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| Archbishop Viganò: Meditation on Good Friday [2024] |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-31-2024, 01:59 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
TENEBRÆ FACTÆ SUNT
Meditation on Good Friday
Taken from here.
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A sexta autem hora tenebræ factæ sunt super universam terram usque ad horam nonam.
From noon until three in the afternoon it was dark over the whole earth. Mt 27:45
Tenebræ factæ sunt. In the hour of Our Lord’s agony, the whole of nature, the cosmos itself, is clothed in the black clouds of mourning. Darkness. And along with the darkness, cold, biting air, and a silence pregnant with horror and emotion for the impending death of Christ. The sky is leaden and threatening, the earth ready to quiver and tremble with indignation. On the high ground of Golgotha, where sharp stones and thorny bushes dominate Jerusalem, the Cross has been raised, and on the Cross is nailed the Immaculate Lamb, Priest and Victim. We dare not raise our eyes to look, and we remain at the foot of that scaffold, together with the Virgin and Saint John.
This is your hour, it is the empire of darkness (Lk 22:53), the Lord said the night before, after going to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray with the Apostles, who were unable to keep vigil with Him. In that terrible hour, all the sins committed by every human being, from the beginning of the world to the last moment before the Last Judgment, flow before the Savior, striking Him in the soul with greater cruelty than the scourges that will tear His flesh the next day. The immense, unspeakable, unheard-of pain caused by this vision arouses in the Lord such anguish that it causes him to sweat blood. Ego autem sum vermis et non homo; opprobrium hominum et abjectio plebis (Ps 22:7). And loneliness: feeling not only abandoned by His own, but seeing himself as if shunned by the Eternal Father, who sees in Him the scapegoat, the One who took upon Himself the sins of the world, who took them upon Himself, which for those sins committed against the Majesty of God requires the death of a God, and which in order to redeem sinful humanity requires the sacrifice of the firstborn. Cuius una stilla salvum facere totum mundum quit ab omni scelere, according to the words of Aquinas. A single drop of that most precious Blood would have saved the world, but it would not have manifested the infinite Charity of God – in the supreme act of the Sacrifice – ready to die for us, children of wrath, cursed and ungrateful, a thousand times sinners.
Oh, if only we could conceive of the horror the Lord experienced in making Himself an innocent Victim in place of us – we who are guilty of all the most horrifying sins of which man is capable! If we could only imagine the torment of the Virgin Mother when she saw her divine Son burdened with those repugnant sins, especially the sins against purity, so horrifying for the virginal soul of Mary Most Holy and even more so for the Incarnate Word! Sharp swords that pierce the Most Sacred Heart together with the Immaculate Heart and that pierce them, in a pain that man cannot know, except vaguely, in the perfect contrition that only the fire of Charity can move. That fire of divine Love which is inextricably linked to obedience to God’s will: Pater! Si non potest hic calix transire, nisi bibam illum, fiat voluntas tua (Mt 26:42). Silence responds to this cry of the tormented soul, as in the dark night of the mystics, because Heaven must remain mute in the face of that travail precisely in order to make it fruitful. It is in that offering that the priesthood of Christ the High Priest is fulfilled, it is in that holocaust that the Sacrifice of the Redeemer is consummated, and along with it the mystical passion of the Most Sorrowful Coredemptrix.
Only a mother knows what it means to feel what her child feels: for this reason, precisely in the supreme act of the Priesthood of the New and Eternal Covenant; precisely in the hour of the most mute and profound sorrow, Our Lord gives us the gift of that Divine Motherhood, entrusting us to her and entrusting her to us. Let us be aware, dear brothers and sisters: Our Lord makes us sinners, children of His Immaculate Mother and makes His Mother our Mother, at the same time that He makes Himself the divine Victim pro peccatis suæ gentis, representing sinful humanity before the Divine Majesty by virtue of the Hypostatic Union. This is not a merely dogmatic question – even if the Modernists go so far as to deny the Compassion and Co-redemption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in order to please heretics – but it is above all a mystical and spiritual reality, which must make us exclaim with St. Paul: O altitudo divitiarum sapientiæ, et scientiæ Dei: quam incomprehensibilia sunt judicia ejus, et investigabiles viæ ejus! O the depth of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge: how far beyond comprehension are His judgments, and beyond all knowledge are His ways! (Rom 11:33). And again: That you may be enabled to understand with all the saints the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ’s love, and to know this love which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Eph 3:18-19). This love that surpasses all things, that impels God to take the form of a servant, and raises the servant to be not only a creature of God, but His son, and a joint heir, even a friend. We repeat it in these blessed days, with the wise pedagogy of Holy Mother Church, which progressively reveals the words of the responsory taken from Saint Paul:
Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis. Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum et dedit illi nomen, quod est super omne nomen (Phil 2:8-9),
and the Apostle continues:
ut in nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur cælestium, terrestrium, et infernorum: et omnis lingua confiteatur, quia Dominus Jesus Christus in gloria est Dei Patris (Phil 2:10-11).
For it is only by standing at the foot of the Cross – without even daring to lift our gaze to the One whom we have pierced (Jn 19:37) – that we are able to understand that the only possible, worthy, just, dutiful and salutary response for us men before the Incarnate Divine Charity, the Divine Victim, the Divine Priest and the Divine King is to prostrate ourselves on our knees and profess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
Let us join our voice to this infinite chorus, in which every tongue sings the praises of God and proclaims Jesus Christ, Lord and Universal King. Yes, Christ is King. King of all: of those who submit to Him with trusting abandonment as well as of those who reject His Lordship; which was decreed and sanctioned once and for all on the wood of the Cross, arbor decora et fulgida, ornata Regis purpura, the Throne of the Lamb, Instrument of Salvation for those who believe, stumbling block for the Jews, foolishness for the Gentiles (1 Cor 1:23-24). For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men (1 Cor 1:25).
Let us impress upon our hearts the words of the Savior, when the gates of Hell seem to overwhelm and overpower us: Ego vici mundum – I have conquered the world (Jn 16:33). These words are not a wish, a mere pious desire, or a false illusion, like everything that comes from Satan: they are the unfailing promise of God.
And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
29 March 2024
Feria VI in Parasceve
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| "Vanquish or Die" Movie on the Catholic Vendée |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-31-2024, 01:50 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Fr. Hewko recently recommended this video. The following is taken from The Remnant website, here:
Vanquish or Die: The True Story of the Vendée Uprising (An Independent Film)
This film tells a story from the French Revolution. The Revolution was a godless New Order born from the Enlightenment, which brutalized the established, Christian way of life with its deeply ironic motto: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”.
It was anything but. These three words bred a hatred and then outright persecution of Catholics, from its very own King and Queen, to the simple peasants in the countryside. The Revolution launched a reign of terror against Christians during which countless priests, nuns, and lay people were slaughtered, and the Revolution’s soldiers, marching through the country in “infernal columns”, scorched the earth where Catholic farmers raised crops, cattle, and families.
But in western France, the Vendée region, the Catholic peasants revolted. They formed their own armies and appointed their own generals. Of these generals, Francoise Charette was the most effective and well-known. He became the Revolution’s obsession, so successful were his tactics.
This film tells his story. It is the story of a man who became a hero not because he was born a saint, but because he was a Catholic. Who found that in fighting for your Catholic Faith, the rest falls into place, and you become capable even of the ultimate victory—martyrdom—because the Revolution failed to corrupt your soul.
Please watch and share this video. Introduce your children to their new favorite hero. Spend an hour reminding your friends and family of the lengths to which men will go to stay Catholic and free.
*This film was released in France in 2023 by Puy du Fou. English subtitles were added by RTV to make the film accessible to the English-speaking world.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on Holy Thursday at the Chrism Mass |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-30-2024, 06:28 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
JANUIS CLAUSIS
Homily on Holy Thursday at the Chrism Mass
[Emphasis mine]
Et ego dispono vobis sicut disposuit mihi Pater meus regnum.
I am preparing for you a kingdom, as the Father has prepared it for me. Lk 22: 29
The solemn Liturgy of Holy Thursday introduces us into the heart of the Easter Mysteries and constitutes a sort of parenthesis between the long Lenten itinerary – culminating in the last two Sundays – and the celebration of the Passion and Death of the Lord, which will take place tomorrow. There are two great moments that bring us together around the altar today: the first, the Chrism Mass; the second, the Mass in Cena Domini. In both, the Church draws our attention to Holy Orders, so that we can rightly consider Holy Thursday as a feast in honor of Christ the High Priest and consequently of all His sacred Ministers, who draw their own Ministry from the One Priesthood of Christ.
