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Prophecy and Our Lady’s View of Our Times: Part 2

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See  “Our Times Part I: Our Lady’s View of Our Times “ here:

Part 2 follows. The time indicated pertains to Fr Ripperger’s video.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P20XhNFlQw

The breakdown in the societal order is not just normal decay. We are in a spiritual battle – what do we do?

How do you navigate the situation on a natural level?

St Thomas Aquinas said:

If you want to achieve an end, you require a means. The means is affected by circumstances, which affect how well you achieve your means. The end is the salvation of your soul. There are two sets of means – the natural and the supernatural.

Modernism

(At 4.52)  because of modernism – the synthesis of all heresy – and because its tendency is to make the individual the principal of judgment of right and wrong, transposing it from God to us – it is the diabolic heresy as it makes us the standard of judgment based on how they feel or relate to the thing. There was a constant training in the school to judge the truth of a proposition based on themselves and how they felt in relation to it.

As to modernism in the Church, it began a long time ago. The formal inauguration of it was considered the heresy of liberalism in the document Mirari Vos by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832. Modernism gets more and more developed and it has five stages which can be read here in this article: The operative points of view, linked:

http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2001/features_mar01.html

We are now in stage 5 which is the superficial stage. All the intellectual gas has run out and the stuff we are hearing is just silly and makes no sense. We are living in a stage in which modernism is just dumb and doesn’t follow any rational principles. Because of the nature of modernism and because it is pervasive and touches on every facet of the Church, there is not one single doctrine, one single liturgical practice or one single devotion they haven’t messed with. The big hold was the rite of exorcism but they got to playing with that too. It’s literally one of those things that they had to change it all but they did it very slowly and very subtly.

What this means is that because it is in every facet of catholic life, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE LIBERTY OF IGNORANCE.

Importance of Knowledge

If you do not do serious and hard study of your Catholic faith, you will end up a heretic unless God gives you extraordinary grace and that is not too common. Knowledge is what is required and it either comes through grace which enlightens the mind and strengthens the will or through serious study.

(At 9.00): if you think you already have this extraordinary grace you are already deluded, and I say this as a former pastor and rector of churches in the traditional movement. Every traditionalist thinks that they have the doctrinal world by the tail and all you have to do is scratch a little bit and some heresy will float to the top. This is because a lot of the stuff in the Church’s teachings requires great precision and distinction which most traditionalists do not know.

So, for example, when you hear people debating whether the Pope is a heretic. All the saints are clear on their teaching that once a pope lapses into heresy, HE LOSES HIS OFFICE AS POPE. When you hear that discussion, no one is talking about whether he was a heretic before, when his election was valid or not, and once he is Pope, what are the distinctions and how does it work out – no one is talking about that, not even the guys who look like they know what they are talking about.

If you really think you do not suffer from imminence in some fashion, you are already deluded. It is part of original sin. The reason why modernism is such a pervasive heresy and is so difficult is because of the fact that when Eve chose to eat the fruit then Adam after her, they were choosing themselves over the will of God. That stuck all of us with a form of selfishness and self-centredness that has to be ground out in a brutal fashion over years usually unless God gives you a lot of grace (11.11). Therefore, the principle to judge things in light of yourself is there already and is a problem. There is a tendency to presume you know everything. You need to study and presume your ignorance. As Plato said, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know. You must continue working on your knowledge of the faith. Recognise some questions are above your pay grade. For example, what you do with a heretical Pope is above virtually everyone’s pay grade except for a very small hand full of theologians. Don’t even get involved in that discussion as a general rule. You need to study hard.

The Virtue of Faith purifies the intellect

St Thomas calls the virtue of faith when God infuses it – the first purification of the intellect. What that means is that the faith teaches us our relationship to God, the truth of that relationship and the relationship with the created order. Working on the faith will assist this tremendously. This also means, as a general rule, do not get involved in blogs or forums. It’s a waste of time, people just don’t get it. In the past, Canon law forbade the laity from entering into discussions of theology or philosophy without the permission of their bishop. Make sure what you study is correct – preferably the saints and what was written before the Council. It is a long arduous task. Study the moral doctrine of the Church. Ecclesiology, theology of revelation (deals with the structure of tradition) and how it works – why? Because modernism is a deviation because it transposes the objective criteria for what you believe from an external magisterium which is actually handing on objective revelation from generation to generation to oneself. If you do not understand how that mechanism works, you are likely to end up with a lot of problems. Try to obtain Spirago’s – The Catechism Explained. It’s the Catechism of the Council of Trent with a lot of explanation. You then need to read beyond this. You have to study the real theological disciplines. Read the Papal documents eg Libertas Praestantissimum, Humani Generis, Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The clarity in Church documents is astounding. Build a repertoire of knowledge about the things the Church has always taught in relation to salvation.

The importance of the family structure

Then work on restructuring your family. The attack on the family has been key in undermining the psychological, moral and spiritual development in people. The destruction of manhood, and along with it, what it means to be a true father and husband, has resulted in a huge destruction on a moral level.

The Fathers of the Church state that it pertains to the father to confirm the moral code. The mother may teach the children the moral law, eg don’t steal but it is up to the father to tell the child, listen to your mother and do not steal. He has to take on the role as the head of the household but which is not done for his sake but for the sake of his wife and his children.

Women have to work on subordination. Get out of the workforce if you can for the simple reason that most women are happier when they are at home with their children. God structures women that way psychologically. Whatever work you do, it is far less noble work than forming the mind of a child. The reason we know this is because in the natural law it is the man’s job to work for the sake of the wife and children so she can stay home to do her work.

