When Lefebvre left the Holy Ghost fathers (founded 1703), there were 5,000, today 2,000. They did not listen to him; others did not listen. The Jesuits have lost 1/2 in the same time period. It is typical of the modernist Vatican to not answer when there isn't one. The SSPX has just over 700 priests. These men were truly courageous because they faced total rejection for so many years, even after 2009 when the suspension was lifted.
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The Third Commandment requires Catholics (everyone) to attend Mass on Sunday and on Holy Days of Obligation, and failure to attend is a mortal sin that condemns one to Hell. One cannot evade the Commandment. Peter Kwasniewski is known here in Sacramento. My journey to the Latin Mass occurred a little later than his. He answers the question, "When can I skip Mass?" a pressing question Latin Mass goers face. I do not suffer from scrupulosity. However, blogging on a Sunday could be servile work. My hope is that TLM Catholics avoid nitpicking each other. I'm glad you are there.
Iwo Jima Date of video: March 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima: Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945 Five Marines receive communion from a Catholic chaplain in an open field. Four Marines come out of a small cave in the hillside to receive communion. Michael S. Rose is the author of Goodbye, Good Men, referenced in Paul VI & Paul. Rose's speech was posted five years ago. Book TV attracted many viewers like me, so how did I miss the exposé? The only psychology textbook I read was in college. I'll stick to fiction. From 2005 to 2021 Rose served as Book Editor and Associate Editor for the New Oxford Review. He taught literature, composition, journalism, and rhetoric at college and high school levels. He is Headmaster and Superintendent of Cincinnati Classical Academy.
I have a friend, 24, considering the diocesan priesthood or religious life. He has two very good diocesan priests advising him. One is a vocations director, and the other says the Latin Mass. I read a report that Bishop Strickland, exiled but not canceled, tweeted a mistake he made. He said that he was not so strong as he should have been in resisting Francis.
Strickland is the first bishop to make such an admission. I'd invite him to the fantasy nation I dreamt up yesterday. The word nation derives from the Latin verb nasci, meaning to be born. From that we get Nativity.
My fantasy nation would be
Hungarian diplomat Eduard Hapsburg, aka Archduke Eduard of Austria, might be the right man to solicit. He is also a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former ruling family of Austria-Hungary. We would counsel him. The nation would be organized around the monastery and from there the educational system would emanate. We would have a modern hospital and police force. We would eschew all other alliances and produce our own products for export, which would then provide exchange for imports. Taxes would be enough and no more to pay for the hospital, a bank, a court, and police. Settlers would provide other community needs, such as roads, fire, water, and reclamation, and, like Yellowstone, there would be no fences, necessitating firearms, and people would be free to leave. There would be no need for a constitution as our school would give its students Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on the relationship between government and Church, Immortale Dei. Where? 'One Step Beyond' St. Marys, KS. How many synods have there been? 19 How many have there been recently? 16 In the modern era, the first took place in 1967, established by Paul 6, the purpose of which was to continue the “collaborative spirit” of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) by gathering bishops from around the world to discuss a topic chosen by the leader. The 2023-2024 Synod on Synodality is the 16th. Sixteen out of 19 have occurred since 1967. Do you need me to repeat that? The Organization Credit goes to Marc Barnes. He titles his article dated March 24, 2017, "An Idiotic Hierarchy." He mocks with one equilateral triangle, a one-sided pyramid. If I link the article, the temple police will be after him. area = √3/4 x a² (a is the length of the side, all sides being a)
Encyclical Oct 3, 2020
Title translated: all brothers Selected quotes from Wikipedia [Islam] In the encyclical, Pope Francis states that his February 2019 meeting in Abu Dhabi with Grand Imam of al-Azhar, during which they signed the Document on Human Fraternity, was an inspiration for the document. [Existentialism] The notion of “neighbour” elaborated in the document is partly inspired by the interpretation of Paul Ricoeur, whom the pope quotes twice in the encyclical; the pope also quotes one of Ricoeur’s thought leaders, Christian existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel. [Fernandez] Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez participated in the encyclical’s redaction. [Death Penalty/Life Imprisonment] Pope Francis repeats that the death penalty is “inadmissible” and that “there can be no stepping back from this position”. He also expresses opposition to life imprisonment, which he calls a “secret death penalty”. [War] Francis says that wars can no longer be considered justifiable, as the risks of war exceed any supposed benefits. He believes that “it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a just war.” [Just War] Francis adds that Augustine of Hippo, “who forged a concept of ‘just war’ that we no longer uphold in our own day, also said that ‘it is a higher glory still to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.’” [Freemasons] Through its communication organ El Oriente, the Grand Lodge of Spain praises the encyclical, saying that it shows “how far the current Catholic Church is from its former position.” The Grand Orient of Italy wrote in its official magazine Erasmo to praise the encyclical, saying the “idea of universal brotherhood as a bond that unites all human beings, regardless of their faith, ideology, color, skin, social background, language, culture and nation” expressed in the Fratelli tutti are “close to the ideals that have been the very foundations of Freemasonry from the very beginning.” He wants to change the Church into a global brotherhood in his own image. When will he become a father again, taking care of us? Never. Was Paul VI (1897-1978) blackmailed? Now I know who started retiring priests.
