather, died November 7, 2006, author of The Great Sacrilege and Who
Shall Ascend?, a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique Rueda, who died December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr.
Peterson asks to remember, Leonard
Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda,
Angelica Franquelli, and the six priests ordained with him.
Philip
Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck, Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano,
Connie DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock, and James &
Rose Gomata, and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier Bonneterre, the author of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John
Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother Francis, MICM, the superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary in Richmond, NH, who died September 5,
Rodolfo Zelaya
Montealegre, the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis Clifford, a devout and humble traditional priest, who died on
March 7,
Benjamin Sorace, the uncle of Sonja Kolinsky.
THIS
ARTICLE OFFERS INSIGHT INTO THE FUDAMENTAL CORRUPTION OF THE POPE FRANCIS'
VATICAN
Pope Francis
and Infallibility
Vatican Insider | Paolo Scarafoni and Filomena Rizzo | 11 November 2020
The
infallibility of the Pope was proclaimed as a dogma 150 years ago in Vatican
Council I. We know well
problems and difficulties that it has generated within the Church and the
Christian world and the political crises in relations with States, threatened
in sovereignty; but little thought has been given, even in theology, to
the innovative scope.
Beyond that historical moment, from an anthropological
point of view, the real novelty of this dogma was universality. The real
awareness of being able to challenge the totality of humanity today is called
“globalization”. Something
unthinkable until then, that the Catholic Church first had the courage to
propose around the figure of the Pope. We are faced with a prophecy of what
will be an irreversible journey of humanity: a global world where everything is
connected. The great powers of the world will try to imitate this path, in the
political, military, economic, financial, cultural field, also living the same
limits and the same difficulties experienced in the Church.
At that time the two great limits of the interpretation
of infallibility and universality were: the claim of the dominion of all minds
with the submission of all men; and the attainment of the univocity
of the expressions of faith. Universality as uniformity,
demanding the renunciation of freedom and cultural diversity. The Pope
was seen as an absolute monarch.
The other powers of the world have
moved and still move along the same line: to achieve universal domination and
to standardize the life
and mentality of all men, making us believe that universality is not possible
without imposing these two limits. Such premises have been made to pass
as the only condition for world development. Today, we all experience it in the
digital world, which asks us to abdicate our privacy, to allow ourselves to be
tracked everywhere, and to be influenced in the choices of almost all aspects
of our lives.
A second providential moment of
experience of universality
was the Second Vatican Council, which perhaps could never have been realized
without the beautiful awareness of John XXIII, who willingly called himself
“the pope of all”: “The whole world is my family. This
sense of universal belonging must give tone and vivacity to my mind, to my
heart, to my actions” (Il Giornale dell’Anima 29 November - 5 December 1959).
The presence in Rome of the
bishops of all the peoples of the world, of the delegated observers of the
Orthodox Churches and of the other Christian confessions, the guests of the
secretariat of Christian unity, the contribution of the experts, especially the
laity, the auditors and the parish priests, have illuminated even more the path
of universality and consequently of infallibility. In that interweaving of
relationships and knowledge it was immediately evident to everyone that
infallibility and universality could not mean renunciation of freedom and
elimination of diversity for uniformity. On the contrary, the Council was lived
as collegiality, freedom, and appreciation of the many Christian traditions in
the various cultures, also inevitably creating frictions and difficult moments.
An experience of the Church that has radiated so many hopes
to all humanity.
The Council in fact largely modified the guidelines of
the previous papal magisterium. The events channeled the exercise of
infallibility into collegiality. The Pope gave his support to the change, and
his figure was further valued, not mortified, as many feared.
Collegiality is not understood only as the feeling of living bishops, but also
as a patrimony left by all those who preceded them.
The epochal change that we live
today, accentuated by the pandemic, where everything is connected, refines even
more like gold the service of infallibility as a journey in the truth: the
infallibility of the people of God, the sensus fidei, shines out, to which recourse has already been made
in the proclamation of the two Marian dogmas (Immaculate Conception and
Assumption of Mary into Heaven). Pope Francis identifies in the sense of the faith of the people of God
the element of balance and discernment between the controversies of pastors. He
is insisting precisely on this point: it is time to learn to walk by referring
to the people of God. It is a matter of teaching having listened and
learned from the people that is the source, especially in difficulties: it is
capable of “rising up” together also in faith. It is the path of synodality, which accompanies collegiality and the Petrine ministry. Many people find it impossible to take
this route from a practical point of view and prefer paths already known.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit, but success is not
taken for granted. History has already experienced it. Some prelates,
from what can be seen in the media, try to bring the Church back to the post-Tridentine climate, creating tensions in view of the upcoming
papal election. It was at the time of the Council of Trent that the succession
to the papal throne was decided by casting suspicion on the candidate.
For the first time in a conclave
(1549-1550) the charge of heresy was launched against the English cardinal
Reginald Pole, which reflected the divisions in the Church in the face of
Protestantism. He was a great defender of the papacy, moderate and mediator,
and personally paid for the commitment to the unity of the Church in England.
In his book De Summo Pontifice,
written a few years before, he presented the role of the successor of Peter as
an imitator of Christ, and formulated “infallibility” as a guarantee of freedom
before the power of States. Probably with his election the face and history of
the Church would have had a turning point.
Precisely on the infallibility
maneuver those who oppose Pope Francis. But now it is no longer synonymous with
power, but of service in love to all humanity for a truly universal Church of
Christ.
* Fr. Paolo Scarafoni
and Filomena Rizzo teach theology together in Italy
and Africa, in Addis Ababa. They are authors of books and articles of theology.
