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| A Reminder: Bishop Fellay in 2017 - Major Collaborations with Rome |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-14-2022, 07:20 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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From gloria.tv [adapted - emphasis mine]:
VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP FELLAY: POPE FRANCIS ADVANCES THE WORK OF SSPX
IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW LINKED BELOW, BISHOP FELLAY EXPLAINS THE SSPX's RELATIONS WITH POPE FRANCIS AND ROME, and HOW THESE RELATIONS HAVE PRODUCED MAJOR COLLABORATIVE OUTCOMES and RECOGNITION FOR SSPX:
1) MARRIAGES: After 10 years of discussions with Rome concerning the Sacrament of Matrimony and the Catholic Church's jurisdiction over same, Bishop Fellay and Pope Francis concluded that the best arrangement for SSPX Marriages was for the Local Ordinaries to delegate the Faculties for Marriage directly to SSPX Priests and that SSPX Priests may offer the Nuptial Masses. A Diocesan Priest is present as a witness of the Vows for the local jurisdiction in which the marriage takes place; while the Marriages are recorded with SSPX.
2) LOCAL ORDINARIES: Bishop Fellay asked Pope Francis what should be done if a Local Ordinary refuses to collaborate with SSPX in this manner concerning Marriages. Pope Francis replied: "Then I will do it!" [provide the delegation]
3) SSPX ORDINATIONS: Bishop Fellay also explained that in 2016, he received a letter from Rome stating: "You can freely ordain your Priests without permission of the Local Ordinary."
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| Abp. Viganò: Pope Francis has displayed ‘unequalled duplicity’ in his treatment of Cardinal Zen |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-14-2022, 06:42 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò: Pope Francis has displayed ‘unequalled duplicity’ in his treatment of Cardinal Zen
'The poisoned fruits of the Sino-Vatican Agreement are now apparent.'
Cdl. Joseph Zen in Hong Kong, China, Aug. 18, 2018.
Fri May 13, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) – On Wednesday it was announced that Cardinal Joseph Zen had been arrested by the authorities in Hong Kong. The investigation and arrest was made by the special police section set up by the government of Beijing to watch over Chinese national security, that is, to suppress any form of dissent or protest over the violations of human rights committed by the Chinese dictatorship.
The elderly Cardinal – who in the past has expressed strong criticism of the secret agreement signed between the Chinese regime and the Holy See – was interrogated and then released on bail. His passport was also confiscated. What has happened is a very grave violation of the freedoms and rights enjoyed by every human person, all the more deplorable in the case of a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. The Vatican Press Office, with obvious embarrassment, limited itself to expressing “concern” without making any formal protest to the Beijing government. Only a few days earlier, ten other priests of the Baoding community, who belong to the clandestine Church, were abducted and sent to forced “re-education” by the Chinese Communist Party because they were unwilling to join the patriotic sect, adding to the list of abuses and oppression against Catholics who are faithful to the underground Church.
The poisoned fruits of the Sino-Vatican Agreement are now apparent. The Bergoglian church prefers to remain silent about the persecution of Catholics who belong to the clandestine Church after having handed them over to retaliations at the hands of the patriotic sect and the Chinese Communist Party. In exchange, Beijing rewards the Holy See for its services with substantial annual funding: the mercenaries allow themselves to be bought with thirty pieces of silver that are dripping with the blood of the martyrs of the Church of silence.
In September 2020, on the eve of the renewal of that infamous agreement, Cardinal Zen came to Rome to meet Bergoglio, who humiliated him with an indignant refusal to meet with him because of the Chinese Cardinal’s well-known position on the Sino-Vatican Agreement and its repeated violations. This affront against a Prince of the Church gave a clear signal to the Chinese dictatorship, which then felt free to act without fearing consequences or that the Vatican would take a position. The tenant of the Vatican, however, finds time to receive high-ranking representatives of the New World Order, representatives of globalism and usurious finance, dictators and war criminals, and even the wives of the soldiers fighting in the neo-Nazi Azov battalion, which in the past few days used civilians as human shields during the Russian siege of the Azovstal steel plant. Someone pointed out that the Russian-Canadian activist Pyotr Verzilov accompanied two Ukrainian wives to the papal audience: he is the founder and spokesman of the feminist group Pussy Riot, known for carrying out profanations and sacrileges against Orthodox churches in Russia, following the model of Femen in the West. It leaves us disconcerted that the representative of an anti-Christian movement that has made blasphemy the heart of its subversive action has been admitted to an audience at the Vatican.
This attitude of unequalled duplicity, that is anything but ambiguous, shows how Bergoglio’s deep church is totally aligned not only with the psycho-pandemic narrative but also with the insane management of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis by the deep state. Cardinal Zen is added to the dubia Cardinals in the list of those to whom Bergoglio has never responded to or received in audience, even as he has personally handwritten a letter of support to James Martin, S.J. With that umpteenth endorsement, Bergoglio confirms that he intends to normalize the pan-sexualism of the infamous LGBTQ ideology within the Catholic Church, and along with it the consequent eternal perdition of many souls.
The wisdom and prudence of Vatican diplomacy, a precious legacy of centuries of experience that was once admired by all the chanceries of the world, is today under the guidance of Pietro Parolin but a distant memory: courtly interests, economic profits, and criminal connivances all shamelessly prevail right before the eyes of both God and men. The faithful look on scandalized at the transformation of the Holy See into a den of thieves (Lk 19:46).
I exhort my brother bishops and priests as well as faithful laity to support His Eminence with prayer, expressing your closeness and solidarity with him at this difficult time. May the trials to which Cardinal Zen is being subjected merit from Heaven that reward which the Lord has promised to those who serve the Holy Church with fidelity and who remain steadfast in the Faith, without allowing themselves to be contaminated by the spirit of the world.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
13 May 2022
Anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima
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| Abp. Viganò: Roe v. Wade leak was Deep State ‘propaganda operation’ to ‘radicalize’ abortion debate |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-13-2022, 09:38 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò: Roe v. Wade leak was Deep State ‘propaganda operation’ to ‘radicalize’ abortion debate, influence justices
‘The embarrassing silence of the Hierarchy’ on ‘Catholic’ politicians like Joe Biden who support abortion, said Archbishop Viganò, ‘reveals itself as a confirmation of the sense of inferiority of those who ought to be wisely leading the people entrusted to their care, but who instead are following them off the edge of a cliff along with the politicians whom the bishops supported in the last electoral campaign.’
Thu May 12, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) – In recent days, the media has leaked the news that, according to a draft obtained from the Supreme Court of the United States, the justices of the Court are about to declare that the Roe v. Wade decision of January 22, 1973, is unconstitutional and must be overruled.
First of all, a widespread misunderstanding needs to be clarified: this potential decision of the Supreme Court does not address the moral legitimacy of abortion, but rather whether the 1973 decision conforms to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the sovereignty of the individual states. It is not therefore addressing an ethical or moral question with regard to the legitimacy of abortion, but rather a question of jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under the Constitution.
The vulnus [wound] that the Roe v. Wade decision inflicted on the sovereignty of the states of the Union is a constitutional matter, and the justices will have to make a ruling on it as such.
