“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
I post here a most interesting perspective on the Book of Revelation, Europa and the E.U. It's not a new theory but mostly has been put forward by certain protestant sects. One can recall Herbert W. Armstrong of the old, "Worldwide Church of God" and his theory's about the United States of Europe. What our friend here does is to leave the hyperbole of the sects out and focuses directly on Revelation and some very obvious signs.
Andrea Gagliarducci has a report on the imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell, convicted of sexual assault in Australia. Admittedly, I am torn on this. I've seen physical abuse and criminal assault directly at the age of 13 by Basilian perverts and thugs (Rosica was only following a trend but who's in a mental hospital, Southdown, now?) I also have personal knowledge of what has happened to a friend at the hands of clerics. I am naturally inclined to believe the victim and I believe, given the extent of what we know about the infiltration of homo-perverts into the priesthood, nearly anything is possible, by anyone. Therefore, I've been at best "neutral" on the case of Cardinal Pell. I've had to assume he had an expert legal team who defended him using the same common-law system as we in Canada. One reason that I have hesitated to believe Pell innocent is Theodore McCarrick. We can see how the cover up happens, how people fail to report, how even now McCarrick who has never had a trial, defends himself to be innocent. Yeah, everyone in prison is innocent. That's why they're there! On the other hand, I put nothing past the potential of a corrupt Catholic-hating judiciary nor the potential that the faithless sodomitical and malfeasant Bergoglian scum in the Vatican may have had a hand in this, including pay-offs to the courts in Australia. Yet, I have to admit that the conviction of Cardinal Pell is most strange based on the simple facts of what happened after the Mass. I hope and pray that my hesitation of being out there to defend Cardinal Pell has been wrong. I have not defended him because I have been bothered by this, "What if he really did do it." The broadcaster here at Sky News is not a Catholic, may not even be a believer, but he may very well be right. I hope so. I sincerely hope so.
This is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not, and said plainly, 'I am not the Christ.' And they asked him, What art thou then? Art thou Elias? And he said, 'I am not.' Art thou the prophet? And he answered, 'No.' Then said they unto him, What art thou? that we may give an answer unto them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, 'I am the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: make straight the way of the Lord.' http://www.canticanova.com/catalog/products/a_record_john.htm Below are two fine examples of the full version.
From today's Matins from the Fifth Day within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.
V. Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction. May the Gospel's holy lection
be our safety and protection. Amen.
Reading 7
From the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 1:26-28
At that time the angel Gabriel was sent
from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
And so on.
Homily by St. Tarasius, Patriarch of
Constantinople.
On the Presentation of the Mother of God.
O Mary, where shall I find words to praise
thee? Maiden undefiled, virgin unstained, exaltation of women, glory of
daughters! Holy Maiden Mother, blessed art thou among women, thy glory is in
thy guilelessness, and thy name is a name of purity. In thee the curse of Adam
is done away, and the debt of Eve paid. Thou art the clean offering of Abel,
chosen out of the firstlings profession thereof to be made at of the flock, a
pure sacrifice. Thou art the hope of Enoch, that firm hope that he had in God,
and was not ashamed. Thou art the grace that was in Enoch in this life, and his
transit to a better. Thou art the Holy Ark of Noah, and the bond of
reconciliation with God in a new regeneration. Thou art the exceeding glory of
the kingdom and Priesthood of Melchisedech. Thou art the unshaken trust of
Abraham, and his faith in the promise of children that were to-be. Thou art the
renewed oblation and the reasonable burntoffering of Isaac. Thou art the ladder
that Jacob saw going up to heaven, and the most noble of all his children
throughout the twelve tribes of Israel. According to the flesh thou art the
daughter of Judah. Thou art the modesty of Joseph, and the overthrow of the old
Egypt, yea, and of the Synagogue of the Jews. O purest! Thou art the book of
Moses the Lawgiver, whereon the new covenant is written with the finger of God,
for the new Israel, fleeing from the spiritual Egypt, even as the old law was
written upon Sinai, for the old Israel, that Israel which was fed in the
wilderness upon manna and water from the rock, whereof both were types of
Christ, which was yet to come from thy womb, as a bridegroom from his chamber.
Thou art Aaron's rod that budded. Thou art David's daughter, all glorious
within, clothed in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.
V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.
R. A garden enclosed is my sister, my
spouse, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.
* O Mary, thy perfumes are a garden of
delights.
V. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove,
my undefiled.
R. O Mary, thy perfumes are a garden of
delights.
V. Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction. She whose feast-day we are
keeping, Mary, blessed Maid of Maidens, be our Advocate with God. Amen.