May 6, 2024 “...As we discuss the dangers of false authority and misplaced obedience, it is important to note that the laity in the Church do not exist for the sake of the clergy in the Church. The clergy exist to provide the sacraments necessary for salvation to the laity. The paramount concern of all clergy should always, ALWAYS, be the salvation of the souls entrusted to them...” https://cforc.com/2024/05/bishop-joseph-stricklands-letter-just-following-orders/ Strickland elevates me. Jesuits Reese and Francis exist to bring us the sacraments, not publicly admonish the faithful, and they are most certainly not saints to be listened to or emulated. I'm not speaking of dissenters when I say that I have high regard for nonconformist priests. Christ, the reigning example, rebuffed the Pharisees and civil authority. Therefore, rebuffing authority when it grasps falsehoods is legitimate. I'd like the TLM community to be nonconformist. Nonconformity is an interior disposition, having nothing to do with how you comb your hair but everything to do with good manners. I see only one man with a hand on the altar, and it's his right hand. A priest can say Mass by himself with Christ when no one else is present. Check out the Council of Trent documents in the previous post. Concelebration, a fallacious, 1960s interlude, is not the same as priest, deacon, and subdeacon. I talk like I'm an expert. Not so. A lot of this comes out of reading and observing. artist: Fra Angelico
“Since my critics often accuse me of heresy, before I go further, let me affirm that I believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I just don’t believe in transubstantiation because I don’t believe in prime matter, substantial forms and accidents that are part of Aristotelian metaphysics.” Thomas J. Reese, SJ “The Eucharist is about More than the Real Presence”, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 31, 2023.
Reese makes a variety of other outrageous assertions in the article. Outside the confessional, who is he to tell me what to believe or how to live? With the exception of the Francis addition declaring capital punishment immoral, the catechism is my guide. The Baltimore is the easiest. Reese was in formation when he was teaching at my high school. He was a wimp, and some boys flocked around him. My rank was 33rd of 250. Nevertheless, my wits let me know when a trickster came into view. Now I know he is anathema. In the New Testament an anathema is a person or thing condemned by God. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. 9 As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. Reese went on to say: “Thomas Aquinas used Aristotelianism, the avant-garde philosophy of his time, to explain the Eucharist to his generation. What worked in the 13th century will not work today. If he were alive today, he would not use Aristotelianism because nobody grasps it in the 21st century.” What an unbelievably condescending thing to say to us, but his aim is not to talk down to us. The political animal based in D.C. wants to keep the perks of an easy life. Council of Trent “If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or figure, or force, let him be anathema. “If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist there remains the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the entire substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread and wine only remaining, a change which the Catholic Church most fittingly calls transubstantiation: let him be anathema. (Council of Trent, Session 13, Chapter 4 and Canons 1 and 2; Denz. 877, 883-884.) https://novusordowatch.org/2023/02/jesuit-tom-reese-denies-transubstantiation/ Reese asserted in the same rag (National Catholic Reporter) that climate change is the "No. 1 pro-life issue" facing the Catholic Church today. Council of Trent documents: www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent/twenty-second-session.htm St. Bernard School, Paris In April 2020, the congregation of SSPX Saint-Nicolas defied social distancing regulations then in force by holding an Easter Vigil. A live stream on YouTube showed the priest and deacons in close contact, without wearing masks, and Holy Communion was given with bare hands. About 40 people were in attendance. The priest was warned, booked, and given a €135 fine, since proven to be the correct response by a Catholic church to the tyranny of perversion. For all the cretins out there, tutoring was suspended for six months, but when it resumed, my students and I did not wear masks, and we were just fine. The last song they sing is Latin and French. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Benedicta tu. We had a children's Mass at 9am Sunday, St. Anne, SF, with the pre-modernist PBVM nuns, 15-20 (photo is Epiphany School, SF). To give you some idea of the difference between then and now, I walked to St. Anne by myself, and a family in the parish owned a grocery store, three blocks from our home. The Barulich family delivered groceries to the nuns every week for free. Carrying no pocketbook, they boarded public transportation for free. Anthony reads John Hardon, SJ, 1914-2000, the last good Jesuit, which saddens me as they were my educators. Joe Ketzer, my Jesuit-educated friend in Vienna, told me the same thing. Remember, Cardinal Cupich of Chicago banned the Prayer to St. Michael. If that isn't evil, what is?
