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| Which COVID-19 vaccines are connected to abortion? |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2020, 08:36 AM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Spiritual]
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Which COVID-19 vaccines are connected to abortion?
'It must be clear that it is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of the cell lines of aborted fetuses,' Cardinal Raymond Burke has said.
December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – As various vaccines begin to be rolled out across the world, in apparent response to COVID-19, questions remain about the development and safety of many of the vaccines.
LifeSiteNews has compiled this short guide to some of the most prominent vaccines being offered and/or developed, sourcing material from our own reports and LifeSite’s dedicated page to COVID-19 vaccines.
The summary examines the development and testing of the vaccines from many angles: in relation to abortion; concerns about the scientific structure and the health effects of the vaccine; as well as responses from bishops and pro-life activists to the vaccines. Five vaccines connected to abortion, and two seemingly without any connection to abortion, are examined.
Two helpful charts can also be found, detailing which vaccines use cell lines from aborted babies, and at what stage the cell lines are used.
Cardinal Raymond Burke, former Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, has previously spoken out against vaccines using aborted babies: “it must be clear that it is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of the cell lines of aborted fetuses. The thought of the introduction of such a vaccine into one’s body is rightly abhorrent.”
Aside from any connection to abortion, LifeSiteNews notes the comments of a number of experts who state that there is no need for mass vaccinations in order to end the coronavirus crisis. Dr. Michael Yeadon, who “spent over 30 years leading new [allergy and respiratory] medicines research in some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies,” and retired from Pfizer with “the most senior research position in this field,” wrote in Ocober:
Quote:There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic. I’ve never heard such nonsense talked about vaccines. You do not vaccinate people who aren’t at risk from a disease. You also don’t set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn’t been extensively tested on human subjects.
In an interview published this week Dr. Theresa Deisher (Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stamford University) stated “this virus to date has less than a 0.03% fatality rate and most of those people, I believe it's 92% or above, have other health problems; we're making a vaccine at warp speed for a virus that doesn't look like it's going to need a vaccine.”
In the same interview Deisher confirmed that in her opinion a rational person would be on solid ground to eschew any COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer vaccine – connected to abortion
Abortion link: The Pfizer vaccine is not developed using cell lines from aborted babies, but, “[o]ne of the confirmatory lab tests on the vaccine did sadly involve an old foetal cell-line.” The Children of God for Life organization notes that the Pfizer vaccine is tested using the HEK 293 cell line, which is derived from kidney tissue taken from a healthy baby who was aborted in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Concerns about the structure of the vaccine: The Pfizer vaccine uses mRNA technology, a technology so novel that it has yet to be approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The method of inserting the mRNA into the patient’s cells intact, Lipid Nanoparticles (LNP’s), is not certified, as Moderna (which also uses mRNA) have stated that they cannot be sure their LNP’s will not have adverse effects.
The vaccine also has to be kept at unprecedentedly cold temperatures, -70°C (-94°F) – nearly twice as cold as the North Pole’s average temperature in the winter.
Safety concerns, side effects, and trial results: As mentioned, Pfizer’s vaccine uses extremely novel technology, which has never before been approved.
Despite Pfizer’s claims of 90% safety, reports swiftly emerged showing that vaccine trial volunteers experienced “severe” side effects. Participants suffered headaches, fevers, and hangover-like symptoms.
A U.K. government warning for the vaccine stated that the vaccine should not be used by pregnant or breast-feeding mothers and children, and added that it was unaware of what effect the vaccine would have on fertility. Women should avoid becoming pregnant for two months after the vaccine, according to the document.
Dr. Michael Yeadon, former Vice President of Pfizer, co-authored a letter to the European Medicine Agency, warning that the vaccine may prevent the safe development of placentas in pregnant women, resulting in “vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile.”
Pfizer is also free from indemnity in the U.K. and in the U.S.
Children’s Health Defense noted in an article that earlier this year “the U.S. quietly pushed through Federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability.” (Vaccine manufacturers in the U.S. already cannot be sued if their products injure or kill people thanks to a little-known law from the 1980s.)
After the first day of Pfizer vaccines being administered in the U.K., two people had allergic reactions, prompting the warning that people with a history of strong allergic reactions should not take it.
