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| Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Blueprint behind Alta Vendita |
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Posted by: The☩Trumpet - 09-19-2024, 12:52 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Blueprint behind Alta Vendita
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In this article, we aim to unmask the calculated and deliberate attacks on the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church as outlined in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. These attacks are not merely theoretical but are part of a coordinated effort by Judeo forces working under the guise of Freemasonry, where the Freemasons serve as "goy cattle," blindly manipulated to further hidden agendas. As the Protocols reveal: "Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry, blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery... SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY, THESE GOY CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE 'SHOW' ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS."
This certainly clarifies the term "Judeo-Masonic," where the hyphen represents the subversive collaboration of the second force, revealing the driving force which is ultimately the synagogue of Satan: the Masonic lodges serve as a tool, manipulated by a hidden Satanic-Judeo agenda to infiltrate and undermine the Church. These subversive plans are the very foundation of the Alta Vendita, the Masonic strategy designed to infiltrate and weaken the Church from within. As Catholics faithful to Tradition, it is crucial to recognize the forces driving this assault and the war being waged against the Bride of Christ.
Maximilian Kolbe, directly warned about these dangers in his 1926 article in Rycerz Niepokalanej (The Knight of the Immaculate). He cited the Protocols to expose the collaboration between Freemasonry and Judeo forces, stating: "These men [the Freemasons] believe that they are the ones who will rule everything, but let us hear what is written in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion..." He went on to reference Protocol 11, which states: "We will create and put in effect the laws and the governments... What we want is that the multitudes, disoriented by the revolt, in a condition of terror and uncertainty, should understand once and for all that we are so strong, so untouchable." Fr. Kolbe boldly addressed Freemasons directly: "Freemasons, did you hear this? The Hebrews, who have secretly organized and secretly direct you, consider you as beasts, recruited into the Masonic lodges for ends that you neither know nor suspect."
-The☩Trumpet
Source: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. (Translated from the original Russian) is included at the end of our snippet.
1. Attacks on the Catholic Church
- "The King of the Jews will be the real Pope of the Universe, the patriarch of an international Church."
- "However, it is probably all the same to the world who is its sovereign lord, whether the head of Catholicism or our despot of the blood of Zion! But to us, the Chosen People, it is very far from being a matter of indifference."
- "Our cause is great and holy, and its success is guaranteed. Catholicism, our immemorial enemy, is lying in the dust, mortally wounded in the head."
- "When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court the finger of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court. When, however, the
nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place."
- "In this respect the Jesuits alone might have compared with us, but we have contrived to discredit them in the eyes of the unthinking mob as an overt organization."
2. Attacks on Christianity and Christians
- "We shall force the Christians into wars by exploiting their pride and their stupidity. They will massacre each other, and clear the ground for us to put our own people into."
- "At the wished-for hour, fixed in advance, we shall let loose the Revolution, which by ruining all classes of Christianity will definitely enslave the Christians to us. Thus will be accomplished the promise of God made to His People."
- "By gold and by flattery we shall gain the proletariat which will charge itself with annihilating Christian capitalism."
- "By the ceaseless praise of DEMOCRATIC RULE we shall divide the Christians into political parties, we shall destroy the unity of their nations, we shall sow discord everywhere."
- "Let us take care not to hinder the marriage of our men with Christian girls, for through them we shall get our foot into the most closely locked circles. If our daughters marry Goyim they will be no less useful, for the children of a Jewish mother are ours. Let us foster the idea of free love, that we may destroy among Christian women attachment to the principles and practices of their religion. For ages past the sons of Israel, despised and persecuted have been working to open up a path to power. They are hitting the mark. They control the economic life of the accursed Christians; their influence preponderates over politics and over manners."
3. Attacks on Clergy and Religious Leaders
- "By our mockeries and our attacks upon them we shall make their priests ridiculous then odious, and their religion as ridiculous and as odious as their clergy. Then we shall be masters of their souls."
- "We have long past taken care to discredit the priesthood of the GOYIM, and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great hindrance to us."
4. Freemasonry and its Role
- "Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. Gentile masonry, blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery."
- "For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds of the goys without giving them any chance to examine its underlying meaning? It is this which has served as the basis for our organization of SECRET MASONRY WHICH IS NOT KNOWN TO, AND AIMS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN SO MUCH AS SUSPECTED BY, THESE GOY CATTLE, ATTRACTED BY US INTO THE 'SHOW' ARMY OF MASONIC LODGES IN ORDER TO THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF THEIR FELLOWS."
- "The lodges will have their representatives who will serve to screen the above-mentioned administration of masonry and from whom will issue the watchword and programme."
- "Knowing this, even the brotherhood in its turn dare not protest. By such methods we have plucked out of the midst of masonry the very root of protest against our disposition."
5. Protestantism and Division
- "In the goy societies, in which we have planted and deeply rooted discord and protestantism, the only possible way of restoring order is to employ merciless measures that prove the direct force of authority: no regard must be paid to the victims who fall, they suffer for the well-being of the future."
6. Control Over Political and Legal Systems
- "The most secret political plots will be known to us and will fall under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception."
- "In the most important and fundamental affairs and questions judges decide as we dictate to them, see matters in the light wherewith we enfold them for the administration of the goyim."