It is significant that this aspect of the decision has been deliberately not spoken about by the media, emphasizing instead the specific content of the decision and making it an ideological banner. It is also clear that this propaganda operation, maliciously conducted by the Deep State, has the purpose of radicalizing the debate that the news will stir up in public opinion, with the intention of influencing the motivations of the decision, which has yet to be finalized by the justices. It does not escape anyone’s notice that the premature leak of the draft of the decision has provoked violent protest demonstrations organized by pro-abortion groups and Antifa, while at the same time scandalous provocations and sacrilegious attacks on Catholic churches during services are multiplying. The courageous witness of the Catholic laity ought to be encouraged and supported by the Shepherds of the Church, precisely in the name of that freedom of worship and preaching that is an inalienable right of the Church of Christ, as well as an inalienable constitutional right of all Americans under the First Amendment.
Thus, while Americans have yet to fully comprehend the scandals that are emerging about the criminal management of the pseudo-pandemic and the imposition of an experimental treatment that irreversibly modifies the human genome with still unknown long-term damage and serious side effects that have been culpably concealed by pharmaceutical multinationals and control agencies; while Special Counsel John Durham is preparing to conclude the investigation into Russiagate which will soon see Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden – whose accomplices include members of the highest levels of the Italian government at the time – investigated for their role in the suppression of Trump’s presidential campaign (and hopefully condemned for high treason and attacking the institutions of government); while Joe Biden desperately seeks to cover up the cases of corruption involving his son Hunter in Ukraine, which disturbingly include his involvement in the biolaboratories located there in which research on the “gain of function” was carried out on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, altering its pathogenesis and its transmissibility; while the White House desperately seeks to blame the problems in the U.S. economy of inflation and the rising price of raw materials on the Russian-Ukrainian crisis; while NATO acts as an arms salesman in the service of the American lobby and tries to impede the peace negotiations between Putin and Zelensky at all costs – behold, the operation is ready with which to distract public opinion and radicalize the clash between pro-life and “pro-choice,” after having successfully experimented with the same method of mass manipulation during the pandemic farce and even earlier with the George Floyd case and the exasperation provoked by the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
If the Supreme Court is to be reproached for anything, it is for having wanted to impose legalized abortion on the states of the Union in 1973, even where it was rightly prohibited: this abuse of power was tolerated because it was cloaked in the ideological prejudice of the Democratic Party that gave rise to a massacre of the innocents that cries out to Heaven for justice. The Roe v. Wade decision was an operation of deliberate partiality that violated not only the natural law and the law of God but also the very principles enshrined in the United States Constitution. If the justices are to heal this vulnus, they will limit themselves to applying the law that they have sworn to defend, something which their predecessors fifty years ago either did not know how to do or did not wish to.
And if it is true that on May 11 the United States Senate demonstrated that it is not aligned with the proponents of abortion (by its vote to block the “Women’s Health Protection Act”), one cannot fail to notice the scandal given by self-styled “Catholic” politicians, first of all Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, who trample down without scruples the morality that instead they ought to commit themselves to defending in the social and legislative sphere.
The Holy See and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ought to reaffirm, along with a firm condemnation of abortion, that American Catholics cannot and must not vote for elected representatives whose positions are not consistent with the Magisterium of the Church, and who as such are excommunicated. The embarrassing silence of the Hierarchy reveals itself as a confirmation of the sense of inferiority of those who ought to be wisely leading the people entrusted to their care, who instead are following them off the edge of a cliff along with the politicians whom the bishops supported in the last electoral campaign. Hearing Joe Biden advocate for abortion as a “fundamental right” – disguised under the hypocritical euphemism of “women’s health protection” – proves the loss of any sense of the meaning of Catholic social commitment, for which not only the Hierarchy is responsible but also the entire system of Catholic education that looks to it for guidance. What sort of teaching is being given in Catholic high schools and universities if their graduates can declare that they support abortion without understanding its moral gravity? How can it be said that the killing of an innocent creature can be decided by the very mother who instead ought to protect the life of her child more than her own? Is this the “civilization” that Americans want to support and propagate? Are these the values that they want to pass on to future generations?
I am certain that Americans will not allow themselves either to be sidetracked by these operations of mass distraction or to be provoked by the pro-abortion protests that have been deliberately incited in order to foment clashes and violent reactions. Let us not forget that those who propagandize the killing of children are equally supportive of euthanasia, LGBTQ ideology, gender theory, the Great Reset, the pandemic farce, and the use of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis to weaken the nations of Europe and cover up the crimes of the Deep State.
Let us pray therefore that She whom we venerate as Sede Sapientiæ, the Seat of Wisdom, may illumine the minds of the justices of the Supreme Court and inspire them with a sense of justice so that they may recognize the sacredness and inviolability of the life of the unborn child. And may the Woman foretold in Genesis crush the head of the Serpent who is the first inspirer of the horrendous crime of abortion.
May 12, 2022
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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| Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - May 2022 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-12-2022, 12:33 PM - Forum: Sorrowful Heart of Mary
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Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC
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May 2022
Dear Faithful battling in the Trenches!
April was absorbed in the magnificence of Holy Week and Paschaltide, and may the graces of this Easter time fill your souls with joy and hope in Christ the King, Who conquered death, Satan and the chains of sin! “The Good Shepherd, Who laid down His life for His sheep, has Risen again, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!” (Matins antiphon, Easter).
But April also marked a significant event that happened ten years ago in 2012, which cannot be overlooked; the Vatican II Revolution within the Society of St. Pius X! This Revolution was embodied in the General Chapter Statement of July, 2012, the horrendous Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012, the Six Conditions for an Agreement with unconverted Rome and the Letter of Bishop Fellay in response to the three bishops in April 2012.
Since the Faith always comes first and we are obliged to believe and profess the Holy Catholic Faith “without which it is impossible to please God,” we are, consequently, obliged to publicly profess and defend the Faith when it is publicly compromised or attacked. The Truth must always be defended! This is what Our Lord did before Caiphas, this is what St. Sebastian did before Emperor Diocletian, this is what St. John Fisher did before the King, and this is what Abp. Marcel Lefebvre did before the Pope himself, in the wake of the Revolution of Vatican Council II!
After analyzing the Doctrinal Declaration, which has never been officially rejected, condemned or made void by the Society superiors, it is dumbfounding to observe that they, through this document, have officially accepted what Abp. Lefebvre and faithful Catholics have always fought against: the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass, and the New Code of Canon Law.
Here is a summary of the compromises of the Doctrinal Declaration:
In paragraph I, Bp. Fellay and leaders promise fidelity to “the Conciliar Church” and to the Pope, head of both the Catholic Church and Conciliar Church, at the same time.
In paragraph II, they accept submission to the teachings of the Conciliar and post-Conciliar “Magisterium”, according to the doctrine of no. 25 of Lumen Gentium.
In paragraph III, they accept all of the major points of controversy:- the collegial authority of the Pope and the bishops (i.e. a “two-headed Church” by collegiality!);
- the authority of the present “magisterium” and the “Conciliar Church” with all their errors;
- the “progress” of Tradition according to the neo-modernists;
- the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and the texts of Vatican II, in general, i.e. the “hermeneutics of continuity” of Pope Benedict XVI; the “hermeneutics of continuity” used as the criteria for interpreting between Tradition and Vatican II, on Ecumenism and Religious Liberty;
- postponing the doctrinal discussions until later;
- accepting the “validity” and “legitimacy” of the New Mass and sacraments; and
- acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law (1983) with no distinctions.
By signing this Doctrinal Declaration, Bp. Fellay and the superiors approving it made serious doctrinal compromises, crumbling down the bastions of Tradition and caving in on every point that was opposed by Abp. Lefebvre! Bp. Fellay confirmed his “new attitude towards Rome” when he signed this as his “new position with respect to the official Church,” as he said in his own words in the Cor Unum, no. 101 of March 2012.