The U.S. FDA has warned of many serious side effects from any COVID vaccine, including heart attacks, strokes, and anaphylactic shock.
Moderna vaccine – connected to abortion
Abortion link: The Moderna vaccine is also heavily connected to abortion. Children of God for Life compiled research to show that Moderna “extensively” uses the “aborted fetal cell line HEK-293” in the “fundamental design of mRNA technology, their Spike protein and in the research, development, production and testing.” The proteins used in the vaccine itself and the mRNA “were built on technology that extensively used aborted fetal cells, rendering the vaccine absolutely immoral from start to finish.”
Concerns about the structure of the vaccine: The Moderna vaccine uses mRNA technology, a technology so novel that it has yet to be approved for use by the FDA. The method of inserting the mRNA into the patient’s cells intact, Lipid Nanoparticles (LNP’s), is not certified, and Moderna have stated that they cannot be sure their LNP’s will not have adverse effects.
Safety concerns, side effects, and trial results: Concerns remain about the structure of the vaccine, since it uses such novel technology.
Moderna has admitted that the vaccine will cause at least mild or moderate side effects. It also stopped the testing of its highest dose of vaccine, due to the number of reports of severe reactions.
Animal testing was skipped altogether. Twenty percent of people receiving the high dose in trials needed hospitalization; only 45 people were tested, and they were specifically chosen for being exceptionally healthy and fit.
A priest involved in the final phase of testing the vaccine, died unexpectedly in his home some weeks after his second jab, although it is unclear if his death was due to the vaccine.
The U.S. FDA has warned of many serious side effects from any COVID vaccine, including heart attacks, strokes, and anaphylactic shock.
Father Robert Altier warned about the dangers of Moderna’s vaccine changing the RNA in one’s body, calling it “heinous” and “evil.” Bishop Strickland also warned people via Twitter against the Moderna vaccine, saying that it is not “morally produced,” urging people to reject it.
Oxford/AstraZeneca – connected to abortion
Abortion link: The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been developed from the cell lines of an aborted baby, the cell line HEK-293. It is also uses the fetal cell line in design and testing.
Structure of the vaccine: It uses viral vectors, which grow antigens to COVID-19 in the persons cells. The viral vectors are made using fetal cell lines from aborted babies to grow these vectors.
Safety concerns, side effects, and trial results: The vaccine saw “adverse effects” in 60% of recipients in its early phase trial.
The vaccine trials were previously put on hold in September for several weeks due to a severe adverse reaction from a volunteer.
A volunteer in the vaccine trials in Brazil died in October: reports are conflicting as to whether he died due to complications from the vaccine.
The U.S. FDA has warned of many serious side effects from any COVID vaccine, including heart attacks, strokes, and anaphylactic shock.
Johnson and Johnson/ Janssen – connected to abortion
Abortion link: J&J uses the fetal cell line PER.C6 in the design, development, and testing of the vaccine. The PER.C6 fetal cell line was derived from retinal tissue taken from an 18-week-old baby boy who was aborted in the Netherlands in 1985 and later converted into a fetal cell line in 1995. The cell line is owned by Janssen.
Structure of the vaccine: The J&J vaccine uses an adenoviral vector, a “genetically modified virus that leads the body to produce a protein to which the immune system then reacts.”
Safety concerns, side effects, and trial results: Trials for the vaccine were placed on hold after a participant developed a mystery illness. The number of participants in the trial has now been dropped from 60,000 to 40,000.
The company is in phase 3 of trials and aims to file for approval for the vaccine in February.
Children of God for Life notes that there are also considerable health risks contained in the fetal cell line.
As with other vaccines, the U.S. FDA has warned of many serious side effects from any COVID vaccine, including heart attacks, strokes, and anaphylactic shock.
Sanofi Pasteur & Translate Bio – connected to abortion
Abortion link: Recent research by the Charlotte Lozier Institute has shown that the mRNA vaccine, made in a partnership with Sanofi and Translate Bio, was tested on aborted fetal cell line HEK-293.
Structure of the vaccine: The vaccine uses mRNA technology, in the style of both Pfizer and Moderna. Moderna warned that they cannot be sure their LNP’s will not have adverse effects.
