No update yet on the evolving story of the prolifers arrested in an Abortion Mill in NJ on the July 13th appairiotion anniversary of Fatima, two of which were Priests
Mrs. Lisa Hart representative of LifeNet, NJ Right To Life and Red Rose Rescues tells us that Father Fidelis Moscinski a Franciscan Friar of The Renewal Priest and Father David Nix, a traditional Catholic Priest stationed in Louisiana and often writer and contributor to One Peter Five were among the arrested
They managed to save one baby whose mother of the mother was attempting to force her daughter to murder her grandchild by force
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Additional Comments from both Father D. Nix and , the famous prolife activist and author of the popular pro-life movement book Abandoned ‘ Dr. Monica Miller located here
Priests, Laity Arrested for Trying to Save Babies in NJ Abortion Mill
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In this March We Are AllSurrounded By A Continuing and Escalating Revolution
Bastille Day : Blood, Death, and Exterminating the Beautiful – By Laramie Hirsch On OnePeterFive
This week’s Bastille Day in Paris featured a man flying around on a brand new flyboard prototype, designed by inventor Franky Zapata. This “future soldier” buzzed through the air above the crowds and underneath a sky clouded in the colors of France’s flag. In his hands, he brandished a rifle in the hopes of demonstrating the tactical application of this new technology for law enforcement and the military. At first blush, this wondrous spectacle looks like a peek into a hopeful and advanced future of scientific wonders. But after a moment’s thought, when you’ve had time to unpack and realize the implications of such a technology, an uneasy feeling settles into your gut, and you begin to realize that maybe — just maybe — what you’re truly seeing is a glimpse into a horrific dystopian future of oppression and fear.
We all need to develop the mentality of the Catholic Martyrs if we wish to halt this Revolution
Watch THE FIRST TRADITIONALISTS: From Nagasaki to the Vendée – Learn More About The Catholic Counter Revolution and Restoration Movement In This 30 Minute Video Conference
The Carmelite Nuns – Quell The Worst Of The French Revolution By Going To Martrydom – Moving God, Moving History – On Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites
In getting to the bottom of the current societal chaos & disorder, along with the revolution within Catholicism, and its changing teachings on non-Christian religions. most especially Judaism ,brought about by the Vatican II Council fathers, (most especially then Cdl Ratzinger , leveraging the previous works by his progressive colleagues and predecessors of the current revolution) .
Quoting from Attila Sinke Guimaraes Animus Delendi II
Jewish messianism would thus appear to have two streams , as Hons Von Balthasar pointed out. That is to say there would be a biblical messianism , which would find its more contemporary expression in Zionism , which preaches the hegemony of the Jewish people established in Israel and the ascendancy of its new religion over all peoples and there would be a secular messianism , which finds its translation in the Communism of Marx or in the socialist regimes of the kibbutzim applied in Israel ( Kibbutz – definition mine- is a communal settlement in Israel in which all property is held in common and profits are reinvested in the settlement and private property is slowly abolished )
The topic of Catholic and Jewish Messianism was revisited by the Pontifical Biblical Commission (PBC) in its book The Hebrew People and its Holy Scriptures in the Christian bible (Pontifical Biblical Commission 2001), with a main preface by Cdl J Ratzinger . The PBC is an organ of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith to which Cdl Ratzinger was at the time its official Presiden.
The PBC spoke at length on the new teachings of the Catholic Church . The PBC illustrated their view of the messianic mission of our Lord Jesus Christ and compared it to the Jewish hope of a messiah It stated the notion of the fulfillment of the mystery of Christ is extremely complex and can be distorted if one unilaterally insists on either continuity or discontinuity of the fulfillment of the prophesies of the old testament in the new testament The Christian faith acknowledges the fulfillment as a simple realization of what was written Jesus does not limit himself to carrying out a per-established role as that of Messiah . Rather he confers to the notion of Messiah and salvation a plenitude that was impossible to imagine before (for the Jewish nation)
We must realize that certain apologetics does , upon the merit of the proofs attributed to the fulfillment of the prophesies . Such insistence upon the merits of the proofs, attributed to the fulfillment of the prophesies. Such insistence has contributed to the Christians severe judgment of the Hebrews According to their reading of the old testament the reference to Christ becomes evident in the old testament texts , the more incredulousness of the Hebrews becomes justified …..It goes on and on until this new version of Catholicism lands, and crash lands it does, into a complete pantheistic naturalism
A Guirmaraes then summarizes as follows:
By Assuming such a doctrine the Vatican’s PBC affirmed that the messianic mission of Christ still has not been completely fulfilled This is no longer Catholic doctrine , it is a pantheist and gnostic fable directly opposed to perennial teaching of the Holy Church and very close to the myths of the Jewish religion
Along with this affinity existing between progressivist Catholicism and Judaism regarding Messianism , there are countless other progressivists who affirm that the Jews did not lose their status as chosen people. Such a statement certainly presupposed progressivism’s voluntary submission to govern the elect “people’ ( and hence the Zionism concepts interwoven in globalism, economics, the revolution in the Catholic Church, Israeli military escalation, the middle east’s hatred of the newly created state of Israel etc..)
