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Feast Of The Chair Of St Peter, What It Means To Be A Traditional Catholic vs. The Rising Errors

22 Friday Feb 2019

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There is a growing misconception among Catholics that orthodox of traditional Catholicism’s acceptance can be acquired merely from regularly attending traditional Mass

Traditional Catholicism is a moreover a way of living – Living the gospel life without offense to one another yet sharing sacred tradition as the ultimate form of charity for the sake of salvation.  It involves a journey to find the fullness of truth of the wealth of the deposit of faith of everything the Roman Cahtolic Church held to be true in its consistencies for centuries and centuries prior to the revolution of the Council . Traditional Catholicism requires one to be consecrated to our Lady as slaves of her immaculate heart. It follows the traditional Catholic’s restoration of the Catholic State and theocracy – It holds in highest esteem the monarchial nature of our Church and it’s devout Catholic nobility , which comprise the majority of the Roman Catholic Church’s canonized Saints. The traditional Catholic movement has devotions to the Sacred Heart , the old Catholic devotions, the old breviary and the little office of the Blessed Mother Traditional Catholics have deep devotions to the many hard core Saints such as St Maximillian Kolbe , Blessed Karl and the Bl Karl prayer league  Traditional Catholics routinely go on long walks and long walking prayer pilgrimages Traditional Catholics read and study and a rate that exceeds all religions. They live for the conversion of others to the Truth of tradition even at the sacrifice of meals and sleep. Traditional Catholics abhor secularism, secular education , and the immodest means of dress and destroying ones skins seen throughout the world’s new temples called malls. Most of all traditional Catholics are taught to identify and spot the revolution in all its forms and to hate sin. One of these sins are the offenses against the dogma of the Kingship of Christ , and the economic methods that are opposed to Catholic restoration and the Catholic State

Distributism Is Linked To Post Marxism Reinventions Of Socialism In The Variety Of Strains In The Family Genre Of “Communism- Light”

It has no Papal teachings favoring it other than the pro- liberation theology encyclicals of the post conciliar Church – It furthers the anti-Catholic wedge fostering the continuation of the separation of Church and State It has no formal ties to Christianity other than being promoted by Catholic writers like G.K Chesterton and Hillarie Beloc who excelled in other areas of Catholic theology and doctrine most notably the evil nature of the Mohammadenism religion – It’s main advocates in the modern age are formerly conservative Catholics –called neo-cons The Catholicism of  the Novaks , The George Weigels and Fr John Courtney Murray’s of the world

Yet another one of the many errors of the revolution opposed to the traditional Catholic restoration movement

Distributism Is Not Catholic by Dr. Carol Byrne

https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/j036ht_CritiqueDist.html

With catch words seen repeatedly in the theology of freemasonry such as “fellow travelers” , the institution of “rooted communities” and “the law of fraternity” Other failed experiments recalled by the post conciliar errors were the Papal accolades of the Nomadelfia communities experiment translated from its encoded greek as “the law of fraternity” – This was the post conciliar Church’s attempt to usher in its acceptable new form of communism light into acceptance and promotion. Which the post conciliar Popes then backed away from and instead supported its sister version which is liberation theology (all of the same genre )

All of these errors directly violate the many traditional Catholic social teachings of a centuries of magisterial teachings from Pope Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII right up to the Council

All of them further the separation of Church and State- the abolition of the truly Catholic state – advocate for the leveling of the classes – and are direct offenses against the extablished dogma of the reign of the Kingship of Christ and further to same of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , the mediatrix of all graces.

These are direct attacks of the unity of the faith and unicity of the Church via the destruction of her militant and missionary character ; and affirmation of ecumenism’s continuing transformation into pan-religion. And it seen expressed in all the Popes since the Council beginning with Pope John XXIII but never so vociferously attempted to implementation as Pope Francis I – former Cardinal Mario Bergoglio

Infallible Unalterable Traditional Catholic Teaching

Unity is a characteristic whereby the Catholic faith is indivisible The Faith is composed of an ensemble of truths revealed by God and taught by the legitimate Magisterium The ensemble is harmonious and inter-related that to deny the whole. Unicity , oneness , or uniqueness is a characteristic whereby the Catholic Faith is the only true faith. Analogously , unicity of the Catholic Church is a characteristic whereby she is the only true heir of the treasures of revelation –

See the following noted reference on inauthentic magisterial teachings The Great Awakening Expands: Common Sense on the Papacy from Catholic News Agency – On The Fatima Center https://fatima.org/news-views/fatima-perspectives-1279/

The revolution did not begin in this papacy or even really with the Council where it only came to a head , revolution began and is fostered by the secret societies and the revolution can be identified as “in the making “ for hundreds of years –  Reference = Syncretism and the offenses against the Sacral nature of Christ and our Lady can be seen everywhere as fostered by the secret societies The resurgence of one God among many examples from the 1800s

The Van Ness Parsons Mausoleum  – Tombs and Mausoleums at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn | Untapped Cities – Part 2

https://untappedcities.com/2019/02/20/the-5-weirdest-tombs-and-mausoleums-at-green-wood-cemetery-brooklyn/2/

But we have been given guides on the road to keep us on track as many confused folks continue the propagation of syncretizing confusion , the messages and practices of time honored traditional Catholicism has its guides and prophets through storms of crisis

The Roman Forum: Gardone 2018 http://www.romanforum.org/symposium/summer2018/

For Christ the King – On Catholicism.org

Michael Davies, in his brief study, The Reign of Christ the King , summarizes the Church’s traditional social doctrine: “The Church’s teaching is that the State has an obligation to render public worship to God in accord with the teachings of the True Church, the Catholic Church, and positively to aid the Catholic Church in the carrying out of her functions. The State does not have the right to remain neutral regarding religion, much less to pursue a secular approach in its policies. A secular approach is by that very fact an anti-God and an anti-Christ approach. This unequivocal teaching was summarized very clearly by Pope St. Pius X, who, in his encyclical Vehementer Nos , condemned the principle of the separation of Church and State as ‘an absolutely false and most pernicious thesis.’”