Safety concerns, side effects, and trial results: The joint vaccine has currently finished pre-clinical studies, which are reportedly favorable. Further stages of testing have yet to be conducted.
Sanofi Pasteur & GSK – seemingly free from abortion connection
Abortion link: Unlike the mRNA vaccine developed by Sanofi, it seems that the DNA based vaccine is produced without a link to abortion so far.
Structure of the vaccine: The DNA vaccine is made using DNA of the baculovirus expression platform, with Sanofi cultivating and developing the vaccine using the Sf9 cell line from the fall armyworm.
Safety concerns, side effects and trial results: The vaccine is not yet at phase 3 of its trials and results have not been sufficient, meaning that the vaccine will likely not be ready until late 2021.
A conflict of interest could well exist with Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific advisor to the U.K. government. GSK has been contracted by the U.K. to make COVID-19 vaccines, but Vallance is the former president of the company and has shares in it worth £600,000.
In a July debate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and an American environmental attorney and author, highlighted both Sanofi and GSK as being among several vaccine producers with a record of incurring criminal penalties for their products.
Kennedy noted that four of the leading developers of coronavirus vaccines, Glaxo, Sanofi, Pfizer, Merck, are “convicted serial felon[s].”
“In the past 10 years, just in the last decade, those companies have paid 35 billion dollars in criminal penalties, damages, fines, for lying to doctors, for defrauding science, for falsifying science, for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans knowingly,” Kennedy said during the debate.
“It requires a cognitive dissonance for people who understand the criminal corporate cultures of these four companies to believe that they’re doing this in every other product that they have, but they’re not doing it with vaccines.”
Novavax – seemingly free from abortion connection
Abortion link: The Novavax vaccine is not produced, developed, or tested on fetal cell lines, and does not have a link to abortion.
Structure of the vaccine: It is made using an invertebrate cell line Sf9 to produce protein nanoparticle antigens that make its vaccine work.
Safety concerns, side effects and trial results: Unlike many of the other vaccines, Novavax has conducted animal studies, which demonstrated an effective combatting of COVID-19.
The vaccine is currently in phase 3 trials, and results are expected in early 2021.
LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page. View it here.
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| Advent Hymn - Creator Alme Siderum |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2020, 08:24 AM - Forum: Advent
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Creator Alme Siderum
Creator Alme Siderum (Creator, maker of the stars) is a chant hymn for the First Sunday of Advent. The hymn is based on the 7th century hymn Conditor alme siderum, which underwent heavy revision in 1632 by Pope Urban VIII to fit the meters of classical Latin. Only one line of the original remained in the new version sung here.
Creator Alme Siderum is in the Liber Usualis, the book that contains the Gregorian chant for all the Masses of the year as well as the Divine Office. (Please note: not even the Liber Usualis was spared by the progressivists, as it was revised in the '50s and '60s to fit in with liturgical “reforms”.)
The hymn pleads for the Maker of the stars to hear our prayers and to defend us from the enemy with the weapons of heavenly grace.
Creator Alme Siderum is interpreted here by the Czech choir, Schola Gregoriana Pragensis.
Lyrics
Latin lyrics
1. Creator alme siderum,
Aeterna lux credentium,
Jesu Redemptor omnium,
Intende votis supplicum.
2. Qui daemonis ne fraudibus,
Periret orbis, impetu,
Amoris actus, languidi,
Mundi medela factus es.
3. Commune qui mundi nefas,
Ut expiares; ad crucem,
E Virginis sacrario,
Intacta prodis victima.
4. Cujus potestas gloriae,
Nomenque cum primum sonat,
Et coelites et inferi,
Tremente curvantur genu.
5. Te deprecamur ultimae,
Magnum diei Judicem,
Armis supremae gratiae,
Defende nos ab hostibus.
6. Virtus, honor, laus, gloria,
Deo Patri cum Filio,
Sancto simul Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula.
English lyrics
1. Creator, maker of the universe of stars,
Eternal light of the faithful,
Jesus Redeemer of all,
Hear the prayers of Thy supplicants.
