http://www.sensustraditionis.org/webaudio/Impediments/Horror.mp3
Timely concerning all the news...
Say a decade of the rosary for him after listening, please.
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Notice The Upsidedown Cross on Presenter
http://www.freep.com/article/20140906/NEWS05/309060028/Detroit-Satanic-Temple
If you are not for Christ, you are against Him.
People, get holy.
There is no neutral.
Pray for ChurchMilitant--this is no accident of place.
And, read the lame response from the Episcopalian minister.
This has been a hard weekend for Catholics.
If you are not for Christ, you are against Him.
People, get holy.
There is no neutral.
Pray for ChurchMilitant--this is no accident of place.
And, read the lame response from the Episcopalian minister.
This has been a hard weekend for Catholics.
Another Bad Rosary Idea
Catholics may have the bodies of the dead cremated, but these remains must be buried. One cannot have ashes spread over the ocean or a garden or put into a rosary.
And, here is a disgusting and totally wrong thing. Cremation rosaries.
http://www.memorials.com/cremation-rosary.php
From the January 2012 Newsletter of the
In
April 1997, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments granted an indult for the United States to allow the
diocesan bishop to permit the presence of the cremated remains of a body
at a Funeral Mass. Later that year, the Congregation confirmed the
special texts and ritual directives (Prot. n. 1589/96/L for both indult
and texts), which were then published as an appendix to the Order of Christian Funerals.
Frequently the Secretariat of Divine Worship receives requests for
clarification or suggestions for best practices regarding the presence
of cremated remains and funerals and their appropriate final disposition
or committal.
The practice of cremation has grown and become more commonplace in the United States, and it is often presented as a more affordable alternative to traditional burial. What is often overlooked is the Church’s teaching regarding the respect and honor due to the human body. The Order of Christian Funerals’ Appendix on Cremation states: “Although cremation is now permitted by the Church, it does not enjoy the same value as burial of the body. The Church clearly prefers and urges that the body of the deceased be present for the funeral rites, since the presence of the human body better expresses the values which the Church affirms in those rites” (no. 413).
Ideally, if a family chooses cremation, the cremation would take place at some time after the Funeral Mass, so that there can be an opportunity for the Vigil for the Deceased in the presence of the body (during “visitation” or “viewing” at a church or funeral home). This allows for the appropriate reverence for the sacredness of the body at the Funeral Mass: sprinkling with holy water, the placing of the pall, and honoring it with incense. The Rite of Committal then takes place after cremation (see Appendix, nos. 418-421). Funeral homes offer several options in this case. One is the use of “cremation caskets,” which is essentially a rental casket with a cardboard liner that is cremated with the body. Another is a complete casket that is cremated (this casket contains minimal amounts of non-combustible material such as metal handles or latches).
When cremation takes place before the Funeral Mass, and the diocesan bishop permits the presence of cremated remains at the Funeral Mass, the Appendix provides adapted texts for the Sprinkling with Holy Water, the Dismissal for use at the Funeral Mass (or the Funeral Liturgy outside Mass), and the Committal of Cremated Remains. The introduction provides further specific details about how the funeral rites are adapted. In all, the rite notes:
The cremated remains of a body should be treated with the same respect given to the human body from which they come. This includes the use of a worthy vessel to contain the ashes, the manner in which they are carried, and the care and attention to appropriate placement and transport, and the final disposition. The cremated remains should be buried in a grave or entombed in a mausoleum or columbarium. The practice of scattering cremated remains on the sea, from the air, or on the ground, or keeping cremated remains on the home of a relative or friend of the deceased are not the reverent disposition that the Church requires. (no. 417)
For some families, the choice of cremation is based on financial hardship, so this choice often means also that there is no plan for committal or burial of the cremated remains. As a means of providing pastoral support and an acceptable respectful solution to the problem of uninterred cremated remains, one diocese offered on All Souls’ Day in 2011 an opportunity for any family who desired it the interment of cremated remains. The diocese offered a Mass and committal service at one of its Catholic cemeteries and provided, free of charge, a common vault in a mausoleum for the interment of the cremated remains. The names of the deceased interred there were kept on file, though in this case they were not individually inscribed on the vault.
As cremation is chosen more frequently, there will be many who are unaware of the Church’s teaching regarding this practice. It is important for bishops and pastors not only to catechize the faithful, but to collaborate with funeral directors in providing helpful and accurate information to families planning the funeral of loved ones. Offering opportunities to family members for the respectful burial of their loved ones, who were not interred after funeral services and cremation, would give effective witness to the importance of Christian burial and our belief in the resurrection. In all, pastors are encouraged to show pastoral sensitivity, especially to those for whom cremation is the only feasible choice (see Appendix, no. 415).
And, another country, another source, with the general rule at the end:
.-
The
Catholic Church in Italy has issued new guidelines that rule out
scattering the cremated remains of a person or the keeping them in an
urn at home.
“Cremation is considered as concluded when the urn is deposited in the cemetery,” says the appendix to the new edition of Funeral Rites issued by Italian Episcopal Conference.
“The practice of spreading ashes in the wild or keeping them in places other than the cemetery,” it adds, “raises many concerns about its full consistency with the Christian faith, especially when they imply pantheistic or naturalist conceptions.”
.....
"The 1983 Code of Canon Law is slightly more expansive and states that “the Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burial be retained; but it does not forbid cremation, unless this is chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching.”
And, here is a disgusting and totally wrong thing. Cremation rosaries.
http://www.memorials.com/cremation-rosary.php
From the January 2012 Newsletter of the
Committee on Divine Worship
© 2012, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
In
April 1997, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments granted an indult for the United States to allow the
diocesan bishop to permit the presence of the cremated remains of a body
at a Funeral Mass. Later that year, the Congregation confirmed the
special texts and ritual directives (Prot. n. 1589/96/L for both indult
and texts), which were then published as an appendix to the Order of Christian Funerals.
