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Peter and Paul.
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Tridentine
Codification of the traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Immaculate Conception of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Second Sunday of Advent
December 8, 2019
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Blessed Pius
IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first
instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God,
in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of
the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin" (Denzinger, Enchiridion,
10th ed., n. 1641).
The subject of this immunity from
original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul
and its infusion into her body. The term conception does not mean the active
or generative conception by her parents. Her body was formed in the womb
of the mother, and the father had the usual share in its formation. The
question does not concern the immaculateness of the generative activity of her
parents. Neither does it concern the passive conception absolutely and simply (conceptio seminis carnis, inchoata), which,
according to the order of nature, precedes the infusion of the rational soul.
The person is truly conceived when the soul is created and infused into the
body. Mary was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin at the first
moment of her animation, and sanctifying grace was given to her before sin
could have taken effect in her soul.
The formal active essence of original sin was not removed
from her soul, as it is removed from others by baptism; it was excluded,
it never was in her soul. Simultaneously with the exclusion of sin, the state
of original sanctity, innocence, and justice, as opposed to original sin, was
conferred upon her, by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions,
passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin original sin,
were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam
— from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death. The immunity from original sin
was given to Mary by a singular exemption from a universal law through the same
merits of Christ, by which other men are cleansed from sin by baptism. Mary
needed the redeeming Saviour to obtain this
exemption, and to be delivered from the universal necessity and debt (debitum) of being subject to original sin. The
person of Mary, in consequence of her origin from Adam, should have been
subject to sin, but, being the new Eve who was to be the mother of the new
Adam, she was, by the eternal counsel of God and by the merits of Christ,
withdrawn from the general law of original sin. Her redemption was the very
masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. He is a greater redeemer who pays the
debt that it may not be incurred than he who pays after it has fallen on the
debtor (Ullathorne, "Immac.
Conception", p. 89). Such is the meaning of the term "Immaculate
Conception".
The whole of today’s liturgy is
filled with the thought of Isaias (whose name means
‘The Lord Saves’), since he is beyond all others, the prophet who proclaims the
coming of Christ the Redeemer. He
foretold seven centuries before that “a virgin” should “conceive and bear” a
son, “Emmanuel” (Is. 7, 14), and that God would send His “angel”; that it is
John the Baptist who should “prepare His way before Him,” (Gospel) and the Messias should come clothed with the power of God Himself
to free all nations from the bondage of Satan.
“The ox,” says Isaias, meaning the Gentiles, “knoweth his owner and the ass his master’s crib, but Israel
hath not known me and my people have not understood” (Is. 1,3). “The root of Jesse,” he goes on, “shall rise
up to rule the nations (Epistle), and the deaf and the blind, plunged in
darkness, that is the heathen, shall hear the words of release and shall see
(Gospel). Then shall the true Jerusalem,
that is the Church, “tremble with joy” (Communion), for all the nations,
sanctified by Christ shall flow unto it (Gradual).
“The Messias,”
as Isaias explains, “will establish salvation in Sion and glory in Jerusalem,” “Sion
shall be strong, for the Lord shall be its wall and its bulwark,” that is, its
powerful protector. The Station takes place at Rome in the church of the Holy
Cross in Jerusalem which was built by St. Helena to receive the relic of the
Holy Cross.
INTROIT:
Isa. 61.
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my
God: for he
hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, and with the robe of justice he
hath covered me, as a bride adorned with her jewels.
Ps. 29.
I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over
me. Glory be, etc.
COLLECT:
O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin didst
prepare a worthy dwelling-place for Thy Son, we ask that, as by the foreseen death of this Thy
Son thou didst keep her from all stain, so too Thou wouldst permit us, purified
through her intercession, to come to Thee.
Through the same Lord, etc.
Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to make ready the ways of Thine only-begotten Son, that by His coming we may be
worthy to serve Thee with purified minds.
Who liveth and reigneth,
etc.
O God, Who wert pleased that Thy Word should, at the
message of the angel, take flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant
that we, Thy suppliants, who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be
helped by her intercession with Thee.
Through our Lord, etc.
LESSON:
Prov. 8. 22-35
The Lord possessed me in the
beginning of his ways, before he made any thing, from the beginning. I was set
up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as
yet, and I was already conceived: neither had the fountains of waters as yet
sprung out: the mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established:
before the hills I was brought forth: he had not yet made the earth, nor the
rivers, nor the poles of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was
present; when, with a certain law and compass, he enclosed the depths; when he
established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters; when he
compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters, that they
should not pass their limits; when he balanced the foundations of the earth. I
was with him, forming all things, and was delighted every day, playing before
him at all times, playing in the world; and my delights were to be with the
children of men. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that
keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the
man that heareth me, and that watcheth
daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my
door. He that shall find me shall find life, and shall have salvation from the
Lord.
EXPLANATION AND
APPLICATION This lesson is first a panegyric on the divine,
uncreated Wisdom, the eternal Son of God, who at all times and before all
things was with God and in God, by whom was made everything that was made,
ordered and preserved; who rejoices in His works, loves them, and who
admonishes man to love and imitate Him, and promises him eternal and temporal
happiness. The Church causes this lesson to be read on this day, because the
greater part of it can be applied to Mary; for it can truly be said of her,
that she, as the most holy and excellent of all creatures, possessed the first
place in the heart of God. For this reason the Church applies to her the words
of the wise man: I came out of the mouth of the most High, the first-born
before all creatures (Ecclus. 24, 5). For, as
St. Richard says, she is the most worthy of all; no one has received so full a
measure of purity, and of all supernatural gifts; in no creature are the
marvels of divine goodness so visible as in her. Admire, devout soul, this
master-piece of Almighty God, and make frequent use of the words of St.
Chrysostom:
"Hail Mother of God and our
Mother! Hail O Heaven in which God Himself dwells! O Throne of grace from which
the Lord distributes His graces! Pray always to Jesus for us, that on the Day
of Judgment we may receive forgiveness and eternal salvation."
GRADUAL:
Judith 15. Blessed art thou, O Virgin Mary, by the Lord the most high
God, above all women upon the earth.
Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of
Israel, thou art the honor of our people.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Cant. 4. Thou art all fair, O Mary, and there is in thee no stain of
original sin, Alleluia.
GOSPEL:
St. Luke 1. 26-28.
At that time, The angel Gabriel
was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin espoused
to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name
was Mary. And the Angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the
Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women.
Why is this gospel read
today?
Because it has a significant
relation to the Immaculate Conception, and proclaims the great honor shown to
the Blessed Virgin by these words: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed
art thou amongst women.
Why did the angel call
Mary full of grace?
Because Mary was filled with
grace, even before she came into this world; because she always increased in
grace; because she was to bear the Author of all grace; that we may consider
how Mary obtains for us the treasures of divine grace.
Mary was filled with grace even
before her birth. As we are all conceived in sin, being children of a sinful
ancestor, we are, therefore, burdened by sin before our birth. Mary was free by
the privilege of the Immaculate Conception from all sin; her soul, pure and
adorned with sanctifying grace, came forth from the hands of the Creator, and
without the least prejudice to its purity and sanctity was united to her most
pure body, from which the Saviour was to take His
humanity. She could not from the first instant of her existence be wanting in
that original sanctity and justice, which were the most beautiful adornments of
our natural ancestress, Eve.
But Mary from the first moment
of her conception was not only in grace but full of grace, because God
appointed her for the highest dignity, of being the Mother of His only-begotten
Son, and had consequently endowed her with the full measure of corresponding
plenitude of graces and gifts of the Holy Ghost; according to the opinion of
many learned men, the measure of grace which the Blessed Virgin received at her
Immaculate Conception, was greater than that which all the angels and blessed
possess now in glory. Mary ever increased in grace: But the path of the just,
as a shining light, goeth forward and increaseth even to perfect day (Prov. 4, 18). These
words of the Holy Ghost are verified especially in the life of the Blessed
Virgin. What abundance of grace did she not receive, when the Holy Ghost
overshadowed her, and the divine Son, who is Himself the infinite plenitude of
grace, was conceived in her most pure body! Above all this, there yet came that
rich supply of grace by which her zealous, constant, perfect and faithful
cooperation made Mary increase every moment in grace. Thus St. Bonaventure
says: "As all the waters meet in the sea, so all the graces were united in
Mary."
Why did the angel say to
Mary: The Lord is with thee?
Because God is with the Blessed
Virgin in an extraordinary manner. It is well to notice particularly, that the
archangel Gabriel did not say to Mary as the angel did to Gideon: The Lord be
with thee (Judges 6, 12), but: The Lord is with thee. These words are
not, therefore, the wish that the favor, the blessing, the protection of God
may be with Mary, but the positive declaration that the Lord really is with
her, not simply because of His omnipotence and omnipresence by which He is with
all His creatures, nor merely because of His goodness, love and intimacy by
which He is with all the just. He is with her in a peculiar manner, since she
by her dignity of being the Mother of God came into such close relationship
with the Triune God that our intellect can conceive nothing nearer. She became
the chosen Mother of the Son of God, the dearest, the most favored daughter of
the Heavenly Father, and the pure, beloved bride of the Holy Ghost. "God
the Father was with her," says St. Bonaventure, "as with His most
noble Daughter; God the Son was with her as with His most worthy Mother; God
the Holy Ghost was with her as with His most pure Bride."
Why did the angel say to
Mary: Blessed art thou amongst women?
Because he desired to honor her
as the most blessed of her sex, since she alone was chosen of all the others to
be the Mother of God; because the first woman brought the curse, but Mary, the
salvation of the world.
Mary, Mother of God! An honor,
indeed, which in its exaltation is second only to divinity. Mary, the Virgin
Mother of God! Mother and Virgin at the same time, what a wonderful
prerogative! Though the greatest and most glorious of all mothers, she is the
purest and most spotless of virgins, the queen of virgins.
But not only on account of her
double glory as Mother of God and as a Virgin, Mary is the most blessed of her
sex, but because it was given to her to mediate for us and for the whole world.
She is that woman, promised to our first and sinful parents in Paradise, who
would crush the serpent's head; she gave to her Son the body with which He, by
His death on the cross, accomplished the great work of salvation.
ACT OF PRAISE
"Praised and blessed be the holy and Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin Mary!"
OFFERTORY:
Luke 1.
Hail, Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, alleluia.
SECRET:
Receive, O Lord, the saving victim which we offer to Thee on the festival
of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: and grant that, even as we proclaim her to
have been preserved by Thy grace from all stain, so may we be delivered, by her
intercession, from all our sins. Through
our Lord, etc.
Be appeased, we beseech Thee, O
Lord, by the prayers and sacrifices of Thy humble servants; and where no merits
can be pleaded on our behalf, do Thou still come to our succor and aid. Through our Lord, etc.
Confirm in our minds, we beseech
Thee, O Lord, the mysteries of the true faith, that we who acknowledge Him who
was born of the Virgin to be true God and true man, may deserve by the saving
power of His resurrection to attain to everlasting joy. Through our Lord, etc.
PREFACE
FOR THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION:
It is truly meet and just, right and profitable unto
salvation, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee,
O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; and to praise, bless and extol
thee on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the blessed Mary, ever
Virgin; who both conceived thy only-begotten Son by the overshadowing of the
Holy Ghost, and without losing the glory of virginity, brought forth to the
world the eternal light, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Through whom the angels praise thy majesty, the dominions worship it,
and the powers are in awe. The heavens
and the heavenly hosts and the blessed seraphim join together in celebrating
their joy. With these, we pray thee,
join our voices also, while we say with lowly praise: Holy, Holy, etc.
COMMUNION:
Glorious things are told of Thee,
O Mary, for he who is mighty hath done great things unto Thee.
POSTCOMMUNION:
May the sacraments which we have received, O Lord, our God,
heal in us the wounds of that sin from which Thou didst wonderfully preserve
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Through our Lord, etc.
Filled with the food of spiritual
nourishment we suppliantly implore Thee, O Lord, that, by the partaking of this
mystery Thou wouldst teach us to scorn the things of earth and love the things
of heaven. Through our Lord, etc.
Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O
Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy
Son, was made known by the message of the angel, may, by his passion and cross,
be brought to the glory of His resurrection.
Through Christ our Lord, etc.
LAST
GOSPEL: Matt. 11,
2-10.
At that time, when John had heard
in prison the works of Christ, sending two of his disciples, he said to him:
Art thou he that art to come, or do we look for another? And Jesus making
answer, said to them: Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen. The
blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise
again, the poor have the gospel preached to them: and blessed is he that shall
not be scandalized in me. And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to
the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the desert to see? A
reed shaken with the wind? But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft
garments? Behold, they that are clothed in soft garments are in the houses of
kings. But what went you out to see? a prophet? Yea I tell you, and more than a
prophet. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my Angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.
Why was John in prison?
He was in prison, and lost his
life, because he had rebuked king Herod for his adulterous marriage with his
brother's wife (Mt. 14:31). Truth, as the proverb says, is certainly a very
beautiful mother, but she usually bears a very ugly daughter: Hatred. St. John
experienced that speaking the truth very often arouses hatred and enmity
against the speaker. Let us learn from him to speak the truth always, when duty
requires it, even if it brings upon us the greatest misfortunes, for, if with
St. John we patiently bear persecution, with St. John we shall become martyrs
for truth.
Why did St. John send his
disciples to Christ?
That they should learn from
Christ, who had become illustrious by His teachings and miracles, that He was
really the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world, whom they should follow.
Why did Christ say to the
disciples of St. John: "Go and say to John, the blind see, the lame walk,
etc."?
That they should, by His
miracles, judge Him to be the Messiah because the prophets had predicted that
He would work such miracles (Is. 35:5‑6). "Christ," says St.
Cyril, "proved that He was the Messiah by the grandeur as well as by the
number of His miracles."
Why does Christ add:
"And blessed is he who shall not be scandalized in me"?
Christ used these words in
reference to those who would be scandalized by His poverty, humility and
ignominious death on the cross, and who for these reasons would doubt and
despise Him, and cast Him away; though "man," as St. Gregory says,
"owes all the more love to the Lord, his God, the more humiliations He has
borne for him."
What was our Lord's object
in the questions He asked concerning St. John?
His object was to remove from
St. John all suspicion of failing in faith in Him; and to praise the
perseverance with which, although imprisoned and threatened with death, he
continued to fill his office of preacher, thus constituting him an example to
all preachers, confessors and superiors, that they may never be deterred by
human respect, or fear of man, or other temporal considerations, from
courageously fulfilling their duties. Our Lord commended also rigorous penance,
exhibited by St. John's coarse garments and simple food, that we may learn,
from his example, penance and mortification.
Why does Christ say that
John was "more than a prophet"?
Because St. John was foretold by
the prophet Malachias as was no other prophet;
because of all the prophets he was the only one who with his own eyes saw
Christ and could point Him out, and was the one to baptize Him: and because
like an angel, a messenger of God, he announced the coming of the Savior, and
prepared the way for the Lord.
How did St. John prepare
the way for the Savior?
By his sermons on penance, and
by his own penitential life He endeavored to move the hearts of the Jews, that
by amending their lives, they might prepare to receive the grace of the
Messiah, for God will not come with His grace into our hearts if we do not
prepare His way by true repentance.
ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus, by the praise Thou didst
accord to Thy forerunner St. John, for his firmness and austerities, inflame
our hearts with love to imitate his steadfastness and penance, that we may
never do anything to please man which may be displeasing to Thee; grant us also
Thy grace that we too, like St. John, may have those who are confided to our
care, instructed in the Christian doctrine.
Blessed is the
man that heareth me, and that watcheth
daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my
door. He that shall find me shall find life, and shall have salvation from the
Lord.
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 8th:
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Translation of the Holy House of Loretto
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
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St. Lucy, VM
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Octave Day of the
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
On this day and the ensuing eight days,
the Catholic Church celebrates with special solemnity the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
What does the Catholic
Church understand by the Immaculate Conception?
By the Immaculate Conception she
does not understand that great grace by which Mary preserved herself pure from
every, even the least, actual sin; for, as concerns this, the Church has long
since declared that Mary never sinned: nor does she understand by it her
continual virginity, for it has been for a long time a doctrine of faith that
both before and after the birth of her divine Son Mary remained a pure virgin;
nor yet that she was sanctified before birth; as were the Prophets Jeremias and John the Baptist, who were both conceived in
sin, but by a special grace of God were released from it before their
birth; neither does she understand by it the conception of Christ from the Holy
Ghost, that is, that Mary unstained conceived the Son of God of the Holy Ghost;
and without the assistance of man, for this was always the unalterable doctrine
of the Church: she does understand by it that exalted favor, that unshared
privilege, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first moments of her
conception, by a special grace and favor on the part of God in reference to the
merits of Jesus, our Saviour, was preserved from
every stain of original sin.
What has until now been held
by the Church in regard to this privilege?
The Catholic Church has always
been of the pious opinion that Mary, the blessed Mother of the Redeemer, was
conceived immaculate, that her most pure soul had never from the first moment
of her existence the least shadow of sin. This doctrine was embraced by all the
saints, the most learned and most faithful children of the Church. We have
testimony of this, as far back as the times of the apostles, in a document
concerning the sufferings of St. Andrew, in which it is said: "As the
first man was created from the spotless earth, so was it necessary that the
perfect man (Christ Jesus) should be born of an immaculate virgin." St.
Justin, who died a martyr in the year 167 after Christ, compares the Blessed
Virgin to Eve, before she sinned and while she was still a virgin. St. Amphilochus says: "He who created the first Eve free
from shame, created the second without spot or stain." Origen, one of the
Fathers of the Church, writes that she was neither surprised by the personated
serpent, nor infected by his poison, and calls her a pure and immaculate
mother. St. Ephrem calls her the undefiled, the
strong, the inviolate, the most chaste virgin, far removed from all spot and
stain. The Abbot St. Sabbas says of Mary: "On
thee who never took part in any guile, I place my hope. No one but thou, O
Lady, is without fault, and besides thee no one is unsullied and
spotless." St. Ambrose calls Mary a virgin who by the grace of God
remained always free from all shadow of sin. St. Augustine says: "When
there is mention made of sin, the Virgin of whom on account of our Lord no
question is to be asked, must be excepted." St. Proclus says, "that the
holy Mother of God was made by the purest God free from all stain." St. Fulgentius says: "The wife of the first man was led
astray and her soul soiled by the malice of sin, but in the mother of the
second (Christ) the grace of God preserved the soul as well as the body
inviolate." St. Paschasius Radbertus
testifies: "It is certain that Mary was free from original sin;" and
St. Peter Barman says: "The flesh of the Virgin taken from Adam, would not
submit to the stain of Adam," and before him the pious Doctor Alcuin wrote
of Mary: "Thou art beautiful as the moon and free from all spot and every
shadow of changeableness!" And St. Ildephonsus
says: "It is certain that Mary was free from original sin." An
immense number of saintly men and theologians maintained the same. Many of them
argued with the greatest keenness and the most indefatigable zeal the part of
the Blessed Virgin; the teachers at the universities of Paris, Salamanca,
Coimbra, Naples, Cologne, Mayence, Ingolstadt,
&c., made it their duty by vows to inculcate this great privilege of the
most favored Virgin, and to defend it by speech and by writings. Celebrated
orders of monks, especially the orders of St. Benedict, St. Francis and St.
Ignatius, made it their duty to advance this pious faith of the Immaculate
Conception among the people. A great number of popes and bishops also honored
the Immaculate Conception, and forbade the contrary doctrine to be taught. Even
kings, princes and emperors counted it a great honor to pay homage to the
Immaculate Conception of the Queen of Heaven. Finally, the Catholic Church gave
definite expression to this universal belief, by declaring in the Council of
Trent, that in the resolutions relating to original sin, the Virgin Mary was
not included, and she confirmed the festival of the Immaculate Conception,
introduced in the tenth century by St. Anselm, the worthy son of the great St.
Benedict, and since that time observed in all the Churches.
This veneration for the Immaculate
Conception, this pious view held by the whole Catholic Church was not yet a
matter of faith, that is, the Catholic Church had not yet laid down this great
privilege of the Mother of God as a dogma. We were not commanded to believe it,
although to preach or teach against it was forbidden. But when, in the course
of time, a large number of the faithful, among whom were archbishops, bishops,
whole religious orders, as well as great monarchs, besought the pope as head of
the Church to pronounce concerning the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin,
that is, to elevate the belief so widely spread throughout the Catholic Church
to a dogma, the pope could no longer hesitate to raise his voice in regard to
this most important affair.
What did the supreme pastor of the
Church, the pope, then do in regard to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed
Virgin?
Blessed Pope Pius IX who, as he
himself testified, had in many ways experienced the assistance of the great
Queen of Heaven, was urged by his love and childlike veneration for the Blessed
Mother of our Lord, to set the last brilliant diamond in her crown of glory by
declaring the Immaculate Conception an article of faith. Not wishing to be
precipitate, he first addressed a circular to all the primates, patriarchs,
archbishops and bishops, of the whole Catholic world, February 2, 1849,
requesting them to send him reports of the devotion of their clergy and the
faithful concerning the Immaculate Conception, and the extent of their desire
in the matter, that the case might be decided by the Apostolic See; at the same
time he urged them to pray with him that God would give him the necessary
enlightenment, and to call upon the clergy and the faithful for their prayers.
When this was done, five hundred bishops in different parts of the world
declared that they and their flocks firmly believed that Mary, the most favored
Virgin, was preserved from every stain of original sin, and that they earnestly
desired that the pope might raise this pious opinion to a dogma of the Church.
Then the holy father, filled with delight, invited the bishops of the different
countries to Rome, to consult with him upon the matter. About one hundred and
fifty bishops, and a large number of learned men and superiors of spiritual
orders, met at Rome and the whole subject was once more maturely examined; and
at last, the 8th of December, 1854, the day on which the Church celebrates the
feast of the Immaculate Conception, was appointed as the day on which the pope,
the supreme head of the Church, the mouth of the apostles, should solemnly announce
the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
On this day the holy father
ascended the Apostolic Chair in the splendid Church of St. Peter at Rome, and
surrounded by the assembled cardinals, archbishops, and bishops, the clergy and
the people he once more invoked the light of the Holy Ghost, and amid the
perfect silence which reigned in that immense church, the holy father in a loud
voice and with the most profound reverence and emotion read the decree by which
he solemnly pronounced and established, that:
"It is an article of faith
that the Blessed Virgin Mary by a special grace and privilege of God, on
account of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of mankind, was from the
first instant of her conception protected and preserved from every stain of original
sin."
Thus has the head of Catholic
Christianity drawn aside the veil, which until then obscured the full glory of
the Queen of Heaven, which now shines in stainless loveliness radiant over the
whole world. The truth that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived immaculate is
no longer a pious opinion, but an article of faith which every Catholic who
wishes to remain a child of the Church, must profess with heart and with lips.
But, perhaps the decision of
the pope concerning the Immaculate Conception is a new doctrine?
By no means; it is an old belief,
established upon the holy Scriptures and laid down in the bosom of the Church,
but not solemnly pronounced and made public previously. The pope cannot make a new
article of faith, but he can and must announce that, as a revealed truth, which
is established by the holy Scriptures and has been everywhere and at all times
believed as a revealed truth by all true Christians. But if there is a
truth founded on the holy Scriptures and tradition, of which the pope, the
representative of Christ on earth, speaks officially, then every Catholic is
bound to believe and openly to acknowledge the same. As we have already seen,
the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception has been believed since the time of
the apostles, and it is also established by the Scriptures. In the oldest of
the sacred Books, in the Book of Genesis (3, 15), is one of the most weighty
passages on this subject which reads: I will put enmities between thee and the
woman, and thy seed and her seed; she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. After the fall of the first
man, God spoke to the serpent, Satan, announcing that a woman would come and
crush his head, that is, destroy his power; and all Catholic interpreters and
holy Fathers agree that this woman is the Blessed Virgin. Mary is, therefore,
placed by God Himself as Satan's enemy, and must have been free from original
sin from the first moment of her conception, otherwise she would have been, as
St. Paul, the Apostle, says, a child of God's wrath and under the power of
Satan. In the gospel of St. Luke, (i. 28.) it is
further said: And the Angel being come in, said unto her: Hail full of grace:
the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women. The angel, by the
direction of God, called Mary full of grace, that is, more than any of the just
endowed with God's sanctifying grace, as the holy Fathers agree. But would Mary
be full of sanctifying and all other graces, had she for one moment of her life
been without grace and burdened with sin? Would God have permitted the Blessed
Mother of His only begotten Son, from whom He received flesh, to be touched by
sin, even though for an instant, and be in the power of Satan? No; God's hand preserved
her; by His grace and by the infinite merits of her divine Son she remained
free from every stain of sin, and the Church most justly applies to her the
words of holy Scripture: Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot
in thee (Cant. 4, 7).
What instructive meaning has
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin for every Catholic?
The Immaculate Conception teaches
Catholics to know in some measure the infinite sanctity of the holy Trinity
which makes sin so hateful and detestable to Him. The Heavenly Father could not
see His beloved daughter for one moment stained by sin. The Divine Son could
not wish to choose for His mother a virgin upon whose soul there was a vestige
of sin. The Holy Ghost whose most pure bride Mary is, was not willing that her
heart, His dwelling-place, should ever be for one instant soiled by sin. Behold
how God detests sin! The Immaculate Conception also teaches us the inestimable
treasure of sanctifying grace. Mary received this priceless treasure from God
even in the first moment of her conception, without it she would never have
become the Mother of the Saviour. Thou, my Christian,
hadst not this treasure at thy conception, it is
true, but thou didst receive it in holy baptism; there God's hand arrayed thee
in the white garment of innocence; there He sanctified thy soul, and the Holy
Ghost selected it for His dwelling-place. Mary preserved this inestimable
treasure until death, she was always blooming as a pure lily, the breath of sin
never soiled her loveliness. Ask thyself: Do I still possess this treasure,
which was given to me in holy baptism; have I preserved my soul's beauty from
the poison of sin, have I soiled it, destroyed it, lost it? Oh, if thou hast
lost this precious gift, how unhappy art thou! if thou hast had this great
misfortune to have stained thy garment of baptismal innocence by sin, Mary, the
peerless virgin, has borne for thee the Saviour whose
precious blood cleanses from every sin, whose infinite merits will restore to
thee sanctifying grace, if thou art contrite and dost confess thy sin. But for
the Saviour this treasure would be forever lost to
thee, and thy soul forever forfeited. But for this Saviour
Mary would not have been preserved from original sin, would not have received
sanctifying grace at her conception. We can here learn the necessity of
salvation through Christ, gratefully thank God who has given it to us, and
praise Mary who had the grace to conceive and give birth to Him. In the
Immaculate Conception, O Christian, thou canst learn to know something of the
priceless value of virginity. Jesus chose a pure and immaculate virgin for His
mother, who should be the mirror of all virginal souls, her most pure and
immaculate image should be continually presented to the corrupted world to show
how virginity is esteemed in the eyes of our Lord.
Consecration
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
By
St. Louis de Montfort
O Eternal and incarnate Wisdom! O sweetest and most adorable Jesus! True
God and true man, only Son of the Eternal Father, and of Mary, 
always
virgin! I adore Thee profoundly in the bosom and splendors of Thy Father during
eternity; and I adore Thee also in the virginal bosom of Mary, Thy most worthy
Mother, in the time of Thine incarnation.
I give Thee thanks for that Thou hast
annihilated Thyself, taking the form of a slave in order to rescue me from the
cruel slavery of the devil. I praise and glorify Thee for that Thou hast been
pleased to submit Thyself to Mary, Thy holy Mother, in all things, in order to
make me Thy faithful slave through her. But, alas! Ungrateful and faithless as
I have been, I have not kept the promises which I made so solemnly to Thee in
my Baptism; I have not fulfilled my obligations; I do not deserve to be called
Thy child, nor yet Thy slave; and as there is nothing in me which does not
merit Thine anger and Thy repulse, I dare not come by
myself before Thy most holy and august Majesty. It is on this account that I
have recourse to the intercession of Thy most holy Mother, whom Thou hast given
me for a mediatrix with Thee. It is through her that
I hope to obtain of Thee contrition, the pardon of my sins, and the acquisition
and preservation of wisdom.
