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October 30, 2021
(2Ma 12:43-46) And making a
gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for
sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and
religiously concerning the resurrection. (For if he had not hoped that
they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed
superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) And because he considered
that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up
for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the
dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
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FR. BENJAMIN NAASKO: On All Hallows Eve (Halloween)
We are often told that Halloween is of pagan origin. We are told that
it has its roots in the ancient Irish festival of Samhain, and we are
told that the ancient pagan Irish performed human sacrifices on the
night of October 31 to commune with the ungodly spirits of their dead
ancestors. We are told that Christian missionaries tried and failed to
“baptize” these ancient pagan rituals by moving the commemoration of
All Saints to November 1 but that they failed to convince the Irish
pagans to attend Vigils at the Church on October 31 and they persisted
in their pagan festivities.
None of this is true. Much of it is based on anti-Catholic propaganda
from the 19th century. Many of the traditional practices of Halloween
have historical antecedents as popular expressions of Christian piety
and most of the objectionable practices connected with Halloween are
developments of our American Culture of the past century. Much like how
commercialization has ruined the spirit of Christmas, it has ruined the
spirit of All Hallows. Much like our contemporary pagans have lied
about the early history of Christmas calling it a Christian takeover of
earlier pagan solstice celebrations (another lie that originated in
anti-Catholic propaganda), so too our modern pagans have laid claim to
Halloween, a holiday which had never previously belonged to them.
The first thing to know about Halloween, or more properly Hallowe'en,
is that it is an abbreviation of a longer name: Hallows Even, or
Hallows Evening, or Hallows Eve. It was the beginning of a Christian
festive period of Hallowtide, which is centered around the feast of All
Hallows or All Saints and the feast of All Souls.
In the Christian East, we celebrate All Saints on the Sunday after
Pentecost and we remember All Souls on a number of Saturdays. In the
West, All Souls comes directly after All Saints; first the Church
Triumphant is celebrated and then the Church prays for the deceased. It
is important for Orthodox Christians to know that the Feast of All
Saints in the West was moved to November 1st by Pope Gregory IV in the
8th century, prior to the division of the churches. The celebration of
All Saints on November 1 and its Vigil the evening prior has been found
by historians to have reached Northumbria, Scotland and Ireland by the
early 9th Century. The celebration of All Saints in Ireland therefore
predates the Christianization of Rus.
When March comes along we all, both East and West, appropriately
remember St. Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland who very successfully
brought Irish paganism to an end. Within a few generations of Patrick's
death in 461, there was nothing left of Irish paganism. By the
time the Feast of All Saints on November 1st reached Ireland in the
late 8th or early 9th century,paganism had been gone for centuries. The
only reason we know that there was some pagan festival called Samhain
is because of the records of Monks, who noted the holiday, but failed
to mention anything whatsoever about the practices of such a day. We
know absolutely nothing about the pre-Christian Samhain. Nonetheless,
the word does survive in modern Gaelic and means something close to our
word “autumn”. This is not unlike the English word “Easter,” which now
only designates the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, even
though St. Bede tells us it once referred to some unknown Anglo-Saxon
pagan festival. The earliest records we have about the content of Irish
pagan rituals only date back about 200 years. It is not possible that
they are anything other than speculation, propaganda, or outright
fiction.
As concerns the traditions of Halloween, most of them are of a pious
Christian origin. Trick-or-treating is connected to the tradition of
"souling" a customer where children would beg alms (in the form of
little cakes) in exchange for the promise to pray for people's deceased
loved ones. It was a charitable exchange all around. Its connection to
Halloween has more to do with the prayers and masses offered for the
deceased on All Souls Day. It was in America that it was changed to
trick-or-treat, maybe a less charitable exchange of goodies for the
promise of good behavior, but this was more acceptable in Protestant
America than praying for the dead.
Costumes are historically connected with Halloween, but also other
Christian Celebrations. This became more common after the Black Death,
the great bubonic plague of the 14th Century. Dressing as the dead and
the "Danse Macabre" (a direct allusion to the scriptural story found in
2 Maccabees and the martyrdoms recorded there), depictions of which
adorn a number of Churches and Holy Places. The depictions,
personification of death, and the dressing up as dead ones are aimed at
bringing a moral message to believers. As we remember all of the Saints
and pray for all of those who have died, we need to reflect on our own
mortality and live in the knowledge that death will come for us. The
point of it all is to encourage repentance.
Of course modern costumes rarely convey this message and many go too
far and seem to celebrate evil and death. Some revel in sin and exalt
pagan themes, perverting the Christian celebration of All Saints. Of
course such things are problematic and must be avoided just like those
frenzied pre-Christmas sales that have resulted in the death of some
shoppers and pervert the Christian meaning of Christmas and must be
avoided. However, it is clearly still possible, especially for Western
Christians to have a pious and holy celebration of Halloween. I pray
that Christians of the Western Rite are successful in reclaiming their
holiday and their heritage from those who would commercialize or
subvert it.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
30. This Feast [of the Sacred Heart] is a day of
salvation and of eternal blessing for all who honor It with a humble and
sincere heart. Let us, then, love this divine Heart and in all things
try to conform ourselves to It.
October 27, 2021
(Luk 12:51) Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.
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I address you, Archbishop Gómez, as
President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and to
you, Cardinals Ladaria and Müller, for your competence, some serious
considerations related to the so-called vaccines against Covid-19.
I believe there are some aspects of
the question that now allow for a more complete evaluation of what
these drugs are and what effects they cause; this evaluation ought to
lead to a collegial stance, in conformity with the Magisterium of the
Church and not influenced by biased information or by erroneous news
spread by the producers of these drugs or by the media.
1) Subject of the Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines was
issued last year in the absence of complete data on both the nature of
the gene serum and its components. I point out to you that the
subject of the Note is limited to “the moral aspects of the use of the
vaccines against Covid-19 that have been developed from cell lines
derived from tissues obtained from two fetuses that were not
spontaneously aborted,”[1] and it states that “[w]e do not intend to
judge the safety and efficacy of these vaccines, although ethically
relevant and necessary, as this evaluation is the responsibility of
biomedical researchers and drug agencies.”[2] Safety and effectiveness
are thus not the subject of the Note, which in expressing its opinion
about the “morality of use” therefore does not even express its opinion
about the “morality of production” of these drugs.
