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News Round Up Connecting The Dots Of The Fatima Prophesies – Amazon, Climate, Environmentalism, Socialism, Masonry, And A Catholic Mass Apostasy

14 Wednesday Aug 2019

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More evidence Of the Two Churches In The Catholic Church

Watch Key Archive – The Third Secret Coverup: Latest Developments –- Christopher Ferrara On The Fatima Center Via YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s3kxxSXcpc&t=6s

Its All Related To The Current Politics

Politics was ugly before Donald Trump. Why are bishops rushing to condemn him? |Phil Lawler On | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/politics-was-ugly-before-donald-trump-why-are-bishops-rushing-to-condemn-him

Evil Bishops Looking to Magnify Their Power by Attacking Trump and Bringing in New Democrat Voters – On CMTV

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2019/08/evil-bishops-looking-to-magnify-their.html?_sm_au_=iVVMsQtMQ0KZKH5J

THE CLEESHEA: A Motley Crew of Trump Haters – The Remnant Newspaper –

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/headline-news-around-the-world/item/4569-the-cleeshea-a-motley-crew-of-trump-haters

CNN Paid Detroit To Keep Public Away From Debates – On Info Wars

https://www.infowars.com/breaking-cnn-paid-detroit-to-keep-public-away-from-debates/

Pope Compares Populist Rhetoric to Nazi Hate Speech Polls show growing support for populist candidate Matteo Salvini. 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/456936-pope-francis-cautions-against-nationalism-says-recent-political

Pope denounces sovereignty movement, says it causes wars : News Headlines | Catholic Culture

https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=42973

Former German General Blasts Merkel and Joins Populists – On Breitbart

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/13/former-german-general-blasts-merkel-on-open-borders-joins-populist-afd/

The Fury of Satan in Hungary – The Cross for the Church and Her Head -On FSSPX.News

https://fsspx.news/en/content/39977

The Power of Darkness Grows in Fear -On The  Fatima Center

The authority of political correctness rests on the dominance and increasing militancy of liberalism, whose assumptions are difficult to delineate in a logical and consistent way, for liberalism is essentially parasitic.

https://fatima.org/news-views/the-power-of-darkness-grows-in-fear/

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Our Lady Of Fatima Wanted Of All These Things Of The New World Order And A Pope Dressed In White If Russia Was Not Consecrated To The Immaculate Heart Exactly The Way She Said Which It Was Not

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False Friends of Fatima – Book By Chris Ferrara .pdf

https://fatima.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/False-Friends-of-Fatima.pdf

Watch – The Pope’s New World Order | The Vortex

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-popes-new-world-order

The Amazonian Climate Change Hoax

Expert Destroys Climate Change Hoax in 3 Minutes –The TFP On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/video/DST4bCuNawmg246MQyKHhUD1i

New York Times: Lawns Are Symbols of Racism, Bad for Global Warming – On Breitbart

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/13/new-york-times-lawns-are-symbols-of-racism-and-bad-for-global-warming/

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*** The Vatican’s Push For Transformation Of The Church Into Ecological Conversion Before The Ecological Cataclysm***

The Real Sins Are Against The Environment – Our Sins Become Manifest In the Earth And The Soil – The Laudato Si’ Vision –  The Glory Shall Be Revealed In Us – The Redemption Of The Environment

New – Watch Christopher Ferrara – Care of the Environment: The New Greatest Commandment? – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sGJIgSmIn8

Cardinal Burke: Amazon synod working doc is ‘apostasy’, cannot become Church teaching | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-amazon-synod-working-doc-is-apostasy-cannot-become-church-teaching

Viganò Points to ‘strands of Marxism’ in the Heart of the Church –  On The Remnant Newspaper

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/headline-news-around-the-world/item/4563-vigano-points-to-strands-of-marxism-in-the-heart-of-the-church