Let us zero in, this time, on the New Code of Canon Law. As Pope John Paul II admitted, when he signed the New Code in 1983, this New Code is the Second Vatican Council put into practice! It puts all the Conciliar errors into “legal” language. Would it not be a contradiction to claim that one rejects the Council and at the same time accepts the very “legislation” that put the Conciliar errors in place? In this sense, the New Code can be more dangerous than the Council itself!
Here is what Abp. Lefebvre said numerous times about the perversity of the New Code:
- "So what are we supposed to think about this? Well, it’s that this [New] Canon Law is unacceptable.” (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 99B, March 14, 1983).
- “The New Code no longer asks a married Protestant / Catholic couple to sign a commitment to baptize the children Catholic. It is a serious violation of the Faith, a serious violation of the Faith!... In the New Code of Canon Law there are two supreme powers of the Church: there is the power of the Pope, who has the supreme power, and then the Pope with the bishops...that has never been seen in the Church...it is thus to limit the power of the Pope. So, the explanatory note [nota praevia] of the Council, practically, has no effect under the New Canon Law.” (Spiritual Conference given at Écône, 100A, May 20, 1983).
- “The Apostolic Constitution introducing the New Canon Law explicitly says on page 11 of the Vatican Edition: ‘The work, namely the Code, is in perfect accord with the nature of the Church, especially as been proposed by the Second Vatican Council. Moreover, this New Code can be conceived as an effort to expose this doctrine, i.e., Conciliar Ecclesiology, in canonical language.’ ...It is the authority of the Pope and the Bishops that is going to suffer; the distinction between the clergy and the laity will also diminish; the absolute and necessary character of the Catholic Faith will also be extenuated to the profit of heresy and schism; and the fundamental realities of sin and grace will be worn down.” (Letter to Friends & Benefactors, no. 24, March 1983).
- “However, when one reads this New Code of Canon Law one discovers an entirely new concept of the Church...This is the definition of the Church (New Code canon 204): ‘The faithful are those who, inasmuch as they are incorporated into Christ by baptism are constituted as the people of God, and who for this reason, having been made partakers in their manner in the priestly, prophetic and royal functions of Christ, are called to exercise the mission that God entrusted to the Church to accomplish in the world.’...There is no longer any clergy. What, then, happens to the clergy?...It is consequently easy to understand that this is the ruin of the priesthood and the laicization of the Church!...This is precisely what Luther and the Protestants did, laicizing the priesthood. It is consequently very grave...you know that the New Code of Canon Law [Canon 844] permits a priest to give Communion to a Protestant . It is what they call ‘Eucharistic hospitality.’ These are [given to] Protestants who remain Protestant and do not convert! This is directly opposed to the Faith!” (Conference at Turin, Italy March 24, 1984).
- “We find this doctrine already suggested in the Council document Lumen Gentium, according to which, the college of Bishops, together with the Pope, exercise supreme power in the Church in a habitual and constant manner. This is not a change for the better; this doctrine of double supremacy is contrary to the teaching and Magisterium of the Church. It is contrary to the definitions of Vatican Council I and to Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Satis Cognitum.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch.13, p.95).
- “Our cry of alarm was rendered more urgent by the errors in the New Code of Canon Law, not to say its heresies...” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, 1985, ch. 21, p. 150).
Therefore, by accepting the New Code of Canon Law as it is, with no distinctions as presented in the Doctrinal Declaration, the leaders of the Conciliar-SSPX implicitly accept all its errors and deviations concerning:
- a Protestant concept of the Church defined now as “the People of God”;
- two supreme universal powers in the Church (Christ established a monarchical
- structure for His Church, not democratic);
- the error of Collegiality at all levels;
- a laicization of the Church (i.e. more and more “active participation” of the laity);
- Ecumenical practices, such as giving Holy Communion to heretics, called
- “Eucharistic hospitality.”
- new causes for nullity of marriages;
- easy granting of annulments in Marriage Tribunals;
- new regulations in contracting marriages;
- suppression of the Major Order of Subdiaconate, minor orders (Porter, Lector,
- Exorcist and Acolyte) and tonsure;
- new “canonizations”;
- relaxing of disciplinary laws;
- etc., etc.
As it stands with the SSPX’s acceptance of the New Code of Canon Law as expressed in the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, this is one of the greatest practical obstacles for the Society in defending Tradition and fighting Conciliar errors. How well Abp. Lefebvre understood the wily deceits of Modernist Rome! This last quote is the Archbishop speaking about the religious communities that had surrendered to Vatican II, sadly this would now include the Conciliar-SSPX:
“When they say they didn’t compromise, it’s not true. They abandon the possibility of opposing Rome. They can’t say anything anymore. They must be silent, given the favors they have been granted. It is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the Conciliar Church. They are slowly adhering to them, if only by the Profession of Faith requested by Cardinal Ratzinger. I think Dom Gerard is about to publish a ‘little’ book written by one of his monks, trying to justify Religious Liberty [of the Council] (N.B: In fact, the book written by Fr. Basile of La Barroux took 2,960 pages to try to reconcile the irreconcilable!)...From the point of view of ideas, they change very slowly, and end up accepting the Council’s false ideas, because Rome had granted some favors for Tradition. This is a very dangerous situation. They have practically abandoned the fight for the Faith. They cannot attack Rome anymore!” (Abp. Marcel Lefebvre, Fideliter, 79, p. 5-6).
There is much talk that Fr. Pagliarani, the reigning Superior General, is steering things back to the old SSPX. His skirting the vac*#***#ion question as being exclusively “a medical and political issue,” when they do, in fact, directly involve abortions which are violently performed while the children are still alive(!), is not a good sign. Let him condemn the Doctrinal Declaration of April 5, 2012 in no uncertain terms and then,maybe, we can hold hopes of the Conciliar-SSPX finally dropping the “Conciliar” in the Conciliar-SSPX!
Persevere in the Catholic Resistance! Great will be your crown in Heaven if we persevere, and greater still, the shining bruises and scars, earned in this Battle for the Holy Faith! ...Fight on, little flock!
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
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| Archbishop Viganò on Liturgical Revolution and the Holy Week Reforms of Pius XII |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-12-2022, 06:30 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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NB: The rationale given below by Archbishop Viganò for returning to the pre-1955 Holy Week and encouraging the SSPX to do the same are the exact same reasons Fr. Hewko has expressed for using the pre-1955 Holy Week and Liturgy the last two years.
[Archbishop] Viganò on Liturgical Revolution and the Holy Week Reforms of Pius XII
Written by Carlo Maria Viganò
The Remnant Magazine [emphasis mine] | May 10, 2022
Dear Monsieur…,
Thank you for sending Abbé…'s question to me regarding the reform of Holy Week.
I agree with him that the reform can effectively be considered a sort of trial balloon with which the architects of the subsequent conciliar reform introduced an entire series of modifications – which in my opinion were entirely questionable and arbitrary – to the Ordo Majoris Hebdomadæ as it existed up until that time.
