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Showing posts with label St. Paul. Show all posts
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Monday 1 May 2017

The words of Paul himself condemn today's Shepherds

If the Apostle Paul were alive today and preaching in the Catholic Church, he would be called out as an anti-Semite, as a Pharisee and as rigid, pre-Vatican II fundamentalist devoid of memory, dialogue and encounter.


In the Office of Matins for the Second Sunday after Easter, we read a goodly amount from the Book of Acts.


If Judaism is still alive, if there is a dual covenant, where are their Prophets today? Where are the Jewish sages and mystics calling for the imminent arrival of the real Messiah, as opposed to some old rabbi on a billboard? Where is their temple?

Paul, was asked to give "exhortations" by the leading Jews of Antioch. He did not fail.

Judaism is dead and some day the Lord will hold to account those hirelings who allowed his original Chosen People to die in the darkness devoid of the True Light which enlighteneth the world.

Woe to those who are no more than hirelings.



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Lesson from the Acts of the Apostles
Acts 13:13-33
13 Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.
14 But they passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.
16 Then Paul rising up, and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel, and you that fear God, give ear.
17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought them out from thence,
18 And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.
19 And destroying seven nations in the land of Chanaan, divided their land among them, by lot,
20 As it were, after four hundred and fifty years: and after these things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.
23 Of this man's seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.
25 And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he, whom you think me to be: but behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent.
27 For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath, judging him have fulfilled them.
28 And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.
29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him up from the dead the third day:
31 Who was seen for many days, by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the people.
32 And we declare unto you, that the promise which was made to our fathers,
33 This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.

R. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
* Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
V. Worthy is the Lamb That was slain to receive power, and riches, in wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.

R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Sunday 22 January 2017

Saint Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles - a "rigid Doctor of the Law," the Law of Jesus Christ!

Today is the Third Sunday after Epiphany and in the modernist rite, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Truly, could they not have kept the true and proper name for this period?

St. Paul is damning today in his denouncement of our modernist churchmen and he does this in the texts of the both liturgies.

First, let us look at the Reading I, II & III of Matins, which I have combined here to one.

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It is from his Letter to the Galatians 1 - 14, wherein he blames the Galatians themselves to be imposed upon by new teachers.  

Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, And all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia. Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.
I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. Which is not another, only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
For I give you to understand, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For neither did I receive it of man, nor did I learn it; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it. And I made progress in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.   

Saint Paul makes it quite clear that there can be no other Gospel, no other teachings from what he and the Apostles have taught. When the Lord Jesus said, “adultery” is a sin, it is. Those who tried to trick him were the “doctors of the law.” Yet today, we see the Pope himself condemning Catholics as “doctors of the law” for following what Jesus taught and expects of us to believe and preach. St. Paul warns us of those who would dare to change doctrine and preach “another Gospel.” He goes as far as to declare them “anathema.” This Jewish Apostle to the Gentiles even goes on to the “Jews’ religion” and how that it is clearly another religion, not the religion of Christ and therefore, one which can now only conclude is no longer a true religion since Christ is “all in all,” as he tells us in Colossians 3:11.

If that is not enough to convince one that our churchmen have gone astray, let us now look at what most Catholics at Mass today heard in the Second Reading from 1 Corinthians 1:10-13,17 (I have included 14-16) in italics.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

For it hath been signified unto me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius; Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name. I give God thanks, that I baptized none of you but Crispus and Caius; Lest any should say that you were baptized in my name. And I baptized also the household of Stephanus; besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

Catholic people, brothers and sisters, wake up!

We are being deceived by leaders in the Church, from Friars Minor who march in parades with anarchists (more on that tomorrow) to bishops on the island where Paul landed. From dioceses in remote Columbia where priests are persecuted for the truth to Rome itself, where the Supreme Pontiff denigrates a good man of patriotic love with that of Adoph Hitler. These men, from Daniel Horan to Jorge Bergoglio have failed to preach the Gospel. They have burnt incense before idols, they preach a gospel “according to men.”


We must pray for wisdom. We must open up the Divine Office, or at least the Liturgy of the Hours to read what the Church really prays, what those great Fathers have written to us. We must get to Confession and to Mass. Find a traditional Latin Mass, make it your life. If you cannot, then find the most faithful priest and reverent new rite Mass that you can. Leave liturgical abuse, leave the lies that these people proffer and get back to the Truth!