Inasmuch as the Kingship of Christ has existed in nations not ruled by monarchs, a true Christian social order can be established in our American Republic. In the period roughly contemporary with that of our War between the States, there was a Catholic republic in Ecuador headed by Venerable Gabriel Garcia Moreno, a man called “the greatest Catholic statesman since the Middle Ages.” (Our Lady of Good Success, in her seventeenth-century revelations to Blessed Mariana of Jesus, prophesied him as a “truly Catholic president” who would receive the palm of martyrdom.) Moreno’s motto was to the point: “freedom for everyone and everything except sin and evil.”

The 1930’s Austrian republic of Pius XI’s close collaborator, Engelbert Dollfuss, provides another example, as does Antonio Salazar’s Republic of Portugal.

What would it look like if we had a Catholic America where Christ ruled as King?

If the U.S. becomes a Catholic nation (a nation in which the vast majority of the citizenry is Catholic), then the constitutional system would allow us to enshrine certain Catholic principles in the law of the land. On the positive side, the federal Constitution would recognize the most fundamental papal teaching on the matter of politics, namely, that all power is from God , not from the people. (This is true no matter how leaders are actually chosen.) Additionally, there would be laws that protect the family, such as a tax system which does not penalize, but, rather, rewards parents with large families by giving them tax breaks. Marriage would be recognized to be indissoluble and (as if it needed to be said! ) exclusively between one man and one woman. Government would respect the principle of subsidiarity, which would make for smaller, less intrusive, bureaucracy. On the negative side, abortion, birth control, pornography, and sodomy would be outlawed.

Because ours is a federal system, the states themselves can implement such a social order in their respective constitutions. Thus, for example, Rhode Island could fully recognize the social rights of Christ the King, while the other states still lagged behind. This was the case in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland, each of which was a confessional Catholic State.

We must be realistic, but we must not lose sight of the ideal. A lot will have to happen to make all this possible, and it will likely be implemented only very gradually, as Dollfuss attempted to do in Austria (before the Nazis murdered him). Besides the grace of God, we will need enough of our countrymen to embrace the Catholic Faith to bring about our Lord’s full Kingship here. For that to happen, the bishops, lower clergy, and faithful will have to believe and profess all the truths of the Faith more boldly. An elite of clergy, religious, and faithful will have to live the interior life deeply, fortified by an authentic liturgical piety. All the while, it will take Catholics with fortitude to combat the unfortunates who oppose Christ’s reign — those inside and outside the Church.

https://catholicism.org/for-christ-the-king.html

One of the best studies to understand traditional Catholicism

The Reign of Christ the King: By Michael Davies On Amazon Books

https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Christ-King-Michael-Davies/dp/0895554747/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

And several other key works to understanding traditional Catholicism , it’s charisms and its attributes

Catholic Social Teaching & Economics :: The Kingship of Christ vs. Organized Naturalism – By Father Denis Fahey On Loreto Publications 

http://loretopubs.org/the-kingship-of-christ-and-organized-naturalism.html

The_Mystical_Body_of_Christ_and_the_reorganization_of_society_By Father Denis Fahey (Full book via pdf )

http://www.liberius.net/livres/The_Mystical_Body_of_Christ_and_the_reorganization_of_society_000000310.pdf

February 23 – The responsibilities of leadership are heavy – Pope Benedict XIII – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2015/02/19/pope-benedict-xiii/

February 22 – From Cavalier’s Mistress to Saint – St. Margaret of Cortona – 3rd Order Franciscan- On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2014/02/20/margaret-of-cortona/

Our Lord told St. Margaret of Cortona, Thou are the third light granted to the order of my beloved Francis. He was the first, among the Friars Minor: Clare was the second, among the nuns: thou shalt be the third, in the Order of Penan

Emperor Karl League of Prayer — Blessed Karl of Austria

http://www.emperorcharles.org/the-emperor-karl-league-of-prayer

Decorations of the Vatican Basilica on the Feast of St Peter’s Chair – On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/02/decorations-of-vatican-basilica-on.html#.XHAxk6B7mUk

    

Walking Candlelit Pilgrimage For Persecuted Christians To Herald Square Following Traditional Sung Mass (6:00pm) For The Feast Of The Chair of Saint Peter At The Shrine Of The Unborn – The Church of The Holy Innocents NYC –

Are Is There A Two Pope Problem Or A Council That Adopted The Fraternal Brotherhood & Liberation Theology ?

15 Friday Feb 2019

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Conciliar Church Draws Closer to Freemasonry by Salwa Bachar On TIA

https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P048_ItMasonry.htm

A Defector Pope? – By Chris Ferrara On The Fatima Center

Sedevacantists claim Francis is not the Pope, and he is certainly giving them a lot of grist for their polemical mill.  But sedevacantists claim we have not had a Pope since at least the time of Paul VI if not John XXIII.  They make this claim based on a personal determination that the conciliar and post-conciliar Popes fell from their offices on account of “manifest heresy.” 

https://fatima.org/news-views/a-defector-pope/

Pope Benedict Has Spoken on Questions Regarding His Abdication… – On OnePeterFive

https://onepeterfive.com/pope-benedict-has-spoken-on-questions-regarding-his-abdication/

Archive Of A Review of a Book Of Benedict XVI – On TIA

This is where he denies the Ascension and casts doubt on the literal interpretation of many Catholic dogmas in keeping with the liberal progressivists camps from which he came out of and in contrast to his depiction of having always been traditional

http://www.traditioninaction.org/bev/137bev08_29_2011.htm

From our own studies and notes on the conciliar construction of the cult of man

Reaffirming that the Church at Vatican II had accepted the rights and ideals of civil society , religious liberty , freedom of conscience , tolerance , and ecumenical attitudes in all things directly contradicting the great Papal teachings and encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XII