Children have to work on obedience and piety. The normal family structure has to be re-established. Piety is the virtue by which we give honour to our superiors. It is completely gone. The restructuring also has to find a proper ordering in relation to the spiritual life. Even though, as a general rule, women are given more grace than men, the fact is that it is the father’s place to direct the spiritual life of the family.

Fathers need to assume the headship of the spiritual life and pursing perfection himself. The restructuring of the family life is the only way to restore order in society. Men from the very beginning have treated women badly but that doesn’t mean the proper order within the family should be undone. The biggest mistake made in feminism is the idea that the work of a woman is less noble, not just in relation to the formation of the mind of the children but also in taking care of the home. Even in its drudgery, it provides a suitability to the lives of the husband and children which would otherwise be lost. The basic building block of society is the family, not the individual.

In relation to voting, there were only two people who could vote in the past; the man who is head of his household and land owners. The man used to vote and represented the basic building block of society. When women started to vote, you split that basic building block. The land owners had a vested interest in making sure that the government didn’t get out of hand in relation to entitlement programs as it would undermine his productivity in the end.

The problems of Feminism

Eventually the Church will have to condemn feminism while at the same time upholding the perfections which are proper to the feminine nature. One of the problems of feminism is that it degrades the perfections of feminine nature. The fact that a woman is more emotional for the sake of empathy with her child. Where the child doesn’t have the proper empathy with the mother in the first 2 – 5 years of a child’s life, the child ends up with disaffective disorders where they cant emotionally bond with people. Psychologists have done studies and the one thing that all mass murderer teens have in common is that they were all put in daycare. The point is that the perfections of women have been degraded by the feminist movement so they pursue those illusionary things proper to men.

If you look at the punishment that God gave Adam and Eve, He said to Eve that she will bear children in pain. That’s her punishment. So what does she do? She wants to take on Adam’s punishment – to work by the sweat of your brow. Why are you assuming both punishments? Feminism is really self-hatred, it’s a manifestation of hatred of what its really like to be a woman.

Chastisements

We are entering the stage where we could have this chastisement. God could do things differently but it looks like it is coming. At least from what Our Lady says, it is leading up. People ask how to prepare for it.

(At 33.45) – In Scripture, Christ presented the parable of the man who was building towers, and He noted how foolish that was because that night, he was going to die. The point is that you need to be spiritually prepared. You can make preparation but if you are not spiritually prepared, you will be a mess, no matter what you do. You will not be able to psychologically handle it.

Our food supply it is very tenuous. In the average grocery store, there is between 2-3 days supply of food up to a maximum of two weeks. That’s it. In most areas, there is not much being grown locally, and so we rely on food from trucking from all over the place. Natural prudence dictates that you should have a certain amount of food on hand. You should have some basic food storage and water supply. Don’t think that in having this that you are safe. If you have a food supply, you better also have an ammunition supply (joking). Don’t think this will save you or make your life easier.

Remember to whom the effects of the chastisement extends is entirely the choice of God. You can pray that you are spared the effects of it. Our Lady said it will affect the good priests and the faithful. It will affect all of us and all the prepping in the world will not make it easier if God chooses otherwise.

Some basic things that you need to do:

  1. You need to start reading and becoming more knowledgeable about the faith so you can navigate the problems occulting in the Church on a natural level.
  2. Get your family ordered so that it does not end up succumbing to the basic problems.
  3. Do those natural things to be able to survive a societal collapse.

The only reason our society has not collapsed is because of technology. Every other culture in the history of humanity that has become this disordered has never survived this long. We are propping it up by technology and by fraud. The reason we have a prosperous economy – we keep propping it up with the creation of money out of thin air. This cannot be done forever.

You should have a decent knowledge, according to your state in life, about what is really going on in the world. If you believe what you see on the TV is truth, you need to think twice. The people who are evil are systematically lying and manipulating us. It is a fact that in the US, the government started social experiments after WW2 to carry out operation Paperclip where they brougt scientists from Germany, whitewashed their war crimes and used them to do social engineering and restructuring. Eg the anti-smoking laws in the US were modelled on the anti-smoking campaign in Nazi Germany, and was very successful.

You need a Catholic understanding of what is going on. The knowledge will give you a perspective and the family will give you the structure to have the normalcy of life. We are living in an insane society, and the more insane it gets, the more unlike the normal family structure it will be.

We are in free fall. As the society continues to decay, and the decline will only be stopped if God puts the breaks on it, it is declining in such a manner that in the end you are going to be the one who is considered evil. You will be the one who is considered out of your mind even though you are the only sane one.

That means you are going to have to take a spiritual approach to your relationship with people in the Church and in society, which will be discussed in the next conference.

Just accept that things will get worse. You can do all these things on a natural level but in the end, you need to have your spiritual life in order.

 

Thoughts for the 11th Day of Christmas: The Little Flower’s miracle

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11th Day:  Little Flower’s Miracle

A Christmas miracle of another sort happened to St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Her miracle taught her the valuable lesson of selflessness.

In her autobiography, Story of a Soul, Thérèse tells the story. “A miracle on a small scale was needed to give me strength of character all at once, and God worked this long-desired miracle on Christmas Day, 1886,” she revealed. “On that blessed night, the sweet Infant Jesus, scarce an hour old, filled the darkness of my soul with floods of light. By becoming weak and little, for love of me, he made me strong and brave; he put his own weapons into my hands, so that I went from victory to victory, beginning, if I may say so, ‘to run as a giant.’”

She received “this inestimable grace of complete conversion” when she was 14, leaving behind the “extreme sensitiveness” that had made her “almost unbearable.”

