“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
“YOU HAVE SAID SO” - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
“Truly, I say to you,
one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to
him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, “He who has dipped his
hand in the dish with me, will betray me. The Son of man goes as it is written of
him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been
better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who betrayed him, said,
“Is it I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said so.”(Mt 26, 20-25)
On March 25, the 2020 Pontifical Yearbook was published with
a real novelty. It may seem like a typographical trifle, in the part dedicated
to the reigning pontiff, but this is not the case. Until last year, in fact,
Francis’s titles were listed at the top of the page, beginning with “Vicar of
Christ”, “Successor of the Prince of the Apostles” etc., and ending with his
birth name and a very brief biography.
In the new edition, on the other hand, the secular name
JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO stands out in large letters, followed by the biography,
the date of election and the beginning of his “ministry as universal Pastor of
the Church.” Separated by a dash and the words, “Historical titles,” all the
titles of the Roman Pontiff are then listed, as if they were no longer an
integral part of the Munus Petrinum that legitimizes the authority which the
Church recognizes in the Pope.
This change in the layout and content of an official text of
the Catholic Church cannot be ignored, nor is it possible to attribute it to a
gesture of humility on the part of Francis, which is not in keeping with his
name being so prominently featured. Instead, it seems possible to see in it the
admission — passed over in silence — of a sort of usurpation, whereby it is not
the “Servus servorum Dei” who reigns, but the person of Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
who has officially disavowed being the Vicar of Christ, the Successor of the
Prince of the Apostles and the Supreme Pontiff, as if they were annoying
trappings of the past: only mere “historical titles.”
An almost defiant gesture — one might say — in which Francis
transcends every title. Or worse: an act to officially alter the Papacy, by
which he no longer recognizes himself as guardian, but becomes master of the
Church, free to demolish it from within without having to answer to anyone. In
short, a tyrant.
May the significance of this most serious act not escape
pastors and the faithful, for by it the sweet Christ on earth — as St.
Catherine called the Pope — releases himself from his role as Vicar to proclaim
himself, in a delirium of pride, absolute monarch even with respect to Christ.
We are approaching the sacred days of the Savior’s Passion,
which commences in the Upper Room with the betrayal of one of the Twelve. It is
not illegitimate to wonder whether the understanding words with which Bergoglio
tried to rehabilitate Judas on June 16, 2016 were not a clumsy attempt to
exonerate himself.
This chilling thought is further confirmed by the terrible
decision to allow an almost universal ban of the public celebration of Easter,
for the first time since the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
“The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to
that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!” (Mt 26:24)
Would you please assist in getting both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Form Masses from the Toronto Oratory of St. Philip Neri "Livestreamed." YouTube requires 1,000 followers for livestreaming and the page stands at 387 at the time of this writing. We can push it over 1,000 today. The Masses are broadcast daily but recorded slightly earlier.
What has gone on with the people behind Rorate Caeli blog. They have lost control of their reason and rationality. People are losing their minds and have lost the ability to disagree and debate.
Anyone from Rorate wish to comment? You know, two can play at this game, I can delist you from here too.
For all those so very holy Catholics who continue to not see the reality of the public health crisis and who fail to understand that the Mass does not need them.
As it has settled down, I am restoring the open combox. If you attack this writer, your comment will be deleted and you will be blocked.
Today at the Hotel Santa Marta, the Pope Bergoglio gave an interesting homily.
"What are my idols? Everyone has their own. What are my
idols? Where do I hide them? May the Lord not find us at the end of our life,
and say: “You are perverted. You have strayed from my path. You prostrated
yourself before an idol." Yes, you did.
Has God unleashed his wrath on Pope Francis and the Church? We know in the Old Testament that when Israel sinned, God acted and it was not necessarily with mercy.
Mercy is what we've heard for seven years now this March. How coincidental. We've seen Church doctrine overturned and sodomites come out of hiding executing their heinous control over the Church. The Bishop of Rome who should be affirming all in the Faith has instead undermined. He grovels, literally, on the floor to kiss the feet of tribal leaders and heads of state and refused to genuflect to the Lord that made Heaven and Earth at the Mass or at Adoration. I could go on.
When he was elected, Pope Bergoglio shunned the simple and humble and cost-free papal apartment in itself, large because it is multi-functional, but not overly luxurious, instead staying in the Hotel Santa Marta. He said it was because he needed to be around people and did not want to be isolated.
Yet, that room could he is in required the whole floor to be vacated and the revenue lost. He said it was out of humility that he would shun the luxurious 500 year old palace for the simple hotel room.