- "Under our influence the execution of the laws of the goyim has been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere."
- "If one of our people should unhappily fall into the hands of justice amongst the Christians, we must rush to help him; find as many witnesses as he needs to save him from his judges, until we become judges ourselves."
Full text below the article on our website of the The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. (Translated from the original Russian).
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| Synod on Synodality to include ceremony ‘confessing’ sins against ‘migrants,’ ‘synodality’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-19-2024, 07:45 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Synod on Synodality to include ceremony ‘confessing’ sins against ‘migrants,’ ‘synodality’
In the evening of October 1 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis is to lead a 'penitential vigil' which will include 'confessing' sins 'against migrants,' 'synodality,' 'lack of listening' and 'participation of all.'
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Pope Francis in his wheelchair, February 28, 2024
Vatican News
Sep 18, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s press office released details of the upcoming Synod on Synodality starting later this month, which includes a “penitential vigil” that will see the “confession” of sins against “synodality,” “migrants” and “participation of all,” among other things.
The synod will begin on Monday, September 30, with all participants taking part in a two-day retreat. Last year’s retreat was held in Sacrofano, but this year it will instead take place in the Vatican.
A new addition to the calendar this year, however, is the “penitential vigil” held in the evening of October 1 in St. Peter’s Basilica. Led by Pope Francis, the vigil will hear the testimonies of three people “who have suffered sin: the sin of abuse; the sin of war; the sin of indifference to the drama present in the growing phenomenon of migrations all over the world.”
After this, “the confession of a number of sins will take place,” the Vatican announced. It did not give precise details on how the event will unfold.
“The aim is not to denounce the sin of others but to acknowledge oneself as a member of those who, by omission or action, become the cause of suffering and responsible for the evil inflicted on the innocent and defenseless,” the Vatican wrote. “Whoever expresses the request for forgiveness will do so in the name of all the baptized.”
Sins particularly being “confessed” include:
Sin against peace
Sin against creation, against indigenous populations, against migrants
Sin of abuse
Sin against women, family, youth
Sin of using doctrine as stones to be hurled
Sin against poverty
Sin against synodality/lack of listening, communion, and participation of all (Emphases added)
After the “confession,” Francis will make a request for forgiveness to “God and to the sisters and brothers of all humanity … on behalf of all the faithful.”
The “confessing” of sins “against migrants” seems to fall in accord with Francis’ recent statement that opposing migration of any kind “when done with awareness and responsibility, is a grave sin.”
As noted by LifeSiteNews, Francis did not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration during his comments, or on the manner in which immigrants should be welcomed and acclimatize to the local culture – an aspect on which the Church has clear teaching. His words appeared to be a general invitation for increased immigration of any kind.
The Catholic Church’s teaching regarding immigration is a careful mix of charity to the citizens of a nation and those seeking entrance to that nation for just reasons. The Catechism of the Catholic Church notes that “political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption.”
Furthermore, the Catechism outlines that “immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.” [...]
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| Pope Francis allows devotion to Medjugorje, while claiming it's 'not authentic?' |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-19-2024, 06:34 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis allows devotion to Medjugorje, where Virgin Mary said to appear
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The Bosnian village has become a major pilgrimage site, attracting hundreds of thousands each year and giving many people what they say is a renewed sense of spirituality
RTE.ie| 19 Sep 2024 10:58
Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, the Vatican has said.
The Vatican's doctrinal office said that the Pope was not declaring that messages given by the alleged apparition were authentic.
Rather, it said the pontiff was recognising there were "positive fruits" for Catholics in the spiritual experience tied to the town.
The statement appears to conclude decades of Vatican investigations into the alleged visitations, which were first reported by six children in 1981, in a scenario reminiscent of famous apparitions in the French town of Lourdes in the 19th century and more than 100 years ago in Fatima in Portugal.
The Bosnian village has become a major pilgrimage site, attracting hundreds of thousands each year and giving many people what they say is a renewed sense of spirituality.
Pope Francis had previously expressed doubt about the alleged phenomenon. Referencing messages said to have been given by the Virgin Mary to local townspeople, he told reporters in 2017 that he did not think Mary was "the head of a telegraph office".
The Vatican said its new note "does not imply that the alleged supernatural events are declared authentic".
"Instead, it only highlights that the Holy Spirit is acting fruitfully for the good of the faithful 'in the midst' of this spiritual phenomenon of Medjugorje," said the text.
The Vatican said Catholic faithful "must be attentive and cautious" in interpreting the alleged messages from Mary, which largely focus on themes of peace and piety, but also have warned of alleged coming world catastrophes.
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| Holy Mass in New York - September 22, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-18-2024, 01:19 PM - Forum: September 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Date:Sunday, September 22, 2024
Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
Holy Mass - 4:00 PM
Location: 498 Louie Dickinson Rd.
Edmeston, NY 13335
Contact: Perry (212) 991-8319
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2024, 09:31 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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In hoc signo vinces
Homily on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
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Tum Heraclius, abjecto amplissimo vestitu detractisque calceis ac plebejo amictu indutus,
reliquum viæ facile confecit, et in eodem Calvariæ loco Crucem statuit,
unde fuerat a Persis asportata.