2. Thou who, to avoid that the deceits of the Devil
Should destroy the entire universe,
Moved by an act of love,
Became the healer of the ailing world.
3. To expiate the sins of the world,
On the Cross,
Thou came from the Virgin's womb,
As a spotless Victim.
4. When Thy glorious power,
And name are heard,
The inhabitants of Heaven and Hell,
Trembling bend their knees.
5. We beseech Thee, finally,
Great Judge of the Last Day,
With the weapons of heavenly grace,
Defend us from our enemies.
6. Power, honor, praise and glory,
To the Father and to the Son,
And to the Holy Paraclete,
For ever and ever.
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| ‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2020, 08:11 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’: Warnings of ‘Orwellian’ Great Reset
Sky News Australia | 13/12/2020
8min Video Here
Brief Excerpt:
A terrifying coalition of big business and big tech are so confident and brazen they are promising the public “you will own nothing, and you will be happy” in an advertising campaign for a global reset, according to Sky News host Rowan Dean. “What they should have added is ‘we the very rich will own everything and be even happier’," he said. The Great Reset is a proposal set out by the World Economic Forum for a new globalised fiscal system which would allow the world to effectively tackle the so-called climate crisis. Mr Dean said the plan intends to use the “tools of oppression” implemented during the pandemic, such as lockdowns and forced business closures as well as other measures destroying private property rights, to combat the coronavirus to achieve climate outcomes. “I've spoken before about the insidious phrase Build Back Better which sounds like common sense but is in fact just one of several slogans for the Great reset, another being the Orwellian phrase the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. “This is as serious and as dangerous a threat to our prosperity and freedom as we have faced in decades." Mr Dean warned viewers to think again if they believed this was just “crazy old Rowan with his conspiracy theories”. “This garbage is already deeply embedded into our state and federal governments.”
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| Third Sunday of Advent [Gaudete Sunday] |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-13-2020, 06:42 AM - Forum: Advent
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THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT.
Taken from Fr. Leonard Goffine's Explanations of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holydays throughout the Ecclesiastical Year, 1880
On this Sunday again, the Church calls on us to rejoice in the Advent of the Redeemer, and at the Introit sings: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men: for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing by prayer let your requests be made known to God. (Phil. IV.) Lord, thou hast blessed thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. (Ps. LXXXIV.)
PRAYER OF THE CHURCH. Incline Thine ear, O Lord, we beseech Thee, unto our prayers: and enlighten the darkness of our mind by The grace of thy visitation.
EPISTLE. (Phil. IV. 4— 7.) Brethren, rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What is meant by "rejoicing in the Lord?"
By "rejoicing in the Lord" is meant rejoicing in the grace of the true faith we have received, in the hope of obtaining eternal happiness; rejoicing in the protection of the most High under which we stand; and in the persecution for justice's sake in which Christ Himself exhorts us to rejoice, and in which the Apostle Paul gloried. (II Cor. VII. 4.)
What else does St. Paul teach in this epistle?
He exhorts us to give all a good example by a modest and edifying life, to which we should be directed by the remembrance of God's presence and His coming to judgment; (Chrysostom. 33, in Joann.) he warns us against solicitude about temporal affairs, advising us to cast our care on God, who will never abandon us in our needs, if we entreat Him with confidence and humility.
In what does “the peace of God" consist?
It consists in a good conscience, (Ambrose) in which St. Paul gloried and rejoiced beyond measure.(II. Cor. I. 12.) This peace of the soul sustained all the martyrs, and consoled many others who suffered for justice's sake. Thus St. Tibertius said to the tyrant: “We count all pain as naught, for our conscience is at peace.” There cannot be imagined a greater joy than that which proceeds from the peace of a good conscience. It must be experienced to be understood.
ASPIRATION. The peace of God, that surpasseth all understanding, preserve our hearts in Christ Jesus. Amen.
COMFORT AND RELIEF IN SORROW.
“Is any one troubled, let him pray."(James. V. 13.)
