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| Archbishop Lefebvre: On Fasting and Abstinence [1982] |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-14-2024, 06:44 AM - Forum: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
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Archbishop Lefebvre: On Fasting and Abstinence
Taken from here.
My dear brethren,
According to an ancient and salutary tradition in the Church, on the occasion of the beginning of Lent, I address these words to you in order to encourage you to enter into this penitential season wholeheartedly, with the dispositions willed by the Church and to accomplish the purpose for which the Church prescribes it.
If I look in books from the early part of this century, I find that they indicate three purposes for which the Church has prescribed this penitential time:
First - in order to curb the concupiscence of the flesh; Then - to facilitate the elevation of our souls toward divine realities; Finally - to make satisfaction for our sins.
Our Lord gave us the example during His life, here on earth: pray and do penance. However, Our Lord, being free from concupiscence and sin, did penance and made satisfaction for our sins, thus showing us that our penance may be beneficial not only for ourselves but also for others.
Pray and do penance
Do penance in order to pray better, in order to draw closer to Almighty God. This is what all the saints have done, and this is that of which all the messages of the Blessed Virgin remind us.
Would we dare to say that this necessity is less important in our day and age than in former times? On the contrary, we can and we must affirm that today, more than ever before, prayer and penance are necessary because everything possible has been done to diminish and denigrate these two fundamental elements of Christian life.
Never before has the world sought to satisfy, without any limit, the disordered instincts of the flesh, even to the point of the murder of millions of innocent, unborn children. One would come to believe that society has no other reason for existence except to give the greatest material standard of living to all men in order that they should not be deprived of material goods.
Thus we can see that such a society would be opposed to what the Church prescribes. In these times, when even Churchmen align themselves with the spirit of this world, we witness the disappearance of prayer and penance, particularly in their character of reparation for sins and obtaining pardon for faults.
Few there are today who love to recite Psalm 50, the Miserere, and who say with the psalmist, Peccatum meum contra me est simper: "My sin is always before me." How can a Christian remove the thought of sin if the image of the crucifix is always before his eyes?
At the Council the bishops requested such a diminution of fast and abstinence that the prescriptions have practically disappeared. We must recognize the fact that this disappearance is a consequence of the ecumenical and Protestant spirit which denies the necessity of our participation for the application of the merits of Our Lord to each one of us for the remission of our sins and the restoration of our divine affiliation [i.e., our character as adoptive sons of God].
In the past the commandments of the Church provided for:
+ An obligatory fast on all days of Lent with the exception of Sundays, for the three Ember Days and for many Vigils.
+ Abstinence was for all Fridays of the year, the Saturdays of Lent and, in numerous dioceses, all the Saturdays of the year.
What remains of these prescriptions? The fast for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstinence for Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. One wonders at the motives for such a drastic diminution.
Who is obliged to observe the fast?
Adults from ages 21 to 60.
And who is obliged to observe abstinence?
All the faithful from the age of 7 years.
What does fasting mean?
To fast means to take only one (full) meal a day to which one may add two collations (or small meals) one in the morning, one in the evening, which, when combined, do not equal a full meal. [Note: The Archbishop is referring to the European order of meals; in the United States, the full meal is usually the evening meal].
What is meant by abstinence?
By abstinence is meant that one abstains from meat.
The faithful who have a true spirit of faith and who profoundly understand the motives of the Church which have been mentioned above, will wholeheartedly accomplish not only the light prescriptions of today but, entering into the spirit of Our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will endeavor to make reparation for the sins which they have committed and for the sins of their family, their neighbors, friends and fellow citizens.
It is for this reason that they will add to the actual prescriptions. These additional penances might be to fast for all Fridays of Lent, abstinence from all alcoholic beverages, abstinence from television, or other similar sacrifices.
They will make an effort to pray more, to assist more frequently at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to recite the Rosary, and not to miss evening prayers with the family. They will detach themselves from their superfluous material goods in order to aid the seminaries, help establish schools, help their priests adequately furnish the chapels and to help establish novitiates for nuns and brothers.