This all unfolded as she and her sister Celine were returning from midnight Mass. Most children had outgrown the old French custom of receiving shoe-filled presents on Christmas Eve by that age, but the Little Flower’s sisters enjoyed indulging the “baby” of the family. Her father liked to watch her enjoyment, too.

“But the time had come when Our Lord wished to free me from childhood’s failings, and even withdraw me from its innocent pleasures,” Thérèse recalled. “On this occasion, instead of indulging me as he generally did, Papa seemed vexed, and on my way upstairs, I heard him say: ‘Really, all this is too babyish for a big girl like Thérèse, and I hope it is the last year it will happen.’ His words cut me to the quick. Céline, knowing how sensitive I was, whispered: ‘Don’t go downstairs just yet — wait a little; you would cry too much if you looked at your presents before Papa.’” But Thérèse was no longer the same.

“Choking back my tears, I ran down to the dining room, and, though my heart beat fast, I picked up my shoes and gaily pulled out all the things, looking as happy as a queen,” she wrote. “Papa laughed and did not show any trace of displeasure. …

“In an instant, Our Lord, satisfied with my goodwill, accomplished the work I had not been able to do during all these years. … Love and a spirit of self-forgetfulness took possession of me, and from that time I was perfectly happy,” she explained. She became sensitive to others, rather than focusing on herself, after that Christmas experience, for “Jesus had changed her heart.”

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-saints-teach-us-about-christmas

 

Thoughts for the 8th Day of Christmas: St Francis’ apparition of Baby Jesus at the First Nativity Scene

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FRANCIS’ VISION OF THE CHILD JESUS

The first nativity scene is also associated with an apparition of the Baby Jesus to those gathered with St. Francis on that day. This must have been Jesus’ way of giving his praise and blessing to the nativity scene, which was a novelty in its time and had never been done before.

Again, St. Bonaventure continues the story,

“A certain valiant and veracious soldier, Master John of Grecio, who, for the love of Christ, had left the warfare of this world, and become a dear friend of this holy man, affirmed that he beheld an Infant marvellously beautiful, sleeping in the manger, Whom the blessed Father Francis embraced with both his arms, as if he would awake Him from sleep.

This vision of the devout soldier is credible, not only by reason of the sanctity of him that saw it, but by reason of the miracles which afterwards confirmed its truth.

For example of Francis, if it be considered by the world, is doubtless sufficient to excite all hearts which are negligent in the faith of Christ; and the hay of that manger, being preserved by the people, miraculously cured all diseases of cattle, and many other pestilences; God thus in all things glorifying his servant, and witnessing to the great efficacy of his holy prayers by manifest prodigies and miracles.”

THE SPREAD OF THE DEVOTION

St. Francis’ recreation of that first Christmas night was so popular that soon every church in Italy had its own nativity scene. The devotion also spread to private homes, and in modern times even to secular institutions, so much so that it’s now impossible to imagine Christmas without a nativity scene to behold.

Hopefully this story of the first nativity scene will inspire you to see your nativity set as much more than just as a pretty Christmas decoration. It is a historic Catholic tradition and a tool for meditation on the humility, simplicity, and poverty of Christ that he took on, from the moment of his Incarnation, out of his boundless love for his lost sheep.

https://www.getfed.com/story-francis-assisi-first-navity-scene-5955.

 

The False Prophet and his treatment of Our Lady.

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This man (the FP) has a history of blasphemies and mockery against the Mother of God. Examples are:

  • To celebrate the Feast of the immaculate Conception on Dec 8th 2015, a pagan light show was displayed on the Vatican
  • Our Lady was deceived. DECEMBER 20, 2013 – VATICAN RADIO)  
  • In Nov. 2017 Mary at the foot of the Cross was replaced by Luther on a postage stamp.  
  • Pagan blood runs in Mary’s and Jesus’ veins
  • Dec 2017 – Evil Vatican Nativity scene
  • Jesus had to ask forgiveness of his Mother
  • Co-redemptrix is “foolishness”
  • Our Lady is Mestiza
  • 2019 Xmas concert at Vatican
  • A new ‘egalitarian’ Mariology

As with all that true Catholics hold dear, Our Lady is also a target of this “uncanonically elected” pope. Heresy, blasphemy and mockery spew from his mouth. There is no love for the True Faith. His record in terms of Our Lady, has been a bit slower, but be prepared – I am sure that the avalanche is still to come.

  • Our Lady was deceived

Pope Francis said about Our Lady:  “‘She was silent, but in her heart, how many things she told the Lord! ‘You, that day, this and the other that we read, you had told me that he would be great, you had told me that you would have given him the throne of David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and now I see him there!’ Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!‘ (Vatican Radio. 20th Dec.2013)

 

  • Pagan Light show on Feast of Immaculate Conception

On December 8, 2015, the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a light show displayed on the façade of the Vatican buildings. The display showed pictures of pagan gods and goddesses, as well as elephants and tigers. This was to showcase his new encyclical at the time – “Laudato Si”. Not many questioned the pagan elements shown. This “encyclical” was all about the environment, but there was hardly any mention of God in it. There were strange things uttered by the FP such as “sins against creation”. We now know that this was the forerunner of the recent Amazonian synod, where the Pachamama idol was venerated and promoted by the FP. Some even suggested that these idols represented the Virgin Mary. So this light show was supposed to honour Our Lady on this special feastday? Instead, it desecrated the sacred walls and space of the Vatican itself.

This event is described by The Wild Voice: “…the dark eclipsing of the Immaculate Conception was unveiled through a direful succession of images projected unto a now-dark Saint Peter’s Basilica and depicting a wide variety of animals, insects, and pagan tribes. This most dreadful light show, which was sponsored by none other than the tentacular financial creature known by many as the World Bank, reverses the order of things established by God: it is no longer the Catholic Church that is to cast God’s Light upon a dark world, but it is the false light of the world that is being cast upon an obscured Temple.