Reading 8
Thou art the vision of the Prophets and the
fulfilment of those things which they foretold. Thou art the gate whereof
Ezekiel spake, when he prophesied, and said, This gate shall be shut, it shall
not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of
Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut xliv. 2. Thou art the
Rod of Jesse, whereof Isaiah spake, xi. I, even that Rod whose Flower is
Christ, and whose offshoots shall choke out all the seedlings of sin, and fill the
earth with plants of grace. Thou art the Covenant foretold by Jeremiah when he
said xxxi. 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, not according
to the covenant that I made with their fathers thereby signifying the coming of
thy Son, and calling upon all nations to worship Him for their God, even to the
uttermost parts of the earth. Thou art the great mountain spoken of by Daniel,
the man greatly beloved, wherefrom is cut without man's hands the corner-stone,
that is, Christ, which hath smitten in pieces the parti-coloured image of the
old serpent. I honour thee as the unpolluted fountain, I proclaim that thou art
full of grace, I praise thee as the clean and undefiled tabernacle of God.
Verily, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. As by a woman death
entered into the world, by a woman came the power to rise again. The serpent
gave us to eat deadly fruit, but that fall hath ended in the lifegiving Bread
of Immortality. Eve, our first mother, brought forth Cain the first murderer;
thou, O Mary, hast brought forth Christ, the first-fruits of life and of the
resurrection. Ear hath not heard the like. It hath not entered into the heart
of man to conceive this new thing. Blessed be the unspeakable depths of the
Wisdom of God.
V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.
R. My soul doth magnify the Lord;
* For He That is mighty hath done to me
great things, and holy is His name.
V. For, behold, from henceforth all
generations shall call me blessed.
R. For He That is mighty hath done to me
great things, and holy is His name.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
* and to the Holy Ghost.
R. For He That is mighty hath done to me
great things, and holy is His name.
V. Grant, Lord, a blessing.
Benediction. May He that is the Angels'
King to that high realm His people bring. Amen.
Reading 9
And now we, the people of God, a holy
generation, an acceptable congregation, the nestlings of the dove of peace,
children of grace, do with purified minds and unpolluted lips, praise God in
the tongues of all nations in this joyful solemnity of the Virgin. This is a
noble Feast wherein the Angels keep holiday and men do most fitly offer praise,
even a feast wherein we echo with reverence and joy that salutation first
spoken by Gabriel. Hail Mary! Hail, thou Paradise of God the Father, whence the
knowledge of Him floweth in broad rivers to the ends of the earth! Hail,
Dwelling-place of God the Son, whence He came forth clothed in flesh! Hail,
mysterious Tabernacle of God the Holy Ghost! Hail, thou that art holier than
the Cherubim! Hail, thou that art more glorious than the Seraphim! Hail, thou
that art nobler than the heavens! Hail, thou that art brighter than the sun!
Hail, thou that art fairer than the moon! Hail, manifold splendour of the
stars! Hail, light cloud, dropping the dew of heaven! Hail, holy breeze,
clearing the air of the vapours of sin! Hail, royal theme of the Prophets!
Hail, sound of the Apostles gone out into all the earth! Hail, most excellent
confession of the Martyrs! Hail, just hope of the Patriarchs! Hail, peculiar
honour of all the Saints! Hail, source of health to dying creatures! Hail, O
Queen, ambassadress of peace! Hail, stainless crown of motherhood! Hail,
advocate of all under heaven! Hail, restoration of the whole world! Hail, thou
that art full of grace, the Lord is with thee, even the Lord that is before
thee, and from thee, and that is with us. To Him, with the Father, and the most
holy and Life-giving Spirit, be ascribed all praise, now and ever, world
without end. Amen.
The corruption of the Bergoglian regime continues. Edward Pentin, without a doubt the top Catholic journalist today, reports on a tangled web which diverted 50 million Euros from the Jesu Bambino Hospital to the same dermatological hospital involved in previous financial scandals. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/tangled-web-of-transactions-utilized-to-fund-bankrupt-italian-hospital Bergoglio is no pope. He is a thug. He has surrounded himself by evil men who are weak in morals and ethics and whom he can use for his own gain. May Our Lord Jesus Christ protect His real Church and cleanse this filth and corruption from it with a vengeance not seen since Sodom and Gomorrah.
