Keep
your eyes open!...
July 30, 2021
(Rev 6:8) And
behold a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death. And
hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of
the earth, to kill with sword, with famine and with death and with the
beasts of the earth.
EDITORIAL: There’s More to Death Than Covid-19
NOQ REPORT: What Vaccines Say About the Precarious State of Our Freedom
STATEMENT: Catholic Medical Association Opposes Vaccine Mandates without Conscience and Religious Exemptions
AAPS: Statement in Support of the Right of All, Including Medical Workers, to Decline Medical Intervention
Due to the Joint Statement by various organizations
that all “health care and long-term care employers” should impose a
requirement to receive “the COVID-19 vaccine” on all their workers, the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) declares that
all human beings have the right to liberty, which they do not forfeit
when they serve the sick or the disabled. The ethical commitment to
protect others does not require workers to surrender their bodily
integrity and self-determination and accept “the” intervention dictated
by a governmental or quasi-governmental authority.
As around half the population has
received injections permitted under an Emergency Use Authorization
(EUA), which by federal law cannot be coerced, variant strains of
SARS-CoV-2 have been proliferating, and hospitalizations and deaths are
increasing, not diminishing as one would expect in an effective
vaccination campaign. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons are
succumbing. Reports of post-injection death or long-term disability to
the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are reaching
unprecedented levels.
Medical interventions are rarely
completely safe or effective, and risks and benefits differ in
individual patients and differing circumstances. Achieving a premature
stamp of approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—premature
because studies are not scheduled to be complete until the end of
2022—does not confer safety or effectiveness. FDA-approved products
have frequently been withdrawn in the past.
The Joint Statement recognizes only
a medical exemption, and omits mention of a religious exemption though
many workers object to receiving these products based on their
religious beliefs. Medical exemptions are virtually never recognized
for the COVID vaccines, because there is improper denial that they
cause harm to anyone.
Long-term effects of these novel,
genetically engineered products cannot possibly be known at this point.
These could include autoimmune disorders, antibody-enhanced disease,
infertility, cancer, or birth defects.
Employers are obligated to protect
their workers from foreseeable hazards, even from risks as low or lower
than 1 in 10,000, and to compensate them if they suffer an injury. They
are not permitted to impose risks that may well be that significant,
especially without compensation. Benefit to the public does not justify
sacrificing workers who do not willingly accept the risk. Moreover, the
benefit to the public in this instance is purely hypothetical.
Uninfected persons cannot transmit infection just because they are
unvaccinated. Vaccinated persons can still infect others. Many medical
workers already have natural immunity, and mandated shots impose risks
without little or no benefit, yet there is no provision to exempt them.
AAPS favors insistence on fully
informed, truly voluntary consent for all medical interventions. This
includes full disclosure of all risks, and a diligent effort to
identify and track risks. Otherwise, workers are being conscripted into
a mass experiment, one which would not be approved by an Institutional
Review Board on both ethical and scientific grounds: no consent; no
disclosure of the experimenters’ conflicts of interest; no control
group; no follow-up of subjects for COVID status, immune parameters, or
adverse effects; no provision for medical care of the subjects; and no
criteria for stopping the experiment if subjects are being harmed.
Instead of depending solely on
experimental vaccines, medical institutions should be leading the way
in innovative infection control such as ventilation and air
purification; exemplary housekeeping to protect against all pathogens,
including antibiotic-resistant bacteria; prophylactic and proactive
early treatment, which is generally not being provided today; and
immune system support including adequate vitamin D. Our medical
organizations should be advocating for free and open discussion, and
opposing censorship by governmental agencies, media, Big Tech, and
corporate health care.
Without freedom, there is no safety
for either workers or our patients. Liberty has overcome every crisis
in the past, and if given a chance it would overcome this one, too.
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Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
23. Rely entirely on
God with perfect confidence
in His goodness, which never forsakes those who, distrusting
themselves,
hope in Him.
July 28, 2021
(Luk 18:7-8) And
will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will
he have patience in their regard? I say to you that he will quickly
revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find,
think you, faith on earth?
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CATHOLICISM.ORG: Some Thoughts on ‘Traditionis Custodes’ and the Roman ‘Lex Credendi’
REGINA PROPHETARUM: The Traditional Latin Mass Perfectly Presents the Lex Orandi
As a re-capitulation of the life of Christ, what an astonishing
expression is the Traditional Latin Mass of our Holy Faith… an accurate
and perfect presentation of the Lex Orandi!! Know, then, faithful of
God, this is indeed the Thing that is for our peace! Know also that
this Mass is NOT a source of division but a revealer of divisions!!
Here is the Visitation of Christ among us!! Let us, then, engage in the
Mass, love the Mass, conform to the Mass, remember where we are at
Mass… a place where we fulfill the Lord’s commandments… a place where
Our Lord is lifted up … drawing us to Himself to become like Him… and
not make Him become like us!!... a place where we can draw close to God
who draws close to us. A place where we can lay down our life with the
Lord such that no power on earth can overcome our faith, hope and
charity. The more we conform to the Mass, the more Christian we become;
The more we conform to the Life of Christ in the Mass, more Christ
conquers in our life and through us, the whole world.
CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT: Overcoming the secular malaise that distorts our supernatural vision
“The sky did not fall when we didn’t attend weekly Mass,” commented
someone to me about the suspension of the sacraments in the spring of
2020. We could still pray, follow the commandments, and love our
neighbor, he continued. Not attending Mass did not change us for the
worse.
So what is the big deal about attending at all?
This perspective betrays the damage that secularism has done to
religious believers. By demanding that this world be the measure of all
things, secularism forces the infinite, the supernatural, and the
mysterious into the box of quantifiable measurement. Since we cannot
assess directly the financial or societal impact of the Mass, this
thinking goes, it has no impact. Moral Christianity—the commandments
and the love of neighbor—can be quantified, so we can keep that around,
just as the Enlightenment philosophes had desired in their war on
faith. But the spiritual side of religion? We, and society, can
function just fine without it, so let us leave it.