Filled with occult symbolism and accompanied by the dreadful sounds of this earth’s beasts, the show unfolded in such unexpected frightful fashion, it seemed to cast an infernal spell upon the confused faces of those spectators who, trapped by the giant pincers of columns framing St. Peter’s Square, started to resemble some lost lambs destined to be slaughtered.
In this light show of most abyssal darkness, the title “FIAT LUX” is not meant to be interpreted as the widely known phrase “Let There Be Light” found in the Book of Genesis, but rather as the masonic expression indicating the false light.  Indeed, the word lux as it is misunderstood in freemasonry, refers to Freemasonry itself as the light which takes the initiated out of the darkness of ignorance.  Since Freemasonry is the religion of Lucifer, those who follow the path of the 33 degrees come to the erroneous idea of becoming the “morning stars”, the light bearers, the Lucifers, in this realm. Through knowledge imparted according to a hierarchy which comes not from God, they are told that Lucifer is the true God all must serve.  …

“…FIAT LUX is the light of the morning star Venus attributed to Lucifer over the Catholic Morning Light whom is Our Blessed Mother, Mary Most Holy. This is the motive behind the choice of releasing such demonic event on December 8, the very day in which we celebrate the Immaculate Conception. It is not mere coincidence that the same event took place at night so that the artificial light produced by men could cast into darkness the statues of Jesus Christ and of His Twelve Apostles while projecting the images of mortal men, of reptiles and of other earthly beasts…”

  • Mary replaced by Luther on postage stamp

In Nov. 2017, the Vatican issued a postage stamp in honour of Luther. The stamp shows Luther and his co-conspirator at the foot of the Cross – replacing Our Lady and St John. We know that the evil one, twists and turns everything that is Holy upside down and back to front. St Pio said of Luther: “Martin Luther is in Hell and Christians who follow him will meet the same end.” He also said:
“Those who do not submit themselves to the pope and the teachings of the Catholic Church are also going to Hell” The FP/PF has praised and lifted to great heights one of the greatest enemies of the Church and its teachings.

 

  • Genealogy of Jesus: pagan blood

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 – Pope Francis, in commenting on the Gospel, said: ‘In the Gospel, we have heard the genealogy of Jesus, which is not a “simple list of names”, but rather a “living history”, the history of the people that God journeyed with; by making himself one of us, God wanted to announce that the history of the just and of sinners runs through his blood, ... The mention of women –… allows us a particular rapprochement: it is they, in the genealogy, who tell us that pagan blood runs through the veins of Jesus, and who recall the stories of scorn and subjugation.‘ – VATICAN RADIO

 

  • Jesus in the temple needed to beg forgiveness

27 Dec. 2015, the FP commented on a Gospel Reading about the fInding of the child Jesus in the temple:  

“...At the end of that pilgrimage, Jesus returned to Nazareth and was obedient to his parents (cf. Lk 2:51). This image also contains a beautiful teaching about our families. A pilgrimage does not end when we arrive at our destination, but when we return home and resume our everyday lives, putting into practice the spiritual fruits of our experience. We know what Jesus did on that occasion. Instead of returning home with his family, he stayed in Jerusalem, in the Temple, causing great distress to Mary and Joseph who were unable to find him. For this little “escapade”, Jesus probably had to beg forgiveness of his parents. The Gospel doesn’t say this, but I believe that we can presume it. Mary’s question, moreover, contains a certain reproach, revealing the concern and anguish which she and Joseph felt. Returning home, Jesus surely remained close to them, as a sign of his complete affection and obedience. Moments like these become part of the pilgrimage of each family; the Lord transforms the moments into opportunities to grow, to ask for and to receive forgiveness, to show love and obedience. (From HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS, Vatican Basilica
Sunday, 27 December 2015 Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph) See: http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151227_omelia-santa-famiglia.html

 

  • Evil Nativity Scene – Dec. 2017

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2017/12/17/the-nativity-scene-of-the-anti-church/

The Great Nativity Scene Deception

Above, you see the official Nativity Scene erected outside the Vatican.

You might think that it is all about the Corporal works of Mercy. Corporal Works of Mercy are very Christian- they are all about doing good to our neighbour, being merciful, being humble, giving of ourselves…. Wouldn’t Jesus be proud of us?

But when you look at the scene, there is a mess of figures and buildings – all of which distract from what the scene is meant to be. There are “close to 20 life-size images, making it very difficult to find Jesus, Mary and Joseph”.

The next thing I noticed is that all the figures are ugly or angry. Mary is displayed in a not too lady-like manner. Close-ups make her look like a transvestite.

There are figures of a person being visited in prison, burying the dead, clothing the naked. The latter depicts a man who is naked. This is what attracts your attention! It is designed to take the focus away from Jesus, Mary and Joseph. They are completely crowded out.

On the left of the picture is a wall with a picture of Mary on it. The wall is cracked, and the crack goes right through Mary’s image.

It seems to be trying to remove Christ from Christmas – to remove Christ from our consciousness completely. It is a great betrayal  by the man who sits in the chair of Peter, to further remove any thought of Christ. He is paving the way to remove Christ completely – paving the way for the new One World Religion.

Notice, for your discernment:

1) the destroyed copula, with the real cupola of St Peter’s in the background, represents the destruction of the Catholic Church,

combined with

2) the Star of Bethlehem which looks more like a falling nuclear missile/meteorite

So the distorted copola/star combination of this “nativity scene” is a message about the upcoming one world religion.”