2. Safety and effectiveness of the vaccines
The safety and effectiveness of individual vaccines is determined after
a period of experimentation that normally lasts for several
years. In this case, the health authorities have decided to carry
out experimentation on the entire world population, as an exception to
the usual practice of the scientific community, international
standards, and the laws of individual nations. This means that
the entire population finds itself in the condition of being
susceptible to suffering the adverse effects of the vaccine, at their
own risk, when normally experimentation is done on a voluntary basis
and carried out on a limited number of subjects, who are paid to
undergo it.
I think it is clear that this is an
experimental drug that has not been approved,[3] but only authorized
for administration by the bodies in charge; just as I think it is
evident that there are medical treatments without adverse side-effects,
even though they have been systematically boycotted by the Health
Institutions – WHO, CDC, EMA – and by mainstream media. Even if
the Church should express a moral evaluation of the different
treatments available – some of which are carried out with drugs
produced with cell lines that originated in an aborted fetus, like the
vaccines – it must be reiterated that there are effective treatments
which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune
defenses, something that the vaccines do not do. Furthermore,
these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs
that are used have been licensed for decades.
Other recently developed treatments
are absolutely effective, inexpensive, and carry no danger for those
who receive them: this is the case with the plasma treatment studied
and employed with great success by the Italian doctor Giuseppe De
Donno.[4] Treatment with hyper-immune plasma was strongly discouraged
and boycotted by pharmaceutical companies and doctors financed by them,
because it does not cost anything and renders the analogous therapy
useless, which is made in laboratories with monoclonal cells at
exorbitant costs.
International standards specify
that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except
in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug
agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of
hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other
therapies with proven effectiveness. There is no need to remind
you that all of these agencies, along with the WHO, are financed almost
entirely by the pharmaceutical companies and by foundations tied to
them, and that there is a very grave conflict of interest at the
highest levels,[5] about which the media are culpably silent.[6] In
expressing a moral evaluation of the vaccines, the Church cannot fail
to take these elements into consideration, since they cause a
manipulation of scientific information, on the basis of which the
judgments about their moral liceity by ecclesiastical Authority have
been formulated.
3. The experimental drugs are not vaccines in the proper sense
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, while not expressing
its opinion on the effectiveness and safety of the so-called vaccines,
nevertheless defines them as “vaccines,” taking for granted that they
actually give immunity and protect people from active and passive
contagion. This element is disavowed by the declarations coming
from all of the world’s health authorities and from the WHO, according
to which vaccinated people can become infected and infect others more
seriously than those who are not vaccinated[7] and find that their
immune defenses are drastically reduced if not even completely
destroyed.
A recent study confirms that the
gene serum can cause forms of acquired immuno-deficiency in those who
receive it.[8] Therefore, the drugs that are called “vaccines” do not
fall within the official definition of a vaccine to which the CDF’s
Note presumably refers. In fact a “vaccine” is defined as a
medicinal preparation aimed at inducing the production of protective
antibodies by the organism, conferring specific resistance against a
specific infectious disease (viral, bacterial, protozoal). This
definition was recently changed by the WHO, because otherwise it would
not have been able to include anti-Covid drugs, which do not induce the
production of protective antibodies and do not confer a specific
resistance against the SarsCoV-2 infectious disease.
Furthermore, while mRNA serums are
dangerous because of the implications they have at the genetic level,
the AstraZeneca serum may be even more harmful, as recent studies
show.[9]
4. Proportionality between the costs and benefits of the vaccines
Limiting itself to an evaluation only of the morality of the use of the
vaccines, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith does not take
into account the proportionality between the presumed benefits of the
gene serum and the short-term and long-term adverse side effects.
Worldwide, the number of deaths and
grave pathologies following vaccination is increasing
exponentially:[10] in only nine months these vaccines have caused more
deaths than all vaccines in the last thirty years.[11] Not only this:
in many nations – such as Israel for example[12] – the number of deaths
after vaccination is now greater than the number of deaths from
Covid.[13] Having established that the drugs sold as vaccines do not
give any significant benefit and on the contrary may cause a very high
percentage of deaths or grave pathologies[14] even in subjects for whom
Covid does not represent a threat,[15] I do not think that we can
conclude that there is any proportionality between the potential
damages and the potential benefits.
This means therefore that there is
a grave moral obligation to refuse inoculation as a possible and
proximate cause of permanent damages[16] or death. In the absence
of benefits, there is therefore no need to expose oneself to the risks
of its administration, but on the contrary there is a duty to refuse it
categorically.
5.New data on the presence of aborted fetal cell lines
Revelations from Pfizer executives have recently been released showing
that the mRNA gene serums contain aborted fetal material not only for
the production of the original vaccine, but also for its replication
and production on a vast scale,[17] and nothing suggests that other
pharmaceutical companies are an exception. Bishop Joseph
Strickland[18] has also expressed himself in this regard, inviting the
faithful to “say no. I’m not going to do it just because you
mandate it, in that, who knows what next crazy thing will come up.”
This makes the use of these drugs absolutely immoral, just as it is
immoral and unacceptable to use drugs that use orphaned children for
experimentation.[19]
6. Side Effects on pregnant mothers and nursing children
Another aspect to consider is the concrete danger of grave side effects
on pregnant mothers and even more serious ones on newborn children: in
the United States there have been 675 miscarriages in vaccinated
mothers and in the United Kingdom 521 nursing infants have died.[20] We
should remember that for the so-called vaccines against Covid active
vigilance was not put into effect, but only passive vigilance, which
requires patients to report adverse cases themselves; this means that
the data on adverse effects should be multiplied at least ten times.