Edward Pentin June 16, 2023 “Although shrines are not subject to the specific restrictions introduced by Pope Francis in 2021, Bishop Peter Collins has not granted permission for traditional Latin Masses to be celebrated in Walsingham, England’s national shrine.” www.ncregister.com/blog/walsingham-restrictions-on-tlm Collins, 65, is another lackey caught in a 60s time warp. altar and shrine in the Slipper Chapel at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (photo: Thorvaldsson / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0)
A young-looking Bishop Rene Gracida, 101, spoke out in support of exiled Bishop Strickland. I think Sarah and Burke have, and Vigano. That makes four out of 5,600. Bishop Gracida is referred to as retired. It’s like saying retired husband.
She received it.
Better choice - say no. Basis for that - Litany of Humility. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved... From the desire of being extolled... From the desire of being praised... From the desire of being preferred to others... That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. Etcetera. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition (YouTube channel) reads a letter from Father Donald Kloster, a diocesan priest, not a priest of the SSPX or any other of the Latin Mass orders. The letter will shock the New Mass people. When I say "New Mass people", I mean those still attending the Mass instituted in 1969/1970. At the time we were led to believe that the Latin Mass had been replaced. That was a lie. Anthony Stine, PhD, Public Affairs and Policy, Portland State University
Only Anthony has the letter. I uploaded his full presentation for that reason. Enlarge the screen so that you can read the letter along with Anthony. Reference is made to Bryan Froehle, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, Palm Beach Atlantic University. The school is not affiliated with the Catholic Church. I have written about Kloster before; see Father Donald Kloster. Date: 05/2/2024
Here are the signatories to a letter, "Call for the Resignation of Pope Francis":
What is one peter five? For all the Neanderthals who think we don't know the Bible, and Chopin got very frustrated with the type - www.drbo.org/chapter/67005.htm I did not time my comments yesterday on Francis 5/3/2024 to the above letter issued the day before 5/2/2024. I did not know of the letter's existence until today. Revulsion to this man is coinciding and rising. Paragraph 1869 [Complicity]
[S]in makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. “Structures of sin” are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a “social sin.” Paragraph 2272 [Abortion] Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. Catechism of the Catholic Church (any edition) procure (verb) Cambridge Dictionary example: Low interest rates support bonds by making it cheaper for investors to procure funds and invest in fixed-income securities. To procure is to give or obtain funds. One accompanies the other. Planned Parenthood affiliates received about $148 million in federal grants from 2019 through 2021. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106215 How is that possible? Everyone knows women go there for an abortion, not health services. You go to an emergency room doctor, not Planned Parenthood, if a sewing machine needle has penetrated your finger or you've been raped. I've sat with three girls in the emergency room. Because Joe Biden formally cooperates in abortion, he is excommunicated latae sententiae. His bishop, Wilton Gregory, has not informed him and has refused to do anything. His superior, Jorge Bergoglio, has not ordered Wilton to do anything. Have they twisted some canonical law to excuse themselves? All three are complicit. Frank Pavone Remember Father Frank Pavone, the prominent, outspoken pro-life priest? He was canceled and is still canceled. That means his priestly faculties were taken away. I just googled him, and the answer was that he was a former priest. How stupid! Once a priest, always a priest. It's a sacrament and leaves an indelible mark. Removing his faculties was pure evil. I have not heard one bishop say out loud what I have said. Many American Catholics ignore what has happened. And that describes the state of the Catholic Church, one cruelty after another after another after another. When it comes to praying for the pope at Mass, I have a mental reservation. I pray for A pope, not one who is schismatic and disloyal. Forget about diverting attention to someone else. It is also a moral injunction that one vote for the lesser of two evils. I'm going to quote my Austrian friend, Joe Ketzer, also a tutor:
Today is the feast of my Patron Saint. It was introduced in 1955 under Pope Pius XII as St. Joseph the Worker (The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM, Patron of the Universal Church). He had a very challenging life, providing for the Holy Family, managing the escape to Egypt, sometimes one of his clients might have run out of assets and couldn't have paid for the built house - maybe Jesus was inspired by such an event for His parable of the unfinished tower (Luke 14, 28). At least he was spared as witness to the cruel death of Jesus. In the FSSP magazine of Austria I read that there's a tradition that believes that St. Joseph was among the deceased who were resurrected immediately after Christ's dying on the cross and appeared to many people in Jerusalem after the Resurrection. Not a dogma, but a beautiful story. “Obviously, the Catholic Church does not favor a theocracy, in which the state would be ruled by God through His representatives, the clergy. Rather, the ideal state as taught by the Church is the Catholic confessional state. In such a setup, Church and state each have their separate domains, but ultimately both are working towards the same end, and the state is always subject to the Church, albeit indirectly. Pope Leo XIII laid out all the principles on Church-state relations in his encyclical letter Immortale Dei (1885), but of course this was all overthrown by Roncalli‘s robber synod known as the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).”
