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

Monday, August 22, 2016

The School of God's Heart

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Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary



In today's Holy Mass, we hear the Church supplicating that we celebrate this Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary "with devout minds" in order that we may "live according to [God's] Heart." For to live is to understand - the mind as if delighting in the good it knows in truth - thereby paving a sure road for our heart to thrust itself on the real good with which alone it seeks to take in delightful possession.

"Jesus, MASTER, have mercy on us!" Thus we heard those who are alienated from the Heart of God now appealing to Its tender mercy - the ten lepers yesterday (13th Sunday after Pentecost).   See what the Eternal Word offers them for their cure: "Master!" - they are far from Life for they have corrupted the truth (mixing it with error - the disgusting discoloration on their skin, so explains St. Augustine in the 2nd Nocturn of the Office of Matins) departing from the proven way of life-giving discipline: they wanted themselves to be their own master.

Therefore on the Cross - the throne of God's absolute dominion over us - there we hear: "Son, behold thy Mother;" behold the school of My Heart - the Immaculate Heart of My Mother out of which came THE good a creature could render his Lord and Master: "behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it done to me according to thy word."

Monday, August 15, 2016

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Feast of the Solemnity of the Glorious Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Body and Soul, into Heaven



This day is this prophecy fulfilled: "Arise, O Lord, into Thy resting place: Thou AND THE ARK which Thou hast sanctified" (Ps. 131.8).

"Thou hast prevented our ruin in the presence of God" (Judith 13.15, from today's Lesson). The Blessed Virgin Mary, "full of grace" (Lk. 1.28) when the rest of mankind lost it, has finally occupied the throne once occupied by Lucifer - why the great hatred of the devil against the Immaculata. And She is given us as our bright Moon to radiate upon us the rays of Her Divine Son in the hour of our darkness. How She would prevent our ruin but we would rather go on our own way and so get involved...

revisited

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

"Deaconesses' - Antipope Bergogrelio opposes God's hierarchy

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Feast of St. Lawrence - Deacon and Martyr

'Deaconesses' in the Catholic Church?

The ministerial hierarchy in the Old Testament was but a shadow of its reality - the New Testament ecclesiastical hierarchy in which "the Holy Ghost hath placed... bishops (Gk: episcopoi) to rule the Church" (Ac. 20.28). A woman - Miriam, the sister of Moises - dared to stick out her proud head that women should occupy also a responsible post in the divine ministry and she was cursed.

Even at the Apostolic age, no woman was extolled as an ordained minister like the Deacon St. Stephen by mention especially in the Acts of the Apostles. The Spirit of Truth teaching through St. Paul: "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence... Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church" (1 Tim. 2.12,11; 1 Cor. 14.35) - a Deacon has authority to preach: therefore, there can never be a 'Deaconess' in the mind of God, there may be a 'deaconess' but in the butt-head of Antipope Bergogreglio.

And even in the all-male ministers of Old, not everyone could touch the Ark and the "loaves of proposition" - always placed on a table: why the tabernacle is reserved on the high altar at a traditional Catholic sanctuary. Unconsecrated hands - and of a woman* - can not touch the Sacred: the doctrine and discipline of the Fathers as synthesized by St. Thomas Aquinas. The hands of a Deacon though not yet consecrated may distribute Holy Communion but by authorization of a priest for the latter's aid. *The Sacred Host coming out of the tabernacle to repose on the hands of Sr. Faustina was nothing but the devil's telltale - why the Holy Office twice, under Pope Pius XII and Pope John XXIII, condemned the 'Divine Mercy' thing: not supernatural in origin, that is, not of God.

It is useless to pray for the prince of the accursed precursors of the Antichrist - Antipope Bergoglio; being a 'Jesuit' perverted in the school of the "New" 'Catholic Theology', he knew Catholic Theology through and through all too well down to its foundations but not only did he vomit it out, as is required by that diabolical school, but vomited it out with palatable twists and turns of popular rhetoric for easy peddling among those fascinated by the "New World disOrder" yet need God still though for a false religiosity and devoutedness (FEELING 'blessed' and 'inspired', stopping only at the mere 'sense' of the sacred, by a god nothing essentially different from a pagan deity principally serving as temporal-goods/favors-dealing-patron). "For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, have moreover tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, and are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making Him a mockery" (Heb. 6.4-6).

Our dear "Little Therese," in her "Story of a Soul," related that she desired the priesthood for the honor and glory of God and His Church and the salvation of souls but she would rather readily submit to the infallibly irreversible divine judgment on that matter as Catholic Tradition consistently expresses and maintains it. Only the pseudo-Catholic Church could dare stand in contradiction to it, protesting: "Vatican II 'aggiornamento'" (come on, let's move on with the times!). Settling for the office of a Deacon was for her, logically, altogether out of the question either. The stupid Antipope is fond of her - in the "Novus Ordo" version of her.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

The One Necessary Change

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Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ - "His Face did shine as the sun: and His garments became white as snow" (from the Holy Gospel, Mt. 17.1-9).

There's only one change, one real growth and progress that matters in this life - our more perfect transformation into and conformity with Christ: "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4.13), "Be ye perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt. 5.48).

How's the seed of divine life (sanctifying grace) implanted in us at Baptism? That's the only thing we can bring with us before God when our time finally ends up sooner or later. And we can only go to our place among the Blessed in heaven when God is pleased to see in us that Life that has borne all the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost in their full flower (the Beatitudes). "GROW* in grace, and in the knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Pet. 3.18). All our efforts are in vain when this is overlooked and neglected.

* There's no instant perfection ('Born-Again' Protestantism). It's highest possible degree attainable here is at the end line of our life - at our last breath. Many are still at the beginning stage of the Christian Life and therefore should be struggling to rise from their sins - especially from their habits of sin, occult or not - and from their imperfections; they are still in the First and Second Mansions of St. Teresa's "Interior Castle". These souls are not the downfall of the Catholic Church. Patience...

Today, being a First Saturday, may the repeated prayers in the Holy Rosary Our Immaculate Mother earnestly recommends to us work to strike repeatedly in effacing from us every resemblance still to that filthy proud infernal spirit who is the devil.

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.