There is no greater or more powerful comfort in sorrow than in humble and confiding prayer, to complain to God of our wants and cares, as did the sorrowful Anna, mother of the prophet Samuel, (I. Kings X.) and the chaste Susanna when she was falsely accused of adultery and sentenced to death. (Dan. XIII. 35) the pious King Ezechias complained in prayer of the severe oppression with which he was threatened by Senacherib. (IV. Kings XIX. 14.) So also King Josaphat made his trouble known to God only, saying: But as we know not what to do. we can only turn our eyes on Thee. (II. Paralip. XX. 12.) They all received aid and comfort from God. Are you sad and in trouble? Lift up your soul with David and say: To Thee I have lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until He shall have mercy on us. (Ps. (XXII. 1 — 3].) Give joy to the soul of Thy servant, for to Thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. (Ps.LXXXV. 4.)
GOSPEL. (John I. 19-28.) At that time the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to John, to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and did not deny; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No. They said therefore unto him. Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? what sayst thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not: the same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose. These things were done in Bethania beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Why did the Jews send messengers to St. John to ask him who he was?
Partly because of their curiosity, when they saw St. John leading such a pure, angelic, and penitential life; partly, as St. Chrysostom says, out of envy, because St. John preached with such spiritual force, baptized and exhorted the people to penance, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem came to him in great numbers: partly, and principally, they were impelled by the providence of God to demand publicly of St. John, if he were the Messiah, and thus be directed to Christ, that they might be compelled to acknowledge Him as the Messiah, or have no excuse for rejecting Him.
Why did the Jews ask St. John, if he were not Elias or the prophet?
The Jews falsely believed that the Redeemer was to come into this world but once, then with great glory, and that Elias or one of the old prophets would come before Him, to prepare His way, as (Malachias IV. 5) had prophesied of St. John: so when St. John said of himself that he was not the Messiah, they asked him, if he Were not then Elias or one of the prophets. But Elias, who was taken alive from this world in a fiery chariot, will not reappear until just before the second coming of Christ.
Why did John saw he was not Elias or the Prophet?
Because he was not Elias, and, in reality, not a prophet in the Jewish sense of the word, but more than a prophet, because he announced that Christ had come, and pointed Him out.
Why does St. John call himself "the voice of one crying in the wilderness”?
Because in his humility, he desired to acknowledge that he was only an instrument through which the Redeemer announced to the abandoned and hopeless Jews, the consolation of the Messiah, exhorting them to bear worthy fruits of penance.
How do we hear worthy fruits of penance?
We bear fruits of penance, when after our conversion, we serve God and justice with the same zeal with which we previously served the devil and iniquity; when we love God as fervently as we once loved the flesh, — that is, the desires of the flesh, — and the pleasures of the world; when we give our members to justice as we once gave them to malice and impurity, (Rom. IV. 19) when the mouth that formerly uttered improprieties, when the ears that listened to detraction or evil speech, when the eyes that looked curiously upon improper objects, now rejoice in the utterance of words pleasing to God, to hear and to see things dear to Him; when the appetite that was given to the luxury of eating and drinking, now abstains; when the hands give back what they have stolen; in a word, when we put off the old man, who was corrupted, and put on the new man, who is created in justice and holiness of truth. (Ephes. IV. 22—24.)
What was the baptism administered by John, and what were its effects?
The baptism administered by John was only a baptism of penance for forgiveness of sins, fluke III. 3.) The ignorant Jews not considering the greatness of their transgressions, St. John came exhorting them to acknowledge their sins, and do penance for them; that being converted, and truly contrite, they might seek after their Redeemer, and thus obtain remission of their offences. We must then conclude, that St. John's baptism was only a ceremony or initiation, by which the Jews enrolled themselves as his disciples to do penance, as a preparation for the remission of sin by means of the second baptism, viz., of Jesus Christ.
What else can be learned from this gospel?
We learn from it to be always sincere, especially at the tribunal of penance, and to practice the necessary virtue of humility, by which, in reply to the questions of the Jews, St. John confessed the truth openly and without reserve, as shown by the words: The latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose, as the lowest of Christ's servants, giving us an example of humility and sincerity, which should induce us always to speak the truth, and not only not to seek honor, but to give to God all the honor shown us by man.
Have you not far more reason than John, who was such a great saint, to esteem yourself but little, and to humble yourself before God and man? "My son," says Tobias, (IV. 14.) "never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning."
