.....
this missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely,
without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment or
censure, and may freely and lawfully be used ..... Nor are superiors, administrators, canons,
chaplains, and other secular priests, or religious, of whatever title
designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass otherwise than as enjoined by Us. ..... Accordingly,
no one whatsoever is permitted to infringe or rashly contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant,
direction, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to do so,
let him understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed
Apostles Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine Codification of the “received and
approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Fourth
Sunday after Easter
St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor
May 15, 2022
Today’s liturgy exalts the justice of God
which is shown forth by our Lord’s triumph, and by the sending of the Holy
Ghost. “The right hand of the Lord hath
wrought strength” in raising Christ from the dead (Alleluia) and in causing Him
to go into heaven on the day of His ascension.
It is expedient for us that Jesus should leave the earth, for from
heaven He will send to His Church the Spirit of truth (Gospel), that best gift which
comes from the Father of lights.
The Holy Ghost will teach us all truth (Gospel, Offertory, Secret), He will “show us” whatever our Lord tells Him, and in receiving this word of life we shall be saved (Epistle). The Holy Ghost will reveal to us the wonderful things which God hath wrought for His Son and this testimony of signal justice done to our Lord, will console our souls and uphold us in the midst of persecutions. And since, according to St. James, “the trying” of our faith worketh patience which drives away inconstancy and makes perfect our good deeds (First nocturn), so “let us imitate the patience of our God and Father” (Second nocturn) in whom “there is no change or shadow of alteration” (Epistle), and then our hearts will be “set where true joys are to be found.”
On the other hand, the Holy Ghost will also convince Satan and the world of the sin they committed in delivering Jesus Christ to death (Gospel, Communion), and in continuing to persecute Him in His Church.
St. Athanasius, Doctor of the Church and Patriarch of Alexandria. He is one of the most renowned of the Fathers of the Church, was the heroic and successful defender of Catholic doctrine against Arius. After many sufferings in the cause of God's Church, he died May 2, 373. While living in Rome during his exile he described to the Romans the wonderful life of Ss. Antony and Pachomius in Egypt, sowing the seed of monasticism in Rome. He taught with great power the independence of the Church from civil authority.
INTROIT:
Ps. 97. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia: for the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia; he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation; and his arm is holy. Glory be, etc. Sing ye to the Lord, etc.
COLLECT:
O God, who makest the minds of the faithful to be of one accord, grant unto Thy people to love what Thou commandest and to desire what Thou dost promise; that amidst the various changes of the world our hearts may there be fixed where true joys abide. Through our Lord, etc.
O God, who didst raise up the Confessor, St. John Baptist,
to promote the Christian education of the poor and to strengthen the young in
the way of truth, and through him, didst gather together a new family within
Thy Church, mercifully grant through his intercession and example that we may
burn with zeal for Thy glory through the salvation of souls, and may share his
crown in heaven. Through our Lord, etc.
EPISTLE: James 1, 17-21.
Dearly beloved, every best gift
and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration. For of His own will hath He begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of His creature. You
know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to
speak and slow to anger. For the anger of man worketh
not the justice of God. Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance
of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted
word, which is able to save your souls..
INSTRUCTION Of all the gifts that come from God, the most excellent is the gospel and regeneration in baptism, by which He has made us His children and heirs of heaven. How great is this honor, and how earnestly we should endeavor to preserve it! To hear the word of God, when preached to us in sermons, will aid our endeavors. The admonition of the apostle to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, contains true wisdom, for: In the multitude of words there shall not want sin; but he that refraineth his lips is most wise (Prov. 10, 19).
ASPIRATION Aid me, O Lord, to preserve the dignity received in baptism, grant me a great love for Thy divine word, and strengthen me to subdue my tongue and to use it only for Thy glory.
GREAT ALLELUIA: Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps.117. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought victory, the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me. Alleluia.
Rom. 6. Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more; death shall no more have dominion over Him, alleluia.
GOSPEL: John 16, 5-14.
At that time Jesus said to His
disciples: I go to Him that sent Me; and none of you asketh Me: Whither goest Thou?
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go; for if I go not,
the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go I
will send Him to you. And when He is come,
He will convince the world of sin, and of justice and of judgment. Of sin,
because they believed not in Me; and of justice,
because I go to the Father, and you shall see Me no longer; and of judgment,
because the prince of this world is already judged. I have yet many things to
say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, is
come, He will teach you all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself: but what
things soever He shall hear He shall speak, and the
things that are to come He shall show you. He shall glorify Me:
because He shall receive of Mine and shall show it to you.
INSTRUCTION As the disciples, in their grief at Christ's going to His passion and death, after the accomplishment of which He was to return to His Father, never once asked Him: "Whither goest Thou?" many Christians, because of their attachment to this world and its pleasures, never ask themselves: Whither am I going, whither leads my way? By my sinful life I am perhaps going towards hell, or will my little fervor for the right, my lukewarm prayers take me to heaven? Ask yourself in all earnestness, dear Christian, whither leads the way you are going? Is it the right path? If not, retrace your steps, and follow Jesus who by suffering and death entered heaven.
Why could the Paraclete not come before the Ascension of Christ?
Because the work of Redemption had first to be completed, Christ had to die, reconcile man to God, and enter into His glory, before the Spirit of truth and filial adoption could abide in man in the fulness of grace. From this we may learn that we must purify our hearts, and be reconciled to God, if we wish to receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
How will the Holy Ghost
convince the world of sin, of justice and of judgment?
He will convince the world, that is, the Jews and Gentiles, of sin, by showing them through the preaching, the sanctity and the miracles of the apostles, as well as by gradual inward enlightenment, the grievous sins which they have committed by their infidelity and their vices; of justice, by unveiling their error, and showing them that Christ whom they unjustly rejected, is the fountain of justice; of judgment, by showing them their condemnation in their prince and head, the devil, whom they served. This prince is now driven from idols and from the bodies of men, and his kingdom is destroyed in the name of Jesus by the apostles.
Why did not Christ tell
His apostles all He had to tell them?
Because they could not yet comprehend, and keep it in their memory; because they were still too weak, and too much attached to Jewish customs, and also because they were depressed; He therefore promised them the Holy Ghost, who would fit them for it by His enlightenment, and would teach them all truth.
How does the Holy Ghost
teach all truth?
By guiding the Church, that is, its infallible administration, by His light to the knowledge of the truth necessary for the salvation of souls, preserving it from error; and by advancing those members of the Church who seek His light and place no obstacle in its way, in the necessary knowledge of truth.
What is meant by: He shall
not speak of himself, but what things so ever he shall hear, he shall speak?
That the Holy Ghost will teach us only that which He has heard from all eternity from the Father and Son; His teaching will, therefore, perfectly agree with Christ's teachings, for the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and Son and is equal God to them, and that which He teaches is also their doctrine, which is expressed in the words: He shall receive of mine.
ASPIRATION Ah, my Lord and my God! direct my feet in the way of Thy commandments and preserve my heart pure from sin, that Thy Holy Spirit may find nothing in me deserving of reproach, that He may teach me all truth, and lead me to Thee, the eternal Truth, in heaven. Amen.
OFFERTORY:
Ps. 65. Shout with joy to God, all the earth, sing ye a psalm to His name; come, and hear, and I will tell you, all ye that fear God, what great things the Lord hath done for my soul, alleluia.
SECRET:
O God, who by the august communion of this sacrifice hast made us partakers of one sovereign Godhead, grant, we beseech Thee, that as we know Thy truth, so we may follow it up by worthy behavior. Through our Lord, etc.
In memory of Thy saints, we offer Thee, O Lord, a sacrifice
of praise, trusting by it to be delivered from evil both now and
hereafter. Through our Lord, etc.
PREFACE
FOR EASTER:
It is truly meet and just, right and profitable unto salvation, that we should at all times extol Thy glory, O Lord, but more especially at this season when Christ our Pasch was sacrificed. For He is the true Lamb that hath taken away the sins of the world; Who by dying hath overcome our death, and by rising again hath restored our life. And therefore with the angels and archangels, the thrones and dominions, and the whole host of heavenly army we sing a hymn of Thy glory, saying again and again: Holy, holy, holy, etc.
COMMUNION:
John 16. When the Paraclete shall come, the Spirit of truth, he shall convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment, alleluia, alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION:
Stand by us, O Lord our God, that by what we have faithfully received we may be cleansed from our vices and rescued from all dangers. Through our Lord, etc.
Refreshed by heavenly food we humbly beseech Thee, our God, that we may be guarded by the prayers of him in whose memory we have received them. Through our Lord, etc.
“And when He is
come, He will convince the world of sin, and of justice and of judgment. Of sin, because they believed not in Me.”
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 15th:
15 |
Sun |
4th Sunday
after Easter St. John Baptist de
la Salle, C |
sd |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM, Members
of Mission; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM |
16 |
Mon |
St. Ubaldus, BpC St. John Nepomucene, M |
sd |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM;
Rosary of Reparation before Mass |
17 |
Tue |
St. Paschal Baylon, C |
d |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
18 |
Wed |
St. Venantius, M |
d |
R |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
19 |
Thu |
St. Peter Celestine,
PC St. Pudentiana, V |
d |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
20 |
Fri |
St. Bernardine of Siena, C |
sd |
W |
A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary
of Reparation before Mass |
21 |
Sat |
Our Lady’s Saturday |
sp |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM;
Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30AM |
22 |
Sun |
5th Sunday
after Easter |
sd |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM; Rosary
of Reparation 8:30 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Mission Members |
Faithfully do what God expects of you each moment, and leave the rest up
to Him.
I assure you that living in this manner will bring you great peace.
St. Jane Francis de Chantal
During his sojourn on
earth, our Redeemer thus explained the mystery of baptism to Nicodemus, who was
a ruler among the Jews, and a master in Israel: Unless a man be born
again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Here he foretells what he intends to do at a
future time; he prepares us for the mystery by telling us that as our first
birth was not pure, he is preparing a second for us; that this second
birth will be holy, and that water is to be the instrument of so great a
grace.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Fourth Sunday after
Easter
The Holy Ghost tells
us, in the sacred Volume, that a threefold cord is not easily broken
(Eccles. 4, 12). Now we have such a
one; and it keeps us in the glorious unity of the Church: hierarchy, dogma, and
sacraments, all contribute to make us one Body. Everywhere, from north to south, and from
east to west, the sacraments testify to the fraternity that exists amongst us;
by them we know each other, no matter in what part of the globe we may be, and
by the same we are known by heretics and infidels.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Fourth Sunday after
Easter
The promise made in
Holy Scripture that ‘they that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars
for all eternity’ is addressed not only to the great doctors of the science of
salvation, but also to the humblest Christian teacher, and the supreme Pontiff,
when inscribing the name of John Baptist De La Salle among those of the
blessed, declared that the inspired words ‘apply in an especial manner to those
who, like him, have left all things and devoted themselves to the instruction
of the baptized from earliest infancy in the teaching of the Gospel and the
precepts which lead to life eternal.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. John
Baptist De La Salle
A holy secrecy shrouds
the reconciliation made between God and the penitent. This sacramental secrecy deserved to have its
martyr. When Jesus instituted the sacrament
of Penance- that second baptism, wherein the Blood of our Redeemer washes away
the sins of the Christian soul- he willed that man should not be deterred from
confessing his humiliations to his spiritual physician by the fear of their
ever being revealed. How many hidden
martyrdoms have there not been, during these eighteen hundred years, for the
maintenance of this secret, which, whilst it gives security to the penitent,
exposes the confessor to obloquy, injustice, and even death! But the martyr we honour
today was not one of these hidden sufferers.
His testimony to the inviolability of the sacramental seal was public;
he gave it amidst cruel tortures; it cost him his life.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. John Nepomucen, May 16th
God is as really present in the consecrated
Host as He is in the glory of Heaven.
St. Paschal Baylon,
Patron of Eucharistic Congresses
The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures
entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect
the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized
are “reborn of water and the Spirit.”
Catechism of the
Catholic Church, On the Necessity of Baptism
The secret things
belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our
sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The chief priests of the
Synagogue strove to stifle the Name of Jesus, for it was even then winning
men’s hearts. They forbade the Apostles to
teach in this Name; and it was on this occasion that Peter uttered the
words which embody the whole energy of the Church: We ought to obey God rather than men. The Synagogue might as well have tried to
stay the course of the sun. So too, when
the mighty power of the Roman Empire set itself against the triumphant progress
of the Name, and would annul the decree that every knee should bow at
its sound, its attempt was a complete failure, and at the end of three
centuries the Name of Jesus was heard and loved in every city and hamlet of the
Empire…. St. Bernadine of Siena in the 15th century, with the Name
of Jesus which he carried in his hand represented by the three letters, I. H.
S., became as a rainbow of reconciliation; and wheresoever
he set it up, there every knee bowed down, every vindictive heart was appeased,
and sinners hastened to the sacrament of pardon.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St.
Bernadine of Siena
Jesus, Name full of
glory, grace, love and strength! You are the refuge of those who repent, our
banner of warfare in this life, the medicine of souls, the comfort of those who
morn, the delight of those who believe, the light of those who preach the true
faith, the wages of those who toil, the healing of the sick. To You our devotion aspires; by You our prayers are received;
we delight in contemplating You. O Name of Jesus, You are the glory of all the
saints for eternity. Amen.
St. Bernardine of Sienna
The Holy Spirit reproves the world of sin, because it dissembles; of
righteousness, which it does not order rightly, while it gives it to itself and
not to God; of judgment, which it usurps, in rashly judging both of itself and
others.
St. Bernardine of Siena
“Liberalism is
the belief that there could exist any part of God’s
creation that is not subject to His dominion.”
Fr. Dennis
Fahey
What
Liberalism Is?
Protestantism naturally begets toleration
of error. Rejecting the principle of authority in religion, it has neither
criterion nor definition of faith. On the principle that every individual or
sect may interpret the deposit of Revelation according to the dictates of
private judgment, it gives birth to endless differences and contradictions.
Impelled by the law of its own impotence, through lack of any decisive voice of
authority in matters of faith, it is forced to recognize as valid and orthodox
any belief that springs from the exercise of private judgment. Therefore
does it finally arrive, by force of its own premises, at the conclusion that
one creed is as good as another; it then seeks to shelter its inconsistency
under the false plea of liberty of conscience. Belief is not imposed by a
legitimately and Divinely constituted authority, but
springs directly and freely from the unrestricted exercise of the individual's
reason or caprice upon the subject matter of Revelation. The individual or
sect interprets as it pleases-----rejecting or accepting what it chooses. This
is popularly called liberty of conscience. Accepting this principle, Infidelity
on the same plea rejects all Revelation, and Protestantism, which handed over
the premise, is powerless to protest against the conclusion; for it is clear
that one, who under the plea of rational liberty has the right to repudiate any
part of Revelation that may displease him, can not
logically quarrel with one, who on the same ground repudiates the whole. If
one creed is as good as another on the plea of rational liberty, on the same
plea no creed is as good as any. Taking the field with this fatal weapon of
Rationalism, Infidelity has stormed and taken the very citadel of Protestantism
helpless against the foe of its own making.
As a result, we find amongst the people of
this country [excepting Catholics of course] that authoritative and positive
religion has met with utter disaster, and that religious beliefs or unbeliefs have come to be mere matters of opinion,
wherein there are always essential differences, each one free to make or unmake
his own creed-----or accept no creed.
Such is the mainspring of the heresy
constantly dinned into our ears, flooding our current literature and our press.
It is against this that we have to be perpetually vigilant. The
more so as it insidiously attacks us on the grounds of a false charity and in
the name of a false liberty. Nor does it appeal only to us on the ground
of religious toleration.