Hail, then, O immaculate Mary, living
tabernacle of the Divinity, where the Eternal Wisdom willed to be hidden and to
be adored by angels and by men! Hail, O Queen of Heaven and earth, to whose
empire everything is subject which is under God. Hail, O sure refuge of
sinners, whose mercy fails no one. Hear the desires which I have of the Divine
Wisdom; and for that end receive the vows and offerings which in my lowliness I
present to thee.
I, N______ a faithless sinner, renew
and ratify today in thy hands the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan,
his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to
Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of
my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before. In the
presence of all the heavenly court I choose thee this day for my Mother and
Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, as thy slave, my body and soul, my
goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions,
past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of
disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to
thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God in time and in eternity.
Receive, O benignant Virgin, this
little offering of my slavery, in honor of, and in union with, that subjection
which the Eternal Wisdom deigned to have to thy maternity; in homage to the
power which both of you have over this poor sinner, and in thanksgiving for the
privileges with which the Holy Trinity has favored thee. I declare that I wish
henceforth, as thy true slave, to seek thy honor and to obey thee in all
things.
O admirable Mother, present me to thy
dear Son as His eternal slave, so that as He has redeemed me by thee, by thee
He may receive me! O Mother of mercy, grant me the grace to obtain the true
Wisdom of God; and for that end receive me among those whom thou lovest and teachest, whom thou leadest, nourishest and protectest as thy children and thy slaves.
O faithful Virgin, make me in all
things so perfect a disciple, imitator and slave of the Incarnate Wisdom, Jesus
Christ thy Son, that I may attain, by thine
intercession and by thine example, to the fullness of
His age on earth and of His glory in Heaven. Amen
The Truth is, Charity, pure and simple, consists in
conformity to the will of God.
If you love Me, keep My commandments… If you keep My commandments, you
shall abide in My love; as I also have kept My Father’s commandments, and do
abide in His love (John 14, 15; 15, 10).
The highest perfection consists not in interior favors, or in great raptures, or in visions, or in
the spirit of prophesy, but in the bringing of our wills so closely into
conformity with the will of God that, as soon as we realize He wills anything,
we desire it ourselves with all our might, and take the bitter with the sweet.
St. Teresa of Avila
At this moment, O Lord, I freely consecrate my will to You without
reserve… Grant that Your will may always be fulfilled in me, in the way which
is most pleasing to You. If You wish me to
do this by means of trails, give me strength and let them come. If by means of persecution and sickness and
dishonor and need, here I am, my father, I shall not turn my face away.
St. Teresa of Avila, Way of Perfection
My God… I will not be a saint by halves, I am not afraid of suffering
for You. One thing only do I fear, and
that is to follow my own will. Accept,
then, the offering I make of it, for I choose all that You will.
St. Teresa of the Child Jesus
Divine union consists in the soul’s total transformation, according to
the will, in the will of God, so that there may be naught in the soul that is
contrary to the will of God, but that, in all and through all, its movement may
be that of the will of God alone.
St. John of the Cross
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED
VIRGIN MARY DECEMBER
EIGHTH
PRESENCE OF
GOD: I
place myself in the presence of Mary Immaculate, my loving Mother, and listen
to her invitation : " Come over to me all you who desire me, and I will
declare to you what great things God has done for my soul" (RB).
MEDITATION:
I.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is in perfect harmony with the spirit of
Advent; while the soul is preparing for the coming of the Redeemer, it is
fitting to think of her, the all‑pure one, who
was His Mother.
The very promise of a Savior was joined to,
or rather, was included in the promise of this peerless Virgin. After having
cursed the insidious serpent, God proclaimed
" I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and
her seed : she shall crush thy head" (Gen 3,15). And behold, the Virgin
whose coming was foretold, approaches, " white as snow, more beautiful
than the sun, full of grace, and blessed above all women " (RB).
Precisely in view of the sublime privilege
which would make her the Mother of the Incarnate Word, Mary alone, among all
creatures, was preserved from original sin. Yet in Mary Immaculate we see not
only her preservation from original sin, and the complete absence of the
slightest shadow of an imperfection, but we also see the positive side of this
mystery which made her, from the very first moment of her existence, "
full of grace. "
Theologians teach that the Most Blessed
Virgin Mary began her spiritual life with grace much more abundant and perfect
than that which the greatest saints have acquired at the end of their lives.
When we consider also that during her whole life, the Blessed Virgin
corresponded fully and most perfectly to every movement of grace, to every
invitation from God, we can understand how charity and grace increased in her
with incessant and most rapid progress, making her the holiest of creatures,
the one most completely united to God and transformed in Him.
2.
St. John of the Cross, in describing the marvels of the state of perfect union
with God, presents Mary Immaculate to us as the prototype and model. "
Such were those [works and prayers] of the most glorious Virgin our Lady, who,
being raised to this high estate of union from the beginning, never had the
form of any creature imprinted in her soul, neither was she moved by such, but
was invariably guided by the Holy Spirit " (AS lll,
2, 10).
The two essential conditions for achieving
divine union are found in their fullness in Mary. The first condition, which is
a negative one, is that there be nothing in the soul's will which is contrary
to the divine will; that is, no attachment which would cause it to be subject
to a creature, so that this creature would rule in its heart in any way, or
impel it to act for love of this same creature; all such attachments must be
eliminated. The second condition, which is positive and constructive, and is
the consequence of the first, is that the human will be moved in all and
through all, only by the will of God. This was realized so perfectly in the
most pure soul of Mary Immaculate that she never had even the faintest shadow
of an attachment to a creature; in her soul there was never any impression of a
creature which could move her to act; she was so completely seized by divide
love that she could act only under the inspiration and " motion of the
Holy Spirit. "
Thus we see Mary as the most pure spouse of
the Holy Spirit, not only in relation to her divine maternity, but also in
relation to her whole life in which she was moved only by His impulse.
COLLOQUY:
O Mary, Mother of God and my Mother, what
light and strength your sweet image brings me! The most beautiful, the holiest,
the purest of all creatures, so " full of grace " that you were worthy
to bear within you the Author and Source of all grace, you do not disdain to
give yourself to me‑a poor creature, conscious of my sin and misery‑as a model of purity, love, and holiness.
The privileges of your Immaculate
Conception and divine maternity are inimitable, but you have hidden them within
such a simple, humble life that I am not afraid to approach you, and ask you to
take me by the hand and help me to ascend the mountain of perfection with you.
Yes, you are Queen of heaven and earth; but because you are more Mother than
Queen, you encourage me to have recourse to you, saying, " O my child,
hear me; blessed are they who keep my ways .... He who finds me, finds life,
and will obtain salvation from the Lord " (RB). And I answer you in the words
of the Church, " Draw me, O Immaculate Virgin, I will run after you in the
odor of your ointments" (ibid.).
Yes, draw me, Immaculate Mother, draw me
above all by the luminous charm of your spotless purity! I feel so impure and
stained by the things of earth compared with you, the all‑pure, so detached from everything, so forgetful of yourself
that nothing moves you to act apart from the divine will, apart from the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
If I see you always docile and ready to
respond to every least divine invitation, even though it be hidden under the
most human, ordinary circumstances; if I hear you gently repeating your "
yes, " Ecce ancilla Domini. . .fiat, in all the
happenings of your life, big and little, agreeable and disagreeable, it is
because you are the Immaculate. No shadow of creatures or purely human
interests or affections touches your heart, and therefore, nothing can delay
your most rapid course toward God.
O Immaculate Virgin, I am so reluctant,
indolent, and miserly in giving myself to God, so immersed in the things of
earth! Teach me how pure my heart ought to be, so that I will never refuse
anything to the Lord, and will always be able to repeat with you my sweet,
prompt fiat.
Illumine my mind, then, with the light
which emanates from your resplendent purity, so that no attachment, no earthly
affection may remain hidden in me to prevent my leading a life truly and fully
consecrated to my God.
To you I entrust, in a very special way, my
vow of chastity; guard it and make me pure, not only in body, but also in mind
and heart. With your help, O Mother, I am ready to renounce any affection, even
if slight, which could still bind me to creatures. I want my heart to belong
wholly to God, for whom I would keep its every throb in a spirit of perfect
chastity.
St. Damasus
was one of the most illustrious defenders of the great mystery of the
Incarnation. He defends the faith of the
universal Church in the divinity of the Word, by condemning, as his predecessor
Liberius had done, the acts and the authors of the
celebrated Council of Rimini. With his
sovereign authority, he bore witness to the teaching of the Church regarding
the Humanity of Jesus Christ, and condemned the heretic Apollinaris,
who taught the Jesus Christ had assumed only the flesh and not the soul of
man. He commissioned St. Jerome to make
a new translation of the New Testament from the Greek, for the use of the
Church of Rome; here, again, giving further proof of the faith and love which
he bore to the Incarnate Word. Let us
honor this Pontiff, whom the Council of Chalcedon calls, ‘the ornament and
support of Rome by his piety.’ St.
Jerome called him ‘a man of the greatest worth; a man whose equal could not be
found, well versed in the holy Scriptures, and a virgin doctor of the virgin
Church.’
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Damasus
Listen
and let it penetrate your heart my dear little son. Do not be troubled or weighed down with
grief. Do not fear any illness or
vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here
who am your Mother? Are you not under my
shadow and protection? Am I not your
fountain of life? Are you not in the
folds of my mantle? In the crossing of
my arms? Is there anything else you need?
Blessed
Virgin Mary to St. Juan Diego
Odilia
was born blind. Her father insisted on
her being removed from the house, for her presence would have been a continual
humiliation to him. It seems as though
this affliction was permitted by Providence, in order that the action and power
of divine grace might be the more clearly manifested in her regard. The little exile was taken from her mother,
and placed in a monastery. God, who
designed to show the virtue of the holy Sacrament of regeneration, permitted
that her Baptism should be deferred until she had reached her thirteenth
year. The time at length came for Odilia to be made a child of God. No sooner was she taken from the baptismal
font, than she received her eyesight, which was but a feeble figure of the
light which had lit up in her soul.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Odilia
Some among you, inflated like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive
by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the
sense of the heavenly pages . . . to the philosophical teaching of the rationals, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a
show of science . . . these, seduced by strange and eccentric doctrines, make
the head of the tail and force the queen to serve the servant.
Pope Gregory IX regarding the 13th century Modernists of his day
If Jesus came to sanctify all, if it is God’s will that “all should be
saints,” then sanctity cannot consist in extraordinary gifts of nature and
grace, which depend solely upon God’s liberality. Sanctity, therefore, must consist in
something that all souls of good will, even the simplest and most humble, can
attain, sustained by the divine assistance.
Sanctity is the perfection of the Christian life. It is the full development in us of the
supernatural life, whose beginnings are sanctifying grace, the infused virtues,
and the gifts of the Holy Ghost… When
the influence of grace extends effectively to all our actions, directing them
solely to God’s glory and uniting us wholly to Him be means of charity, then we
have reached the fullness of Christian life, sanctity.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C. D.,
Divine Intimacy
“The more
joyfully souls do His will, the greater is their perfection.”
St. Therese of
the Child Jesus & the Holy Face
Act of Abandonment to the Divine Will
O my God, I know not what must come to me today; but I am certain that
nothing can happen to me which Thou hast not foreseen and ordained from all
eternity: that is sufficient for me. I
adore Thy impenetrable and eternal designs, to which I submit with all my
heart; I desire, I accept them all, and I unite my sacrifice to that of Jesus
Christ, my divine Saviour; I ask in His name, and
through His infinite merits, patience in my trials, and perfect submission to
all that comes to me by Thy good pleasure.
Amen
St. Joseph Pignatelli, S. J., who lived his
life as a Jesuit during the 40 years of their unjust suppression dying three
years before their official restoration by Pope Pius VII in 1814. He is considered the “restorer of the Society
of Jesus.”
St. Lucy, pray for us,
that our eye may be purified, and may see, in the Child who is to be born at
Bethlehem, the new Man, the second Adam, the model on which the life of our regeneration
must be formed. Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, St. Lucy
The Angel being come
in, says the Gospel; the expression “come in,” leads us to believe that Mary
was “within” her house. The Angel
reveals to her in God’s name what will take place in her. “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the Most High shall overshadow thee.
And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God” (Lk 1, 35). From that moment God made Himself present in
Mary in a very special way, present not only by essence, knowledge, and power,
as He is in all creatures; present not only by grace as He is in the souls of
the just; but, far more, the Word of God was in Mary by “corporal presence,” as
St. Albert the Great says.
Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D, Divine Intimacy
Tropologically, a reed is a light man, inconstant, tossed
to and fro at one time impelled by the cords of flatterers, he asserts
something again being driven by detractors, he denies it, as a reed is blown in
different directions by different winds.
A reed is one who is devoid of truth, virtue, and consistency, as a reed
has no strength, or stamina. A reed is
he who has no fruit of good works to show, since a reed bears no fruit. It is he who is delighted with, and feeds
upon, the fluctuating pleasures of the world. For a reed is dry yet it grows
beside the waters. Whence it is called,
“the river reed.”
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentary
CONSOLATION IN SUFFERING
"The God of patience
and of comfort, the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing" (Rom. 15:5-13).
What gives us the greatest
consolation in adversities?
The strong and fervent belief that
each and every thing that happens to us, comes to us for our own good from God,
and that whatever evil befalls us, is by the will or permission of God. Good
things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God (Ecclus. 11:14). If we have received good things at the hand
of God (Job 2:10), saith the pious job in his affliction,
"why should we not receive evil?"
We should be fully convinced that
without the permission of God not a single hair of our head shall perish (Lk. 21:18), much less can any other evil be done to us by
man or devil (Job 1); we should have a steadfast confidence that if we ask Him,
God can and will assist us in our sufferings, if it be for our salvation. Can a
woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if
she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee in my
hands (Is. 49:15‑16); we should hope for abundant reward in the future
life, which we will merit by patience in our sufferings, for that which is at
present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh
for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory (II Cor. 4:17); we
should remember that all complaints and murmurs against the dispensation of God
are useless, and lead only to harm and shame; Who hath resisted Him, and hath
had peace? (Job 9:4) we should have a vivid remembrance of our sins, for which
we have long since deserved the eternal punishments of hell - hence the
well-known saying of St. Augustine: O Lord, here cut, here burn, but spare me
in eternity. No other way leads to the kingdom of heaven than the way of the cross,
which Christ Himself, His sorrowing mother, and all the saints had to tread.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into His glory?
(Lk. 24:26) Through many tribulations we must enter
into the kingdom of God (Acts 14:21). And we should not forget that sorrows and
adversities are signs of God's love, and manifest proofs of being His chosen
ones. Whom the Lord loveth He chastiseth,
and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth (Heb. 12:6. compare 7-11).
PRAYER IN SORROW
O almighty, kind and merciful God! who hast said: "Call upon me in the
day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me" (Ps. 49:15), behold relying upon Thy word, I take refuge in
Thee in my trouble. Give honor to Thy name, therefore, and deliver me, if it be
pleasing to Thee and beneficial for me, that all may know, Thou art our only
help. Amen.
"For all the gods of
the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens" (Ps. 95, 5).
Wanting to reconcile the
Faith with the modern spirit leads not only to a weakening of the Faith, but
also to its total ruin.
Pope St. Pius X
In the Church, I
perceive two kinds of persecutions: the first in its beginnings, under the
Roman Empire, in which violence inexorably prevailed; the second at the end of
time, when seduction will reign.
Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
THE LORD WILL
NOT DELAY SECOND
SUNDAY OF ADVENT
PRESENCE
OF GOD ‑
I place myself in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, to receive
His two‑fold invitation to confidence and
repentance, contained in today's liturgy.
MEDITATION:
I. After we have considered the sublime program
of sanctification which we should follow, it is very consoling to consider the
magnificent texts of today's liturgy. They invite us to have complete trust in
God's help. " Thy salvation cometh quickly : why art thou wasted with
sorrow?... I will save thee and deliver thee, fear not .... As a mother comforteth her sons, so will I comfort thee, saith the Lord" (RB). God does not want anxiety or
discouragement. If He proposes to us an exalted way of sanctity, He does not
leave us alone, but comes to help and sustain us.
Today's Mass shows clearly how Jesus comes
not only for the people of Israel, for a small number of the elect, but also
for the Gentiles, for all men. " Behold the Lord shall come to save the
nations " (Introit), Therefore, let us have confidence and rejoice, as St.
Paul exhorts us : " Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing that you may abound in hope " (Ep
: Rom 15, 4‑13). And in order to stimulate our hope in Christ, the Gospel
(Mt 11, 2‑ 10) presents His wonderful works : " The blind see, the
lame walk, lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have
the gospel preached to them. "
There is no physical or moral misery which
Jesus cannot cure. He asks only that we go to Him with a heart dilated by
faith, and with complete trust in His all‑powerful, merciful love.
2.
In today's Gospel Jesus directs our attention to the strong, austere figure of
John the Baptist. " What went you out to see? A reed shaken by the
wind?... A man clothed in soft garments? "
If we want to prepare our hearts for Jesus'
coming, we, like St. John the Baptist, must detach ourselves from all the goods
of earth. John had left everything and gone into the desert to lead a life of
penance. His example invites us to retire into the interior desert of our
heart, far from creatures, to await the coming of Jesus in deep recollection,
silence, and solitude, insofar as the duties of our state in life permit. We
must persevere in this waiting, in spite of aridity and discouragement. "
The Lord shall appear and shall not deceive us : if He make any delay, wait for
Him, for He will come and will not tarry " (RB).
To our interior recollection, let us add a
greater spirit of penance and mortification. Let us examine our generosity in
practicing the penances and mortifications prescribed by our Rule, and those
which we have imposed upon ourselves with the approval of our confessor or
superior. If we discover that we are lax in this regard, it would be well to
resolve to do something more : some mortification at meals, in our rest, or in
our clothing, some work that is hard or painful to nature.
If we wish to taste the sweet joys of
Christmas, we should know how to prepare ourselves with these dispositions
which the Church invites us to pray for today : " We beseech You, O Lord,
to teach us. . . to despise the things of earth and to love those of heaven
" (RM).
COLLOQUY:
O my Savior, Word of God, how can I doubt
that are coming upon earth to save and sanctify me? Why I do not go to You with
complete, loving confidence, when You have spared nothing to show me Your infinitely
merciful love? Your Incarnation, Your infant tears, Your humble hidden life,
Your apostolate, Your miracles, Your sorrow Passion and death, all Your
precious Blood poured out, shall they not be enough to make me believe in Your
love, open my heart in the most complete confidence?
" I repeat with all confidence the
humble prayer of the publican. Most of all do I imitate the behavior of Magdalen, for her amazing‑rather
I should say her loving‑audacity, which
delighted Your heart .... I am certain that even if I had on my conscience
every imaginable crime, I should lose nothing of my confidence, but would throw
myself, my heart broken with sorrow, into Your arms, for I remember Your love
for the prodigal son who returns to You " (T.C.J. St. I2).
With this confidence, O my Jesus, I will
resume my way and begin again my poor efforts.
During this Advent You invite me to greater
recollection, to greater interior and exterior silence, so that I may be able
to hear Your voice and prepare for Your coming. Help me, then, to quiet my
continual chatter about useless things, the discordant voices of nature, self‑love,
sensitiveness, the distracting prattle of my fantasies, imaginations, thoughts
and useless preoccupations.
I acknowledge that often my mind and heart
are like: a raging sea in which the waves thunder continually; and yet, if You
wish, a sign from You will be enough to make calm return and all be silent.
Yes, You teach me that interior silence
exacts detachment from self and from creatures, exacts interior and exterior
mortification. For love of You I will mortify my curiosity, the curiosity of my
eyes, ears, thoughts, and imagination. I also want to silence my passions and,
therefore, I resolve to be more generous in the practice of corporal
mortification.
O eternal Word, my Savior, draw all my
powers to Yourself; fasten my interior gaze upon Yourself, so that I shall no
longer seek or hear anything or anyone but You alone, eternal Word of my
eternal God!
Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts,
have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them
all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart…. Be Thou King of
all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism,
and refuse not to draw them all into the light and Kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of
mercy toward the children of that race, once Thy chosen people. Of old they called down upon themselves the
Blood of the Saviour; may It now descend upon them a
laver of redemption and of life.
Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Raccolta
Catholic doctrine ought thus to be proposed and set forth totally and
in its entirety: one ought not to
pass over in silence or cover with ambiguous words what Catholic truth teaches on
the true nature and means of justification, on the constitution of the Church,
on the primacy of jurisdiction of the Roman pontiff, on the only true union which is achieved by the return of dissidents to
the one true Church of Christ. It is taught that they, by returning
to the Church, do not lose any part of the good that, by the grace of God, has
up to now been born in them, but that with their return this good is rather
completed and perfected. There is no
need to discuss this subject as though these people should believe that by
their return to the Church they should bring it some essential element that
they have lacked up to now.
Pius XII, Instruction
of the Holy Office on Ecumenism, Dec. 20, 1949
Some say they are not
bound by the doctrine, explained in Our Encyclical Letter [Mystici
Corporis] of a few years ago, and based
on the sources of revelation, which teaches that the Mystical Body of
Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing.
Pius XII, Humani Generis
"Pray, they are ringing the Angelus."
St. Clement Maria Hofbauer’s
last words
Whosoever therefore is
not united with the Body is no member thereof, neither is he in communion with
Christ its Head.
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
I am worried by the
Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the
dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of
altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all
around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the
universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse
for Her historical past.
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church
will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become
God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God
awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask,
“Where have they taken Him?”
Pope Pius XII, Roche, Devant L'Historie, p. 52-5
“An Unjust Law is Not a
Law”
When
Pope Nicholas II ordered the suppression of the Ambrosian
Rite, he was opposed by the Catholics of Milan who refused his order. This order was subsequently overturned by
Pope Alexander II who declared it to have been most manifestly “unjust.” Human law, even the highest form of human law
imposed by the pope, has all the limitations of every human law. That is, it
must be a promulgation of reason, by the proper authority, promoting the common
good, and not in any way opposed to Divine or natural law. As St. Thomas has
said, “an unjust law is not a law.” The pope had no authority to bind an unjust
law and therefore the Catholics of Milan were completely within their rights to
refuse the order of Pope Nicholas II in his attempt to suppress their
immemorial traditions. Traditional Catholics are, like them, within their
rights to refuse any liturgical innovations to their immemorial customs.
This moreover is true if you consider the mass of mankind. For by far
the greater portion of men are Infidels, Turks, Saracens, or heretics. S.
Augustine (lib. 4 contr. crescent. c. 53) compares the Church to a
threshing-floor in which there is far more chaff than grains of wheat, more bad
than good, more who will be damned than will be saved. Yet others, with greater
mildness, think it probable that the greater portion of professing Christians
will be saved, because most of them receive the Holy Sacraments before they
die. And they justify sinners, not only those who have contrition, but who have
attrition. But this seems to be true of those who have not lived in constant
and habitual sins, such as fornication, usury, hatred. For such, when they are
sick, conceive with difficulty any serious and efficacious purpose of
amendment, or if they do conceive it, God in just punishment of their past sins
suffers the demon of their bygone lusts to tempt them, and he furbishes and
sharpens their memory, and so the sick man in consequence of his habits easily
yields, and consents in his heart to sin, and thus he falls and is damned. Of
this there are many examples.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentary on St.
Matthew
Jesus
Christ Received the Throne of David from St. Joseph
It may be yet further asked, why S. Matthew unfolded the genealogy of
Joseph rather than of Mary, since Christ was born of her alone, being a Virgin?
I answer : First, because among the Jews, and other nations, genealogy is
customarily reckoned through fathers and husbands, not through mothers and
wives. Second, because Joseph was the true and lawful father of Christ, after
the manner which I shall explain presently. And Christ was the heir of David’s
throne and sceptre, not through Mary, but through
Joseph, according to Gods promise to David, 2 Sam. vii. 12; Ps. lxxxix. and cxxxii. The sceptre, therefore, of Judah devolved upon Jesus Christ,
not only by the promise and gift of God, but by the right of hereditary
succession. For if, by common right, sons succeed to their fathers’
inheritance, when they are only accounted their sons by common repute, how much
more was Christ Joseph’s, his father’s, heir, since He was the Son of his wife,
by the power and the gift of the Holy Ghost? Wherefore as Joseph had a parent’s
right over Christ, indeed, all rights which parents have over sons, so on the
other hand, Christ had, with reference to Joseph, all the rights which sons
have in respect to their parents. He had therefore a right to the kingdom of
Israel after Joseph’s death. Hence the question of the Magi (ii. 2), “Where is
he that is born King of the Jews?” This was what S. Matthew wished to
demonstrate, who, as S. Augustine says, insists, most of all the Evangelists,
upon the kingship of Christ. And this explains why he gives the genealogy of
Joseph, rather than of Mary. For she could not be the heiress of the kingdom,
so long as heirs male, like Joseph and others, survived. Whence also it must be
said, as a consequence, that the father and other ancestors of Joseph were
first-born, or at least eldest surviving sons of their fathers, so that the
right of reigning devolved upon them.
This is what is meant in the first chapter of S. Luke by the words,
“And the Lord God will give unto him the throne of his father David.” So
likewise in Gen. xlix. to, “The sceptre shall not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come,”
that is, Christ, who was to restore to Judah the sceptre,
iniquitously taken away by Herod; yea, who was to raise their kingdom to a far
higher grandeur, by making it spiritual instead of corporeal, heavenly instead
of earthly, and, instead of temporal, eternal.
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, Commentary on St.
Matthew
Whoever dwells in the protection of the Almighty, may say to God: “You are
my refuge and my castle, Lord, whom I trust” (Psalm 90: 1-2).
Invocation of St. Clement Maria Hofbauer, taught to him by his mother
"Charity… unites
man with God so that he no longer lives for himself but for God."
St. Thomas Aquinas
Novena Prayer to the Infant of Prague
O Dearest Jesus,
tenderly loving us, Thy greatest joy is to dwell among men and to bestow Thy
blessings upon us! Though I am not worthy that Thou should behold me with love,
I feel myself drawn to Thee, O dear Infant Jesus, because Thou gladly pardon me
and exercise Thy almighty power over me.
So many who turned with confidence to Thee and
have received graces and had their petitions granted. Look upon me as I kneel
in spirit before Thy miraculous image on Thine altar
in Prague and lay open my heart to Thee, with its prayers, petitions and hopes.
Especially the affair of... I enclose in Thy loving Heart. Govern me and do
with me and mine according to Thy holy will, for I know that in Thy Divine
wisdom and love Thou will ordain everything for the best. Almighty, gracious
Infant Jesus, do not withdraw Thy hand from us, but protect and bless us
forever. Amen
Modern “theologians” ignorant of scholasticism and thus,
any sense of true theology, should know, the Summa was intended for
“beginners.”
Because
the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also
to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As unto little ones in Christ,
I gave you milk to drink, not meat. 1 Cor. 3, 1-2), we propose in this book to
treat of whatever belongs to the Christian Religion, in such a way as may tend
to the instruction of beginners. We
shall try, by God’s help, to set forth whatever is included in this Sacred
Science as briefly and clearly as the matter itself may allow.
St. Thomas Aquinas, prologue to the Summa
“Religion
holds the first place among the moral virtues”
The supernatural virtue of Religion is, in the first place, an abiding,
persevering disposition inclining us to render unto God the worship due Him. Ease
and readiness in the performance of supernatural acts of religion is the fruit
of faithful exercise and is obtainable by our own exertions assisted by divine
grace. Charity and all the infused moral virtues are inseparably united with
sanctifying grace, whilst the two theological virtues of faith and hope (habitus fidei et spei) can still exist even after sanctifying grace has been
lost…. Religion holds the first place among the moral virtues. Although, like
all other moral virtues, the virtue of religion is inferior in merit and
dignity to the divine virtues of faith, hope and charity, it is, nevertheless,
most intimately connected with them, for it regulates the conduct of man toward
God. It holds the first rank among the moral virtues, because it approaches
nearer to God than the others, in so far as it produces and has for its primary
object those acts which refer directly and immediately to the honor of God —
that is, whatever acts pertain to the divine service…. We read in the epistle
of St. James (i. 27) these words: “Religion (religio) clean and undefiled before God and the Father is
this; to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one’s
self unspotted from the world.” The meaning of the above is — that if we would
honor God the Father in a sincere and proper manner, we must be assiduously
intent upon assisting the poor, the abandoned and the distressed, upon
consoling and comforting them, and, at the same time, endeavor, amid the
universal corruption of the world, to serve God alone and to please Him by
purity of heart and the righteousness of our ways. Thus the virtue of religion
will produce abundant fruits “that in all things and above all things God may
be glorified” (ut in omnibus glorificetur
Deus).