COMMENT: What colossal tripe is this Vatican
Insider (therefore, authorized by Pope Francis) publication offering an apologetic
for the ‘Great Reset’, the new world order globalization, as a work of the Holy
Spirit, while identifying its enemies as those who would endorse a return “to
the post-Tridentine climate, creating tensions in
view of the upcoming papal election” by accusations of “heresy” against the new
pope.
The authors
are the kind of people that the Francis the Apostate surrounds himself with and
therefore parrot his thinking. This article is grounded upon thoroughly
non-Catholic presuppositions. It is the stuff from which fables lacking any
foundation are constructed. The corrupted world has infected the Church with
its habit of mistaking fantasy for imagination. While imagination is the
disciplined power to innovative vision within the possibilities of the real,
fantasy is mental sloth fermented in a soup of moral degradation to escape from
any and every challenge, burden or suffering. It is a refusal to carry the
cross.
The authors
argue that the declaration of infallibility was a type of “prophecy” that, with
“courage,” proposed an “irreversible journey of humanity” toward a “global
world where everything is connected.”
“From an anthropological point of view, “ (anthropology
being comparative sociology from a historical perspective), all human endeavors
became universal in scope directed by the “great powers of the world”: Politics
became oriented to a one world authority, military to a one world police state,
finance to a one world bank, economics to a one world control of exchange,
religion to a one world church, etc., etc. The Jewish Satanist, Karl Marx,
would appreciate this argument.
They
continue. Vatican II providentially “channeled the exercise of infallibility
into collegiality” and universality brings any and every form aberro-catholicism under the tent, so no one should be
worried about a one world abuse of authority or imposition of strict
conformity. John XXIII claimed to be
“the pope of all”: “The whole world is my family. This sense of universal
belonging must give tone and vivacity to my mind, to my heart, to my actions.”
Therefore, the authors conclude, “it was immediately evident to everyone that
infallibility and universality could not mean renunciation of freedom and
elimination of diversity for uniformity.” The new world order is certainly our
friend!
Without
any sense of shame or danger these dreamers affirm that this new modernist
gospel “is the work of the Holy Spirit, but success (for its implementation) is
not taken for granted.” After all, the new world order has already called for
universal access to abortion and reduction of the world population to 500
million that would eliminate 5.5 billion people. This is a demonic program and
to attribute this evil to the Holy Ghost is a sin that “shall not be
forgiven... neither in this world, nor in the world to come” (Matt 12:32).
Setting
aside for the moment “the upcoming papal election,” an examination of the
ideological presuppositions can be instructive. The pope is held as the rule of
faith in that he personally discerns and exemplifies the sensus fidei by the direct guidance of the Holy
Ghost through the process of collegial synodality. He discerns the shifting winds and
infallibly guides the Church in a new direction and everyone is called upon to
follow him wherever he goes. Catholic faithful
are those who follow the pope. Those Catholics who want to keep the faith and
return to a “post-Tridentine” climate where dogma is
taken as revealed truth do not possess the sensus fidei and are its enemies. Collegiality
and synodality are really just for appearance sake.
The pope ends up doing whatever he “discerns” as was evident in the previous
carefully scripted synods of Pope Francis.
The authors
claim that the “innovative scope” of the dogma of papal infallibility, the
“real novelty of this dogma was universality.” The problem is that if anything
has “universality,” it cannot at the same time have the quality of
“novelty.” A universal is a stable form
in the mind of God “with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration”
(James 1:17). A universal truth is always and everywhere for everyone without
exception true. A dogma is a universal, therefore it is not a “novelty” nor is
it proper to talk about its “innovative scope” because it is by definition
already a truth revealed by God. Only in
a subjective sense can such attributes be considered. Such as, the authors of
this article may have just discovered a universal truth but this discovery has
no bearing on the truth itself.
Every dogma
is an article of divine revelation that is formally and infallibly defined by
the Magisterium of the Church and proposed to the
faithful as a formal object of divine and Catholic faith. The Magisterium of the Church is the power conferred by Jesus
Christ upon His Church to teach in the name of God without the possibility of
error. The Magisterium is grounded upon two of the
attributes of the Church: infallibility and
authority (the third being indefectibility). These are properly
attributes of God and God alone. They are attributes of the Church only because
the Church is a divine institution. The Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus
Christ composed of those who are baptized, profess the Catholic faith, and are
subjects of the Roman pontiff. The pope is the necessary but insufficient
instrumental cause of dogma because to him alone belongs the power to engage
the Church’s attribute of infallibility and to authoritatively impose on all
the faithful the formal object of divine and Catholic faith. God is the formal
and final cause of dogma.
The
attributes of infallibility and authority that Jesus Christ endowed His Church
have been known by every faithful Catholic since the time of the Apostles.
Historically, divine revelation is only formally defined where there is a
crisis of faith regarding a particular revealed truth. The truth is one while
error is manifold. The truth of papal infallibility can be corrupted by either
denying its existence (such as by, the rationalists, liberals, materialists,
etc.) or by excess in claiming that the pope personally possesses the
attributes of the Church making him personally infallible in all he says and
does (such as by conservative Catholics today who make the pope their proximate
rule of faith). The pope is only infallible accidentally. This latter error
takes the attributes of God and attributes them to the pope essentially. This
is idolatry.
The very
definitions of universality and dogma are corrupted. Dogma as the proximate
rule of faith for every Catholic is replaced by the pope. From this idolatry,
the faith itself becomes subject to the whims of the pope and whatever he does
is claimed to be the work of the Holy Spirit and an expression of the sensus fidei. So
what do the authors mean by “Some prelates, from what can be seen in the media,
try to bring the Church back to the post-Tridentine
climate, creating tensions in view of the upcoming papal election”?
