Bergoglio to change Canon Law to hide the invalidity of the Renunciation — FromRome.Info

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo Bergoglio is about to promulgate a new Code of Canon Law for his fake Church. This has been in the work since he was elected. The fake news is that Pope Benedict XVI started this revision. But the truth was told to me, by Bishop Arrieta, when I met with him […]

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Those who are not fooled. (‘Querida Amazonia’) Part 2

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Of course, many can see right through the pretend pope’s actions.

Here are a few comments sent to me from friends:

From Tony M:
Hi Everyone,
An excellent, excellent article by Fred Martinez of ‘Catholic Monitor’ explaining how Querida Amazonia uses word games
to bring so many Catholics to worship false gods without them even noticing…conservative Catholics who cannot see they have been tricked by a ‘master of deception’.
Bergoglio, on at least one occasion, said the God does not do magic …..as part of an argument denying some of God’s authentic miracles.
Well, it would seem that Bergoglio is the ‘magician’ as he…. with ease….. deceives good conservative/orthodox Catholics…..
towards abandoning the True Catholic Faith…..for the New False Church that embraces all religions……. including the Pachamama idolatry of the Amazon region.
(Will the next trick be a Synod of ….Congo…. Borneo….. Antartica….the Pacific…..outer Mongolia…..the Nile River…. Can I put in an application for the Murray River region of Australia???!)
Hold on to your hats folks; we are in for a very tricky ride…….. where most have not a clue where they are being led.
He is brazen and brilliant in his deception of so many.
But for those who are seeing the big picture of his plan to destroy the Catholic faith, he is not so brilliant…..his game is transparent to them.
But it is only the few who see through those eyes.
And they are the ‘Remnant of the True Church’ as it approaches its ‘Final Trial’ as referred to in  Catechism of the Catholic Church….

“The Church’s ultimate trial 675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.”

These people who are being deceived by Bergoglio….. with such ease need to start listening to God....because God has told us of this time of tribulation.
Time for the PhD commentators to realize that the only one who fully understands what is happening here is God…. not them!!!
Time to listen to Him!!!
GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH HIS AUTHENTIC PROPHETS.

(Wakey Wakey.) And GOD BLESS,
Tony.

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The article Tony mentioned by Fred Martinez at the Catholic Monitor is:

“Pachamama Exhortation: Is Pachamama Idolatry okay if it’s called “taking up an Indigenous Symbol”?   

Updated February 12, 2020
We had the Pachamama Synod.
Do we now have the Pachamama exhortation?
At the Amazon Synod, Francis said that the pagan Pachamama idols that were bowed down to had no “idolatrous intentions.”
It appears that Francis in his Amazon Synod exhortation Querida Amazonia section 79 doubled down that it is admissible to bow down to Pachamama idols if they are called “an indigenous symbol”:
“[It] is possible to take up an indigenous symbol in some way, without considering it as idolatry.”
This is like an Arian heretic saying: … Read it at: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/02/catholic-monitor-pachamama-exhortation.html

Tony also mentions another article:

Hi everyone,
Below is another insightful article from George Neumayr of the Spectator.
It sheds clear light on the Apostolic Exhortation…. ‘Querida Amazonia’.
Many commentators have been saying the document is not so bad after all….they were expecting worse that this.
WEEEELLL. It is all still moving in the same direction….married priests….women deacons….embracing all religions including the pagan ones.
The agenda was simply pulled back a little…. in time….. because of the Cardinal Sarah/Pope Benedict book on priestly celibacy.
It would be naivity in the extreme to think the above agenda has in some way been abandoned.
Lets keep our wits about us.
Bergoglio’s slight of hand was to not state all of those things clearly to us in the Exhortation .….but to point us to the Final Amazonian Synod document.
Don’t know that I have seen a trickier operator anywhere in my lifetime.
And he thinks we can’t see what he is up to. (Tony M.)