In the Chrism Mass the Bishop – who possesses the plenitudo Sacerdotii – gathers his own Presbytery around him to consecrate the Holy Oils, necessary for the administration of the Sacraments: Consecrare tu dignare, Rex perennis patriæ, hoc olivum, signum vivum, iura contra dæmonum (Hymn. O Redemptor). In the Mass in Cena Domini we celebrate the institution of the Holy Sacrifice, of the Most Holy Eucharist, and of the Priesthood itself, whose Sacred Anointing recalls Christ, the Anointed of the Lord. The composed solemnity of these rites – which a compulsive succession of Bugninian reforms, carried out between the 1950s and the 1970s by the supporters of the Novus Ordo, has largely distorted and disfigured – takes us back to the Cenacle and to those words that the Redeemer addresses to His Disciples, in a moment of great oppression and fear. These are the hours in which that sense of siege and imminent danger looms over the Twelve that we too experience today; the hours in which the repeated attempts of the Jews to capture and kill the Lord – thus far unsuccessful – are about to succeed, due to the betrayal of Judas; the hours in which the triumph of the wicked seems inevitable, having managed to corrupt an Apostle in order to imprison the Son of God, put Him on trial, and condemn Him to death, He who a few days earlier had been welcomed into Jerusalem by the cheering crowd as King of Israel. The children’s Hosannas are silent, the crowd has disappeared, no one seems to remember the miracles performed by the Master in the last three years, and the palm branches lie abandoned on the sides of the road that leads to the Temple.
It is not difficult, in this crucial phase of the history of humanity and of the Church, to identify with the Apostles, oppressed by that feeling of the inevitability of Evil which tries to tear hope from hearts and instills despondency and disappointment, after the joy and the enthusiasm of entering the Holy City. Even the Mystical Body of Christ, which over the centuries retraces the stages of the Public Ministry of its Divine Head, has experienced those enthusiasms of the Disciples for the preaching and the miracles performed, today almost eclipsed in the abandonment of the crowds, in the conspiracy of the ready Sanhedrin to send their guards, in the betrayal of new Judas. This is your hour, it is the empire of darkness (Lk 22:53), Our Lord will say in a few hours to the high priests and temple guards who have come to capture Him.
But just as the empire of darkness looms – which the Apostles foolishly but humanely believe to be victorious – the Lord has the Cenacle prepared in a large, sumptuously decorated room to celebrate the Passover. A place in which, after the Crucifixion of the Master, we will see the Disciples gather again together with the Virgin Mother, with the doors bolted and the shutters closed for fear of the Jews. And on which fifty days later, ianuis clausis, the Holy Spirit will descend, accomplishing what had been prefigured in the consecration of the temple by King Solomon (2 Kgs 7:1).
The serenity and dignity with which the Savior faces the last hours before the Passion disorients the Apostles, who not only do not understand what is being prepared, but they are so confused so to ask themselves which of them should be considered the greatest (Lk 22: 24), while Peter says he is ready to face prison and death (Lk 22:33), unaware of the triple denial that he would soon make: Non cantabit hodie gallus, donec ter abneges nosse me, we heard yesterday, on Spy Wednesday, in the Passio.
You therefore, enclosed like the Apostles in this chapel around your Bishop to celebrate the Passover, feel besieged and in danger, wanted as disciples of the same Jesus the Nazarene whom the guards are about to arrest. And perhaps you too are amazed, dearest brothers, by the serenity with which I exhort you to face events with the same spirit of humble and obedient abandonment to the will of God. Ecce Satanas expetivit vos ut cribraret sicut triticum: Satan has asked to sift you as wheat is sifted (Lk 22:31). The test is approaching, because without engaging in the competition it is not possible to achieve the feat – the prize of victory – and without going through the ignominy of the Cross there can be no glory of the Resurrection. And it is perhaps a less bloody trial than the one the Apostles had to go through, but before which one needs the same state of mind that the Lord orders them to have: Vigilate et orate, ut non intretis in temptationem (Lk 22:46). Stay awake and pray.
In a world hostile to Christ – yesterday as today – the humility of the priest is the only safeguard for not giving in to temptation: the humility of recognizing oneself as fragile and incapable of facing adverse events, if not thanks to the help of God, which we can achieve only with vigilance and prayer. Our Lord tells us: Let the greatest among you be like the least, and the one who governs like the one who serves (Lk 22:26). You call me Master and Lord, and you are right, because I am. If therefore I, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. In fact, I have given you an example, so that you may do as I have done (Jn 13:13-15).
The Liturgy of Holy Thursday involves the repetition of that ancient and solemn gesture, in the awareness of both our human frailty and the immeasurable dignity of the Priesthood conferred on us by Christ. Nos autem Gloriari oportet in cruce Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, we will sing this evening in the Introit of the Mass in Cena Domini, and in the dazzling light of the Priesthood of Christ we will sing the Gloria in excelsis accompanied by the ringing of the bells, after the Lenten silence, which will remain silent until the Easter Vigil. These are small glimpses of sky that manage to bring us back to the presence of the Divine Majesty and make us contemplate the things of the world sub specie æternitatis, and therefore to see them in their transitory dimension.
Today’s two Masses remind us, each with its very ancient rites, of the importance and indispensability of the Priesthood, which we could consider as a sort of καθῆκον (2 Thess 2:6), which holds back and prevents the Antichrist from manifesting himself. Throughout history it was identified with the Church, with the Papacy, and with the Holy Roman Empire. But if Saint Paul tells us that the mystery of iniquity is already underway, but it is necessary that those who are holding it back must be removed (2 Thess 2:7), we can understand why the Catholic Priesthood is made the object of Satan’s fury: without priests there is no Mass, and without Mass there is no Holy Sacrifice. On the other hand, it is the prophet Daniel himself who explains to us how, under the infernal reign of the Antichrist, the perennial sacrifice will fall silent. Therefore, if the Priesthood does not constitute the καθῆκον, the Holy Mass certainly is, which is intrinsically linked to the Priesthood.
Saint Augustine explains: The first persecution (that of the Caesars) was violent: to force Christians to sacrifice to idols, they proscribed them, tormented them, slaughtered them. The second, the current one, is insidious and hypocritical: heretics and disloyal brothers are its authors. Later another one will happen, more disastrous than the previous ones; because it will add seduction to violence, and this will be the persecution of the Antichrist. Over the centuries, the faithful of the Lord have suffered the persecution of the pagans, then that of the heretics and modernists, and finally the subtle and seductive one of apostasy: first the cult of false gods, then that of a God whose religion has become adulterated in its essence, and finally that of Satan. And what is inflicted on the baptized will be made to be suffered even more so on priests, through the seduction of the Antichrist: fascinating in appearance and speech, socially affirmed, capable of inducing one to follow his power and prestige to the point of accepting his blasphemies and his horrendous crimes. And the Beast opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and the inhabitants of heaven (Rev 13:6). And this in the silence of the authority: All the nations agreed to obey (1 Mac 1:44). Three and a half years of hell on earth: a time that will seem to never end, but which will certainly be limited and during which we will have to face – if we are not already doing so – that same feeling of oppression and siege that was felt by the Apostles in the three days of the Passion, and which after the descent of the Paraclete changed into heroic testimony, leading them to face the torments of Martyrdom.
Watch and pray, dear brothers. Be vigilant, remaining firm in the faith and pray to the Lord asking that He will not allow you to be seduced by the charm of the wicked and malicious man, of the lion that wanders looking for prey to tear to pieces. Draw your strength from Christ and His eternal Priesthood, of which yours is a perpetuation: Tu es sacerdos in æternum (Ps 109:4). It is Christ the High Priest who celebrates the celestial liturgy, and who from the altar of the Cross intones the antiphon that begins the rite: Deus, Deus meus: quare me dereliquisti? They are the same words that we read in the Office of these blessed days, which echo with Jeremiah the pain and discouragement of the Eternal Father towards unfaithful Jerusalem, and with Ezekiel His anger at the betrayal of His ministers: Son of man, do you see what they do? Behold the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to remove me from my sanctuary! You will see others even worse (Ez 8: 6). In this terrible vision of Ezekiel the priests of the Lord adore Baal, the demon to whom children are offered as sacrifices: it is difficult not to see in the horrors of today’s world the same abomination, the same betrayals, the same apostasy, the same offenses against the Majesty of God, and the same wrath of the Most High.