Apparently,
there is already a planned “upcoming papal election” when Francis perhaps
resigns and there is concern that clerics who look to dogma as their proximate rule
of faith will accuse the next pre-selected candidate of being a heretic. The
“post-Tridentine” Catholics will claim that it is the
dogma that is “infallible” and their objection will be, “Precisely on the
infallibility maneuver those who oppose Pope Francis. But now
(infallibility) is no longer synonymous with power, but of service in love to
all humanity for a truly universal Church of Christ.”
Infallibility
is in fact “synonymous with power” because infallibility is an attribute of the
All-powerful God. Those who are confused on this truth do not possess it. They
do not possess the Catholic faith. The definition of heresy is the denial of a
dogma. Neo-Modernists and Modernists deny dogma in its very essence. For them,
heresy is the failure to follow current papal ideology. “But though we, or an
angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached
to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received,
let him be anathema” (Gal 1:8-9).
How
Catholic Family News, formerly operated by the late Fr. Nicholas Gruner and edited by the late John Vennari,
came under the control of the SSPX is not entirely clear. What is certain is
that the publication, while praising its previous directors, has made the
publication little more than a cheer leader for the Society while quietly
dropping links to previous editorial writings of John Vennari.
The two short excerpts reposted below have been removed from the archive.
Pope Francis’
Vatican Sends “Blessing” to Publisher of Homosexual-Friendly Books for Children
Catholic Family News | John Vennari
On
August 28 Pope Francis reportedly sent an encouraging letter to lesbian founder
of publishing house for children’s books.
Today’s Il Giornale
reports, “The Pope blesses gender ideology books. To the author he writes: “Go
ahead.”
The report continues, “Pope
Francis still amazes, writing a long letter to the author of the books that the
mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, wanted to ban from
its schools. After the Synod on the family that threatens to split the church,
the Pope again lines up in defense of the same-sex couples.”
Francesca Pardi,
founder with her partner Maria Silvia Fiengo of the
publishing house for childrens’ books, The Block
Letters, is the author of books such as Little Egg, Little Story of a family:
Why you have two mothers? and "What is the secret
of Dad?
Pardi
received a positive letter from Francis’ Vatican signed by Msgr. Peter Wells of
the Vatican Secretary of State, who on behalf of the Pope,
urged her “go ahead on her pathway.”
Pardi
celebrates her response from Pope Francis on her Facebook
page, where she displays a photo of the Vatican envelope.
Il Giornale describes the Vatican letter
as “A new episode in which Bergoglio seems to break
the tradition of the Church and to side instead with the ‘modernity’.”
In June, Pardi
had an entire catalogue of her books sent to the Pope, hoping he could read
them.
Pardi
wrote in her letter to Francis, “You won’t find, in these pages any faintest
sign of the gender theory that these books are said to be the main instrument:
where do we tell children that they can choose their own gender? where do we talk to them about sex?”
Yet Pardi
and Fiengo follow the tactics of homosexual
strategists Marshal K. Kirk and Erastes Pill who in
their landmark 1987 article “The
Overhauling of Straight America,” urged the necessity to “Talk About Gays and
Gayness as Loudly and as Often as Possible.”
“The principle behind this advice
is simple”, say Kirk and Pill, “almost any behavior begins to look normal if
you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among your acquaintances.
The acceptability of the new behavior will ultimately hinge on the number of
one’s fellows doing it or accepting it.”
A person may be offended
initially by the novelty of it all, but as Kirk and Pill point out “as long as
Joe-Six-pack feels little pressure to perform likewise, and as long as the
behavior in question presents little threat to his physical and financial
security, he soon gets used to it and life goes on.” As time goes on, Joe-Six
pack and his friends will become more tolerant of homosexuality as no more than
an alternative, legitimate way of life.
This is the strategy of telling
the story of homosexual families to small children, especially when these books
are introduced in children’s schools. It means equalizing, in the educational
period, the traditional family with the homosexual couples.
Homosexuals do not reproduce.
They must recruit, and they seek to recruit and proselytize our children.
Francis’ Vatican appears ignorant
of the moral confusion such books inflict on our little ones. While the books
may not explicitly propose “gender theory,” they certainly indoctrinate
children to accept homosexual families and the homosexual lifestyle.
Once again, the Vatican Press
Office leapt into Francis-damage control.
“In no way does the letter from
the Secretariat of State mean to endorse behavior and teachings not in line
with the Gospel,” the Vatican press office said on Friday.
In the letter of response
Monsignor Peter B. Wells wrote that "His Holiness is grateful for the
delicate gesture and for the sentiments that I have suggested," and
"calls for a more profitable activity in the service of the young
generations and the spread of authentic human values and Christians', imparting
the apostolic blessing."
Francis' Vatican seems blind to
the contradiction of sending the author of homosexual books encouragement to
"go ahead," along with an exhortation to spread authentic human and
Christian values. Here again we see the modernist confusion: what is affirmed
in one place is denied in another.
The press office claimed the
letter to Francesca Pardi, in response to a letter
from her to the Pope after Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro
banned 'gay' books from the city's schools, was meant to remain private,
something which “unfortunately did not happen.”
Il
Giornale, however, notes that Pardi
received a warm, encouraging letter from Francis’ Vatican. Yet the Mayor of Venice who banned these books, received no such letter of
congratulations.
Mayor Brugnaro,
Il Giornale
notes, is “too much in line with Tradition.”
Blind Guides: Conciliar
Vatican Announces “No Mission” to Convert Jews
Catholic
Family News | John Vennari
The Vatican just published one of the worst documents of the post-Conciliar period.