He said that for psychological reasons he did not want to be so isolated from people in the palace and to eat his meals in public. We can speculate on whether these were his real reasons, of course, charity demands we believe him.
How ironic then that all that he wanted has now been taken from him.
The fact that the pope has decided to eat alone, in his own
room, indicates that he is very worried. We recall how Pope Bergoglio decided,
when he was elected, not to occupy the papal apartment in the Vatican Palace as
his predecessors had done, but to live at Santa Marta. He took his meals in the
common dining room, although for some years a row of potted plants gave him a
small amount of privacy. But the fact that he has now renounced community life
is a sign that he is both worried and prudent. Tosatti also describes how the China-Wuhan Virus is spreading behind Vatican walls.
Has God unleashed his wrath on Pope Francis and the Church?
That'll teach you to worship pagan idols and then lie and spin that it is an image of the non-existent Our Lady of the "Amazon."
And what does he do? Join in an "Our Father."
Holy Father, try "sackcloth and ashes" for your pagan idolatry, doctrinal heresy and cover up of sexual filth and perversion, sodomite clerics and financial corruption and malfeasance.
The Church is being scourged by God. It is happening in our site. But after Good Friday, comes Easter and she will shine brighter than ever,
Father Joseph Ratzinger’s 1969 Prediction: What the Church
Will Look Like in 2000
In a 1969 German radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger
offered his thoughtfully considered answer to the question, “What will become
of the Church in the future?” Here are his concluding remarks,
“The future of the Church can and will issue from those
whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It
will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing
moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they
themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take
the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and
obsolete, tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon men, that hurts
them and compels them to sacrifice themselves. To put this more positively: The
future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men,
that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more
than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality.
Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only
through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion,
which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by
this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened. He sees
only to the extent that he has lived and suffered. If today we are scarcely
able any longer to become aware of God, that is because we find it so easy to
evade ourselves, to flee from the depths of our being by means of the narcotic
of some pleasure or other. Thus our own interior depths remain closed to us. If
it is true that a man can see only with his heart, then how blind we are!
How does all this affect the problem we are examining? It
means that the big talk of those who prophesy a Church without God and without
faith is all empty chatter. We have no need of a Church that celebrates the
cult of action in political prayers. It is utterly superfluous. Therefore, it
will destroy itself. What will remain is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church
that believes in the God who has become man and promises us life beyond death.
The kind of priest who is no more than a social worker can be replaced by the
psychotherapist and other specialists; but the priest who is no specialist, who
does not stand on the [sidelines], watching the game, giving official advice,
but in the name of God places himself at the disposal of man, who is beside
them in their sorrows, in their joys, in their hope and in their fear, such a
priest will certainly be needed in the future.
Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the
Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become
small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will
no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As
the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social
privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a
voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will
make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members.
Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the
priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller
congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally
be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the
priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which
one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full
conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in
Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the
end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments
as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.
The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming
upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right.
It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and
clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and
cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more
arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have
to be shed. One may predict that all of this will take time. The process will
be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve
of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun
of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain
— to the renewal of the nineteenth century. But when the trial of this sifting
is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified
Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely.
If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of
their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as
something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them,
an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.
And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very
hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on
terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end:
not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of
faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that
she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as
man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.
The Catholic Church will survive in spite of men and women,
not necessarily because of them. And yet, we still have our part to do. We must
pray for and cultivate unselfishness, self-denial, faithfulness, Sacramental
devotion and a life centered on Christ.
In 2009 Ignatius Press released Father Joseph Ratzinger’s
speech “What Will the Church Look Like in 2000” in full, in a book entitled
Faith and the Future.
ROME — Pope Francis told a Spanish journalist Sunday that
nature never forgives and the coronavirus pandemic is nature’s cry for humans
to take better care of creation.
Asked by a Spanish journalist via Skype whether the COVID-19
pandemic is nature’s way of taking “revenge” on humanity, the pontiff suggested
that nature is calling for attention.
“There’s a saying, which you have heard: ‘God always
forgives. We sometimes forgive. Nature never forgives,’” the pope said. “Fires,
earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her.”
The pope was also asked whether he is “optimistic” about the
future of humanity in dealing with the coronavirus.
“I don’t like that word, because optimism sounds like makeup
to me,” Francis replied. “I have hope in humanity, in men and women, I have
hope in nations. I’m very hopeful. People who are going to draw lessons from
this crisis to rethink their lives.”
“We are going to come out of this better… fewer, of course.
Many are left along the way and it’s hard. But I have faith: we will come
through this better.”
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has insisted on
humanity’s responsibility to care for nature, calling for an integral ecology
that cares for human beings as well as the rest of creation.