Dr. Robert Moynihan and the Man in Hiding – by Chris Ferrara On The Fatima Center

https://fatima.org/news-views/fatima-perspectives-1324/

Peruvian expert in liberation theology Julio Loredo reveals ‘scheme’ behind the Amazon Synod  | News | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/peruvian-expert-in-liberation-theology-reveals-scheme-behind-the-amazon-synod

Cardinal Pell Sounds the Alarm Against the Synod for the Amazon. His Letter From Prison – Magister On Settimo Cielo – L’Espresso

http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2019/08/13/cardinal-pell-sounds-the-alarm-against-the-synod-for-the-amazon-his-letter-from-prison/

Cardinal George Pell: ‘Amazon or no Amazon, the Church cannot allow any confusion’ – On CNA

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-pell-amazon-or-no-amazon-the-church-cannot-allow-any-confusion-22640

Catholic Monitor: Is “New Age” Hegelian Francis’s Amazon Synod about “the Very Distinction between Good and Evil [being] Obliterated”?

http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/08/is-franciss-amazon-synod-is-about-very.html?m=1

Further Illustrating The Notre Dame Cathedral Ablase  and The Spire Plummeting Rooster First Through The Roof Imploding The Novus Ordo Altar

Pope Francis Names Another Heretic as Archbishop and Future Cardinal In France – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/article/78NoZeaoUUrSAsozRoCMsEQua

We need to have respect for the Pope Francis – He’s a Jacobin – a Jesuit , a radical progressivist AND more importantly does not hide who he is and what he advocates. Benedict XVI and John Paul II on the other had were clandestine and in many ways malicious to the Church as they did more modernism damage while being disguised as conservatives – (which they were not )  My emphasis –

Robert de Mattei’s emphasis as follows Jorge Mario Bergoglio pits his “living magisterium” of the Church, against those who invoke “the living magisterium” of the Second Vatican Council.  If a Council of the Church is always right, how can a Pope be faulted by presenting himself as an incarnation of that event? Pope Francis, for his part, like all Jacobins, detests more than anything the ambiguity and contradictions of the moderates, whereas he respects and fears the coherence of the counter-revolutionaries

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/08/de-mattei-john-paul-ii-institute-has.html?_sm_au_=iVVLFsV7p7Sf416PkRvMGK3JRp2ft#more

Pope Francis and Criminal Omission -The Pope knows he’s guilty by Gene Thomas Gomulka  On CMTV

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-francis-and-criminal-omission

All The Pope’s Men Are Under Investigation – Dissident Organization Investigation Found AUSCP and its Episcopal Guardians – Cardinal Blasé Cupich And Acb Wester  Among The Dissident Supporters – On The Lepanto Institute’s Investigation

https://www.lepantoin.org/episcopal-allies-of-heretical-priests/

Pope grants extensive interview praises Greta and Ursula von der Leyen but forgets Christ — God left unmentioned – On Rorate

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-pope-praises-greta-and-ursula-von.html?_sm_au_=iVVL77DH0JssQj1QkRvMGK3JRp2ft

Here is the link between the politics of the democratization of the Church and the promotion of a global social justice workforce out of the Catholic Church with ecumenism with Chinese Communism

Australian Plenary Echoes Fatima’s Last Battle – Tribalism And The Church As An Ever Changing Democracy  – On The Remnant Newspaper –

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/4567-australian-plenary-echoes-fatima-s-last-battle

The Tyrannical Monologue Called “Dialogue” – By Chris Ferrara On The Fatima Center

https://fatima.org/news-views/fatima-perspectives-1325/

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Amazon Synod Theologian Pushes Leftist Ideology – Ex-priest Leonardo Boff promotes liberation theology, neo-paganism

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/amazon-synod-theologian

Surprise /Surprise

Bergoglio & Boff: Old Acquaintances – The Liberation Theology Movement Towards Communism Connection – Church Revolution In Photos On TIA

https://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A845-Boff.htm

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira’s Bitter Satisfaction of Having Foreseen it All – TFP

https://www.tfp.org/plinio-correa-de-oliveiras-bitter-satisfaction-of-having-foreseen-it-all/