7. Components of the vaccines
I would like to point out to you that the components of the gene serums
are still concealed as trade secrets, even if there are already
multiple studies that have analyzed the content of the vaccines;[21] it
is therefore not yet possible to completely evaluate the other critical
elements and their long-term impacts, because the experimentation on
the world population will end only in 2023/2025, and it is not known
what the effects of the newly adopted technology are at the genetic
level.[22] The presence of graphene in the doses that have been
administered, reported by numerous laboratories that have analyzed its
content,[23] suggests that the forced use of so-called vaccines –
together with the systematic boycott of existing treatments of proven
effectiveness[24] – serves the purpose of contact-tracing all
vaccinated human beings throughout the world, who will be or already
are connected to the Internet of Things[25] by means of a quantum link
of pulsed microwave frequencies of 2.4 GHz or higher from cell towers
and satellites.[26] As proof that this information is not the fruit of
the fantasies of some conspiracy theorist, you should know that the
European Union has chosen two projects dedicated to technological
innovation as the winners of a competition: “The Human Brain” and
“Graphene.” These two projects will receive one billion euro each in
funding over the next ten years.[27] I trust that Your Excellency,
Archbishop Gomez, will take into serious consideration these
observations of mine – which I have taken care to thoroughly verify
with highly qualified Catholic doctors[28] – together with your
brothers of the US Bishops’ Conference gathered in plenary Assembly
from November 15 to 18, 2021 in Baltimore, so that the official
position of the Catholic Church in the United States on the so-called
vaccines will be revised and updated. Likewise, I ask Your
Eminence, Cardinal Ladaria, to proceed as soon as possible to the
revision of the Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
on the morality of certain anti-Covid-19 vaccines.
I realize that it may be extremely
unpopular to take a position against the so-called vaccines, but as
Shepherds of the flock of the Lord we have the duty to denounce the
horrible crime that is being carried out, whose goal is to create
billions of chronically ill people and to exterminate millions and
millions of people, based on the infernal ideology of the “Great Reset”
formulated by the President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab,
and endorsed by institutions and organizations around the world.[29]
The silence of so many cardinals and bishops, along with the
inconceivable promotion of the vaccination campaign by the Holy See,
represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any
longer. It is necessary to denounce this scandal, this crime
against humanity, this satanic action against God.
With every passing day, thousands
of people are dying or are being affected in their health by the
illusion that the so-called vaccines guarantee a solution to the
pandemic emergency. The Catholic Church has the duty before God
and all of humanity to denounce this tremendous and horrible crime with
the utmost firmness, giving clear directions and taking a stand against
those who, in the name of a pseudo-science subservient to the interests
of the pharmaceutical companies and the globalist elite, have only
intentions of death. How Joe Biden, who also defines himself as
“Catholic,” could impose vaccination on 28 million children aged 5 to
11,[30] is absolutely inconceivable, if only for the fact that there is
practically zero risk of them developing the SARS-CoV-2 disease.
The Holy See and the Bishops’ Conferences have the duty to express a
firm condemnation in this regard, and also in relation to the very
serious side effects that can result for children who are inoculated
with the experimental gene serum.[31] It is equally imperative that
there be an intervention by the US Bishops’ Conference aimed at
promoting the religious exemption and immediately revoking the bans
imposed in this regard by many Ordinaries on their priests.
Similarly, all vaccination requirements for seminarians and candidates
of religious communities must be revoked. Instead, clear
directives should be given about the dangers connected to the
administration of the vaccine and its grave moral implications.
I am certain that you will want to
consider the particular gravity of this subject, the urgency of an
intervention that is enlightened by and faithful to the teaching of the
Gospel, as well as the salus animarum that the Pastors of the Church
must promote and defend.
In Christo Rege, + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
29. Let us not be grieved if our desires for the
glory of the divine Heart are not at once fulfilled. This delay is
only permitted because He takes pleasure in seeing the increase of our
zeal and eagerness for His glory.
October 25, 2021
(Rev 13:16-17) And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and
poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or
on their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath
the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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The Satanic Trinity Will Mandate The Number of Man
We live in the time of the Book of Revelation. Satan’s
“proto-messiah” figure, in conjunction with the infernal “unholy
spirit” of the world, will force men to wear the mark of imperfection
and fallenness upon their minds, their hearts, and in the work of their
hands. Men are being forced to wear The Mark. It is The
Mark of the Beast. It is the number 666. It is not a
literal mark. It is neither a tattoo, nor a microchip. It
is a mode. It is a method. Like Solomon’s fascination for
exotic lust and novelties, like Adam and Eve’s capitulation to
temptation, and like the prideful, self-assured arrogance of the mob
who condemned Christ, so also are so many enslaved today by their love
for worldly things. Theirs is the way of man. It is a way
and a method easily manipulated by The Dragon.
And we most clearly take in and embrace this way of existence when we
volunteer ourselves to have it injected into our bodies. We do
this when we give in and endanger our lives with unknown pharmakeia, so
that we are accepted by society. We do this when we comply with
the corporate world and the Novus Ordo Seclorum. We give in to
the temptation, we comply with evil, and we go our own way instead of
God’s. We idolize our own security, and break the First
Commandment. We harm our bodies and potentially kill ourselevs if
we take it, breaking the Fifth Commandment. And when we do this,
we lie to ourselves and everyone around us, fibbing that it’s for the
good of our health and society when clearly it is not, breaking the
Eighth Commandment. Because if we don’t do this—if we don’t wear
the number of fallen man in our hearts and in the work of our hands—we
will be disallowed from buying and selling. The Beast has clearly
told the world that it demands obedience.
It is said that even the demons were involved in the process of making today’s harmful COVID vaccines.
It is said that these vaccines are a particularly insidious way of
putting evil inside of a person, that it is most certainly “a mark,”
and that willingly taking it reduces the strength and light of men,
that a spiritual darkness overcomes those who take it, and that it’s
even possible that this substance inoculates the mind from hope and
repentance. How true this is remains to be seen, but it does not
seem unbelievable, given the coercion, the gaslighting, and the utter
void of charity that’s manifested itself since the introduction of this
drug.
The world is being “reset” by principalities and powers. And
through the spirit of a vast and powerful network of governments and
merchants—led and cheered by the ecumenical, compromising
world-leader-that-is the bishop of Rome—The Dragon is served. If
there was an adjective to describe all of this, simply put, it would
be: Anti-Christ. And isn’t it natural that the majority of men
and women succumb to such power? After all, “Who is like the
beast, and who is able to wage war with him?” And as is patently
obvious, one and all can see that things are moving in such a way, that
persecution is coming for those who resist all of it. Power is
being given to this secular Beast to make war with the saints and to
overcome them. How can anyone deny it at this point? All of
the cards are on the table.