“The Pope’s Slippery ‘Synodal’ Way: His exhortation about the Amazon synod raises more questions than it answers.”

by GEORGE NEUMAYR
February 16, 2020, 12:03 AM

“Typical of a Jesuit,” said Archbishop Bruno Forte in 2016, as he reflected on the deviously indirect style of Pope Francis. Forte, a close aide to Pope Francis, recalled that the pope didn’t want to spell out his support for Communion for the divorced and remarried in his exhortation Amoris Laetitia, lest it cause too much backlash. Forte quoted the pope saying, “If we speak explicitly about Communion for the divorced and remarried, you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won’t speak plainly, do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions.”

In his latest exhortation, Querida Amazonia, the pope adopts a similarly opaque style. After having engineered a synod in which he had chosen all the fathers — a synod that he knew would reach conclusions in favor of married priests and female deacons — he decided to write an exhortation silent on those questions. The exhortation amounts to a papal punt. The question now is: Who will pick it up?

The exhortation, after all, urges people to “apply” the work of the synod. Were the exhortation a definitive rejection of married priests and female deacons, why would the pope say that?

Read the whole article here: https://spectator.org/the-popes-slippery-synodal-way

Finally, in conclusion, I quote fron Fr. John Zuhlsdorf:

Fr Z mentions the “bitter fruit” resulting from all these synods. He describes very well the process:

“And this bitter fruit…

We had – for centuries – councils on the papacy and on the episcopacy.
We need a Synod on synodality (seriously)

— Massimo Faggioli (@MassimoFaggioli) February 12, 2020

Yeah… that’s what we need.  More synods (“walking together”).  Let’s talk about walking together while we are walking together.  And then we’ll talk about the fact that we talked and walked. And then we’ll write about talking and walking and talk about the walking and the writing about the talking, until we’ve written something that we can talk and write about some more!”

Fr Z. speaks about the puzzle pieces that emerge from this Apostolic Exhortation:

“These are puzzle pieces. Slowly a picture might emerge as they fit together. That picture might not be what we would prefer it to be.

This is one of the reasons why, on both the faithful and traditional and conservative side… as well as one the iconoclastic and papalatrous left… we should all be careful about leaks and possible campaigns of disinformation. The risk of getting things wrong isn’t worth getting to the story FIRST! Truth is more important than clicks.

Lastly, the beginning of that Amazon Synod will forever be tainted by the FACT of veneration of a demonic idol, Pachamama Its process and deliberations will forever be tainted by the presence of demonic idolsIts conclusion will forever be tainted by the placing of a bowl with demonic symbols and purpose on the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica.

It is remarkable, really, that nothing worse came from this.”

Read the whole of FR Z’s article at:

https://wdtprs.com/2020/02/thoughts-about-the-amazon-synod-walking-together-document-wherein-fr-z-opines-also-on-something-sad-about-bookgate/

In a nutshellHow can anything that is consecrated to demonic idols be anything but diabolical?

 

 

St. Irenaeus prophesied how Bergoglio will seduce the clergy — FromRome.Info

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo Saint Irenaeus of Lyons is one of the great Fathers of the Church of the end of the Second Century. He lived from 130 to 202 A.D., approximately. He was born in Smyrna, in Asia Minor. He studied under Saint Polycarp, one of the most famous disciples of Saint John the […]

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Prophecy Fulfilled: My role as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate, will not be accepted.

Mary Co-Redemptrix

The following prophecies were made in the Book of Truth regarding this title of Our Lady, which is often referred to as the fifth Marian Dogma (yet to be declared).

9 April 2012 @ 10:00am

 

Mother of Salvation: The Era of Peace I spoke about in Fatima has been forgotten

My child, the world is about to undergo the final changes, as the battle for souls intensifies.

Satan will hurt the Catholic Church and I, the Mother of God, will be implicated in the division of the Church.

My role as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate is not being accepted by divisions in the Catholic Church.

I am not accepted in many quarters as to the role I must play in the salvation of souls.

My poor Son is so hurt by the way in which I, the Mother of God, have been dismissed.

My role, as the destroyer of the serpent, is not understood.

I have been blessed with the Graces, and the power, to defeat and destroy the evil one.

He, the evil one, has many followers from inside the Catholic Church who want to oppose the power I have been given by God the Most High.