A true ecological approach “always becomes a social
approach,” the pope wrote in his 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si. “It must
integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear
both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”
Francis has also tended to personalize nature, suggesting
that it “cries out” when it is mistreated.
Situations such as a loss of biodiversity and economic
inequality “have caused sister earth, along with all the abandoned of our
world, to cry out, pleading that we take another course,” he wrote. “Never have
we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred
years.”
“Neglecting to monitor the harm done to nature and the
environmental impact of our decisions is only the most striking sign of a
disregard for the message contained in the structures of nature itself,” he
said. “When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor
person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few
examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is
connected.”
Be very careful. That Mass you demanded to attend may be your last. Or that of someone you love. But who cares, they're old and have pre-existing conditions.
And you call yourself a Catholic. I have two words for you but I won't use profanity.
Clearly, this was a waste of time. It won't be done again. In an effort to assist you on this Fourth Sunday of Lent, I have put together this Mass for the Domestic Church interspersed with organ music, it is Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday and the Ordinary and Propers of the Mass for today. It's very much what I would have programmed, sung and lead had I been able to.
Look, I know not attending Mass is a hardship. I get it. What you must "get" is that yesterday, nearly 700 people died in Italy of the China Virus. Yes, I know, they had pre-existing conditions and they were old so they were going to die anyway. What kind of Catholic are you if you think this way?
St. Junipero Serra offered no Mass on the ship to the New World. It was not allowed, the Precious Blood would have spilt. St. Francis of Assisi offered no Mass in the mountain on his retreat. Even if he wanted to, he could not, he was a deacon. Stop the fuss. I predict that tomorrow, flights in North America will be grounded and the stock markets closed. Shortly thereafter, we will be ordered under martial law to shelter in place. Why? Because if we do not, 10,000,000 in North America are going to die by the end of August because this mitigation is not much better than doing nothing and people are not listening. If we bite the bullet, it will be over in seven weeks and we will be all together before Pentecost ad the dead will be held to around 10,000. Our grandparents were called to war, we are called to our couch and our gardens. We can do this. God has not abandoned us.
Please remember Fox and me in your prayers. Let us pray for one another at this time.
God bless you.
Missa Sicca Pro Ecclesia Domestica
(Dry Mass for the Domestic Church)
In the name of the Father +and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit. Introitus Isa 66:10-11 Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and come together, all you who love
her: rejoice with joy, you who have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be
filled from the breasts of your consolation. Ps 121:1
I rejoiced because they said to me, We will go up to the
house of the Lord. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost. ℟. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and come together, all you who love
her: rejoice with joy, you who have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be
filled from the breasts of your consolation.
The Confiteor
I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever virgin, to
blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the holy
Apostles Peter and Paul, to all the saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in
thought, word and deed (strike breast three times): through my fault, through
my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseech the blessed Mary
ever virgin, blessed Michael the Archangel, blessed John the Baptist, the holy
Apostles Peter and Paul, all the saints, to pray to the Lord Our God for me. +
May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring us to life
everlasting. Amen.
The Kyrie
Prayer
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that we who justly
suffer for our sins may find relief in the help of Your grace.Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and
reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without
end.
℟. Amen.
Lesson
Lesson from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians
Gal 4:22-31
Brethren: It is written that Abraham had two sons, the one
by a slave-girl and the other by a free woman. And the son of the slave-girl
was born according to the flesh, but the son of the free woman in virtue of the
promise. This said by way of allegory. For these are the two covenants: one
indeed from Mount Sinai bringing forth children unto bondage, which is Agar.
For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which corresponds to the present Jerusalem,
and is in slavery with her children. But that Jerusalem which is above is free,
which is our mother. For it is written, Rejoice, O barren one, that do not
bear; break forth and cry, you that do not travail; for many are the children
of the desolate, more than of her that has a husband. Now we, brethren, are the
children of the promise, as Isaac was. But as then he who was born according to
the flesh, persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, so also it is
now. But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the slave-girl and her son, for
the son of the slave-girl shall not be heir with the son of the free
woman. Therefore, brethren, we are not children of a slave-girl, but of the free
woman - in virtue of the freedom wherewith Christ has made us free. ℟ Thanks be to God. Gradual
Ps 121: 1, 7. I rejoiced because they said to me, We will go up to the
house of the Lord.
V. May peace be within your walls, prosperity in your
buildings.
Tract Ps 124:1-2 They who trust in the Lord are like Mount Sion, which is immovable; which forever stands. V. Mountains are round about Jerusalem; so the Lord is round about His people, both now and forever.