For decades Catholics have aggressively reacted against this secular
worldview because of its deleterious effects on faith, particularly
that of the young. And we must continue to fight it. As I detail in Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism,
faith, like a flower, grows healthy and strong in the proper
environment: a religion-friendly culture where the majority go to
church is the proper temperature; the sacraments are the food;
convincing religious instruction is the water; and God’s grace is the
sunlight.
So for faith, so for flowers: when one or more of these elements is
lacking, the likelihood of healthy growth dramatically decreases. The
precipitous slide in Catholic religious practice—to say nothing of
moral lapses such as societal acceptance of fornication and
cohabitation—is sobering proof of how secularity can choke faith like
weeds surrounding a singular lily.
When we reduce the Mass, the greatest celebration this side of
eternity, to a commodity that is supposed to have calculable value, we
have lost our supernatural sight. How can we worship the invisible God
and trust that His grace is working in our souls if our chief concern
is “what do we get out of Mass?” In saying this, we put ourselves on
the other side of St. Paul, who rightly ordered the supernatural before
the natural: “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things
that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with
Christ in God” (Col 3:2-3). Only with this perspective can we see the
infinite value of the Mass—and what we were missing without it.
If we are honest, for many of us there likely was no substantive
difference in our lives, practically speaking, during the suspension of
sacraments and then after it. We still tended to the normal features of
human living—cooking, cleaning, working, parenting—and we likely did
not feel any different doing those things without receiving the
Eucharist than if we had. This is not because Mass and the Eucharist do
not work. It is because they operate on a plane above the secular world.
Yet, at the same time, many of us also experienced a profound hunger, a
longing to participate in Christ’s eternal sacrifice and then to unite
with Him in holy communion. Upon our spiritual lives, our souls, our
longings, the sky fell without Mass.
Though distinct from the secular world below, the spiritual plane above
is not aloof: through the Mass, God’s grace swoops down to transform us
from within. Only then, typically at a glacial pace, do we begin to
perform our quotidian tasks with more charity, with more holiness, with
more patience than we would have without God’s help. There is no
formula to compute supernatural grace into natural output, but we know
in faith that grace, in fact, perfects nature. Those whom we call
saints are living testaments of this reality. But, devoid of faith, we
may see the impressive deeds that saints perform without realizing the
power source from which they spring.
Our reaction to the months without Mass is also a temperature gauge of
our own faith. When St. Francesco Marto, one of the three children to
whom the Blessed Mother appeared at Fatima, was confined to bed in
illness, he told his cousin that not being able to visit the Blessed
Sacrament was his greatest pain.
When St. Philip Neri was confined to bed, he waited impatiently for
holy communion to be brought to him: “I have such a desire to see Jesus
that I cannot have peace while I wait.” When St. Catherine of Genoa’s
diocese was placed under interdict, depriving her of access to the
sacraments, she exclaimed, “If I had to go miles and miles over burning
coals in order to receive Jesus, I would say the way was easy, as if I
were walking on a carpet of roses.”
We must not evaluate our spiritual lives by secular standards of
material production. The goal of our lives is divine intimacy, which is
spiritual bliss of an infinite magnitude. The fervor with which we
desire this goal indicates how much the secular malaise distorts our
vision of the things above.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
22. Remain in peace,
wholly given over and immolated
to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ Who, I am sure, will never
forsake you. He will take very special care of you, in proportion as
you
trust in Him, and abandon yourself with unswerving fidelity to Him,
whenever
there is a question of proving your love.
July 26, 2021
(2Th 2:11-12)
Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have
consented to iniquity.
BLOG EXCERPT: Life Precious
So how can God positively send error, and secondly, what entitles Him to impose His idea of “Righteousness”?
Firstly, God is absolute Goodness because He is absolute Being, only a
lack of being can be evil. It is absolutely impossible for God to cause
directly moral evil. What He can do is cause it indirectly
by not giving the grace or graces which would have prevented that moral
evil from happening. In that case He is not acting positively, He is
refraining from acting, or acting negatively, to allow the evil to
happen. Those graces that would have prevented the evil, He is entirely
free to give or not give, and if He always gave them, He would in
effect be stopping human beings from exercising their free-will and
from meriting for Heaven. But an unmerited Heaven could not
have the quality of a merited Heaven, which is why we live in this
“vale of tears” – God created us only for the best, even if it
necessitated the “collateral damage” of a “vale of tears” in which a
majority of all souls created would choose Hell (Mt. VII, 13–14).
Secondly, who made “true” true? Who made “false” false? And why is
“true” “righteous”? And why is “false” “unrighteous”? Answer, God
created the universe to be mankind’s home as an ordered whole out of
many parts. God’s Order of our home is true (it corresponds to the mind
of God), it is beautiful (city-dwellers still flock out of modern
cities at weekends to enjoy the beauties of God’s Nature / Order) and
it is good (that Order is real, being, in
Nature, not just fabricated by my imagination). Therefore the Order of
God is true, beautiful and good in all His Creation, and God created my
soul out of nothing to give me a number of years of life sufficient for
my free-will to choose either
to recognise that goodness in His Creation and to love the Creator for
giving me the chance to go to His Heaven for eternal bliss; or to
refuse to recognise the goodness of the Creator in and behind His
Creation, and in His utterly stupendous offer of eternal bliss in
exchange for a few years of my observing His Order’s truth and
righteousness. In brief, truth and righteousness are not arbitrary, but
are based on what is, on my faith in its goodness, and on my submission to it.
EXCERPT CERVANTES: Jesus Christ assures us all: 'One never dies'
HEAVEN'S call for each one's
conversion has so taken the tone of emergency that I frequently dwell
upon, as has the Church over the centuries, a most important doctrine:
the afterlife, that last part of the Credo declaring "life everlasting.
Amen."