Traditional Catholic teachings are fundamentally clear that the old covenant between our God and the Jews was completely abrogated and replaced by the new Covenant of the mystical body of Christ whereby the Catholic Church is the new Israel, in a new covenant and final covenant that established a new ‘ordained’ Priesthood based on a mandatory apostolic succession.
The average traditional Catholic sees clearly that Cdl Ratzinger and the Pontifical Biblical Commission teachings, out of these Vatican II think tanks, are not merely heretical notions but a full and complete apostasy
We now provide substantive back ground sources on the paradigm shift of the new world order coming out of the revolutions in research works and key quotation from two of the colelctions of Father Denis Fahey’s famous Roman Catholic work and research.
Fr. D. Fahey is a trained traditional Catholic historian, philosopher, theologian,and political scientist who gives both an insiders view, a politically incorrect Catholic version of history (by today’s standards) as well as the now suppressed traditional Catholic teaching on Judaism in two free text books available online from his research which spanned from World War III through the 1950s
The Kingship of Christ vs. The Jewish Nation by Father Denis Fahey- pdf on the link –>
The Jewish nation, instructed by the Prophets and Figures of the Old Testament, and, lastly, by St. John the Baptist, was meant to turn upwards, at the bidding of God become man, and to put all its splendid natural qualities at the service of the True Supernatural order of the world. Instead of doing so, it turned downwards to the slavery of a self-centred ambition dictated by national pride.
The attitude of Saul prior to his conversion on the road to Damascus is typical of the corrupt ideas concerning the mission of the Messias, which had taken hold of Jewish minds, and had led them to reject Our Lord Jesus Christ. St. Paul saw the truth about the Mystical Body of Christ after his conversion, and tried to get his fellow-countrymen to recognise their error, but the nation as such refused to listen.
What are the characteristic traits of Talmudic formation ? Let us hear them from very different sources. Mgr. Landrieux, Bishop of Dijon, France, in his excellent work, L’Histoire et les Histores dans la Bible, outlines the effect of the Talmud as follows : ‘* It is a systematic deformation of the Bible . . . The pride of race with the idea of universal domination is therein exalted to the height of folly . . . For the Talmudist, the Jewish race alone constitutes humanity, the non-Jews are not human beings. They are of a purely animal nature. They have no rights. The moral laws which regulate the mutual relations of men, the Ten Commandments, are not of obligation in their regard. They oblige exclusively between Jews. With regard to the Goim (non-Jews) everything is allowed : robbery, fraud, perjury, murder.
The decay was morally inevitable in any case, because of the opposition of the Jewish Nation to our Divine Lord Jesus Christ, the Unique Source of that Life through which alone the ordered tendency of individuals and nations can be maintained. It was elaborated on this point at some length in Fr. Denis Fahey’s other excellent traditional Catholic book The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society (pp. 155-160), also free and linked below
Additional key excerpts from Father Denis Fahey – screaming for further traditional Catholic studies into his bibliograph footnotes which are sourced extensively from the Church Fathers and the established ‘eternal’ magisterium of the Church.
A sad commentary on the fulfillment of the ” eternal message to mankind of the immortal prophets ” is that the Declaration of Independence of the Zionist State, issued on the day it was proclaimed, contains no mention of God. So we read in an article in The Canadian Intelligence Service, April, 1952, quoting The Christian Century. The article further states that ” the majority of Palestine’s Zionists, including most of the leaders of the new Israel, are aggressively secularist. ‘ Zion without God has become Israel without God.’ It is an ominous portent.” The triumph of Marxism is doing its deadly work of corrosion and perversion.
Marxist Communism has not only accentuated the materialism deplored by the Fathers Lemann amongst the Jews of their day, This has galvanized it into action by the hope of world conquest. For Marx, man is purely material, but as matter, man is God. Marx, like his friend, Heinrich Heine, was a pantheist. ” This descendant of a line of Rabbins and doctors,” writes the Jewish historian, B. Lazare, ” inherited all the logical vigour of his ancestors.
Marxist Communism has not only accentuated the materialism deplored by the Fathers Lemann amongst the Jews of their day, This has galvanized it into action by the hope of world conquest. For Marx, man is purely material, but as matter, man is God. Marx, like his friend, Heinrich Heine, was a pantheist. ” This descendant of a line of Rabbins and doctors,” writes the Jewish historian, B. Lazare, ” inherited all the logical vigour of his ancestors. He was a clear and lucid Talmudist
a Talmudist who studied sociology and applied his natural aptitudes for exegesis to the criticism of Political Economy. He was full of that old Hebrew materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the far-distant and problematical hope of a garden of Eden after death.
Yes ! Marx was a revolutionary and no ordinary one, for he combined Jewish Messianism with the pantheistic philosophy of Hegel.