Titled “The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable,” it is the latest aggiornamento
in Jewish Catholic relations. The text was released to mark the 50th
Anniversary of the Vatican II decree that dealt with the Jews, Nostra Aetate.
The document claims:
•
The New Covenant does not supersede the Old Covenant;
•
The Catholic Church, in principle, should have no
mission to convert Jews;
•
The Word of God is present to today's Jews by means of
the Torah (and equates this to the Word of God being present to Christians
through Jesus Christ);
•
Modern Jews are in an acceptable position before God
regarding salvation;
•
“The term covenant, therefore, means a relationship
with God that takes effect in different ways for Jews and Christians”;
•
“It does not follow that Jews are excluded from God’s
salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah and the
Son of God.”
In standard modernist fashion, the
document unleashes torrents of word-flow on these and similar points, yet
pretends that inconvenient dogmatic pronouncements of the past that contradict
these points do not exist.
Nowhere in the latest Vatican text do we see any mention of the infallible
dogmatic teaching of the Council of Florence that "Pagans, Jews, heretics
and schismatics" are "outside the Catholic
Church," and as such, "can never be partakers of eternal life,"
unless "before death" they are joined to the one true Church of Jesus
Christ, the Catholic Church.
Nowhere do we see the citation from Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X,
which, centuries later, presents the same truth without change: "Outside the
true Church are: Infidels, Jews, heretics, apostates, schismatics
and excommunicated persons", and further, “No one can be saved outside the
Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, just as no one could be saved from the
flood outside the Ark of Noah, which was a figure of the Church."
Nowhere in this latest text do we see a reiteration of the solemn Profession of
Faith of the Council of Florence under Pope Eugene IV that teaches:
“The sacrosanct Roman Church ... firmly believes, professes, and
teaches that the matter pertaining to the Old Testament, of the Mosaic law,
which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments,
because they were established to signify something in the future, although they
were suited to 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; ... All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision
and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it [the Roman Church]
declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate
in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors."
The doctrine of the supersession
of the Old Testament by the New is a universal and perpetual doctrine of the
Catholic Church that cannot be diluted to fit the exigencies of ecumenical
churchmen. Yet the new Vatican document labors mightily to deny the truth on
this point. “The Gifts and Calling of God Are Irrevocable” is an avalanche of
heterodoxy. It constitutes a grave danger to the Faith, especially to those not
well grounded on the topic.
No Magisterial
Authority
“Gifts and Calling” was signed by the ever-ecumenical Kurt Cardinal
Koch, Prefect of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, who was
raised to this prestigious position by the allegedly conservative Pope Benedict
XVI.
The Preface of the documents states, “The text is not a magisterial document or doctrinal
teaching of the Catholic Church but is a reflection prepared by the Commission
on Religious Relations with the Jews…” [......]
COMMENT: With respect to the Jews, the Conciliar
Church likes to pretend that the Old Covenent is
still operative for the Jews to obtain salvation quoting St. Paul (Romans
11:29), "For the gifts and the calling of God are without
repentance." Unfortunately for the Jews, the cited text is taken entirely
out of the context of the passage. St. Paul, using the same analogy Jesus
Christ used of the vine and its branches, speaks of the Jews as being the natural
branches that have been cut off but can still be grafted again onto the vine on
the condition that they accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. St. Paul warns the
Gentile converts to the Catholic faith that they too can be cut off. He says,
"Well: because of unbelief
they (the Jews) were broken off. But thou standest
by faith: be not highminded, but fear. For if God hath not spared the
natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee. See then the
goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen (the
Jews), the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in
goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they (the Jews) also, if
they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft
them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is
natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive
tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into
their own olive tree?" (Romans 11: 20-24) Jews are "cut off"
because of "unbelief" yet the grace of conversion is always open to
them so that by belief they can be "grafted into their own olive tree." The "gifts
and the calling" God does not repent so that the "olive tree"
remains "their own." But until
they by belief are grafted again into the vine there is no hope of salvation.
For any branch cut from the vine can bear no fruit. There is no hope for
salvation for anyone, Jew or Gentile that is not grafted into the vine of Jesus
Christ by supernatural grace. There is no greater possible form of anti-semitism, of pure racial hatred, than refusing to bring the
Good News of the Gospel to Jews simply because they are Jews.
We have not
heard this kind of naïve prognosticating since the halcyon days of
Vatican II
Christ is preparing a
new spring time all over the earth. I
have seen its first fruits and I know that others will joyfully reap the full
harvest.
Pope Francis, CELAM,
7-28-13
“The virtue of fortitude protects a person from
loving his life so much that he loses it.”
Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the
Virtues of the Human Heart
“Prayer draws
its merits from charity; but its imperative efficacy
comes from faith and confidence.”
St. Thomas
“Only take heed to yourself
and guard your soul diligently.” (Deut 4:9)
“It is a sin to
believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!”
Blessed
Pope Pius IX
“Only
a misguided mind would seek to afford equal rights to both good and evil.”
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
Who is Taylor
Marshall? Part 1: The Crucified Rabbi
By: Dr. Jesse Russell | AKACatholic |
November 6, 2020
Something strange has happened to
traditional Catholic media.
For at least five years, there has been a radical shift in both the
tone and content of much of the stalwarts of traditionalist publications and
journals as well as a new generation of more polished, “Web 2.0” friendly
podcasters, writers, and meme-smiths.
This change has followed the rapid influence of “JPII” conservative
Catholics into the traditionalist movement, a phenomenon initially triggered by
Pope Benedict XVI’s July 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum as well as the general “trad-friendly”
tenor of the Bavarian theologian’s pontificate.