I would say in fact that this modification may have appeared almost harmless, albeit bizarre, because the mens that had given birth to them was not yet apparent either with the reform of John XXIII or with the much more devastating reform inaugurated by the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium and then further exasperated by the Consilium ad exsequendam; but that which for a parish priest in 1956 may have seemed like a simplification dictated by the exigencies of adapting the complexity of the rites of Holy Week to the rhythms of modernity – and that probably was presented as such to Pius XII himself, keeping its explosive significance hidden – acquires quite another sense from our perspective, since we see at work in it first of all the casual pruning mentality of the modernists and the students of the never-deprecated-enough rénouveau liturgique; and in the second place because we recognize in the decisions that were supposedly made to simplify the ceremonies the same ideological imposition of the most daring innovations of the Novus Ordo. Finally, the personalities who stand out in that reform include the protagonists of the conciliar reform, promoted to higher positions precisely because of their notorious aversion to the solemnity of worship: it is difficult to think that what they started between 1951 and 1955 was not conceived as a first step towards the upheavals brought to completion less than twenty years later.
Of course, the air one breathes in certain parts of the rite of Pius XII – I am thinking of the Pater Noster recited by the celebrant and the faithful, for example – is the same air that we find in the Novus Ordo: one perceives “something” foreign and unnatural, which is typical of works that are not inspired by the Lord and that are obviously human, imbued with a rationalism that has nothing truly liturgical about it but that reeks of gnostic presumption that Pius XII rightly condemned in the immortal encyclical Mediator Dei. It is astonishing that these same errors that were providentially condemned in 1947 succeeded in re-emerging in the very reform that Pius XII himself promulgated: let us not forget, however, that the Pontiff was at an advanced age and very physically and spiritually exhausted by the recent global conflict. Including Pius XII on the list of demolishers of the Tradition would be as unjust as it would be ungenerous.
Having said this, it remains to be assessed whether the same exceptions raised for the Novus Ordo Missae promulgated by Paul VI by the Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum of 3 April 1969 apply to the rite promulgated by Pius XII by the Decreee Maxima Redemptionis Nostræ Mysteria of 16 November 1955. Or better: given that the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum recognizes the right of Catholics to avail themselves of the preceding rite because of its ritual, doctrinal and spiritual specificity, and given that the Motu Proprio does not enter into the merit of an evaluation of the orthodoxy of the Novus Ordo but limits itself to a question of liturgical taste, so to speak, may we extend this principle to the rites preceding John XXIII’s Motu Proprio Rubricarum Instructum and Pius XII’s Decree Maxima Redemptionis Nostræ Mysteria, expressing our “preference” for the so-called rite of Saint Pius X?
This is actually a provocation. First of all, because I do not agree with the co-existence of two forms of the same rite in the Church of the Roman Rite. Secondly, because I consider the reformed rite to be gravely lacking and certainly favens haeresim, joining myself to the denunciation of Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci as well as that of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and I am convinced that the Novus Ordo should simply be abolished and prohibited and the traditional rite should be declared the only Roman Rite in force. It is only from this point of view that I believe that it is possible to canonically “challenge” the Ordo Hebdomadæ Sanctæ Instauratus and, if we wish to be meticulous, the Motu Proprio Rubricarum Instructum as well, above all because of the consistency of their tone with the Novus Ordo and their obvious rupture with the tone of the preceding Missale Romanum.
Now, given the vacatio legis in which we find ourselves, I believe that if the Fraternity of Saint Pius X considers it legitimate to refer to the Missal of John XXIII because it recognizes the same malicious mind in all of the subsequent reforms that led to the Missal of Paul VI, then for the same reason – mainly of a prudential nature – it could apply the same principle to the reform of Holy Week, even if in itself – because in the Missal of John XXIII there is nothing heterodox or even remotely inclined towards heresy.
This, I believe, was the reason that Archbishop Lefebvre chose precisely the rite of 1962. On the other hand, since he had a juridical mind thanks to his solid formation, he understood well that it would not be possible to apply a sort of “free examination” to the Liturgy, because this would authorize anyone to adopt any rite. At the same time, however, the subversive nature of the conciliar reform did not escape him (just as it does not escape us today): intentionally open to execeptions ad experimentum, to an infinite number of ad libitum, under the pretext of recovering a supposed original purity after centuries of ritual sedimentation. Precisely for this reason, Archbishop Lefebvre decided to return to the less-compromised rite, the rite of 1962, perhaps without grasping some of the controversial aspects of the reforms made by Pacelli and Roncalli that only an expert liturgist would have grasped, especially during the troubled years of the 1970s. Let us not forget furthermore that the Rénouveau Liturgique began in France well before it developed in Italy, and that many innovations that later became the norm of the universal Church were experimented as early as the 1920s in French dioceses, beginning with the use of Gothic vestments and the altar versus populum, always in the name of that archaeologism that attempted to cancel an entire millennium of the life of the Church with the stroke of a pen. I imagine that in the eyes of an Italian prelate, celebrating coram populo with a medieval chasuble appeared to be an extravagance, while for a French archbishop it was by then an established and in some ways even an encouraged practice.
We must also understand – and in this regard I believe that I have expressed myself extensively – that the mens of the reform that began at the local level well before Pius XII and then progressively spread throughout the Catholic world was completely anti-juridical: its architects availed themselves of the authority of the Legislator in order to impose with the force of law a rite that was supposed to be everything other than a slavish application of the liturgical text; the Missal was no longer supposed to contain the texts that the celebrant was meant to faithfully recite, but was looked at rather as a sort of canvas that authorized the worst eccentricities and insinuated in the ecclesial body an inexorable loss of the sense of the sacred. This was not yet visible in the Ordo Hebdomadæ Sanctæ Instauratus, nor in the Missal of John XIII; but the principle of the perpetual changeability of the rite and its casual updating (along with the erroneous persuasion that it has become corrupted with the passage of centuries and that as such it needs to be “pruned” by superfetations, when instead it is actually the result of a harmonious development given by circumstances, time, and places) was already in place. And certainly, the modification of the Roman Canon by Roncalli with the insertion of the name of Saint Joseph went in the same direction, touching even the most ancient and sacred prayer of the Holy Sacrifice.
I conclude with an observation. Many communities that make use of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum celebrate the rites of Holy Week following the Missal prior to the reform of Pius XII: the Ecclesia Dei Commission itself authorized this dispensation, considering the reasons given by those who asked for it to be legitimate. Therefore, I do not see why the Fraternity [SSPX], which has been at the forefront of the guarding of the Traditional Mass in much more difficult times, cannot do the same. Certainly, when the Church re-finds herself, all of this will have to be brought back into the riverbed of the law; a law that, we may hope, will wisely take into account the criticisms that have been raised.
I hope that these considerations I have offered may be helpful in some measure to Reverend Abbé...
I am grateful for the occasion to impart my paternal blessing to you all, dear friends.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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| Globalists have spelled out their plan to use the Ukraine conflict to impose one-world government |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-11-2022, 06:46 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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Globalists have spelled out their plan to use the Ukraine conflict to impose one-world government
On today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I will be diving into conversations at the World Government Summit 2022 and the alarming projections this meeting will have on our lives.
Tue May 10, 2022
(LifeSiteNews) — You’d think people would be subtle about things like imposing a New World Order, but the globalists seem excited to share and inflict their opinions on the world. They are no longer hiding it; they are proud of it. They obviously believe the public is ready for a one-world government. And believe it or not, they are rather open about using the Russia-Ukraine conflict to bring it about. Today I will be diving into conversations at the World Government Summit 2022 and the alarming projections this meeting will have on our lives.
The World Government Summit 2022 was held in Dubai March 29-30, 2022, and featured a number of panels and speeches that discussed economics, aviation, and digital currency. All of these topics were related to the situation in Russia and Ukraine. As each talk unfolded, the concept of a New World Order emerged as the dominant theme. This conference is full of the people behind the curtain, the movers and shakers that guide world leaders.