Itaque Exaltationis sanctæ Crucis solemnitas, quæ hac die quotannis celebrabatur,
illustrior haberi cœpit ob ejus rei memoriam,
quod ibidem fuerit reposita ab Heraclio, ubi Salvatori primum fuerat constituta.
Then Heraclius cast away his princely raiment and took off his shoes from his feet,
and in the garb of a peasant easily finished the remainder of his journey,
and set up the Cross once again in the same place of Calvary whence the Persians had carried it away.
Therefore the solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,
which is celebrated annually on this day, became thenceforth more illustrious,
because it had been replaced by Heraclius in the same place where it had first been planted by the Savior.
Lect. VI – II Noct.
In the seventh month, during the Feast of Tabernacles, Solomon performed the rites of consecration of the ancient Temple (1 Kings 8:2, 65); on September 14, 335, on the anniversary of the same, Constantine dedicated the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, to symbolize how the place of Burial – the Martyrium – and of the Resurrection – the Anastasis – together constituted the new Temple of Jerusalem. The Roman Basilica of the Holy Cross was built by the Empress Saint Helena to house the relics of the Holy Wood after her return from her trip to the Holy Land in 325. It was there that the cult of the Cross of Christ spread throughout the Catholic world – as Dom Prosper Guéranger recalls – and has persisted to this day. In 614 the Persian king Khosrow II invaded Jerusalem, destroyed the Constantinian Basilica, took possession of the True Cross and – in a gesture of impiety that aroused the indignation of the faithful – used that blessed wood to make his own throne. In 628 the emperor Heraclius defeated and beheaded Khosrow, reconquered Jerusalem, rebuilt the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, and brought to Byzantium – abjecto amplissimo vestitu detractisque calceis ac plebejo amictu indutus, barefoot and dressed as a pilgrim – the precious relics of the Holy Cross.
The historical events – because we are talking about documented history corroborated by highly authoritative testimonies – that led to the spread of the cult of the Cross and the feast of its Exaltation that we celebrate today, must not distract us from a spiritual and supernatural aspect that is fundamental for each of us. The Cross on which Our Lord shed His Blood and died for our Redemption has been running through the history of humanity ever since. According to the Golden Legend of the Dominican bishop Jacopo da Varagine, St. Michael the Archangel ordered Seth (the son of Noah) to put three seeds of the tree of life in the mouth of the deceased Adam: from those seeds a tree was born that Solomon had cut for the construction of the Temple, but which he could not use, and which he then had buried at the bidding of the Queen of Sheba. That wood was found at the time of Christ and used to make the Cross, then recovered by Saint Helena after the Jews had hidden it to remove it from the adoration of the faithful. As proof of its authenticity compared to those on which the thieves were executed, the Holy Wood resurrected a dead man simply by being touched to him.
Our worldly mentality, infected with an incredulous rationalism that has nothing scientific about it, feels uncomfortable in the face of the narration of prodigious events that, through the millennia, unite Adam to Christ. It is difficult and almost embarrassing to believe a story transmitted through the centuries in which it speaks of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, of the humble faith of Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena. And it is always the secularized mentality that makes us feel the Cross as an unbearable yoke, as a sign incomprehensible to the world, in which the Blood of the Savior impregnates the fibers of the wood, keeping the most holy Body of the incarnate God nailed and torn apart by the Passion. Instead of the horrible torments of the Cross, the Conciliar Church prefers the tranquilizing image of a Christ who is risen and removed from the sorrows of the Passion. The world rejects the Cross because it does not recognize its sinfulness and therefore does not accept Our Lord’s redeeming Passion. Si filius Dei es, descende de cruce (Mt 27:40): it is the temptation of those who do not understand that there is no victory without combat, nor the triumph of the Resurrection without the sufferings of the Cross.
The secularized spirit, which has penetrated the Church with the complicity of a Hierarchy without Faith and without Charity, has imposed this horizontal vision which nullifies the Redemption of Christ, His Incarnation, and His Passion. If “all religions are a path to God,” as Bergoglio blasphemously stated a few days ago in Singapore, no Savior is needed; nor is there any need for a Church that is an instrument of salvation in the world; nor is there any need for a Pope, who is a bond of unity in the Faith within the Church. Yet this “pope,” for whom anyone can be saved without the Revelation of Christ, claims to be recognized and obeyed by Catholics as the head of that Church which he blasphemously considers useless; and in the name of a usurped power he even dares to excommunicate those who denounce his apostasy.
Three times each year, we kneel before the Cross in adoration: on Good Friday, on the day of its Invention or Finding [May 7], and finally today, on the feast of its Exaltation. We do it duplici genu, with both knees, as before the most august Sacrament: an external gesture of adoration invites us to contemplate those two bare pieces of wood, which have crossed history and which still represent the discrimen (the watershed) of human events, until the end of time, when it will be the Cross that will shine in the sky, as anticipated by Saint John in the Apocalypse (1:7). Before the Cross we kneel, stripping ourselves of ourselves, as Christ himself was exposed to humiliation and opprobrium like a criminal deserving of death. And before the Cross all creatures must kneel, cœlestium, terrestrium et infernorum (Phil 2:10), so that the fruit of death gathered by our First Parents in disobedience to God’s command may become the fruit of eternal life in the Sacrifice of the new Adam; a fruit that has ripened down the centuries through preparation in the Old Law, until fulfilment in the new and eternal Covenant; a fruit sprinkled with the Blood of the Immaculate Lamb, who spares us and saves us at the passage of the exterminating angel (Ex 12:13). That Tree of Life that was the cause of our death in Eden is reborn on Golgotha as an instrument of torture and death, to give us true Life, the life of Grace, of friendship with God, with the Most Holy Trinity, life restored in Christ, true God and true Man.