These growing ranks of refugees from the John Paul II era were
accustomed to the upbeat and flashy world of Steubenville conferences, EWTN
news reports, and National Catholic Register articles.
Upon first approach, the often dour, Count Dracula-esque,
“get off my lawn,” demeanor of some in the traditionalist milieu was
off-putting to those nursed on late twentieth and early twenty-first century
conservative American Catholicism, a movement very much influenced by the very
bourgeois and suburbanite Evangelical Protestantism.
However, as if by magic, many of the old traditionalist publications
(as well as, interestingly, some traditionalist groups) began a radical about
face in how they presented their material, adopting the methods of “Web
2.0”—especially the world of YouTube-ing with the aid
of relatively cheap A.V. equipment and sophisticated, professional grade
editing software.
This rhetorical shift was itself matched by a marked change in the
content of traditionalist media.
No longer were certain “red pilled” topics acceptable in either
electronic or print traditionalist media.
Beginning in 2019, there was further a decided effort to unite major
members of the Catholic right together—regardless of how these Catholics
interpreted Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Missae.
As quickly became apparent, this initiative to fuse together the
disparate factions in traditionalism with trad-leaning
conservative Catholics was not for the sake of a genuine search for a true and
clear understanding of what has happened to the Church over the past century,
but rather to form a political alliance to attempt to ensure that president
Donald Trump would receive the lion’s share of the Catholic vote in 2020.
While many traditionalists have made (and continue to make) legitimate
arguments for Catholic support of Donald Trump, the frenzied and almost
messianic tone of traditionalist support of Donald Trump became increasingly
unnerving.
Moreover, it soon became evident that these rebranded Catholic
traditionalists had a curious relationship with the secular media empire of the
neo-populist right, a movement with curious ties to both foreign and domestic
entities traditionally hostile to the interests of the Catholic Church.
While “old school” traditionalist media groups spear-headed this
effort, a new, rising star quickly was anointed as the spokesman of Trumpian neo-traditionalism: Dr. Taylor Marshall.
A former Anglican minister whose entrance to the Catholic Church in May
of 2006 brought him into the high powered world of Opus Dei (Marshall began his
Catholic career as the assistant director of Opus Dei’s Catholic Information
Center in Washington, DC), Marshall had made a career in Catholic education as
well as in the burgeoning business of online blogging, vlogging,
and other forms of internet self-promotion.
However, the publication of Marshall’s 2019 Infiltration and its
curious subsequent promotion on a host of conservative and populist media
outlets, the east Texan Catholic convert quickly became the face of the new
brand of Catholic traditionalist.
A reading of Infiltration is essential to our argument, but it will
have to wait until the third installment of our series.
In order to understand who Taylor Marshall is as well as who has helped
to promote him and the new rebranding of Catholic traditionalism, we must turn
to Dr. Marshall’s 2009 work, The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of
Catholic Christianity
Based on a series of lectures that Marshall gave at the Catholic
Information Center, The Crucified Rabbi is, in effect,
a polyphonic book with two principal voices.
The first is the Catholic voice, which makes a solid and reasonable
assessment of those who identify as Jewish in the contemporary, as well as
those who have been critical of various powerful elements in the Jewish
community.
Marshall rightly notes in The Crucified Rabbi that “to disagree with
Zionism or Israeli politics is not anti-Semitism” and one “can be opposed to
the Jewish Talmud, Zionism, Israeli politics, and even the Jewish religion
without hating Jews or seeking their extermination.”
Marshall makes a number of important points here.
Since the discovery of the contents of the Talmud, Catholics have,
until the twentieth century, viewed this key text of diasporic
Judaism as a fundamentally wicked book full of blasphemous and sacrilegious
material. Thus, criticism of the Talmud does not necessarily translate
into malice toward Jews as an ethnic group.
Moreover, while many Evangelicals and Catholic neoconservatives are
fanatical supporters of the state of Israel, a Christian is certainly able to
present legitimate criticism of Israel and its supporters without being
inspired by hatred or malice.
In The Crucified Rabbi, Marshall further notes that there “is a vast
difference between the biblical Judaism of Moses and the Talmudic Judaism of
the rabbis in the centuries after Christ.”
Again, this point is critical, for many Catholics assume that the
religion of contemporary Jews is merely a continuation of the Old Testament
religion when, in fact, Talmudic Judaism incorporates a number of beliefs and
practices that differ markedly from the faith of Moses.
Indeed, in The Crucified Rabbi, Marshall even goes so far as to say
that “post-Pentecostal Judaism is a dead letter.”
However, at the same time, there is a second voice in The Crucified
Rabbi, which, paradoxically, gives the impression (whether Marshall intends or
not) that Talmudic Judaism is synonymous with the Old Testament religion.
More importantly, Marshall’s The Crucified Rabbi creates the impression
that, for the past 2,000 years, Jews have been the victims “of numerous
examples of violence” perpetrated on them by Christians. Although these “Jewish
persecutions were sparked by secular politics,” Marshall continues, “we cannot deny that it was baptized Christians who committed
these acts of injustice.”
Marshall’s characterization of Jewish-Christian relations as being a
one sided persecution of Jews by Catholics is especially curious.
It seems to chafe against the argument presented by Dr. E.
Michael Jones in his The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
and Its Impact on World History, which Dr. Jones released in 2008.
In Jones’s view, the past two thousand years of Catholic-Jewish
relations has been marked by efforts by members of the Jewish community to
destroy Catholic civilization through revolutionary mischief.
Marshall’s book, it must be noted, was released in 2009, a year after
Jones’s and presents a radically different picture of Catholic Jewish
relations.