Tuesday 10 January 2017

Paul of Tarsus or Bergoglio of Buenos Aires

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Reading Matins this morning, according to Divino Afflatu for the Fifth Day in the Octave of Epiphany (done away with as an Octave in 1955), we read from the Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians in three parts. Rather than use the translation from Matins, from the Douay, I will instead use that of the New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition. This will then make obvious in the most current way, how clear St. Paul is:

1 Corinthians 5:1-11 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality (the Douay refers to "fornication," the NRSV-CE uses an even broader term with "sexual immorality") among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?
3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present I have already pronounced judgement 4 in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled, and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral persons— 10 not at all meaning the immoral of this world, or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber. Do not even eat with such a one.

"Do not even eat with such a one!"

So "rigid" was that writer. Such a "self-absorbed, Promethean, neo Pelagian" before Pelagian even existed, was that "tent maker." What a "clericalist" was that student of Gamaliel, considered by the Church to have been a secret Christian and a Saint; in the Martyrology for August 3. His remains are at the Duomo in Pisa, Italy (of "Leaning Tower" fame). Holy Gamaliel is made famous in Acts wherein he says:

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"I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.’ 
For nearly two-thousand years, we have had the words of St. Paul speak clearly and emphatically to us of how to live, how to be moral and upstanding and faithful to Christ. Clearly, the words of the men to whom Holy Gamaliel referred were doing the work, "from God," 

Now, we have moderns who take a position out of some false mercy that is opposite that of Paul. Such a "doctor," he was, a terrible "detached" man with a "clericalist psychology." It is these men, lead by Bergoglio, who are, "fighting against God."

What then, must Pope Bergoglio think of St. Paul, after he reads that passage, from Scripture, (from something other than Divino Afflatu, of course), considering what he said this morning, at the chapel at the Casa Santa Marta?

Pope Francis preaches at the daily Mass at the Casa Santa Marta. - ANSA"Jesus served the people, He explained things because the people understood well: He was at the service of the people. He had an attitude of a servant, and this gave authority. On the other hand, these doctors of the law that the people… yes, they heard, they respected, but they didn’t feel that they had authority over them; these had a psychology of princes: ‘We are the masters, the princes, and we teach you. Not service: we command, you obey.’ And Jesus never passed Himself off like a prince: He was always the servant of all, and this is what gave Him authority."
"They were detached from the people, they were not close [to them]; Jesus was very close to the people, and this gave authority. Those detached people, these doctors, had a clericalist psychology: they taught with a clericalist authority – that’s clericalism. It is very pleasing to me when I read about the closeness to the people the Blessed Paul VI had; in number 48 of Evangelii nuntiandi one sees the heart of a pastor who is close [to the people]: that’s where you find the authority of the Pope, closeness. First, a servant, of service, of humility: the head is the one who serves, who turns everything upside down, like an iceberg. The summit of the iceberg is seen; Jesus, on the other hand, turns it upside down and the people are on top and he that commands is below, and gives commands from below. Second, closeness."
"On the other hand, this people was not coherent and their personality was divided on the point that Jesus counselled His disciples: ‘But, do what they tell you, but not what they do’: they said one thing and did another. Incoherence. They were incoherent. And the attitude Jesus uses of them so often is hypocritical. And it is understood that one who considers himself a prince, who has a clericalist attitude, who is a hypocrite, doesn’t have authority! He speaks the truth, but without authority. Jesus, on the other hand, who is humble, who is at the service of others, who is close, who does not despise the people, and who is coherent, has authority. And this is the authority that the people of God senses."

If Paul was not speaking with "authority" and the authority of Jesus, then who is he that we should consider what he says? Does Bergoglio place himself above St. Paul? We know what Bergoglio is saying in these little diatribes, he refers to faithful Catholics and faithful prelates who dare to stand up for the Truth of Christ and His Church.

Bergoglio speaks frequently about "senses" and "peripheries" and what the "people of God" think. 

Perhaps it is time for Pope Bergoglio to tell the world what God thinks, and the "Catholic God" specifically! Perhaps its time for Bergoglio to smell a little bit more like the incense of heaven rather than the stench of the sheep. Even the sheep like a bath now and then and sweet smelling things. 

After all, the 39th Psalm (Douay numbering) does tell us that:

3 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

There's a little too much wallowing around in the "mire of dregs" and not enough setting of "feet upon the rock," and directly the steps of those in sexual immorality. Those, and we can name many of them within the ranks of Bergoglio's new Cardinals, will rue the day they choose to "accompany." They'll take on more than the smell of sheep, it will smell more like sulphur.

How ironic, at a time when this Pope decides that we should praise the filthy apostate Luther and his followers who believe in "sola scriptura" that this Pope, chooses to ignore Holy Scripture and instead, places himself above it. 


Given a choice between one or the other, I'll choose Paul of Tarsus over Bergoglio of Buenos Aires!