Rev. Nicholas Gihr
The
Trial of St. Thomas Becket
Whatever credit may be due to reports originating with men, whose great
object it was to bring the religious orders into disrepute, and to terrify them
into the surrender of their property, there is one proceeding, which, on
account of its singularity and absurdity, deserves the attention of the reader.
It had been suggested that, as long as the name of St. Thomas of Canterbury
should remain in the (liturgical) calendar, men would be stimulated by his
example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of their sovereign. The kings’s attorney was therefore instructed to exhibit an
information against him and “Thomas Becket, some time archbishop of
Canterbury,” was formally cited to appear in court, and answer to the charge.
The interval of thirty days allowed by the canon law was suffered to elapse:
still the saint neglected to quit the tomb in which he had reposed for two
centuries and a half; and judgment would have been given against him for
default, had not the king of his special grace assigned him a counsel. The
court sat at Westminster: the attorney general and the advocate of the accused
were heard; and sentence was finally pronounced; that Thomas, some time
archbishop of Canterbury, had been guilty of rebellion, contumacy, and treason;
that his bones should be publicly burnt, to admonish the living of their duty
by the punishment of the dead; and that the offerings which had been made at
his shrine, the personal property of the reputed saint, should be forfeited to
the crown. A commission was accordingly
issued; the sentence was executed in due form; and the gold, silver, and
jewels, the spoils obtained by the demolition of the shrine, were conveyed in
two ponderous coffers to the royal treasury. Soon afterwards a proclamation was
published, stating that, forasmuch as it now clearly appeared, that Thomas
Becket had been killed in a riot excited by his own obstinacy and intemperate
language and had been afterwards canonized by the bishop of Rome as the
champion of his usurped authority, the king’s majesty thought it expedient to
declare to his loving subjects, that he was no saint, but rather a rebel and
traitor to his prince, and therefore strictly charged and commanded that he
should not be esteemed or called a saint, that all images and pictures of him
should be destroyed, the festivals in his honour be
abolished, and his name and remembrance be erased out of all books, under pain
of his majesty's indignation and imprisonment at his grace's pleasure.
Archbishop John Milner, D.D., History
of England
"Sanctity
properly consists only in conformity to God’s will, expressed in a constant and
exact fulfillment of the duties of our state in life."
Pope Benedict
XV
His
friends just call him "Bergoglio"
We were close for a few days, the three daily meals and have shared
other moments both public and private. We talked about everything: about dialogue,
but also about the journey that we will do together to Israel [.....] Together
we have celebrated the beginning of Shabbat, he was by my side when I recited
the Kiddush and has broken challah, which Zion Evrony, the Israeli Ambassador, brought to the Holy See.
They were unforgettable days and I think that they have a value that goes
beyond the affection and confidence that has always connected us [.....]
"Important signal": "I see great value in Bergoglio's
comments against proselytism. It is a point on which he insists with a special
emphasis and gets even more weight when we think of the evangelizing framework
within which these statements were made...... But now, the Pope speaks of it
(of evangelization) only to introduce Catholics to the faith.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka from Argentina,
interview for the Jewish monthly Pagine Ebraiche, which was reproduced in Osservatore Romano November 25, about his visit to the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome as a "personal guest of Bergolio in Santa Maria."
Home
School? - an added benefit, Education!
"(The results show a) picture of educational stagnation.... We
must invest in early education, raise academic standards, make college
affordable, and do more to recruit and retain top-notch educators."
Arne Duncan, Education Secretary, commenting on the U.S.A. results from
the three-yearly Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries
around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for
reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics. U.S. averages $10,599.00 for a 15 year-old's education.
It is most just that the soul, which was the first to fall, should be
the first to rise. Let us therefore defer caring for the body, until the day
when Jesus Christ will come and reform it by the Resurrection; for, in the
first coming, the Precursor says to us: “Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.” Observe, he says not
the maladies of the body, nor the miseries of the flesh; he says sins, which
are the malady of the soul, and the corruption of the spirit. Take heed, then,
thou my body, and wait for thy turn and time. Thou canst hinder the salvation
of the soul, and thine own safety is not within thy
reach. Let the soul labour for herself, and strive
thou too to help her, for if thou sharest in her
sufferings thou wilt share in her glory. Retard her perfection, and thou retardest thine own. Thou wilt
not be regenerated until God sees His own image restored in the soul.
St. Bernard
The silkworm starts to spin its silk and to
build the house in which it is to die…. On then, my daughters, let us hasten to
perform this task and spin this cocoon.
Let us renounce our self-love and self-will, and our attachment to
earthly things. Let us practice penance,
prayer, mortification, obedience, and all the other good works that you know
of…. Let the silkworm die – let it die, as in fact it does when it has
completed the work which it was created to do.
Then we shall see God and shall ourselves be as completely hidden in his
greatness as is this little worm in its cocoon… And let us see what becomes of
this silkworm, for all that I have been saying about it is leading up to
this. When it is in this state of
prayer, and quite dead to the world, it comes out a little white
butterfly. Oh, greatness of God, that a
soul should come out like this, after being with him for so short a time.
St. Theresa of Avila
No President of the U.S. has ever publically venerated an
image of the Mother of God
Gestures of
Piety from Russia's President Putin: Vatican/Moscow: November 26, 2013
Pope Francis gave Putin a mosaic that shows the Vatican
Gardens. Putin gave the Pope an icon of the Mother of God of
Vladimir. When the icon was presented to the Pope, it was a personal
gesture of the Russian President, who crossed himself at the sight of the
orthodox type icon. Pope Francis, surprised by this gesture,
followed the example of piety and crossed himself also in the Latin way. Putin
then bowed before the icon and kissed the sacred representation. Even this
gesture of pious affection was followed by Pope Francis. Gestures that
astonished the head of state of Russia in particular. Firstly, because the
Russian leader had lived in the atheism of “real socialism” for a long
time. And also because Western heads of state and heads of government in
the name of an “neutrality” avoid any personal religious commitment while
in office. Putin was not afraid to express his faith in Christ and the All
Holy Theotokos in a public gesture of personal piety.
Indulgences for the Blue
Scapular, (the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception)
As for me, I would take all scapulars." But above all you must
know that the scapular of the Immaculate Conception, which is blessed by the Theatine Fathers, besides all its partial indulgences, has
all the indulgences granted to whatever religious order, whatever devotion,
whatever person there can be. And particularly that by reciting six times Pater,
Ave, and Gloria, in honor of the Most Holy Trinity and Mary
Immaculate, can be gained each time all the indulgences of Rome, of Portiuncula, of Jerusalem, and of Galicia, which amounts to
533 plenary indulgences, without speaking of partial indulgences, which are
innumerable.
St. Alphonsus
Liguori, Glories of Mary. These indulgences have been confirmed by
Gregory XVI. in a decree dated July 12, 1845
The
Death of the Blessed Margaret Pole, the Mother of Cardinal Reginald Pole who
was the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, by order of the founder of the
Anglican Church, a womanizing serial killer.
The part which the Cardinal Reginald Pole (who was a grandnephew of King
Edward IV and Kind Richard III) had taken in the negotiation (between Pope Paul
III, Emperor Charles V, and King Francis I of France) inflamed the hatred of
Henry. Judgment of treason was pronounced against him; foreign princes were
solicited to deliver him up; and he was constantly beset with spies, and, as he
believed, with ruffians hired to take his life. At home, to wound him in the
most tender part, Henry ordered his mother, the venerable countess of
Salisbury, to be arrested and examined by the earl of Southampton, and the
bishop of Ely: but she behaved with such firmness of character, such apparent
consciousness of innocence, as completely disconcerted her accusers. Unable to
extract from her admissions sufficient matter for a criminal prosecution,
Cromwell consulted the judges, whether a person accused of treason, might not
be attainted (i.e.: convicted by a bill of attainder) without a previous trial
or confession. They replied that it would form a dangerous precedent: that no
inferior tribunal would venture on so illegal a proceeding; but that the court
of parliament was supreme, and an attainder by parliament would be good in law.
This was sufficient for the king, who sought not justice but revenge; and in a
bill of attainder, containing the names of several individuals who had been
condemned in the lower courts, were introduced those of Pole’s mother the
countess, of his nephew the son of lord Montague, and of Gertrude, relict of
the marquess of Exeter, though none of them had
confessed any crime, nor been heard in their own defence.
With the fate of the young man we are not acquainted: the marchioness obtained
a pardon at the expiration of six months; and it was hoped that the king would
extend the same mercy to the countess. She was more than seventy years of age,
the nearest to King Henry in blood of all his relations, and the last in a
direct line of the Plantagenets, a family which had
swayed the English sceptre through so many
generations. Henry kept her in the Tower, probably as a hostage for the behaviour of her son, or her friends, but at the end of two
years, on account of some provocation in which she could have had no share,
ordered her to be put to death. In the prison and on the scaffold she
maintained the dignity of her rank and descent; and when she was told to lay
her head on the block, “No,” she replied, “My head never committed treason: if
you will have it you must take it as you can.” She was held down by force and
while the executioner performed his office, exclaimed, “Blessed are they who
suffer persecution for righteousness’ sake.” Her death, or rather murder which
seemed to have no rational object, proclaimed to the world that the heart of
the king was not less steeled to the feelings of relationship and humanity,
than it was inaccessible to considerations of justice and honour;
and proved an awful admonition to his subjects, that nothing short of unlimited
obedience could shield them from the vengeance of their sovereign.
Rev. John Lingard, D.D., History of England
St.
Ignatius on the Question of Penance
Neither mortification of the body nor that of the passions should be
deferred to old age, old age is uncertain, and does not allow of severity being
used towards it. [....]Penance is divided into that which is interior and exterior.
Interior penance consists in sorrow for one’s sins, accompanied by a firm
resolution not to fall again into the same sins nor into any other. Exterior
penance is a fruit of the former, and consists in punishing oneself for one’s
past faults; which may be practised chiefly in three
ways. First, with regard to food. As to which it must be remembered that
cutting off what is superfluous is not penance but temperance. That only is
penance when we deprive ourselves of something which we might properly take;
and, in this sense, the more we succeed in cutting off, the greater and more
praiseworthy is the penance, provided it does not go so far as to destroy our
strength and to injure our health notably. Secondly, with regard to sleep. As
to the manner of taking it, it should be remarked that it is not penance to cut
off what only tends to gratify our delicacy and our sensuality. There is
penance only in depriving ourselves of part of the things which we might
properly use; and, in this sense, the more we succeed in cutting off, the
better we shall do, provided we do not greatly injure health and no notable
weakness ensues. As to the time to be given to sleep, nothing should generally
be cut off from what is expedient unless with the view of correcting the evil
habit of sleeping too much and arriving at a right measure. Thirdly, with
regard to the body. It consists in causing it to suffer sensible pain by
wearing haircloth, cords, or iron chains on the flesh ; by taking the
discipline. What appears to be most suitable and least dangerous on this point
is, that the pain should only he felt by the flesh, and not penetrate to the
bone so that the penance should cause pain and not infirmity.
Exterior penances are used chiefly for three purposes: first, as a
satisfaction for past sins; secondly, in order to overcome oneself, that is to
say, in order that sensuality may be obedient to reason, and all the inferior
parts of the soul be more subjected to the superior; thirdly, in order to seek
and find some grace or gift which a person wishes for and desires: as, for
example, if he desires to have an interior sorrow for his sins, or to weep much
for them, or for the pains and sufferings which Christ our Lord endured in His
Passion, or in order to obtain the solution of some doubt he is in.
Fr. Xavier De Franciosi, S.J., Spirit of St. Ignatius
Father
of Modernism: Cardinal John Henry Newman?
It has always been
incomprehensible to me why Manning’s hostility to Newman should be imputed to
him as a sin, while Newman’s hostility to Manning is held to be a virtue.
[.....] Yet at the present hour, when the Modernists have claimed Newman as
their precursor, supporting their contention with many a passage from his
writings, it would seem that Manning, as the exponent of orthodox doctrine, was
justified in his appreciation of Newman’s teaching. [....] Manning had
everything to lose by becoming a Catholic, Newman had everything to gain.
[....]This is shown by the willingness with which (Manning) threw aside
ambition, comfort, and prosperity, when as the high road to the foremost and
pleasantest preferments in the Church of England, to
enter upon the tedious life of a Roman Catholic mission priest. His new durance
called forth from him no moaning such as Newman poured out when he was sent to
work in Ireland. [.... ] Manning’s religion was free from all pious
affectation. Yet in close contact with him one felt that he was always living
in the presence of an unseen Power, not as a pompous agent, but as its simple
and humble messenger. It has been my lot to witness some of the most imposing
religious ceremonies of modern Christendom; but nothing so impressive, so
faith-inspiring has ever met my eyes as the sight of the noble old Englishman
in his threadbare cassock kneeling alone before the altar of his bare chapel.”
[......] “I became a Catholic off my own bat” (Manning) exclaimed to
indicate the lack of conviction in the Oxford converts. Afterwards the
conversation moved to theological ground, and Manning’s tone changed. “From an
observation you made”, he said, “I gather that you are under the impression
that Doctor Newman is a good Catholic.” I replied that such was my vague
belief. He retorted: “Either you are ignorant of the Catholic doctrine, or of
the works of Doctor Newman” - he always said ‘Doctor Newman’ in Oxford fashion,
and never gave him the title of Cardinal. After asking me which of Newman’s
books I had read, he proceeded to tick off on his tapering fingers, in his
usual way, ten distinct heresies to be found in the most widely-read works of
Dr. Newman.” [.....] To Msgr. Talbot Manning wrote, “. . . an English
Catholicism, of which Newman is the highest type. It is the old Anglican,
patristic, literary, Oxford tone transplanted into the Church... In one word,
it is a worldly Catholicism, and it will have the worldly on its side, and will
deceive many. [....] He is the most dangerous man in England.”
Richard Sartino, Another Look at Cardinal Newman, quoting J. E. C. Bodley, a Protestant and Mason, on Cardinal Newman and
Cardinal Manning
Hope
for all of Europe
“We are proud that our King St. Stephen established the Hungarian state
on firm foundations a thousand years ago and our country as part of Christian
Europe…. We recognize the role of Christianity in preserving our nationhood.”
Hungary, excerpt from its constitution
Nothing
is more evident than this –
Pope
Francis knows nothing of the Mother of God, he knows nothing of the spiritual
life!
The Gospel does not tell us anything: if she spoke a word or not... She
was silent, but in her heart, how many things told the Lord! “You, that day,
this and the other that we read, you had told me that he would be great, you
had told me that you would have given him the throne of David, his forefather,
that he would have reigned forever and now I see him there!” Our Lady was
human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: “Lies! I was deceived!”
Pope Francis, sermon December 20, 2013, published by Vatican News
Service
On the other hand, it is certain that the Jewish Cabalistic tradition
was one of the principal mediums through which Eastern occultism (which has so
many times come to the surface in European history) has been transmitted to
modern Europe; and that many, if not all, of the recognized founders of the
eighteenth century Illuminism (including Weishaupt, Pasqualis, and
Cagliostro) were initiated into its secrets by Jewish Cabalists or drew their
inspiration and their methods from the Jewish esoteric writings. The Jewish
apologist, Bernard Lazare, states that “there were
Cabalistic Jews around the cradle of Freemasonry, as certain rites still in
existence conclusively show.”
Rev. Edward J. Cahill, S.J., The Truth About Freemasonry
Hermeneutics
of Continuity/Discontinuity – Even JPII did not deny this dogma!
Pope Francis Teaches:
We hold the Jewish people in
special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the
gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” (Rom.11:29). The Church, which
shares with Jews an important part of the Sacred Scriptures, looks upon the
people of the covenant and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own
Christian identity (cf. Rom. 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider
Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to
turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes.
1:9). With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with them
we accept his revealed word. Pope
Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
The Church officially recognizes
that the People of Israel continue to be the Chosen People. Nowhere does it
say: “You lost the game, now it is our turn.” It is a recognition of the People
of Israel. Pope Francis, On Heaven and Earth
The
Catholic Church Teaches:
Hebrews 7:18: “On the one
hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and
uselessness…”;
Hebrews 10:9: “Then he
says, ‘Behold, I come to do your will.’ He takes away the first [covenant] to
establish the second [covenant]…”;
2 Corinthians 3:14: “For to
this day when they [the Jews] read the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away”;
Hebrews 8:7: “For if there
had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been
sought for another”;
Colossians 2:14: “Having
canceled the written code, with its decrees, that was against us and stood
opposed to us; He took it away nailing it to the cross”;
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, para. 29: “…the New Testament took the place of the Old
Law which had been abolished…but on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the
Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the
Cross”;
The Catechism of the Council
of Trent: “…the people, aware of the abrogation of the Mosaic Law…”;
Council of Florence: [This
council] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to
the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law,
which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments,
because they were established to signify something in the future, although they
were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had
been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began;
and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the
law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in
Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that
after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could
have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for
salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot
be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after
that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of
the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to
participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these
errors. Pope Eugene IV, Council of
Florence, Cantate Domino
Council of Trent: “but not
even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated
or to rise therefrom”;
Cardinal Ratzinger:
“Thus the Sinai [Mosaic] Covenant is indeed superseded” (Many Religions –
One Covenant, p. 70).
St. John Chrysostom: “Yet
surely Paul’s object everywhere is to annul this Law….And with much reason; for
it was through a fear and a horror of this that the Jews obstinately opposed
grace” (Homily on Romans, 6:12); “And so while no one annuls a man’s covenant,
the covenant of God after four hundred and thirty years is annulled; for if not
that covenant but another instead of it bestows what is promised, then is it
set aside, which is most unreasonable” (Homily on Galatians, Ch 3);
St. Augustine: “Instead of
the grace of the law which has passed away, we have received the grace of the
gospel which is abiding; and instead of the shadows and types of the old
dispensation, the truth has come by Jesus Christ. Jeremiah also prophesied thus
in God’s name: ‘Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah…’ Observe what
the prophet says, not to Gentiles, who had not been partakers in any former
covenant, but to the Jewish nation. He who has given them the law by Moses,
promises in place of it the New Covenant of the gospel, that they might no
longer live in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the spirit”
(Letters, 74, 4);
Justin Martyr: “Now, law
placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which
comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one; and an eternal
and final law – namely, Christ – has been given to us, and the covenant is
trustworthy…Have you not read…by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant,
He thus speaks: ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…’” (Dialogue
with Trypho, Ch 11).
John Paul II: “Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes
the old law.” (Redemptoris Mater)
Taken from Robert Sungenis, The Old Covenent:
Revoked or Not Revoked?
Seek more immediately our Divine Master Himself, I mean His most holy
gifts, embrace them, and be closely united to them. This is the happiest and
most blessed path, that which leads to, and is concerned with, eternal life. By
these gifts I mean such as it is not in our power to have when we desire them,
but which are simply bestowed on us by the Giver of all good, to Whose almighty
power no blessing is too great: such are, for example, with regard to the
Divine Majesty, intensity of faith, hope, and charity, spiritual joy and rest,
tears, deep consolations, elevation of mind, Divine impressions and
illuminations, and all other spiritual tastes and sentiments relating to such
gifts, such as humility, and profound respect for the holy Church our Mother,
for those who govern it, and for its teachers. Every one of these holy gifts
should be preferred to all bodily acts, which are only good in so far as they
aim at acquiring these gifts, or at least part of them. I do not mean by this
that we ought to seek them solely for the pleasure which we find in them:
certainly not. But recognizing that without these gifts, all our thoughts,
words, and deeds are confused, cold and troubled, we should desire these gifts
in order that by means of them they may become ardent, clear, and just, for the
greater service of God. From this it follows that we ought to wish for these
precious gifts wholly or in part, and these spiritual graces, so far as with
their help we may promote God’s greater glory. As when the body is in danger,
in consequence of excessive labours, the best thing
to do is to seek for these gifts by acts of the understanding and by moderate
exercises : so, not only will the soul be healthy, but, as a healthy mind
animates a body which is so also, the whole will become more healthy, and more
fit to serve God.
Fr. Xavier De Franciosi, S.J., Spirit of St. Ignatius, St. Ignatius’
Letter to St. Francis Borgia regarding his “excessive austerities.”
This is the expected fruit from the blasphemous 1989
Profession of Faith which demands a vow of unconditional obedience to man on
his own authority. Unconditional
obedience can only be given to God!
Pope Francis Promulgates Buenos Aires Guidelines Allowing Communion for
Some Adulterers in AAS as his “Authentic Magisterium”
This week, the Vatican's organ for
promulgating the Official Acts of the Apostolic See, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), has published its October 2016 issue, containing Pope Francis' infamous Letter to the Buenos Aires
Bishops. AAS not only published this letter, declaring that there are "no
other interpretations" ("No hay otras interpretaciones") of Amoris
Laetitia other than those of the Buenos Aires
bishops, but it also published the full Buenos Aires guidelines themselves,
which permit Holy Communion in some cases for couples in a state of permanent and
public adultery who are not committed to living in complete continence.
Rorate Caeli
Now it is Three Years! And the hard work of collecting
evidence was done for them and still no charges! The Deep State is committed to
protecting the ritual murder of children.
BREAKING: U.S.
Department of Justice investigating Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts
LifeSiteNews | Claire Chretien | WASHINGTON, D.C. |
December 7, 2017– The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is officially
investigating Planned Parenthood for selling baby body parts, more than two
years after the release of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) videos.
“It is time for public officials
to finally hold Planned Parenthood and their criminal abortion enterprise
accountable under the law,” said David Daleiden of
CMP.
Fox News broke the story Thursday
evening, reporting that they had obtained a letter from Justice Department
Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the U.S.
Senate Judiciary Committee. This letter asked for unredacted
documents from that committee, which had been investigating Planned Parenthood.
“This is long-awaited, good news,”
said Abby Johnson, a former abortion advocate and Planned Parenthood director
who is now a pro-life activist.
“Planned Parenthood has actively
participated in illegal activity, selling the body parts of aborted babies in
exchange for profit,” said Johnson. “They’ve lied to the very women they
purport to fight for. I saw it first-hand when I worked for the abortion giant
and yet, they still manage to obtain over half a billion dollars a year in our
tax dollars.” [.....]
Many men sin against Faith in an even more subtle way through the sins
against the Holy Ghost, namely, the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence,
obstinacy, resisting the known truth and envy of someone else's spiritual
good. The sins against the Holy Ghost
are not sins of weakness or ignorance.
They are sins of certain malice.
By despair a man rejects God's goodness and mercy. By presumption he rejects God's justice. By impenitence he refuses to turn from sin to
God. By obstinacy a man hardens his will
in sin. A man sins in resisting the
known truth because he does so in order to sin more freely. Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's
spiritual good because he hates the increase of God's grace in the world. In all these sins there is great danger for
man because these sins mean that man is deliberately refusing to consider those
truths and motives which would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to
God. It is for this reason that the sins
against the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable. It is not that God is unwilling to forgive
any sins. It is rather that in these
sins a man shows that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St.
Thomas
Prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi
Act bravely, my brethren;
take courage and trust in the Lord. The time is fast approaching in which
there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both
spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and
the malice of the wicked will increase. The devils will have unusual power; the
immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there
will be very few Christians who obey the true Supreme Pontiff and the Roman
Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity.
At the time of this
tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be
raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavour
to draw many into error and death. Then
scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be
entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.
There will be such diversity
of opinions and schisms among the people, the
religious and the clergy, that, except those days were
shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led
into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the
immense mercy of God….
Those
who preserve their fervor and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the
truth, will suffer injuries and persecutions as rebels and schismatics;
for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are
rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face
of the earth…
Some preachers will keep
silent about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny
it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision
even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ
will send them, not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.
St. Francis of Assisi, shortly before his death addressed to his
faithful followers, Works
of the Seraphic Father, St. Francis of Assisi, pp. 248-250
On 13 June 1525, after weeks of
speculation, Martin Luther secretly married Katharina von Bora, a former nun,
in a private ceremony officiated by city preacher Johann Bugenhagen
and attended by jurist Johann Apel, professor Justus
Jonas, and artist Lucas Cranach and his wife. Over the last centuries,
scholars, writers, artists, Wittenberg citizens—in their popular, annual Lutherhochzeit [Luther’s wedding] festival—and even a
recent filmmaker have characterized this event as one of the iconic episodes of
the Lutheran Reformation. Yet Luther’s marriage neither legalized nor heralded
an immediate acceptance of priestly marriage even in reformed territories.
Luther certainly was not the first cleric to marry. Three of the witnesses at
his wedding—Apel, Bugenhagen,
and Jonas—were former Catholic clergy who had all married by mid-1523, a full
two years before this event. Only a few weeks prior to this event, Luther
expressed hesitation about marriage even for political reasons, suggesting
perhaps he would agree to a chaste marriage, a Josephehe, to support married
clergy. Luther’s marriage does illustrate many aspects of the ongoing reform
process. His mixed feelings about marrying, the atmosphere that led him to a
decision, the subsequent outcry about marriage, and the personal trials that
faced him and his wife in their married life had much in common with the many
clergy who married before and after him in the first decades of the German
Reformation.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western Kentucky University, From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife:
Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation
Remember in your
charity the following pray requests:
Remember the welfare of our
expectant mother: Victoria Dimmel,
The Joseph Cox Family, their spiritual welfare,
The Thomas Dube Family, for their
conversion and spiritual welfare,
Luis Rafael Zelaya, the brother of
Claudia Drew, who is seriously ill,
For the health of Kim Cochran, the daughter-in-law
of Joseph and Brenda Cochran, the wife of their son Joshua,
Louie Verrecchio, Catholic apologist, who has a health problem,
John Minidis, Jr. family, for help
in their spiritual trial,
John and Joann DeMarco, for
their health and spiritual welfare,
Regina (Manidis) Miller, her
spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa Elena Levitt, her health and conversion, and welfare
of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
The health and spiritual welfare
of Tom Grow, Amanda Gardner, and Alex
Estrada,
Conversion of Annette Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has
petitioned our prayers for the Keith
Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes Family, and the Mike and Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal
welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donahy,
who is recovering from a stroke,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and Joann DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende,
a traditional Catholic from India has asked our prayers for her welfare,
Mary and Bill Glatz, the welfare
of their family,
Barbara Harmon, who is gravely ill, and still cares for her ailing parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children who has been seriously
injured,
For the health and welfare of Kolinsky and Sorace
families,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for
the health and spiritual welfare of Brian
Abramowitz,
Janine Mullen, for her health and help for her family,
Thomas Schiltz family, in grateful
appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our chapel,
Carlo A. De Porto, who is in failing health,
Welfare of Bishop Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the
greater battles to come,
John Rhoad, for his health and
spiritual welfare,
Angelina Montesano family & Helen Snyder, for their
health and spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for her welfare,
Michael J. Brigg & his family, who have helped with the
needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and
conversion to the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul Diaz, who was baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul,
asks our prayers for his spiritual welfare,
The conversion of David Keithley
and the welfare of the Nathaniel Miller family, are the petitions of
Gene Peters,
The Drews
ask your intercession for the welfare of Brendan
McGuire, a young father of three, who has been diagnosed with cancer,
For the conversion of Ben & Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert, and Fahnauer family,
Fr. Waters requests our prayers
for Br. Rene, SSPX who has
been ill, and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
Rose Cuono, who is in failing
health,
For the health and welfare of Kathryn Lederhos,
the aunt of David Drew,
Fr. Peterson asks our prayers for Charles Valenti,
and his wife, Julia,
For the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio
and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the
welfare of Joe & Tracy Sentmanat family, Keith & Robert Drew, Christy Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael
Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family,
the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio
Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle, who is failing
health,
Mel Gibson and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins, prayers
for his mother, the Mission of St.
