Cardinal Collins - open our churches for public worship and do it now!

It is long past time for all of us to call upon Toronto's Archbishop, Thomas Cardinal Collins, to defy the government diktats of the Province of Ontario and open the churches now for public worship to thirty percent. Now, let's be specific. The Government of Ontario and its Premier Douglas Ford did not close churches, not this time. They ridiculously limited attendance to ten, which in reality, when one includes the priest, would be eight or nine at the most. But you know, "it's just not worth it." The Cardinal has reacted to the inane limit of ten and the view of those around him of the worth of it and eliminated public Mass altogether. He has said that churches may remain open for private prayer at the discretion of the pastor. I know pastors that are doing this and are hearing confession, some in cars or driveways of their flock. Others, specifically in my neighborhood, are shut tight to keep the China Virus away. 

Disgraceful. Not even in Poland did the communists shut down the churches, but in Toronto in 2020? Well, our spineless episcopal hirelings have done it themselves. Marx will be smiling from Hell. 

There is no significant evidence or scientific data of any kind that the China Virus has been transmitted in churches. Maybe a few here and there, that's it. Data shows that only one-percent of China Virus infections have come from restaurants, it must be even less from churches where we all face the same direction, or Tina's Department Store on Royal York Road in old Mimico. They have no web page, no ability to see their fine Italian wares and other merchandise. I never remember them not being there, fifty maybe sixty years! The closures are irrational. Yesterday, we witnessed Ontario's two top doctors (see below https://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2020/12/breaking-news-cardinal-thomas-collins.html having a little laugh at Tina's expense or Mr. Giovenco's shoes a few stores away. These stores could easily limit to one or two customers at a time. This argument now is the same all across Canada and the United States. We all know it, but nobody is listening.

They say, "follow the science." What science? This is a hoax on all of us. Not the virus, the virus real, the response is insane. The virus is real, I have never disputed that. It is almost one year to the day that I was struck with the most vicious in my life. I should know soon on the results of my participation in a massive study of Canadians for antibodies. I believe that I had the China Virus. But never would I expect that because I had it, or whatever it was, that Tina should have her business closed down or you couldn't attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Wash your hands, wear a mask inside in close quarters, stay away from sick people, take your vitamins.

We will know by Friday whether the lawsuit brought about by evangelical pastor Peter Youngren has been successful. If it is, and all he is asking is a restoration to the thirty percent capacity limit, will Cardinal Collins restore the public Mass or will he still act as a puppet on the string of those who have subsidized the diocese and buy tables to the Cardinal's Dinner?

Father Richard Gennaro Cipolla has a necessary read on Rorate Caeli blog. The dangers to souls and to the future of the Church and the conclusions he draws for America are identical here. I have said and written the same thing, many people have found something better to do on Sunday morning and many others think that they are at Mass when watching on a computer or television screen. These people will not return. Others are angry and will not return. But we are not alone as Roman Catholics in this - even the local Orthodox edifice in my neighbourhood has on its outdoor sign, "Church closed until further notice." Even them. 

Yet, through all of this, there is one Catholic Church in Toronto, Peel and York Regions that soldiers on. Daily Mass with no more than ten, massive bookings for Confession and Holy Communion. A little church on a residential street formerly owned by Baptists and under the direction of the Society of St. Pius X. 

I hear from priests daily on what I am writing. They urge me to keep going, not to stop. I tell none of them of the other and I assure you, there are many. I ask for their prayers, that is all. I can tell you, they are working. They are hearing confessions, some from cars, they are providing the sacraments and doing what they can under the restrictions imposed by the Cardinal. Not all are cowering in their rectories, but many are. If your priest is not available to you I can't even guarantee that an email to archbishop@archtoronto.org northern.region@archtoronto.org eastern.region@archtoronto.org bishop.boissonneau@rogers.com or even to the spox, Neil MacCarthy neilm@archtoronto.org, will change anything, but I urge you to try.

The other day a priest told me what I already suspected, that the post-China virus Church in Toronto is facing devastation. How sad that the last year of Cardinal Collins' tenure in Toronto will be one of desolation caused by his own decisions. He speaks often of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher. How eloquent he was at Our Lady in Guelph upon receiving the red hat and returning to his boyhood parish where he served the Mass - "ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam." He did it at the Oratory when ordaining deacons a few weeks ago just before he shut it down. So much talk of More and Fisher.