But the good man must resist all of this. The holy people seeking
God must resist this evil seal of the Devil. In the end, Christ
says: “He that shall persevere to the end shall be saved.” And so, we
must. It is said that eighty percent of the Hebrews stayed in
Egypt during the time of the Exodus. If this is true, then it is
a harsh reminder that wide is the path to destruction, and narrow is
the path to Heaven.
“In the days of
peace that are to come after the desolation of revolutions and wars,
before the end of the world, the Christians will become so lax in their
religion that they will refuse to receive the Sacrament of
Confirmation, saying, ‘It is an unnecessary Sacrament.’; and when the
false prophet and the Anti-Christ comes, all who are not confirmed will
apostatize, while those who are confirmed will stand firm in the faith,
and only a few will renounce Christ.“ St. Vincent Ferrer
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
28. If you would live entirely for Him, and reach
the perfection which He desires of you, you must sacrifice yourself
unreservedly with all that depends on you. You must no longer will
anything but by the will of this loving Heart, and no longer love anything
but by Its affections. You must act only by Its light; never undertake
anything without first asking for Its counsel and help; give It all the
glory thereof; return It thanks, both for failure and for success in your
undertakings, and without worrying be equally satsified with all; for,
provided that this divine Heart is pleased, loved and glorfied, nothing
else matters.
October 22, 2021
(Heb 12:1-2) And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses
over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us,
let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: Looking on Jesus,
the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him,
endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right
hand of the throne of God.
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September 18, 2020 marked the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II. Pope Francis celebrated
Mass at the altar where the saint is laid to rest in St. Peter’s
Basilica in Vatican City. John Paul II was elected Pope in 1978 after
the death of Pope John Paul I who died after being Pope for a short
period of time. However, the papacy of John Paul II lasted from 1978
until 2005. He was a gigantic figure in the world loved by many – and
not just Roman Catholics. His secretary for almost forty years Cardinal
Stanislaw Dziwisz described him as having a secret to his life and that
was “the profound depth of his spiritual life. He always prayed, he
learned the value of prayer as a boy and this aspect deepened
afterwards.”
John Paul II’s first act as Pope was to take the name of John Paul II
to show the continuity of the Church from John XXXIII until John Paul
I. That same moment, he stepped out onto the balcony in St. Peter’s
Square and proclaimed, “Be not afraid!
Swing wide the gates of Christ! Open up all of the world to the saving
power of Christ! Be not afraid!” The future saint John Paul II was Pope
during a very critical time in the history of the Church and the world.
He was a strong voice in the world fighting for peace and the dignity
of all, especially the weakest in the world. He was a writer, a
philosopher, an intellectual, a poet but more importantly a great
genuine figure with a heart that embraced the world. He was truly the
“Vicar of Christ” on earth.
Unafraid, he traveled to all
corners of the world to proclaim freedom to the captives and truth to
those living false political ideologies that had made the twentieth
century the bloodiest of all centuries of the entire human history. He
always preached that Jesus Christ the Messiah was the authentic path to
true freedom in the world. In fact, he did this by authoring more
encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, constitutions and letters than any
Pope in the history of the Catholic Church. His teaching brought a real
and authentic renewal of the Church by asserting that the mission of
the Catholic Church is to engage and transform human culture including
the arts, politics, education and economic systems because no area of
the human experience was off limits to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For
him, human existence is an invitation to communion with God and with
each other. His definition of human fulfillment was the giving of
oneself entirely to God and others. He confronted the “culture of
death” found throughout the world and proposed a new “culture of life”
in which all persons at any stage of their development from the womb to
natural death are recognized as having a great dignity and the right to
life, freedom and love.
His special focus was on the youth
of the world. So, in 1986 he established World Youth Day in Rome,
Italy. This occasion that occurs every year and in different nations is
essentially the religious education and spiritual formation of youth in
the Roman Catholic Church. Its purpose from then and until now is to
assure young Catholics to perpetuate the church’s traditions and
spirituality and to work within the world bringing the Gospel to all
corners of civilization.
Entrusted for twenty-six years with
the most important service in the Church as Pope, John Paul II called
for reconciliation between nations and religions. He helped bring down
Communism and reconciled separated Christians as Anglicans and the
Eastern Church. He had a deep love for the Eastern Catholic Church—The
Armenian Catholic Church, the Coptic Church and the Eastern Orthodox—
and the Western—the Latin Rite Church— and asked them to rediscover
that dependence upon one another to order the entire Body of Christ to
breathe again with “two lungs” and present Jesus Christ to the whole
world.
The key to understanding the his
strong faith and beliefs is found in his encyclical “Joy and Hope” from
1995: “In reality it is only in the mystery of the word made flesh that
the mystery of man becomes truly clear. It is Christ the Lord in the
very revelation of the mystery of the Father and his love that fully
reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling.”
At the end of his days, Pope John Paul II suffered greatly from
Parkinson’s disease, but he still demonstrated the truth of the
Catholic message of love by finally joining those physically whom he
championed throughout his life-those who have no voice, the weakest
among us, those in the womb—in order to show the world the truth of the
beauty and dignity of life. So, on April 2, 2005 on the Vigil of Divine
Mercy Sunday during the Octave of Easter, John Paul II died. He was
canonized very quickly on April 27, 2014 along with Pope John XXIII by
Pope Francis. His feast day is October 22nd.
Prayer for the Intercession of St. John Paul II
Oh, St. John Paul II from the window of heaven, grant us your blessing!
Bless the Church that you loved and served and guided, courageously
leading her along the paths of the world in order to bring Jesus to
everyone and everyone to Jesus. Bless all those who have no voice and
especially the young, who were your great passion. Help them all to
dream again, help them to look up to heaven again to find the light
that illuminates the paths of life here on earth.
St. John Paul II, pray for us
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
17. He has assured me that the pleasure He takes
in being loved, known and honored by His creatures, is so great that, if
I am not mistaken, He has promised me that all those who are devoted and
consecrated to Him shall never perish.
