Defense of the Tridentine Latin Mass against Francis the Antichrist
01/01/22 08:55
Let us examine the Antichrist Francis and his deconstruction of the Catholic faith and his latest tactics of quashing the Tridentine Latin Mass, the Mass of the Ages. Gone is Roman Catholic Orthodoxy with him and his minions, the bishops and priests of the day. To accommodate the world, flesh, and devil is the route the demon sitting on Peter’s Throne currently is all about, along with his cooperators the bishops and priests w
ho all suffer from the clerical disease of COLLAR FEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This translates to their consummate fear of standing up for the orthodox perennial truths of the Catholic faith for centuries because of their fear of losing their desired ecclesiastical position of their priesthood and their prestige, clerical affluence of the easy life. Ultimately, the perennial truths of the Catholic faith, especially today the traditional Mass of the ages, the august Tridentine Mass , are unimportant along with enforcing no Communion in the hand, and not teaching of Sin and with it the need for the faithful to practice frequent Confession.
This is the doctrine of Francis the Antichrist and all paid for clerics with their enviable worldly positions of living the high life in their rectories and Catholic Universities and who adamantly and satanically refuse to teach Sin and the world’s consummation and love of it.
And how does he do this Antichrist Francis and Collar Fever priests and bishops of the day? The Fathers of the Church emphasize the corruption of the liturgy that will prevail at the last days!!! As the end draws nearer and nearer, the Church will be subjected to a fiercer, more diabolical persecution than any previously suffered. There will be a cessation of all religious worship. “They shall take away the daily sacrifice.” Some Fathers interpret these words to mean that the Antichrist and his sychophantic minions will suppress for three and a half years all public religious worship. Others remind us that the Antechrist will set up his throne within the Temple of God and demand worship of himself from his depraved followers. This is to quote Fr. Vincent Miceli and his Masterpiece on the “Antichrist” and further we quote the “Antichrist” which also states unequivocally:
“Unfortunately, it has happened in our day; the liturgy ( New Mass of Vatican II) is a sign of contradiction among Christians today; for the Holy Mass (tridentine) that once united Christians now, with the new liturgy, fiercely divides Christians. Many Catholics, because of the dilution of the sacred in the New liturgy, and the breezy manner in which many radical priests celebrate it, cannot attend such liturgies; for they find it morally impossible to have to endure the desacralized antics allowed by the liturgical storm troopers. Hence they stay way!!! Thus we see that, over and above the persecution of blood and death, there is even today a persecution of craftiness and subversion. (of suppressing Traditional Tridentine Mass of Ages). The precursors of the Man of Sin are very effective in splitting up and dividing Christians or Catholics. They are successful in dislodging many from the rock of salvation, in driving many into heresy and schism, depriving them of their Christian liberty, strength, peace and their household in Christ.”
With the current pandemic of COLLAR FEVER (FEAR OF LOSING THEIR POSITION AS PRIESTS AND BISHOPS) there is no difficulty of Diabolical Liberalism of Vatican II, and the New Mass, along with Ecumenism which has won its day with dictator Francis the Antichrist, and will continue to do so. God forbid the loss of souls underway now at the behest of Francis, the Antichrist and his pusillanimous legions of priests and bishops and even faithful!!!!
Witness the Francis antichrist doctrine and all priests with COLLAR FEVER!!! When we speak of the Antichrist and liberal priests and the Francis doctrine as enemies of our salvation, we mean godless men who live in and accommodate the world. It is of such that the Evangelist speaks, when he says “the world knew Him not: (John, I. 10 ) And again: “If the world hate you, know you that it hath hated Me before you: (John, xv. 18). And “wonder not brethren, if the world hate you: ( 1 John iii, 13), for “ the whole world is steeped in wickedness: (1 John, v. 19), and “all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life.” (1 John, 11. 16).
The majority of men live a worldly life. Their outlook is confined to this world. Their desires are centered on the things of this world. They ignore God and the teaching of Jesus Christ. They have bodies, and, their bodies being chiefly in evidence, they give the chief care to their bodies, gratifying their every sense and bodily appetite. They see round about them material things. They aim at independence, power, wealth, reputation. ( Collar Fever of Clerics afraid to lose their position from the antichrist Francis , the antichrist dictator!!!)
Thus the faithful and clerics are nothing more than intellectual animals. They have no use for self-denial, mortification, detachment, humility, chastity, all the tools of sanctity and the Cross of Jesus Christ.
They are jovial companions among their own class. They are such as we may conjecture the pagan poet Horace to have been. He had his town house and his country villa; his villa urbana and villa rustica. He kept a good table, the affluence of society today with both clerics and faithful. They are rarely without the choicest alcoholic beverages both wines and liquors and even mind altering pschotropic drugs, marijuana, and other such narcotic drugs, thus giving full vent to the HEDONISM of the DAY and indulging the boy and all its lusts!!!
Many of the worldly today, including clerics and faithful, are well educate, witty, and popular among their own. They easily succumb to their powerful liberal patrons, both politicians and the wealthy elite of the extreme LEFT. How barbarous would the Gospel truths seem to the Horaces of the world and the roman empire after looking at his wonderful elegant odes in all their different meters!!! What folly the Gospel teaching would seem to these with its insistence on RENUNCIATION, MEEKNESS, CHASTITY, LOVE OF ALL MEN, JOYfUll IN SUFFERING! What a complete reversal of all the worldly philosophy of the day it would seem to be, as indeed it is!!!
The number of Horaces and worldy in all ages is legion. They are men and women of no religion, and of all religions. They are found among Catholics too---those Catholic priest with COLLAR FEVER and faithful who do not take their religion seriously. This worldly philosophy of accomodating the world is everywhere and encouraged everywhere by its demon advocate Francis the Antichrist!!!
This worldly philosophy is everywhere. It is an atmosphere in which we live. It comes to be taken for granted. There are very few who are untainted by it. To prevent ourselves, orthodox Roman Catholics, from being saturated by it, we have to be continually reacting against it. We must make ourselves familiar with the opposite philosophy—the philosophy of the Gospel. We must see how the philosophy of the Gospel is translated into action by reading the LIVES OF THE SAINTS, and noting the examples of good men. We must pray to be delivered from this WORLDLY SPIRIT, and we must cherish our spirit of adoption, “for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world” (1 John, v. 4).
“Our Hope Is In Jesus Christ”
My dear readers, our enemies without may be strong, and our enemies within may be treacherous and many. But are we men of good will? Do we wish to fight for Christ? If we are willing to fight for Christ against the enemies of our salvation, then we must engage in the lifelong combat of the Cross with certain hope of victory.
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us how to resist temptation. There is not a passion within us that cannot be overcome by His grace. And His graces are given in a never-ending stream to those who ask. “ I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me” (Phil, iv. 13). And how He encourages us in the struggle: “To him that shall overcome I will give to sit with Me in My throne: (Apoc. Iii. 21). “He shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels” (Apoc, iii. 5).
Further He tells us that our combat is His combat: “In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world” (John, xvi. 23). And Satan---the old serpent, the devil, the prince of this world, is already judged and cast out. His proud head is forever crushed beneath the heel of a little maiden, THE IMMACULATE MOTHER OF GOD.
And she loves us with a strong constant, tender love which has no equal outside the Sacred Heart of Our Lord.
Remember May’s words, the Mother of God:
“I am the Mother of fair love, of knowledge, of fear and of holy hope; “In Me is all Grace of the Way and the Truth; In Me is all hope of life and virtue!!!
Pray devoutly with the Mother of God for her to crush the head of the Serpent, everywhere, especially in the Roman Catholic faith!!!!!!
“Defense of the Tridentine Mass”
It is time to defend the most holy Trdentine Mass of the Ages in reminiscing with David’s Prayers and the Psalms and his words: “Offer worthy sacrifice to God and do not worry.” The whole problem with the “New Mass” is it is not an orthodox Roman Catholic sacrifice to God for sin but caters to the folly that there is no absolute truths of the faith that need defending anymore in the liturgy !!! Above all the so-called sacrifice of the Mass offered to God in the “New Mass” fails to teach the absolute truth of “repentance for sin” that is so necessary for each soul for salvation. This is because it does not offer “worthy sacrifice to God for sin” as King David in the Old Law saw so necessary. The priest in the Novus Ordo “ New Mass” can, Protestant style, offer any kind of Mass he wants, oblivious to the absolute catechetical truth of teaching “repentance for sin” to save one’s immortal soul. Even the so-called Roman Canon fails miserably to be orthodox Roman Catholic worship to God “in repentance for sin” because it does not follow the centuries old rubrics of the Tridentine Latin Mass. It is not in Latin, the priest does not wear Roman vestments, nor is the altar facing East, nor does the priest follow the traditional gestures of the Roman Canon in humble worship!!! Only the traditional Latin Tridentine Mass does this so truly and so perfectly in offering “worthy sacrifice” to God for our sins!
What is worthy sacrifice to God , the Novus Ordo “New Mass” that ignores sin and our culpability which allows the priest to choose the Mass prayers he wants or the absolutely “orthodox Roman Catholic Tridentine Mass” which everywhere in its supplications and prayers of the priest and people strives to repent for all sin?
Let us examine clearly the fulfillment of David’s words to offer “worthy sacrifice”; from the foot of the altar, the priest prays a worthy “Confiteor” to confess his sins , then a second time this prayer is made by the servers and people for forgiveness for their sins. Then most important of all, the priest of the Tridentine Mass only, not in the “New Mass”, asks God through his powers to forgive sins, to grant him and the people, “Pardon, Absolution, and Remission of their sins.” So important a prayer to God for proper sacrifice to Him for our sins.
Asking God and my brothers and sisters to forgive sin is extremely misleading to the faithful as only God alone forgives sins. Unmitigating the priest’s exlcusive power to forgive sins in God’s place is the correct orthodoxy of Catholicism for 2000 years of the Mass, as a holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins!
The “Confiteor” of the Traditional Lain Mass does not pray to your brothers and sisters but begs God’s forgiveness through the hands of Mary, St. Michael, John the Baptist, St. Peter and Paul and all the Saints to intercede to God for us, for our sins! An entirely different prayer than the Novus Ordo “New Mass”.
The Priest officiating in full Roman Vestments rises up the steps of the altar with his back always towards the faithful attending Mass , begging that he present himself and the people before God Almighty with a “pure heart”; again deleted by the Protestant and modernist “Novus Ordo , New Mass”! And as the priest continues to step up to the altar he begs God Almighty that “by the merits of the Saints whose relics are here, and of all the Saints, that Thou would vouchsafe to forgive me all my sins.” A very, very Catholic prayer, referencing the holy relics in every altar and its saintly relics to beg further pardon for our sins, and quite often the relics are of St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin or some other significant saint; again, absolutely missing from the non-salvific Protestant Novus Ordo New Mass, in order to not “offend” other religions like the Protestants and non-catholics who do not believe in Catholic Saints!
Next, the priest and the people ask further pardon for their sins by praying the “Kyrie, kyrie, kyrie” or “Lord have mercy, lord have mercy, lord have mercy!” This prayer is effective if and only if it comes from a “contrite and humble heart” which always evokes true sorrow for sin and arises and comes from true compunction of heart! As anyone who reads the Psalms, written by King David, knows that Almighty God only forgives sin from such a holy attitude, clearly explained in Psalm 50 or the famous “Miserere Psalm”. God forgives no sin if it does not emanate from such a “contrite and humble heart”. Even the “Gloria” of the Mass, surprisingly is a prayer in praise of God’s Glory and is so supplicating of God’s mercy for forgiveness of our sins in its aspirations, again and again! “Lord Jesus Christ Who takes away the sins of the world , have mercy on us and hear our prayer!”
Following this, the Priest during the Offertory of the Mass asks God’s pardon for his sins and the people by praying to Almighty God, to receive this stainless host, which I, thine unworthy servant offer to Thee, my God, living and true, for mine “innumerable sins, offenses, and negligences, and for all here present; as also for all faithful Christians, living and dead.”
Again, this proper and prayerful true compunction of heart is not at all present or required in the “Novus Ordo”, New Mass, the Unsalvific “New Mass” from Vatican II and Pope Paul VI---the most disastrous and heretical Council of the Church in 2000 years! God forbid!
Then the officiating priest of the Tridentine Mass begs God at the Offertory “to forgive his sins and all those present by “washing his hands among the innocent” and then he will continue “worthy” sacrifice at God’s altar. And in this same prayer from Psalm XXV of the Mass and with true contrition for his sins asks God to “not take away my soul with the wicked and with further “firm purpose of amendment for his sins and those of the people present prays, and assures God Almighty that “his feet have stood in the right way; in the Churches will he bless Thee, O Lord.” How profound sacrifice, asking forgiveness for sin; once more not at all present in the “unsalvific Novus Ordo Mass” which fails totally to do this or make mandatory in its prayers!
Following the Offertory prayers of “purification” of the priest’s hands and soul and the peoples comes the “ Suscipe Sancta Trinitas” prayer to the most Holy Trinity, an essential Catholic doctrine, begging Him to make this sacrifice for sin be efficacious because it recalls the “Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension” of Jesus Christ in His honor, and also ( again very Catholic} of Mary, always a Virgin and John the Baptist and the holy apostles, Peter and Paul with all the saints (very Catholic) be profitable for their honor and to the salvation of the priest officiating and all the faithful only because all the holy saints and the most Holy Trinity, shall intercede for the Salvation of the priest and the faithful in attendance!”
Can you understand why this, one of the holiest of prayers in the Tridentine Latin Mass to beg Almighty God for forgiveness and Mercy from our sins in a “worthy sacrifice” for sin was extracted from the Protestant Novus Ordo “New Mass” of Paul VI and Vatican II?
Again, to make it more amenable to the Liberal and heretical Cardinals and Bishops of Vatican II and not in accordance to the rubrics of the Perennial Mass of the Ages, the most holy Tridentine Mass; established as “sacrosanct forever” by Pope Pius V in the 16th century, along with his “anathema” for everyone who in his reign or thereafter, alter “a single word or rubric”---which Vatican II and the “New Mass crowd” of the Pope Paul VI and his main facilitator and most feckless , A. Bugnini totally ignored!
Let us continue to clarify the “Unsalvific Nature or Sins” of the Novus Ordo fiasco with the Canon Prayers of the Tridentine Mass with the Preface Prayers to the Holy Trinity which exactly begs to “thank” the One God in Three divine persons correctly and which states in the prayer of “thanks” in confessing the true and eternal Godhead, “ discretion in powers, unity in essence and equality in majesty, may be adored.” Once more not a necessity and virtually lacking in any of the common preface prayers, created by Paul VI’s Mass in the 1960’s and A. Bugnini’s theatrics!
Then the angels, Cherubim and Seraphim are implored, angels and archangels alike, to pray with us the holy “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus” prayer---one of the few places the “Novus Ordo Missae” did not deviate from the Mass of the Ages! Praise God Almighty!
-- The Canon—
The officiating priest then prays to Almighty God for the Church through the auspices of Jesus Christ (the most perfect High Priest” and Son of God and Lord) that He would bless this oblation, the holy unspotted Sacrifice for all “orthodox, Catholic and apostolic believers and teachers of whom the pope is assumed to be one himself and continuing, the officiating priest then prays for the “redemption of the souls of all faithful offering up this sacrifice for their souls and their redemption.”
This formula prayer in the Tridentine Latin Mass, has been eliminated virtually, from the Novus ordo and the next lengthy prayer, likewise, to Mary, the Virgin and Mother of God ( both doctrinal) and a list of the Saints, mainly apostles and first popes, to intercede in heaven for the priest and faithful at Mass through Christ the Lord!
And, then, closing the prayers of the first part of the Canon of the Mass is the “Hanc Igitur” prayer asking God Almighty to make this sacrifice efficacious for the priest and faithful to keep their souls in Peace, and secure from Eternal damnation and to be numbered part of the “saved or elect”.
---Institution of Christ’s Real Presence”
Undoubtedly, one of the most deleterious, heretical and abominable and blasphemous acts of the “New Mass” was tinkering and arrogantly assaulting Christ’s own words: “This is the chalice of My blood of the New and Eternal Testament: the Mystery of Faith; which shall be shed for “you” and for “many” for the remission of sins.” The “New Mass” changed “many” to “all” ; thus creating verbiage and doctrinal crisis because the false wording of “all “ for the orthodox “Many” allows for the ‘Bugnini Bombshell’ of Modernism in the Church and its heretical doctrine of meaning in essence, that Christ died and His most Precious Blood” was shed that ‘everyone will be saved’ from its efficacy---non-catholics, Protestants, or any religion, Christian or not!
This, of course, altering the word “many” for “all” gives credibility to the favorite Vatican II heretical teaching of the Antichrist that “outside the Church, there is salvation” which completely attacks the Perennial Teaching of 2000 years that “Outside the Church, there is no Salvation” or “Extra ecclesiam, Nulla Salvatio”! God save us!
---Canon Part II---(After Consecration of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ)
The priest officiating now prays that his sacrifice be as “pure” as the Old Law Priest Melchisedech and Abel’s “worthy” offerings to God! Then, a prayerful inquiry to St. Michael the Archangel is then offered that all present praying may receive the fruits of this sacrifice unto eternal life! All this in the Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages! Prayers for the faithful departed are included next by the priest and people to themselves. Lastly, the Canon ends with the Prayer to God Almighty for your sinful servant who hopes in the multitude of God’s Mercy to be included with the list of Saints mentioned viz. John, Stephen, Barnabas, John, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Caecelia, Anastasia and all Saints, not because of our merits, but Pardoning our offences, we beg to be included with these Saints!
How Catholic this conclusion of the Canon with the prayers of Pardon for one’s sins and the officiating priest, which emphasizes that this Sacrifice is for sins and absolutely most efficacious because it is made “through Him (Jesus Christ) and with Him, and In Him in the unity of God the Father Almighty, , in the unity of the Holy Ghost, all honor and glory!”
What a perfect sacrificial prayer for sin in the Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages, but again not a necessity to pray even in the Roman Canon for this Canon is a viable option for the Novus Ordo Priest of the “New Mass” and so virtually dropped from the “New Mass fiasco” of Vatican II and Paul VI!
How blatant the heretical conclusion of the “New Mass” and its Unsalvific Negligence in not offering to God the final prayers of the Canon for one’s sins, but a big praise banquet , Protestant style, of feel good religion, touchy-feelly liberal Catholicism of the Priest and people with the happy-clappy sensitivities of the down-home folks, playing their guitars and singing their great Amen, three times, oblivious of sin, both priest and people!
---Pater Noster---
After the Canon, the priest and people pray together the Our Father as taught us by Christ for forgiveness of sin and a firm purpose of amendment and not to be led into unnecessary temptations by our own proclivities from the world, flesh, and devil; but only if we fully repent can we be delivered from evil!
Once more here this most significant of Prayers of the Mass works for forgiveness of sins, if we avoid all the unnecessary occasions of sinning, by true Repentance in our hearts and souls!
---The Fractioning of the Host”
The priest then officiating prays that all the faithful present and He avoid all past, present, or future sins through the intercession of Mary, the ever Virgin and Mother of God, (doctrinal) and St. Andrew, St. Peter, and all the Saints and God’s Mercy! This beautiful prayer of detachment from all sin on our part by this prayer before receiving the Holy Eucharist---is prayed “through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Three in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, World without end. Amen
This holy prayer of Perfect Contrition for all sinning on our part is only in the Tridentine Mass; proving once more the total and utter validity of this Mass as a “worthy sacrifice for sin” by priest and people, the Tridentine Mass of the Ages!!!
The priest and faithful end these post canonical prayers
Begging Almighty God, that it be efficacious to life everlasting!
----Agnus Dei---
“The Agnus Dei” prayers ensue, which beg God Almighty for forgiveness for our sins through Jesus Christ “Who takes away the sins of the world.” Three times this prayer is repeated!
After this, the three Communion Prayers are recited: the first, for the church and the Mystical Body of Christ, to give it Peace and Unity, according to God’s Will! This , of course, means not according to men’s will which “the Vatican II Church has totally made to be Man’s Church, not God’s! This is especially true with Antichrist Francis and what he is all about both pleasing and conforming to the world and not to God’s laws!