Maybe he should act like them instead of just talking about them.

BREAKING NEWS: CARDINAL THOMAS COLLINS' "VIRTUOUS" DOCTORS CAUGHT ON A HOT MIC ADMITTING “I JUST SAY WHATEVER THEY WRITE DOWN FOR ME!"

Well, well, well; what do we have here. 

The Chief and Associate Chief Medical Officers of Health were caught yesterday on a hot-mic; and what did these "virtuous" health care professionals in public health, you know, the ones who couldn't stand the sight of blood and finished of the bottom of their class, like Joe Biden, and that wanted a 9-5 job with lots of pay and benefits where they could tell people what to do, say? You know, those ones. The same ones that care so much about our dying seniors that they happily give them murder/suicide when they get too lonely from lockdowns. The same ones. Yeah, those ones, those same "virtuous"  ones according to His Emasculatedness, I mean His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto and Prince of the Holy Catholic Church. The same ones that intimidated him into dropping the Holy Sacrament on the hand and then badgering him to shut down Holy Mass or no more ticky or boppy to keep the charade going. 

Yeah, those ones. Those "virtuous" ones who care so much about you and me and the poor barber down the street. Heck, you don't need to take my word for it. Here it is from their own secret webinar which someone mysteriously made available and sent up to the clouds for all to see. 

Archdiocese of Toronto Webinar - Friday November 13, 2020 (rumble.com)

Virtuous.

Right.

What lying, rotten, evil, disgraceful but "virtuous"scum.

Joe Warmington has the story.

WARMINGTON: Top Ontario doctors' hot mic moment spreading fast | Toronto Sun

And remember. 

There is still;

DONALD J. TRUMP HAILS CHRIST THE REDEEMER - SPEAKS OF BLESSED MARY

The President of the United States, Donald John Trump`s 2020 Christmas address to America. Amazing how it was on all the media last night. Would that our Catholic Trudeau would come up to half of this man. 

Note the Nativity Scene. 

The prospect of Joseph Biden as President makes me want to hurl. Almost as much as when Bergoglio came out on the loggia. 

More Catholic than the Pope's!

US Bishops declare it an act of charity to take a vaccine created with an aborted baby's cells. Will Cardinal Collins say this is charitable too?

The Bishops of the United States of America have said that there is no moral issue in taking the rushed and poorly tested China Virus despite "their remote connection to morally compromised cell lines." 

“In view of the gravity of the current pandemic and the lack of availability of alternative vaccines, the reasons to accept the new COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are sufficiently serious to justify their use, despite their remote connection to morally compromised cell lines,” said the bishops. Taking one of those vaccines, said the bishops, “ought to be understood as an act of charity toward the other members of our community.” US Bishops Approve Use of Coronavirus Vaccines with ‘Remote Connection’ to Abortion| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)

In the leaked webinar video Cardinal Collins refers to the "common good." Will Collins and his Canadian episcopal colleagues join our American friends and urge Canadians to take a vaccine that has either been tested using fetal stem lines or actually developed from the stem lines of an aborted child?

When I die, I don't want this child to come to me with Jesus at my judgement admonishing me for aiding from her murder.

Does the Cardinal?

A question for Cardinal Collins

We reported earlier that evangelical Christian Pastor, Peter Youngren has taken the Government of Ontario to court under the equality rights provision of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 

The case is being heard now.

Vox Cantoris: Toronto church files constitutional challenge over COVID-19 restrictions - Cardinal Collins, will you join the lawsuit?

Pastor Youngren provides and update. 

I have a few questions for Thomas Collins. 

"If Pastor Youngren is successful, will you open churches for Mass?"

Will you publicly thank him for having the testicular fortitude to do what you would you and your spineless episcopal hireling have not done, because you lack something which our Italian friends like to call, 'cojones?"

Why will you not join him in this legal fight? Is it because the Archdiocese of Toronto is taking millions of dollars of Canadian government bailout?

Cardinal Thomas Collins: Pay attention to Cardinal Burke: Forces of the 'Great Reset' have used COVID to advance '...

