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| St. Catherine Sienna Speaks against Bad Clergy |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2024, 09:12 AM - Forum: The Saints
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St. Catherine Sienna Speaks against Bad Clergy – I
‘Eradicate the Wolves inside the Church’
TIA | September 16, 2024
In her Dialogue, St. Catherine of Siena often speaks of the degeneration inside the Church and the great need for reform. In fact, she speaks so strongly about bad Prelates and pastors that some of the French translations, which appeared at a time when anti-clericalism in France was at its most violent, simply omitted these chapters in St. Catherine’s book. Unfortunately, it was these censured books that were generally chosen to be translated into English.
This excerpt on St. Catherine of Siena from Fr. Sáenz’ book titled Christian Archtypes shows how the Saint railed against the bad pastors and Prelates in the Church, counseling that a true reform could only take place when they were eradicated and replaced with good shepherds. The reader can view his Spanish sources at the end of the article.
One of the most acute sorrows of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was the sight of mercenary shepherds, and even wolves. There have been, no doubt, excellent shepherds. But it is no less true that the lives of many were scandalous.
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She condemns priests who are mercenary shepherds and even wolves
During her stay in Avignon, Catherine became closely acquainted with the papal court and its unworthy Prelates. She had also seen them during her travels through Italy. In those times it was common for influential families to try to place their sons in high ecclesial offices, even if they were completely inept.
Several saints, such as St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Bridget, or even eminent men such as Petrarch, for example, harshly criticized such aberrations. Their message found an echo then among the people, for, as we have said, in that century the population was, despite everything, deeply religious. Then evil did not have, as it does now, a charter of citizenship, giving it an impudence and allowing it to defy the principles of the natural and supernatural order. Those who committed evil accepted the censures that were made against them in the name of Christian morality.
The situation of the Church was something that made Catherine’s heart bleed from a wound that reopened with each new spectacle. What Unamuno said about Spain can well be applied to the Saint: The Church wounded her. In her Dialogue she transcribes some very severe words that God addresses to priests:
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‘I suffered My Hands to be tied to free mankind from the bonds of guilt & you use your anointed hands foolishly in dishonest acts’
“You ought to be a mirror of honesty, and you are a mirror of dishonesty. I [Christ] suffered Myself to be blindfolded in order to enlighten you, yet with lascivious eyes you thrust poisoned arrows into the hearts and souls of those upon whom you so maliciously fix your gaze. I allowed Myself to be given gall and vinegar to drink, but you, like a disordered animal, delight in your delicate foods, making a god of your belly.
“Vain and dishonest words come from your mouth, with which you are obliged to admonish your neighbor, announce my word and pray the Office. Yet I perceive from it nothing but stench...
“I suffered My hands to be tied in order to free you, and all mankind, from the bonds of guilt. Yet your hands, anointed and consecrated to administer the Most Holy Sacrament, are used foolishly in dishonest acts... All your members, like cacophonous instruments, transmit a bad sound, because the three faculties of the soul come together in the name of the Devil, when you should gather them in My name...”
Our Lord even goes so far as to compare these bad priests to devils incarnate, because they have identified themselves with the will of the Devil: “They do the same work as he does, with regard to Me...”
St. Catherine warns against the “unworthy ministers of the Blood”: “Because of their defects, the Blood is corrupted, that is, the lay people lose the due reverence they should have for them and for the Blood.”
Catherine fully agrees with these assessments of God. She knows that the holiness of the clergy is closely linked to the beauty of the Bride of Christ and the salvation of souls. “Today we see the opposite,” she affirms in one of her letters. “Not only are they not temples of God, but they have become stables and pens for pigs and other barnyard animals.”
Much of the blame lies with the Bishops who, as God Himself tells her in the Dialogue, “have been more concerned about multiplying the number of priests rather than their virtues».”
The Church persecuted by corrupt & heretical pastors
St. Catherine of Siena points to three sins that most degraded the clergy in her time: lust, avarice and pride. In her opinion, the time had come to call for a reform. What needed to be reformed was certainly not the Bride herself, who will always remain holy and is not diminished or altered by the defects of her ministers, but rather the latter. “The time has come to weep and lament because the Bride of Christ is being persecuted by her perfidious and corrupt members,” she writes in a letter.
“The mystical body of the Holy Church is surrounded by many enemies,” she writes to a monk.
“Thus do you see that those who have been placed to be the pillars and upholders of the Holy Church have become her persecutors with the darkness of heresy. This is no time to sleep, but to defeat them with vigilance, sweat and tears, and with sorrowful and loving desires and humble and continual prayer.”
But Catherine is not content with crying, praying and fasting. She will take concrete steps, addressing the Pope directly, since only he has conditions to remedy so great an evil.
In a letter to Gregory XI, she tells him, on behalf of Christ, that he must decide to use his power to remove from the garden of the Church these corrupt flowers, “the bad shepherds and leaders filled with impurity and greed and swollen with pride who poison and putrefy this garden.” He must use his power to remove these persons, putting in their place shepherds according to the heart of God.
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She is not content to fast & pray, but believes it necessary to address the Pope face to face & in letters
Our Lord explained to her as she reports in the Dialogue why the Church was in this situation: It was because when choosing the pastors, the Prelates did not examine whether they were good or bad, but only had the desire to please favorites or offer families a favor; thus, those charged with informing the Holy Father about the candidates sent him positive references about ill-suited persons.
At times, she continued, these Prelates praise the bad or mediocre candidates because they share their vices and ambitions. When the Pope discovers the truth of the situation, he should remove them. If he does, he will fulfill his duty. If not, he will not go unpunished when he will have to give an account before the Lord of his sheep.
To avoid such drastic measures as the deposition of unworthy Bishops, the Holy Father should choose from the start humble priests, who out of modesty try to avoid prelatures, and not those who seek them to fuel their vainglory. By not acting in this way, we have those Bishops who, as our Saint says to Brother Raymond, “have acted like flies, which are such a base insects that they care not about the sweet and aromatic things upon which they land, but go from there to rest on repugnant and unclean things.”
To be continued
Works consulted
* Santa Catalina de Siena, El Diálogo, BAC, Madrid 1955.
* Cartas Políticas, Losada, Buenos Aires 1993.
* Johannes Jörgensen, Santa Catalina de Siena, Acción, Buenos Aires 1993.
* M. V. Bernadot O.P., Santa Catalina de Siena al servicio de la Iglesia, Studium, Madrid 1958.
* Jean Rupp, Docteurs pour nos temps: Catherine et Thérèse, Ed. P. Lethielleux, Paris 1971.
* Jacques Leclercq, Santa Catalina de Siena, Patmos, Madrid 1955.
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| “The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled”: Portland Archbishop Robert Dwyer’s Assessment in 1971 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2024, 10:56 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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It is my understanding that this is same Archbishop Dwyer also quoted and republished in some of the early Angelus magazines in the 1980's (cf. Archbishop Dwyer, In the Wake of Barbarians. The Angelus Feb. 1984)
“The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled”: Portland Archbishop Robert Dwyer’s Assessment in 1971
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Robert Joseph Dwyer (1908-76)
Peter Kwasniewski, New Liturgical Movement | September 16, 2024
Those who read the works of Michael Davies will come across quotations from a wide variety of sources, and will sometimes wonder just who these people are, and what their full views might be (since Davies, like any author, seldom quotes more than a few sentences). One such figure is the American Robert Joseph Dwyer (1908-76), who was the second bishop of Reno, Nevada from 1952-66 (and in this capacity participated in all four sessions of the Council), and the fifth Archbishop of Portland, Oregon from 1966 to 1974.
Dwyer was a prolific writer, as the fine collection recently published by Arouca Press, Ecclesiastes: The Book of Archbishop Robert Dwyer—A Selection of His Writings, edited by Albert J. Steiss, makes plain: we find articles on European history and American history, lives of major Catholic figures, a fairly detailed account of his time at the Council (deserving to be mined: see pages 131–206), apologetics on behalf of the Faith, critiques of liturgical reform, reflections on the fine arts, pastoral letters, and bagatelles. In fact, he’s like a quieter version of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Where he differs decisively from Sheen is in his increasingly outspoken critiques of the liturgical reform. The famous quotes are those shared by Michael Davies:
Quote:The great mistake of the Council Fathers was to allow the implementation of the Constitution to fall into the hands of men who were either unscrupulous or incompetent. This is the so-called Liturgical Establishment, a Sacred Cow which acts more like a white elephant as it tramples the shards of a shattered liturgy with ponderous abandon.
And:
Quote:Who dreamed on that day that within a few years, far less than a decade, the Latin past of the Church would be all but expunged, that it would be reduced to a memory fading into the middle distance? The thought of it would have horrified us, but it seemed so far beyond the realm of the possible as to be ridiculous. So we laughed it off.
Could a bishop really have written such things? Or might this be a case of mistaken attribution or misquotation?
For the first quotation, Davies cites The Tidings of July 9, 1971 (see Pope Paul’s New Mass [Kansas City, MO: Angelus Press, 2009], 651). For the second, he cites the Twin Circle, October 26, 1973 (see Liturgical Timebombs in Vatican II [Rockford, IL: TAN Books, 2003], 65). In order to hunt the original articles down, I did what any sensible person would do: I hired Sharon Kabel as my research assistant!
Sure enough, she located both articles, and since our searching online indicates that these have never been transcribed and made available, I took the time to type them out, while attaching the originals below. If only we had a few more bold bishops like this today! (And can you imagine the newspaper of the archdiocese of Los Angeles—or any Catholic diocesan newspaper—publishing something like this today?) A piece like this, from 1971, counts as good evidence that at least some public figures were willing to state the obvious: the Catholic liturgy had, in fact, been dismantled past recognition, and this was an evil deed. Moreover, this bishop’s presence at all four sessions of the Council makes his claims about what the Council Fathers intended—at least to the extent that any on-the-ground participant could know the mens patrum from conversations, meetings, and documents—credible.
In any case, enjoy the crisp and piquant style of the good archbishop.