October 20, 2021
(Mat 2:13-14) And after they were
departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph,
saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt:
and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that
Herod will seek the child to destroy him. Who arose, and took the child
and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until
the death of Herod:
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QUAMQUAM PLURIES ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON DEVOTION TO ST. JOSEPH (1889):
From the same fact that the most holy Virgin is the mother of Jesus
Christ is she the mother of all Christians whom she bore on Mount
Calvary amid the supreme throes of the Redemption; Jesus Christ is, in
a manner, the first-born of Christians, who by the adoption and
Redemption are his brothers. And for such reasons the Blessed
Patriarch looks upon the multitude of Christians who make up the Church
as confided specially to his trust - this limitless family spread over
the earth, over which, because he is the spouse of Mary and the Father
of Jesus Christ he holds, as it were, a paternal authority. It
is, then, natural and worthy that as the Blessed Joseph ministered to
all the needs of the family at Nazareth and girt it about with his
protection, he should now cover with the cloak of his heavenly
patronage and defend the Church of Jesus Christ.
APOSTOLIC
EXHORTATION REDEMPTORIS CUSTOS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II ON
THE PERSON AND MISSION OF SAINT JOSEPH IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND OF THE
CHURCH (1989): I am
convinced that by reflection upon the way that Mary's spouse shared in
the divine mystery, the Church - on the road towards the future with
all of humanity - will be enabled to discover ever anew her own
identity within this redemptive plan, which is founded on the mystery
of the Incarnation. This is precisely the mystery in which Joseph of
Nazareth "shared" like no other human being except Mary, the Mother of
the Incarnate Word. He shared in it with her; he was involved in
the same salvific event; he was the guardian of the same love, through
the power of which the eternal Father "destined us to be his sons
through Jesus Christ" (Eph 1:5).
PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH, TERROR OF DEMONS:
To thee, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse in our affliction, and
having implored the help of thy thrice holy Spouse, we now, with hearts
filled with confidence, earnestly beg thee also to take us under thy
protection. By that charity wherewith thou wert united to the
Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, and by that fatherly love with which
thou didst cherish the Child Jesus, we beseech thee and we humbly pray
that thou wilt look down with gracious eye upon that inheritance which
Jesus Christ purchased by His blood, and wilt succor us in our need by
thy power and strength.
Defend, O most watchful guardian of
the Holy Family, the chosen off-spring of Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O
most loving Father, all blight of error and corruption. Aid us
from on high, most valiant defender, in this conflict with the powers
of darkness. And even as of old thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from
the peril of His life, so now defend God’s Holy Church from the snares
of the enemy and from all adversity. Shield us ever under thy
patronage, that, following thine example and strengthened by thy help,
we may live a holy life, die a happy death, and attain to everlasting
bliss in Heaven.
Amen.
‘I
do not remember that I ever asked him [St. Joseph] at any time
for anything which he did not obtain for me. It fills me with
amazement when I consider the numberless graces which God has granted
me through the intercession of this blessed saint and the perils, both
of body and soul, from which he has delivered me.’ St. Teresa of Avila
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
16. I can hardly express my joy at seeing the increase
of devotion to the Sacred Heart of my Saviour. I seem to live for
that alone. Sometimes such an ardent desire to make It reign in all
hearts is kindled within me that there is nothing I would not do and suffer
to bring this about.
October 18, 2021
(
2Th 2:13-15)
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of
God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in
sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth: Whereunto also he
hath called you by our gospel, unto the purchasing of the glory of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the
traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.
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FATHER JEFFREY F. KIRBY: However distorted or abused, hope remains powerful and pressing virtue
As believers walk through Ordinary
Time, they are presented with a continual echo of the call of the Lord
Jesus to follow him more faithfully and generously. As such, hope
is the virtue that is most prominent in this liturgical season.
It is hope that helps us to convert, change, and redirect our
lives. Our world needs hope. As we seek this virtue, it’s
important for us to know what it is, and what it’s not.
As believers, our entire way of life depends on our belief in the
Lord’s care for us. We realize such care is manifested most
powerfully in his glorious Resurrection, through which he calls us to
live with him in eternity. This understanding of God’s goodness,
and of our invitation to live forever in heaven, raise some serious
questions about our salvation.
How are we saved? What is the process that brings about our salvation?
The Gospels teach us that salvation from darkness and its consequences,
and the reward of eternal life in heaven, are found in Jesus
Christ. In our baptism and the acceptance of his Lordship in our
lives, we find hope for this salvation. St. Paul reminds us
that we are “saved in hope.” He writes: “We know that the whole
creation has been groaning with labor pains together until now; and not
only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the
Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption
of our body. For in this hope we were saved.” Since hope is at
the heart of our understanding of salvation, therefore, it is very
important for us to understand the biblical notion of this
virtue. This is pressing since hope has regrettably become a
distorted and abused virtue in our society. As such, it’s worth
clarifying this virtue and showing why it’s so important in the
Christian way of life.
For Christians, hope is always placed in God. We do not hope in
ourselves without God, or in human efforts without God’s
presence. To do so would be to use hope as a disguise for pride
and arrogance. Christians are called to understand that salvation
comes from hoping in the Lord and in his divine Providence, which is
his care for us in this life and his welcoming of us into eternal life.
Hope is placing a profound trust of our life, existence, and well-being
in the hands of God. It is trusting him unconditionally and
actively nurturing in ourselves “eyes of faith,” which helps us see his
work among us and helps us eagerly long to be with him in forever in
heaven.
Our hope in God can help us appreciate the blessings and sorrows of
this life. It places them all within a beautiful mosaic of God’s
love and care for us. Hope heals our wounds and lifts up our
spirits. It strengthens our faith and empowers our ability to
love. Hope teaches us to place an appropriate trust in our loved
ones and in the good things of this world.
By hoping in God, we rely completely and ultimately on him, especially
when we are weak or experiencing pain and suffering. In this
radical hope, in spite of the world’s darkness and brokenness, we find
an assurance of God’s promises, the power to believe and cooperate with
his grace, and the openness that is needed to let the Lord change us
for the better and make us fit for the kingdom of God. Truly, it
is through hope that we are being saved in Jesus Christ.
We know as believers that our dignity comes from God. We know
that we’ve been given a unique identity as his sons and
daughters. We readily place our autonomy within the Lord’s divine
Providence, which is his care for us in this life. This trust
builds up hope in us. Hope allows us to place everything, even
suffering and anguish, within the light of eternity.