The Gospel today is "This is the Record of John." It is Gaudete Sunday and in

Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, and after today in Bolton, Woodabridge, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Newmarket, Markham, Schomberg, Aurora and Snowball, there is:

Notwithstanding this abomination, let us all Gaudete!

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:4-7

Y'all get the "Soup Nazi" reference, right?

no soup for you video - Bing

Okay, now enjoy and note my own published editorial arrangement of this most sublime offering by Orlando Gibbons.

 

http://www.canticanova.com/catalog/products/a_record_john.htm

"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."

 

No Mass for you in York Region

York Region (for my American readers, these were formerly known as Counties) is now under the lockdown diktat of Ontario Politburo General-secretary Douglas Ford effective Monday at 12:00 A.M. York joins Toronto and Peel Region in the imposed lockdown. As with many places in the United States of America, Walmart and Costco remain open but the Main Street dress shop or shoe store remain closed. Home Depot can sell a stove or washer but Bad Boy and The Hudson's Bay Company, cannot. It is illogical. What is also illogical is that the population centres are the three cities in the south Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham as well  Newmarket and Aurora with the rest of York being bucolic countryside, rural farms and villages. Why wipe out what is left of Schomberg (including the Latin Mass) or the hamlet of Snowball?

To his credit, last evening Cardinal Thomas Collins issued a letter wherein he states: 

"It is increasingly frustrating for all of us to see certain businesses open while others remain closed and that some, including places of worship, appear to be severely restricted with little evidence to suggest they are a cause of transmission. Earlier this week, I communicated these concerns directly to Premier Ford."

At the same time, His Eminence again goes beyond Ford's inane reduction of church capacity to ten by eliminating public worship in these regions. The Cardinal reiterates that over 13,000 Canadians have died of SARS-CoV-2 which originated in Wuhan, China. The Cardinal states that he recognizes the "significant spiritual suffering that these restrictions have placed both upon our clergy and the faithful that look to us for guidance and direction." He continues that he hopes we will "soon be able fully (sic) to resume public worship." He also states that "we have demonstrated our ability to safely worship together."  

Again, this writer reiterates the same as before, there is no reason to close the public celebration of Mass. Abide by the provincial diktat and protest it. It is worth the challenge of limiting the congregation and at the same time, take the province to court.

The Cardinal has again advised that churches remain open for public prayer at the pastor's discretion. Obviously, this is happening, right?

Toronto Catholics, are your churches open?

Are you able to receive the Sacraments privately? 

Advise me at voxcantoris@rogers.com if your pastor is not accessible and we will report it directly to the chancery and here. 

Do you even care?

 

Fighting Back Against the Satanic Mob

Bergoglio goes full out now on globalism, new capitalism and pro-abortionists. Flee from this evil monster! Dr. Taylor Marshall goes there, "APOCALPTIC!"

O God in heaven, FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT, deliver us from the evil Bergoglio, smite him and confound him in his actions. 

Flea from this Bergoglio. Nearly eight years now we have endured this man, this mocker of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother. Catholics now lulled by his "Year of St. Joseph." Nothing this man does his good. It is a fraud, a charade, a veil so you think he is still Catholic. Never flea the Catholic Church but flea this Bergoglio. The man is a fraud. I now believe that he is an atheist. 

Ralph Martin pleads with us in a video released yesterday to "Flea now - (from) the wrath that is coming."  (183) Ralph Martin - Flee Now! – The Wrath That is Coming - YouTube pleading, "save yourself from this perverse generation." Acts 2:40

The unleashing of God's wrath is upon us and it can no longer be held back. This false Vicar of Christ, this unbelieving atheist monster, Jorge Bergoglio has unleashed the restrainer with his worship of idols. Those complicit bishops and cardinals are easy to find. We know who they are. They have stopped you from going to Mass and they are about to cancel your Christ's Mass.

Was it not bad enough when he permitted the blasphemous lie that the two pregnant idols were Holy Mary and St. Elizabeth or that this satanic image is "Our Lady of the Amazon?" (no such venerated title). He did not denounce these claims. Was it not enough that he blasphemed Our Lady on the Immaculate Conception in 2015? No, it was not enough. For it was on the great Feast of Our Lady that this evil monster was partnering with relations of the Rothchild's and with Sachs and others in this Vatican Council for Inclusive Capitalism which even links to their social media. 

