.....
this missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of
conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment or censure, and may freely
and lawfully be used ..... Nor are
superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or
religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass
otherwise than as enjoined by Us.
..... Accordingly, no one whatsoever is permitted to infringe or rashly
contravene this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept,
grant, direction, will, decree and prohibition. Should any person venture to
do so, let him understand he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the
Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Pope
St. Pius V, Papal Bull, QUO PRIMUM,
Tridentine
Codification of the “received and approved” traditional Roman Rite of the Mass.
Feast of the Holy Family
Sunday within the Octave of
the Epiphany
Within the Octave
St. Hyginus, Pope & Martyr
January 11, 2026
“Is it not fitting,” says Leo XIII, “to celebrate
the royal birth of the Son of the supreme Father, of the house of David and the
glorious names of that ancient line? Yet
it is more consoling for us to call to memory the little house at Nazareth and
the humble life lived there; thus celebrating the hidden life of our Lord. For there the divine Child received his
training in Joseph’s humble trade; there hidden and sheltered, He grew up and
showed Himself ready to share the toil of a carpenter’s life. “Let the moisture,” he seemed to say,
“trickled over my limbs before they are drenched with the torrent of my blood,
and the pain of this labor shall go to atone for the sins of men.” Close to the divine Child is His tender
Mother; close to St. Joseph stands his devoted wife, happy to relieve their
toil and suffering by her loving care. O
Thou, who wast not free from toil and care and who hast known adversity, come
to the aid of the unfortunate, crippled by poverty and struggling against the
difficulties of life” (Hymn for Matins).
In this lowly dwelling at Nazareth, by
practicing the domestic virtues of charity, obedience, mutual help and regard,
Jesus, Mary and Joseph hallowed family life (Collect, Epistle and Gospel). There to they constantly found joy and
peace in recollection and prayer. May
the great Christian family practice here on earth virtues of the Holy Family,
so meriting a life in their blessed company in Heaven (Collect).
Benedict XV, being desirous of securing for
souls the blessings flowing from meditation of the virtues of the Holy Family
and from their imitation, extended this feast to the universal Church, fixing
its observance for the Sunday in the Octave of the Epiphany, When this Sunday
happens to be the Octave Day of the Epiphany, the feast is held on the day
before.
INTROIT:
Prov. 23: Let the father of the just one exult
with joy: let Thy father and Thy mother rejoice, and she that bore thee be
glad.
Ps. 83: How beloved are Thy tabernacles,
O Lord of Hosts! my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Glory be, etc. Let the father of the just one exult with
joy, etc.
COLLECT:
Lord Jesus Christ, who, subject
to Mary and Joseph, didst consecrate family life by Thy unspeakable virtues,
aid us by their united intercession to profit by the examples of Thy Holy
Family, and attain to their everlasting companionship. Who liveth and reigneth,
etc.
We beseech Thee, O Lord, by Thy heavenly
mercy, to hear the prayers of Thy people who call to Thee, and grant us the
grace to know and the strength to fulfill the things that are necessary for our
salvation. Through our Lord, etc.
O God, who by the leading of a
star didst on this day manifest Thy only-begotten Son to the Gentiles,
mercifully grant that we, who know Thee now by faith, may be brought to the
contemplation of Thy glorious majesty.
Through the same Lord, etc.
O eternal Shepherd, do Thou look
favourably upon Thy flock, which we beseech Thee to guard and keep for
evermore, through the blessed Hyginus, Thy Martyr and Supreme Pontiff, whom
Thou didst choose to be the chief shepherd of the whole Church. Through
the same Lord, etc.
EPISTLE:
Col. 3, 12-27
Brethren,
Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of
mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: bearing with one another and
forgiving one another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. But
above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: and let
the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one
body: and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in
all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual
canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God. All whatsoever you do in
word or in work, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to
God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord.
GRADUAL:
Ps. 26: One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will
I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my
life.
Ps. 83. Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house, O
Lord, they shall praise Thee forever and ever.
Alleluia,
alleluia. Isa. 45. Truly Thou art a hidden King, O God of Israel the
Savior. Alleluia.
GOSPEL: Luke 2, 42-52
When
Jesus was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem according to the
custom of the feast, and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the
Child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents knew it not. And thinking
that He was in the company, they came a day's journey, and sought Him among
their kinsfolk and acquaintances. And not finding Him, they returned into
Jerusalem, seeking Him. And it came to pass that after three days they found
Him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking
them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His wisdom and His
answers. And seeing Him they wondered. And His Mother said to Him: Son, why
hast Thou done so to us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.
And He said to them: how is it that you sought Me? Did you not know that I must be about My
Father's business? And they understood not the word that He spoke unto them.
And he went down with them and come to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And
His Mother kept all these words in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and
age and grace with God and men.
Why did our Savior go with
His parents to Jerusalem to the temple?
Because God commanded (Deut. 16:16) that all the male Israelites should appear, three times a year on certain festivals, and offer sacrifice to Him in the temple; Jesus fulfilled this commandment to set us an example that we, according to the will of the holy Catholic Church, should willingly and devoutly be present at the services of the Church on Sundays and holydays of obligation. Neither the distance from the church nor the difficulties of the way should prevent our attendance, since Jesus did not shun a three days' journey to the temple.
Why does the gospel say
according to the custom of the feast?
That we may understand, that like Mary and Joseph, we should be punctual in observing the ecclesiastical festivals and holy usages, and like true Catholics, should observe them. Parents should require their children at an early age to take part in prayer, attend church and school, and see that they conduct themselves quietly and reverently while there. Mary and Joseph took the holy Child Jesus with them to the temple.
Why did the child Jesus
remain in Jerusalem?
Because of His love of prayer and communion with His Heavenly Father, and to show, even then, some rays of His divinity, by which to make known that He had come for the glory of His Father, and to procure our salvation. The glory of God and the salvation of our souls should be our chief object in life.
Why did Mary and Joseph
search so diligently for Jesus?
Because they were fearful lest they should lose Him Whom they loved so exceedingly. We should learn from this, how careful we should be not to lose Jesus by sin, or having lost Him, how anxiously we should seek by penance to find Him. The parents of Jesus, by their diligent search and inquiries for the divine Infant, teach and rebuke those parents who care less for the Christian education of their children than for their temporal advantages, who pay no attention to the persons with whom their children associate, nor to the places which they frequent, whether they learn things that are useful to them, and who for the sake of some temporal advantage permit their children sinful intimacy with evil-minded persons. From these parents God will one day demand the souls of their children with severest justice.
Why was our Savior found in
the temple in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them
questions?
To teach us that we ought to seek the knowledge necessary for our salvation, and attend carefully to the sermons and instructions on Christian doctrine; we should by no means be ashamed to ask questions of our pastors when we are in doubt, and should listen to their answers. Was Christ, the Eternal Wisdom, ashamed to ask questions and to answer? Why should we ignorant people hesitate? It is much to be regretted that persons who have many important things concerning their spiritual welfare on their minds, through pride and false shame, would rather go to perdition than ask advice, solely for fear of showing their ignorance.
Why did Mary say: Son, why
hast thou done so to us?
These words were forced from her by pain at the absence of her Son, Whom she loved above all things, and not by indignation, for He was blameless. Mary's conduct should teach parents to remember their duty of caring for their children, and punish them when they do wrong.
OFFERTORY:
Luke 2: His parents carried Jesus
to Jerusalem, that they might present Him to the Lord.
SECRET:
We
offer Thee, O Lord, the Victim of propitiation, suppliantly beseeching Thee
that, by the intercession of the virgin Mother of God, and blessed Joseph, thou
wouldst establish our families firmly in Thy peace and grace. Through the same
Lord, etc.
May
the sacrifice which we offer to Thee, O Lord, ever quicken and defend us. Through our Lord, etc.
Look
down, O Lord, in Thy mercy, we beseech Thee, upon the gifts of Thy Church, in
which are brought forth no longer gold, incense and myrrh, but that which by
those same offerings is signified, immolated and received: Jesus Christ Thy Son
our Lord. Who liveth and reigneth, etc.
By
the offered gifts we beg Thee, O Lord: enlighten kindly Thy Church: so that Thy
flock everywhere may be increased, and the Shepherds, under Thy direction, may
be pleasing to Thy Name. Through our Lord, etc.
PREFACE
OF EPIPHANY:
It
is truly meet and just, right and profitable unto salvation, that we should at
all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O holy Lord, Father
almighty, everlasting God. For when thy
only-begotten Son showed himself in the substance of our mortal nature, he
restored us by the new light of his own immortality. And therefore with the angels and
archangels, the throne and dominions, and the whole host of the heavenly army
we sing a hymn to thy glory, saying again and again: Holy, Holy, Holy, etc.
COMMUNION:
Luke 2: Jesus went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them.
POSTCOMMUNION:
Make us, O
Lord Jesus, whom Thou dost refresh with Thy heavenly sacraments, ever to
imitate the examples of Thy Holy Family, that in the hour of our death we may
be met by the glorious virgin Mary, along with blessed Joseph, and through Thee
may be received into everlasting dwellings.
Who liveth and reigneth, etc..
We humbly
beseech Thee, almighty God, that Thou wouldst grant to all whom Thou refreshest
with Thy sacraments, to serve Thee worthily by a life well pleasing to
Thee. Through our Lord, etc.
Grant,
we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that what we celebrate with solemn rite, we
may attain to by the understanding of a conscience cleansed from sin. Through our Lord, etc.
O
Lord, we beseech Thee, graciously govern Thy Church, which Thou hast fed with a
holy meal; so that, directed by a mighty wisdom, she may progress in liberty,
and persist in the integrity of faith. Through
our Lord, etc.
…. sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them
and asking them questions. And all that heard Him were astonished at His wisdom
and His answers.
Prayer to the
Holy Family
O Most loving Jesus, Who by Thy
surpassing virtues and the example of Thy home life didst hallow the household in
which Thou didst choose to live while on earth, mercifully look down upon this
family, whose members, humbly prostrate before Thee, implore Thy
protection. Remember our petitions in
Mary’s hands, that she may offer them to Jesus Christ. Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
I give you my heart and soul that we are Thine, bound and consecrated to Thee
by a special devotion. Protect us in Thy
mercy, deliver us from danger, help us in our necessities, and impart to us
strength to persevere always in the imitation of Thy Holy Family, so that, by
serving Thee and loving Thee faithfully during this mortal life, we may at
length give Thee eternal praise in heaven. O Mary, dearest Mother, we implore
thy assistance, knowing that thy divine Son will hearken to thy petitions. And
do thou, most glorious patriarch, St. Joseph, help us with thy powerful
patronage, and place our petitions in Mary’s hands, that she may offer them to
Jesus Christ.
Octave Day of
the Epiphany
The thoughts of the Church
today are fixed on the baptism of our Lord in the Jordan… Let us honour our
Lord in this second Manifestation of his divinity, and thank him, with the
Church, for having given us both the Star of Faith which enlightens us, and the
Water of Baptism which cleanses us from our iniquities. Let us lovingly appreciate the humility of
our Jesus, who permits himself to be weighed down by the hand of a mortal man,
in order, as he says himself, that he might fulfill all justice, for having
taken on himself the likeness of sin, it was requisite that he should bear its
humiliation, that so he might raise us from our debasement. Let us thank him for this grace of Baptism,
which has opened to us the gates of the Church both of heaven and earth; and
let us renew the engagements we made at the holy Font, for they were the terms
on which we were regenerated to our new life in God.
Don Gueranger, The Liturgical Year
PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 11th:
Date
Day Feast
Rank Color F/A Mass Time
|
11 |
Sun |
The Holy Family: Jesus, Mary & Joseph Sunday within the Octave Within the Octave St. Hyginus, PM |
dm |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 AM |
|
12 |
Mon |
Within the Octave [Mass of Preceding Sunday] |
sd |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation after Mass |
|
13 |
Tue |
Octave Day of the Epiphany |
dm |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation after Mass |
|
14 |
Wed |
St. Hilary, BpCD St. Felix, Priest, M |
d |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation after Mass |
|
15 |
Thu |
St. Paul, 1st. Hermit, C St. Maurrus, Ab |
d |
W |
|
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation after Mass |
|
16 |
Fri |
St. Marcellus I, PM |
sd |
R |
A |
Mass 8:30 AM; Rosary of Reparation after Mass |
|
17 |
Sat |
St. Anthony, Ab |
d |
W |
|
Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 |
|
18 |
Sun |
2nd. Sunday after Epiphany St. Peter's Chair at Rome & St. Paul, App St. Prisca, VM |
sd |
G |
|
Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of
Reparation 8:30 AM |
A Faithful
Bishop for all Ages
The faithful and courageous St.
Hilary, the pride of the Churches of Gaul and the worthy associate of St.
Athanasius and St. Eusebius of Vercelli in the battle fought for the Divinity
of our Emmanuel against the Arian heretics, though gifted with the most
extraordinary talents, and one of the most learned men of the age, his greatest
glory was his intense love for the Incarnate Word and his zeal for the liberty
of the Church. His great soul thirsted
after martyrdom, and, by the unflinching love of truth which such a spirit gave
him, he was the brave champion of the Church in the trying periods when Faith,
that had stood the brunt of persecution, seemed to be on the point of being
betrayed by the craft of Princes, and the cowardice of temporizing and
unorthodox Pastors… St. Hilary, like St. Thomas a Becket who followed his
example, was obedient to the teaching left to the Pastors of the Church by the
Apostles; who, when they were arraigned the first time before the authorities,
uttered this great maxim: We ought to obey God rather than men…. The Apostles
and the Saints were strong in the battle against flesh and blood, only because
they were detached from earthly goods, and were convinced that the true riches
of a Christian and a Bishop consist in the humility and poverty of the Crib,
and that the only victorious power is in the imitation of the simplicity and
the weakness of the Child that is born unto us.
They relished the lessons of the School of Bethlehem; hence no promise
of honours, of riches, or even of peace, could make them swerve from the
principles of the Gospel.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Hilary
of Poitiers
The two names, Paul and
Anthony, are not to be separated; they are the two Apostles of the Desert; both
are Fathers – Paul of Anchorites, and Anthony of Cenobites; the two families
are sisters, and both have the same source, the Mystery of Bethlehem. The sacred Cycle of the Church’s year unites,
with only a day between their two Feasts, these two faithful disciples of Jesus
in his Crib.
Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year
The Catholic Faith is such that
nothing can be added to it, nothing taken away.
Either it is held in its entirety, or rejected totally. This is the Catholic faith, which, unless a
man believes faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.
Pope Benedict XV, Ad Beatissimi
"All
Jesus Christ asks of you is that you defend yourself courageously, and that,
despite any wounds you may receive, you never lay down your arms or leave the
battleground. You must not shirk your
duty. This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy
of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly
impossible."
Dom Lorenzo
Scupoli, OM, The Spiritual Combat
St. Anthony, in the year 339,
saw in a vision, under the figure of mules kicking down the altar, the havoc
which the Arian persecution made two years after in Alexandria, and clearly
foretold it, as St. Athanasius, St. Jerome, and St. Chrysostom assure us. He would not speak to a heretic, unless to
exhort him to the true faith; and he drove all such from his mountain, calling
them venomous serpents. At the request of the bishops, about the year 355, he
took a journey to Alexandria to confound the Arians, preaching aloud in that
city that God the Son is not a creature, but of the same substance with the
Father; and that the impious Arians, who called him a creature, did not differ
from the heathens themselves, "who worshipped and served the creature
rather than the Creator." All the people ran to see him, and rejoiced to
hear him; even the pagans, struck with the dignity of his character, flocked to
him, saying, "We desire to see the man of God." He converted many,
and wrought several miracles: St. Athanasius conducted him back as far as the
gates of the city, where he cured a girl possessed by the devil. Being desired
by the duke or general of Egypt to make a longer stay in the city than he had
proposed, he answered: "As fish die if they leave the water, so does a
monk if he forsakes his solitude."
St. Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony
Holy peace consists in a union with
God’s will, of such a kind that no dissension arises between the will of God
and the soul, but they are both one – not in words or in desires alone but in
works. When a soul finds that by doing
something it can serve its Spouse better, it listens to no objections raised by
its mind, nor to any fears… but allows faith to act, and considers not its own
profit nor its own tranquility.
St. Teresa of Avila
All novelty in
faith is a sure mark of heresy. St. Paul
cried out aloud, again and again, to all men, to all times, and to all places
that, if anyone announces a new doctrine, let him be anathematized!
St. Vincent of
Lerins
Octave
Prayer From the Chair of St. Peter to the Conversion of St. Paul (feast January
24)
(Jan 16 to 24 for the
conversion of heretics and schismatic to the Catholic Church "outside of
which there is no salvation.")
That they all may be one, as
Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us; that the
world may believe that Thou hast sent me.
V: I say to thee, that thou art Peter
R: And upon this rock I will build my
Church
Let Us Pray
Lord Jesus Christ, Who didst
say to Thine Apostles; peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, look
not upon my sins, but upon the faith of Thy Church; and vouchsafe unto her that
peace and unity which is agreeable to Thy will; Who livest and reignest God
forever and ever. AMEN (plenary
indulgence under the usual conditions)
It is My wish that you consider
the bridge I have built in the Person of my only-begotten Son, and that you
notice that it reaches from earth to heaven, because in Him the majesty of the
of the divinity is united with the lowliness of your human nature. It was necessary to construct this bridge in
order to repair the road which had become impassable and to open a passage
across the trials of this world to eternal life.
God the Father to St. Catherine
of Siena on the mystery of the Incarnation, Dialogue
of St. Catherine
Stretch out Your mighty arm, O
Lord; let your greatness appear in this unworthy creature, so that men may
realize that I can do nothing and may give You praise. Cost what it may, this is what I desire, and
I would give a thousand lives if I had them, so that one soul might praise You
more. I would consider them all well
spent, because I know that in actual fact I do not deserve to suffer the very
smallest trial for You, still less to die for You. Lord, do not forget that You
are a God of mercy; have mercy on this poor sinner, this miserable worm who is
so bold with You. Behold my desires, my
God, and the tears with which I beg this of You; forget my deeds, for Your
Name’s sake and have pity upon all these souls that are being lost, and help
Your Church. Do not permit more harm to
be done to Christendom, Lord; give light to this darkness. O Lord, grant me, too, a great love for
souls; kindle in me an ardent thirst for their salvation, and grant that I may
use my feeble powers to collaborate in Your great redemptive work.
St. Teresa of Avila
No one is worth more than what
he is worth in the eyes of God, and how can 1 know whether I am an object of
hatred or of love to God? "And yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of
love or hatred" (Ecclus 9, 1). How
do I know if God will fashion a vessel of honor or of dishonor from the clay of
which I am made? "For who distinguisheth thee?" (1 Cor. 4, 7).
"But what is the use of these vessels? The Potter is the judge" (Wis.
15, 7).
Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
"Nothing
new is to be allowed, for nothing can be added to the old. Look for the faith of the elders, and do not
let our faith be disturbed by a mixture of new doctrines."
Pope St.
Sixtus III, De Jejun
The grace which sanctifies our
souls is, in its essence, identically the same as that which adorns the sacred
soul of Jesus (St. Thomas, III, q.8, a.5).
Of course, they differ immensely in measure and perfection, but the
nature of the grace is the very same.
Hence grace in us has the same sanctifying power, that same tendencies
as it has in the soul of Jesus. Thus it
can sanctify us, making us live in union with God and for His glory. By giving us grace, Jesus has truly
communicated His life to us; He has planted in us the seed of His sanctity, so
that we can live a life similar to His own.
Father Gabriel of St. Mary
Magdalen, O.C.D., Divine Intimacy
You have seen hell where the
souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world
devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If what
I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.
Our Lady of Fatima to the three
children
INSTRUCTION ON
THE VIRTUE OF OBEDIENCE He was subject to them (Lk. 2:51).
From this all Christians should
learn to be obedient to the commandments of God and of the Church. God has
united life or death, blessing or malediction with obedience or disobedience to
His commandments, and the Bible (I Kings 15:22) shows that obedience pleases
God more than sacrifices or the fat of rams, and that He despises disobedience
as He does witchcraft and idolatry. We must be obedient to the Church, because
Christ Himself with His holy Spirit lives in her, and governs her, and has
said: Who hears not the Church, let him be to thee a heathen and a publican, therefore,
shut out from eternal life. We must be obedient to our parents, because they
are placed over us by God, and we are indebted to them, under Him, for life and
many benefits. Those children who do not assist their parents when they are
old, poor, and helpless, or are ashamed of them, have reason to be afraid,
since even Christ Jesus, the God-Man, was obedient and subject in all things to
His poor mother, and to a humble carpenter who was only His foster-father.
Cursed be he that honoreth not his father and mother (Deut. 27:16); how much
more cursed those who despise, deride and abandon their parents? Their eyes
will one day be picked out by ravens (Prov. 30:17). If God commanded obstinate
and disobedient children to be stoned (Dent. 21:20), what do those not deserve
who even strike or abuse their parents?
How did Jesus advance in age, wisdom and grace?
He showed new effects of the
wisdom and grace with which He was filled, as He advanced in years, and thus
teaches us to progress the more in virtue, and fulfill the duties of our state
in life that we may attain perfection hereafter.