The Second Eucharistic Prayer is to Jesus Christ by Priest and People which begs God’s forgiveness from all our sins and evils, and prays to Him to keep the Commandments of God, and never be separated from Him, through the Most Holy Trinity “Who lives with the same God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns world without end. Amen
This penitential prayer for Pardon, Absolution and Remission of all sin and any attachment to it prevails always and only in the “Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages”, again proving its Purity as “worthy sacrifice” for our sins, prayed by both Priest and People.
The Third and last Communion Prayer begs Almighty God that we not receive the Body and Blood of Christ, unworthily, for danger of “condemnation and judgment”, but by God’s Mercy be profitable to the safety and health of both Body and Soul! This holy prayer to Jesus Christ, concludes with a supplication to the most Holy Trinity, (doctrinal) “Who with God, the Father, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, God, world without end. Amen!”
Each one of these three Communion Prayers which are for proper prayerful disposition in preparation of soul by Priest and Faithful for reception of the Most Holy Eucharist,! These three holiest of prayers prove absolutely, how the “Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages” is Sin Sacrifice! Where, in the Novus Ordo “New Mass” are any of these penitential prayers even slightly given credence to? Absolutely nowhere, nowhere, nowhere! This catapults the entire “Novus Ordo “New Mass” into a state of chaos, as to its utter validity and efficacy as “worthy sacrifice” to God for sin, no matter how sincere one’s intention during its unfolding may be!
To show once more the Tridentine Mass’s total efficacy for sin before one receives the precious Body and Blood of Christ, both the priest and the people pray one more “Confiteor” prayer for sin, to make up for any distractions during Mass and our attention to the Holy Sacrifice of Jesus Christ to His Father for our sins! This, again, with the Priest, who forgives sins for God in Confession (doctrine) prays to God that He forgive us and grant “pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins!”
Once more this holy Confiteor, as well as its wording, is totally absent from the infamous “Novus Ordo “New Mass”!
---The End of the Mass---
This first Absolution Prayer, manifestly shows a firm purpose of amendment, prayed by priest and people, as well as a true contrition for our sins and not to sin anymore, by both priest and people!
“Grant, O Lord, that what we have taken with our mouth, we may receive with a pure mind; and that from a temporal gift it may become for us an eternal remedy.”
The final propitiatory prayer for sin by priest and faithful is a most beautiful conclusion to these two Absolution Prayers by both priest and people:
“May Your Body, Lord, which I have received and Your Blood which I have drunk, cleave to my inmost parts, and grant that no stain of sin may remain in me, whom these pure and holy Sacraments have refreshed. Who live and reign, world without end. Amen.”
Therefore, any orthodox Roman Catholic, or any Catholic for that matter, can only believe in the Mass of the Ages, the Tridentine Latin Mass because it is a “worthy sin sacrifice” to God for sin , absolutely unlike the Protestant style ‘praise banquet service’ of the heretical Vatican II and Paul VI, himself, a mini-antichirst, who perpetrated and innovated it in 1965 when the Council ended!
Absolutely and conclusively one cannot RISK HIS IMMORTAL SOUL to such worldly conformity of the philosophy of the day for the last 60 years of “ I’m OK; you’re OK; no right, no wrong; no religion, no God; no heaven, no hell; and no judgment and no Judge.” Why? Because in the Novus Ordo ‘New Mass’, there is no sin to worry about, pray about, or repent from!!! In no way does this penitenial philosophy of the Tridentine Mass of the Ages prevail in this worldly theater of the “New Mass.”
Therefore, the “New Mass’ validity” crumbles before the unadultered Purity of Repentance for Sin as a “worthy sacrifice to God for Sin” as the Tridentine Mass of the Ages does, so efficaciously, so prudently, so profoundly!!!
In closing this explication of the Tridentine Mass of the Ages, which is a total “ truth bomb” to Francis the Antichrist who does not care an iota for, and who wants to Quash the so-called “ old Mass’ and has just dictated from the throne of Peter that “no priest can say this Traditional Mass anywhere in Rome and all the churches of its diocese any longer.”
Let us thank God for the Holy Priests who lived and taught the truths of the faith in spite of “Collar Fever”, such as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen! Let us reflect on his holy words why “total repentance” of our sins is so absolutely necessary before we die! Contemplate these holy words of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:
“What we all have to realize is that when we sin, we turn our back on God. He does not turn His back on us. If we are ever to see His face again, we must turn around, that isk, turn from sin. That is what is meant by conversion. “Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts.” (Zech. 1:3)
“God cannot save us without that conversion, if we die in our unrepentant sin, we are forever turned away from God. Where the tree falls, there it lies. (see Eccles. 11:3).There is no reversal of values after death.
We cannot love sin during life and begin to loves virtue at death. The joys of heaven are the continuance of the Christlike joys of earth. We do not develop a new set of loves with our last breath. We shall reap in eternity only what we sowed on earth. If we loved sin, we shall reap corruption; but we shall never gather grapes from thistles.
The justice of God is not separable from His goodness. If He were not just, He would not be good. Because He is goodness, His justice pardons; because He is justice, His goodness expiates. The thief on the right saw the need of justice the moment he admitted, “We suffer justly”; that is why immediately he felt the response of Goodness: “ This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.”
Then let not our presuming moderns who pile sin on sin think that they can insult God until their lease on life has run out and then expect an eternal lease on one of the Father’s mansions. Did He who went to leaven by a Cross intend that you should go there by sinning!”
“May the darkness of sin and the night of heathenism vanish before the Light of the Word and the Spirit of Grace. And may the Heart of Jesus live in the hearts of men, now and forever. Amen. “
J. Hughes Dunphy
“Eternal Father, we offer Thee the Body and Blood and Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the sins of blasphemy, sacrilege, unworthy Communions, lack of faith, hope, and charity, closing of tabernacles, removal of kneelers, moving of tabernacles and the abomination of Communion in the Hand! And the infinite egregious sins against the Holy Sacrifice of the Tridentine Mass in the last sixty years by Popes, Bishops, Priests and People be forgiven! And may the most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary forgive us our sins!
This translates to their consummate fear of standing up for the orthodox perennial truths of the Catholic faith for centuries because of their fear of losing their desired ecclesiastical position of their priesthood and their prestige, clerical affluence of the easy life. Ultimately, the perennial truths of the Catholic faith, especially today the traditional Mass of the ages, the august Tridentine Mass , are unimportant along with enforcing no Communion in the hand, and not teaching of Sin and with it the need for the faithful to practice frequent Confession.
This is the doctrine of Francis the Antichrist and all paid for clerics with their enviable worldly positions of living the high life in their rectories and Catholic Universities and who adamantly and satanically refuse to teach Sin and the world’s consummation and love of it.
And how does he do this Antichrist Francis and Collar Fever priests and bishops of the day? The Fathers of the Church emphasize the corruption of the liturgy that will prevail at the last days!!! As the end draws nearer and nearer, the Church will be subjected to a fiercer, more diabolical persecution than any previously suffered. There will be a cessation of all religious worship. “They shall take away the daily sacrifice.” Some Fathers interpret these words to mean that the Antichrist and his sychophantic minions will suppress for three and a half years all public religious worship. Others remind us that the Antechrist will set up his throne within the Temple of God and demand worship of himself from his depraved followers. This is to quote Fr. Vincent Miceli and his Masterpiece on the “Antichrist” and further we quote the “Antichrist” which also states unequivocally:
“Unfortunately, it has happened in our day; the liturgy ( New Mass of Vatican II) is a sign of contradiction among Christians today; for the Holy Mass (tridentine) that once united Christians now, with the new liturgy, fiercely divides Christians. Many Catholics, because of the dilution of the sacred in the New liturgy, and the breezy manner in which many radical priests celebrate it, cannot attend such liturgies; for they find it morally impossible to have to endure the desacralized antics allowed by the liturgical storm troopers. Hence they stay way!!! Thus we see that, over and above the persecution of blood and death, there is even today a persecution of craftiness and subversion. (of suppressing Traditional Tridentine Mass of Ages). The precursors of the Man of Sin are very effective in splitting up and dividing Christians or Catholics. They are successful in dislodging many from the rock of salvation, in driving many into heresy and schism, depriving them of their Christian liberty, strength, peace and their household in Christ.”
With the current pandemic of COLLAR FEVER (FEAR OF LOSING THEIR POSITION AS PRIESTS AND BISHOPS) there is no difficulty of Diabolical Liberalism of Vatican II, and the New Mass, along with Ecumenism which has won its day with dictator Francis the Antichrist, and will continue to do so. God forbid the loss of souls underway now at the behest of Francis, the Antichrist and his pusillanimous legions of priests and bishops and even faithful!!!!
Witness the Francis antichrist doctrine and all priests with COLLAR FEVER!!! When we speak of the Antichrist and liberal priests and the Francis doctrine as enemies of our salvation, we mean godless men who live in and accommodate the world. It is of such that the Evangelist speaks, when he says “the world knew Him not: (John, I. 10 ) And again: “If the world hate you, know you that it hath hated Me before you: (John, xv. 18). And “wonder not brethren, if the world hate you: ( 1 John iii, 13), for “ the whole world is steeped in wickedness: (1 John, v. 19), and “all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life.” (1 John, 11. 16).
The majority of men live a worldly life. Their outlook is confined to this world. Their desires are centered on the things of this world. They ignore God and the teaching of Jesus Christ. They have bodies, and, their bodies being chiefly in evidence, they give the chief care to their bodies, gratifying their every sense and bodily appetite. They see round about them material things. They aim at independence, power, wealth, reputation. ( Collar Fever of Clerics afraid to lose their position from the antichrist Francis , the antichrist dictator!!!)
Thus the faithful and clerics are nothing more than intellectual animals. They have no use for self-denial, mortification, detachment, humility, chastity, all the tools of sanctity and the Cross of Jesus Christ.
They are jovial companions among their own class. They are such as we may conjecture the pagan poet Horace to have been. He had his town house and his country villa; his villa urbana and villa rustica. He kept a good table, the affluence of society today with both clerics and faithful. They are rarely without the choicest alcoholic beverages both wines and liquors and even mind altering pschotropic drugs, marijuana, and other such narcotic drugs, thus giving full vent to the HEDONISM of the DAY and indulging the boy and all its lusts!!!
Many of the worldly today, including clerics and faithful, are well educate, witty, and popular among their own. They easily succumb to their powerful liberal patrons, both politicians and the wealthy elite of the extreme LEFT. How barbarous would the Gospel truths seem to the Horaces of the world and the roman empire after looking at his wonderful elegant odes in all their different meters!!! What folly the Gospel teaching would seem to these with its insistence on RENUNCIATION, MEEKNESS, CHASTITY, LOVE OF ALL MEN, JOYfUll IN SUFFERING! What a complete reversal of all the worldly philosophy of the day it would seem to be, as indeed it is!!!
The number of Horaces and worldy in all ages is legion. They are men and women of no religion, and of all religions. They are found among Catholics too---those Catholic priest with COLLAR FEVER and faithful who do not take their religion seriously. This worldly philosophy of accomodating the world is everywhere and encouraged everywhere by its demon advocate Francis the Antichrist!!!
This worldly philosophy is everywhere. It is an atmosphere in which we live. It comes to be taken for granted. There are very few who are untainted by it. To prevent ourselves, orthodox Roman Catholics, from being saturated by it, we have to be continually reacting against it. We must make ourselves familiar with the opposite philosophy—the philosophy of the Gospel. We must see how the philosophy of the Gospel is translated into action by reading the LIVES OF THE SAINTS, and noting the examples of good men. We must pray to be delivered from this WORLDLY SPIRIT, and we must cherish our spirit of adoption, “for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world” (1 John, v. 4).
“Our Hope Is In Jesus Christ”
My dear readers, our enemies without may be strong, and our enemies within may be treacherous and many. But are we men of good will? Do we wish to fight for Christ? If we are willing to fight for Christ against the enemies of our salvation, then we must engage in the lifelong combat of the Cross with certain hope of victory.
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us how to resist temptation. There is not a passion within us that cannot be overcome by His grace. And His graces are given in a never-ending stream to those who ask. “ I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me” (Phil, iv. 13). And how He encourages us in the struggle: “To him that shall overcome I will give to sit with Me in My throne: (Apoc. Iii. 21). “He shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels” (Apoc, iii. 5).
Further He tells us that our combat is His combat: “In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world” (John, xvi. 23). And Satan---the old serpent, the devil, the prince of this world, is already judged and cast out. His proud head is forever crushed beneath the heel of a little maiden, THE IMMACULATE MOTHER OF GOD.
And she loves us with a strong constant, tender love which has no equal outside the Sacred Heart of Our Lord.
Remember May’s words, the Mother of God:
“I am the Mother of fair love, of knowledge, of fear and of holy hope; “In Me is all Grace of the Way and the Truth; In Me is all hope of life and virtue!!!
Pray devoutly with the Mother of God for her to crush the head of the Serpent, everywhere, especially in the Roman Catholic faith!!!!!!
“Defense of the Tridentine Mass”
It is time to defend the most holy Trdentine Mass of the Ages in reminiscing with David’s Prayers and the Psalms and his words: “Offer worthy sacrifice to God and do not worry.” The whole problem with the “New Mass” is it is not an orthodox Roman Catholic sacrifice to God for sin but caters to the folly that there is no absolute truths of the faith that need defending anymore in the liturgy !!! Above all the so-called sacrifice of the Mass offered to God in the “New Mass” fails to teach the absolute truth of “repentance for sin” that is so necessary for each soul for salvation. This is because it does not offer “worthy sacrifice to God for sin” as King David in the Old Law saw so necessary. The priest in the Novus Ordo “ New Mass” can, Protestant style, offer any kind of Mass he wants, oblivious to the absolute catechetical truth of teaching “repentance for sin” to save one’s immortal soul. Even the so-called Roman Canon fails miserably to be orthodox Roman Catholic worship to God “in repentance for sin” because it does not follow the centuries old rubrics of the Tridentine Latin Mass. It is not in Latin, the priest does not wear Roman vestments, nor is the altar facing East, nor does the priest follow the traditional gestures of the Roman Canon in humble worship!!! Only the traditional Latin Tridentine Mass does this so truly and so perfectly in offering “worthy sacrifice” to God for our sins!
What is worthy sacrifice to God , the Novus Ordo “New Mass” that ignores sin and our culpability which allows the priest to choose the Mass prayers he wants or the absolutely “orthodox Roman Catholic Tridentine Mass” which everywhere in its supplications and prayers of the priest and people strives to repent for all sin?
Let us examine clearly the fulfillment of David’s words to offer “worthy sacrifice”; from the foot of the altar, the priest prays a worthy “Confiteor” to confess his sins , then a second time this prayer is made by the servers and people for forgiveness for their sins. Then most important of all, the priest of the Tridentine Mass only, not in the “New Mass”, asks God through his powers to forgive sins, to grant him and the people, “Pardon, Absolution, and Remission of their sins.” So important a prayer to God for proper sacrifice to Him for our sins.
Asking God and my brothers and sisters to forgive sin is extremely misleading to the faithful as only God alone forgives sins. Unmitigating the priest’s exlcusive power to forgive sins in God’s place is the correct orthodoxy of Catholicism for 2000 years of the Mass, as a holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins!
The “Confiteor” of the Traditional Lain Mass does not pray to your brothers and sisters but begs God’s forgiveness through the hands of Mary, St. Michael, John the Baptist, St. Peter and Paul and all the Saints to intercede to God for us, for our sins! An entirely different prayer than the Novus Ordo “New Mass”.
The Priest officiating in full Roman Vestments rises up the steps of the altar with his back always towards the faithful attending Mass , begging that he present himself and the people before God Almighty with a “pure heart”; again deleted by the Protestant and modernist “Novus Ordo , New Mass”! And as the priest continues to step up to the altar he begs God Almighty that “by the merits of the Saints whose relics are here, and of all the Saints, that Thou would vouchsafe to forgive me all my sins.” A very, very Catholic prayer, referencing the holy relics in every altar and its saintly relics to beg further pardon for our sins, and quite often the relics are of St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin or some other significant saint; again, absolutely missing from the non-salvific Protestant Novus Ordo New Mass, in order to not “offend” other religions like the Protestants and non-catholics who do not believe in Catholic Saints!
Next, the priest and the people ask further pardon for their sins by praying the “Kyrie, kyrie, kyrie” or “Lord have mercy, lord have mercy, lord have mercy!” This prayer is effective if and only if it comes from a “contrite and humble heart” which always evokes true sorrow for sin and arises and comes from true compunction of heart! As anyone who reads the Psalms, written by King David, knows that Almighty God only forgives sin from such a holy attitude, clearly explained in Psalm 50 or the famous “Miserere Psalm”. God forgives no sin if it does not emanate from such a “contrite and humble heart”. Even the “Gloria” of the Mass, surprisingly is a prayer in praise of God’s Glory and is so supplicating of God’s mercy for forgiveness of our sins in its aspirations, again and again! “Lord Jesus Christ Who takes away the sins of the world , have mercy on us and hear our prayer!”
Following this, the Priest during the Offertory of the Mass asks God’s pardon for his sins and the people by praying to Almighty God, to receive this stainless host, which I, thine unworthy servant offer to Thee, my God, living and true, for mine “innumerable sins, offenses, and negligences, and for all here present; as also for all faithful Christians, living and dead.”
Again, this proper and prayerful true compunction of heart is not at all present or required in the “Novus Ordo”, New Mass, the Unsalvific “New Mass” from Vatican II and Pope Paul VI---the most disastrous and heretical Council of the Church in 2000 years! God forbid!
Then the officiating priest of the Tridentine Mass begs God at the Offertory “to forgive his sins and all those present by “washing his hands among the innocent” and then he will continue “worthy” sacrifice at God’s altar. And in this same prayer from Psalm XXV of the Mass and with true contrition for his sins asks God to “not take away my soul with the wicked and with further “firm purpose of amendment for his sins and those of the people present prays, and assures God Almighty that “his feet have stood in the right way; in the Churches will he bless Thee, O Lord.” How profound sacrifice, asking forgiveness for sin; once more not at all present in the “unsalvific Novus Ordo Mass” which fails totally to do this or make mandatory in its prayers!
Following the Offertory prayers of “purification” of the priest’s hands and soul and the peoples comes the “ Suscipe Sancta Trinitas” prayer to the most Holy Trinity, an essential Catholic doctrine, begging Him to make this sacrifice for sin be efficacious because it recalls the “Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension” of Jesus Christ in His honor, and also ( again very Catholic} of Mary, always a Virgin and John the Baptist and the holy apostles, Peter and Paul with all the saints (very Catholic) be profitable for their honor and to the salvation of the priest officiating and all the faithful only because all the holy saints and the most Holy Trinity, shall intercede for the Salvation of the priest and the faithful in attendance!”
Can you understand why this, one of the holiest of prayers in the Tridentine Latin Mass to beg Almighty God for forgiveness and Mercy from our sins in a “worthy sacrifice” for sin was extracted from the Protestant Novus Ordo “New Mass” of Paul VI and Vatican II?
Again, to make it more amenable to the Liberal and heretical Cardinals and Bishops of Vatican II and not in accordance to the rubrics of the Perennial Mass of the Ages, the most holy Tridentine Mass; established as “sacrosanct forever” by Pope Pius V in the 16th century, along with his “anathema” for everyone who in his reign or thereafter, alter “a single word or rubric”---which Vatican II and the “New Mass crowd” of the Pope Paul VI and his main facilitator and most feckless , A. Bugnini totally ignored!
Let us continue to clarify the “Unsalvific Nature or Sins” of the Novus Ordo fiasco with the Canon Prayers of the Tridentine Mass with the Preface Prayers to the Holy Trinity which exactly begs to “thank” the One God in Three divine persons correctly and which states in the prayer of “thanks” in confessing the true and eternal Godhead, “ discretion in powers, unity in essence and equality in majesty, may be adored.” Once more not a necessity and virtually lacking in any of the common preface prayers, created by Paul VI’s Mass in the 1960’s and A. Bugnini’s theatrics!