From The Recent Archives

Socialism and Communism On The Rise – As The Catholic Hierarchy Embracement Continues On Pace With The Radical Democrat Party Movement | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2019/07/31/socialism-and-communism-on-the-rise-as-the-catholic-hierarchy-embracement-continues-on-pace-with-the-radical-democrat-party-movement/

In The News Round Up, Pope Francis, Acb Vigano, Acb Peña Parra, Sodomy, Marxism, And The Amazon Converge | TCE |

https://traditionalcatholicsemerge.com/2019/08/06/in-the-news-round-up-pope-francis-acb-vigano-acb-pena-parra-sodomy-marxism-and-the-amazon-converge/

King of Belgium reintroduces Saxe-Coburg-Gotha lineage – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites

A century after emulating the British royals by removing vestiges of its German lineage in the wake of the first world war, the Belgian monarchy has reintroduced the shield of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a former surname, to its coat of arms.

http://www.nobility.org/2019/08/08/king-of-belgium-reintroduces-saxe-coburg-gotha-lineage/

SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE

http://www.catholictradition.org/Priests/kolbe.htm

An Attack On Faithful Priests And A Silence On The Criminal Priests Side By Side

04 Thursday Oct 2018

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On optimistic notes it is VERY interesting how all the issues are interrelated and dove tail into one another  Today’s Feast of St Francis comes with an indulgence for visiting a Franciscan Church ,Chapel or Seminary of course under the normal conditions
As some things in our Church not born of the spirit die off and others return to Tradition St Francis would sing ” We bless you O sister death”
In the very same Seminary that was raided in Detroit (Sacred Heart) this morning by a team of Police with warrants from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office to serve, search and seize along with a half dozen other Bishop offices (Dicastries), the traditional Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix brokered a deal with Acb A Vigeron to set aside a portion of the Seminary and Chapels therein to train his new Order –     “The Franciscans of the Holy Spirit” (Est 2015) to celebrate the traditional Mass . Hopes are that their plans to have a Solemn Sung First Friday Mass tomorrow, open to the public as a kickoff, will not be impinged by the raids to the novus ordo portion of the seminary.
Similarly in France the Fraternal Order of St Vincent Ferrer , traditional Rite Dominicans formerly Sedeprivationists (the Pope was not validly elected) , are now Ecclesia Dei approved and in Communion with Rome. They just had their Conventual Church blessed and a Solemn High Pontifical Mass for the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel celebrated by the Secretary of the Pontifical Commission, Acb Pozzo, in Chemere’- le-Roi’ with attendance by an entire village of over 1200 people extolling the virtues of Sacred Tradition, replete outdoor screens and sound system !
We are living in amazing times of ‘contradistinction’

Blessing of the FSVF’s New Church – On Novus Motus Liturgicus

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/10/blessing-of-fsvfs-new-church.html#more

Consecration of New Cloister of Traditional Society of Saint Vincent Ferrer – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/10/consecration-of-new-cloister-of.html

Franciscans of the Holy Spirit, Learning to celebrate TLM at Detroit’s Sacred Heart Seminary Summary – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/photo/udWA7oaZd6sX3oUq3F96FW4YW

A Dire Against Traditional Seminarians – Münster Bishop Will Not Ordain Catholic Priests – On EP

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2018/10/munster-bishop-will-not-ordain-catholic.html

German bishop won’t ordain traditionalists as priests News | LifeSite
Latin Mass, FSSP are anathema among German prelates

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-bishop-i-will-not-consecrate-men-wanting-to-be-traditional-priests

Faithful to Milwaukee Archbishop: Block Fr. Massingale – On CMTV

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/petition-to-milwaukee-archbishop-block-fr.-massingale