The whole scene is a gross insult, mockery and even blasphemy of Mary and our great Saviour’s birth.

See: https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2017/12/17/the-nativity-scene-of-the-anti-church/

           

  • Mary is mestizo

On Dec 23, 2019 Antonio Socci’s article entitled “A Christmas Marked by Desecration, with Bergoglio as Chief Desecrator” named some horrible desecrations, some of which involved our blessed Mother, and others about Jesus – posters, mo9vies, etc. I will not detail them here, because they are too horrible, and you have probably heard of them (It can be found here: https://onepeterfive.com/christmas-bergoglio-desecration/ )

On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Thursday 12th 2019,  in his homily, the FP/PF said that Our Lady wanted to be seen as a “mestiza”, “not only with Juan Diego. She became a mestizo to show that she is everyone’s mother.” Mary speaks to us just as she spoke with Juan Diego, tenderly, maternally. The Pope concluded his homily noting that Mary appears as a person of mixed race in order to communicate that her Son too is a “mestizo”: that is, He is God, and He is man. (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-12/pope-guadalupe-mass.html )

De Mattei tells us:

 “Whether Pope Francis is aware of it or not, the origin of  this “mestizo” vision  regarding the Mystery of the Incarnation is in the heresy of Eutyches (378-454,  Archimandrite, of a monastery in Constantinople,); according to Eutyches,  after the hypostatic union, the humanity and Divinity of Christ, was fused to form a tertium quid, a hybrid coalescence that would actually be neither God nor man. ‘Eutycheanism’ is a rough form of Monophysitism because it admits in the Son of God Incarnate, one single nature, resulting from this confused union of divinity with humanity.

De Mattei concludes his article with

 “ Pope Francis’ theology is “mestizo” because he mixes truth and errors, forming a muddled amalgamation in which nothing is clear, determined and distinct. Everything escapes definition and contradiction seems to be the soul of the thought and language. Francis, along with Our Lady, would like to make the Church mestizo so that it steps out of itself to mix with the world, immerging itself in the world and being absorbed by it.

But the Church is Holy and Immaculate, as Mary is Holy and Immaculate, Mother and model of the Mystical Body.

Our Lady is not mestizo, in the sense Francis gives to Her, as nothing, hybrid, obscure or confused exists in Her. Mary is not mestizo as She is light with no shadow, beauty with no imperfections, truth uncorrupted, forever whole and without stain.          

Let us ask help from the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to ensure that our faith is not mestizo, but that it remain always pure and uncontaminated, resplendent before God and men, as the Word Incarnate was resplendent on Christmas night when He manifested  Himself to the world.”

Read his complete article here:  https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/12/de-mattei-mestizo-theology-of-pope.html

 

  • Mary as Co-Redemptrix is “foolishness”

Abp. Carlo Vigano Champions Virgin Mary After Pope Francis Smear .

 “Speaking of Mary Most Holy, Pope Francis criticized the titles that the Magisterium of the Church and the devotion of the faithful have lovingly bestowed on the Mother of God, saying they do not reflect the essence of Our Lady’s role, which he minimized to “mother” and “disciple.” In short, “Mary woman, Mary mother, with no other essential title.”   

Abp. Carlo Vigano blasted Pope Francis after the pontiff scorned the concept of Mary as co-redemptrix as “foolishness.”  He said “On the liturgical memorial of the Virgin of Guadalupe,” Francis “gave vent once again to his evident Marian intolerance,” 

To attack Mary is to pounce against Christ Himself.

Those who profane Mary “show that they are on the side of the Enemy,” he warned. “To attack Mary is to pounce against Christ Himself; attacking the Mother is rising up against the Son and rebelling against the very mystery of the Holy Trinity.” 

“The tactic of affirming what one wants to destroy, using vague and imprecise terms, promoting error without ever clearly formulating it, is also typically modernist,” Viganò said, pointing to Pope Francis’ frequent ambiguity.

“The result of this abuse is now before our eyes,” he reflected. “A Catholic Church that is no longer Catholic; a container emptied of its authentic content … .” 

Peering beyond the crisis, Viganò continued: “The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces” will come through the prayers and penances of those “little” and “fragile” faithful Catholics consecrated to her. 

The consecrated will serve as Mary’s heel, he said, and “together with her,” they “will crush the head of the infernal monster.”

Read the whole article and his condemnation of this papacy at: 

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/abp-vigano-champions-virgin-mary

To read what the church truly teaches about this title see:

https://www.tfp.org/having-worshipped-pachamama-pope-francis-now-disparages-marys-co-redeeming-role/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Pope+Francis+criticized+traditional+devotion+to+Mary&utm_campaign=TFP191227m+-+Pope+Francis+criticized+traditional+devotion+to+Mary

 

  • Christmas Concert (2019) at the Vatican

On Dec. 27th 2019, ChurchMilitant.com described a concert sponsored by the Holy See’s Congregation for Catholic Education. In it the “Mother Earth goddess, worshipped by the indigenous people of the Amazon, was invoked by a Latin American woman before an audience of 5,000, while two million watched on television in Italy and around the world on Christmas Eve and the afternoon of Christmas day.

The Mother Earth goddess, worshipped by the indigenous people of the Amazon, was invoked by a Latin American woman before an audience of 5,000, while two million watched on television in Italy and around the world on Christmas Eve and the afternoon of Christmas day.

At the live Dec. 14 charity performance titled “Let’s network for the Amazon,” an indigenous woman dressed in native garb asked the audience to cross their arms over their chest and to feel a strong vibration, explaining that this is “your heart” but also “the heart of Mother Earth.”   …

Cardinals and bishops seated in the front row, followed by the entire audience, responded enthusiastically by crossing their arms and listening reverently to the spiel on Pachamama.  