Then the angels, Cherubim and Seraphim are implored, angels and archangels alike, to pray with us the holy “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus” prayer---one of the few places the “Novus Ordo Missae” did not deviate from the Mass of the Ages! Praise God Almighty!
-- The Canon—
The officiating priest then prays to Almighty God for the Church through the auspices of Jesus Christ (the most perfect High Priest” and Son of God and Lord) that He would bless this oblation, the holy unspotted Sacrifice for all “orthodox, Catholic and apostolic believers and teachers of whom the pope is assumed to be one himself and continuing, the officiating priest then prays for the “redemption of the souls of all faithful offering up this sacrifice for their souls and their redemption.”
This formula prayer in the Tridentine Latin Mass, has been eliminated virtually, from the Novus ordo and the next lengthy prayer, likewise, to Mary, the Virgin and Mother of God ( both doctrinal) and a list of the Saints, mainly apostles and first popes, to intercede in heaven for the priest and faithful at Mass through Christ the Lord!
And, then, closing the prayers of the first part of the Canon of the Mass is the “Hanc Igitur” prayer asking God Almighty to make this sacrifice efficacious for the priest and faithful to keep their souls in Peace, and secure from Eternal damnation and to be numbered part of the “saved or elect”.
---Institution of Christ’s Real Presence”
Undoubtedly, one of the most deleterious, heretical and abominable and blasphemous acts of the “New Mass” was tinkering and arrogantly assaulting Christ’s own words: “This is the chalice of My blood of the New and Eternal Testament: the Mystery of Faith; which shall be shed for “you” and for “many” for the remission of sins.” The “New Mass” changed “many” to “all” ; thus creating verbiage and doctrinal crisis because the false wording of “all “ for the orthodox “Many” allows for the ‘Bugnini Bombshell’ of Modernism in the Church and its heretical doctrine of meaning in essence, that Christ died and His most Precious Blood” was shed that ‘everyone will be saved’ from its efficacy---non-catholics, Protestants, or any religion, Christian or not!
This, of course, altering the word “many” for “all” gives credibility to the favorite Vatican II heretical teaching of the Antichrist that “outside the Church, there is salvation” which completely attacks the Perennial Teaching of 2000 years that “Outside the Church, there is no Salvation” or “Extra ecclesiam, Nulla Salvatio”! God save us!
---Canon Part II---(After Consecration of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ)
The priest officiating now prays that his sacrifice be as “pure” as the Old Law Priest Melchisedech and Abel’s “worthy” offerings to God! Then, a prayerful inquiry to St. Michael the Archangel is then offered that all present praying may receive the fruits of this sacrifice unto eternal life! All this in the Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages! Prayers for the faithful departed are included next by the priest and people to themselves. Lastly, the Canon ends with the Prayer to God Almighty for your sinful servant who hopes in the multitude of God’s Mercy to be included with the list of Saints mentioned viz. John, Stephen, Barnabas, John, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Caecelia, Anastasia and all Saints, not because of our merits, but Pardoning our offences, we beg to be included with these Saints!
How Catholic this conclusion of the Canon with the prayers of Pardon for one’s sins and the officiating priest, which emphasizes that this Sacrifice is for sins and absolutely most efficacious because it is made “through Him (Jesus Christ) and with Him, and In Him in the unity of God the Father Almighty, , in the unity of the Holy Ghost, all honor and glory!”
What a perfect sacrificial prayer for sin in the Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages, but again not a necessity to pray even in the Roman Canon for this Canon is a viable option for the Novus Ordo Priest of the “New Mass” and so virtually dropped from the “New Mass fiasco” of Vatican II and Paul VI!
How blatant the heretical conclusion of the “New Mass” and its Unsalvific Negligence in not offering to God the final prayers of the Canon for one’s sins, but a big praise banquet , Protestant style, of feel good religion, touchy-feelly liberal Catholicism of the Priest and people with the happy-clappy sensitivities of the down-home folks, playing their guitars and singing their great Amen, three times, oblivious of sin, both priest and people!
---Pater Noster---
After the Canon, the priest and people pray together the Our Father as taught us by Christ for forgiveness of sin and a firm purpose of amendment and not to be led into unnecessary temptations by our own proclivities from the world, flesh, and devil; but only if we fully repent can we be delivered from evil!
Once more here this most significant of Prayers of the Mass works for forgiveness of sins, if we avoid all the unnecessary occasions of sinning, by true Repentance in our hearts and souls!
---The Fractioning of the Host”
The priest then officiating prays that all the faithful present and He avoid all past, present, or future sins through the intercession of Mary, the ever Virgin and Mother of God, (doctrinal) and St. Andrew, St. Peter, and all the Saints and God’s Mercy! This beautiful prayer of detachment from all sin on our part by this prayer before receiving the Holy Eucharist---is prayed “through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Three in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, World without end. Amen
This holy prayer of Perfect Contrition for all sinning on our part is only in the Tridentine Mass; proving once more the total and utter validity of this Mass as a “worthy sacrifice for sin” by priest and people, the Tridentine Mass of the Ages!!!
The priest and faithful end these post canonical prayers
Begging Almighty God, that it be efficacious to life everlasting!
----Agnus Dei---
“The Agnus Dei” prayers ensue, which beg God Almighty for forgiveness for our sins through Jesus Christ “Who takes away the sins of the world.” Three times this prayer is repeated!
After this, the three Communion Prayers are recited: the first, for the church and the Mystical Body of Christ, to give it Peace and Unity, according to God’s Will! This , of course, means not according to men’s will which “the Vatican II Church has totally made to be Man’s Church, not God’s! This is especially true with Antichrist Francis and what he is all about both pleasing and conforming to the world and not to God’s laws!
The Second Eucharistic Prayer is to Jesus Christ by Priest and People which begs God’s forgiveness from all our sins and evils, and prays to Him to keep the Commandments of God, and never be separated from Him, through the Most Holy Trinity “Who lives with the same God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns world without end. Amen
This penitential prayer for Pardon, Absolution and Remission of all sin and any attachment to it prevails always and only in the “Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages”, again proving its Purity as “worthy sacrifice” for our sins, prayed by both Priest and People.
The Third and last Communion Prayer begs Almighty God that we not receive the Body and Blood of Christ, unworthily, for danger of “condemnation and judgment”, but by God’s Mercy be profitable to the safety and health of both Body and Soul! This holy prayer to Jesus Christ, concludes with a supplication to the most Holy Trinity, (doctrinal) “Who with God, the Father, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, God, world without end. Amen!”
Each one of these three Communion Prayers which are for proper prayerful disposition in preparation of soul by Priest and Faithful for reception of the Most Holy Eucharist,! These three holiest of prayers prove absolutely, how the “Tridentine Latin Mass of the Ages” is Sin Sacrifice! Where, in the Novus Ordo “New Mass” are any of these penitential prayers even slightly given credence to? Absolutely nowhere, nowhere, nowhere! This catapults the entire “Novus Ordo “New Mass” into a state of chaos, as to its utter validity and efficacy as “worthy sacrifice” to God for sin, no matter how sincere one’s intention during its unfolding may be!
To show once more the Tridentine Mass’s total efficacy for sin before one receives the precious Body and Blood of Christ, both the priest and the people pray one more “Confiteor” prayer for sin, to make up for any distractions during Mass and our attention to the Holy Sacrifice of Jesus Christ to His Father for our sins! This, again, with the Priest, who forgives sins for God in Confession (doctrine) prays to God that He forgive us and grant “pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins!”
Once more this holy Confiteor, as well as its wording, is totally absent from the infamous “Novus Ordo “New Mass”!
---The End of the Mass---
This first Absolution Prayer, manifestly shows a firm purpose of amendment, prayed by priest and people, as well as a true contrition for our sins and not to sin anymore, by both priest and people!
“Grant, O Lord, that what we have taken with our mouth, we may receive with a pure mind; and that from a temporal gift it may become for us an eternal remedy.”
The final propitiatory prayer for sin by priest and faithful is a most beautiful conclusion to these two Absolution Prayers by both priest and people:
“May Your Body, Lord, which I have received and Your Blood which I have drunk, cleave to my inmost parts, and grant that no stain of sin may remain in me, whom these pure and holy Sacraments have refreshed. Who live and reign, world without end. Amen.”
Therefore, any orthodox Roman Catholic, or any Catholic for that matter, can only believe in the Mass of the Ages, the Tridentine Latin Mass because it is a “worthy sin sacrifice” to God for sin , absolutely unlike the Protestant style ‘praise banquet service’ of the heretical Vatican II and Paul VI, himself, a mini-antichirst, who perpetrated and innovated it in 1965 when the Council ended!
Absolutely and conclusively one cannot RISK HIS IMMORTAL SOUL to such worldly conformity of the philosophy of the day for the last 60 years of “ I’m OK; you’re OK; no right, no wrong; no religion, no God; no heaven, no hell; and no judgment and no Judge.” Why? Because in the Novus Ordo ‘New Mass’, there is no sin to worry about, pray about, or repent from!!! In no way does this penitenial philosophy of the Tridentine Mass of the Ages prevail in this worldly theater of the “New Mass.”
Therefore, the “New Mass’ validity” crumbles before the unadultered Purity of Repentance for Sin as a “worthy sacrifice to God for Sin” as the Tridentine Mass of the Ages does, so efficaciously, so prudently, so profoundly!!!
In closing this explication of the Tridentine Mass of the Ages, which is a total “ truth bomb” to Francis the Antichrist who does not care an iota for, and who wants to Quash the so-called “ old Mass’ and has just dictated from the throne of Peter that “no priest can say this Traditional Mass anywhere in Rome and all the churches of its diocese any longer.”
Let us thank God for the Holy Priests who lived and taught the truths of the faith in spite of “Collar Fever”, such as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen! Let us reflect on his holy words why “total repentance” of our sins is so absolutely necessary before we die! Contemplate these holy words of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:
“What we all have to realize is that when we sin, we turn our back on God. He does not turn His back on us. If we are ever to see His face again, we must turn around, that isk, turn from sin. That is what is meant by conversion. “Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts.” (Zech. 1:3)
“God cannot save us without that conversion, if we die in our unrepentant sin, we are forever turned away from God. Where the tree falls, there it lies. (see Eccles. 11:3).There is no reversal of values after death.
We cannot love sin during life and begin to loves virtue at death. The joys of heaven are the continuance of the Christlike joys of earth. We do not develop a new set of loves with our last breath. We shall reap in eternity only what we sowed on earth. If we loved sin, we shall reap corruption; but we shall never gather grapes from thistles.
The justice of God is not separable from His goodness. If He were not just, He would not be good. Because He is goodness, His justice pardons; because He is justice, His goodness expiates. The thief on the right saw the need of justice the moment he admitted, “We suffer justly”; that is why immediately he felt the response of Goodness: “ This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.”
Then let not our presuming moderns who pile sin on sin think that they can insult God until their lease on life has run out and then expect an eternal lease on one of the Father’s mansions. Did He who went to leaven by a Cross intend that you should go there by sinning!”
“May the darkness of sin and the night of heathenism vanish before the Light of the Word and the Spirit of Grace. And may the Heart of Jesus live in the hearts of men, now and forever. Amen. “
J. Hughes Dunphy
“Eternal Father, we offer Thee the Body and Blood and Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in all the tabernacles of the world in reparation for the sins of blasphemy, sacrilege, unworthy Communions, lack of faith, hope, and charity, closing of tabernacles, removal of kneelers, moving of tabernacles and the abomination of Communion in the Hand! And the infinite egregious sins against the Holy Sacrifice of the Tridentine Mass in the last sixty years by Popes, Bishops, Priests and People be forgiven! And may the most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary forgive us our sins!
“Francis, the Antichrist, and His Times”
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If there is one eternal truth of the orthodox Catholic Faith, it is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior! And this eternal truth is pronounced every Sunday at Mass in the Creed, “He will come again to judge the living and the dead.” Any fervent Catholic is very aware of this truth as well as the fact that we must all be prepared and vigilant of when this Second Coming of Christ will occur, in order to be prepared to save our souls. And coupled to this truth is the veritable proximity of our own Judgment and our necessary preparation for that. Father John A. Hardon, S.J. amplified this truth to his students, the nearness of death and judgment in these words: “Death than which nothing is more certain, judgment than which nothing is more strict, hell than which nothing is more horrible, and heaven than
Most frightening of all with Francis is his stark resemblance in every way to the Antichrist! Make no mistake about what the chief task of the Antichrist will be about but the deconstruction and vicious, most perilous, attack on the Catholic Church in every possible way to destroy it, and most of all the holy souls left in its embrace. Yes, the Mystical Body of Christ is the arch enemy of the Antichrist and seemingly, in every way, with Francis and his partners in infidelity and schism in the upper hierarchy of the Church. That said, let us return posthaste to the brilliant study of Fr. Vincent Miceli, S.J. and his masterpiece on the endtimes, “The Antichrist”. Here is what Fr. Miceli said of the identity of the Antichrist:
“In a stunningly evil way, he (the Antichrist) will knit together his totalitarian rule of heresy, sedition, revolution, schism, war---indeed of every evil movement—and hurl them effectively against the Church. Preceded by apostasy, conceived in apostasy, gestated in apostasy, born in apostasy and raised up to manhood in apostasy, the Man of Sin will come to total power through a general, universal apostasy. In other words, the Antichrist could never have existed except for the decision of the majority of persons in the East and West to apostasize from God and join the forces of atheism.”
We continue with the scholarly and holy priest, Fr. Miceli : (but remember he wrote this book the “Antich
Are there no evidences to convince us that some such apostasy is being formed, gathering forces, gaining ground on us every day? It must be admitted that in the West the conflict between the children of the New Humanism and the faithful is escalating in ferociousness. The spirit ruling in the great cities is avaricious, luxurious, self-dependent, irreligious, ungodly, falsely liberal and sacrilegious. In fact a specific madness of modern society is its assault on the sacred. “
Fr. Miceli continues: “At first the Catholic Church seemed impregnable to the assaults of the forces of hell. To outsiders she looked impressive,coherent, immense; they admired her clarity of doctrine, her sure guidance in morals, her firm authority, her unified counterattack against spreading religious skepticism, savage totalitarianism and perverse hedonism. She was seen as the last and strongest bastion against the advance of organized, militant, atheistic barbarism. Moreover, a steady in-gathering of converts buttressed her fight against the forces of desacralization. Then the tower of truth and holiness began to topple from an earthquake within. Apparently there had been a hidden fault, a serious weakness down deep in the members of the Catholic Church. This weakness was found, it seemed, in the Church’s leaders and especially among its prestigious intellectuals.
It took the Council called Vatican II, the council which, in the words of Pope John XXIII, was summoned to Rome : “To bring the modern world into contact with the vivifying and perennial energies of the Gospel!” This council, in Fr. Miceli’s words “opened the gates of the Church into contact with the stultifying and deadly energies of neo-modernism. This has many Catholics into confessing cravenly and obsessively nothing but Catholic depravities, as if the Church, instead of being the MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST, WHICH HAD BEEN ALL ALONG, but was instead, THE SACRILEGIOUS BODY OF THE ANTICHRIST.”
And according to Fr. Vincent Miceli these “new church Catholics” started as the “fatal sickness” which reduced the number of conversions to the Faith significantly while “increasing enormously the desertions of Catholic priests, religious and laity to the world of unbelief.” If you remember the 1960’s, 70’s literally hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns left their former callings to go to the world.
This has caused in Fr. Miceli’s words: “serious divisions among Catholics on essential matters Gospels, the Real Presence, the Divinity of Christ, infallibility, the Resurrection, the nature of the Church and its salvational ministry and many, many others too numerous to mention---all of these HAVE DIVIDED AND MUTILATED THE FLOCK OF CHRIST.”
To Fr. Miceli these “new church Catholics” are the early on heretics and rebels against God and His Church, bearing the mark of the Antichrist.”
And this Council of the neo-modernists in the Church at Vatican Council II and their attacks on Church Tradition are apparently what Francis, the most unorthodox pope of all times, is using as his ammunition against the Mystical Body of Christ today. Specifically, where has Francis seemingly gone for his An
These new church modernists and Catholic Dissidents demanded the following according to Fr. Vincent Miceli:
1) “Divorced, remarried couples to receive Holy Communion while still living in adulterous unions; 2)ordained women priests and bishops; 3) women given the power to preach the Gospel with authority; 4) a reversal on the doctrine of artificial birth control; 5) a mitigation on the doctrine of abortion; 6) a teaching approving Marxism, Socialism and pacificism as doctrinally true and morally good practice; 7) a denial of the right to property and to reasonable profit; 8) the creation of a new Church, democratic, non-hierarchical in structure, a classless Church.”
Let us not error into believing the Antichrist will come in a pestilence of heresies, says Fr. Vincent Miceli, with preternatural heroics and wars. No, he will be subtle, cunning, and clandestine as the Devil Himself in the same way the devil attacks with temptation and cunning to encourage someone to sin. Especially, Fr. Miceli says this progressivist mentality of the Vatican II and the infamous “Call to Action” conference in Detroit in the 1970’s are what can lay the way for the Antichrist.
It seems plausible to suspect Francis who is a consummate liberal theologian and politician, notably so because he is a Jesuit, to be the Antichrist. For what will be the main task of the Antichrist but to attack the Mystical Body of Christ where the last souls who are just in this world reside, not in the world or other religions for he already has captured their souls. And what disguise is the most cunning and formidable but the office of the papacy itself, the pope himself as the Antichrist. Nor can we forget here to remember the prophecy of the holy Mother of God at Lasallete in the 1850’s, for Mary prophesized that “In the end Rome will lose the faith and become the Seat of the Antichrist.” Voila! We now have Francis, seemingly the perfect fulfillment of the persona of the Antichrist who is intent upon committing sacrilege and heresy, and being the most unorthodox and Roman Catholic of popes, quite avid to not teach, preach, and defend doctrine and the sacred deposit of faith, but to be its Grand Inquisitor.
And observe, says Fr. Vincent Miceli in his book the “Antichrist”, “how progressivist Christians will join the intellectual scoffers who disregard as foolhardiness the idea of an Antichrist. “ It was thus in the days of Noah who was laughed to scorn as he built his ark of salvation. It was thus in the days of Abraham as he pleaded fruitlessly with Sodom and Gomorrah. It was thus in the days of Christ as He wept over the city of Jerusalem. All these skeptics were wiped out violently for their incredulity. It will be thus at the end of time. For the wicked are too proud to accept and understand the ways of God.
In those last perilous days men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false-accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure instead of lovers of God, scoffers walking after their own lusts and jeering: Where is the promise of His Second Coming? Men will be despisers of government, presumptuous, self-willed, calumniators of civil and religious authorities, promising everyone liberty while subjecting themselves and their fellowmen to the corruption of runaway licentiousness. “ (2 Tim:3,1-5 )
Fr. Vicent Miceli continues in his book “The Antichrist”: “Will I find faith when I come?” asked Christ concerning those last days. Apparently He doubted He would. St. Pius X at the beatification of Joan of arc, December 13, 1908 had his doubts too. He said on that happy occasion: “In our time more than ever before the greatest asset of the evilly disposed is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigor of Satan’s reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics. Oh! If I might ask the divine Redeemer, as the prophet Zachary did in spirit: ‘What are those wounds in the midst of Your hands?’ the answer would not be doubtful. ‘With these I was wounded in the house of those who loved Me. I was wounded by My friends who did nothing to defend Me and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My adversaries.’ And this reproach can be leveled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries.”
Fr. Vincent Miceli, S. J. mentions the fifth angel in the Apocalypse who is sounding his trumpet, and in the Apocalypse, Chapter 9, we read: “And I saw a star which had fallen from heaven to the earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit, and there went up from the pit a smoke like that of a great furnace, the sun was then darkened, and the air because of the smoke of the pit. And out of the smoke locusts went forth upon the earth and they were told---to harm only such men as have not the seal of God upon their forehead.”