Why Ecclesiastical Homosexualism is Such an Issue –By Brother Andre Marie On Catholicism.org

Dogmatic Anarchy

http://catholicism.org/why-ecclesiastical-homosexualism-is-such-an-issue.html

Minnesota Weighing Church Sex Abuse Probe
State attorneys will take a month to determine legal options

Dayton, Prosecutors Meet Over Clergy Sex Abuse Investigation | KSTP.com

https://kstp.com/news/governor-mark-dayton-exploring-statewide-investigation-into-sexual-misconduct-in-minnesota-catholic-dioceses-abuse-/5088981/

The episcopal crisis comes to England – On Rorate

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-episcopal-crisis-comes-to-england.html#more

Homosexual ‘cesspool’: Priest blows whistle on Ireland’s national seminary |  LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/homosexual-cesspool-priest-blows-whistle-on-irelands-national-seminary

The Revolution Puts The Nuns Of Asceticism Into Its Crosshairs

Vatican to ‘Reform’ Contemplative Orders, Enforce “Fidelity” to Aims of Revolution – On The Remnant Newspaper

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/4013-vatican-to-reform-contemplative-orders-enforce-fidelity-to-aims-of-revolution

And Yet Another Chastised Priest – Padre Peregrino Homeless after Whistleblowing –

http://padreperegrino.org/2018/09/27/whistleblowing1/

Whistleblower Priest Penalized by Denver Abp. Samuel Aquila – On CMTV

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/fr.-nix

Persecution of Faithful Catholic Priests

This Is Ridiculous | The Vortex

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-this-is-ridiculous

A Priest in Hiding | The Vortex

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/a-priest-in-hiding

Priests At The Youth Synod Opening Mass: No Communion in the Hand –On gloria.tv

Woman tries to grab the Sacred Body and is stopped by a Faithful priest

https://gloria.tv/article/8MfsKmG6DA46AoRmqjUykwgHc

Protestants, Syncretists and False Ecumenists Demand Communion In The Hand

Benedict XVI Disliked Communion in the Hand, Feared “Powerful Groups” – On gloria.tv

https://gloria.tv/article/yj29VNPzHUXX3cchBgcdWVPv6

SSPX US District Superior Issues Letter on Current Abuse Crisis – Catholic Family News

https://www.catholicfamilynews.org/blog/2018/9/30/sspx-us-district-superior-
issues-letter-on-current-abuse-crisis

480 year-old painting of the dead Christ contains urgent message for
today’s world  | LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/480-year-old-painting-of-the-dead-christ-
contains-urgent-message-for-todays

St. Francis of Assisi, Saint of October 4

https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j197sd_FrancisAssisr_10-04.html

From a letter written to all the faithful by Saint Francis of Assisi

It was through his archangel, Saint Gabriel, that the Father above made known to the holy and glorious Virgin Mary that the worthy, holy and glorious Word of the Father would come from heaven and take from her womb the real flesh of our human frailty. Though he was wealthy beyond reckoning, he still willingly chose to be poor with his blessed mother. And shortly before his passion he celebrated the Passover with his disciples. Then he prayed to his Father saying: Father, if it be possible, let this cup be taken from me.

Nevertheless, he reposed his will in the will of his Father. The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins. It was intended to leave us an example of how to follow in his footsteps. And he desires all of us to be saved through him, and to receive him with pure heart and chaste body.

O how happy and blessed are those who love the Lord and do as the Lord himself said in the gospel: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul, and your neighbor as yourself. Therefore, let us love God and adore him with pure heart and mind. This is his particular desire when he says: True worshipers adore the Father in spirit and truth. For all who adore him must do so in the spirit of truth. Let us also direct to him our praises and prayers saying: Our Father, who art in heaven, since we must always pray and never grow slack.