One of the panelists was Dr. Frederic Kempe, who is the president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, a group which actively pushes a New World Order. The Council has prominent globalists on it like Henry Kissinger. The Atlantic Council Chairman is John FW Rogers, Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff, and Secretary to the Board of Goldman Sachs. Its founder is millionaire philanthropist Adrienne Arsht. So you get the picture.
So let’s start with a look at what Dr. Kempe says about “world orders” and the link to the conflict in Russia and Ukraine:
Quote:World orders are a group of countries across the world [that] agree to a set of rules and they agreed to play by them. The second is there’s a balance of power so that no power feels that it can subjugate a neighbor. That’s what we’ve lost in Russia. There wasn’t a balance of power … the age of military power is over [as Europe decided] … the third … is a consensus that everyone accepts this.
It seems that insofar as a country plays by these agreed-upon rules, there will be a kind of balance.
According to these globalists, China – the same nation that is engaged in genocide of the Uyghurs, that has enforced a one child policy with torture and forced abortion for mothers who dared to have a second child, that bulldozes Christian churches – these globalists see China as an ideal example of a peaceful country growing and cooperating with the world order and playing by its rules, while Russia which has at least promoted the growth of the Orthodox Church and some policies favoring life and family is the opposite. Check this out:
Quote:We thought that everyone could fit into this system that had been created, and it worked for a while, but not everybody came into it. But China certainly took full advantage of being part of the global system. Russia did not. Russia became more of an outlier.
Apparently, according to this logic, these outliers are the thing standing in the way of world peace. Russia’s aggression has become an excuse for globalists to push for a worldwide government.
Coincidence? Let’s take another look, then. Dr. Kempe says the following early on in the panel:
Quote:This gets to your question, Becky, of a New World Order is… It can go in two directions with the war in Ukraine now being a decisive element. Either the jungle is back, as the historian Bob Kagan talks [about], and that we can go into a darker era, or we could go into an era because of the advances of science, advances technology, that could be one of the most prosperous, promising, progressive, enlightened, moderate modern eras that we’ve ever faced.
Clearly, he sees this New World Order as an imminent event. Defining “world orders” and relating it to Ukraine specifically, he goes on, emphasizing Ukraine as a “fulcrum”:
Quote:I think we’re in a moment where that’s being decided, and I think the importance of the Ukraine issue is that it’s a fulcrum for this and how the world manages this and comes out of this is going to have far reaching consequences that go beyond Ukraine.
Moderator Becky Anderson of CNN made this statement following Dr. Kempe’s claims:
Quote:The US president has framed the tension of the moment in Ukraine. It’s described by the US president as a battle between democracy vs. autocracy.
Considering all of these statements, it is obvious that the globalists are capitalizing on a unique opportunity.
Alongside these comments on Russia and Ukraine directly, the panels also address the new financial system that this New World Order will use.
Economist Dr. Pippa Malmgren served as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council during George W. Bush’s presidency. Now she publishes books on economic topics and also appears as a regular guest on BBC and Bloomberg. She claims this new financial system will replace the traditional one:
Quote:What we’re seeing in the world today, I think, is we are on the brink of a dramatic change where we are about to and, I’ll say this boldly, we’re about to abandon the traditional system of money and accounting and introduce a new one.
She adds that it will be “sovereign”:
Quote:This new money will be sovereign in nature. Most people think that digital money is crypto and private, but what I see are superpowers introducing digital currency.
What is the significance here? Well, with a new financial system, globalists can introduce universal currency.
Dr. Malmgren asks this thought-provoking question:
Quote:Will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations so that every human being has a chance to have a better life because that’s the only measure of whether a world order really serves.
This is, of course, a great question to ask as globalists strive to unify the world and leave the low-level needs of citizens behind.
Turning the conversation back to Ukraine, Dr. Kempe even quotes Pope Saint John Paul II in his praise for President Joe Biden’s speech:
Quote:A speech that is one of the most brilliant speeches, maybe the most important speech of his lifetime, and it really put the Ukraine situation in a broader, in a world order sort of framework that what we’re talking about today, and he did it absolutely brilliantly, and he talked about how the darkest periods of history … can produce the most progress he quoted … the Polish pope John Paul II on ‘do not be afraid.’
In the areas of aviation and money, other panels reference this New World Order as well. In the panel on aviation, Sir Tim Clark, President and CEO of the Emirates Airline, which is the largest airline and one of two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates and is owned by the government of Dubai’s Investment Corporation of Dubai, makes a statement about Russia, relating it to this idea:
Quote:Now we have the Ukrainian issue which, of course, is possibly more serious in terms of civil aviation and other areas of the global economy than the COVID pandemic … because of the economic iron curtain moving to the east and the exclusion of Russia in the future [will cause] a tectonic shift [in the way aviation operates].
It’s interesting how COVID-19 and its related issues have nearly disappeared in the wake of this new convenient catastrophe.
Adding to Dr. Malmgren’s claims about the new financial system was Bjorn Krog Andersen – the Head of Legal for Banking Circle, a fully licensed bank and financial infrastructure built for Payments businesses and Banks. He is also a board member of the Concordium Foundation, which is a Swiss-based non-profit focused on building the world’s leading open-source, permissionless, and decentralized blockchain.
Here’s what Andersen says:
Quote:They’re trying to replace what we have today with the central bank of the banks with just e-money.
“They” in this case refers to regulators using CBDCs – Central Bank Digital Currencies. However, the implications of this are that one universal digital system of currency will be the financial system of the New World Order.
Another panelist, William Quigley, is the co-founder of Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform designed to allow fiat currencies to be used digitally. A Tether token is a cryptocurrency that is hosted on the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains, among others, issued by the Hong Kong company Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange. Take a look at what he says:
Quote:Stable coins are this unbelievable gift from God. They allow anybody to hold native currency without ever having a bank and without ever having to convert that currency into another currency.
He proceeds to talk about how money is lost in the tax that governments levy on currency exchange.
Clearly the elites have brought the talk of a New World Order – meaning a one-world government – out of the closet. They showed the need with COVID; they now show it again with Ukraine; they show it with finance and passports. They have laid out the plans for a passport without which you cannot buy or sell. They have shown us all how it will work. Biblical prophecies are upon us. Are we ready?
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| Please pray for Michael |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-11-2022, 06:03 AM - Forum: Appeals for Prayer
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In your charity, please pray for Michael, a man who was critically injured when struck by a falling tree.
Michael has been battling for his life these last several days.
Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for him!
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| Connecticut governor signs law allowing non-physicians to perform abortions |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-10-2022, 04:11 PM - Forum: Abortion
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Connecticut governor signs law allowing non-physicians to perform abortions
Ned Lamont moves to insulate Connecticut from a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Tue May 10, 2022
HARTFORD (LifeSiteNews) – Connecticut Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont has signed into law legislation that will allow more non-physicians to perform abortions and shield abortionists from potential lawsuits for violating the pro-life laws of other states.
HB 5414 establishes that the governor can only extradite Connecticut residents for violating other states’ laws if those violations are also illegal in Connecticut (while placing similar limits on courts, public agencies, and health providers), allows abortionists sued by out-of-staters for violating those states’ abortion laws to counter-sue to recover certain costs, and empowers advanced practice registered nurses, nurse-midwives, and physician assistants to commit first-trimester aspiration abortions as well as dispense abortion-inducing drugs.