Let us therefore return to the Cross, dear brothers, because it is truly spes unica, as we sing in the ancient hymn Vexilla Regis. It is the only hope because in the Cross we understand the necessity of the Passion, in the plans of a God who becomes incarnate to redeem the servant, felix culpa. It is the only hope because the joys, riches, well-being, success, money, and pleasures of this world are all fallacious and deceptive. With them Satan keeps us attached to creatures, to prevent us from raising our spirit to the Creator; he binds us to fiction, so that we do not grasp reality; he deceives us with ephemeral things, while the Lord grants us the Grace to enter into eternity. Only in this way can we understand why some saints – like Saint Francis, a model of poverty and renunciation of the world – were privileged by Christ precisely in bearing the Stigmata of the Passion. Each of us must have those Holy Wounds mystically imprinted on our souls, in the self-denial that costs us so much but which alone makes us truly similar to Our Lord.
Si quis vult venire post me, abneget semetipsum, et tollat crucem suam quotidie et sequatur me (Lk 9:23). Self-denial consists in embracing our cross, and in carrying it daily, every day, following Christ to Calvary. And it is our cross, that is, the one that Providence has destined for us – whether small or large – and not the one that we want to choose for ourselves, believing ourselves capable of carrying it with our own strength. We have our own cross and also our own supernatural graces that allow us not to be crushed by it. This is the test, the certamen to be faced, if we are to attain the eternal reward and be admitted into the presence of God. Let us accept it as Heraclius, detractis calceis ac plebejo amictu indutus, so that by stripping ourselves of the garments of this world – which we are ineluctably destined to abandon – we can with Saint Paul be clothed in Christ with the new man, in justitia et sanctitate veritatis (Eph 4:24). And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
September 14, 2024
In Exsaltatione Sanctæ Crucis D.N.J.C.
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| St. Catherine Sienna Speaks against Bad Clergy |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-17-2024, 09:12 AM - Forum: The Saints
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St. Catherine Sienna Speaks against Bad Clergy – I
‘Eradicate the Wolves inside the Church’
TIA | September 16, 2024
In her Dialogue, St. Catherine of Siena often speaks of the degeneration inside the Church and the great need for reform. In fact, she speaks so strongly about bad Prelates and pastors that some of the French translations, which appeared at a time when anti-clericalism in France was at its most violent, simply omitted these chapters in St. Catherine’s book. Unfortunately, it was these censured books that were generally chosen to be translated into English.
This excerpt on St. Catherine of Siena from Fr. Sáenz’ book titled Christian Archtypes shows how the Saint railed against the bad pastors and Prelates in the Church, counseling that a true reform could only take place when they were eradicated and replaced with good shepherds. The reader can view his Spanish sources at the end of the article.
One of the most acute sorrows of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was the sight of mercenary shepherds, and even wolves. There have been, no doubt, excellent shepherds. But it is no less true that the lives of many were scandalous.
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She condemns priests who are mercenary shepherds and even wolves
During her stay in Avignon, Catherine became closely acquainted with the papal court and its unworthy Prelates. She had also seen them during her travels through Italy. In those times it was common for influential families to try to place their sons in high ecclesial offices, even if they were completely inept.
Several saints, such as St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Bridget, or even eminent men such as Petrarch, for example, harshly criticized such aberrations. Their message found an echo then among the people, for, as we have said, in that century the population was, despite everything, deeply religious. Then evil did not have, as it does now, a charter of citizenship, giving it an impudence and allowing it to defy the principles of the natural and supernatural order. Those who committed evil accepted the censures that were made against them in the name of Christian morality.
The situation of the Church was something that made Catherine’s heart bleed from a wound that reopened with each new spectacle. What Unamuno said about Spain can well be applied to the Saint: The Church wounded her. In her Dialogue she transcribes some very severe words that God addresses to priests:
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‘I suffered My Hands to be tied to free mankind from the bonds of guilt & you use your anointed hands foolishly in dishonest acts’
“You ought to be a mirror of honesty, and you are a mirror of dishonesty. I [Christ] suffered Myself to be blindfolded in order to enlighten you, yet with lascivious eyes you thrust poisoned arrows into the hearts and souls of those upon whom you so maliciously fix your gaze. I allowed Myself to be given gall and vinegar to drink, but you, like a disordered animal, delight in your delicate foods, making a god of your belly.
“Vain and dishonest words come from your mouth, with which you are obliged to admonish your neighbor, announce my word and pray the Office. Yet I perceive from it nothing but stench...
“I suffered My hands to be tied in order to free you, and all mankind, from the bonds of guilt. Yet your hands, anointed and consecrated to administer the Most Holy Sacrament, are used foolishly in dishonest acts... All your members, like cacophonous instruments, transmit a bad sound, because the three faculties of the soul come together in the name of the Devil, when you should gather them in My name...”