It is the hope of heaven that strengthens us and refocuses us when pain
or turmoil seek to distract us. It is the hope of eternal life
that calls us back to an obedience of faith and to the firm desire to
give ourselves completely to the Lord.
Hope reminds us that the suspension of suffering or the conclusion of
pain in this life are not our final goals and that even these, as
beneficial as they can be, must be placed within divine wisdom and must
cooperate with the workings of grace which labor to make us fit for
eternal life with God.
As we continue through Ordinary Time, we must regularly ask God for the powerful and pressing virtue of hope.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
15. I feel entirely lost in this divine Heart.
It is as though I were in a fathomless abyss, in which He discloses to
me treasures of love and of grace for those who consecrate and sacrifice
themselves to give and procure for Him all the honor, love, and glory in
their power.
October 15, 2021
(Heb 10:22-23) Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with clean water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised):
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EXCERPT INSIDE THE VATICAN: “Let’s get out of the labyrinth” By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Let’s get out of the labyrinth.
We cannot win a game when the rules can at any time be overturned by our opponent.
“If we have come to this point, we
owe it in large part to our infidelity” Dear friends, we must recognize
that if we have come to this point we owe it in large part to our
infidelity.
To allow others to decide in God’s
place what is right and what is not, to have allowed that in the name
of tolerance to be lost, the violation of natural law, the degeneration
of Christian morality, the murder of children in the womb, the killing
of the sick and the elderly, the corruption of children and young
people.
What happens today is the poisoned
fruit of decades of dissolution of rebellion against the law of the
Lord of sins and the vices that cry out for vengeance in the sight of
God, providence shows us how the world can become when it abandons the
lordship of Jesus Christ and places itself under slavery of Satan.
Mine are not apocalyptic words as
some say but a stern warning as a shepherd to return to God, to
recognize that where Christ the King and Mary Queen do not reign, the
cruel and ruthless tyranny of the devil reigns, promising universal
brotherhood while only wanting your entire destruction. and your
eternal damnation.
Jesus Christ is King and Lord of
history. In his hands are the sonatas the destinies of each of us
in the states of the Holy Church. He will not allow us to succumb
to the onslaught of the enemy of the mankind.
Come back.
We all return to him with the trust
of the prodigal son who humbly asks his father to forgive him and to
gather him in his house.
“Let us return to be Christians
proud of our faith” Let us return to be the Christians proud of our
faith in civilization that religion has antiquated over the course of
two thousand years of history.
We return to defending in the civil
and political commitment those non-negotiable values that today we see
denied and trampled but above all I beg you, I beg you, let’s go back
to to live in the grace of God, to frequent the sacraments, to practice
the virtues, to be Christians consistent with one’s baptism, authentic
witnesses of Christ.
To get out of the labyrinth it is necessary to retrace the path taken backwards.
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Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
10. It seems to me that the great desire that our
Lord has that His Sacred Heart should be honored by some particular worship
is to renew in souls the effects of His Redemption.
October 13, 2021
(Joh 19:26-27) 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.
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VIA THE PHILIPPINES: 'Miracle of the Sun' Fatima apparition on Oct 13, 1917 remembered
The “Miracle of the Sun” that occurred during the 6th Apparition of
Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917, and was witnessed by over 70,000 people in
Portugal, was a manifestation of God’s almighty power and humility to
save mankind from eternal damnation.
Filipino Catholics join fellow Catholics around the world to
commemorate the 104th anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” that
swirled and danced in a circle in broken clouds, as reported by a
Lisbon newspaper in Portugal a day after the historic spectacle
happened.
As its consequence, many believed God’s existence through the
apparition of the Blessed Mother to the three shepherd children at
Fatima.
Church records show that the apparition of the Blessed Mother before
the three shepherds--Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco--on Oct. 13, 1917
was her sixth, fulfilling her promise earlier to show to the world that
a miracle would happen so mankind would believe in God.
In the Philippines, the only Catholic country in Asia, there are many churches named after the Fatima.
It was during these apparitions that the Blessed Mother also called the
world to repent for its sin and pray the Holy Rosary daily. So, on Oct.
13, 1917, or 104 years ago, the “Miracle of the Sun” occurred. The
apparition at Fatima was also seen by people living in adjoining areas
as far as 25 kilometers away.
“The sun painted the world in different colors, (as it) moved and
danced in the sky,” a witness, Ti Marto, the father of Jacinta and
Francisco, said.
“The miracle told the world of God’s huge humility. The strange nature
of the Miracle of the Sun--a spectacular public miracle that was
announced ahead of time--is hard to exaggerate,” said Tom Hoopes, a
famous American writer.
“God almost never works that way. God is all-powerful, with all of
reality in his grasp. He is the artist of every sunset, the inventor of
every wonder of nature and the author of history. He doesn’t need to
give a big display to prove himself: The cosmos is big enough, thank
you. But sometimes he does anyway,” Hoopes pointed out, adding that
“the miracle also makes clear that God is also the ‘hound of heaven,’
the humble God, who will stop at nothing to win our love,” Hoopes wrote.
During the Miracle of the Sun, people who witnessed the spectacle wept.
The spectacle also showed the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as
pointed out in the Gospel, such as John, Chapter 2, when Mary asked
Jesus to perform his first miracle, changing water into wine at the
wedding in Cana.
In the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, the start of God’s redemption of man
hangs on a word from Mary. Also in Act, Chapter 1, Mary is there when
the Church was formed, and in Revelation, Chapter 12, it tells about
the Woman and the dragon, to name a few of these Bible verses.
God made it clear that we can trust Mary, says Hoopes.
Also during the apparition, the throng of people saw the Miracle of
Sun, dancing, but the three children saw more, they saw St. Joseph in
the sky holding the Child Jesus, with Christ blessing the whole world.
The Fatima apparitions continually remind mankind to pray, especially
the Rosary and repent for the world to attain a genuine and lasting
peace.
During the sixth apparition, the seers first saw a bright light, and then saw the Blessed Mother over the holm oak.
Then Mary told Lucia that she (Blessed Mother) wants a chapel to be
built at Fatima and revealed that “I am the Lady of the Rosary” and
urged mankind to pray it daily.
Then she also revealed that World War 1 was going to end soon, and it did, as the Blessed Mother said.