“On the other side, where there is silence, is the Spirit,” the indigenous woman explained. “The Spirit who allows you to feel the message of the Mother.” She continued:

For us indigenous peoples, Mother Earth, the Hicha Gueia, is everything. It is the Mother who gives us food, sacred water, medicinal plants; and what we offer to the earth is to pay homage to her, the placenta and the first hair we cut. For us, Mother Earth is fundamental, our connection with her is constant, how the pulse feels, how the heart feels….”

So here we have paganism being promoted by the Vatican, with clerics joining in – it was meant to be a “Christmas” concert – but once again, Our Lady and her Son were mocked and the historical event of Our Saviour’s birth deliberately ignored and replaced with evil (for paganism is evil).

 

  • A new egalitarian Mariology

The TFP, in an article states that

 “Pope Francis has once again confused, scandalized and disoriented the flock he is called to teach, guide and sanctify.

This time he has done it with the shocking statement—contrary to the Gospels, the Tradition of the Church and the common feeling of the faithful—that Mary Most Holy was a common, “normal girl” just like any young woman of today.” He says the Blessed Virgin Mary was “a normal girl, a girl of today …. normal, normally educated, open to marrying, to having a family. …. Then, after conceiving Jesus, [she was] still a normal woman. …. Nothing was exceptional in her life, [she was] a normal mother…”

The key to understanding this minimization of the Mother of God and ours is found in Liberation Theology’s Marxist-inspired egalitarianism.  The article explains what Francis meant by the “sin of the elite” and how this pertains to our Blessed Mother

The article explains in detail what this all means in terms of our Blessed Mother. 

For Pope Francis, nothing special happened in the life of the Blessed Mother: “Then, after conceiving Jesus, [she was] still a normal woman. …. Nothing was exceptional in her life.”

Nothing exceptional! Really? For Mary Most Holy to continue life as the Most Beloved Daughter of God the Father, Most Admirable Mother of God the Son, and Most Faithful Spouse of God the Holy Ghost—the titles Saint Louis de Montfort lists in True Devotion to Mary—is not something exceptional? Is being part of the Holy Family with her Divine Son and Saint Joseph, following Jesus’s preaching and interceding with Him to obtain the miracle at the wedding at Cana, to participate in His Passion and Death at the feet of the Cross as our co-redemptrix, to be the Immaculate Conception, the Mediatrix of All Graces, our Advocate, Mother of the Church, and Queen of Angels and Saints, is there nothing exceptional in all this? All of it is just being a “normal woman”?

Read all the details at: https://www.tfp.org/pope-franciss-sin-of-the-elite-and-new-egalitarian-mariology/

What Abp. Vigano thinks of the FP’s antics:

“On the occasion of the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Pope Bergoglio (sic) once again gave vent to his evident impatience with Mary, which evokes the impatience of the Serpent in the story of the Fall(!),in that Proto-Gospel that prophesies the radical enmity established by God between the Woman and the Serpent, and the declared hostility of the latter who, until the consummation of the world, will try to undermine the heel of the Woman and to triumph over her and her posterity. What the pontiff said is a manifest aggression toward the sublime prerogatives and attributes that make the Immaculate Ever-Virgin Mother of God the feminine complement to the mystery of the incarnate Word, intimately associated with Him in the Economy of Redemption.”

Viganò continued: “With a couple of jokes, he [Pope Francis] struck at the heart of the Marian dogmas, and of the Christological dogmas connected to it.”

And he added: “The Marian dogmas are the seal affixed to the Catholic truths of our faith, defined in the Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon; they are the unbreakable bulwark against the Christological heresies and against the furious unleashing of the Gates of Hell. Those who ‘hybridize’ and profane them [that is, these Marian dogmas] show that they are on the side of the Enemy. Attacking Mary is attacking Christ himself. Attacking the Mother is rising up against the Son and rebelling against the very mystery of the Holy Trinity. The Immaculate Theotokos, ‘terrible as hosts and unfolded banners’ — acies ordinata (‘terrible as an army drawn up in battle array,’ Song of Songs 6:9) — will give battle to save the Church and will destroy the army of the Enemy who, released from the chains that held him, has declared war on her, and with his defeat, all the demonic pachamamas will return definitively to hell.”

Read it all here:  https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-65-2019-vigano-on-francis-and-mary/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoLaf7NXf5gIVgZWPCh1fiA3vEAAYASAAEgLwsfD_BwE

All this makes true Catholics very sad. It is almost too painful to bear.

Would you be surprised to hear that this is only the beginning? That the Hail Mary prayer will no longer be heard in Churches? References to her will be frowned upon? That Our Lady will be forgotten about and despised? Well it seems that the False prophet (pope) already despises her as is evident by the some of the claims listed above; and how he manages to do something awful on her feastdays, how he calls people who pray the rosary Rosary counters”. He is already displacing our dearest Mother with “Mother Earth/Pachamama”. He installed these pagan idols in a church dedicated to Our Lady and daily prayers were being offered to them (before they were taken and thrown into the River Tiber). Marian places and shrines are already disapproved of – e.g. Garabandal, Medjugorje, Fatima is ignored by most bishops and priests.

Message from the Book of Truth, dated 12 February 2014 @ 10:45pm

Mother of Salvation: Soon, the “Hail Mary” prayer will not be heard inside or outside of my Son’s Church

“My child, just as my Son’s Image, His Word and His Promise to come again will be ignored and then eradicated, so also will every reference to me, your beloved Mother be. 