Finally, Marshall admits that in an earlier edition of Crucified Rabbi,
he condemned the Catholic teaching of “supersessionism”
as “an erroneous teaching.” Due to critical feedback he received, Marshall
edited these statements in later editions of the book.
Nonetheless, Marshall approvingly provides Pope John Paul II’s statement
that the “people of Israel” are “the people of the covenant.” Marshall further
writes that “the people of Israel continue to be a perpetual eschatological
sign of God’s love. They are a reminder that the ‘gifts and calling of God is
irrevocable’ (Rom 11:29). The preserving presence of Israel on earth is perhaps
the best proof that God exists…”
Whatever Marshall means by these words, they lead to the impression
that God still has a covenant with the people of Israel (and perhaps even the
state of Israel?).
As a final aside, Marshall has boasted on his website that he himself
is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry (allegedly only 9.65%).
Certainly, having Jewish ancestry does not prove that Taylor Marshall’s
motives are somehow impure.
What is weird, however, is that Marshall pulled his revelatory post
down after it began to circulate on various traditionalist blogs.
Why?
To answer this question, we must dig deeper into the life and work of
Taylor Marshall, and, by doing so, we will uncover just how and why not simply
traditionalist Catholic media, but virtually the entire Catholic traditionalist
movement in America has been, it appears, infiltrated.
AKACatholic: https://akacatholic.com/who-is-taylor-marshall-part-1-the-crucified-rabbi/
COMMENT: This is a brief encapsulation of
the philosophy of Pope Francis. He is a pure Modernist who presupposes the
Hegelian evolutionary “process” as a given. All things, including doctrine, are
in a state of constant flux including the morality that doctrine determines.
Francis admits to being a “utopian” dreamer who believes that the “processes”
created by Vatican II will ultimately yield good fruit in the “utopian future.”
The rotten swill we are currently consuming is only an unfortunate but
necessary part of normal development; ‘you can’t make an omelet without
breaking eggs’. Like all liberals, it is always the theory that is normative,
the facts keep going askew. Whatever problems we are currently enduring is
because the theory has not been applied correctly in its purity with sufficient
rigor for enough time, something like the Elizabethan racking of Catholic
saints. The prescription is always more of the same rotten swill to “enhance
human fullness.” But the truth is that Francis has no idea where his
“processes” are going. He is confident that future “history” will judge his
worth. We are confident of that as well. Unfortunately for Francis, if he dies
without repenting of this heretical folly, he will not save his soul. And
repentance is problematic for Francis attributes these blind processes that
overturn revealed truth to the Holy Ghost and, Jesus said, “He that shall speak
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world,
nor in the world to come” (Matt 12:32).
Time is greater than space: A constant tension exists between
fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession,
while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do
with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us,
while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression of
enclosure. People live
poised between each individual moment and the greater, brighter horizon of the
utopian future as the final cause which draws us to itself. Here we see a first
principle for progress in building a people: time is greater than space.
This principle enables us to work slowly but surely,
without being obsessed with immediate results. It helps us patiently to
endure difficult and adverse situations, or inevitable changes in our plans. It
invites us to accept the tension between fullness and limitation, and to give a
priority to time. One of the faults which we occasionally observe in
sociopolitical activity is that spaces and power are preferred to time and
processes. Giving priority to space means madly attempting to keep everything
together in the present, trying to possess all the spaces of power and of self-assertion;
it is to crystallize processes and presume to hold them back. Giving
priority to time means being concerned about initiating processes rather than
possessing spaces. Time governs spaces, illumines them and makes
them links in a constantly expanding chain, with no possibility of return. What we need, then, is to give
priority to actions which generate new processes in society and engage other
persons and groups who can develop them to the point where they bear fruit in
significant historical events. Without anxiety, but with
clear convictions and tenacity.
Sometimes I wonder if there are
people in today’s world who are really concerned about generating processes of
people-building, as opposed to obtaining immediate results which yield easy,
quick short-term political gains, but do not enhance human fullness. History
will perhaps judge the latter with the criterion set forth by Romano Guardini: “The only measure for properly evaluating an age
is to ask to what extent it fosters the development and attainment of a full
and authentically meaningful human existence, in accordance with the peculiar
character and the capacities of that age”.
This criterion also applies to
evangelization, which calls for attention to the bigger picture, openness to
suitable processes and concern for the long run. The Lord himself, during his
earthly life, often warned his disciples that there were things they could not
yet understand and that they would have to await the Holy Spirit (cf. Jn 16:12-13). The parable of the weeds among the wheat (cf.
Mt 13:24-30) graphically illustrates an important aspect of evangelization: the
enemy can intrude upon the kingdom and sow harm, but ultimately he is defeated
by the goodness of the wheat.
Pope Francis, Evangellii Gaudium
Pope Francis
extends ‘blessings and congratulations’ to pro-abortion Joe Biden
Election
results have not yet been certified, although the media on Saturday projected
Biden to win.
LifeSiteNews | Vatican City | Nov 12, 2020
Pope Francis and pro-abortion Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden talked on the phone this morning, with the
Holy Father extending “extending blessings and congratulations” to Biden. The media had called the presidential race
for Joe Biden last Saturday, while election results are not yet officially
certified.
In a short press statement released on the Biden-Harris transition
website, Biden “thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and
congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in
promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the
world.”
Biden then “expressed his desire to work together on the basis of a
shared belief in the dignity and equality of all humankind on issues such as
caring for the marginalized and the poor, addressing the crisis of climate
change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our
communities.”
The media are characterizing the event as a call from the Pope to the
second Catholic President after John F. Kennedy in the 1960s.
Despite the media calling the race for Biden, the official result has
not yet been certified, and President Trump is currently taking legal action
regarding widespread voter fraud concerns. [.....]