Frequently the Secretariat of Divine Worship receives requests for
clarification or suggestions for best practices regarding the presence
of cremated remains and funerals and their appropriate final disposition
or committal.The practice of cremation has grown and become more commonplace in the United States, and it is often presented as a more affordable alternative to traditional burial. What is often overlooked is the Church’s teaching regarding the respect and honor due to the human body. The Order of Christian Funerals’ Appendix on Cremation states: “Although cremation is now permitted by the Church, it does not enjoy the same value as burial of the body. The Church clearly prefers and urges that the body of the deceased be present for the funeral rites, since the presence of the human body better expresses the values which the Church affirms in those rites” (no. 413).
Ideally, if a family chooses cremation, the cremation would take place at some time after the Funeral Mass, so that there can be an opportunity for the Vigil for the Deceased in the presence of the body (during “visitation” or “viewing” at a church or funeral home). This allows for the appropriate reverence for the sacredness of the body at the Funeral Mass: sprinkling with holy water, the placing of the pall, and honoring it with incense. The Rite of Committal then takes place after cremation (see Appendix, nos. 418-421). Funeral homes offer several options in this case. One is the use of “cremation caskets,” which is essentially a rental casket with a cardboard liner that is cremated with the body. Another is a complete casket that is cremated (this casket contains minimal amounts of non-combustible material such as metal handles or latches).
When cremation takes place before the Funeral Mass, and the diocesan bishop permits the presence of cremated remains at the Funeral Mass, the Appendix provides adapted texts for the Sprinkling with Holy Water, the Dismissal for use at the Funeral Mass (or the Funeral Liturgy outside Mass), and the Committal of Cremated Remains. The introduction provides further specific details about how the funeral rites are adapted. In all, the rite notes:
The cremated remains of a body should be treated with the same respect given to the human body from which they come. This includes the use of a worthy vessel to contain the ashes, the manner in which they are carried, and the care and attention to appropriate placement and transport, and the final disposition. The cremated remains should be buried in a grave or entombed in a mausoleum or columbarium. The practice of scattering cremated remains on the sea, from the air, or on the ground, or keeping cremated remains on the home of a relative or friend of the deceased are not the reverent disposition that the Church requires. (no. 417)
For some families, the choice of cremation is based on financial hardship, so this choice often means also that there is no plan for committal or burial of the cremated remains. As a means of providing pastoral support and an acceptable respectful solution to the problem of uninterred cremated remains, one diocese offered on All Souls’ Day in 2011 an opportunity for any family who desired it the interment of cremated remains. The diocese offered a Mass and committal service at one of its Catholic cemeteries and provided, free of charge, a common vault in a mausoleum for the interment of the cremated remains. The names of the deceased interred there were kept on file, though in this case they were not individually inscribed on the vault.
As cremation is chosen more frequently, there will be many who are unaware of the Church’s teaching regarding this practice. It is important for bishops and pastors not only to catechize the faithful, but to collaborate with funeral directors in providing helpful and accurate information to families planning the funeral of loved ones. Offering opportunities to family members for the respectful burial of their loved ones, who were not interred after funeral services and cremation, would give effective witness to the importance of Christian burial and our belief in the resurrection. In all, pastors are encouraged to show pastoral sensitivity, especially to those for whom cremation is the only feasible choice (see Appendix, no. 415).
And, another country, another source, with the general rule at the end:
“Cremation is considered as concluded when the urn is deposited in the cemetery,” says the appendix to the new edition of Funeral Rites issued by Italian Episcopal Conference.
“The practice of spreading ashes in the wild or keeping them in places other than the cemetery,” it adds, “raises many concerns about its full consistency with the Christian faith, especially when they imply pantheistic or naturalist conceptions.”
.....
"The 1983 Code of Canon Law is slightly more expansive and states that “the Church earnestly recommends the pious custom of burial be retained; but it does not forbid cremation, unless this is chosen for reasons which are contrary to Christian teaching.”
More on the Satanic Rosaries
I saw one in England two years ago. I did not realize at that time how prevalent these were.
The one I saw had the snake coiled around the staff behind Christ and the pentagrams. Knowing my Scripture and knowing that the Brazen Serpent which saved the Israelites from death was a prefigurement of Christ's Crucifixion, I assumed some artist was making the connection.
Numbers 21 and footnote from DR:
[6] Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. [7] Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. [8] And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. [9] Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. [10] And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
[9] A brazen serpent: This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the efficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish serpent. John 3. 14.
However, the pentagrams on the edges bothered me. I wish I had paid more attention then.
Do not think these rosaries are "neutral". Remember, there is nothing neutral. And intention does not change satanic doors or satanic influences. One can be a "good" Catholic and stumble into error or danger from the dark side.
This video came from reliable sources through Mundelein Seminary in Chicago. And, apparently, there was a warning about these at at the Marian Cenacle in Limoges, France on 14th March 2005. Also, some of these were being given out free at Međugorje.
If you want more information, just talk to your local exorcist. Too many liberal priests do not believe in satan or his sneaky means to trip us up. One exorcist, not one I know personally, says to throw them away after breaking them up.
Summit Lighthouse Group in the States uses new age rosaries. This is an occultic group active, at least, in the Midwest, where I first heard about it. I know of one Catholic who lost his faith through this "church".
I am against plastic rosaries in general, as one should use something which honors Mary more. Buy one from Tigga Wild.
The one I saw had the snake coiled around the staff behind Christ and the pentagrams. Knowing my Scripture and knowing that the Brazen Serpent which saved the Israelites from death was a prefigurement of Christ's Crucifixion, I assumed some artist was making the connection.