The principle ramifies in many directions,
striking root into our domestic, civil, and political life, whose vigor and
health depend upon the nourishing and sustaining power of religion. For
religion is the bond which unites us to God, the source and End of all good;
and Infidelity, whether virtual as in Protestantism or explicit as in
Agnosticism, severs the bond which binds men to God, and seeks to build human
society on foundations of man's absolute independence. Hence we find Liberalism
laying down as the basis of its propaganda the following principles:
·
The absolute sovereignty of the individual in
his entire independence of God and God's authority.
·
The absolute sovereignty of society in its
entire independence of everything which does not proceed from itself.
·
Absolute civil sovereignty in the implied
right of the people to make their own laws in entire independence and utter
disregard of any other criterion than the popular will expressed at the polls
and in parliamentary majorities.
·
Absolute freedom of thought in politics,
morals, or in religion. The unrestrained liberty of the press.
Such are the radical principles of
Liberalism. In the assumption of the absolute sovereignty of the individual,
that is, his entire independence of God, we find the common source of all the
others. To express them all in one term in the order of ideas, they are
RATIONALISM or the doctrine of the absolute sovereignty of human reason. Here
human reason is made the measure and sum of truth. Hence we have individual,
social and political Rationalism, the corrupt fountain head of liberal principles
[which are]: absolute freedom of worship, the supremacy of the State, secular
education repudiating any connection with religion, marriage sanctioned and
legitimatized by the State alone, etc.; in one word, which synthesizes all,
SECULARIZATION, which denies religion any active intervention in the concerns
of public and of private life, whatever they be. This is veritable social
atheism.
Don Felix Sarda
Y Salvany, Liberalism is a Sin
When the Holy Ghost
is come, he will convince the world of sin, because they believed not in
me. How great must, indeed, be the responsibility
of them that have been witnesses of Jesus’ wonderful works, and yet will not
receive his teaching! Jerusalem will be
told that the Holy Ghost has come down upon the disciples: and she will receive
the news with the same indifference as she did the miracles which proved Jesus
to be her Messias.
The coming of the Holy Ghost will serve as a sort of signal of the
destruction of the deicide city. Jesus
adds: The
Paraclete will convince the world of justice, because
I go to the Father, and ye shall see me no longer. The Apostles, and they that believe their
word, shall be just and holy by faith: they will believe in him that is gone
to the Father in him whom they are to see no longer in this world.
Jerusalem, on the contrary, will remember him only to blaspheme him; the
holiness, the faith, the justice of them that shall believe, will be her
condemnation, and the Holy Ghost will leave her to her fate. Jesus continues: The Paraclete will
convince the world of judgment, because the prince of this world is already
judged. They that follow not Christ
Jesus, follow Satan: he is their prince, but his judgment is
already pronounced. The Holy Ghost warns
the followers of the world that their leader is already in eternal
torments. Let them reflect well upon
this; for, the pride of man has no right to reckon upon indulgence; let
it but think of the hell into which even the angels were cast because
they were proud.
St. Augustine
O my Savior, in union
with the offering and the sacrifice of Yourself which You made to the Father
and in His honor, I offer myself to You to be a bloody victim of Your will, a
victim immolated for Your glory and that of Your Father. Unite me to Yourself, O good Jesus, draw me into Your sacrifice, so that I may be
sacrificed with You and by You. Since
the victim must be sacrificed, slaughtered, and consumed by fire, make me die
to myself, that is, to my vices and passions, to all that is displeasing to You. Consume me
entirely in the sacred fire of Your divine love, and
grant that hereafter my whole life may be a continual sacrifice of praise,
glory, and love for Your Father and for You.
St. John Eudes
In order that the
oblation [of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass] by which the faithful offer the
divine Victim to the heavenly Father may have its full effect, still one thing
more is necessary; it is necessary that they immolate themselves as victims….
together with the Immaculate Host, a victim acceptable to God the Father.
Pope Pius XII, Mediator
Dei
THE
GREAT PROMISE
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑
O Jesus, prepare my heart to receive the Holy Spirit whom You
have promised and merited for me.
MEDITATION:
1. Since last Sunday, the Church
has been preparing us for the Ascension of Our Lord. Today, taking up the
subject again, she goes a step further. She mentions the coming of the Holy
Spirit, and in so doing, makes use of a passage from Jesus' discourse after the
Last Supper. Our Lord is speaking to the Apostles and preparing their souls for
His departure. Sad and thoughtful, they listen to Him, without courage to
question Him. Like a kind father, the Lord breaks the painful silence. “And now
I go to Him that sent Me, and none of you asketh Me: `Whither goest Thou?'“
He hastens to console them: “It is expedient to you that I go, for if I go not,
the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I
will send Him to you” (Gosp : Jn 16,5‑14). Only Jesus' death could merit this
great gift for us, and it was not until after His Ascension into heaven that
the Holy Spirit, the Envoy of the Father and the Son, could descend upon the
Church. The Apostles were about to lose the sensible, physical presence of their
adored Master. However, He would not leave them orphans and would continue to
help them invisibly by His Spirit, who would take up His work with them. Jesus
did His work in a visible manner in their midst; the Holy Spirit would do His
in a secret, hidden way, but in one no less efficacious and real. Furthermore,
as Jesus Himself said, the action of the Holy Spirit would complete His. “I
have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when He,
the Spirit Truth, is come, He will teach you all truth.... He shall receive of
mine and shall show it to you.” The hearts of the Apostles, still dulled by
sin, could not, really comprehend these profound truths; it was necessary that
Jesus, by dying on the Cross, destroy sin‑ the great obstacle to the action
of the Holy Spirit‑ and then, when He had ascended into heaven, He would
send the divine Paraclete whom He merited for them
and for us by His Passion.
The
sending of the Holy Spirit to our souls is the principal fruit of the Passion
of Jesus.
2.
We can draw some practical applications from today's Gospel. First of all, we
must fervently prepare ourselves for Pentecost, so that the coming of the Holy
Spirit will be renewed in us in all its plenitude. Since sin is the obstacle to
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, our preparation must consist in a very
special purity of conscience. Sin must be destroyed in us, not only in its
actual manifestations, even though they are slight, but also in its deepest and
most hidden roots.
We
must be convinced, furthermore, that a certain action of the Holy Spirit is
never interrupted in a soul in the state of grace; this is even more true of a soul who tries to correspond faithfully to
the divine motions. This action does not necessarily have to be perceived and
consoling. In aridity and despondency the Holy Spirit also works in the
faithful soul; His action is secret and hidden, but also real and effective.
Its chief purpose is to purify the soul and dispose it for union with God. If
the soul is convinced of this, it will remain confident, even in difficulties,
and, if it neither understands nor sees its path, it will trust in the Holy
Spirit, who sees and knows well the goal to which He is leading it.
Finally,
today's Gospel invites us to invoke the action of the Holy Spirit on the Church
and on the whole world; on the Church, to govern and direct her in the
accomplishment of her mission; on the world, to convince it of the truth which
it rejects. “And when He is come,” said Jesus, “He will convince the world of
sin, and of justice, and of judgment” that is, He will make it see that it is
the slave of sin because it has not believed in Christ. He will make it
understand that justice and sanctity are found only in Him, the Redeemer, and
He will show it that the devil, the “prince of this world,” is henceforth
overcome and condemned.
COLLOQUY:
“Ah! eternal Word, tell me, I beg You, what prevents the Holy
Spirit from accomplishing all His work in the soul? You tell me that the first
impediment is malice; another impediment is the self‑will of those who
want to serve You, but in their own way. We want Your
Spirit, but we want Him in the way that pleases us, and as much as pleases us;
in this way we make ourselves incapable of receiving Him. At other times, lukewarmness is the hindrance; we think we are serving You and do not realize we are serving ourselves. But You, O
Lord, want to be served with humility and sincerity, without self-love. Thus
Your Spirit takes no rest but in a soul which He finds plunged in humility.
Alas! O loving Word, I should like to know what I ought to do about these
hindrances, for what good will it do me to understand them, if I do not know
the cure for them? Now, I see plainly that the remedy for malice is a simple
right intention; the remedy for self‑will is a will so dead to self that
it wills only what You will. The cure for lukewarmness is the ardor of charity, which like fire,
comes into our hearts and burns up all tepidity” (St. Mary Magdalen
dei Pazzi).
“Come,
O Holy Spirit, sanctify me! Come, O Spirit of Truth, fill me! Your divine
Wisdom will establish me in the truth. I am thirsting for truth, and wish it to
rule over my mind, my words, my affections, and my actions, avoiding everything
that is opposed to it, not only lies, but also dissimulation, duplicity, and
lack of sincerity with myself.
“Come,
O Spirit of Peace, bring me Your peace! That profound
peace which dilates the soul and prepares it for Your operations,
that peace which calms and dominates all the sensible part of the soul and even
the superior part.
“Come,
O Spirit of Charity, inflame me and inspire me with Your
love, so that I can pour it out over the souls whom I would bring to You! Oh! transform me into love; only thus shall I be able to fully
respond to Your call, and be of use to the Church” (Sr. Carmela of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D.).
Do not tarry on the way, but strive like strong men until you die in
the attempt, for you are here for nothing else than to strive. Come what may, happen what will, let those
complain who will, tire yourself as you must, but even if you die halfway along
the road… tend always toward the goal.
St. Teresa of Avila
“Friend, I am ready and you take courage… I warn you that I have a short
neck and therefore be attentive to strike correctly so that you do not have a
blot on your good reputation.”
St. Thomas More, to his executioner, July 6, 1535
The
most fashionable philosophy today is Deconstructionism, and that’s the explicit
denial of the very essence of language: “intentionality”. That’s the technical, traditional term for
the quality that words have that makes them meaningful, significant, signs that point beyond themselves to
objective reality. There is no objective
reality to these Deconstructionists, no world beyond texts. Texts are worlds, and worlds are texts. It makes morality as arbitrary as penmanship.
Peter Kreeft, Ph. D., A
Refutation of Moral Relativism
Our
“Open Letters” to the Dioceses of Harrisburg and Philadelphia,
and to Rome illustrate the results of Aggiornamento: The “Modern Mind” subsumes
the Novus Ordo Cleric!
The third and far the most formidable element of Main Opposition to the Faith today, is what I propose to call by its own self-appointed and most misleading title: “The Modern Mind.” [.....] Upon dissecting it we discover the “Modern Mind” to contain three main ingredients and to combine them through the force of one principle. Its three ingredients are pride, ignorance, and intellectual sloth; their unifying principle is a blind acceptance of authority not based on reason. Pride causes those who suffer from this disease to regard whatever they think they have learned, whatever they have absorbed, through no matter how absurd a channel, as absolute and sufficient. Ignorance forbids them to know with any thoroughness what men have discovered about these things in the past, and how certainly. Intellectual sloth forbids them to examine an argument, or even to appreciate the implications of their own assertions.
With most men who are thus afflicted the thing is not so much a mixture of these vices as the mere following of a fashion; but these vices lie at the root of the mental process in question. As to the principle of blindly accepting an authority not based on reason, it runs through the whole base affair and binds it into one: Fashion, Print, Iteration, are the commanders abjectly obeyed and trusted. [.....] The color in which the whole of the “Modern Mind” is dyed is essentially stupidity: it will not think—and that is a very strange weakness for anything which calls itself a “mind”!
If it were an active enemy, its lack of reason would be a weakness: being (alas!) not active, but a passive obstacle, like a bog, it is none the weaker for being thus irrational.
Hilaire Belloc, Survivals and New Arrivals, The Modern Mind
All our Ecclesiastical Traditions are Signs, Images which
signify a greater Truth. It is this
“Greater Truth” that the Novus Ordo attacks.
“Whoever venerates an image venerates the
person portrayed in it.”
St. Basil, De Spiritu
Sancto 18, 45
“The beauty of the images moves me to
contemplation, as a meadow delights the eyes and subtly infuses the soul with
the glory of God.”
St. John Damascene, De Imag
1, 27
“More people have been imprisoned for Liberty, humiliated and tortured
for Equality, and slaughtered for Fraternity in this century, than for any less
hypocritical motives, during the Middle Ages.”
Roy Campbell, poet, journalist, Catholic convert, footnote appended to
his poem Flowering Rifle.
Let us pray for heretics and schismatics,
that our Lord and God may deliver them from all their errors, and vouchsafe to recall
them to their holy Mother, the Catholic and Apostolic Church. Almighty, eternal
God, Who dost save all, and willest not that any
should perish, look upon the souls deceived by diabolical fraud, that,
abandoning all heretical depravity, the hearts of the erring may regain sanity
and return to the unity of truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who livest and reignest, with God the
Father, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
THE ONE THING NECESSARY
As everyone can easily understand,
the interior life is an elevated form of intimate conversation which everyone
has with himself as soon as he is alone, even in the tumult of a great city.
From the moment he ceases to converse with his fellow men, man converses
interiorly with himself about what preoccupies him most. This conversation
varies greatly according to the different ages of life; that of an old man is
not that of a youth. It also varies greatly according as a man is good or bad.
As soon as a man
seriously seeks truth and goodness, this intimate conversation with himself tends to become conversation with God. Little by
little, instead of seeking himself in everything, instead of tending more or
less consciously to make himself a center, man tends to seek God in everything,
and to substitute for egoism love of God and of souls in Him. This constitutes
the interior life. No sincere man will have any difficulty in recognizing it.
The one thing necessary which Jesus spoke of to Martha and Mary consists in
hearing the word of God and living by it.
Rev. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The
Three Ages of the Interior Life
Hermeneutics of
Continuity/Discontinuity
“The
Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI and the last edition prepared under
Pope John XXIII, are two forms of the Roman Liturgy, defined respectively as ordinaria and extraordinaria:
they are two usages of the one Roman Rite, one alongside the other. Both are
the expression of the same lex orandi of the Church.”
Benedict XVI, Universae Ecclesiae, May13, 2011, (n. 6)
“The Novus Ordo
represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the
Catholic theology of the Mass as it was… definitively fixed by the Council of
Trent.”
Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine for the Faith, September 3, 1969,
Brief Critical Study of the New Order of Mass, Cardinals Ottaviani
and Bacci
“The
analysis of the Novus Ordo made by these two
cardinals has lost none of its value nor, unfortunately, of its relevance…. The
results of the reform are considered by many today to be devastating. It was to
the credit of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci that they discovered very quickly that the change of
the rites led to a fundamental change of doctrine.”
Cardinal Alfons
Maria Stickler, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church and Archivist of the Secret
Archives of the Vatican, November 27, 2004, on the occasion of the reprinting
of the Brief Critical Study by Cardinals Ottaviani
and Bacci
Such is the
civilization that never knew Christ! - What will the one be like that has
rejected Him?
St. Paul, addressing
the Romans, whose triumphant civilization had absorbed all the strength and all
the vices of the conquered peoples, tells them to their face with that intrepid
firmness which fears no contradiction: You are without affection, without
fidelity; you are filled with malice, with iniquity, with bitterness; hateful,
hating one another; finally, you are without mercy (Rom. 1 and 3; Tit. 3). And
yet St. Paul is the most reserved of all the writers of that time. Plato,
Aristotle, Aristophanes, Plautus, Titus, Livy, Tacitus, Juvenal, Suetonius,
Plutarch, Seneca, relate the horrors of pagan society with a good faith and
indifference which make one shudder. It is evident this was the accepted and
public morality of the most civilized nations. Strangers, prisoners, the
vanquished, slaves, debtors, the sick, the poor, the aged, children, women, all
who were weak, all who suffered, all who labored----in a word, the great majority
of the human race was hated, despised, and oppressed. The rest wallowed in the
mire of vice. Vice itself was deified; it had its temples, its priests, its
altars in every city of the world; disorder became a social obligation, and
immorality a public worship. Such was the pagan world before the coming of
Christ…."It is estimated," says Loudun in
his work L'Antiquite, "that the spectacle
of the gladiators cost, on an average, thirty thousand men a year."