COMMENT: President Trump by the grace of God may very well win this
election. A week ago we were like the
Israelites on the west bank of the Red Sea wondering just how God would deliver
us from the gross corruption of the Democratic oligarchs and their drug addled
sexually pervert cheer leaders after they orchestrated an apparent Biden win
with blatant voter fraud. With the current revelations of voting illegalities
and the movement of state legislators for detailed examination of the process
and recounts, this corruption may well be exposed and overturned. Maybe
President Trump can make Joe Biden his ambassador to the Vatican where he can
obtain political asylum from Francis after being charged for the crime of high
treason. After all Joe Biden must be a saint because he has worked the
incredible miracle of raising thousands from the dead to vote for him.
If
we are known by our friends, what is to be said about our admirers?!
Grand Master: Pope Francis’ encyclical reflects Masonic values
ChurchMilitant | Jules Gomes | ROME | November
4, 2020 - Italy’s biggest Masonic lodge is eulogizing Pope Francis’
encyclical Fratelli Tutti
(All Brothers) as “close
to the ideals that have constituted the very foundations of Freemasonry from
the very beginning.”
Titled “A Masonic Value,” the
cover article in the October issue of the Grand Orient lodge’s journal Erasmus
extols the pope for expressing “apertis verbis” (in explicit words) a “key to universal fraternity”
consistent with the doctrine of Freemasonry.
Fratelli Tutti has “many similarities with Masonic principles and
vision,” Erasmus notes, explaining how “for over 300 years the principle of
fraternity has been indelibly written in the Masonic triad placed ... in the
temples together with those of liberty and equality.”
“The realization of a universal
brotherhood is from the origins of the great mission and the great dream of
Freemasonry,” it underscores.
Recent Rash of Masonic Praise
The commendation from Italy’s
biggest lodge for the recent encyclical follows close on the heels of an
endorsement from Spain’s main lodge, the Gran Logia de España,
which claimed that the encyclical “demonstrates how far away the present Catholic Church is from its
former positions.”
“In Fratelli Tutti, the pope embraces universal
fraternity — the great principle of modern Freemasonry,” the lodge’s official
statement declared.
The faithful who enroll in
Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy
Communion.
In May, Italy’s Grand Orient
lodge’s journal Nuovo Hiram extolled Pope Francis’
Abu Dhabi “Human Fraternity” pact with Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb
as “a turning point in civilization because it will open a new era” if applied.
Eight popes in the course of 200
years have issued 20 legal interdicts condemning Freemasonry and never have any
of the pronouncements been revoked.
The Erasmus article cites the
falsified version of St. Francis of Assisi’s visit to Sultan Malik al-Kamil in Egypt, which
claims the saint visited the Sultan for dialogue, not evangelism.
The article gushes over the
pontiff’s “openness to Islam,” observing that “Bergoglio
in the encyclical does not hesitate to acknowledge that he felt inspired in a
special way” by the grand imam of al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, with whom he signed his Human Fraternity document
in Abu Dhabi in 2019.
Stressing the prerequisite of fraternity for the triad of liberty, equality and
fraternity to function, the article labels it “the principles that Freemasonry has always pursued and
preserved for the elevation of humanity.”
The lodge article goes on to
praises the pope for identifying “the fanaticisms that also exist among
Christians and in Catholic circles ... lashing out against the death penalty
and against life imprisonment, which he [Francis] defines as a ‘hidden death
penalty.’“
Freemasonry Pushing ‘Religious Indifferentism’
In mid-October, Fr. Frank Unterhalt from the Paderborn diocese identified clear
Masonic leitmotifs in the encyclical’s “tone of religious indifferentism and
the call to universal fraternity.”
In Fratelli Tutti, the pope embraces universal
fraternity — the great principle of modern Freemasonry.
“The French Revolution is of
particular importance in Masonic strategy,” Unterhalt
wrote. “It is striking that Fratelli Tutti literally adopts its slogan when the headline of
[paragraph] numbers 103 to 105 reads ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.’”
“The striving for universal
ecumenism of religions has always been a concern of Freemasonry on the way to
its actual goal, namely to bring about the breakthrough of that
self-constructed religion in which all human beings are supposedly in
agreement,” the German priest pointed out.
Unterhalt notes that
“the agenda that took shape in Abu Dhabi is, of course, not new, but the exact
implementation of the Masonic ideology in Lessing’s drama Nathan the
Wise, which is based on the lodges’ creed that truth and religion are
relative.”
Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing (1729–81) an influential (Jewish) Enlightenment philosopher and writer,
painted in “the Parable of the Ring the picture of the supposed fraternal unity
of the three so-called ‘Abrahamic religions,’ which
in their historical conditionality were only of relative importance and
interchangeable.”
Throughout history, the Catholic
Church, through its Magisterium, has condemned any
attempt towards “unity” with other sects or religions.
Papal Condemnation of Freemasonry
“Certainly, such attempts can
nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion
which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy,” Pope
Pius XI declared in Mortalium Animos
(1928), his encyclical against religious unity and the ecumenical movement.
Pope Leo XIII in Humanum Genus emphasizes that “the ultimate and
principal aim” of Freemasonry “was to destroy to its very foundations any civil
or religious order established throughout Christendom, and bring about in its
place a new order founded on laws drawn out of the entrails of naturalism.”
In his bull In Eminenti Apostolatus
(1738), Pope Clement XII condemned Freemasonry for its reliance on mere natural
virtue while ignoring Christ’s unique role as Savior.
As prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cdl. Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) categorically stated
that “the Church’s
negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains unchanged since
their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine
of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden.”