Philomena in Miami, and the welfare of Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for
the Andreas & Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce Paglia
has asked prayers for George Richard
Moore Sr. & his children, and her brother, George Panell,
For the welfare of Anthony & Joyce Paglia,
who are responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Philip Thees
asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin
Family, the conversion of Bruce
Heller, & Janet Gardner,
the welfare of Dan Polly Weand, the conversion of Sophia Herman, Tony
Rosky, and Carl Ropeter, the welfare Nancy Erdeck,
the wife of the late Deacon Erdeck, and the welfare of Frank D’Agustino who
is ill, the health of Charles Kanaskie, and the health of his brother, Thomas Thees,
John Calasanctis,
Stephen Cagorski,
Tony Rosky,
John Bogda, and Maryann Reutter.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
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,
Sandra Peters, the wife of Gene Peters, who died June 10
receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Rev. Francis Slupski, a priest who
kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha Mochan, the sister of
Philip Thees, died April 8,
George Kirsch, our good friend and supporter of this
Mission, died February 15,
For Fr. Paul J. Theisz, died October
17, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio Fregapane,
died Jan 17, was not a traditional priest but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir Peterson, a priest who
often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound advice, died
December 4,
Fr. Constantine Bellasarius, a
faithful and always charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite
priest, who left the Roman rite, died November 27,
Christian Villegas, a motor vehicle accident, his brother,
Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former editor of
Catholic Family News, and for his family’s welfare,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel Waters, died October 17,
Joseph DeMarco, the nephew of John
DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died
September 25 after receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church
wearing the brown scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna Marbach,
died September 9,
Fr. Eugene Dougherty, a faithful priest, fittingly died on
the Nativity of the BVM after receiving the traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis Schlafly, died September
5,
Helen Mackewicz, died August 14,
Mark A. Wonderlin, who died August
2,
Fr. Carl Cebollero, a faithful
priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica Cortes, a young mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances Toriello, a life-long
Catholic faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred Heart, and
her husband Dan, died in
1985,
John McLaughlin, a friend of the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela Montesano, who died April 30, and her husband, Salvatore, who died in July 3, 2013,
Charles Schultz, died April 5, left behind nine children and
many grandchildren, all traditional Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas,
the aunt of Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo
Suelo,
a faithful priest defending our traditions who was working with Fr. Francois Chazal in the Philippines, died February 19,
Conde
McGinley, a long time laborer
for the traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests your prayers for Ida Fernandez and
Rita Kelley, parishioners at St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen Somerville, a traditional priest who repented
from his work with the Novus Ordo English
translation, died December 12,
Fr. Arturo DeMaio, a priest that
helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable advice, died
December 2,
J. Paul Carswell, died October 15,
2015,
Solange Hertz, a great defender of our
Catholic faith, died October 3, the First Saturday of the month,
Paula Haigh, died October 21, a
great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and natural science,
Gabriella Whalin, the mother of
Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary Catherine Sick, 14 year old from a large traditional
Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul Trinchard, a traditional
Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J. Melnick, Jr., died on
August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband and father, from
Philadelphia,
Patricia Estrada, died July 29, her son Alex petitions our
prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas Gruner, a devoted
priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima message,
died April 29,
Sarah E. Shindle, the grandmother
of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline Vennari, the mother of
John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador Baca Callejas, the uncle
of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle accident November
29,
Catherine Dunn, died September 15,
Anthony Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette Rhoad, the grandmother
of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees, died August 9,
Sarah Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four children, died
July 28,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth Walker, a young traditional priest of the FSSP
who was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers
for Gilberte Violette,
the mother of Fr. Violette, who died May 6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers
for his brothers, Michael,
died May 9, and James, died
October 20, his sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip Marbach, the father of Paul
Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude in
Philadelphia, died April 21,
Richard Slaughtery, the elderly
sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette Marie Evans nee Toriello,
the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a
faithful Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie Cagorski, died march 23,
Anita Lopez de Lacayo, the aunt of
Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario Palmaro, Catholic lawyer,
bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of his widow and
children,
Daniel Boyle, the uncle of Ryan Boyle, died March 4,
Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died on
January 25,
Arthur Harmon, died January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers
for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died January 17,
Joseph Proctor, died January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional Catholic who made the
vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January 8,
Brother Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell), an early
supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers
for his sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton Creager, the son of
Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher Lussos, age 27, the
father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett Ebeyer,
16 year old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the
Kolinsky’s,
Catherine Nienaber, the mother of
nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA after Mass,
10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of
Frances Toriello, died October 11, 2013 at 105 years
of age,
Mary Rita Schiltz, the mother of
Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H. (Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic author of Lucifer’s
Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of death unknown,
Alfred Mercier, the father of David Mercier, who died August
12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our
prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August 23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass
at our Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond Peterson, died July 28, and Paul Peterson, died February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret Brillhart, who died July
20,
Msgr. Joseph J. McDonnell, a priest from the diocese of Des
Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using
the New, All English Canon, and for a series of newsletters which were
published as The Robber Church, died May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop Joseph McFadden, died unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy Foley, the brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in
April,
William Sanders, the uncle of Don Rhoad,
who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for
the repose of the soul of Mark Polaschek, who died March 22,
Eduardo Gomez Lopez, the uncle of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia Thees, died February 24,
Elizabeth Marie Gerads, a
nineteen year old, the oldest of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael Schwartz, the co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W. Moore, passed away in December 16, and Gerard
(Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19, who attended this Mission in the
past,
Louis Fragale, who died December
25,
Fr. Luigi Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About Face!
detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael Jarecki, a faithful
traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,and Rev. Hector Bolduc, who
died September 10,
Jennie Salaneck, died September 19
at 95 years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia (Cindy) Montesano Reinhert,
the mother of nine children, four who are still at home, died August 19,
Regina Spahalsky, who died June
24, and for the soul of Francis Lester, her son,
Julia Atkinson, who died April 30,
Antonio P. Garcia, who died January 6, 2012 and the welfare
of his teenage children, Andriana and Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who died February 27,
Fr. Timothy A. Hopkins, of the National Shrine of St.
Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and the welfare of his
wife, Delores,
Eduardo Cepeda, who died January
26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of twelve who died
December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their family,
Sister Mary Bernadette, M.I.C.M., a founding member of the
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died December 16,
Joeseph Elias, who died on September
28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters, who died September 7,
Donald Tonelli, died August 1,
Rev. Fr. Gregory Hesse, of
Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary Dullesse, who died April 12,
a Catholic convert who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of
Andre Ebert, who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat,
his godparents,
Philip D. Barr, died March 5, and the welfare of his
family,
Judith Irene Kenealy, the mother
of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son,
George Richard Moore, who died May 14,
For Joe Sobran who died September 30,
Fr. Hector Bolduc, a great and faithful priest, died,
September 10, 2012,
John Vennari
asks our prayers for Dr. Raphael
Waters who died August 26,
Stanley Bodalsky, the father of
Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel Kilfoyle Humphreys, a
former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John Campion, who offered the traditional Mass for us
every first Friday until forbidden to do so by Bishop Dattilo,
died May 1,
Joseph Montagne, who died
May 5,
For Margaret Vagedes, the aunt of
Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. Michael Shear, a Byzantine rite Catholic priest, died
August 17, 2006,
Fr. James Francis Wather, died
November 7, 2006, author of The Great
Sacrilege and Who Shall Ascend?,
a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique Rueda, who died
December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his
cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli,
and the six priests ordained
with him.
Philip Thees
petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck,
Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano, Connie DiMaggio,
Elizabeth Thorhas, Elizabeth Thees,
Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata,
and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier Bonneterre, the author
of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional priests,
Brother Francis, MICM, the superior of the Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, NH, who died September 5,
Rodolfo Zelaya Montealegre,
the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis Clifford, a devout and humble traditional
priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin Sorace, the uncle of
Sonja Kolinsky.
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing; God never changeth;
Patient endurance attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth in nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
Bookmark of St. Teresa of Jesus
How beauteous is the courage which we find,
with childlike confidence in God combined!
Who fears his God shall know no other fear -
He heeds not pitying smile, nor unkind sneer.
"The virtue of fortitude protects a person from
loving his life so much that he loses it."
Josef Pieper, A
Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
"Prayer
draws its merits from charity; but its imperative
efficacy comes from faith and confidence."
St. Thomas
“Only take heed to yourself
and guard your soul diligently.” (Deut 4:9)
"It is a sin
to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic Church!"
Blessed
Pope Pius IX
PREVIOUS BULLETIN POSTS BELOW THAT REMAIN TIMELY:
For
Catholics, Advent is the Penitential Season of preparation for the celebration
during the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany.
For the modern world, Advent is a season of celebration followed by a
state of drunken stupor, depression and spiritual desolation during Christmas
and Epiphany.
IF our holy mother the Church
spends the time of Advent in this solemn preparation for the threefold coming
of Jesus Christ; if, after the example of the prudent virgins, she keeps her
lamp lit ready for the coming of the Bridegroom; we, being her members and her
children, ought to enter into her spirit, and apply to ourselves this warning
of our Saviour: “Let your loins be girt, and lamps
burning in your hands, and ye yourselves be like unto men who wait for their
Lord !” The Church and we have, in reality, the same hopes. Each one of us is,
on the part of God, an object of mercy and care, as is the Church herself. If
she is the temple of God, it is because she is built of living stones; if she
is the bride, it is because she consists of all the souls which are invited to
eternal union with God. If it is written that the Saviour
hath purchased the Church with His own Blood, may not each one of us say of
himself those words of St. Paul, “Christ hath loved me, and hath delivered
Himself up for me”? Our destiny being the same, then, as that of the Church, we
should endeavour during Advent, to enter into the
spirit of preparation, which is, as we have seen, that of the Church herself.
And firstly, it is our duty
to join with the saints of the old Law in asking for the Messias,
and thus pay the debt which the whole human race owes to the divine mercy. In
order to fulfill this duty with fervour, let us go
back in thought to those four thousand years, represented by the four weeks of
Advent, and reflect on the darkness and crime which filled the world before our
Saviour’s coming. Let our hearts be filled with
lively gratitude towards Him who saved His creature man from death, and who
came down from heaven that He might know our miseries by himself experiencing
them, yes, all of them excepting sin. Let us cry to Him with confidence from
the depths of our misery; for, notwithstanding His having saved the work of His
hands, He still wishes us to beseech Him to save us. Let therefore our desires
and our confidence have their free utterance in the ardent supplications of the
ancient prophets, which the Church puts on our lips during these days of
expectation; let us give our closest attention to the sentiments which they
express.
This first duty complied
with, we must next turn our minds to the coming which our Saviour
wishes to accomplish in our own hearts. It is, as we have seen, a coming full
of sweetness and mystery, and consequence of the first; for the good Shepherd
comes not only to visit the flock in general, but He extends His solicitude to
each one of the sheep, even to the hundredth which is lost. Now, in order to
appreciate the whole of this ineffable mystery, we must remember that, since we
can be pleasing to our heavenly Father only inasmuch as He sees within us His
Son Jesus Christ, this amiable Saviour deigns to come
into each one of us, and transform us, if we will but consent, into Himself, so
that henceforth we may live, not we, but He in us. This is, in reality, the one
grand aim of the Christian religion, to make man divine through Jesus Christ:
it is the task which God has given to His Church to do, and she says to the
faithful what St. Paul said to his Galatians: “My little children, of whom I am
in labour again, until Christ be formed within you!”
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, excerpt from Practice During Advent
The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his
cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced
after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to
replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has
brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account
he is ever marvelling that civilization, should have
offended him with priests and soldiers .... In a word, the Barbarian is
discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make: that he can befog and
destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril
of every civilization exactly that has been true.
Hilaire Belloc, Defender of the Faith
The
Fall of Simon the Magician and his “lying wonders”
For there shall arise false Christs, etc.
Signs, wrought by art magic, by the power of the devil, whom many heresiarchs
have had as a familiar spirit, as I have shown in I Tim. 4:1. Such was their great prince Simon Magus
(Simon the Magician), who deluded Nero and the Romans, so that they erected a
statue to him at Rome; but at length he himself, flying through the air by the
aid of the devil, was dashed down to the earth by the prayers of St. Peter, and
falling upon a stone, broke his knees “so that he who had attempted to fly was
not able to walk; and he who had taken wings, lost his legs,” as S. Maximus says (Hom. 5, de SS.
Petro et Paulo).
Rev. Cornelius a Lapide, The Great
Commentary, Matt 24:24
RATZINGER/HEGELIAN
VERSION OF DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT - the interplay between truth and error,
between good and evil!
In contrast to the Hermeneutic of Continuity/Discontinuity we have the
Hermeneutic of Reform. The nature of Reform lies in the interplay on the
different levels between continuity and discontinuity.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Within a few blocks
around Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel there are at least five protestant Hispanic
churches. These souls have been lost to
the Catholic Church being wholly ignorant of the doctrinal and moral teachings
which must necessarily be believed to save their souls. December 4 we will begin a novena to our
blessed Mother for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York to the
Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Novena to Our
Lady of Guadalupe for the conversion of the Hispanic people of York
(Novena begins December 4th and ends on December 12th)
Our Lady of Guadalupe,
according to your message in Mexico I venerate you as the Virgin Mother of the
true God for whom we live, the Creator of all the world, Maker of heaven and
earth. In spirit I kneel before your
most holy image which you miraculously imprinted upon the cloak of the Indian
Juan Diego, and with the faith of the countless numbers of pilgrims who visit
your shrine, I beg you for this favor: (the conversion of the Hispanic
population of York to the true Church).
Remember, O immaculate
Virgin, the words you spoke to your devout client: “I am a merciful mother to
you and to all your people who love me and trust in me and invoke my help. I listen to their lamentations and solace all
their sorrows and sufferings.” I beg you
to be a merciful mother to me, because I sincerely love you and trust in you
and invoke your help. I entreat you, our
Lady of Guadalupe, to grant my request, if this should be the will of God, in
order that I may bear witness to your love, your compassion, your help and
protection. Do not forsake me in my
needs.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. (Hail Mary three times)
Note: The Feast
day of December 12 is the date on which the miraculous image was imprinted on St.
Juan Diego's tilma. This was before the adoption of
the Gregorian Calendar. Upon the adoption of this calendar, ten days were lost
in the change. The actual date of the miracle of our Lady would be December 21,
the winter solstice which is seen in the constellations of the image.
Another
Creepy Clown sighting!
“He was born a female, a girl, and he suffered greatly because he felt
that he was a boy but physically was a girl. He told his mother, when he was in
his twenties, at 22, that he wanted to have an operation and so forth. His
mother asked him not to do so as long as she was alive. She was elderly, and
died soon after. He had the operation. He is a municipal employee in a town in
Spain. He went to the bishop. The bishop helped him a great deal, he is a good
bishop and he “wasted” time to accompany this man. Then he got married. He
changed his civil identity, he got married and he wrote me a letter saying that
it would bring comfort to him to come see and me with his bride: he, who had
been she, but is he. I received them.”
Pope Francis the Weird, CEO of the Homosexual Lobby, comment during in
flight press conference from Azerbaijan, October 2, 2016
Pope
Francis and his “subtle” sins against the Catholic Faith
Many men sin against Faith in an even more subtle way through the sins
against the Holy Ghost, namely, the sins of despair, presumption, impenitence,
obstinacy, resisting the known truth and envy of someone else's spiritual
good. The sins against the Holy Ghost
are not sins of weakness or ignorance.
They are sins of certain malice.
By despair a man rejects God's goodness and mercy. By presumption he rejects God's justice. By impenitence he refuses to turn from sin to
God. By obstinacy a man hardens his will
in sin. A man sins in resisting the
known truth because he does so in order to sin more freely. Lastly a man sins by envying someone else's
spiritual good because he hates the increase of God's grace in the world. In all these sins there is great danger for
man because these sins mean that man is deliberately refusing to consider those
truths and motives which would keep him from sin and enable him to turn to
God. It is for this reason that the sins
against the Holy Ghost are said to be unforgivable. It is not that God is unwilling to forgive
any sins. It is rather that in these
sins a man shows that he does not wish forgiveness.
Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M., My Way of Life, Pocket edition of St.
Thomas
Book
on Pope Francis the Humbler than Thou
Father (Peter Hans) Kolvenbach (superior
general of the Jesuits from 1983 to 2008) accused Bergoglio
of a series of defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to
deviousness, disobedience concealed under a mask of humility, and lack of
psychological balance; with a view to his suitability as a future bishop, the
report pointed out that he had been a divisive figure as Provincial of his own
order. It is not surprising that, on being elected Pope, Francis made efforts
to get his hands on the existing copies of the document, and the original filed
in the official Jesuit archives in Rome has disappeared.
Marcantonio Colonna, The Dictator Pope
“Family
Ties” within the Homosexual Lobby
Notorious
homosexual Cardinal Terrance ("Blanche,
'call-me-Uncle Teddy'") McCarrick was
ordained by the notorious homosexual Cardinal Francis ("Franny") Spellman of New York who also ordained the
notorious homosexual Cardinal Terence ("Cookie") Cooke who took the
notorious homosexual McCarrick as his "personal
secretary" and consecrated McCarrick an
auxiliary bishop. Cardinal Donald
(Whirly Girl) Wuerl was ordained by the notorious
homosexual Bishop Francis Fredrick Reh of Charleston,
SC who was consecrated a bishop by the notorious homosexual Spellman. Wuerl became the
"private secretary" to the notorious homosexual Cardinal John Wright
who was Prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy and represented Wright at
the conclave that elected John Paul II who consecrated Wuerl
a bishop and made McCarrick a cardinal. It was Benedict/Ratzinger,
formally head of the CDF responsible for cleaning up the Homosexual Lobby, who
made Wuerl a cardinal. The homosexual Wuerl ultimately followed in the line of the homosexual
Wright as Archbishop of Pittsburg and was himself followed the homosexual McCarrick in Washington.
The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, 900 plus pages citing Wuerl's name more than 200 times, charges that Wuerl
as Archbishop of Pittsburgh for eighteen years repeatedly covered for the
Homosexual Lobby.
The mansion that housed Wuerl and the local branch of the Homosexual Lobby in the
Diocese of Pittsburgh was obtained by his homosexual predecessor Cardinal
Wright and was appraised twenty years ago for $1.5 million. It was sold after Wuerl's departure.
The Jacobethan Revival house along Fifth
Avenue, at 9,842 square feet (914.4 m2) with 39 rooms including
11 bedrooms, six full baths, and a half-bath is one of the largest homes in the
Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It housed an extensive collection of
antiques, Oriental rugs and art during Wuerl's
residency.
Just as Wuerl
had covered up for the Homosexual Lobby in Pittsburgh, he did the same for McCarrick in Washington claiming to know nothing about McCarrick's perversion.
McCarrick was Cardinal Archbishop of
Washington 2001 to 2006. Homosexual McCarrick's "personal secretary" was the current
Archdiocesan Vicar General Monsignor Charles Antonicelli
who subsequently became the "personal secretary" to Homosexual
Cardinal Wuerl.
When Antonicelli was McCarrick's
"personal secretary" in Washington, the Dioceses of Trenton,
Metuchen, and Newark in 2004 and 2006 paid settlements for $100,000 and $80,000
to two men who had been abused by McCarrick while
they were in the seminary as well as after they had become priests. It is, believe it or not, Antonicelli
who now claims that he and Wuerl knew nothing about
the homosexual escapades of McCarrick.
Compiled from information from Randy Engel, Rite of Sodomy, published
in 2006, and recent articles from LifeSiteNews and WikiPedia
Francis
the Apostate
Pope Francis:
‘Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?’
LifeSiteNews |
VATICAN CITY, October 9, 2019 – During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis today insinuated that
Catholics who hold strongly to the orthodox teachings of the Church are
ideologues and, like Saul of Tarsus, are in need of conversion.
“Ideologues” who
“desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ,” said the
pontiff.
Pope Francis recounted the story of St. Paul’s conversion in the Acts
of the Apostles saying that up until that time, he was an ideologue who
persecuted members of the early Church and that “fratricidal fury” compelled
him.
“The young Saul is portrayed as intransigent, that is, one who shows
intolerance towards those who think differently from him,” he said. Saul “absolutizes his political or religious identity and reduces
the other to a potential enemy to fight.”
“For Saul, religion had turned into ideology: religious ideology, social
ideology, political ideology,” he said.
“The angry condition – because
Saul was angry – and Saul's conflictual situation
invites everyone to ask themselves: How do I live my life of faith? Am I going
to meet others or am I against others?” asked Pope Francis.
“Do I belong to the universal Church – with
the good and the bad, all of us – or do I hold a selective ideology?” he
continued. “Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?”
Pope Francis added, “What is my religious life like? Does professing faith
in God make me friendly or hostile towards those who are different from
me?”
“An attack against a member of the Church is an attack against Christ
himself! And those who are ideologues because they desire the so-called
‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ himself.”
Pope Francis concluded: “Let us ask the Father to let us too, like
Saul, experience the impact of his love that can only make a heart of stone a
heart of flesh, capable of embracing ‘the same sentiments of Christ Jesus.’”
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” Jesus sys in the 14th
chapter of the Gospel of John. “Whoever has my commandments and observes them
is the one who loves me.”
COMMENT: Saul was an ideologue before his
conversion. An ideology is a man-made system of thought and action that is
grounded upon merely human presuppositions that form their first principles and
are assumed as incontrovertible. What was the ideology of Saul? His was the
ideology of the Pharisee that is the ideology of the Talmudism
practiced by Jews today. It is this ideology that Jesus said was a merely human
construct for the purpose of nullifying the commandments of God. Its purpose is
therefore to put an end to the love of God. Yet Francis has no problem with
Jewish ideology. The same is true for the religion of Mohammedanism.
The Catholic faith is believing what God has revealed on the authority
of God the revealer, therefore it is not an ideology. Catholic charity is doing
the will of God by keeping His commandments and therefore the action is not
ideologically driven. Dogma is divine revelation that has been infallibly
defined and constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith. Dogma
is the proximate rule of faith for every Catholic. No faithful Catholic would
ever drive a wedge between the “love of God” and the “love of dogmatic
formulations” for they constitute the same love. God is truth. What Pope Francis believes is that the
Catholic faith is nothing more than a human construct. He is not just a
heretic. He is an apostate.
Pope
Francis who rejects Proselytism to the Catholic Church wants to Proselytize
Catholics to his Gaia Cult Religion!
The Amazon
Synod and the Church as Laughingstock
OnePeterFive | Maureen Mullarkey | November 25, 2019
The synod is done. But the mutant thing lives on in its final document,
“Amazonia: New Ways for the Church and for a Holistic Ecology.” Prudence and
discretion, rationality itself, are baffled by its opening hysteria.
The Amazon
rainforest … is in an unbridled race to death. It requires radical changes with
great urgency, a new direction that can save it. It is scientifically proven
that the disappearance of the Amazonian biome will have a catastrophic impact
for the whole planet!
In all its turbulent history, the Church has never made a laughingstock
of itself. Not until now. Scientifically
proven? Our bishops have lost the ability to distinguish between
contention and settled fact. They concentrate their indignant energies on
facile borrowings from the climate change script, conventional academic leftism
(e.g., multiple references to “extractivism,” the
“technocratic paradigm,” the argot of victimology),
and what Pascal Bruckner called “the racism of the anti-racists.”
When they are not sermonizing, the bishops descend into guidance counseling:
“The Church’s job is to accompany them [young people] to deal with any
situation that destroys their identity or damages their self-esteem.” Emphasis
on the “rights of the young” serves to spotlight the cruel silence of the
Vatican on — to take one example — China’s tyrannical exclusion of anyone under
18 years of age from entering a church. In reality, the Vatican is no more
interested in the young of the Amazon than they are in the Chinese. What
matters is the utility of the one, and the non-utility of the other, in
positioning the Vatican as a bureau within the United Nations.
The prose alone is an embarrassment. It is easy to imagine the document
having been written by undergraduate journalism majors over a beer with
middlebrow social justice warriors:
We note that human
intervention has lost its “friendly” character, to assume a voracious and
predatory attitude that tends to squeeze reality until the exhaustion of all
available natural resources. … Together with the Amazonian peoples, we request
that governments stop considering the Amazon as an inexhaustible pantry.
Chapter One, “Amazon: From Listening to Integral Conversion,” takes the
cue for its title from Hillary Clinton, who made listening tours famous: “Listening
to the Amazon, in the spirit of a disciple and in the light of the Word of God
and of Tradition, leads us to a profound conversion of our plans and structures
to Christ and his Gospel.” Throwing itself at the feet of climate-change
dogmatism and pop-culture psychosis, the Church contorts itself to what it has
heard.
Note the direction conversion takes. The synod reverses two millennia
of evangelization by urging us to convert ourselves to “the voice and song of
the Amazon.” Free-range bishops have discerned a proto-Gospel in the ancient
ways of indigenous peoples. From the rainforest come extra-biblical insights
that beckon Western man back to the Pleistocene for the salvation of his venal
colonizing soul.
Overall, the text testifies to a morally and intellectually exhausted
Vatican, one that mocks itself with manic complicity between religious
references and a secular ideology with a tainted history. Its ideological core
germinated outside the Church and in contradiction to it.
Turgid with religiosity, there is little recognizably Christian about
the final document unless you accept fashionable loathing for Western identity
as a central dogma of the Church. Michael Pakaluk is
one of the few who grasped the document’s failures on the ground of its animus
toward Western civilization: “The contempt it shows for the West and, indeed,
for the existing Church as inserted in Christendom compels the inference that
it means ultimately to replace the one with the other.” The “other” refers to a
sanitized version of traditional indigenous culture.
The single most damning aspect of the synod was inadvertently divulged
by Bishop Erwin Kräutler, friend of Pope Francis and
coauthor of the instrumentum laboris.
Ten years ago, he admitted knowledge of the continuing practice of infanticide
among various indigenous tribes. He remains opposed to prosecuting it as a
crime. Maike Hickson writes
in LifeSiteNews:
Kräutler explicitly rejects the idea
that the state could prosecute those who commit such crimes. He is, rather, in
favor of “convincing the people, with pastoral patience, that the culturally
prescribed death of a child is anachronistic and undercuts their own strategy
of life.”
“We have always
fought for the physical and cultural survival of the Indians,” he continues,
“and we do so on the foundation of the Gospels, and not with help of the gospel
of fundamentalism.”
Thus, he rejects
ideas of penalizing infanticide, because “here, in the name of human rights and
under the pretext of suppressing infanticide, a broad ethnocide, a cultural
murder, is being installed.”
Note the wording. Infanticide is “anachronistic” and not optimal for a
“strategy of life” — whatever that means. But unlike murder, it appears not to
violate divine command. Any culturally insensitive suggestion to the contrary
can be dismissed as “fundamentalism.” In that one statement, Kräutler exposes the covert truth that “a Church with an
Amazon face” entails more than an indigenous liturgy. It establishes a separate
moral order as well.
In Kräutler’s view, suffocating a newborn —
strangling him, or bashing his skull against a tree or a rock — is a lamentable
folkway. This, while in the wider Church, even non-abortive contraception has
been deemed an intrinsic evil. The disjunction will not be lost on Catholic
consciences in the developed world where the Church is already in decline.
Remembering
Earlier Ecological Prophecies
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of
millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked
upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the
world death rate...”
Paul Ehrlich, 1968, Jewish Liberal Hysteria, The Population Bomb
Any
Catholic who contributes to the Novus Ordo Church is
Partaking of their Sin!