Fr. W. Devivier, SJ, Christian Apologetics: A Defense of the Catholic Faith, Christian Civilization
What, then, is purity
of intention? Purity of intention is having God alone as our object, free from
all self-interest. …. The truth is, of course, that only God knows us through
and through; above all in the most essential thing, namely whether we are
worthy in His eyes of love or hatred. We cannot be absolutely certain that any
of our actions are pleasing to Him, and this uncertainty will remain with us
all our life; we will never be able to pronounce with certitude on the purity
of our intentions. For if we were sure on this point, we would be equally sure
that our actions were holy, and consequently that we were in a state of grace.
For this reason, we must always say with David: From my secret sins, cleanse
me, O Lord. And who knows fully his own frailty? The truth is in itself very
painful, and particularly grievous to self-love, which is always seeking for
assurance. According to God's designs, however, it should humble us, but not
drive us to despair. If in this matter we cannot arrive at absolute certitude,
yet by learning to know ourselves and by humbly asking it of God, we can obtain
sufficient moral certitude to give us peace. But we must do all that lies in
our power.
Rev. John Nicholas Grou, S.J., Spiritual Maxims
“He will convince the world of sin”
The Four Sins That Cry To Heaven For Vengence - Are Protected Acts under U. S. Law.
1. Willfull
murder. - Unjust war
2. Defrauding the
laborer of his wages. - Federal Confiscatory Taxation
3. Oppression of the
poor. - Usury
4. Sin of Sodom. - Hate crimes, Homosexual “marriage”, etc.
But would it not be enough
for one to be a Catholic in heart only,
without professing his religion
publicly?
No, for Jesus Christ has solemnly declared that, “He who shall be ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man shall be ashamed when He shall come in His majesty, and that of His Father, and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9:26) Fr. Michael Muller, C.SS.R, Questions and Answers on Salvation
And since Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, morally obliges every Catholic the duty to profess his faith in
the public forum, every Catholic possesses by right the use of the
ecclesiastical traditions of our Church which constitute the perfect outward
expression of our holy faith.
Yes I know Bergoglio, [says a Jesuit superior from another Latin
American country]. He’s a person who’s caused a lot of problems in the Society
and is highly controversial in his own country. In addition to being accused of
having allowed the arrest of two Jesuits during the time of the Argentinean
dictatorship, as provincial he generated divided loyalties: some groups almost
worshipped him, while others would have nothing to do with him, and he would
hardly speak to them. It was an absurd situation. He is well-trained and very
capable, but is surrounded by this personality cult which is extremely
divisive. He has an aura of spirituality which he uses to obtain power. It will
be a catastrophe for the Church to have someone like him in the Apostolic See.
He left the Society of Jesus in Argentina destroyed with Jesuits divided and
institutions destroyed and financially broken. We have spent two decades trying
to fix the chaos that the man left us.
Fr. Vallely,
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, 2013
“Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my
hands to fight, and my fingers to war.”
Psalms 143:1
Pacem in Terris - Celebrating 50+ years of
Masonic Corruption of Religious Liberty
Experts: ‘Pacem
in Terris’ had radical impact on church teaching; Jerry Filteau, Apr. 18, 2013, National Catholic Reporter
One of the beauties of Pacem in Terris, (Fr. J. Bryan) Hehir said, was the fact that against centuries of Catholic thought and practice asserting the primacy of truth over conscience in religious matters, John (XXIII) simply asserted, without laying out detailed arguments, that civil authorities have an obligation to protect the freedom of their citizens to worship and practice religion as they see fit in their own conscientious belief.
It took three more council sessions after John's death in June 1963 for the fathers of Vatican II to struggle to consensus on the same conclusion and adopt their Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) in 1965, he said.
Modernist
Definition: Pastoral = The teaching that the truths
revealed by God and the moral duty He imposes can be ignored if they constitute
a physical or psychological imposition to our self-love.
Catholic
members of royal couples won't have to raise kids Catholics By Catholic News Service
LONDON (CNS) -- Church leaders have told the British government that members of
the royal family who marry Catholics under recently passed legislation will not
be obliged to bring up their children in the Catholic faith.
Lord Wallace of Tankerness,
speaking on behalf of the government, said he had been assured personally by
Msgr. Marcus Stock, general secretary of the Bishops' Conference of England and
Wales, that the canonical requirement of Catholics to raise their children in
the faith was not always binding.
“I have the specific consent of
Msgr. Stock to say that he was speaking on behalf of Archbishop (Vincent)
Nichols (of Westminster) as president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of
England and Wales and can inform the House that the view taken by the Catholic
Church in England and Wales is that, in the instance of mixed marriages, the
approach of the Catholic Church is pastoral,” he said.
“It will always look to provide
guidance that supports and strengthens the unity and indissolubility of the
marriage,” Lord Wallace said.
Last Words of Catholic Martyrs
Whosoever dieth
out of the Catholic Church he dieth in the state of damnation.
Benedicat
nos omnipotens Deus, Pater et Filius et Spiritus
Sanctus, Father Roberts has told you the reason why we are to
suffer death, and so it is not necessary that I should repeat more than one thing.
I did not refuse to take the oath because I refused any sort of allegiance that
her Majesty the Queen could justly demand of me. I refused on account of the
matters of Faith included in that oath, and that is why it has been forbidden
by His Holiness the Pope, whom all of us who are sheep of Christ are bound to
obey in matters of Faith. I pray you all therefore and exhort you to be
obedient to the chief Shepherd of the Church of God. Out of the Church there is
no salvation.
Memorare
novissima tua —
Let man remember his end. Quia nos omnes manifestari
oportet ante tribunal Christi — We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ there
to render an account of our Faith and of our deeds. Those who have done well
will have eternal life, and those who have done evil will suffer eternal
torments. Extra ecclesiam nulla
est salus
— Outside the true Church of Christ there is no salvation.
St. John Roberts, English Catholic priest and martyr, executed on December 10, 1610
The World of Instability that Vatican II Attempts to Conform the
Church: “Artificial and Mechanical”
Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis
which is essentially different from anything that has been previously
experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions
or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow
development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously
faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions
on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being
uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted
in a new organisation which is as artificial and
mechanical as a modern factory.
Christopher Dawson, (1889-1970), Catholic Historian, Enquiries into
Religion and Culture, 1947
The True God from Whom is all being, beauty, form and number, weight
and measure; He from Whom all nature, mean and excellent, all seeds of forms,
all forms of seeds, all motions, both of forms and seeds, derive and have
being… He ( I say) having left neither heaven nor earth, nor angel nor man, no,
for the most base and contemptible creature, neither the bird’s feather nor the
herb’s flower, nor the tree’s leaf, without the true harmony of their parts,
and peaceful concord of composition; it is in no way credible that He would
leave the kingdoms of men and their bondages and freedom loose and
uncompromised in the laws of His eternal providence.
Christopher Dawson, Catholic historian, Dynamics of History
“Of all divine
things, the most godlike is to co-operate with God in the conversion of
sinners.”
St. Denis the Areopagite
A Sin that “Cries to Heaven for Vengeance” – A Sin Known
to All by the Natural Law is offered “Civil Rights.” Any wonder? He has been
“breathing the waters of a swamp.”
Archbishop Piero Marini: “Yes to civil rights, no to the equivalence
to marriage”.
On the new
Pope: “The Church experiences hope after years of fear” Andrea Tornielli, Vatican City
“It is necessary to recognize the union
of persons of the same sex, because there are many couples that suffer because
their civil rights aren’t recognized. What can’t be recognized is that this
union is equivalent to marriage”.[…..] About the new Pontiff. “It’s a breath of fresh air; it’s opening a window onto springtime and onto hope. We had been breathing the waters
of a swamp and it had a bad smell. We’d been in a church
afraid of everything, with problems such as Vatileaks
and the paedophilia scandals. With Francis we’re talking about
positive things”. With the new Pope, added Mgr. Marini, “there’s a different air of freedom, a church that’s closer to the poor and less problematic”.
Archbishop Piero Marini, delegate for Eucharistic congresses, said this yesterday in an interview given during the IV National Eucharistic Congress in Costa Rica.
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of
anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts and
blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither
discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill
our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will
remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is
written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (James.
1:20).
St. John Cassian
The thief on the cross certainly did not receive the Kingdom of Heaven
as a reward for his virtues but as a grace and a mercy from God. He can serve
as an authentic witness that our salvation is given to us only by God’s mercy
and grace. All the holy masters knew this and unanimously taught that
perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
St. John Cassian
Admission of Heretical
Ambiguity introduced into Vatican II Documents
In many places, [the Council
Fathers] had to find compromise formulae, in which, often, the positions of the
[conservative] majority are located immediately next to those of the
[modernist] minority, designed to delimit them. Thus, the conciliar
texts themselves have a huge potential for conflict, open the door to a
selective reception in either direction.
Walter Cardinal Kasper,
who was a bishop at Vatican II, April 12, 2013, L'Osservatore
Romano
The first and most excellent of these aids (for strengthening and
ordering the human will) is the power of God’s Divine Grace, whereby the mind
can be enlightened and the will wholesomely invigorated and moved to the
constant pursuit of moral good, so that the use of our inborn liberty becomes
at once less difficult and less dangerous.
Not that the divine assistance hinders in any way the free movement of
our will, just the contrary, for grace works inwardly in man and in harmony
with his natural inclinations, since it flows from the very Creator of his mind
and will, by whom all things are moved in conformity with their nature. As the Angelic Doctor points out, it is
because Divine Grace comes from the Author of nature, that it is so admirably
adapted to be the safeguard of all natures, and to maintain the character,
efficiency, and operations of each.
Pope Leo XIII, Libertas
Pope Francis Kisses Hand of, and concelebrates Novus Ordo with, Notorious Homosexual Activist Priest - some
sample quotations from this degenerate:
Today the Church's attitude to homosexuals
is strict, inhuman and has caused much suffering by claiming that homosexuality
is sin. Some church people say, “It is acceptable to be gay,
but they must not have any relationships, they cannot love each other”!
The maximum is hypocrisy. This is like
talking to a plant, and saying, 'you cannot bloom, you
may not bear fruit.' (sic)
Don Michele De Paolis, Interview with LGBT group Bethel of Genoa, Italy.
In the holy
Church of God, not everyone is suffering from homophobia. Those who want
to make you “heterosexuals,” as it is called, would
be force you to act contrary to nature and to make you unhappy psychopaths. We
need to put into our heads that God our “Father wants us, his children, to be happy, by making fruitful the gifts that He has placed us in
our “nature”! [.....] You have the
right to go looking for a partner. And be quite unconcerned: where agape is, is God. Live your love with joy. And with our mother Church we must have patience.
Her attitude to homosexuals will change. In this sense numerous initiatives have already been
engaged.”
Don Michele De Paolis,
Addressing gathering of homosexual activists
“We must liberate our thinking from a risk:
fundamentalism, that is, to take literally what the Bible says. The new
obedience to the gospel is free, responsible and conscious. Instead
of wasting energy in endless religious polemics, it aims to a new Christian
spirituality of joyful acceptance of yourself forming
gratitude to God, knowing that homosexual love is His gift, which is not less
than the heterosexual.”
Don Michele De Paolis,
Essay
The
Devil Reads a “Book” by its Cover
“Nobody doubts that unclean spirits can influence the character of our
thoughts, but this is by affecting them from without by sensible influences, that
is, either from our inclinations or from our words, and those likings to which
they see that we are especially disposed.”
St. John Cassian, Seventh Talk to Monks
Penance then is as it were, a salutary weapon placed in the hands of
the soldiers of Christ, who wish to fight for the defense of and restoration of
the moral order in the universe. It is a
weapon that strikes right at the root of all evil, that is, at the lust of
material wealth and the wanton pleasures of life. Be means of various works of penance, the
noble-hearted Christian subdues the base passions that tend to make him violate
the moral order. But if zeal for the
divine law and brotherly love are as great in him as they should be, then not
only does he practice penance for himself and his own sins, but he takes upon
himself the expiation of the sins of others,
imitating the saints who often heroically make themselves victims of reparation
of the sins of whole generations, imitating even the divine Redeemer, Who
became the Lamb of God, 'Who taketh away the sins of
the world,' (1 john 1:29).... The divine Heart of Jesus cannot but be moved at
the prayers and sacrifice of His Church, and He will finally say to His spouse,
weeping at His feet, under the weight of so many griefs
and woes: 'Great is thy faith, be it done to thee as thou wilt' (Matthew
15:28).
Pope Pius XI, Caritate Christi
“In like manner, the ceremonies of the Old
Law prefigured Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer; whereas our
Sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently, just as it would be a mortal
sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet
to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too, it
would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old
accomplished with devotion and fidelity.
Such is the teaching of St. Augustine.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Kingdom of God is not the work of man and does not emerge by a
natural law of progress from the course of human history. It makes a violent
interruption into history and confounds the work of man, like the stone hewn
from the mountain without human agency which crushes the image of the four world
empires into dust.
Christopher Dawson, Dynamics of World History
Human beings are created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord,
and by means of this to save their souls.
The other things on the face of the earth are created for human beings,
to help them in working toward the end for which they are created. From this it follows that I should use these
things to the extent that they help me toward my end, and rid myself of them to
the extent that they hinder me. To do
this, I must make myself indifferent to all created things, in regard to
everything which is left to my freedom of will and is not forbidden. Consequently, on my own part I ought not to
seek health rather than sickness, wealth rather than poverty, honor rather than
dishonor, long life rather than a short one, and son in all matters. I ought to desire and elect only the thing
which is more conducive to the end for which I am created.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Principle and Foundation of the Spiritual
Exercises
Cardinal
Zen arrested by Communist Chinese Government May 12, 2022 on “security”
violations.
Amazing!
Martyrdom is a barrier to ecumenical unity!
If you have a Church that considers martyrs, that sets them off against
the others, this in itself contains the pebbles of a
rocky road to disunity. Sure I appreciated [Cardinal Joseph Zen’s] concerns and
sufferings… You have to be proud of the Church that suffers, but also worried
that a Church that suffers allows that suffering to be a barrier to the common
union to which the Lord has called us.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the Homosexual
Pervert, criticizing Cardinal Zen and the faithful Catholics of China for
resisting a forced unity with the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA) founded
by the communist government.
“O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.”
Not without reason has this verse been selected out of the whole body
of Scripture. For it takes up all the emotions that can be
applied to human nature and with great correctness and accuracy it adjusts
itself to every condition and every attack. It contains an invocation of
God in the face of any crisis, the humility of a devout confession, the
watchfulness of concern and of constant fear, a consciousness of one's own
frailty, the assurance being heard, and confidence in a protection that is
always present and at hand, for whoever calls unceasingly on his protector is
sure that he is always present. It contains a burning love and charity, an
awareness of traps, and a fear of enemies. Seeing oneself surrounded by these
day and night, one confesses that one cannot be set free without the help of
one's defender. This verse is an unassailable wall, an impenetrable
breastplate, and a very strong shield for those who labour
under the attack of demons.