ASPIRATION. O Lord, banish from my heart all envy, jealousy and pride. Grant me instead, to know myself and Thee, that by the knowledge of my nothingness. Miseries, and vices, I may always remain unworthy in my own eyes, and that by the contemplation of Thy infinite perfections, I may seek to prize Thee above all, to love and to glorify Thee, and practice charity towards my neighbor. Amen.
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| December 13th - St. Lucy of Syracuse |
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Posted by: Elizabeth - 12-13-2020, 01:19 AM - Forum: December
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Saint Lucy of Syracuse
Virgin and Martyr
(† 303)
Saint Lucy was a young Christian maiden of Syracuse in Sicily. She had already offered her virginity to God and refused to marry, when her mother pressed her to accept the offer of a young pagan. The mother was afflicted afterwards for several years by an issue of blood, and all human remedies were ineffectual. Lucy reminded her mother that a woman in the Gospel, suffering from the same disorder, had been healed by the divine power. They determined to make a journey to Catania, a port of Sicily, where the tomb of Saint Agatha, martyred in 251, was already a site of pilgrimage. Saint Agatha, Lucy said, stands ever in the sight of Him for whom she died. Only touch her sepulchre with faith, and you will be healed. The Saint of Catania had already saved that city, when Mount Etna had erupted the year after her martyrdom: some frightened pagans, seeing a course of lava descending directly toward the city, had uncovered her tomb, and at once it had stopped.
Saint Lucy and her mother spent an entire night praying by the tomb, until, overcome by weariness, both fell asleep. Saint Agatha appeared in vision to Saint Lucy, and addressing her sister in the faith, foretold her mother's recovery and Lucy's future martyrdom: You will soon be the glory of Syracuse, as I am of Catania. At that instant the cure was effected; and in her gratitude the mother allowed her daughter to distribute her wealth among the poor, and to conserve her virginity.
The young man who had sought her hand in marriage denounced her as a Christian during the persecution of Diocletian, but Our Lord, by a special miracle, saved from outrage this virgin He had chosen for His own. The executioners who would have taken her to a house of ill fame were unable to move her. The exasperated prefect gave orders to attach her by cords to harnessed bulls, but the bulls, too, did not succeed, and he accused her of being a magician. How can you, a feeble woman, triumph over a thousand men? She replied, Bring ten thousand, and they will not be able to combat against God! A fire kindled around her did her no harm, though she was covered with resin and oil. When a sword was plunged into her heart, the promise made at the tomb of Saint Agatha was fulfilled. Saint Lucy died, predicting peace for the Church.
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| Advent Hymn - Rorate Coeli Desuper |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-12-2020, 07:56 PM - Forum: Advent
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Advent Hymn: Rorate Coeli Desuper
Roráte caéli désuper,
et núbes plúant jústum.
Drop down ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness:
Ne irascáris Dómine,
ne ultra memíneris iniquitátis:
ecce cívitas Sáncti fácta est desérta:
Síon desérta fácta est:
Jerúsalem desoláta est:
dómus sanctificatiónis túæ et glóriæ túæ,
ubi laudavérunt te pátres nóstri.
Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,
neither remember iniquity for ever:
the holy cities are a wilderness,
Sion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation:
our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised thee.
Peccávimus, et fácti súmus tamquam immúndus nos,
et cecídimus quasi fólium univérsi:
et iniquitátes nóstræ quasi véntus abstulérunt nos:
abscondísti faciem túam a nóbis,
et allisísti nos in mánu iniquitátis nóstræ.
We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,
and we all do fade as a leaf:
and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;
thou hast hid thy face from us:
and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Víde Dómine afflictiónem pópuli túi,
et mítte quem missúrus es:
emítte Agnum dominatórem térræ,
de Pétra desérti ad móntem fíliæ Síon:
ut áuferat ípse júgum captivitátis nóstræ.
Behold, O Lord, the affliction of thy people
and send forth Him who is to come
send forth the Lamb, the ruler of the earth from Petra of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Sion
that He may take away the yoke of our captivity
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Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
and my servant whom I have chosen;
that ye may know me and believe me:
I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior:
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Consolámini, consolámini, pópule méus:
cito véniet sálus túa:
quare mæróre consúmeris,
quia innovávit te dólor?