EVIL USCCB
GIVES $750.000.00 to Promote Sodom
Lepanto Institute | November 22, 2019 Over
the summer, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an anti-poverty
program run by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB),
provided a $750,000.00 Strategic National Grant to the Ignatian
Solidarity Network (ISN). Shortly after the June announcement of the
grant, the Lepanto Institute reported that the ISN regularly held workshops
promoting homosexual and transgender activism. In response to concerned
Catholics regarding the promotion of sexual perversion from ISN’s workshops –
which included presentations by same-sex “marriage” advocacy organizations like
New Ways Ministry and Dignity USA – the USCCB’s Communications Manager for
Social Mission, Alexandra Carroll claimed that ISN “was not encouraging or
promoting anything contrary to Catholic teaching.”
But over this past weekend, from November
16-18, ISN held its annual Ignatian Family
Teach-In for Justice, which again included condemned homosexual advocacy groups
and pro-homosexual messaging. As with previous events, the Teach-In
included pro-homosexual speakers and workshops on homosexual integration into
the life of the Catholic Church. The difference in this year’s Teach-In,
in contrast with all the previous ones, is that this year’s was funded, in
part, by the CCHD.
It should be noted that the Catechism of
the Catholic Church is explicitly clear that homosexual acts are “acts of grave
depravity” and are “intrinsically disordered.” [.....]
The Pagan
Idol that Francis Blessed and brought into the St. Peter Basilica
INCAS SACRIFICED
BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN TO PACHAMAMA
Giuseppe Nardi | Lima, Peru | November
17, 2019
The work
of archaeologists in Peru was reported at the end of September without any
direct connection with the Amazon Synod. It was a research activity that
has particular relevance in view of the recent, so pervasive presence of Pachamama portrayals.
The Pachamama, which literally means "World
Mother," rather than "Mother Earth," was a deity of South
America that ruled over one of several worlds (Pacha
means world, Pachakuna are the worlds), which also
means cosmos and era.
The Incas, the high culture of South America encountered by the Spaniards as
they explored the newly discovered continent, worshiped the Pachamama
as a dragon goddess. They sacrificed animals to their gods and other
deities, as well as humans on special occasions. The human sacrifices that
could be proven so far were all children.
The archaeologists now know so much: These children, who were sacrificed to the
pagan gods by the Incas and who were found by archaeologists on the tops of
volcanoes, could come from different parts of the empire. The
archaeologists, especially Polish, know at least a dozen places in Peru where
the Incas sacrificed some 500 years ago to their gods on the tops of mountains
or volcanoes. These human sacrifices were part of the Capacocha
ritual.
Dagmara Socha, bio-archaeologist
of the Centro de Estudios Andinos
(CEAC) of the University of Warsaw in Cuzco, studied together with Rudi Chavez Perea, director of the Santuario Andinos Museum of the Catholic University of Santa Maria
(Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria) in Arequipa
(Peru), carried out the project on the remains of these children for several
years.
This year, researchers focused on the children sacrifices placed on two
volcanoes, the 6,288 meter high Ampato and the 5,665
meter high Picchu Picchu. Several decades ago,
the American anthropologist Johan Reinhard found the
mummies of these children in a sitting position on stone platforms. At
present, these ice mummies are kept refrigerated at the Museo
Sancturios Andinos.
According to Dr. Socha believed the Incas that at the
time of sacrifice, children would become mediators between the gods and
humanity. The Incas, said the scientist, considered the children as pure
and immaculate. Therefore the human sacrifices had to be impeccable and
virginal. Accordingly, they were carefully selected. Their status should
have made it easier for the gods to make concrete decisions.
However, the scientists do not yet know the exact criteria in choosing the
sacrificed children. Socha told Szymon Zdziebłowski of
Science in Poland, a website of the Polish Ministry of Science, that they
needed "extraordinary qualities" such as beauty or a certain social
background. In one of the girls, whose remains were found on a platform
on the Picchu Picchu, the researchers found a deliberate
deformation of the head, which was extended specifically. It is well
known that this practice was not applied in the mountains, but in the plains
and coasts of the Inca Empire. This could mean that this girl came from a
family living in a region far from the place of sacrifice.
Using their teeth, the scientists were able to determine that the girl
had either starved for a certain time or had suffered a severe trauma at the
age of three. At the time, the girl was allegedly brought to Cusco by her
parents to be prepared for her offering for three years. The trauma may
have been caused by the separation from the parents, either first in Cuzco or
already at home. Then the child would have been brought to the capital by
representatives of the theocratic Inca Empire.
Some of the mortal remains of six children examined by Dagmara
Socha this year were mummified, if not all.
Other remains are poorly preserved and some have burn marks. Socha explains that the Incas erected sacrificial platforms
in places exposed to lightning. There is ample evidence that these
platforms have been repeatedly hit by lightning. In the cosmology of the
Incas, lightning represented
connections between the various god-worlds (Pachakuna)
and the human world.
While the altitude of the sacrificial sites meant that the sacrificed children
were preserved as permafrost corpses, so-called ice mummies, some were indeed
very well preserved, this is not always due to the lightning strikes for their
clothes.
According to the Incas, a person struck by lightning was being bestowed with
great honor, as a god expressed interest in him.
The mummies studied by the Polish archaeologist are now in a similar state as
before their discovery. The mummies did not have to be moved.
Scientists used X-rays to minimize interference with the remains.
This made it possible to discover also many objects that were given to
the children as grave goods: gold brooches for fastening the robes, wooden
objects such as ritual cups, but also a gold tube and even petals.
The best-known example of a surviving human sacrifice of the Incas is the boy
from El Plomo, who was found in 1954 near the summit
of the 5424 meter high Cerro El Plomo in Chile.
At the time of his sacrifice, he was eight years old. His skin was
soft at the time of the discovery, as if he had just passed away. The
sacrifice was almost 500 years back. The boy then was mummified by being
transported to lower altitudes and becomes almost rock hard.
All in all, 192 sacrificial ceremonial sites have been located on 192 mountains
in the former Inca Empire. So far, 27 surviving human sacrifices of the Capacocha ritual have been discovered on 14 mountains.
All were found over 5400 meters above sea level, which explains their
conservation.
The Capacocha ritual was part of the religiously
motivated state cult in the Inca Empire. The boy of El Plomo was sacrificed after 1483, when central Chile was
incorporated into the Inca Empire, and before 1533, when the Spaniards reached
the area and put an end to the human sacrifices.
According to the scientists, the children were stunned with coca leaves and
fermented drinks before being "buried" alive. At least in the
high-altitude sacrificial sites, they quickly froze, largely maintaining the
squatting posture in which they had to sit. In this position they were
then worshiped - eerily scary - like living dead.
Don Felipe Waman Puma de Ayala, an Indio, born around
1550 in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, in what is now southern Peru, wrote a
history of more than a thousand pages of Andean peoples, including 398 drawings
(see illustration) ). His mother tongue was Quechua, the language of the
Inca Empire. As a boy, he learned Spanish. One of his drawings also
shows how a child sacrificed on a mountain is worshiped. His chronicle
ends with his death in 1615. The description describes that in pre-Christian
(pre-Columbian) time, human sacrifice was common. The mentioned drawing
expresses this, but also that at the beginning of the 17th century the sacrificed
children were still worshiped by some of the Indians.
In detail, Don Felipe Waman portrays Puma de Ayala's
sacrificial customs for the various deities, including Pachakamaq.
All were sacrificed in addition to other offerings and children in
greater or lesser numbers.
Its primer Nueva Corónica y Buen
Gobierno was made fully accessible on the Internet a
few years ago by the Copenhagen-based Congolese Bibliotek,
in whose possession it is located.
Basically, it should be not that in past epochs ago, more or less, human
sacrifices existed in all peoples and cultures in pre-Christian times.
That the true God does not want
human sacrifices, He made clear already in Genesis, the First Book of the
Bible, in the prevented sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham. In the
time of Abraham, and long after that, human sacrifices in the Middle East were
obviously common practice. In Divine Pedagogy, the great work of
civilization, God led Abraham and his descendants away from human sacrifice for
the time being because of the incomprehension of human beings, as an
intermediate stage, as an animal sacrifice, although God Himself did not want
that. Where Christianity came, this cruelty was overcome, which
illustrates its outstanding civilizational
significance - and makes the contrast to the return of pagan amazons as the Pachamama in the context of the Amazon Synod all the more
evident.
Abp Viganò decries Pope-approved plan to build ‘Abrahamic’ religious site with Muslims, Jews
LifeSiteNews | ROME, November 21, 2019 — Invoking the blasphemous Tower of Babel,
whose builders sought to attain to heaven by their own power, Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò has denounced plans approved
by Pope Francis to erect a monument to “Human Fraternity” uniting Islam,
Judaism and Catholicism, calling it “a Babelesque
enterprise, designed by the enemies of God.”
The “House of the Abrahamic Family” will
house a mosque, a synagogue, and a church symbolically united on one
foundation.
In a Nov. 19 article published by Italian journalist Aldo
Maria Valli on Duc in Altum, Archbishop Viganò writes:
“In the garden of Abu-Dhabi the Temple of the World Syncretic
Neo-Religion is about to arise with its anti-Christic
dogmas. Not even the most hopeful of the Freemasons would have imagined so
much!"
The “House of Abraham” project was presented to Pope Francis at
the Vatican on November 15, during an audience with the Grand Imam Ahmed
Al-Tayeb, Sheik of Al-Azhar
(main photo), members of the Abu Dhabi government, and representatives
of the Higher Committee for achieving the goals contained in the Document
on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed last
August. […..]
[Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò continues]
Sir David Adjaye Obe
is the creator of this architectural project, which will rise in the opulent
and extravagant Abu Dhabi. It is the House of the Abrahamic
Family, a sort of New Tent of Universal Brotherhood that evokes that other Tent
of Reception in which the Old Testament Patriarch hosted three mysterious
Angels (cf. Gen 18), the prefiguration of the
Trinitarian God who was fully revealed to the legitimate Abrahamic
posterity through faith in Jesus Christ.
Abrahamic Family House is therefore the name of this
structure that will house a synagogue, a mosque and a church, naturally
dedicated to the Poverello [St. Francis of Assisi].
Sir David’s project envisages the three different places of worship
united by unique foundations and placed inside a garden, evoking a New Eden, a
Gnostic and Masonic re-edition of the paradise of the First Creation.
As explained to Pope Bergoglio, this
“structure ... will serve as a place of individual worship, but also for
dialogue and interreligious exchange.” In fact, a fourth building is also
planned, the headquarters of the Centre for Studies and Research on the Human
Fraternity, whose objective, which is inferred from the Abu Dhabi document,
will be to “make the three religions known.” The ceremonies for the
presentation of the Human Fraternity Award will also take place here.
The building of the House of the Abrahamic
Family appears like a Babelesque
enterprise, designed by the enemies of God, of the Catholic Church and of the
only true religion capable of saving man and the whole created from
destruction, both present as well as eternal and definitive. The
foundations of this “House,” destined to give way and crumble, precisely where,
at the hands of the same builders, the Only Corner Stone is incredibly about to
be removed: Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord, on whom stands the House of God.
“Therefore,” warns the Apostle Paul, “let each one take care how he builds upon
it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is
Jesus Christ. (1 Cor 3:10) [……]
COMMENT: If any doubt where this is all headed, take a
look at this YouTube video of the darling Cardinal Schonborn,
the sweet-heart of Pope Francis, and his demonic display in the Cathedral in
Vienna: https://youtu.be/CFEaDILDnF0
This could equally be said by one who,
in alliance with the forces of hell, is aflame with the fire of revenge!
“One deceives himself who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima
is concluded.”
Pope Benedict XVI, May 2010
Francis
the Apostate
Pope Francis:
‘Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?’
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY, October 9, 2019 – During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis today
insinuated that Catholics who hold strongly to the orthodox teachings of the
Church are ideologues and, like Saul of Tarsus, are in need of conversion.
“Ideologues” who
“desire the so-called ‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ,” said the
pontiff.
Pope Francis recounted the story of St. Paul’s conversion in the Acts
of the Apostles saying that up until that time, he was an ideologue who
persecuted members of the early Church and that “fratricidal fury” compelled
him.
“The young Saul is portrayed as intransigent, that is, one who shows
intolerance towards those who think differently from him,” he said. Saul “absolutizes his political or religious identity and reduces
the other to a potential enemy to fight.”
“For Saul, religion had turned into ideology: religious ideology,
social ideology, political ideology,” he said.
“The angry condition – because Saul was angry – and Saul's conflictual situation invites everyone to ask themselves:
How do I live my life of faith? Am I going to meet others or am I against
others?” asked Pope Francis.
“Do I belong to the
universal Church – with the good and the bad, all of us – or do I hold a
selective ideology?” he continued. “Do I love God or dogmatic formulations?”
Pope Francis added, “What is my religious life like? Does professing
faith in God make me friendly or hostile towards those who are different from
me?”
“An attack against a member of the Church is an attack against Christ
himself! And those who are ideologues because they desire the so-called
‘purity’ of the Church are attacking Christ himself.”
Pope Francis concluded: “Let us ask the Father to let us too, like
Saul, experience the impact of his love that can only make a heart of stone a
heart of flesh, capable of embracing ‘the same sentiments of Christ Jesus.’”
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” Jesus sys in the 14th
chapter of the Gospel of John. “Whoever has my commandments and observes them
is the one who loves me.”
COMMENT: Saul was an ideologue before his conversion. An ideology is
just a man-made system of thought and action that is grounded upon merely human
first principles that assumed as incontrovertible. What was the ideology of
Saul? His was the ideology of the Pharisee that is the ideology of the Talmudism practiced by Jews today. It is this ideology that
Jesus said was a merely human construct for the purpose of nullifying the
commandments of God. Its purpose is
therefore to put an end to the love of God. Yet Francis has no problem with
Jewish ideology. The same is true for the religion of Mohammedanism.
The Catholic faith is believing what God has revealed on the authority
of God the revealer therefore, it is not an ideology. Catholic charity is doing
the will of God by keeping His commandments and therefore is action that is not
ideologically driven. Dogma is divine revelation that has been infallibly
defined and constitutes the formal object of divine and Catholic faith. Dogma
is the proximate rule of faith for every Catholic. No faithful Catholic would
ever drive a wedge between the "love of God" and the "love of
dogmatic formulations" for they constitute the same love. What Pope
Francis believes is that the Catholic faith is nothing more than a human
construct. He is not just a heretic. He has committed apostasy.
“Where
will the correction come from?” There is
only on possible answer, and it is not from conservative Catholics. That answer
is a restored Catholic Church and that will only happen when the true faith
revealed by God is believed and defended, and the true worship of God is
practiced. The Mission of Ss. Peter
& Paul is fighting the only fight worth fighting. It is the only fight where any possible hope
of victory lies both in this life and in the life to come!
So tell me where the Salvation to come from, other than that Jesus
comes back – and we wouldn’t recognize him if he did. These are all symptoms of a society that’s in
a deeper malaise and my analysis of that is that it is what Alexander Mitscherlich, the German psychoanalyst who fought the
Nazis, was referring to when he wrote a book called Society Without the Father, and he talked about the Sibling Society
in which there would be no adults, or generations of half-adults. So that’s all
we have now: generations of half-adults. Adulthood is the ingredient that is
missing from everything, from politics, from media, from academia, from all
these central institutions which have been vital for the maintenance of
civilization there are no adults in them. There are no adults left. This is one
of the fundamental problems with or civilization. Without responsible adults,
without leadership, without a conversation, there’s no hope. There are all
these trends that show that the world actually is in a final meltdown. There is
nowhere it can come back from. This is the mistake that people are making, that
somehow there will be a correction, but then you have to ask ‘where will the
correction come from,’ from what sector of humanity will the correction come?
There’s no possibility because the educational trends are continuing, the media
trends are continuing, the social media trends are continuing, and they will
continue to have the influence that they’ve had unless we actually stop them –
unless we literally take Twitter off the air then you won’t get a change in our
cultural drift.
The Catholic Church is the repository of the wisdom of the ages, the
mainstay of the old civilization which retained the archives of knowledge and
wisdom that had been accumulated through the ages; it is the voice of God in
the world; the other religious are not relevant. In one of my books I talked
about an occasion when I was at a meeting of Atheist of Ireland: I walked in
with a friend of mine and just sat there, listening, and one guy was actually a
well-known figure stood up and said, ‘We have to make alliances with Moderate
Islam against Catholicism’ – well, that’s brutality! Look, this is a kind of
sabotage of our culture. They’re actually welcoming hordes of Islamists into
Ireland; this is one of the hotspots of Jihadism in
Europe because it’s not Catholic….. They’re not really Catholics. (The climate
change ideologues and their campaign) is only a tactic; the LGBT do that as
well. The Church has been destroyed not be its enemies, but from within; it is
no longer the Catholic Church.
John Waters, Irish conservative Catholic, journalist and author, most
recently of the book, Give Us Back the
Bad Roads. He is a contributor to
the journal, First Things. Comments
on the current state of Ireland, interviewed by Geraldine Comiskey,
published in Culture Wars Magazine.
AMAZON
SYNOD: Why does the “New Evangelization,” not just permit, but require a
married clergy?
In his Encyclical Menti Nostre, Pope Pius XII declares, “The priest is... the
organ of the communication and increase of life in the Mystical Body of Christ.
Far from losing the gift and the office of paternity because of his celibacy,
the priest increases them immeasurably, since if he does not beget children for
this passing life on earth, he begets them for that of life which is heavenly
and eternal.”
Parents of children collaborate with God on the natural level in the
communication of life to new human beings, of rearing and educating them for
the glory of God. The priest has an “immeasurably” higher calling to beget
children of God, that is, of being the material cause of proselytizing human
beings to faith in the truths which God has revealed and obedience to the laws
which God commands. The
New Evangelization radically opposes proselytizing anyone to the Catholic faith
therefore, the priest no longer begets children to God and turns to begetting
of natural progeny. The New Evangelization is spiritually sterile. The Novus Ordo priest is a clerical gelding. He is worthless to both
man and God.
100 priests, lay
scholars call Pope Francis to repent for Pachamama
idolatry at Amazon Synod
Archbishop
Carlo Maria Viganò added his name this morning
to the statement urging Pope Francis to repent for Pachamama
idolatry.
LifeSiteNews | November 12, 2019 – An international group of 100 priests and
lay scholars published a statement today to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took place last month during the Amazon
Synod in Rome with Pope Francis' active participation and apparent support. They called upon the Pope to
“repent publicly and unambiguously of these objectively grave sins” and asked
bishops’ around the world to “offer fraternal correction to Pope Francis for
these scandals.”
Titled “Protest against Pope Francis's Sacrilegious Acts,” the statement
(read full below) highlights Pope Francis' personal responsibility for the
worship of a pagan idol in Rome.
Among the signatories, which
include more than 20 priests and deacons, are Professor John Rist, Professor Roberto de Mattei,
Professor Claudio Pierantoni, Professor Josef
Seifert, as well as Professor Anna Silvas. There are
also to be found twenty priests and deacons, among them Father Brian Harrison
and the outspoken critic of Pope Francis, Father Cor
Mennen. The prominent German Catholic laywoman, Gloria Princess of Thurn und Taxis, also signed, in addition to authors such
as Henry Sire, José Antonio Ureta, and Dr. Gerard
J.M. van den Aardweg.
The priests and scholars “protest against and condemn the
sacrilegious and superstitious acts committed by Pope Francis, the Successor of
Peter, in connection with the recent Amazon Synod held in Rome,” and they give
detailed evidence of the different incidences of pagan worship during the
Amazon Synod.
Most prominently, Pope Francis hosted a pagan ceremony
with Pachamama statues in the Vatican Gardens on Oct.
4 and even blessed one of the statues. Additionally, he prayed in front of the Pachamama statue at St. Peter's Cathedral on October 7 and
then accompanied it in procession into the synod hall.
As the statement points out, “Pope Francis himself
confirmed that these wooden images were pagan idols. In his apology for the
removal of these idols from a Catholic church, he specifically called them Pachamama, a name for a false goddess of mother earth
according to pagan religious belief in South America.”
The signers make it clear that
pagan worship by Catholics is unacceptable.
They state that “the rendering of
worship to anyone or anything other than the one true God, the Blessed Trinity,
is a violation of the First Commandment,” and that therefore “absolutely all
participation in any form of the veneration of idols is condemned by this
Commandment and is an objectively grave sin, independently of the subjective
culpability that only God can judge.”
The authors also quote Professor
Josef Seifert with regard to Pope Francis' claim that these statues had been
used “without idolatrous intentions.” Stated Seifert: “Even if there is no
subjective idolatrous intention behind this, as Pope Francis affirms, the objective
fact of putting idols in a Church, let alone in St Peter's, is an offence
against God and an objectively sacrilegious act.”
For the signers, the Pachamama worship that took place under Pope Francis'
leadership “was anticipated by the statement titled 'Document on Human
Fraternity', signed by Pope Francis and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb,
the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, on February 4,
2019.” That document states that the “diversity of religions” is “willed by
God.” “Pope Francis’ involvement in idolatrous ceremonies,” the signers
continue, “is an indication that he meant this statement in a heterodox sense,
which allows pagan worship of idols to be considered a good positively willed
by God.”
Additionally, the statement refers
to the many cardinals and bishops who have already condemned the Pachamama veneration in Rome (among them Cardinals Burke, Müller, Brandmüller, Urosa; and Archbishop Viganò, as
well as Bishops Eleganti, Voderholzer,
and Azcona). And the statement also quotes a passage
from Holy Scripture which makes clear that “the things which the heathens
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God” and that “you cannot be
partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons” (St. Paul).
“We respectfully ask all the
bishops of the Catholic Church,” the signers conclude, “to offer fraternal
correction to Pope Francis for these scandals, and to warn their flocks that,
according to the divinely revealed teaching of the Catholic faith, they will
risk eternal damnation if they follow the present examples in offending against
the First Commandment.” [.....]
NEW DOCTRINAL
DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE SSPX AND ROME?
COMMENT: The SSPX has announced that it will resume its "doctrinal
discussions" with Rome. Who will
pretend to represent Catholic tradition in these discussions? The SSPX is
sending Bishop Bernard Fellay, with Frs. Nealy and Pfluger. No, this not meant to be a joke. They are pretending to be serious and
actually sending Bishop Fellay, the ignoramus whose
sacramental theology is so shallow that he actually believes that a disaffected
priest, like Marlin the Magician, can maliciously consecrate an entire bakery
or a wine cellar by reciting the words of consecration. Rest assured that these
"discussions" will have nothing to do with "doctrine." Fellay apparently thinks dogma is just another word for
bitch. Lieutenant Colonel James Bogle, the former
head of Una Voce International, has publically
confirmed on Gloria TV that the SSPX under Fellay,
with the help of Nely and Pfluger,
was formally regularized by the Novus Ordo Church but
has kept the truth of this concealed from the rank and file members as well as
those who attend their chapels where the 1962 Indult Missal in dialogue style
is offered. Bogle
personally confirmed that Fellay is currently a
member of the Roman Rota. The purpose of
dialogue is to arrive at opinion. For
both parties involved, the true faith is just another opinion.
New
Evangelization in the Diocese of Harrisburg - Bishop Ronald Gainer the Insipid
and his own inner Pachamama."Healing" what?
"Hope" for what? Dialogue, which is the nothing more than an exchange
of opinions, presupposes a denial that the Catholic Church possesses truth, for
those who possess truth have no interest in exchanging opinions. "Responding
to division" assumes that the division between good and evil can be
bridged. The stupidity is evident in exchanging "opinion" with a
woman masquerading 
as a "bishop."
Day of
Dialogue Addresses Hope in Midst of Division
The Catholic WITNESS | Chris Heisey | November 8, 2019
Responding to
division is society and in the Christian Church, the annual LARC Day of
Dialogue brought together clergy and parishioners of local Christian traditions
for prayer and discussion. The annual event is a joint effort of the Lutheran,
Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in central Pennsylvania for prayer and
greater cooperation between the Churches. Titled “Division on Society, Division
in the Church: Healing and Hope for the 21st Century,” the gathering was Oct.
28 at the Diocesan Center in Harrisburg. The Day of Dialogue featured three
speakers, prayer in the three Christian traditions and a panel discussion. It
is hosted annually by the Diocesan Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs, directed by Father James Lease. Dr. Maria Erling,
a Professor of Modern Church History and Global Mission at the United Lutheran
Seminary, spoke on what ecumenism holds today. The Very Rev. Dr. Amy Doyle Welin, Dean of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral in
Harrisburg, addressed pastoral theological Christian unity. The third speaker
was Eric Failing, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference,
who spoke on reshaping debate to achieve wisdom. The event is an extension of
the LARC Covenant, signed in 1993 by the Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of
Central Pennsylvania, the Lower and Upper Susquehanna Synods of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, and the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. Its aim is
to bring clergy and laity together to work in the cause of Christian unity. For
information about ecumenical and interreligious activities in the Diocese,
visit www.hbgdiocese.org/about/diocesan-offices/ecumenical/ or contact Father
Lease at frjlease@hbgdiocese.org.
Vatican
II condemned out of their own mouths!
Cardinal Blase
Cupich: Vatican II permits pagan “inculturation” of Catholic worship
CHICAGO, November 8, 2019 - Archbishop Cardinal Blase
Cupich of Chicago defended the use of the “Pachamama” statues during the Amazon Synod, saying the
church has “always adopted pagan elements in its traditions and especially its
liturgical rites” while quoting from a Vatican document about “inculturation.”
Writing in the diocesan newspaper Chicago Catholic on Wednesday, Cardinal Cupich asserted that the “artwork” at the Vatican depicting
Pachamama – a fertility goddess venerated by
indigenous people of South America – was merely “a pregnant woman, a symbol of
motherhood and the sacredness of life, that represents for indigenous peoples
the bond humanity has with our mother earth, much as St. Francis of Assisi
portrayed in his Canticle of the Creatures.” Cupich
was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in November 2016.
The
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
and other
“highly reductive ideological views”
Bishop Guido Marini, Pope Benedict’s Master of Ceremonies, said that there is no difference in the
traditional Church before Vatican II (1962-1965) and after. He stated: “Terms
like ‘preconciliar’ and ‘postconciliar,’
belong to an outdated language, and if they are used with the intention of
indicating a discontinuity in the Church’s journey, I maintain that they are
mistaken and typical of highly reductive ideological views.”
Cardinal Kasper teaches:
… today we no longer understand
ecumenism in the sense of a return, by which the others would ‘be converted’
and return to being Catholics. This was expressly abandoned by Vatican
II.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, Prefect of
Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Feb. 26, 2001
The Church
Infallibly Teaches:
… the union of Christians
can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ
of those who are separated from it.
Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all
those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or
heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal
life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and
his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their
lives….
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate
Domino
Cardinal Kasper teaches:
The old theory of substitution (of
the New Covenant for the Old) is gone since the Second Vatican Council…
Therefore, the Church believes that Judaism, that is, the faithful response of
the Jewish people to God’s irrevocable covenant, is salvific
for them, because God is faithful to his promises.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, Prefect of
Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, May 1, 2001
The Church Infallibly Teaches:
The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the
matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic Law, which are
divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they
were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited
to divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been signified by
them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever,
even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted
himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not
save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the
passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been
observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of
the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal
salvation. All, therefore, who after that time (the promulgation
of the Gospel) observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements
of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit
to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these
errors.
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
There
is no difference between this example of Jewish “truth” and Novus Ordo theology and praxis?
Lying is now a
“heightened version of reality” because it may be “true in a higher
metaphysical sense”!?
. . . . What anti-Semites keep insisting are “fake
Holocaust stories” need to be seen in a more positive light as “the truth of
imagination,” to quote the famous phrase of the poet John Keats. If something
is perceived as true by the mind, though
strictly speaking it may not have happened, and if that event is subsequently
seen as a living truth in the minds of millions of other good people who have
been exposed to that same heightened version of reality, then it must on no
account be dismissed as a “lie” ( . . . ) All such stories are
true in a higher metaphysical sense, and to deny them is a sacrilege
( . . . ) We have a sacred obligation to the six million who
died under the tyranny of the evil Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to remember the
dead and dismiss with contempt all attempts to deny the Holocaust by referring
to “fake Holocaust stories.” I repeat: there is no such thing
as a fake Holocaust story. Every Holocaust story is true, 100 per cent true,
whether it happened or not. ( . . . ) In the
sublime words of Elie Wiesel: “In literature, certain
things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not true, even if
they did happen.”