St. John Cassian, The
Conferences, Commentary Psalm 69
Worth Reading Again from Previous Year:
Open Letter by “Papal favorite” calling for
End of Summorum Pontificum
OPEN
LETTER on the “State of Liturgical Exception” | Andrea Grillo,
April 29, 2020
To all theologians, scholars, and students
of theology:
The great liturgical tradition, which has
always accompanied and supported the Church in her history of grace and sin,
hears the groaning of individuals and nations in this pandemic crisis, which
brings suffering and affliction to those who are sick, and fear, isolation and
loneliness to everyone else. The ordinary rhythm of the Lenten and
Paschal journey is altered and subverted, in solidarity with our common
suffering. We would never have thought, however, that a small but not marginal
suffering would also come at the same time through the exercise of ecclesial
authority and through the decrees Quo magis e
Cum sanctissima, which the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published on 25 March 2020.
It is no surprise that This Congregation
should devote its attention to the liturgy. But special and singular is the
fact that it modifies the ordines, introduces prefaces
and formularies for feasts, and modifies calendars and criteria of precedence.
And it does this on a 1962 missal. How is this possible? The Congregation, as is known,
in this case moves in the space of an exceptional authority, which dates
back 13 years, in accordance with motu proprio Summorum pontificum. But since time is greater than space, what is possible on
the regulatory level is not always appropriate. Therefore, it is crucial
to engage in critical reflection on the logic of this development.
Time, in fact, has unveiled to us the
paradox of a competence on the liturgy being taken away from the Bishops and
the Congregation of Worship: this was arranged, in Summorum
pontificum, with an intention of solemn
pacification and generous reconciliation, but soon it changed into a serious
division, a widespread conflict, and became the symbol of a “liturgical
rejection” of the Second Vatican Council. The greatest distortion of the
initial intentions of the motu proprio
can be seen today in those diocesan seminaries where it is expected that the
future ministers will be trained at the same time in two different rites: the conciliar rite and the one that denies it. All this reached
its most surreal point the day before yesterday, when the two Decrees were
released. They mark the culmination of a distortion which is no longer
tolerable, and which can be summed up as follows:
·
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith acts as a
substitute in exercising competences conferred by the Second Vatican
Council on Bishops and the Congregation for Divine Worship;
·
it undertakes to elaborate ”liturgical variants” of
the ordines without having the
historical, textual, philological and pastoral competences;
· it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic
level, a grave conflict between the lex
orandi and the lex credendi, since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a significant division
in the faith;
·
it seems to underestimate the
disruptive effect this “exception” will have on the ecclesial level,
by immunizing a part of the community from the “school of prayer” that the
Second Vatican Council and the liturgical reform have providentially given to
the common ecclesial journey.
A “state of exception” is also happening
today on the civil level, in its harsh necessity, and this fact allows us
greater ecclesial foresight. To return to an ecclesial normality, we must
overcome the state of liturgical exception established 13 years ago in another
world, with other conditions and with other hopes, by Summorum pontificum. It
no longer makes sense to deprive diocesan bishops of their liturgical powers;
neither does it make sense to have an Ecclesia Dei Commission (which has in fact already been
suppressed), or a Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
which take away authority from diocesan Bishops and the Congregation of Divine
Worship; it no longer makes sense to enact decrees to “reform” a rite that is
closed in the historical past, inert and crystallized, lifeless and without
vigor. There can be no resuscitation for it. The double regime is over; the
noble intention of SP has waned; the Lefebvrians have
raised the barhigher and higher and then run away,
insulting the Second Vatican Council and the present pope along with all three
of his predecessors. Continuing to nourish a “state of liturgical
exception” – one that was born to unite, but does nothing but divide – only
leads to the shattering, privatization, and distortion of the worship of the
Church. On the basis of these considerations, we resolve together to
request that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith immediately
withdraw the two decrees of 25/03/2020 and restore all powers concerning the
liturgy to the diocesan Bishops and the Congregation for Divine Worship. Obviously, we ask this
without prejudice to the powers that this Congregation retains in doctrinal
matters.
So let us leave the “state of
liturgical exception”. If not now, when?
With best wishes to all colleagues and
students, besieged but not conquered in life, during these bitter yet still
generous times.
“Time is greater than space” – The ideological lynchpin of Pope Francis
the Great Equivocator
This liturgical OPEN LETTER structures its argument around the phrase:
Time is Greater Than Space.” This slogan of Pope Francis, “Time is greater than
space” (TGTS), appeared in his first two encyclicals, Lumen Fidei and Laudato
Si’. It surfaced again in the apostolic exhortations, Evangelii
Gaudium and Amoris
Laetitia.
From Lumen Fidei:
“Let us refuse to
be robbed of hope, or to allow our hope to be dimmed by facile answers and solutions
which block our progress, ‘fragmenting’ time and changing it into space.
Time is always much greater than space. Space hardens processes, whereas time
propels towards the future and encourages us to go forward in hope.”
Evangelii Gaudium is more revealing as to the cryptic meaning
of this phrase:
222. A constant
tension exists between fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for
complete possession, while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly
speaking, “time” has to do with fullness as an expression of the horizon which
constantly opens before us, while each individual moment has to do with
limitation as an expression of enclosure. People live poised between each
individual moment and the greater, brighter horizon of the utopian future as
the final cause which draws us to itself. Here we see a first principle for
progress in building a people: time is greater than space.
223. This
principle enables us to work slowly but surely, without being obsessed with
immediate results. It helps us patiently to endure difficult and adverse
situations, or inevitable changes in our plans. It invites us to accept the
tension between fullness and limitation, and to give a priority to time. One of
the faults which we occasionally observe in sociopolitical activity is that
spaces and power are preferred to time and processes. Giving priority to space
means madly attempting to keep everything together in the present, trying to
possess all the spaces of power and of self-assertion; it is to crystallize
processes and presume to hold them back. Giving priority to
time means being concerned about initiating processes rather than possessing
spaces. Time governs spaces, illumines them and makes them links in a
constantly expanding chain, with no possibility of return. What we need, then,
is to give priority to actions which generate new processes in society and
engage other persons and groups who can develop them to the point where they
bear fruit in significant historical events. Without anxiety,
but with clear convictions and tenacity.
St. Pius X said in Pascendi that Evolution
is the fundamental principle of the heresy of Modernism. This error is
practically applied when Modernists embrace Becoming
and reject Being.
This neologism of Francis, TGTS, is just a repacking of this old philosophical
error of Modernism. Francis is trying to sound clever by putting a little
make-up and bow-tie on the pig. But the pig remains a pig because that is his Being. Fr. Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. explained this
error in his great essay, Where is the
New Theology Leading Us?, that was published in the Angelicum in 1946.
It should be
remembered that on December 1, 1924, the Holy Office condemned 12 propositions
taken from the philosophy of action, among which was number 5, or the new
definition of truth: “Truth is not found in any particular act of the intellect
wherein conformity with the object would be had, as the Scholastics say, but
rather truth is always in a state of becoming, and consists in a progressive
alignment of the understanding with life, indeed a certain perpetual process,
by which the intellect strives to develop and explain that which experience
presents or action requires: by which principle, moreover, as in all
progression, nothing is ever determined or fixed.” The last of these condemned
propositions is: “Even after Faith has been received, man ought not to rest in
the dogmas of religion, and hold fast to them fixedly and immovably, but always
solicitous to remain moving ahead toward a deeper truth and even evolving into
new notions, and even correcting that which he believes.”
Many, who did not heed
these warnings, have now reverted to these errors.
……
It revisits modernism.
Because it accepted the proposition which was intrinsic to modernism: that of
substituting, as if it were illusory, the traditional definition of truth: aequatio rei et
intellectus (the adequation
of intellect and reality), for the subjective definition: adequatio
realis mentis et vitae (the adequation
of intellect and life). That was more explicitly stated in the already cited
proposition, which emerged from the philosophy of action, and was condemned by
the Holy Office, December 1, 1924: “Truth is not found in any particular act of
the intellect wherein conformity with the object would be had, as the
Scholastics say, but rather truth is always in a state of becoming, and
consists in a progressive alignment of the understanding with life, indeed a
certain perpetual process, by which the intellect strives to develop and explain
that which experience presents or action requires: by which principle,
moreover, as in all progression, nothing is ever determined or fixed” (v. Monitore ecclesiastico, 1925. t.
I; p. 194.)
The truth is no longer
the conformity (of judgment) to the intuitive reality and its immutable laws
but the conformity of judgment to the exigencies of action, and of human life
which continues to evolve. The philosophy of being or ontology is substituted
by the philosophy of action which defines truth as no longer a function of
being but of action.
Thus is modernism
reprised: “Truth is no more immutable than man himself, inasmuch as it is
evolved with him, in him and through him. As well,
Pius X said of the modernists, “they pervert the eternal concept of truth.”
……
The traditional
definition truth is no longer for them the conformity of judgment to intuitive
being and the immutable laws of non-contradiction, of causality, etc. For them,
the truth is no longer that which is but that which is becoming — and is constantly
and always changing.
For the Modernist heretic, Pope Francis, “Time is greater than space,”
“Time” means the process of becoming
through evolution and “Space” is the
limitation of static being. A library
could be filled with analyzing the implications of this error but suffice for
the present there are two obvious to everyone: Firstly, the very definition of
heresy is the rejection of DOGMA. For the faithful Catholic, DOGMA is
NECESSARILY the proximate rule of faith. This is directly rejected by the
Modernists. They replace Dogma with the person of the pope as the proximate
rule of faith and he is free to corrupt the revealed truth in whatever manner
he pleases. The second obvious error is that they deny the philosophical
meaning of substance. They follow
modern reductionist Scientism that resurrected the Greek philosopher
Democritus’ (460-370 B.C.) theory that the fundamental nature of all that
existed is “atoms and the void.” Since all reality is just the recombination of
atoms and the void between them, then there cannot be such thing as a fixed substance in which accidents adhere. Consequently, we have Benedict/Ratzinger denying substance
and making the accident of relationship the fundamental ground of
all reality. It is therefore not surprising when he denies the Dogma of
Transubstantiation. And what becomes of the Dogma that the Father and the Son
are Consubstantial? Francis follows in the same manner and never kneels before
the Blessed Sacrament. No argument can touch these blighted minds, if you call
something that never thinks a “mind.” It matters not what wreckage and ruin
that has followed since Vatican II because the being of the wreckage cannot overcome their ideological fantasy of becoming as Pope Francis looks to his “brighter horizon of the utopian
future… for progress in building a people.”
The truth is just the opposite, ‘Space is Greater than Time.’ God
revealed His name to Moses, “I AM.” Jesus applied this name to Himself. God is
perfect BEING; He is perfect ACT: “Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is
from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
change, nor shadow of alteration” (James 1:17). Ultimately time will end in a
changeless eternity where the faithful will be with God in a space
prepared by Him for each one of us. “In my Father's house there are many
mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place
for you. And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be” (John
14:2-3).
Andrea Grillo
gives as a reason for the suppression of the Latin Mass granted to the Indult
crowd:
· it seems to ignore, precisely on the dogmatic
level, a grave conflict between the lex
orandi and the lex credendi, since it is inevitable that a dual, conflictual ritual form will lead to a significant division
in the faith;
He to believes with
Francis that TGTS. Latin Mass Catholics are stuck in space while the Catholic Church is moving in time to a new “dogmatic
level” that will inevitably “lead to a significant division in the faith.”
The two rites he says represent a “grave conflict between
the lex orandi and
the lex credenda.”
Are we to congratulate Grillo for this insight?Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine for
the Faith with his Interventionin in 1969 said the same
thing! This is a truth that faithful Catholics have known for more than 50
years! Yet Indultists publicly deny this truth
professing that both the Novus Ordo and the traditional
Latin rite express an identity of “lex orandi /lex credendi.” This is the price they have paid for their
Indult; a mind that turns its back on the first principle of the understanding
cannot even be called a “mind”!
Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission’s purpose is to make a
public profession of the Catholic faith before our local ordinary and Rome.
Foundational to this purpose is that DOGMA IS divine revelation infallibly
defined by the Magisterium of the Church, which is irreformable both in its truth (form) and its terminology
employed (matter), IS the “formal object of divine and Catholic faith” and
constitutes the proximate rule of faith for all the faithful. Furthermore, our
immemorial ecclesiastical traditions are necessary attributes of the faith by
which alone the faith can be known and communicated to others. Since God has
imposed a duty upon His faithful to profess their faith and worship Him in the
public forum, every Catholic possesses the inalienable right to our immemorial
traditions by which alone these duties can be fulfilled. Those who have
accepted the Latin Mass by virtue of Indult and/or grant of legal privilege
want a non-confrontational modus vivendi with Modernist heretics. This has never worked
in the past and it will not work now. Being neither ‘cold nor hot’, they please
no one and will soon learn that having traded their birth right for bowl of
pottage there is nothing left to eat.
Neo-Modernism
Postulates the grave error that there exists a disjunction between DOGMA and the
Words used to formulate the dogmatic definition. This error became the
overarching theme of Vatican II!
[…..] In theology some (i.e., Neo-Modernists) want to reduce to a minimum the meaning
of dogmas; and to free dogma itself from terminology long established in the
Church and from philosophical concepts held by Catholic teachers, to
bring about a return in the explanation of Catholic doctrine to the way of
speaking used in Holy Scripture and by the Fathers of the Church. They cherish
the hope that when dogma is stripped of the elements which they hold to be
extrinsic to divine revelation, it will compare advantageously with the
dogmatic opinions of those who are separated from the unity of the Church and
that in this way they will gradually arrive at a mutual assimilation of
Catholic dogma with the tenets of the dissidents.
Moreover, they assert that when Catholic doctrine has been reduced to
this condition, a way will be found to satisfy modern needs,
that will permit of dogma being expressed also by the concepts of modern
philosophy, whether of immanentism or idealism or
existentialism or any other system. Some more audacious affirm that his can and
must be done, because they hold that the mysteries of faith are never expressed
by truly adequate concepts but only by approximate and ever changeable notions,
in which the truth is to some extent expressed, but is necessarily distorted.
Wherefore they do not consider it absurd, but altogether necessary, that
theology should substitute new concepts in place of the old ones in keeping
with the various philosophies which in the course of time it uses as its
instruments, so that it should give human expression to divine truths in
various ways which are even somewhat opposed, but still equivalent, as they
say. They add that the history of dogmas consists in the reporting of the
various forms in which revealed truth has been clothed, forms that have
succeeded one another in accordance with the different teachings and opinions
that have arisen over the course of the centuries.
It is evident from what We have already said,
that such tentatives not only lead to what they call
dogmatic relativism, but that they actually contain it. The contempt of
doctrine commonly taught and of the terms in which it is expressed strongly favor it. […..]
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
Sin of Envy
From a nomadic jungle tribe, to a Catholic Civilization, to a nomadic
jungle tribe!
Those who gave promise of
no particular aptitude in any special direction became agriculturists, and were
sent out to labour in the fields. Those who bade fair
to become expert craftsmen were apprenticed to a suitable trade.
The range of these was
sufficiently wide to give scope to an ingenuity
considerably greater than that of the Guarani, notable enough though this
proved itself. According to a contemporary Jesuit writer: “There are everywhere workshops for gilding, painters, and
sculptors; gold, silver, and other smiths; clockmakers, carpenters, joiners,
weavers, and founders — in a word, for all the arts and trades that can be
useful to them.” In their dealings with the Indians the missionaries realized
the value of the specialist, and it was undoubtedly due to this fact and to the
early training accorded to their converts that such meritorious results were
obtained. [……]
It became evident…. that
they (Guaranis) possessed the power of imitation to
an extraordinary degree. On this the Jesuits worked with a fervour
that afforded really brilliant results.
In the course of time
each town became possessed not only of its skilled craftsmen, but of a certain
number of artists and sculptors as well. It is remarkable to think that the
decorations, pictures, and sculpture in all the churches and in every place
throughout the settlements were the work of the Indians alone. No object,
apparently, was too elaborate in design for them to imitate with the utmost
success. The most decorative candlestick, the costliest piece of furniture, or
the finest morsels of carving — all these were faithfully reproduced by the
ingenious converts.