The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled
Archbishop Robert Dwyer
July 9, 1971
In the remote caverns of memory the image flickers in the candlelight: Marius on the Ruins of Carthage [cf Marius Amongst the Ruins of Carthage]. What somber text of Ancient History this was designed to illustrate we have long forgotten, but the figure of the Roman general, triumphant at last over the Punic power, contemplating the wreckage of war, meditating upon the Dead Sea fruits of victory, has never quite faded.
The other day the image was refreshed by a re-telling of the familiar jest at the expense of a gun-and-camera tourist: “Mrs. C. Humphrey Jones on the Ruins of Carthage (the ruins are to the left).”
But another image, alas, overlays that of the baffled conqueror in our contemporary illustration. It is that of Mother Church seated amid the ruins of the liturgy. No less disconsolate is she, no less sorrowfully pensive.
Some six years ago she had reached that point in her Renewal where it seemed beyond question or cavil that she could summon to her aid, in her monumental task of re-interpreting the Christian message to the modern world, all the services of liturgical art and drama, all the treasures of biblical science and patristic lore, all the riches of music and sacred literature, to enhance the supreme act of divine worship, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Surely that was the confident expectation of the Council Fathers when they hailed with overwhelming affirmation the Constitution on the Liturgy.
In the euphoria of that moment cankerous doubt and cantankerous misgivings were cavalierly set aside. All would be well, we assured ourselves, and all things would be well, as Blessed Juliana of Norwich had so calmly predicted. All that was needed was a touch of genius to muster all the arts of expression and exposition to achieve the perfect rendering of the liturgy in every language under the sun, and for every living culture known to man. We all devoutly made our act of faith in the immediate availability of that touch of genius.
Documents Insipid
Wherein, under the blessing of hindsight undoubtedly we made our first mistake. For there are times and seasons in man’s history, the history of his culture, when genius touches the liturgy, and times, alack, when it simply does not. It is as though the lines of communication, faithfully relaying its messages, were abruptly to be cut off.
It is not necessary, in our reading of the liturgical texts which have been foisted upon us, to suspect the poisoned pen of the heretic or the velvet glove covering the mailed fist of the Communist conspiracy working through the channels of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship. It is enough to note that the touch of genius has so far absented itself from these documents which reach us with such monotonous regularity and insipidity, as to suggest a total substitution of dross for gold.
It was not so in ages past when Basil and John Chrysostom and Gregory formulated the texts and set the patterns for the prayer of the Church, East and West. It was not so when those unknown masters of rhythmic melody devised and developed the liturgical chant, the noblest music man has ever sung, nor was it so when the flowering of polyphony enriched the musical treasury of the liturgy with works of classic dignity and grace.
The Renaissance and Trent hardened the liturgy into molds perhaps too rigid and ungiving, but the authentic note of dignity and greatness was by no means wanting. With the Baroque the liturgy left the austere confines of the sanctuary to mingle with the multitudes crowding the nave and aisles, to undergo, at least in some aspects, a process of vulgarization, but however much the liturgy stood in need of refurbishing and reform as our day approached, it was still recognizable as an original work of religious genius. It was by no means a shambles.
The malady must be reported of the rendering of the liturgy into the vernacular. To focus exclusively here upon our English experience, it is commonly recognized that only once or twice in a millennium have we any right to expect a translator of such power as Thomas Cranmer. Whatever his other merits or demerits, he possessed the gift of noble expression and haunting phrase, so as to mold the language our forebears have spoken these 400 years and more. And while he had no Catholic rivals to contest his mastery, he set a standard to which they must needs approximate or publicly confess their inadequacy.
Liturgists Incompetent
And for the most part, those commissioned or inspired to render the liturgy into the vernacular for the English-speaking Catholic world had done a commendable if not a brilliant job. [1] Why their work, present and available, was ignored and set aside, and even spoken of with contumely by the current generation of Martin Mar-Texts [2] is a mystery beyond our ken.
The liturgy needed reform by 1965; there was no call for dismantling it. It was intended that the vernacular would enhance the Latin, not supplant it. It was not, emphatically, the mind of the Council Fathers to jettison Gregorian Chant, or to encourage the banal secularization of Church music, so as now to surpass in crudity the worst aberrations of the Howling Pentecostals.
It was anticipated that the liturgical texts, along with the Biblical readings for the Mass and the Divine Office, would be so translated as to reflect the beauty and suppleness of our tongue in the praise and worship of God. If any Council Father—for this we can vouch—leaving the aula of St. Peter’s on that day when the Constitution on the Liturgy was proclaimed, had seen in vision the liturgical calamities which have befallen us in this short span of time, it is conceivable that he would have had a heart attack, then and there.
The first mistake, then, was dependence upon the Dabitur Vobis [3], a brash confidence that the touch of genius would not be lacking. The second, in uncomfortably close alliance, was to allow the interpretation and implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy to fall into the hands of men who were either unscrupulous or incompetent. This is the so-called “Liturgical Establishment,” a Sacred Cow which acts more like a White Elephant as it tramples the shards of a shattered liturgy with ponderous abandon. [4]
The third mistake, fully as destructive as either of the foregoing, was the genial supposition that widespread “experimentation” could be sanctioned, with any hope of holding the line thereafter. This is not to condemn experimentation; it is useful and necessary from time to time, under certain controlled circumstances.
But the broad permissiveness granted or even encouraged by the Sacred Congregation and by various Episcopal Conference committees, has led to what must be described, without exaggeration, as a state of chaos. Everyman is now his own liturgist, just as he is his own pope; the Parish Liturgical Commission, made up, for the most part, of good and well-meaning folk whose liturgical competence is on the kindergarten level, legislates for all the world as though it were the Sacred Congregation itself. Or perhaps, what is by no means unthinkable, with far greater assurance and authority.
How long, do you suppose, will it take for another Hercules to clean up these Augean Stables [cf. The cleaning of the Augean Stables was the fifth labor of Hercules.]?
Next week, we will publish the transcription of His Excellency's 1973 article.
NOTES
[1] Dwyer is referring here to the first translations from the 1960s, which were all replaced by the tawdry claptrap of ICEL when the Novus Ordo was rolled out. He may also be referring to the many translations that existed in hand missals for many decades prior to the Council.
[2] This seems to be a reference to “Martin Mar-prelate,” “the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the seven Marprelate tracts that circulated illegally in England in the years 1588 and 1589. Their principal focus was an attack on the episcopacy of the Anglican Church” (source).
[3] See Luke 11, 9: “Petite, et dabitur vobis” (Ask, and it shall be given).
[4] This is the paragraph quoted by Davies, with some minor differences that do not alter the meaning.
A young Dwyer holding a model of a church (backstory unknown)
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| Feast of Our Lady of Las Lajas - September 16th |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2024, 09:03 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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Our Lady of Las Lajas: A Continuous Miracle
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America Needs Fatima | Jun 05, 2013
Mother of Latin America
The merciful predilection of the Mother of God for Latin America is the reward she has given for the heroic faith formed from the Iberian Peninsula during the 800 years’ struggle against the invading Moors and found in the Latin American peoples’ souls in which Divine Providence willed to deposit it.
From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, no nation has failed to receive special favors from Our Lady. However, her interventions did not occur in just any manner. She presented herself with unheard of magnificence and splendor, making it clear that she came to preside over Latin America from on high.
The History of a Predilection
As an example of this magnificence, consider how the Most Holy Virgin has stamped her image on the imposing cliffs of the Guaitara Canyon, Colombia, thereby becoming Queen of the souls in that region and in all surrounding lands.
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Our Lady of Las Lajas
In the year 1754, Maria Mueses de Quiñones, an Indian woman from Colombia, was going from her hometown of Potosi to the village of Ipiales when she was caught in a great storm. At a place called Las Lajas (the Rock Slabs), she sought refuge in a grotto. However, she was anxious since there was a popular legend that said the devil lived in the grotto. With trepidation, she entered the darkness of the grotto, invoking the Virgin of the Rosary. Suddenly, she felt someone tapping at her back, as though calling her. Frightened, she fled back into the storm.
A few days later, returning by the same route, she once again reached the cliffs of Las Lajas, carrying on her back her little daughter Rosa, who was a deaf-mute since birth. Being tired and wanting to rest, Maria Mueses de Quiñones sat down to rest timidly on a stone near the grotto.
Then the first miracle occurred. Her deaf-mute child suddenly spoke, “Mommy, look at the mestiza who has detached herself from the rock with a little boy in her arms and two little mestizos at her side!” With this exclamation, Rosa slid off her mother’s back to climb up the grotto’s stones. Struck with terror, Maria took her daughter and fled from the mysterious place.
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Grotto of Our Lady of Las Lajas
There was general bewilderment among Maria’s friends and acquaintances in Potosi when she told them what had happened.
Thirsting for the supernatural, the Indians listened to her, asked her many questions, and commented among themselves about the singular event, but took no further action.
In the meantime, Rosa disappeared, causing her mother great concern. Maria searched to no avail, until she remembered the episode at the grotto, and returned there to look for Rosa. She found her daughter kneeling before a splendid woman and playing affectionately with a child who had come down from his mother’s arms. Knowing she beheld the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Son Jesus, Maria fell to her knees be
fore this beautiful spectacle, and she was no longer afraid.
A spectacular miracle
Shortly thereafter, Our Lady performed a spectacular miracle that prompted the news of the marvelous presence to spread throughout lands near the rocky banks of the Guaitara River.
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Church of Our Lady of Las Lajas
Unexpectedly, Rosa sickened and died. Her grieving mother carried her body in her arms to the grotto in order to beg the Virgin for help. Reminding the Virgin of Rosa’s solicitude in bringing her candles and flowers, she begged Our Lady to bring her back to life. In answer to her prayers, the Queen of Heaven and Earth performed the miracle of the child’s resurrection. Maria told her employers in Ipiales about the extraordinary event.