Numbers 21 and footnote from DR:
[6] Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. [7] Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. [8] And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. [9] Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. [10] And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
[9] A brazen serpent: This was a figure of Christ crucified, and of the efficacy of a lively faith in him, against the bites of the hellish serpent. John 3. 14.
However, the pentagrams on the edges bothered me. I wish I had paid more attention then.
Do not think these rosaries are "neutral". Remember, there is nothing neutral. And intention does not change satanic doors or satanic influences. One can be a "good" Catholic and stumble into error or danger from the dark side.
This video came from reliable sources through Mundelein Seminary in Chicago. And, apparently, there was a warning about these at at the Marian Cenacle in Limoges, France on 14th March 2005. Also, some of these were being given out free at Međugorje.
If you want more information, just talk to your local exorcist. Too many liberal priests do not believe in satan or his sneaky means to trip us up. One exorcist, not one I know personally, says to throw them away after breaking them up.
Summit Lighthouse Group in the States uses new age rosaries. This is an occultic group active, at least, in the Midwest, where I first heard about it. I know of one Catholic who lost his faith through this "church".
I am against plastic rosaries in general, as one should use something which honors Mary more. Buy one from Tigga Wild.
Good, Better, Best
Political correctness is a symptom of secular, liberal thinking. But, it is only a symptom. PC thinking grows out of a mindset which does not recognize authority, which cannot be obedient to any higher Good.
So many times, I hear people say, "Oh, he is a good man, but...." The but becomes a list, of either large or small of sins, many mortal, such as ambition, adultery, fornication, greed.
The use of terms such as "good, better, best" meant something in a society where the people held objective norms of judgment based on Christian principles.
This Christian basis for judgment has been gone in America and in Europe for a long time, perhaps my entire life.
Language reveals beliefs. As I wrote the other day, ideas have consequences. So does language. Hitler knew this when he used terms to hide hideous hatred and subhuman systems of genocide.
Propaganda, first used by the Machiavellian Queen Elizabeth I, misuses language in order to brainwash, purposefully to change the minds and hearts of the people. Propaganda may be used in ordinary conversation, as well as by organizations and nation states.
Goodness rests in God alone. Only God is good. We become more like we are intended to be, sons and daughters of God, adopted by baptism, heirs to heaven, only when we cooperate with grace.
We, as practicing Catholics, need to stop using language in vague and distracting ways.
Who is good? Who is better? Who is best? What is good, better, best?
As you all know from my long perfection series, now close to or over 1,000 posts over the years, we are all called to be saints.
Being a saint means appropriating grace, which is hard work. To be a saint is to be the best we can be, not for the sake of earthly comfort, but in order to give glory to God and to spread the Good News of the Gospel.
I had a shock, (well, not really, as I suspected something), yesterday. I found out that the vast majority of Catholic men who go to Mass every Sunday in a community near where I now live belong to one or another of the common secret societies. This has been happening for generations. Some, most, belong to the Grangers, the Elks, the Masons. Yet, they use language of Christianity and call each other "good". Others call these men "good". They have ignored over 200 years of Church teaching on secret societies.
Almost all, if not all, these men belong to a group which undermines the teaching of the Catholic Church and follows the heresies of eirenism, indifferentism and modernism, all explained in the post added below.
I reposted the entire article, but here is the link.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2012/01/cradle-of-modernist-heresies.html
Now I understand why this area suffers from several generations who did not receive proper catechesis or hard, solid truths from the pulpit in that area to which I refer. Now I know why there have been few is any vocations in this area.
Yet, these men claim they are "Catholic". Language becomes twisted.
What is a Catholic? What does it mean to be automatically excommunicated?
What does it mean to be obedient to the Church's teaching on secret societies?
What does it mean to be living in heresy and worse, worshipping the dark side?
Only when religious language really means something, only when people talk from their souls, hearts and renewed minds, can one trust language. The seculars have, like Hitler, ruined language. Those Catholics who have compromised are twisting language.
Good, better, best are words, concepts which only make sense when one is walking with God in the Catholic Church, being a member of the Church Militant, acting like an adopted son or daughter of God.
Pay attention how you speak. Your words reveal your soul and your true beliefs. Pray for those in your families who have no moral framework with which to judge language.
We do.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
The Cradle of Modernist Heresies
In 1983, Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, who was prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, now Pope Benedict XVI, issued a document
under the name of the Declaration on Masonic Associations. The link is on the name.
In that document, the long history of the condemnation of Freemasonry by
the Church, since 1738, was reiterated and clearly defined. The
original condemnation of Clement XII, In eminenti apostolatus specula was upheld.
Since that time, I have had many
Catholics, in the United States and in Europe claim that the Church had
removed the automatic excommunication on a Catholic who joined the
Masons. This is not and has never been so. One has to understand that
the Church's condemnation of Masonry is based not merely on the fact
that it is a secret organization, but that it upholds several Modernist
heresies. Firstly, Cardinal Ratizinger wrote that:
Therefore the
Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic association remains
unchanged since their principles have always been considered
irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership
in them remains forbidden. The faithful who enrol in Masonic
associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy
Communion.
He went on to state
that no bishop had any right to change this. It is interesting that the
SSPX press, Angelus Press, has one of the best books on the evils and
pitfalls of Masonry. One can find it here. However, I want to concentrate on a few of the Modernist heresies found in Freemasonry.
The first is indifferentism. This heresy proclaims that all religions
are the same and that religion has no place in the public life of a
nation or people.Mirari Vos On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism written in 1832 by Gregory XVI is a forgotten document of the Church.
Indifferentism
leads to a relativism about religion, stating that all are either the
same, or so subjective as to mean only what a person sincerely believes.
This pluralism leads to another aspect that because all religions are
relative and the same, these beliefs have no role in the public life,
cannot affect politics, or governmental decisions. Of course, as the
Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, this
heresy is condemned as contrary to both Revelation and Tradition.