When we look at the state of the Church, of our seminaries, of the convents, of the religious communities, and the consequences of the infidelities of the Hierarchy, we cannot ignore the terrible words of the indignant Lord: Desecrate even the temple, fill the courtyards with corpses (Ez 9:7). It is God himself, in his holy wrath, who orders His enemies to carry out His vengeance on the unfaithful members of the Church, who in the secret chambers of the temple worship the idols of the world. Fill the courtyards with corpses: the cloisters of the monasteries, the naves of the churches are strewn with the corpses of lost vocations, of failed religious, of faithful who have fled.
What remains is the pusillus grex, the καθῆκον of the Catholic Priesthood, which no earthly or infernal power will ever be able to erase from the face of the earth. You guard within yourselves, in your very flesh, the pignus, the treasure given as a pledge to the Church by Christ the High Priest: as long as you have the strength to hold a host and a chalice in your hands and to pronounce the words of the Consecration, you will have the power to renew the Sacrifice of Christ which has destroyed Satan’s tyranny over souls forever. As long as you can raise your hand to bless, to sanctify, and to absolve, the work of the devil may appear victorious, but it will never be able to prevail.
We know that the Antichrist – and all his precursors with him – are masters of seduction. But seduction is also corruption, the ability to attract us by buying us, just as the Iscariot was bought. Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the darkness, each in the secret room of his own idol? They go saying: “The Lord does not see us; the Lord has abandoned the land” (Ez 8, 12). But the Lord sees their faults and does not abandon the Church, because the Church is His Mystical Body, a part of Him, His living and holy members. Everything that falls, everything that appears behind the wall to have collapsed in its corruption and betrayals will not prevent the final victory, and indeed it will be an incentive to all of us to remain faithful to our God and Lord even when the temple seems empty and the altar seems deserted.
While the traitors and the wicked try to hide from the gaze of God in the recesses of their conventicles, the Disciples take refuge in the Cenacle to escape the Jews. The former trust in creatures and in the world, of which Satan is the prince; the latter in the Creator and in the Redeemer, the Conqueror of the world. Let us therefore remain in this mystical Cenacle, in fraternal harmony, keeping vigil and praying together with the Most Holy Virgin, Mother of the Church and Mother of the Priesthood, while the exterminating Angel passes by. The hour of darkness will pass. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
28 March 2024
Feria V in Cœna Domini
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| Bishop Huonder is Dying - Prayers |
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Posted by: TheRecusant.com - 03-30-2024, 05:08 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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Bishop Vitus Huonder was to have consecrated the holy oils at Zaitskofen this year, but was taken into hospital shortly beforehand.
He has now been given the last rites in hospital. The SSPX in Germany are now requesting prayers for him:
Quote:Gebetsanliegen für Bischof Huonder
Bischof Vitus Huonder hat gestern um 19.15 Uhr die Sterbesakramente empfangen. Es sieht menschlich so aus, als ob es bald mit ihm zu Ende geht und er leidet sehr. Darum bitte ich Sie sehr um das Gebet für ihn.
Ihr Pater Trutt
(From the Munich priory.)
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| Pope Francis washes feet of 12 women, continuing 2016 ‘innovation’ in Holy Thursday liturgy |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-30-2024, 04:54 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis washes feet of 12 women, continuing 2016 ‘innovation’ in Holy Thursday liturgy
Pope Francis again washed and kissed the feet of women in the Holy Thursday liturgy,
though this year is believed to be the first time that the 12 people in the ceremony were all women.
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Pope Francis washes a woman's foot, Maundy Thursday, 2024.
Vatican News/YouTube
Mar 28, 2024
ROME (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis today washed the feet of 12 women during the Maundy Thursday Mandatum ceremony, continuing the break with Tradition and only men’s feet being washed, which he cemented with a decree in 2016.
In a ceremony held in Rome’s Rebibbia women’s prison, Pope Francis performed the Mandatum, or washing of feet, for Maundy Thursday, but it is believed that it is the first time the 12 people were all women.
Seated in his wheelchair, the pope was wheeled along the line of 12 of the inmates in the Rebibbia prison, washing, drying, and kissing feet the length of the line.
Francis said in his homily that the washing of feet was done in imitation of Christ and demonstrated the “vocation of service.”
The washing of women’s feet during the Maundy Thursday liturgy – while a favorite of the Vatican’s media division due to the emotional reactions of recipients of the pope’s gesture – is a contentious one liturgically.
The symbolic washing of the feet by the celebrant of the Mass is to commemorate Christ’s washing the feet of His 12 Apostles at the establishment of the priesthood. As Dom Prosper Gueranger notes in his liturgical commentary: “He would teach us, by what He is now doing, how great is the purity wherewith we should approach the holy table. He that is washed, says He, needeth not but to wash his feet.”
But in the first weeks of his pontificate, Pope Francis made waves through the Church by washing women’s feet at the Holy Thursday Mass, becoming the first pope to do so. Among the women whose feet he washed was a Muslim.
In January 2016, after establishing the practice, he officially altered the Church’s liturgy to allow for washing women’s feet at the Holy Thursday. Via a letter to Cardinal Robert Sarah (then-prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship) and a subsequent decree, Francis opened up to women a liturgical action that had previously always been officially reserved to men.
While local practice beforehand had illegally included the washing of women’s feet during the Maundy Thursday Mandatum, the pope’s 2016 decree formally instituted the custom. Francis wrote to Cardinal Sarah, saying the formal change was made with “the intention of improving the manner in which it is carried out, so that it fully expresses the meaning of the gesture performed by Jesus in the Upper Room, his giving of himself ‘to the end’ for the salvation of the world, his charity without boundaries.”
Commenting on the pope’s “innovation” – as it was described in the CDW decree implementing the pope’s wishes – Bishop Athanasius Schneider roundly criticized the development. Noting the intimate link of the Mandatum and the male-only priesthood, Bishop Schneider stated:
Quote:This Holy Mass celebrates the commemoration of the institution of the sacraments of the Eucharist and the Priesthood. Therefore, the foot washing of women along with the men not only distracts from the main focus on Eucharist and on Priesthood, but generates confusion regarding the historical symbolism of the “twelve” and of the apostles being of male sex. The universal tradition of the Church never allowed the foot washing during the Holy Mass, but instead outside of Mass, in a special ceremony.
By the way: the public washing and usually also kissing of the feet of women on the part of a man, in our case, of a priest or a bishop, is considered by every person of common sense in all cultures as being improper and even indecent. Thanks be to God no priest or bishop is obliged to wash publicly the feet of women on Holy Thursday, for there is no binding norm for it, and the foot washing itself is only facultative.
Cardinal Arthur Roche – while still Archbishop Roche and serving as CDW secretary – suggested in 2016 that priests were obliged to choose women for the foot washing following the pope’s decree. However, he was overruled by his superior and CDW prefect, Cardinal Sarah, who stated that “pastors may select a small group of the faithful to represent the variety and the unity of each part of the people of God.” This selection, noted Sarah, was such that the “small groups can be made up of men and women.”
In recent years, Francis has formally opened up male-only aspects of the Church’s liturgy to women, such as instituting female lectors and acolytes.
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Pope Francis institutes a woman as lector, January 21, 2024.
While the practice of women lectors and acolytes had been widespread, the formal institution of women as lectors and acolytes is a modern novelty resulting from Pope Francis’ 2021 changes to the Church’s canon law, as outlined in his motu proprio Spiritus Domini. A subsequent motu proprio later that same year, Antiquum ministerium, provided for the formal institution of women as catechists, resulting in the first institution of women in the roles in 2022.
Writing in 2021 to then-prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Francis said that Spiritus Domini was following the lines of thought of Vatican II along with the controversial 2019 Synod on the Amazon: “in the horizon of renewal outlined by the Second Vatican Council, one feels ever greater today the urgency to rediscover the co-responsibility of all the baptized in the Church, and particularly the mission of the laity.”