Faith that we continue to exist
after death, in another plane determined by how we had lived as
earthlings, should make anyone ponder whether the highest ambitions are
in new cars, palatial homes, TikTok fame, political power, etc. Or even
just plain providing abundantly for one's children so that past one's
death, they'd also live on surrounded by what had been amassed, for
them not only to savor and consume, but to use to gather some more in a
chain of earthly pursuits whose meaning, however, is totally sundered
in each family member who dies.
The need to believe in life after
death being in my mind, I am sharing excerpts from the diary of
Garabandal, Spain visionary Conchita Gonzalez, one of the four girls to
whom the Blessed Mother appeared hundreds of times in the 1960s.
Conchita (C)- Will I go to heaven?
And He answered me:
Jesus (J) - You should love much and pray to Our Hearts.
C- When will You give me a Cross?
And He didn’t answer me.
J- What will I be? [This is another of Conchita’s worries—her destiny.
That is, to discern the designs God has for her life. For a while now,
she has been questioning whether she has a religious vocation, and she
frequently asks the apparition about it, but—according to her own
words—the Virgin has never responded in the affirmative. In the same
way, during this locution, Our Lord keeps his silence when asked the
question “What will I be?” Conchita has always received confirmation of
her suffering and of the cross, wherever she is.] He didn’t answer me.
He only told me that everywhere that I would be, I would have much to
suffer.
I said to Him: C- Am I going to die soon?
And He told me:
J- You have to stay on earth to help the world. [This seems to be a
clear announcement of a “concrete” vocation; it is a call to live in
the world and not in a convent].
And I said to Him:
C- I am very small. I couldn’t help in anything.
And He told me:
J- With your prayers and sufferings, you will help the world.
C- When does one go to heaven? When one dies? [This question seems
rather childish. Conchita’s lack of education makes some of her
questions seem simple, as though they don’t correspond to her age. In
contrast, the response is profoundly astonishing.] He said to me:
J- ONE NEVER DIES. (Conchita then commented later: I thought that we didn’t go to heaven until we were resurrected).
C- I asked Him if St. Peter was at the gate of heaven to receive us. He told me “no“.
(End of excerpts.)
So there. A very important quote from Jesus Himself: One never dies. It
reminds me of what the Blessed Mother recently told a visionary: that
consciousness survives earthly death and one is immediately transported
to a plane with some kind of a spiritual body to face what the
Catechism calls particular judgment that will determine each one's
eternity: Heaven, hell or, in the meantime, Purgatory.
Recent messages from Heaven being conveyed to believable Catholic
mystics have a common lament: so many on earth needs conversion. I
suppose this lament is better understood when one reads Thomas a'
Kempis, rather his old fashioned booklet The Imitation of Christ which
is an upside-down version of the modern world. Yes, suffering can be
ideal and many forms of materialism are unheavenly- which is what
modern times would likely find insane.
But consider what our Blessed Mother said in Garabandal on October 18,
1961: "We must make many sacrifices, perform much penance, and visit
the Blessed Sacrament frequently. But first, we must lead good lives. "
Recall, too, that in 1945 Jesus told Sister Lucia, the seer of Fatima,
thus: "The sacrifice and penance I now seek and require is the
fulfillment of your state in life and the observance of my laws."
And let me add what St. Padre Pio said: "If you knew the value of suffering, you wouldn't give it up."
Thus, in the face of the pandemic and the tribulations yet to come as
prophesied, hardships can be transformed into offerings, into prayers
for favors or as amendments for sins, ours and of the rest of humanity,
especially in our times. Catholics are specially tasked in this light,
because we have in our disposition powerful instrumentalities, such as
the Holy Rosary, that can bestow graces on all, including pagans, and
even ease tribulations.
Conversion must set eyes on the brevity of being earthlings, and the
eternity of what comes after, for ourselves and our beloved family,
hopefully in blissful life everlasting. Amen.
BISHOP DONALD HYING:
The Scriptures exhort us to encourage one another. Often, someone’s
kind words of appreciation, or the promise of prayers, or an expression
of gratitude can lift our flagging spirits and keep us persevering.
Today, the Lord encourages us not to lose heart, but to hope and love.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
21. Practice
abandonment as regards your body,
taking and accepting indifferently sickness or health, work or rest-
abandonment
as regards your soul, cherishing dryness, insensibility, desolation,
and
accepting them with the same thanksgiving as you would sweetness and
consolation.
July 23, 2021
(Mat 25:37-40) Then
shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry
and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink? Or when did we see thee a
stranger and took thee in? Or naked and covered thee? Or when did we
see thee sick or in prison and came to thee? And the king answering
shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of
these my least brethren, you did it to me.
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED: The challenges facing the Church on the world’s most Catholic continent
ONE IN EVERY TWO CATHOLICS IN THE
WORLD LIVES IN LATIN AMERICA. With almost 500 million Catholics, and
despite the ever-growing presence of sects, about 44 percent of all
Catholics in the world live in Latin America. If one adds the 60
million Hispanics who, according to the US Census, are now living in
North America, almost half of all Catholics in the world are originally
from Latin America.
“Catholics in Latin America are a
living, passionate and dynamic community, with great respect for human
dignity, highly valuing the family and having a profound sense of
community. All these things are very positive. Such Christian values,
as the search for the common good and concern for the well-being of
all, especially of the poorest and most vulnerable in society, are very
much present among this community,” explains Rafael D’Aqui, head of one
of the Latin America sections of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
Faithful in Bolivia However,
despite their great numbers, the Catholics of Latin America are facing
major challenges. Social inequalities are extreme, and incomes
generally low. Poverty in Latin America makes life difficult for most.
Such problems in turn create high levels of violence and other social
evils which affect families and are passed on to other generations.
A continuing challenge faced by the Church is the unceasing growth of
the suburban townships surrounding the major cities. As a result of the
poverty in rural areas, people are moving to the cities in search of
the hoped-for employment opportunities of life in the big cities. This
is a phenomenon in most of the countries of the continent, as for
example in Peru, where Catholics make up 76 percent of the population,
by far the largest religious community in the country, but where at the
same time the rural exodus is continuing at a growing pace. Many mainly
young Peruvians are moving into the towns and suburban townships, where
they face dangers such as drug addiction, loss of their cultural roots
and breakup of their family ties.