Indifferentism leads to a denial of the supernatural, as if all beliefs
are equal or subjective, there is no hierarchy, no Revelation from God.
Also denied in this heresy would be dogma, for the same reasons. It is
interesting that in the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1907, itself peppered
with some Modernist heresies, that this statement from Newman is quoted
in the section on indifferentism:
No truth, however sacred, can stand against it (the Catholic Church) in the long run; and hence it is that in the Pagan world, when our Lord came, the last traces of the religious knowledge of former times were all but disappearing from those portions of the world in which the intellect had been active and had a career" (Apologia, chap. v).
The second heresy of many in Masonry is eirenism.This is what I call the forgotten heresy.
The condemnation of eirenism is found in Pope Pius XII's encyclical, Humani Generis. This great work condemns existentialism, historicism (Gramsci watch), immanentism and other isms. The point of eirenism is, in the words of the Pope: setting aside the questions which divide men, they aim not only at joining forces to repel the attacks of atheism, but also at reconciling things opposed to one another in the field of dogma. And as in former times some questioned whether the traditional apologetics That branch of the science of theology which explains the reasons for the Church's existence and doctrine of the Church did not constitute an obstacle rather than a help to the winning of souls for Christ, so today some are presumptuous enough to question seriously whether theology and theological methods, such as with the approval of ecclesiastical authority are found in our schools, should not only be perfected, but also completely reformed, in order to promote the more efficacious propagation throughout the world among men of every culture and religious opinion.
This heresy clearly seeks after a type of syncretism, a religion of unity, wherein divisions vanish and people come together to worship some sort of agreed upon god. I would venture to say that eirenism leads directly to Worship of the State.
This is the atmosphere of religion and philosophy in the United States at this very moment. The State declares that there is no religious right to conscience, thereby setting up its own standards for so-called moral or ethical behavior. To use an example, abortion is ok because a Supreme Court decision determined it was so, and because further legislation supports it. The State has substituted itself for the Church in matters of conscience.
Wake up, American Catholics. So, the heresies sleeping in Masonry have awakened and taken over the mind-set of the nation's leaders. Simple and neat.
What is happening and has happened in Catholic education, wherein schools are rebelling against the Teaching Magisterium (look here in California today, this minute) is a direct result of the concepts of eirenism. Schools and other facilities play down differences for the sake of community unity to the detriment of Catholic Teaching.
It is too late to change this huge momentum, hidden in Masonry by choice, and held in some minds by lethargy and laziness. To take the easiest way out, to placate, to be politically correct is eirenism.
The greatest heresy in Masonry is immanentism, which destroys the Revelation of God as Trinity, replacing Him with a vague, abstract presence found in the world. Pope Pius X condemned this in Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
As Catholics, we do not have much time to read all of these documents, but what is happening today in America, with the attack on the Church from the present administration concerning freedom of religion and freedom on conscience is an attack prophesied by all the documents above. If Church leaders knew their own teaching, they would have seen this coming, or even better, stopped these idealistic heresies from fomenting in the people in the pews. And, as laymen, we only have ourselves to blame if we find ourselves marginalize, persecuted, imprisoned, martyred. See my post below on the stages of persecution and the ideologies which push these heresies. The one I have left for this posting is Freemasonry, which seems to hold many of the Modernist heresies and is able to produce these in the market place as goods.
"When asked by a young monk if they were of the greatest generation because they saw and cast out devils, and prayed, fasted, and converted and healed people, the Abba answered. 'No, we are not the greatest generation. We have obvious power. The next generation will see Christ establish His Kingdom among the Nations, and there will be unity for awhile. But, the greatest generation is the one, which under great persecution, will survive. They are the greatest and the last.'"
Especially for Traddies, A Great Talk
http://www.sensustraditionis.org/webaudio/Impediments/Self.mp3
Another decade, please after you listen to this. Another great talk from Father Ripperger!
One of the great points on this talk is immanentism. Here is another source on this sin.
Father John Hardon, in writing on the subject of immanentist apologetics, refers to it as “A method of establishing the credibility of the Christian faith by appealing to the subjective satisfaction that the faith gives to the believer.” Coupled with this emphasis on the subjective, there is a downplaying of the objective criteria of our faith, even to the point of rejecting miracles and prophecies. Purely personal motives for faith, motives that have mainly to do with feelings, are given primary of place. “Religion, therefore, would consist,” Father Bouyer remarks, “entirely in the religious feeling itself.” Reason is marginalized, and the idea of belief, as being essentially the assent of the intellect, loses its currency.
Immanentism may be summed up by saying that it represents a stance of reckless subjectivism with regard to the faith. It cavalierly dismisses, as being of only secondary importance, the objective foundations of religion, as revealed to us by God Himself and as incorporated in the deposit of faith.
In 1907 Pope St. Pius X published his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, whose purpose was to sound the alarm against Modernism, which the Holy Father had defined as “the synthesis of all heresies.” And he described the Modernists themselves as “the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church.”
In his analysis of the phenomenon, St. Pius X identified two major parts of Modernism; one was agnosticism, the other was immanentism. By agnosticism Modernism denies that man is capable of gaining a reasoned knowledge of God. Thus, with a stroke, it effectively does away with natural theology, that philosophic discipline whose principal task is to show that we can arrive at a knowledge of the existence of God through natural reason. Now, that such is possible is actually a matter of faith for Catholics, as was taught by the First Vatican Council.
More here--
http://fssp.com/press/2011/04/immanentism-catholicism-and-religious-experience-by-d-q-mcinerny-ph-d/
This talk is one of Father Ripperger's best.
Another decade, please after you listen to this. Another great talk from Father Ripperger!
One of the great points on this talk is immanentism. Here is another source on this sin.