In the liturgical cycle of the Roman liturgy before the destruction which began in 1955, this time now after December 8 was known as the Octave of the Immaculate Conception. You can follow this link, http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl# which is also on a tab above to find out more about today and the different versions of the Divine Office, not including the new deformed and debased, Liturgy of the Hours wherein Pope Montini even had the temerity to write, "In this new arrangement of the psalms a few of the psalms
and verses that are somewhat harsh in tone have been omitted, especially
because of the difficulties anticipated from their use in vernacular
celebration." Because Pope Giovanni Battisti Montini knew better than the King David, the Prophet and God himself. Leaving you to research as you will, I do wish to post the Readings of the Third Nocturne from St. Bernard of Clariveaux on Mary as the new Eve. May they enrich your day.
Reading 7
From the Holy Gospel
according to Luke
Luke 1:26-28
In that time the angel
Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin
espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the
virgin's name was Mary. And so on.
Homily by St. Bernard,
Abbot of Clairvaux.
2nd on this text.
Rejoice, father Adam,
and yet more thou mother Eve, ye that are the source of all, and the ruin of
all, and the unhappy cause of their ruin before ye gave them birth. Be
comforted both in your daughter, and such a daughter; but chiefly thou, O
woman, of whom the first evil came, and who hast cast thy slur upon all women.
The time is come for the slur to be taken away, and for the man to have nothing
to say against the woman. At the first, when he unwisely began to make excuse,
he scrupled not to throw the blame upon her, saying, The woman whom Thou gavest
to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Wherefore, O Eve, betake
thyself to Mary Mother, betake thyself to thy daughter let the daughter answer
for the mother let her take away her mother's reproach; let her make up to her
father for her mother's fault for if man be fallen by means of woman, it is by
means of woman that he is raised up again.
V. But thou, O Lord,
have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.
R. A garden enclosed
is my sister, my spouse, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.
* O Mary, thy perfumes
are a garden of delights.
V. Open to me, my
sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.
R. O Mary, thy
perfumes are a garden of delights.
V. Grant, Lord, a
blessing.
Benediction. She whose
feast-day we are keeping, Mary, blessed Maid of Maidens, be our Advocate with
God. Amen.
Reading 8
What didst thou say, O
Adam? The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I
did eat. These are wrathful words, by the which thou dost rather magnify than
diminish thine offence. Nevertheless, Wisdom hath defeated thy malice. God
asked thee that He might find in thee an occasion of pardon, but, in that He
found it not, He hath sought and found it in the Treasure of His Own mercy. One
woman answereth for another; the wise for the foolish; the lowly for the proud;
for her that gave thee of the tree of death, another that giveth thee to taste
of the tree of life; for her that brought thee the bitter food of sin, another
that giveth thee of the sweet fruits of righteousness. Wherefore accuse the
woman no more, but speak in thanksgiving, and say, Lord, the woman whom Thou
hast given me, she hath given me of the tree of life, and I have eaten; and it
is in my mouth sweeter than honey, for thereby hast Thou quickened me. (Ps.
cxviii. 103, 93.) Behold, it was for this that the angel Gabriel was sent to
the Virgin, to the most worshipful of women, a woman more wonderful than all
women, the restorer of them that went before, and the quickener of them that
come after her.
V. But thou, O Lord,
have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.
R. My soul doth
magnify the Lord;
* For He That is
mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is His name.
V. For, behold, from
henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
R. For He That is
mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is His name.
V. Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. For He That is
mighty hath done to me great things, and holy is His name.
V. Grant, Lord, a
blessing.
Benediction. May He
that is the Angels' King to that high realm His people bring. Amen.
Reading 9
Has it not of this thy
daughter, O Adam, that God spake when He said unto the serpent, I will put
enmity between thee and the woman And if thou wilt still doubt that He speaketh
of Mary, hear what followeth She shall bruise thy head. Who won this conquest
but Mary? She brought to nought the whole wiles of Satan, whether for the
pollution of her body or the injury of her soul. Was it not of her that Solomon
spake, where he saith, Who shall find a virtuous woman? (Prov. xxxi. 10.) The
wise man knew the weaknesses of women, how frail they are in body, and how
changeable in mind. But he had read that God had promised that the enemy, who had
prevailed by means of a woman, was by a woman to be overthrown, and he
believed. But he wondered greatly, and said, Who shall find a virtuous woman?
that is to say If our salvation, and the bringing back of that which is lost,
and the final triumph over the enemy, is in the hand of a woman, it must needs
be that a virtuous woman be found, meet to work in that matter
How far are you prepared to follow Jorge Mario Bergoglio? When will the you "red-pill?" When will the light go on that this man is a devil? Since the first time he emerged in the loggia we have seen on nearly a daily basis more and more actions and words by this man that reveal his true nature. How far will you follow him?