How much more proof do we need, and for you, there is no Mass!

O God in heaven, FATHER SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, deliver us from the evil Bergoglio, smite him and confound him in his actions. Send us a holy shepherd who will fight and lead your people.

Pope joins with global companies to promote capitalism in line with UN’s pro-abortion goals | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Dr. Taylor Marshall goes there - "apocalyptic!"

Cardinal Collins - bullies back down! What are you waiting for!

The "Progressive" Conservative government of Manitoba has just been dealt a blow, backing down after threats of a lawsuit, now permitting a drive-in church with people in their cars. Ridiculous that one must be in a car but the point is made. 

Cardinal Collins, bullies back down. You know that. I did you a favour and did it to Rosica, and what thanks did I get?

Come on man. You can do this.

After lawsuit threat, Canadian province relents, will not suppress church services from car | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Douglas Crosbie and his masked marauders violate Ontario laws at Creche - no visits at Christmas!

"WISE MEN WEAR MASKS! So do good shepherds! This year's Christmas Crib at the Chancery has a COVID-19 pandemic addition. The Magi and the shepherds, who are not part of the Holy Family "bubble" are wearing masks! Since they cannot follow the social distancing protocol, the masks are mandatory! Thanks to the Christmas decorators for reminding us of our responsibility to care for one another especially during these dangerous times!" Latest Heart to Heart from Bishop Crosby, OMI - Diocese of Hamilton (hamiltondiocese.com)

Dangerous times? I'd like to find a good shepherd with a mask or without. There is only one, The, Good Shepherd. The rest of these immuno-compromised, episcopal-effetes  are "hirelings" at best and "wolves in sheep's clothing" at worst. 

This is the same Douglas Crosbie, OMI, who as Pastor at St. Joseph's Ottawa presided over and encouraged his congregants to harass four priests attempting to found an Oratory of St. Philip Neri at St. Brigid's Parish, now an event centre. I know, I was there. The same bishop that brought along two "co-pastors" whatever that means, plucking them out of Labrador and installing them in two historical Hamilton parishes. "Co-Pastors."

Co-Pastors? That sounds dangerous.

Toronto church files constitutional challenge over COVID-19 restrictions - Cardinal Collins, will you join the lawsuit?

Peter Youngren is an evangelical Christian pastor in Toronto. His worship centre is known as the Toronto Celebration Church. If you view Youngren's video, he shows what we all know is happening in Catholic churches. Seating is spaced and numbers restricted to 30%, sanitation is all around. There is no evidence that the China Virus has been spreading in churches or synagogues or mosques for that matter.  

His argument is based upon equal treatment under Canada's Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For my American readers, our Constitutional rights are not absolute as in the United States of America, they can be limited as in the case of hate-crime legislation limiting freedom of expression. There is also a provision for a province to opt-out of a supreme court decision using what is called the "notwithstanding clause" which has been used primarily by the liberal-fascist Province of Quebec, in defending its language laws. 

However, the clause that is vital is 15 on the matter of Equality Rights and is relevant as one considers the permit of Costco and Walmart, American corporate conglomerates to open while the mom and pop retailer is closed, it is relevant that The Bay and Bad Boy cannot open to sell a washer or dryer or refrigerator, but Home Depot can. Why these retailers have not launched a Charter challenge is not certain. Pastor Youngren bases his argument on this:

15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

This is the very argument that Thomas Cardinal Collins has and has failed to use. He has failed to lead the Assembly of Bishops of Ontario, some of whom have implemented regulations that are even illegal under the Ontario health regulations, such as demanding evidence of a medical
mask exemption. He has failed us.

Collins is in a unique position. He could rally all religious leaders. In a grand gesture of ecumenical action and inter-religious dialogue he could have summoned Protestant, Jewish and Muslims to jointly petition Ford for change or the courts for relief. He has failed to do anything but reduce the inane limit of Ford's ten, even in an auditorium the size of Youngren's or St. Clare of Assisi in Woodbridge of the same size, to zero by banning all public worship of God. 