This migration into the cities is continuing unceasingly, and the
consequent population growth represents a major challenge for the
Catholic Church, which is obliged to establish new parishes to continue
being close to the people. Yet at the same time it is impossible to
grow at the same speed, for sheer lack of financial resources.
Nevertheless, this spiritual support is crucial for many people, as the
Church is often the last refuge of hope for them in this new situation.
“If the urbanization is so rapid that the Church is unable to build a
place of worship in the beginning, then undoubtedly it will be still
more difficult afterwards to provide the people with a place to
practice their faith,” said D’Aqui.
Another consequence of the rapid growth of Catholics in the large
cities on the continent is the lack of priests and catechists to
minister to them. In Bolivia approximately 80 percent of the country’s
11 million population are Catholics, but ministering to these Catholics
is an extremely complex and difficult task in the big cities, where the
population has grown rapidly. “The capital La Paz, for example, which
is situated high in the Andes at an altitude of almost 12,000 feet, had
a population of 766,468 in 2012. But now it has over 1 million
inhabitants, owing to the influx of people from the indigenous villages
in the rural areas. There is an urgent need for more priests, and for
this reason ACN is very much open to the requests from the dioceses
affected, especially for the formation of future priests,” D’Aqui
explains.
The Church in Latin America is a pillar for the rest of the world, and
many missionaries in Europe and Africa are the result of the generous
commitment of many of the vocations forged on this continent. But it is
also important to support the Church here in facing its own great
challenges. This is why ACN prioritizes support for the training of
priests, seminarians and religious sisters, so that the people will not
be left like a flock without a shepherd, but instead this vast Catholic
community can be a future hope for the entire world.
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Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
20. As regards your
taking up your abode in His
Sacred Heart, why should you fear? Our Lord Himself invites you to come
to Him and take your rest in His Heart. Is It not the throne of mercy,
where the most miserable are the most favorably received, provided
that,
although steeped in misery, they are drawn by love?
July 21, 2021
(Joh 19:25-27) Now
there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister,
Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen his
mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother:
Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy
mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final
trial that will shake the faith of many believers.The persecution that
accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of
iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent
solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The
supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a
pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of
his Messiah come in the flesh.
677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this
final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and
Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic
triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by
God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his
Bride to come down from heaven. God's triumph over the revolt of evil
will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval
of this passing world.
REGINA PROPHETARUM: Preserving Our Peace and Piety in Maintaining Our Inheritance
BLOG: Abp. Vigaṇ: on the Unfolding Passion of the Church
I was moved when
I read your reflections on the state of the Church and on the
“migration” of Catholics from a dying reality to a new, more combative
and guerilla dimension, as you wrote, using an image taken from a
well-known radio meditation given by the young Joseph Ratzinger.
This migration is not a migration
out of the Mystical Body to a human and utopian reality created in the
minds of those who lament the loss of the past and are disgusted with
the present. Because if this were our temptation, we would be
committing a betrayal of the Church herself, separating ourselves from
her and thus precluding our salvation, which She alone ensures to Her
members.
Ponder that paradox, dear Aldo
Maria: Precisely those who proclaim that they are proudly faithful to
the immutable Catholic Magisterium would thus be constructing a (false)
oasis, without recalling that we are all exsules filii Evae and that we
make our way across this vale of tears gementes et flentes.
The Church is not over and will not
end. We know that this terrible crisis, in which we are witnessing the
obstinate demolition of the little that still survives that is Catholic
by those whom the Lord has established as pastors of His flock, marks
the sorrowful passion and descent into the tomb of the Mystical Body,
which Providence has ordained must imitate its Divine Head in
everything.
So it also happened under the dark
sky of Jerusalem, on Golgotha, when, seeing the Son of God lifted up on
the Cross, there were those who believed that the brief parenthesis of
the Nazarean was over. But along with those who — out of pessimism,
fear, opportunism or open hostility — cynically observe the death
rattle of the Church, there are also those who groan and have their
hearts rent open before that agony, even as they know that it is the
necessary, indispensable premise of the resurrection which awaits Her
and all of Her members.
The death rattle is terrible, just
like the Lord’s cry that pierced the unbelieving silence of the
Parasceve, and with it the dominion of Satan over the world. “Eli, Eli,
lamà sabactani!” we hear Christ cry out, while the Church groans. We
see the spears, the clubs, the reed with the sponge soaked in vinegar;
we hear the vulgar insults of the crowd, the provocations of the
Sanhedrin, the orders given to the guards, the sobs of the pious women.
Behold, dear Dr. Valli, today we
must stand at the foot of the Cross as we witness the passion of the
Church. To stand means to remain upright, still and faithful. Along
with Mary Most Holy, the Sorrowful Mother — stabat Mater dolorosa —
whom the Lord gave to us as our mother right at the foot of the Cross
in the person of St. John, thereby making us, along with the same
beloved disciple, children of His mother.
And just as the Father was pleased
to accept the sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son … so He deigns to see
the sufferings of the Passion reflected in the Church and in individual
believers. Even in the agony of seeing the pains of the Passion renewed
in the Mystical Body of Christ, we know that with this last solemn
ceremony of time, the redemption is brought to completion: Accomplished
by the Incarnate Son of God, it must find its mystical correspondence
in the redeemed.
And just as the Father was pleased
to accept the sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son to redeem us miserable
sinners, so He deigns to see the sufferings of the Passion reflected in
the Church and in individual believers. Only in this way can the work
of the redemption, accomplished by Jesus Christ, true God and true Man,
in the name of humanity, make us cooperators and participants.
We are not passive subjects of a
plan of which we are unaware, but rather we are active protagonists of
our salvation and the salvation of our brothers, following the example
of our Divine Head. It is in this that we may say that we are
effectively a priestly people.