ASPIRATION: Most amiable Jesus!
Who in the twelfth year of Thy age, didst permit Thyself to be found in the
temple by Thy parents, and, as an example for us, wast humbly obedient to them,
grant that we may diligently attend to the important affair of our salvation,
willingly carry the yoke of Thy law from our youth, and be always obedient to
the laws of Thy Church, to our parents, and superiors. Prevent uneducated youth
from growing reckless, and preserve them from a scandalous life. Give parents
wisdom and grace to educate their children according to Thy will in all virtue.
Grant to us all, that we may never lose Thee by sin, or if we have lost Thee,
anxiously to seek Thee, happily find Thee, and with Thy grace more and more
increase in wisdom and in virtue. Amen.
A tremendous mystery certainly,
and one never sufficiently meditated, that the salvation of many souls depends
on the prayers and voluntary mortifications offered for this end, by the
members of the Mystical Body of Christ, and on the collaboration of both
pastors and the faithful.
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis
TRUE PIETY They found Him in the temple (Lk. 2:46).
Many people deceive themselves
in regard to true piety, because their imagination represents it to them
according to the effect produced by their passions or disposition of mind. He
who fasts often and willingly believes that he is pious, though in his heart he
nourishes a secret hatred, and while he fears to wet the tip of his tongue with
wine, even with water, lest he should not live temperately enough, finds
pleasure in detraction and slander, that unquenchable thirst for the blood of
his neighbor. Another, because he is accustomed daily to recite a long string
of prayers, esteems himself pious, though he gives vent afterwards to haughty,
bitter, offensive language, hurting people at home and abroad. Another keeps
his purse open for the poor, but keeps his heart ever closed to the love of his
enemy, whom he will not forgive; another forgives his enemy with all his heart,
but will not pay his creditors, until forced by law. All these think themselves
pious, and are perhaps so regarded by the world, but in truth they are far from
being pious. In what then does true piety consist? In the perfect love of God,
this love is called the beautiful love, because it is the ornament of the soul,
and attracts to itself with complacency the eyes of the Divine Majesty. When it
strengthens us to do good, it is called the strong love; when it causes us to
do that good quickly, carefully, and repeatedly, it is called piety. The
ostrich has wings, it is true, but never uses them to fly; the chickens fly
heavily and not high; but the eagles, the doves, and the swallows, fly high and
swiftly, and do not easily tire. The sinners are but earthly people, they creep
upon the ground; the just, who are still imperfect, rise, it is true, towards
heaven but seldom, and then but slowly and heavily. But there are some, true,
pious souls, who like the doves and the eagles soar high on strong, swift wings
to God. In a word, piety is nothing else than a certain active, swift energy of
the spirit, with which the strong love in us, or we with it, performs, as far
as it is possible to us, all good. As the strong love urges us to keep God's
commandments, the perfect love, that is, piety, urges us to keep them carefully
and with all possible zeal. No one is just or pious who does not keep all God's
commandments without exception; for, to be just we must possess the strong
love, and to be pious we must possess besides, a certain eagerness to profit by
all the occasions of doing good, that present themselves. Thus St. Francis de
Sales writes in his Philothea, from which it is seen that true piety consists
not in special devotions, or the practice of special good works, but in the
zealous, earnest, continuous obedience to the commandments and performance of
duty for the love of God.
FEAST OF THE
HOLY FAMILY: JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH - 1st SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
PRESENCE of GOD: I beg the Blessed Virgin Mary to allow me to
enter in spirit the humble home at Nazareth, to contemplate Jesus’ most admirable
life there.
1. On this day for the last time in
the cycle of the liturgical year, the Church invites us to contemplate the
mystery of Jesus' humble, hidden life. A feeling of close intimacy and
tenderness characterizes this Feast and is expressed in the liturgy of the day:
". . .it is good for us to recall the little home at Nazareth and the
humble life of those who lived there . . . . In it, Jesus learned Joseph's
humble trade, and grew in age, and was happy sharing the work of a carpenter:
Let the sweat, 'He seemed to say, trickle over My limbs before they are
drenched with the torrent of My Blood, and the pain of this labor shall go to
atone for the sins of men!"' (RB). Let us enter the little house; in the
presence of such humility, which conceals Jesus' infinite Majesty, let us
repeat the words of the sacred text :
"Thou art indeed a hidden King, O God the Savior, King of
Israel" (ibid.).
Today's liturgy particularly emphasizes one
typical aspect of the humble life of this hidden God: obedience. "Although
He was the Son of God . . . He learned to obey; He humbled Himself, becoming
obedient even unto death" (ibid.). From Bethlehem to Calvary obedience was
His companion. The Gospel (Lk 2, 42 .52) stresses this obedience of Jesus at
Nazareth in words which carry for all time the strength of their first
utterance, "He was subject to them." Let us ask ourselves with St.
Bernard, "Who obeyed? Whom did He obey?" The Saint replies, "God
obeyed man! Yes, the God to whom the angels are subject‑ was subject to
Mary, and not only to Mary, but also to Joseph. For God to obey a woman is
humility without parallel.... Learn then, man, to obey; learn, O earth, to be
submissive. God subjected Himself to men; and do you, desiring to rule others,
place yourself above your Creator?"
2. "Did you not know that I must
be about My Father's business?" Jesus, who was so humble and submissive,
did not hesitate to make this reply to Mary when she gently questioned Him
about having remained behind in the Temple without her or Joseph's knowledge,
while they in anguish had been seeking Him for three days.
These are the first words of Jesus which we
find recorded in the Gospel. He spoke them in order to declare His mission and
to affirm the primacy of the rights of God. When hardly an adolescent, Jesus
taught us that God and the things of God must always come first. He must hold
the first place in our lives, and we must obey Him regardless of all other
considerations, even if it means sacrificing the rights of nature and of blood.
Yielding to relatives and friends is no longer a virtue‑ and may even be
sinful‑ if it leads us away from the will of God or hinders its
fulfillment.
Giving precedence to the rights of God does
not imply that we neglect our duties toward our neighbor. Today’s Feast calls
our attention to these obligations, and especially to those concerning our
family, natural or religious, inviting us to follow the example of the Holy
Family of Nazareth. To this end, the Epistle (Col 3, 12‑I7) shows us the
virtues we should practice: "Clothe
yourself... with mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, and patience, bearing
with one another, and forgiving one another."
COLLOQUY:
O Jesus, how I love to contemplate You as a
Child, in the poor house at Nazareth, with Mary and Joseph! Your simple, humble
life was just like that of any other child of Your age. You, the splendor of
the Father, did not wish anything to distinguish You from the children of men;
You, uncreated wisdom, wished to learn from Mary and Joseph, Your creatures,
the ordinary little details of life. Joseph showed You how to handle his tools
and You watched Him attentively, You learned, You obeyed. Mary taught You holy
hymns and recounted tales from the Sacred Scriptures; You listened to her like
a humble disciple, You who are the one true Teacher, You who are Truth itself.
No one, neither Your relatives nor Your fellow townspeople, knew who You really
were. Everyone believed You to be the carpenter's son and paid no more
attention to You than they would have paid to an ordinary apprentice.
Only Mary and Joseph knew; they knew by
divine revelation that You were the Son of the Most High, the Savior of the
world, and yet they knew it more by faith than by experience. Your ordinary way
of life concealed Your majesty and divinity from them so completely that when,
without their knowledge, You remained among the doctors in the Temple, they
could not understand the reason for Your unusual behavior.
That incident, however, was an isolated
one; immediately afterward, You wished to return to the hiddenness of Your most
humble life. You went back with them, and were subject to them. And this, day
by day, until You were thirty years old.
O most sweet Jesus, grant that I may
imitate, at least to some degree, Your infinite humility! You, the Creator,
were obedient to Your creatures. Teach me to bow my proud head and willingly
obey my superiors. You came down from heaven to earth. Give me the grace to humble myself, to come
down, once and for all, from the pedestal of my pride! How can I bear the sight
of Your humility and self-effacement, O my God and my Creator, when I, who am
nothingness and sin, use the gifts I have received to set myself above others,
to prefer myself even to my superiors?
This happiness and misery,
either of which must inevitably be our portion, are represented by the two
baskets of figs which Jeremias saw in the vision, one containing "very
good figs, like the figs of the first season, and the other basket very bad
figs, which could not be eaten." [Jer. 24: 1-2] God willed thus to
represent to His prophet the two classes of souls, one of which forms the
object of His mercy, and the other of His justice. The happiness of the first
is unequaled, and the misery of the second is also incomparable; for the just
enjoy the perpetual vision of God, which is the greatest of all blessings,
while the wicked are forever deprived of this vision, and thereby suffer the
greatest of all evils.
Ven. Louis of Granada, The Sinner’s Guide
The Theological Virtues of
faith and hope can exist without charity.
But then they are not perfect virtues.
Perfect virtue enables a man to act perfectly in the pursuit of
happiness. But an act of faith which
does not proceed under the impulse of charity is not a perfect act of
faith. Believing in God without loving
Him does not effectively lead a man to God.
Similarly hope cannot be perfect without charity or the love of
God. The sinner who hopes for Heaven
through some future repentance is doing a good thing, but he is not doing it
well. To hope perfectly in God’s
goodness a man must love God and be in union with God’s will.
Rev. Walter Farrell, O. P., My
Way of Life, Pocket Edition of St. Thomas
What opinion, then, may be
formed of the salvation of anyone, in particular, who is out of the True Church
of Christ, and lives in a false religion?
In answer to this, I may ask another question: What opinion would you
form of the salvation of one who is living in the open state of mortal sin,
such as adultery, robbery, impurity, or the like? No one could presume to say
that that man will certainly be lost; but every one may say that, if he die in
that state, without repentance, he cannot be saved. If it be the will of God
positively to save him, He will, before he die, give him the grace of sincere
repentance; because God Almighty expressly requires from sinners a sincere
repentance as a condition without which they cannot be saved: "Except ye
repent," says He, "ye shall all likewise perish." [Luke 13: 3]
The same is to be said of a person who is out of the True Church, and lives in
a false religion. If he die in that state he cannot be saved; and if it be the
will of God actually to save him, he will undoubtedly bring him to the True
Faith, and make him a member of the Church of Christ before he leaves this
world; and the reason is the same as in the other case. God, as we have seen
above, requires all men to be united to the Church by True Faith as a condition
of salvation, and therefore daily "adds to the Church such as shall be
saved". [Acts 2: 47]
Bishop George Hay of Scotland, The Sincere Christian
The
Traditional “Great Commission”:
And Jesus coming spoke to them,
saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach
ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you
all days, even to the consummation of the world. Matt 28, 19-8-20
The
Modernist “Great Commission”:
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope
Benedict used his traditional New Year address to call on people to change
their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was
essential for global peace. "Nevertheless, in this moment, I would like to
underline the importance of the choices of individuals, families and local
administrations in preserving the environment," the Pope told the
thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square. "An objective shared by all, an
indispensable condition for peace, is that of overseeing the earth's natural
resources with justice and wisdom."
What could be more pleasing and
agreeable than the thought that Christ is our Ruler, not only by right of
nature, but by a right of conquest, which He acquired when He became our
Redeemer! O that ungrateful men would
remember how much we have cost our Savior!
We were not redeemed at the price of gold or silver… but by Christ’s
precious Blood. We no longer belong to
ourselves, because Christ has paid a precious ransom for us. Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas
Novena to SS.
Peter and Paul
(begins
January 16th)
O glorious SS. Peter and Paul,
filled with compassion for those who invoke you, with love for those who
suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I kneel at your feet and
humbly beg you to take my present need under your special protection (mention
intention). As disciples of Christ and
the first pastors of the early Church you both knew disappointment and
suffering. Lead me out of my troubles as
you have so many to Christ our Lord.
Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace to one day
meet God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the angels and saints
praise Him through all eternity.
O most powerful SS. Peter and
Paul, do not let me lose my soul, but obtain for me the grace of winning my way
to heaven.
O holy Apostles, Peter and
Paul, I choose you this day and forever to be my special patrons and advocates;
thee, Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, because thou art the Rock, upon
which Almighty God hath built His Church; thee, Saint Paul, because thou wast
fore-chosen by God as the Vessel of election and the Preacher of truth in the
whole world. Obtain for me, I pray you,
lively faith, firm hope and burning love; unshakable confidence in the merciful
providence of God, complete detachment from myself, contempt of the world,
patience in adversity, humility in prosperity, attention in prayer, purity of
heart, a right intention in all my works, diligence in fulfilling the duties of
my state of life, constancy in my resolutions, resignation to the will of God
and perseverance in the grace of God even unto death; that so, by means of your
intercession and your glorious merits, I may be able to overcome the
temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and may be made worthy to
appear before the chief and eternal Shepherd of souls, Jesus Christ, who with
the Father and the Holy Ghost liveth and
reigneth for endless ages, to enjoy His presence and love Him forever. AMEN
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be
§ V. Thou shalt make them princes over all the
earth,
§ R. They shall be mindful of Thy name, O Lord.
Let
us pray
O God, whose right hand raised up blessed
Peter, when he walked upon the water and began to sink, and thrice delivered
his fellow-Apostle Paul from the depths of the sea, when he suffered shipwreck:
graciously hear us and grant, by the merits of them both, that we also may
attain unto everlasting glory: Who livest and reignest world without end.
AMEN
Holy baptism, which is the
gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments;
through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the Church. And
since death entered the universe through the first man, “unless we are born
again of water and the Spirit, we cannot,” as the Truth says, “enter into the
kingdom of heaven” [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural
water. Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” Nov. 22, 1439
"All ceremonies are
professions of faith, in which the interior worship of God consists. Now man
can make profession of his inward faith, by deeds as well as by words: and in
either profession, if he makes a false declaration, he sins
mortally."
St. Thomas Aquinas, (ST, I-II,
Q. 103, Art. 4)
Believe me, that a little
attention to acquire humility, and an act of this virtue, are worth more before
God's infinite wisdom than all the learning of the world . . . Humility drew
the Son of God from Heaven to the womb of a Virgin, and by the same humility we
can draw Him into our souls. The more the flower of humility blossoms in a
soul, the greater is the good odor it imparts to her who possesses it, to those
who behold her, and to those who are about her.
St. Teresa of Avila
The cross and the breaking of
every bone of my body should not have made me a coward, for the good thief
would have encouraged me. But nowadays
we have to do with a disguised persecutor, a smooth-tongued enemy who scourges
us, not with lashes, but with caresses; who instead of robbing us, which would
give us spiritual life, bribes us with riches… who thrusts us not into the
liberty of a prison, but into the honors of his palace… who tears not our
flesh, but our hearts… He confesses Christ the better to deny him; he tries to
procure a unity which shall destroy peace… he honors bishops that they may
cease to be bishops… By a strange, ingenious plan, which no one had ever yet
discovered, thou hast found a way to persecute without making martyrs.
St. Hilary, in reference to the
Arian heretics who had controlled the greater part of the Church
Cremation
of the Body undermines faith in the resurrection of the body.
All men shall rise again with
their bodies, and shall give an account of their works; and they that have done
good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil, into
everlasting fire. Athanasian Creed
All men shall rise again with
their own bodies, which they now have, to receive according to their deeds,
whether good or bad: the latter, everlasting punishment with the devil, the
former, eternal glory with the Lord.
Fourth Lateran Council
They that have done good things
shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of judgment. Jesus
Christ
The Catholic Church throughout
her history has traditionally forbidden the cremation of the corpse because it
implied a denial of the bodily resurrection.
Since the time of Vatican II, cremation was permitted for a sufficiently
grave reason. Since the new code of
canon law, a “grave reason” is no longer necessary. Cremation is now permitted as long as the
“person did not deny the bodily resurrection.”
Since the corpse is dead, it cannot “deny” anything. Neither can it “affirm” anything. The ones doing the affirming or denying are
those who are disposing of the corpse, that is, the Church. Since permitting cremation, the message given
to Catholics has obscured the dogma of the bodily resurrection as a formal
object of divine and Catholic Faith.
Very pleasing to Me, dearest
daughter, is the willing desire to bear every pain and fatigue, even unto
death, for the salvation of souls, for the more the soul endures, the more she
shows that she loves Me; loving Me she comes to know more of My truth, and the
more she knows, the more pain and intolerable grief she feels at the offenses
committed against Me. You asked Me to sustain you, and to punish the faults of
others in you, and you did not remark that you were really asking for love,
light, and knowledge of the truth, since I have already told you that, by the
increase of love, grows grief and pain, wherefore he that grows in love grows
in grief. Therefore, I say to you all,
that you should ask, and it will be given you, for I deny nothing to him who
asks of Me in truth. Consider that the love of divine charity is so closely
joined in the soul with perfect patience, that neither can leave the soul
without the other. For this reason (if the soul elect to love Me) she should
elect to endure pains for Me in whatever mode or circumstance I may send them
to her. Patience cannot be proved in any other way than by suffering, and
patience is united with love as has been said. Therefore bear yourselves with
manly courage, for, unless you do so, you will not prove yourselves to be
spouses of My Truth, and faithful children, nor of the company of those who
relish the taste of My honor, and the salvation of souls.
Our Lord to St. Catherine of
Siena, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of
Siena
I think the Sacred Heart asks three things of you: First, that you love
Him with a love of preference, which will enable you to overcome your
repugnances, and trample on your human respect, which says: “What will they say
If I do so-and-so?” All such thoughts must be despised when there is question
of pleasing this Divine Heart. Then you must look down upon, judge, and condemn
no one but yourself. By doing this you will practise humility and charity, and
will avoid the judgment and condemnation of your Judge. Thirdly, Our Lord
desires to be the one Object of your affections; you must delight in no other,
so that you may be worthy for Him to take delight in you. Model your heart on
the virtues of Jesus. If you only knew how you sadden Him when you fail in
charity or humility, or when you neglect the inspirations He gives you to
withdraw from dissipation and thoughts of self- love. All this prevents Him
from giving you His abundant graces. I think I have said all this to you
before, but I want to remind you of it again, for it seems to me that He does
not ask anything new of you just now, but that you will please Him very much if
you are faithful to these practices He has given you. Try then, to correspond
with His love. Give Him all yours by an exact fidelity to all our holy
observances, banishing all vain curiosity, and all surprise and discouragement
at difficulties. Keep your soul in peace without complaining of anything,
trying to find your delight in self-abnegation. If you love, nothing will seem
difficult to you.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter
Do everything by love, in love, and for love; for it is love which
gives value to everything. Love does not desire a divided heart—it must be all
or nothing. Love will make all things easy to you. Give Him then, love for
love, and never forget Him Who died for love of you. You will love Him in the
measure in which you suffer in silence and prefer Him to all creatures and
eternity to time.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Letter
Sanctity
is union with the will of God. The more
perfect the union, the greater the sanctity.
Sin is turning away from the will of God. The more serious the sin, the greater the
separation from God. Modern
Evangelization fails because it is not holy, because it has turned away from
the will of God! It is separated from
God in both Faith and Charity!
I should say that no people has ever been converted to Christianity by
a learned apologetic or by mysticism, important as these things are. The great
examples of Christian evangelization are St. Paul’s apostolate in Asia Minor
and Greece, St. Francis Xavier and his successors in Japan, and perhaps St.
Patrick in Ireland. In all these cases it is a very simple type of evangelism,
joined with miracles and works of mercy…. It is of course simply a question of
spiritual dynamism: Where there is direct spiritual communication through a
saint or an evangelist, you always find results, but where it is a matter of
routine organizations and activities, you do not.
Christopher Dawson, Catholic Historian, Letter to his friend, John
Mulloy, 1956
Trustful
Surrender to God’s Merciful Providence!
But you, who do you think you, a human being, are to answer back to God? Something that was made, can it say to its maker, why did you make me this shape? A potter surely has the right over his clay to make out of the same lump either a pot for special use or one for ordinary use (Romans 9:20-21). Accuse God of greater calumny by asking Him why He said, when Esau and Jacob were still in their mother’s womb: “I loved Jacob but I hated Esau….” It is true that neither fertile Britain, nor the people of Scotland, nor any of the barbarian nations as far as the ocean knew anything about Moses and His prophets. Why was it necessary that He come at the end of those times when numerous multitudes of people had already perished? Writing to the Romans, the blessed Apostle (St. Paul) cautiously airs this question but he cannot answer it and leaves it to God’s knowledge. So, you should also deign to accept that there may be no answer to what you ask. To God be the power and He does not need you as His advocate.
St. Jerome
Death bed
conversions from habitual sin are as rare as hen’s teeth!
“That he who lives well, will die well,” must be mentioned before all
others: for since death is nothing more than the end of life, it is certain
that all who lives well to the end, dies well; nor can he die ill, who hath
never lived ill; as, on the other hand, he who hath never led a good life,
cannot die a good death. The same thing is observable in many similar cases:
for all that walk along the right path, are sure to arrive at the place of
their destination; whilst, on the contrary, they who wander from it, will never
arrive at their journey’s end.
St. Robert Bellarmine
“One God, One Faith, One Baptism”
For, in truth, when
released from these corporeal chains, “we shall see God as He is” (1 John 3:2),
we shall understand perfectly by how close and beautiful a bond divine mercy
and justice are united; but, as long as we are on earth, weighed down by
this mortal mass which blunts the soul, let us hold most firmly that, in
accordance with Catholic teaching, there is “one God, one faith, one
baptism” [Eph. 4:5]; it is unlawful to proceed further in inquiry.
Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quadam
We
want to thank all the people, those little people behind the scenes that get
next to no credit, in the dioceses of Harrisburg and Philadelphia, who with
their worm-like petty and pedantic dedication to detail, none of this would
have been possible!
By heresies, the sons of the
Catholic Church are awakened from sleep as by thorns, so that they may make
progress in the knowledge of Holy Writ…. There is much good in the world which
would not exist were there no evils. There would be no patience of the just,
for instance, were there no malice of persecutors.
St. Thomas
When
the “means” are necessary to achieve the “ends”, then the “means” must be
“judged” in the same “respect” as the ends, that is, they must be judged
without “measure,” “within no limits.”
One must judge one way in
respect to the end and another in respect to the means. With regard to the
latter, there is measure; not so with regard to the end itself. Every one
attains it as best he may. The commandment of the love of God, which is the end
of the Christian life, is confined within no limits, as if a certain measure
fell under the commandment, but a greater love came under the counsel as an
achievement transcending the bounds of the commandment. Each and every one is
commanded to love God as best he can, and this is evident from the form of the
commandment, 'thou shalt,' etc. Each and every one fulfills it according to his
capacity, one more perfectly, another less perfectly.
St. Thomas
“Don’t get me
wrong Sisters. I am sure your hearts are
in the right place. OK, but you know, somebody has got to lift the scab, the
festering scab that is the Vatican.”
Jerry
Fletcher, Conspiracy Theory,
addressing two nuns, 1997
The end of Christian perfection is charity, by means of which one is
attached to God. And to this attachment by means of charity, every one, if he
desires to attain salvation, is in duty hound. It is effected by keeping the
commandments and by union with the will of God. Thus is everything excluded
that is contrary to the essence and the habit of charity, namely mortal sin.
St. Albert the Great, Of Adhering
to God
Queers Always
Hang Together
“Sodomy Is a Gift from God….
Those who oppose sodomy should be debarred from church seminaries.”
Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., an Oxford
scholar and international celebrity appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical
Council of Justice and Peace in 2015. On 6 October 2024, Pope Francis announced
that Radcliffe would be created a cardinal on December 8 but was the date was
later changed to 7 December. Pope Francis, granting him a dispensation from the
current requirement that all cardinals must be bishops, made him a cardinal
deacon and assigned him to the Chiesa dei
Santi Nomi di Gesu e Maria. He participated as a cardinal elector in the
2025 conclave that elected Pope Leo as the sole elector that was not a bishop.
Pro-LGBT Cdl.
Radcliffe urges ‘openness to novelty’ in address to extraordinary consistory
Reports from
inside the Vatican suggest growing unease among the cardinals after Pope Leo’s
two-day gathering opened with tightly controlled group sessions led by liberal
voices.
LifeSiteNews | Gaetano Masciullo | Thu Jan 8, 2026
VATICAN CITY— Pro-LGBT Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe delivered the opening
meditation at the consistory in Rome by urging 
cardinals to remain “in the boat of Peter” amid global crises and Church
divisions while suggesting “memory and openness to novelty must coexist in the
life of the Church.”
On the afternoon of January 7, Pope Leo XIV opened a two-day
extraordinary consistory at the Vatican, convening cardinals from around the
world to reflect on four major themes – the mission of the Church in today’s
world, synodality, the relationship between the Holy See and the particular
Churches, and the liturgy – though only the former two were selected for
detailed discussion, a decision that, according to off-the-record accounts
reported by the Italian blog Messainlatino, prompted discouragement and concern
among several participants.
“I am here to listen,” Pope Leo
XIV told the cardinals in his opening address, stressing that the meeting was
intended not to produce documents but “to continue a conversation that will
help me in serving the mission of the entire Church.”
According to the blog Messainlatino, multiple unnamed cardinals
described the first session as poorly prepared and structurally restrictive,
noting in particular that there were no free interventions scheduled for the
opening day. Discussions were conducted in small, pre-assigned working groups
based on language and curial affiliation, a format some participants reportedly
said did not resemble the traditional consistory model of the past.
The same source reported that, for reasons of time, the theme of the
liturgy was effectively excluded from substantive group discussion, despite
being listed among the four initial topics. Several cardinals allegedly
lamented what they perceived as a lack of interest in the Church understood as
“mystery,” and said that the overall approach appeared to be in continuity with
the synodal processes of recent years.
The opening meditation was delivered by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe,
O.P., a leftist prelate who has praised “gay sexuality” in blasphemous remarks,
celebrated “LGBT Masses,” supported admitting homosexuals to the priesthood,
and encouraged Catholics to watch homosexual movies and read homosexual novels.
In his reflection on the Gospel of Mark (6:45–52), Radcliffe urged the
cardinals to “remain in the boat of Peter” amid contemporary storms facing both
the world and the Church, including war, inequality, sexual abuse scandals, and
ideological divisions.
Radcliffe warned against remaining “on the shore” out of fear or
disagreement, arguing that unity and mutual charity among the cardinals were
essential to supporting the Pope. He stated that “memory and openness to
novelty must coexist in the life of the Church,” citing Evangelii
Gaudium and Saint Augustine to argue that Tradition and renewal are
inseparable.
Messainlatino also reports that upcoming sessions of the consistory are
expected to open with reflections by pro-LGBT Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça and Cardinal Luis Antonio
Tagle, both widely regarded as prominent liberal voices within the College of
Cardinals.
COMMENT: Cardinal Radcliffe is a notorious homosexual. Pope Leo in
selecting him as the spiritual director of the consistory is making an open
declaration that the spirit of the consistory is NOT the Holy Spirit. The
Mission of the Church was established by its founder, Jesus Christ. It was
established with a specific commission to "make disciples of all
nations." Synodality is a denial of the dogma of the universal
jurisdiction of the pope. The Church's relationship with non-Catholic churches
is established by God: "There is no salvation outside the Catholic
Church." It is the relationship is between those who can be saved and
those who are not. Finally, the liturgy is the work of God Who dogmatically
established at the Council of Trent: "Those that say that the received and
approved rites customarily used in the solemn administration of the sacraments
may be changed into other new rites... by any pastor of the churches
whomsoever: anathema sit.
Pope Leo
begins a new catechism series dedicated to Vatican II
Pope Leo on
Wednesday praised the ‘liturgical reform’ launched by Vatican II that laid the
groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass.
LifeSiteNews | Emily Mangiaracina | Jan 8, 2026
VATICAN CITY— Pope Leo XIV announced
Wednesday that he is beginning a catechesis series to “closely” study the
Second Vatican Council, which many priests and scholars have affirmed to be in
need of correction.
“We are beginning
a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh
reading of its Documents,” Leo wrote in an X post on January 7. “The Council’s
Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.”
“Closely studying the Council documents will help us to be attentive
interpreters of the signs of the times, and to proclaim the Gospel to all,” Leo
said Wednesday during his general audience.
In Leo’s strong
support for Vatican II, he aligns himself with Pope Francis, who described the
Council as “a visit of God to His Church,” and as “irreversible.”
The pope has not
given further details thus far on the forthcoming “catechesis” of Vatican II.
However, during his general audience on Wednesday, he highlighted aspects of
the Council that he highly esteems.
For example, Leo
praised the “liturgical reform” launched by Vatican II, which laid the
groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass. The Council
“set in motion an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the
mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the entire
People of God,” Leo said in his general audience.
Liturgist and author Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has pointed out that the
idea articulated in the Second Vatican Council’s Sacrosanctum Concilium that “In the restoration and promotion of
the sacred liturgy, this full and active participation by all the people is the
aim to be considered before all else” is backward.
“It cannot escape our notice that this text turns things on their
head,” Kwasniewski remarked in 2019. “Where Pius X had said that what should be
‘provided for before everything else’ is the ‘sanctity and dignity of the
temple,’ Vatican II says that ‘the aim to be considered before all else’ is
‘full and active participation by all the people.’ In doing so, it inverts the
hierarchy of goods. Now the worship of God and its right condition becomes
secondary to the people’s involvement.”
Pope Leo also on
Wednesday lauded Vatican II for being responsible for a Church committed to
“seeking the truth through the way of ecumenism, interreligious dialogue and
dialogue with people of good will,” as if the Church needs to seek truth
outside of Herself. The idea that the fullness of the truth is not found within
the Catholic Church is heretical.
Leo’s description of the Second Vatican Council during his general
audience and in his social media post as the “guiding star” of the Church’s
path suggests he sees this council as surpassing in importance every other
council of the Church, which is especially significant given that Vatican II
appeared to contradict previous magisterial councils in certain respects.
Prelates such as
Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò have pointed to
errors in the Second Vatican Council regarding religious freedom and other
religions, and in doing so have been supported by many priests and scholars.
For example,
Bishop Schneider has said Lumen Gentium
is “wrong” and errs by suggesting that Christians and Muslims participate
together in the same act of adoration when it states that “Muslims, who,
professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and
merciful God.”
It errs because Muslims worship on a natural level, at the same level
of anyone who adores God with the “natural light of reason,” whereas Christians
adore God on a supernatural level as His adopted children “in the truth of
Christ and in the Holy Spirit.”
“This is a substantial difference,” Schneider observed. He explained
that the use of the phrase “with us” represents a relativization of the act of
adoration of God and also of Christians’ “sonship.”
In addition, Muslims reject the Trinity, which they consider to be an
idolatrous idea. Christ made clear that “whoever rejects me rejects the one who
sent me” (Luke 10:16) and “no one comes to the Father except through me” (John
14:6).
Schneider criticized texts suggesting that Buddhists and Hindus can
attain illumination on their own, without “the grace of Christ,” as a heresy. Nostra Aetate claims that “in Hinduism,
men contemplate the divine mystery,” and that Buddhism “teaches a way by which
men, in a devout and confident spirit, may be able either to acquire the state
of perfect liberation, or attain, by their own efforts or through higher help,
supreme illumination.”
The German prelate has also criticized Dignitatis Humanae for putting forth “a theory never before taught
by the constant Magisterium of the Church, i.e., that man has the right founded
in his own nature, ‘not to be prevented from acting in religious matters
according to his own conscience, whether privately or publicly, whether alone
or in association with others, within due limits.’”
Archbishop Viganò agreed with Bishop Schneider in his criticism of the
Second Vatican Council, noting that Vatican II’s formulation of religious
freedom “contradict[s] the testimony of Sacred Scripture and the voice of
Tradition, as well as the Catholic Magisterium which is the faithful guardian
of both.”
It is also noteworthy that Vatican II’s Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, condones
“prayers in common” with our “separated brethren” in “certain special
circumstances, such as the prescribed prayers “for unity,” and during
ecumenical gatherings.”
However, the Councils of the Church have repeatedly made clear that
Catholics cannot pray with heretics or schismatics, let alone those of other
religious practices:
· “One must neither pray nor sing psalms with heretics, and whoever shall
communicate with those who are cut off from the communion of the Church,
whether clergy or layman: let him be excommunicated.” — Council of Carthage
· “No one shall pray in common with heretics and schismatics.” — Council
of Laodicea
· If any ecclesiastic or layman shall go into the synagogue of the Jews
or to the meeting houses of the heretics to join in prayer with them, let them
be deposed and deprived of communion. If any bishop or priest or deacon shall
join in prayer with heretics, let him be suspended from communion. — II Council
of Constantinople
COMMENT: Pope Leo is just another heretic embracing the
heresies of Vatican II, a pastoral council that has by every statistical
analysis has proven to be an utter pastoral failure. A pastoral approach to
pastoral problem is comparable to a business plan to the operation of the
business. Now is a business plan leads to financial ruin of a business the
board of directors will immediately fire the CEO, his staff and advisors, and
seek another with a different business plan. What can be said about the Novus Ordo
popes is that the "pastoral plan" they have adopted from Vatican II
is not a failure but rather a resounding success because the purpose of the
plan is to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ. What they are doing is what they
have always intended to do. The Church was established in Truth by Truth Itself
and does not "seek" truth from those who deny it.
In
2005 the Dover, PA electorate removed the School Board members that permitted
Intelligent Design to be considered in as a possible explanation for the
natural order found in the material universe. Scientists, while affirming that
the natural order in the universe must necessarily be the result of mechanical
chance, “listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals (from outer
space) that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random” for
evidence of intelligent life in the universe.
If these scientists affirm that the DNA code of biological life, which
is clearly goal directed, is “merely random” and not a sign of “intelligence”
how can they be open to recognize any sign of intelligible communication!? Is
this WSJ article evidence that there is no intelligence design in the Dover, PA
electorate or in modern science?
Science Increasingly Makes
the Case for God
The odds of life existing on another planet grow
ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?
Eric Metaxas:
Dec. 25, 2014
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.
Here’s the story: The same year Time featured the now-famous headline, the astronomer Carl Sagan announced that there were two important criteria for a planet to support life: The right kind of star, and a planet the right distance from that star. Given the roughly octillion—1 followed by 27 zeros—planets in the universe, there should have been about septillion—1 followed by 24 zeros—planets capable of supporting life.
With such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a large, expensive collection of private and publicly funded projects launched in the 1960s, was sure to turn up something soon. Scientists listened with a vast radio telescopic network for signals that resembled coded intelligence and were not merely random. But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. Congress defunded SETI in 1993, but the search continues with private funds. As of 2014, researches have discovered precisely bubkis—0 followed by nothing.
What happened? As our knowledge of the universe increased, it became clear that there were far more factors necessary for life than Sagan supposed. His two parameters grew to 10 and then 20 and then 50, and so the number of potentially life-supporting planets decreased accordingly. The number dropped to a few thousand planets and kept on plummeting.
Even SETI proponents acknowledged the problem. Peter Schenkel wrote in a 2006 piece for Skeptical Inquirer magazine: “In light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest . . . . We should quietly admit that the early estimates . . . may no longer be tenable.”
As factors continued to be discovered, the number of possible planets hit zero, and kept going. In other words, the odds turned against any planet in the universe supporting life, including this one. Probability said that even we shouldn’t be here.
Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life—every single one of which must be perfectly met, or the whole thing falls apart. Without a massive planet like Jupiter nearby, whose gravity will draw away asteroids, a thousand times as many would hit Earth’s surface. The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing.
Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?
There’s more. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all. For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces—gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the “strong” and “weak” nuclear forces—were determined less than one millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp.
Multiply that single parameter by all the other necessary conditions, and the odds against the universe existing are so heart-stoppingly astronomical that the notion that it all “just happened” defies common sense. It would be like tossing a coin and having it come up heads 10 quintillion times in a row. Really?
Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who coined the term “big bang,” said that his atheism was “greatly shaken” at these developments. He later wrote that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology…. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
Theoretical physicist Paul Davies has said that “the appearance of design is overwhelming” and Oxford professor Dr. John Lennox has said “the more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator . . . gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.”
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something—or Someone—beyond itself.
Mr. Metaxas is the author, most recently, of “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life” (Dutton Adult, 2014).
On this side the grave all
things pass away, but on the other side what will become of me? Quid futurum
post hæc? To this I give no thought; and to speak the truth this is the reason
why I am dominated by vanity, because I give so little thought to eternity.
King David was most humble of heart because he was filled with the dread of
eternity: "And I meditate in the night with my own heart: Will God then
cast off for ever" (Ps. 76, 7, 8). Whenever the world offers thee
honors, fame and pleasure, remember, my soul, to say within thyself: And then?
And then? "Remember what things have been before thee" (Ecclus 41,
5).
Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo, Humility of Heart
Rather
than sell churches just board them up until God sends us holy priests!
Church without
priest for 48 years reestablished
It was on July 2, 1837, that
Father Peter Julian Eymard was named pastor at Monteynard – a parish of some
four hundred and fifty souls, situated at a short distance north of La
Mure. Since the Revolution (1789), this
parish had been without a pastor. Its
condition, as may easily be imagined, was one of spiritual destitution. Everything had to be reorganized; in a
certain sense, it meant establishing a new parish. Father Eymard did not lose courage. In order to awaken the dormant faith of his
people, he began by restoring the splendor of the liturgical worship. The
disinterestedness of his requests opened both their hearts and their purses, so
that generous donations soon enabled him to carry out the most urgent repairs
on the church. The pastor’s zeal could
not fail to strike a responsive chord in the souls of his parishioners. His angelic piety, his demeanor in church,
his long watches before the Tabernacle, his recollected bearing in the
performance of the sacred functions won for him, first respect, then esteem and
veneration. Their enthusiasm knew no
bounds when they noticed their pastor’s poor and self-sacrificing life.
Rev. Albert Tesniere, S.S.S.,
St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Priest of
the Eucharist
A
fair question! - WAS Pope Francis a life-time member of the homosexual
lobby?
“I remember the case of a very sad little girl who finally confided to
her teacher the reason for her state of mind: ‘my mother’s (female) fiancé
doesn’t like me.’ The percentage of children studying in schools who have
separated parents is very high. The situation in which we live now provides us
with new challenges which sometimes are difficult for us to understand. How can
we proclaim Christ to these boys and girls? How can we proclaim Christ to a
generation that is changing? We must be careful not to administer a vaccine
against faith to them.”
Pope Francis, address to Superiors-General of Religious Orders, Civiltà Cattolica
N.B.: The English translation says "mother's fiancé" leaving
out the of word the gender which is incorrect. The original Italian text
quoting the words of the Pope said that the “little girl” is “sad” because her
mother’s “fidanzata” did not like her — fidanzata, that is, her “fiancée” (a
woman engaged to be married), not “fiancé” (a man engaged to be married), as
translated.
For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils; but the Lord made the
heavens. Ps. 44
Pope
Francis denigrated traditional Catholics as schismatics and regarded those who
keep the immemorial ecclesiastical customs of our Faith as
"neo-Pelegians." If the
members of Ss. Peter & Paul were really "schismatics" or
"Pelegian heretics," we would then have their "respect" for
us, and "respect (for our) religion, its teachings, its symbols, its
values.... (for our) religious leaders and (our) places of worship." The immemorial ecclesiastical traditions they
mock are the work of God. Those that they "respect" are not.
....Turning to mutual respect in
interreligious relations, especially between Christians and Muslims, we are
called to respect the religion of the other, its teachings, its symbols, its
values. Particular respect is due to religious leaders and to places of
worship. How painful are attacks on one or other of these!
It is clear that, when we show respect
for the religion of our neighbours or when we offer them our good wishes on the
occasion of a religious celebration, we simply seek to share their joy, without
making reference to the content of their religious convictions.
Regarding the education of Muslim and
Christian youth, we have to bring up our young people to think and speak
respectfully of other religions and their followers, and to avoid ridiculing or
denigrating their convictions and practices.
We all know that mutual respect is
fundamental in any human relationship, especially among people who profess
religious belief. In this way, sincere and lasting friendship can grow.....
Pope Francis, greeting to
Mohammedans at the end of Ramadan
Instead of returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in
the Temple, causing great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find
him. For this little “escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his
parents. The Gospel doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume
it.
Pope Francis, babbling another stupid “presumption” on which his faith
is established
Just
what is this comment intended to mean?
Francis:
Same-sex couples pose new educational challenges
The Pope
mentioned this in his speech to Superiors-General of religious orders. We must
be careful not to “administer a vaccine against faith” to children of same-sex
couples. Vatican Insider staff : Rome
01/ 4/2014
From an educational point of
view, same-sex unions “provide us with new challenges which sometimes are difficult
for us to understand,” (Pope) Francis said in the speech he gave to superiors
general 29 November, published by Italian Jesuit journal, La Civiltà Cattolica. We must be careful not to administer a
vaccine against faith to the children of same-sax couples.
Readers
Digest Version of an Encyclopedic Discourse
Pope
Francis confessed grave doubts about his own "Hypocritical" religious
formation. He admited to getting the
"Creeps." Directed Religious Superiors to end the “Novice Business”
and "Caress Conflicts" with "Tenderness." Confessed that religious orders have been
producing "Heartless... Little Monsters" over last fifty years that
have been "Forming the People of God" into "Little
Monsters" populating an "Unfeeling World" largely overseen by his
great predecessors, Benedict XVI-Ratzinger and John Paul II. Identifies "Fundamentalism" with
anti-neomodernism. And so on, and so on,
and so on, and so on.....
Pope Francis said, “You have to form the heart, or we will make little
monsters. And then, these little monsters form the people of God. That gives me
the creeps.” Among other topics covered, the Jesuit magazine Civiltà Cattolica writes: “the
complexity of life between grace and sin, the Prophetic being in our world; the
brotherhood, the indictment of the novice trade; hypocrisy and fundamentalism;
praise for Pope Benedict XVI's fight against (sic) child sexual abuse by clergy
and the importance of charisms and the pressing challenges; the relationship
between the religious and the bishops, the need of tenderness 'to caress conflicts,' and a 'jolt to awaken
our unfeeling world.'”
Pope Francis, Address to Superiors-General of Religious Orders, Civiltà Cattolica, November 29, 2013
"As Time
Goes By":
"John Paul II for Dummies," by Dummies: And where is the picture of the Moslem
kissing the “commemorative coin”?
Or,
what would JP II have done if they handed him a toilet plunger?