The Church then directed its support to any and all movements within the Church that echoed revolutionary elements and aims of the Sorbrone, namely liberation theology , alternate Christian communities, Pentecostal movements, and any underground Churches’ movements tied to political liberalism

Although it appeared that Cardinal Ratzinger had condemned liberation theology on March 22nd 1986 he issued Instruction on Christian Liberty and Liberation , a basically heretical document wherein he presented the “positive aspects” of the doctrine of Liberation Theology, reversing his previous determination of its negative aspects as the tide in Rome changed to high tide Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation –Cdl Ratzinger On Vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19860322_freedom-liberation_en.html John Paul II then in an even worse document , in 1987, giving the underlying thesis of support for liberation theology in his encylcilal Solicitudo, rei socialis.

The Catholic Church teaches that only it and its theology can be the culture par excellence and civilization par excellence and that they cannot exist except ‘in Catholic peoples’ For even though man may know the principals of natural law by his own reason, a people cannot durably maintain the knowledge of all of them without the magisterium of the Church It is forgotten and no longer taught that this was infallibly declared at Vatican I . For this reason a people who do not possess the true religion cannot durably practice all the commandments Church It is forgotten and no longer taught that this was infallibly declared at the Council of Trent. Saint Pius X then quoted both and proclaimed “Given these conditions and since Christian social order cannot exist without the knowledge and observance of the law of God , civilization and culture par excellence are only possible in the bosom of the Holy Catholic Church”

Many Pontiffs have condemned the errors of the modern world that they Conciliar Catholicism continues to attempt to embrace

Gregory XVI in Miari Vos

“It is the proud , or a rather foolish , men who examine the mysteries of the Faith which surpass all understanding with the faculties of the human mind , and rely on human reason, , which is weak and infirm by the condition of man’s fallen nature”

Pius IX in Qui Pluribus – “The modern world and its agents are destructive and we are prohibited from merging our beliefs with theirs”

He proclaimed

  1. Perverse is the shocking theory that it makes no difference to which religion one belongs, a theory which is greatly at variance even with reason. By means of this theory, those crafty men remove all distinction between virtue and vice, truth and error, honorable and vile action. They pretend that men can gain eternal salvation by the practice of any religion, as if there could ever be any sharing between justice and iniquity, any collaboration between light and darkness, or any agreement between Christ and Belial.
  2. You already know well, venerable brothers, the other portentous errors and deceits by which the sons of this world try most bitterly to attack the Catholic religion and the divine authority of the Church and its laws. They would even trample underfoot the rights both of the sacred and of the civil power. For this is the goal of the lawless activities against this Roman See in which Christ placed the impregnable foundation of His Church. This is the goal of those secret sects who have come forth from the darkness to destroy and desolate both the sacred and the civil commonwealth. These have been condemned with repeated anathema in the Apostolic letters of the Roman Pontiffs who preceded Us[15] We now confirm these with the fullness of Our Apostolic power and command that they be most carefully observed.
  3. We hope that Our political leaders will keep in mind, in accordance with their piety and religion, that “the kingly power has been conferred on them not only for ruling the world but especially for the protection of the Church.”[27] Sometimes We “act both for the sake of their rule and safety that they may possess their provinces by peaceful right.”[28] We hope that with their aid and authority they will support the objects, plans and pursuits which we have in common, and that they will also defend the liberty and safety of the Church, so that “the right hand of Christ may also defend their rule.”[29]

There is so much more that speaks against this liberty , equality , fraternity of freemason theology infiltrating the Church and Catholic education from as far back as the early 1800s and then culminated with the damn breaking through the Papal wall at the Council……– to be continued

Back to the news along these same lines …far from sedevacantism there is complete continuity from when the damn broke to the current Papacy

“Francis and the Joint Declaration on Human Fraternity: A Public Repudiation of the Catholic Faith” By Dr. John Lamont On Rorate

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/02/guest-article-francis-and-joint.html

Sede Vacante: The Sky is Not Falling on the Catholic Church

http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/sede-vacante-the-sky-is-not-falling-on-the-catholic-church/

From Cardinal Müller a “Manifesto of Faith” For Today’s Church – Magister On Settimo Cielo -L’Espresso

http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2019/02/09/from-cardinal-muller-a-%e2%80%9cmanifesto-of-faith%e2%80%9d-for-today%e2%80%99s-church/

The Shocking Initiatives of Pope Francis by Rafael Trindade On TIA

https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P033_Initiatives.htm

The two Popes of the St Francis prophesy , our Church doctors tell us relate to the Avignon Papacy era – See Wikipedia for quick refresh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy

Anne Catherine Emmerich – Wikipedia

Her postulation to canonization was handled by FSSP who is loyal to the utopia that Benedict XVI was a great Pope and her private revelation(s) and visions were “omitted” in the official postulant process , for what they said was good reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Catherine_Emmerich

Recent key archives on this subject

Breaking News – Saint Valentine , The Pope , The Council , and The Crisis | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2019/02/14/breaking-news-saint-valentine-the-pope-the-council-and-the-crisis/

Catholic Faithful & Academics Begin To Lose Trust In The Disintegrating Papacy And The Truth Compromising Hierarchy – News Round Up | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2019/02/08/catholic-faithful-academics-begin-to-lose-trust-in-the-disintegrating-papacy-and-the-truth-compromising-hierarchy-news-round-up/

Cardinals can declare that a heretical pope has ‘lost his office’: Church historian

DEERFIELD, IL, April 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – True devotion to the Chair of St. Peter is essential to a Christian spiritual life, but today there exists a “false devotion” to the Pope that claims he “must always be obeyed, no matter what,” renowned Church historian Roberto de Mattei told a gathering of Catholics just outside Chicago this past weekend.