The striving for universal
ecumenism of religions has always been a concern of Freemasonry on the way to
its actual goal.
“The faithful who enroll in
Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy
Communion,” the CDF statement declared.
In his book on Christian
brotherhood, Die Chrisliche Brüderlichkeit,
Ratzinger concludes that, according to the Bible,
“only the limited application of the idea of brotherhood is Christian.”
According to the New Testament,
brothers (and sisters) are those who belong in the unity of God’s
chosen people. Believers only become brothers in virtue of their common
participation in Christ’s sonship, Ratzinger stresses.
Another Creepy Clown sighting!
“He was born a female, a girl, and he suffered greatly because he felt
that he was a boy but physically was a girl. He told his mother, when he was in
his twenties, at 22, that he wanted to have an operation and so forth. His
mother asked him not to do so as long as she was alive. She was elderly, and
died soon after. He had the operation. He is a municipal employee in a town in
Spain. He went to the bishop. The bishop helped him a great deal, he is a good
bishop and he “wasted” time to accompany this man. Then he got married. He
changed his civil identity, he got married and he wrote me a letter saying that
it would bring comfort to him to come see and me with
his bride: he, who had been she, but is he. I received them.”
Pope Francis the Weird, CEO of the Homosexual Lobby, comment during in
flight press conference from Azerbaijan, October 2, 2016
Pope
Francis and his “subtle” sins against the Catholic Faith
Many men sin against Faith in an even more subtle way through the sins
against the Holy Ghost, namely, the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence,
obstinacy, resisting the known truth and envy of someone else's spiritual
good. The sins against the Holy Ghost
are not sins of weakness or ignorance.
They are sins of certain malice.
By despair a man rejects God's goodness and mercy. By presumption he rejects God's justice. By impenitence he refuses to turn from sin to
God. By obstinacy a man hardens his will
in sin. A man sins in resisting the
known truth because he does so in order to sin more freely. Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's
spiritual good because he hates the increase of God's grace in the world. In all these sins there is great danger for
man because these sins mean that man is deliberately refusing to consider those
truths and motives which would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to
God. It is for this reason that the sins
against the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable. It is not that God is unwilling to forgive
any sins. It is rather that in these
sins a man shows that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St.
Thomas
Book on Pope Francis the Humbler than Thou
Father (Peter Hans) Kolvenbach (superior
general of the Jesuits from 1983 to 2008) accused Bergoglio
of a series of defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to
deviousness, disobedience concealed under a mask of humility, and lack of
psychological balance; with a view to his suitability as a future bishop, the
report pointed out that he had been a divisive figure as Provincial of his own
order. It is not surprising that, on being elected Pope, Francis made efforts
to get his hands on the existing copies of the document, and the original filed
in the official Jesuit archives in Rome has disappeared.
Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator Pope
“Family
Ties” within the Homosexual Lobby
Notorious
homosexual Cardinal Terrance (“Blanche,
'call-me-Uncle Teddy'“) McCarrick was ordained
by the notorious homosexual Cardinal Francis (“Franny”)
Spellman of New York who also ordained the notorious homosexual Cardinal
Terence (“Cookie”) Cooke who took the notorious homosexual McCarrick
as his “personal secretary” and consecrated McCarrick
an auxiliary bishop. Cardinal Donald
(Whirly Girl) Wuerl was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Bishop Francis Fredrick Reh of Charleston,
SC who was consecrated a bishop by the notorious homosexual Spellman. Wuerl became the
“private secretary” to the notorious homosexual Cardinal John Wright who was
Prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy and represented Wright at the conclave
that elected John Paul II who consecrated Wuerl a
bishop and made McCarrick a cardinal. It was Benedict/Ratzinger,
formally head of the CDF responsible for cleaning up the Homosexual Lobby, who
made Wuerl a cardinal. The homosexual Wuerl ultimately followed in the line of the homosexual
Wright as Archbishop of Pittsburg and was himself followed the homosexual McCarrick in Washington.
The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, 900 plus pages citing Wuerl's name more than 200 times, charges that Wuerl
as Archbishop of Pittsburgh for eighteen years repeatedly covered for the
Homosexual Lobby.
The mansion that housed Wuerl and the local branch of the Homosexual Lobby in the
Diocese of Pittsburgh was obtained by his homosexual predecessor Cardinal
Wright and was appraised twenty years ago for $1.5 million. It was sold after Wuerl's departure.
The Jacobethan Revival house along Fifth
Avenue, at 9,842 square feet (914.4 m2) with 39 rooms including
11 bedrooms, six full baths, and a half-bath is one of the largest homes in the
Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It housed an extensive collection of
antiques, Oriental rugs and art during Wuerl's
residency.
Just as Wuerl had covered up for the Homosexual Lobby in
Pittsburgh, he did the same for McCarrick in Washington
claiming to know nothing about McCarrick's
perversion. McCarrick
was Cardinal Archbishop of Washington 2001 to 2006. Homosexual McCarrick's
“personal secretary” was the current Archdiocesan Vicar General Monsignor
Charles Antonicelli who subsequently became the
“personal secretary” to Homosexual Cardinal Wuerl. When Antonicelli
was McCarrick's “personal secretary” in Washington,
the Dioceses of Trenton, Metuchen, and Newark in 2004 and 2006 paid settlements
for $100,000 and $80,000 to two men who had been abused by McCarrick while
they were in the seminary as well as after they had become
priests. It is, believe it or not, Antonicelli who now claims that he and Wuerl
knew nothing about the homosexual escapades of McCarrick.
Compiled from information from Randy Engel, Rite of Sodomy, published
in 2006, and recent articles from LifeSiteNews and WikiPedia
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