Furthermore, let us produce worthy fruits of penance. Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure. We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on all who live in this way and persevere in it to the end. He will permanently dwell in them. They will be the Father’s children who do his work. They are the spouses, brothers and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Traditional Mass /Events Postings And Saint Francis Of Assisi

04 Wednesday Oct 2017

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For First Friday 10/06/17 @ 6:00pm at Holy Innocents NYC there will be First Friday devotions and a traditional Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus following the Angelus and the veneration of the relic of the true cross https://shrineofholyinnocents.org/

For  1st Saturday October 10/07/17 Traditional Sung Mass – 9:00am At The Pontifical Shrine Of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel NYC Sacrament Of Penance before and after Mass-Post Mass Devotions to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Prayers for the Beatification of Venerable Pierre Toussaint, Veneration of the Icon of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Eucharistic Adoration, Recitation of the Holy Rosary and Benediction THE REVEREND FATHER MARIAN WIERZCHOWSKI SAC, PASTOR THE REVEREND FATHER CHRISTOPHER SALVATORI SAC, PAROCHIAL VICAR

Also For 1st Saturday 10/07/17  At Saint Anthony Of Padua Jersey City , NJ there will be a Traditional Mass for the Feast Of The Most Holy Rosary @ 11:00am

Also For 1st Saturday 10/07/17  At Saint Anthony Of Padua, West Orange NJ The Traditional Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred by Auxiliary Bishop of Newark John W. Flesey, at 11:00 am. It will be followed by solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Also For 1st Saturday 10/07/17  @ 7:30pm Catholic Underground – Franciscan Friars Of The Renewal – Adoration Holy Hour With Sung Vespers followed by Convivium With Live Entertainment That Follows In The Catholic Underground space beneath Our Lady Of Good Counsel – 90th Street – between 2nd & 3rd Avenues NYC – – A traditional NY experience  (Seating to the balcony rafters begins to dissipate by 7:00pm) http://catholicunderground.net/home.html\

Also For 1st Saturday 10/07/17 Solemn Mass10:30am @ Saint Agnes Church at 143 W 43rd St https://stagneschurchnyc.org/

Also For Saturday 10/07/17 – Following the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary Feast and or observances  always begins the nine day Novena to Saint Gerard Majella!

Traditional Novena To Saint Gerard  https://www.fisheaters.com/novenas.html#gerard  Other acceptable Nine Day Novenas To Saint Gerard  http://www.saintgerard.com/nineday.html

For Monday 10/09/17 @ 7:00pm Traditional Mass in honor of Christopher Columbus and American /Italian heritage – @ The Order of The Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest’s Oratory @ Saint Anthony Padua West Orange,  Mass of the day St. John Leonardi an instrumental Saint who took  part of the movement known as the Counter-Reformation and of the Propagation of the Faith, which was also a part of Columbus’ voyages – See ~attached flyer ~

For Tuesday Evening 10/10/17 @ 7:30pm Traditional Mass At The Pontifical Shrine Of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel NYC For Saint Elana Di Laurino – Side Altar & Veneration of 1st Class Relics Born in Laurino but Patroness of both Laurino and Pruno in the Province of Salerno, Italy – See flyer for more details

For Wednesday 10/11/17 @ 6:00pm at Holy Innocents NYC there will be a second double class Mass for the Divine Maternity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary celebrated in ‘white’ following the Angelus and the veneration of the relic of the day

https://shrineofholyinnocents.org/

For Thursday 10/12/17 6:00pm to 9:00 pm Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, 88 State Route 173, Hampton, New Jersey 08827: Life Choices of Phillipsburg, NJ (Warren County). Annual Fundraising Banquet with guest speaker Stacy A. Transancos, homeschooling mother of seven. No donation too small or too large, click here http://grandmashouse.us/video to see their latest life-saving project. Call 908-213-6974 or email  joan@lifechoicesonline.org to reserve your seat, or table of 10.