Our Lord even goes so far as to compare these bad priests to devils incarnate, because they have identified themselves with the will of the Devil: “They do the same work as he does, with regard to Me...”
St. Catherine warns against the “unworthy ministers of the Blood”: “Because of their defects, the Blood is corrupted, that is, the lay people lose the due reverence they should have for them and for the Blood.”
Catherine fully agrees with these assessments of God. She knows that the holiness of the clergy is closely linked to the beauty of the Bride of Christ and the salvation of souls. “Today we see the opposite,” she affirms in one of her letters. “Not only are they not temples of God, but they have become stables and pens for pigs and other barnyard animals.”
Much of the blame lies with the Bishops who, as God Himself tells her in the Dialogue, “have been more concerned about multiplying the number of priests rather than their virtues».”
The Church persecuted by corrupt & heretical pastors
St. Catherine of Siena points to three sins that most degraded the clergy in her time: lust, avarice and pride. In her opinion, the time had come to call for a reform. What needed to be reformed was certainly not the Bride herself, who will always remain holy and is not diminished or altered by the defects of her ministers, but rather the latter. “The time has come to weep and lament because the Bride of Christ is being persecuted by her perfidious and corrupt members,” she writes in a letter.
“The mystical body of the Holy Church is surrounded by many enemies,” she writes to a monk.
“Thus do you see that those who have been placed to be the pillars and upholders of the Holy Church have become her persecutors with the darkness of heresy. This is no time to sleep, but to defeat them with vigilance, sweat and tears, and with sorrowful and loving desires and humble and continual prayer.”
But Catherine is not content with crying, praying and fasting. She will take concrete steps, addressing the Pope directly, since only he has conditions to remedy so great an evil.
In a letter to Gregory XI, she tells him, on behalf of Christ, that he must decide to use his power to remove from the garden of the Church these corrupt flowers, “the bad shepherds and leaders filled with impurity and greed and swollen with pride who poison and putrefy this garden.” He must use his power to remove these persons, putting in their place shepherds according to the heart of God.
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She is not content to fast & pray, but believes it necessary to address the Pope face to face & in letters
Our Lord explained to her as she reports in the Dialogue why the Church was in this situation: It was because when choosing the pastors, the Prelates did not examine whether they were good or bad, but only had the desire to please favorites or offer families a favor; thus, those charged with informing the Holy Father about the candidates sent him positive references about ill-suited persons.
At times, she continued, these Prelates praise the bad or mediocre candidates because they share their vices and ambitions. When the Pope discovers the truth of the situation, he should remove them. If he does, he will fulfill his duty. If not, he will not go unpunished when he will have to give an account before the Lord of his sheep.
To avoid such drastic measures as the deposition of unworthy Bishops, the Holy Father should choose from the start humble priests, who out of modesty try to avoid prelatures, and not those who seek them to fuel their vainglory. By not acting in this way, we have those Bishops who, as our Saint says to Brother Raymond, “have acted like flies, which are such a base insects that they care not about the sweet and aromatic things upon which they land, but go from there to rest on repugnant and unclean things.”
To be continued
Works consulted
* Santa Catalina de Siena, El Diálogo, BAC, Madrid 1955.
* Cartas Políticas, Losada, Buenos Aires 1993.
* Johannes Jörgensen, Santa Catalina de Siena, Acción, Buenos Aires 1993.
* M. V. Bernadot O.P., Santa Catalina de Siena al servicio de la Iglesia, Studium, Madrid 1958.
* Jean Rupp, Docteurs pour nos temps: Catherine et Thérèse, Ed. P. Lethielleux, Paris 1971.
* Jacques Leclercq, Santa Catalina de Siena, Patmos, Madrid 1955.
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| “The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled”: Portland Archbishop Robert Dwyer’s Assessment in 1971 |
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Posted by: Stone - 09-16-2024, 10:56 AM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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It is my understanding that this is same Archbishop Dwyer also quoted and republished in some of the early Angelus magazines in the 1980's (cf. Archbishop Dwyer, In the Wake of Barbarians. The Angelus Feb. 1984)
“The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled”: Portland Archbishop Robert Dwyer’s Assessment in 1971
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Robert Joseph Dwyer (1908-76)
Peter Kwasniewski, New Liturgical Movement | September 16, 2024
Those who read the works of Michael Davies will come across quotations from a wide variety of sources, and will sometimes wonder just who these people are, and what their full views might be (since Davies, like any author, seldom quotes more than a few sentences). One such figure is the American Robert Joseph Dwyer (1908-76), who was the second bishop of Reno, Nevada from 1952-66 (and in this capacity participated in all four sessions of the Council), and the fifth Archbishop of Portland, Oregon from 1966 to 1974.
Dwyer was a prolific writer, as the fine collection recently published by Arouca Press, Ecclesiastes: The Book of Archbishop Robert Dwyer—A Selection of His Writings, edited by Albert J. Steiss, makes plain: we find articles on European history and American history, lives of major Catholic figures, a fairly detailed account of his time at the Council (deserving to be mined: see pages 131–206), apologetics on behalf of the Faith, critiques of liturgical reform, reflections on the fine arts, pastoral letters, and bagatelles. In fact, he’s like a quieter version of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Where he differs decisively from Sheen is in his increasingly outspoken critiques of the liturgical reform. The famous quotes are those shared by Michael Davies:
Quote:The great mistake of the Council Fathers was to allow the implementation of the Constitution to fall into the hands of men who were either unscrupulous or incompetent. This is the so-called Liturgical Establishment, a Sacred Cow which acts more like a white elephant as it tramples the shards of a shattered liturgy with ponderous abandon.