Question for the Dummies: Why
did JP II, who kisses the Sacred Scripture, kiss the Koran that contains
blasphemies against Jesus Christ and His blessed Mother?
“The answer is simple: Same
lips, different reason. The pope had
been advised that in the Near Eastern culture, when a gift is received, it is
normally kissed as a sign of respect to the gift’s giver. The pope would have kissed whatever gift was
given to him, whether it was the Koran or commemorative coins which is actually
what the pope gives to visiting guests.”
Rev. John Trigilio, Phd, ThD,
Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, PhD, & Rev. Jonathan Toborowsky, MA, John Paul II for Dummies
After
all, even Clerical Pedophiles need a patron saint!
JP II , who the Dummies call,
“the people’s pope,” know very well that his duty is to be the “vicar of
Christ,” and not a popular cult figure, presided over the greatest decline over
the shortest period of time in the history of the Catholic Church. Now there is mounting evidence that he may
have actively participated in the cover-up of homosexual predator priests and
the homosexual bishops he appointed, yet these Dummies “firmly believe and
trust [that JP II] will one day be proclaimed John Paul the Great and Doctor of
the Church, the Luminous Doctor, just as St. Thomas Aquinas was known as the
Angelic Doctor and St. Bonaventure as the Seraphic Doctor.”
JP II the 'Grate' - if somehow he made
it to Purgatory - ask him to turn out
the lights and lock the place up when he is the last to leave.
John Paul II was a pope under
whose reign we had the most horrific scandal in the Church's 2000-year
history. Thousands of children were
molested by priests and bishops he ordained.
By the end of his pontificate, lawsuits were bankrupting Catholic
Churches all over the world; and between one third and one half of the clergy
(sources available upon request) were admittedly homosexual, with a significant
percentage being pederasts whom the pope didn't even admit existed when he was
told of their crimes, much less did anything to stop them, even when stark
evidence was brought before him, as in the case of Legionnaires leader Marciel
Maciel. At the same time he hid other
clerics from prosecution, as in the case of Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.
This was the pope who allowed
the Vatican Bank's corruption that started under Paul VI to continue with
little or no reform; and who protected its chief perpetrator, Bishop Paul
Marcinkus, from prosecution. He did
nothing to investigate the suspected murder of John Paul I, the very pope who
made it known in the first days of his reign that he was going to clean up the
financial misdealings of his curia. This
was the pope who took 250 million dollars of the Vatican's money and gave it to
Solidarity in Poland, thereby making the Church a political institution instead
of a spiritual one. By the same token he
condemned Liberation theology because if its tendency to get involved in
politics.
This was the pope who went to
the hut of an African witch doctor in 1985 and afterward wrote, "the
prayer meeting in the sanctuary at Lake Togo was particularly striking. There I prayed for the first time with
animists." In December 1984 he sent
a
Vatican representative to the laying of the foundation of the largest
mosque in Europe. In September 1989 he
wrote to Muslim leaders and said: "In the name of the same God we
adore," without any qualifications whatsoever. In May 1999 he kissed the Koran in a public
ceremony; and in 2000 asked John the Baptist "to protect Islam." In February 1986 he received the red dust of
the Hindu religion on his forehead in honor of the goddess Shiva. In March 1986 in New Delhi he stated that
"collaboration between all religions is necessary for the good of
mankind... as Hindus, Buddhists, Jainists, and Christians, we unite to proclaim
the truth about man."
This was the pope who invited
all the world's non-Christian and pagan religions to pray for world peace at
Assisi in 1986 and Assisi in 2002 (with five additional Assisi-like gatherings
in the 1990s in various countries) and never once in those 16 years did he
preach the Gospel to them about conversion to Christ for salvation. Instead he sent them all back to their
countries encouraging them to continue to pray to their false gods, the very
opposite that St. Paul did in Acts 17.
He paid no attention to any of his high-placed clerical advisors who
told him these acts were abominations.
This was the pope who, against
two millennia of Catholic tradition, told husbands to be mutually submissive to
women; dispensed with head coverings for women; and allowed women and girls to
be communion ministers, altar girls, and directors of chanceries, thereby
increasing the feminization of the Church amidst an already feminized clergy
who were by this time at least a third homosexual, while another significant
portion were receiving paternity suits.
This was the pope who profusely
apologized for the ecclesiastical policies of previous popes; who had his
Vatican envoy sign the 1998 Lutheran/Catholic Joint declaration which, in
direct contradiction to the Council of Trent, said "man is justified by
faith alone." This was the pope who
told the Lutherans they had a "profound religiousness and spiritual
heritage" and that Martin Luther was driven by a "burning passion of
the question of eternal salvation," and who told the Lutheran bishops that
Rome's excommunication of Luther had expired, and that "There is a need
for a new evaluation of the questions raised by Luther and his
teaching." This was the pope who
implied or taught universal salvation and that hell may not be applicable to
any human being. This was the pope who at
the very beginning of his pontificate in the 1979 encyclical Redemptor Hominis used the word
"church" 150 times but never once mentioned the word
"Catholic." This was the pope
who continually sided with liberals like Karl Rahner, Urs von Balthasar and Raymond
Brown but who would hardly give an ear to those, such as Archbishop Lefebvre,
who wanted to preserve the tradition and who decried the anti-Catholic
innovations being foisted on the Catholic populace. (Fortunately, Pope Benedict XVI saw John Paul
II's mistake and reversed the decision against Lefebvre). This was the pope who was criticized by his
own admirers for failing to discipline wayward clerics, both in their doctrinal
aberrations and moral laxity (Charles Curran, Edward Schillebeeckx, Hans Kung,
et al). Ironically, the only cleric that
was excommunicated was Lefebvre, yet he was one of the most doctrinally sound
and morally upright clerics the Church had ever known.
This was the pope who in 1981,
contrary to tradition, implied or taught that the Jewish Old Covenant is not
revoked and that Jews have a special relationship with God, as does Paragraph
121 of his papally-signed 1994 Catechism.
He continued to propagate confusing and doctrinally fallacious teaching
about the Jews and Judaism through his cardinals who taught that the Jews did
not need to convert to Christianity to be saved since they have their own
covenant with God (Kasper, Keeler, Willebrands, George, Ratzinger, et al). This was the first pope in history to visit
Israel and who then placed himself under Judaism by praying at the Jerusalem's
Wailing Wall. This was the pope who, for
the first time in the history of the papacy, visited and prayed in Jewish
synagogues - the religion that denies more than any other that Jesus Christ is
God.
Last but not least, this was the
pope who changed the Church's criterion for sainthood, which now allows him and
all his fellow 20th century popes to be easily canonized in the face of the
fact that there have been only three popes canonized since 1294 (Pius X, d.
1914; Pius V, d. 1572; Celestine V, d. 1294).
As such, the very popes who lived and reigned during the Church's worst
corruptions and scandals are now being exonerated and place in heaven.
Robert Sungenis, Ph.D., Letter to Editor, Culture Wars Magazine
Remedial
Catechism 101: Pope Francis identified a "Pagan" as a Christian
"who doesn't want to serve."
It is an ugly thing when you see a Christian who doesn’t want to humble
himself, who doesn’t want to serve, a Christian who struts about everywhere:
it’s ugly, eh? That is not a Christian: that’s a pagan!
Pope Francis, General Audience, Vatican Radio, 12-18-13
Was
Pope Francis a member of the Church that he governed?
From this definition it can be
easily gathered what men belong to the Church and what men do not. For there
are three parts of this definition: the profession of the true Faith, the
communion of the Sacraments, and the subjection to the legitimate Pastor, the
Roman Pontiff.
By reason of the first part are excluded all infidels, as much those who have
never been in the Church, like the Jews, Turks and Pagans; as those who have
been and have fallen away, like heretics and apostates.
By reason of the second, are excluded catechumens and excommunicates, because
the former are not to be admitted to the communion of the sacraments, the
latter have been cut off from it.
By reason of the third, are excluded schismatics, who have faith and the
sacraments, but are not subject to the lawful pastor, and therefore they
profess the Faith outside, and receive the Sacraments outside. However, all
others are included, even if they be reprobate, sinful and wicked.
St. Robert Bellarmine
Every
persecution that Catholics suffer under can be attributed, not to the strength
of our enemies, but to the tepidity and coldness of Catholics to the graces
offered by our Lord!
In 1681 the Turks threatened to
overrun Europe. Pope Innocent XI. had recourse to prayer, and so as to secure
the intercession of all the Faithful, he published a Jubilee, giving special
privileges to all who prayed that the power of the Turks might be checked. The
Holy Father was not deceived in his hope. The Ottoman army was completely
overthrown before the walls of Vienna. John Sobieski gained a magnificent victory
and gladly referred his success to the prayers that had been offered. Whilst
the Te Deum was being sung in the
Cathedral of Vienna, he lay prostrate on the ground, in thanksgiving for the
marvelous victory.
Sister Margaret Mary prayed most fervently during this Jubilee, and
Our Lord taught her the spirit in which she should plead for the great object
put before all Catholics by the Pope. He appeared to her as a Judge, and told
her that His justice was irritated, not so much on account of the Infidels, but
because of His chosen people, who had revolted against Him and made use of
their easy access to Him to persecute Him. “If they do not amend”, He said, “I
will make them feel the weight of My avenging justice.” Just at this moment the
bell rang for Matins, Sister Margaret Mary rose to go, but the vision did not
cease, and Jesus continued to speak to her. “Weep and sigh continually that My
Blood should be shed unprofitably for so many souls, who abuse it greatly in
these Indulgences. They are satisfied with cutting down the bad weeds that grow
in their hearts without ever trying to root them up. But woe to those souls who
remain uncleansed and insensible in the midst of these living waters; they will
never be either washed from their stains or find their thirst quenched.” Sister
Margaret Mary knew that Our Lord was Himself thirsting for these souls; she
therefore addressed herself to His Sacred Heart: “Place all these souls herein,
my Lord, so that they may be sanctified and glorify Thee eternally. “Yes,” replied
Our Lord, “I will do so, if thou wilt answer for their perfect amendment.”
“Thou knowest well, O my God,” she rejoined, “that this is not in my power
unless Thou Thyself enable me by the efficacious merit of Thy Passion.”
Then Our Lord taught her to ask for three things specially in time
of Jubilee. First, to offer to the Eternal Father the superabundant
satisfaction He had made to the Divine Justice for sinners upon the cross, and
to beg of Him to apply the merits of His Precious Blood to all souls in mortal
sin, that they might be raised to a life of grace, and glorify God eternally.
Secondly, to offer to Him the burning love of His Sacred Heart in satisfaction
for the tepidity and cowardice of His chosen people, and to beg of Him, by the
ardent love which made Him suffer death, to rekindle the fire of His love in
those tepid hearts, so that they might love and glorify Him eternally. Thirdly,
to offer the submission of His Will to His Eternal Father, and to beg of Him,
through the merits of His Son, that He would complete and perfect His graces
and consummate the accomplishment of His Will.
Sister Mary Philip, Visitation
nun of the Bar Convent, York, Life of
Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque
Remember in your charity:
Remember the welfare of our expectant mother: Vanessa LoStrocco, Elizabeth Allen, and
Maria Castillo Gonzalez,
Mary Lou Loftus' aunt, Susan Hendricks, who is gravely ill after emergency surgery,
Fred Holder,
for his
spiritual and physical welfare,
Thomas Soul,
a
nursing home patient who has suffered a stroke,
Donna Kallal, a dear friend of the
Schiltz family who is dying,
Philip Thees requests our prayers for the heath of Mary Glatz and Lenny and Agnus Messineo,
For the welfare of Aaron, a York resident in need of conversion,
For the spiritual welfare of Margaret Connelly is the petition of Camilla Meiser,
Linda Boyd, for her health,
Pete
Schiffbauer, a cousin of Monic Bandlow who is gravely ill,
Joan R.
Barr,
the widow of F. Donald Barr who died March 7, they were married 70 years
Cole
Schneider, prayers for his welfare are requested by Camilla Meiser,
JoAnn
Niekrewicz,
for her recovery from a recent fall and shoulder injury,
The Drews ask prayers for the spiritual and physical
welfare of Robert Carballo,
Conversion of Jack
Gentry, the nephew of Camilla Meiser,
For Sr.
Maria Junipera, who took her final vows as a nun with the Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, New Hampshire April 8,
Stephen
Bryan,
the brother of a devout Catholic religious, for his spiritual welfare,
Marie
Kolinsky,
for her health and spiritual welfare is the petition of her family,
Gene Peters requests our prayers for the conversion
of Shirley Young and Carl Loy who are dying, and the
conversion of Dawn Keithley,
Rev. Leo Carley, an eighty-nine year old
priest faithful to Catholic tradition, who is seriously ill,
For the recovery of Hayden Yanchek, the grandson of Francis Yanchek, injured in
a farming accident,
Maureen
Nies, for
the recovery of her health is the petition of Camilla Meiser,
Daniel
Vargs, for
his health is the petition of his parents,
Art Noel, for the restoration of his
health,
For the welfare of Peg Berry and her husband, Bill,
Marianne Connelly asks prayers for Chris Foley, who is gravely ill,
and the welfare of his wife, Mary Beth,
The spiritual welfare of the Sal & Maria Messineo family is the petition of the
Drew’s,
Liz Agosta, who is seriously ill, for her
spiritual and temporal welfare,
Warren
Hoffman, a
long time member of our Mission who is in failing health,
Patrick Boyle, for the recovery of his
health and his spiritual welfare,
For the spiritual welfare of the Drew children,
Monica Bandlow request our prayers for the welfare of
Ray who is recovering from a
MVA, and his daughter, Sonya,
and Tera Jean Kopczynski, who
is in failing health, and for a good death for Mr. Howald, Kathy
Simons, Regina Quinn, James Mulgrew, Ruth Beaucheane, John Kopczynski, Roger
& Mandy Owen
The health and spiritual welfare of Nate Schaeffer is the petition
of Gene Peters,
Peg Berry requests our prayers for her brother, William Habekost,
For the recently widowed, Maike Hickson, and her children,
For the spiritual welfare of the Carmelite nuns in Fairfield, PA,
Geralyn
Zagorski, recovery of her health and spiritual welfare and
the conversion of Randal Pace is the petition of Philip Thees,
For the grandson of
Joe & Liz Agusta,
Fr. Waters requests our
prayers for the health and spiritual welfare of Elvira Donaghy,
For the health and
conversion of Stephen Henderson,
Fr. Paul DaDamio requests
our prayers for the welfare of Rob Ward, and his sister, Debra
Wagaman,
For the health and
spiritual welfare of Peggy Cummings, the neice of Camila Meiser,
who is gravely ill,
Kaitlyn McDonald, for the recovery of her health and spiritual
welfare,
Roco Sbardella, for his health and spiritual
welfare,
The Vargas’ request our prayers for the spiritual
welfare of their son, Nicholas,
Family, for the welfare of Lazarus Handley, his mother, Julia, and his brother, Raphael, with Down’s Syndrome,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for the spiritual and
physical welfare of Frank McKee,
Nancy
Bennett, for the recovery of her
health,
For the spiritual welfare of Mark Roberts, a Catholic faithful to tradition,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Scott Nettles (who is in need of
conversion), who is gravely ill,
Michael Brigg requests our prayers for the health of John Romeo,
The health and welfare of Gene Peters and his sons,
Conversion of Anton
Schwartzmueller, is the paryer request of his children,
Christine
Kozin, for
her health and spiritual welfare,
Teresa
Gonyea,
for her conversion and health, is the petition of her grandmother, Patricia
McLaughlin,
For the health of Sonya Kolinsky,
Jackie Dougherty asks our prayers for her brother, John Lee, who is gravely ill,
For the health and spiritual welfare, Meg Bradley, the granddaughter
of Rose Bradley,
Timothy
& Crisara, a couple from Maryland have requested our prayers for their spiritual
welfare,
Celine
Pilegaard, the seven year old daughter of Cynthia Pilegaard, for her recovery from
burn injuries,
Rafaela de
Saravia, for
her health and welfare,
Mary Mufide,
requests our prayers for her family,
Abbe Damien
Dutertre,
traditional Catholic priest arrested by Montreal police while offering Mass,
Francis
(Frank) X. McLaughlin, for the recovery of his
health,
Nicholas
Pell,
for his health and spiritual welfare is the petition of Camilla Meizer,
Mary Kaye
Petr,
her health and welfare is petitioned by Camilla Meizer,
The welfare of Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,
The welfare of Rev.
Fr. Martin Skierka, who produces the traditional Ordo in the U.S.,
For the health and welfare of Katie Wess, John Gentry, Vincent Bands, Todd Chairs, Susan Healy and
James O’Gentry is the petition of Camilia,
Marieann
Reuter, recovery of her health, Kathy Kepner, for her health, Shane Cox, for his health,
requests of Philip Thees,
The Joseph
Cox Family, their spiritual welfare,
Luis Rafael
Zelaya,
the brother of Claudia Drew, spiritual welfare,
For the health of Kim Cochran, the daughter-in-law of Joseph and Brenda
Cochran, the wife of their son Joshua,
Louie
Verrecchio,
Catholic apologist, who has a health problem,
John
Minidis, Jr. family, for help in their spiritual
trial,
Joann
DeMarco, for her health and spiritual
welfare,
Regina
(Manidis) Miller, her spiritual welfare and health,
Melissa
Elena Levitt, her conversion, and welfare of her children,
For the grace of a holy death, Nancy Marie Claycomb,
Conversion of Annette
Murowski, and her son Jimmy,
Brent Keith from Indiana has petitioned our prayers
for the Keith Family,
The welfare of the Schmedes Family, and the Mike and Mariana Donohue Family,
The spiritual welfare Robert Holmes Family,
For the spiritual and temporal welfare of Irwin Kwiat,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for Elvira Donaghy,
Kimberly Ann, the daughter of John and
Joann DeMarco, for her health and spiritual welfare,
Mufide Rende, a traditional Catholic from
India has asked our prayers for her welfare and he family members, living and
deceased,
Mary Glatz, her health and the welfare
of her family,
Barbara
Harmon,
who is ill, and still cares for her
ailing parents,
Jason Green, a father of ten children,
recovery of his health,
For the health and welfare of Sorace family,
Fr. Waters asks our prayers for the health and
spiritual welfare of Brian Abramowitz,
Thomas
Schiltz family, in grateful appreciation for their contribution to the beauty of our
chapel,
Welfare of Bishop
Richard Williamson, for strength and courage in the greater battles to
come,
John Rhoad, for his health and
spiritual welfare,
Kathy Boyle, requests our prayers for
her welfare,
Joyce
Laughman and Robert Twist, for their conversions,
Michael J.
Brigg & his family, who have helped with the needs of the Mission,
Nancy Deegan, her welfare and conversion
to the Catholic Church,
Francis Paul
Diaz,
who was baptized at Ss. Peter & Paul, asks our prayers for his spiritual
welfare,
The conversion of Rene McFarland, Lori Kerr, Cary Shipman
and family, David Bash, Crystal and family, Larry Reinhart, Costanzo Family,
Kathy Scullen, Marilyn Bryant, Vicki Trahern and Time Roe are
the petitions of Gene Peters,
For the conversion of Ben & Tina Boettcher family, Karin Fraessdorf, Eckhard Ebert,
and Fahnauer family,
Fr. Waters requests our prayers for Br. Rene, SSPX who has been ill,
and for Fr. Thomas Blute,
For the health and conversion of Kathryn Lederhos, the aunt of David Drew,
For the welfare of Fr. Paul DaDamio and Fr. William T. Welsh,
The Drew’s ask our prayers for the welfare of Joe & Tracey Sentmanat family, Keith
& Robert Drew, Christy Koziol & her children, Fred Nesbit and Michael
Nesbit families, and Gene Peters Family,
the John Manidis Family, the Sal Messinio Family, Michael Proctor Family,
Ryan Boyle grandmother, Jane Boyle, who is failing health,
Mel Gibson
and his family, please remember in our prayers,
Rev. Timothy A. Hopkins requested our prayers for the
welfare of his Fr Jean-Luc Lafitte,
Ebert’s request our prayers for the Andreas & Jenna Ortner Family,
Joyce Paglia has asked prayers for George Richard Moore Sr. & his
children, and her brother, George
Panell,
Philip Thees asks our prayers for his family, for McLaughlin Family, the welfare
of Dan & Polly Weand, the
conversion of Sophia Herman,
Tony Rosky, the welfare Nancy Erdeck, the wife of
the late Deacon Erdeck, John Calasanctis, Tony Rosky, James Parvenski, Kathleen Gorry, health of mind and body of Cathy Farrar.
Pray for the
Repose of the Souls:
James
Condit, Jr., traditional Catholic activist, died December 27,
Beverly
Harmon, died
December 16, requested by the Sentmanat family,
Rev.
Nicholas DeProspero, a faithful Ruthenian Eastern rite Catholic priest, died December 10,
Monica Bandlow petitions our prayers for her friend, Patricia Messineo, died November
28,
Guy
Berthault,
died November 23, a great Catholic scientist whose work in sedimentology
destrooyed Lyellian geology and the theory of evolution,
Thomas Soul,
died
November 8 after receiving the last rites of the Church,
Etta Van Der
Werken, a
dear friend of Barbara Taffe, died 10-21-2025,
Gary Potter, Catholic writer and
apologist and great long time defender of Catholic doctrine and tradition, died
9-9-2025,
Elizabeth
Gorska,
who died September 9, a relative of Lidia Gjec,
Camilia Meiser request our prayers for the souls of Peggy Cummings and Elizabeth Genter,
Thomas A.