The prescriptions of the Church do not concern fast and abstinence alone but also of the obligation of the Paschal Communion (Easter Duty). Here is what the Vicar of the Diocese of Sion, in Switzerland, recommended to the faithful of that diocese on February 20, 1919:
+ During Lent, the pastors will have the Stations of the Cross twice a week; one day for the children of the schools and another day for the other parishioners. After the Stations of the Cross, they will recite the Litany of the Sacred Heart.
+ During Passion Week, which is to say, the week before Palm Sunday, there will be a Triduum in all parish churches, Instruction, Litany of the Sacred Heart in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament, Benediction. In these instructions the pastors will simply and clearly remind their parishioners of the principal conditions to receive the Sacrament of Penance worthily.
+ The time during which one may fulfill the Easter Duty has been set for all parishes from Passion Sunday to the first Sunday after Easter.
Why should these directives no longer be useful today?
Let us profit from this salutary time during the course of which Our Lord is accustomed to dispense grace abundantly. Let us not imitate the foolish virgins who having no oil in their lamps found the door of the bridegroom's house closed and this terrible response: Nescio vos - "I know you not."
Blessed are they who have the spirit of poverty for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The spirit of poverty means the spirit of detachment from things of this world.
Blessed are they who weep for they shall be consoled. Let us think of Jesus in the Garden of Olives who wept for our sins. It is henceforth for us to weep for our sins and for those of our brethren.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for holiness for they shall be satisfied. Holiness - sanctity is attained by means of the Cross, penance and sacrifice. If we truly seek perfection then we must follow the Way of the Cross.
May we, during this Lenten Season, hear the call of Jesus and Mary and engage ourselves to follow them in this crusade of prayer and penance. May our prayers, our supplications, and our sacrifices obtain from heaven the grace that those in places of responsibility in the Church return to her true and holy traditions, which is the only solution to revive and re-flourish the institutions of the Church again.
Let us love to recite the conclusion of the Te Deum:
In te Doming, speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
"In Thee, O Lord, I have hoped. I will not be confounded in eternity."
+ Marcel Lefebvre
Sexagesima Sunday
February 14, 1982
Rickenbach, Switzerland
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| Francis Pushes for Women's Ordination |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-13-2024, 07:09 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Francis Pushes for Women's Ordination
Church Revolution in Pictures
Taken from here. [Slightly adapted]
The latest C9 meeting, composed of Francis and the Council of nine Cardinals he chose to advise him in the direction of the Church, above, took place on February 5 and 6, 2024.
The guest of honor was an Anglican woman bishop Jo Bailey Wells, below first row left, second row, who was invited to report to the Council on the Anglican experience regarding women's ordination to the priesthood and the impact it has made. In an interview she granted on February 9 to Vida Nueva, Wells affirmed: "And I know that on the part of Pope Francis there is a willingness to explore, to take some risks, to exercise the imagination regarding the possibilities of change."
Another woman invited to speak to the C9 was university Professor Sister Linda Pocher of the Maria Auxiliadora Congregation, first row below right. According to Europa Press, transcribed by Secretum mum mihi, she affirmed on February 8: "We know that the Pope is very much in favor of the female deaconate, but it is still something we need to know how to put into practice."
The other woman present was university Professor Giuliva di Berardini, below second from the left, who also spoke at the meeting but her speech was not reported by the press.
On February 7, Francis addressing the members of the Congregation for Divine Worship, third row below, spoke these enigmatic words, certainly preparing them to receive women deacons:
Quote:"Any reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity: The Bride Church will always be more beautiful the more she loves Christ the Bridegroom, to the point of belonging totally to Him, to the point of complete conformity with Him. And about this, I say one thing about women's ministries.
"The Church is a woman and the Church is a mother and the Church is the figure of Mary and the Church-woman, the figure of Mary, is more than Peter, that is, she is something more. Everything cannot be reduced to ministerialism. The woman herself has a very great symbol in the Church as a woman, without reducing her to ministeriality. That is why I have said that any reform of the Church is always a question of spousal fidelity, because she is a woman."