Moved by the news, they went with priests, distinguished persons and many local people to the apparition’s site. It was then that all saw stamped on the rock face a magnificent image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, holding her Infant Son, with Saints Dominic and Francis kneeling at their feet. The Virgin extended a Rosary to Saint Dominic and the Infant a Franciscan cord to Saint Francis.
Today, an enormous quantity of mementos and tokens of thanksgiving attest to the devotion and gratitude of the Colombian people since the time of the apparition.
Historical and Scientific Aspects of the Image
An interesting aspect of the image is the presence of Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis of Assisi, the founders of the two orders that first evangelized Colombia and to whom Colombians have always had a special devotion.
The image of Our Lady of Las Lajas, as that of Our Lady of Guadalupe, has spanned the centuries without losing its brilliance. In the case of Las Lajas, the Divine Painter used a fade-proof method. After German geologists bored core samples from several spots in the image, they determined there was no paint, no dye, or any other pigment on the surface of the rock; the colors are the colors of the rock itself, and they penetrate into the rock evenly for several feet!
In 1952, Pius XII granted a canonical crowning of Our Lady of Las Lajas, and in 1954, the gothic church erected to house the image was dedicated as a minor basilica, with the presence of the entire Colombian Episcopate.
In the Eyes of the Queen
The True and Authentic Latin America
In the course of the two thousand years in which the Church has spread throughout the world, artists have frequently shaped Our Lady’s physical aspect according to the type of women of their time and region. This has happened in paintings, sculpture, stained-glass windows, and other media. The most ancient statues of her attest to this fact. In the remote days of the Church, statues of Mary Most Holy depicted her with a Mediterranean physical aspect. As the Faith spread among the Nordic people, blond and blue-eyed representations of Our Lady appeared.
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Ariel view of the Shrine and Grotto
The modeling of images according to the regional feminine physical aspect is agreeable to Our Lady. This is proved by the fact when she impresses her image on some object in order to perpetuate the memory of an apparition or when she appears to a seer who then later describes her to an artist who will interpret the seer’s description into a painting or sculpture. In Mexico, for example, Our Lady of Guadalupe stamped her image with Mexican physiognomies on Juan Diego’s serape, where she can be seen standing on the moon and obscuring the sun that is behind her. The Aztecs worshiped the sun and the moon as gods, and the sight of this powerful lady overcoming their gods was the catalyst in the Mexican Indians’ conversion. In Colombia, God performed the prodigy of printing Our Lady of Las Lajas on a rock. In view of these two very short examples, who can deny the deeply religious atmosphere characteristic of images painted by the Angels?
As limited as one’s sense of observation may be, one cannot fail to exclaim upon seeing her, “Look how Latin American she is!” Something very essential, a reflection of the qualities and virtues of the Latin American people, is expressed in Our Lady of Las Lajas.
But what does her physical aspect tell us? We find a great personality, the profound and intelligent gaze of a meditating and recollected person. She has an extraordinary stability and solidity, a continuity of will and temperament. Nothing shakes or agitates her. There is no arrogance or ostentation, but rather the dominion of one who is accustomed to having her will obeyed. She could not have a better veil than her long, abundant, beautiful hair. The color and richness of her dress are those of a Queen. She is extremely kind and motherly. How good and safe the Child Jesus feels in her arms! What throne could be more worthy of Him? He is almost at play, with the liberty of a child.
It is curious to note the relationship between Mother and Son. Frequently their images present them gazing at each other, but not in Las Lajas. They are so accustomed to being together that they have no need to look at each other in order to sustain their mutual attention. She directs her eyes toward the Latin American people, heeding their supplications, orienting and commanding them. Meanwhile, the Child Jesus enters the intimacy of those who arrive at the Queen’s feet—a Queen who displays in her gaze a kindness so exalted that she moves us to trust her entirely.
Our Lady of Las Lajas, pray for us!
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| The Catholic Trumpet: New Initiative - Combatting Errors ⚔︎ in the Modern World |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-15-2024, 05:23 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The Catholic Trumpet: New Initiative - Combatting Errors ⚔︎ in the Modern World
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The Catholic Trumpet | September 14, 2024
Welcome to our latest initiative at TheCatholicTrumpet.com: "Combatting Errors in the Modern World."
In this space, we invite you to share your observations, critiques, and insights on a range of issues—from changes within the NeoSSPX churches to fighting the Marrano, Judeo-Masonic media, and practical advice for living a life steadfast in the traditional Catholic faith. Your contributions can help shed light on the challenges we face and offer guidance for those navigating these turbulent times.
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Together, let us confront the modern errors that challenge our faith with clarity and conviction. Your engagement is crucial in this collective effort to uphold and defend the true Catholic doctrine.
Vive le Christ-Roi!
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| Francis once again repeats the errors of Vatican II: All Religions Lead to God |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-13-2024, 08:27 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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As the SiSiNoNo series on The Errors of Vatican II have long pointed out, V-II:
Quote:Falsely attribut[es] to non- Christian religions that, like us, they believe in God the Creator.
Gaudium et Spes §36 states:
Quote:"...[All] believers of whatever religion have always heard His revealing voice in the discourse of creatures."
To attribute this to non-Christian religions is false. Citing just the two examples of Hinduism and Buddhism, both completely ignore the idea of a God who created from nothing and who reveals Himself in His creatures, since both are convinced that reality proceeds through emanation of an impersonal, cosmic, eternal force which is identically replicated in all things, from which force all comes and to which all returns, becoming a part of it, dissolving into it.
Likewise, inconceivably awarding the marks of truth and holiness to all the non-Christian religions, whereas they do not contain revealed truth, but are the fruit of the human spirit and, so, neither redeem nor save anyone. Nostra Aetate §2 states:
Quote:The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy (vera et sancta) in these religions. She looks with sincere respect upon those ways of conduct and of life, those rules and teachings which, though differing in many particulars from what she holds and sets forth, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men.
It is necessary to note the contradiction in the above, noting too its decidedly Deist tone. That is, if these religions "differ... in many particulars" from the Catholic Church's teaching, how can they "often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men"? This means that, for the Council, the truth "which enlightens all men" perhaps comes through rules and teachings that differ "in many particulars" from the Church's teaching! (How could an authentic ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church have been inspired to articulate such an idea?)
For a more in-depth study of the errors of Vatican II on the topic of Non-Christian Religions, see here.
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BREAKING: Pope Francis: ‘Every religion is a way to arrive at God’
Pope Francis told young people in Singapore that being ‘Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian’ are just ‘different paths,’
as ‘every religion is a way’ to God.
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Pope Francis addresses young people in Singapore
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SINGAPORE (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis today told young people of different faiths that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.”
Addressing an inter-religious meeting of young people in Singapore just before departing for his return flight to Rome, Pope Francis turned to one of the central themes of his pontificate – inter-religious dialogue.
“One of the things that struck me about all of you here is your ability to engage in inter-religious dialogue, and this is very important,” he told the crowd, assembled in Singapore’s Catholic Junior College.
Notwithstanding any comments to the contrary, the Catholic Church has consistently and clearly taught that it is the only true Church, the Body of Christ (Eph 1:22), and it exercises the charge given by Christ to spread the Gospel to all nations and to bring souls into the Church (Mark 16).
‘Every religion’ reaches God
Leaving aside his prepared speech and speaking without a script, Francis instead spoke chiefly on dialogue between religions, having just taken questions from a Catholic, a Sikh, and a Hindu.
The meeting’s widely varied mix of creeds represents Singapore’s status as one of the most diverse religious nations in the world. Focusing on this, Francis urged that no religion be given priority but that individuals instead focus on parity between beliefs:
Quote:If we start to fight amongst ourselves and say “my religion is more important than yours, my religion is true, yours is not,” where will that lead us? Where?
It’s okay to discuss [between religions].
Continuing, the Pope declared that each religion is a means to attain God, stating:
Quote:Every religion is a way to arrive at God. There are different languages to arrive at God, but God is God for all. And how is God God for all? We are all sons and daughters of God. But my god is more important than your god, is that true?
There is only one God and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, they are different paths.
The Pope’s words were warmly welcomed by those present in the hall, which included leaders and representatives of Singapore’s many religious bodies and the large papal retinue.
Courage to pursue religious harmony
Francis also dedicated time warning of the dangers of “bullying” and urging young people to have “courage” to move forward in inter-religious dialogue.
Quote:In order to have inter-religious dialogue between youth it takes courage, because youth is really the time when there is courage in our lives. But you can also have this courage and use it for things that really don’t help you, or you can use that courage to move forward and engage in dialogue.
Engaging in a discussion with the selected young people on the stage about the evils of bullying, Francis urged that to “move past” differences “helps with inter-religious dialogue.”
“You can build and move forward with inter-religious dialogue when you respect each other, and this is very important.”
He encouraged them to build a “safe space” where they could discuss their differences without fear of bullying. “Because dialogue is something that creates a path, a way,” Francis said.
He closed the meeting by calling on all present to “pray for each other” in silence. The Pope did not give a formal blessing – echoing his actions in Indonesia – but instead vocally called for God’s blessings on those present:
Quote:Let’s pray for each other … May God bless all of us. And as time passes and you become older, especially as you become grandparents, pass this on to the children and grandchildren.
God bless you and pray for me, but pray in favor, not against [me].
Following the conclusion of Francis’ comments, the young people assembled made an inter-religious pledge, committing to promote religious dialogue and harmony:
We the future generation pledge to be a beacon of unity and hope by promoting cooperation and friendships that nurture the harmonious co-existence between people of diverse beliefs.
Speaking to a similar inter-religious gathering of youth in Indonesia only last week, Francis said “Here, you are from diverse religions, but we have only one God, He is only one.”
Catholicism and salvation
Pope Francis has made numerous inter-religious statements and collaborated in formal documents on the matter – notably the controversial 2019 Abu Dhabi document and the Istiqlal Declaration, signed just days ago in Indonesia. The Abu Dhabi text has been described as seeking to “overturn the doctrine of the Gospel” due to its promotion of equality of religions in a form of “fraternity.”