It is tempting to write that Collins is a disgrace to the episcopacy but sadly, he is typical of the weak, effeminate and fearful regime that has planted itself in control of the Church in Canada.

Would that we had someone such as Pastor Youngren.

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TORONTO — A church in Toronto's northeast corner has filed a constitutional challenge over Ontario's COVID-19 health regulations. 

The Toronto International Celebration Church says in court documents that it intends to question the constitutional validity of the Reopening Ontario Act. 

The notice of application says that the church is challenging the provincial health guideline that limits weddings, funerals, and religious services to 10 or fewer people in regions of Ontario that are under lockdown like Toronto and Peel Region. 

Peter Youngren, the founding pastor of the church, says in an online video that the church's congregation are not COVID-19 deniers and that they have carefully adhered to public health restrictions. 

"At a time when many are suffering with isolation, depression, and a sense of despair, the most loving thing a local church can do is throw its doors wide open while maintaining public health standards," said Youngren. 

He said that his church's auditorium has capacity for 1,100 people and a maximum attendance of 10 doesn't seem equitable compared to liquor stores and big-box retailers that are still operating at close to capacity. 

"We are deeply concerned about equal treatment under the law," said Youngren. "We want every business and institution, including churches, to receive unbiased treatment." 

The application argues that lockdown restrictions go against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees freedom of conscience and religion as well as freedom of peaceful assembly. 

Michael Bryant, executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and former attorney general of Ontario, said he applauded the constitutional challenge. 

“The limitation on this charter right has the proportionality of a sledgehammer," said Bryant. 

"This constitutional challenge is much needed to engage the judicial branch in our democracy, so we will seek to be heard by the Court." 

Documents filed to Ontario's Superior Court of Justice note that before Toronto was moved to a renewed lockdown on Nov. 23 the Toronto International Celebration Church complied with regional guidelines and operated at 30 per cent capacity. 

The legal documents also say the church ensured congregants wore masks in its building and kept members of different households at least two metres apart. 

Given the building's regular seating capacity, the documents say that the stricter regulation "represents a 99 per cent reduction on the number of worshippers who may attend an in-person service at the church." 

Lawyers for the church told the attorneys general of Ontario and Canada in a letter that they will be moving immediately to secure a motion date for an urgent injunction. 

Nicko Vavassis, a spokesman for Ontario's Attorney General, said that the ministry received the notice of application and that it was being reviewed but any further comment would be inappropriate as the matter is before the court. 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 9, 2020. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

 

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY  

COMMEMORATION OF SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT 

DOUBLE, FIRST CLASS / WHITE

From all eternity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit chose Mary to be the Mother of the Word Incarnate. It was unthinkable that she be defiled by sin, in any way or for the least second of time. Therefore, in the instant of creating Mary's person, the Trinity made her immaculate. This grace, like every other grace granted since the fall of Adam, was given her through the merits of Christ. She was truly saved, redeemed, not from an evil already present, but from an evil that threatened. 

INTROIT Isa. 61:10

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God, for He has clothed me with the garment of salvation and covered me with the robe of justice, like a bride adorned with her jewels.

Ps. 29:2. I will extol You, O Lord, for You have upheld me, and have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

V. Glory be . . . 

COLLECT

O God, by foreseen merits of the death of Christ, You shielded Mary from all stain of sin and preserved the Virgin Mother immaculate at her conception so that she might be a fitting dwelling place for Your Son. Cleanse us from sin through her intercession so that we also may come to You untainted by sin. Through Our Lord . . . 

Commemoration of the 2nd Sunday of Advent

O Lord, stir up our hearts to accept the message of Your only-begotten Son, so that, through His coming on earth, we may serve Him always with a pure intention; who lives and rules with You . . . 

EPISTLE  Prov. 8:22-35

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth: He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths: When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.

Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. 

GRADUAL  Judith 13:23; 15:10

By the Lord the Most High God you are blessed, O Virgin Mary, above all women upon earth. V. You are the glory of Jerusalem, you are the joy of Israel, you are the honor of our people. 

Alleluia, alleluia! V.  Cant. 4:7

You are all fair, O Mary, and there is in you no stain of original sin.

Alleluia! 

GOSPEL  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 the angel being come in, said unto her: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." 