“Now in prophetic symbolism falling stars almost always refer to tepid, weak, wicked or apostate Catholics---bishops, priests, religious, laity. For it is her own children who are the harbingers of grief and disaster for the Church. The key to the shaft of the abyss is an emblem of their apostasy. These traitorous Catholics ally themselves with rebellious angels.” continues Fr. Miceli. “These traitorous Catholics ally themselves with the rebellious angels. Instead of using the keys of the kingdom of God, which they have received through Baptism and other sacraments, to suppress and defeat Satanic forces while advancing the holiness of their confreres, they rather misuse the graces of the Faith to foster and propagate error and evil, to open the abyss and let loose upon the earth the plagues of darkness and wickedness. Today”, says Fr. Miceli. “too many fallen stars are misusing the graces of the True Faith to seduce, enslave and precipitate into damnation vast numbers. “
And Father Miceli continues: “the answer to stars falling from heaven onto the earth, through the pristine betrayal of Lucifer, is stars that stand fixed in the heaven of fidelity to God with the courage and fortitude of the Archangel Michael. The remedy for the tepid is the zealous, for the weak the strong, for the timid the brave, for the wicked the holy, for the apostate the apostle. The Church is sorely in need of Catholics who are men and women of God imbued with the virtue of fortitude, of Catholics who are “valiant in battle.”
Fortitude is that virtue which enduringly resists difficulties of mind and body while persistently seeking, defending and spreading the truth and holiness of the Gospel.” This we do not see in the upperhierarchy, save someone like Cardinal Burke, Brandmuller, Caffarra, and Meisner who are fighting with extreme fortitude against Francis’ fiasco in Amoris Laetitia!
Then Fr. Vincent Miceli continues: “St. Thomas reminds us that fortitude is especially concerned with overcoming the fear of performing difficult deeds for the glory of God. And Fr. Miceli goes on to finish: “The great fault of the pusillanimous is that they succumb easily to irrational fears and leave the field of battle to enemy forces. This moral deformity reveals a lack of faith in the cause of Christ and a distrust of the assurance He gave his followers when He said to His Apostles: “Have confidence, I have overcome the world.” “The defect of irrational fear weakens virtue and renders Christians cowards.”
“But fortitude is not merely a passive virtue, a patient suffering of assaults of the enemy. Again St. Thomas states that “it is not outside the genus of fortitude to go on the offensive for the sovereign good of man and the glory of God.” Thus St. Joan of Arc, a mere girl of nineteen unprepared by nature or training to do battle against hardened veteran soldiers, nevertheless, fearlessly followed the will of God and drove foreign infidels out of Catholic France.
And Fr. Vincent Miceli ends his great essay of extraordinary fortitude in defending the Catholic faith by saying the following: “We Christians must be the eager heralds of Christ when He comes for the second time. For despite the General Apostasy that will be prevalent at that time---for the strong Faith of the Church is what has restrained the coming of the Antichrist so far—the Lord will be welcomed in His Final Coming in power by the remnant of His faithful followers. These will rejoice exceedingly with Him, knowing that this Parousia will put an end forever to the wickedness of Satan and the Antichrist, to the despicable détente of sin, and will gather in His elect to establish eternally that
Entente cordiale, that loving communion with God, known as the Beatific Vision.
May the darkness of sin and the night of heathenism vanish before
The light of the Word and the Spirit of Grace, and may the Heart of
Jesus live in the hearts of men, now and forever . Amen.
To be continued: J. Hughes Dunphy
Francis and the Time of the Antichrist
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Silent Apostasy of Francis
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Silent Apostasy of Francis
The absolute failure of Francis to teach, articulate and defend the "indissolubility" of Catholic matrimony at the Fall Synod of bishops in Rome makes vividly clear again the "Silent Apostasy" of Francis, his adamant heresy and significant schism for the first time in 2000 years, all in one pope. And truly all cardinals, bishops, and priests who participate in this spiritual fraud and satanical deceit of allowing divorced and remarried x catholics to receive Holy Communion while still living with their adulterous mates without an annulment are equally guilty of the sacrilege of the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ, as well as schism, just like Pope Francis. Let us be clear here, Catholic Sacramental Marriage is forever unless annulled--in its supposedly few instances-- in spite of what any pope may say, bishop, or priest in Confession or out of Confession regarding any mortal sin of adultery. Sacramental marriage is therefore "indissoluble." For the faithful to go along with this, they also are in schism for denying this perennial truth of the Catholic faith, namely, that all sacramental marriages are forever and to be living in adultery and frequenting any other sacraments of the Church without an annulment or until death of the partner is sacrilegious.
Being a jesuit Francis is too smart to outwardly deny this vital truth on the "indissolubility of marriage" in the open, but, instead via "silent apostasy" of failing to authoritatively defend, apply, protect and teach the fullness of this truth viz. the "indissolubility" and utter beauty of Holy Matrimony at the Fall Synod, Francis becomes one of the few popes of open and defiant heresy on the throne of Peter in centuries. Nor does Francis apparently care much about this heresy of "silent apostasy" either , because he is more emboldened than ever through acting not overtly but covertly, by allowing, encouraging, and promoting the sacrilegious reception of Holy Communion in an adulterous state, which is an heinous sacrilege by obviating the Church law on the "indissolubility" of all sacramental marriage and the impossibility of ever allowing this vice of adultery, but, via his papal authority he creates an exception to this law of the Council of Trent by creating a quick annulment process through simply a visit to your local bishop or parish priest and , in effect, obtaining your quick catholic divorce,or so-called annulment or whatever. What a scandal!
New Catholic Divorce
This satanical act of a Roman Pontiff, Francis, makes the Church and its hierarchy of cardinals and bishops, and priests, as well as all so-called catholics who participate in this new "catholic divorce" or approve of it as the first players in "open schism" of the once orthodox Roman Catholic Church with itself in thousands of years! This is Francis, his papacy, and the deconstruction of the Petrine office and its authority as never before sought by a member of the upper hierarchy, so bold and so cunning and so diabolical. Nevertheless, this is Francis, always now, and his Catholic Church wherein all doctrine and the deposit of faith, will perpetually devolve, change, and clandestinely, be altered for the sake of a compromise with the world, the flesh, and the devil. Francis is a serpent, waiting to destroy, any and everything holy about the Sacrament of Matrimony and who advocates, encourages, and promotes, by silently allowing adultery its opposite (heresy of "silent apostasy"), especially when he fails to be a traditional and obedient pope and clearly teach, define, protect, promote and defend this most holy sacrament of marriage and its "indissolubility" as all previous popes throughout history did. What a mendacity!
Trinitarian
Matrimony Forever!
In fact, so sacred is the sacrament of Holy Matrimony that the Most Holy Trinity Itself is so defined in marital terms by the theology of the Catholic Church for nearly 2000 years now, for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are together an infinite marriage of perfect love for all eternity! It is no wonder Our Divine Lord fought vehemently with the ancient Jews for just this wicked sin of adultery which they so avidly advanced by arguing that Moses allowed divorce and remarriage: to which Christ the Divine Teacher taught them so vigorously and forthrightly, "only because of the hardness of your hearts". "But I say to you any man who looks even lustfully upon a woman has already committed adultery in his heart." Moreover, Our Lord condemned the whole age and times in which He lived as "a wicked and adulterous generation." Imagine what Jesus Christ, the "Divine Bridegroom" Himself would say of these times in which we live today under Pope Francis where there is no orthodox doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church under attack so wickedly by pope, cardinals, bishops, priests and people but the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. And related to this the disgusting soft-pedaling on homosexuality and its approval in synodal discussions, the next fiasco, probably, under this apostate pope.
The Democratic Catholic Church and Francis
In reality what we have today is heinous crimes against the holy sacrament of Matrimony at so-called Catholic Church Synods in which doctrines of the Church i.e. "the indissolubility of marriage" are discussed, debated, and then voted upon in a democratic process with the pope leading the discussion. In effect, Francis has now launched this protestantized feel good religion of "It's all in the vote" for the decimation of all orthodoxy and the Catholic faith will inevitably result. Francis's papacy has become a veritable reign of terror, allowing such atrocities as: accelerated Catholic divorce through a feigned annulment process, lifetime adultery with Catholic status, sacreligeous Communions for such moral reprobates living in adultery, popes perpetually living in "silent apostasy" by failing continuously to teach, articulate, and defend the Catholic faith i.e. "indissolubility of marriage", a scattered flock caused by hireling priests, bishops and popes who do not defend the flock from the wolf at the door and its heresy, thus causing an adulterated catholic church in open schism with itself perpetually. God save us!
"The Divine Bridegroom"
Is there no end to the reign of this heretic, apostate, schismatic pope Francis and his minions who applaud his moral corruption and spiritual profligacy--such pusullanimity of cardinals and bishops in abundance? Consider how the Mother of God declared at her apparition at LaSalette, France that in the end, "Rome would lose the faith and become the seat of the anti-christ." And ruminate on the truth of Mary's words at Fatima how most souls go to hell for sins of the flesh. Finally, consider Christ always referred to Himself so mysteriously and mystically as the Divine Bridegroom and his Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, as His Spouse. This marriage of pure holy souls to Christ Himself is the holy teaching of the Church for 2000 years and its perennial magisterium. Not with Francis , this unorthodox, illegitimate, and unholy pope who is probably one of the wolves who will come before the end in sheep's clothing. Francis fails to follow the Good Shepherd and teach, preach, and defend the orthodox Roman Catholic faith as all popes in the recent and even distant past. Therefore, he is one of the "hirelings" our Divine Lord cursed. "For a hireling cares not for the sheep but scatters them, and runs away just before the wolf attacks." Let us hope not but the picture is very, very grim.
Theologi
cal Reign of Terror
The scandalous rule of Francis now allows a theological reign of terror upon the Body of Christ, His Church and His Spouse: Simply going to Holy Communion without giving up your adulterous partner becomes 'holy' under Francis. How heinous! Also sacrilegious Communions will now
become commonplace, for repentance from sin IN CONFESSION is no longer the 'sine qua non' of worthy reception of the most Holy Eucharist i.e. giving up your adulterous mate. With a pope "who accepts you as you are", Francis becomes a political liberal politician at his best. No longer is the Catholic Church a "hospital for sinners" simply because it is not 'politically correct' to preach on sin, penance, true contrition for your sin, firm purpose of amendment, avoidance of all near occasions to sin, having to go to Confession, doing penance for reparation of your sins, self-denial, or mortification. So the modernist Francis who ignores by "silent apostasy" the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, he decimates three sacraments at once: Holy Matrimony as an "indissoluble bond" forever; the cleansing from serious sin by a worthy Confession before Holy Communion, and no need to worry about a Sacrilegious Communion and about St. Paul's warning to not receive the "Body and Blood of Christ unworthily because you eat and drink your own damnation." Unless this is stopped Francis and all his minions of the hierarchy and faithful will undermine everything that is holy about the once Orthodox Roman Catholic Church and its marks of being 'one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.'
Infamous War on Tradition
Francis will have nothing to do with traditional Catholicism and, in fact, he is, unequivocally, at war with it as is plainly clear. Forget any notion with Francis of 'fraternal correction or admonish the sinner' as the Spiritual Works of Mercy demand. For example, in the past if an individual was involved in an adulterous relationship, he would be advised and obliged to go to Confession, repent of this egregious sin and cleanse his soul with true contrition for this most serious mortal sin. Once forgiven by a priest and at peace, he or she would be encouraged to mend any marital discord, especially of his or her own doing, and therefore help preserve and keep their sacramental bond intact of their first legitimate marriage. Thus the "indissoluble bond" of the sacrament of Matrimony was always preserved in the Catholic Church. Under every pope, prior to Pope Francis is this true!
New Theology of Francis and His Demise
This folly of Francis must be brought to a definitive end before he and his 'new theology' and 'new catechism' totally devastate the entire Church of Jesus Christ and force it into schism with itself.
Hopefully and prayerfully, enough moral outrage from Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests, can stop Francis' "silent apostasy" by going to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and its prefect Gerald Cardinal Muller who can authoritatively bring this 'scandal of scandals' to a screeching halt by declaring Francis as the heretic, apostate, and schismatic "Bishop of Rome" that he truly is; for Gerald Cardinal Muller has already declared authoritatively before the synod that any "inconsistency between doctrine and practice is heresy in one form or another. Let this "anathema" from Gerald Cardinal Muller come forth without delay before many more thousands and millions of souls are lost forever through Francis and his "heretical" teaching. For Our Divine Lord has warned that before the end, "there will be many false prophets who will lead many astray."
"May the darkness of sin and the night of heathenism vanish before the Light of the Word and the Spirit of Grace and may the Heart of Jesus live in the hearts of men, now and forever. Amen.
God have mercy,
J Hughes Dunphy
The absolute failure of Francis to teach, articulate and defend the "indissolubility" of Catholic matrimony at the Fall Synod of bishops in Rome makes vividly clear again the "Silent Apostasy" of Francis, his adamant heresy and significant schism for the first time in 2000 years, all in one pope. And truly all cardinals, bishops, and priests who participate in this spiritual fraud and satanical deceit of allowing divorced and remarried x catholics to receive Holy Communion while still living with their adulterous mates without an annulment are equally guilty of the sacrilege of the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ, as well as schism, just like Pope Francis. Let us be clear here, Catholic Sacramental Marriage is forever unless annulled--in its supposedly few instances-- in spite of what any pope may say, bishop, or priest in Confession or out of Confession regarding any mortal sin of adultery. Sacramental marriage is therefore "indissoluble." For the faithful to go along with this, they also are in schism for denying this perennial truth of the Catholic faith, namely, that all sacramental marriages are forever and to be living in adultery and frequenting any other sacraments of the Church without an annulment or until death of the partner is sacrilegious.
Being a jesuit Francis is too smart to outwardly deny this vital truth on the "indissolubility of marriage" in the open, but, instead via "silent apostasy" of failing to authoritatively defend, apply, protect and teach the fullness of this truth viz. the "indissolubility" and utter beauty of Holy Matrimony at the Fall Synod, Francis becomes one of the few popes of open and defiant heresy on the throne of Peter in centuries. Nor does Francis apparently care much about this heresy of "silent apostasy" either , because he is more emboldened than ever through acting not overtly but covertly, by allowing, encouraging, and promoting the sacrilegious reception of Holy Communion in an adulterous state, which is an heinous sacrilege by obviating the Church law on the "indissolubility" of all sacramental marriage and the impossibility of ever allowing this vice of adultery, but, via his papal authority he creates an exception to this law of the Council of Trent by creating a quick annulment process through simply a visit to your local bishop or parish priest and , in effect, obtaining your quick catholic divorce,or so-called annulment or whatever. What a scandal!
New Catholic Divorce
This satanical act of a Roman Pontiff, Francis, makes the Church and its hierarchy of cardinals and bishops, and priests, as well as all so-called catholics who participate in this new "catholic divorce" or approve of it as the first players in "open schism" of the once orthodox Roman Catholic Church with itself in thousands of years! This is Francis, his papacy, and the deconstruction of the Petrine office and its authority as never before sought by a member of the upper hierarchy, so bold and so cunning and so diabolical. Nevertheless, this is Francis, always now, and his Catholic Church wherein all doctrine and the deposit of faith, will perpetually devolve, change, and clandestinely, be altered for the sake of a compromise with the world, the flesh, and the devil. Francis is a serpent, waiting to destroy, any and everything holy about the Sacrament of Matrimony and who advocates, encourages, and promotes, by silently allowing adultery its opposite (heresy of "silent apostasy"), especially when he fails to be a traditional and obedient pope and clearly teach, define, protect, promote and defend this most holy sacrament of marriage and its "indissolubility" as all previous popes throughout history did. What a mendacity!
Trinitarian
In fact, so sacred is the sacrament of Holy Matrimony that the Most Holy Trinity Itself is so defined in marital terms by the theology of the Catholic Church for nearly 2000 years now, for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are together an infinite marriage of perfect love for all eternity! It is no wonder Our Divine Lord fought vehemently with the ancient Jews for just this wicked sin of adultery which they so avidly advanced by arguing that Moses allowed divorce and remarriage: to which Christ the Divine Teacher taught them so vigorously and forthrightly, "only because of the hardness of your hearts". "But I say to you any man who looks even lustfully upon a woman has already committed adultery in his heart." Moreover, Our Lord condemned the whole age and times in which He lived as "a wicked and adulterous generation." Imagine what Jesus Christ, the "Divine Bridegroom" Himself would say of these times in which we live today under Pope Francis where there is no orthodox doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church under attack so wickedly by pope, cardinals, bishops, priests and people but the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. And related to this the disgusting soft-pedaling on homosexuality and its approval in synodal discussions, the next fiasco, probably, under this apostate pope.
The Democratic Catholic Church and Francis
In reality what we have today is heinous crimes against the holy sacrament of Matrimony at so-called Catholic Church Synods in which doctrines of the Church i.e. "the indissolubility of marriage" are discussed, debated, and then voted upon in a democratic process with the pope leading the discussion. In effect, Francis has now launched this protestantized feel good religion of "It's all in the vote" for the decimation of all orthodoxy and the Catholic faith will inevitably result. Francis's papacy has become a veritable reign of terror, allowing such atrocities as: accelerated Catholic divorce through a feigned annulment process, lifetime adultery with Catholic status, sacreligeous Communions for such moral reprobates living in adultery, popes perpetually living in "silent apostasy" by failing continuously to teach, articulate, and defend the Catholic faith i.e. "indissolubility of marriage", a scattered flock caused by hireling priests, bishops and popes who do not defend the flock from the wolf at the door and its heresy, thus causing an adulterated catholic church in open schism with itself perpetually. God save us!
"The Divine Bridegroom"
Is there no end to the reign of this heretic, apostate, schismatic pope Francis and his minions who applaud his moral corruption and spiritual profligacy--such pusullanimity of cardinals and bishops in abundance? Consider how the Mother of God declared at her apparition at LaSalette, France that in the end, "Rome would lose the faith and become the seat of the anti-christ." And ruminate on the truth of Mary's words at Fatima how most souls go to hell for sins of the flesh. Finally, consider Christ always referred to Himself so mysteriously and mystically as the Divine Bridegroom and his Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, as His Spouse. This marriage of pure holy souls to Christ Himself is the holy teaching of the Church for 2000 years and its perennial magisterium. Not with Francis , this unorthodox, illegitimate, and unholy pope who is probably one of the wolves who will come before the end in sheep's clothing. Francis fails to follow the Good Shepherd and teach, preach, and defend the orthodox Roman Catholic faith as all popes in the recent and even distant past. Therefore, he is one of the "hirelings" our Divine Lord cursed. "For a hireling cares not for the sheep but scatters them, and runs away just before the wolf attacks." Let us hope not but the picture is very, very grim.
Theologi
The scandalous rule of Francis now allows a theological reign of terror upon the Body of Christ, His Church and His Spouse: Simply going to Holy Communion without giving up your adulterous partner becomes 'holy' under Francis. How heinous! Also sacrilegious Communions will now
become commonplace, for repentance from sin IN CONFESSION is no longer the 'sine qua non' of worthy reception of the most Holy Eucharist i.e. giving up your adulterous mate. With a pope "who accepts you as you are", Francis becomes a political liberal politician at his best. No longer is the Catholic Church a "hospital for sinners" simply because it is not 'politically correct' to preach on sin, penance, true contrition for your sin, firm purpose of amendment, avoidance of all near occasions to sin, having to go to Confession, doing penance for reparation of your sins, self-denial, or mortification. So the modernist Francis who ignores by "silent apostasy" the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, he decimates three sacraments at once: Holy Matrimony as an "indissoluble bond" forever; the cleansing from serious sin by a worthy Confession before Holy Communion, and no need to worry about a Sacrilegious Communion and about St. Paul's warning to not receive the "Body and Blood of Christ unworthily because you eat and drink your own damnation." Unless this is stopped Francis and all his minions of the hierarchy and faithful will undermine everything that is holy about the once Orthodox Roman Catholic Church and its marks of being 'one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.'