However, the much-loved and widely respected approved catechism, the Baltimore Catechism, reminds readers simply that “The one true Church established by Christ is the Catholic Church.” {Q. 152}
Catholic doctrine teaches that this fact is knowable since the Catholic Church alone has the four marks of being the true Church: one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic.
As a result, the Church teaches that all souls must “belong” to the Church to be saved: “All are obliged to belong to the Catholic Church in order to be saved.” {Baltimore Catechism Q 166.}
This teaching of “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (no salvation outside the Church), has been increasingly rejected by modernizing activists in recent years, yet remains valid and unchanging in the Church’s teaching.
Pope Leo XIII pronounced it clearly in his 1824 encyclical letter Ubi Primum:
Quote:It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth Itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members. For we have a surer word of the prophet, and in writing to you We speak wisdom among the perfect; not the wisdom of this world but the wisdom of God in a mystery.
By it we are taught, and by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and that no other name under heaven is given to men except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in which we must be saved. This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.
The Vatican’s 1949 decree from the Holy Office instructed bishops charged with promoting true ecumenism to draw souls to the Church, and that they must always teach the fullness of the Church’s priority:
Quote:By no means is it permitted to pass over in silence or to veil in ambiguous terms the Catholic truth regarding the nature and way of justification, the constitution of the Church, the primacy of jurisdiction of the Roman Pontiff, and the only true union by the return of the dissidents to the one true Church of Christ.
The Catholic Church notes that it is possible for those remaining outside the Church “through no grave fault of their own” and who are somehow unaware that the Church is the true Church, to still be saved “by making use of the graces which God gives them.” However, salvation in these cases of “invincible ignorance” is not found through other churches, but is through the Catholic Church as the channel of grace, as taught by St. Thomas Aquinas.
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| The Rosary Crusade that Freed Austria from the Communists |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-12-2024, 03:06 AM - Forum: Prayers and Devotionals
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The Rosary Crusade that Freed Austria from the Communists
TIA | September 11, 2024
“The war [World War I] is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illumined by an unknown light, you know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger and of persecution of the Church and the Holy Father...
“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread its errors throughout the world...”
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A warning in 1917: 'Russia will spread her errors throughout the world'
Our Lady of Fatima gave the three shepherd children this prophetic message shortly before the end of World War I. Her predictions sadly came to pass. People continued to offend God and turned the short period of peace into a pursuit of wicked and alluring pleasures in an era that is known as the Roaring Twenties. As is only just, God inflicted the punishment predicted by Our Lady: A worse war came that raged for four long years.
The devastating World War II leveled many European cities and claimed 40-50 million lives across Europe. When at last a peace treaty was negotiated, Germany and her allies were forced to accept harsh punitive terms.
The Soviet Union, one of the Allied powers siding with Britain, France and the United States, was given a large share in the victory spoils: it gained control over large swaths of Eastern Europe, including countries it had occupied like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Eastern Germany. Communism took advantage of the situation to spread its propaganda and tighten its control of the countries. Unlike the other Allied countries, the communists soon showed that they had no intention of abandoning the prized territories allotted to them in the peace treaty.
Austria falls victim to the Soviets
Austria was one of the victims of the iron hand of the Soviets. During the War, Austria had been annexed by Nazi Germany, which gave it both the claim of victim and accomplice in the ensuing debate over Austria’s responsibility for the Nazi war crimes.
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After the war, Austria was divided and given to the Four Powers; Russia received the wealthy Viennese region; below, Stalin's portrait being wheeled through central Vienna in 1952
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The Austrian flag alongside the hammer-and-sickle on a tram in Vienna in 1946
Lingering suspicions of Austria’s complicity with the Nazis led the Four Great Powers – United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union – to divide the country into four sections to be monitored by the victor countries. Austria was able to maintain her own government since she had not been fully compliant with the Nazi takeover; however, any new legislation could be vetoed by a unanimous vote from all four powers.
The communist forces occupied the wealthiest region of industry and agriculture that included the capital city of Vienna. Subjecting it to their rule, the Soviet Union demanded reparations from Austria. The regions’ oil and shipping companies, factories and railroads were seized by the communists under the pretext that they had been used by the Nazis. The only way the struggling Austrian business owners could have a share in the revenue was to purchase the industries back at an unreasonable price.
The “conquered people” were also forced to pay for the food and clothing of the Red Army, a considerable sum for the already depleted Austria treasury. The soviet soldiers also committed crimes of looting and rape, which were not sufficiently punished by the officers who often sympathized with their men.
Communists infiltrated Austrian society and attempted to stir up unrest. Although the Austrian Communist Party received very little support in the post-war election, the presence of the Red Army in Vienna emboldened them.
In September 1950, it seemed that the Communist Party was plotting a putsch to seize power. For 10 days, workers went on strike, angry at the post war policy of the Austrian government and roused by the communist spirit of class struggle. At last, the strikes were put down, ending the threat of a Communist Revolution.
The Soviet Union claimed no part in the putsch, led as it was mostly by Austrian communists, but the soviets could not deny their promotion of the communist doctrine that continuously posed a threat to the Austrian government.
As Our Lady of Fatima had predicted, Russia was spreading its errors throughout the world. But the Queen of Heaven had a plan to liberate Austria from the communist tyranny, using neither weapons nor words but rather one of the most powerful tools against evil that a Catholic can wield – the Holy Rosary.
Fr. Pavlicek & Our Lady of Fatima
Petrus Otto Pavlicek was born in Innsbruck in 1902. Although raised a devout Catholic, he left the Church in his youth and led a disorderly life. In 1935, he converted after a near death sickness. He determined to pursue the priesthood despite many obstacles, and was at last ordained as a Capuchin in 1941.
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Fr. Petrus Pavlicekria spearheaded the Rosary Reparation Crusade; below, the medieval statue of Our Lady of Mariazell in the famous shrine in Austria
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One year later, Fr. Pavlicek was conscripted into the German Army as a paramedic. The Americans took him prisoner on the feast of the Assumption in 1944. From them he learned about Our Lady of Fatima, whose messages strengthened his commitment to the Holy Rosary, which he strove to promote after his release on July 16, 1945.
Inspired by the message of Fatima, Fr. Pavlicek came to see the Rosary as the answer to the liberation of Austria from communist control. To pray for guidance from above, he traveled to Mariazell, the most popular Austrian pilgrimage site that houses a miraculous wooden statue of Our Lady.
While praying before the statue on February 2, 1947, he heard these words from Our Lady: “Do as I tell you and there will be peace.” Convinced of the truth of her words, Fr. Pavlicek founded the Crusade of Reparation of the Holy Rosary.
Those who joined the Rosary Reparation Crusade prayed not only for the liberation of Austria, but also for the conversion of sinners and the true peace promised by Our Lady of Fatima. Public rosary rallies with growing crowds of people led by Fr. Pavlicek were held on the 13th of each month from 1947 to 1955.
Although lacking funds, Fr. Pavlicek managed to acquire a statue of Our Lady of Fatima from a Bishop of Portugal who was impressed by the Austrian priest’s fervor. This statue, which accompanied Fr. Pavlicek on his processions throughout Austria, was crafted by the same sculptor who made the original Pilgrim Statue of Fatima. As he traveled through the villages, he exhorted sinners and lapsed Catholics to repentance, hearing thousands of confessions along the way.
The monthly rosary processions grew so large that Fr. Pavlicek decided to introduce an annual procession, inviting all the parishes of Vienna to participate. The date he chose was September 12, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary; this was the date in the year 1683 that Vienna was delivered from the threat of the Ottomans through the power of the Rosary and the valor of the Polish King Jan Sobieski.
To achieve a similar victory for Vienna years later, notable state officials joined in the annual procession, including Foreign Minister Leopold Figl and Federal Chancellor Julius Raab. Minister Figl nobly proclaimed to Fr. Pavlicek: “Even if just the two of us be present, I will go. My country demands it!” As it turned out, thousands of Austrians gathered each year to ask for the intercession of Our Lady.
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Foreign Minister Figl & Chancellor Raab lead the Rosary Procession through the streets of Vienna
Fr. Pavlicek wanted at least one-tenth of the Austrian population – about 700,000 people – to pray the Rosary every day. His goal was reached in 1955, when more than half a million Austrians had pledged to pray the Rosary; some estimates claim 700,000 Austrians made the pledge.
Coincidently, years earlier roughly the same number of Austrians had officially joined the Nazi Party. It was as though Our Lady was calling the same number of souls to make reparation for the sins of Austrians who chose National Socialism over the liberty of the Catholic Church.
Cold War tensions miraculously lift to free Austria
The early 1950s saw an increased tension between the Soviet Union and the other European Powers: The Cold War had emerged. Many countries, fearing a new war, began to prepare for a Soviet blockade. Communist dictator Joseph Stalin took an aggressive stance and raised high tension in the Allied Nations. Intent on spreading Communism throughout the world, Stalin used violent means to achieve his end.
Stalin’s death in 1953 saw a slight shift in Russian policy, with the communist leaders being more open to peace. However, they still kept a strong hold on all of their acquired territories, which they were unwilling to surrender. Continued negotiations and conferences did little to end the Cold War tensions.
On March 24, 1955 – the same year Fr. Pavlicek had received the Rosary pledge of half a million Austrians – the communists unexpectedly invited the Austrians to yet another peace conference: over 260 such meetings had been held since the end of the War with no progress towards Austrian independence.
Before departing, Chancellor Julius Raab sought out Fr. Pavlicek to implore intensified prayer: “Please pray, and ask your people to pray harder than ever.”
All the occupying powers – the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union – gathered for this conference. To the great astonishment of all, the communists agreed to grant Austria independence and to leave Austrian soil with the single condition that Austria remain a neutral country.
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Thousands of Austrians join the Rosary Crusade procession to thank Our Lady for freeing the country from the communists in 1955
All four countries signed the Austrian State Treaty on May 15, 1955. This is the only time during the Cold War that the Soviet Union withdrew from a country and signed a treaty with the United States. By October 26, the last Russian soldier had departed Austria, a victory that no other occupied country would see until much later.
