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Returning altar rails, ad orientem, decent vestments, Gregorian chant, throwing in a bit of incense, doing away with altar girls as well as Bob and Susan at Communion et al: all that can serve to make the NO less intolerable, sure, but it can't fix THE problem, the Original Sin of the liturgical upheaval we're all living though, which is the insane rejection of what was received and handed down through the centuries, the ancient rituals and ceremonies which Latin rite Catholics are as bound to cherish and "own" EVERY BIT as much as, for example, Byzantine Catholics are bound to cherish their liturgical heritage (Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom). Paul VI (being merely and importantly the Pope) had absolutely no right to discard and replace it, on the contrary he was bound to defend it with his lifeblood, and to do everything for its preservation. Ditto a Council of the Church. That's my conviction. When sanity is restored to the Church, I cannot bring myself to doubt that it will be the prevailing view.
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The Twelve Months Sanctified by Prayer: November, Month of the Souls in Purgatory by M. L'ABBE A. RICARD, D.S.G. Translated from the French. 1877 November 11 YOU DID IT TO ME.
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Prelude.
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Our Lord Himself invites us to intercede for the souls in Purgatory. Let us listen reverently to Him, and after spending a few minutes in lovingly considering His infinite goodness, let us meditate on one of the most powerful motives which could excite our devotion to the souls in Purgatory.
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Meditation.
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The motives on which we have already meditated must. if our soul is Christian and full of faith, have made a great impression. Today we shall meditate on another motive, which, if it leaves us cold and insensible, will show that we do not even deserve the name of Christian, and that we have not an atom of faith.
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God, Whose majesty is immense, Whose goodness and liberality are infinite, God Whom we have so often offended, and Who has obliged us, in a thousand ways, to pay Him every homage, God, I say, has vouchsafed by an inconceivable prodigy to accept all the good which we do to man as if it was done to Himself. His Son has assured us of it when He said, "Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these, My least brethren, you did it to Me." It is as if He said : All the works of mercy which you have exercised towards My brethren have been as agreeable to Me as if you had done them to Me. I am not the less obliged for the help given to the soul of one of My brethren than if you had delivered it from Purgatory, and sent it to heaven. How then can we neglect anything which pleases the Son of God so much? Can we be influenced by a more powerful motive?
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Resolution.
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Remember sometimes that Our Lord considers as done to Himself the help which we give the souls in Purgatory.
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Aspiration.
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"You did it to Me." (Gospel according to St. Matthew xxv. 40.)
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EXAMPLE: MARY OF THE ANGELS (Maria degli Angeli).
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A very edifying life has been published of Mary of the Angels, a Carmelite beatified by his Holiness Pius IX. Here are some extracts from it:
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"It is quite certain that this blessed soul possessed an heroic charity and devotion to the souls in Purgatory, and two causes conspired to give her these sentiments. First, it was her love of God. Nothing is dearer to God than these souls which the flames of Purgatory cleanse from every stain, and Mary of the Angels did not forget this, and therefore as deep as was her love for her divine Master, so deep also was her desire of delivering those souls which she knew He loved so tenderly. Secondly, it was her charity towards her neighbour. A super natural light had shown her the sad condition of those souls, and the unspeakable torments which they suffer, and this knowledge had so excited her compassion in their favour that she left nothing undone to procure their deliverance. She spared neither prayers, fasting, nor penances, to attain this holy end, and she tried also to in spire the same feelings in her sisters and secular persons.
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As there is no work holier or more beneficial to the souls in Purgatory than the sacrifice of the Mass, Mary of the Angels was careful to have it often offered up for the repose of their souls, and for this end she held out her hand to the rich, and occupied herself in pious labours. When she filled the office of prioress, she employed herself in working altar-linen and ornaments, which she sent to some priest or church, asking for sole payment that Masses should be celebrated for the holy souls; she inspired her sisters with the same generous feelings, and induced them to employ themselves in the same manner. During one of her priorships, as she was praying one night for the souls in Purgatory, she yielded to an impulse of fervour, and promised to have five Masses celebrated for their intention every month.
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In the morning, she made known her promise to her assistants,. who remarked that her desire could not be accomplished, because of the extreme poverty of the house. God then came in a wonderful manner to the help of the generous prioress. During the day, a stranger came to seek her, and told her that it was his custom to have a great many Masses celebrated, and that he felt himself inspired to give her an alms, so that she could have five celebrated every month, leaving her also entire liberty with regard to the application of the holy sacrifice."