In the face of the desolation of
these terrible times, in the face of the apostasy of the hierarchy and
the agony of the ecclesial body, we cannot be truly pessimistic or
yield to despair or resignation. We are with St. John and the Sorrowful
Virgin at the foot of a cross on which the new high priests spit,
against which a new Sanhedrin curses and swears. On the other hand, we
recall that the leaders of the priestly class were the first ones who
wanted to put Our Lord to death, and so it is not surprising that in
the moment of the passion of the Church, it is precisely they who mock
what the blindness of their soul no longer understands.
Let us pray. Let us pray with
humility, asking the Holy Spirit to give us strength in the moment of
trial. Let us multiply our prayer, penances, and fasting for those who
today are among those who brandish the whip, press the crown of thorns
upon the head, drive in the nails, and wound the side of the Church,
just as they once did with Christ.
Let us pray also for those who
watch impassively or look the other way. Let us pray for those who
weep, for those who hold out a handkerchief to wipe the disfigured
face, for those who carry the Cross for a while, for those who prepare
a tomb, wrappings for the body, and precious balm. Exspectantes beatam
spem, et adventum gloriae magni Dei, et salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi:
awaiting the blessed hope, the coming of the glory of the great God and
our savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).
+ Carlo Maria Vigaṇ, Archbishop
14 July 2021
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
19. Think no more of
what people say, but of pleasing
the Heart of Jesus alone, according to the lights He will give you. He
loves you and He will never allow you to perish, so long as you trust
in
Him.
July 19, 2021
(Mat 16:18-19) And
I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will
give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou
shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
YOUTUBE: The Truth About the Traditional Mass w/ Scott Hahn
REGINA PROPHETARUM: You Cannot Contain Tradition
THE PILLAR: Pope makes extraordinary changes for Extraordinary Form
CNA: Bishops issue guidance in response to Pope Francis' document on the Traditional Latin Mass
A growing number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinal
Wilton Gregory of Washington, have issued guidance regarding groups
celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass in their dioceses, after a new
document from Pope Francis on Friday imposed restrictions on the use of
the traditional liturgy.
The pope's document, a motu proprio entitled Traditionis custodes, made
sweeping changes to his predecessor Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic
letter Summorum Pontificum, which acknowledged the right of all priests
to say Mass using the Roman Missal of 1962, which is in Latin.
The new motu proprio states that it is each bishop’s “exclusive
competence” to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his
diocese.
Bishops across the U.S. have granted permission for the Traditional
Latin Mass to continue in their dioceses while they study the document
and determine how to proceed.
"I will prayerfully reflect upon Traditionis custodes in the coming
weeks to ensure we understand fully the Holy Father's intentions and
consider carefully how they are realized in the Archdiocese of
Washington," Cardinal Gregory of Washington wrote in a July 16 letter
to his priests.
"In the interim, I hereby grant the faculty to those who celebrate the
Mass using the liturgical books issued before 1970 to continue to do so
this weekend and in the days to come, until further guidance is
forthcoming."
The new document sets out the responsibilities of bishops whose
dioceses already have one or more groups that offer Mass in the
extraordinary form, mandating that bishops determine that these groups
do not deny the validity of Vatican II and the Magisterium.
Bishops are instructed to “designate one or more locations where the
faithful adherents of these groups may gather for the eucharistic
celebration (not however in the parochial churches and without the
erection of new personal parishes).”
It also imposes new requirements for newly ordained priests wishing to
celebrate the Extraordinary Form, and instructs bishops to verify that
already-established parishes that celebrate the Extraordinary Form “are
effective for their spiritual growth and to determine whether or not to
retain them.” It further instructs bishops to “take care not to
authorize the establishment of new groups” that celebrate the
Extraordinary Form.
The pope says he wrote the document in response to a 2020 survey of
bishops, and explained that he was saddened by what he sees as a
rejection of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, issued a brief statement on the matter July 16.
“Today Pope Francis published Traditionis custodes, an Apostolic Letter
issued motu proprio on the use of Latin liturgical texts approved prior
to the reform of 1970. I welcome the Holy Father’s desire to foster
unity among Catholics who celebrate the Roman Rite," Gomez wrote.
“As these new norms are implemented, I encourage my brother bishops to
work with care, patience, justice, and charity as together we foster a
Eucharistic renewal in our nation.” The Priestly Fraternity of St.
Peter (FSSP), which celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass, addressed
the situation in a July 16 statement.
"At this point, it is too early to tell what all the implications will
be for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, but we assure you that we
remain committed to serving the faithful attending our apostolates in
accordance with our Constitutions and charism as we have done since our
founding," the order said in a statement provided to CNA.
"We must strive to see this Cross as a means of our sanctification, and to remember that God will never abandon His Church."
ANALYSIS
Traditionis custodes: Best, worst, and middle case scenarios in the short term
The Motu Proprio & the Law of Unintended Consequences
Thank You, Pope Francis, for Restricting the Latin Mass
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
15. In everything
and everywhere, I desire nothing
but the accomplishment of the divine good pleasure, allowing the divine
Heart of Jesus to will and desire in me and for me, just as He pleases.
I am content to love Him alone: whatever He wishes me to love, that He
will love for me.
July 16, 2021
(Luk 1:46-50) And
Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced
in God my Saviour. Because he hath regarded the humility of his
handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me
blessed. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and
holy is his name. And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to
them that fear him.
FRANCISCAN MEDIA: Our Lady of Mount Carmel
EXCERPT CATHOLICACTION.ORG: A Timeless Devotion: Our Lady’s Brown Scapular
Although the scapular is a devotional item, it has enormous power to
open our hearts and minds to the working of God’s grace. Those who wish
to wear the scapular should take it upon themselves through a formal
consecration by a Carmelite priest and enrollment into the lay
confraternity of the Carmelite Order.
However, these elements are not fully necessary to receive the graces
of this Marian devotion. The most important part of any sacramental
devotion is the faith of the believer, which provides the necessary
internal element that gives all external signs such as the scapular
their meaning and power.