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Posted by: Stone - 03-28-2024, 06:36 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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‘Servant of Freemasonry’: Viganò rebukes bishop who approved pagan ritual before Mass at cathedral
The archbishop said a ''shamanic ceremony' 'desecrate(d) the Cathedral of the Diocese of Superior (WI)
on the very day on which the Holy Chrism is consecrated.'
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Mar 27, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a stinging rebuke of an American bishop who allowed a pagan ritual to be performed inside his cathedral earlier this month.
In a X post published last Friday, Viganò condemned the ceremony as a “sacrilegious act.” He referred to the prelate who permitted it as a “squalid official of the ecumenical religion.”
“The shamanic ceremony … constitutes a sacrilegious act that desecrates the Cathedral of the Diocese of Superior (WI) on the very day on which the Holy Chrism is consecrated,” His Excellency declared.
“This makes Bishop (John) Powers, present at the rite, responsible for a very serious sacrilege and for the scandal caused to those present. This is not a Successor of the Apostles, but a servant of Freemasonry.”
Viganò is the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. His courageous and sharply worded commentaries on Vatican and international affairs have won him many admirers in recent years, even non-Catholics. He recently opened a house of formation in Italy for aspirants to the priesthood so they would not be “subjected to the blackmail of having to accept the errors of Vatican II or the deviations of Bergoglio in order to exercise their ministry.”
In his X post, Viganò did not hold back in his criticism of Powers, who was tapped to lead the diocese, located in northwest Michigan, by Pope Francis in 2015.
“The way he celebrates Mass reveals his total alienation from the Divine Mysteries,” His Excellency remarked. “What is ‘comforting’ — so to speak — is to see that the participants in the profanations of the Bergoglian sect are almost all of advanced age (especially the shamans, who are truly pathetic). The generation of Vatican II, sterile and senescent, is heading towards the sunset.”
Powers previously served as diocesan administrator under Bishop Peter Christensen, who had been overseeing the diocese since 2007 until he was reassigned to Boise, Idaho. In 2020, Christensen banned priests from offering Mass facing the tabernacle. He also outlawed communion rails.
In December 2023, Powers, who is 70, issued a statement in full support of Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s document calling for blessings of homosexual couples. “The blessing is simply an encouragement to those involved that they may be open to God’s love and find joy in their call to holiness,” he misleadingly claimed.
During the ceremony, four women dressed in Native American attire stood around the altar and simultaneously turned to the north, east, south, and west while a person at the pulpit implored help from “the creator” to grant them “strength and courage… to perceive the sacredness of life, of mother earth, and all creation.”
LifeSite reached out to the Superior diocese for clarity on the event. LifeSite wanted to know who the women were, what their religious beliefs are, and what they were saying.
LifeSite also sought an explanation as to how the ritual didn’t violate the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which holds that an altar “must be reserved for divine worship alone, to the absolute exclusion of any profane use.” It also teaches that “sacred places are violated by gravely injurious actions done in them with scandal to the faithful.”
LifeSite was informed by Dan Blank, the director of administrative services, on Monday that diocesan offices had a “snow day” due to bad weather. He said he would confer with those who were copied on the email in order to “determine a reply, if any.” LifeSite included Bishop Powers, Fr. Adam Laski, who serves as parochial administrator/adjutant judicial vicar, and several other employees of the diocese on the email. LifeSite has not received a response from the diocese as of the publication of this story.
Hundreds of Catholics attended the liturgy, officially known as the Chrism Mass where holy oils are anointed by the bishop for priests to use for the sacraments. The Mass was held on March 19, the feast of St. Joseph. Video evidence suggests most every priest in the diocese was present. Members of the Knights of Columbus and many young people attended as well. It is not readily known if the women who performed the ritual conduct it every year, were invited this year alone, or are a regular fixture at other churches in the diocese.
Catholic Family News managing editor Matt Gapers expressed outrage about the ceremony in an X post. “Bp. James Powers invited those present to ‘repent from your sins and to dispose yourselves’ to receive the Apostolic Blessing — after allowing a non-Christian ritual in the sanctuary,” he said.
[...] A priest who resides in the diocese and offers the Latin Mass exclusively spoke to LifeSite on condition of anonymity. He said the ritual was “tragic” in that it was an “abomination of desolation” that effectively makes Powers a “minister of Satan.”
“They invoked foreign deities with strange emblems, dancing, and incantations to consecrate the altar to Pachamama and the forces of darkness. Thís is an act of spiritual fornication carried out by the representatives of the Mystical Body of Christ, making it a grievous sin,” the priest said.
“The bishop defiled his soul and this diocese by forcing his priests, who stood by in silence, to approve of it. They have collectively reconsecrated this diocese to Satan by an act of apostasy of unanimous consent that now permits demons to come and go as they please wherever they please, even in churches. They have deceived their sheep, presenting evil as good, and defiled the altar and the Cathedral itself, which now requires an exorcism.”
The priest further remarked that “the oils that were ‘made holy’ at this un-worthy liturgy were approved by an entire group of clergy in the state of mortal sin. These very oils will be used in all sacraments for the next year, defiling all who receive them. Never has anyone heard of such an indescribable sin as what took place, and because the Vatican has been encouraging this all over the world, people think it’s just an ecumenical gesture of mercy. The truth is, there is nothing on earth so unmerciful as to condemn to eternal fire your whole body of clergy, and all of your sheep. This makes them the ministers of Satan, and like him, murderers of souls.”
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Posted by: Stone - 03-25-2024, 05:56 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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24 Marzo 2024 2024, Meditazioni
QUIS EST ISTE REX GLORIÆ?
Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
QUIS EST ISTE REX GLORIÆ?
Spiritual Conference on the Second Sunday of Passiontide or Palm Sunday
Exsulta satis, filia Sion, jubila filia Jerusalem.
Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi.
Za 9, 12
The solemn celebrations of Holy Week begin with the triumphal entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem, hailed as King of Israel. The Holy Church, the people of the New and Eternal Covenant, makes her own the tribute of public honors to her Lord: Hi placuere tibi, placeat devotio nostra: Rex bone, Rex clemens, cui bona cuncta placent. [May they please Thee, may our devotion please Thee, O good King, O gracious King, who likes all that is good]
However, as if to highlight how fickle and manipulable the multitude is, today we see the festive crowd with palm and olive branches, and a few days later we hear them cry out, “Crucify Him.” and send that same King to death on the scaffold reserved for slaves.
It is not known to us whether those who welcomed with jubilation the Lord at the gates of the Holy City were the same ones who gathered before the Praetorium and were incited by the High Priests and the scribes of the people. But it is not difficult to suppose – also on the basis of other similar episodes in the course of History – that many were present on both occasions, for the simple pleasure of attending an event, of following the crowd, of “taking a selfie,” as we would say today. On the other hand, was it not the same Hebrews in the wilderness who made for themselves a golden calf while Moses received the tablets of the Law on Sinai? And how many other times did those same Jews who had acclaimed the God of Israel end up “ecumenically” welcoming the priests of Baal and defiling themselves with idolaters, deserving the punishments announced by the Prophets and then repenting of their infidelity, only to begin again shortly after? This is the crowd, dear brethren; the crowd that witnesses the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the healing of lepers, the crippled, the centurion’s servant, and the resurrection of Lazarus, but then lines the path that leads to Golgotha to insult and spit on Our Lord, or even just to watch, ut videret finem (Mt 26:57): to see how it would turn out.
Who was absent from the Lord’s royal entry into Jerusalem? The civil and religious authorities, just as the powerful were absent from the Birth of the Savior in that remote hovel in Bethlehem on the night of December 25, two thousand and twenty-four years ago. There were no High Priests, no scribes, no Herod; who in reality were not even considered as true authorities, since both the High Priests Annas and Caiaphas as well as King Herod had come to power through fraud and manipulated appointments – nihil sub sole novi – and therefore did not represent legitimate power. In particular, Caiaphas was not of the house of Aaron – the priestly tribe of the Jews – but had been appointed as High Priest by Valerius Gratus in 25 A.D. and had managed to remain in office until 36 A.D., when he was deposed by the Governor of Syria, Lucius Vitellius. It was an imperial appointment, therefore, and not a hereditary right as established by God and as it was done uninterruptedly until the time of the Maccabees (1 Maccabees 10:20), when Jonathan assumed the High Priesthood.