Their claim to distinction as
builders is sufficiently proved by the fact that all the churches themselves in
the land of the missions were the work of their hands. They were no crude and
makeshift buildings these. Bias Garay (an extreme critic
of the Jesuits) protests that they were the largest and most beautiful in South
America, and that their ornaments rivalled those of
Madrid and Toledo — a bold statement that is not so very wide of the mark, as
the crumbling ruins in the midst of the forests will testify to to-day. [……..]
Behind such fabrications
the real position was simple enough. Working with most unpromising material,
and almost certainly with no motives beyond those of conversion and
civilization of the native races, the Jesuit missions in Paraguay had, while
making men of the Guarani Indians, established a semi-communism which left the
practical, fortune-hunting colonist altogether out of the reckoning. It is true
that this went far to deprive the latter of unlimited free labour,
and came perilously near reducing him to working for a living. Beyond the
influence of the Jesuit Reductions, his fellow-colonists had slaves in plenty —
subject, of course, to the plastic regulations framed in Spain for the welfare
of the natives — and the settler who found himself placed at a disadvantage in
this manner sought, in the expulsion of the hated Order, his only means of
redress. It took two hundred years to bring about this redress, but in June
1767 the order was sent to Don Francisco de Paula Bucareli
y Ursua, Governor of Buenos Aires, to accomplish the
expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay. [………]
From the departure of
Cardenas up to 1767, the mission work went on, though always the Jesuits were
hated by the Spanish colonists for refusing to lend themselves to the
enslavement of the Indians, and suspected of concealing rich mines for their
own advantage, though independent search had proved the baselessness
of this suspicion. At last the decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits from
Spain and all her colonies was signed, and in June 1767, Bucareli,
Governor of Buenos Aires, received an order to put the decree in force in
Paraguay. In July of that year he deported all the Jesuit priests of
Corrientes, Cordoba, Santa Fe and Monte Video, and then he set about removing
the missionaries of Paraguay.
Fearing resistance, and
knowing what a strong hold the Jesuits had on their Guarani converts — who
numbered at that time over a hundred and fifty thousand, Bucareli
prepared and armed a military expedition, with which he embarked for Paraguay
on 24th May 1768. At Salto on the Uruguay he disembarked and divided his forces
into three bands, setting out as to a conquest.
The Jesuits, however, made
no resistance, but delivered up their keys and authority and suffered to be
bound like sheep. Seventy-eight mission leaders went prisoners to Buenos Aires,
and thence to Spain. Their places were filled by Franciscan and Dominican
priests, who had had little or no experience of mission work.
Bucareli
framed laws for the maintenance of the missions on the lines followed by their
original founders, but with the passing of the Jesuits passed the spirit that
had made for success. Corruption and selfish ends on the part of these new
masters alienated the confidence of the Guaranis, who
seceded from the Reductions at such a rate that in thirty years from the
expulsion of the Jesuits the missions had fallen into decay, and the work was
at an end.
W. H. Koebel, In Jesuit Land, The Jesuit Missions in Paraguay
Q:
But would it not be enough for one to be a Catholic in heart only, without
professing his religion publicly?
A: No, for Jesus Christ has solemnly declared that, “He who shall be
ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man shall be ashamed when He
shall come in His majesty, and that of His Father, and of the holy angels.”
(Luke 9:26) Fr. Michael Muller, C.SS.R,
Questions and Answers on Salvation
And since Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, morally obliges every Catholic the duty to profess his faith in
the public forum, every Catholic possesses by right the use of the
ecclesiastical traditions of our Church which constitute the perfect outward
expression of our holy faith.
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity
A Illustrative
Example of the Heresy of Neo-Modernism
It is not enough to find a new language in which to articulate our
perennial faith; it is also urgent, in the light of the new challenges and prospects
facing humanity, that the Church be able to express the ‘new things’ of
Christ’s Gospel, that, albeit present in the word of God, have not yet come to
light. Pope Francis the Destroyer,
Address, October 11, 2018
A Illustrative
Example of the Catholic Faith
If there are any present-day teachers making every effort to produce
and develop new ideas, but not to repeat “that which has been handed down,” and
if this is their whole aim, they should reflect calmly on those words which
Benedict XV proposes for their consideration: “We wish this maxim of our elders
held in reverence: Nihil
innovetur nisi quod traditum — let nothing new be introduced,
but only what has been handed down; it must be held as an inviolable law in
matters of faith, and should also control those points which allow of change,
though in these latter for the most part the rule holds: non nova sed noviter—not new things but in a new way.”
Pope Pius XII,
Si Diligis,
Allocution to Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops on the Canonization of St
Pius X, May 31, 1954.
The Church
that knows how to celebrate Easter is synodal
Vatican
Insider | Paolo
Scarafoni and Filomena
Rizzo | 4-20-21
“It is a matter of putting Jesus Christ at
the centre of community life and of living a new Pentecost. The paradigm
remains the Second Vatican Council: once it began, at the moment of real sharing, precisely on the
subject of the «liturgical celebration», it was no longer possible to harness
the Holy Spirit and keep him under the control of a few, and so the novelty
could enter the world.”
COMMENT: The blasphemy never ends.
These Modernist heretics have the effrontery to say that before Vatican II,
that Holy Spirit was “harnessed” and “kept under control” to prevent Him from
inflicting His liturgical “novelty” on the Church. The “received and approved”
Roman rite of Mass is the object of Dogma. It is therefore the work of the Holy
Ghost as all true worship of God is and always has been from the beginning to
this day. For these heretics, the countless saints, martyrs and confessors that
fill the history of the Church never “put Jesus Christ at the centre of
community life and the living a new Pentecost.” The Novus Ordo
Church knows nothing about the celebration of Easter because they know nothing
about a penitential exercise of Lent. They want the joy of the Resurrection
without the contradiction of the Cross and Passion of Jesus Christ. That is the
“novelty” they pursue. It is the same that the Pharisees wanted: “Let Christ
the king of Israel come down now from the cross, that
we may see and believe” (Mark 15:32). These constitute the “many” who will one
day hear our Lord say: “Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have
not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name,
and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity” (Matt 7:21-23). They have
betrayed the Faith and yet promise themselves heaven as if it were possible
that the Truth of Christ could be immaterial to His friendship. Jesus Christ
said that there is a sin that will not be forgiven in this world or the next:
the sin against the Holy Ghost. Why? It may very well be because the “many”
believe they possess the grace of God and therefore cannot repent of a sin they
are blind to. Pray God to deliver us sins of ignorance.
Usury: Making
fertile what is by nature sterile!
Antonio: Or is your gold and silver ewes and
rams?
Shylock: I cannot tell. I make it breed as fast.
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
Martin
Luther:
“God does not save factious sinners. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but
believe and rejoice in Christ every more boldly. No sin will separate us form
the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day.” Martin Luther
“When I awoke last night the Devil came and wanted to debate with me
arguing that I was a sinner. To this I replied, “Tell me something new, Devil!
I already know that perfectly well; I have committed many a solid and real sin.
Indeed there must be good honest sins not fabricated and invented ones for God
to forgive.” Martin Luther
In translating St. Paul, “We account a man to be justified by faith”
(Romans 3:28), Luther added the word, “alone.”
In answer to those who objected to his mutilating Sacred Scripture, he answered: “If your Papist annoys you with the word
(alone), tell him straightway: Dr. Martin Luther will have it so. Whoever will
not have my translation, let him give it the go-by; the devil’s thanks to him
who censures it without my will and knowledge. Dr. Martin Luther will have it
so, and he is a doctor above all the doctors in Popedom.”
Pope
Francis the Lutheran:
“I think that Marin Luther's intentions were not mistaken. He was a reformer.... And today, Luther and
Catholics, Protestants, all of us agree on the doctrine of justification. On
this point which is very important, he did not err.”
Pope Francis, public interview, June 26, 2016
Catholic
Faith: Council of Trent: Selected Canons on Justification
CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith
alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is
required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification,
and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by
the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.
CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying
faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for
Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified;
let him be anathema.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is
truly absolved from his sins and justified, because that he assuredly believed
himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who
believes himself justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and
justification are effected; let him be anathema.
CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who
is born again and justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly
in the number of the predestinate; let him be anathema.
CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying
faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for
Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified;
let him be anathema.
CANON XIII.-If any one saith, that it is
necessary for every one, for the obtaining the
remission of sins, that he believe for certain, and without any wavering
arising from his own infirmity and disposition, that his sins are forgiven him;
let him be anathema.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that man is
truly absolved from his sins and justified, because that he assuredly believed
himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is truly justified but he who
believes himself justified; and that, by this faith alone, absolution and
justification are effected; let him be anathema.
CANON XV.-If any one saith, that a man, who
is born again and justified, is bound of faith to believe that he is assuredly
in the number of the predestinate; let him be anathema.
CANON XIX.-If any one saith, that nothing
besides faith is commanded in the Gospel; that other things are indifferent,
neither commanded nor prohibited, but free; or, that the ten
commandments nowise appertain to Christians; let him be anathema.
CANON XXIX.-If any one saith, that he, who
has fallen after baptism, is not able by the grace of God to rise again; or,
that he is able indeed to recover the justice which he has lost, but by faith
alone without the sacrament of Penance, contrary to what the holy Roman and
universal Church-instructed by Christ and his Apostles-has hitherto professed,
observed, and taugh; let him be anathema.
CANON XXXIII.-If any one saith, that, by the
Catholic doctrine touching Justification, by this holy Synod inset forth in
this present decree, the glory of God, or the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ
are in any way derogated from, and not rather that the truth of our faith, and
the glory in fine of God and of Jesus Christ are rendered (more) illustrious;
let him be anathema.
Ecumenism
with Lutherans requires abandoning both Reason and Free Will which helps
explain why Modernists are both stupid and reckless!
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes
to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against
the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
Martin Luther
“This error of free will is a special doctrine of the antichrist.”
Martin Luther
Even
with a bad knee, Pope Francis cannot resist kicking Catholics faithful to
Tradition!
Pope decries
divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans
PICTURE: Pope Francis speaks at an audience with nuns and religious
superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican,
Thursday, May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, was wheeled to the audience after he has
been suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He
revealed he recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain. (AP
Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
ROME
(AP) - May 5, 2022 - By FRANCES D'EMILIO
— Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school
versions of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground
of the issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the
church.
Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against traditionalists, whose
prominent members include some ultra-conservative cardinals.
They have resisted restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican, on
celebrations of the old Mass in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more
generally, for years have disparaged the modernizing reforms of the Second
Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and students of the Pontifical
Liturgical Institute, Francis said, “I emphasize again that the liturgical
life, and the study of it, should lead to greater Church unity, not division.
When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of division, there is the
stench of the devil in there, the deceiver. It’s not possible to worship God
while making the liturgy a battleground for issues that are nonessential questions, indeed, outdated issues, and to
take sides starting with the liturgy, with ideologies that divine the Church.”
Francis has made clear he prefers Mass celebrated in local languages,
with the priest facing the congregation instead of with his back to the pews.
That was the way Mass was celebrated before the revolutionary Vatican Council
reforms, more than a half century-ago, which aimed at making rank-and-file
Catholics feel more connected to liturgical celebrations.
COMMENT: Once again we find Pope Francis the Deceived landing not far
from the truth but again missing it all together. Pope Francis/Bergoglio always sees things in light of an “ideology”
because he himself is an ideologue. The Faith is not an ideology but a revealed
truth and theological virtue from God. Pope Francis/Bergoglio
views the faith through an ideology drawn from modern philosophy that is not
only dated but boring. If he were not the pope his opinions would be shared by
no one. The “battleground” causing “divisiveness in the church” is caused by
those with a modernist ideology who have attempted to overthrow the immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions, especially the “received and approved” Roman rite of
the Mass because these traditions are effective signs of the faith they hate.
They are the neo-iconoclasts and the immemorial images are anathema to
them. It is indeed ‘devil inspired” but
it is Francis/Bergogliodoing the bidding of the
devil. Francis/Bergoglio is dead on when he says,
“It’s not possible to worship God while using the liturgy as a ‘battleground’”
for the Novus Ordo does not worship God and it is the
worship of God that he wants destroyed. The Novus Ordo
is a man-made liturgy directed to the worship of man. It is the offering of
Cain, the “fruit of the earth and the work of human hands.” Francis/Bergoglio is lying when he says that this battle is over
things that are “nonessential questions.” If they were “nonessential” he would
be indifferent to the matter because every Catholic is free to do as he pleases
in “nonessentials.” It is most “essential” to him because he knows that in
destroying the images of our faith he will destroy the very means by which it
can be known and communicated to others. By destroying the “received and
approved” rite of Mass he is destroying the very means by which God
communicates His grace.
Liturgical rites that are “received and approved”, although different,
do not lead to “division” but have unity in their expression of the same faith.
The Council of Florence mandated that every priest must celebrate the Mass
according to the custom of his Church. The Council of Trent dogmatized the
“received and approved” rites and forbade any pastor in the Churches whomsoever
to introduce new rites. This dogma was included in the Tridentine
Profession of Faith. The Novus Ordo ideologues
rejected the “received and approved” rite because they rejected the faith. They
introduced a man-made liturgical fabrication that expresses a different faith
and worships a different god. Even for Pope Francis the Deceiver this question
is most “essential” and is not “outdated.”
The Church is one in faith and worship. Francis/Bergoglio
does not possess the faith “without which it is impossible to please God” and
his worship is an abomination for which he will soon have to answer.
“A
Striking Departure” from the Dogmatic teaching of Trent!
“...the Novus Ordo
Missae—considering the new elements susceptible
to widely different interpretations which are implied or taken for
granted—represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure
from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of
the Council of Trent. The ‘canons’ (i.e.: dogmas) of the rite definitively
fixed at that time erected an insurmountable barrier against any heresy which
might attack the integrity of the Mystery.” Cardinals Ottaviani
and Bacci, A Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Mass (The Ottaviani Intervention), written after seeing the
‘reverent’ version of the Novus Ordo in Latin
celebrated at the Sistine Chapel
The Novus Ordo has
destroyed the faith in countless Catholics over the last 50+ years. No Catholic
is obliged to attend a service that damages his faith!
Catechism of
St. Pius X teaches (No. 217), anyone who “without
a real impediment” fails to hear Mass on days of obligation commits a
mortal sin; otherwise, “any moderately grave reason suffices to excuse one
from assistance at Holy Mass, such as considerable hardship or corporal or
spiritual harm either to oneself or another.”
Fr. Heribert Jone, Moral
Theology, No. 198
“The
liturgical reform has made a giant step forward and we have drawn quite close
to the liturgical forms of the Lutheran Church.”
Fr. Annibale Bugnini, L’Osservatore Romano, October 13, 1967
How did Pope
Francis become a heretic? The Novus Ordo
Mass and its Lutheran “mode of liturgy”?
“There was corruption and worldliness in the (Catholic) Church; there
was attachment to money and power. That was the basis of his (Marin Luther’s)
protest. He was also intelligent, and he went ahead, justifying his reasons for
it. Nowadays, Lutherans
and Catholics, and all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of
justification: on this very important point he was not mistaken. He
offered a ‘remedy’ for the Church, and then this remedy rigidified in a state of
affairs, a discipline, a way of believing, a way of acting, a mode of liturgy.”
Pope Francis the Lutheran, 2017, commenting on the Joint Declaration on
the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic
Church (signed October 31, 1999). Once the “mode of liturgy” was changed to the
Novus Ordo, the heretical Protestant doctrine of
Justification by “faith alone” followed.