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON  Luke 1:28

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Alleluia! 

SECRET

Accept this saving host, O Lord, which we offer you on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We firmly believe that she was shielded from all stain of sin by Your prevenient grace; may we be freed from all our faults through her holy intercession. Through Our Lord . . . 

Commemoration of the 2nd Sunday of Advent

O Lord, let our humble offering of these prayers and sacrifices appease You for our sins. We have no merits of our own to depend on; so assist us with Your aid. Through Our Lord . . . 

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

Glorious things are said of you, O Mary, for He who is mighty has done great things for you. 

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord our God, may the Sacrament that we have received heal in us the wounds of that sin from which blessed Mary alone was preserved by her Immaculate Conception. Through Our Lord . . . 

Commemoration of the 2nd Sunday of Advent

We have just been nourished with Your Body and Blood, O Lord. Teach us through this Sacramental rite to despise the things of earth and to yearn for the things of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .

Officium Parvum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis - Vesperae

It's the Second Sunday of Advent

It is the Second Sunday of Advent and the Introit is Populus Sion.

PEOPLE of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to save the nations: and the Lord shall make the glory of His voice to be heard, in the joy of your heart. Ps. Give ear, O Thou that rulest Israel: Thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. ℣. Glory be to the Father.

But you won't here it because Cardinal Thomas Collins has decreed that there will be:

Please enjoy this setting of the Introit by Heinrich Isaac, 1450-1517.

Have you had your robo-call yet?

Feel free to go to the video of the Cardinal's meeting with priests from two weeks ago. You'll want to listen starting around 40 minutes for His Excellency, Mr. MacCarthy reminding the priests to get their technology in tip-top shape and get the robo calls ready for pre-authorised giving.

https://rumble.com/embed/v8u2f7/?pub=4

You see, Your Eminence, it's a two-way street.

You open the churches for Mass, you get contributions.

You don't, you don't.

But if you're getting the government's largesse of up to 70% then what do you need our money for?

Cardinal Collins issues Frequently Asked Questions - Can there be any doubt? Come back in a year, it really is just not worth it.

Premier Douglas Ford, in moving Toronto and Peel Regions into the grey lockdown category and perhaps soon York Region, has arbitrarily reduced church capacity to ten, even if the church holds a thousand. It is ludicrous and idiotic and without a basis in science. As you know, Cardinal Collins then one upped him and reduced it to zero for Mass, only allowing ten in to pray privately.

I wrote a few days ago, "No Mass for you, it's just not worth it." Vox Cantoris: NO MASS FOR YOU! - IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT. Some criticised this writer for thinking so poorly of His Eminence. "Do you really think he believes the Mass is not worth it?"

Well, I will let you be the judge.

In a memorandum to all parishes today issued by the Cardinal through the communications office to all parishes for dissemination which was made available to this writer, I am proved correct.

“Offering public Masses when the civil authorities set a limit of only 10 people (in practice, that would mean 8 or 9 parishioners) creates numerous challenges to do so in a fair manner.” 

I agree, it does present numerous challenges.

Others that think it presents challenges are the good priests at the Church of the Transfiguration under the jurisdiction of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X. They agree with the Cardinal and Mr. MacCarthy, it does present numerous challenges. They have told me so. 

There is, however, one big difference.

To them, it is worth it.

Oh, by the way. You all know the origin of the meme, No Mass for you, right?

(305) Seinfeld: No Soup For You (Clip) | TBS - YouTube

or this.

(305) Seinfeld: NEXT! (Clip) | TBS - YouTube

And then

(305) Seinfeld: The Soup Nazi (Clip) | TBS - YouTube

From:      Office of Public Relations & Communications

Sent:        December 4, 2020 1:32 PM
To:           Office of Public Relations & Communications
Subject:  Memo from Neil MacCarthy - Question & Answer Document re Archdiocese of Toronto & Covid-19 Restrictions

To:                 All Priests, Parishes, Catholic Pastoral Centre & Satellite Office Staff

From:           Neil MacCarthy, Director, Public Relations & Communications

Date:             December 4, 2020

Re:                 Q & A document regarding Archdiocese of Toronto & Covid-19 restrictions

I am attaching a document that you are welcome to share or utilize as appropriate with answers to frequently asked questions we have been receiving in recent days. I am including two versions – both the Microsoft Word and PDF versions in the event you wish to cut and paste responses for a bulletin or other communication tool. 