Salvábo te, nóli timére,
égo enim sum Dóminus Déus túus,
Sánctus Israël, Redémptor túus.
Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people,
my salvation shall not tarry:
why wilt thou waste away in sadness?
why hath sorrow seized thee?
Fear not, for I will save thee:
for I am the Lord thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Redeemer.
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| Fr. Hewko: Sedevacantism [2020] |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-12-2020, 06:41 PM - Forum: Sermons by Date
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'Abp. Marcel Lefebvre: A Resignationist? A Sedevacantist? Let Him Speak!'
An excellent sermon on the error of Sedevacantism - explaining and reminding how Archbishop Lefebvre always refused to usurp the authority of the Church's Magisterium by personally passing judgement on the Conciliar popes.
The 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia tells us the
Quote:"Magisterium is a teaching authority; it not only presents the truth, but it has the right to impose it, since its power is the very power given by God to Christ and by Christ to His Church. This authority is called the teaching Church. The teaching Church is essentially composed of the episcopal body, which continues here below the work and mission of the Apostolic College. ... At the head of this episcopal body is the supreme authority of the Roman pontiff, the successor of St. Peter in his primacy as he is his successor in his see."
This is why no "lay armchair theologian" nor "Father X,Y, or Z" can make declarations on who is Pope and who is not. This is one of the fundamental errors with the sedevacantist theories, including the resignationist theory.
Archbishop Lefebvre allowed for the possibility that one day these popes may be declared not to have been popes or that their teachings may very well be reversed, their new Rites reversed, etc. but he always reminded us that it is up to the Church's Magisterium to make these pronouncements. Not even he - an Archbishop of the Church - with certainly more authority than any one of us, refrained from making such declarations. Sedevacantism begins in anarchy and ends in anarchy.
God bless Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for always thinking and acting as the Church thinks and acts! Let us imitate his prudent and humble example and beg Our Lord and Our Lady to guide us through these treacherous days, where 'even the elect may be deceived'!
Quote:When Pope Honorius was condemned, he was condemned as Pope. And yet, the Council of Constantinople – I believe it was Pope Leo II, although I’m not sure - condemned Pope Honorius for favoring heresy.
He didn’t say “he favored heresy, so he was no longer the Pope.” No. And neither did he say "since he was the pope, you had to obey him and accept what he said.” No, because he condemned him! So what did [Catholics] have to do then? Well, one had to admit that Pope Honorius was the Pope, but one did not have to follow him because he favoured heresy! Isn't that the conclusion then? That seems to me the normal conclusion. Well, we're in that situation. One day these popes will be condemned by their successors. One day the truth will return. (Archbishop Lefebvre, Conference on Sedevacantism and Liberalism, Econe, 1984)
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Most of us know that the prudence of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was such, that in these times of terrible assaults against the Faith, he never took upon himself an authority he did not have.
He strongly condemned the errors and heresies spawned in Vatican II by his words and actions. He did this by his words in giving sermon after sermon, conference after conference, and writing book after book, explaining how these errors rose up against the teachings of the true Catholic Church. He did this also by his actions when he erected the SSPX as a structure to counter those Conciliar errors, and the "reforms" that issued from them, to help ensure the perpetuance of the traditional Priesthood from which a flood of graces would flow.
But he did not claim the pope was not the pope. He simply said 'it is not for me to decide, the Church must decide.' This position is one that took great courage and even greater humility. Many souls are tempted to want to solve the problems afflicting us now. They do not want to practice the patience required in waiting for the Church to eventually condemn these evil popes. Instead, they rather usurp an authority they do not have and themselves declare this one is not a pope for this reason or that one is not a pope for another reason. This is anarchy disguised as piety, an angel of darkness masquerading as an angel of light.
One of the greatest and most eloquent rebuttals to the sedevacantist error comes from Our Lady Herself. For even Our Lady of Fatima recognizes and "waits" for the Church's Magisterium!
At Fatima She requested the solemn public Consecration of Russia to Her Immaculate Heart by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops of the world. The Pope in union with bishops of the world isthe Church's Magisterium!