It is also not surprising that when Our Lady appeared to the three
shepherd children at Fatima in 1917, her final apparition was in the
guise of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. She appeared with St. Joseph and the
Child Jesus while holding out the Scapular to the visionaries,
signaling the essential meaning of Fatima: that consecration to Our
Lady’s Immaculate Heart is nothing less than consecration to Christ
Himself.
Such is the message of the Scapular devotion and the miraculous events
of Fatima. As with all Marian devotions, the vision reminds us of the
essence of her mission: ad Jesum per Mariam (“to Jesus through Mary”).
She is the surest and safest pathway to the Savior.
On July 16th every year we are privileged to celebrate the great feast
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Let us do so this year with great fervor
and love for the Blessed Virgin Mary, who clothes in the garment of her
holiness all who are devoted to Christ through her Immaculate Heart.
VIA A MOMENT WITH MARY: "Do not be deceived by the words of the evil one"
Our Lady has been appearing to
Gisella Cardia, a young woman from Trevignano Romano, Italy, who bears
the stigmata, since 2016. Here, a statuette of Mary brought back from
Medjugorje has wept tears of blood, like in Akita, Japan (1973) and
Civitavecchia (Italy, 1995). Another lachrymation happened with an
image of Jesus The Divine Mercy in the house of the visionary.
The messages Gisella received from God the Father, Jesus and the Virgin Mary allude to:
- a new disease would emerge from China (message of September 28, 2019)
- the imminence of the Warning or
Illumination of Conscience (message similar to other apparitions, like
Garabandal, Spain, and visionaries such as Luz de Maria de Bonilla,
Pedro Regis and Sulema).
- a crisis in the Church due to a campaign of desacralization attacking faith in the Real Presence in the Eucharist
- a worldwide spiritual renewal Here are some recent messages Gisella received from Our Lady:
"Children, this is the great test
of Faith. I say to you, as Mother of my children priests, always be
obedient to the Church, but be on your guard, for when the Consecration
of the Eucharist disappears, so will my Son, the Lord Jesus. Know that
your true Faith will be rewarded because I will protect you. You are
there - the foretold times are coming to your door; new diseases will
come where cures will be difficult to find." (January 28, 2020).
"My children, do not be afraid of
the times that are coming: as long as you are faithful to Him, nothing
can trouble you. My children, conversion is urgent because time is
running out; do not be attracted by the things of the world because
soon you will be stripped of everything, but you will be able to have
joy and serenity only with the help of God. My children, do not let
yourselves be deceived by the words of the evil one who finds easy
solutions for you, but that are dangerous for your soul." (April 6,
2021)
The diocesan bishop remains
cautious but has authorized the faithful to go to Gisella's house to
pray in a special chapel set up for visitors.
MORE
The message of Mary at Akita concerns all of us today
In Garabandal, Mary speaks to us like a Mother
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
14. What have you to
fear except to lose that confidence
in Him, which constrains Him to stoop from the throne of His
omnipotence
and condescend to come to the aid of our weakness?
July 14, 2021
(1Jn 3:10-13) In
this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.
Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning,
that you should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked
one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his
own works were wicked: and his brother's just. Wonder not, brethren, if
the world hate you.
NY TIMES (7/14/1949):
In a sweeping decree marking the latest Vatican step in the world-wide
struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and communism, the
Congregation of the Holy Office today warned Catholics throughout the
world that all those who "defend and spread the materialistic and
anti-Christian doctrine of the Communists" would incur major
excommunication.
Comments Decree against communism (Pope Pius XII):
Therefore, all catholic who votes for a communist party (which is a way
to make favor) or who affiliates into a communist party, or who writes
filo-communist books or magazines are excluded from the sacraments.
Those who defend, promulgate or declare the materialism from the communists are also automatically excommunicated.
This decree from Pius XII’s Holy Office, confirmed by John XXIII in
1959 is still valid. In fact, Pius XII worked personally against
communism in Italy.
Such a condemnation of communism adds up to other condemnations made by
Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII (who have condemned it
in other opportunities), John XXIII, Paul VI, the Council Vatican II
(which reiterated the preceding condemnations) and John Paul II.
It has been more than 100 years that the Catholic Church condemns
communism, socialism and any kind of materialism and material
egalitarianism. The penalty for those who disobey the prohibition of
aiding communism (or its variants) under any aspect (including voting
for filo-communist parties) is automatic excommunication.
"Religious socialism, Christian socialism are contradictory terms, for
no one can be, at the same time, good catholic and true socialist."
(Pio XI)
NEWS REPORT: Cuban religious leaders targeted amid nationwide protests
Protests erupted across the country on 11 July in response to Cuba’s
ongoing and severe economic crisis and a record surge in coronavirus
cases, before expanding to criticisms of the Cuban Communist Party
(CCP)’s decades-long hold on power, crackdown on human rights and
pro-democracy movements. and management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response, the government appears to have disconnected the internet
in most of the island’s major cities, but reports of violations
targeting protesters and religious leaders have continued to emerge.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel also made public calls for
‘revolutionaries’ to take to the streets to defend the Revolution by
fighting protestors. Several reports have since emerged of violence
against protesters, including one incident in which an Associated Press
photographer was violently beaten by members of the police and Cuban
State Security. One protester was also allegedly shot in the stomach.
In a post on Facebook, human rights activist and pastor Reverend Mario
Félix Lleonart Barroso reported that the authorities had detained
Yeremi Blanco y Yarian Sierra, two pastors from the Berean Baptist
Mission in Matanzas. Reverend Yusniel Pérez Montejo, of the Eastern
Baptist Convention, was reportedly detained in Songo-La Maya in
Santiago, and a Catholic priest, Father Castor José Álvarez Devesa, was
reportedly beaten and detained incommunicado by Cuban authorities in
Camagüey in central Cuba.