Nelson, founder of TAN Books and
Publishers, died August 16,
Juan D.
Gonzalez,
our former sacristan, choir director, and dear friend, died July 23,
Sal Messineo, a faithful traditional
Catholic, died Augsut 14,
Patricia
Askew, a
friend of Camilla Meiser, died July 3,
Joseph
Kerney, a
young man whose family provided the statues of the Sacred Heart, Mary and
Joseph in our sanctuary, died May 30,
Louis
Richard Ajlouny, the father of Randa Sharpe, died May 15,
Rene Guidicessi, died April 25, an old
friend of the Drews,
F. Donald
Barr, died
March 7 at 94 years of age, co-founder of Robert Francis Religious Goods, in
Philadelphia,
Dr. David
Allen White, a well known defender of the Catholic faith, died February 11,
Bishop
Richard Williamson, a renowned defender of the Catholic faith and most charitable gentleman,
died January 29,
Rodolfo
Alberto Lacayo, a cousin of Claudia Drew, died January 4,
Genieve
Wallace, died
Christmas day,
Ruth Marion
Beaucheane, died December 8, is the
petition of Monica Bandlow,
Ana Maria Salcedo, the sister of Mario Fiol, died November 26,
Fr. Johin Cardaro, a
traditional Catholic priest who was found dead in his home November 2,
Robert Carballo asks that we
remember his parents, Roberto & Aida Carballo, and his friend, David
Duclos, who died April 15,
Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais who may have been responsible for preventing the SSPX's public reconciliation with Rome in 2012, died October 8,
Lorna
Edwards, our
dear friend and loyal supporter of this Mission, died August 10,
Lois Petti, died July 28 two hours after
receiving the Last Sacraments from Fr. Waters,
Wolfgang
Smith, a
renowned Catholic scholar, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, who helped
the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, died July 19,
Willaim
Glatz, a
good and faithful Catholic, died July 17,
Alicio
Gonzalez, a
Catholic who asked for the sacrament of Extreme Unction, unfortunately did not
receive, died July 9,
John Zavodny,
a faithful Catholic who died wearing the
scapular of Mt Carmel on the first Saturday of May, requested by Phyllis Virgil,
Catherine
Martel, a lapsed Catholic, received
the last sacraments in a good disposition from Fr. Waters on March 25 and died
on April 4,
Father
Basilio Méramo, a faithful priest, died March 5, removed from the SSPX for opposing
their accommodation with Rome,
Julia
McDonald,
the mother of Kyle McDonald, died March 1,
Agnus
Melnick,
died February 28, a long time faithful Catholic and mother of eight children,
including a traditional priest,
Kathryn
(Drew) Lederhos, of Wellesley, MA, died
February 3, 2024,
Chris Foley, the
brother of Mary Lou Loftus, died February 1,
Louis Zelaya, the brother of Claudia
Drew, died January 30,
Fr. James
Louis Albert Campbell, a faithful priest who died December 18 at 91 years of age, and her
mother and father, Teresa and Thomas
Maher,
Charles
Harmon,
the father of Tracey Sentmanet, died October 1, after receiving the rites of
the Church,
Fr. Waters requests prayers for Elvira Donaghy, his friend and former secretary a for Bishop
Gerado Zendejas, died September 9,
Robert
Hickson,
a faithful Catholic apologist who died Septembber 2,
Monica Bandlow requests prayers for her parents, Thomas & Teresa Maher, her
husband, William Bandlow, her
brother-in-law, Richard Bandlow,
her sister, Mary Maher, Fr. Christopher Darby, SSPX, who died March 17, Robert Byrne, Michelle Donofrio McDowell, her cousin, Patricia Fabyanic, the Prefect of
Our Lady’s Sodality, March 8, for
John Pfeiffer who died August 20, Theresa
Hanley, died July 23, Fr.
Juan-Carlos Iscara, SSPX, who died December 20, John Kinney, died December 21, Willaim Price, Jr., and Robert Arch Ward, died January 10,
and Myra, killed in a MVA
June 6,
John Sharpe,
Sr.,
died July 20,
Maria
Paulette Salazar, died June 6,
Dale Kinsey requests prayers for his wife, Katherine Kinsey, died May 17,
Richard
Giles,
who died April 29, the father of Traci Sentmanat who converted to the Catholic
faith last All Saints' Day,
Joseph
Sparks,
a devout and faithful Catholic to tradition died February 25,
Joyce Paglia, died
January 21, and Anthony Paglia,
died January 28, who were responsible for the beautiful statuary in our chapel,
Joe Sentmanet request prayers for Richard Giles and Claude Harmon who converted to
the Catholic faith shortly before their deaths,
Rodolfo
Zelaya, the brother of Claudia Drew,
died January 9,
Elizabeth Agosta petitions our prayers for Joseph Napolitano, her brother,
who died January 2,
Michael
Dulisse,
died on December 26,
Michael
Proctor, a close friend of the Drews,
died November 9,
Richard
Anthony Giles, the father-in-law of Joe Sentmanat converted to the Catholic faith on
All Saints Day, died November 5,
Robert
Kolinsky,
the husband of Sonja, died September 18,
Gabriel
Schiltz,
the daughter of Thomas & Gay Schiltz, died August 21,
Mary Dimmel, the
mother –in-law of Victoria Drew Dimmel, died July 18,
Michael
Nesbit,
the brother-in-law and dear friend of the Drew's, died July 14,
Thomas
Thees, the brother of Philip, died
June 19,
Carmen Ragonese,
died June 22,
Juanita
Mohler, a friend of Camella Meiser,
died June 14,
Kathleen
Elias, died February 14,
Hernan Ortiz, the
brother of Fr. Juan Carlos Ortiz, died February 3,
Mary Ann
Boyle,
the mother of a second order Dominican nun, a first order Dominican priest, and
a SSPX priest, died January 24,
John DeMarco, who
attended this Mission in the past, died January23,
Charles
O’Brien, the father of Marlene Cox,
died December 30,
Mufide Rende requests our prayers for the repose of
the souls of her parents, Mehmet
& Nedime,
Kathleen
Donelly,
died December 29 at 91 years of age, ran the CorMariae website,
Matthew
O'Hare,
most faithful Catholic, died at age 40 on November 30,
Rev. Patrick
J. Perez, a Catholic priest faithful to
tradition, pastor Our Lady Help of Christians, Garden Grove, CA, November 19,
Elizabeth
Benedek,
died December 14, requested by her niece, Agnes Vollkommer,
Dolores
Smith and Richard Costello, faithful Catholics, died
November,
Frank
D’Agustino,
a friend of Philp Thees, died November 8,
Fr.
Dominique Bourmaud, of the SSPX, Prior of St.
Vincent in Kansas City, died September 4,
Pablo Daniel
Silva, the brother of Elizabeth
Vargas, died August 18,
Rose Bradley, a
member of Ss. Peter & Paul, died July 14,
Patricia
Ellias, died June 1, recently
returned to the Church died with the sacraments and wearing the brown scapular,
Joan Devlin, the sister-in-law of Rose
Bradley, died May 18,
William
Muligan, died April 29, two days after
receiving the last sacraments,
Robert Petti, died
March 19, the day after receiving the last sacraments,
Mark
McDonald, the father of Kyle, who died
December 26,
Perla Otero, died December 2020, Leyla Otero, January 2021,
cousins of Claudia Drew,
Mehmet Rende, died
December 12, who was the father of Mary Mufide,
Joseph
Gravish, died November 26, 100 year
old WWII veteran and daily communicant,
Jerome
McAdams,
the father of, died November 30,
Rev. James
O’Hara, died November 8, requested by
Alex Estrada,
Elizabeth
Batko, the sacristan at St. John the
Baptist in Pottstown for over 40 years, died on First Saturday November 7
wearing the brown scapular,
William Cox, the
father of Joseph Cox, who died September 3,
James Larson, Catholic
apologists, author of War Against Being
publication, died July 6, 2020,
Hutton
Gibson, died May 12,
Sr. Regina
Cordis,
Immaculate Heart of Mary religious for sixty-five years, died May 12,
Leslie Joan
Matatics, devoted Catholic wife and
mother of nine children, died March 24,
Victoria
Zelaya, the sister-in-law of Claudia
Drew, died March 20,
Ricardo
DeSilva,
died November 16, our prayers requested by his brother, Henry DeSilva,
Rev. Fr. Joseph
F. Collins,
died April 27, 2019 to whom we are indebted for establishing our traditional
pre-Bugnini Holy Week in all its beauty,
Roland H.
Allard,
a friend of the Drew’s, died September 28,
Stephen
Cagorski
and John Bogda, who
both died wearing the brown
scapular,
Cecilia
LeBow, a most faithful Catholic,
Rose Cuono, died Oct 23,
Patrick
Rowen,
died March 25, and his brother, Daniel
Rowen, died May 15,
Sandra
Peters, the
wife of Gene Peters, who died June 10 receiving the sacraments and wearing our Lady’s
scapular,
Rev. Francis
Slupski, a
priest who kept the Catholic faith and its immemorial traditions, died May 14,
Martha
Mochan, the
sister of Philip Thees, died April 8,
George
Kirsch,
our good friend and supporter of this Mission, died February 15,
For Fr.
Paul J. Theisz, died October 17, is the petition of Fr. Waters,
Fr. Mecurio
Fregapane,
died Jan 12, was not a traditional priest but always charitable,
Fr. Casimir
Peterson,
a priest who often offered the Mass in our chapel and provided us with sound
advice, died December 4,
Fr.
Constantine Bellasarius, a faithful and always
charitable Eastern Rite Catholic Melkite priest, who left the Roman rite, died
November 27,
Christian
Villegas,
a motor vehicle accident, his brother, Michael, requests our prayers,
John Vennari, the former editor of
Catholic Family News, and for his family’s welfare, April 4,
Mary Butler, the aunt of Fr. Samuel
Waters, died October 17,
Joseph
DeMarco,
the nephew of John DeMarco, died October 3,
John Fergale, died September 25 after
receiving the traditional sacramental rites of the Church wearing the brown
scapular,
John Gabor, the brother of Donna
Marbach, died September 9,
Fr. Eugene
Dougherty,
a faithful priest, fittingly died on the Nativity of the BVM after receiving
the traditional Catholic sacraments,
Phyllis
Schlafly,
died September 5,
Helen
Mackewicz,
died August 14,
Mark A.
Wonderlin,
who died August 2,
Fr. Carl
Cebollero,
a faithful priest to tradition who was a friend of Fr. Waters and Fr. DeMaio,
Jessica
Cortes,
a young mother of ten who died June 12,
Frances
Toriello, a
life-long Catholic faithful to tradition, died June3, the feast of the Sacred
Heart, and her husband Dan,
died in 1985,
John
McLaughlin, a friend of the Drew’s, died May 22,
Angela
Montesano,
who died April 30, and her husband, Salvatore,
who died in July 3, 2013,
Charles Schultz, died
April 5, left behind nine children and many grandchildren, all traditional
Catholics,
Esperanza Lopez de Callejas,
the aunt of Claudia Drew, died March 15,
Fr. Edgardo Suelo, a
faithful priest defending our traditions who was working with Fr. Francois
Chazal in the Philippines, died February 19,
Conde McGinley, a long time
laborer for the traditional faith, died February 12, at 96 years,
The Drew family requests
your prayers for Ida Fernandez and Rita Kelley,
parishioners at St. Jude,
Fr. Stephen
Somerville,
a traditional priest who repented from his work with the Novus Ordo English translation,
died December 12,
Fr. Arturo
DeMaio,
a priest that helped this Mission with the sacraments and his invaluable
advice, died December 2,
J. Paul
Carswell,
died October 15, 2015,
Solange
Hertz, a
great defender of our Catholic faith, died October 3, the First Saturday of the
month,
Paula P.
Haigh,
died October 22, a great defender of our Catholic faith in philosophy and
natural science,
Gabriella
Whalin,
the mother of Gabriella Schiltz, who died August 25,
Mary
Catherine Sick, 14 year old from a large traditional Catholic family, died August 25,
Fr. Paul
Trinchard,
a traditional Catholic priest, died August 25,
Stephen J.
Melnick, Jr., died on August 21, a long-time faithful traditional Catholic husband
and father, from Philadelphia,
Patricia
Estrada,
died July 29, her son Alex petitions our prayers for her soul,
Fr. Nicholas
Gruner,
a devoted priest & faithful defender of Blessed Virgin Mary and her Fatima
message, died April 29,
Sarah E.
Shindle,
the grandmother of Richard Shindle, died April 26,
Madeline
Vennari,
the mother of John Vennari, died December 19,
Salvador
Baca Callejas, the uncle of Claudia Drew, died December 13,
Robert Gomez, who died in a motor vehicle
accident November 29,
Catherine
Dunn,
died September 15,
Anthony
Fraser, the
son of Hamish Fraser, died August 28,
Jeannette
Rhoad,
the grandmother of Devin Rhoad, who died August 24,
John Thees, the uncle of Philip Thees,
died August 9,
Sarah
Harkins, 32 year-old mother of four
children, died July 28,
Msgr. Donald
Adams, who
offered the Indult Mass, died April 1996,
Anita Lopez, the aunt of Claudia Drew,
Fr. Kenneth
Walker,
a young traditional priest of the FSSP who was murdered in Phoenix June 11,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for Gilberte Violette, the mother of
Fr. Violette, who died May 6,
Pete Hays petitions our prayers for his brothers, Michael, died May 9, and James, died October 20, his
sister, Rebecca, died March17, and his mother, Lorraine Hayes who died May 4,
Philip
Marbach,
the father of Paul Marbach who was the coordinator at St. Jude in Philadelphia,
died April 21,
Richard
Slaughtery,
the elderly sacristan for the SSPX chapel in Kansas City, died April 13,
Bernedette
Marie Evans nee Toriello, the daughter of Daniel Toriello , died March 31, a
faithful Catholic who suffered many years with MS,
Natalie
Cagorski,
died march 23,
Anita Lopez
de Lacayo,
the aunt of Claudia Drew, who died March 21,
Mario
Palmaro,
Catholic lawyer, bioethicist and professor, apologist, died March 9, welfare of
his widow and children,
Daniel Boyle, the
uncle of Ryan Boyle, died March 4,
Jeanne
DeRuyscher,
who died on January 25,
Arthur
Harmon,
died January 18,
Fr. Waters petitions our prayers for the soul of Jeanne DeRuyscher, who died
January 17,
Joseph
Proctor,
died January 10,
Susan Scott, a devote traditional
Catholic who made the vestments for our Infant of Prague statue, died January
8,
Brother
Leonard Mary, M.I.C.M., (Fred Farrell), an early supporter and friend of Fr. Leonard
Feeney, died November 23,
John Fergale, requests our prayers for
his sister Connie, who died December 19,
Jim Capaldi, died December 15,
Brinton
Creager,
the son of Elizabeth Carpenter, died December 10,
Christopher
Lussos,
age 27, the father of one child with an expecting wife, died November 15,
Jarett
Ebeyer,
16 year old who died in his sleep, November 17, at the request of the
Kolinsky’s,
Catherine
Nienaber,
the mother of nine children, the youngest three years of age, killed in MVA
after Mass, 10-29,
Nancy Aldera, the sister of Frances Toriello,
died October 11, 2013 at 105 years of age,
Mary Rita
Schiltz,
the mother of Thomas Schiltz, who died August 27,
William H.
(Teddy) Kennedy, Catholic author of Lucifer’s Lodge, died August 14, age 49, cause of
death unknown,
Alfred
Mercier,
the father of David Mercier, who died August 12,
The Robert Kolinsky asks our prayers for his friend, George Curilla, who died August
23,
John Cuono, who had attended Mass at
our Mission in the past, died August 11,
Raymond
Peterson,
died July 28, and Paul Peterson,
died February 19, the brothers of Fr. Casimir Peterson,
Margaret
Brillhart,
who died July 20,
Msgr. Joseph
J. McDonnell, a priest from the diocese of Des Moines, who died June 8,
Patrick
Henry Omlor, who wrote Questioning The Validity of the Masses using
the New, All English Canon, and for a series of newsletters which were
published as The Robber Church, died May 2, the feast of St Athanasius,
Bishop
Joseph McFadden, died unexpectedly May 2,
Timothy
Foley, the
brother-in-law of Michelle Marbach Folley, who died in April,
William
Sanders,
the uncle of Don Rhoad, who died April 2,
Gene Peters ask our prayers for the repose of the
soul of Mark Polaschek, who
died March 22,
Eduardo
Gomez Lopez, the uncle of Claudia Drew, February 28,
Cecelia
Thees,
died February 24,
Elizabeth
Marie
Gerads, a
nineteen year old, the oldest of twelve children, who died February 6,
Michael
Schwartz,
the co-author with Fr. Enrique Rueda of “Gays, Aids, and You,” died February 3,
Stanley W.
Moore,
passed away in December 16, and Gerard (Jerry) R. Pitman, who died January 19,
who attended this Mission in the past,
Louis
Fragale,
who died December 25,
Fr. Luigi
Villa, Th.D. author of Vatican II About
Face! detailing the heresies of Vatican II, died November 18 at the age of 95,
Rev. Michael
Jarecki,
a faithful traditional Catholic priest who died October 22,
Jennie Salaneck, died September 19 at 95
years of age, a devout and faithful Catholic all her life,
Dorothy Sabo, who died September 26,
Cynthia
(Cindy) Montesano Reinhert, the mother of nine children, four who are still at
home, died August 19,
Stanley
Spahalski, who died October 20, and his wife, Regina
Spahalski, who died June 24, and for the soul of Francis Lester, her son,
Julia
Atkinson,
who died April 30,
Antonio P.
Garcia,
who died January 6, 2012 and the welfare of his teenage children, Andriana and
Quentin,
Helen Crane, the aunt of David Drew who
died February 27,
Fr. Timothy
A. Hopkins,
of the National Shrine of St. Philomena, in Miami, November 2,
Frank Smith, who died February 7, and
the welfare of his wife, Delores,
Eduardo
Cepeda,
who died January 26,
Larry Young, the 47 year old father of
twelve who died December 10 and the welfare of his wife Katherine and their
family,
Sister Mary
Bernadette, M.I.C.M., a founding member of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died
December 16,
Joeseph
Elias,
who died on September 28,
William, the brother of Fr. Waters,
who died September 7,
Donald
Tonelli,
died August 1,
Rev. Fr.
Gregory Hesse, of Austria, a great defender of Catholic Truth, died January 25, 2006,
Emma
Colasanti, who died May 29,
Mary
Dullesse,
who died April 12, a Catholic convert who died wearing our Lady’s scapular,
Ruth Jantsch, the grandmother of Andre
Ebert, who died April 7, Derrick and Denise Palengat, his godparents,
Philip D.
Barr,
died March 5, and the welfare of his family,
Judith Irene
Kenealy,
the mother of Joyce Paglia, who died February 23, and her son, George Richard
Moore, who died May 14,
For Joe
Sobran who died September 30,
Fr. Hector
Bolduc,
a great and faithful priest, died, September 10, 2012,
James &
Jean Rowan
and their sons, Patrick & Daniel,
John Vennari asks our prayers for Dr. Raphael Waters who died
August 26,
Stanley
Bodalsky,
the father of Mary Ann Boyle who died June 25,
Mary Isabel
Kilfoyle Humphreys, a former York resident and friend of the Drew’s, who died June 6,
Rev. John
Campion,
who offered the traditional Mass for us every first Friday until forbidden to
do so by Bishop Dattilo, died May 1,
Joseph
Montagne, who
died May 5,
For Margaret
Vagedes, the aunt of Charles Zepeda, who died January 6,
Fr. Michael
Shear, a
Byzantine rite Catholic priest, died August 17, 2006,
Fr. James Francis
Wathen,
died November 7, 2006, author of The
Great Sacrilege and Who Shall
Ascend?, a great defender of dogma and liturgical purity,
Fr. Enrique
Rueda,
who died December 14, 2009, to whom our Mission is indebted,
Fr. Peterson asks to remember, Leonard Edward Peterson, his cousin, Wanda, Angelica Franquelli, and the six
priests ordained with him.
Philip Thees petitions our prayers for Beverly Romanick, Deacon Michael Erdeck,
Henry J. Phillips, Grace Prestano, Connie DiMaggio, Elizabeth Thorhas,
Elizabeth Thees, Theresa Feraker, Hellen Pestrock, and James & Rose Gomata,
and Kathleen Heinbach,
Fr. Didier
Bonneterre,
the author of The Liturgical Movement, and Fr. John Peek, both were traditional
priests,
Brother
Francis, MICM, the superior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in
Richmond, NH, who died September 5,
Rodolfo
Zelaya Montealegre, the father of Claudia Drew, who died May 24,
Rev. Francis
Clifford,
a devout and humble traditional priest, who died on March 7,
Benjamin
Sorace, the
uncle of Sonja Kolinsky.