[If Our Lady is 'forced' to wait for the Consecration of Russia until that time when there is a good Pope on the Throne of St. Peter, can we do any less? Are our individual needs and desires for a resolution to this Conciliar mess more important than Our Lady's request for the Consecration of Russia? Have we not been taught from our earliest days to imitate Her in Her virtues, particularly Her humility, which was so pleasing to the Blessed Trinity?
Dear friends, we are all struggling to hold onto 'the Faith of our Fathers, our Holy Faith.' Let us do so by fervently uniting ourselves to Our Lady and imitating Her sweet virtue of humility. It is this humility that Archbishop Lefebvre imitated and with it for his guide, he continues to guide us now. May we all be found faithful - clinging to the true Church, in Her true teachings, Her true Traditions, Her true Sacraments, and Her true Holy Mass. - from the Archived Catacombs
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| Conferences: Holy Week 2020 |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-12-2020, 05:58 PM - Forum: Conferences
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Holy Thursday
First Conference: 'The Victory of the Cross'
Holy Thursday
Second Conference: 'I Have Handed Down What I Have Received.'
Good Friday
First Conference: 'The Insults Our Lord Endured!'
Good Friday
Second Conference[video]: The Passion
Holy Saturday
Exorcism Prayer Against Satan & His Fallen Angels [Traditional Roman Ritual]
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| Devotion to the Steps of The Sacred Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-12-2020, 05:39 PM - Forum: Catechisms
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Devotion to the Steps of The Sacred Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by St Alphonsus de Ligouri
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Steps of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
By St. Alphonsus Liguori
A short devotion to the suffering of Our Saviour
(Taken from St. Alphonsus Prayer-Book (1888), page 169-171)
O Most Sweet Jesus, Who while praying in the Garden, didst sweat blood, wast in agony, and didst suffer a sorrow so great as to suffice to cause Thee death, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, Who was betrayed by Judas with a kiss, and delivered over into the hands of Thine enemies, and then wast taken prisoner by them, and bound in chains and ropes, and abandoned by Thy disciples, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, declared by the council of the Jews guilty of death, and in the house of Caiphas was blindfolded with a piece of cloth, and then punched, buffeted, spit on, and derided, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, led away as a malefactor a criminal before Pilate, and then turned by Herod into ridicule, and treated as a madman, as a fool, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, stripped of Thy garments and bound to the pillar, and so cruelly scourged, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, crowned with thorns, covered with a red mantle, punched, buffeted and in mockery saluted as King of the Jews, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, rejected by the Jews, and placed after Barabbas, and then unjustly condemned by Pilate to die upon a cross, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, laden with the wood of the cross, and as an innocent lamb led away unto death, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, nailed upon the cross placed between two thieves, ridiculed and blasphemed, and for three hours suffering in agony of the most horrible torments, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, dead upon the cross, in sight of Thy most holy Mother, transfixed in Thy side with the spear, from whence there issued forth blood and water, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, taken down from the cross, and place in the bosom of Thine afflicted Mother, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
Most Sweet Jesus, Who, torn with stripes and stamped with Thy five wounds, wast laid in the sepulchre, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Surely He hath borne our infirmities.
R. And He hath carried our sorrows.
Let us Pray
O God, Who for the redemption of the world, didst will to be born, to be circumcised, rejected by the Jews, betrayed by the traitor Judas with a kiss, bound with cords, led as an innocent lamb to the sacrifice, and with so many insults taken before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate and Herod, accused by false witnesses, beaten with scourges and punches, overwhelmed with ignominies, spit upon, crowned with thorns, struck with the reed, blindfolded, stripped of Thy raiments, Thy clothing, fastened with nails to the cross, lifted up on the cross, numbered amongst thieves, with gall and vinegar, given Thee to drink and wounded with the spear in Thy heart – do Thou, Lord, by these sacred pains which I unworthy venerate, and in by Thy holy cross and death, deliver me from the hell, and vouchsafe to conduct me whither Thou dist conduct the thief that was crucified with Thee: Thou Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost forever and ever. Amen. So do I hope, and so may it be. Amen. - Source
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