Speaking at the 2018 Catholic Family News conference, de Mattei called on laity and clergy alike to oppose the “theological error” of “papolatry” and to live out a “true devotion” to the papacy.

“True devotion to the Chair of Peter is not the worship of the man who occupies this Cathedra, but is the love and veneration for the mission which Jesus Christ gave to Peter and his successors.”

Professor de Mattei’s talk — delivered to approximately 100 Catholics hailing from multiple continents — touched on a variety of topics, including collegiality, the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and the claim that Pope Francis has fallen into heresy and is no longer pope.

Obedience to God first

Central to de Mattei’s hour-long address was an urgent request for Catholics to expose by name the pastors who contradict perennial Church teaching. 

Opposing errors is not enough, Professor de Mattei said. “We need to have the courage to say: ‘Holy Father, you are the first one responsible for the confusion which exists today in the Church. Holy Father, you are the first one responsible for the heresies which are circulating in the Church today.’”

Papolatry views the Pope as a “new Christ.” It takes the position that “there is no need to worry about anything” and that the pope “perfects the doctrine of his predecessors, adapting it to the changing of the times.”

Papolatrists “deceive themselves” and “tranquilize” their conscience by thinking the pope is “always right, even when he contradicts himself or his predecessors.” 

In reality, “Tradition remains the criterion for discerning that which is Catholic and that which is not.” “Tradition comes before the Pope and not the Pope before Tradition.” Otherwise the Church’s perennial magisterium is replaced with a “living” magisterium that has “its rule of faith in the subject of the authority and not in the object of the transmitted truth.”

Obedience to the Pope “has its limits in the natural and Divine Laws, and in the Tradition of the Church, of which the Pope is guardian and not creator.”

Catholics cannot remain silent

Professor de Mattei, who will be speaking at LifeSiteNews’ Roman Life Forum in May 2018, also pointed out that Catholics cannot succumb to a “catacombist” mentality in response to the crisis in the Church.

Catholics cannot “retreat from the battlefield” and think they can “survive without fighting.” It is not permitted for a Christian to leave behind their militant attitude. “To make silence a rule of behavior…would be an error.” It would be to commit a guilty silence.

Who then must speak up and what must they do? Professor de Mattei said the responsibility falls not only on ordinary Catholics but also on Cardinals who in their silence “don’t fulfill their duty.” It also falls on the shoulders of Pope Emeritus Benedict.

“The politics of silence has become a jail which imprisons many conservatives.” “Today is the moment to speak.” There has been a “modernist infiltration inside the Church” that is “wreaking havoc” in Rome. Catholics must oppose this infiltration with filial resistance, not with sarcasm, irreverence, bitter zeal, or pride.

Is the Pope Catholic?

Professor de Mattei then shared his thoughts on the historic resignation of Pope Benedict.

It is “incorrect” for Benedict to refer to himself as Pope Emeritus. Quoting Cardinal Brandmüller, de Mattei said “Canon Law doesn’t recognize the figure of a Pope Emeritus.” For Benedict to still dress in the white papal vestments and to still live in the Vatican “creates confusion,” de Mattei told LifeSiteNews. Benedict “seems to be convinced of still being Pope.” But “it is impossible that two Popes can exist. The Papacy is not dismountable: there can be only one Vicar of Christ.” 

Professor de Mattei also addressed the increasingly relevant, and increasingly important, question of whether Pope Francis is still the pope.

After citing others scholars who have suggested Francis has fallen into heresy, de Mattei said “we must admit that the Pope himself promotes and propagates errors and heresies in the Church.” But, “as a tree can live for a certain time after its roots have been severed, so can jurisdiction be maintained…even after a fall into heresy. Jesus Christ maintains the person of the heretical Pontiff in his jurisdiction provisionally, until the Church recognizes the deposition.”

Speaking to LifeSiteNews, de Mattei said “nobody can depose the pope” but the Cardinals, can, in principle, “declare and recognize that being a heretic, [the pope] has lost his office.” 

Until such a time comes, de Mattei added, Catholics must “clarify to people that unfortunately [Pope Francis] propagates heresy.”  However, Francis “does not lose his office until his heresy becomes manifest” and widespread. This “has not yet happened.” 

Occupying powers in Rome

Professor de Mattei proceeded to issue what appeared to be a warning to Catholics concerned with the direction Francis is leading the Church.

“We need to be careful of speaking of the ‘Bergoglian church,’ or of ‘the new Church.’ The Church today is occupied by churchmen who betray or deform the message of Christ, but it has not been substituted by another church. There is only one Catholic Church, in which they cohabitate in a confused and fragmentary way, different and counterpoised theologies and philosophies. It is more correct to speak of a ‘Bergoglian theology,’ of a ‘Bergoglian philosophy,’ and, if one wishes, of a ‘Bergoglian religion’ or ‘irreligion.’”

There are not two Churches, but one Church, he continued. It is, to be sure, a Church where bad tendencies have been introduced but it is a Church still governed visibly by its Vicar Pope Francis, whose election has not been contested by any Cardinal.

Professor de Mattei urged Catholics to unite themselves to “the good priests” inside of the one Church.

Assisting the auto-demolition of the Church

Drawing on his vast knowledge of Church history, Professor de Mattei explained how Pope Francis’ support for decentralization and collegiality is undermining the papacy.

Reminding his listeners of how ultramontanists were victorious at Vatican I, Professor de Mattei noted that the real protagonists of Vatican II were Liberal Catholics, and that among other things Liberal Catholics seek to transform the “monarchical and hierarchical constitution of the Church into a democratic and parliamentary structure.”

Professor de Mattei pointed out that this is precisely what Francis is attempting to do. He wants to usher in a “polycentric or multi-sided church” where the papacy is “conceived as a form of ministry at the service of the other churches, renouncing the juridical Primacy or government of Peter.”