And:
Quote:Who dreamed on that day that within a few years, far less than a decade, the Latin past of the Church would be all but expunged, that it would be reduced to a memory fading into the middle distance? The thought of it would have horrified us, but it seemed so far beyond the realm of the possible as to be ridiculous. So we laughed it off.
Could a bishop really have written such things? Or might this be a case of mistaken attribution or misquotation?
For the first quotation, Davies cites The Tidings of July 9, 1971 (see Pope Paul’s New Mass [Kansas City, MO: Angelus Press, 2009], 651). For the second, he cites the Twin Circle, October 26, 1973 (see Liturgical Timebombs in Vatican II [Rockford, IL: TAN Books, 2003], 65). In order to hunt the original articles down, I did what any sensible person would do: I hired Sharon Kabel as my research assistant!
Sure enough, she located both articles, and since our searching online indicates that these have never been transcribed and made available, I took the time to type them out, while attaching the originals below. If only we had a few more bold bishops like this today! (And can you imagine the newspaper of the archdiocese of Los Angeles—or any Catholic diocesan newspaper—publishing something like this today?) A piece like this, from 1971, counts as good evidence that at least some public figures were willing to state the obvious: the Catholic liturgy had, in fact, been dismantled past recognition, and this was an evil deed. Moreover, this bishop’s presence at all four sessions of the Council makes his claims about what the Council Fathers intended—at least to the extent that any on-the-ground participant could know the mens patrum from conversations, meetings, and documents—credible.
In any case, enjoy the crisp and piquant style of the good archbishop.
The Liturgy Has Been Dismantled
Archbishop Robert Dwyer
July 9, 1971
In the remote caverns of memory the image flickers in the candlelight: Marius on the Ruins of Carthage [cf Marius Amongst the Ruins of Carthage]. What somber text of Ancient History this was designed to illustrate we have long forgotten, but the figure of the Roman general, triumphant at last over the Punic power, contemplating the wreckage of war, meditating upon the Dead Sea fruits of victory, has never quite faded.
The other day the image was refreshed by a re-telling of the familiar jest at the expense of a gun-and-camera tourist: “Mrs. C. Humphrey Jones on the Ruins of Carthage (the ruins are to the left).”
But another image, alas, overlays that of the baffled conqueror in our contemporary illustration. It is that of Mother Church seated amid the ruins of the liturgy. No less disconsolate is she, no less sorrowfully pensive.
Some six years ago she had reached that point in her Renewal where it seemed beyond question or cavil that she could summon to her aid, in her monumental task of re-interpreting the Christian message to the modern world, all the services of liturgical art and drama, all the treasures of biblical science and patristic lore, all the riches of music and sacred literature, to enhance the supreme act of divine worship, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Surely that was the confident expectation of the Council Fathers when they hailed with overwhelming affirmation the Constitution on the Liturgy.
In the euphoria of that moment cankerous doubt and cantankerous misgivings were cavalierly set aside. All would be well, we assured ourselves, and all things would be well, as Blessed Juliana of Norwich had so calmly predicted. All that was needed was a touch of genius to muster all the arts of expression and exposition to achieve the perfect rendering of the liturgy in every language under the sun, and for every living culture known to man. We all devoutly made our act of faith in the immediate availability of that touch of genius.
Documents Insipid
Wherein, under the blessing of hindsight undoubtedly we made our first mistake. For there are times and seasons in man’s history, the history of his culture, when genius touches the liturgy, and times, alack, when it simply does not. It is as though the lines of communication, faithfully relaying its messages, were abruptly to be cut off.
It is not necessary, in our reading of the liturgical texts which have been foisted upon us, to suspect the poisoned pen of the heretic or the velvet glove covering the mailed fist of the Communist conspiracy working through the channels of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship. It is enough to note that the touch of genius has so far absented itself from these documents which reach us with such monotonous regularity and insipidity, as to suggest a total substitution of dross for gold.
It was not so in ages past when Basil and John Chrysostom and Gregory formulated the texts and set the patterns for the prayer of the Church, East and West. It was not so when those unknown masters of rhythmic melody devised and developed the liturgical chant, the noblest music man has ever sung, nor was it so when the flowering of polyphony enriched the musical treasury of the liturgy with works of classic dignity and grace.
The Renaissance and Trent hardened the liturgy into molds perhaps too rigid and ungiving, but the authentic note of dignity and greatness was by no means wanting. With the Baroque the liturgy left the austere confines of the sanctuary to mingle with the multitudes crowding the nave and aisles, to undergo, at least in some aspects, a process of vulgarization, but however much the liturgy stood in need of refurbishing and reform as our day approached, it was still recognizable as an original work of religious genius. It was by no means a shambles.