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Hamoud Al-Soaimi was found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault, including sex with a 12-year-old girl.
He received 180 hours of community service. No jail.
In Newcastle, two vulnerable girls were groomed, passed around, and repeatedly raped.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi was convicted of three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. But when he stood up to be sentenced on 1 March 2024, he did not go to prison.
He was given two years, suspended for two years, and 180 hours of unpaid work. He walked out of court a free man.
The media barely reported his sentence. The BBC, who had once made a sympathetic documentary about the Badreddin family as Syrian refugees, went quiet.
The politicians who scream about protecting children said nothing. No outrage from Labour. No outrage from the Home Office. No emergency debate in Parliament.
When people tried to get the sentence increased as unduly lenient, the bid failed. The system closed ranks and decided that 180 hours of sweeping streets was justice for a child rape gang victim.
A white British veteran, Adam Smith-Connor, prayed silently outside an abortion clinic and got a conviction, a criminal record, and thousands in costs.
A white British man posted an angry Facebook post after Southport and got 2 to 3 years in immediate custody.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi sexually assaulted children in a grooming gang and got a suspended sentence and 180 hours.
That is not justice. That is a two-tier system. That is politicians and judges protecting the narrative of multiculturalism instead of protecting British girls.
Not to suggest all Muslims are bad (of course not!) but posing that question really is an own goal. There’s a LONG line of people with a distressing answer to that question. In the UK alone, those bereaved/scarred by 11 (!) major Islamic terror attacks since 2000, and numerous victims of the grooming gangs. And talk to Christians in Nigeria and many other places. There is a LONG queue with an answer to that.
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🚨 Cientos de niños están quedando huérfanos después de que islamistas masacraran a sus padres en Sudán.
Esto está ocurriendo en estos tiempos. En estos meses. No hace 10 años.
¿Dónde está la ONU?
¿Dónde está la CIJ?
¿Dónde está Greta?
¿Dónde está UNICEF?
¿Dónde está Amnistía Internacional?
¿Dónde está Gutteres?
¿Dónde está Karim Khan?
¿Dónde está Francesca Albanese?
¿Dónde está MSF?
¿Dónde están los medios de comunicación?
¿Dónde está la UE?
¿Dónde están las protestas universitarias?
¿Dónde está el Vaticano?
¿Dónde está Macron?
¿Dónde está Sánchez?
¿Dónde está Bernie Sanders?
¿Dónde está AOC?
Dónde es...
Sampled a bit of Nigerian soap opera, via a colleague, earlier today. Definitely in the ‘so bad it’s good’ camp.
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Sorry but the way PL speaks makes one want to die of cringe, in sheer contrast to this golden stuff:
Pius XI notes with joy that they have come to Rome to celebrate with him “not only the nineteenth centenary of the divine Redemption, but also the nineteenth centenary of Mary, the centenary of her coredemption, of her universal maternity” He then exhorts the youth to “follow the way of thinking and the desire of Mary most holy, who is our Mother and our Co-redemptrix: they, too, must make a great effort to be coredeemers and apostles, according to the spirit of Catholic Action, which is precisely the cooperation of the laity in the hierarchical apostolate of the Church”
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Pope Pius XI, 1934 Holy Year of Redemption, Lenten commemoration of Our Lady of Sorrows to Spanish pilgrims; L’Osservatore Romano, March 25, 1934, p. 1.
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“By necessity, the Redeemer could not but associate (Italian, non poteva, per necessità di cose, non associare) his Mother in his work. For this reason we invoke her under the title of Coredemptrix. She gave us the Savior, she accompanied him in the work of Redemption as far as the Cross itself, sharing with him the sorrows of the agony and of the death in which Jesus consummated the Redemption of mankind”
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November 30, 1933, Pius XI, papal allocution to the pilgrims of Vicenza, Italy.
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"Even if Mary was not present at the creation of the material heavens, nevertheless she was present at the creation of the spiritual heavens – the Apostles; and although she was not present at the founding of the material earth, nevertheless she was present at the founding of the spiritual earth – the Church. For she alone co-operated in the mystery of the Incarnation; she alone co-operated in the mystery of the Passion, standing before the cross, and offering her Son for the salvation of the world."