Fourth row, an Anglican "priestess" celebrated a mass; fifth row, Justin Welby, head of the Anglican Sect, surrounded by women "priests."
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| AZ State Senator Supports Satanists during Senate Floor Session |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-13-2024, 06:33 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Democrat State Senator Shows His Support For Worshipping the Devil
and Honors Satanists During Arizona Senate Floor Session
Taken from here.
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Feb. 12, 2024
Democrat State Senator Juan Mendez showed his support for worshipping the devil as he proudly honored and welcomed Satanists to the Arizona Senate last week.
Mendez praised the Satanists for taking ‘noble action’ and said he’s ‘graced’ with their presence.
“Members, I would like to introduce a group of Arizonans – some from my district but they have membership all across the state,” a masked Mendez said during a Senate floor session.
He continued, “They are here to confront the arbitrary, tyrannical authority of religious persecution that’s scheduled for government committee later on today. We are graced with the presence of ministers and members of the Satanic Temple of Arizona. Please stand today. They are at the Capitol today to fight for the rights of their more than 12,000 members of their denomination and the rights of free speech and free exercise of all Arizonans.”
Mendez defended the Satanic Temple and praised them for their noble actions.
“The Temple practices non-theistic Satanism divorced from superstition without any belief in gods or devils. They practice the religious values of compassion, justice, bodily autonomy, free speech, science, humility and noble actions.”
Mendez said the Satanic Temple serves the community with outreach and their goal is to encourage ‘benevolence and empathy among all people.’
WATCH:
The Satanic Temple is also targeting children.
After school Satan clubs at elementary schools and high schools are popping up all over the nation.
The Satanic Temple’s co-founder claimed the Satan Club won’t try to convert children to Satanism or force them to worship the devil.
God help us.
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| Abp. Viganò: Francis signals his intention to ‘ordain’ women |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2024, 08:23 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò: Pope Francis’ invitation of Anglican ‘bishopess’ signals his intention to ‘ordain’ women
‘Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of ‘non-ordained’ ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental ordination,’ Archbishop Viganó said.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
don Elvir Tabaković, Can.Reg
Feb 8, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has declared that Pope Francis’ invitation to a female Anglican prelate to speak to the Council of Cardinals about “gender equality and the role of women in the Church” signals his intention to eventually “ordain” women.
In a message posted to X on Tuesday, Archbishop Viganò wrote, “Bergoglio intends to fundamentally change the concept of Holy Orders, placing alongside the Priesthood (reserved for men) forms of ‘non-ordained’ ministry for women, with a view to their sacramental ordination.”
The Vatican whistleblower anticipated the objection that Francis “does not want to make women deacons or women priests, much less women bishops, and that these are speculations put out by those who sow division among the faithful.”
“If that is the case, why did Bergoglio invite an Anglican ‘bishopess,’ i.e., a heretical, schismatic, invalidly ordained woman, to the Council of Cardinals meeting to speak about ‘gender equality and the role of women in the Church’?” he questioned.
The archbishop’s assessment is shared by Deacon Nick Donnelly, who wrote regarding Rev. Jo Bailey Wells’ presence before the pope and the C9 that Catholics “couldn’t have a stronger signal that Bergoglio is planning the faux ordination of women deacons, with a trajectory towards the faux ordination of women priests and bishops.”
Wells, a “bishop” of the Church of England who has been described as “a pioneer in the spread of equality between the sexes,” gave a speech to Pope Francis and his Council of Cardinals on Monday.
The C9 – as the group is known – is continuing the examination of the “role of women in the Church,” a subject it began discussing in December 2023. The timing of such discussions is significant, given that the 2023 Synod on Synodality interim report highlighted an “urgent” call for canon law to be changed in order to allow more female governance roles.
A Synod on Synodality voting lay member shared last year that “a large number of bishops” are now “ready to take clear steps” to women’s “ordination” via a discussion on “women deacons.”
Helena Jeppesen-Spuhler, a member of the Swiss delegation to the Synod’s European Assembly, clarified that while she doesn’t think “women priests” are now possible, she sees that the possibility of women’s “ordination” to the diaconate is on the table.