Not even the king of Galilee was legitimate, for his appointment was decided by his father Herod the Great, who divided the kingdom between his sons Archelaus (who had Judea, Idumea, and southern Samaria), Herod Philip (who had the northeastern region of the Sea of Galilee) and Herod Antipas (who was appointed Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea). Herod Antipas ruled from 4 B.C. to 39 A.D. on behalf of the imperial authority and therefore could be considered more of a puppet in the service of Rome than a true ruler. He wasn’t supposed to be much different from a modern-day Trudeau or Macron, raised by the World Economic Forum and placed by the deep state to serve the interests of the elite in Canada or France. On the other hand, Herod had also been at the imperial court in Rome, where he had begun an affair with Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and whom he had then married – in contravention of the Mosaic law – deserving the condemnation of the Baptist, who was arrested and executed for this. The fact that Our Lord did not want to answer Herod – when Pontius Pilate had Him brought to Herod to judge Him since He was under Herod’s jurisdiction – confirms that Christ himself considered his authority illegitimate.
In Israel, therefore, at the time of Christ, there was no real religious or civil authority. Why this absence, this vacatio? And yet the Jews recognized the High Priests and Herod, just as today Bergoglio and the heads of government of the nations are recognized, despite the fact that they are clearly estranged from the true power willed by God. The answer we can give is that Providence willed that the coming secundum carnem of Our Lord should show that He was the true King and High Priest, not only as the author and guarantor of earthly authority, but also as the legitimate holder of that authority by divine right, by right of birth and – shortly thereafter – by right of conquest. This is the reason for the absence of Jewish kings, high priests, and scribes, both at the Birth of Christ and at His Epiphany and also at the Entry into Jerusalem.
Let us now try, dear brothers, to observe the scene before us. It is the 10th of the month of Nisan, six days before Passover, when the Law prescribes that the Jews procure the Passover lamb. Here, then, we see the Agnus Dei – according to the words of John the Baptist (Jn 1:29) – who five days later, at the ninth hour of Good Friday – that is, of the Eve of Passover – would expire on the Cross, at the same time that the Jews were skewering the lamb on two skewers to roast it, in memory of the flight from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea to the Promised Land. In the eyes of the faithful people, that symbolism could not escape them.
Seated on the harnessed donkey, like King Solomon at the moment of his coronation (1 Kings 1:38-40); honored as He passes by with palm branches and cloaks spread on the ground (2 Kings 9-13), Christ sums up in Himself all earthly, temporal and spiritual authority, showing Himself in the plenitudo potestatis and being praised by the people: Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, exclaim the pueri Hebræorum. Hosanna filio David, that is, to the descendant of the once reigning house, to the promised Messiah, to the one prefigured by Zechariah (Zech 9:9):
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion,
rejoice, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, thy king is coming unto thee.
He is righteous and victorious,
humble, he rides on a donkey,
a foal of an ass.
As can be seen from the Gospel narrative, the Lord’s coronation takes place on the Mount of Olives, less than three kilometers from the Holy City, and the royal procession moves towards the Temple, recalling Psalm 23:
O gates, lift up your gables;
and you, eternal gates, arise;
let the King of glory enter.
Who is this King of glory?
It is the Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
O gates, lift up your gables;
Arise, O eternal gates,
let the King of glory enter.
Who is this King of glory?
He is the Lord of hosts;
He is the King of glory.
The offering of a victim on the altar, presented when it is already evening (Mk 11:11) alludes to the imminent Passion of Our Lord. We can imagine the concern that this massive demonstration aroused among the authorities. And it is no coincidence: this civil and religious rite – characterized by the repetition of a precise ceremonial well known to priests and scribes – was in some way to represent the restoration of the Jewish kingdom in view of the Passion, so that it would be the King and High Priest of Israel who ascended the altar of Golgotha to offer Himself to the Majesty of the Father as a ransom for the sins of His people. We shall see the Lord again clothed in royal robes – the scarlet cloak and the crown, though of thorns – presenting Himself on the balcony of the Praetorium. Ecce rex vester (Jn 19:13), Pilate says to the Jews, who answer, confessing David’s vacancy on the throne: Non habemus regem, nisi Cæsarem (Jn 19:14). And again, in the Titulus Crucis, the same truth is reaffirmed: Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judæorum (Jn 19:19). For if Christ had not been recognized as King and High Priest in the supreme act of the Sacrifice, He would not have represented before the Father either the individuals or the nations that were the object of the Redemption.
If we were to draw a parallel between those events and those of today, we might find a disturbing analogy between the action of the Sanhedrin and the Catholic Hierarchy usurping power in Rome. Imagine what might be, today, the concern of certain prelates – and of Bergoglio himself – for the threat of being discovered in their fraud by Christ himself, who comes to take back that authority that has been usurped and exercised not to open the Scriptures to the faithful, but to keep them in ignorance and allow himself to maintain power. Do you think that the reaction would be so different from that of the Sanhedrin, aroused by the concurrence of the people in Jerusalem to proclaim an unknown prophet of Galilee king? What do you think the new Caiaphas would say when he saw his prestige as High Priest threatened and the deception that brought him to power revealed? To be reminded that he is the vicar of an authority that is not his own, and of which he is not the master? Do you think he would agree to renounce the usurping Papacy, in order to allow the Lord to ascend to the Throne, in whose name he should govern the Church? Or would he not rather address the civil authorities, making it clear to the corrupt officials and politicians who recognize him as Pope, that this Galileo also threatens their power, which has also been usurped? Would he not invoke the intervention of the army to quell the revolt and condemn the Lord to death for sedition and high treason? On the contrary: does it not seem to you that the reason for the condemnation is precisely that he dared to proclaim himself King and Son of God – quia Filium Dei se fecit (Jn 19:7) – in a world that calls itself democratic and that recognizes no king other than Caesar – that is, the pagan power of an invader – nor any other god than man? And in this not-too-hypothetical framework, how would the mainstream media report the news, assuming that censorship or some law against hate speech does not prevent people from talking about it and pretend that nothing has happened?
According to some Fathers, the triumphal procession of Christ to Jerusalem is composed of two hosts: in the allegorical meaning of the Scriptures, those who precede the Lord are the Israelites, and those who follow Him are the converted pagans. And perhaps among the Jews there were also zealots, who hoped for a popular revolt against the Roman invader and who then abandoned the Lord when it was clear to them that He would not allow Himself to be used politically: it would be they, disappointed in their revolutionary expectations, who then cried out, “Crucify Him.”
So, we have three categories of people: those who hailed Christ, those who cried out, “Crucify Him,” and those who did both. The former are faithful; the latter are unfaithful and perfidious; the third are desolately mediocre. Let us ask ourselves, then: Who would I have been? Perhaps not among the mob stirred up by the Sanhedrin to extort Christ’s death sentence from Pilate: they are declared enemies of God and do not hesitate to invoke His Blood, in the vertigo of their blindness.
Rather, we should have been among those who praised the Lord and during the Passion were there with John, Mary, and the Pious Women at the foot of the Cross. But often, painfully, we must recognize that our infidelity – like that of the people who were the chosen ones – leads us to side with Christ when He triumphs, and to cry out against Him or to deny that we know Him – like Peter – when He is arrested, tried, bloodied, crowned with thorns, dressed like a madman and covered with reproaches. Committed Catholics under Pius XII, but then lukewarm modernists with the Council; heroic defenders of the Faith in times of peace in a Catholic nation, but mute executors of the worldly mentality in times of persecution in anti-Catholic nations; devout faithful of the Old Mass when Benedict XVI allowed it, but now scrupulous executors of Traditionis Custodes when the Jesuit of Santa Marta limits its celebration or prohibits it.
But why, I ask myself, this intolerance for the transcendent? Why this revulsion for the sacred, and therefore also for the sacredness of the authority of Christ, King and High Priest, that breaks into our humanity? What disturbed so much the power of the High Priests in Our Lord’s time? What has disturbed the power of civil institutions so much for over two hundred years, and that of the modernist Sanhedrin for sixty years? I believe that the answer lies in the pride of us poor, miserable mortals, who do not want to accept and submit to the power of Christ because we know that if we did there would be no more room for our particulars, for our petty interests, for our lust for power. Ultimately, it is Lucifer’s Non serviam that is perpetuated in History, in the tragic attempt to subvert the divine order and in the even more tragic illusion of being able to be self-sufficient, of considering the world as a goal and not as a place of passage, of being able to create for ourselves a Paradise on earth in which freedom, fraternity, and equality may be the human counterpart of Faith, Hope and Charity.