The Era of Peace, I spoke about in Fatima, has been forgotten.

This Era of Peace will take place after the Second Coming of My Son and will last 1,000 years.

This will come about when Heaven and Earth will merge as one Glorious New Paradise.

Because of the faith of my children and their devotion to me, their beloved Mother, many souls will enter the New Paradise.

Satan is now working hard to persuade members of the Catholic Church that this is not to be.

My role as the Mother of Salvation and Co-Redemptrix, working alongside my beloved Son to herald the Second Coming, is being denied.

Children, pray that those souls, victims of the deceiver within the Catholic Church, do not drive my children away from their moment of salvation.

Pray that Pope Benedict can stop this evil from permeating throughout the Catholic Church.

Never give up children in your fight to stand up for the Truth.

My Son’s promise to return to bring humanity to Eternal Life in Paradise is about to be fulfilled. But, He will be opposed every step of the way by those souls who have allowed the deceit of the evil one to turn their heads.

Loyalty, within the Church, towards my Son will weaken.

My role as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate, will not be accepted.

Pray that my Son’s priests will stay strong and that they will defend the Truth.

Your beloved Mother

Mother of God

Mother of Salvation

(Message source: https://missionofsalvation.com/message-0391/)

Prophecy Fulfilled:

On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s Basilica, December 12, 2019, the False Prophet (whom some know as ‘pope’ Francis) denied the doctrine of Mary as Co-Redemptrix, calling her merely a woman, disciple and mother’; also apparently a mestiza- not even calling Mary the Mother of God”! As is his usual fashion, he dishonours Our Lady on any celebration of one of her feast days, in whatever way he is able. There is a history of it. You can read about it here:

https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/2019/12/31/the-false-prophet-and-his-treatment-of-our-lady/

This is what he said in his homily:

“She never wanted for herself something that was of her son,” Francis said. “She never introduced herself as co-redemptrix. No. Disciple,” he said, meaning that Mary saw herself as a disciple of Jesus.

Mary, the pope insisted, “never stole for herself anything that was of her son,” instead “serving him. Because she is mother. She gives life.

“When they come to us with the story of declaring her this or making that dogma, let’s not get lost in foolishness,” he said. 

He also said,  “Mary woman, Mary mother, with no other essential title.

This non-acceptance of Our Lady’s title and role is due to the fact that, according to Scalfari, Francis believes Jesus was ‘just a man’ on earth and emptied of all divinity. It is because people wrongly recognise Bergoglio as a pope, (which he is not) that they allow themselves to be led astray and not accept a title and role which clearly belongs to her, as has been taught by the Church through the ages. Most bishops have also not defended this title of hers, specifically Co-Redemptrix, in response to FP’s denial of reality.

Here are some headlines and excerpts explaining and commenting on this:

  1. Pope Francis Considers the Virgin’s Title as Co-Redemptrix “Foolishness
  2. Defending the Indefensible Again: Pope Francis’s Rejection of Mary’s co-Redemption
  3. Having Worshipped Pachamama, Pope Francis Now Disparages Mary’s Co-Redeeming Role

  4. Francis denies the Co-Redemption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — but is it Catholic Doctrine?

Here is the defence of this title by Archbishop Vigano:

 Abp Viganò’s defense of Virgin Mary in response to Pope Francis (FULL TEXT)In quite a few messages within the Book of Truth, Mary is referred to as Co-Redemptrix. The reason why this title would be rejected by Francis and his cronies is explained here by the Blessed Mother in another message from Nov 10th, 2013:

My role as Co-Redemptrix means that my power against the devil has been strengthened, in a way that has not been granted to me by God before. So now is the time when all devotion to me will be carefully dismissed, by the enemies of my Son. When veneration to me is rushed through and when the request to safeguard countries against Communism is twisted, then my wishes will not have been carried out. I will, from now on, be a rarity in the official patronage normally afforded me, the Mother of God, in my Son’s Churches on Earth.

Read the full message here:

https://missionofsalvation.com/message-0964/

Our Lady of Guadelupe

 

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.