“There are now a large number of bishops who are ready to take clear steps,” said Jeppesen. “The priesthood of women will not be introduced immediately, but the diaconate of women should be seriously discussed at the assembly in Rome.”
Regarding the “role of women” in the Catholic Church in general, Jeppesen said “it became clear in practically all country reports that the church must finally move forward.”
Both clerical and lay Catholics have raised concerns that the Synod on Synodality’s call for increased female governance may signal the Church hierarchy’s intention to “ordain” women. Indeed, the campaign for female “deacons” continues to receive vocal support from leading members of the synod, as evidenced by Cardinal Blase Cupich advocating for recognition of women “pastors” who are already “serving as the head of communities because they don’t have enough priests.”
Pope Francis established a 12-member commission to study the issue of “women deacons” in August 2016, and the commission included a leading advocate of “ordaining” women to the diaconate. With another commission then drawn up in 2020, the 2023 Synod report called for the results of both studies to be presented at the October 2024 Synod meetings.
Theologian and liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has explained in his book Ministers of Christ that not only “women priests” but “women deacons” are impossible because “all liturgical services within the sanctuary of the church represent Christ, the supreme ‘deacon.’”
Kwasniewski pointed out that minor orders, including the diaconate, cannot be compartmentalized from the priesthood, but “order the soul of the minor cleric gradually toward the eventual reception of the sacred priesthood itself, preparing him not merely at a natural level through the discharging of sacred duties but supernaturally through the spiritual conferral of priestly powers.”
While in Heaven, there is a hierarchy purely of “sanctity,” on earth, “we must walk by the sight of signs of [God] that form and direct our faith,” and “it would be not only misleading but false to set up, in the Church on earth, signs of ecclesial governance…that lacked explicit reference to the God-man,” Kwasniewski explained.
Pope John Paul II affirmed this truth when he condemned attempts at female “ordination” in his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, writing: “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”
This letter, former CDF prefect Cardinal Gerhard Müller explained, refers to the diaconate as well, and expresses a “dogma” of the Catholic Faith.
He further noted that “the impossibility that a woman validly receives the Sacrament of Holy Orders in each of the three degrees [deacon, priest, bishop] is a truth contained in Revelation and it is thus infallibly confirmed by the Church’s Magisterium and presented as to be believed.”
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| Edmonton [Canada] planning to roll out WEF-style ’15-minute city’ policy this fall |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2024, 08:16 PM - Forum: Global News
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Edmonton planning to roll out WEF-style ’15-minute city’ policy this fall
The 15-minute city model was conceived by professor Carlos Moreno and scientists from Chaire ETI at the Sorbonne Business School. It is now being promoted by globalist groups such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations
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Edmonton mayor Amarjeet Sohi
City of Edmonton / YouTube
Feb 8, 2024
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — The City of Edmonton, Alberta, is seeking to unveil a World Economic Forum-styled “15-minute city” policy this fall as part of its “district planning” initiative.
“District plans are key in bringing The City Plan’s ‘Community of Communities’ vision to life by laying the foundation for 15-minute communities,” reads a city email blast obtained by Rebel News.
“This vision is for new and current residents to enjoy more housing, recreation, education and employment opportunities in all of Edmonton’s districts and to have more travel options within and across districts,” the email continued.
Plans for 15-minute communities in Edmonton were first announced last February, but it looks like coming this fall concrete action will begin.
Under the new plan, Edmonton will divide its 400 neighborhoods into 15-minute “districts.” According to the city, the plan is a “necessary tool” given the growing number of residents.
The city says it is currently considering feedback from residents and that the final “district” policy is scheduled to be published in April.
By May, city officials hope to host “meaningful discussions” with residents, and then, after further review by the Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board over the summer, Edmonton will likely approve the new policy in the fall.
The plan comes despite backlash from Albertans who say they don’t want 15-minutes cities in their province.