But, de Mattei continued, such a view of the papacy runs counter to what has been handed down through the ages. The Pope is not an equal with the other Bishops. “Jesus Christ entrusted the mission of governing to Peter, after the Resurrection.” To democratize the Church and to “reduce her to a purely-sacramental dimension” is to “transition from a juridical Church to a sacramental Church, a Church of communion.”

Moreover, Professor de Mattei added, to destroy the Primacy of Peter is to accomplish what the enemies of Christ have been attempting to do for centuries because “they have understood that it comprises the visible foundation of the Mystical Body [of Christ].”

Editor’s note: Read the full text of Professor de Mattei’s talk here.

The Hell of Faith: ‘Dreadful Possibility’ and ‘Terrible Reality’ at Once – Catholicism.org

There is a sense of mounting intensity in the Church. Within the last ten days alone, the following has happened:

Pope Francis and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, signed a “Document on Human Fraternity,” which says that “the diversity of religions” is “willed by God in His wisdom.”

Subsequently, many have reacted, directly or indirectly, to the serious theological questions this document raises. Included among those writing on the subject are Phil Lawler (“Not all religions are part of God’s plan”) and Bishop Athanasius Schneider (“The Gift of Filial Adoption”

https://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-336.html

February 15 – Pope Lucius II – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2019/02/14/february-15-pope-lucius-ii/

February 15 – Ferdinand II, Emperor – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2019/02/14/february-15-ferdinand-ii-emperor/

Battle of White Mountain (1620) in Bohemia

 

Revolution Via Evolution In The Catholic Church – The Pains Of Building A Utopian One World Religion Continue

08 Wednesday Aug 2018

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On The Conciliar Church Boris Pasternak quoting Doctor Zhivago

Reform or Revolution ?

“That’s a very naïve statement’,  said Pogorevhikh, ‘What you call disorder is just as normal a state of things as the order you are so keen on. All this destruction – it’s the right and proper preliminary stage of a wide construction plan. Society has not yet disintegrated sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely, then a genuine revolutionary government will put the pieces together on a completely new basis. Yury felt sick. He went out into the corridor”

Professor James Daly of McMaster University of Ontario NCR 1977

“It is one thing to pull off a revolution , quite another to do so and then have the gall to pretend nothing ‘substantial’ has been changed. It is not enough for our liturgical Robespierres to win; they must go on to claim that they never used the guillotine”

Free Love, Divorce, and Homosexuality as Goals of the Revolution – American TFP

The Communism Connection Of The Spreading Of The Extreme Socialist Position To Undermine Marriage And Traditional Families

http://www.tfp.org/free-love-divorce-and-homosexuality-as-goals-of-the-revol
ution/

Schizophrenia Reigns “Vatican archbishop: Critics of Pope Francis are not faithful to Tradition” | News | LifeSite

His reasoning is an hysterical must read – straight out of the revolutionary Catholic evolution theories of the dissident Jesuit theologian Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-archbishop-critics-of-pope-francis
-are-not-faithful-to-catholic-tra

Vatican Archbishop Makes Up His Own “Truth” –On  gloria.tv

He calls Francis’ distortion of the Faith a “development of the doctrine”

https://gloria.tv/article/7mp7e6wc2UMVCZG6viTgEp2Hm

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Pope Francis vs. the Catholic Church – RTV’s ‘Sunday Sermons from South St. Paul’ blows the lid off Pope Francis’s attempt to change the constant teaching of the Catholic Church on capital punishment. In what surely must be one of the most courageous sermons of 2018, this diocesan priest takes the gloves off and asks:

“What’s it going to be? The constant teaching established by Scripture, doctors and fathers of the Church, sainted popes and God Himself? Or that which rests on the whim of Pope Francis, who seems to think the Catholic Church’s binding teaching is whatever his opinion happens to be.”

God help us, what is this man thinking, that in the middle of the most outrageous clerical sex scandal to date he decides it’s time to go after capital punishment…

Listen to what an inspiring traditional Catholic sermon sounds like from a fearless man of God- preceding the Sacrifice of the Canon of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZjYCwV5Z8M

The Absolute “No” To the Death Penalty. A Victory For the Gospel, Or For “Secular Humanism”? – Magister On Settimo Cielo – L’Espresso

http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2018/08/06/the-absolute-no-to-the-death-penalty-a-victory-for-the-gospel-or-for-secular-humanism/

EWTN Papal Posse on Pope’s new death penalty ban – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhi_05qkVA

Roberto de Mattei: Is the Death Penalty Intrinsically Evil? On The Remnant Newspaper

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/headline-news-around-the-world/item/4003-roberto-de-mattei-is-the-death-penalty-intrinsically-evil


Pope The Remnant Newspaper – The Death Penalty, Instituted by God Himself (The Biblical Basis for Catholic Teaching on Capital Punishment)

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/4005-the-death-penalty-instituted-by-god-himself-the-biblical-basis-for-catholic-teaching-on-capital-punishment

Allowing death penalty is Catholic doctrine and cannot be overturned: two Catholic profs | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/allowing-death-penalty-is-catholic-doctrine-and-cannot-be-overturned-two-ca

Pope’s C9 A Microcosm Of Everything That Is Wrong With The Church

Expert Results Of Curial Reform Decidedly Haphazard – CNS

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/can-pope-francis-council-of-cardinals-still-deliver-on-reform-86511

Revolution continues in Wisconsin Catholic Churches

Retreats for ‘gay priests, brothers’ and ‘lesbian sisters’ to take place in Milwaukee archdiocese | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/retreats-for-gay-priests-brothers-and-lesb
ian-sisters-to-take-place-in-milw

