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| Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2024, 01:00 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book
Pope Francis wrote a preface to James Martin’s new book about the raising of Lazarus, which the heretical Jesuit priest has used to promote LGBT ideology and urge homosexuals to ‘come out’ and ‘embrace’ their disordered tendencies.
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Pope Francis and Father James Martin, S.J.
Vatican News/X
Jun 3, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ preface to a book by pro-LGBT Father James Martin, S.J., in which the pontiff makes a statement that may be interpreted to claim that one can maintain friendship with God while in mortal sin.
In September 2023, Martin’s book Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle was published, described as a “meditation on the Raising of Lazarus” and used by Martin to urge homosexuals to “come out” and “embrace” their homosexual tendencies. On Monday, Vatican News published Francis’ preface to Martin’s Italian version of the book, with the preface itself dated on March 11, 2024.
Francis opened the preface noting, “Father James Martin [is] the author of many other books that I know and appreciate,” among which are Building a Bridge, Martin’s notorious 2017 pro-LGBT book in which he attempts to normalize homosexuality and criticizes Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is “disordered.” The heretical Jesuit has elsewhere affirmed homosexual activity despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that such activity is mortally sinful.
READ: Cardinal Müller: Father James Martin’s LGBT propaganda is ‘heresy’
Francis continued, “Jesus didn’t just talk about eternal life; He gave it to us. He didn’t just say ‘I am the resurrection’; He also resurrected Lazarus, who’d been dead for three days.” He went on to incorrectly claim that the “divine” is never separated from the “human” in Christianity, writing: “Christian faith is the ever-present co-mingling of the eternal and the contingent, of heaven and earth, of the divine and the human—never one without the other.”
“All of us, then, are Lazarus,” wrote Francis, going on to reference Martin’s book: “Rooting himself firmly in the Ignatian tradition, Father Martin brings us directly into the story of this friend of Jesus. We’re His friends, too—’dead’ as we sometimes are on account of our sins, our failings and infidelities, the despondency that discourages us and crushes our spirits.”
Without quoting Martin or pointing to a specific passage in his book, Francis appears to suggest that one can be friends with God even while “dead” in mortal sin, while, on the contrary, the Church has always understood mortal sin to be a breaking of one’s friendship with God.
Francis has signaled his support of Martin in many ways despite the latter’s support of homosexuality, such as by appointing and re-appointing him as a Vatican Communications consultant and by meeting with Martin and praising his pro-LGBT initiatives.
Martin has previously proposed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church use the term “differently ordered” rather than “intrinsically disordered” in reference to sinful homosexual acts. He frequently makes scandalous statements regarding homosexuality that violate Catholic teaching on sexual morality. High-profile prelates and Catholic figures warn that Martin is leading people astray and putting souls at risk by encouraging homosexual activity and failing to call people to be chaste.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily for the Feast of Corpus Christi |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-03-2024, 01:35 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: The Eucharist offers strength and grace against the satanic chaos of the world
Every soul that is worthily nourished by the Most Holy Eucharist receives with it the formidable protection
of grace, growth in the virtues, and progress in holiness.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Exsurge Domine
Jun 3, 2024
Editor’s note: The following is the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s homily for the feast of Corpus Christi.
Et verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis.
– “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.” (Jn 1:14)
(LifeSiteNews) — Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cernui – “Let us fall prostrate in veneration of such a great sacrament.” These are the famous words of the Corpus Christi hymn, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, just like the other liturgical texts of this feast. We repeat them every time the Blessed Sacrament is exposed to the adoration of the faithful, underlining our internal disposition by bowing our bodies, in the same posture as Moses before the burning bush. Even the priests of the New Covenant cover their hands with the humeral veil, as a sign of respect, when they have to impart the Eucharistic blessing. And it is also in this manner – cernui, “prostrate” – that we must present ourselves before the King of kings.
The modern mentality hates every earthly hierarchy and proclaims the equality of individuals, not because it wants peace and brotherhood between peoples, but because it knows very well that the only earthly society in which peace and brotherhood can reign is the one in which both civil and religious authority are the vicarious expression of the sole, supreme power of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King and High Priest. Because it is around the ontological reality of the universal Lordship of Christ that the entire creation revolves: omnia per ipsum facta sunt, et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est – “All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made” (Jn 1:3).
The history of redemption revolves around Christ, the Unconquered Sun; and the Cross on the summit of Golgotha has become the center of the universe: Stat Crux, dum volvitur orbis – “The Cross stands while the word is turned.” The same Cross is planted on our altars, where the priest acts in the person of Christ, and where Christ is offered under the species of bread and wine. And it is in Christ that all things are summarized, it is in Him that every aspect of our life takes on meaning, it is to Him that we must give an account of our own souls and the souls of those whom Providence has entrusted to our care.
The world does not want peace, because peace exists only where Christ is, and if Satan is to reign, then chaos, destruction, and war must also reign. The peace of Christ is founded on the stability of order, and this earthly order must necessarily be a mirror of the divine order: sicut in cœlo et in terra – “on earth as it is in heaven.”