Supporters of the measure frame it as making Connecticut into a “sanctuary” for abortion in anticipation of a potential Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, which would eliminate the judicially-imposed “right” to abortion and fully restore states’ ability to set their own abortion laws.
“I am very appreciative to the majority of lawmakers in Connecticut who had the foresight to draft this legislation at a time when the right to a safe and legal abortion in America is in jeopardy,” Lamont said in a statement on signing the bill, CNN reports. “I am proud to stand up for access to reproductive health care and reproductive freedom. As long as I am governor of this great state, we’ll never waiver on the right to choose and the belief that medical decisions should be made between a patient and their doctor.”
“I think you’ve heard a lot about what’s coming out of the Supreme Court and a preliminary ruling that looks like they may be on the edge of ending a woman’s right to choose,” Lamont added. “That’s not going to happen in the state of Connecticut.”
Pro-lifers have criticized the new law, with House Republican leader Vincent Candelora suggesting that it runs afoul of the the Full Faith & Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which requires that “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings” of every other state. “We honor each other’s laws. We’re the United States of America,” Candelora said.
Pro-lifers also argue that laws allowing non-physicians to commit abortions not only increase the number of innocent lives lost to abortion but also put the women seeking abortions in greater danger by subjecting them to abortionists with less training or experience.
The danger was most dramatically illustrated by the case of infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who delegated parts of the abortion process, such as administering anesthesia, to non-physician employees, one of whom was only 15 years old. In 2015, Gosnell was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of one patient, and of first-degree murder of three born-alive infants.
Even when abortions are committed by fully-licensed physicians, they are frequently anything but safe for the mother, as evidenced by the records of numerous abortion facilities across the country, including chains embraced by abortion allies as leaders for their cause.
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| St. Alphonsus Liguori: The Glories of Mary |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-10-2022, 03:33 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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CONTENTS
Protest of the author
Petition of the author to Jesus and Mary
To the reader
Introduction
Prayer to the blessed Virgin to obtain a good death
CHAPTER I: SALVE REGINA, MATER MISERICORDAE. Hail queen, Mother of mercy
SECTION 1. Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! of the great confidence we should have in Mary, because she is the Queen of Mercy
SECTION 2. How much greater should be our confidence in Mary, because she is our mother
SECTION 3. How great is the love of our mother for us
SECTION 4. Mary is also mother of penitent sinners
CHAPTER II: VITA, DULCEDO. Our life, our sweetness
SECTION 1. Our life, our sweetness! Mary is our life, because she obtains for us the pardon of our sins
SECTION 2. Mary is again our life, because she obtains for us perseverance
SECTION 3. Mary renders death sweet to her servants
CHAPTER III: SPES NOSTRA SALVE. Hail, our hope
SECTION 1. Hail, our hope! Mary is the hope of all
SECTION 2. Mary, the hope of sinners
CHAPTER IV: AD TE CLAMAMUS EXULES FILII HEVAE. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve
SECTION 1. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve! How ready is Mary to succor those who call upon her
SECTION 2. How powerful is Mary to protect those who invoke her in temptations of the devil
CHAPTER V: AD TE SUSPIRAMUS GEMENTES ET FLENTES lN HAC LACRYMARUM VALLE. To thee do we send up our sighs, groaning and weeping In this valley of tears
SECTION 1. The need we have of the intercession of Mary for our salvation
SECTION 2. The same subject continued
CHAPTER VI: EIA ERGO ADVOCATA NOSTEA. Ah, then, our advocate
SECTION 1. Mary is an advocate powerful to save all
SECTION 2. Mary is a merciful advocate, who does not refuse to defend the cause of the most miserable sinners
SECTION 3. Mary is the peace-maker between sinners and God
CHAPTER VII: LOS TUOS MISERICORDES OCULOS AD NOS CONVERTE. Turn thy eyes of mercy towards us
SECTION 1. Mary is all eyes, to pity and relieve our miseries
CHAPTER VIII: ET JESUM BENEDICTUM FRUCTUM VENTRIS TUI NOBIS POST HOC EXILIUM OSTENDE.
And after this our exile, show us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus
SECTION 1. Mary rescues her servants from hell
SECTION 2. Mary assists her servants in purgatory
SECTION 3. Mary conducts her servants to paradise
CHAPTER IX How great is the clemency and mercy of Mary
CHAPTER X How sweet is the name of Mary in life and in death!
Some Devout Prayers Of Various Saints to the Holy Mother
PART II.
Which treats of her principal Festivals; of her dolors in general, and of each of her seven dolors in particular; of her virtues; and lastly, of devotion to be practised in her honor.
Discourses on the seven principal feasts of Mary and her Dolors.
DISCOURSE I. On the Immaculate Conception of Mary
DISCOURSE II. On the birth of Mary
DISCOURSE III. On the presentation of Mary
DISCOURSE IV. On the Annunciation of Mary
DISCOURSE V. On the visitation of Mary
DISCOURSE VI. On the purification of Mary
DISCOURSE VII. On the Assumption of Mary
DISCOURSE VIII. Another discourse on the Assumption of Mary
DISCOURSE IX. On the Dolors of Mary
Reflections on each of the Seven Dolors of Mary in particular
ON THE FIRST DOLOR. Of St. Simeon’s prophecy.
ON THE SECOND DOLOR. Of the flight of Jesus into Egypt
ON THE THIRD DOLOR. Of the loss of Jesus in the temple
ON THE FOURTH DOLOR. Of the meeting of Mary with Jesus when He went to death
ON THE FIFTH DOLOR. Of the death of Jesus
ON THE SIXTH DOLOR. The piercing of the side of Jesus and His descent from the cross.
ON THE SEVENTH DOLOR. The burial of the body of Jesus
Of the virtues of Mary
SECTION 1. Of the humility of Mary
SECTION 2. Of the charity of Mary towards God.
SECTION 3. Of the charity of Mary for her neighbors
SECTION 4. Of the faith of Mary
SECTION 5. Of the hope of Mary
SECTION 6. Of the chastity of Mary
SECTION 7. Of the poverty of Mary
SECTION 8. Of the obedience of Mary
SECTION 9. Of the patience of Mary
SECTION 10. Of the prayer of Mary
Various practices of devotion to the Divine Mother
DEVOTION I. Of the “Hail Mary”
DEVOTION II. Of Novenas
DEVOTION III. Of the Rosary and Office
DEVOTION IV. Of Fasting
DEVOTION V. Of visiting the images of Mary
DEVOTION VI. Of the Scapular
DEVOTION VII. Of entering into the Confraternities of Mary
DEVOTION VIII. Of Alms in honor of Mary
DEVOTION IX. Of frequent recourse to Mary
DEVOTION X. Tenth and last devotion
Various additional examples appertaining to the most Holy Mary.
Examples 1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
71-80
81-89
NOVENA OF MEDITATIONS FOR THE NINE DAYS PRECEDING THE FEAST OF THE PURIFICATION OF MARY, WHICH COMMENCES ON THE 24TH OF JANUARY.
FIRST DAY
SECOND DAY
THIRD DAY
FOURTH DAY
FIFTH DAY
SIXTH DAY
SEVENTH DAY
EIGHTH DAY
NINTH DAY
Meditations for various feasts of Mary
Meditation for the day of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.
Meditation for the 25th of March the Annunciation to Mary.
Meditation for the 2nd of July on the Feast of the Visitation of Mary
Meditation for the 15th of August on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
Meditation for the 8th of September on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary
Meditation for the 21st of November on the Feast of the Presentation of Mary.