The Inter-American Human Rights Commission condemned the government’s
use of violence against protestors and called on Cuba “to comply with
its #HumanRights obligations, in particular the right to protest; in
addition, the reiterated recommendation of democratic opening of the
island and its responsibility to put in place an institutional
framework in line with inter-American standards.”
CSW’s Head of Advocacy Anna-Lee Stangl said: “CSW stands with the
people of Cuba in calling for freedom, democracy and respect for human
rights. We are deeply concerned about reports of peaceful protesters,
including religious leaders, being detained and beaten, as well as
reported attempts to severely restrict the flow of information,
including by cutting off internet access in several cities. CSW stands
with religious groups in Cuba in condemning calls to violence. We urge
the international community to make it clear to the Cuban government
that it is time to listen to the calls of its people for peaceful and
democratic change.”
CWR: Priest beaten, arrested amid Cuba protests
HISTORY: Catholic Cuba From Las Casas to the Castros
ARTICLE: The Surprising History of Cuba’s Patron Saint
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF CHARITY, PATRON OF CUBA: Oh,
Holy Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre, Mother and Lady Sovereign, with
Joy I come to Kneel before You! Virgin of Miracles! As our elders
called you, Cure of the Sick, Consolation of the Afflicted, Please give
courage and hope to the desperate, Keep us from evil, all the families,
protect youth and give sanctuary to childhood. The wonder of your
works, each day are innumerable, thus justifying the Trust and Love
that your children show you. From your Sanctuary at El Cobre, Venerable
Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre, be always the source of all graces.
Amen.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
12. When you are in trouble and anxiety, go and
plunge yourself in the peace of this adorable Heart, which no one can take
from you.
July 12, 2021
(Mar 6:8) And he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, but a staff only; no scrip, no bread, nor money in their purse,
REGINA PROPHETARUM: Being Good in the Obstacle Course of the Bad Lands
ARCHBISHOP SAMUEL J. AQUILA: How to respond to God’s infinite love
CATHOLIC STAND: Cultivating Peace in the Midst of Anxiety
BISHOP BARRON: Friends,
Jesus instructs his disciples in Saturday’s Gospel, “Do not be afraid
of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid
of the one who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna.”
What is the greatest fear we have? Undoubtedly, the fear of losing our
own lives; we fear the death of the body. But Jesus is telling us not
to worry about those paper tigers that can only affect the body and its
goods.
When I am in love with God, when I am “fearing” him above all things, I
am rooted in a power that transcends space and time, a power that
governs the universe in its entirety, a power that is greater than life
and death.
More to it, this power knows me intimately and guides me according to
his purposes: “Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one
of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge. Even all
the hairs of your head are counted. So do not be afraid.” Because of
this we have nothing to fear from anything or anybody here below.
CATHOLIC DAILY REFLECTIONS: Relying on Providence
Does God care about the smallest details in your life? Does He care
about you receiving proper food and housing? Does He care about your
proper emotional, material and spiritual support? He certainly does!
Sometimes it can happen that we fail to realize how completely God
cares for us. We can fall into the trap of getting consumed by the fear
and anxiety of daily concerns. We can worry that we will not have
enough for tomorrow or even today. This worry can concern us regarding
all parts of our lives—relationships, emotions, material needs,
spiritual strength, etc.
What we need to know, with complete certainty, is that God is attentive
to every detail of our lives. He knows all and loves us in such a
complete way that He will not abandon us ever. He will never allow us
to be without those things we need to live a full and fruitful life.
Do you believe that? At times it can be hard to believe. At times we
can feel overwhelmed and believe that we must take care of everything
ourselves. It is true that we are called to offer all our energy and
talent to God so that He can use us and work through us. But we should
never forget that God is ultimately the one taking care of us and is
the one most attentive to our every need.
Reflect, today, on the level of abandonment that you have to divine
providence. Pray this prayer below and reflect upon how completely you
can make it yours. Jesus, I trust in You!
Prayer of Abandonment
Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me,
and in all your creatures –
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into your hands I commend my soul:
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,
for you are my Father.
Charles de Foucauld
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
10. Have recourse trustfully to God's loving kindness
and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though
you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive
you, provided you return humbly to Him.
July 8, 2021
(Joh 8:31-32) Then
Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word,
you shall be my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth: and the
truth shall make you free.
EXCERT EWTN ARCHIVES: Interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Dr Rudolf Graber, Bishop of
Regensburg (1903-1992), wrote about Freemasonry’s plans to destroy the
Church in his book, “Athanasius and the Church of our time”. He quotes
from a letter written by a Freemason in 1839:
“We must not individualise vice; in
order for it to grow to the proportions of patriotism and hatred of the
Church, we must generalise it. Catholicism is no more afraid of a sharp
dagger than the monarchy is, but these two foundations of the social
order are likely to collapse through corruption; we at all events never
allow ourselves to be corrupted. Do not, then, let us make martyrs but
let us popularise vice among the masses. Whatever their five senses
strive after shall be satisfied…Create hearts full of vice and you will
no longer have any Catholics. That is the corruption, on a large scale,
which we have undertaken, the corruption of the people by the clergy
and that of the clergy by us, the corruption which leads the way to our
digging the Church’s grave”. (Athanasius and the Church of our time,
p.40).
ON FREEMASONRY
Question of Faith: Catholic Masons?
Freemasons and their craft: What Catholics should know
Freemasonry: Mankind’s Death Wish
VIDEO: Altiyan Childs Exposes Freemasonry
In a video Altiyan Childs released last month, he announced that he has
now put his life on the line to renounce his secret Freemason vows. His
life has recently changed after being awakened in a speeding car that
was heading straight into a brick wall because the driver had fallen
asleep. He says he heard a whisper in his ear that woke him from a deep
sleep, and that he was able to grab the steering wheel and avoid the
crash.
“I shouldn’t be here today,” he states.
The penalty for renouncing your vows in Freemasonry is death, but he
feels compelled to expose Freemasonry for what it is: the oldest
religion in the world.