SSPX
and the Evolution of Catholic Dogma: CCC goes from ‘NOT engraved in stone’
to ‘engraved in stone’ in 28 years! Is the SSPX ‘maturing’ or growing
senile?
“The Catechism of the
Catholic Church is a non-Catholic catechism.”
SSPX position, 1994
“Cardinal Reinhard Marx declared in an interview
published on March 31, 2022 in the newspaper Stern, that The Catechism of
the Catholic Church ‘is not engraved in stone’ and that, consequently, ‘one
can doubt what it says.’ In itself, this proposition is aberrant…. The catechism is nothing other than the
teaching of the Church, dogmatic and moral, made available to the
faithful.”
SSPX position 2022
Maybe
a nuclear war would not make any difference!
200M People:
Europe Will Lose 26% of Its Population
EN.News | May 11, 2022
Over the next 80 years, Central Europe is
expected to lose 54% of its population, while Eastern Europe is expected to
lose 34%, LeSalonBeige.fr writes,
• Bulgaria -63%
• Ukraine -61%
• Poland -60%
• Spain -51%
• Italy -50%
No European country has a replacement fertility rate of 2.1 that would stabilise its population. The average rate is 1.61.
Remember in
your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant
mothers: Victoria Dimmel
and Vanessa LoStrocco,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for
the spiritual and physical welfare of Frank
McKee,
For the welfare of Lazarus Handley, his mother, Julia, and his brother, Raphael,
with Down’s Syndrome, is the petition of Monica Bandlow,
Nancy
Bennett and Julia McDonald, for the
recovery of their health,
Kathy Elias,
who is gravely ill in hospital
with heart problems,
Richard Giles, his conversion for a holy death,
Gabriel Schiltz, the daughter of Thomas Schiltz, for the recovery of her health,
For the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts, a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Monica Bandlow requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kopczynski,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for the recovery of Bridget McGuigan, recent hand injury,
Joe Sentmanet
request prayers for Scott Nettles,
who is gravely ill and in need of conversion,
Michael Brigg requests our prayers for the
health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene Peters
who underwent recent cardiac surgery,
Conversion of Anton Schwartzmueller, is the paryer request of his children,
Stacy Fernandez requests are prayers for the
heath of Terry Patterson, Steven
Becerra, and Roberto Valez,
Christine Kozin, for her
health and spiritual welfare,
Teresa Gonyea, for her
conversion and health, is the petition of her grandmother, Patricia McLaughlin,
Nolan Moran, a three year old diagnosed with brain
tumor, and his family,
For the health of Sonia Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our prayers for her
brother who is gravely ill, John Lee,
Rose Bradley asks our prayers for the health
and spiritual welfare of her granddaughter, Meg Bradley,
Timothy
& Crisara,
a couple from Maryland have requested our prayers for their spiritual welfare,
Roger &
Mandy Owen Family, for their
welfare is the request of Monica Bandlow,
Celine Pilegaard, the seven
year old daughter of Cynthia Pilegaard, for her
recovery from burn injuries,
Rafaela de Saravia, for her
health and welfare,
Mary Mufide, requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien Dutertre, traditional
Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X.
McLaughlin, for the
recovery of his health from a serious work injury,
Nicholas
Pell, for his health and spiritual
welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye Petr, her health
and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev. Fr. Martin Skierka, who
produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of Katie Wess,
John Gentry, Vincent Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and James O’Gentry is the petition of Camilia,
Marieann Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
Thomas Thees, recently
hospitalized,
Thomas A.
Nelson, long time faithful traditional Catholic
the founder and former owner of TAN Books & Publishing,
suffered a recent stroke,
The Joseph
Cox Family, their spiritual welfare,
The Thomas
Dube Family, for their conversion and
spiritual welfare,
Luis Rafael Zelaya, the
brother of Claudia Drew, who is seriously ill,
For the health of Kim Cochran, the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Brenda
Cochran, the wife of their son Joshua,
Louie Verrecchio, Catholic
apologist, who has a health problem,
John Minidis, Jr. family, for help in
their spiritual trial,
John and Joann DeMarco, for their
health and spiritual welfare,
Regina (Manidis) Miller,
her spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa
Elena Levitt, her
conversion, and welfare of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
The health and spiritual welfare of Tom Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex
Estrada,
Conversion of Annette Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has petitioned our
prayers for the Keith Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes Family, and the Mike and Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donaghy,
who is recovering from a stroke,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and Joann DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a
traditional Catholic from India has asked our prayers for her welfare and he
family members, living and deceased,
Mary and
Bill Glatz,
the welfare of their family,
Barbara
Harmon, who is ill,
and still cares for her ailing
parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children who has been
seriously injured,
For the health and welfare of Robert Kolinsky and his family,
and the Sorace family,
Fr. Waters asks our
prayers for the health and spiritual welfare of Brian Abramowitz,
Thomas Schiltz family, in
grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Welfare of Bishop Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the
greater battles to come,
John Rhoad, for his health
and spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her welfare,
Joyce Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Michael J.
Brigg & his family, who have
helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her
welfare and conversion to the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul
Diaz, who was baptized at Ss. Peter
& Paul, asks our prayers for his spiritual welfare,
The conversion of Rene McFarland, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman
and family, David Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, Costanzo
Family, Kathy Scullen, Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and Time Roe are the petitions of
Gene Peters,
For the conversion of Ben & Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf,
Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer
family,
Fr. Waters requests
our prayers for Br. Rene,
SSPX who has been ill, and for Fr.
Thomas Blute,
For the health and welfare of Kathryn Lederhos,
the aunt of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of
Joe & Tracy Sentmanat
family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy Koziol &
her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family, the John Manidis
Family, the Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle, who is failing health,
Mel Gibson
and his family, please
remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins requested our prayers
for the welfare of his
Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for the Andreas & Jenna Ortner
Family,
Joyce Paglia has
asked prayers for George Richard
Moore Sr. & his children, and her brother, George Panell,
For the welfare of Anthony & Joyce Paglia, who
are responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Philip Thees asks
our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin
Family, the welfare of Dan
& Polly Weand, the conversion of Sophia Herman, Tony Rosky,
the welfare Nancy Erdeck,
the wife of the late Deacon Erdeck, his brother, Thomas Thees, John Calasanctis,
Tony Rosky,
James Parvenski and Kathleen Gorry.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
Michelle Donofrio McDowell, the
cousin of Monica Bandlow, died March 5, and Patricia Fabyanic,
the Prefect of Our Lady’s Sodality, March 8,
Hernan Ortiz, the brother of Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, died
February 3,
Mary Ann
Boyle, the mother of a second order Dominican
nun, a first order Dominican priest, and a SSPX priest, died January 24,
John DeMarco, who attended
this Mission in the past, died January23,
Charles
O’Brien, the father of Marlene Cox, died
December 30,
Kathleen Donelly, died
December 29 at 91 years of age, ran the CorMariae
website,
Monica Bandlow
requests our prayers for the health and welfare of John Kinney, died December 21,
Matthew
O'Hare, most faithful Catholic, died at
age 40 on November 30,
Rev. Patrick
J. Perez, a Catholic priest faithful to
tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians, Garden Grove, CA, November 19,
Elizabeth Benedek, died
December 14, requested by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores
Smith and Richard Costello, faithful Catholics, died November,
Frank D’Agustino,a friend of Philp Thees, died November 8,
Fr.
Dominique Bourmaud, of the SSPX, Prior of St. Vincent in Kansas
City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel
Silva, the brother of Elizabeth Vargas, died August 18,
Rose Bradley, a member of Ss. Peter & Paul, died July
14,
Patricia Ellias, died June 1,
recently returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown
scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose Bradley, died May
18,
William Muligan, died April
29, two days after receiving the last sacraments,
Robert Petti, died March
19, the day after receiving the last sacraments,
Mark
McDonald, the father of Kyle, who died
December 26,
Perla Otero, died December 2020, Leyla Otero, January 2021, cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph Gravish, died
November 26, 100 year old WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome
McAdams, the father of, died November 30,
Rev. James
O’Hara, died November 8, requested by
Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth Batko, the
sacristan at St. John the Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First
Saturday November 7 wearing the brown scapular,
Fr. Anthony Cekada, a
traditional Catholic priest, died September 11,
William Cox,
the father of Joseph Cox, who
died September 3,
James
Larson, Catholic apologists, author of War Against Being
publication, died July 6, 2020,
Hutton
Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina Cordis, Immaculate
Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Victoria Zelaya, the
sister-in-law of Claudia Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo DeSilva, died
November 16, our prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Roland H.
Allard, a friend of the Drew’s, died
September 28,
Stephen Cagorski and John Bogda, who both
died wearing the brown scapular,
Cecilia LeBow, a most
faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct
23,
Sandra
Peters, the wife of Gene Peters, who died
June 10 receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Rev. Francis
Slupski, a
priest who kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha Mochan, the sister
of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George
Kirsch, our good friend and supporter of
this Mission, died February 15,
For Fr.
Paul J. Theisz, died October 17, is the
petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio Fregapane, died Jan 12, was not a traditional priest
but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir Peterson,
a priest who often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound
advice, died December 4,
Fr. Constantine
Bellasarius, a
faithful and always charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite
priest, who left the Roman rite, died November 27,
Christian
Villegas, a motor vehicle accident, his
brother, Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former
editor of Catholic Family News, and for his family’s welfare,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel Waters, died October
17,
Joseph DeMarco, the nephew
of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died September 25 after receiving the
traditional sacramental rites of the Church wearing the brown scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna Marbach,
died September 9,
Fr. Eugene
Dougherty, a faithful priest, fittingly
died on the Nativity of the BVM after receiving the traditional Catholic
sacraments,
Phyllis Schlafly, died
September 5,
Helen Mackewicz, died August
14,
Mark A. Wonderlin, who died
August 2,
Fr. Carl Cebollero, a faithful
priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica
Cortes, a young mother of ten who died
June 12,
Frances Toriello, a life-long
Catholic faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred Heart, and
her husband Dan, died in
1985,
John
McLaughlin, a friend of
the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela
Montesano, who died April 30, and her
husband, Salvatore,
who died in July 3,
2013,
Charles Schultz, died April 5, left
behind nine children and many grandchildren, all traditional Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas, the aunt of
Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo Suelo, a faithful priest defending our traditions who was working with Fr.
Francois Chazal in the Philippines, died February 19,
Conde McGinley, a long time
laborer for the traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family
requests your prayers for Ida Fernandez and Rita Kelley,
parishioners at St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen
Somerville, a traditional priest who
repented from his work with the Novus Ordo English
translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo DeMaio, a priest
that helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable advice, died
December 2,
J. Paul Carswell, died
October 15, 2015,
Solange Hertz, a great defender of our Catholic faith,
died October 3, the First Saturday of the month,
Paula P. Haigh, died
October 22, a great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and natural
science,
Gabriella Whalin, the mother
of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary
Catherine Sick, 14 year
old from a large traditional Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul Trinchard, a
traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J. Melnick, Jr., died on
August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband and father, from
Philadelphia,
Patricia
Estrada, died July 29, her son Alex
petitions our prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas
Gruner, a devoted
priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima message,
died April 29,
Sarah E. Shindle, the
grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline Vennari, the mother
of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador
Baca Callejas,
the uncle of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle accident
November 29,
Catherine
Dunn, died September 15,
Anthony
Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser, died
August 28,
Jeannette Rhoad, the
grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle
of Philip Thees, died August 9,
Sarah
Harkins, 32 year-old
mother of four children, died July 28,
Msgr. Donald
Adams, who offered the Indult Mass, died
April 1996,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth Walker, a young traditional priest of the FSSP who
was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions
our prayers for Gilberte Violette,
the mother of Fr. Violette, who died May 6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers for his
brothers, Michael, died May
9, and James, died October
20, his sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip Marbach, the father
of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude
in Philadelphia, died April 21,
Richard Slaughtery, the elderly
sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette Marie Evans
nee Toriello,
the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a faithful Catholic who suffered many
years with MS,
Natalie Cagorski, died march
23,
Anita Lopez de
Lacayo, the aunt
of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario Palmaro, Catholic
lawyer, bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of his
widow and children,
Daniel Boyle, the uncle of Ryan Boyle, died March 4,
Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
on January 25,
Arthur
Harmon, died January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions
our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died January 17,
Joseph
Proctor, died January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional Catholic who made the
vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January 8,
Brother
Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell),
an early supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests
our prayers for his sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died
December 15,
Brinton Creager, the son of
Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher Lussos, age 27, the
father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett Ebeyer, 16 year
old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the Kolinsky’s,
Catherine Nienaber, the mother
of nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA after Mass,
10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister
of Frances Toriello, died October 11, 2013 at 105
years of age,
Mary Rita Schiltz, the mother
of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H.
(Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic
author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of death unknown,
Alfred
Mercier, the father of David Mercier,
who died August 12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his
friend, George Curilla,
who died August 23,
John Cuono, who had
attended Mass at our Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond
Peterson, died July 28, and Paul Peterson, died February 19,
the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret Brillhart, who died July
20,
Msgr. Joseph
J. McDonnell, a priest
from the diocese of Des Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick
Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using
the New, All English Canon, and for a series of newsletters which were
published as The Robber Church, died May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop
Joseph McFadden, died
unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy
Foley, the brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in
April,
William
Sanders, the uncle of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for the repose of
the soul of Mark Polaschek,
who died March 22,
Eduardo
Gomez Lopez, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia Thees, died
February 24,
Elizabeth
Marie Gerads, a nineteen year old, the oldest of twelve children,
who died February 6,
Michael
Schwartz, the co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W.
Moore, passed away in December 16, and
Gerard (Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19, who attended this Mission in the
past,
Louis Fragale, who died
December 25,
Fr. Luigi
Villa, Th.D. author of
Vatican II About Face! detailing
the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael
Jarecki, a faithful
traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who died September 10,
Jennie Salaneck, died
September 19 at 95 years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia
(Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are
still at home, died August 19,
Stanley Spahalski, who died
October 20, and his wife, Regina Spahalski, who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis Lester, her son,
Julia
Atkinson, who died April 30,
Antonio P.
Garcia, who died January 6, 2012 and
the welfare of his teenage children, Andriana and
Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who died February
27,
Fr. Timothy
A. Hopkins, of the National Shrine of St.
Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and the welfare of his
wife, Delores,
Eduardo Cepeda, who died
January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of twelve who died
December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their family,
Sister Mary
Bernadette, M.I.C.M., a
founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died December
16,
Joeseph Elias, who died on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters, who died
September 7,
Donald Tonelli, died
August 1,
Rev. Fr.
Gregory Hesse,
of Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma Colasanti, who died
May 29,
Mary Dullesse, who died
April 12, a Catholic convert who died wearing our
Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the
grandmother of Andre Ebert, who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D.
Barr, died March 5, and the welfare
of his family,
Judith Irene
Kenealy, the mother
of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son,
George Richard Moore, who died May 14,
For Joe
Sobran who died September 30,
Fr. Hector
Bolduc, a great and faithful priest,
died, September 10, 2012,
John Vennari asks
our prayers for Dr. Raphael Waters
who died August 26,
Stanley Bodalsky, the father
of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel Kilfoyle Humphreys,
a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John
Campion, who offered the traditional
Mass for us every first Friday until forbidden to do so by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph Montagne, who died May 5,
For Margaret
Vagedes, the aunt of Charles Zepeda, who died
January 6,
Fr. Michael
Shear, a Byzantine rite Catholic priest,
died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James
Francis Wathen,
died November 7, 2006, author of The
Great Sacrilege and Who Shall
Ascend?, a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique Rueda, who died
December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his
cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli, and the six priests ordained with him.