Gospel Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord. John 6:1-15 At that time, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea
of Galilee, which is that of Tiberias. And there followed Him a great crowd,
because they witnessed the signs He worked on those who were sick. Jesus
therefore went up the mountain, and sat there with His disciples. Now the
Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. When, therefore, Jesus had lifted up
His eyes and seen that a very great crowd had come to Him, He said to Philip,
Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? But He said this to try him, for
He Himself knew what He would do. Philip answered Him, Two hundred denarii
worth of bread is not enough for them, that each one may receive a little. One
of His disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Him, There is a
young boy here who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what are these
among so many? Jesus then said, Make the people recline. Now there was much
grass in the place. The men therefore reclined, in number about five thousand.
Jesus then took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, distributed them to
those reclining; and likewise the fishes, as much as they wished. But when they
were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather the fragments that are left over,
lest they be wasted. They therefore gathered them up; and they filled twelve
baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves left over by those who had
eaten. When the people, therefore, had seen the sign which Jesus had worked,
they said, This is indeed the Prophet Who is to come into the world. So when
Jesus perceived that they would come to take Him by force and make Him king He
fled again to the mountain, Himself alone. R. Praise be to Thee, O Christ. Credo
Offertorium
Ps 134:3, 6.
Praise the Lord, for He is good; sing praise to His Name,
for He is sweet; all that He wills He does in heaven and on earth.
Prefatio It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that
we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord,
Father almighty, everlasting God; Who by this bodily fast, dost curb our vices,
dost lift up our minds and bestow on us strength and rewards; through Christ
our Lord. Through whom the Angels praise Thy Majesty, the Dominations worship
it, the Powers stand in awe. The Heavens and the heavenly hosts together with
the blessed Seraphim in triumphant chorus unite to celebrate it. Together with
these we entreat Thee that Thou mayest bid our voices also to be admitted while
we say with lowly praise: Sanctus
Invocation of the Saints Almighty God, may our prayers be joined to the intercession
of the glorious every virgin Mary Mother of God; also of the blessed Joseph,
her spouse, and likewise of your blessed Apostles and martyrs, Peter and Paul,
Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and
Thaddeus, Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence,
Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, of all thy saints. Grant for the
sake of their merits and prayers in all things we may be guarded and helped by
Your protection. + Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. Prayer for the Living Be mindful, O Lord, of N… our Pope, N… our Bishop, N… our
Priest, Your servants and handmaids N… and N…, and of those entrusted to my
care, for whom this sacrifice of praise is offered, in union with the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass offered by Your ordained priests throughout the world.
Grant, O Lord, the redemption of their souls and the hope of their safety and
salvation. Prayer for the Dead Be mindful, also, O Lord, of Your servants and handmaids
N... and N... who are gone before us with the sign of faith and who sleep the
sleep of peace. To these, O Lord, and to all who rest in Christ, grant, we
beseech You, a place of refreshment, light and peace. + Through the same Christ
our Lord. Amen. Prayer for Eternal Happiness To us also Your sinful servants, who put our trust in the
multitude of Your mercies, vouchsafe to grant some part and fellowship with
Your holy Apostles and martyrs: with John, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas,
Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy,
Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, and all your saints. Into their company we beseech You
admit us, not considering our merits, but freely pardoning our offenses. +
Through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Our Father
Agnus Dei
Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that You are in the Blessed Sacrament. I
love You above all things, and I long for You in my soul. Since I cannot now
receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. As though
You have already come, I embrace You and unite myself entirely to You; never
permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Communio
Ps 121:3-4
Jerusalem, built as a city, with compact unity: to it the
tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to give thanks to Your Name, O Lord.
The Last Gospel (John 1:1–14)
The beginning +︎ of the holy Gospel according to John.
R. Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
Joann. 1, 1-14.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were
made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made: in Him was life,
and the life was the Light of men; and the Light shineth in darkness, and the
darkness did not comprehend it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man
came for a witness, to testify concerning the Light, that all might believe
through Him. He was not the Light, but he was to testify concerning the Light.
That was the true Light, which enlighteneth every man that
cometh into this world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and
the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But
as many as received Him to them He gave power to become sons of God, to them
that believe in His Name, who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. Here all kneel. And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us: and we saw His glory, the glory as of the Only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
R. Thanks be to God.
In the name of the Father + and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit.
Here is a beautiful letter from Cardinal Burke. I suggested something similar a few posts below to keep churches open.
But I have changed my mind. Do you know why? Because some or most cannot be trusted. They are so arrogant and prideful they will still come to church sick.
And you say, "oh, well those who die have pre-existing conditions or are old."