We are afraid that Christ will reign, because we know that where authority belongs to Christ and is in accordance with His Law, we are no longer in charge, and the power we administer as Christ’s lieutenants cannot be used as a pretext behind which to hide our foolish presumption of being sicut dii. And this is true in the civil as well as in the ecclesiastical sphere. Yet being vicars of Christ in temporal or spiritual matters should be an honor, not a humiliation. For this reason, dear brethren, it is terrible that he who sits on the Throne of Peter considers it “inconvenient” to bear the title of Servant of the Servants of God and has erased that of Vicar of Christ. In shaking off the necessary subjection to Christ, he also assumes full and total responsibility for his own errors, his own heresies, the scandals of which he is the cause; and at the same time, proudly, he rejects those Graces of state which the Lord would otherwise have granted to His Vicar on earth. This presumption cuts at the root the legitimacy of authority itself, which either comes from God or is hateful and illegitimate tyranny.
Dear brothers and sisters, these times of apostasy are no different from the times of the Passion, because the passio Christi of that time must necessarily be fulfilled in the passio Ecclesiæ of today and of the end times: what the Head has faced, the Mystical Body must also face. But be careful: another will try to present himself as king and pope, and he will be the Antichrist, the infernal counterfeit and diabolical subversion of the Prince of Peace. Even in those days of darkness – which prophet Daniel tells us will last three and a half years – there will be a crowd that will sing the praises of that man, worshipping him as God, and others who will recognize him as an impostor and servant of Satan. The deceptions and wonders of the son of perdition will lead us to believe that he has conquered power, that the Church is definitively obliterated, in the vacancy of civil and religious authority. It will be then that St. Michael will kill the Antichrist, then that the Virgin will crush the head of the Serpent, then that the Lord will come in glory to judge the living and the dead, returning again as the Son of God, King and High Priest.
Let us make sure that we are found among the number of that pusillus grex, that little flock, which has not been deceived and which has remained faithful. Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; rejoice, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy king is coming unto thee (Zech 9:9). And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
March 24, 2024
Dominica II Passionis seu in Palmis
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| Prominent freemason and occultist predicted 50 years ago a one-world religion |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-23-2024, 08:16 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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Prominent freemason and occultist predicted 50 years ago a one-world religion led by a ‘Christ’ to come
It is not until now, in the era of Pope Francis, that we can make sense of Foster Bailey’s prediction that Catholicism — which he considers to be the most backward religion — may lead a ‘Christian religious revival.’
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(LifeSiteNews) — A high-ranking freemason, occultist, and co-founder of the Lucifer Publishing Company 50 years ago predicted key features of a coming one-world government, including a “cashless society” and worldwide socialism. But his blueprint for a new world order is unique in its specific predictions about a one-world religion that is to be led by a “Christ” to come — or rather, the Antichrist.
In the book “Things to Come,” (issued by what is now called the Lucis Publishing Company) Foster Bailey, author of “The Spirit of Masonry” and husband of Alice Bailey, a “godmother” of the new-age movement, gives hints as to what the coming one-world religion will look like and helps the reader to imagine the unthinkable: that a one-world government will indeed promote a new religion, and even be wedded to that religion.
In fact, the one-world religion will be the very heart of the new world order, because the most important conquest of the inner circle of globalists is not your body, but your soul. This is largely why the coming religious deception is generally shrouded in obscurity, unlike the political and economic facets of the NWO.
If anyone were to grasp the plans for the one-world religion, it would be someone like Foster Bailey. As a 33rd degree freemason, he was evidently privy to the secret society’s designs to subvert the Catholic Church and help usher in this one-world religion, which his writings hint at.
His wife, Alice, suggests that freemasonry will help prepare the way for the “Great One” to come, also known as “the Christ,” who Foster describes as a “great spiritual leader” and a “living man today” who “does not come to save us but to help us save ourselves,” and “not from a hell of physical suffering.”
Alice predicted that “mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the masonic fraternity,” calling the “Masonic Movement” the “home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation.” The “Great One,” (read: Antichrist) she says, is working toward the same end as freemasonry: “When the Great One comes with his disciples and initiates we shall have … the restoration of the Mysteries,” Bailey wrote in “The Externalization of the Hierarchy.”
She admitted that freemasonry is, at its core, an occult group, writing that the “masonic movement” “is a far more occult organization than can be realized, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists.”
A Luciferian endeavor
The occult involvement of Alice and Foster give credence to the claim of ex-freemasons that the fraternity is satanic at its highest levels — that the “Great Architect of the Universe” is Satan. As hardcore occultists, the couple openly praised Lucifer, and were literally “plugged in” to demons, through what they describe as “New Age” practices.
For example, in “Things to Come,” Bailey described a “process of overshadowing” by which “the Christ” (not Jesus Christ as Christians understand Him) or an “ascended Master” renders a “disciple” “much more usable. This suggests that he deliberately opened himself to possession or at least influence by “spirits,” which as many former New Agers can testify, are often demons in disguise.
And Alice claimed to “telepathically” receive messages from a “Master of Wisdom” she labeled “the Tibetan” or “Djwal Khul (D.K.), which she said comprised the majority of her writings. These messages are likewise probably of demonic origin, all the more so because of her esteem for Lucifer/Satan.
We can, therefore, while taking the Baileys’ predictions regarding the “Christ” to come with a grain of salt, understand them as a likely foreshadowing of how the Antichrist will deceptively sugarcoat himself and his evil religion.
Regarding the “Christ” who will lead the one-world religion, Foster Bailey gives a couple of hints as to what he will be like (expanded on by Alice, as detailed below):
“The word Christ is a name in the Hierarchy for the holder of an all embracing world-wide divine leadership and as so used, transcends orthodox limitations. Christ to the modern mind is an active, intelligent world executive, and a living man today. His vision and his action are for all men. He is not at all limited to Christianity.”
Thus, the Antichrist will deny one of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity, which is that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
Foster, by contrast, insists that the idea that Christianity is “the only true religion” makes Christians guilty of the “special sin” of “separatism.” However, such a belief not only conforms to the words of Jesus Christ Himself but to the logical principle of noncontradiction: Two contradictory things cannot simultaneously be true.
Foster signals that this “Christ” to come will not consider necessary the belief in Heaven or Hell, since he wrote, “It is not the function of any religion or any church organization to … try to scare people into a mythical heaven.”
We can glean more about the nature of the Antichrist and his one-world religion through Foster’s remarks about the major religions. It is telling that Foster’s disdain for Christianity contrasts with his esteem for Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, which are spared criticism entirely (“liberal Jews” get a very brief positive mention, while other Jews, like Catholics, are mentioned to be “excessively separative”).
Catholicism: The supreme enemy of Bailey — and freemasonry
Even more revealing is the fact that Catholicism is the religion most repugnant to Foster, an attitude inherent to freemasonry, which is diametrically opposed to the Catholic faith above all.
This is because Catholicism is more opposed than any other religion to Foster’s/freemasonry’s idea that we should “be obedient to our own inner spiritual selves.” In other words, Catholicism is most opposed to the “supreme injunction” promoted by the occultist and “magician” Aleister Crowley: “Do what thou wilt.” (It is noteworthy that Crowley, who, it is publicly acknowledged, deliberately summoned demons, said he wrote his seminal work according to the dictations of a disembodied voice, like Alice Bailey.)
It is why freemasons, when they reach the 30th degree, crush under foot a papal tiara, swearing to free mankind from “the thraldom of spiritual tyranny,” according to Father Alex Zenthoefer.
Dr. Taylor Marshall explains in his book Infiltration that a major goal of freemasonry (echoed in Things to Come) is in fact to replace Catholicism: “The strategy of … Freemasonry is to arrange secret societies to subvert the current (Catholic) order and replace it with an enlightened order in which all religions are approximations of the truth — all religions become allegorical and equal. The Catholic Church is the Vetus Ordo Saeculorum — the Old Order of the World. Freemasonry is the Novus Ordo Saeculorum — the New Order of the World.”