novusordowatch.org Another priest cancelled: Father Thomas Held. Who did it? Bishop Robert Gruss, 68, Saginaw, MI. Gruss ordained him, then canned him. It can be inferred that the perpetrator behind the scenes staged the whole thing to get Held ousted. Numbers of Catholics have no experience when dealing with the possibility of malice aforethought. Also, there are two priests in the diocese who wear suit and tie for the official diocesan photo. That alone signals something is wrong. But for Held, none, including the bishop, hold beliefs in line with what the Church teaches. It's all about protecting themselves and sinecures.
Magdalene’s Complaint at Christ’s Death Thirty-four-year-old Robert was beheaded and quartered at Tyburn on Feb. 21, 1595, for the crime of being a Catholic priest. He came from the Douay-Rheims group (NT - 1582, OT - 1609-1610).
Southwell and Shakespeare “Apart from their mutual acquaintance with the Earl of Southampton, and the strong circumstantial evidence that they must have known each other within the confines of London’s close-knit Catholic recusant community, the strongest evidence for Southwell’s and Shakespeare’s friendship is to be found in their respective works. … “Shortly before his capture in July 1592, Southwell had been working on a manuscript of his poems and had penned a Preface addressed to the author’s ‘Loving Cousin’. Since Southwell and Shakespeare were distant cousins, it has been conjectured that the Preface was addressed to Shakespeare, though others have suggested that the ‘Cousin’ in question was perhaps Southampton, since Southwell’s brother and sister had each married Southampton’s first cousins. “Either way, the Preface itself is an appeal to poets in general, or perhaps to Shakespeare in particular, to use their God-given talents in the service of the Giver of them: ‘Poets, by abusing their talents, and making the follies and feignings of love the customary subject of their base endeavours, have so discredited this faculty, that a poet, a lover, and a liar, are by many reckoned but three words of one signification….’” theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/07/romeo-jesuits-robert-southwell-joseph-pearce.html#:~:text=Since%20Southwell%20and%20Shakespeare%20were,each%20married%20Southampton's%20first%20cousins. Shakespeare wrote a poem to honor Anne Line and her husband, but you will find no mention of her name in it. The Phoenix and the Turtle Catholics were subject to a COE tax and fines and had two choices: pay the tax and lay low or be jailed and executed. Shakespeare chose the former; the Line's and Southwell chose the latter. Two other women were executed for hiding priests: Clitherow and Ward. Title: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Artist: Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, b. 1632, d. 1675 Delft) Date: c. 1670–72 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 45 x 35 in. (114.3 x 88.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 Accession Number: 32.100.18 Vermeer had 10 children. From the curator This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic, draws on the complex language of allegory to depict the triumph of the Catholic Church. A woman, representing the church itself, places one foot atop a globe, while in the foreground the cornerstone of the church crushes the serpent of evil. Vermeer converted to Catholicism before his marriage, and this painting, which includes a table laden with chalice, missal, and crucifix, may also refer to the celebration of the Mass in "hidden churches" within private homes. The Crucifixion scene in the background is based on a painting in Vermeer’s collection by the Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens. |
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