The malady must be reported of the rendering of the liturgy into the vernacular. To focus exclusively here upon our English experience, it is commonly recognized that only once or twice in a millennium have we any right to expect a translator of such power as Thomas Cranmer. Whatever his other merits or demerits, he possessed the gift of noble expression and haunting phrase, so as to mold the language our forebears have spoken these 400 years and more. And while he had no Catholic rivals to contest his mastery, he set a standard to which they must needs approximate or publicly confess their inadequacy.
Liturgists Incompetent
And for the most part, those commissioned or inspired to render the liturgy into the vernacular for the English-speaking Catholic world had done a commendable if not a brilliant job. [1] Why their work, present and available, was ignored and set aside, and even spoken of with contumely by the current generation of Martin Mar-Texts [2] is a mystery beyond our ken.
The liturgy needed reform by 1965; there was no call for dismantling it. It was intended that the vernacular would enhance the Latin, not supplant it. It was not, emphatically, the mind of the Council Fathers to jettison Gregorian Chant, or to encourage the banal secularization of Church music, so as now to surpass in crudity the worst aberrations of the Howling Pentecostals.
It was anticipated that the liturgical texts, along with the Biblical readings for the Mass and the Divine Office, would be so translated as to reflect the beauty and suppleness of our tongue in the praise and worship of God. If any Council Father—for this we can vouch—leaving the aula of St. Peter’s on that day when the Constitution on the Liturgy was proclaimed, had seen in vision the liturgical calamities which have befallen us in this short span of time, it is conceivable that he would have had a heart attack, then and there.
The first mistake, then, was dependence upon the Dabitur Vobis [3], a brash confidence that the touch of genius would not be lacking. The second, in uncomfortably close alliance, was to allow the interpretation and implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy to fall into the hands of men who were either unscrupulous or incompetent. This is the so-called “Liturgical Establishment,” a Sacred Cow which acts more like a White Elephant as it tramples the shards of a shattered liturgy with ponderous abandon. [4]
The third mistake, fully as destructive as either of the foregoing, was the genial supposition that widespread “experimentation” could be sanctioned, with any hope of holding the line thereafter. This is not to condemn experimentation; it is useful and necessary from time to time, under certain controlled circumstances.
But the broad permissiveness granted or even encouraged by the Sacred Congregation and by various Episcopal Conference committees, has led to what must be described, without exaggeration, as a state of chaos. Everyman is now his own liturgist, just as he is his own pope; the Parish Liturgical Commission, made up, for the most part, of good and well-meaning folk whose liturgical competence is on the kindergarten level, legislates for all the world as though it were the Sacred Congregation itself. Or perhaps, what is by no means unthinkable, with far greater assurance and authority.
How long, do you suppose, will it take for another Hercules to clean up these Augean Stables [cf. The cleaning of the Augean Stables was the fifth labor of Hercules.]?
Next week, we will publish the transcription of His Excellency's 1973 article.
NOTES
[1] Dwyer is referring here to the first translations from the 1960s, which were all replaced by the tawdry claptrap of ICEL when the Novus Ordo was rolled out. He may also be referring to the many translations that existed in hand missals for many decades prior to the Council.
[2] This seems to be a reference to “Martin Mar-prelate,” “the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the seven Marprelate tracts that circulated illegally in England in the years 1588 and 1589. Their principal focus was an attack on the episcopacy of the Anglican Church” (source).
[3] See Luke 11, 9: “Petite, et dabitur vobis” (Ask, and it shall be given).
[4] This is the paragraph quoted by Davies, with some minor differences that do not alter the meaning.
A young Dwyer holding a model of a church (backstory unknown)
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Our Lady of Las Lajas: A Continuous Miracle
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America Needs Fatima | Jun 05, 2013
Mother of Latin America
The merciful predilection of the Mother of God for Latin America is the reward she has given for the heroic faith formed from the Iberian Peninsula during the 800 years’ struggle against the invading Moors and found in the Latin American peoples’ souls in which Divine Providence willed to deposit it.
From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, no nation has failed to receive special favors from Our Lady. However, her interventions did not occur in just any manner. She presented herself with unheard of magnificence and splendor, making it clear that she came to preside over Latin America from on high.
The History of a Predilection
As an example of this magnificence, consider how the Most Holy Virgin has stamped her image on the imposing cliffs of the Guaitara Canyon, Colombia, thereby becoming Queen of the souls in that region and in all surrounding lands.
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Our Lady of Las Lajas
In the year 1754, Maria Mueses de Quiñones, an Indian woman from Colombia, was going from her hometown of Potosi to the village of Ipiales when she was caught in a great storm. At a place called Las Lajas (the Rock Slabs), she sought refuge in a grotto. However, she was anxious since there was a popular legend that said the devil lived in the grotto. With trepidation, she entered the darkness of the grotto, invoking the Virgin of the Rosary. Suddenly, she felt someone tapping at her back, as though calling her. Frightened, she fled back into the storm.
A few days later, returning by the same route, she once again reached the cliffs of Las Lajas, carrying on her back her little daughter Rosa, who was a deaf-mute since birth. Being tired and wanting to rest, Maria Mueses de Quiñones sat down to rest timidly on a stone near the grotto.
Then the first miracle occurred. Her deaf-mute child suddenly spoke, “Mommy, look at the mestiza who has detached herself from the rock with a little boy in her arms and two little mestizos at her side!” With this exclamation, Rosa slid off her mother’s back to climb up the grotto’s stones. Struck with terror, Maria took her daughter and fled from the mysterious place.