During the United Conservative Party (UCP) annual meeting in October, members proposed policies opposed to the World Economic Forum’s 15-minute cities and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s energy regulations set to compromise Alberta’s power grid.
However, Edmonton mayor Amarjeet Sohi is a former Liberal MP, a party known for desiring the implementation of WEF plans and regulations.
According to the city’s District Planning, the plan aims to “move Edmonton towards a city where everyone enjoys access to amenities and services within a 15-minute walk, roll or transit ride from their home. Though, districts are not meant to be self-contained. For some households, 15-minute access could mean visiting nearby districts.”
“District Planning is not about restricting movement, monitoring people or tracking an individual’s carbon emissions, and nothing will be put in place to do so,” it assured residents.
The 15-minute city model was conceived by Professor Carlos Moreno and scientists from Chaire ETI at the Sorbonne Business School. It is now being promoted by both the WEF and the United Nations (UN).
On its website, the UN claims the model “has been adopted by several cities around the world as a blueprint for post-COVID-19 recovery.”
While the plan is proposed as a way for residents to shop local, reduce carbon emissions, and live in community, experts have warned that it could restrict the freedom of movement of those who live in the cities.
Analyzing the 15-minute cities concept, LifeSiteNews contributor Kennedy Hall warned the idea is an inversion of the Christian social order, by centering the focus of society not around God, but around man.
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| Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-07-2024, 05:48 AM - Forum: COVID Vaccines
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Moderna Scientists Warn mRNA Vaccines Carry Toxicity Risks
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The Moderna campus in Norwood, Mass. on Dec. 2, 2020. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
ZH | FEB 06, 2024
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The technology used in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine carries toxicity risks, scientists with the company said in a new paper.
“A major challenge now is how to efficiently de-risk potential toxicities associated with mRNA technology,” the scientists wrote in the paper, which was published by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery on Jan. 23.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 shots use modified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. The mRNA is delivered by lipid nanoparticles (LNP).
The toxicity risks include “lipid nanoparticle structural components, production methods, route of administration and proteins produced from complexed mRNAs,” the authors of the paper said.
Authors of the paper include Eric Jacquinet and Dimitrios Bitounis, Moderna employees, and Maximillian Rogers, who was working at Moderna when the paper was being done.
Moderna didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The mRNA vaccines have multiple known side effects, including heart inflammation and severe allergic shock. Those may stem from hypersensitivity reactions, which can be elicited by “any LNP-mRNA component” but are most likely triggered by PEGlyated lipid nanoparticles, which is “the most potentially reactogenic component,” the scientists said.
Polyethylene glycol, or PEG, an ingredient in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, is known to cause allergic reactions. Outside scientists are divided over the mechanism behind the heart inflammation, while Pfizer has posited that the LNPs are behind the issue.
The new paper drew from prior publications and other data. The authors didn’t carry out any new experiments.
Some of the papers cited included those that have found mRNA and the spike protein delivered by Moderna’s shot in various parts of human beings weeks or months after vaccination, despite health officials claiming when the vaccines were rolled out that such materials would exit the body within days.
The scientists said that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is “safe and effective” and hailed the development of an updated shot as “demonstrat[ing] the rapid timeline for modifications with mRNA technology in the clinic.” Due to the “transient nature of mRNA,” though, “repeat administration may be necessary,” they said.
The scientists added later that reducing risks of toxicities with mRNA-based vaccines and drugs is necessary but “complicated.” That can be accomplished through a multi-pronged approach that includes advanced testing in laboratories and adjusts preclinical, animal trials to better account for “differences in human and animal physiology.”
Moderna and other companies are currently testing a number of new mRNA products, including influenza vaccines and cancer treatments.
“Thanks to the mRNA platform we built, we have an exciting pipeline, with up to 15 launches in the next five years,” Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO, told investors in the company’s most recent earnings call.
The paper’s corresponding author, Mansoor Amiji of Northeastern University’s Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering, referred a request for comment to Mr. Bitounis, who didn’t provide any answers.
Dr. Malone Reacts
Dr. Robert Malone, who helped invent the mRNA technology, said the paper downplayed the range of risks that have been linked to the mRNA-based vaccines and may be part of a limited hangout, or a propaganda technique.