Philip Thees
petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck,
Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano, Connie DiMaggio,
Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees,
Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata,
and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier Bonneterre, the author
of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother
Francis, MICM, the
superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, NH, who
died September 5,
Rodolfo Zelaya Montealegre, the father of Claudia Drew, who died May
24,
Rev. Francis
Clifford, a devout and humble traditional
priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin Sorace, the uncle of Sonja Kolinsky.
A “miracle”
was attributed to the intercession of Paul VI by the Congregation for the Cause
of the Saints. The miracle? Premature rupture of amniotic fluid in a five
month fetus did not result in health problems as doctors had predicted. The “miracle” then is that a doctor's
diagnosis and/or prognosis was incorrect.
“Thank you very much, thank
you very much, that’s the nicest thing that anyone’s ever done for me…”
The noble
simplicity of Paul Vl’s
funeral at Piazza S. Pietro, emceed by my former
mentor Archbishop Virgilio Noè,
was the epitome of the conciliar liturgical reform’s sobrietas romana and
noble simplicity that his papacy championed with clear vision and firm
determination. The coffin was slightly raised above the ground. It was draped
in plain white cloth with the Book of the Gospels on top and the paschal
candle nearby. The rite was carried out with dignity, gravity, and noble
simplicity. The spontaneous applause of the people as the coffin was carried
inside the basilica for interment was a moving tribute to the pope who
successfully steered the Church through the calm and tempest of Vatican II’s aggiornamento.
Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB, Modernist
Liturgical Expert and admirer of Paul VI, What,
Then is Liturgy?, Commenting on the funeral of Paul V
Zionism
- the modern belief that the Jewish people as a whole are the real Messiah
Auschwitz, along with so many other concentration camps, remains the
horribly eloquent symbol of the effects of totalitarianism. It is our duty to
make a pilgrimage to these places, in mind and heart, on this 50th anniversary.
As I said at the Mass celebrated in 1979 at Brzezinka
near Auschwitz: “I kneel at this Golgotha of the modern world.”
John Paul II, Message on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the end of WW II
The overthrow of Christ the King and the enthronement of
the kingship of Man
“Christ is King in the sense that in Him, in the testimony that He
rendered to the truth, is manifested the ‘kingship’ of every human being, the
expression of every person’s transcendent character. Such is the Church’s
proper inheritance.” The kingship that Jesus claims before
Pilate “is not first of all to exercise authority over others;
it is a manifestation of the kingly character of man. This kingly character is embedded within
human nature, within the structure of the human personality.”
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, Lenten Conference given to Pope Paul VI and the
Vatican Curia, 1979
Has a more inanely naive comment ever been uttered?
The conditions of modern life have eliminated
those innumerable obstacles by which, in the past, the sons of this world impeded
the free action of the Church.
Pope “Novus Ordo
Saint” John XXIII
Doctrine
may develop in itself in "due proportion".... with "no variety
of its definition." Dogma cannot develop in itself because its
"proportion" and "definition" are fixed by God. It can only
develop in its implications!
“Shall we then have no advancement of
religion in the Church of Christ? Let us have it indeed, and the greatest . . .
But yet in such sort that it be truly an advancement of faith, not a change (sed ita tamen ut vere profectus sit ille
fidel, non permutatio), seeing that it is the nature of an advancement,
that in itself each thing (severally) grow greater, but of a change that
something be turned from one thing into another. . . . Let the soul’s religion
imitate the law of the body, which, as years go on, develops indeed and opens
out its due proportions, and yet remains identically what it was. . . . Small
are a baby’s limbs, a youth’s are larger, yet they are the same. . . . So also
the doctrine of the Christian religion must follow those laws of advancement;
namely, that with years it be consolidated, with time it be expanded, with age
it be exalted, yet remain uncorrupt and untouched, and be full and perfect in
all the proportions of each of its parts, and with all its members, as it were,
and proper senses; that it admit no change besides, sustain no loss of its
propriety, no variety of its definition. Wherefore, whatsoever in this Church,
God’s husbandry, has by the faith of our fathers been sown, that same must be
cultivated by the industry of their children, that same flourish and ripen,
that same advance and be perfected.”
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium, nfl. 28, 29
“The
doctrine which God has revealed has not been proposed as some philosophical
discovery to be perfected by the wit of man, but has been entrusted to Christ’s
Spouse as a Divine deposit to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared.
Hence sacred dogmas must ever be understood in the sense once for all (semel) declared by Holy Mother Church;
and never must that sense be abandoned under pretext of profounder knowledge
(altioris intelligentiae).”
Vatican Council
I, Sess. iii. chap. 4
Pope decries divisions caused by old-school liturgy fans
PICTURE: Pope Francis speaks at an audience
with nuns and religious superiors in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Thursday,
May 5, 2022. Francis, 85, was wheeled to the audience after he has been
suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He
revealed he recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain. (AP
Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
ROME (AP) - May 5, 2022 - By FRANCES
D'EMILIO
— Pope Francis on Saturday blasted
Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions of liturgy like the Latin Mass,
have made an ideological battleground of the issue, decrying what he described
as devil-inspired divisiveness in the church.
Francis pressed his papacy’s battle against
traditionalists, whose prominent members include some ultra-conservative
cardinals. They have resisted restrictions, imposed last year by the Vatican,
on celebrations of the old Mass in Latin in St. Peter’s Basilica and, more
generally, for years have disparaged the modernizing reforms of the Second
Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and
students of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Francis said it’s not possible
to worship God while using the liturgy as a “battleground” for nonessential
questions that divide the church.
Francis has made clear he prefers Mass
celebrated in local languages, with the priest facing the congregation instead
of with his back to the pews. That was the way Mass was celebrated before the
revolutionary Vatican Council reforms, more than a half century-ago, which
aimed at making rank-and-file Catholics feel more connected to liturgical
celebrations.
COMMENT: Once again we find
Pope Francis the Terminator landing not far from the truth but again missing it
all together. Francis/Bergoglio always sees things in light of an
"ideology" because he himself is driven by an ideology. The Faith is
not an ideology but a revealed truth and virtue from God. Francis/Bergoglio
does not have the faith but a dated ideology drawn from modern philosophy. He
is above all things boring.
The "battleground" causing
"divisiveness in the church" is caused by those with a modernist
ideology who have attempted to overthrow the immemorial ecclesiastical
traditions, especially the "received and approved" Roman rite of the Mass
because these traditions are signs of the faith that the neo-iconoclasts cannot
stand because they hate the faith. It is indeed "devil inspired" but
it is Francis/Bergoglio doing the bidding of the devil. Francis/Bergoglio is
dead on when he says, "It is not possible to worship God while using the
liturgy as a 'battleground' for the Novus Ordo does not worship God. It is a
man-made liturgy directed to the worship of man. It is the offering of Cain,
the "fruit of the earth and the work of human hands." Francis/Bergoglio
is lying when he says that this battle is over things that are
"nonessential questions." If they were "nonessential" he
would be indifferent to the matter because every Catholic is free to do as he
pleases in "nonessentials." It is most "essential" because
he knows that in destroying the images of our faith he will destroy the very
means by which it can be known and communicated to others. By destroying the
"received and approved" rite of Mass he is destroying the very means
by which God communicates His grace.
The Church is one in faith and worship.
Francis/Bergoglio does not possess the faith "without which it is
impossible to please God" and his worship is an abomination for which he
will soon have to answer.
The Pope Francis’ Synodal “style” is already bearing its
anticipated fruit!!!
German Bishops’ President Responds to Letter Warning of Schism Risk in
Synodal Path
The synodal assembly has voted in favor of documents calling for the
priestly ordination of women same-sex blessings, and changes to teaching on
homosexual acts.
CNA Staff World April 18, 2022
LIMBURG, Germany — Bishop Georg Bätzing of
Limburg, president of the German bishops’ conference, responded Thursday to a letter
warning the country’s synodal path could lead to schism by defending the
process as a response to abuses in the Church.
The Synodal Path is our attempt in Germany
to confront the systemic causes of the abuse and its cover-up that has caused
untold suffering to so many people in and through the Church,” Bishop Bätzing
wrote April 14 to Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver. The German bishop’s
letter was published April 16 at the German bishops’ conference website.
More than 80 bishops from around the world signed an April 11 open
letter sent by Archbishop Aquila that warned sweeping changes to Church
teaching advocated by the synodal path may lead to schism.
The “Synodal Path” is a process that brings
together German lay people and Catholic bishops to discuss four major topics:
how power is exercised in the Church; sexual morality; the priesthood; and the
role of women. When the German bishops launched the process, they initially
said that the deliberations would be “binding” on the German Church, prompting
a Vatican intervention that rejected such claims.
The synodal assembly has voted in favor of
documents calling for the priestly ordination of women same-sex blessings, and
changes to teaching on homosexual acts. […..]
“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
Necessity of
Baptism for Salvation
“What is
Baptism, and is it necessary to all? This is the first sacrament of the New Law
and the most necessary, consisting in the external washing of the body and the
legitimate enunciation of the words in accordance with Christ’s institution. It
is a sacrament, I say, that is necessary not only for adults but also for
little ones, and is no less efficacious for them in obtaining eternal
salvation. All are born children of wrath; therefore even the little ones need
cleansing from sin, for they cannot be cleansed and be regenerated as children
of God without this sacrament. For as a general rule our Lawmaker declared,
‘unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the
Kingdom of God.’”
St. Peter
Canisius, S.J., Doctor of the Church, Summa
Doctrinae Christianae, (Feast Day April 27)
No matter how
much a catechumen advances, he still carries the load of his iniquity: it is
not forgiven him until he has come to baptism.
St. Augustine,
Tractate 13 on the Gospel of St. John
The catechumen
believes in the cross of the Lord Jesus, by which also he is signed; but unless
he is baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit, he cannot receive the remission of sins nor gain the gift of spiritual
grace. You have read, therefore, that the three witnesses in Baptism are one:
water, blood and the spirit; and if you withdraw any one of these, the
Sacrament of Baptism is not valid. For what is water without the cross of
Christ? A common element without any sacramental effect.
St. Ambrose, De mysteriis
The Sacrifice of
the Mass as a Sin-Offering
“If thou
believest that I am offered up to God the Father upon the Cross because it was
My will to be offered in this manner, believe also and doubt not that every day
I desire, with the same love and strength of desire, to be sacrificed for every
sinner upon the altar, as I sacrificed Myself upon the Cross for the salvation
of the world. Therefore there is no one however heavy the weight of sin
wherewith he is burdened, who may not hope for pardon, if he offers to the
Father My sinless life and death, provided he
believes that thereby he will obtain the blessed fruit of forgiveness.”
Our Lord Jesus
Christ, addressing St. Gertrude at the intonation of the Holy Week antiphon,
“He is sacrificed because He Himself willed it.”
“Such is My
long-suffering, when I come at the time of Mass, that there is no sinner there
present howsoever great with whom I do not bear patiently and to whom, provided
he desire it, I do not gladly grant forgiveness of sin.”
Our Lord Jesus
Christ to St. Mechtilde
I mean the
monstrous wars about small points of theology, the earthquakes of emotion about
a gesture or a word. It was only a matter on an inch; but an inch is everything
when you are balancing….. The Church had to be careful, if only that the world
might be careless. This is the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy. People have
fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy,
hum-drum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as
orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. It
was equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses…. The orthodox Church
never took the tame course or accepted the conventions; the orthodox Church was
never respectable…. It is easy to be a
madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its
head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own. It is always easy to be a modernist;
as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of
error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set
along the historic path of Christendom - that would indeed have been simple. It
is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls,
only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from
Gnosticism to Christian Science (or Modernism) would indeed have been obvious
and tame. But to have avoided them all has been one whirling adventure; and in
my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull
heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect.
G.K.
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Dogma is the End of Theological Speculation
But according to a long-standing usage a dogma is
now understood to be a truth appertaining to faith or morals, revealed by
God, transmitted from the Apostles in the Scriptures or by tradition, and
proposed by the Church for the acceptance of the faithful. It might be described briefly as a revealed
truth defined by the Church.
Catholic Encyclopedia
The Old Evangelization: Goal of making Proselytes for the
greater glory of God and the salvation of souls.
“Father Isaac Jogues was truly a martyr
before God, rendering witness to Heaven and earth that he valued the Faith and
the propagation of the gospel more highly than his own life, and losing it in
the dangers into which, with full consciousness, he cast himself for Jesus
Christ…”
Fr. Jérôme
Lalemant, S.J., written in 1647, head of the Jesuit Mission in New
France. He was the brother of fellow
missionary, Fr. Charles Lalemant, and uncle to the Fr. Gabriel Lalemant. Fr. Gabriel Lalemant was martyred with Fr.
Jean de Brébeuf.
[Modernism is the] synthesis of
all heresies [whose] system means
the destruction not of the Catholic religion alone, but of all
religion.... [Modernists] partisans of
error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; but what is to
be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are all the more
mischievous the less they keep in the open.... They put themselves forward as
reformers of the Church [though they are] thoroughly imbued with the poisonous
doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church.... They assail all that is most sacred in the
work of Christ.... [They are] the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the
Church... They lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root,
that is, to the Faith and its deepest fibers.... The most absurd tenet of
the Modernists, that every religion according to the different aspect under
which it is viewed, must be considered as both natural and supernatural. It is thus that they make consciousness and
revelation synonymous. From this they
derive the law laid down as the universal standard, according to which
religious consciousness is to be put on an equal footing with revelation, and
that to it all must submit, even the supreme authority of the Church. St. Pius X, Pascendi
Therefore: In
the Novus Ordo Church of Sweet Dreams where harshness is always frowned upon
harshly!
·
Religious Liberty is the doctrinal validation of
“Religious Consciousness.”
·
Ecumenism is the collectivization and synthesis through
dialogue of the individual’s “Religious Consciousness.”
·
“Faith” is the affirmation of the subjective
“Religiousness Consciousness” on the authority of the believer.
·
“Dogma” is the historical and transitory expression of
“Religiousness Consciousness” for a particular age.
·
“Tradition” is the historical perceptions from which the
present “Religious Consciousness” has evolved.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity… the Masonic slogan of the
French Revolution,
(In the twentieth century) the passions will erupt
and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost
completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus particularly on the
children in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of
these times…. depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will
incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman, Catholic
and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent triumph of Satan
will bring enormous sufferings upon the good pastors of the Church.
Our Lady of
Good Success, to Mother Marianna, 1582
Sensus fidei for the Neo-Modernist: Goal is to
direct the mob and use the mob to confirm their heterodoxy!
“The Second
Vatican Council highlights that ‘all human beings are called to the new people
of God’ (LG, 13). God is truly at work in the entire people that he has
gathered together. This is why ‘the entire body of the faithful, anointed as
they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief. They manifest this
special property by means of the whole people’s supernatural discernment in
matters of faith when from the Bishops down to the last of the lay faithful,
they show universal agreement in matters of faith and morals’ (LG, 12).” Vademecum on Synodality Syndod
COMMENT: The word “universal” is corrupted to exclude the attribute of time. A universal by definition
necessarily includes the attribute of time
without which it is not a universal.
The sensus fidei that excludes time considering only the current mass
of Catholics at one specific historical period looks only to popular trends and
not Catholic truth. If every Catholic in the Church at one given time holds a
doctrine or moral position that is contrary to the traditional teaching or
practice, then it is not evidence of the sensus
fidei but rather evidence of general apostasy and nothing more. “When
the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). The implied answer is No! He will find
apostasy and He will not call it a new sensus fidei.
It's the same old scam in new
scam-skins!