I hope this is helpful in providing accurate information regarding the approach of the archdiocese during this period of pandemic. We are also monitoring announcements this afternoon from the Province of Ontario and will share additional information, if necessary. 

Thank you for your tireless efforts during these challenging days.

Are you there? Do you care? Or have they beaten you up so much you are numb?

Are you there my friends? Are you ready to fight? Have you girded your loins for battle? Are you a Miles Christi or are you so numbed by all of this that you have nothing to say, believe that there is nothing you can do? Have you been so deprived of the Holy Mass and Holy Eucharist so long now that you have been weakened, lost hope, given up? Are you giving in to despair? Have you forgotten your rosary? The Divine Office tab above?

Which is it, because I am confused?

I know you're there. This is you, can you find yourself? This is you as of 07:45 A.M. this morning from midnight. 

Just over a week ago, this blog broke through 8,000,000 page views and is now up nearly 42,000 since. I know you're there, I know you're reading. I don't write this to praise myself or seek acknowledgement, I am truly wondering what you are doing? You are reading, this I know, but you are not commenting - are you acting? Have you used the email addresses? Have you reached out to your parish priest?

Have you been so beaten up, so betrayed, so disappointed in those who govern you in Church and State that you have just accepted it, you've just given up? I hate to draw the comparison but am I just "a voice crying in the wilderness."

Have you written the Cardinal? Publish it in the combox? Have not but wish to tell him something? Write it in the comments and I will turn it into a post. 

Tell us your parish where the priest is not opening the church for private prayer up to a maximum of ten. Where are you not able to have a priest hear your confession, provide you Holy Communion? 

Where? 

Where is the priest hiding with his video games or whatever else he does when he should be wearing the small of the sheep? We will out them, we will make the Cardinal aware of their negligence. 

Trust me, the Cardinal has read these posts, the public letter. I know if for a fact. So have those around him. He will not be moved, at least, not yet. But we can continue to hold him accountable in this life for taking away from you, the Holy Mass and Holy Communion. We will publicly make it clear how you have been abandoned. And yet; not one of you has written. 

So, what one must conclude is that it is not happening, that our priests are meeting all your needs, all your spiritual care. Or they are not and you just don't believe that there is anything you can do. Or you just don't care anymore. Is that the case? Is that what you want Cardinal Collins to know - that you don't care, that this is just okay? 

Which is it Toronto Catholics? Are you ready to have the Cardinal shutter your churches for Christ's Mass? It is about to happen, you know, you can count on it.  York Region is next and you will have no Mass on Christmas. It does not need to be this way, we know what to do. 

Can you believe it? Do you get it now? He took Lent, Holy Week, the Triduum, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi. You missed all of it. Now they've taken Advent, you don't think that the Apostle of Christ, the "Pope in Toronto" as he has referred to himself is about to demolish Christmas Mass? He has already declared Mary, Mother of God - Feast of the Circumcision/Octave on January 1, not obligatory. Did you know that?

How much more are you prepared to take?

You have a combox. Out the priest right there, out the parish. You can remain anonymous.

Don't let them grind you down. It is what they want.

 

General Michael Flynn With Lou Dobbs

Bergoglio channels Biden

 

Cardinal Collins and Doug Ford - Trying to keep us safe. Is that their job?

 

Ontario Premier Douglas Ford attends the Cardinal's Dinner in November 2018

General-secretary Ford of the Ontario Politburo and Comrade John Tory, Mayor of Toronto and the unelected medical officers of public health, (who were never the sharpest scalpels in the tray in medical school) have threatened Cardinal Collins. Having watched the entire video made available to this writer, that is obvious. LifeSiteNews have now put their own view on things and confirm this very impression from the Cardinal's own words. I will not defend Douglas Ford, he has dug himself into a hole and refuses to drop the shovel. He is a scared man, afraid of making a mistake, he is afraid that someone might die. I've heard this from those who have been around him. He is being pulled from both sides but cannot see that he is moving too far off the centre line of the road and being pulled into the ditch. However, Cardinal Collins' usual good sense has given way to the same dark side. They are both trying to steer in the middle of the road but they have both failed. They are both steering us into a ditch, economic and spiritual.