Jubilant Austrians gathered in the streets of Vienna processing triumphantly with the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Realizing that this success had little to do with himself, Chancellor Raab declared: “Today, we, whose hearts are full of faith, cry out to Heaven in joyful prayer: We are free. O Mary, we thank Thee!”
Hearkening to his words, thousands of Austrians have come to Vienna year after year on the feast of September 12 to thank Our Lady of Fatima for the liberation of their country and to pray for peace and the conversion of sinners.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Alta Vendita 2.0 - The New Face of Masonic Subversion |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-11-2024, 09:44 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Alta Vendita 2.0: The New Face of Masonic Subversion
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted] | September 10, 2024
Quote:The following document outlines a comprehensive strategy devised by Masonic leaders to undermine the Catholic Church. Effective from 1962 and updated in October 1993, these directives aim to erode the Church from within, targeting its liturgical, doctrinal, and organizational aspects.
Summary
The plan detailed in this document reveals an alarming effort to diminish the significance of the Church’s rituals, challenge the sacredness of the Mass, and promote a more secular approach to religion. This systematic reshaping of the Catholic Church aligns with Judeo-Masonic objectives, highlighting the urgent need for vigilance and discernment among the faithful.
Liturgical Changes: The directives advocate for the removal of traditional elements from the Mass, including Latin, the veneration of saints, and the reception of Communion on the knees. It promotes Protestant-influenced practices and secular music, diluting the sacredness of the liturgy.
Alterations in Devotional Practices: The document suggests eliminating traditional penances, devotional books, and hymns. It encourages a shift away from traditional practices such as the veneration of relics and saints, promoting secular and ecumenical approaches instead.
Changes to Religious Education and Vocations: The plan includes undermining Catholic education by employing non-Catholic teachers and reducing religious content. It also aims to transform religious vocations, altering nuns' habits and prioritizing secularism over traditional piety.
Attacks on Papal Authority and Doctrine: The directives seek to challenge the authority of the Pope and weaken the Church’s doctrinal teachings. This includes revising catechisms to align with secular and Protestant views, and reducing the emphasis on traditional Catholic teachings.
This document’s contents alarmingly reflect the objectives outlined in the Alta Vendita—the very document against which Pope Gregory XVI and Pope Leo XIII warned. Just as those Popes foresaw the dangers of Masonic infiltration.
In evaluating this document, let us consider the critique from Bishop Fellay’s 2012 Doctrinal Declaration, particularly point #4, which supports the “hermeneutics of continuity” proposed by Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Fellay’s declaration states that “the entire tradition of Catholic Faith must be the criterion and guide in understanding the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, which, in turn, enlightens—in other words, deepens and subsequently makes explicit—certain aspects of the life and doctrine of the Church implicitly present within itself or not yet conceptually formulated.” However, this approach is merely a modernist rebranding of the condemned notion of the evolution of dogma, firmly rejected by St. Pius X.
How should we interpret the ''THE MASONIC PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'' in light of tradition?
Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, pray for us!
-The ☩ Trumpet
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From the column « Storia» of the magazine:« Teologica» n. 14 – March/April 1998 - pages 22-25
Edition Segno – Udine - Italia
Source: conchiglia.us
Note to Reader: You will observe that the majority, if not all, of the instructions outlined below have already been completed.
THE MASONIC PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Directives of the Grand Master of the Masonry to the Catholic Mason Bishops, effective of 1962.
(Updating of the Vatican II). All of the mason brethren must report on the progress of this decisive disposition. Re-elaborated in October 1993 as the progressive plan for the final study. All of the masons occupied in the Church must collect them and accomplish them.
1. Remove once and for all Saint Michael, protector of the Catholic Church, from all of the prayers internal and external of the Holy Mass. Remove his statues affirming that he distracts the attention to the Adoration of Christ.
2. Remove the Penitential Exercises of Lent like no meat on Friday or even fasting; impede every act of abnegation. In their place acts of happiness, joy and love for the neighbour must be favoured. You must say: “Christ has already deserved Paradise for us” and “every human effort is useless”. Tell everyone that they must seriously think about their health. Encourage them to eat meat, especially pig meat.
3. Entrust the Protestant Pastors to re-examine the Holy Mass and to desecrate it. Spread doubt on the Real Presence in the Eucharist and confirm that the Eucharist – with a faith close[r] to that of the Protestants- it is only bread and wine and is intended as a pure symbol. Spread Protestants in the Seminars and in the schools. Encourage ecumenism as the way towards unity. Accuse anyone who believes in the Real Presence as subversive and disobedient towards the Church.
4. Prohibit the Latin Liturgy of the Mass, Adoration and Hymns, because they communicate a mysterious and deference emotion. Present them like spells of soothsayers. The men will stop to consider the Priests as men of superior intelligence, to be respected as carriers of the Divine Mysteries.
5. Encourage the women to not to cover their heads with a veil in Church. The hairs are sexy. Pretend woman to be readers and Priests. Present the idea as a democratic ideal. Found a movement of liberation of the women. Who enters in to the Church must be badly dressed in order to feel at home. That will make less important the Holy Mass.
6. Dissuade the faithful in receiving the Holy Communion on their knees. Tell the nuns that they must dissuade the children from keeping their hands together before and after Communion. Tell them that God loves them as they are and that they should feel at ease.
Eliminate in the church to remain on the knees and every genuflection. Remove the kneeling stools. Tell the people that during Mass they show their faith standing in an erect position.
7. Eliminate all the holy music played with the organ. Introduce the guitar, Jewish harps, drums, stamping, and holy laughs in the church. That distracts people from their personal prayers and from the conversations with Jesus. Do not give Jesus the time to call children to the religious life. Do liturgical dances with exciting clothes, theatres and concerts around the Altars.
8. Remove all the holy character of the songs to the Mother of God and to Saint Joseph. Indicate their veneration as idolism. Render ridiculous those who persist. Introduce Protestant songs. That will give an impression that the Catholic Church finally admits that the Protestant religion is the true religion or at least it is equal to that of the Catholic Church.
9. Eliminate all of the hymns even those to Jesus because they make the people think of happiness and serenity that derives from life of mortification and of penance for God since infancy. Introduce new songs only to convince the people that the preceding rituals in some way were false.
Assure yourselves in every Mass that there is at least one in which Jesus is not mentioned and that instead speaks only of love for men. The young people will be enthusiastic to hear someone speaking of love for the neighbour. Preach love, tolerance and unity. Do not mention Jesus, prohibit any announcements of the Eucharist.
10. Remove all of the Relics of the Saints from the Altars and then also the Altars themselves. Substitute them with pagan tables without Consecration that can be used to make human offerings during satanic masses.
Eliminate the Ecclesiastical law that want the celebration of the Holy Mass only on Altars containing Relics.
11. Interrupt the practice of the celebration of the Holy Mass at the presence of the Holy Sacrament in the Tabernacle. Do not place any Tabernacle on the Altars that are used for the celebration of the Holy Mass. The table must have the appearance of a kitchen table. It must be transportable to express that it is not at all sacred but must serve a double function as, for example, a table for conferences or for card games. Later on place a chair under the table.
The Priest must take that position to indicate that after Communion he rests as after a meal. The Priest must never be on his knees nor genuflect during the Mass.
At the meals in fact, one is never on his knees. The chair of the Priest must be placed in the position of the Tabernacle. Encourage the people to venerate and also to adore the Priest instead of the Eucharist, to obey him instead of the Eucharist. Tell the people that the Priest is Christ, their leader. Place the Tabernacle in a local place out of sight.
12. Make disappear all of the Saints from the Ecclesiastical calendar, always some in determined days. Prohibit the Priests to preach the Saints, except for those who are mentioned in the Gospel. Tell the people that eventual Protestants, probably present in the church, could be scandalised. Avoid all that disturbs the Protestants.
13. In the reading of the Gospel omit the word “holy”, for example, instead of “Gospel according to Saint John”, simply say: “Gospel according to John”. That will make the people to think that they should not venerate them anymore.
Continuously write new bibles so that they are identical to the Protestants ones. Omit the adjective “Holy” in the expression “Holy Spirit”. That will open the way. Emphasize the feminine nature of God as a mother full of sweetness. Eliminate the use of the term “Father”.
14. Make all the books on personal piety disappear and destroy them. In consequence even the Litanies to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to the Mother of God, to Saint Joseph will cease as well as for the preparation for the Holy Communion. The giving thanks after the Communion will be superfluous.
15. Make also all of the statues and images of the Angels disappear. Why the statues of our enemies must be between our feet? Define them as myths or stories for the goodnight. Do not allow discussion on the Angels for they perturb our Protestant friends.
16. Abrogate minor exorcisms to expel the devils: work on this, announcing that the devils do not exist. Explain that it is a method adopted in the Bible to design evil and that without the evil there could not exist interesting stories.
In consequence the people will not believe in the existence of hell nor will they fear to ever fall in to it. Repeat that hell is nothing but the furthering away from God and that there is nothing terrible in that if we are speaking about the same life here on earth.
17. Teach that Jesus was only a man who had brothers and sisters and who hated the people with power. Explain that He loved the company of the prostitutes, especially Maria Magdalene; that he did not know what to do with the churches and the synagogues.
Tell them that he advised not to obey the leaders of the Clergy, explain that he was a great teacher that though he deviated from the correct path when he neglected to obey the leaders of the church. Discourage the discussion on the Cross as a victory, on the contrary present it as a failure.
18. Remember that you can endure nuns towards the betrayal of their vocation if you refer to their vanity, attractiveness and beauty. Make them change their Ecclesiastical Habit and that will make them throw away their Rosary.
Reveal to the world that in their convents there are dissents. This will dry their vocation. Tell the nuns that they will not be accepted if they do not renounce their habit. Favour the discredit of the Ecclesiastical Habit even amongst the people.