In pastoral
letter, Charlotte's Bishop Martin ends altar rails for holy Communion
National Catholic Reporter | Patricia L. Guilfoyle | Charlotte, N.C. —
December 23, 2025
Bishop
Michael Martin has established guidelines for the reception of holy Communion in the Diocese
of Charlotte to strengthen unity in worship, uphold the church's
liturgical norms and encourage active participation by the faithful.
Martin announced
the new norms in a pastoral letter that affirms the common posture of
standing to receive holy Communion, encourages priests to
offer Communion under both bread and wine more often, and calls for the
broader use of trained laypeople to serve as Eucharistic ministers.
"The liturgy of the Church is the work of God and the work on
behalf of God in the life of the Church," Martin wrote in the Dec.
17 letter. "These norms
for our diocese move us together toward the Church's vision for the fuller and
more active participation of the faithful."
In his pastoral letter, the bishop emphasized that the celebration
of the Eucharist is a communal act of worship, not only an individual act of
piety.
"Throughout
the ages and within the context of our rich liturgical traditions from the East
to the West, our unity as believers in Holy Communion is expressed through
our postures and gestures that reflect our mystical communion and unity as
fellow believers," he said.
The new guidance does not replace the diocese's general
liturgical norms established in 2005, but builds upon them and aligns
closely with the Catholic Church's universal norms (what is called
the "General Instruction of the Roman Missal") and directives set by
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The pastoral letter follows months of consultation with the
diocese's Office for Divine Worship and the Presbyteral Council of priests,
which represents all priests of the diocese in administrative and policy
discussions.
In his
pastoral letter, Martin affirmed the "normative posture" for
receiving holy Communion in the United States is standing, after bowing
the head as a sign of reverence.
The directive
instructs any parishes that currently use altar rails for
distributing Communion to discontinue the practice and remove any portable
kneelers or prie-dieus by Jan. 16, noting that such practices are "a
visible contradiction" to the prescribed posture of standing.
"Instead,"
his pastoral letter states, the church "emphasizes that receiving
Holy Communion is to be done as the members of the faithful go in
procession, witnessing that the Church journeys forward and receives
Holy Communion as a pilgrim people on their way."
In many churches,
altar rails are architectural elements that differentiate the sanctuary from
the nave and once were used for Communion distribution.
Over the past decade or so, a small number of churches in the diocese
reintroduced the use of rails or kneelers to distribute Holy Communion,
but most diocesan churches already follow the practice of
receiving Communion while standing, consistent with U.S. norms.
In his pastoral letter, the bishop reiterated that individuals may
not be denied holy Communion if they choose to kneel, yet he encouraged
the faithful to "prayerfully consider the blessing of communal witness
that is realized when we share a common posture."
Clergy and catechists, he added, "are to instruct communicants
according to the normative posture in the United States" and "are not
to teach that some other manner is better, preferred, more efficacious,
etc."
In guidance to pastors that accompanied the bishop's
pastoral letter, the diocese's Office for Divine Worship noted that if a
communicant wishes to kneel but is physically unable, the pastor should address
the situation privately.
"He is to catechize
and remind the person that standing to receive is no less reverent or worthy a
way to receive Our Lord," advised Fr. Noah Carter, diocesan liturgy
director. "In both ways, the communicant who is properly disposed
to receive holy Communion gains the same graces and gifts contained in the
Eucharist, regardless of standing or kneeling."
In
his letter, Martin also encouraged pastors, where and when possible, to
distribute holy Communion under the forms of both bread and wine more
often.
While affirming church teaching that Christ is fully present — body,
blood, soul and divinity — under either bread or wine, he encouraged priests to
consider the "fuller sign" of distributing holy Communion under
both kinds to foster "a deeper participation in the Eucharistic
mystery," consistent with prevailing church practice.
The bishop specifically noted that "a significant number of
parishes" did not resume distribution of the Precious Blood in the wake of
the COVID-19 pandemic. "To foster unity, it is helpful that we all
practice a similar way of distributing Holy Communion," he said.
"Parishioners who travel from parish to parish because of their
own needs may otherwise rightly question why the Precious Blood is always
available in one church and never available in another."
The pastoral letter specifically recommends distributing the
Precious Blood for at least one Mass every Sunday and for major solemnities,
including: Christmas, the Easter Vigil, Divine Mercy Sunday, Pentecost, Trinity
Sunday, Corpus Christi, Christ the King Sunday, and Holy Thursday. It also
encourages distributing holy Communion under both kinds for first
holy Communion Masses, wedding Masses, parish patronal feast days and
church anniversaries.
It reaffirms that the consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or
in the hand, at the discretion of the communicant.
It explicitly prohibits the practice of intinction — dipping the host
into the Precious Blood before placing it on the communicant's tongue — at
public liturgies.
In his pastoral letter, the bishop also encouraged parishes to enlist more
laypeople to help clergy with distributing holy Communion.
Priests and deacons are the "ordinary ministers of
holy Communion," while laypeople may serve as "extraordinary
ministers of holy Communion" when needed, such as when there are too
many communicants for the clergy to distribute Communion efficiently.
In many parishes, extraordinary ministers also take Communion to
the sick and homebound.
The diocese's existing liturgical norms already call for
extraordinary ministers in such situations and provide for people to serve in
three-year terms. The new guidelines formalize practices that are already
commonplace in the diocese and across the U.S.
They set eligibility and formation requirements, and direct parishes to
have enough eucharistic ministers "for roughly 75 communicants" at
each Mass. Parishes are also directed to invite people to serve as
extraordinary ministers and offer training at least once a year.
To be appointed as such, a layperson must: be a
practicing Catholic who has received the sacraments of initiation; be at
least 16 years old; "demonstrate a deep reverence for and devotion to the
holy Eucharist"; be "distinguished in their Christian life, faith and
morals"; and take part in the diocese's safe environment training.
COMMENT: The immemorial rule of receiving Holy Communion in the Catholic
Church is kneeling and on the tongue from the hands of a Catholic priest or
deacon. In the Latin Rite communion is distributed only under the appearance of
bread. The current practice of the Novus Ordo Church is by Indult granted by
the Vatican at the petition from the Novus Ordo National Conference of Catholic
Bishops in the United States. An Indult is a permission to NOT obey the law.
Bishop Martin's Letter begins with a lie. It ends with imposing the norms of
the Lutheran church on the Novus Ordites and his determination to prevent
anyone from building a Catholic sanctuary. The Lutherans do not believe in the
True Presence in their services and neither does Bishop Martin. The Novus Ordo
Mass was initially defined as a memorial meal, and if that is all it is, then
the Lutheran norms are perfectly reasonable and there is no problem with Bishop
Martin's arguments. But Bishop Martin is liar and therefore we cannot expect
him to acknowledge this truth. A PEW poll in 2019 found that only 26% for all
Catholics under 40 years of age (and only 63% of all Novus Ordites who go to
Mass at least once each week) believe in the Catholic dogma of the True Presence.
These Catholics under 40 years of age were raised on the current Indult and
have lost the Catholic faith. What an established practice does in its signification is what it was
intended to do. The intention of Bishop Martin is to destroy the belief
in any remaining Catholics of the True Presence. The argument that standing
better symbolizes that we are a "pilgrim people" has been used for
more than fifty years. It was a stupid argument in the beginning and remains a
more stupid argument today because the result of the practice are evident. The
Novus Ordo church has yet to publically acknowledge that their church is on a
pilgrimage to hell!
"ALL
HERETICS ARE SCHISMATICS." St. Thomas Aquinas quoting St. Augustine
“It is not to
be excluded that I will enter history as the one who split the Catholic
Church.”
Pope Francis,
concluding remarks attributed to him in the Der Spiegel article on the Crisis
in the Catholic Church.
COMMENT: As if that was not Pope Francis' intention and
what in fact he had long been doing throughout his pontificate? The question
remains as to what name in history will Francis be known? But let's leave that
for later. The truth is that Conservative Catholics have never gotten anything
in its right hierarchical order. They stupidly thought the “split” in the
Church began when traditional Catholics were disobedient to legitimate exercise
of authority by resisting the overthrow of our Ecclesiastical Traditions by
which alone the Faith can be known and communicated to others. Conservative
Catholics are only now turning to face the front of this conflict but they are
unarmed for the fight. Pope Francis, who professed the same doctrine as his
conciliar predecessors, only drovethe wedge far deeper into the Bark of Peter
to “split” the Church. The Conservative Catholics are at last alarmed because
the Ship is taking on massive amounts of water. Unfortunately, the poor
Conservative Catholics who are raising their voices against the corruption of
Francis and his successor Leo will surely fail. Let's call them the Dubiaists.
The Dubiaists have doubts but no real convictions. They will fail because they
turned their backs against the literal meaning of DOGMA long ago and cannot
recognize heresy. They now have nothing from which to mount their defense for
DOGMA is the one and only weapon against an abusive authority. Authority is
subject only to Truth. and DOGMA is the most perfect expression of Truth
available to all men.
Greetings from Pope Leo to Father Franz Schmidberger,
SSPX
Pope
Leo extends his heartfelt congratulations to venerable Father Franz
Schmidberger, SSPX on the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary of his priestly
ordination and extends his apostolic blessing.
Friedrichshafen, Germany, December
14, 2025
COMMENT: We have publically
affirmed that the SSPX was formally regularized with modernist Rome no later
than 2015 and most likely in 2012 although this is not commonly shared with its
member priests or those faithful who attend their chaples for Mass. Fr.
Schmidberger was the general superior of the SSPX after the retirement of
Archbishop Lefebvre, and after his death when Bishop Fellay became the general
superior, Fr. Schmidberger was his direct assistant. It was under the guidance
of Fr. Schmidberger that the secret negotiations with modernist Rome began in
the 1990s that would eventually lead to their regularization. This
"heartfelt" greetings and congratulations from Pope Leo is in
acknowledgment of Fr. Schmidberger's untiring commitment to betray Catholic
tradition.
"There will be two worm-ridden popes".
Blessed Virgin Mary, Our
Lady of La Salette to Melanie
The
idea that there would be two worm-ridden popes is an unofficial, unpublished
prophecy of Melanie, one of two children at the apparition of La Salette in
France. It pops up in one of her letters to Fr. Roubaud back on September 30,
1884, and it was brought to light by author Michel Corteville in his book, Découverte
du secret de La Salette. Some say that the phrase actually translates
to: “two shaky, servile, doubtful popes.” The original French reads:
Mais avant ce temps (des tribulations) il
y aura deux fois une paix de peu de durée, deux Papes vermoulus, plats,
douteux.*
TRANSLATION: “But
before this time (of tribulations) there will be twice a peace of short
duration, two worm-eaten, flat, and doubtful Popes.”
“Only take heed to yourself and guard your soul diligently.” Deut 4:9
"It is a sin to believe there is salvation outside the Catholic
Church!"
Blessed Pope Pius IX
“Living Tradition,” synonym for Immanentism of
the Modernist
The term, “living
tradition,” a novelty of modernist construction given official standing at
Vatican II, conflates the subjective understanding with the objective truth, is
part of the theological justification to replace our received traditions with
novelties grounded in fantasy.
“The root
of this schismatic act can be discerned in an incomplete and contradictory
notion of Tradition. Incomplete, because it does not take sufficiently into
account the living character of Tradition, which, as the Second Vatican
Council clearly taught, “comes from the apostles and progresses in the Church
with the help of the Holy Spirit. There is a growth in insight into the
realities and words that are being passed on. This comes about in various ways.
It comes through the contemplation and study of believers who ponder these
things in their hearts. It comes from the intimate sense of spiritual realities
which they experience. And it comes from the preaching of those who have
received, along with their right of succession in the episcopate, the sure
charism of truth”.
John Paul II, explaining the problems with
Archbishop Lefebvre’s consecration of four bishops from his failure to
understand the novel Vatican II definition of tradition
Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity
– Even JPII did not deny this dogma!
Pope Francis Teaches:
We hold the Jewish people in special regard
because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the
call of God are irrevocable” (Rom.11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an
important part of the Sacred Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant
and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf.
Rom. 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign
religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to turn from idols and
to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes. 1:9). With them, we believe in the one God
who acts in history, and with them we accept his revealed word. Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium
The Church officially recognizes that the
People of Israel continue to be the Chosen People. Nowhere does it say: “You
lost the game, now it is our turn.” It is a recognition of the People of
Israel.
Pope Francis, On Heaven and Earth
The Catholic Church Teaches:
Hebrews 7:18: “On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness…”;
Hebrews 10:9: “Then he says, ‘Behold, I come to do your will.’ He takes away the first [covenant] to establish the second [covenant]…”;
2 Corinthians 3:14: “For to this day when they [the Jews] read the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away”;
Hebrews 8:7: “For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another”;
Colossians 2:14: “Having canceled the written code, with its decrees, that was against us and stood opposed to us; He took it away nailing it to the cross”;
Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, para. 29: “…the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished…but on the gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross”;
The Catechism of the Council of Trent: “…the people, aware of the abrogation of the Mosaic Law…”;
Council of Florence: [This council] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally. Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but after the promulgation of the Gospel it asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal salvation. All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino
Council of Trent: “but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom”;
Cardinal Ratzinger: “Thus the Sinai [Mosaic] Covenant is indeed superseded” (Many Religions – One Covenant, p. 70).
St. John Chrysostom: “Yet surely Paul’s object everywhere is to annul this Law….And with much reason; for it was through a fear and a horror of this that the Jews obstinately opposed grace” (Homily on Romans, 6:12); “And so while no one annuls a man’s covenant, the covenant of God after four hundred and thirty years is annulled; for if not that covenant but another instead of it bestows what is promised, then is it set aside, which is most unreasonable” (Homily on Galatians, Ch 3);
St. Augustine: “Instead of the grace of the law which has passed away, we have received the grace of the gospel which is abiding; and instead of the shadows and types of the old dispensation, the truth has come by Jesus Christ. Jeremiah also prophesied thus in God’s name: ‘Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah…’ Observe what the prophet says, not to Gentiles, who had not been partakers in any former covenant, but to the Jewish nation. He who has given them the law by Moses, promises in place of it the New Covenant of the gospel, that they might no longer live in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the spirit” (Letters, 74, 4);
Justin Martyr: “Now, law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it, and a covenant which comes after in like manner has put an end to the previous one; and an eternal and final law – namely, Christ – has been given to us, and the covenant is trustworthy…Have you not read…by Jeremiah, concerning this same new covenant, He thus speaks: ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…’” (Dialogue with Trypho, Ch 11).
John Paul II: “Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law.” (Redemptoris Mater)
Taken from Robert Sungenis, The
Old Covenent: Revoked or Not Revoked?
Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition, novelty become ‘harmful
polarizations’
EWTN | Victoria Cardiel | October 27, 2025
Pope Leo XIV said at a Mass on Sunday that
no one in the Church “should impose his or her own ideas” and asked that
tensions between tradition and novelty not become “ideological contrapositions
and harmful polarizations.”
“The supreme rule in the Church is love. No
one is called to dominate; all are called to serve,” Leo said in St. Peter’s Basilica
on Oct. 26.
“No one should impose his or her own
ideas; we must all listen to one another,” he continued. “No one is excluded;
we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all
humbly seek it and seek it together.” [.....]
COMMENT: The problem
is this: the love of novelty is an ideology, Tradition along with sacred
Scripture is divine revelation. The Church always and everywhere has condemned
novelty until Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Church of Novelty embraced it. The
conflict between novelty and tradition is the conflict between God's revelation
and demonic lies; the conflict between the Church and the World. Those who are
faithful to tradition do not "impose their own ideas" but defend
God's revealed truth against the novelty of the world. The Novus Ordo Novelty
Church is "seeking truth"; the Church of Jesus Christ possesses it.
Pope Leo like his predecessor likes to characterize tradition as rigid and dead
and the novelty of modernism as mature and hopeful. This was once an intensely
debated matter but, at this time, after all the wreckage of the last 50 years
all tradition has to do is to point at the fruit of Vatican II novelty. Both
Leo and his predecessor Francis worked in South America. The total population
of South and Central America is about 600 million. Since Vatican II about 300
million have apostatized from the Catholic Church. These last two popes have
personally presided over the greatest apostasy over the shortest period of time
in the history of the Catholic Church. Anything Leo has to say, as long as he
is not sitting in the Chair of Peter, must be examined in light of this record.
Fruit of
Vatican II - Apostasy
In Honduras,
the country of the once most powerful man in the Roman Curia under
Francis/Bergoglio, Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, a personally corrupt and
immoral man who had been a bishop in the capital since 1978, first as auxiliary then as Archbishop for 30 years,
the hierarchy led by him managed the
amazing feat of transforming that country in the first Catholic-minority nation
in Central America, a vertiginous fall from 94% to 46% in the same period -
and the same happened in Uruguay, across the Rio de la Plata from (Bergoglio's
home) Buenos Aires.
Rorate Caeli
Data Collapse of Catholic Faith in Latin America from 2014 presided
over by Pope Leo/Provost and his predecessor Francis/Begoglio
The “received and approved rites of the Catholic Church,
accustomed to be used in the solemn administration of the sacraments”:
…..Because, as we will see, Catholics must celebrate
only the “received and approved rites”
of the Church as a matter of Divine Law.
God revealed this truth in Scripture
through St. Paul. Before St. Paul teaches the Corinthians liturgical and
theological details concerning the Holy Mass (consecration formula, Real
Presence), he prefaces his teaching by affirming: “For I have received of the Lord that
which I also delivered unto you…”
(I Cor 11:23). St. Paul says again: “For I delivered unto you first of all,
which I also received” (1Cor 15:3). In these and other verses, St. Paul
emphasizes that we must believe and practice only what we have “received” from
Christ and the apostles which has been “delivered” unto us, and which includes
the liturgical rites of the Church. This is a divinely revealed truth and a
matter of Faith.
The Church has taught this divine truth
throughout her history. For example, in the Papal Oath of Coronation, which
originates at least as far back as Pope St. Agatho in 678 A.D. (and which was
set aside by Paul VI), every Pope swore to change nothing of the “received
tradition.” Pope Pius IV’s Tridentine Profession of Faith,
which is binding on the souls of all Catholics, likewise expresses this
principle by requiring adherence to the
“received and approved rites of the Catholic Church used in the solemn
administration of the sacraments.” The “received
and approved rites of the Church” originate from the Spirit of Christ and
the traditions of the apostles which have been handed down to us through the
ages.
Because the “received and approved rites” are part of the Church’s infallible
expression of the unchanging Deposit of Faith, as inspired and nurtured by the
Holy Ghost, they cannot be set aside or changed into new rites. This is why the
Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563) infallibly declared:
“If anyone says
that the received and approved
rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the
administration of the sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers
without sin and at their pleasure, or
may be changed by any pastor of the churches to other new ones, let him be
anathema.”
Because the Council declares anathema (that
is, condemned, or severed from the Body of Christ) anyone who would set aside
or change into new rites the already “received
and approved rites” of the Church, proves that adherence to the “received and approved rites” is a
matter of Divine Law. The absolute necessity to preserve the substance of the
Church’s ancient liturgical rites is a requirement of the Faith because the
rites preserve and express that Faith. To hold that the Church’s rites can
change implies a belief that the Church’s doctrines can change, because the
rites preserve and express the doctrines. Hence, those who do not preserve the
Church’s rites (by omitting or changing them) are objectively anathema because they sin
against the Faith itself.
In light of the foregoing
condemnation, the Holy Council of Trent directed that the Roman Missal be
restored so that the faithful would know once and for all what is the “received and approved rite” of Mass.
To that end, Pope St. Pius V issued his papal bull Quo Primum Tempore to legally codify “the decrees of the Holy Council of Trent”
and render a definitive application of the Divine Law dogmatized by the
Council. This judgment mandated a single usage of the Roman rite for the Latin
Church, with some minor exceptions for usages greater than 200 years old, “in order that what has been handed down by
the most holy Roman Church, the Mother and Teacher of the rest of the churches
may be accepted and observed by all everywhere.” Hence, the sainted Pope
declared the oft-called “Tridentine
Mass” to be the “received and
approved rite” of the Church, and which precluded the creation of any “new
rite” of Mass in the future. Further, because Quo Primum is an infallible application of
Divine Law (that is, we must use only the “received
and approved rites”), St. Pius V rightly declared the decree to be
irreformable and valid forever.
This brings us to the inevitable and
troubling question: Is the
Novus Ordo a “new rite” of Mass that comes under the anathema of the Council of
Trent, as definitively interpreted by St. Pius V in Quo Primum? The name of the
rite itself (Novus Ordo
which means “new order” or “new ordinary” of the Mass) certainly suggests the
same. More importantly, so do the words of Pope Paul VI. In his November 19,
1969 General Audience address, Paul VI refers to the Novus Ordo as a “new rite” of
Mass several times, for example: “We wish to draw your attention to an event
about to occur in the Latin Catholic Church: the introduction of the liturgy of
the new rite of the Mass.”
He also says, “In the new rite you will find the relationship between the
Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist...”
We also consider the statements of
the members of Paul VI’s liturgical commission that created the New Mass, such
as the secretary and head of the commission, Fr. Annibale Bugnini, who said:
“It is not simply a question of restoring a valuable masterpiece, in some cases
it will be necessary to provide new
structures for entire rites…it will truly be a new creation.” Bugnini’s
assistant, Fr. Carlos Braga, also stated that the New Mass has “an entirely new foundation of
Eucharistic theology” and whose “ecumenical requirements” are “in harmony with
the Church’s new positions.”
