And Elias, the prophet, stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch (Ecclesiasticus. 48.1, DRV)

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Yet Carmel lives on...

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J.M.J.

Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary



"I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness..." (Jer. 4.26).

In giving an account of the first mission of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in the Philippines, Fr. Sebastian ("A Man Shall Scatter," 1957) wrote this in his foreword:

"Discalced Carmelites on the missions, how come? I thought...' People are always asking.

On the Feast of St. Joseph (tomorrow's) 1581, St. Teresa of Jesus (of Avila), the reformer of Carmelites, earnestly approved a decree published by Fr. Jerome (Gracian), the Provincial. Thus it begins: 'Inasmuch as Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... commanded His Apostles to go unto the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature... it is good for all of us, both religious and priests, who succeed the disciples of the Lord in the Ministry, to have always in our hearts this hunger and thirst for souls... And IT IS GOOD FOR US CARMELITES TO ATTEND most particularly and with great zeal to the salvation and TO THE EXTIRPATION OF HERESIES AND THE CONVERSION OF GENTILES, because we are called imitators and successors of the zealous Prophet Elias.'"

Could there be a contradiction between the  'Catholic' spirit and the Teresian Carmel's? "Today, we no longer understand ecumenism in the sense of a return, by which others [heretics and schismatics] would 'be converted' and return to being 'Catholics'. THIS WAS EXPRESSLY ABANDONED AT VATICAN II [speaking of 'ChurchES' in GS and the false religions as also means of salvation in UR]" ('Card.' Kasper of the so-called 'Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity'). Could the 'Church' and her 'OCD religious' abandon a doctrine of the Eternal Word? As was prophesied and prefigured of Old, the 'institutionalist mainstream' (those whose reality of the Church is equal to her  'official' institutions) would depart and so the Prophet Jeremias continues: "...and there dwells not a man in them" (v. 29).

"One must first be a Catholic before he becomes a Carmelite" (Fr. Jerome of the Mother of God, C.D., in his retreat on the Rule of Our Lady).

But then, the good Lord did "not utterly destroy" (Jer. 4.27)...


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Salvation is in the "Blood of the Lamb"

Apocalypse XIV now unfolding (cf., our posts "The Wine of the Wrath of God" and "After Pope Benedict XVI, the 'Last' Roman Pontiff?"). The divine chastisement of world-wide conflagration (Lk. 17.29-30, cf., our post "Our Lady, Vatican II Disorientation, and the Annihilation of Many Nations") to annihilate the 'super-power' and cities and nations drunk with the wine of its immodesty, impurity, fornication, homosexuality, and blasphemies (Apoc. 14.8) is imminent - the close of our end-times period (distinct from the consummation of the world, Mt. 28.20).

They... have made them white in the Blood of the Lamb (Apoc. 7.14) ... All things... are cleansed with Blood: and without shedding of Blood there is no remission (Heb. 9.22).

The Blood of the [Divine] Lamb can be availed of in the traditional Rite of the Sacrament of Penance (cf., our post "On Concealing Sins in Confession") and of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist (the Traditional Latin Mass). Go to our traditional Catholic Mass Centers (links on the left-side bar of this site). Flee to the mountains... (Mt. 24.16).

See also the Messages and Appeals (on the upper right-side bar) of the Apocalyptic Woman in her title of Our Lady of Fatima.