Infamous War on Tradition
Francis will have nothing to do with traditional Catholicism and, in fact, he is, unequivocally, at war with it as is plainly clear. Forget any notion with Francis of 'fraternal correction or admonish the sinner' as the Spiritual Works of Mercy demand. For example, in the past if an individual was involved in an adulterous relationship, he would be advised and obliged to go to Confession, repent of this egregious sin and cleanse his soul with true contrition for this most serious mortal sin. Once forgiven by a priest and at peace, he or she would be encouraged to mend any marital discord, especially of his or her own doing, and therefore help preserve and keep their sacramental bond intact of their first legitimate marriage. Thus the "indissoluble bond" of the sacrament of Matrimony was always preserved in the Catholic Church. Under every pope, prior to Pope Francis is this true!
New Theology of Francis and His Demise
This folly of Francis must be brought to a definitive end before he and his 'new theology' and 'new catechism' totally devastate the entire Church of Jesus Christ and force it into schism with itself.
Hopefully and prayerfully, enough moral outrage from Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests, can stop Francis' "silent apostasy" by going to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and its prefect Gerald Cardinal Muller who can authoritatively bring this 'scandal of scandals' to a screeching halt by declaring Francis as the heretic, apostate, and schismatic "Bishop of Rome" that he truly is; for Gerald Cardinal Muller has already declared authoritatively before the synod that any "inconsistency between doctrine and practice is heresy in one form or another. Let this "anathema" from Gerald Cardinal Muller come forth without delay before many more thousands and millions of souls are lost forever through Francis and his "heretical" teaching. For Our Divine Lord has warned that before the end, "there will be many false prophets who will lead many astray."
"May the darkness of sin and the night of heathenism vanish before the Light of the Word and the Spirit of Grace and may the Heart of Jesus live in the hearts of men, now and forever. Amen.
God have mercy,
J Hughes Dunphy
False Charity, Class Envy, The Pope, Bishops and the Modern Church
We all know how the American government, corrupted as it is to the very core, participates in Marxist class envy vigorously everywhere , making blacks hate whites and vice versa, the poor hating the wealthy, and pitting one ethnic group against another, with even women hating men. Why? To create division and hate so the government can step in to seize power and advance governmental programs of equality that create even more class envy and hatred. The goal of all Marxist communist class envy to is to advance the totalitarian Communist atheistic state. Marxist communist class envy destroys true love of man for his neighbor or Christian charity, encourages the vice of sloth, and decimates a free market economy and capitalism, and peace on earth and good will to all men.
Nevertheless, most egregious of all is when the Church itself promotes class envy, liberation theology, and the massive loss of souls through the sin of envy from the top of the Church to the naive laity in the pews. This is true because Pope Francis himself, in another one of his casual unorthodox statements to the press, made the following egregious remark: “illegal immigrants must be welcomed and protected” in the United States of course. And not only the pope was involved in this illegal invasion , but the US Conference of Catholic Bishops received in 2012 , 65.9 million in federal grants to care for unaccompanied alien children and refugees, according to its 2012 annual report. Moreover, the group raised 1.4 million from its own church members while Federal loans and private sector grants made up the remainder of the 71 million spent on the resettlement that year. That means 93 percent of the NSCCB’s spending on charity was covered by U.S. taxpayers. (World Net Daily who published these statistics could get no response to emails and phone calls on seeking comments).
Furthermore, even Catholic Charities USA and other religious groups are working behind the scenes with the Federal Government to temporarily house and resettle this Latin American invasion in dozens and dozens of communities across the United States . This is not, not Catholic Charity being rendered through the Church working with the government but naked Marxist Communist class envy to give political advantage to its perpetrators with these so-called poor who are stealing citizenship illegally at our southern borders at the behest of American Catholic Bishops, numbers of lay Catholics and even the pope’s own encouragement.
Charity can only be charity as Our Divine Lord taught when “you give a drink of water even to one of these little ones for My Name’s sake, you will not fail to receive your reward.” Our Lord is not talking about a materialistic reward or advantage such as Marxist Class Envy is interested in, but only a reward in the hereafter as in adoring and worshipping God and gaining grace for one’s soul.
So-called helping illegal immigrants will only give the left wing democratic party an huge advantage politically for decades to come if this fiasco at the borders is pulled off and unopposed. Charity is only charity when help financially or otherwise is freely given for a spiritual end , and not manipulated by force through the tax system to give political advantage to those in power—the democrats. This is a scandal of scandals and on such a large scale, affecting so many, many Americans through the theft of tax dollars by the government and its democratic sympathizing cohorts. Spending all this money on illegal immigrants is a heinous sin and crime against the American people, whether these illegal immigrants are poor or not. Clearly, this is true when there are already millions and millions of poor or economically deprived Americans who are loyal citizens but cheated by this debacle. This could create an epidemic of disease and illness from these un-inoculated invaders to America when there already are so many Americans struggling to receive even basic health care from this Class envy Communist oriented Government. What a Catholic debacle this has become when the Church hierarchy and Pope Francis themselves are encouraging this!
It has been reported more than once that Catholic Charities USA also assists a number of other very un-catholic causes---which is a left wing political group of the American bishops---such as abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and now illegal immigration. Catholics must stop contributing immediately to this insidious organization under the control of evil forces.
This is an heinous scandal! And what a scandal this satanical sin of class envy can be, and all the other sins that it perpetrates and spreads. Let us listen to the holy Cure of Ars, the great parish priest of the Catholic Church, and how serious the sin of envy is in destroying souls.
“How many crimes have occurred in the history of the world, all of which had their source in envy! Envy has occasioned divisions in the Church, produced heresies ( i.e. liberation theology), originated wars, armed brother against brother, laid countries to waste, pillaged cities, separated families (i.e. liberation theology), and brought them to ruin. Envy knows no bounds.
It regards neither the bonds of friendship nor of blood. It incites the child against his father, as in the case of Absalom; brother against brother, like Cain; friend against friend, as with Saul; it causes men to forget the greatest benefaction, and hate the kindest of benefactors, as was the case with the Pharisees toward our Divine Savior.
Every one who has not lost all feelings of morality considers envy as a most disgraceful vice, and yet this vice is not as rare as people think. There is no end to envy in the world. Even amongst ourselves, envy is not a stranger. Indeed, there is not a man upon earth who has not to be upon his guard to close his heart to the vice of envy, to keep down every emotion of envy within him. For this reason I wish to warn you against envy, to show you:
To envy our neighbor’s happiness or fortune means to murmur at the dispensations of Providence and at God’s government of the world. The envious laborers in the vineyard, of whom the gospel speaks, murmured at the father of the family, and in like manner do all envious persons. Even if they do not grumble in just so many words, envy is practically a complaint against God. The envious person grudges his neighbor the good fortune that befalls him. But is it not God Who has granted it to him? It is a subject of vexation to the envious that his neighbor’s undertaking has succeeded (i.e. America), that his business is prosperous (i.e. America), that a joyful event has taken place. But does not every good gift come from God, Who is the success of every enterprise (i.e. America), allows business to prosper (i.e. America), and brings about that joyful event? Envy therefore, is a censure, a disapprobation of Divine Providence. The eye of the envious one is evil, because God is good.
According to this reasoning, God ought not to rule the world according to the decrees of His Love and Justice, but in accordance with the diabolical wishes of the envious, dispense His gifts and His chastisements. How malicious, and what a crime envy is! The Cure of Ars, “Sermons”
This malicious false desire of Marxist Class Envy to allow illegal immigration and all of its horrors prohibits the holy virtue of charity wherein Catholic bishops and priests and flock would work as missionaries in Mexico and Latin America to end the abject poverty of spirit where it exists in the Catholic faith, first, and then help alleviate physical want and need by teaching a man “how to fish rather than give him a fish”.
This outrageous power grab by American bishops viz. Cardinal O’Malley of Boston who recently stated to the press so arrogantly that “illegal immigration is more important than abortion” is an abomination. How this marks him as a disciple of the vice of Marxist Communist atheistic class envy for he happily shook hands with the president and also said how we can work together in this crisis--- the Church and the US Government.
Therefore, as the holy Cure of Ars teaches: “Let us love our neighbor and not envy him.” But how can we do this except by denying all unholy desires in ourselves and towards our neighbor or by our neighbor. This means also avoiding all excessive attachments in this world to its materialism, its possessions, its money, power, pleasures, or ownership. For all false desires in this world will be burnt up on the last day by Almighty God for only one desire, one love, one attachment shall survive and that is the unadulterated love of Our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord, God , and Savior.
This love and desire alone shall survive as the 5 Foolish Virgins learned in Sacred Scripture who had empty lamps when the Holy Bridegroom returned for the Wedding Feast of love. The 5 Foolish Virgins had no oil in their lamps of heavenly merit or virtues like their sisters, the 5 Wise Virgins.
That the 5 Foolish Virgins did not concern themselves with heavenly things in a timely manner is clearly evident by their only too late recognition of their own severe lack. Their obsession obviously with the materialistic world and its desires and pleasures was catastrophic and truly tragic.
Most significantly here is what the Bridegroom or figure of Our Lord Jesus Christ utters in this famous parable because of the 5 Foolish Virgins total lack of spiritual goods, this most formidable statement of “I don’t know you,” and how it so perfectly applies to the 5 Foolish Virgins and their gross spiritual delinquency which finally cost them their salvation. How envious must these foolish virgins have been of human possessions, pleasures, and possessions to become so blinded of all spiritual graces and virtues and merit in loving God.
Likewise this shall be the very same fate of all practitioners of the vice of envy in all of its hidden forms, be it stealing from another because he has more than you, or being uncharitable towards your neighbor or maligning his good name because he is somehow more important, wealthier, or more talented or influential than you. It is impossible to call it charity when you are supporting Marxist Class Envy by encouraging illegal immigrants to remain in this country, thwarting its laws, even if you feed, clothe, house, and care for all his educational and medical needs.
Thus the wickedness of Marxist Class envy by the government and participating Catholic Church leaders has nothing, absolutely nothing charitable about it for the end of helping others does not justify the means of stealing and manipulating the American tax system to your personal gain and breaking the laws of illegal immigration.
How vicious is the vice of envy in all of its disguises, which all translate into coveting and wanting more and not being satisfied with the less that God has given you or your associates and friends for the sake of your immortal souls.
By the same token the Rich Young Man in Sacred Scriptures who walked boldly away from Christ when Our Divine Lord asked him to give up everything and come and follow Him, no doubt lost his immortal soul as the 5 Foolish Virgins. This insidious love of materialism and the things of this world which allows no room for supernatural merit precipitated no doubt the loss of the Rich Young Man’s immortal soul just like the 5 Foolish Virgins who had no oil. Though the Rich Young Man kept the commandments which pleased Our Divine Lord, it was not enough because Our Lord wanted the Rich Young Man to love Him with his whole heart and soul and mind and all his strength.
This false desire in the Rich Young Man for more and more is nothing less than the wicked all consuming vice of envy. How envy hides and disguises itself in many, many masquerades among even the seemingly religious like priests, bishops, and religious and other such seemingly holy Catholic souls but who are confounded by the devil and his many ploys with the vice of envy. Just consider how many priests and religious sisters now perceive the reality of being successful as not their own spiritual gain or the holiness of their flock but a career of titles, degrees, and ecclesiastical power.
Moreover, St. Paul’s words warn of this very wicked evil of envy, even among the spiritually and religious followers of Our Lord:
“Indeed, religion with contentment is a great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it. If we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that. Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many sorrows. But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience and gentleness.” (1 Timothy 6: 6-12)
In considering charity, let us consider how false desires and concupiscence of envy must be avoided at all costs! Therefore, the sole desire that the hierarchy, including Pope Francis, ought to advocate amongst their sheepfold is pure charity as St. Paul says, in order to overcome the wicked and false desires of envy which as St. Paul advocates: “Men of God, avoid the wicked and false desires which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
The only desire that matters is the love of Jesus Christ as is so beautifully expressed in this poignant prayer from the Fr. Lasance Missal for the Tridentine Mass---a perfect prayer after Communion:
“O Lord Jesus, do Thou henceforth alone live within me. May the tongue whereon Thou hast rested never move to utter words other than such as would proceed from Thy meek and humble Heart. May the thoughts of my heart be in unison with Thine. May that mind which is in Thee be likewise in me. May I be consumed with the same desires; may I be one heart, one soul with Thee, O Jesus, Whom I bear within me. And let this union of my heart with Thine shed its influence over my whole life and conduct at all times and in all events, that so I may be able to draw other hearts to love Thee, and to devote themselves to Thy interests. This is the desire, O My Jesus, with which Thou dost inspire me--- that Thy sweet name may be hallowed, that Thy Kingdom may come, and extend, and triumph over all hearts and nations, and that Thy will, which is ever one with Thy Father’s, may be perfectly accomplished. Amen. Amen. (Fr. Lasance’s Missal, after Communion prayer)
Finally, let us dwell on Fr. John Hardon’s words, one of the greatest teachers of the Catholic faith in the last 50 years, who taught again and again the following truth:
“You are only so holy as you are detached from the things of this world! And when I say detached from the things of this world, I mean from everything, from everything, from everything.” (Fr. John Hardon, S.J.)
To be continued: J. Hughes Dunphy
UNORTHODOX PAPACIES IN MODERN TIMES
"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. 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. " Gal 1:8
Perish the thought of an unorthodox papacy in the Roman Catholic Church. Yet in the last fifty years there has been an unbroken line of unorthodox modernist popes since the death of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Modernism has infected all realms of the Church including prelates, priests, ordinary Catholics in the pews, and even the lay pop-evangelists who have taken over the EWTN airwaves.
This Modernism has scattered the sheep who were once of one true fold so that the Mystical Body the Church has become virtually non-existent. Christ, the Divine Word, ought to be acknowledged vigorously today, in Scripture, in doctrine and moral matters, in liturgy, and particularly in Tradition; all of which are known together in this expression as the Deposit of Faith, as revealed in its totality with death of the last of the apostles. Only those know, believe, acknowledge and practice all these truths are the members in the fullest standing of the Roman Catholic Church and undeniably one with it.
When priests, bishops, and even popes do not support these absolute teachings and expressions of the Divine Word in Scripture, doctrine, moral matters, liturgy and Tradition they are dissenting, in whole or in part, and are not feeding the sheep of Christ’s flock. They are wolves, and not good shepherds. These wolves have overrun the sheep which is abundantly evident in the unruliness and worldliness of today's Catholics who are quick to partake of soul-destroying sins like contraception, divorce and remarriage, and according to numerous polls go so far as to lend their support to sodomite marriage. To top it off, the most critical damage that these wolves have done is to the liturgy. “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” ( Matt: 7,15 ).
But our Lord's words “by their fruits that you will know them,” are the words that Our Lord uses to evaluate these false shepherds in sheep’s clothing which has become so very relevant in these last days.
The fruit is rotten in the mainstream Church. The rot is indiscernible from the wordly rot produced by paganism. When the men of the Church outlaw the Mass of All Ages which has produced saints and sustained burdened sinners in the faith since the founding of the Church and replace it with an unrecognizable, unpenitential, unsacrificial, man-made inorganic rupture and call it to it "Mass"-- one is faced with a supreme and devastating crisis.
When a pope, as supreme head of the Catholic Church, should state unequivocally that ‘to go backwards in time to the past and yesterday’s Church as the wrong way’ , we have the epitome of “unorthodox” teaching from the Vicar of Christ himself, or the Church’s supposed good shepherd. Consider Pope Francis’ words: So, while he is apparently strong in his call for Catholics not to be afraid of the approaching future, he seems to be somewhat very hesitant and afraid of the past. In his own reflections for his daily mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae recently, the Pope said, “It’s like when the road is covered in ice and the car slips and go off track…... This is the other temptation at the moment! We, at this moment in the history of the Church, we cannot go backwards or go off the track!"
Another paradigm of the same kind of rhetoric from Pope Francis I is his return from World Youth Day 13, at which time he clarified his position on homosexuality to the world press, saying that he would not judge priests for their sexual orientation. This lapsus linguae flies in the face of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching, in the papacy of his predecessor that no candidate for the priesthood should ever enter a seminary who has a strong sexual orientation towards pederasty, which was always the teaching of Tradition and orthodoxy for centuries! His predecessor judged such behavior as severely disordered, so ought to Francis I ! Further as the Supreme Pontiff it is his duty and obligation before Almighty God to judge such a priest.
This seems to be the sorry fate of Pope Francis I with such casual and elusive rhetoric, has declared herewith , publicly and outwardly, as pope, his apparent antipathy for the traditional teachings of the Church and its Traditions.
((((Additionally ecu-maniacal thrust of his recent predecessors, the Conciliar popes, he has already prayed in public with non-believers of the Catholic faith as though this is the normal routine of popes. This helps to set his papacy in the same mire that plagued all the Conciliar Popes of the Catholic Church in the last 50 years, these ecumenical obsessions and travesties. ))))) didn't do this!!
Even with the likes of Pope Paul VI’s seemingly good defense of Catholic sexual morality with “Humanae Vitae”; he, nevertheless, abused orthodox Catholicism abysmally with his continuation of the Second Vatican Council with its false ecumenism and teachings, the liturgical chaos and unsound liturgy of the new Mass, and his failure to quash the dissent—nearly universal, with “Humanae Vitae” by Catholic bishops, priests, and laity worldwide. The result of their insolent neglect of contradicting this encyclical, everywhere , by either ignoring it or dissenting with it, thus produced unhinged contraception in the 1960’s throughout the Church and the world thereafter.
Pope John XXIII’s modernist reign began with a call for the Second Vatican Council while he ignored the wise counsel of Pope Pius XII who fought consistently throughout his papacy against all attempts to “update the Church” and modernize it. This attempt to modernize the Church was an effort that began with and was encouraged boldly by some of the liberal prelates –amongst which was Angelo Roncalli-- and their cohorts. These wolves advocated strongly for “modernistic” changes with Pope Pius XII--however they were everywhere foiled, reprimanded or condemned during his papacy. Pius XII fought on every front against these infamous liberals and “modernists”. His heroic efforts are evident with his 41 encyclicals, all in defense of orthodoxy and Tradition. Pius XII wrote more encyclicals than all the Conciliar popes together in the last 50 years!
This liberal affront was non-stop throughout the papacy of John Paul II who dabbled in all kinds of ecu-maniacal “firsts”. From visits to synagogues—never done by popes preceding him— to kissing the Koran in public—a scandalous outrage. From his travels around the world to befriend other religions, rather than admonish and correct them for their unorthodoxy and non-belief, to the Assisi fiascos of syncretistic melting pots of false religions that prayed together while the Church sat quietly mute regarding the necessity of the one, true, orthodox faith for eternal salvation. He single-handedly excommunicated Tradition from the Church when persecuted and eventually excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre --one of the only true warriors that remained in the Church against modernism. He hammered the last nail in the coffin for belief and reverence for the Holy Eucharist by his allowance of Communion-in-the hand and altar girls.
While Benedict XVI did some thoroughly orthodox things such as restoring the Tridentine Mass to its former state and lifting the unjust excommunication of the SSPX, and making some necessary but not complete translation improvements on the New Mass, still he failed and failed miserably to say this glorious Mass of the ages, the Tridentine Mass, even once, publicly, during his entire Papacy or enforce its application even minimally worldwide. Nor did Pope Benedict XVI move vigorously enough to regularize, totally, one of the only thoroughly orthodox bastions in the Church left, the Society of St. Pius X, that were still totally traditional, orthodox and faithful to the Magisteria past and present.
Only Pope Pius XII thoroughly, consistently, and authoritatively defended the Catholic tradition of orthodoxy in its totality throughout his Papacy. An example of this alone is his declaration on the doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an “ex cathedra” belief of the church, and it was taught universally throughout the church and believed and enforced as he commanded.