Lucia then asked the Blessed Virgin Mary to cure the sick, to which
Mary replied: “Some yes, others no. They must amend their lives and ask
forgiveness for their sins.” She also asked Lucia to tell the world for
man to stop offending God.
“Then, opening her hands, Our Lady shone the light issuing from them
onto the sun, and as she rose, her own radiance continued to be cast
onto the sun,” Lucia said in her memoir.
The sun, though shining at its brightest, did not blind the people who saw it.
After the Miracle of the Sun, many unbelievers were converted to the Catholic faith.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
9. The Sacred Heart is a hidden and infinite treasure
desiring to manifest Itself, to be poured out and distributed, so as to
alleviate our distress.
October 11, 2021
(Wis 7:7-10) Wherefore
I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and
the spirit of wisdom came upon me: And I preferred her before kingdoms
and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her. Neither
did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold, in comparison
of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to her, shall be
counted as clay. I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have
her instead of light: for her light cannot be put out.
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FR. JOHN BARTUNEK, LC:
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The devil appeared to three monks
and said to them: if I gave you power to change something from the
past, what would you change?
The first of them, with great
apostolic fervor, replied: “I would prevent you from making Adam and
Eve fall into sin so that humanity could not turn away from God.” The
second, a man full of mercy, said to him: “I would prevent you from God
and you will condemn yourself eternally”.
The third of them was the simplest
and, instead of responding to the tempter, he got on his knees, made
the sign of the cross and prayed saying: “Lord, free me from the
temptation of what could be and was not”.
The devil, giving a raucous cry and shuddering with pain, vanished.
The other two, surprised, said to
him: “Brother, why have you responded like this?” He replied: “First:
we must NEVER dialogue with the devil . Second: NOBODY in the
world has the power to change the past. Third: Satan’s INTEREST
was not to prove our virtue, but to trap us in the past, so that we
neglect the present, the only time God gives us His grace and we can
cooperate with Him to fulfill His will “.
Of all the demons, the one that
catches the most men and prevents them from being happy is that of
“What could have been and was not”.
The past is left to the mercy of
God and the future to his Providence. Only the present is in our
hands. "Live in the moment".
~ Anonymous
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
8. God is so good that He allows us to appropriate
this treasure of the really poor- The Sacred Heart of Jesus- the heavenly
plenitude of Which can most fully supply for what is lacking to us.
October 7, 2021
(Luk
1:46-48) 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.
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VIA THE PHILIPPINES: Holy Rosary, a victory weapon
Globally, Catholics observe October as the universal month of the Holy
Rosary. It was Pope Pius V, a Dominican Pontiff, who declared October 7
as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, now known as the “Memorial of Our
Lady of the Rosary.” Our Lady’s Rosary is not a weapon of physical
destruction but a weapon of victory. I’ll tell you why.
The Philippine EDSA peaceful revolution of 1986 was, believe it or not,
a miracle. The EDSA miracle has been compared to the Battle of Lepanto
in the 16th century and the Battles of La Naval de Manila in the 17th
century, when Mary’s intercession through the praying of the Holy
Rosary repulsed the Protestant Dutch forces in their attempts to the
invade the Philippines in 1646. The battles of La Naval de Manila were
waged at sea, while EDSA was won on the highway. The battles of La
Naval de Manila repulsed a non-Catholic aggression, while EDSA toppled
an oppressive dictator. From the Christian perspective, I dare say,
those battles were battles between good and evil, and the good won –
hence, a victory.
At EDSA, the Virgin Mary’s intercession made a million praying people,
with roses and rosaries, blocked advancing military forces. At La Naval
de Manila, the inferior navy fired the shots against more superior
forces, and the Catholics won. At EDSA, the advancing superior forces
were ordered to fire but did not, and the Filipino people won. The most
significant fact remains, that, by people power, Filipinos achieved the
impossible and brought down a seemingly unshakable strongman.
Josef Stalin’s quip to French Prime Minister Pierre Laval in 1935: “The
Pope! How many divisions has he got?” was a purposeful sarcasm to point
out how on earth a spiritual institution could do anything to help
thwart the escalating military threat of Nazism. But in the olden
times, I mean, during medieval times and early modern period, the Pope
had an army. And all the armed forces of the Catholic nations in Europe
were allied against the invading Muslims. In this context, we shall
better understand another story of sweet victory wrought by the Holy
Rosary.
The Ottoman Empire, spanning more than 600 years, grew to be one of the
most powerful states and the Ottoman warriors into merciless
conquistadores in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. The
Ottoman period came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the
Turkish Republic and other nations in southeastern Europe and the
Middle East.
With the increasing Muslim Ottoman incursions into Europe, the Spanish
Dominicans or the Orders of Preachers founded by Santo Domingo de
Guzman went on the defensive by promoting the Holy Rosary as a weapon
against the Ottoman Turks. On 7 October 1571, the Holy League, a
coalition of European Catholic states, sailed from Messina, Sicily, and
met a powerful Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Lepanto in what is known
as largest naval battle in Western history that involved more than 400
warships, mostly from the Ottoman fleet. Knowing that the Christian
forces were inferior and at a disadvantage, Pope Pius V, a Dominican,
called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory. He went out of
the apostolic palace to personally lead a rosary procession in Rome.
Spanish military commander John of Austria (1547-78), the chief head of
the Catholic League, kept a statue of the Virgin on his ship, while the
Dominican chaplains of each warship actively encouraged all seamen to
pray the rosary. In short, the Catholic naval forces inflicted a major
defeat on the Ottoman fleet.
After the miraculous defeat of the Ottoman foes, Pope Pius V formally
made public the victory and that, he stressed, the victory was due to
the faithful’s fervent praying of the Holy Rosary. Thereafter, the
Dominican Pontiff proclaimed October 7 as the Feast of Our Lady of
Victory, later amended into the “Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary.”
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
3. As I was about to receive Holy Communion, our
Lord told me that He would come Himself to imprint on my heart the mystical
life which He leads in the Holy Eucharist, a life entirely hidden and annihilated
in the eyes of men, a life of sacrifice and seeming inactivity. He added
that He would Himself give me the strength to do what He required of me.
October 6, 2021
(Tit
3:3-7) For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous,
erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the goodness and
kindness of God our Saviour appeared: Not by the works of justice which
we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of
regeneration and renovation of the Holy Ghost. Whom he hath poured
forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: That, being
justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to hope of life
everlasting.