For Friday 10/13/17 @ 6:30pm Procession & Traditional Mass For Our Lady of Fatima , Saint Rocco in Glen Cove, Long Island as posted on the Society of Saint Hugh Of Cluny http://sthughofcluny.org/2017/09/procession-traditional-mass-for-our-lady-of-fatima-on-long-island.html

Also For Friday 10/13/17 Mary’s Apparition Hill 109 Roth Road Kunkletown, PA 18058 – Fatima Devotions but no traditional Mass due to the Priest being overseas in Portugal on this day.
maryshillpa@gmail.com

For Saturday 10/14/17  – 9:30am Solemn Pontifical Mass With Bishop Serratelli @ The Saint John The Baptist Cathedral Of Paterson NJ – The first Traditional Rite Mass in the Cathedral since the Vatican II Council – See the flyer below for more details

Paterson NJ Bishop Serratelli on the Loss of the Sense of the Sacred – 2007 Archive  http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2007/06/bishop-serratelli-on-loss-of-sense-of.html#.WdUGMcaQyUk

For Saturday 10/14/17  @ 10:00am – Latin Class Begins -enrollment form Institute Of Christ The King Sovereign Priest’s Oratory @ Saint Anthony Padua West Orange, NJ Oct-Nov 2017

Also For Saturday 10/14/17 Rosary Rally @ 12:00pm to 1:00pm– Be part of one of 20,000 Rosary Rallies in our Nation happening on this date as sponsored by TFP’s America Needs Fatima  – Praying The Rosary For America ! This location is Northfield and Pleasant Valley Road In West Orange, NJ See local flyer for more details -à and website link RosaryRallyFlyer Saturday Oct 14th 2017

https://americaneedsfatima.org/Rally-News/rosary-rally-central-2.html

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Saint Francis Feast Day Today

He chose a greater chivalry

http://www.nobility.org/2013/10/03/st-francis-of-assisi/

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The Restoration And Hidden Meanings Inside The San Damiano Cross

https://www.marian.edu/docs/default-source/about-marian-documents/the-san-da
miano-cross.pdf?sfvrsn=10

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From a letter written to all the faithful by Saint Francis of Assisi
We must be simple, humble and pure

It was through his archangel, Saint Gabriel, that the Father above made known to the holy and glorious Virgin Mary that the worthy, holy and glorious Word of the Father would come from heaven and take from her womb the real flesh of our human frailty. Though he was wealthy beyond reckoning, he still willingly chose to be poor with his blessed mother. And shortly before his passion he celebrated the Passover with his disciples. Then he prayed to his Father saying: Father, if it be possible, let this cup be taken from me.

Nevertheless, he reposed his will in the will of his Father. The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins. It was intended to leave us an example of how to follow in his footsteps. And he desires all of us to be saved through him, and to receive him with pure heart and chaste body.

O how happy and blessed are those who love the Lord and do as the Lord himself said in the gospel: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul, and your neighbor as yourself. Therefore, let us love God and adore him with pure heart and mind. This is his particular desire when he says: True worshipers adore the Father in spirit and truth. For all who adore him must do so in the spirit of truth. Let us also direct to him our praises and prayers saying: Our Father, who art in heaven, since we must always pray and never grow slack.

Furthermore, let us produce worthy fruits of penance. Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure. We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on all who live in this way and persevere in it to the end. He will permanently dwell in them. They will be the Father’s children who do his work. They are the spouses, brothers and mothers of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From The 2nd Chapter of Philippians

In everything you do, act without grumbling or arguing; prove yourselves innocent and straightforward, children of God beyond reproach in the midst of a twisted and depraved generation—among whom you shine like the stars in the sky while holding fast to the word of life. As I look to the Day of Christ, you give me cause to boast that I did not run the race in vain or work to no purpose. Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation over the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad of it and rejoice with all of you. May you be glad on the same score, and rejoice with me!

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Our Lady Of The Angels And The Vision Vincent Carducho