Father John Hardon, in writing on the subject of immanentist apologetics, refers to it as “A method of establishing the credibility of the Christian faith by appealing to the subjective satisfaction that the faith gives to the believer.” Coupled with this emphasis on the subjective, there is a downplaying of the objective criteria of our faith, even to the point of rejecting miracles and prophecies. Purely personal motives for faith, motives that have mainly to do with feelings, are given primary of place. “Religion, therefore, would consist,” Father Bouyer remarks, “entirely in the religious feeling itself.” Reason is marginalized, and the idea of belief, as being essentially the assent of the intellect, loses its currency.
Immanentism may be summed up by saying that it represents a stance of reckless subjectivism with regard to the faith. It cavalierly dismisses, as being of only secondary importance, the objective foundations of religion, as revealed to us by God Himself and as incorporated in the deposit of faith.
In 1907 Pope St. Pius X published his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, whose purpose was to sound the alarm against Modernism, which the Holy Father had defined as “the synthesis of all heresies.” And he described the Modernists themselves as “the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church.”
In his analysis of the phenomenon, St. Pius X identified two major parts of Modernism; one was agnosticism, the other was immanentism. By agnosticism Modernism denies that man is capable of gaining a reasoned knowledge of God. Thus, with a stroke, it effectively does away with natural theology, that philosophic discipline whose principal task is to show that we can arrive at a knowledge of the existence of God through natural reason. Now, that such is possible is actually a matter of faith for Catholics, as was taught by the First Vatican Council.
More here--
http://fssp.com/press/2011/04/immanentism-catholicism-and-religious-experience-by-d-q-mcinerny-ph-d/
This talk is one of Father Ripperger's best.
More from St. Alphonsus from This Great Site
The Sentence of Particular Judgment from here
Oh! what joy will he experience who, departing out of this life in the
grace of God, will, on being presented before Jesus Christ, behold him
with a benignant countenance, be lovingly received by him, and hear from
him those delightful words: Well
done, thou good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will place thee over many things : enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord. (Matthew 25:23)
But, O Jesus! if I were now to be summoned to judgment before Thee, how could I hope that Thou wouldst call me a good and faithful servant, when I have hitherto been so bad and faithless towards Thee, changing my promises of fidelity into treasons? But I will be faithful to Thee for the future, and will sooner lose my life a thousand times than forfeit Thy grace. Do Thou give me strength to fulfil this my resolution.
On the other hand, what anguish, O Jesus! will that sinner experience, who, dying in sin, and being presented before Thee, beholds Thy wrathful countenance! The soul that departs this life in God's displeasure will first condemn itself, and will then hear from Jesus Christ that terrible sentence: Depart from me, thou accursed, into everlasting fire. (Matthew 25:41)
How often, O Jesus, have I deserved to hear from Thee the same sentence when I have committed mortal sin! When death overtakes me, Thou wilt then be my judge; but now Thou art my Father and Redeemer, ready to pardon me, if I am sorry for having offended Thee. I am therefore sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for all my offences against Thee; and I am sorry, not so much on account of hell which I have deserved by them, as because by them I have grievously offended Thee, who hast loved me with an infinite love.
The soul goes forth and leaves the body, but it is for some time doubtful whether the person be alive or dead. While the bystanders are doubting, the soul has already entered eternity. The priest, satisfied at length that the man is dead, recites the prayer of the Church: "Come to his assistance, all ye saints of God: meet him, all ye angels of God: receive his soul and present it now before its Lord.'" But of what avail will it be to the soul that has departed an enemy of God, and upon which sentence has already been passed, to call the saints and angels to its assistance?"
O my good angel, ye saints, my holy advocates, St. Michael, St. Joseph, and you my holy protectress Mary! help me now whilst you have it in your power. And Thou, my Redeemer, pardon me now whilst Thou dost exercise mercy. I am sorry for having offended Thee, and I love Thee with my whole heart. Assist me, O Lord! and support me, that I may never offend Thee more. O Mary! take me forever to thy care.
But, O Jesus! if I were now to be summoned to judgment before Thee, how could I hope that Thou wouldst call me a good and faithful servant, when I have hitherto been so bad and faithless towards Thee, changing my promises of fidelity into treasons? But I will be faithful to Thee for the future, and will sooner lose my life a thousand times than forfeit Thy grace. Do Thou give me strength to fulfil this my resolution.
On the other hand, what anguish, O Jesus! will that sinner experience, who, dying in sin, and being presented before Thee, beholds Thy wrathful countenance! The soul that departs this life in God's displeasure will first condemn itself, and will then hear from Jesus Christ that terrible sentence: Depart from me, thou accursed, into everlasting fire. (Matthew 25:41)
How often, O Jesus, have I deserved to hear from Thee the same sentence when I have committed mortal sin! When death overtakes me, Thou wilt then be my judge; but now Thou art my Father and Redeemer, ready to pardon me, if I am sorry for having offended Thee. I am therefore sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for all my offences against Thee; and I am sorry, not so much on account of hell which I have deserved by them, as because by them I have grievously offended Thee, who hast loved me with an infinite love.
The soul goes forth and leaves the body, but it is for some time doubtful whether the person be alive or dead. While the bystanders are doubting, the soul has already entered eternity. The priest, satisfied at length that the man is dead, recites the prayer of the Church: "Come to his assistance, all ye saints of God: meet him, all ye angels of God: receive his soul and present it now before its Lord.'" But of what avail will it be to the soul that has departed an enemy of God, and upon which sentence has already been passed, to call the saints and angels to its assistance?"
O my good angel, ye saints, my holy advocates, St. Michael, St. Joseph, and you my holy protectress Mary! help me now whilst you have it in your power. And Thou, my Redeemer, pardon me now whilst Thou dost exercise mercy. I am sorry for having offended Thee, and I love Thee with my whole heart. Assist me, O Lord! and support me, that I may never offend Thee more. O Mary! take me forever to thy care.