19. Burn all of the Catechisms. Tell the teachers of religion to teach love the creatures of God instead of God Himself. To openly love testifies maturity. Make that the term “sex” becomes a term of daily use in your classes of religion. Make sex a new religion. Introduce images of sex in the religious lessons to teach the children the reality. Assure yourselves that the images are clear.
Encourage the schools to become progressive thinkers in the field of sex education. Introduce the sexual education through the authority of the Bishop so that the parents will have nothing to say on the contrary.
20. Suffocate the catholic schools, impeding the vocation of the nuns. Reveal to the nuns that they are social workers who are under paid and that the Church is about to eliminate them. Insist that the catholic layman teachers receive the same wage as those of the public schools. Use non catholic teachers. The Priests must receive the same wage the corresponding secular employees. All of the Priests must put away their Clergy Vests and their Crosses in order to be accepted by everyone. Render ridiculous those who do not adapt themselves.
21. Annihilate the Pope, destroying his University. Detach the Universities from the Pope, saying that that way of governing could subsidise. Substitute the names of the Religious Institutes with profane names, in favour of ecumenism. For example, instead of “School of the Immaculate Conception” say “New High School”. Create bodies of ecumenism in all of the Dioceses and worry about having them controlled by Protestants.
Prohibit the Prayers for the Pope and for Mary because they discourage ecumenism. Announce that the local Bishops are the competent authorities. Sustain that the Pope is only a representative figure.
Explain to the people that the teachings of the Pope is necessary only for conversation but they don’t have any meaning.
22. Fight the Authority of the Pope, placing a limit of age on his activity. Reduce him to a very little, explain that you want to preserve him from excess work.
23. Be audacious. Weaken the Pope by introducing synods of Bishops. The Pope will then become only a representative figure as in England where the High Cabinet and the Low one reign and from them the queen receives the orders. Then, weaken the authority of the Bishop, giving life to a concurrent institution at the Presbyterian level.
Say that in that way the Priests will receive the right attention.
Finally weaken the authority of the Priests with the constitution of laymen groups that dominate the Priests. In this way you will originate such a hatred that they will abandon the Church even Cardinals will do so and the Church will then be democratic…the New Church…
24. Reduce the vocation of the Priesthood, making the laymen lose their reverential fear for them. The public scandal of a Priest will annihilate thousands of vocations. Praise the Priests who for the love of a woman abandoned everything, defining them as heroes.
Honour the Priests reduced to a laymen state as authentic martyrs, oppressed to such a point that they could not support anything else. Condemn even as a scandal that our mason brethren in the Priesthood must be made known and that their names be published. Be tolerant with the homosexuals of the Clergy. Tell the people that the Priests suffer of solitude.
25. Begin the closure of the churches due to the scarcity of the Clergy. Define as good and economical this practice. Explain that God listens everywhere the prayers. In that way the church will become extravagant waste of money. Close above all the churches in which there is a traditional piety practice.
26. Use commissions of laymen and Priests who are weak in faith who condemn and reprehend without difficulty every apparition of Mary and apparent miracle, especially those of the Archangel Saint Michael. Assure yourselves that nothing of this, in no measure will receive approval according to the Vatican II.
Name disobedience in respect to the authorities if someone obeys to the Revelations or even if someone reflects on them. Indicate the Prophets as disobedient in respect to the Ecclesiastical Authority.
Cover their name with mud, so that no one will ever think of considering some part of their Message.
27. Elect an Antipope. Affirm that he will bring back the Protestants to the Church and perhaps even the Jews. An Antipope can be elected if the right to vote is given to the Bishops. Then many Antipopes will be elected so that as a compromise an Antipope will be selected. Affirm that the true Pope is dead.
28. Remove the Confession before the Holy Communion for the students of the second and third grade so that it will not be important for them when they go to the fourth or fifth grade and onto higher classes. The confession then will disappear. Introduce (in silence) the community confession with the absolution in group. Explain to the people that this happens due to the scarcity of the Clergy.
29. Make women and laymen distribute the Communion. Tell them this is the time for the laymen. Begin with the deposition of the Communion in the hands, as the Protestants, instead of on the tongue. Explain that Christ did it in the same way. Collect some hosts for the “black masses” in our temples. Distribute also instead of the personal Communion a chalice of non-consecrated hosts for the communion that one could take home with him. Explain to them that in this way they could have divine gifts in their everyday life. Place automatic distributors of hosts for communion and call them Tabernacles.
Say that there must be an exchange of the sign of peace. Encourage the people to move about the church to interrupt the prayer and the devotion. Do not make the Sign of the Cross; in place of It a sign of peace. Explain that even Christ moved to greet the Disciples. Do not allow any concentration in these moments. The Priests must turn their back to the Eucharist and honour the people.
30. After that the Antipope has been elected, dissolve the synod of the Bishops as well as the associations of the Priests and the parish counsels.
Prohibit all the religious people to make discussions without permission, on these new dispositions. Explain that God loves humbleness and hates those who aspire glory. Accuse of disobedient in respect of the Ecclesiastic Authorities all those who raise questions.
Discourage Obedience towards God. Tell the people that they must obey to these Ecclesiastic Superiors.
31. Give the Pope (=Antipope) the maximum power to choose his successors. Order under the penalty of being excommunicated all those who love God to wear the sign of the beast. Do not call it though the “sign of the beast”. The Sign of the Cross must not be done nor used on persons nor through it (one must not bless anymore). To do the Sign of the Cross will be designed as an idolatry and disobedience.
32. Declare false the preceding Dogmas, except for the Pontifical Infallibility. Proclaim Jesus Christ a failed revolutionary. Announce that the true Christ will come soon. Only the elected Antipope must be obeyed. Tell the people that they must bow when they pronounce his name.
33. Order all of the subordinates of the Pope to fight in the holy crusade to extend the only one worldwide religion. Satan knows where all of the lost gold is.
Conquer without pity the world!
All this will bring onto humanity what humanity has always yearned for: “the golden époque of peace”.
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| The Scriptural Rosary - short verse for each bead |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-10-2024, 06:39 AM - Forum: Prayers and Devotionals
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The Old Testament Rosary - short verse for each bead
“Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?”
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WM Review | Oct 08, 2021
“Search the scriptures,” said the Lord. “For you think in them to have life everlasting: And the same are they that give testimony of me, and you will not come to me that you may have life. […]
Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you: Moses, in whom you trust. For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” (John 5:39-47)
Several times in the Gospels, Our Lord Jesus Christ himself asserts that the Law, the Psalms and the Prophets point towards him as the Saviour. He specifically claims that Moses wrote of him.
This aid takes short texts from the Old Testament for each Our Father and Hail Mary. It prioritises texts used by the Church, particularly in her Holy Liturgy.
The texts for each Our Father are taken from the Pentateuch (the first five books), also known as the Law of Moses. The redemption appears with great clarity even in these earliest Scriptures, showing Christ as the New Adam and fulfilling so many promises.
“All things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.”
Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. (Luke 24:44-46)
There are many such aids in circulation, but ours are briefer – adding nothing to the time taken to say the Rosary – and are therefore more suited to memorisation. The texts are prophecies and foreshadowings of the life of Christ, and they perhaps even give us a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of his Sacred Heart, in his joys, sorrows and glories.
“O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all things which the prophets have spoken,” said the Lord. “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so, to enter into his glory?”
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him. And they drew nigh to the town whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther. But they constrained him, saying:
“Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent.”
And he went in with them. And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread and blessed and brake and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. And he vanished out of their sight, and they said one to the other:
“Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?” (Luke 24:25-32)
Some of these texts must have featured in this explanation on the road to Emmaus. We hope that those who use this aid also find their hearts burning within them at the majesty of Our Lord Jesus Christ and his holy Mother, and the admirable precision with which his life makes sense of these 165 texts from the Old Testament.
The Joyful Mysteries
1. The Annunciation
I shall put enmities between thee and the woman. Our Father, etc. Gn 3.15.
- Behold a virgin shall be with child. Hail Mary, etc. Is 7.14
- And his name shall be called Emmanuel. Is 7.14
- He shall come down like rain on the fleece. Ps 71.6
- And a rod shall come forth from the root of Jesse. Is 11.1
- He shall sit on the throne of David. Is 9.7
- Drop down dew, ye heavens: let the clouds rain the Just. Is 45.8
- Let the earth bud forth a Saviour. Is 45.8
- Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee. Ps 2.7
- From the womb, before the daystar, I begot thee. Ps 109.3
- A body thou hast fitted to me: I come to do thy will. Ps 39.7
2. The Visitation
Shall an old woman bear a child? Is anything hard to God? Gn 18.14-15.
- Arise, O Lord, with the Ark that thou hast sanctified. Ps 131.8
- Before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee. Jr 1.5
- I made thee a prophet to the nations. Jr 1.5
- Behold, I send my angel before my face. Ml 3.1
- I send you Elias before the dreadful day. Ml 4.5
- The voice crying out in the wilderness: Is 40.3
- Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Is 40.3
- Valley shall be exalted. Is 40.4
- Mount made low. Is 40.4
- And the glory of the Lord revealed. Is 40.5
3. The Nativity of our Lord
A star shall rise out of Jacob. Nm 24.17.
- And thou, Bethlehem, art not the least in Juda. Mi 5.2
- From thee shall come the Captain to rule my people. Mi 5.2
- His going forth shall be from the days of eternity. Mi 5.2
- A Child is born to us, a Son is given to us. Is 9.6
- The Mighty God, the Prince of Peace. Is 9.6
- Before she was in labour, she brought forth a man. Is 66.7
- The ox knoweth his owner, the ass his master’s crib. Is 1.3
- But Israel hath not known me or understood. Is 1.3
- But the Kings of Tharsis shall offer presents. Ps 71.10
- And they from Saba bring gold and frankincense. Is 60.6
4. The Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple
Thou shalt offer thy son for an holocaust. Gn 22.2.