Soon, the “Hail Mary” prayer will not be heard inside or outside of my Son’s Church. Much disapproval will be shown to those who visit my holy Shrines and Marian groups will be criticised for many reasons, all without cause. Any admission regarding the authenticity of apparitions involving me, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, will not be heard. All references to me will soon be frowned upon by a newly revamped shell of my Son’s Church on Earth. Devotions to me will be stopped in many churches, under the newly appointed regime to be introduced in the future. I will be forgotten about and then despised, by those who will claim to represent a new modern, all-inclusive church, which will bear little resemblance to the Church created upon the Rock, by my Son’s beloved apostle Peter. 

When you see all devotions to me, the Holy Mother of God, dealt with in this way please be aware that these new rules will be at the behest of the evil one. The evil one despises me, just as much as he is frightened by me. He knows that devotion to me, by souls, keeps his evil ways at bay and that the recital of my Most Holy Rosary scourges him and renders him powerless. Those days ahead will have to be faced by those who love me and there will come a time when the Church’s association with my Shrines will be cut off. When that happens, you will know that this will be to separate God’s children from my influence, which in those times will be necessary, if I am to help you draw towards my Son.

My role is to prepare you for the Great Day of my Son’s Second Coming. I intend to continue to call out to my children, until that Day arrives. I only desire to bring souls before my Son, so that He can give them Eternal Salvation. It is all about the salvation of souls, but every effort will be made by the evil one to prevent this from happening.

Your beloved Mother

Mother of Salvation”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughts for the 7th Day of Christmas: St Francis’ devotion to Baby Jesus

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St. Francis of Assisi had a special devotion to the Child Jesus, and he is credited with creating the first nativity scene on Christmas Eve of the year 1223.

THE FIRST NATIVITY SCENE

St. Francis recreated the scene of Christ’s birth in a special ritual and Mass he held inside of a cave in Greccio, Italy, inviting both his fellow friars and the townspeople to join in the celebration.

Later he told a friend why he desired to create the first nativity scene in his town:

“I want to do something that will recall the memory of that Child who was born in Bethlehem, to see with bodily eyes the inconveniences of his infancy, how he lay in the manger, and how the ox and ass stood by.”

He set up an empty manger (the feeding trough of farm animals which served as Jesus’ crib) inside a cave, and even included a live ox and donkey beside the manger just as it was believed to have happened on that first Christmas night. Through these visual aids he wanted everyone to impress more deeply into their understanding how Christ came into the world in such poverty and simplicity. 

It is also said that St. Francis—who was radically devoted to the virtue of evangelical poverty—was inspired to recreate the original nativity scene to overcome the rampant greed and materialism prevalent at that time in Italy.

St. BONAVENTURE TELLS THE STORY

St. Bonaventure (1221 – 1274), a follower and contemporary of St. Francis, has given us a complete account of the night of the first live nativity scene:

“It happened in the third year before his death, that in order to excite the inhabitants of Grecio to commemorate the nativity of the Infant Jesus with great devotion, [St. Francis] determined to keep it with all possible solemnity; and lest he should be accused of lightness or novelty, he asked and obtained the permission of the sovereign Pontiff. Then he prepared a manger, and brought hay, and an ox and an ass to the place appointed.

The brethren were summoned, the people ran together, the forest resounded with their voices, and that venerable night was made glorious by many and brilliant lights and sonorous psalms of praise.”

St. Bonaventure goes on to talk about St. Francis of Assisi’s personal devotion to the Baby Jesus that sparked this event:

“The man of God [St. Francis] stood before the manger, full of devotion and piety, bathed in tears and radiant with joy; the Holy Gospel was chanted by Francis, the Levite of Christ. Then he preached to the people around the nativity of the poor King; and being unable to utter His name for the tenderness of His love, He called Him the Babe of Bethlehem.”

https://www.getfed.com/story-francis-assisi-first-navity-scene-5955/

 

 

 

Thoughts for the Sixth Day of Christmas: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on the Meaning of Christmas

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Born to die: An excerpt from Abp. Fulton J. Sheen’s “Life of Christ.”

[E]very other person who ever came into this world came into it to live. He came into it to die. Death was a stumbling block to Socrates — it interrupted his teaching. But to Christ, death was the goal and fulfillment of His life, the gold that He was seeking. Few of His words or actions are intelligible without reference to His Cross. He presented Himself as a Savior rather than merely as a Teacher. It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good, after rescuing them from the frustration of guilt.

The story of every human life begins with birth and ends with death. In the Person of Christ, however, it was His death that was first and His life that was last. …

The manger and the Cross thus stand at the two extremities of the Savior’s life! He accepted the manger because there was no room in the inn; He accepted the Cross because men said, “We will not have this man for our king.” Disowned upon entering, rejected upon leaving, He was laid in a stranger’s stable at the beginning, and a stranger’s grave at the end. An ox and an ass surrounded His crib at Bethlehem; two thieves were to flank His Cross on Calvary. He was wrapped in swaddling bands in His birthplace, He was again laid in swaddling clothes in His tomb — clothes symbolic of the limitations imposed on His Divinity when He took a human form. …

He was already bearing His Cross — the only cross a Babe could bear, a cross of poverty, exile and limitation. His sacrificial intent already shone forth in the message the angels sang to the hills of Bethlehem:

     This day, in the city of David
        A Savior has been born for you,
     The Lord Christ Himself. (Luke 2:11)

http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/12/21/born-to-die-archbishop-fulton-j-sheen-on-the-meaning-of-christmas/

In Honour of the Most Holy Family (on their Feast Day)

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Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the Novus Ordo liturgical calendar. It also happens to fall within the octave of Christmas 🎄 Although it is celebrated later in the Traditional Rite – January 12th, I could not wait to post this!
It is useful for reflection upon this Feast Day which honours that most special family which we can also now claim as our own family- and it helps us welcome the celebration of their relationship to us and one another, with love and joy- just as we welcome Christ at His Birth!