It is not hard to understand them both. They obviously don't want to see people die unnecessarily, neither does this writer. I am sure that Mr. Ford cares about Ontarians. The first duty of the government we consent to, we elect, is the protection of the country or province from those who would do us harm, be it foreign invasion or local criminals. The Cardinal no doubt wants to keep people safe, he does not want us die, but that is not his job. His job is to ensure that we die well!

I do not doubt the sincerity of either of them but it is not their job to keep me safe from this virus. It is my job to keep me safe. It is my wife's job. It is your job. Their job is to establish certain regulations and guidelines and to facilitate them to ensure that those suffering are supported and business can carry on and medications are made available and personal protective equipment by stimulating the market to create it or getting the hell out of the way to let it act. The current uptick in parts of Ontario is not the fault of people going to Mass - there were simply too few going and those that were going were following all protocols because that is what we do. We are Catholics, we follow legitimate authority. It is when this authority becomes illegitimate that those in authority must be opposed and that includes the Collins. 

The vision of a closed frame shop shuttered next to an open government owned liquor store or a crowd of hundreds at Costco or Walmart and a closed cathedral to ten (as long as Mass is not offered, then it is zero as per Cardinal Collins) is simply absurd. It defies credulity.

Ford has quickly lost his base, his conservative backers are abandoning him and lashing out at him. One must never betray the base.

The Cardinal's last year, presumably, will be to hand off a local church to his successor in full collapse. Just how many Catholics have found something better to do on Sunday, if you'll pardon the expression, or find spiritual needs elsewhere at the SSPX or think one can now always watch Mass at home, or are so angry over the abandonment that they will simply not return.  The price to be paid by the Church in Toronto and elsewhere is going to be staggering.

The reality is this. Most deaths here and elsewhere is falling upon those over seventy and in care facilities. In November, sixty-percent of deaths were in long-term care. Sandy Rinaldo in some disputed CTV numbers reported that in the early autumn, only 166 people outside of long-term care died across Canada. For those under sixty the survival rate for those who catch the China Virus is over 99.97%. The vulnerable have been left exposed. Doug Ford's "iron ring around our seniors" is rusty chicken-wire. In order to cover up their own failures and incompetence, they are killing others through depression and suicide, increased alcoholism and drug use and bankruptcies. They know this. both of them do. In the webinar, the Cardinal eludes to this directly and his response is to shut down the one thing the people need - the worship of God and the reception of the Holy Eucharist. 

Cardinal Collins - restore the public Mass now! 

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See also:

https://rumble.com/vbg8lv-archdiocese-of-toronto-webinar-friday-november-13-2020.html

Vox Cantoris: REPORT: ONTARIO GOVERNMENT WAS PREPARED TO LIFT CHURCH RESTRICTIONS AS EARLY AS LATE APRIL INTO MAY - WHY DID CARDINAL COLLINS DELAY UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF JUNE?

Vox Cantoris: AN OPEN LETTER TO THOMAS CARD. COLLINS ON THE CESSATION OF PUBLIC DIVINE WORSHIP IN PARTS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO.

Statement by Donald J. Trump, The President of the United States This may be the most important speech I've ever made....

 

LifeSiteNews picks up on Vox Cantoris posts on Cardinal Collins' actions to shut down public worship

Govt limits numbers inside Toronto churches, Cardinal cancels Mass altogether | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Toronto Cardinal threatens to ‘shut down’ priests who give Communion on the tongue | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

British Columbia storefront church fined - Christians there have more faith than Catholics in Toronto - a lesson for Cardinal Collins and the rest of us!

A small storefront church in Langley, British Columbia was fined under dictatorial China Virus orders whilst a gymnasium a few doors away continued to operate.

In certain areas of Ontario, including Toronto, the Premier did not ban religious services, he reduced it to ten. The Cardinal, Thomas Collins, reduced attendance at the Mass to zero, but you can still gather up to ten for private prayers. Seriously.

This storefront church has a greater commitment to their faith than our Cardinal. 

It really is just that simple.