Here we sit now and mourn the unpunctual demise of Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy and the modernists “deus ex machina” solution by elevating Francis I to the papacy by a defiant, corrupt, and dissident hierarchy who consistently throughout Christendom of late have failed scandalously to preach, teach, and admonish sinners, either within the Church or without, on the traditional teachings of the Catholic Faith or the Church’s past magisterial teachings on such vital matters as the sacrificial nature of the Mass and the most Holy Eucharist; the Sacrament of Penance and a sense of sin and repentance; proper decorum for the Holy Eucharist in Churches by preserving reverence always for the Holy Eucharist with tabernacles, genuflecting, proper dress, and adoration; the avoiding of the abomination of Communion-in-the-hand and altar girls; and, lastly, instruction on sexual morality, such as the mortally sinful nature of divorce, contraception, pornography, abortion, sterilization, fornication, masturbation, sodomy, and pedophilia.
Instead of feeding the sheep of the Good Shepherd’s Flock in the last 50 years with orthodox Catholicism, these errant shepherds have helped the wolf attack the flock, scatter it, and decimate its once very corpulent numbers. With a new sense of religious and ecumenical freedom, the uninformed Catholics in the Church’s pews have failed to live their faith because of their own largely culpable ignorance (St Thomas Aquinas has mused: “I cannot imagine a situation of inculpable ignorance), have not properly practiced it, nor have they lived its traditional moral teachings from the past, and so they have thus become the victims of the hierarchy’s malfeasance from the papacy on down.
This brings us to Pope Francis I who is not from the past tradition of orthodoxy among popes from Pius XII back, but a new breed of pope who runs roughshod over tradition and orthodoxy, not acting with caution and prudence in word and deed, apparently, so that everything that he thinks, says, or does is in complete accord with the Church’s Tradition and orthodoxy for the past 2000 years. For all practical purposes, Pope Frances I appears to be of this modernist mentality of popes who dangerously conform to the world in their teachings and praxis. One of the most ominous predictions from the lips of the Great Bishop Sheen before his death was the “clear danger of the Church conforming to the world in the next 100 years!” Sadly, we see this as prophetically coming true on the part of the Conciliar, modernist popes and bishops and priests of our own day, as prophesied by the late Bishop Sheen.
This cannot go on, the unmitigated obsession with Vatican II and its erratic teachings and its love of Modernism in Pope, clergy, and people alike and its unorthodox and untraditional teachings of the Catholic faith and morality for the past 50 years, for it has already “devastated the flock” as to its robust numbers beyond recognition. By failing to feed the sheep with orthodoxy and Tradition for these past 50 years, but feeding them goat’s food instead, we are fast approaching the times, if not already there, “of only a remnant surviving in grace”, as the great apostle of all orthodoxy and Tradition, St. Paul taught so vehemently and explicitly, many centuries before our times.
A Catholic Church that is neither orthodox nor founded consistently and infallibly upon its past Traditions is not a holy church, neither are its members nor its clergy. Exactly what does such a modern Catholic Church appear to be? Let us look: first, the new Mass, not the efficaciously holy Mass of the ages but a modernist prayer contrivance to assuage Protestantism and all other non-believers with its meal versus ‘sacrifice orientation’; the new catechism that tramples upon the doctrines and morality of the Church, particularly all sexual morality by not teaching it in the same clear and explicit language of the past; the new code of canon law which has devastated religious orders of men and women with so many thousands of laicizations, and likewise the priesthood, and has exponentially increased the numbers of marriage annulments and divorce worldwide; also the limp-wristed efforts of combating from the papacy and the clergy the new sexual immorality which is rampant in both the Church and the world; and, finally, the obsession with modern socialist societies that ignore St. Paul’s perfect work ethic: “If you don’t work, you don’t eat” so that the modern social gospel has become a tool of marxist class envy viz. “ if you are poor or deprived, you assuredly deserve an entitlement”. No one sees it any longer as a severe violation of the Seventh Commandment and the virtue of Justice, nor “defrauding a laborer of his wages”—one of four sins that cries to heaven for vengeance! Such is the Church of today in the Age of Apostasy!
In fact, so important is Tradition as well as orthodoxy in Our Divine Lord’s teachings to us that He strategically put both of them together in this famous excerpt from Matthew (5 : 17-20). “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” What a glorious confirmation of orthodoxy and Tradition by Our Divine Lord Himself!
Clearly, one cannot have one without the other; for if there is no orthodoxy, there is likewise no Tradition. And Tradition cannot be Tradition without orthodoxy. Consider only Our Lord’s admonition of the Pharisees who chastised Our Lord for teaching differently on marriage than Moses who allowed a writ of divorce to the ancient Jews. But Our Divine Lord taught authoritatively to these false teachers: “But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
For this the Pharisees and Jews condemned Our Divine Lord to death and also for Christ’s other orthodox and traditional teachings. When the teachings of the Jews had a tradition on their side such as the Jews allowing divorce, Our Lord taught vigorously the whole truth to them in absolute terms because these teachings of the Jews were not orthodox because they were sinful -- even though they were traditional. The same holds true for the use of anger and killing one’s brother in this identical passage from Matthew. Indeed, both orthodoxy and tradition had to reflect each other for Our Divine Lord.
And so should Holy Mother Church on the part of the Magisterium with the Pope and the bishops and the priests, in total unity, believe and teach. But what have we seen in the last 50 years since the Second Vatican Council but unorthodox and untraditional teachings from pope after pope and from bishop after bishop and priests ‘en masse’ in the Catholic Church. Not the air-tight orthodoxy and Tradition of past magisterial teachings of Pope Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI, or Pius XII. nor from Vatican Council I. Instead the faithful have been inundated with unorthodox and untraditional pronouncements, actions, and writings from the Conciliar popes ever since and before Vatican Council II. Witness the false and iniquitous abrogation of the Tridentine Mass till Pope Benedict XVI’s “Motu Proprio”. Another egregious example is the false ecumenism since the Council and Pope Pius XII”s wholesale attack on any participation in it during his papacy with all of his absolute authority. Witness also the liberal and modernist inception of Communion-in-the-hand and altar girls in bold defiance of all past Magisteria of popes and councils for thousands of years!
In sum, every pope from John XXIII to and through Pope Francis I have either said, done, taught or wrote some of these unorthodox abominations, along with multitudes of bishops and priests, which have over time devastated the vineyard with millions upon millions “falling away” in what appears to be the “Great Apostasy” of whole Catholic nations ceasing to exist in what has clearly become the insufferable attack of Modernism, the worst heresy in the history of the Roman Catholic Church since Athanasius.
Certainly, Our Lord’s rule to judge them by their “fruits” applies here: “By their fruits you will know them.” And what are the fruits of Vatican Council II and the Conciliar popes? Let us examine now some of these modernist affronts in detail, especially Ecumenism, and observe its victorious assault on Tradition and orthodoxy in clergy and faithful alike and why Pius XII was so strict in condemning this cancer in the Church before Vatican Council II--everywhere during his reign, especially, by supporting his predecessor Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “Mortalium Animos” that taught basically reunification with other religions could only be possible if they would return to the total faith and doctrines that they had rejected or ought to believe within the Catholic Church. This Pope Pius XII adamantly defended to his death.
Now let us observe these modernist affronts on the Church! First of all, it is the failure to continue to teach, consistently, not only the Tradition of 2000 years of Roman Catholicism but even when doing so to fail to be orthodox. Especially, noteworthy, at the outset is the failure on the part of all the Conciliar Popes to condemn “ecumenism” by upholding vigorously and authoritatively and adamantly in union with the retinue of orthodox popes before Vatican II who adamantly defended this all important doctrine of the faith that “outside the Church there is no salvation.” It is not only the unorthodox teachings of Vatican II but its egregious failures to teach, vigorously and authoritatively, the whole undiluted truth, for example, that the Catholic faith is the one true faith in which Salvation can only be found. Or that forgiveness of sin alone resides within the priesthood of the Catholic Church. The Church’s exclusivity has been matter-of-factly been ignored since Vatican Council II, diluted and debased.
Now consider that religious liberty somehow includes the possibility that one can be saved in other false religions in a kind of invisible church, connected extra-scramentally to the Catholic Church. This is the first and greatest salvo and egregious error by the modernist Second Vatican Council and all of its popes who allowed this doctrine of “outside the Church there is no Salvation” and its application throughout the Church to languish into obscurity. Also, the limp-wristed efforts by these same Conciliar popes to defend authoritatively and vigorously the traditional teachings on marriage and sexual morality to the whole Church and the world during the sexual revolution have brought us to “same-sex marriage and sodomy in all of its horrors” with children even being victims of it by the clergy themselves. What an abomination is the failure to address this diabolical new “homoheresy” as it spreads pandemically everywhere to obliterate the virtue of purity, the family and civilization. Moreover, the onus of guilt here is not purely papal, but Episcopal and sacerdotal as well.
To redefine catechetics away from absolute moral principles of right and wrong and its defense, to a modernized version of conscience that anything goes because of the circumstances of your situation in an “I’m ok and you’re ok” kind of morality has created “erroneous consciences” everywhere in the Church, be it clergy or faithful. With the demise of absolutist morality on right and wrong (“It’s a mortal sin to….) in the Conciliar Church and its concomitant “fear of the Lord” mentality, there is no longer any evidence within the Church-- but the most pusillanimous of efforts-- of teaching on the four last things of “death, judgment, heaven and hell” which create always a healthy fear of God’s justice and His admonition that only “few” will be saved, especially, if one considers Christ’s teachings on the “narrow gate”: “Enter at the narrow gate for wide is the path that leads to destruction and many are there who travel that way. Enter at the narrow gate, for narrow is the gate and rough is the road that leads to life, and few there are who even find it.” ( Matt: 7: 13)
Therefore, it is above all evident that orthodoxy and Tradition are always inseparable, for there is simply no truth without them both, as we saw earlier how Our Divine Lord so taught in the passage of Matthew Chapter Five, on how nothing is overlooked, even one jot or tittle, in the judgment. Thus the importance of St. Athanasius’ words which are published so proudly on the mast of this blog: “Whoever wishes to be saved must above all keep the Catholic Faith, for unless you keep this faith whole and entire, you will undoubtedly be lost.” These words of St. Athanasius the Great are based upon the words and teachings of Our Divine Lord and the importance of upholding the Truth in both orthodoxy and Tradition in its totality. In past and present Magisteria alike! One pope cannot ignore, contradict or overturn the doctrinal teachings of previous popes or Councils or he is not orthodox nor traditional.
These saintly words by Athanasius ought to be treasured by every heart and soul that desires to be “saved” and reach heaven. In particular, are these holy words addressed to the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church who have been given the duty and privilege to teach and preach the whole Truth of Christ, unsparingly, to the entire world, even a hostile and belligerent world such as it is today. Let us recall again the power of Christ’s Own words, once more: “He, therefore, that shall break one of these least commandments (the Ten Commandments and all the rest of Christ’s teachings by application) and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Thus orthodoxy, or correctness and the completeness of Christ’s teaching and words is no option; not for members of the Catholic Church, which, clearly, forbids heresy, nor is it an option for other religions of the world, be they in total error or in part as all Protestantism. It may cost one his immortal soul! Moreover, this absolutely includes, also, by application of Our Divine Lord’s words, everything ever taught by the Church throughout its entire history, including all perennial doctrines of the faith by either popes or councils of the Church in the past. And this likewise translates down to the Sunday sermons of your local parish priest and the Christian doctrine you learn in your local parish in the present. Nonetheless, this admonition of Our Lord’s holds true only for the faithful with those teachers and preachers who are “orthodox” and traditional. No others! Nor can one assume that liberal teachings or doctrines that are in error, such as from unorthodox popes or councils or parish priests and catechism teachers are to be accepted. Above all, these false teachings are to be avoided by any informed Catholic conscience as heresy and heterodoxy are to be avoided, especially, when they are clearly inconsistent with the Church’s teachings of the last 2000 years. And such false teachers or wolves will be severely chastised by God’s justice: “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt 5: 20)
Consider, above all, now the absolute importance of orthodoxy and tradition in the very worship of the Catholic Church in the Tridentine Mass, and the importance, therefore, of this obligation on the part of all Catholics, clergy and faithful alike. In the canon of the Mass, the most holy part of the Mass when Our Divine Lord sacrifices Himself to His Heavenly Father for our sins, we see the following language and the use of the pivotal word “orthodox”: You can observe this in the Latin or English below: “We , therefore, humbly pray and beseech, Thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ; Thy Son, Our Lord that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to accept and bless these gifts, these offerings, these holy and unblemished sacrifices. Which in the first place, we offer up to Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church, that it may please Thee to grant her peace, to protect, unite and govern her throughout the world, together with Thy servant Franciscus, our Pope, our Bishop, and all orthodox believers and professors of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.” (Add: “Te igitur, clementissime Pater, per Jesum Christum Filium tuum Dominum nostrum, supplices rogamus, ac petimus, uti accepta habeas, et benedicas, haec dona, haec munerea, haec sancta sacrificial illibata. In primis, quae tibi offerimus pro Ecclesia tua sancta catholica; quam pacificare, custodire, adunare, et regere digneris toto orbe terrarium; una cum famulo tuo Papa nostro Francisco, et Antistite nostro , et omnibus orthodoxis atque catholicae, et apostolicae fidei cultoribus.)
In other words no Mass is legitimate if it is not offered by orthodox believers and teachers of the Catholic and Apostolic faith from top to bottom, from the pope in Rome to the orthodox believers in the pews. No sacrifice of the Mass will be blessed or approved by almighty God if it is not orthodox in its teachings or preachings and prayers and offered by similar members of the Catholic Church from pope to priest to people. In short, orthodoxy is not a choice or an option in acceptable worship of God, just as it is essential in a devout Catholic’s faith life. So also, Tradition in worship is likewise imperative, which so clearly is the case with the Tridentine Mass of the ages that goes back in its relevance to the Upper Room and Christ’s Own Last Supper!
Lastly, let us consider the importance of Tradition unmistakably to Our Divine Lord Who said: “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For Amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.” Unmistakably, “by their fruits”, Our Lord said, “you will know them.” Undeniably, the liberal Vatican Council II, its popes, its prelates, and its priests; notwithstanding, religious orders of sisters and priests, have watched the Church move from an organized flock of sheep and good shepherd to a sorry lot of goats, who are unruly, uncontrollable, and unconcerned about their salvation, or even hearing of it today. Instead of feeding the flock of sheep with true orthodoxy and Tradition such as the holy Society of Pius X is being fed , independently , or miniscule groups of traditional Catholics around the world, Rome has ignored the sheep and concentrated upon feeding them the food of goats which has devastated the flock everywhere, universally. In fact, the worn out metaphor certainly applies here, “Rome fiddles, while the world burns.”
And so it is today and for the last 50 years of Vatican II renewal and the new catechism and the Conciliar Church! The application of this metaphor reaches the height of its absurdity when we have a pontiff in Rome, named Francis I, who is obsessed with elevating to heavenly glory and sainthood, two of the Catholic Church’s most unorthodox and untraditional of popes in Church history : Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, the former who banished Tradition by invoking the Council and the latter who excommicated it by so doing to the Society of Pius X, all of this while Catholics in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are decimated by the Islamic sword, their churches burned to the ground, and their lives taken everyday. When will this modernist debacle come to an end?
That is only possible when an orthodox pope of holy Tradition such as Pope Pius XII again takes the throne of Peter to rule the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ that was built soundly upon Peter. This could be the current pope’s fate if and when he has a ‘conversion of heart’. When, that is, he becomes a good shepherd like unto our Divine Lord who would lay down his Life for all His Sheep, or for the whole Church, in particular the righteous sheep, that is, including all the traditional and faithfully orthodox Catholics since Vatican II! Even the Society of St. Pius X ! This means the pope becomes a victim of the “Victim of Love” and His eternal sacrifice by laying down his life for his sheep. And this means no shepherd is a good shepherd who is not orthodox and traditional, as is clear from Christ’s teachings and His actions. Nor is he holy! For if he is not such a pope, then he is not a good shepherd but a “hireling” or one who allows the wolf to attack the sheep, scatter them, and decimate them. The history of the last 50 years up to the present! Lord save us!
In conclusion, it is good to recall here Fr. John Hardon’s words about today’s priests and bishops. Fr. John Hardon was truly one of the greatest teaching priests of all time who wrote over 55 books, helped pen the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and taught theology and philosophy in Latin in several seminaries; he often begged his students to pray for priests and bishops. These are his oft repeated words: “Pray for priests, pray for priests; so many have lost their faith! Pray for bishops, pray for bishops; so many have lost their faith!” Let this be our closing thoughts and words for all priests and bishops. (Fr. John Hardon, S. J. was, indeed, a very holy priest who passed in 2000 and his cause is already under scrutiny by Rome for sainthood.)
Pax in Christo Per Mariam,
J. Hughes Dunphy
(to be continued)
Perish the thought of an unorthodox papacy in the Roman Catholic Church. Yet in the last fifty years there has been an unbroken line of unorthodox modernist popes since the death of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Modernism has infected all realms of the Church including prelates, priests, ordinary Catholics in the pews, and even the lay pop-evangelists who have taken over the EWTN airwaves.
This Modernism has scattered the sheep who were once of one true fold so that the Mystical Body the Church has become virtually non-existent. Christ, the Divine Word, ought to be acknowledged vigorously today, in Scripture, in doctrine and moral matters, in liturgy, and particularly in Tradition; all of which are known together in this expression as the Deposit of Faith, as revealed in its totality with death of the last of the apostles. Only those know, believe, acknowledge and practice all these truths are the members in the fullest standing of the Roman Catholic Church and undeniably one with it.
When priests, bishops, and even popes do not support these absolute teachings and expressions of the Divine Word in Scripture, doctrine, moral matters, liturgy and Tradition they are dissenting, in whole or in part, and are not feeding the sheep of Christ’s flock. They are wolves, and not good shepherds. These wolves have overrun the sheep which is abundantly evident in the unruliness and worldliness of today's Catholics who are quick to partake of soul-destroying sins like contraception, divorce and remarriage, and according to numerous polls go so far as to lend their support to sodomite marriage. To top it off, the most critical damage that these wolves have done is to the liturgy. “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” ( Matt: 7,15 ).
But our Lord's words “by their fruits that you will know them,” are the words that Our Lord uses to evaluate these false shepherds in sheep’s clothing which has become so very relevant in these last days.
The fruit is rotten in the mainstream Church. The rot is indiscernible from the wordly rot produced by paganism. When the men of the Church outlaw the Mass of All Ages which has produced saints and sustained burdened sinners in the faith since the founding of the Church and replace it with an unrecognizable, unpenitential, unsacrificial, man-made inorganic rupture and call it to it "Mass"-- one is faced with a supreme and devastating crisis.
When a pope, as supreme head of the Catholic Church, should state unequivocally that ‘to go backwards in time to the past and yesterday’s Church as the wrong way’ , we have the epitome of “unorthodox” teaching from the Vicar of Christ himself, or the Church’s supposed good shepherd. Consider Pope Francis’ words: So, while he is apparently strong in his call for Catholics not to be afraid of the approaching future, he seems to be somewhat very hesitant and afraid of the past. In his own reflections for his daily mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae recently, the Pope said, “It’s like when the road is covered in ice and the car slips and go off track…... This is the other temptation at the moment! We, at this moment in the history of the Church, we cannot go backwards or go off the track!"
Another paradigm of the same kind of rhetoric from Pope Francis I is his return from World Youth Day 13, at which time he clarified his position on homosexuality to the world press, saying that he would not judge priests for their sexual orientation. This lapsus linguae flies in the face of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching, in the papacy of his predecessor that no candidate for the priesthood should ever enter a seminary who has a strong sexual orientation towards pederasty, which was always the teaching of Tradition and orthodoxy for centuries! His predecessor judged such behavior as severely disordered, so ought to Francis I ! Further as the Supreme Pontiff it is his duty and obligation before Almighty God to judge such a priest.
This seems to be the sorry fate of Pope Francis I with such casual and elusive rhetoric, has declared herewith , publicly and outwardly, as pope, his apparent antipathy for the traditional teachings of the Church and its Traditions.