Church Revolution In Photos – Italian Bishop embraces ‘married’ homo priest- On TIA

https://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A789-Costa.htm

Austrian Abbot Quits Over Clerical Sex Abuse Fatigue – On CMTV

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/austria \

Catholics tell Cdl. Cupich: Clerical sex abuse ‘has everything to do with homosexuality’ | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholics-respond-to-cdl.-cupich-clerical-sex-abuse-has-everything-to-do-wi

The best way to get bishops covering up sex abuse to resign | The Pulse | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/pulse/the-best-way-to-get-bishops-covering-up-sex-abuse-to-resign

The New World Order , The EU, Masonry, And Mainstream Catholic Infiltration | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2018/07/10/the-new-world-order-the-eu-masonry-and-mainstream-catholic-infiltration/

The Roots Of Modernism And The Infiltration Of Ecclesial Freemasonry Into The New Catholic Church | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2018/06/27/the-roots-of-modernism-and-the-infiltration-of-ecclesial-freemasonry-into-the-new-catholic-church/

Places in Fort Greene, NYC: An Untapped Cities Guide | Untapped Cities

Historical Sites Brooklyn Masonic Temple

Fort Greene is home to several architectural masterpieces, the most famous among these being the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Built in 1909, this Masonic granite temple is regarded as one of the most beautiful structures in the United States and features an impressive brick, marble and terra cotta exterior. According to The New York Times, the original intent of this structure was to be a meeting place for the Masons of Brooklyn (hence the name). In 1977, it was then sold to a “clandestine” Mason group. This group couldn’t afford the daunting cost of upkeep, so they rented out the space on a regular basis. The building now serves as a concert venue, “Masonic Boom,” and is part of the Fort Greene Historic District, which includes the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Fort Greene Park (more on the park’s history to come). Right next to it is another architectural masterpiece, the Queen of All Saints Church, built in the gothic revival style from 1910 to 1913. Address: 317 Clermont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

August 7 – Opponent of Gregory VII – (Henry IV) – Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2018/08/06/august-7-opponent-of-gregory-vii/

August 8 – They hated him because he enforced celibacy of the clergy – Bl. Altmann

On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2018/08/06/august-8-they-hated-him-because-he-enforced-celibacy-of-the-clergy/

August 8 – Princes, prelates, and priests revealed their consciences to him – Bl. Peter Faber Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2018/08/06/august-8-princes-prelates-and-priests-revealed-their-consciences-to-him/

Reliquary of Bl. Altmann of Passau in the Church of Göttweig Abbey – Photo by Bwag –

Pope Francis News Update As We Veer Into Material AND Formal Heresy

12 Tuesday Jun 2018

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Socialism , Liberation Theology, Women Ordination , Homosexuality, Silence On Abortion, Attacks On Property Populism , Nationalism, Christendom, and Roman Catholicism Are All On The Top Of The Promotion Agenda For This Papacy

Social Justice Full Court Press

  • Drinking from the Fountain of Youth will not save the modern Church – The Fatima Center

“But that’s good, right? It’s modern! It’s caring about the things that really matter to the disaffected youth who find the Church old-fashioned and irrelevant. Who cares about things like immorality when what’s really important is… wait for it… gun control!”

So said Pope Francis on Palm Sunday when he urged young people not to be silent. Get out there in the streets, he said. Let your voices be heard. The world needs to hear you, especially when elders (like me, he did not say!) are corrupt or silent.

https://fatima.org/news-views/drinking-from-the-fountain-of-youth-will-not-save-the-modern-church/

This just came on the heels of an entire weekend of His Holiness hiding in silence while a giant homosexual parade marched through Rome to his and His Cardinals and local Bishops silence
This followed his total silence on the lead up to the Irish Referendum removing all legal protections for the unborn and the silent post mortem on all the culture of death components that inevitably begin to fall like dominoes when such a law is passed in a country

  • U.S. cardinals appointed by Pope Francis calls on Trump to rejoin Paris Climate Agreement (Continuing the post conciliar conversion of the Church to a Social justice organization and a de-weaponizing of the Church Militant)  | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/u.s.-cardinal-appointed-by-pope-francis-calls-on-trump-to-rejoin-paris-agre
  • Pope Makes Contradictory Statement On Increasing Power / Electricity / Reducing Property vs The Economy Of Ecology
  • The “New Pentecost” Is Oppressive“Monsignor Livi points out that the neo-modernist pastoral practice since Vatican II has often been called – quote – “a new Pentecost”. But this turns fallible practical decisions into infallible doctrines. Therefore, in the eyes of the neo-modernists, everybody who criticizes their wrong pastoral practice commits a sacrilege and must be oppressed.”

The homo-heresy in the Church devolves into material AND formal heresy

  • Pope Francis And The Vatican Has Invited Gay Propagandist To Speak At “World Meeting Of Families” – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/article/kSDgvBD9exWn1MBrVv43hLtH4

  • Heresy Begets Heresy – Fr James Martin to speak at World Meeting of Families | CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/06/12/fr-james-martin-to-speak-at-world-meeting-of-families

  • Pope Francis former diplomat to Washington DC , Monsignor Carlo Capella is indicted  on ‘significant ‘ child pornography charges and evidence – jailed in the old Vatican cells – On The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/06/09/former-vatican-diplomat-to-washington-indicted-on-child-porn-charge/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f825bf45ba76

Pope Francis And His New Vatican Pushes for Ministerial Roles for Women

  • The 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod and the Possibility of Married Priests, Even Female Priests – OnePeterFive

https://onepeterfive.com/the-2019-amazon-synod-and-the-possibility-of-married-priests-even-female-priests/

  • Amazon synod working document seeks ‘new paths’ of evangelisation | CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/06/10/amazon-synod-working-document-seeks-new-paths-of-evangelisation/

  • Papal advisor claims Francis would not give ‘strict no’ to women’s ordination | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/papal-advisor-claims-francis-would-not-give-strict-no-to-womens-ordination