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St. Robert Bellarmine.
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BREAKING:
Several killed and many wounded in suspected terror attacking at the main square in Krakow, Poland.
A man in a black car drove across the square in black car, shooting from a rifle.
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"When the bases of the interior life are considered, we cannot discuss the action of Christ, the universal Mediator, on His mystical body without also speaking of the influence of Mary Mediatrix. Many persons delude themselves, maintaining that they reach union with God without having continual recourse to our Lord, who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist in wishing to go to our Lord without going first to Mary. Protestants have fallen into this last error. . . We lack humility if we neglect the mediators whom God has given us.
The prophets and priests of the Old Testament may be called mediators, and also the priests of the New Testament, as ministers of the true Mediator. There is nothing to prevent there being mediators below Christ, subordinated to Him as secondary mediators.
Is not Mary in her quality as Mother of God completely designated to be the universal mediatrix? She is, indeed, much below God and Christ because she is a creature, but much above all men by the grace of her divine maternity, and by the plenitude of grace received at the moment of her Immaculate Conception.
The free consent that she gave on Annunciation day was necessary for the accomplishment of the Incarnation. By this free fiat, she cooperated in the sacrifice of the cross. She cooperated in it also by offering her Son in the Temple - more enlightened than Simeon she offered her Son, and began to suffer deeply with Him when she heard the holy man tell her that He would be a sign which would be contradicted and that a sword would pierce her soul.
Her charity surpassed that of the greatest saints. At the moment when her Son was about to die on the cross, she did not cease for a moment to believe that He was the Word made flesh, the Savior of the world, who would rise as He had predicted. This was the greatest act of faith and hope ever made.
She was thus the co-redemptrix, in this sense, that with Christ, through Him, and in Him, she bought back the human race. All that Christ merited for us on the cross in strict justice, Mary merited for us by congruous merit, based on the charity that united her to God. Christ alone, as head of the human race, could strictly merit to transmit divine life to us.
Mary is called in all Greek and Latin tradition the new Eve, Mother of all men in regard to the life of the soul, as Eve was in regard to the life of the body. It stands to reason that the spiritual mother of all men ought to give them spiritual life, not as the principal physical cause (for God alone can be the principal physical cause of grace), but as the moral cause by merit de congruo, merit de condigno being reserved to Christ.
This teaching of tradition itself rests in part on the words of Christ, related in the Gospel. Seeing 'His mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, He saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.' The literal meaning of these words, “Behold thy son,” points to St. John, but for God, events and persons signify others; here St. John represents spiritually all men purchased by the sacrifice of the cross.
Mary truly appears in Scripture as the distributor of graces. Through Mary, Jesus sanctified the Precursor when she went to visit her cousin Elizabeth. Through His mother, Jesus confirmed the faith of the disciples at Cana, by granting the miracle that she asked.
It is expedient to frequently use the prayer of mediators, that is, to begin our prayer by a trusting, filial conversation with Mary, that she may lead us to the intimacy of her Son, and that the holy soul of the Savior may then lift us to union with God, since Christ is the way, the truth, and the life." - Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Meanwhile, in Novus Ordo Land
“All religions are a path to reach God. They are — I make a comparison — like different languages, different idioms, to get there. But God is God for everyone. And since God is God for everyone, we are all children of God. ‘But my God is more important than yours!’ Is this true? There is only one God, and our religions are languages, paths to reach God. Some are Sikh, some are Muslim, some are Hindu, some are Christian, but they are different paths.” — Francis, 2024
It was at this point, far from being, in substance, a *turning* point, that my suspicions were moved to certainty about how the intellect of some can be completely overridden by the faculty of the will, particularly in apologetics.
We teach our kids the first and second commandments, and they understand from a very young age: "You shall have no other gods before me... for I am a jealous God... punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." (Exodus 20:3-4)
Unmistakable clarity was given by the teaching of Jesus: "If any man doesn't hate his Father, Mother, Wife, Brother, and even himself, he is not worthy of Me." Or Paul: "Whoever does not love the Lord Jesus, let him be anathema." (1 Cor. 16:22)
Children, and we included ("you must become a child"), understand what that all means.