Second Vatican Council is evidence of “New Age” influence
In keeping with his masonic and occult beliefs, while Foster Bailey makes clear that Catholicism is too “dogmatic,” he sees a spark of hope in the Second Vatican Council, which he considers a watershed moment largely because the clergy are distancing themselves from “useless dogmas”] [emphasis The Catacombs]:
Quote:Increasing numbers of religious leaders are recognizing that the church must abandon useless dogmas and that it is out of step with the development of human intelligence today. There is a ferment arising in the religious field which is forcing reformation of churchianity. Amazing things are taking place in the Roman Catholic Church, for example.
For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has been dominated and controlled by the Curia, a body of ultra-conservative doctrinaires who wielded undisputed power over all cardinals and bishops. Until this control was broken there was little hope for any spiritual change. Pope John XXIII broke it in the first session of the Second Ecumenical Council.
Today the present Pope is largely free from this shackling influence and a new Collegia is gaining power and great influence as to all Church affairs. This is a far-reaching change in the organization itself, the fruits of which will be startling indeed.
Foster is not talking about a difference of mere degrees in what the Catholic Church teaches or how, but about a fundamental “break,” a disconnect with its past. He goes on to explain how:
“The Second Session of the Ecumenical Council witnessed the promulgation of the doctrine that every man is free to worship God as he chooses without condemnation of the Church,” Foster wrote, predicting that “This new religious freedom in the Catholic Church, when implemented, will completely change the system by which the Church has controlled its followers for ages.”
The idea of religious freedom is so revered today, even by devout Christians, that it is difficult for people to consider why the Catholic Church long taught that “error has no rights.” This does not mean the Church ever taught that people should be legally coerced into practicing Catholicism. But to teach that a human being has a right to publicly practice a false religion is contrary to the Church’s desire that all men find the truth and be saved.
It is easiest to understand this when considering whether a satanist has a right to erect a Baphomet statue at a state capitol or run a satanic children’s club at a school. Most Christians today will passionately insist that satanists do not have this right. Why? Because it is harmful both to a just society and to souls. But we make exceptions for other religions because they aren’t explicitly or obviously opposed to God, forgetting that other religions harm souls as well and put them at risk, because they reject what Jesus taught — that He is the only way to the Father — and the fullness of the moral law.
We forget that it is because we have embraced this very principle of religious liberty in the U.S., for example, that satanists are able to erect statues and displays before state capitols and start “after school satan clubs.”
Many have forgotten that religious indifferentism — the idea that it really does not matter to which religion one belongs — is a masonic idea, something also noted by the traditional Catholic priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
While they are much criticized and considered “irregular” by the Vatican for refusing to embrace the entirety of the Second Vatican Council, the SSPX correctly points out that Vatican II’s teaching that no one is “to be restrained from acting in accordance with his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly,” stems from freemasonry, breaks with the Church’s perennial teaching, and undermines the conversion of souls to the Catholic faith.
Vatican II did in fact greatly weaken Catholic belief and practice, as seen in the dramatic decline in religious vocations and even Church attendance after the Council. The climate of religious indifferentism that it encouraged led to a newfound religious apathy among Catholics, which Foster Bailey noted when he wrote, “Youth no longer fears to disobey the Church.” He predicted that from their “freedom” would emerge a “new attitude toward religion based on reasonableness and cooperation.”
Keeping in mind that the new-age movement was (wittingly or not) demonically inspired, and that freemasonry is inseparable from the occultism at the core of new age practice, we can grasp why Foster Bailey would say that Vatican II showed the influence of “new age spiritual energy”:
“It is significant that the Council has issued no anathemas, condemned no movements, not even communism, and avoided dogmatic declarations, as has been wisely pointed out. Here again we have evidence of the presence of new age spiritual energy affecting religious thought. The whole edifice of law, custom and religious practice that had supported Catholic stability since the Council of Trent was threatened.”
“Satan will rule in the Vatican”
Foster goes so far as to predict: “It may eventuate that the most crystallized, materialistic and dogmatic Church in the Christian world will become the leader in a Christian religious revival.”
That should seem like a strange remark. What would make Foster think that the religion most opposed to the supremacy of one’s own “inner guidance” would eventually become its biggest champion?
As Dr. Marshall has well documented in his book on the subject, Infiltration, freemasonry has indeed long planned to infiltrate the Catholic Church, even to the point of making one of its own the pope.
This is revealed in the “Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita,” [see here] which Dr. Marshall notes was reproduced in the English translation in the lecture by Right Rev. Msgr. George Dillon D.D., in Edinburgh in October 1884. Its author, who writes under the pseudonym Piccolo Tigre or “Little Tiger,” explains the long-term goal of freemasons:
Quote:Our final end is that of Voltaire and the Revolution, the destruction forever of Catholicism and even of the Christian idea which, if left standing on the ruins of Rome, would be the resuscitation of Christianity later.
The Pope, whoever he will be, will never come to the secret societies. It is for the secret societies to come first to the Church, with the aim of winning them both. The work which we have undertaken is not the work of a day, nor of a month, nor of a year. It may last many years, a century perhaps, but in our ranks the soldier dies, and the fight continues.
Now then, in order to secure to us a Pope according to our own heart, it is necessary to fashion for that Pope a generation worthy of the kingdom of which we dream. Leave on one side old age and middle life, go to the youth, and if possible, even to the children.
The ultimate goal of freemasonry is the public reign of Satan in the world. St. Maximilian Kolbe testified in his Militia of the Immaculata magazine that in 1917 he had seen freemasons march in St. Peter’s Square flying a banner that read, “Satan will rule in the Vatican.”
In a Japanese November 1935 issue of the magazine, St. Kolbe wrote, “Years later, the Freemasons in Rome began to demonstrate openly and belligerently against the Church. They placed the black standard of the “Giordano Brunisti” under the windows of the Vatican. On this standard the archangel, St. Michael, was depicted lying under the feet of the triumphant Lucifer … Right then I conceived the idea of organizing an active society to counteract Freemasonry and other slaves of Lucifer.”
He elaborated in 1939, “A reckless hand felt no repugnance in writing: Satan will rule in the Vatican and the Pope will serve him … This mortal hatred for the Church of Jesus Christ and for His Vicar was not just a prank on the part of deranged individuals but a systematic action proceeding from the principle of Freemasonry: Destroy all religion, whatever it may be, especially the Catholic religion.”
However outrageous this may seem to some Catholics, this scenario was also predicted by the Blessed Mother in a message to the children of La Salette in 1846. In 1879, the secret of La Salette was published as written by one of the visionaries, Mélanie Calvat, lamenting the corruption of so many priests, and foretelling that “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist.” [1]
Now, in 2024, 10 years into the pontificate of Pope Francis, we can finally make sense of Foster Bailey’s prediction that the Church may become a “leader in a Christian religious revival,” as well as the freemasons’ prediction that the pope would serve Satan. Over the past decade, Francis has given sign after sign after sign that he is not really interested in upholding Catholic doctrine and practice, but rather in undermining it in favor of a less “rigid,” more “inclusive,” faith.
He has done this by:
[/b]- Reinforcing religious indifferentism (ex: he has said even atheists can be redeemed, that he is “not interested in converting evangelicals to Catholicism”; Releasing a video promoting his prayer intentions featuring Muslim prayer beads, a Buddha statue, and a Menorah, along with a Baby Jesus (but no cross); saying ‘It’s not right to convince someone of your faith’)
- Promoting impiety and even blasphemy (ex: he has said “God was unjust with His Son” and joked that “Inside the Holy Trinity they’re all arguing behind closed doors”)
- He has also appointed a slew of prelates to the Synod on Synodality who brazenly defy Church teaching.
- Most egregious of all, attacking the very foundation of Catholic moral teaching by, for example claiming that one can receive Holy Communion in mortal sin, and that same-sex civil unions are permissible. These claims have been denounced as heretical.
- He has also plainly aligned with the masonic view of religions in his statement that “the most important role of religions is that of promoting the culture of encounter, along with the promotion of true education in responsible behavior in caring for creation.” No mention of God, of Christ, or salvation.
If any doubt remains as to whether Francis has a masonic bent, consider that his election was immediately praised by Grand Master Gustavo Raffi of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge of Italy, who said, “Fraternity and dialogue are his first concrete words: perhaps nothing in the Church will be as it was before.”
Is he the long-awaited pope “according to the heart” of the freemasons?
He checks all the boxes.