Meditation for the 8th of December on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Prayers to the divine Mother for every day of the week
Sunday -Prayer to the most holy Mary to obtain the pardon of sins.
Monday -Prayer to the most holy Mary to obtain holy perseverance
Tuesday -Prayer to Mary most holy to obtain a good death.
Wednesday -Prayer to Mary most holy to obtain deliverance from hell.
Thursday -Prayer to the most holy Mary to obtain paradise.
Friday -Prayer to the most holy Mary to obtain love towards her and Jesus Christ
Saturday -Prayer to the most holy Mary to obtain her patronage.
Little Rosary of the Seven Dolors of Mary
Little Rosary of the Immaculate Mary
Dedication of oneself to Mary
Dedication of a family to Mary
Various prayers to Mary
Prayer of St. Ephrem to Mary (abbreviated)
Prayer of St. Thomas of Aquinas
Prayer of St. Blosius to the Blessed Virgin
Another Prayer
Ejaculations to the most holy Mary
Acclamations in praise of Mary
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| Pope Francis answers three questions put to him by Fr. James Martin |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-10-2022, 07:02 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope to LGBT Catholics: 'God is Father who does not disown any of his children'
Pope Francis answers three questions put to him by Jesuit Father James Martin whose pastoral ministry involves the LGBT community.
Vatican News | May 9, 2022
On 5 May Father Martin had written to the Pope in Spanish asking him to answer some questions that he is most commonly asked by LGBT Catholics and their families.
He received a hand-written response a couple of days afterward, that was published in the form of a short interview on Father Martin’s website “Outreach”.
“With respect to your questions,” the Pope wrote, “a very simple response occurs to me.”
Outreach: What would you say is the most important thing for LGBT people to know about God?
Pope Francis: God is Father and he does not disown any of his children. And “the style” of God is “closeness, mercy and tenderness.” Along this path you will find God.
Outreach: What would you like LGBT people to know about the Church?
Pope Francis: I would like for them to read the book of the Acts of the Apostles. There they will find the image of the living Church.
Outreach: What do you say to an LGBT Catholic who has experienced rejection from the Church?
Pope Francis: I would have them recognize it not as “the rejection of the church,” but instead of “people in the church.” The church is a mother and calls together all her children. Take for example the parable of those invited to the feast: “the just, the sinners, the rich and the poor, etc.” [Matthew 22:1-15; Luke 14:15-24]. A “selective” church, one of “pure blood,” is not Holy Mother Church, but rather a sect.
Pope's words in July 2021
Last year in July Pope Francis had sent Father Martin a letter on the occasion of the webinar “Outreach 2021” in which he said that “God is close to and loves each and every one of his children. His heart is open to all. He is the Father.”
"Thinking about your pastoral work," the Pope wrote, "I see that you continually try to imitate this style of God. You are a priest for everyone, as God is Father of everyone. I pray for you that you may continue in this way, being close, compassionate and full tenderness."
"I pray for your faithful, your 'parishioners,'" the Pope had concluded, "for all those whom the Lord has placed beside you so that you may care for them, protect them and make them grow in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The following is from the SiSiNoNo series on the Errors of Vatican II, highlighting the error promoted by Pope Francis, which as always, stems from Vatican II ecclesiology:
- Vatican II is guilty of the deadly Article 39 in Gaudium et Spes which in the conclusion of its third chapter titled "Man's Activity in the Universe" (GS §§33-39), proposes a final perversion of the idea of the Kingdom of God taught by the Church. This Chapter III contains the outline of the idea of the collective salvation of humanity, and also that all of God's creation was made for man. This is achieved by misinterpreting Romans 8:21 to say that "all of creation," created by God to serve man, will equally obtain eternal salvation.
We know neither the moment of the consummation of the earth and of man nor the way the universe will be transformed. The form of this world, distorted by sin, is passing away and we are taught that God is preparing a new dwelling and a new earth in which righteousness dwells, whose happiness will fill and surpass all the desires of peace arising in the hearts of men. Then with death conquered the sons of God will be raised in Christ and what was sown in weakness and dishonor will put on the imperishable: charity and its works will remain and all of creation, which God made for man, will be set free from its bondage to decay (LG §39).
Article 39 continues with another strange idea:
Quote:We have been warned, of course, that it profits man nothing if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself. Far from diminishing our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come. That is why, although we must be careful to distinguish earthly progress clearly from the increase of the kingdom of Christ, such progress is of vital concern to the kingdom of God, insofar as it can continue to the better ordering of human society.
This appears to mean that the "new earth" is already present in the "present earth," since "the body of the new human family grows [here], foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come." Take note that the prefiguring of the Kingdom of God is not given by the Church Militant (which is the orthodox teaching), but by the growth of "the body of a new family." And this growth of the body of a new human family is calculated on universal progress, universal fraternity, and to human and Christian freedom (LG§§13,36; GS §§30,34,38).
This is to say, the Kingdom of God which is partially realized is this world, is no longer made up of the Church Militant, but of humanity. Humanity is the subject which brings about the Kingdom, and which will enter it one day en masse. In fact, Article 39 of LG concludes:
Quote:When we have spread on earth the fruits of our nature and our enterprise-human dignity, brotherly communion, and freedom-according to the command of the Lord and in his Spirit, we will find them once again, cleansed this time from the stain of sin, illuminated and transfigured, when Christ presents to his Father and eternal and universal kingdom "of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love and peace." Here on earth the kingdom is mysteriously present; when the Lord comes it will enter into its perfection.
This is a naturalistic, millenarian vision that calls for the religion of Humanity. It is completely foreign to anything the Catholic Church has ever taught. It is the complete antithesis to the exclusively supernatural reality of the Kingdom of God and of the consummation of the end of time which has been revealed to us by Our Lord and always maintained by the Church.
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| Catholic church vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti in Houston on Mother’s Day |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-10-2022, 06:41 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Catholic church vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti in Houston on Mother’s Day
‘This is what the angry, hateful anti-Catholic pro-choice activists did to our church doors last night.'
Mon May 9, 2022
HOUSTON (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic church in Texas was vandalized Sunday after pro-abortion activists publicly called for protests at Catholic churches on Mother’s Day.
The words “Pro-choice is pro-life” were spray-painted on the front doors of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Houston on Sunday night, according to the parish Facebook page.
“This is what the angry, hateful anti-Catholic pro-choice activists did to our church doors last night,” wrote Friar Mariano D. Veliz, O.P., on the social media platform.
“The choice to murder unborn babies is not pro-life,” he wrote, calling on supporters to “Pray for an end to this evil” and closing his post with: “In Christ with Blessed Mary.”
In a later update to the original post, Veliz added that the “same message” which was painted on the front doors of the church had also been spray-painted on its side doors, which he had not initially seen.
Quote: Guess I spoke too soon…
Holy Rosary Church, Houston: pic.twitter.com/A6zwnGuSsP
— Sidge S. Mondo ن (@Magister_Pownd) May 9, 2022
Holy Rosary secretary Dianne Gongora told LifeSiteNews on Monday the parish filed a report with the Houston Police Department (HPD) regarding the incident.
HPD public information officer Victor Senties affirmed in a phone call that the department took a report of the vandalism Monday morning and is in the early stages of investigating. Senties said the vandalism is estimated to have occurred between 9 and 11 p.m. May 8.