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Grotto of Our Lady of Las Lajas
There was general bewilderment among Maria’s friends and acquaintances in Potosi when she told them what had happened.
Thirsting for the supernatural, the Indians listened to her, asked her many questions, and commented among themselves about the singular event, but took no further action.
In the meantime, Rosa disappeared, causing her mother great concern. Maria searched to no avail, until she remembered the episode at the grotto, and returned there to look for Rosa. She found her daughter kneeling before a splendid woman and playing affectionately with a child who had come down from his mother’s arms. Knowing she beheld the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Son Jesus, Maria fell to her knees be
fore this beautiful spectacle, and she was no longer afraid.
A spectacular miracle
Shortly thereafter, Our Lady performed a spectacular miracle that prompted the news of the marvelous presence to spread throughout lands near the rocky banks of the Guaitara River.
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Church of Our Lady of Las Lajas
Unexpectedly, Rosa sickened and died. Her grieving mother carried her body in her arms to the grotto in order to beg the Virgin for help. Reminding the Virgin of Rosa’s solicitude in bringing her candles and flowers, she begged Our Lady to bring her back to life. In answer to her prayers, the Queen of Heaven and Earth performed the miracle of the child’s resurrection. Maria told her employers in Ipiales about the extraordinary event.
Moved by the news, they went with priests, distinguished persons and many local people to the apparition’s site. It was then that all saw stamped on the rock face a magnificent image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, holding her Infant Son, with Saints Dominic and Francis kneeling at their feet. The Virgin extended a Rosary to Saint Dominic and the Infant a Franciscan cord to Saint Francis.
Today, an enormous quantity of mementos and tokens of thanksgiving attest to the devotion and gratitude of the Colombian people since the time of the apparition.
Historical and Scientific Aspects of the Image
An interesting aspect of the image is the presence of Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis of Assisi, the founders of the two orders that first evangelized Colombia and to whom Colombians have always had a special devotion.
The image of Our Lady of Las Lajas, as that of Our Lady of Guadalupe, has spanned the centuries without losing its brilliance. In the case of Las Lajas, the Divine Painter used a fade-proof method. After German geologists bored core samples from several spots in the image, they determined there was no paint, no dye, or any other pigment on the surface of the rock; the colors are the colors of the rock itself, and they penetrate into the rock evenly for several feet!
In 1952, Pius XII granted a canonical crowning of Our Lady of Las Lajas, and in 1954, the gothic church erected to house the image was dedicated as a minor basilica, with the presence of the entire Colombian Episcopate.
In the Eyes of the Queen
The True and Authentic Latin America
In the course of the two thousand years in which the Church has spread throughout the world, artists have frequently shaped Our Lady’s physical aspect according to the type of women of their time and region. This has happened in paintings, sculpture, stained-glass windows, and other media. The most ancient statues of her attest to this fact. In the remote days of the Church, statues of Mary Most Holy depicted her with a Mediterranean physical aspect. As the Faith spread among the Nordic people, blond and blue-eyed representations of Our Lady appeared.
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Ariel view of the Shrine and Grotto
The modeling of images according to the regional feminine physical aspect is agreeable to Our Lady. This is proved by the fact when she impresses her image on some object in order to perpetuate the memory of an apparition or when she appears to a seer who then later describes her to an artist who will interpret the seer’s description into a painting or sculpture. In Mexico, for example, Our Lady of Guadalupe stamped her image with Mexican physiognomies on Juan Diego’s serape, where she can be seen standing on the moon and obscuring the sun that is behind her. The Aztecs worshiped the sun and the moon as gods, and the sight of this powerful lady overcoming their gods was the catalyst in the Mexican Indians’ conversion. In Colombia, God performed the prodigy of printing Our Lady of Las Lajas on a rock. In view of these two very short examples, who can deny the deeply religious atmosphere characteristic of images painted by the Angels?
As limited as one’s sense of observation may be, one cannot fail to exclaim upon seeing her, “Look how Latin American she is!” Something very essential, a reflection of the qualities and virtues of the Latin American people, is expressed in Our Lady of Las Lajas.
But what does her physical aspect tell us? We find a great personality, the profound and intelligent gaze of a meditating and recollected person. She has an extraordinary stability and solidity, a continuity of will and temperament. Nothing shakes or agitates her. There is no arrogance or ostentation, but rather the dominion of one who is accustomed to having her will obeyed. She could not have a better veil than her long, abundant, beautiful hair. The color and richness of her dress are those of a Queen. She is extremely kind and motherly. How good and safe the Child Jesus feels in her arms! What throne could be more worthy of Him? He is almost at play, with the liberty of a child.
It is curious to note the relationship between Mother and Son. Frequently their images present them gazing at each other, but not in Las Lajas. They are so accustomed to being together that they have no need to look at each other in order to sustain their mutual attention. She directs her eyes toward the Latin American people, heeding their supplications, orienting and commanding them. Meanwhile, the Child Jesus enters the intimacy of those who arrive at the Queen’s feet—a Queen who displays in her gaze a kindness so exalted that she moves us to trust her entirely.
Our Lady of Las Lajas, pray for us!
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The Catholic Trumpet: New Initiative - Combatting Errors ⚔︎ in the Modern World
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