That technique, a form of misdirection, involves people offering some information to obscure or prevent the discovery of other information.
“My most generous interpretation of the overall intent of the article is that this article summarizes and represents information concerning risks and toxicities of this platform technology which Moderna wishes to have disclosed in a manner which puts the firm, its activities and the underlying platform technology in the best possible light,” Dr. Malone, who wasn’t involved with the paper, wrote in his review.
“A less generous interpretation of intent is that this article represents a subtle form of propaganda strategy commonly referred to as a limited hangout.”
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| Cardinal Fernández issues text on ‘validity’ of sacraments |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-05-2024, 06:24 AM - Forum: New Rite Sacraments
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A typical Conciliar mixture of truth and error...
Cardinal Fernández issues text on ‘validity’ of sacraments
Cardinal Fernández's text does not contain specifics regarding the individual sacraments, but warned that changing 'the form of a Sacrament or its subject matter is always a gravely illicit act.'
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Cardinal Fernández at his titular church in Rome, December 2023.
Feb 3, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Victor Manuel Cardinal Fernández has published a new document on “the validity of the sacraments,” which he says is a response to various unauthorized changes to the form of sacraments which render them invalid.
Entitled Gestis Verbisque, the 12-page text was released February 3 by the new prefect of the Congregation (Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). (See LifeSite’s translation here)
Unanimously approved on January 25 at the plenary assembly of CDF members and then by Pope Francis on January 31, the text has been published because – according to Fernández – “it must be noted that the liturgical celebration, particularly that of the Sacraments, is not always carried out in full fidelity to the rites prescribed by the Church.”
“Several times this Dicastery has intervened to settle doubts about the validity of Sacraments celebrated, within the framework of the Roman Rite, in disregard of liturgical norms, sometimes having to conclude with a painful negative response, noting, in those cases, that the faithful have been robbed of what is due to them,” wrote Fernández.
Aimed chiefly at bishops, Gestis Verbisque (GV) presents itself as an aid, and looks to highlight “some elements of a doctrinal nature with regard to discernment on the validity of the celebration of the Sacraments, paying attention also to some disciplinary and pastoral implications.”
Fernández drew heavily from the writings of the Second Vatican Council, along with texts from the Council of Trent, St. Thomas Aquinas and Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.
“The interventions of the Magisterium in sacramental matters have always been motivated by the fundamental concern for fidelity to the mystery celebrated,” he noted. “Indeed, the Church has a duty to ensure the priority of God’s action and to safeguard the unity of the Body of Christ in those actions that have no equal because they are sacred ‘par excellence’ with an efficacy guaranteed by Christ’s priestly action.”
Highlighting the matter and form required for the validity of each sacrament, GV noted that “it cannot be ignored that when the Church intervenes in determining the constituent elements of the Sacrament, she always acts rooted in Tradition to better express the grace conferred by the Sacrament.”
Quoting directly from the Council of Trent to note that the minis of the sacrament must have the “intention to do at least what the Church does,” Fernández reiterated that Council’s teaching that “Matter, form and intention are intrinsically united: they are integrated into the sacramental action in such a way that intention becomes the unifying principle of matter and form, making them a sacred sign by which grace is conferred ex opere operato.”
Principally, Fernández presented the text of a 2020 CDF ruling on Baptism, noting that altering the form of a sacrament is not a private or small issue, but one which affects the Church:
Quote:to change on one’s own initiative the celebratory form of a Sacrament does not constitute a simple liturgical abuse, as a transgression of a positive norm, but a vulnus inflicted at the same time on ecclesial communion and on the recognizability of Christ’s action, which in the most serious cases renders the Sacrament itself invalid, because the nature of ministerial action demands that one faithfully transmit what one has received.
While Fernández noted early in GV that “changing, therefore, the form of a Sacrament or its subject matter is always a gravely illicit act and deserves exemplary punishment, precisely because such arbitrary gestures are capable of producing grave harm to God’s faithful People,” he did not delve into specifics of each sacrament, but kept his commentary to more general reflections on the necessity of the matter and form of a sacrament.