Holy Rosary pastor Fr. Peter Damian Harris did not immediately respond to LifeSite’s request for comment.
“[P]ro-abortionists show their true colors by sneaking around in the middle of the night, vandalizing sacred places, and stealing the blessed sacrament,” a parishioner of Holy Rosary named Lawrence told LifeSite via social media Monday.
“The fact that the city of Houston seems to have little interest in protecting Catholics from targeted harassment is a crying shame,” he added. “Catholics should defend the House of God and the Body of Christ from those who defend the murder of our society’s children.”
Quote: I wish this was still true. My parish was vandalized and another parish in my city has its tabernacle stolen. Please pray. https://t.co/ajeRxAv4bh
— Lawrence of Appalachia (@mythanthrope) May 9, 2022
Holy Rosary, which is part of the archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and is staffed by Dominican friars of the Province of St. Martin de Porres, serves a large parish community and offers six Masses, including a Latin Mass, every Sunday.
While it’s unclear who vandalized the church, the graffiti appeared on Mother’s Day, the day pro-abortion activists affiliated with the group “Ruth Sent Us” had encouraged those opposed to protections for the unborn to “[s]tand at or in a local Catholic Church” to protest the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established a federal “right to abortion” throughout all 50 states.
Quote: Whether you’re a “Catholic for Choice”, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church Sun May 8.
#WarOnWomen #MothersDayStrike pic.twitter.com/v2vtpd12Gp
— Ruth Sent Us ? (@RuthSentUs) May 3, 2022
Activists like those associated with Ruth Sent Us, which was named for the late pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have ramped up their efforts after the unprecedented leak of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion draft in the crucial Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case last week.
Dobbs concerns Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation, which has inspired a bevy of similar pro-life laws in Republican-led states nationwide.
According to the leaked draft opinion, whose authenticity was later confirmed by Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court is angled to rule in favor of Mississippi by overturning both Roe v. Wade along with Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which upheld Roe.
After the leak of the document, Ruth Sent Us published the home addresses of six pro-life Supreme Court justices’ on their website and called for pro-abortion protests at Catholic churches.
Pro-abortion activists have subsequently protested outside the homes of the Supreme Court justices in an effort to sway the opinion of the Court to uphold Roe, and targeted Catholic churches and pregnancy centers over Mother’s Day weekend.
RELATED: Pro-abortion protesters escorted out of Los Angeles church after disrupting Sunday Mass
Holy Rosary in Houston wasn’t the only Catholic church in the Lone Star State to be targeted this past weekend. St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in nearby Katy, Texas, was also attacked Sunday.
St. Bartholomew’s pastor, Father Christopher Plant, said in a Monday tweet that the church’s tabernacle had been stolen the previous night, noting that law enforcement officers are currently investigating the theft.
“Please pray for us and for those who committed this criminal sacrilege,” Fr. Plant wrote, encouraging anyone with information to contact the parish office.
Quote:Our tabernacle was stolen last night. We don’t know who did it but the police are investigating. Please pray for us and for those who committed this criminal sacrilege. If you have any information that can help in the investigation, please call our office: 281-391-4758
Fr.Christopher Plant (@FrPlant) May 9, 2022
Meanwhile, in Denton, Texas, pro-life pregnancy center Loreto House was vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti reading: “Not a clinic” and “Forced birth is murder.”
Before the reported vandalism and theft in Texas, Ruth Sent Us had lashed out at Catholics for their “weaponized prayer,” saying the radical pro-abortion activists would “remain outraged after this weekend” and promising that they will “be burning the Eucharist to show our disgust for the abuse Catholic Churches have condoned for centuries.”
LifeSiteNews reached out to the office of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner for a statement regarding the vandalism of Holy Rosary Catholic Church but has yet to hear back.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Houston Police Department at (713) 884-3131.
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| FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like The Flu |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-09-2022, 04:05 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like The Flu
ZH | MAY 09, 2022
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,
Several top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including Commissioner Robert Califf, admitted that Americans will now have to accept COVID-19 as another respiratory virus, comparing it to influenza.
Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock, and top vaccine official Dr. Peter Marks wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association that COVID-19 will be around for the foreseeable future while suggesting that it will require yearly vaccines targeting the most threatening variations of the virus.
Quote:“Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks,” the officials said, referring to another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
“Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal.”
The virus “will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates in consultation with the [FDA],” they continued.
It’s a departure from the rhetoric that was expressed by public health officials in 2020 and 2021.
In late October 2020, for example, current White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said that President Donald Trump’s comparisons to the flu were false, telling NBC at the time “it is not correct to say it’s the same as flu.”
About a year later, Fauci told CBS News that Americans will “likely” have to deal with COVID-19 in a similar manner as influenza.
Quote:“That’s entirely conceivable and likely, as a matter of fact, we are not going to be in a situation of this degree of intensity indefinitely,” he said when asked about the Omicron variant.
Data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that while cases have trended slightly upward in the United States, the numbers are a fraction of the cases that were reported in mid-January when the seven-day average stood at around 800,000 per day. As of May 6, the seven-day average was about 68,000 per day.
In the Journal of the American Medical Association article, the three FDA officials proclaimed that by the summer of 2022, decisions will have to be issued “about who should be eligible for vaccination with additional boosters and regarding vaccine composition.”
“Administering additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to appropriate individuals this fall around the time of the usual influenza vaccine campaign has the potential to protect susceptible individuals against hospitalization and death, and therefore will be a topic for FDA consideration,” they added.
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| Michigan Catholic Church Vandalized in Wake of SCOTUS Leak |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-09-2022, 06:16 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Michigan Catholic Church Vandalized in Wake of SCOTUS Leak
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Tennessee Star | May 7, 2022
In the wake of a leaked draft opinion from a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade, a Catholic church and school in Michigan has been vandalized with vulgar graffiti.
Activist Dave Reilly shared photos of the destruction of Saint Joseph’s Church and Academy in Armada on his Twitter account Friday.
St. Joseph’s is an SSPX church in Armada, Michigan.
The images show multiple slurs, including “F*g Republicans Dead,” along with the numbers “666,” and the pentagram, both of satanic significance.
Also, the word “Gay” was spray-painted onto the church and school’s sign.
The church did not return a Friday comment request.
The office of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did not immediately return a comment request.
The vandalism of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church follows a pattern of Catholic churches across North America being vandalized, including two that were burned to the ground in a span of days in Canada last summer.
A Catholic Church in Boulder, Colorado was also vandalized this week after the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion. It was defaced with pro-abortion graffiti, including the slogan “My Body, My Choice.”
In February, three Catholic cemeteries in Pennsylvania were spray painted with graffiti.
In the same month, another cemetery in Massachusetts was vandalized. It had previously been vandalized last October.
Firefighters responded to the attempted arson of an Ohio Catholic church in February, which caused $1 million in damage to the church.
Other incidents occurred in Georgia and New Mexico, also in February, according to the National Catholic Register.
“On Feb. 17 in Milledgeville, Georgia, a vandalism attack at Sacred Heart Catholic Church knocked over two statues of angels and damaged them,” that outfit said. “Father Young Nguyen, the church pastor, heard noises from the vandalism but when he went outside he did not see anyone but discovered the damage.”
“In Albuquerque, New Mexico, four stained-glass windows at the Shrine of the Little Flower, also known as St. Therese of the Infant of Jesus Parish, were broken around 2am on Feb. 14,” according to the publication. “Trash was strewn around the building and there was some damage to the church’s clay roof tiles.”
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