- Every firstborn is mine, since I struck the firstborn of Egypt. Nm 3.13
- Sanctify to me the firstborn that opens the womb. Ex 13.12
- Then the woman shall enter the sanctuary after her purification. Lv 12.4
- And bringing a holocaust, shall she be cleansed. Lv 12.8
- But thou art all fair, my love, without a spot in thee. Cn 4.7
- The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple. Ml 3.1
- The Desired of All Nations shall fill this house with glory. Ag 2.8
- Then a voice in Rama, Rachel bewailing her children. Jr 31.15
- So the Lord will ascend and enter into Egypt. Is 19.1
- ’Til out of Egypt have I called my son. Os 11.1
5. The Finding of our Lord in the Temple
Thrice a year shall thy males appear before me. Ex 23.17.
- My soul longs for the courts of the Lord. Ps 83.3
- For better is one day in thy courts than thousands elsewhere. Ps 83.11
- Zeal for thy house hath eaten me up. Ps 68.10
- I have understood more than my teachers. Ps 118.99
- For out of the mouths of infants thou hast perfected praise. Ps 8.3
- I will rise, and will go about the city. Cn 3.2
- In the streets I will seek my beloved. Cn 3.2
- I sought him, and I found him not. Cn 3.2
- And when I found him, whom my soul loveth: Cn 3.4
- I held him: and will not let him go. Cn 3.4
The Sorrowful Mysteries
1. The Agony of our Lord in the Garden
The Lord God put Adam in the Garden, to dress it and keep it. Gn 2.15.
- Save me O God: for the waters come into my soul. Ps 68.2
- My heart hath expected reproach and misery. Ps 68.21
- Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me. Ps 87.9
- I looked for one to grieve with me. Ps 68.21
- But I found none that would comfort me. Ps 68.21
- The cords of the wicked encompassed me. Ps 118.61
- They have hated me without cause. Ps 34.19
- They weighed for my price, thirty pieces of silver. Zc 11.12
- If an enemy had reviled me, I would have borne it. Ps 54.13
- But he who ate my bread hath lifted his heel against me. Ps 40.10
2. The Scourging at the Pillar
He shall wash his robe in wine, in the blood of the grape. Gn 49.11
- Unjust witnesses paid me evil for good. Ps 34.11
- But I have set my face as a most hard rock. Is 50.7
- I am ready for scourges: my sorrow is ever before me. Ps 37.18
- I have given my body to the strikers. Is 50.6
- The wicked have wrought on my back. Ps 128.3
- We thought him struck by God and afflicted. Is 53.4
- For the Lord bruised him in infirmity. Is 53.10
- But he was wounded for our iniquities. Is 53.10
- He was bruised for our sins. Is 53.5
- And by his stripes we are healed. Is 53.5
3. The Crowning of our Lord with Thorns
Thorns and thistles shall the earth bring forth to thee. Gn 3.18
- There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness. Is 53.2
- Despised, the most abject of men. Is 53.3
- A man of sorrows, acquainted with infirmity. Is 53.3
- His look was hidden and despised. Is 53.3
- Whereupon we esteemed him not. Is 53.3
- The wicked draw near against me. Ps 26.2
- I have given my cheeks to them that plucked them. Is 50.6
- I turned not my face from spitting. Is 50.6
- And all that saw me have laughed me to scorn. Ps 21.8
- O ye that pass by the way, is there sorrow like to mine? Lam 1.12
4. Our Lord’s Carrying of his Cross
He laid the wood for the holocaust on Isaac his son. Gn 22.6.
- He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter. Is 53.7
- Dumb as a lamb before his shearer. Is 53.7
- He hath borne our infirmities, carried our sorrows. Is 53.4
- The chastisement of our peace was upon him. Is 53.4
- For the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is 53.6
- My soul hath cleaved to the pavement. Ps 118.25
- I am a worm and no man. Ps 21.7
- My strength is dried up like a potsherd. Ps 21.16
- My tongue hath cleaved to my jaws. Ps 21.16
- Thou hast brought me down to the dust of death. Ps 21.16
5. The Crucifixion and Death of our Lord
God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust. Gn 22.8.
- O God, my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Ps 21.2
- They have pierced my hands and my feet. Ps 21.17
- They have numbered all my bones. Ps 21.17
- They divided my garments; casting lots for my vesture. Ps 21.19
- In my thirst they gave me vinegar. Ps 68.22
- Her sun is gone down, while it was yet day. Ez 37.26
- They shall not break a bone of him. Ex 12.46
- They shall look upon him whom they pierced. Zc 12.10
- He was reputed with the wicked. Is 53.12
- But his sepulchre shall be glorious, made with the rich man. Is 11.10, 53.9
The Glorious Mysteries
1. The Resurrection of our Lord from the Dead
The Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam. Gn 2.21.
- The Stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. Ps 117.22
- My heart hath been glad, and my flesh shall rest in hope. Ps 15.9
- For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell. Ps 15.10
- Nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. Ps 15.10
- O Death, I will be thy death: O Hell, I will be thy bite. Os 13.14
- I have risen, and am with thee still. Ps 138.18
- Thou hast lifted me up from the gates of death. Ps 9.15
- The Lord brought me out of the pit, and set my feet on a rock. Ps 39.3
- To him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him. Ps 21.31
- This is the day that the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein. Ps 117.24
2. The Ascension of our Lord into Heaven
Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered. Nm 10.35.
- Make a way for him who ascendeth upon the West. Ps 67.5
- He mounteth above the heavens to the East. Ps 67.34
- God is ascended with jubilee, the Lord with sound of trumpet. Ps 46.6
- Ascending on high, thou hast led captivity captive. Ps 67.19
- Sit at my right, ’til I make thy enemies thy footstool. Ps 109.1
- The Lord hath prepared his throne in Heaven. Ps 102.19
- His kingdom shall rule over all. Ps 102.19
- The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty. Ps 92.1
- Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones. Ps 20.4
- All people, tribes and tongues shall serve him. Dn 7.14
3. The Descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost
The Lord thy God is a consuming fire. Dt 4.24.
- Send forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created: Ps 103.30
- And thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Ps 103.30
- Come, Spirit, from the four winds: Ez 37.9
- Blow on these slain, and let them live: Ez 37.9
- And the Spirit came into them, and they lived. Ez 37.10
- I will pour upon you clean water: Ez 36.25
- And you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness. Ez 36.25
- I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: Jo 2.28
- And write my law in their hearts. Jr 31.33
- And those that call on the Lord shall be saved. Jo 2.32
4. The Assumption of our Lady into Heaven
It is not good for man to be alone. Gn 2.18.
- Hearken, O Daughter, for the King hath desired thy beauty: Ps 44.12
- Arise, my love, my dove, and come. Cn 2.13
- For winter is past, the rain is over and gone. Cn 2.11
- Forget thy people, and thy father’s house. Ps 44.11
- With thy comeliness and beauty, proceed and reign. Ps 44.5
- Who is she going up from the desert? Cn 3.6
- A pillar of smoke, of aromatical spices; Cn 3.6
- Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense; Cn 3.6
- Flowing with delights, and leaning upon her Beloved. Cn 8.5
- Come from Libanus, my spouse, come and be crowned. Cn 4.8
5. The Coronation of our Lady as Queen of Heaven
She shall crush thy head. Gn 3.15.
- My heart hath uttered a good word, I speak my words to the King. Ps 44.2
- By me, his handmaid, hath he fulfilled his mercy. Jt 13.18
- And he hath killed his people’s enemy by my hand. Jd 13.18
- I am the Mother of fair love, and of holy hope. Ecclus 24.24
- The Queen at thy right hand, in gold arrayed. Ps 44.10
- Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, and the honour of our people. Jt 15.10
- All the rich shall entreat thy countenance. Ps 44.13
- Grace is poured out from thy lips. Ps 44.3
- Instead of thy fathers, princes are born to thee. Ps 44.17
- They shall remember thy name forever and ever. Ps 44.18
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| An Unexpected Confession Due to Our Lady |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2024, 05:57 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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An Unexpected Confession Due to Our Lady
St. Alphonsus de Ligouri
Taken from The Glories of Mary
TIA | September 7, 2024
Our Lady is called the Gate of Heaven by the Holy Church: "Felix coeli porta" because as St. Bernard observes, just as every rescript of pardon sent by the King comes through the palace gate, so it is that through Mary comes every pardon from God. Likewise, St. Bonaventure says that Mary is called the Gate of Heaven because no one can enter Heaven if he does not pass through Mary, who is the door of it.
Now then, this example is not recorded in any book, but a priest, a companion of mine, related it to me as having happened to himself.
Whilst this priest was hearing confessions in a certain church (for sufficient reasons he did not mention the place where this occurred, although the penitent gave him leave to publish the fact), a youth stood before him, who appeared to wish and not to wish to come to confession.
The priest, after looking at him several times, at length called him and asked him if he wished to make his confession. He answered, yes; but as he required a long time for it, the confessor took him into a retired room. There the penitent began by telling him that he was a foreigner and of noble birth, but he could not believe that it was possible for God to pardon him after the life he had led.
Besides innumerable other sins he had committed of impurity, homicide, etc, he said that he had fallen entirely into despair of salvation, and so he had set about committing sins not so much for his own gratification but only to defy God and manifest the hatred he bore Him. He said that among other things, he had with him a crucifix, which he had beaten out of contempt.
He said that on that very morning, he had made a sacrilegious Communion, and for what object? That he might put under his feet the consecrated Host. In fact, he continued, he had actually received Communion and was about to put into execution this horrible intention, but was prevented by the people who might observe him.
He then consigned to the confessor the consecrated Host, wrapped in a paper, and told him that as he was passing by that church he had a great desire to enter. He could not resist this desire, and had entered. Then, he continued, he had felt great remorse of conscience, together with a certain confused and irresolute desire to make his confession. For this reason he had placed himself before the confessional, but while standing there he felt so confused and timid that he wished to go away, but it seemed as if some one had retained him by force.
This was his situation until, he said: "You, Father, called me, and now I find myself here. I find myself making my confession, but I know not how to do it."