[b]Features of the antichrist and his ‘New Age’ deception
Just as naturalism and religious indifferentism are merely means to the end of Lucifer worship for those initiated into freemasonry, so are they in the freemasons’ plan for a one-world religion.
The Baileys help show that this religion will be packaged in new-age practices and beliefs, which will be embraced by the Antichrist who will lead this religion.
Under Pope Francis, the Vatican has already signaled that it is on board with such new-age religion, as anti-Catholic as it is. In 2018, a Vatican conference on “How Science, Technology and the 21st Century Will Impact Culture and Society” featured a talk by pop star Katy Perry on transcendental meditation as well as a talk by New Age guru Deepak Chopra. Perry is a particularly disturbing choice as a guest speaker because she has included themes of lesbianism and cannibalism in her music.
Alice Bailey, in her 1948 book “The Reappearance of the Christ,” explains some of the features of the “Christ” to come and the one-world religion she says will emerge after his appearance. It is noteworthy that, just as the antichrist is traditionally understood, Bailey describes him as the “second coming” of Jesus Christ who became incarnate 2,000 years ago. However, he will have notable differences, she says.
Alice Bailey claims that “undue emphasis” was laid upon “Jesus Christ’s” divinity, and also that man himself is “divine,” essentially undermining the very meaning and uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the Son of God. She states that today, “There is a growing and developing belief that Christ is in us, as He was in the Master Jesus.” This is a first huge red flag.
She also explains that, in keeping with religious indifferentism, he will (at least initially) put all religions on the same plane, writing, “The Christ has no religious barriers in His consciousness. It matters not to Him of what faith a man may call himself.” She even calls “the Buddha the spiritual leader of the East, and the Christ, the spiritual leader of the West.”
What will his proclaimed mission be? According to Bailey, it will be essentially world peace and “international cooperation”: “His major task is surely the establishing of right human relations in every department of human living,” going on to state that “when the United Nations has emerged into factual and actual power, the welfare of the world will then be assured.”
“What is that welfare but love in action? What are right human relations but love among men, groups and nations? What is international cooperation but love on a world scale? Those are the things which the love of God in Christ expressed … ”
Thus, the Antichrist’s conception of “love” will emphasize world peace — which is of course a good in and of itself — but this drive for “peace” will be used as a pretext for a one-world government, which both Baileys discussed directly.
Alice Bailey says that unlike Jesus Christ, this man will “not be a ‘man of sorrows'” and “will not be a silent, pensive figure.” Also, “this time, He will play His part, not in obscurity as He previously did, but before the eyes of the entire world … because of the prevalence of the radio, television and the rapidity of communication, His part will be watched by all … ”
But didn’t Jesus say that in his real Second Coming, he would come “in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty?” Alice Bailey attempts to dismiss this Scripture as meaningless in an age of airplanes, writing, “He will come indeed ‘in the clouds of the air’ as the Christian Scriptures say, but of what great interest is that when millions come and go in the clouds each hour of the day and of the night?” It’s a rather weak refutation of Scripture’s real meaning, but it will unfortunately still dupe people ready to embrace the Antichrist.
Finally, Alice Bailey offers a disturbing prediction that suggests that the Antichrist may possess the minds of his followers. She claims that the “Hierarchy” will “impres(s) the minds of enlightened men everywhere by spiritual ideas embodying the new truths” and “by the overshadowing of all world disciples and the New Group of World Servers by the Christ Himself.”
Could this perhaps be through a chip implant without which people will be unable to buy or sell (the “mark of the beast”), as foretold in the Book of the Apocalypse?
Let us remember the words of Christ regarding these times:
“Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.” (Matthew 24: 4-5)
“ … Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.
If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24: 23-27)
REFERENCES
[1] Johannes Maria Höcht, Die Große Botschaft von La Salette [The Great Message of La Salette], Stein am Rhein 2004 (8th ed.), p. 161.[/b]
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Planned Parenthood Faces New Allegations Of Selling Aborted Fetal Tissue To UCSD
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Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis mine)
Newly-released documents reveal an alleged alliance between Planned Parenthood and the University of California–San Diego to profit from the “harvesting and sale” of aborted human fetuses for research patents.
“This new evidence shows Planned Parenthood sells late-term aborted baby body parts in violation of federal law, for far more money than has ever been discussed before,” said David Daleiden, founder and president of California-based Center for Medical Progress, which filed the public records request, in a statement earlier this month. “Planned Parenthood’s national headquarters knew about and approved these sales of aborted babies for valuable consideration as part of government-funded research grants.”
The documents show Planned Parenthood transferring aborted fetal body parts to the University of California–San Diego (UCSD) explicitly for “valuable consideration” in exchange for ownership of the university’s patents and intellectual property developed experimenting with them.
Details of the alleged deal are spelled out in a redacted “Biological Materials Transfer Agreement” that grants UCSD “access” to “fetal and placental tissue,” that are the “proprietary materials” of Planned Parenthood San Diego. In return, the deal allows the nonprofit rights to “patents” and “intellectual property” developed through experiments with the “material.”
The contract, signed in 2009, was updated to reflect the nonprofit’s name change to “Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest” in 2014, with the parties specifying the terms and conditions of the original contract remained in full force and effect.
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UCSD emails from 2017 refer to the contract while updating an additional contract for clinical personnel, and in emails from late 2020, the university seeks to be “especially careful” about “any rights” providers of fetal tissue “retain” in the “material.”
Despite federal laws prohibiting the exchange of aborted human fetal tissue for “valuable consideration,” the university used the fetal tissue for research leading to patents, according to Mr. Daleiden’s statement.
The University of California system generated more than $127 million in revenue for all patent inventions during the 2021-22 academic year, Mr. Daleiden claims in his statement.
Violation of such federal laws are punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $500,000, according to the Center for Medical Progress.
Email threads between Planned Parenthood and UCSD also reveal plans for collaborative research meetings. In one thread, Planned Parenthood emailed UCSD to set up a quarterly meeting and agrees to discuss “payment” to its abortion training initiatives within the framework of its fetal tissue research partnership.
UCSD writes that as part of a meeting, “we will have results to share on samples recently collected, and will also likely have more to discuss re: the [REDACTED] fellowship.” Planned Parenthood replies there are “[n]o current issues with the collection program,” but they “have some questions about payment to the residency program.”
The collaboration involved Planned Parenthood’s training programs at UCSD and other taxpayer-funded universities where they allegedly supply fetal tissues for research purposes.
Documents also show UC San Diego donated $10,000 to Planned Parenthood’s national research department at a 2021 fundraiser and a registration form for “the fetal body parts harvesting in San Diego,” according to the center.
In 2015, Mr. Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress released an undercover video series showing Planned Parenthood executives negotiating the costs of fetal tissue from the alleged “harvesting and sale of aborted fetal body parts” and discussing modifications to abortion procedures to secure more intact organs. The videos exposed an aborted baby organ market between abortion clinics and research facilities.
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A woman holds up a sign from the podium of an Orange Unified School District meeting in Orange, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
The exposé revealed various for-profit companies sent tech workers into Planned Parenthood abortion clinics to harvest the organs of aborted babies and then package them for resale to research facilities.
Last year, the center reported on records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, confirming a federal investigation by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General of the National Institute of Health’s funded fetal tissue bank at the University of Pittsburgh, which is allegedly supplied by Planned Parenthood abortion doctors, according to Mr. Daleiden’s statement.
Mr. Daleiden has urged federal investigators to widen the probe to include Planned Parenthood’s activities in San Diego “and every other location where this $1.8 billion abortion business supplies aborted babies for taxpayer-funded experiments,” and accused the organization’s leaders of participating in the “government-sponsored trafficking of late-term aborted babies.”
The Center for Medical Progress also released a video about its most recent public records findings. Greg Burt, vice president of the California Family Council, a faith-based advocacy organization that promotes traditional family values, said in a March 18 statement that the agreement between Planned Parenthood and UC San Diego treated “innocent, vulnerable human beings just like animals.”
“Every human life is sacred from conception, and selling unborn baby parts for research is morally abhorrent,” Mr. Burt said. “This deeply revolting news reaffirms the need to pressure politicians to implement life-affirming policies and demand the laws against these crimes be enforced.”
Educational institutions and the scientific community “shouldn’t get a pass when they violate human dignity,” he said.
Planned Parenthood did not respond to requests for comment about the allegations.
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