And yet, highly educated Catholic philosophers/theologians, all undoubtedly possessed of extremely high IQs, were still trying to defend the message of Pope Francis (audio/video evidence below) as consistent with the basic commandments of God.
There should be no excuse at all, but how do we explain this phenomenon?
Smart, but helplessly engulfed in the enigma of contradiction.
"Ybarra, God is in the paradoxical tension. You just don't see it yet."
What they do is clearly nod their head in agreement with the 10 commandments with a smile from ear to ear, but then there is a door to the basement that they have kept more or less hidden until the comforts of a de-fanged magisterium materialized in the 21st century.
In that basement is the murky place of the human psyche with all of its various complexities. It is akin to a laboratory wherein theological experiments are conducted. And then there is even a closet within the basement entitled, "Complex cases of ignorance, inculpability, and the pagan spark of the divine," and in there are the most brilliant of theologians who have crafted all sorts of ways to put a check-mark on Denzinger (i.e., the letter of Catholic dogma), grab 4 or 5 early Christian universalists, while pointing the way to a perennial consolidation of immature, wounded, and blameless humanity that ends up likely being saved when all is said and done.
If I had to describe this phenomenon in the most blunt, albeit not mutually agreeable, manner, I would say it is the phenomenon of helping the God of historic Christianity clean Himself up both theologically, psychologically, and even emotionally. Oh, those poor early Apostles, Church Fathers, Saints, Doctors, and the breadth of the Christian horizon.... if only.
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Meanwhile in Novus Ordo Land:
NEW: Chinese state-approved Bishop Ignazio Ding Zuyao of Haimen has said in a speech that his diocese “strives to build a Chinese Catholic Church that integrates with China’s fine traditional culture and adapts to socialist society.”
The approved mainland Bishop added that the Church in China is “honest and friendly, and is eager to befriend people of goodwill in the Catholic community around the world,” warmly inviting visitors “to visit China and see it for yourselves.”
More to come at @RealAdVaticanum
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Meanwhile, in Novus Ordo Land…
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Everything that popped out of his mouth was completely dependent upon his mood or agenda goals, which changed from moment to moment. It's why nothing he said is relevant; only his actions.
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He said whatever suited him. Depended on his mood. Likewise one moment he was gay-friendly, the next he was slagging off ‘faggotry’. Acted against sex abusers unless they were his mates, in which case he criminally protected them.
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This happens WAY too often. Cluster B personality disorders are found among a good 3% of the female population, and this is the kind of shit they do.
MeToo "pioneer" MIT scientist who drove a professor to the brink of su*cide with false r*pe allegations after he broke up with her, told him she wanted to feel like she was "gang r*ped."
Professor David Sabatini has been awarded $6M after his former colleague, Dr. Kristin Knouse, defamed him with completely false allegations.
The MeToo community praised Knouse when she came out with her allegations.
Sabatini's entire career was destroyed by the false allegations as his colleagues all rushed to defend the woman who lied about him.
He also tried taking his own life by hanging himself, according to the Daily Mail.
Newly released texts reveal that Knouse, 38, was the one who pursued Sabatini, 58, and it wasn't until he left her for another woman that she accused him of r*pe.
After the breakup, she texted a friend that he was going to get "Weinstein-ed out of science."
"My lawyers and I are out for blood... prison is what he should get," she said.
She praised how "hopelessly defeated, beyond the violence stage," he was after his career was ruined.
But text messages show that Knouse pursued him and sent him graphic texts.
"I can't wait to wake up tomorrow and feel like I've been gang r*ped," she said in one text message.
Knouse accused Sabatini of making her feel "scared" by his advances, but evidence showed that *she* aggressively pursued him.
When he decided to pursue a different scientist, Knouse ended his career with false accusations.
Sabatini's entire life was destroyed by the woke mob. They fired him from the Whitehead Institute and MIT, and erased his name from papers.
She purposely left key evidence and text messages out when handing over information to investigators that would have proved Sabatini was innocent.
She should never see the outside of a prison cell.
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"Death itself is not an evil; it is the end of our evils. But not to prepare for it - that is the true misfortune." - Bossuet
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St Thomas Aquinas states that we should not go to the Mass of a priest whose sin is notorious, even if he has not yet been suspended. This would apply to a bishop who calls into doubt a point of faith, e.g. by saying that he hopes that women will one day be ordained priests.
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