And Another, for Good Measure
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
A Prediction Concerning Catholic Marriages
The new laws in Europe, and soon to be in Great Britain, concerning
civil marriages for "gays" will not only affect teachers and registrars
who may have to leave their jobs, but the very institution of Catholic
marriage.
Catholics "marry" twice-one getting a civil marriage license, or
registrar's "marriage" and the sacrament of Matrimony. The Church may be
forced into a position wherein she no longer can accept civil unions at
all. Why?
To avoid any sham sacramental marriage, the Church may have to reject civil marriages across the board.
What this would mean for Catholic sacramental marriages could be a
series of losses of marriage legal status, rights, tax breaks,
allowances, etc.
I think Catholic marriages will be forced to go underground 0r without
legal definition or legal protection. One of the possibilities, that
once civil unions are legal, the Catholic Church will have to leave the
business of accepting civil status and only accept sacramental status.
In other words, the Church may be put in a position where she only
recognizes sacramental marriages, which means, that Catholic married
couples will be seen by the State as merely living in concubinage and
therefore, without any civil or tax rights.
This has already happened here, in England under the persecutions, when
Catholic marriages were not seen as valid by the State, as only Anglican
ones were. I predict this will happen both in America and in England,
as the only way the Church will be able to avoid gay marriages. That is,
no civil involvement at all.
Therefore, Catholic married people will not be recognized by the State
as married and will not benefit from marriage tax breaks, etc. If you do
not think this is a possibility, I suggest a careful reading of the
history of marriage in England. Before 1836, everyone except Jews and
Quakers had to get an Anglican license, that is, be married in the
Anglican Church in order to be recognized. See the pattern? Parliament
decides the process, not the churches. Also, after 1836, with the new
registry laws, the license costs as much as 250 pound sterling in
today's money, which would have been very difficult for some people,
including Catholics. Here is a short quotation from a site here which is not exhaustive but interesting.
Yet Another Repost
Monday, 2 December 2013
It all started with a marriage once before......
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| Thomas Cromwell made all this possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries |
Many readers make comments which indicate that they are not preparing for persecution. Daily decisions bring us to the end decision. Such a decision as to stand for Our Beloved Lord, Jesus Christ, does not happen automatically.
We are prepared for such. Those Catholics who support ssm and abortion are no different than those who sided with Henry, Elizabeth, and others against their former brothers and sisters in Christ.
Those Catholics who changed sides, left the Pope of Rome for the religious governance of Henry and Elizabeth, did so for many reasons. The two greatest were status (titles) and money (bribes even from the throne).
The so-called enemy of the realm held on to the Truth of Scripture and Tradition. Those who left the Church, the majority, took their own immortal souls into their own hands.
Thanks to Wiki for the short list. I have left on the links for your perusal.
Statute in Restraint of Appeals of 1533, forbidding all appeals to the Pope.
Act of Supremacy, passed by Parliament in 1534
Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries and Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act, 1535
which suppressed all the houses which did not agree to the marriage of Henry and Anne Boleyn.
- An act for the Dissolution of the lesser Monasteries at tudorplace.com.ar
- Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries, full text at freeuk.net
Second Suppression Act (1539).
Act of Supremacy 1558, making Elizabeth head of the church.
Act of Uniformity of 1559 which made it a crime not to attend Anglican services.
January 10, 1581, "recalling
Her Majesty's subjects which under pretense of studies do live beyond
the seas both contrary to the laws of God and of the realm, and against
such as do receive or retain Jesuits and massing priests, sowers of
sedition and of other treasonable attempts."
By this proclamation the relatives of seminarists had to recall them, or lose all civil rights. It was illegal to send them any supplies. Jesuits and priests must be surrendered; anyone knowingly harboring them was guilty of sedition and treason. http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/campion.htm
By this proclamation the relatives of seminarists had to recall them, or lose all civil rights. It was illegal to send them any supplies. Jesuits and priests must be surrendered; anyone knowingly harboring them was guilty of sedition and treason. http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/campion.htm
From then on, it was illegal for a Catholic priest or seminarian to be
in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland. It was illegal for the family of
these men to help them.
All these persecuting laws were legal in the land, according to Parliament or royal decree.
If readers cannot see the parallels coming, I cannot help them more than
to point out the historical precedence. Some readers believe this will
never happen. It has already started happening.
A couple had to close their bakery business and pay fines...
A young photographer had to pay fines....
A bed and breakfast couple had to pay fines and sell their house/business...
Teachers, who are faithful, are leaving the profession so as not to teach serious error...
An Anglican priest is being taken to court in the Hague for refusing to witness a ssm....
A new curriculum will make students learn ssm is ok......here, in America.....in England....
A new curriculum will make students learn ssm is ok......here, in America.....in England....
It was a false marriage which brought down the one, holy, Catholic and
apostolic Church in England, and it looks as if false, same-sex
so-called marriages will do the same. But, this time, England will not
be the only country to persecute the real Church.
This will happen in many, many countries, including the United States.
http://guildofblessedtitus.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-prediction-concerning-catholic.html
http://guildofblessedtitus.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-time-machine-back-to-1581-death-of.html
http://guildofblessedtitus.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-prediction-concerning-catholic.html
http://guildofblessedtitus.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-time-machine-back-to-1581-death-of.html
Repost from another blog
Monday, 8 July 2013
Same-Sex 'Marriage' and the Final Stage of Persecution
Since last year, about this time or earlier, I have been sharing the findings of sociologists and psychiatrists after the war regarding the stages of persecution. You can find these under my tag, persecution on my blog for more detail.
There will be no opt outs or opts in for the new law in Great Britain. I have followed the bill carefully and cannot see any loopholes for teachers, registrars, etc.