Pope Francis Encourages Father of Liberation Theology – On TIA

  • Vatican II comes to full fruition , Vatican II and Pope Paul VI ‘s refusal to condemn communism , the Vatican’s deals with Russia and then at the close of Vatican II his endorsement of Liberation Theology In Columbia

http://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_184_Gutier.html

  • Pope Congratulates Liberation Theologian on 90th Birthday – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/06/rome-pope-francis-has-congratulated.html

  • Pope Francis praises founder of liberation theology | CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/06/11/pope-francis-praises-founder-of-liberation-theology/

  • Pope Francis Thanks Founder of Liberation Theology for his ‘Theological Service’ to the Church

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/07/pope-francis-thanks-founder-of-liberation-theology-for-his-theological-service-to-the-church/

Pope Francis to canonise the Vatican II Council and Liberation Theology

  • Pope to canonise Blesseds Paul VI and Oscar Romero on October 14 | CatholicHerald.co.uk

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/05/19/pope-to-canonise-blesseds-paul-vi-and-oscar-romero-on-october-14/

  • Property – The Great “Absents” in the Land Debate – The American Society For The Defense Of Tradition Family And Property

http://www.tfp.org/the-great-absents-in-the-land-debate/

  • Vatican Contribution to The Masonic Bilderberg Meeting Remains Secret
  • Vaticanists and intrigue columnist record that in attendance was the Vatican Secretary Of State as well as the highest ranking Grand Masters Deputy Grand Masters and Worshipful Masters from both Grand Orient and Scottish Freemason lodges

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vaticans-contriution-to-bilderberg-meeting-remains-secret

Conservative Rivals Are Dealt With Harshly

  • The Pope’s Italian-Spanish Retribution Spirit With ‘The Memory Of The Elephant’

Respected Predecessor of New La Plata Archbishop “Tucho” Fernández’ Ordered to Depart His Diocese Immediately – On OnePeterFive

https://onepeterfive.com/respected-predecessor-of-new-la-plata-archbishop-tucho-fernandez-ordered-to-depart-his-diocese-immediately/

  • Pay-Off Time As Pope Throws Enemy Conservative Archbishop Of La Plata In the Street – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/06/pope-throws-enemy-archbishop-in-street.html

An Unpopular Pope

  • Argentine National Football Team Has No Time for Pope – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/06/argentine-national-football-team-has-no.html

  • Saint Peter’s Square Photographs

Papal audiences continue to come in breaking all records continually 3/4 empty

Pope violates the apparitions and messages of Our Lady of Fatima , “Without Consecration With All The Bishops The Errors Of Russia Will Spread Unabated”

  • Pope Promises no “Uniatism” in Relationship to Orthodox Churches – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/06/pope-promises-no-uniatism-in.html

  • Pope nixes conversion of Russia — “I do not want it!” | Fatima Center

http://fatima.org/news-views/pope-nixes-conversion-of-russia-i-do-not-want-it/

Recent Archives

End Of May 2018 Brings New Pope Francis Scandals | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2018/05/29/end-of-may-2018-brings-new-pope-francis-scandals/

The Family as predicted by Our Lady Of Fatima Comes Under Attack By The State ( Of The Church)

  • Pope’s Liturgist Attacks Pro-Life Italian Family Minister & Traditional Catholicism And Says Summorum Pontificum is Fascist

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/06/popes-liturgist-says-summorum.html

  • We Are Not Scared to Face the Dictatorship of Thought Police – by Lorenzo Fontana – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/article/1FSEYRWAk39L2j7arnxgCb4KX

Papal Indifference To Truth

  • As Recorded Again And Again – Francis Refuses to Kneel In Front of the Blessed Sacrament –
  • He will Kneel For A Variety Of Devotions Including Confession But Not The Blessed Sacrament – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/article/iN2P6E1beubG4KvGPAdweMp1p

  • Jesus Christ, Our Shepherd: Bergoglio refuses to kneel before the Blessed Sacrament during the feast of Corpus Christi

http://4christum.blogspot.com/2018/06/bergoglio-refuses-to-kneel-before.html

Key Archive

  • Progressive Inhumanity, Part One: The State against the Family – On Crisis Magazine

Leo XIII – This is the doctrine of subsidiarity at its core.  The Pope does not justify the family on utilitarian grounds.  He does not affirm (what is true in any case) that there are many things the family can do that the State cannot do as well, or cannot do at all.  Instead he founds the rights of the family in nature, and the God of nature.  It is a society both human and divine.  It is within those bonds of love or duty that children and parents both put faces upon law that would otherwise remain abstract, distant, sometimes threatening, sometimes impotent, but always extrinsic, and therefore not quite real.  It is there, and only there, that law and love may be found growing together. It combines the best of monarchy and aristocracy and democracy and even at times a merry anarchy, and, if it does not transgress against its own natural purposes, the family “has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.”

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/progressive-inhumanity-part-one-the-state-against-the-family#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=5b1e814e946218d0&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1

VIDEO: Bishop Athanasius Schneider – Talk On The Crisis In The Church And What Should Be The Response Of The Church Militant  – Voice of the Family

Bishop Athanasius Schneider delivered the following address at the church of St Mary Moorfields, London, on 24 May 2018, following the celebration of Pontifical High Mass. The event was jointly organised by Voice of the Family and the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales.

http://voiceofthefamily.com/video-bishop-athanasius-schneider-the-church-militant/

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June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne – Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

http://www.nobility.org/2014/06/12/st-leo-iii/

Pope St. Leo III crowning Charlemagne Painting by Josef Kehren _Kroenung_Karl_der_Grosse

Several Expose’ – The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism

14 Thursday Dec 2017

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How Bad Is It – The Question That Catholics Who Are Opening Their Eyes All Over The World Are Asking ” What’s Really Going On With The Constant Chaos In The Church “?!    —> This News Blog Post Attempts To Sum Up The Entire Crisis In The Church

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The Culmination Of Research Of Dr. Robert Hickson and H. Reed Armstrong On Christian Order

The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism

http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2015/features_may15.html

The Theological Formation of Jorge Bergoglio, S. J. – Pope Francis – On Christian Order

http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2016/features_may16.html

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How the Prohibition Against Freemasonry Disappeared from Canon Law – On OnePeterFive

https://onepeterfive.com/prohibition-freemasonry-disappeared-canon-law/

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The Church of Man – I – A Fundamental Inversion in the Goals of the Church by Robert P. Banaugh, Ph.D.