Fr. Joseph Gelineau, one of the most influential members of the commission,
also said: “To tell you the truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This
needs to be said without ambiguity: the
Roman rite as we knew it no
longer exists.” Therefore, both Paul VI and his appointed
authors of the Novus Ordo admitted that the New Mass is not the rite “received”
from tradition, but rather a rite created by innovation – an entirely
unprecedented act in the history of the Church.
But we should not rely on these
statements alone. While they may reveal the intent of the innovators, it is
still necessary to look at the substance of the Novus Ordo rite itself. As we have seen, the
Council of Trent and St. Pius V intended to preserve the substantial identity
of the Roman rite forever. If the New Mass does not preserve this identity,
then it cannot be considered the “received
and approved rite” of the Catholic Church no matter what anyone says. Even
the Second Vatican Council, which did not (and could not) mandate the creation
of a new rite of Mass, recognized this truth by directing that the rites “be revised carefully in the light of sound
tradition” with “due care being
taken to preserve their
substance.”
The Council of Trent’s condemnation
of omitting or changing the “received
and approved rites” into “new rites”
is best understood by referring to one of the oldest maxims of the Church’s
sacred theology: “legem credendi statuit lex orandi.”
This is a Latin phrase which means “the rule of prayer determines the rule of
faith” (often referred to as “lex
orandi, lex credendi”). In other words, the way we pray determines
what we believe. If a liturgical tradition which expresses a doctrine of the
Faith is altered or removed altogether, the underlying doctrine will
necessarily be compromised. This is why the “received and approved rites” must be faithfully preserved and
never transformed into “other new ones”
as declared by Trent.
…… However, the Novus Ordo Missae deviates from the Roman Missal
of St. Pius V to such an extent that it no longer retains the substantial
identity of the Roman rite. Even before the introduction of such abuses as
audible canons, vernacular and versus
populum (toward the people) celebrations, lay ministers, Communion
under both species, Communion in the hand to standing communicants and the
like, Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci advised Paul VI that “the Novus Ordo
represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the
Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the
Council of Trent.” Consequently, Cardinal Ottaviani (who, as head of the
Holy Office, was responsible for safeguarding the doctrine of the Faith), in
his famous intervention, concluded that the Novus Ordo was indeed a different
rite of Mass.
For example, Ottaviani says: “To abandon a liturgical tradition which
for four centuries stood as a sign and pledge of unity in worship, and to replace
it with another liturgy which, due to the countless liberties it
implicitly authorizes, cannot but be a sign of division – a liturgy which
teems with insinuations or manifest errors against the integrity of the
Catholic Faith – is, we feel bound in conscience to proclaim, an
incalculable error.” He also says,
“It is obvious that the New
Order of Mass has no intention of presenting the Faith taught by the
Council of Trent. But it is to this Faith that the Catholic
conscience is bound forever.” Accordingly, Ottaviani appealed to Paul VI “not to deprive us of the possibility of
continuing to have recourse to the integral
and fruitful Missal of St. Pius V, so highly praised by Your
Holiness, and so deeply venerated by the whole Catholic world.” Therefore,
both the critics and the
creators of the New Mass, including Paul VI himself, agree that the
Novus Ordo differs
in substance from
the Tridentine Missal and, hence, constitutes a “new rite” of Mass.
John Salza, J.D., The Novus Ordo Mass and Divine Law, excerpt from Catholic Family
News
He failed on
two occasions, 1942 & 1952, to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary as our Lady requested! He
contributed his share in liturgical destruction by establishing the liturgical commission
under Bugnini in 1948 and having Bea, his personal confessor, undertake a new
Latin translation of the Psalms.
“I am concerned
about the messages of the Virgin to the little Lucia of Fatima. This
persistence of the Good Lady in face of the danger that threatens the Church is
a divine warning against the suicide that the alteration of the Faith, in its
liturgy, its theology, and its soul, would represent. I hear around me
innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame
of the Church, reject her ornaments, and make her remorseful for her
historical past.”
Pope Pius XII,
1933
And now, addressing the “false prophets that exploit fear
and hopelessness to sell magical formulas of hate and cruelty,” Pope Francis again
insults the Catholic Faith as known and practiced by all our forefathers!
COMMENT: Pope Francis often
referenced St. Vincent of Lérins as if his understanding of Tradition is in
accord with that of the great Church Father.
It most certainly was not which is evident to anyone familiar with his
writings. This corruption can only be attributed to malice. Francis the Lutheran and St. Vincent the
Catholic did not profess the same Faith and only one of them is the Faith
without which it is impossible to please God.
Francis characterized faithfulness to the revelation of God as
“rigidity” which was itself attributed to deeper psychological and moral
failings of traditional Catholics. “Love is not rigid,” claimed Francis while
he counseled the overthrow of God’s commandments, but St. John the Apostle of
Love and devotee of the Sacred Heart reports a very different Gospel of Jesus
Christ:
· If you love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15
· If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have
kept my Father’ s commandments, and do abide in his love. John 15:10
· He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth
me. And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him. John 14:21
· Jesus answered, and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my
word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our
abode with him. John 14:23
· In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and
keep his commandments. 1 John 5:2
· And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his
commandments. 1 John 2:3
Love is never lax or slothful in its pious
attention to duty. The laxism and sloth
of Pope Francis was because without Faith, he had no true love of God.
Leo the Homosexual following in the way of Francis the
Homosexual.
Pictured below is Leo and Francis both greeting
homosexual "married" couples for public photo-ops. The other pictures
are Francis and Leo both slumming around with the pervert James Martin.
The Vatican is in the hands of the Homosexual Lobby. We
must pray to God to purge His Church of this gross perversion.
Preaching to the DEAF!
You gather here today, present-day
apostles, as the Church and, therefore, the world stand perched on the edge of
a cliff. And yet you who are entrusted with the keeping of souls choose to
speak not a word of the spiritual danger which abounds. Today we stand on the cusp of all
that has been prophesied about the Church and the abominations which would come
forth in these times, a time when all of hell attacks the Church of Jesus
Christ, and a time when the fallen angels of hell no longer seek entry into her
sacred halls but instead stand inside, peeking out of her windows and unlocking
doors to welcome in more diabolical destruction.
Do you not know that Our Lord will
send forth His avenging angels to heap coals of fire upon the heads of those
who were called to be His apostles and who have not guarded what He has given
unto them?
And yet almost all of you, my
brothers, stood by silently watching as the Synod on Synodality took
place, an abomination constructed not to guard the Deposit of Faith, but to
dismantle it, and yet few were the cries heard from you – men who should be
willing to die for Christ and His Church.
The Synod’s final document has
been released, yet with the sleight of hand which is so characteristic
of the Francis-controlled Vatican. By drawing attention to the issues which
worried many, they have slipped in what was always their real goal without
anyone even noticing. What they were after in the first place was the
dismantling of Christ’s Church by replacing the structure of the Church as
Our Lord instituted it with a diabolically-inspired new structure of
“synodality” which in actuality is a new church that is in no way Catholic.
Bishop Joseph Strickland, former bishop of
Tyler, TX who was removed from his office by Pope Francis the Diabolical for
preaching Catholic truth, addressing the U.S. bishops gathered at their annual
meeting
Latae sententiae crimes in the external forum require a determination of guilt!
“A
sentence declaratory of the offence is always necessary in the forum externum,
since in this tribunal no one is presumed to be excommunicated unless convicted
of a crime that entail such a penalty.”
Pope
Benedict XIV, De syndod, X, I, 5
COMMENT: Recently
a group of young men and women missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were doing their required missionary work in
central city York. A friendly theological discussion took place on the steps of
our Mission chapel. The friendly exchanged ended and the climate cooled when
the question about the exact number of Joseph Smith's and Brigham Young's wives
was brought up. Mormons believe that Jesus Christ founded one Church. They
believe that that Church became corrupted and God abandoned it. God then,
centuries later, reconstituted His Church when the angel Moroni lead the
illiterate Joseph Smith to a hidden book and provided him with mystical
spectacles permitting him to read it. When you ask a Mormon how is it that
Jesus Christ promised to be with His Church until the end of time and taught
that marriage is between one man and one woman until death, why is it that they
believe Joseph Smith or Brigham Young and not believe Jesus Christ? They answer
by walking away. Jesus Christ uses the metaphor of marriage to describe His
relationship with His Church and with each of the faithful individually. Every
man-made heretical and schismatic sect eventually repudiates marriage because
they cannot abide the metaphor. Luther permitted bigamy. The Orthodox permit
divorce and remarriage three times. Joseph Smith had "up to forty
wives" and Brigham Young had "fifty-six wives, twenty-one had
never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had
living husbands; and the marital status of six others is unknown. Nine of his
wives had previously been plural wives of Joseph Smith, and Young was sealed to
them as a proxy for Smith" (WIKI). The first clue to the Mormons that they were being lead into a spiritual desert was
polygamy but some like the desert. Mormons claim that Brigham Young saw the
light and abandoned the practice for the Latter Day Saints but this occurred
only after the U.S. government told they to give it up or get out. Although
Mormons are no longer polygamists, they permit divorce and "temple"
remarriage which is just serial polygamy. These "missionaries" now
know that Jesus Christ did not abandon His Church and will not do so no matter
how corrupt churchmen become. The Catholic Church alone offers the possibility
of salvation.
It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up
to 40 Wives...
Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s
founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, portrayed in church materials as a loyal
partner to his loving spouse Emma, took as many as 40 wives, some already
married and one only 14 years old.... The biggest bombshell for some in the essays is that Smith married women
who were already married, some to men who were Smith’s friends and followers.
Religious Liberty from Vatican II has its root in the
Americanist Heresy
On
every side the dread phantom of war holds sway: there is scarce room for
another thought in the minds of men. The combatants are the greatest and
wealthiest nations of the earth; what wonder, then, if, well provided with the
most awful weapons modern military science has devised, they strive to destroy
one another with refinements of horror. There is no limit to the measure of
ruin and of slaughter; day by day the earth is drenched with newly-shed blood,
and is covered with the bodies of the wounded and of the slain. Who would
imagine as we see them thus filled with hatred of one another, that they are
all of one common stock, all of the same nature, all members of the same human
society? ....We implore those in whose hands are placed the fortunes of nations
to hearken to Our voice. Surely there are other ways and means whereby violated
rights can be rectified. Let them be tried honestly and with good will, and let
arms meanwhile be laid aside.
Benedict
XV, Ad beatissimi apostolorum,
November 1, 1914
“We
consider the establishment of our country’s independence, the shaping of its
liberties and laws, as a work of special Providence, its framers ‘building
better than they knew,’ the Almighty’s hand guiding them. We believe that our
country’s heroes were the instruments of the God of nations in establishing
this home of freedom; to both the Almighty and to His instruments in the work
we look with grateful reverence. And to maintain the inheritance of freedom
which they have left us, should it ever–which God forbid—be imperiled, our
Catholic citizens will be found to stand forward as one man, ready to pledge
anew ‘their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.’”
Archbishop
(soon to be Cardinal) James Gibbons, addressing the American bishops at the
Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884 attended by 14 archbishops and 61
bishops.
Moved
to the very depths of our hearts by the stirring appeal of the President of the
United States, and by the action of our national Congress, we accept
whole-heartedly and unreservedly the decree of that legislative authority
proclaiming this country to be in a state of war. Inspired neither by hate nor
fear, but by the holy sentiments of truest patriotic fervor and zeal, we stand
ready, we and all the flock committed to our keeping, to cooperate in every way
possible with our President and our national government, to the end that the
great and holy cause of liberty may triumph and that our beloved country may
emerge from this hour of test stronger and nobler than ever. Our people, as
ever, will rise as one man to serve the nation.
Pledge
of U.S. Catholic Archbishops, April 18, 1917; sent to President Woodrow Wilson
by Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, the leading Catholic
prelate in the United States.
“The
primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country. It is exhibited by an absolute
and unreserved obedience to his country’s call.”
Cardinal
James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), April 1917 in support of
the U.S. declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Balfour
Declaration agreement committed the British to deliver Palestine into Jewish
hands in return for the Jews bringing the United States into WWI in support of
the British. Cardinal James Gibbons was the chief propagator of the heresy of
Americanism which became settled Novus Ordo doctrine after Vatican II (religious
liberty) primarily by the work of Fr. John Courtney Murray who greatly admired
Cardinal Gibbons. Gibbons did his best to align American Catholics with Jewish
interests to bring the United States into the Great War. In doing so Gibbons
worked directly to undermine the peace plans of Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict
devised a generous peace plan and contacted Cardinal Gibbons to do what he
could to influence the United States government to back his offer of a
negotiated peace. Gibbons did nothing of the sort. While giving lip service to
the Pope's peace plan six months too late, he in fact never contacted President
Wilson or any official of the government to even mention Pope Benedict's peace
plan. Gibbons was too busy building the National Catholic War Council (NCWC)
and supporting the call of universal military service. The purpose of the NCWC
as Gibbons said in a letter to all American bishops was to form “the mental and
moral preparation of our people for the war.”
To Congar's
credit, he at least told the truth about what he helped destroy!
“It cannot be denied that the Declaration on
Religious Liberty does say materially something else than the Syllabus of 1864;
it even says just about the opposite of
Propositions 15 and 77 to 79 of this document..... I collaborated on the
final paragraphs which left me less satisfied.
It involved demonstrating that the theme of religious liberty was
already contained in Scripture. Now, it isn't there.”
Cardinal
Yves Marie Joseph Congar, O.P., forbidden to teach by the Church and
whose books were suppressed in the early 1950s, made a peritus at Vatican II by
Novus Ordo St. John XXIII, and is considered by many to have been the most
influential of all the periti. He was raised to the cardinalate by Novus Ordo
St. John Paul II. He rejected the dogmatic teaching of Trent which his teacher
and mentor, Fr. Marie-Dominique
Chenu, O.P., derisively called “Baroque
theology”.
Excerpts from the Diary of Msgr. Joseph Fenton:
·
“He [Cardinal
Ottaviani] remarked that we were on the eve of the Council, and that no one
knew who the Council’s theologians were to be.” (Sept. 28, 1962)
·
“It is a
crime that we did not take the Anti-Modernist Oath. Poor O[ttaviani] must have
failed to have our own profession passed by the central commission. It
contained his condemnation of [Fr. John Courtney] Murray [the Americanist
heretic who structured the Council teaching on Religious Liberty].” (Oct. 9,
1962)
·
“I had
always thought that this council was dangerous. It was started for no
sufficient reason. There was too much talk about what it was supposed to
accomplish. Now I am afraid that real trouble is on the way.” (Oct. 13,
1962)
·
“I
started to read the material on the Liturgy, and I was shocked at the bad
theology. They actually have been stupid enough [to say] that the Church
is ‘simul humanam et divininam, visibilem et invisibilem’ [at the same
time human and divine, visible and invisible]. And they speak of the Church
working ‘quousque unum ovile fiat et unus pastor’ [until there be one fold
and one shepherd], as if that condition were not already achieved.” (Oct. 19,
1962)
·
“I do not
think that any little work on our part is going to bring good to the Church. We
should, I believe, face the facts. Since the death of [Pope] St. Pius X the
Church has been directed by weak and liberal popes, who have flooded the
hierarchy with unworthy and stupid men. This present conciliar set-up makes
this all the more apparent. [Fr.] Ed Hanahoe, the only intelligent and
faithful member of [Cardinal] Bea’s secretariat has been left off the list of
the periti. Such idiots as [Mgr. John
S.] Quinn and the sneak [Fr. Frederick] McManus have been put on. [Fr. George]
Tavard is there as an American, God help us. From surface appearance it
would seem that the Lord Christ is abandoning His Church. The thoughts of many
are being revealed. As one priest used to say, to excuse his own
liberalism, which, in the bottom of his heart he knew was wrong, ‘for the
last few decades the tendency in Rome has been to favor the
liberals.’ That is the policy now. We can only do what we can to
overt an ever more complete disloyalty to Christ.” (Oct. 19, 1962)
·
“[Fr.] Ed
Hanahoe gave me two books on Modernism. In one of them I found evidence that
the teaching in the first chapter of the new schema on the Church [that became
the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen
Gentium] and the language are those of [the excommunicated Modernist Fr.
George Tyrrell [who died outside the Catholic Church and was denied
ecclesiastical burial]. May God preserve His Church from that chapter. If it
passes, it will be a great evil. I must pray and act.” (Sept. 24, 1963)
Paul VI
declared Novus Ordo Saint. So just what is a “Novus Ordo Saint”?
A Novus Ordo
Saint is a man-made saint. Contrasted with Catholic saints who are God-made
saints. In virtue of their union with God they are sanctified, and therefore,
Catholic Saints exhibit heroic virtue in their lives. God confirms their
sanctity by working miracles through their intercession and thus, a cult of
veneration (dulia) develops and spreads throughout the Church. The Church
recognizes God's evidence that they are saints and declares this fact to the
universal Church. Contrary to this, Novus Ordo Saints are man-made saints and
their elevation to the title of sainthood is for the purpose of promoting the
human ideology exemplified in their lives. There is no real cult of veneration
(dulia) among the faithful to Novus Ordo Saints. Since God does not work true
miracles through the intercession of man-made saints, only man-made miracles
are required for the beatification of man-made Novus Ordo Saints. Finally, the
Novus Ordo beatification process does have a promotor fidei, the
so-called “devil’s advocate,” although his role has been change as the promotor ideologiae. The greatest
difference between Catholic Saints and Novus Ordo Saints is that the former are
in heaven and the latter, very well may not be.
COMMENT ON THE
MODERN MIND DEVOID OF GOD’S GRACE
“But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given [the common
man] a rubber stamp, a rubber stamp inked with advertising slogans, with
editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of tabloids
and the profundities of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each
man's rubber stamp is the twin of millions of others, so that when these
millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. [...]
The amazing readiness with which large masses accept this process is probably
accounted for by the fact that no attempt is made to convince them that black
is white. Instead, their preconceived hazy ideas that a certain gray is almost
black or almost white are brought into sharper focus. Their prejudices,
notions, and convictions are used as a starting point, with the result that
they are drawn by a thread into passionate adherence to a given mental
picture.”
Edward Bernays, from his book, The Minority Rules, 1927. Bernays was a Jewish double nephew of
Sigmund Freud and a pioneer in public relations and propaganda. He was called
"the father of public relations" in his obituary. Bernays was named
one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life Magazine.
He was the subject of a full-length biography called The Father of Spin
(1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC called The Century of the Self. (Wiki)
"Pray for the
conversion of Russia." Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima
Your must
understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They
hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured
and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The
October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution."
It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen
suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation
ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated.
Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of
the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is
in the hands of the perpetrators. We cannot state that all Jews are Bolsheviks.
But: without Jews there would have been no Bolshevism. For a Jew nothing is
more insulting than the truth. The blood maddened Jewish terrorists murdered
sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Noble Prize winning novelist, historian and victim of
Jewish Bolshevism
American Catholic Apostasy: PEW POLE 2025
29% of U.S. Catholics say they attend
Mass weekly.
59% of Catholics say abortion should be
legal.
76% U.S. Catholics say society should be
accepting of homosexuality.
61% U.S. Catholics support legal
homosexual "marriage."
80% of Catholics view Pope Francis
favorably.
84% of U.S. Catholics say they have a favorable view of Leo although 67% say they know little about Leo, and 25% know nothing at all.
Pope Leo XIV commemorates Nostra Aetate anniversary with interfaith
celebrations
Catholic NewsAgency | Vatican City |Kridina
Millare | Oct 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV joined faith leaders on
Tuesday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Church’s
declaration on building relationships with non-Christian religions.
Approximately 300 representatives of world
religions and cultures joined the Holy Father for an evening ecumenical prayer
service for peace organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio and held at the
Colosseum in Rome.
“Peace is a constant journey of
reconciliation,” the Holy Father said at the Oct. 28 event.
Thanking religious leaders for coming
together in Rome, he said their interfaith meeting expressed their shared
“conviction that prayer is a powerful force for reconciliation.”
“This is our witness: offering the immense treasures of ancient
spiritualities to contemporary humanity,” he said.
“We need a true and sound era of
reconciliation that puts an end to the abuse of power, displays of force, and
indifference to the rule of law,” he added. “Enough of war, with all the pain
it causes through death, destruction, and exile!”
In his remarks, the pope urged people not to be indifferent to the “cry
of the poor and the cry of the earth” in their pursuits for peace in countries
scarred by ongoing conflict and injustice.
“In the power of prayer, with hands raised
to heaven and open to others, we must ensure that this period of history,
marked by war and the arrogance of power, soon comes to an end, giving rise to
a new era,” he said.
“We
cannot allow this period to continue. It shapes the minds of people who grow
accustomed to war as a normal part of human history,” he continued.
Pope Leo and other religious leaders lit
candles to symbolize their shared prayer and renewed commitment to engage in
interfaith dialogue.
Several people waved small blue banners
with the word “peace” in different languages while Pope Leo and the other
religious leaders lit candles to symbolize their shared prayer and renewed
commitment to engage in interfaith dialogue.