One teacher on television said he wants sex education for five year olds. Children are losing their innocence.
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| thanks, wiki |
The last stage of persecution witnesses laws directly aimed at the target group, making their activities unlawful and forcing them into poverty and fines if they do not cooperate. This happened here 500 years ago and the persecution lasted into the 19th century.
Good Catholic people will have to quit their jobs as registrars rather than cooperate with intrinsic evil. Teachers will have to quit their jobs rather than teach against their consciences. This all happened before, here, in England, when Catholics were marginalized. Many left for Europe. Some caved in to the pressure of compromise. Some died.
I remember a couple in the Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia who were Catholics and taught at a university. They were both fired for being Catholics, that is, holding ideas contrary to the State. They had their doctorates, but no protection as Catholics in the new laws which happened then
It is happening here and will happen in the States under Obama. Do not kid yourselves and act against this movement. To hear Anglican, Methodist and other denominational ministers defend SSM is an abomination in itself, as they quote St. Paul to bolster their side of the argument.
To hear a homosexual teacher say that five year olds need sex education is listening to a paedophile agenda. I write bluntly while I still can. There are bills being written not to allow discussion against homosexuality on blogs and on the Net as well as in papers and other media. This is not conspiracy history, but our own history as it is being written by those who do not have the Mind of Christ.
If you are not working politically against this and/or praying and fasting, you are part of the problem. Pray and take all of this seriously.
As usual, a wonderful talk from Father Ripperger
http://www.sensustraditionis.org/webaudio/Impediments/Impediments.mp3
Do not forget to say a decade of the rosary for him after listening.
Father mentions in this talk an aspect of temperance, and the discipline of only knowing and finding out what one needs to know. I did not know he had included that in his talk when I began listening.
This aspect of temperance is called studiosity or studiousness. As I have noted in the posts on homeschooling, all people, even when young children, have a natural desire to learn. This gets ruined by our sin and other people's sins against us, like bad, nonspiritual teachers. or neglect. But, as adults, we have a responsibility to learn our faith, as I have written on this blog many, many times and which is why I continue the blog.
If our lives are too comfortable and if we seek pleasure more than knowledge, we create a dull intellect. I am reading Fr. Ripperger's book and he refers to dullness.
We are morally responsible for the deadening of our intellect. This can happen with the use of drugs, the abuse of alcohol or enjoying trivia too much. See my posts on entertainment.
It is also possible for our natural desire for the truth to be dulled because of a life of comfort, a real problem in Western culture. Decadence is much more prevalent in rich societies than poor ones. This concept of studiosity is from Thomas Aquinas and noted by one of my favorite authors I have taught, Josef Pieper. There are many good commentaries on Pieper online like this one.
The book of Ripperger is not only the work of a genius, but intense reading. Listening to his talks is good preparation for the book.
Do not forget to say a decade of the rosary for him after listening.
Father mentions in this talk an aspect of temperance, and the discipline of only knowing and finding out what one needs to know. I did not know he had included that in his talk when I began listening.
This aspect of temperance is called studiosity or studiousness. As I have noted in the posts on homeschooling, all people, even when young children, have a natural desire to learn. This gets ruined by our sin and other people's sins against us, like bad, nonspiritual teachers. or neglect. But, as adults, we have a responsibility to learn our faith, as I have written on this blog many, many times and which is why I continue the blog.
If our lives are too comfortable and if we seek pleasure more than knowledge, we create a dull intellect. I am reading Fr. Ripperger's book and he refers to dullness.
We are morally responsible for the deadening of our intellect. This can happen with the use of drugs, the abuse of alcohol or enjoying trivia too much. See my posts on entertainment.
It is also possible for our natural desire for the truth to be dulled because of a life of comfort, a real problem in Western culture. Decadence is much more prevalent in rich societies than poor ones. This concept of studiosity is from Thomas Aquinas and noted by one of my favorite authors I have taught, Josef Pieper. There are many good commentaries on Pieper online like this one.
The book of Ripperger is not only the work of a genius, but intense reading. Listening to his talks is good preparation for the book.
Writers on Writing
Now, I did teach some of G.K.Chesterton's essays when I taught at university a long time ago, but I never wanted to imitate his great and unique style. Writers have to cope with many issues when writing, and style is part of both training and temperament.
I want to share a short section from his book on Twelve Types. Many of you will know this book already. This section is about Robert Lewis Stevenson, who I consider a truly great writer.
Stevenson’s new biographer, however, cannot make any allowance for this deep-rooted poetry of mere sight and touch. He is always imputing something to Stevenson as a crime which Stevenson really professed as an object. He says of that glorious riot of horror, ‘The Destroying Angel,’ in ‘The Dynamiter,’ that it is ’highly fantastic and putting a strain on our credulity.’ This is rather like describing the travels of Baron Munchausen as ‘unconvincing.’ The whole story of ‘The Dynamiter’ is a kind of humorous nightmare, and even in that story ’The Destroying Angel’ is supposed to be an extravagant lie made up on the spur of the moment. It is a dream within a dream, and to accuse it of improbability is like accusing the sky of being blue. But Mr Baildon, whether from hasty reading or natural difference of taste, cannot in the least comprehend the rich and romantic irony of Stevenson’s London stories. He actually says of that portentous monument of humour, Prince Florizel of Bohemia, that, ’though evidently admired by his creator, he is to me on the whole rather an irritating presence.’ From this we are almost driven to believe (though desperately and against our will) that Mr Baildon thinks that Prince Florizel is to be taken seriously, as if he were a man in real life. For ourselves, Prince Florizel is almost our favourite character in fiction; but we willingly add the proviso that if we met him in real life we should kill him.
I want to share a short section from his book on Twelve Types. Many of you will know this book already. This section is about Robert Lewis Stevenson, who I consider a truly great writer.