Mass presidency
However, he did devote the third section of the document to “Liturgical presidency and the art of celebration,” drawing heavily from themes found in the Vatican II documents. Dealing thus more specifically with the Mass, Fernández highlighted how the “priest re-presents Christ himself in the event of the celebration.”
The priest is not possessed of a “power to be exercised arbitrarily,” the cardinal wrote, since “the Head of the Church, and therefore the true president of the celebration, is Christ alone.”
Warning especially against priests assuming undue ideas of authority, Fernández gave notable weight to the theme of the “baptismal priesthood,” as espoused in the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium.
“For this very reason, the minister should understand that the authentic ars celebrandi is one that respects and exalts the primacy of Christ and the actuosa participatio of the entire liturgical assembly, including through humble obedience to liturgical norms,” he wrote, paraphrasing the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
Fernández closed his document by quoting from Pope Francis’ 2022 letter Desiderio Desideravi, which reaffirmed Francis’ restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass while promoting the reformed liturgy as “the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.”
Fernández did not deal with the traditional liturgy in his GV text, despite quoting from Desiderio Desideravi, writing instead that “The whole Church is called to guard the richness contained in them [sacraments], so that the primacy of God’s saving action in history may never be obscured, even in the fragile mediation of signs and gestures proper to human nature.”
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Posted by: Stone - 02-05-2024, 06:17 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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The Great Ecumenism: Wolves and Sheep Are One Family
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gloria.tv | February 5, 2024
A flock of sheep was grazing in a meadow of lush grass. Then a wolf approached. The sheep drew closer together in fear. But the wolf was peaceful and began to eat the grass.
The next day it came back and grazed like the sheep. The sheep were no longer afraid of the wolf.
Now the wolf began a conversation: "You sheep think that we wolves eat sheep. This is a misconception that the shepherd has given you in order to exploit you. You can see with your own eyes that I, like you, eat only grass. I am not your enemy. You must see for yourself who your enemy is. I ask you: Who is shearing you and robbing you of the wool that protects you from the cold?"
"The shepherds," bleated the sheep.
The wolf continued, "Who milks you and takes all the milk for himself?"
"The shepherds," was the unanimous reply.
"Who takes away your lambs and sets the dogs on you to restrict the space of your freedom?" continued the wolf.
"The shepherds," cried the sheep.
"Who is really your enemy, the wolf or the shepherd?" the wolf demanded.
"The shepherds," cried the sheep.
Then the wolf said: "I will help you to shake off the slave yoke of the shepherds and to break through the iron curtain of their dogs. My proposal: Let's create a republic of sheep and wolves. Everyone should have the same rights and duties. In the new republic you will be free from the dictatorship of the shepherds and their vicious dogs. Do you agree with this?"
"Yes," the sheep cried enthusiastically. The young rams shouted the loudest. Some older sheep who expressed reservations were told to be quiet.
Then the wolf said, "This pasture is no place for a thriving republic of sheep and wolves. We are under constant threat here. Follow me into the forest and you will be free from the shepherd and his dogs.
Just as the sheep had followed the shepherd in the past, they now followed the wolf into the forest, into the promised land of freedom.
After a few days, the sheep noticed that some of them had disappeared overnight. They expressed their concern to the wolf.
The wolf replied: "We live in a republic of freedom. If you don't like it, you can leave. It is the rigid ones who have left us."
Then the sheep calmed down. Over the next few nights, some sheep disappeared again.
The wolf said, "We are not putting up an iron curtain. The die-hards who prefer to submit to the dictatorship of the shepherds can go".
Again and again, sheep disappeared overnight. Finally, only one sheep was left in the flock. It faithfully said: "Dear wolf, even though all the other sheep have left you, I remain faithful to you.
"That is good," said the wolf and ate the last sheep. And so the republic of sheep and wolves came to an inglorious end.
They come to you as harmless sheep, but in reality they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you will know them. (Jesus Christ, Mt 7:15).
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