Synod on Synodality: “The Church of God is convoked in synod.” That
is supposed to sound profound. The Synodal Church (AKA: Church of the New
Advent; Church of the New Evangelization; Church of the People of God; Church
of the Third Millennium; Novus Ordo Church; Vatican II Church) is about “communion, participation and
mission.” The vademecum sates
that “The Mission of the Church is to evangelize” but has a real problem in
defining “evangelization.” Still, exclusion is permitted to no one. “There are
three inseparable keys at the heart of Synodal Church, communion, participation
and mission” and “participation
in the Church’s missionary synodality to serve the world must be shared by all
(sic).” As Rev. James (HOMO-BOY)
Martin, S.J. said, “Part of the synodal process is rediscovering church as
community in which we all
have to be the protagonist.” So everybody gets to be the leading
character in the new drama. That is everybody excepting Catholic faithful to
Dogma and Tradition who do not know how to play "communion, participation
and mission." Traditional Catholics recognize this scam because we have
seen this stupidity before. This is nothing but a redressing of the
touchy-feely "encounter groups" foisted upon religious orders and
secular groups in the 1960s and 1970s.
This psychological technique for
mass indoctrination and control was derived directly from the Human Potential
Movement (HPM). Wikkipedia says, "The emergence of HPM is linked to
humanistic psychology. The movement is strongly influenced by Abraham Maslow's
(Jewish) theory of self-actualization as the supreme expression of a human's
life." Maslow was a member of the Frankfurt School which tells you
everything you really need to know. It was these same psychological techniques
of Maslow along with his disciple, Carl Rogers, that the Immaculate Heart of Mary
(IHM) nuns, along with other religious orders (such as, the Jesuits) were
subjected to in the 1960s which ultimately destroyed them. Dr. William
Coulson, who was a disciple of Rogers, repented of what he had done and
described the techniques in an interview with Dr. William Mara, philosophy
professor at Fordham University, published in Latin Mass Magazine article about
25 years ago entitled: "We Overcame Their Traditions, We Overcame Their
Faith," in which he explains exactly how it was done. The Jesuits were
no exception. It was this scam that formed the modern Jesuit Novus Ordo
spirituality which gave us the likes of Pope Francis. The HPM is antithetical
to the Catholic faith. It begins assuming either agnosticism or atheism, denies
original sin, but faced with its consequences, proposes phony programs to cure
the problems of modern man.
Take a look at the modern
meaningless "synodal" cant.
KEY WORDS Lexicography of Synodality
Discernment;
Hopeful dialogue; Openness; Empowering; Oneness; Authentic listening;
Grassroots takeover; Excitement; Humility (not to be confused with the virtue
but rather describes one who goes alone with the program); Engaged; Connection;
Community; Diversity; Welcome; Understanding; Acceptance; Affirmation;
Listening with our hearts; Respect for the laity; etc., etc.
Whenever
they use real words, they employ a
foul duplicity in corrupting the meaning.
The word “Mission,” and its
cognates, occurs 48 times in document and is only defined in vague platitudes
but it does admit that the “Mission of the Church is to Evangelize.”
Unfortunately, the word “evangelization” and its cognates, while occurring 5
times, is never defined. We must look back on the Synod of the New Evangelization
2012 to try to get a sense for the entirely “new” meaning of
evangelization.
Synod of Bishops: "The New
Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith" 2012 said,
“The goal of evangelization today is, as always, the transmission of the
Christian faith” and that they “accomplish this task by proclaiming and bearing
witness to the Christian life through the catechumenate, catechesis and works
of charity.”
It is true that a holy “Christian
life” is the most effective and enduring of Catholic witnesses, particularly
when that witness is the life of a saint and one given in martyrdom (witness),
but the essential task of evangelization is first and foremost “bearing witness
to the Christian faith” and only then, to “bearing witness to the Christian
life.” Without the faith it is impossible to please God, conform to the truth
and obtain salvation. So what is the meaning of “faith”? Vatican I defines
faith as believing what God has revealed on the authority of God the revealer.
The richer the faith, the more virtuous the life and the greater the witness.
Evangelization, new or old, requires that transmission of the revealed truth of
God for the end of bringing others to the life of grace through the sacraments
and salvation. Why does all this become so unintelligible with Neo-modernism
since Vatican II? True evangelization is destroyed because Neo-modernists do
not possess the Catholic faith and what they do not know, they cannot transmit
to others. That is why for the Neo-modernist "proselytism" is
"solemn non-sense."
Get a load
of this drivel:
In this sense, it is clear that the purpose of
this Synod is not to produce more documents. Rather, it is intended to inspire
people to dream about the Church we are called to be, to make people’s hopes
flourish, to stimulate trust, to bind up wounds, to weave new and deeper
relationships, to learn from one another, to build bridges, to enlighten minds,
warm hearts, and restore strength to our hands for our common mission (PD, 32).
Thus the objective of this Synodal Process is not only a series of exercises
that start and stop, but rather a journey of growing authentically towards the
communion and mission that God calls the Church to live out in the third
millennium.
This journey together will call on us to renew our
mentalities and our ecclesial structures in order to live out God’s call for
the Church amid the present signs of the times. Listening to the entire People
of God will help the Church to make pastoral decisions that correspond as closely
as possible to God’s will (ITC, Syn., 68) The ultimate perspective to orient
this synodal path of the Church is to serve the dialogue of God with humanity
(DV, 2) and to journey together the kingdom of God (cf. LG, 9; RM, 20). In the
end, this Synodal Process seeks to move towards a Church that is more
fruitfully at the service of the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
Vademecum Document for the Synod on Synodality,
Official Handbook for Listening and Discernment in Local Churches, Diocesan and
Bishops’ Conferences in preparation for Synod on Synodality October 2023
So God's will is discerned by
directing the masses to endorse whatever you want to do? Call it the new sensus
fidei and therefore the will of
God?
This is no more reliable than reading tea leaves or examining the bowels of
dead birds. What is uniformly true is that the Neo-modernists cringe when you
hold up examples of true Catholic evangelization by Catholic saints like St.
Peter and St. Paul recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Their example were
faithfully followed by Ss. Augustine to the English, Boniface to the Germans,
Dominic, Francis, Hyacinth, Vincent Ferrer, Bernadine of Siena, John Capistran,
Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Peter Claver, Peter Canisius, the North
American Martyrs, etc., etc. The Neo-modernists are not complete idiots. They
can see clearly that their methods used over the last fifty years have been an
utter failure by every statistical measurement. They pretend to have a greater
vision, even claim to have the vision of God, clinging to slogans like Pope
Francis', "Time is greater than space." Don't let immediate failures
concern you for in the end we will be proven right. Blah, blah, blah! The truth
is they know exactly what they are doing. The spirit they are following is not
the Holy Ghost but the devil. They are committed enemies of the faith. This is
most evidently confirmed in that their "living the Christian life" is
rocked with scandal after scandal. Again, the hypocrisy is evident when they
claim a synodal process is necessary to determine the will of God from the
masses but when the masses are not lining up for the next novelty, they claim
to have direct knowledge of the divine Will and then everyone is told to just
shut-up and trust them because, "time is greater than space."
Pope Francis the Heretic: His mind denies truth, his will is set
against the good.
“And it comes to my
mind to say something that may be foolish, or perhaps a heresy…”
“It is not licit to convince
them of your faith. Proselytism is the strongest venom against the ecumenical
path.”
“Do you need to
convince others to become Catholic? No, no, no!”
“This is a very grave
sin against ecumenism: proselytism. We should never proselytize the Orthodox!”
“I think that Martin
Luther’s intentions were not mistaken. Nowadays, Lutherans and Catholics, and
all Protestants, are in agreement on the doctrine of justification: on this
very important point he was not mistaken.”
“Accept this Scapular. It shall be a sign
of salvation, a protection in danger, and a pledge of peace. Whosoever dies
clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.”
Our Lady of Mount Carmel to
St. Simon Stock
“Against
any and all enemies of the Christian name”
Truly in these tumultuous times, in this
revolutionary upheaval, all
good men must join the burdensome struggle against any and all enemies of the
Christian name.[….] For in fact, when a leader of God’s
holy Church, under the name of Priest, turns the very people of Christ away
from the path of truth toward the peril of an erroneous belief, and when this
occurs in a major city, then clearly the distress is multiplied, and a greater
anxiety is in order.
Pope Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei, addressed to all the faithful
Situation Ethics: PEW POLL: 95% of Jewish Leaders support abortion and
“same-sex marriage” for the U.S. but not for Israel!
The Jewish
question of our time does not differ greatly from the one which affected the Christian
peoples of the Middle Ages. In a foolish way it is said to arise from hatred
towards the Jewish tribe. Mosaism in itself could not become an object of hate
for Christians, since, until the coming of Christ, it was the only true
religion, a prefiguration of and preparation for Christianity, which, according
to God’s Will, was to be its successor. But the Judaism of the centuries [after
Christ] turned its back on the Mosaic law, replacing it with the Talmud (ii.), the very quintessence of
that Pharisaism which in so many ways has been shattered through its rejection
by Christ, the Messiah and Redeemer. And although Talmudism is an important
element of the Jewish question, it cannot be said, strictly speaking, to give
that question a religious character, because what the Christian nations despise
in Talmudism is not so much its virtually non-existent theological element, but
rather, its morals, which are at variance with the most elementary principles
of natural ethics.
On the Jewish
Question in Europe; La Civiltà Cattolica,
Series XIV, Vol. VII, 23;10; October 1890
That fabled
(Judeo-Christian) tradition does not exist, nor does the “Judeo-Christian
ethic.” Though sharing a common origin in the Hebrew Scriptures, the two faiths
read the scriptural texts differently. They believe in God, but view Him
through different lenses. They each have a story, but they are not the same.
They each have a concept of man, but they are not the same. They are both
ethical religions, but with separate ideas of man’s nature, salvation and
destiny.
Raymond Apple,
emeritus rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, Australia. Published in Jerusalem Post
The Ukrainian state is
directed by Jewish interests
Zelensky’s
(the Jewish president of the Ukraine) performances as a drag queen are
perfectly consistent with the LGBTQ ideology that is considered by his European
sponsors as an indispensable requirement of the “reform” agenda that every
country ought to embrace, along with gender equality, abortion and the green
economy. No wonder Zelensky, a member of the WEF [World Economic Forum], was
able to benefit from the support of Klaus Schwab and his allies [including
George Soros] to come to power and ensure that the Great Reset would also be
carried out in Ukraine…. In his homeland, many accuse him of having taken power
away from the pro-Russian oligarchs not to give it to the Ukrainian people, but
rather to strengthen his own interest group and at the same time remove his
political adversaries.
Archbishop
Carlo Vigano
The Jewish
question of our time does not differ greatly from the one which affected the
Christian peoples of the Middle Ages. In a foolish way it is said to arise from
hatred towards the Jewish tribe. Mosaism in itself could not become an object
of hate for Christians, since, until the coming of Christ, it was the only true
religion, a prefiguration of and preparation for Christianity, which, according
to God’s Will, was to be its successor. But the Judaism of the centuries [after
Christ] turned its back on the Mosaic law, replacing it with the Talmud, the
very quintessence of that Pharisaism which in so many ways has been shattered
through its rejection by Christ, the Messiah and Redeemer. And although
Talmudism is an important element of the Jewish question, it cannot be said,
strictly speaking, to give that question a religious character, because what
the Christian nations despise in Talmudism is not so much its virtually
non-existent theological element, but rather, its morals, which are at variance
with the most elementary principles of natural ethics.
La Civiltà
Cattolica, “The Jewish Question in
Europe”
Anti-Semitism’s “Working Definition”
The International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
(until January 2013, known as the Task
Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and
Research or ITF) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1998
which unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote
Holocaust education, research and remembrance worldwide and to uphold the
commitments of the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the
Holocaust. The IHRA has 34 member countries, one liaison country
and seven observer countries. (Wikipedia)
The IHRA’s working definition for Antisemitism that has been adopted by
member countries:
“Antisemitism is a certain
perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical
and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish
individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and
religious facilities.”
This “working definition,” although worded a little differently in light of their differing perspectives, is very close to the definition coined by Joe Sobran who said: “An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.” The IHRA’s definition it not grounded on any objective standard but solely on the subjective “perception of Jews.” You can expect this “working definition,” which has been adopted by U.S. government agencies to work its way into the United States legal code notwithstanding any legal niceties such as freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, etc. The Jewish religion is a race base belief that Jews possess a special salvific relationship with God because of their DNA irrespective of what they believe or what they do. Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews in part because he told them that this was not so and that 'God could raise up children of Abraham from stones'. And like Jesus our Lord, the Catholic Church will necessarily fall under this definition of Anti-Semitism as well. Soon enough, the Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent will be calling faithful Catholics anti-Semites.
Baptism: Necessary
to become a child of God and Necessary to become a member of His Church,
Outside of which there is NO SALVATION!
“What is
Baptism, and is it necessary to all? This is the first sacrament of the New Law
and the most necessary, consisting in the external washing of the body and the
legitimate enunciation of the words in accordance with Christ’s institution. It
is a sacrament, I say, that is necessary not only for adults but also for
little ones, and is no less efficacious for them in obtaining eternal
salvation. All are born children of wrath; therefore even the little ones need
cleansing from sin, for they cannot be cleansed and be regenerated as children
of God without this sacrament. For as a general rule our Lawmaker declared,
‘unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the
Kingdom of God.’”
St. Peter
Canisius, Doctor of the Church, Theologian at the Council of Trent, Summa Doctrinae Christianae
“HoIy baptism,
which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the
sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the
Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, ‘unless we
are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot’ as the Truth says, ‘enter into
the kingdom of heaven’ John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and
natural water.”
- Pope Eugene
IV, The Council of Florence, Exultate Deo,
1439
“By one man sin
entered into the world, and by sin death... so that in them there may be washed
away by regeneration, what they have contracted by generation, ‘For unless a
man Is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God’” (John 3:5)
Council of
Trent, Session 5 on Original Sin
“If anyone shall
say that real and natural water is not necessary (de necessitate) for baptism,
and on that account should distort those words of Our Lord Jesus Christ:
‘Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit’ [John 3:5] into some
metaphor: let him be anathema.”
Council of
Trent, Sess. 7, Canon 2 on the Sacrament of Baptism
U.S. Government Politics:
Jewish revolutionary, Saul Alinsky, died 6-12-1972 and
will soon be celebrating his 50th year in hell. His book, Rules for Radicals, enumerates twelve rules
for effective political organization:
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have,
but what the enemy thinks you have.”
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of
your people.”
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the
expertise of the enemy.”
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own
book of rules.”
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent
weapon.”
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people
enjoy.”
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long
becomes a drag.”
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let
up.”
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more
terrifying than the thing itself.”
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard
enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack
is a constructive alternative.”
RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it.”
The purpose of the “rules” is to impose the eight levels
of control that must be accomplished in the formation of a Godless socialist
state.
1. Healthcare — Control healthcare and you
control the people.
2. Poverty —Increase the Poverty level as high
as possible:’ poor people are easier to control and wiIl not fight back if you
are providing everything for them to live.
3. Debt — Increase the debt to an
unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will
produce more poverty.
4. Gun Control— Remove the ability to defend
themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5. Welfare — Take control of every aspect of
their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6. Education — Take control of what people
read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7. Religion — Remove the belief in the God
from the government and schools.
8. Class Warfare – Divide the people into the
wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to
take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
The Democratic Party’s job is to overturn social order,
the Republican Party’s job is to consolidate Democratic gains. The late
journalist and political commentator, Sam Francis, who converted to the
Catholic Faith before dying, said 'the Democratic party is the evil party and
the Republican party is the stupid party. Whenever they are in agreement you
can be sure that the issue is both evil and stupid.'