This is a message from our Mother of Salvation about the importance of families, from December 20th, 2014:

The Gift of Love is intensified at Christmas

My dear children, the love of my Son is never more prevalent than it is at Christmas.

At this time, during the celebration of His Birth, He floods souls with His love. It is at this time that you must live the love that was given to you, naturally, as children of God. You must cherish the Gift of Love, which comes from God and share this Gift with everyone you know.

The Gift of Love is intensified at Christmas in the souls of all God’s children and it is at this time you must acknowledge that love begins in the family. My Son was born into a family and this was for good reason. God manifested Himself – not as an individual sent on a mission, with no one close to Him, but within the Holy Family.

Love your families and forgive past transgressions. Love all those, including those who hate you. You can overcome hatred by sharing love and while this may be difficult at time, you will be stronger for it and at peace. Hatred is a negative emotion and drains the soul with a deep sense of unhappiness. It eats away at the core of the soul until it dies. Do not allow hatred to separate you from the Gift of Love, which is the most powerful grace, because it comes from God.

Love one another, as God loves each one of you this Christmas. Pray for those who have carried out any wicked act against you and ask my Son to relieve you of the burden of hatred.

God’s love in all its glory is witnessed in the family, which thrives on love. Such families, fortunate enough to feel love for each other, must spread this love to others who do not have love in their own lives. The person who are reared in a loving family, and who loves with a tender heart, touches the souls of others. This is how God’s Love is spread – from within the bosom of the family.

It was from the heart of a loving family, that my Son, Jesus Christ, set about in His Mission on earth to redeem man from sin. And so, this Christmas, I ask that you love one another and ask my Son to bless all families with the graces to love each other more.

The love that is present in a family can overcome all obstacles placed before it by satan. It is the family – the foundation of God’s Love – that is despised by satan. It is the family that is targeted by the evil one and he will do anything to destroy the family unit.

Love and unity in a family is a great Gift from Heaven and you must strive, always, to remain united at all times.

Your beloved Mother
Mother of Salvation.

(The message can be found here: https://missionofsalvation.com/message-1292/)

 

God bless you and your families from all the families of the Jesus to Mankind prayer groups all over the world. ✝️
Know that all the holy saints and angels celebrate with you (us) with great joy!

Thoughts for the Fifth Day of Christmas: St John Henry Newman and the Lesson of Joy

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(continued from yesterday’s post: Thoughts for the Fourth Day of Christmas)

The second lesson is that of joy, as Newman relates.

“Fear not,” said the Angel, “for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” And then, when he had finished his announcement, “suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men.”

Such were the words which the blessed Spirits who minister to Christ and His Saints, spoke on that gracious night to the shepherds, to rouse them out of their cold and famished mood into great joy; to teach them that they were objects of God’s love as much as the greatest of men on earth; nay more so, for to them first He had imparted the news of what that night was happening. His Son was then born into the world. Such events are told to friends and intimates, to those whom we love, to those who will sympathize with us, not to strangers.

How could Almighty God be more gracious, and show His favor more impressively to the lowly and the friendless, than by hastening (if I may use the term) to confide the great, the joyful secret to the shepherds keeping watch over their sheep by night?

Christmas is a day of great joy, one in which the poor and lowly of the world are lifted up and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven. No matter our social status in the world, God loves us and calls us back to himself.

This is the great joy of Christmas, which all the world can partake in.

https://aleteia.org/2018/12/11/2-powerful-lessons-we-can-learn-from-christmas-according-to-blessed-john-henry-newman/

Thoughts for the Fourth Day of Christmas: St John Henry Newman and the Lesson of Lowliness

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St. John Henry Newman wrote in a sermon:

“There are two principal lessons which we are taught on the great Festival which we this day celebrate, lowliness and joy … So that we have on the Feast of the Nativity these two lessons—instead of anxiety within and despondence without, instead of a weary search after great things—to be cheerful and joyful; and, again, to be so in the midst of those obscure and ordinary circumstances of life which the world passes over and thinks scorn of.”

Newman explained these two lessons in light of a passage from Luke where the angels bring “good tidings of great joy” to the lowly shepherds.

“Why should the heavenly hosts appear to these shepherds? What was it in them which attracted the attention of the Angels and the Lord of Angels? Were these shepherds learned, distinguished, or powerful? Were they especially known for piety and gifts?

Nothing is said to make us think so. Faith, we may safely say, they had, or some of them, for to him that hath more shall be given; but there is nothing to show that they were holier and more enlightened than other good men of the time, who waited for the consolation of Israel.

Nay, there is no reason to suppose that they were better than the common run of men in their circumstances, simple, and fearing God, but without any great advances in piety, or any very formed habits of religion.

Why then were they chosen? For their poverty’s sake and obscurity. Almighty God looks with a sort of especial love, or (as we may term it) affection, upon the lowly … To men so circumstanced the Angel appeared, to open their minds, and to teach them not to be downcast and in bondage because they were low in the world. He appeared as if to show them that God had chosen the poor in this world to be heirs of His kingdom, and so to do honor to their lot.”

“Fear not,” he said, “for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”

This lesson of lowliness works in tandem with the words of Jesus, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3).

God chose not to come as a rich king, riding triumphantly into Jerusalem, but as a poor man, born in an obscure place with no pomp and circumstance to accompany him.

He is a God of the poor and lowly, choosing to raise up those who have fallen.

 

Source:

2 Powerful lessons we can learn from Christmas, according to Blessed John Henry Newman