((((Additionally ecu-maniacal thrust of his recent predecessors, the Conciliar popes, he has already prayed in public with non-believers of the Catholic faith as though this is the normal routine of popes. This helps to set his papacy in the same mire that plagued all the Conciliar Popes of the Catholic Church in the last 50 years, these ecumenical obsessions and travesties. ))))) didn't do this!!
Even with the likes of Pope Paul VI’s seemingly good defense of Catholic sexual morality with “Humanae Vitae”; he, nevertheless, abused orthodox Catholicism abysmally with his continuation of the Second Vatican Council with its false ecumenism and teachings, the liturgical chaos and unsound liturgy of the new Mass, and his failure to quash the dissent—nearly universal, with “Humanae Vitae” by Catholic bishops, priests, and laity worldwide. The result of their insolent neglect of contradicting this encyclical, everywhere , by either ignoring it or dissenting with it, thus produced unhinged contraception in the 1960’s throughout the Church and the world thereafter.
Pope John XXIII’s modernist reign began with a call for the Second Vatican Council while he ignored the wise counsel of Pope Pius XII who fought consistently throughout his papacy against all attempts to “update the Church” and modernize it. This attempt to modernize the Church was an effort that began with and was encouraged boldly by some of the liberal prelates –amongst which was Angelo Roncalli-- and their cohorts. These wolves advocated strongly for “modernistic” changes with Pope Pius XII--however they were everywhere foiled, reprimanded or condemned during his papacy. Pius XII fought on every front against these infamous liberals and “modernists”. His heroic efforts are evident with his 41 encyclicals, all in defense of orthodoxy and Tradition. Pius XII wrote more encyclicals than all the Conciliar popes together in the last 50 years!
This liberal affront was non-stop throughout the papacy of John Paul II who dabbled in all kinds of ecu-maniacal “firsts”. From visits to synagogues—never done by popes preceding him— to kissing the Koran in public—a scandalous outrage. From his travels around the world to befriend other religions, rather than admonish and correct them for their unorthodoxy and non-belief, to the Assisi fiascos of syncretistic melting pots of false religions that prayed together while the Church sat quietly mute regarding the necessity of the one, true, orthodox faith for eternal salvation. He single-handedly excommunicated Tradition from the Church when persecuted and eventually excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre --one of the only true warriors that remained in the Church against modernism. He hammered the last nail in the coffin for belief and reverence for the Holy Eucharist by his allowance of Communion-in-the hand and altar girls.
While Benedict XVI did some thoroughly orthodox things such as restoring the Tridentine Mass to its former state and lifting the unjust excommunication of the SSPX, and making some necessary but not complete translation improvements on the New Mass, still he failed and failed miserably to say this glorious Mass of the ages, the Tridentine Mass, even once, publicly, during his entire Papacy or enforce its application even minimally worldwide. Nor did Pope Benedict XVI move vigorously enough to regularize, totally, one of the only thoroughly orthodox bastions in the Church left, the Society of St. Pius X, that were still totally traditional, orthodox and faithful to the Magisteria past and present.
Only Pope Pius XII thoroughly, consistently, and authoritatively defended the Catholic tradition of orthodoxy in its totality throughout his Papacy. An example of this alone is his declaration on the doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary as an “ex cathedra” belief of the church, and it was taught universally throughout the church and believed and enforced as he commanded.
Here we sit now and mourn the unpunctual demise of Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy and the modernists “deus ex machina” solution by elevating Francis I to the papacy by a defiant, corrupt, and dissident hierarchy who consistently throughout Christendom of late have failed scandalously to preach, teach, and admonish sinners, either within the Church or without, on the traditional teachings of the Catholic Faith or the Church’s past magisterial teachings on such vital matters as the sacrificial nature of the Mass and the most Holy Eucharist; the Sacrament of Penance and a sense of sin and repentance; proper decorum for the Holy Eucharist in Churches by preserving reverence always for the Holy Eucharist with tabernacles, genuflecting, proper dress, and adoration; the avoiding of the abomination of Communion-in-the-hand and altar girls; and, lastly, instruction on sexual morality, such as the mortally sinful nature of divorce, contraception, pornography, abortion, sterilization, fornication, masturbation, sodomy, and pedophilia.
Instead of feeding the sheep of the Good Shepherd’s Flock in the last 50 years with orthodox Catholicism, these errant shepherds have helped the wolf attack the flock, scatter it, and decimate its once very corpulent numbers. With a new sense of religious and ecumenical freedom, the uninformed Catholics in the Church’s pews have failed to live their faith because of their own largely culpable ignorance (St Thomas Aquinas has mused: “I cannot imagine a situation of inculpable ignorance), have not properly practiced it, nor have they lived its traditional moral teachings from the past, and so they have thus become the victims of the hierarchy’s malfeasance from the papacy on down.
This brings us to Pope Francis I who is not from the past tradition of orthodoxy among popes from Pius XII back, but a new breed of pope who runs roughshod over tradition and orthodoxy, not acting with caution and prudence in word and deed, apparently, so that everything that he thinks, says, or does is in complete accord with the Church’s Tradition and orthodoxy for the past 2000 years. For all practical purposes, Pope Frances I appears to be of this modernist mentality of popes who dangerously conform to the world in their teachings and praxis. One of the most ominous predictions from the lips of the Great Bishop Sheen before his death was the “clear danger of the Church conforming to the world in the next 100 years!” Sadly, we see this as prophetically coming true on the part of the Conciliar, modernist popes and bishops and priests of our own day, as prophesied by the late Bishop Sheen.
This cannot go on, the unmitigated obsession with Vatican II and its erratic teachings and its love of Modernism in Pope, clergy, and people alike and its unorthodox and untraditional teachings of the Catholic faith and morality for the past 50 years, for it has already “devastated the flock” as to its robust numbers beyond recognition. By failing to feed the sheep with orthodoxy and Tradition for these past 50 years, but feeding them goat’s food instead, we are fast approaching the times, if not already there, “of only a remnant surviving in grace”, as the great apostle of all orthodoxy and Tradition, St. Paul taught so vehemently and explicitly, many centuries before our times.
A Catholic Church that is neither orthodox nor founded consistently and infallibly upon its past Traditions is not a holy church, neither are its members nor its clergy. Exactly what does such a modern Catholic Church appear to be? Let us look: first, the new Mass, not the efficaciously holy Mass of the ages but a modernist prayer contrivance to assuage Protestantism and all other non-believers with its meal versus ‘sacrifice orientation’; the new catechism that tramples upon the doctrines and morality of the Church, particularly all sexual morality by not teaching it in the same clear and explicit language of the past; the new code of canon law which has devastated religious orders of men and women with so many thousands of laicizations, and likewise the priesthood, and has exponentially increased the numbers of marriage annulments and divorce worldwide; also the limp-wristed efforts of combating from the papacy and the clergy the new sexual immorality which is rampant in both the Church and the world; and, finally, the obsession with modern socialist societies that ignore St. Paul’s perfect work ethic: “If you don’t work, you don’t eat” so that the modern social gospel has become a tool of marxist class envy viz. “ if you are poor or deprived, you assuredly deserve an entitlement”. No one sees it any longer as a severe violation of the Seventh Commandment and the virtue of Justice, nor “defrauding a laborer of his wages”—one of four sins that cries to heaven for vengeance! Such is the Church of today in the Age of Apostasy!
In fact, so important is Tradition as well as orthodoxy in Our Divine Lord’s teachings to us that He strategically put both of them together in this famous excerpt from Matthew (5 : 17-20). “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” What a glorious confirmation of orthodoxy and Tradition by Our Divine Lord Himself!
Clearly, one cannot have one without the other; for if there is no orthodoxy, there is likewise no Tradition. And Tradition cannot be Tradition without orthodoxy. Consider only Our Lord’s admonition of the Pharisees who chastised Our Lord for teaching differently on marriage than Moses who allowed a writ of divorce to the ancient Jews. But Our Divine Lord taught authoritatively to these false teachers: “But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
For this the Pharisees and Jews condemned Our Divine Lord to death and also for Christ’s other orthodox and traditional teachings. When the teachings of the Jews had a tradition on their side such as the Jews allowing divorce, Our Lord taught vigorously the whole truth to them in absolute terms because these teachings of the Jews were not orthodox because they were sinful -- even though they were traditional. The same holds true for the use of anger and killing one’s brother in this identical passage from Matthew. Indeed, both orthodoxy and tradition had to reflect each other for Our Divine Lord.
And so should Holy Mother Church on the part of the Magisterium with the Pope and the bishops and the priests, in total unity, believe and teach. But what have we seen in the last 50 years since the Second Vatican Council but unorthodox and untraditional teachings from pope after pope and from bishop after bishop and priests ‘en masse’ in the Catholic Church. Not the air-tight orthodoxy and Tradition of past magisterial teachings of Pope Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI, or Pius XII. nor from Vatican Council I. Instead the faithful have been inundated with unorthodox and untraditional pronouncements, actions, and writings from the Conciliar popes ever since and before Vatican Council II. Witness the false and iniquitous abrogation of the Tridentine Mass till Pope Benedict XVI’s “Motu Proprio”. Another egregious example is the false ecumenism since the Council and Pope Pius XII”s wholesale attack on any participation in it during his papacy with all of his absolute authority. Witness also the liberal and modernist inception of Communion-in-the-hand and altar girls in bold defiance of all past Magisteria of popes and councils for thousands of years!
In sum, every pope from John XXIII to and through Pope Francis I have either said, done, taught or wrote some of these unorthodox abominations, along with multitudes of bishops and priests, which have over time devastated the vineyard with millions upon millions “falling away” in what appears to be the “Great Apostasy” of whole Catholic nations ceasing to exist in what has clearly become the insufferable attack of Modernism, the worst heresy in the history of the Roman Catholic Church since Athanasius.
Certainly, Our Lord’s rule to judge them by their “fruits” applies here: “By their fruits you will know them.” And what are the fruits of Vatican Council II and the Conciliar popes? Let us examine now some of these modernist affronts in detail, especially Ecumenism, and observe its victorious assault on Tradition and orthodoxy in clergy and faithful alike and why Pius XII was so strict in condemning this cancer in the Church before Vatican Council II--everywhere during his reign, especially, by supporting his predecessor Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “Mortalium Animos” that taught basically reunification with other religions could only be possible if they would return to the total faith and doctrines that they had rejected or ought to believe within the Catholic Church. This Pope Pius XII adamantly defended to his death.
Now let us observe these modernist affronts on the Church! First of all, it is the failure to continue to teach, consistently, not only the Tradition of 2000 years of Roman Catholicism but even when doing so to fail to be orthodox. Especially, noteworthy, at the outset is the failure on the part of all the Conciliar Popes to condemn “ecumenism” by upholding vigorously and authoritatively and adamantly in union with the retinue of orthodox popes before Vatican II who adamantly defended this all important doctrine of the faith that “outside the Church there is no salvation.” It is not only the unorthodox teachings of Vatican II but its egregious failures to teach, vigorously and authoritatively, the whole undiluted truth, for example, that the Catholic faith is the one true faith in which Salvation can only be found. Or that forgiveness of sin alone resides within the priesthood of the Catholic Church. The Church’s exclusivity has been matter-of-factly been ignored since Vatican Council II, diluted and debased.
Now consider that religious liberty somehow includes the possibility that one can be saved in other false religions in a kind of invisible church, connected extra-scramentally to the Catholic Church. This is the first and greatest salvo and egregious error by the modernist Second Vatican Council and all of its popes who allowed this doctrine of “outside the Church there is no Salvation” and its application throughout the Church to languish into obscurity. Also, the limp-wristed efforts by these same Conciliar popes to defend authoritatively and vigorously the traditional teachings on marriage and sexual morality to the whole Church and the world during the sexual revolution have brought us to “same-sex marriage and sodomy in all of its horrors” with children even being victims of it by the clergy themselves. What an abomination is the failure to address this diabolical new “homoheresy” as it spreads pandemically everywhere to obliterate the virtue of purity, the family and civilization. Moreover, the onus of guilt here is not purely papal, but Episcopal and sacerdotal as well.
To redefine catechetics away from absolute moral principles of right and wrong and its defense, to a modernized version of conscience that anything goes because of the circumstances of your situation in an “I’m ok and you’re ok” kind of morality has created “erroneous consciences” everywhere in the Church, be it clergy or faithful. With the demise of absolutist morality on right and wrong (“It’s a mortal sin to….) in the Conciliar Church and its concomitant “fear of the Lord” mentality, there is no longer any evidence within the Church-- but the most pusillanimous of efforts-- of teaching on the four last things of “death, judgment, heaven and hell” which create always a healthy fear of God’s justice and His admonition that only “few” will be saved, especially, if one considers Christ’s teachings on the “narrow gate”: “Enter at the narrow gate for wide is the path that leads to destruction and many are there who travel that way. Enter at the narrow gate, for narrow is the gate and rough is the road that leads to life, and few there are who even find it.” ( Matt: 7: 13)
Therefore, it is above all evident that orthodoxy and Tradition are always inseparable, for there is simply no truth without them both, as we saw earlier how Our Divine Lord so taught in the passage of Matthew Chapter Five, on how nothing is overlooked, even one jot or tittle, in the judgment. Thus the importance of St. Athanasius’ words which are published so proudly on the mast of this blog: “Whoever wishes to be saved must above all keep the Catholic Faith, for unless you keep this faith whole and entire, you will undoubtedly be lost.” These words of St. Athanasius the Great are based upon the words and teachings of Our Divine Lord and the importance of upholding the Truth in both orthodoxy and Tradition in its totality. In past and present Magisteria alike! One pope cannot ignore, contradict or overturn the doctrinal teachings of previous popes or Councils or he is not orthodox nor traditional.
These saintly words by Athanasius ought to be treasured by every heart and soul that desires to be “saved” and reach heaven. In particular, are these holy words addressed to the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church who have been given the duty and privilege to teach and preach the whole Truth of Christ, unsparingly, to the entire world, even a hostile and belligerent world such as it is today. Let us recall again the power of Christ’s Own words, once more: “He, therefore, that shall break one of these least commandments (the Ten Commandments and all the rest of Christ’s teachings by application) and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Thus orthodoxy, or correctness and the completeness of Christ’s teaching and words is no option; not for members of the Catholic Church, which, clearly, forbids heresy, nor is it an option for other religions of the world, be they in total error or in part as all Protestantism. It may cost one his immortal soul! Moreover, this absolutely includes, also, by application of Our Divine Lord’s words, everything ever taught by the Church throughout its entire history, including all perennial doctrines of the faith by either popes or councils of the Church in the past. And this likewise translates down to the Sunday sermons of your local parish priest and the Christian doctrine you learn in your local parish in the present. Nonetheless, this admonition of Our Lord’s holds true only for the faithful with those teachers and preachers who are “orthodox” and traditional. No others! Nor can one assume that liberal teachings or doctrines that are in error, such as from unorthodox popes or councils or parish priests and catechism teachers are to be accepted. Above all, these false teachings are to be avoided by any informed Catholic conscience as heresy and heterodoxy are to be avoided, especially, when they are clearly inconsistent with the Church’s teachings of the last 2000 years. And such false teachers or wolves will be severely chastised by God’s justice: “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt 5: 20)
Consider, above all, now the absolute importance of orthodoxy and tradition in the very worship of the Catholic Church in the Tridentine Mass, and the importance, therefore, of this obligation on the part of all Catholics, clergy and faithful alike. In the canon of the Mass, the most holy part of the Mass when Our Divine Lord sacrifices Himself to His Heavenly Father for our sins, we see the following language and the use of the pivotal word “orthodox”: You can observe this in the Latin or English below: “We , therefore, humbly pray and beseech, Thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ; Thy Son, Our Lord that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to accept and bless these gifts, these offerings, these holy and unblemished sacrifices. Which in the first place, we offer up to Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church, that it may please Thee to grant her peace, to protect, unite and govern her throughout the world, together with Thy servant Franciscus, our Pope, our Bishop, and all orthodox believers and professors of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.” (Add: “Te igitur, clementissime Pater, per Jesum Christum Filium tuum Dominum nostrum, supplices rogamus, ac petimus, uti accepta habeas, et benedicas, haec dona, haec munerea, haec sancta sacrificial illibata. In primis, quae tibi offerimus pro Ecclesia tua sancta catholica; quam pacificare, custodire, adunare, et regere digneris toto orbe terrarium; una cum famulo tuo Papa nostro Francisco, et Antistite nostro , et omnibus orthodoxis atque catholicae, et apostolicae fidei cultoribus.)
In other words no Mass is legitimate if it is not offered by orthodox believers and teachers of the Catholic and Apostolic faith from top to bottom, from the pope in Rome to the orthodox believers in the pews. No sacrifice of the Mass will be blessed or approved by almighty God if it is not orthodox in its teachings or preachings and prayers and offered by similar members of the Catholic Church from pope to priest to people. In short, orthodoxy is not a choice or an option in acceptable worship of God, just as it is essential in a devout Catholic’s faith life. So also, Tradition in worship is likewise imperative, which so clearly is the case with the Tridentine Mass of the ages that goes back in its relevance to the Upper Room and Christ’s Own Last Supper!
Lastly, let us consider the importance of Tradition unmistakably to Our Divine Lord Who said: “Do not think that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For Amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.” Unmistakably, “by their fruits”, Our Lord said, “you will know them.” Undeniably, the liberal Vatican Council II, its popes, its prelates, and its priests; notwithstanding, religious orders of sisters and priests, have watched the Church move from an organized flock of sheep and good shepherd to a sorry lot of goats, who are unruly, uncontrollable, and unconcerned about their salvation, or even hearing of it today. Instead of feeding the flock of sheep with true orthodoxy and Tradition such as the holy Society of Pius X is being fed , independently , or miniscule groups of traditional Catholics around the world, Rome has ignored the sheep and concentrated upon feeding them the food of goats which has devastated the flock everywhere, universally. In fact, the worn out metaphor certainly applies here, “Rome fiddles, while the world burns.”
And so it is today and for the last 50 years of Vatican II renewal and the new catechism and the Conciliar Church! The application of this metaphor reaches the height of its absurdity when we have a pontiff in Rome, named Francis I, who is obsessed with elevating to heavenly glory and sainthood, two of the Catholic Church’s most unorthodox and untraditional of popes in Church history : Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, the former who banished Tradition by invoking the Council and the latter who excommicated it by so doing to the Society of Pius X, all of this while Catholics in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are decimated by the Islamic sword, their churches burned to the ground, and their lives taken everyday. When will this modernist debacle come to an end?
That is only possible when an orthodox pope of holy Tradition such as Pope Pius XII again takes the throne of Peter to rule the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ that was built soundly upon Peter. This could be the current pope’s fate if and when he has a ‘conversion of heart’. When, that is, he becomes a good shepherd like unto our Divine Lord who would lay down his Life for all His Sheep, or for the whole Church, in particular the righteous sheep, that is, including all the traditional and faithfully orthodox Catholics since Vatican II! Even the Society of St. Pius X ! This means the pope becomes a victim of the “Victim of Love” and His eternal sacrifice by laying down his life for his sheep. And this means no shepherd is a good shepherd who is not orthodox and traditional, as is clear from Christ’s teachings and His actions. Nor is he holy! For if he is not such a pope, then he is not a good shepherd but a “hireling” or one who allows the wolf to attack the sheep, scatter them, and decimate them. The history of the last 50 years up to the present! Lord save us!
In conclusion, it is good to recall here Fr. John Hardon’s words about today’s priests and bishops. Fr. John Hardon was truly one of the greatest teaching priests of all time who wrote over 55 books, helped pen the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and taught theology and philosophy in Latin in several seminaries; he often begged his students to pray for priests and bishops. These are his oft repeated words: “Pray for priests, pray for priests; so many have lost their faith! Pray for bishops, pray for bishops; so many have lost their faith!” Let this be our closing thoughts and words for all priests and bishops. (Fr. John Hardon, S. J. was, indeed, a very holy priest who passed in 2000 and his cause is already under scrutiny by Rome for sainthood.)