The priest then asked him if he had practiced any act of devotion during that time – meaning towards the Most Holy Mary – for such sudden conversions only come through the powerful hands of the Virgin.
"None, Father; what devotion could I offer," answered the youth, “when I believed myself lost?"
"But try to remember more carefully," replied the priest.
"Father, nothing."
But accidentally putting his hand to his breast, he remembered that he wore the Scapular of the Seven Dolors of Mary: Maria addolorata.
"Ah, my son," said the confessor to him, "do you not see that Our Bessed Lady has bestowed this grace upon you? And know," he added, "that this church is a church of Our Blessed Lady."
Hearing this, the youth was moved to contrition, and began to weep. He confessed his sins, and his compunction increased to such a degree that, bursting into tears, he fell down, overcome with grief, as it seemed, at the feet of the priest. That priest, after having restored the youth with a cordial, finally finished by hearing his confession and absolving him with the greatest consolation, as he was entirely contrite and resolved to amend his life.
The priest sent him back to his own country after having obtained from him full liberty to preach and publish everywhere the great mercy exercised by Mary towards him.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary Most Holy |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-09-2024, 03:53 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Genuisti qui te fecit
Homily on the Nativity of Mary Most Holy
Allow me to express my greeting to the dear parents, relatives, and friends of Claudio and Fabrizio, who today consecrate themselves to the service of the Most High: not on the feast day of the Presentation in the Temple, as usually happens, but on another Marian feast that is no less important. Tu es qui restitues hereditatem meam mihi. You are the One who gives me the inheritance that is due to me (Ps 15:5). These are the words that accompany the rite of the Sacred Tonsure, signifying that the abandonment of the world represented by the cutting of hair involves a loss of transient and changeable things in order to appropriate the eternal and immutable ones.
As on the Feast of the Assumption, so also on the Nativity of Mary Most Holy we find the parallel between the Virgin Mother and Holy Church confirmed. She is Queen and Lady just as her Divine Son is King and High Priest. The liturgy of this blessed day is centered on the Mystery of the Incarnation, for which the Most Holy Trinity created ab æterno, from of old (Prov 8:23) the One who – assimilated to Divine Wisdom – would be the Ark of the Covenant, the Tower of David, the Living Tabernacle of the Most High. From the first moment of Her Conception, Our Lord consecrated the integrity of the Mother of God by preserving Her from original sin and keeping Her Ever-Virgin: quæ et Unigenitum tuum Sancti Spiritus obumbratione concepit; et Virginitatis gloria permanente, lumen æternum mundo effudit, Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Who also conceived Thine only-begotten Son by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, and the glory of her virginity still abiding, gave forth to the world the everlasting Light, Jesus Christ our Lord. (Preface of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
Saint Bernard calls Mary Most Holy the Aqueduct of Grace, because through her all the graces and blessings of Christ, the Divine Fountainhead, come to us. Holy Church is also a channel of Grace through the Sacraments. In Her bosom the Body of the Lord is mystically formed in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar; thanks to the Priesthood, the Sacrifice of the Mass perpetuates the presence of Emmanuel, God-with-us.
The clerical vestment and the sacred tonsure that I am preparing to confer on Claudio and Fabrizio in this solemn celebration mark the moment in which they freely choose to dedicate themselves to the Lord and to renounce the world. The rite contained in the Roman Pontifical shows this separation with its external signs – the black cassock, the cutting of hair, and the surplice that symbolizes the new man with whom to clothe oneself in justitia, et sanctitate Veritatis, in righteousness and true holiness. The cleric stops living in a worldly manner, however licit, so as to follow the example of the Divine Master: in the world, but not of the world. In fact, what is of the world is profane, and as such must remain outside the temple, which is precisely sacred and holy, that is, separate and inviolable because it is reserved for the worship of God (sacer) and ratified by God as His (sanctus).
The cleric, with his austere robe that silently but eloquently recalls the Cross of Christ, penance, renunciation, and mortification, is and must be “outside the world.” For this reason, the world hates everything that recalls heavenly realities, the external signs of Religion, the Cross, the relics of the saints, the sacred images, and also the cassock that today you will put on forever, and which is stripped from those who, although honored with Holy Orders, continue to live in a manner that belongs to the world.
This ceremony is the first step in the itinerarium (path) towards the priesthood. In the Liturgy of the Nativity of Mary Most Holy, and in particular in the Epistle taken from the Book of Wisdom, we find a starting point for spiritual meditation: Therefore, O children, listen to me: Blessed are those who walk in my ways. Hear the teaching, be wise, and do not reject it: Blessed is the man who hears me and watches over me daily at the entrance of my house, and is attentive to the edge of my door. Whoever finds me will find life and receive salvation from the Lord (Prov 8:32-35).
Dear Claudio and Fabrizio, you are preparing to walk towards a goal, following a very precise path. You are called to keep vigil every day in the dwelling of the Lord, on the threshold of the Holy of Holies, in order that one day you may be worthy to offer to the Divine Majesty the pure, holy and immaculate Victim, born of a pure, holy and immaculate Virgin. And for this reason your life and your whole being must have as their model Christ, Victim and Priest, and His Most Holy Mother, who is our Mother and who in Co-redemption united herself to the Lord’s Passion. Divine Wisdom and the Virgin Mary both speak to the heart of each one of you: my delights are to be with the children of men (Prov 8:31). The Church also repeats these words to you, and you yourselves must combine your duties towards God with charity towards your neighbor, so that those who from this day forward see you, listen to you, and turn to you, may see in you a minister of Christ and listen to his voice, the voice of the Church, established by God in initio viarum suarum, the firstborn of His ways (Prov 8:22).
The world is hostile to you, as it was hostile to Our Lord, and as it is hostile to everything that comes from God: if they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also (Jn 15:20), the Divine Master warns us. If the world did not mock you, did not marginalize you, did not fight you, that would mean that the world saw something of its own in you, and you would know that you do not represent a threat. But you are like these conscientious doctors who were disbarred during the pandemic farce because they treated patients instead of killing them with wretched protocols; you are like these teachers suspended because they were unwilling to corrupt children and young people with the perversions of gender and woke ideology; you are like these magistrates who are dismissed because they administer justice instead of letting criminals go free. You are strangers to the world, and the world knows this and fears you because of the power of the Gospel of Christ that you preach.
Today the Church of Christ has been obscured and eclipsed by the heretics and corrupt who have occupied it: the Hierarchy has prostituted itself to the world and has made its maxims its own. It no longer recognizes the Lordship of Our Lord, and proclaims along with the Sanhedrin: We have no king but Caesar (Jn 19:15). On the Throne of Peter sits, not the Vicar of Christ, but a usurper devoted to the demolition of the Church. The ostracism that the faithful and clerics suffer for their fidelity to the Lord is therefore not the voice of the Church but rather of its counterfeit. This is why false pastors fear and fight against those who denounce their betrayal.
They will tell you that you are an endangered minority; that you want to distinguish yourself from others out of pride; that your rigidity and backwardness are contrary to the Gospel; that the Faith you proclaim is obsolete and intolerant; that the Liturgy you celebrate is incomprehensible and distant. They will tell you that you are few and alone, just as there are few good doctors, good teachers, and good judges: pusillus grex (little flock). And while they fill their mouths with words of inclusiveness and acceptance, tolerance and dialogue, it will be only against you that their fury will be unleashed, only for you that their prisons will be opened. Excommunications for heretics and schismatics are hurled against those who fight error and schism, in the overthrow of every principle and in the abuse of both civil and religious authority. Just as prison doors open to release criminals while honest people are locked up. Satan is not bipolar: his corrupting action – a liar and murderer from the beginning (Jn 8:44) – reveals that lucidity in deception and perverse coherence which is proper to an angelic mind, albeit fallen – that is, diabolical. And this is why today the Church goes through its own passio at the hands of its own leaders, just as it was once the Sanhedrin that stirred up the people and blackmailed Pilate in order to send Our Lord to death.
Yet, despite the efficiency of the organization of the forces of evil and the disorganization of the good, Satan knows he has already lost, this is why he does everything he can to drag as many souls as possible into damnation with him, thus nullifying the Redemption. This is why he wants a world without faith, without hope, without love. This is why he wants a world without priests, without religious and nuns, without expiatory souls. And for this reason – as we see happening – he wants every vocation to be corrupted, perverted, or rendered useless. This is why Satan demands that his arrogant lie not only be tolerated, but that it be accepted as such and that the Truth be condemned. His imposture requires conscious and ostentatious adherence to error, together with the obstinate rejection of the Good. This is the only way to explain the abomination of desolation in the holy place: a man who usurps the Throne of Peter and the sacred authority of Our Lord to impose apostasy and destroy the Church.
Dear Claudio and Fabrizio, do not be discouraged! The Church has always been considered alien to the world, as is Our Lady, Mary Most Holy. We are exsules filii Hevæ, children of the old Eve in sin, children of the new Eve in Grace. Our exile is the time of trial and struggle by which we merit the citizenship of the heavenly Jerusalem. Our Lady’s Nativity makes Her the purest and holiest of all creatures, associating our poor humanity with Her perfections. And with Her Assumption into Heaven in body and soul, she shows us our heavenly homeland. May her virtues – first of all humility and purity – be the cornerstone of your spiritual life, because all the evils that afflict the ecclesial body today derive from pride and fornication. We have a distressing example of this in the scandals of the Bergoglian sect. Be humble in accepting the treasure that Holy Church holds, handing it over to posterity without adding or taking anything away from it. Be pure in the daily immolation of your body and soul, knowing that you are always in the presence of God and the Virgin Mary.
Let us therefore make ourselves worthy, with the Grace of God and under the patronage of Mary Most Holy, to reach the goal indicated by the Stella matutina, the Morning Star that announces the Sun of Justice, repeating with filial trust the Marian antiphon: Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis, post hoc exilium, ostende. And after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
September 8, a. D.ñi MMXXIV
In Nativitate B.M.V.
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