Seymour Zak, defending “fake Holocaust stories” after Herman Rosenblat’s holocaust story, An Angel at the Fence, was publically exposed as a pure
fabrication. Hollywood was unmoved. The film production based upon the book
proceeded as planned.
Dogma
is the proximate Rule of Faith. Deny this Catholic truth and this is what
follows. So now we have an infallibly infallible magisterium
and a infallibly non-infallible magisterium! The pope
become the revealer of truth rather than its divine appointed guardian!
This false accusation railed against Pope Francis, claiming that he is
teaching or prompting heresy in part of his Ordinary Magisterium
is in effect a denial of the one of the essential truths behind the teaching
authority of the Roman Pontiff, who is granted Divine assistance which prevents
him from erring in matters of faith and morals, even when teaching
non-infallibly.
So while there may be certain deficiencies present in the Ordinary Magisterium, the faithful are still required to submit
their will and intellect to its higher prudential judgment by giving religious
assent, and such deficiencies can never fall into error in matters of faith and
morals through the promise of Divine assistance accorded to even these
non-infallible pronouncements.
Emmett O'Regan, published by Vatican Insider
And, lastly, to sum all up in a word. As the Incarnation is God’s Book of
Life, the knowledge of his Sacred Heart is the interpretation and the unfolding
of that Book. The whole mystery of God and of man, and the relations of God and
man in grace and in glory, are all written in the Sacred Heart. They that know
the Sacred Heart know God; they that love the Sacred Heart love God; and they
that are made like to the Sacred Heart are made like to God. It is the
compendium of the whole science of God, of the whole way of salvation, of the
whole gospel of eternal life.
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The
Sacred Heart, God's Way of Love
"I love them that love Me: and they
that in the morning early watch for Me shall find Me."
Prov. 8:17
Religious
Liberty from Vatican II has its root in the Americanist
Heresy
On every side the dread phantom of war holds sway: there is scarce room
for another thought in the minds of men. The combatants are the greatest and
wealthiest nations of the earth; what wonder, then, if, well provided with the
most awful weapons modern military science has devised, they strive to destroy
one another with refinements of horror. There is no limit to the measure of
ruin and of slaughter; day by day the earth is drenched with newly-shed blood,
and is covered with the bodies of the wounded and of the slain. Who would
imagine as we see them thus filled with hatred of one another, that they are
all of one common stock, all of the same nature, all members of the same human
society? ....We implore those in whose hands are placed the fortunes of nations
to hearken to Our voice. Surely there are other ways and means whereby violated
rights can be rectified. Let them be tried honestly and with good will, and let
arms meanwhile be laid aside.
Benedict XV, Ad beatissimi apostolorum,
November 1, 1914
“We consider the establishment of our country’s independence, the
shaping of its liberties and laws, as a work of special Providence, its framers
‘building better than they knew,’ the Almighty’s hand guiding them. We believe
that our country’s heroes were the instruments of the God of nations in
establishing this home of freedom; to both the Almighty and to His instruments
in the work we look with grateful reverence. And to maintain the inheritance of
freedom which they have left us, should it ever–which God forbid—be imperiled,
our Catholic citizens will be found to stand forward as one man, ready to
pledge anew ‘their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.’”
Archbishop (soon to be Cardinal) James Gibbons, addressing the American
bishops at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884 attended by 14
archbishops and 61 bishops.
Moved to the very depths of our hearts by the stirring appeal of the
President of the United States, and by the action of our national Congress, we
accept whole-heartedly and unreservedly the decree of that legislative
authority proclaiming this country to be in a state of war. Inspired neither by
hate nor fear, but by the holy sentiments of truest patriotic fervor and zeal,
we stand ready, we and all the flock committed to our keeping, to cooperate in
every way possible with our President and our national government, to the end
that the great and holy cause of liberty may triumph and that our beloved
country may emerge from this hour of test stronger and nobler than ever. Our people,
as ever, will rise as one man to serve the nation.
Pledge of U.S. Catholic Archbishops, April 18,1917; sent to President
Woodrow Wilson by Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, the leading
Catholic prelate in the United States.
“The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country. It is exhibited
by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his country’s call.”
Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), April 1917
in support of the U.S. declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
The Balfour Declaration agreement committed the British to deliver Palestine
into Jewish hands in return for the Jews bringing the United States into WWI in
support of the British. Cardinal James Gibbons was the chief propagator of the heresy
of Americanism which became settled Novus Ordo
doctrine after Vatican II (religious liberty) primarily by the work of Fr. John
Courtney Murray who greatly admired Cardinal Gibbons. Gibbons did his best to
align American Catholics with Jewish interests to bring the United States into
the Great War. In doing so Gibbons worked directly to undermine the peace plans
of Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict devised a generous peace plan and contacted
Cardinal Gibbons to do what he could to influence the United States government
to back his offer of a negotiated peace. Gibbons did nothing of the sort. While
giving lip service to the Pope's peace plan six months too late, he in fact
never contacted President Wilson or any official of the government to even
mention Pope Benedict's peace plan. Gibbons was too busy building the National
Catholic War Council (NCWC) and supporting the call of universal military
service. The purpose of the NCWC as Gibbons said in a letter to all American
bishops was to form “the mental and moral preparation of our people for the
war.”
To
Congar's credit, he at least told the truth about
what he helped destroy!
"It cannot be denied that the Declaration on Religious Liberty
does say materially something else than the Syllabus of 1864; it even says just
about the opposite of Propositions 15
and 77 to 79 of this document..... I collaborated on the final paragraphs which
left me less satisfied. It involved
demonstrating that the theme of religious liberty was already contained in
Scripture. Now, it isn't there."
Cardinal Yves Marie
Joseph Congar,
O.P., forbidden to teach by the Church and whose books were suppressed in the
early 1950s, made a peritus at Vatican II by Novus Ordo St. John XXIII, and is considered by many to have been
the most influential of all the periti. He was raised
to the cardinalate by Novus Ordo
St. John Paul II. He rejected the dogmatic teaching of Trent which his teacher
and mentor, Fr. Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P., derisively called “Baroque theology”.
Excerpts
from the Diary of Msgr. Joseph Fenton:
·
“He
[Cardinal Ottaviani] remarked that we were on the eve
of the Council, and that no one knew who the Council’s theologians were to be.”
(Sept. 28, 1962)
·
“It is a
crime that we did not take the Anti-Modernist Oath. Poor O[ttaviani]
must have failed to have our own profession passed by the central
commission. It contained his condemnation of [Fr. John Courtney] Murray [the Americanist heretic who structured the Council teaching on
Religious Liberty].” (Oct. 9, 1962)
·
“I had
always thought that this council was dangerous. It was started for no
sufficient reason. There was too much talk about what it was supposed to
accomplish. Now I am afraid that real trouble is on the way.” (Oct. 13,
1962)
·
“I
started to read the material on the Liturgy, and I was shocked at the bad
theology. They actually have been stupid enough [to say] that the Church
is ‘simul humanam et divininam, visibilem et invisibilem’ [at the same time human and divine, visible
and invisible]. And they speak of the Church working ‘quousque
unum ovile fiat et unus pastor’ [until there be one fold and one shepherd], as
if that condition were not already achieved.” (Oct. 19, 1962)
·
“I do not
think that any little work on our part is going to bring good to the Church. We
should, I believe, face the facts. Since the death of [Pope] St. Pius X the
Church has been directed by weak and liberal popes, who have flooded the
hierarchy with unworthy and stupid men. This present conciliar
set-up makes this all the more apparent. [Fr.] Ed Hanahoe,
the only intelligent and faithful member of [Cardinal] Bea’s secretariat has
been left off the list of the periti. Such idiots as [Mgr. John S.] Quinn and the sneak
[Fr. Frederick] McManus have been put on. [Fr. George] Tavard
is there as an American, God help us. From surface appearance it would
seem that the Lord Christ is abandoning His Church. The thoughts of many are
being revealed. As one priest used to say, to excuse his own liberalism,
which, in the bottom of his heart he knew was wrong, ‘for the last few
decades the tendency in Rome has been to favor the liberals.’ That is the
policy now. We can only do what we can to overt an ever more complete
disloyalty to Christ.” (Oct. 19, 1962)
·
“[Fr.] Ed
Hanahoe gave me two books on Modernism. In one of
them I found evidence that the teaching in the first chapter of the new schema
on the Church [that became the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium]
and the language are those of [the excommunicated Modernist Fr. George Tyrrell
[who died outside the Catholic Church and was denied ecclesiastical burial].
May God preserve His Church from that chapter. If it passes, it will be a great
evil. I must pray and act.” (Sept. 24, 1963)
Paul
VI declared Novus Ordo Saint. So just what is a “Novus
Ordo Saint”?
A Novus Ordo Saint is a man-made saint.
Contrasted with Catholic saints who are God-made saints. In virtue of their
union with God they are sanctified, and therefore, Catholic Saints exhibit
heroic virtue in their lives. God confirms their sanctity by working miracles
through their intercession and thus, a cult of veneration (dulia) develops and
spreads throughout the Church. The Church recognizes God's evidence that they
are saints and declares this fact to the universal Church. Contrary to this,
Novus Ordo Saints are man-made saints and their
elevation to the title of sainthood is for the purpose of promoting the human
ideology exemplified in their lives. There is no real cult of veneration
(dulia) among the faithful to Novus Ordo Saints. Since
God does not work true miracles through the intercession of man-made saints,
only man-made miracles are required for the beatification of man-made Novus Ordo Saints. Finally, the Novus Ordo
beatification process does have a promotor
fidei, the so-called “devil’s advocate,”
although his role has been change as the promotor
ideologiae. The greatest difference between
Catholic Saints and Novus Ordo Saints is that the
former are in heaven and the latter, very well may not be.
If the damned were asked 'Why are you in hell?', they would answer:
'For having resisted the Holy Ghost.' If
the Saints were asked: 'Why are you in heaven?', they would answer: 'For having
listened to the Holy Ghost.'
St. John Mary Vianney, Cure d'Ars
The
necessary first act of liturgical corruption is the 'Dialogue Mass' whose end
is to destroy liturgical recollection and contemplation!
In recollection and contemplation - kindred but not identical attitudes
- we encounter two more basic constituents of religious life. Recollection is a
condition of all truly wakeful and deep modes of living, and hence
indispensable for our transformation in Christ.
Contemplation, again, is the source
that feeds all life in Christ, and at the same time, the end in which that life finds its fulfillment.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Transformation
in Christ
Pope
Pachapapa does believe in "proselytism" as
long as the proselyte is being converted FROM the Catholic faith and not TO it!
Conversion: of
the Amazon, or of the Church?
CatholicCulture.org | October 25, 2019 — An article published last week
in Civilta Cattolica —
the journal edited by Father Antonio Spadaro, one the
Pope’s closest associates — announces: “The Synod of the Amazon is called to be
an occasion for ‘conversion.’” Read the whole essay carefuly (if
you can plow through the blizzard of ecclesiastical jargon), and you might have
the impression that the goal is the conversion of the Catholic Church, not the
people of the Amazon region.
The call to conversion comes from the peripheries, Civilta tells us, and “the Church is called to listen
to its voice and to assume the commitment to conversion.” The Synod, we are
told, can’t expect to change the people of the Amazon, because “the periphery
can contribute to the transformation of the center to the extent that it does
not lose its identity.”
So we are to transform the culture of the Church, but not of the
Amazon? That is, to put it mildly, not the attitude of Catholic missionaries in
previous generations. But then, one of the key figures in this Synod is a
bishop who boasts that he has never baptized a member of the Amazon’s
indigenous tribes.
And Civilta, too, takes a novel approach
to missionary work, as becomes evident a few paragraphs later in the essay:
“If God’s dream is the redemption of humanity,…”
God’s dream?
Official
Explanation of Light Show on the façade of Roman Catholic Basilicas? It apparently has not occurred to Francis
that a “bridge” between “historical reality and divine transcendence” has already
been perfectly accomplished in Jesus Christ and this truth is the very reason
for the basilicas themselves which they perfectly symbolize!
Disturbing light shows projected on Rome’s churches at close of Amazon
Synod
The organizers of the light show stated: “The artistic light project
recalls the perfect geometry of the architectural structure of the Pantheon and
therefore of the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres,
transforming the oculus into a powerful light source: the light, taken as a
symbol of God's revelation and of its presence in history, it emanates from the
basilica as a bridge between the earth and the sky, as an element of communion
between historical reality and divine transcendence.” (????????)
The project had cooperation from Italy’s Ministry of Culture and the
Vicariate of Rome, thus ensuring Vatican approval.
LIFESITENEWS
Santa Maria sopra
Minerva
AMAZON
SYNOD: Why does the “New Evangelization,” not just permit, but require a
married clergy?
In his Encyclical Menti Nostre, Pope Pius XII declares, “The priest is... the
organ of the communication and increase of life in the Mystical Body of Christ.
Far from losing the gift and the office of paternity because of his celibacy,
the priest increases them immeasurably, since if he does not beget children for
this passing life on earth, he begets them for that of life which is heavenly
and eternal.” Parents of children collaborate with God on the natural level in
the communication of life to new human beings, of rearing and educating them
for the glory of God. The priest has an “immeasurably” higher calling to beget
children of God, that is, of proselytizing human beings to faith in the truths
God has revealed and obedience to the laws which He commands. The New
Evangelization radically opposes proselytizing anyone therefore, the priest no
longer begets children to God and turns to begetting of natural progeny. The
New Evangelization is spiritually sterile. The Novus Ordo
priest is a clerical gelding. He is worthless to both man and God.
CLOSING
COMMENTS from the Pope Pachamama
The
"beam" in his "own eye"!
“How many times do those who are prominent, like the Pharisee with
respect to the tax collector, raise up walls to increase distances, making
other people feel even more rejected. Or
by considering them backward and of little worth, they despise their
traditions, erase their history, occupy their lands, and usurp their goods….
Worship of self carries on hypocritically with its rites and ‘prayers,’
forgetting the true worship of God which is always expressed in love of one’s
neighbor.”
Pope Francis, ending sermon from the Amazonian Synod
COMMENT: How the hypocrite Francis is blind to the ‘beam in his own eye.’ The arrogant pretense that he and his Novus Ordite cronies actually know anything about the “worship of
God” and the “love of one’s neighbor.”
Catholic institutions of charity have collapsed since Vatican II because
these institutions were staffed by countless vocations, men and women who gave
their lives in the service of the love of their fellow man for the love of
God. Vocations have dried up and these
institutions have closed their doors because without faith, there is no
charity.
Furthermore, no one, absolutely no one, has been considered of “little
worth” more than Catholics faithful to our “received and approved” traditions
of the Catholic Church which produced these vocations. Faithful Catholics have had their “traditions
despised,” their “history erased,” their churches and shrines “occupied,” and
their “goods usurped,” by the philistines of Vatican II.
The Mission of Ss. Peter & Paul has set out to recover and restore
this despised heritage by which alone the faith can be known and communicated
to others, from which alone true charity may once more abound. May our Good God cleanse His Church from this
corrupt pontificate of Francis and everything he represents.
Do you want to be sure of never resisting God? Then remember always our
Lord's own words: The spirit indeed is
willing, but the flesh is weak. We must watch and pray, as He bids us, that
we enter not into temptation. Watch, so as not to expose ourselves or give
advantage to the enemy; pray, in order that we may obtain from God the strength
we need. Abiding, thus, in the salutary fear of being unfaithful to grace, God
will preserve us from all evil. Or, if He permits us from time to time to
realize our weakness, it will never be by a deadly fall; He will interpose His
own hand between us and the blow, to prevent it from doing us harm. He will
quickly raise us up again, and we shall be all the stronger afterwards.
Rev. John Grou, S.J., Spiritual Maxims
“Revelation manifests itself more and more
each day… it’s always moving.”
It
is a dogma of divine and Catholic faith that Revelation was completed at the
death of the last Apostle!
Ideologies are bewitching; and so Paul says: “Oh foolish Galatians, who
has bewitched you?” Those who preach with ideologies: everything’s right! They
are bewitching: it’s all clear! But
look, God’s revelation isn’t clear eh? God’s revelation manifests itself more
and more each day; it is always moving. Is it clear? Crystal clear! It is Him,
but we have to find it along the way. Those who think they possess the whole
truth are not just ignorant, Paul goes as far as to call them ‘foolish’ for
letting themselves be bewitched.
Pope Francis, sermon, October 6, 2016
Pope Francis open the Youth Synod with novel ferula that
is most fitting for his LGBT agenda!
Stang: The stang is a straight branch with a
fork or Y at one end, and is most used in ritual circle as a type of
centerpiece representing the magick of the three –the
trinity– in the following ways: Earth, Sea, and Sky; Body, Mind and Spirit;
God, Goddess and Unity; the three faced of the God; the three faces of the Goddess;
and the crossroads of life. Stangs used today are
normally five to six feet in height and are often decorated with ribbons and
flowers that match the seasonal ritual. The stang
also relates to the legend of the World Tree, and in some ritual groups it is
the pole of libation, where gifts of food and liquid are arranged or poured by
the base in honor of the Gods. This is similar to the pole erected in the
center of a Voodoo rite, dedicated to Damballah,
called the Ponteau Mitan.
The stang is normally place at the north (the seat of
all power) or directly behind the altar. A few groups, often with Druidic
leanings, place the stang in the center of the
circle.
Definition provided by "Magickal
Necessities by Witches of the Craft"
A Forked
Staff: Perfect Symbol for the Synod on Youth and with its “synodal”
Blah, Blah, Blah
Fatima Perspectives #1239; By Chris Ferrara
As one website observes, when the Antichrist arrives to preach his lies
among men, seducing “(if it were possible) even the elect” (Mk. 13:22), his
forked tongue “will have the eloquence of angels, his honeyed words will pierce
to the very heart of those who hear him. His arguments and positions will be so
well presented that even those who recognize him will be hard pressed to resist
what he has to say.”
The Antichrist will make the devil’s ultimate sales pitch. For
now, however, the forked tongue belongs to lesser voices, lacking all eloquence
and nuance, including those who will be spouting empty demagogic slogans and emotivist rubbish at the Synod of Youth and Blah, Blah,
Blah now underway in Occupied Rome.
We have heard it all before at the last phony Synod, which was merely a
disguise for what Francis wanted from the beginning and shamelessly passed off
as the voice of the Holy Ghost. And now — bearing a forked staff,
appropriately enough — Francis has said it all again in his homily at the
beginning of this elaborate stage show for further subversion of the Church:
For we know that
our young people will be capable of prophecy and vision to the extent that we,
who are already adult or elderly, can dream and thus be infectious in
sharing those dreams and hopes that we carry in our hearts…
May the Spirit
grant us the grace to be synodal Fathers anointed
with the gift of dreaming and of hoping. We will then, in turn, be able to
anoint our young people with the gift of prophecy and vision…
Hope challenges
us, moves us and shatters that conformism which says, “it’s always been done
like this”. Hope asks us to get up and look directly into the eyes of young
people and see their situations….
And this demands
that we be really careful against succumbing to a self-preservation and self-centredness which gives importance to what is secondary yet
makes secondary what is important.
The gift of that
ability to listen, sincerely and prayerfully, as free as possible from
prejudice and conditioning, will help us to be part of those situations which
the People of God experience….
This disposition
protects us from the temptation of falling into moralistic or elitist postures,
and it protects us from the lure of abstract ideologies that never touch the
realities of our people….
Here we go again: “prophesy and vision,” “dreams and hopes,” “see their
situations,” eschewing “conformism,” moving beyond what is “secondary,” freedom
from “prejudice and conditioning,” rejecting “moralistic or elitist postures”
versus “the realities of our people.”
In other words: another poisonous dose of situation ethics to follow
the recent scandal of “permission” for Holy Communion to be administered to
people who intend to continue engaging in sexual relations within “second
marriages” which constitute “none other than disgraceful and base concubinage, repeatedly condemned by the Church,” to quote
Blessed Pope Pius XI.
This preposterous sham of a Synod features the attendance of two
communist Chinese bishops handpicked by Beijing from the ranks of the Catholic
Patriotic Association, which, following the Vatican sellout of the Underground
Church, promptly declared its “independence” from Rome. Francis ludicrously
declared in his homily that the attendance of these puppets of Beijing and its
“independent” pseudo-Church means that “the communion of the entire Episcopate
with the Successor of Peter is yet more visible thanks to their presence.”
The inevitable outcome of this sham (barring a veritable miracle) will
be a further erosion of the Church’s moral foundations under the specious
pretext of an expression of the “ordinary Magisterium”
that takes into account “situations” and “concrete realities” — as if reality
and morality were somehow opposed, when in fact it is conformity to God’s moral
law that leads a soul to the reality of true freedom.
God help us. God rescue us. Holy Mother of God, intercede for us
and obtain for the Church that holy and courageous Pope who will put an end to
this utter madness by doing at long last what You requested of the Roman
Pontiff nearly a century ago at Tuy: the Consecration
of Russia to Your Immaculate Heart.
Pope
Francis the Space Cadet
“Time is Greater than Space: A constant tension exists between
fullness and limitation. Fullness evokes the desire for complete possession,
while limitation is a wall set before us. Broadly speaking, “time” has to do
with fullness as an expression of the horizon which constantly opens before us,
while each individual moment has to do with limitation as an expression of
enclosure. People live poised between each individual moment and the greater,
brighter horizon of the utopian future as the final cause which draws us to
itself. Here we see a first principle for progress in building a people: time is greater than space.”
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, “Time is Greater than Space”
“God
manifests himself in historical revelation, in history. Time initiates processes,
and space crystallizes them. God is in history, in the processes. We must
initiate processes, rather than occupy spaces.”
Pope Francis, Interview with Anthony Spadaro
Since “time is greater than space,” I would make it clear
that not all discussions of doctrinal, moral, or pastoral issues need to be
settled by interventions of the magisterium. Unity of
teaching and practice is certainly necessary in the Church, but this does not
preclude various ways of interpreting some aspects of that teaching or drawing
certain consequences from it. This will always be the case as the Spirit guides
us towards the entire truth (cf. Jn 16:13), until he
leads us fully into the mystery of Christ and enables us to see all things as
he does. Each country or region, moreover, can seek solutions better suited to
its culture and sensitive to its traditions and local needs. For “cultures are
in fact quite diverse and every general principle…needs to be inculterated, if it is to be respected and applied.”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia
CATHOLIC
PROPHECY
May 13, 1820: I saw also the relationship between the two popes. . . I
saw how baleful would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it
increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome). The
local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness. . . Then, the vision
seemed to extend on every side. Whole Catholic communities were being
oppressed, harassed, confined, and deprived of their freedom. I saw many
churches close down, great miseries everywhere, wars and bloodshed. A wild and
ignorant mob took to violent action. But it did not last long.
Once more I saw that the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan
evolved by the secret sect, while storms were damaging it. But I saw also that
help was coming when distress had reached its peak. I saw again the Blessed
Virgin ascend on the Church and spread her mantle [over it]. I saw a Pope who
was at once gentle, and very firm. . . I saw a great renewal, and the Church
rose high in the sky.
Sept. 12, 1820: I saw a strange church being built against every rule.
. . No angels were supervising the
building operations. In that church, nothing came from high above. . . There
was only division and chaos. It is probably a church of human creation, following
the latest fashion, as well as the new heterodox church of Rome, which seems of
the same kind. . .
I saw again the strange big church that was being built there (in
Rome). There was nothing holy in it. I saw this just as I saw a movement led by
Ecclesiastics to which contributed angels, saints and other Christians. But
there (in the strange big church) all the work was being done mechanically
(i.e. according to set rules and formulae). Everything was being done according
to human reason. . .
I saw all sorts of people, things, doctrines, and opinions. There was
something proud, presumptuous, and violent about it, and they seemed to be very
successful. I did not see a single Angel nor a single saint helping in the
work. But far away in the background, I saw the seat of a cruel people armed
with spears, and I saw a laughing figure which said: “Do build it as solid as
you can; we will pull it to the ground.”
Blessed Anna Katherina Emmerich,
Catholic Prophecy by Ives DuPont
“Europe will return to the faith or…. perish.”
Hilaire Belloc
“If you love me you will keep my commandments… He that hath my
commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me,
shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to
him… If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have
kept my Father’s commandments, and do abide in his love… In this we know that
we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments.”
(John 14:15; 14:21; 15:10; 1 John 5:2)
Pope
Francis will learn, souls are “condemned for ever”
who teach the Lutheran heresy of justification & deny the Catholic dogma
that to abide in “true charity” is “conditional” upon keeping the commandments!
“The way of the Church
is not to condemn anyone for ever; it is to pour out the balm of God’s mercy on
all those who ask for it with a sincere heart… For true charity is always unmerited,
unconditional and gratuitous….
It is a matter of
reaching out to everyone, of needing to help each person find his or her proper
way of participating in the ecclesial com-munity and thus to experience being
touched by an “unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous” mercy. No
one can be condemned for ever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel!”
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia,
paragraphs 296 and 297
Open
Enemies of the Kingship of Jesus Christ
“Someone could ask himself: why is the Pope going with the Muslims and
not just Catholics? With Muslims, we are descendants of the same father, Abraham.
There are many religions, but they always look towards heaven; they look to
God. What God wants is brotherhood among us, in a special way with our
brothers, sons of Abraham like us, the Muslims.”
Pope Francis the Mason, proselytizing for the Masonic Brotherhood One
World Religion
Devotions
to the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Requiem aeternam dona eis domine;
et lux perpetual luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
(Eleternal rest grant unto
them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.)
· Sunday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood, which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in the Garden, deliver the
souls in purgatory, and especially that one which is the most forsaken of all,
and bring it into Thy glory, where it may praise and bless Thee for ever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Monday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in His cruel scourging, deliver
the souls in purgatory , and among them all, especially that soul which is
nearest to its entrance into Thy glory, that it may soon begin to praise Thee for ever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Tuesday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus that was shed in His bitter crowning
with thorns, deliver the souls in purgatory, and among them all, particularly
that soul which is in the greatest need of our prayers, in order that it may
not long be delayed in praising Thee in Thy glory and blessing Thee for ever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Wednesday
O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech
Thee by the Precious Blood of Thy divine son Jesus that was shed in the streets
of Jerusalem whilst He carried on His sacred shoulders the heavy burden of the
Cross, deliver the souls in purgatory and especially that one which is richest
in merits in Thy sight, so that, having soon attained the high place in glory
to which it is destined, it may praise Thee triumphantly and bless Thee for ever. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Thursday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Body and Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus, which He himself on the night
before His Passion gave as meat and drink to His beloved Apostles and
bequeathed to His Holy Church to be the perpetual Sacrifice and life-giving
nourishment of His faithful people, deliver the souls in purgatory, but most of
all, that soul which was most devoted to this Mystery of infinite love, in
order that it may praise Thee therefor, together with
Thy divine Son and the Holy Spirit in Thy glory forever. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
· Friday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
Precious Blood which Jesus Thy divine Son did shed that day upon the tree of
the Cross, especially from His Sacred Hands and Feet, deliver the souls in
purgatory, and particularly that soul for whom I am most bound to pray, in
order that I may not be the cause which hinders Thee from admitting it quickly
to the possession of Thy glory where it may praise Thee and bless Thee for
evermore. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary,
Eternal rest, etc.
· Saturday O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by the
precious Blood which gushed forth from the sacred Side of Thy divine Son Jesus
in the presence and to the great sorrow of His most holy Mother, deliver the
souls in purgatory and among them all especially that soul which has been most
devout to this noble Lady, that it may come quickly into Thy glory, there to
praise Thee in her, and her in Thee through all the ages. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
Heroic Act of
Charity for the Souls on Purgatory
An “Heroic Act of Charity” is the offering of the satisfactory value (not
the merits) of all of our sufferings and works of our rest of our lives and
of any time we may spend in Purgatory for the relief of the souls in
Purgatory. We do this by first deciding to do so, and then praying (using our
own words or the more formal prayer below) to offer these things to God through
Mary’s hands.