Pax in Christo Per Mariam,
J. Hughes Dunphy
(to be continued)
PHARISAICAL PRIESTS OF FALSE CHARITY AND THE NOVUS ORDO MISSAE
18/04/08 18:52 Filed in: False Charity
Nothing so incensed Our Divine Savior like the pharisaical brand of religion which was obsessed with external realities only and had nothing to do with the inward conversion of hearts to holiness. Over and over again, Our Lord had to rebuke the pharisees who wanted only the satanical bread of this world as opposed to the Bread of Eternal Life which Christ alone offered to mankind. By the same token, Satan offers only the false charity of the bread of this world to souls today; Christ Our Divine Savior has the everlasting spiritual Bread of eternal life, His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
The necessary ingredient for souls to be led astray by satanical false charity is to be willing to make a sinister "exchange"-- like many Jews of Christ’s own day. What exchange? The exchange is the salvation of our souls. This is all that Satan ever craves if only we are willing to give up our souls--then we can have the enticing bread of this world when we make the easy exchange of false charity. To accomplish this exchange one must only imitate or cooperate with the pharisaical teachers of false charity who are the apostles of ‘lovism’ that have long ago abandoned the ‘truth’ of Christ’s Word for the prosperity modernist gospel of feel-good religion.
Like Judas, the pharisees’ lovism sought the exterior approval of the world so they looked good, felt good, and were praised by their synagogue followers in Jesus’ day. They were the popular teachers in Jesus’ day. They were the popular teachers of the faith: they did everything to be seen, and sat down front at synagogues with their flamboyant robes of widened phylacteries and long fringes– to gain attention– and they loved the places of honor at feasts. Most important of all to these teachers of false charity and lovism was the secular world of the market place, for they loved to be called ‘rabbi’.
"Holy Detachment"
A good test to see if one is personally following this false charity of pharisaical lovism and loving inordinately the things of this world is to examine how attached one is to the ‘bread’ of this world. A great prophet of Catholic truth who fought steadfastly and bravely with every bit of his energy against the notion of worldly priests and who gave many a retreat to priests and religious throughout his entire life was the Jesuit priest Father John A. Hardon. Father John Hardon taught ‘detachment’ as the number one virtue of sanctity for priests and religious. Moreover, Fr. John Hardon was the spiritual director of Mother Theresa of Calcutta’s Sisters of Charity. Father Hardon adamantly taught about the virtue of charity, true charity, over and over to these holy sisters of Mother Theresa’s religious order who have practiced this holiest of virtues in their religious order since its very inception.
How can one tell if one is too attached to the false loves of this world or not: simply ask yourself if you are thoroughly detached from the things of this world. And if one is too attached to the things of this world then he is full of false charity and exactly like the Rich Man in the New Testament who walked away from Christ when Our Lord asked him to give up everything he possessed and come follow Him if he wished to be perfect. When Father John Hardon was asked whether this Rich Young Man in the gospels was saved in his opinion, Father Hardon said he believed the Rich Young Man was lost because of his excessive attachments to the things of this world– his money and all his possessions, for he went away sad when Christ told him to give up everything.
Father Hardon once pointed out in one of his lessons on detachment that what causes Catholic bishops and priests to apostasize on their Catholic faith is excessive attachment to the things of this world: sexual gratification, pride of self worth, clerical envy for power in the Church and notoriety, and money. Furthermore, Fr. John Hardon, made it known that bishops in the United States are literally worth millions and millions of dollars. Why? Because they are the sole owners of whole dioceses, legally. And nobody else!
When Father John Hardon was asked what he meant by detachment, he taught the following truth which he repeated again and again in the multitude of books he wrote on Catholic theology: "By detachment I mean, you must be detached from everything in this world. And when I say from everything, I mean from everything, from everything, from everything."
Finally, Fr. Hardon taught that Our Lord wants us all to be rich, but only with the things that are spiritual, celestial, and eternal. And especially is this true of those in the clerical life of the priesthood and the religious life. Everything else is simply useless according to Fr. Hardon. St. Paul reiterates this very same truth rather strongly in Corinthians: "For Jesus Christ my Lord; I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as rubbish." To Father Hardon all the things that one possesses have no value whatsoever unless they bring us safely to heaven.
From Our Lord’s own words about the Rich Young Man, He teaches that wealth and riches are eternally deleterious to our souls and our heavenly salvation if they are not used for our eternal happiness and reaching heaven. His prophetically powerful words bear this out: "How difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
Our Lord emphasizes that we ought to build up treasures for the Kingdom of Heaven: "Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, but a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth." In other words we need to be totally detached from all the pleasures and possessions and honors that the world holds dear if we truly wish to reach heaven. Then we can be internally detached.
What exactly was Our Divine Teacher calling the Rich Young Man to become if he were to leave all his money and possessions and come after Jesus and follow Him? Why he was begging him to become a priest, for isn’t that the life of the holy priest to become totally detached from the wealth and riches of this world? And Our Lord wanted this Rich Young Man to come and follow Him. To follow Christ totally and completely is to become saintly. And to become saintly oneself as well as one who helps others become saintly, is this not truly the vocation of a holy priest?
"Thirty Pieces of Silver"
How important is becoming holy to modern day Catholics or even to today’s priests? How interested are priests and people in the false charity of pharisaical ‘lovism’ which would much rather trade one’s soul for the bread of this world and the thirty pieces of silver of Judas Priest?
So many Americans today, and so many Catholic priests and bishops, seek the false bread of false charity offered by Satan to the world and not the heavenly bread which Our Lord offered mankind. Truly the social gospel dominates most of parish life today with expensive activity buildings being constructed to lure all the parishoners into expanding the church’s "bread of this world" by fund raisers, finance committees, and beauracries layered as high as the church steeple to plan and man all these financial enterprises. Much more time and effort is spent on renovating churches, building activity buildings, going on trips, participating in interfaith ecumenical prayer socials, building church image and community than on actual worship, devotions, and a serious saintly prayer life together that is cemented upon the solid pillars of Roman Catholic orthodoxy and catechetics. And who is the social engineer of all this socializing and making money and who sits like a mini-monarch before his cabinet of the parish council but the parish pastor.
To be serious about one’s soul and one’s personal holiness, according to Father John Hardon, one must tenaciously follow Christ and become holy by following Him in poverty of spirit as well as living like Jesus--who was literally born into poverty. This is especially true of priests who must vigorously follow Our Lord in true poverty of spirit through the holy counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience to reach heaven. This cannot be done, according to Father Hardon, unless the priest be detached "from everything, from everything that this world holds dear." A key test to judge priestly holiness or that of the people is Fr. Hardon’s following yardstick: "To the degree that one is detached from the things of this world, to that degree is one holy."
So the pharisees, or the Jewish priestly cast like Judas Priest, entertain the pretense of a loving affection publicly for Christ and His Truth, but they hide within their human hearts a diabolical attachment to the things of this world for the thirty pieces of silver, therefore, they live the diabolical exchange for the bread of this world as opposed to the bread of heaven as is evidenced by their lives of false charity. There is absolutely no difference between the judas priests of the Jewish priestly cast and those in today’s modern Catholic Church. All judas priests preach the popular gospel of false charity, the prosperity gospel of today’s modern Catholic Church since Vatican II: a religion whose priests too often crave the world’s eye and approval, lack humility, are ostentatious, are prideful and arrogant about the existence of sin–especially sexual sin, dissemble about doctrine constantly, and finally have desacralized the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to a Protestant praise banquet for everyone attending, be it priest presider or people.
What, above all, proves the false charity of all pharisaical priests whether ancient or modern? Truly Jesus’ own words: "Practice and observe whatever they tell you but not what they do." (Matt. 23:3) Thus these reprobate priests of today are obvious for their hypocrisy and their unwillingness to repent and love God: and so, they do not practice what they preach or even preach what one would hope they should practice; for a prideful and not prayerful priest with no contrite heart is as easy to detect today as a pharisaical priest in Christ’s Own Day. Christ, the Divine Teacher, so often rebuked the pharisees for their false teachings on love throughout His entire Public Life; and, no doubt, would have done the same today if He were here present. These false teachers of pharisaical lovism are, therefore, the paradigm of Judas Priest. Our Lord’s Own Words condemn this lifestyle of preaching and not practicing, the essence of Judas Priest: "They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger." (Matt. 23:4) Certainly Our Lord deemed priests of false charity as most meager in their striving for holiness, if at all.
"Fr. Malachi Martin and Judas Priests"
Father Malachi Martin, a well known Catholic author and faithful priest to the end of his life and good friend of Father John Hardon, S.J. said he was able to sit down in the back of a Church and observe any Catholic priest at Mass and tell inside of a few minutes whether or not he was a faithful priest on the road to holiness.
How did he have such a perspicacious eye for judas priests--those who pretend and appear to be one of Christ’s chosen disciples but in reality seek only to betray him? In short, Father Malachi Martin sensed a faithful priest or a priest striving to be holy by his gestures and general demeanor at the altar of God. And what did he especially look for? He could tell if a priest was holy by whether or not he genuflected at all during Mass and secondly, the general reverence and devotion in the way a priest says Mass tells the rest of the story. These were telling signs to Father Malachi Martin, a very holy and faithful orthodox Roman Catholic priest himself.
"Mary Magdalen’s Perfect Act of Reverence"
We have seen how Satan tempted Christ to make this exchange of heavenly bread for earthly bread in his temptations of Christ, but Our Lord would not. We have also noticed how this same curse of exchanging the Bread of Heaven for the bread of this world fell upon Judas too--one of Christ’s own beloved twelve, in a very dramatic example recorded by the evangelist John.
Just before the passion of Our Divine Savior began, Jesus had assembled at the home of Lazarus and Mary where He celebrated one of His last meals with these intimate friends and His beloved twelve. Here the false charity in Judas the Priest’s heart came dramatically forward when Mary Magdalen used precious nard to anoint Jesus’ feet and dried them with her own hair, a deed of the purest, selfless charity towards Christ, giving off a most precious pungent odor that literally emanated through the entire house (John 12:3). This was, indeed, a very, very expensive commodity in the ancient world which was the cause celebre that Judas presumed was an extravagance of worship on Mary’s part; for the precious nard could have been sold for a good profit and the money then given to the poor, so said Judas Iscariot. This was a rich act of worship, the highest form of charity a human heart could offer to her God, scrimping not the least on what one possesses for a perfect act of self-surrender of everything to her God. This was an absolute act of supreme humility at the feet of Our Lord Jesus Christ, so evident in her supplicating person at her Lord’s feet, using her beautiful hair– the crowning beauty of any woman’s pride–as a towel of personal reverence to wipe Jesus’ feet. Mary slighted nothing in her most profound ritual of worship of her Lord and her God, utilizing the finest things of this world and the finest she had as a person.
Yet Judas pridefully and vehemently protested in typical pharisaical fashion against this ritualistic extravagance of worship on Mary’s part: "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" (John 12:5) This was a consummate lie on Judas’ part, related the most beloved apostle John who often leaned upon Our Divine Lord’s breast, for Judas cared not for the poor but kept the money box and often stole from it, so clarified John also. What an antithesis of good and evil in this scriptural passage between the prideful arrogance of one who sinfully preaches the false charity gospel of "less is more’ and another who cannot give enough to her Lord and God. Just like his betraying kiss of Christ Our Lord, we see here a glaring example of false charity against Mary’s humble offering of a totally unadulterated charitable assumption-presumption from her pure heart. What can be more beautiful than to observe this totally Catholic sense of adoration in Mary’s heart: by her loving presumption of God’s totality of love for her and us all, she seeks nothing for herself by this gesture but only how she can please her Lord and God in a veritable act of sacrificial and worshipful love. This is such an unparalleled example of true charity and false charity in contrast in Sacred Scripture.
This passage of Sacred Scripture casts another darksome shadow upon the heart of Christ’s betrayer, truly a follower of the pharisees and not of Christ, the epitomy of eternal charity and good will toward men; for Judas talked the ephemeral, plausible talk of the bread of this world, and not the Bread of Eternal Life. Why is this so?
Judas belittled openly Mary’s supreme act of charitable love of Christ, stating it would have been much better to sell the nard for profit and distribute this money to the poor. Does this not sound familiar today to the external undertakings of modernist Church types for many programs of social justice i.e. the peace movements against war, political movements against war, political movements of liberation theology, food pantries and soup kitchens, environmental and animal preservation rights, and global warming?
What Judas Iscariot, the traitor, advocates is to ignore the Bread of Eternal Life, Jesus Christ, and the reverence due Him for an inferior and external charity that only the world would acclaim great: great because it appears religious, just and good; but it is not really religious, just or good, without Christ. To lack the charitable assumption presumption of Mary’s pure love for Christ, as Judas clearly does here, by arguing that the charity of this world without Christ is sufficient is a classic example of false charity. But for Mary, charity without Christ is nothing less than a satanical exchange of the Bread of Heaven for the bread here below. How many souls are there today who starve for Christ’s Bread of Eternal Life, yet are surfeited on the satanical bread of this world?
Charity that does not begin at the feet of Christ and return there in humble worship and adoration is the totally meaningless politics of this world, striving for the diabolical wordly bread of Satan’s dominion. We cannot love our neighbor as ourselves if we do not love God with our whole mind and all our hearts’s strength as the beautiful sweet and tender love of Mary for Christ demonstrated at His feet, where we see the exhaltation of the sacred loving worship of God in the magnificent splendor of Mary. This can only mean the simultaneous burgeoning of charity in the real world for our fellow man, if one does not pursue pharisaical false charity of Judas the priest. Let us recall Christ’s words here: "You can do nothing without Me." (Mt. 15:5) And again: "The poor you will always have with you, but you do not always have Me." (John 12:3) So often doing something that is ostensibly good for others can fail because it is done without Christ and becomes, therefore, its own reward or the reward of self and not performed for the Glory of God. A soul bereft of the love of Christ and the high ritual of this love is a soul caught up in a heady altruism of this world that seeks its own glory in the bread of Satan: cognition, acceptance, approval and political correctness!
"False Charity and Novus Ordo Mass"
How dangerous the diminution of worship from the sacred, profound Presence of Almighty God to a pedestrian, egalitarian view of God as just another social worker who leads us all on a social worker mission to improve the world, whether for peace, liberation, or feeding the hungry of the world. This has been the popular scenario since Vatican II, social justice programs of all kinds. However, when they do not preach conversion to Christ in so many of these pie-in-the-sky church programs; they can quickly become exercises in political skulduggery with the winner getting the most money from the government for your organization’s pet social project.
We have watched the regal and stately worship in the Catholic Church of the 50's and 60's before Vatican II descend from the charitable assumption presumption of Christ’s sacrificial love to a worldly secularized lovism for neighbor as our goal of worship with endless declensions that falsify and profane our charity and love of God more and more: stripping the churches, dressing casually for Sunday Mass, discontinuing personal prayer books, turning the altars around to face the people, removing religious symbols, having the Mass in the vernacular and– most uncharitable of all–removing the tabernacle from the summit and center of all Catholic Churches, truly the false kiss of the false love of a Judas priest. If one doubts the perils of the Protestant social gospel in America and its deleterious affect on the Roman Catholic Church, consider only the diminution of all the Catholic moral issues of late in this land (fornication, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality and sterilization) and the adoption of these popular protestant causes so embracingly by the Church.
"False Charity & Catholic Education"
Finally, the Church is to educate the young; however, one no longer has to study the faith or become Catholic to attend a Catholic School these days. Catholic universities, Catholic high schools, and Catholic elementary schools in urban areas follow this doctrine of false charity. They appear to be doing good for their fellow man by educating them, but they believe love is charity without worshiping at Christ’s feet or teaching others to do this or even encouraging possible converts to do this anymore--because the satanical bread of worldly approval and recognition is much more desirable! The true charity of Mary and her love of Christ has so quickly become the secularized false charity of Judas Priest’s exterior false religion. Why?
False charity appears to be loving and caring for our neighbor and our God; however, false charity occurs so often apart from the ritual beauty and truth of the Catholic faith as Mary Magdalen’s sublime reverence at Christ’s Feet! We have, therefore, descended from the lofty supernatural high church ritual of Mary’s love before Vatican II to the pedestrian false love of humanism and the things of this world–the false charity of Judas Priest’s kiss.
–to be continued–
j hughes dunphy
THE FALSE KISS OF JUDAS PRIEST PART IV
06/03/08 19:36 Filed in: Communion in The hand
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s we enter the third millennium, the words of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior to Judas Iscariot have greater forcefulness and power in history than ever before: “Judas dost thou betray the son of Man with a kiss?”
Why these condemning words of Jesus to Judas Iscariot are so portentous, regarding our own times, is because these are the days of betrayal, of false charity, of a pretended love of Christ provoked by Satan himself, the great imitator of Christ-like charity and the flatterer par excellence. These times, indeed, are particularly times of betrayal for the Church: dissenting theologians, cafeteria-select-your-own-brand-of-Catholicism, and apostates from the top of the hierarchical ladder in Rome to the bottom, the very pews in one’s local parish. All of this is packaged under the guise of ‘a more charitable Catholicism’ for those who preach a more loving gospel, a more loving liturgy, and a more loving theology and who, in truth, are Satan’s henchmen.
False charity is the false love of God epitomized by Judas’s false kiss, full of duplicitous deceit and suggesting virtue, but, in truth, being consummate vice. To simulate the love of Christ with a diabolical boldness and to deny Him at one and the same time, just as Judas did, who was one of the most sinister and malevolent characters in all of human history is nothing less than a total betrayal of Jesus Christ’s goodness and love which leads, therefore, so many, many souls today down the wide road that leads to a hell of destruction in this world and death in the hereafter.
This false philosophy of Judas’ love has embraced the hearts of modern day Christians i.e. Protestants and liberal Catholics everywhere in remarkable numbers: the pretense of a loving affection for Christ that hides within the human heart a diabolical attachment to the things of this world. Was this not the very nature Read More...
Why these condemning words of Jesus to Judas Iscariot are so portentous, regarding our own times, is because these are the days of betrayal, of false charity, of a pretended love of Christ provoked by Satan himself, the great imitator of Christ-like charity and the flatterer par excellence. These times, indeed, are particularly times of betrayal for the Church: dissenting theologians, cafeteria-select-your-own-brand-of-Catholicism, and apostates from the top of the hierarchical ladder in Rome to the bottom, the very pews in one’s local parish. All of this is packaged under the guise of ‘a more charitable Catholicism’ for those who preach a more loving gospel, a more loving liturgy, and a more loving theology and who, in truth, are Satan’s henchmen.
False charity is the false love of God epitomized by Judas’s false kiss, full of duplicitous deceit and suggesting virtue, but, in truth, being consummate vice. To simulate the love of Christ with a diabolical boldness and to deny Him at one and the same time, just as Judas did, who was one of the most sinister and malevolent characters in all of human history is nothing less than a total betrayal of Jesus Christ’s goodness and love which leads, therefore, so many, many souls today down the wide road that leads to a hell of destruction in this world and death in the hereafter.
This false philosophy of Judas’ love has embraced the hearts of modern day Christians i.e. Protestants and liberal Catholics everywhere in remarkable numbers: the pretense of a loving affection for Christ that hides within the human heart a diabolical attachment to the things of this world. Was this not the very nature Read More...
PERSEVERE TOWARD HOLINESS
06/03/08 18:52 Filed in: The Sacred and Holy
It is an essential part of the Catholic faith, this season of Lent and all of its ceremonies, especially that of receiving ashes which becomes an outward sign to the world of one’s Catholic character. This Catholic character can be seen in those who have worldly or secular positions in society but yet are not afraid to exhibit their Catholic character i.e.
Thomas More while he was Chancellor of the English realm. Thomas More was loyal to his sovereign the King, nevertheless openly put God first on all occasions his sterling character was challenged: for example, his conscientious fulfillment of all the duties of his state of life, no matter how large or how small and insignificant.
The Christian character consists in: 1. Fidelity to one’s duty– giving all one’s due, be it to God, our fellow man, or ourselves. 2,. Freedom from human respect– readiness to practice one’s Read More...