According to Childs, almost every notable person running the world
today, from politics to business to entertainment, got there through
Freemasonry. And his 5 plus hour video was produced to convince you
that this is true, from an insider perspective, and to warn about what
is soon coming: the implementation of the Luciferian New World Order.
ELEISON COMMENTS: God Central
If I ask myself, how can zillions of world citizens all over the world
have so little common sense as to be lying down and taking this
covid-nonsense, an avalanche of lies captivating people’s minds and
then the tyrannical stupidities dominating their behaviour, I have only
one answer – they have let “science,” then technology, and finally
electronics so dominate their lives that they no longer have anywhere
near enough common sense left to recognise the global fraud and to
stand up to the global tyrants.
It is a foretaste of what St Paul says about the coming of the
Antichrist: “And then that wicked one shall be revealed . . . . whose
coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs
and lying wonders, and in all seduction of iniquity to them that
perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might
be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to
believe lying: that all may be judged who have not believed the truth,
but have consented to iniquity” (II Thess. II, 8–11).
This is a text which holds true in all times and places, but it is
applying more than ever as we approach the end of the world. Notice how
the trouble begins with lack of love of the truth. To love the truth
and to pursue it is a great gift of God, because if one pursues it, one
will find it (Mt. VII, 7–8), and if one then keeps pursuing it, God
will lead the one pursuing it to Heaven and everlasting bliss, no less.
But if for love of the world, the flesh or the Devil, those three great
enemies of the soul, one refuses the truth or refuses to pursue it,
then upon lack of the truth in the mind will necessarily follow error
in the mind, the erosion of common sense, and corruption and immorality
in the will. For indeed common sense is the mind’s natural endowment
from God with its ability to recognise reality around it, and with
reality truth, an ability normally necessary to survive. But if I set
my will against reality and truth, as I can, then God will allow me so
to erode my common sense that it will no longer make any sense to me.
This is what is now happening on a global scale, so that the most
prestigious of “intellectuals” are turning themselves into the most
stupid of human beings because, for instance, to impose their own
scheme of equality in Creation upon God’s design of variety through
inequality, they will refuse to give any recognition to the manifold
complementarity between man and woman, and will strive to turn men into
women and women into men, with disastrous results for both, and with
catastrophic surgical operations for boys to be supposedly turned into
girls and girls into boys. But why not, if God, Creation, Nature, Adam
and Eve, Heaven and Hell are not true? Then the whole world becomes my
toy, and the playpen of people like Gates, Soros and Schwab.
Here is why the one true God, from whom derive Creation, Nature, Adam
and Eve, Heaven and Hell, is at the very centre of this global
covid-fraud, NOT because He in any way directly caused it, but because
He most certainly first allowed it, “that all may be judged who have
not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.” No lies can
enter His Heaven, let alone an avalanche of lies. But He means to
populate His Heaven, howsoever men mean to depopulate His world!
Kyrie eleison.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
7. Act towards our Lord with entire confidence
and simplicity: do not spend time by dwelling too often on your past faults;
this only serves to satisfy self-love and to discourage us.
July 6, 2021
(1Th 5:17-21) Pray
without ceasing. In all things give thanks for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you all. Extinguish not the spirit. Despise
not prophecies. But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
FR. MARK GORING, CC: Virgin Mary Appears to Over a Million People!
NCR: Five Lesser-Known Marian Apparitions Around the World
MARK MALLET BLOG: The Place For Cowards
A MOMENT WITH MARY: A lesser known apparition in Germany: Marpingen
The Virgin Mary appeared three different times at Marpingen, Germany.
First, in 1876 (1), she appeared to three 8-year-old children. As in
Lourdes, she introduced herself as the "Immaculately Conceived".
Then in 1930, she appeared to a man and said to him: "I am waiting at
the gates of Germany, weeping as Jesus wept over Jerusalem... "
And finally, in 1999, she appeared to three young women, Marion Gutman,
Christine Neg and Judith Hiher. The apparitions ended on October 17,
1999.
Here is an excerpt from her last message given on October 17, 1999: "My
apparitions in the world, as it is at the moment, will soon come to an
end. For a time I will not be seen again. However, I will lead you by
thought and perhaps by locutions: this is in God's hands and I cannot
yet say. The new time of which I speak will come much, much later,
because in Heaven time is not measured as it is on Earth. There will
now be a period of time when - after my apparitions, which I am
currently continuing on Earth, have ended - you will have to decide for
or against God. After you have decided, after, long after, you will see
me with your own eyes. But that is a long time away...
God does not want anyone to be condemned! It is man himself who causes
his own damnation, because he does not love God. That is why I beg you
once again: fulfill my requests, follow the teaching of the Church,
live according to the Commandments of God, be humble, simple and small
and let yourselves be guided by me, your heavenly Mother, for I have
only one desire and one goal, to bring you into eternal bliss to my Son
and to God... "
Message of September 8, 1999: "There will be no third world war. God
loves his children so much! But there will be punishments that must
serve to bring souls back to God. This is out of love. I will not say
now what that is. But if you believe in God, if you love him and trust
him, you have nothing to fear. Everything is part of God's plan."
(1) At that time, the German Empire was in the midst of the
Kulturkampf, where the German state was trying to secularize German
society by fighting against the privileges and the fidelity to Rome of
the Catholic Church. The bishop of the Marpingen diocese was
imprisoned, then exiled, and had just died at the time of the
apparitions. The announcement of these apparitions, of the arrival of
pilgrims at the site, and even of "miraculous healings", provoked the
anger of the government, which banned the gatherings, brought in the
troops, and brought the offenders to trial. The violent political
reaction prevented the ecclesiastical authority from opening a
canonical investigation, and to this day (in 2020) no steps have been
taken to recognize these apparitions. But a popular movement of local
devotion still exists today.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Peace- Trust- Abandonment
6. When you have committed faults, do not be anxious
because anxiety, uneasiness and too much agitation withdraw the soul from
God and cause Jesus Christ to withdraw from the soul. Let us, rather, ask
pardon of Him and beg His Sacred Heart to restore us to favor.
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