Doing this is not a matter of taking a vow; it doesn’t bind under pain of sin,
and it is revokable (unless one vows never to revoke
the Act). But it is a tremendous sacrifice, hence the name. It is truly heroic,
a giving up of one’s own earned relief from the temporal effects of sin -- even
relief of the sufferings of Purgatory -- for the good of others.
In addition to asking God to use their satisfactory works for the souls in
Purgatory, those who make this Act also receive a plenary indulgence (under the
usual conditions) for the souls in Purgatory each time they receive Communion,
and each time they hear Mass on Mondays for the sake of the departed. Words to
a formal Act of Heroic Charity are as follows:
O Holy and Adorable
Trinity, desiring to aid in the relief and release of the Holy Souls in
Purgatory, through my devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, I cede and renounce,
on behalf of these souls, all the satisfactory part of my works, and all the
suffrages which may be given to me after my death. In their entirety, I offer
them to Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, that she may use them, according to
her good pleasure, for those souls of the faithful departed whom she desires to
alleviate their suffering. O my God, deign to accept and bless my offering
which I make to Thee through the most august Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Amen.
Quotable
Pope Francis - BYOC (Bring Your Own Clarity)
Each one of us has his own vision of good and evil and must choose to
follow the good and to fight the evil as he understands them. This would be
enough to change the world.
Pope Francis
Spiritual interference in personal life is not possible.
Pope Francis
If a homosexual person is of good will and is seeking God, I am no one
to judge him. Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of
the people, but God in creation has made us free.
Pope Francis
Scalfari: “Is there a single vision of the good? And who establishes it?”
Pope Francis: “Each of us has his vision of the good. We must incite
him to proceed toward what he thinks to be the good.”
Vatican II, inspired by Pope John and by Paul VI, decided to look to
the future with a modern spirit and to open to modern culture. The council
fathers knew that opening to modern culture meant religious ecumenism and
dialogue with nonbelievers. After then very little was done in that direction.
I have the humility and the ambition of wanting to do it.
Pope Francis
If a person is gay and is seeking the Lord and has good will, who am I
to judge him?
Pope Francis
Our objective is not proselytism, but listening to the needs, the desires,
the disappointments, the desperation, the hope. We must bring hope back to the
young, help the old, open to the future, spread love. Poor among the poor. We
must include the excluded and preach peace. Vatican II, inspired by Pope John
and Paul VI, decided to look to the future with a modern spirit and to open to
modern culture. The council fathers knew that opening to modern culture meant
religious ecumenism and dialogue with nonbelievers. After then, very little was
done in that direction. I have the humility and the ambition to want to do it.
Pope Francis
Next
time, they need to throw the person responsible for this blasphemy into the
Tiber along with his pagan idols so that none may ever be recovered!
Fr. James
Martin: Catholics who threw Pachamamas in Tiber have
‘hatred of the foreigner’
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY | October 22, 2019 – Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest James
Martin accused those who threw the Amazon Synod's controversial statues of an
unclothed pregnant female, also being referred to as the pagan idol “Pachamama”, into Rome’s Tiber river of “hatred.”
The U.S. celebrity priest who is editor-at-large of America magazine
also falsely accused the unknown Catholic men who took the fertility symbols
from Santa Maria in Traspontina yesterday morning of
“breaking into” the church.
“The hatred unleashed by the Synod, which led to breaking into a
church, is hatred of the ‘foreigner,’ hatred of a Christianity that seems
different from your own, when in fact Christianity has always inculturated itself,” he said on Twitter.
“The ‘Roman Church,’ after all, began in the Middle East.”
Martin included an odd message from someone calling himself “etspesnostra” who identified with the men who threw the
“ugly piece of firewood” in the Tiber and said “we are coming for you.”
The hatred
unleashed by the Synod, which led to breaking into a church, is hatred of the
“foreigner,” hatred of a Christianity that seems different from your own,
when in fact Christianity has always inculturated
itself. The “Roman Church,” after all, began in the Middle East. — James
Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ), October 22, 2019
However, the men who removed the four simulacra of a naked pregnant
woman did not break into the Carmelite church but walked into the open building
as at least one worshipper prayed there. They later provided a statement saying
that they acted because Jesus Christ, His mother and His other followers “are
being attacked by members of our own Church.”
“We do not accept this! We do not [sic] longer stay silent! We start to
act NOW!” they continued.
“Because we love humanity, we cannot accept that people of a certain
region should not get baptised and therefore are
being denied entrance into heaven. It is our duty to follow the words of God
like our holy Mother did. There is no second way of salvation. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat !
An Amazonian took to Twitter yesterday to celebrate the removal of the
figures, whom he identified as the region’s version of the fertility goddess
many identify with the “Earth Mother.”
“I am from the Amazon (Belém, PA, Brazil) and
I say with all authority: Amazonian Catholics are celebrating the destruction
of the 'Pachamama' pagan idol,” wrote Lucas Klautau.
“Cry, modernist. In the Amazon we have only one queen: Our Lady of
Nazareth, the horror of the pagans.”
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the Archbishop of
Durban, South Africa, did not share Fr. Martin’s vehemence. In response to a
National Catholic Register piece about the statues being tossed into the Tiber,
he quipped over Twitter, “I guess that could be the fate of some of the
theories being floated about the Synod!”
The ‘Pachamama’ statues were part of a
display about “Amazonian spirituality” in the church. Both the figures, which
the Vatican identified as fertility symbols, and a poster showcasing a 1992
photograph of a naked indigenous woman breastfeeding a wild boar have excited
much controversy during the Synod.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, archbishop emeritus of Caracas, has said that
"syncretism" evident at the "pagan" cermony
witnessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican Gardens on October 4, in which several
Catholics prostrated themselves before two of the ‘Pachamama’
statues, should have been “avoided entirely.”
Breaking News from
Una Voce Malta: Modernist Vatican will only allow the
traditional Mass to be said within the context of the New Church (beginning
Advent 2018) if it accepts the Lectionary and Calendar of the Novus Ordo. This would mean that the traditional Catholic Mass would
not be allowed within the context of New Church. Notice the section of the
story about the Fraternity of St. Peter and the Institute of Christ the King.
Also, the SSPX will only be given a “temporary exemption” “in order to make the
reconciliation possible.” No other exemptions will be allowed! Note the smug
establishment description of Una Voce of itself.
Basically, the True Mass with Catholic worship and prayers and celebrations
will only be possible in, what Fr. Malachi Martin called 20 years ago, the
“Underground Church.”
Peter Chojnowski,
Ph.D.
Pope
Francis the Sophist: He believes in “Absolute Truth” but denies that it can be
know or communicated to other!
“We believers and of course above all we priests and we bishops believe
in the Absolute, but each in their own way because each one has his own head
and thought. So our absolute truth, shared by us all, is different from person
to person. We do not avoid discussions in the case where our different thoughts
confront each other. So there is a kind of relativism among us as well.”
Pope Francis, quoted by Eugenio Scalfari in
La Repubblica, 10-10-17
To the Hypocrite, everyone else is a Hypocrite!
The devil
doesn’t have anything to do with repentant sinners because they look to God and
say, ‘Lord, I’m a sinner. Help me,’ and the devil is impotent. But with the
hypocrites he is strong. He is strong, and he uses them to destroy, to destroy
people, destroy society, destroy the church.
Pope Francis
the HomoLobby CEO, homily September 20, 2018
The
purpose of dialogue is to produce opinion. The purpose of logical argument
is to appeal to the intellect to arrive at truth. Rhetoric appeals to the will and poetry to
the imagination. The emphasis of the Novus Ordo
Church since Vatican II on dialogue is
therefore a repudiation of any claim to truth offering in its place only the opinions of churchmen. Is the reduction
of Jesus Christ from the Truth to just another opinion.
“The Church will have to opt for dialogue as her style and method,
fostering an awareness of the existence of bonds and connections in a complex
reality. . . . No vocation, especially within the Church, can be placed
outside this outgoing dynamism of dialogue . . . . [emphasis added].”
Pope
Francis’ Instrumentum Laboris,
XV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF SYNOD OF BISHOPS: YOUNG PEOPLE, THE FAITH AND VOCATIONAL
DISCERNMENT
Vatican
Offers Plausible Denial of Scalfari Report that
Francis Affirms that Jesus Christ is not God -
The problem is that only two people know if the report is true, that is,
Scalfari and Francis.
Since Scalfari has affirmed the claim, only
Francis can deny it. The Vatican
"spokesman" knows nothing.
Francis has not denied the accusation, and is unlikely to ever do so. Why? Because, the report is probably true!
"As has been said on other occasions, the words that
Dr. Eugenio Scalfari ascribed to the Holy Father
in conversations with him, are not as a faithful representation of what has
actually been said, but above all are a personal and free interpretation of what
he has heard, as it quite obviously seems, what is written today concerning the
deity of Jesus Christ."
Rev. Matteo Bruni,
Vatican Spokesman
Is the
Amazonian Synod Inciting God's Wrath? By David Martin
A poster of a topless indigenous woman breast-feeding a weasel is among
the many graphics being used to publicize the infamous Amazonian Synod
presently underway in Rome. LifeSiteNews videographer
Jim Hale was able to obtain this footage while documenting the Synod in Rome.
Disgusting as it is, there is more to this than meets the eye. It
derives from Pope Francis' eco-encyclical Laudato Si,
which underscores the synod. What they're saying is that everything in creation
is "interconnected," that we are "related" to the animals,
and it uses this degraded imagery to make the point.
According to the synodal architects, we're
just animals. The synod is about our "ecological conversion" and
oneness with the planet, not about our oneness with Christ. It calls upon the
Church to bow to the planetary idol and make "reparation" to
"Mother-Earth" for the "sins" committed against her. It
dignifies the superstition of pagan culture and seeks to pollute the Church
therewith. It is truly the work of Antichrist.
Mr. Hale was also able to capture on film a most deplorable scene
inside of St. Peter's Basilica—a nude Mother Earth idol along with Pope Francis
and various cardinals chanting, dancing, and praying before the statue. The
nude idol along with other shocking exhibits are now on display in the Santa
Maria in Transpontina Church, just down the street
from St. Peter’s. It appears that the Eternal City has become a forum for
globalists.
Divine Wrath Imminent?
That Rome should descend to such diabolical depths that would have the
hierarchy carousing around this latter-day golden calf is a clear testament to
the apostasy of our times. These shocking events immediately call to mind
Christ's prophecy concerning the divine wrath of the last days that would ensue
in the wake of the abominations that would pollute the Sanctuary. As he says:
"When
therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth
let him understand.... For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath
not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And
unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the
sake of the elect those days shall be shortened." (Matthew 24:15-22)
The synod also calls to mind how God many times in the Bible had
punished the Jews for turning to strange gods worshiping idols in their groves.
Is history about to repeat itself?
The pope and his errant hierarchy would do well to put away their idol
and return to their knees before their Crucified Savior and King on the Cross,
remembering the admonition of Holy Scripture:
"For power is
given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your
works, and search out your thoughts: Because being ministers of his kingdom,
you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according
to the will of God. Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most
severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule." (Wisdom 6: 4-6)
Eponymous Flower Blog
St. Joseph’s
forgotten role in Fatima’s ‘Miracle of the Sun’
Voice of the Family | 10-5-2017 – The 13 October 2017 will be the
centenary of the Miracle of Sun and the final apparition of Our Lady of Fatima.
Despite being essential for understanding the period of history that we are now
living through, the details of these remarkable events are far too little
known, including amongst Catholics. In this article, we wish to draw attention
to the much-neglected role of St Joseph during that momentous event.
Following the Miracle of Sun, and at the culmination of Our Lady’s
final apparition, St Joseph also appeared to the three young seers. Father John
de Marchi, in his book The True Story of Fatima,
describes it as follows:
To the left of the
sun, Saint Joseph appeared holding in his left arm the Child Jesus. Saint
Joseph emerged from the bright clouds only to his chest, sufficient to allow
him to raise his right hand and make, together with the Child Jesus, the Sign
of the Cross three times over the world. As Saint Joseph did this, Our Lady
stood in all Her brilliancy to the right of the sun, dressed in the blue and
white robes of Our Lady of the Rosary. Meanwhile, Francisco and Jacinta were
bathed in the marvelous colors and signs of the sun, and Lucia was privileged
to gaze upon Our Lord dressed in red as the Divine Redeemer, blessing the
world, as Our Lady had foretold. Like Saint Joseph, He was seen only from His
chest up. Beside Him stood Our Lady, dressed now in the purple robes of
Our Lady of Sorrows, but without the sword. Finally, the Blessed Virgin
appeared again to Lucia in all Her ethereal brightness, clothed in the simple
brown robes of Mount Carmel.
This final apparition at Fatima points us towards three particular forms
of devotion towards Our Lady that we are called to practice during this “final
battle” against Satan. These are devotion to:
· her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart
· the Holy Rosary
·
the Brown Scapular.
However, it is of the greatest importance to note that the final
apparition of Fatima also directs us towards the intercession of St Joseph,
whom Our Lord intimately associated with Himself in his blessing of the world.
Father de Marchi wrote:
Our Lord, already
so much offended by the sins of mankind and particularly by the mistreatment of
the children by the officials of the county, could easily have destroyed the
world on that eventful day. However, Our Lord did not come to destroy, but to
save. He saved the world that day through the blessing of good Saint Joseph and
the love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for Her children on earth. Our Lord
would have stopped the great World War then raging and given peace to the world
through Saint Joseph, Jacinta later declared, if the children had not been
arrested and taken to Ourem.
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December 1870, Blessed
Pope Pius IX, following appeals received from bishops worldwide, had
declared St Joseph to be Patron of the Universal Church, “in this most
sorrowful time” when “the Church herself is beset by enemies on every side and
oppressed by heavy calamities, so that impious men imagine that the gates of
Hell are at length prevailing against her.”
Pope Leo XIII, to whom it was revealed in 1884 that Satan would be given,
for a time, increased power to work for the destruction the Church, instituted
a new devotion to St Joseph in his encyclical letter Quamquan
pluries, promulgated on the Feast of the Assumption,
15 August 1889. The Supreme Pontiff wrote:
During periods of
stress and trial – chiefly when every lawlessness of act seems permitted to the
powers of darkness – it has been the custom in the Church to plead with special
fervour and perseverance to God, her author and
protector, by recourse to the intercession of the saints – and chiefly of the
Blessed Virgin, Mother of God – whose patronage has ever been the most
efficacious.
He further explained:
We see faith, the
root of all the Christian virtues, lessening in many souls; we see charity
growing cold; the young generation daily growing in depravity of morals and
views; the Church of Jesus Christ attacked on every side by open force or by
craft; a relentless war waged against the Sovereign Pontiff; and the very
foundations of religion undermined with a boldness which waxes daily in
intensity. These things are, indeed, so much a matter of notoriety that it is
needless for Us to expatiate on the depths to which society has sunk in these
days, or on the designs which now agitate the minds of men. In circumstances so
unhappy and troublous, human remedies are insufficient, and it becomes
necessary, as a sole resource, to beg for assistance from the Divine power.
More than a century after the promulgation of this encyclical the evils
identified by Pope Leo XIII have intensified to a degree that would have been
inconceivable to most people in 1889. Thousands of innocent children are
slaughtered every day with the approval of the governments that ought to be
defending them, the sanctity of marriage is defiled by divorce, adultery and
contraception, and the bonds between parents and their children are being
deliberately targeted for destruction by the most powerful states and
institutions in the world. Worst of all, the Pope himself is responsible for
the spread of heresies which are leading the flock away from Christ and towards
eternal damnation.
Pope Leo XIII urged the faithful, just as Our Lady would do
twenty-eight years later at Fatima, to combat these evils through the prayer of
the Holy Rosary:
At this proximity
of the month of October, which We have already consecrated to the Virgin Mary,
under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary, We earnestly exhort the faithful to
perform the exercises of this month with, if possible, even more piety and
constancy than heretofore. We know that there is sure help in the maternal
goodness of the Virgin, and We are very certain that We shall never vainly
place Our trust in her. If, on innumerable occasions, she has displayed her
power in aid of the Christian world, why should We doubt that she will now
renew the assistance of her power and favour, if
humble and constant prayers are offered up on all sides to her? Nay, We rather
believe that her intervention will be the more marvellous
as she has permitted Us to pray to her, for so long a time, with special
appeals.
But then, once more anticipating Fatima, he directed the faithful also
towards St Joseph:
But We entertain
another object, which, according to your wont, Venerable Brethren, you will
advance with fervour. That God may be more favourable to Our prayers, and that He may come with bounty
and promptitude to the aid of His Church, We judge it of deep utility for the
Christian people, continually to invoke with great piety and trust, together
with the Virgin-Mother of God, her chaste Spouse, the Blessed Joseph; and We
regard it as most certain that this will be most pleasing to the Virgin
herself.
He further explained:
The divine house
which Joseph ruled with the authority of a father, contained within its limits
the scarce-born Church. From the same fact that the most holy Virgin is the
mother of Jesus Christ is she the mother of all Christians whom she bore on
Mount Calvary amid the supreme throes of the Redemption; Jesus Christ is, in a
manner, the first-born of Christians, who by the adoption and Redemption are
his brothers. And for such reasons the Blessed Patriarch looks upon the
multitude of Christians who make up the Church as confided specially to his
trust – this limitless family spread over the earth, over which, because he is
the spouse of Mary and the Father of Jesus Christ he holds, as it were, a
paternal authority. It is, then, natural and worthy that as the Blessed Joseph
ministered to all the needs of the family at Nazareth and girt it about with
his protection, he should now cover with the cloak of his heavenly patronage
and defend the Church of Jesus Christ.
Therefore the Holy Father instituted a new prayer to said after the
Holy Rosary throughout the month of October. He intended this prayer to be
said, not just in October 1889, but in October every year. As we prepare for
the centenary of the Miracle of Sun, let us learn the lesson of St Joseph’s
apparition at Fatima, and turn to him for help and protection.
St Joseph, terror of demons, pray for us!
The
revealed truth of the Gospel are reduced to “opinions”, to “merely human
calculations.”
So many past
controversies between Christians can be overcome when we put aside all
polemical or apologetic approaches, and seek instead to grasp more fully what
unites us, namely, our call to share in the mystery of the Father’s love
revealed to us by the Son through the Holy Spirit. Christian unity – we are
convinced – will not be the fruit of subtle theoretical discussions in which
each party tries to convince the other of the soundness of their opinions. […..…] In the call to
be evangelizers, all the Churches and Ecclesial Communities discover a
privileged setting for closer cooperation. For this to be effective, we need to stop being
self-enclosed, exclusive, and bent on imposing a uniformity based on merely
human calculations. Our shared commitment to proclaiming the Gospel
enables us to overcome proselytism and competition in all their forms.
Pope Francis
“And
what is most remarkable is that the enemies of the Church—the movements that
rend and crucify her—are in a sense her own offspring and derive their dynamic
force from her.” This includes her current enemies who attack from within the
household. In the crucible of conflict, saints are forged and crowns won.
Actually, however, Christianity has never accepted these postulates,
and the Christian ought to be the last person in the world to lose hope in the
presence of the failure of the right and the apparent triumph of evil. For all
this forms part of the Christian view of life, and the Christian discipline is
expressly designed to prepare us to face such a situation.
Christianity, to a far greater degree than any other religion, is a
historical religion and it is knit up inseparably with the living process of
history. Christianity teaches the existence of a divine progress in history
which will be realized through the Church in the Kingdom of Cod. But at the
same time it recognizes the essential duality of the historical process—the
co-existence of two opposing principles, each of which works and finds concrete
social expression in history. Thus we have no right to expect that Christian
principles will work in practice in the simple way that a political system may
work The Christian order is a supernatural order. It has its own principles and
its own laws which are not those of the visible world and which may often seem
to contradict them. Its victories may be found in apparent defeat and its
defeats in material success.
We see the whole thing manifested clearly and perfectly once and once
only, i.e. in the life of Jesus, which is the pattern of the Christian life and
the model of Christian action. The life of Jesus is profoundly historical; it
is the culminating point of thousands of years of living historical tradition. It
is the fulfillment of a historical purpose, towards which priests and prophets
and even politicians had worked, and in which the hope of a nation and a race
was embodied. Yet, from the worldly point of view, from the standpoint of a
contemporary secular historian, it was not only unimportant, but actually
invisible. Here was a Galilean peasant who for thirty years lived a life so
obscure as to be unknown even to the disciples who accepted his mission. Then
there followed a brief period of public action, which did not lead to any kind
of historical achievement but moved swiftly and irresistibly towards its
catastrophic end, an end that was foreseen and deliberately accepted.
And out of the heart of this catastrophe there arose something
completely new, which even in its success was a deception to the very people
and the very race that had staked their hopes on it. For after Pentecost—after
the outpouring of the Spirit and the birth of the infant Church—there was an
event as unforeseen and inexplicable as the Incarnation itself, the conversion
of a Cilician Jew, who turned away from his traditions and from his own people
so that he seemed a traitor to his race and his religion. So that ultimately
the fulfillment of the hope of Israel meant the rejection of Israel and the
creation of a new community which was eventually to become the State religion
of the Roman Empire which bad been the enemy of Jew and Christian alike.
If you look on all this without faith, from the rationalist point of
view, it becomes no easier to understand. On the contrary it becomes even more
inexplicable; credo quia
incredibile.
Now the life of Christ is the life of the Christian and the life of the
Church. It is absurd for a Christian who is a weak human vehicle of this world
changing force to expect a quiet life. A Christian is like a red rag to a
bull—to the force of evil that seeks to be master of the world and which, in a
limited sense, but in a very real sense, is, as St. John says, the Lord of this
world. And not only the individual but the Church as an historic community
follows the same pattern and finds its success and failure not where the
politician finds them, but where Christ found them.
The Church lives again the life of Christ. It has its period of
obscurity and growth and its period of manifestation, and this is followed by
the catastrophe of the Cross and the new birth that springs from failure. And
what is most remarkable is that the enemies of the Church—the movements that
rend and crucify her—are in a sense her own offspring and derive their dynamic
force from her. Islam, the Protestant Reformation, the liberal Revolution, none
of them would have existed apart from Christianity—they are abortive or partial
manifestations of the spiritual power which Christianity has brought into
history. “I have come to cast fire on the earth and what will I, but that it be
kindled.”
Christopher Dawson, Dynamics of
World History
“Woe
to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” Isaias 5:20
In these times, it seems like the Great Accuser has been unchained and
is attacking bishops. True, we are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover
the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people. The Great
Accuser, as he himself says to God in the first chapter of the book of Job,
“Roams the earth looking for someone to accuse.”
A bishop’s strength against the Great Accuser is prayer, that of Jesus
and His own, and the humility of being chosen and remaining close to the people
of God, without seeking an aristocratic life that removes this unction. Let us
pray, today, for our bishops: For me, for those who are here, and for all the
bishops throughout the world.
Pope Francis, homily during recent Novus Ordo
service, calling those who “uncover the sins” of homosexual bishops’
perversions of being ‘Satan’.
Amazonian
Synod dedicated by the ideologue, Francis the Destroyer, to his modernist
fantasy, St. Francis the Ecologue. The real St.
Francis has something else to say to those who "trample the truth under
foot and deny it":
The Saint
Prophesies great Schisms and Tribulations in the Church
A short time before the holy
Father’s death, he called together his Children and warned them of the coming
troubles, saying: ‘Act bravely, my Brethren; take courage, and trust in the
Lord. The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and
afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will
abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of the wicked will
increase. The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our
Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few
Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with
loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a man, not
canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning,
will endeavour to draw many into error and death.
Then scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others
will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of
opposing it. There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the
people, the religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened,
according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error,
were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy
of God. Then our Rule and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and
terrible trials will come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive
the crown of life; but woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall
fall into tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations
permitted for the proving of the elect. Those who preserve their fervour and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the
truth, will suffer injuries and persecutions as rebels and schismatics;
for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are
rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face
of the earth. But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will save
all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head, these, the elect,
will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for themselves
eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear nothing, and
they will prefer to perish rather than consent to falsehood and perfidy. Some preachers will keep silence about the
truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will
be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days
Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor, but a destroyer.
The Works of the Seraphic Father
- St. Francis of Assisi
“When I happened to discuss these phrases (citing
scriptural passages where Jesus Christ prayed), Pope Francis told me: ‘They are
the definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was
a man of exceptional virtue, was not God at all.’” Eugenio Scalfari,
published in La Repubblica
Did Pope
Francis Deny Christ's Divinity?
Eponymous Flower | David Martin |
October 10, 2019
The pope’s favorite interviewer has gone on record as saying that
Francis denies the divinity of Christ. Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari said on Wednesday that the pope told him that
Jesus of Nazareth “was not God at all.”
In the October 9 issue of LaRepubblica, Scalfari wrote:
“Those who have had the chance, as I have had different times, to meet him
[Pope Francis] and speak to him with the greatest cultural confidence, know
that Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God
incarnate. Once incarnated, Jesus ceases to be a God and becomes a man until
his death on the cross.”
Scalfari cites examples in Scripture where Christ prayed, including the account
of his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, to support his thesis that Jesus
Christ was not divine. He continues: “When I happened to discuss these phrases,
Pope Francis told me: ‘They are the definite proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once
he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional virtue, was not God at
all.’”
The Vatican press office has discouraged the report, opining that Scalfari’s account merely represents “a personal and free
interpretation of what he has heard.” Even so, the Vatican has not been able to
refute the report with any certitude. The fact that Francis has done nothing to
disavow the report tends to give it credence.
If the report is true, then Francis has unofficially professed the
heresy of Arianism, which says that Christ on earth
was not God Himself, the Second Person of the Trinity by Whom “all things” were
made (John 1: 3), but was just a mere man.
This inference is encouraged when we consider Francis’ ongoing slight
of doctrine and his repeated efforts to dissuade Catholics from attempting to
convert members of other religions. If Francis has no confidence in the One
True Church that Christ left us, would it not indicate that it is Christ
Himself Whom he lacks confidence in?
This apostate
attitude is certainly reflected in the Amazonian Synod presently underway in
Rome. According to Archbishop Viganò, 'Christ is
absent' from the synod's working document. Cardinal Burke has described the
Synod as “a direct attack on the Lordship of Christ.” The synod is all about
bowing to “mother-earth” in defiance of the everlasting ordinance that we bow
only to Christ the King on His throne, so Scalfari’s claim about Francis is not
far-fetched.
If it is, the pope will publicly disavow this, but if he
doesn’t we can only infer that he blesses Scalfari, just as he has blessed him in the past by granting him new
interviews after Scalfari had publicly attributed to
him outlandish statements that contravene doctrine. If this isn’t an
endorsement of Scalfari’s work, what is?
Scalfari
publishes the "authentic magisterium" of
Francis while permitting 'plausible denial'!
Pope’s favored
interviewer claims Francis denies Christ’s divinity
LifeSiteNews | ROME, October 9, 2019 – Atheist Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has claimed that Pope Francis does not believe
that Jesus 
Christ
is truly God and man.
The Pope has granted Scalfari numerous interviews throughout his pontificate,
despite repeated claims from the Vatican press office that his reports are
unreliable.
In La Repubblica
newspaper on Wednesday, Scalfari wrote: “Those who
have had the chance, as I have had different times, to meet him [Pope Francis]
and speak to him with the greatest cultural confidence, know that Pope Francis
conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God incarnate. Once
incarnated, Jesus ceases to be a God and becomes a man until his death on the
cross.” According to Scalfari, “When I happened to
discuss these phrases, Pope Francis told me: ‘They are the definite proof that
Jesus of Nazareth, once he became a man, even if he was a man of exceptional
virtue, was not God at all.’”
EWTN news anchor Raymond Arroyo reacted
on Twitter, writing that he finds the report “hard to believe.” However, he
added, “Why does the Pope continue to grant interviews to an atheist who does
not take notes and relies on his aged memory to reconstruct conversations?”
I find this hard to believe. But why does the Pope
continue to grant interviews to an atheist who does not take notes and relies
on his aged memory to reconstruct conversations? The Vatican must correct this.
— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo)
October 9, 2019
The Holy See Press Office’s
director, Matteo Bruni,
issued the following official response to Scalfari’s
report: “As already stated on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father
during conversations with him cannot be considered as a faithful account of
what has actually been said, but rather represent a personal and free
interpretation of what he has heard, as is quite evident from what has been
written today about the divinity of Jesus Christ.”
The Catholic Church teaches “that
Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son of God who,
without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother: ‘What he was,
he remained and what he was not, he assumed’, sings the Roman Liturgy. And the liturgy
of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings: ‘O only-begotten Son and Word of
God, immortal being, you who deigned for our
salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary,
you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God, you who
by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity,
glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!’” (CCC 469)
A self-declared atheist, the
95-year-old Scalfari is a founder of La
Repubblica and a one-time fascist who later
became a libertarian and member of Italy’s national legislature. Scalfari has conducted several interviews with the pontiff.
In March 2018, Scalfari claimed that the Pope told
him that hell does not exist. La Repubblica
claimed that Pope Francis had told him that the souls of those who do not go to
heaven are annihilated. Francis allegedly said, “Souls are not punished,” and
“Those who repent obtain God's forgiveness and go among the ranks of those who
contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot be forgiven disappear.
There is no hell — there is the disappearance of sinful souls.” Annihilationism is considered a heresy by the Catholic
Church.
At the time, the Vatican Press
Office disputed Scalfari’s account, asserting that
the Pope really does believe that hell exists and that “no quotation of the
article should be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the
Holy Father.” Media outlets have noted in the past that Scalfari
uses neither a tape recorder nor takes notes during his interviews, and has
admitted that he reconstructs conversations according to his memory.
Following the report by the
Italian journalist, Christopher Altieri of the
UK-based Catholic Herald wrote: “Why on earth does Pope Francis
still trust Eugenio Scalfari?” He called upon Francis
to “disown not only the precise verbiage Scalfari
reported in his piece, but the ideas foisted upon him therein—at least the ones
that are manifestly heretical.”
“The longer he does not,” Altieri wrote, “the stronger the case becomes for believing
he cannot.”
While Pope Francis has not chosen
to grant an audience to cardinals who have formally questioned his teachings on
marriage and salvation, he has met with other controversial figures. Recently,
he met with Fr. James Martin, a fellow Jesuit who has been notable for his
advocacy to normalize homosexuality within the Church. The pope has not met
with Cardinals Raymond Burke and Walter Brandmuller,
for instance, who along with two now-deceased prelates published their dubia questions
about Amoris
Laetitia in 2016.
Amazonic Notes # 1 - Francis Reaches
a New Ridiculous Low: Pagan Rituals on Vatican Hill
Nearly
two thousand years ago, Saint Peter,the first bishop
of Rome, was martyred on Vatican Hill, across the Tiber from the historical
center of the City. The great shrine and Basilica dedicated to the Prince of
the Apostles rose on top of it as Catholics were freed from oppression, and
gradually, over the course of the centuries, as the main papal places of worship
and administration faded away, in the Lateran and the Quirinal, the buildings
surrounding the Vatican basilica became more and more prominent, until, with
the unification of Italy and the Lateran treaties, the Vatican became the
absolute center of the administrative and spiritual power of the Catholic
Church.
It seems absolutely providential
and appropriate, because it was not at all obvious that the blood of Saint
Peter, first Vicar of Christ, would end up at the very center of Catholicity.
The blood of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and uncounted Catholic martyrs of Rome,
many of whom we remember daily in the Canon of the Mass, was spilled by pagans
and in defense of paganism. Nothing could be further from the lesson of Our
Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles than the worship of idols. Quite the
opposite: from Germany to the Baltic, from Canada to the Amazon, from Africa to
the Philippines, Catholic missionaries worked, suffered, and died to end the
worship of pagan idols: "the things which the heathens sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God."
How shocked would Saint Peter be
if he knew that on that very same ground made blessed through his sacrifice a
future bishop of Rome would bring pagan abomination. It happened today, as
merely the first salvo of the "Synod for the Amazon", a gathering
that nobody asked for, and made up by the bishops of the most liberal parts of
Europe, with the help of some demonic bishops from South America, to reach some
preordained objectives: the ordination of married men, if possible, and the
normalization of the current version of secularized paganism, a mix of
earth-worship and Rousseaian myths on the indigenous
peoples of the Amazon river basin.
On the one hand, there is the
ridiculousness of it all: Francis is, above all, or below it all, a ridiculous
and pathetic man. Ridiculous men are made more ridiculous when they occupy
august offices: Francis seems to fancy causing scandal, and this is just the
latest example. On the other, while they claim they "respect" indigenous
people, nothing could be more disrespectful than this: these poor natives are
brought across the Atlantic to be used as puppets of evil liberal men.
These men could not care less
about the natives, and certainly not about their souls (we would be shocked if
they actually believed in the existence of souls at all): they have used the
indigenous, use them now, and will use them as long as possible as mere
marionettes to carry out their evil designs.
But, "be not deceived, God is
not mocked." (Galatians 6:7)
Rorate Caeli
Fifteen Promises for Praying the Most Holy
Rosary
1) Whoever
shall faithfully serve Me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal
graces.
2) I
promise My special protection and the greatest graces to all who shall recite the
Rosary.
3) The
Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell. It will destroy vice, decrease
sin, and defeat heresies. (Actually, were that the only promise, we should pray
it for that reason. Because what have we in our world today? We are surrounded
by, wherever we are in the world, vice, sin and heresy.)
4) It
will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the
abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the
world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh,
that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5) The
soul which recommends itself to Me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not
perish.
6) Whoever
shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its
Sacred Mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise
him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided
death. If he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of
eternal life.
7) Whoever shall have a true devotion for the
Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8) Those
who are faithful in reciting the Rosary shall have during their life and at
their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces. At the moment of
death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.
9) I
shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10) The
faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in
Heaven.
11) You shall
obtain all you ask of Me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12) All those
who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.
13) I have
obtained from My Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for
intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of
death.
14) All who
recite the Rosary are My sons, and brothers of My only Son, Jesus Christ.
15) Devotion
to My Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Obedience
is governed by the virtue of Religion, which is itself perfected by the Gift of
Piety
Incited by that profound cry of “Father!” (Gal. 4, 6) which the Holy
Ghost repeats within us, we rise toward heaven, longing to win God’s heart and
to behave in all things as His true children…. This is how the gift of piety
helps virtue of justice as well as the virtue of religion…..If we aspire to
live in close union with God, it is right for us to desire and pray for the
gift of piety. Under its influence our
prayer will become more affectionate, more filial, and we shall attend with
greater facility to all that concerns divine worship. Let us ask for this gift, especially when we
seem to be very dry and cold, so that in time of trial and interior suffering by
its help we shall go to God as a child to its Father. Furthermore, our diligent, constant
application to prayer, notwithstanding the lack of sensible devotion, is one of
the best dispositions for bringing us the life-giving breath of the gift of
piety.
Rev. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy
“The Catholic Church…. Demands”?
The Catholic Church
firmly advocates that due recognition be given to the public dimension of
religious adherence. In an overwhelmingly pluralist society, this demand is not
unimportant. Care must be taken to guarantee that others are always treated
with respect. Mutual respect grows only on the basis of agreement on certain
inalienable values that are proper to human nature, in particular the
inviolable dignity of every single person. Such agreement does not limit the
expression of individual religions; on the contrary, it allows each person to
bear witness explicitly to what he believes, not avoiding comparison with
others.
Pope Benedict XVI to
the Muslims in Germany
COMMENT: Rights are derived from duties.
God has imposed no duty to worship false gods. So how is it that the “Catholic Church firmly
advocates” and “demands” that “due recognition be given to the public dimension
of religious adherence” to false gods?
How does it follow that treating one “with respect… allows each person
to bear witness explicitly to what he believes”?
Pope
Francis, in corrupting the Sacrament of Matrimony, has perpetrated a terrible
injustice to countless Catholics!
Many Catholic families had hoped that the Synod on the
Family would address the serious problem of the divorce epidemic and its
long-term damage to youth, innocent spouses, the sacrament of marriage, the
culture, and the Church. (It did not!) The divorce plague has inflicted
severe pain upon Catholic families worldwide. Married couples need to be encouraged by the Church not
to give up on their marriages during stressful, unhappy times, and to persevere
in loyalty to their marital vows. [.....] Over the past forty years, I
have never worked with a Catholic marriage in which both spouses wanted a
divorce. In the majority of marriages under stress, one spouse remains happy
with the marriage, believes the conflicts can be resolved and is loyal to the
sacramental bond.
The spouses who are not happy and who want to pursue
divorce and a decision of nullity most often refuse to address their own
weaknesses. Instead, they portray themselves as victims of insensitive
treatment or emotional abuse.[......]
The majority of spouses who pursue divorce — in our
experience with several thousand couples — have never worked on these issues.
This explains, in part, why the national survey of divorced men and women,
conducted by the Office of Survey Research at the University of Texas at
Austin, found the honest response that only one in three divorced spouses
claimed that both they and their ex-spouses worked hard enough to try to save
their marriage. There is reason to be hopeful about the resolution of marital
difficulties. In a major study from the University of Chicago among spouses who
rated their marriages as very unhappy, 86 percent of those who persevered
reported themselves as happily married five years later.
One grave danger to Catholic marriages and families from
the changes made in canon law made by the Holy Father (without a careful study
by a commission of experts) is that spouses will not be motivated to engage in
the hard work of addressing personal psychological and spiritual weaknesses.
Instead, they will pursue divorce and with a belief that they are entitled to a
decision of nullity if they can meet the criteria cited, including the new one,
“etcetera.”
With all due respect, the determination of nullity by
only one priest or by a bishop after 30 to 45 days, is seriously flawed because
they lack the proper mental health training to uncover and evaluate the
numerous complex psychological conflicts that lead to a decision for divorce.
This new process is a grave injustice and, therefore, a manifestation of a
severe lack of mercy towards the sacrament of marriage, innocent spouses,
children, and Catholic families.
In his closing talk at the Synod, the Holy Father
criticized bishops and priests, whom he claimed hide behind rigid doctrines and
ignore wounded families. In fact, his radical change in canon law in regard to
annulments, made prior to the Synod, will weaken and harm Catholic marriages
and families. [.....]
Rick Fitzgibbons, Psychological Science and the Evaluation of Nullity,
published by “The Catholic Thing”
SCHISM
Pope Could
Soon Say ‘I Do’ to Married Priests–and Open a Schism
A group of
hand-picked clerics meeting in Rome next week about the ecumenical needs of the
Amazon could change the entire Catholic Church forever.
Barbie Latza Nadeau | Correspondent-At-Large | September 29, 2019
ROME–In October 2017, when Pope Francis announced a Vatican synod
on the Amazon region “to identify new paths for the evangelization of God’s
people in that region,” few people beyond those who had to attend marked it on
their calendars. But over the course of the last two years, as the church
prepared for the synod, which will run from Oct. 6 to 27 in Rome, it’s become
clear there may be no more important meeting in Francis’ entire papacy.
One item among the 146 topics on the agenda listed in the
45-page working document has eclipsed all others–including the pope’s focus on
climate change and poverty. That is whether or not to allow married “viri probati”–men of proven
virtue–to be ordained as priests for the purpose of delivering the big
sacraments: baptism, confession, weddings and funerals, in far flung areas
where no priests are present.
Bishop Rafael Cob, apostolic vicar
of Puyo, Ecuador, who will be attending the synod in
Rome, said that the Church must “respond to a concrete challenge in a concrete
reality.”
“The Amazon is a geographically
difficult region to evangelize, first because of its distance, its
inaccessibility,” he told reporters at a press conference in Rome. “But there also is a lack of
candidates who can or want to be priests with the issue of celibacy. So,
logically, the Church is looking for new methods to respond to concrete
challenges.”
But a phalanx of conservative
Catholic clerics, led by American Cardinal Raymond Burke and a host of other
traditionalists, are ready to demand the resignation of the pope if he signs
off on such heretical matters. By allowing married men to become priests in
remote areas, they fear, the church could pave the way to the abolition of
celibacy. Their slippery slope concern is that next, ordained priests will be
able to marry. Then, God knows what could happen, maybe even women would be
allowed into the priesthood.
German Cardinal Gerhard Müller of Germany is vehement: he doesn’t even want the
topic brought up and has condemned the synod working document. He says it has
“triggered fears of a pending change to Church doctrine.” He warns that it
could actually cause a schism, leaving conservatives with no choice but to
leave the church under Francis.
Müller
says the Amazon working document “lacks theological reflection” and creates
“great confusion” for Catholics. He says that it puts the focus on “human ideas
to save the world” rather than Jesus.
The great schisms of the Catholic
Church have been few and far between, but hugely momentous. The most
significant is the so-called East-West schism that divided Christendom into the
Western Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox branch. The Eastern Orthodox
church, for the record, does allow married priests. The Eastern Catholic church
as well as the Latin rite church also allows married men to be ordained as
priests while still being recognized in Rome.
Francis, as his papacy has proven,
believes humans should have a say in all matters relating to, well, humans.
Still, even as he entertains the idea that married devout Catholic men could be
ordained to deliver the sacraments, Pope Francis has been clear that he is not
willing to bend on celibacy, per se. On a recent papal voyage, he told
journalists that he “would rather give his life” than reverse the celibacy rule
which, for the record, is a rule he could easily change.
“If the bishops agreed through
mutual consent to ordain married men–those called viri
probati – it’s my judgment that the pope would accept
it,” German Cardinal Walter Kasper, one of Francis’ closest theological allies,
told Crux, a Catholic news site, recently. “Celibacy isn’t a dogma, it’s not an
unalterable practice.”
On his way back from Africa in
early September, Francis told reporters that he did not fear a divided church,
which has led many to question whether in some small way he would like the
conservatives to leave. "I pray that there will not be schisms,” he told
reporters on board the papal plane. “But I am not afraid.”
Maybe he is banking on the theory
that elderly married viri probati
won’t have a huge issue with the matter. After all, early on in his papacy he
compared Europe to an ageing women, who he described as a “grandmother, no
longer fertile and vibrant.” Perhaps he is sure that a man of virtue won’t sin
for the sake of sexual satisfaction after a certain age.
On the face of it, the issue seems
rather banal. At the moment, many of the 2.8 million mostly Catholic people who
live in the Amazon region, which skirts Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,
French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela and Suriname, don't have access to
ordained priests. If they want to baptize newborns or bury their dead they have
either to wait until a traveling priest shows up, which could be once a month
or longer in some cases, or travel for miles to see the closest one which, as
one can imagine, is almost as difficult with a newborn as it would be with a
corpse.
Weddings are often scheduled to
happen one after another when the priest will be in town, but things like last
rites are impossible to administer and vitally important to devout Catholics
who believe they must be anointed at death to rise to Heaven. Nuns are aplenty
in the area and while they have done much of the heavy lifting like reading the
Sunday liturgy in lieu of mass, they just don't have the power that deacons and
priests have because of their gender.
The Catholic bishops in the Amazon
region have long insisted that there are two options to deliver the faith to
the faithful. First, the Catholic Church could give the nuns more power, but
opening that door seems one that Rome doesn’t want to go anywhere near for fear
that the precedent might spark a global stampede. Francis has, in fact, slammed
the door on that a number of times.
So they are left with the option
of ordaining married men who qualify as viri probati and giving them full powers to conduct priestly
duties. The synod’s working document clearly suggests studying “the possibility
of priestly ordination for elders, preferably Indigenous, respected and accepted
by the community, even if they have an established and stable family.”
And Francis has stacked the synod
deck of voting clerics to include the bulk from that region and the rest from
his advisory group, including three Americans who are often classified as
liberal, including Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Cardinal Sean
O’Malley of Boston, who is one of his closest advisers, and Bishop Robert
McElroy of San Diego. Francis has also invited 12 “special” guests to weigh in,
inducing former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
to deliver a talk on a yet undefined topic.
The pope’s trusted adviser
Cardinal Kaspar says he hopes the pope does sign off
on ordaining married men in certain situations. “Personally, I’m very much in
favor of maintaining celibacy as an obligatory way of life with a commitment to
the cause of Jesus Christ,” Kaspar said. “But this
doesn’t exclude that a married man can carry a priestly service in special
situations.”
What
about faithful Catholics defending traditions who have been cast to the
"existential peripheries" and are "victims of the throwaway
culture" of Novus Ordoism?
Pope Francis:
God Has a ‘Particular Concern for Foreigners’
BREITBART
Pope Francis celebrated the World
Day of Migrants and Refugees in the Vatican Sunday, insisting on the “moral
duty” to welcome the stranger with the compassion exhibited by God himself. The
Lord “upholds the stranger as well as the widow and the orphan among his
people,” the pope said in his homily at morning Mass in St. Peter’s Square.
“The Lord has a particular concern for foreigners, widows and orphans, for they
are without rights, excluded and marginalized. This is why God tells the
Israelites to give them special care.” Citing the biblical book of Exodus,
Francis said that the God of Israel is the one who “executes justice for the
fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and
clothing.” “This loving care for the less privileged is presented as a
characteristic trait of the God of Israel and is likewise required, as a moral
duty, of all those who would belong to his people,” he said. Yet this message “is not only
about foreigners; it is about all those in existential peripheries who,
together with migrants and refugees, are victims of the throwaway culture,” the
pope clarified.
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to known
what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire (that is, to
love), and to know what he ought to do."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good
(that which we love) is found by going to the thing, whereas the true (that
which we known) is found when the thing comes to us."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others
contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as
outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without
good."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every
preacher and of each believer."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"Man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
St. Thomas Aquinas
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of
perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of
imperfection and even of actual sin."
St. Thomas Aquinas
COMMENT: There is no etymological or
historical opposition between proselytism and evangelization. A proselyte is a new convert. Historically it refers to a new religious
convert but can be used in a broader sense. To proselytize is to make a new
convert. The New Testament specifically
calls one of the Church's first deacons, Nicolas, a "proselyte from
Antioch" (ACTS 6:5). The Greek word
from which proselyte is derived refers to a "stranger, or alien
resident." Evangelism is the
"winning or revival of personal commitments to Jesus Christ."
Evangelism refers to the Gospel, or Good News.
Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John who wrote the Gospels are called
"evangelists." On the first
Pentecost, St. Peter preached to the Jews in Jerusalem (ACTS 2) the "Good
News" of Jesus Christ, and from this first evangelization, "they that
received his word, were baptized, and there were added in that day about three
thousand souls," that is, "three thousand" proselytes. To create an opposition between
evangelization and proselytism is to affirm that the Good News, the Gospel
message, does not impose any doctrinal or moral imperative that requires conversion
for salvation. It affirms that modern
error that the personal dignity of every man is so great that he is free to
reject the truth that God has revealed and free to disobey with impunity God's
moral law. It denies the fundamental
truth that everyone born in original sin is an enemy of God until he professes
his belief in the revealed truths of God and receives the sacrament of baptism
which removes the stain of original sin and makes one a child of God, a temple
of the Holy Ghost, a member of the Church, and an heir to heaven. Anyone who creates an opposition between
evangelization and proselytism, as Pope Francis does, is an enemy of God, of
the Gospel message, and of all mankind.
Pope Francis claims that
proselytism destroys freedom. No
kidding! Any and every choice made by
any and everyone necessarily limits freedom.
If a woman chooses to marry and be the mother of children, she
necessarily is no longer free to become religious nun. Freedom
is not an end in itself but a means to obtain the end for which we have been
created by God. Those that make
freedom an end in itself make no choices and live meaningless lives and are
aliens to grace and the friendship of God.
Here we see Pope Francis introduced to a Catholic evangelist and her two
proselytes, and from this, he is filled with "bitterness." This bitterness is typified in the Gospels by
the Pharisees as they recoil against the preaching, the miracles, and the
person of Jesus Christ. This bitterness
engenders their murderous conspiracy to bring about the passion and death of
Jesus. Francis cannot direct his
resentment against Jesus Christ so he directs his bitterness against the true
faithful, the evangelist who rejoices in the winning of souls to Jesus
Christ. Pope Francis is an enemy of
Jesus Christ. He is like the high priest
Caiaphas and in the end will merit the same reward.
Proselytism
vs. Evangelization
Pope Francis
says he felt ‘bitterness’ when introduced to Catholic converts in Africa
LifeSiteNews | VATICAN CITY | September 27,
2019 ― In a question-and-answer session with Jesuits in Mozambique,
Pope Francis underscored his dislike of “proselytization”
by condemning the actions of a Catholic woman he had met that day.
The Argentinian
pontiff’s September 5 remarks were published yesterday in the Holy See’s news
website Vatican News.
“Today I felt a certain bitterness after a meeting with
young people,” Pope Francis told the assembled Jesuits.
“A woman approached me with a young man and a young
woman. I was told they were part of a slightly fundamentalist movement,” he continued.
“She said to me in perfect Spanish: ‘Your Holiness, I am
from South Africa. This boy was a Hindu and converted to Catholicism. This girl
was Anglican and converted to Catholicism.’ But she told me in a triumphant
way, as though she was showing off a hunting trophy. I felt uncomfortable and
said to her, ‘Madam, evangelization yes, proselytism no.’”
Pope Francis seemed to believe
that the young people had been coerced in some way, for he told his listeners
that whereas “evangelization
is free,” “proselytism … makes you lose your freedom.”
“Proselytism is incapable of creating a religious path in
freedom,” he said.
“It always sees people being subjugated in one way or
another. In evangelization the protagonist is God, in proselytism it is the I.”
Pope Francis continued by saying that there were “many
forms of proselytism’ and that “the one practiced by soccer teams, acquiring
fans, is all right, obviously!”
“And then it is clear that there are those forms of
proselytism for commerce and business, for political parties,” he added.
“Proselytism is widespread, we know that. But it doesn’t
have to be the case with us. We must evangelize, which is very different from
proselytizing.”
The pontiff repeated the old story about St. Francis
telling his friars to evangelize and “if necessary, use words,
too.”
“Evangelization is essentially witness,” Francis
continued.
“Proselytizing is convincing, but it is all about
membership and takes your freedom away.”
He cited an address Benedict XVI
gave at the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil
during his visit in 2017. The German pontiff had said that the Church does not
engage in proselytism.
“Instead, she grows by
‘attraction’: just as Christ ‘draws all to himself’ by the power of his
love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfils her
mission to the extent that, in union with Christ, she accomplishes every one of
her works in spiritual and practical imitation of the love of her Lord,”
Benedict continued.
Catholics expressed their dismay
about Francis’ rejection of the South African lady on social media. British
Father Evan Julce contrasted Pope Francis’ approached
with that of St. Padre Pio when an enthusiastic lady
addressed him.
“A woman excitedly told Padre Pio that there was a prophecy that a Franciscan would
convert 1/3 of the world,” Julce recalled over
Twitter.
“The saintly Padre responded:
‘what would I want with only 1/3? I want everyone to come to Christ,’” he
continued.
“He didn’t spurn her. Her spurred
her (and himself) to work more.”
A Twitter user named Heather
replied, “I feel so sad for this lady. She was probably just so excited for the
Pope to meet her convert friends.”
Pope’s
proposal for ‘new humanism’ would ‘wipe out Christianity’: Mother Miriam
LifeSiteNews | September 25, 2019 — News of the pope’s just-launched “Global
Pact” for “new humanism” has “to do with ruining our 
society,
ruining our culture, and destroying the family,” Mother Miriam said on her live
show Monday.
On September 12, the Vatican issued
a statement inviting religious, humanitarian, and international leaders, and
leading politicians, academics, scientists, and athletes, to sign a “Global
Pact on Education.”
On her Monday show, Mother Miriam
read and reflected on a LifeSiteNews article about
it.
“We did not awake this morning to
glorious news, and it all has to do with ruining our society, ruining our
culture, and destroying the family,” she said.
The goal of the “Global Pact on
Education” is to hand “on to younger generations a united and fraternal common
home.” Mother told listeners this is the “common home of the devil. There is no
common home we have but Heaven and Christianity on Earth this side of Heaven.
We have no common home other than that.”
According to a Vatican site
promoting the pact, “Pope Francis has invited everyone who cares about the
education of the young generation to sign a Global Pact, to create a global
change of mentality through education.”
“Beloved, that is what the
communists set out to do well over a hundred years ago,” Mother responded. “The
evil has entered into the Church, and it has been bought by the very pope
himself and the hierarchy.”
Mother reminded listeners that we
are called to be stewards of God’s creation and to educate our children.
Over the last few weeks, Mother’s
shows have focused on the duty of parents to educate their children. She has
called on parents to pull their children out of public schools to protect them
from gender ideology and graphic sex education. Mother has advocated bringing children
home and not passing off their primary duty of educating their children to
others. The pope is proposing nearly the opposite.
“This [the Global Education
Pact],” the pope said, “will result in men and women who are open, responsible,
prepared to listen, dialogue and reflect with others, and capable of weaving
relationships with families, between generations, and with civil society, and
thus to create a new humanism.”
Mother called the pope’s
initiative to globalize education “demonic.” [.....]
The
U.N., founded Communists, is now the great promoter of worldwide Abortion and
Contraception. Obey?
“When we acknowledge international organizations and we recognize their
capacity to give judgment, on a global scale—for example the international
tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations—If we consider ourselves humanity,
when they make statements, our duty is to obey … We must obey international
institutions. That is why the United Nations were created.”
Pope Francis, September 10, 2019, press conference on route to Rome
from Madagascar
Pope
Francis has all clinical symptoms and signs of debilitating 'Pernicious
Logorrhea'!?
Question: Does this mean that faithful
Catholics will no longer be labeled with such adjectives as "rigid,"
"self-absorbed," "promethean," neo-pelegian,"
"intransigent," "narcissistic," "authoritarian,"
"elitist," "adulterated" Christians by Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium,
#94)?
Answer: Probably not. After all, Pope
Francis' directive is only applied to his enemies and never to himself. This
new idea of Pope Francis is manifestly (adverb) stupid (adjective) which, in a self-explanatory way, shows why he
would like those who know him well to drop all adverbs and adjectives.
Nouns are more
Christian? Pope Francis says he’s ‘allergic’ to adjectives
RT
| World News | Sep 25, 2019
Traditionally, the head of the
Roman Catholic Church uses his pulpit to speak out against calamities such as
war and hunger. But Pope Francis has taken aim at a less conspicuous enemy of humanity:
The dreaded adjective.
In a speech to the Vatican
communications team, Francis lectured about the sinful overuse of adjectives,
stating that he is “allergic” to them.
“We have fallen into the culture
of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns… Why say
authentically Christian? It is Christian!” he opined, while acknowledging that
the word ‘Christian’ often acts as an adjective.
He called on the Vatican’s PR
gurus to “communicate with reality, without sweetening with adjectives or
adverbs,” explaining that “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself,
without strawberries on the cake.”
“Let us learn to call people by
their name, as the Lord does with us, and to give up using adjectives.”— Pope
Francis (@Pontifex 9-24-19)
The group, which runs the Pope’s
social media accounts, later published a tweet urging Christians to abandon the
temptation of using adjectives.
The unorthodox sermonizing received mixed reviews on Twitter, with some
applauding the directive as long overdue, while others expressed confusion over
why the Pontiff was bothering with such matters.
Pope Francis lays the groundwork to overturn Humanae Vitae
“The welfare of the family is decisive for the future of the world and
that of the Church… The anthropological-cultural change, which today affects
all aspects of life and requires an analytical and diversified approach, does
not allow us to limit ourselves to pastoral and missionary practices that
reflect forms and models of the past. We must be conscious and passionate
interpreters of the wisdom of faith in a context in which individuals are less
sustained than in the past by social structures, in their affective and family
life. In the clear purpose of remaining faithful to the teaching of Christ,
we must look with the intellect of love and with wisdom of realism to the
reality of the family today, in all its complexity, in its lights and in its
shadows.”
Pope Francis, in his Motu Proprio,
Summa Familiae Cura, referencing his own document which overturned all
Catholic morality, Amoris Laetitia
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