Stevenson’s new biographer, however, cannot make any allowance for this deep-rooted poetry of mere sight and touch. He is always imputing something to Stevenson as a crime which Stevenson really professed as an object. He says of that glorious riot of horror, ‘The Destroying Angel,’ in ‘The Dynamiter,’ that it is ’highly fantastic and putting a strain on our credulity.’ This is rather like describing the travels of Baron Munchausen as ‘unconvincing.’ The whole story of ‘The Dynamiter’ is a kind of humorous nightmare, and even in that story ’The Destroying Angel’ is supposed to be an extravagant lie made up on the spur of the moment. It is a dream within a dream, and to accuse it of improbability is like accusing the sky of being blue. But Mr Baildon, whether from hasty reading or natural difference of taste, cannot in the least comprehend the rich and romantic irony of Stevenson’s London stories. He actually says of that portentous monument of humour, Prince Florizel of Bohemia, that, ’though evidently admired by his creator, he is to me on the whole rather an irritating presence.’ From this we are almost driven to believe (though desperately and against our will) that Mr Baildon thinks that Prince Florizel is to be taken seriously, as if he were a man in real life. For ourselves, Prince Florizel is almost our favourite character in fiction; but we willingly add the proviso that if we met him in real life we should kill him.
The fact is, that the whole mass of
Stevenson’s spiritual and intellectual virtues
have been partly frustrated by one additional virtue-that
of artistic dexterity. If he had chalked up his
great message on a wall, like Walt Whitman, in large
and straggling letters, it would have startled men
like a blasphemy. But he wrote his light-headed
paradoxes in so flowing a copy-book hand that everyone
supposed they must be copy-book sentiments. He
suffered from his versatility, not, as is loosely
said, by not doing every department well enough, but
by doing every department too well. As child,
cockney, pirate, or Puritan, his disguises were so
good that most people could not see the same man under
all. It is an unjust fact that if a man can play
the fiddle, give legal opinions, and black boots just
tolerably, he is called an Admirable Crichton, but
if he does all three thoroughly well, he is apt to
be regarded, in the several departments, as a common
fiddler, a common lawyer, and a common boot-black.
This is what has happened in the case of Stevenson.
If ‘Dr Jekyll,’ ’The Master of Ballantrae,’
‘The Child’s Garden of Verses,’ and
‘Across the Plains’ had been each of them
one shade less perfectly done than they were, everyone
would have seen that they were all parts of the same
message; but by succeeding in the proverbial miracle
of being in five places at once, he has naturally
convinced others that he was five different people.
But the real message of Stevenson was as simple as
that of Mahomet, as moral as that of Dante, as confident
as that of Whitman, and as practical as that of James
Watt.
The conception which unites the whole
varied work of Stevenson was that romance, or the
vision of the possibilities of things, was far more
important than mere occurrences: that one was
the soul of our life, the other the body, and that
the soul was the precious thing. The germ of
all his stories lies in the idea that every landscape
or scrap of scenery has a soul: and that soul
is a story. Standing before a stunted orchard
with a broken stone wall, we may know as a mere fact
that no one has been through it but an elderly female
cook. But everything exists in the human soul:
that orchard grows in our own brain, and there it is
the shrine and theatre of some strange chance between
a girl and a ragged poet and a mad farmer. Stevenson
stands for the conception that ideas are the real
incidents: that our fancies are our adventures.
To think of a cow with wings is essentially to have
met one. And this is the reason for his wide
diversities of narrative: he had to make one
story as rich as a ruby sunset, another as grey as
a hoary monolith: for the story was the soul,
or rather the meaning, of the bodily vision. It
is quite inappropriate to judge ‘The Teller of
Tales’ (as the Samoans called him) by the particular
novels he wrote, as one would judge Mr George Moore
by ‘Esther Waters.’ These novels were
only the two or three of his soul’s adventures
that he happened to tell. But he died with a
thousand stories in his heart.
A Great Site
One snippet from here--
The Eternity of Hell
O God! preserve me by Thy grace. Woe to me if I should turn my back upon Thee after the great mercy with which Thou hast dealt with me! Keep me, O God! and preserve me from so great a misfortune.
Let us awaken our slumbering faith. It is certain that he who is lost is lost forever, without the least hope of being redeemed from eternal ruin. They shall go into eternal punishment. (Matthew 25:46) He who once enters the prison of hell can come out no more. Otherwise the condemned wretches would flatter themselves with hopes, and would say, Who knows, perhaps God may some day have pity on us and deliver us? But no, they well know that hell will never have an end, and that they must continue to suffer the same torments that they at present endure so long as God shall be God. My dear Redeemer, I know too well that by the past I have forfeited Thy grace, and condemned myself to hell; but I do not know whether Thou hast pardoned me. Hasten to forgive me, O Jesus! while I bitterly lament my offences against Thee, and never suffer me to offend Thee any more.
In this life death is of all things the most dreaded, but in hell it is of all things the most desired. There they desire and long for death, but cannot die. They shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them. (Revelations 9:6) Are there not at least, in that place of torments, some to compassionate them? No, all hate them, and rejoice in their sufferings, which will last forever, without end of mitigation. The trumpet of divine justice continually sounds and thunders forth in their ears those terrible words: "Ever, ever; never, never."
Amongst these miserable beings, O Jesus! I have deserved to be numbered; but do Thou, who hast hitherto preserved me. from falling into hell, preserve me for the future from falling into sin, which alone can condemn me to that place of woe. Ah! never suffer me again to become Thy enemy. I love Thee, O infinite goodness! and I am sorry for having offended Thee. Pardon me, and as I have deserved to burn forever in the fire of hell, grant me to burn forever with the fire of Thy holy love. O Mary, in thy powerful intercession do I confide.
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