How the Prohibition Against Freemasonry Disappeared from Canon Law – On OnePeterFive

https://onepeterfive.com/prohibition-freemasonry-disappeared-canon-law/

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Teilhard de Chardin: The Vatican II Architect You Need to Know

https://onepeterfive.com/teilhard-chardin-vii-architect/

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A Call for Cooperation between Catholicism and Freemasonry? On One Peter Five

https://onepeterfive.com/call-cooperation-catholicism-freemasonry/

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The Conciliar Church assumed the humanist ideals of Freemasonry;
photograph inset a Mass said for Freemasons in Brazil  – On TIA – Tradition In Action

http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P004-ChurchMan1.htm

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Church Revolution In Photos – Masses in Brazil for ‘Freemasonry Day’ I – On TIA

http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A490-Masonry.htm

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Spring 2017 – Three Part Expose’ On The Papacy And Administration Of Pope Francis Through The Eyes Of The Worlds Leading Lodges

Grand Lodge of Italy Proposes Union with Bergoglio  On TIA

http://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_173_Mason.html

“Padre Pio Shrine A Temple Designed For Freemasonry” – An Expose By Father Leonard Villa and  Doctor Eng. Franco Adessa – Two People That Were Almost Assassinated Several Times For Exposing Freemasonry’s Infiltration Into The Church

http://padrepioandchiesaviva.com/uploads/satanic-temple-to-st-padre-pio-fina
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Follow the Money (Archive TCE)

The Root Of The Whole Crisis = The Control Of The Money and Education Flows From Where ? | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2015/08/12/the-root-of-the-crisis-the-control-of-the-money-and-education-flows-from-where/

In other previous archives

Pope Calls Attempts To Convert Others To Catholicism – A Sin Against Ecumenism  – On Crux

I Will Leave To Others The Debate As To Whether He Does Or Does Not Understand That These Notions Are The Central Doctrines Of Freemasonry  “Every degreed mason must keep his or her original religion (and infiltrate it) and anyone who converts others in the Lodge or from others Lodges to his or her religion is expelled “

Last paragraph of this 2016 Interview with the Pope On Crux – (Scroll to the bottom of the article)

https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2016/10/01/pope-calls-gender-theory-global-war-family/

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Encyclical Against Freemasonry Highlighted Are

 – Humanum Genus (April 20, 1884) | LEO XIII

http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus.html

Pascendi Dominici Gregis (September 8, 1907) | PIUS X

Modernism As The Freemasonic Synthesis Of All Heresies

http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html

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The Total Listing of Papal Encyclicals And Roman Catholic Church Teaching Against The Religion And The Ideologies of Freemasonry Are As Follows

Before Pius IX

Pius IX

Leo XIII

The Only Hidden Mystery Is Christ – The Godman That Took Part In Creating Us And Who Revealed Himself To The Unraveling Jewish World

From the book of the prophet Isaiah 26:7-21

The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level. Yes, for your way and your judgments, O Lord, we look to you;

Your name and your title are the desire of our souls. My soul yearns for you in the night, yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you; When your judgment dawns upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn justice.

The wicked man, spared, does not learn justice; in an upright land he acts perversely, and sees not the majesty of the Lord. O Lord, your hand is uplifted, but they behold it not;

Let them be shamed when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them. O Lord, you mete out peace to us,
for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.

O Lord, our God, other lords than you have ruled us; it is from you only that we can call upon your name. Dead they are, they have no life, shades that cannot rise; For you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.

You have increased the nation, O Lord, increased the nation to your own glory,
and extended far all the borders of the land. O Lord, oppressed by your punishment, we cried out in anguish under your chastising.

As a woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pains, so were we in your presence, O Lord. We conceived and writhed in pain, giving birth to wind;
Salvation we have not achieved for the earth, the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth.

But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise; awake and sing, you who lie in the dust. For your dew is a dew of light, and the land of shades gives birth.

Go, my people, enter your chambers, and close your doors behind you; Hide yourselves for a brief moment, until the wrath is past.

See, the Lord goes forth from his place, to punish the wickedness of the earth’s inhabitants; The earth will reveal the blood upon her, and no longer conceal her slain.

From a spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross, priest The knowledge of the mystery hidden in Jesus Christ

Though holy doctors have uncovered many mysteries and wonders, and devout souls have understood them in this earthly condition of ours, yet the greater part still remains to be unfolded by them, and even to be understood by them.

We must then dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides.

For this reason the apostle Paul said of Christ: In him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God. The soul cannot enter into these treasures, nor attain them, unless it first crosses into and enters the thicket of suffering, enduring interior and exterior labors, and unless it first receives from God very many blessings in the intellect and in the senses, and has undergone long spiritual training.

All these are lesser things, disposing the soul for the lofty sanctuary of the knowledge of the mysteries of Christ: this is the highest wisdom attainable in this life.

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

Saint Paul therefore urges the Ephesians not to grow weary in the midst of tribulations, but to be rooted and grounded in love, so that they may know with all the saints the breadth, the length, the height and the depth—to know what is beyond knowledge, the love of Christ, so as to be filled with all the fullness of God. The gate that gives entry into these riches of his wisdom is the cross; because it is a narrow gate, while many seek the joys that can be gained through it, it is given to few to desire to pass through it.