After the prayer gathering at Rome’s iconic landmark, the Holy Father
returned to the Vatican to join colorful celebrations jointly organized by the
Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian
Unity.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, several multicultural music
and dance performances were held inside the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall as
well as a presentation highlighting papal initiatives to promote the Church’s
dialogue with other religions since the pontificate of Pope Paul VI.
Pope Leo’s appearance and special address
toward the end of the two-hour gathering highlighted the Church’s reverence for
all people and its desire to collaborate with others for the common good.
“We belong to one human family, one in origin, and one also in our
final goal,” he said. “Religions everywhere try to respond to the restlessness
of the human heart.”
“Each in its own way offers teachings, ways of life, and sacred rites
that help guide their followers to peace and meaning,” he said.
Emphasizing the common mission shared among people of different
religions to “reawaken” the sense of the sacred in the world today, the Holy
Father encouraged people to “keep love alive.”
“We have come together in this place
bearing the great responsibility as religious leaders to bring hope to a
humanity that is often tempted by despair,” Leo said.
“Let us remember that prayer has the power
to transform our hearts, our words, our actions, and our world,” he said.
COMMENT: Now for the third
time in his short pontificate Leo/Provost quotes Leonard Boff's Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor. Boff
is a former Franciscan priest who was censored by the liberal Cardinal
Ratzinger when he headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under
the liberal JPII for his extreme Marxist liberation theology. Boff is famous
for his development of an integrated theology of Marxism, Gaia cult earth
worship and "social justice." He was admired by Francis/Bergoglio and
he is admired thrice as much by Leo/Provost. The picture with its Satanic
imagery was reportedly published by the Vatican. Leo/Provost, like
Francis/Bergoglio, wants to restore native American culture and religious
traditions. It should be remembered that Christopher Columbus encountered
cannibalism on his second voyage of exploration and ritual murder was
widespread not only among the Aztecs and Incas but in smaller tribes across
both North and South America as reported by Jesuit missionaries. In the
interfaith celebrations at the Vatican a young native American boy half dressed
paraded an image of a snake into the assembly before Leo/Provost. Is this the
native American tradition that the Vatican wants to recover?
Doctrinal Note on Marian titles: Mother of the faithful, not
Co-redemptrix
The document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, approved
by Pope Leo XIV, offers clarifications on titles applied to the Blessed Virgin
Mary, and calls for special attention to the use of the expression, “Mediatrix
of all graces.”
Vatican News
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
on Tuesday, 4 November 2025, published Mater populi fidelis (“The Mother of the
Faithful People”), a Doctrinal Note “On Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s
Cooperation in the Work of Salvation.” Signed by the Prefect, Cardinal Víctor
Manuel Fernández, and the Secretary for the Dicastery’s Doctrinal Section,
Monsignor Armando Matteo, the Note was approved by the Pope on 7 October.
Mater populi fidelis (MPF) is the fruit of
a long and complex collegial effort. It is a doctrinal document on Marian
devotion, centred on the figure of Mary, who is associated with the work of
Christ as Mother of believers. The Note provides a significant biblical
foundation for devotion to Mary, as well as marshalling various contributions
from the Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, elements of Eastern tradition, and
the thought of recent Popes.
In this positive framework, the doctrinal
text analyses a number of Marian titles, encouraging the adoption of some of
those appellations and warning against the use of others. Titles such as
“Mother of Believers,” “Spiritual Mother,” “Mother of the Faithful” are noticed
with approval in the Note. Conversely,
the title of “Co-redemptrix” is deemed inappropriate and problematic. The title
of “Mediatrix” is considered unacceptable when it takes on a meaning that
excludes Jesus Christ; however, it can used appropriately so long as it
expresses an inclusive and participatory mediation that glorifies the power of
Christ. The titles “Mother of Grace” and “Mediatrix of All Graces” are
considered acceptable when used in a very precise sense, but the document also
warns of particularly broad explanations of the meaning of the terms.
Essentially, the Note reaffirms Catholic
doctrine, which has always emphasised that everything in Mary is directed
towards the centrality of Christ and His salvific work. For this reason, even
if some Marian titles admit of an orthodox interpretation through correct
exegesis, Mater populi fidelis says it is preferable to avoid them.
In his presentation of the Doctrinal Note,
Cardinal Fernández expresses appreciation for popular devotion but warns against
groups and publications that propose a certain dogmatic development and raise
doubts among the faithful, including through social media. The main problem in
interpreting these titles applied to Our Lady, he says concerns the way of
understanding Mary's association with Christ's work of redemption (paragraph
3).
Co-redemptrix
Regarding the title “Co-redemptrix,” the
Note recalls that “some Popes have used the title “without elaborating much on
its meaning.” Generally, it continues, “they have presented the title in two
specific ways: in reference to Mary’s divine motherhood (insofar as she, as
Mother, made possible the Redemption that Christ accomplished) or in reference
to her union with Christ at the redemptive Cross. The Second Vatican Council
refrained from using the title for dogmatic, pastoral, and ecumenical reasons.
Saint John Paul II referred to Mary as ‘Co-redemptrix’ on at least seven
occasions, particularly relating this title to the salvific value of our
sufferings when they are offered together with the sufferings of Christ, to
whom Mary is united especially at the Cross” (18).
The document cites an internal discussion
within the then-Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which in February
1996 had discussed the request to proclaim a new dogma on Mary as
“Co-redemptrix or Mediatrix of all graces.” Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was
opposed to such a definition, arguing, “the precise meaning of these titles is
not clear, and the doctrine contained in them is not mature. […] It is not
clear how the doctrine expressed in these titles is present in Scripture and
the apostolic tradition.”
Later, in 2002, the future Benedict XVI
expressed himself publicly in the same way: “The formula ‘Co-redemptrix’
departs to too great an extent from the language of Scripture and of the
Fathers and therefore gives rise to misunderstandings… Everything comes from
Him [Christ], as the Letter to the Ephesians and the Letter to the Colossians,
in particular, tell us; Mary, too, is everything that she is through Him. The
word ‘Co-redemptrix’ would obscure this origin.”
The note clarifies that Cardinal Ratzinger
did not deny the good intentions behind the proposal, nor the valuable aspects
reflected in it, but nonetheless maintained that they were “being expressed in
the wrong way” (19).
Pope Francis also expressed his clear
opposition to the use of the title Co-Redemptrix on at least three occasions.
Tuesday’s Doctrinal Note concludes: “It is
always inappropriate to use the title ‘Co-redemptrix’ to define Mary’s cooperation.
This title risks obscuring Christ’s unique salvific mediation and can therefore
create confusion and an imbalance in the harmony of the truths of the Christian
faith. […] When an expression requires many, repeated explanations to prevent
it from straying from a correct meaning, it does not serve the faith of the
People of God and becomes unhelpful” (22).
Mediatrix
The Note emphasises that “the biblical
statement about Christ’s exclusive mediation is conclusive. Christ is the only
Mediator” (24).
At the same time, MPF recognises “the fact
that the word ‘mediation’ is commonly used in many areas of everyday life,
where it is understood simply as cooperation, assistance, or intercession. As a
result, it is inevitable that the term would be applied to Mary in a
subordinate sense. Used in this way, it does not intend to add any efficacy or
power to the unique mediation of Jesus Christ, true God and true man” (25).
Further, “it is clear that Mary has a real
mediatory role in enabling the Incarnation of the Son of God in our humanity”
(26).
Mother of believers and Mediatrix of all graces
Mary’s maternal role “in no way obscures or
diminishes” the unique mediation of Christ, “but rather shows its power […] Understood
in this way, Mary’s motherhood does not seek to weaken the unique adoration due
to Christ alone but, rather, seeks to enkindle it.”
Therefore, the Note states, “one must avoid titles and expressions that
present Mary as a kind of ‘lightning rod’ before the Lord’s justice, as if she
were a necessary alternative before the insufficiency of God’s mercy” (37b).
Thus, the title “Mother of Believers”
“enables us to speak of Mary’s role in our relation to our life of grace”.
However, MPF goes on to urge caution concerning the use of expressions that may
convey “less acceptable notions” (45).
“Cardinal Ratzinger already affirmed” for example, “that the title
‘Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces’ was not clearly grounded in Revelation.” So,
the Note continues, “in line with this conviction, we can recognize the
difficulties this title poses, both in terms of theological reflection and
spirituality” (45). In fact, “no human person — not even the Apostles or the
Blessed Virgin — can act as a universal dispenser of grace. Only God can bestow
grace, and he does so through the humanity of Christ” (53).
“Some titles, such as ‘Mediatrix of All Graces,’ have limits that do
not favour a correct understanding of Mary’s unique place,” MPF explains,
adding, “In fact, she, the first redeemed, could not have been the mediatrix of
the grace that she herself received” (67).
Nonetheless, the Doctrinal Note
acknowledges that “the term ‘graces,’ when seen in reference to Mary’s maternal
help at various moments in our lives, can have an acceptable meaning. The
plural form expresses all the aids — even material — that the Lord may grant us
when He heeds His Mother’s intercession” (68).
COMMENT: Amazing to hear these apostates chirping
about the lack of "precise meaning" of theological terms while
obscurity in definition is, and has been since Vatican II, the calling card of
the Novus Ordo theologian and prelates. They like to muddle what is clear.
Let's start with the title, "Mother of Believers" and "Mother of
the Faithful." These are, in fact, worthy titles of the Mother of God and
frequently occur in St. Mary of Agreda's City of God, yet the Novus Ordo
clerics would never be found offering a precise definition and meaning for the
term "faithful" and then identify exactly who the "faithful"
are.
The term "faithful" has a precise
Catholic definition. It refers to those who have been baptized into the
Catholic Church and profess the one, holy, catholic and apostolic faith. By
virtue of this incorporation by baptism they have become "children of
God." They faithfully believe all the truths that God has revealed on the
authority of God the Revealer. Only those who have become thus members of the
Mystical Body of Christ share by participation in His divine nature and become
brothers and sister of Jesus Christ and therefore, sons of His Mother. This
definition excludes all heretics, schismatics, Jews, pagans, and any other form
of idolaters. Novus Ordo clerics heretically teach that everyone is a child of
God by virtue of the Incarnation. Everyone by nature is a creature of God
created in His image and likeness with the spiritual soul with the powers of
reason and free will, but every creature is born in original sin and cut off
from the friendship of God. He is only a "child of God" in potentia. Without the sacrament of
Baptism and the Catholic faith they can never become "children of
God." This obscurity of definition as to who is a child of God and thus a
child of the Blessed Virgin Mary ultimately obscures what is necessary as a necessity
of means to obtain salvation.
The title Mediatrix of all grace is long
established and of sound and precise theological understanding. Those that
pretend otherwise are ignorant, proud, and deceitful. They have no excuse. 'The
law of prayer determines the law of belief' is, as affirmed by St. Pius X in Pascendi, a canon of faith from the time
of Celestine I, that is, a dogma of the Catholic Church. The immemorial Roman
rite has a Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mediatrix of all grace
celebrated on May 31 established by Pope Benedict XV. Regarding this feast, Dom
Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B. of the Abby of St. Andrew teaches:
"The will of God is that we should
have everything through Mary," says St. Bernard. The Father has sent us
His Son, but His will was to make His coming depend upon the Fiat of the
Virgin, which He commanded to the angel Gabriel to solicit on the day of the
Annunciation.
The Father and the Son send us the Holy
Ghost, but it is through Mary that He comes down to men. On the day of Pentecost,
according to an ancient Tradition, the heavenly fire which descended on the
Cenacle first rested on Mary, and then on the apostles. This is a figure of
what happens every day in the Church where the Holy Ghost is sent invisibly
into our souls. "All the gifts of the Holy Ghost are distributed by Mary
to those whom she chooses, whenever she wishes and as much as she wishes,"
says St. Bernardine of Siena.
The graces which the Holy Ghost pours down
on us are due to the merits of Christ on Calvary; but in order that God may
bestow them on the world, it is necessary that Mary should intervene. Having
cooperated by her divine maternity and by her sufferings at the foot of the
Cross in the Incarnation and Redemption, she has deserved to co-operate when
they are continually applied to creatures by the most High. "By the
communion of sorrows and of will between Christ and Mary," says St. Pius
X, "she has deserved to become the dispenser of all the blessings which
Jesus acquired for us by His blood" (Encyclical 2-2-1904). Such is His
will, but it is essential that she should constantly intercede for each one of
us. This she does, relying on the blood of Christ by whom she was herself
saved, and who alone saves us. This actual intervention of Mary plays a
preponderating part in the salvation of the world. It is important that we
should realize this, and it is the object of the feast of Mary Mediatrix of all
Graces. A clear idea of the fact may be obtained by simple reading the texts of
the Mass and Vespers.
"Through the Virgin," says St.
Bernardine of Siena, "life-giving graces flow from Christ, who is the
head, into His mystical body." "Through her," adds St.
Antoninus, "come from heaven all the graces granted to the world."
"What all the saints united to thee may obtain for us by their
intercession," writes St. Anselm, "thy pleading alone may obtain
without the help of their prayers." The maternal solicitude of Mary for
the whole human race is therefore continual, and it is because of this that
unceasingly, through the Mass, the sacraments, the hierarchy and other channels
of grace, the merits of Calvary are applied to our souls. "We may
affirm," declared Pope Leo XIII, "that by the will of God, nothing is
given to us without Mary's mediation, in such a way that just as no one can approach the almighty
Father but through His Son, so no one, so to speak, can approach Christ but
through His Mother" (Encyclical, 9-22-1891).
Let us therefore not consider as of small
importance the efforts made to establish this point of doctrine of Mary's
mediation, since this doctrine enables us to understand the divine plan, and
clearly manifests the mediation of the Son of God of which it is a corollary.
St.
Mary of Agreda at the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven,
writes that Jesus Christ addressed the entire heavenly assembly of angels and
saints saying:
"My
Father and eternal God, this is the Woman, that gave Me my human form in her
virginal womb, that nourished Me at her breast and sustained labors for Me,
that shared in my hardships and co-operated with Me in the works of Redemption.
This is She, who was always most faithful and fulfilled our will according to
our entire pleasure; She, pure and immaculate as my Mother, through her own
works, has reached the summit of sanctity according to the measure of the gifts
We have communicated to Her; and when She had merited her reward and could have
enjoyed it forever, She deprived Herself of it for Our glory and returned to
attend to the establishment, the government, and instruction of the Church
militant; and We, in order that She might live in it for the succor of the
faithful, deferred her eternal rest, which She has merited over and over again.
In the highest bounty and equity of our Providence it is just, that my Mother
should be remunerated for her works of love beyond all other creatures; and
toward Her the common law of the other mortals should not apply. If I have
merited for all infinite merits and boundless graces, it is proper that my
Mother should partake of them above all the others who are so inferior; for She in her conduct
corresponds to our liberality and puts no hindrance or obstacle to our infinite
power of communicating our treasures and participating them as the Queen and
Mistress of all that is created."
Sanctifying
grace is the created participation in the divine nature. The Blessed Virgin is
the "Queen and Mistress of all that is created." In this Mass the
Church prays:
"
O Lord Jesus Christ, our Mediator with the Father, who hast appointed the most
blessed Virgin, Thy mother, to be our mother also and our mediatrix before
Thee: Grant that whosoever draweth nigh to Thee to beseech any benefit, may
receive all things through her and rejoice.
Rev.
Gregory Alastruey's theological work titled, The Blessed Virgin Mary, says that, "There are five principle titles and offices due
Mary, the Mother of God, by reason of her cooperation in redemption: Mediatrix,
Co-redemptrix, Mother of Christians, Patroness or Advocate, and Queen and
Mistress of the universe. I would recommend those who deny this proper
honor to the Mother of God obtain a copy of the book and have their stupidity
erased. I do not say, ignorance erased because willful ignorance is stupidity. Fr. Alastruey affirms that
"Mary is truly mediatrix of the human race and this doctrine pertains to
the deposit of faith." He then draws from Scripture, the Fathers,
and theologians in support of this truth. He proves from the Church Fathers
that the word "mediatrix" was explicitly used by St. Ephrem, St. Epiphanius,
St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil of Seleucia, St. Andrew of Crete, St Germanus of
Constantinople, St. John Damascene, St Theodore, St. Antoninus and Denis the
Carthusian. He draws richly from the divine liturgy from both Eastern and Roman
traditions. The errors of the Protestant heretics are addressed and exposed
which are curiously the same as expressed by the Novus Ordo popes.
Lastly,
it is worth asking Why do the Novus Ordo popes hate these proper titles of the Mother
of God? The answer is simple. The Blessed Virgin asked the three children at
Fatima on June 13, 1917, "Are
you willing to offer yourselves to God to bear all the sufferings He wills to
send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and of
supplication for the conversion of sinners?" To which question all
answered, "Yes, we are willing." The Mother of God said on July 13
after the children had seen a vision of Hell, "Sacrifice yourselves for
sinners, and say many times, especially whenever you make some sacrifice: O
Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation
for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." On August 19
(the apparition did not occur on the August 13 because the children were in
prison) the Mother of God continued saying, "Pray, pray very much, and
make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none
to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them." The Blessed Virgin is
asking the children to be co-redemptors and co-mediators of grace with her in
union with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the conversion and salvation of
sinners. If the title of Co-Redemtrix and Mediatrix of all Grace can be taken
away from the Mother of God then no one is responsible to do penance for their
own sins or the sins of others. This falls back to the Protestant heresy on the
dogma of justification and the very nature of our incorporation into the divine
nature in the Mystical Body of Christ. Leo/Provost, like his predecessor
Francis/Bergoglio, believes that proselytism is "solemn nonsense."
They attack the titles to excuse their own faithless sloth. They are working to
obscure the very means of salvation. As Jesus Christ said: "But woe to you
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven
against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in,
you suffer not to enter" (Matt 23:13).
Pope
Leo is just another heretic who denies the Blessed Virgin Mary her just titles
of Mediatrix of all Grace and Co-Redemtrix. Only a few days ago, he celebrated
with heretics, schismatics, Jews, Moslems, and a variety of idolaters a shared
communion praying to their common god a united petition for peace in the world.
He continues to ignore the peace plan offered by the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mediatrix of all Grace, at Fatima. Pope Leo will soon learn that those who
insult the Mother have made an enemy of the Son.
It was the opening of the three-day
“Raising Hope for Climate Justice” conference organised by the Laudato si’
Movement in collaboration with ecclesial and institutional partners. 
If
the ice block is 20,000 years old then the Genesis creation account and the
global flood of Noe is reduced to mythology and not divine revelation. The fact
is, ancient mythology ended with the Christian revelation of Jesus Christ but
the modern scientific world is doing its best to resurrect the cult of
mythology. The world likes to talk about the scientific fables of Big Bang,
primordial soups with lightening bubbling forth proteins that congeal into
cellular life with the teleological purpose of producing the DNA of Darwinian
man. These fables are believed and shamelessly pandered by our neo-modernists
popes. The absurdity is that the neo-modernists popes have embraced the myths
of scientology when science itself has discredited their claims. Scientists
have been predicting global flooding of coastal areas for the last fifty years
with no evidence of rising sea levels. Global warming is not science. It is
liberal ideology applied to climatology that always calls for a one-world
governance to enforce its dictatorial and anti-Catholic mandates. The alleged
global warming is always without exception a man made assault on Mother Earth
that requires the ritual murder of 6.5 billion people for a world
"sustainable" population of 500 million for expiation. Never is it
considered in their calculus that the
Here's
a particularly forlorn historical date: More than 100 years ago, between the
19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and
civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian
Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also
known as Cheka. 
“My
reaction was a silent cry of horror, indignation, and sorrow,” the auxiliary of
Astana, Kazakhstan, said regarding the Vatican’s approval of an LGBT-themed
“pilgrimage” on its Jubilee website, in an interview with Diane Montagna, a
journalist in Rome.
He pointed out that in doing so, Pope Leo
XIV broke with the precedent of all popes before Francis, who “neither received
officially nor posed for photographs with those who, by word or deed, openly
rejected the doctrinal and moral teaching of the Church.”
The 'Western Wall' (Wailing Wall) in
Jerusalem is held by Jews as a remnant of Herod's Temple destroyed by the
Romans in 72 A.D. Yet, Jesus prophesized not only that the Temple would be
destroyed but also that there would not remain a "stone upon a
stone." So how is it that there remains a large wall on the western side
at the south end of the 'Temple Mount'? Some Catholics claim the prophecy of
Jesus was referring only to the edifice itself and not the entire foundation
for the Temple. Jesus words must be taken in literally unless there it is
clearly manifest that the metaphorical sense is intended exclusively.
Therefore, the 'Wailing Wall' where the Jews worship is not a remnant of the ancient
Temple, and the 'Temple Mount', on which is currently situated the Al-Aqsa
mosque and the "Dome of the Rock", is not the location of the Temple
destroyed in 72 A.D. The 36 acre 'Temple Mount' is actually the location of the
Roman fortress Antonia built by Herod.
Carlo Alberto Capella was
Vatican diplomat who was convicted by a Vatican tribunal of possessing and
sharing child pornography. Capella admitted guilt to the charges. He is the only
one who has served a prison sentence in the Vatican jail for this crime or for
any sexually related crime against minors.