It is very painful to see that in the midst of a society hostile to Christ and entirely devoted to evil, the Catholic hierarchy has effectively separated itself from the ecclesial body, causing scandal to the faithful and also alienating priests and religious. Just as the battle rages most fiercely, the generals and officers open the doors of the citadel and allow both soldiers and civilians to be massacred. Bella premunt hostilia – “hostile armies press,” we sing in the hymn Verbum Supernum Prodiens at Lauds on the feast of Corpus Christi: terrible wars loom, and they are spiritual wars for which we must be prepared: da robur, fer auxilium – “give strength, bear aid.” But these battles that we face daily both as individuals and as an ecclesial body are part of an epochal war that has already been won, once and for all, by our King and Lord, who has become our ally, making Himself the nourishment of our souls, offering Himself as a ransom by His own Passion and giving Himself triumphantly as a reward: Se nascens dedit socium, convescens in edulium, se moriens in prætium, se regnans dat in præmium – “When he was born he became our companion, in his banquet He gave himself as food, when He died He became our price, in his kingdom He gives Himself as a reward.”
This betrayal of the Roman Sanhedrin is no different from the betrayal of the high priests in the time of Our Lord. Their subservience to power is the same, and both contemptuously consider Christ as a usurper of an authority that in reality they have usurped from Him. But just as among the crowds of that time there were those who triumphantly welcomed the King of Israel and those who had Him crucified, so even today there are those who love and adore Him and those who profane Him and abandon Him to sacrilege.
Just as happened during the Passion, the Lord agrees to allow Himself to be offended and beaten even in His Eucharistic flesh, and other apostles abandon Him, deny Him, and hand Him over to His enemies. The Judases of today are no less guilty than the Iscariot, whom it is no coincidence that they admire; and while they deny his betrayal they try to hide their own.
But this Presence – without which the world would end – gathers together at the foot of the tabernacle many good souls, many simple people, many repentant sinners, who precisely by getting on their knees and adoring their God, Lord, and King, find the strength and the grace to cross the desert of this world, the darkness of this rebellious and hostile society. Manna absconditum – “hidden manna”: heavenly nourishment, viaticum to face the earthly journey towards eternity. Panis supersubstantialis, the Bread of Angels that becomes the Bread of men. O res mirabilis: manducat Dominum pauper, servus et humilis – “The poor man, the servant, the humble person nourishes himself with the Lord!”
The world does not understand the priceless gift that the Lord has given us, making Himself truly present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. It does not understand this gift because every soul that is worthily nourished by the Most Holy Eucharist receives with it the formidable protection of grace, growth in the virtues, and progress in holiness. Here on earth she takes confidence, so to speak, in the divine presence of God which makes her blessed in eternity. Holy Communion is the medicine against the plague of the world, because it restores in each soul the primacy of Our Lord over creatures, encouraging each soul to fight under the banner of the Cross.
Pay attention to this: the solitude into which Satan pushes his victims is first of all distance from the Lord, abandonment or profanation of Holy Communion, and contempt for the Blessed Sacrament. And when this enormous void of the absence of God has been created in a soul that was created to be inhabited by Him, the surrogate, the superstition, and the ideology all reveal their fraud and show forth the deformed traits of the enemy, who is envious of the privilege granted to us miserable mortals and denied to the angels themselves.
This is why it is important that our soul becomes an increasingly worthy tabernacle for the Lord; may it shine with simplicity and decorum, to allow itself to be reverberated by the divine splendor of the spotless Lamb.
Do not forget, dear brothers, to visit the Blessed Sacrament frequently. Do not fail to send your guardian angel to the Divine Prisoner of the Tabernacle, so that he may render due adoration to Him on your behalf. Do not neglect to make thanksgiving after Holy Communion, because in those blessed moments your voice rises more acceptably to heaven. If the voice is that of children, it moves the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord: teach them to ask Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to make them saints, and to confuse the plans of His (and our) enemies.
On this solemn feast, in which the Holy Church honors Her Lord by proclaiming Her unchanged faith in the real presence of the Blessed Sacrament, we return to the foot of the altar, to Him who is and must be the center of everything. We recognize in St. Paul’s warning, instaurare omnia in Christo – “to restore all things in Christ” (Eph 1:9), a call to recapitulate every aspect of our life in the Eucharistic King, quia te contemplans totum deficit, because only by contemplating Christ do we realize that without Him everything else it has no value. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
June 2, 2024
Dominica infra Octavam Corporis Christi
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| Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - Spring 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-30-2024, 07:31 AM - Forum: Sorrowful Heart of Mary
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Spring 2024
Dear Few, Happy Few!
In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:
1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,
2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and
3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.
How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a Bishop Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!
The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!”
Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “Many are called, few are chosen.” And, “How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!
The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “Athanasians” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!
Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?
What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the status quo, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.
Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!
Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp. Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘a divinis’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.
Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.
This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.
Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.
Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, it is always Faith before Liturgy; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!
But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now”, “we have new friends in Rome” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “Rome will not tolerate it any longer” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “having our approval for the traditional Liturgy.”
Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine.
Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the Doctrinal Declaration along with the “Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome.” This was the “thirty pieces of silver” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace.” (Ezekiel 13:10).
In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. The Angelus magazine announced a new 'non-militant approach' to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.
Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “thirty pieces of silver” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will remark: “This is not a trap!” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).
Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!
By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resistants” who needed to, once and for all, “put away the toys” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “the New Mass can nourish your faith,” “the New Mass gives grace,” “this is not the time for structure and organization,” “this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent,” “scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles,” "The Thuc line poses no problem now,” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!
Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson publicly oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?
Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “only She can help you!” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!” (Apocalypse 2:4).
Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
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