ST. FAUSTINA Diary, 635:
"Suddenly I saw the Mother of God who said to me: 'Oh, how pleasing to
God is the soul that faithfully follows the breath of grace; I have
given the world the Savior, and you must speak to the world of His
great mercy and prepare the world for the second coming of Him who will
come not as a merciful Savior but as a just Judge. Oh, that day is
terrible. The day of justice has been decided, the day of God's wrath…
the angels tremble before it. Speak to the souls of this great mercy,
while it is the time of mercy; if you keep silent now you will answer
in that terrible day for many souls. Do not be afraid of anything, be
faithful to the end, I suffer with you".
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EXCERPT CNA: St. Faustina and her vision of Hell
- She saw a vision of Hell. In October 1936, during an eight-day
retreat, she was led by an angel to what she called the “chasms of
hell,” which she described in her diary as a place of “great torture”
and “fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it — a
terrible suffering.” This hell was filled with darkness, and, despite
that darkness, “the devils and the souls of the damned see each other
and all the evil, both of others and their own.”
- She was shown different levels of Hell. According to Paul Kengor,
a professor of political science at Grove City College and a National
Catholic Register contributor, Faustina "observed Dante-like sections
of hell reserved for specific agonies earned in this fallen world."
"There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs
from another," Faustina recorded in her diary. "There are special
tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the
senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings
related to the manner in which it has sinned.”
- Most of the damned hadn’t believed in Hell. Faustina said that
what she was sharing was merely "a pale shadow of the things I saw. But
I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who
disbelieved that there is a hell." She testified in her diary: “I,
Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the abysses
of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its
existence.”
- Her vision was meant to save souls. Kengor says that, "scary as
they are, (these visions) also echo a positive urgency to mercy.
Through these visions and their messengers, the divine is giving us yet
another chance. We’re being warned to get ourselves in order, to stop
sinning and to seek conversion and redemption, before it’s too late."
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“Today the Lord said to me,
‘Daughter, when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the
Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon
your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse
yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the
bounty of My grace upon your soul. When
you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting
there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I Myself act in your
soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of Mercy. Tell
souls that from this fount of mercy souls draw graces solely with the
vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My
generosity. The torrent of grace inundate humble souls. The proud
remain always in poverty and misery, because My grace turns away from
them to humble souls.”
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
2. Jesus makes Himself poor in the Blessed Sacrament;
He gives us all He has, reserving nothing for Himself, so as to possess
our hearts and enrich them with Himself. I must forsake and despise myself,
if I wish to imitate Him and to win His most lovable Heart.
October 5, 2021
(2Ti 3:1-5) But understand this:
there will be terrifying times in the last days. People will be
self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable,
slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors,
reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as
they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.
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In the great naval battles of the Second World War (1939–1945),
rendered out-of-date today by aeroplanes and missiles, great warships
still confronted one another, but the size of their guns was decisive.
Normally, only big warships could take on big warships: for instance,
in 1941 it took Germany’s prize battleship, the Bismarck, to sink the
pride of the British navy, H.M.S. Hood, as it took two of Britain’s
heavyweights, the Rodney and the George V, to sink the Bismarck.
But even that greatest of wars known until then, the Second World War,
pales in comparison with the spiritual war being waged from the Fall of
Adam and Eve until the end of the world between the forces of Good and
the forces of Evil for the eternal salvation or damnation of souls. The
heavyweight on the side of Evil in this war is the Prince of the fallen
angels, Satan himself, for whose diabolical intelligence and cunning no
mere mortal human beings are a match, as we can see in the
Covid-nonsense. Decent men, politicians or doctors or anyone else, try
with might and main to stand up to the Satanists but alas, they are
usually overwhelmed, because the enemies of God under the guidance of
Satan have been plotting this onslaught against mankind for centuries,
and it becomes fiercer than ever as we approach the end of the world.
All the nonsense of Covid is going to prevail – unless the friends of
God call on their own heavyweight, the Mother of God: “Only I can help
you now,” She said, in Japan in 1973.
And why is She the heavyweight of all forces of Good? Because She has
Satan under Her heel, because by her deep humility She overcame all
Satan’s promptings and temptations at the time of Her Son’s Passion and
death and resurrection in order to remain absolutely faithful to God,
and Her divine Son rewarded Her with Queenship of His Universe, which
includes all the angels, faithful or fallen, including Satan. No other
creature on earth ever rendered Him remotely such faithful service as
She did. No other creature has ever been rewarded by Him with any
remotely comparable power over all creation. Here is why in all ages of
the Church She has always been venerated by Catholics, but especially
in modern times, when Pope Leo XIII had in 1884 a famous revelation of
Satan being let loose from Hell to punish a mankind made more sinful
than ever by its liberalism.
And for the 20th century Our Lord told us that the last devotion He
would grant to a world sinking to its end would be the Sorrowful and
Immaculate Heart of His Mother. He may have calculated that men might
push Himself away as a man, but they would surely have more difficulty
in pushing away the gentlest and most tender of mothers. And so She is
appearing all over the world in its last times, pleading with men to
heed Her Son, and not throw away their souls into the inextinguishable
fires of Hell, for ever and ever. And each time that She appears, She
begs of us to pray the Rosary, in particular for the Pope and for
bishops and priests, because She knows better than anyone else how all
mankind depends on Her Son’s one true Church, and how much that Church
depends on its fallible, but indispensable, human ministers, the
churchmen.
Therefore last year a Rosary Blast was organised at England’s principal
Marian shrine, in Walsingham, Norfolk, and it was a great success, so
this year it is being repeated, with an extra day added. Last year, 105
Mysteries were prayed and put in Our Lady’s hands; this year, God
willing, 150. For all souls far from Walsingham but wishing to
participate in the Rosary Blast, English summer time is Greenwich Mean
time plus one hour (GMT+1). Complete Rosaries are scheduled for October
7 at 8pm; for Oct. 8th and 9th at 9h30am and 11h30am, and 3h00pm and
8h00pm; finally on Sunday October 10 at 9h30am.
And why so many Rosaries? Because things are so bad that only She can help us now. But She can!
Kyrie eleison.
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist
1. Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness
of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love
Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!
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