Karl Marx borrowed some of primary understandings from the Talmud which is also opposed to ‘private property’ and believes in communal Jewish property as the State of Israel understands it – into “their materialism’
Thus the Zionist ideal is completely opposed to that of Abraham and the Patriarchs. ” The just of the Old Law,” writes the ex-Rabbin Drach, ” did not attribute to the Messiah they expected, as does the modern synagogue, the mission of restoring our nation to Palestine, and bestowing upon it glory and the goods of this world, but that of winning our spiritual salvation, as in point of fact Our Lord Jesus Christ has done.
Several Fathers of the Church have expressed the thought in their commentaries.
” Israel’s failure to correspond,” says Origen, ” has been the occasion of the calling of the Gentiles. We have taken their place and thus have become the true Kingdom of Juda. But our last times will resemble those of the Jews because of our sins, in fact they will be worse,”2 . Origen, Fourth Homily on Jeremias. The Fathers Lemann cite also a few lines from Origen’s Explanation of the Epistle to the Romans, Chap. XI.
The Alliance of Jewish Finance with Communism—Lenin at the source
The passage quoted by Mr. Churchill runs as follows: “By sending Lenin to Russia, our [German] Government did, moreover, assume a great responsibility, but from the military point of view his journey was justified. Russia had to be laid’ low. But our Government should have seen to it that we were not also involved in her fall.” Mr. Churchill then continued: “Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or of cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin arrive than he began beckoning a finger
The Freemasonic well of research data connecting the era of the French revolution to Judaism and the Communist revolution , to Italy and on to being exported into the US is a deep well
Decschamps then goes on to show how the Masonic plan of Palmerston was realized by the destruction of the States of the Church, in the course of the formation of the Kingdom of Italy, and by the union of Germany under Prussia.
The Masonic role of Palmerston is dealt with at considerable length in Dcschamps, op. cit., and in Mgr. Dillon’s book, The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization
In Dr. Friedrich Wichtl’s research ,1 the accusation levelled at Jewry and Freemasonry of having continually worked against the interests of Germany. Wichtl then shows how Freemasonry then throughout the world turned against Germany during t h e Great War (1914-1918). He shows also that the Communist Republic in Munich and the whole Communist movement in Germany and Russia after the Great War was the work of Judeo-Masonry and Brothers/. Toller, Levien, Axelrod, Wadler, Ewinger, Lenin and Trotsky, etc., etc.1 On
The ultimate aim of the occupation of Rome was not attained, at least completely, by the conquest of political unity. We are speaking now, not of the intentions of all those who co-operated therein, but of the plans of the Sectaries who were the Prime Movers in the affair. No : that act of violence . . . . was intended by the Freemasons to be simply a step towards the accomplishment of a deeper, darker design . . . . In order to attack the spiritual power of the Holy See, a beginning was made by overthrowing i t s earthly rampart . . . . Is all this the triumph of Italy ? Is it not rather the advent of apostasy ?
In particular he proves that it was through Masonic pressure that Italy entered the war against Catholic Austria and Germany which many people at the time did not understand , but the fruits of the globalism of this new world order we see today as if that was the old testament of history and we are now living the new testament of the same history unfolding in our time.
Many more connecting of the dots can be brought to bear here but this has to be studied further
** Here are some additional key substantiating stories of intertest interwoven into this topic**
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I once attended (as a journalist ) a NYC protest between Orthodox Jews and Israeli Jews along 7th Avenue (with Police barricades for several blocks long) while Obama was still President
I learned a lot and gleaned a sense of almost hatred that the Israeli Jews have for the Orthodox and Hasidic Jews – On the other side of the road I interviewed the Orthodox/ Hasidic Jews asking their perspective . It was here that I learned their position that states that “the majority” of the world’s Jewish REJECT the occupation of the land of Israel (which also the new Covenant /New Testament ) illustrates clearly was land forever taken away from the Jews in an abrogated Covenant
The orthodox jews also explained to me what is meant by Zionism . These Isrealis they maintain are in large numbers NON practicing Jews that believe that they are saved by their nationality and the majority do not read/pray scripture but infrequently read reflection books about the Talmud
Although it’s a position I don’t agree with (Israel /Zionism movement ) Robert Spencer’s perspective of the other side of this., more along the evangelical protestant notions
Israel: The Small, Great Country – On Robert Spencer’s Site Let us not forget that the Arabs rejected the UN Partition Plan of 1947 that would have already back then created a Palestinian state. The Arabs wanted war so that they could throw the Jews into the sea. But they failed. And so, the Arabs tried again, and again, and again, each time losing more and more territory to Israel.Only Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was smart enough to try a different approach, and managed to regain the Sinai Peninsula from Israel by offering peace. All Israel wants, surrounded as it is by 22 Arab countries, is to live quietly in its little corner of the Middle East.
In orthodox Catholicism both are paganism movements of invented religion that arose long after the old Covenant was abrogated and did not emerge in any form larger than small pockets of gypsy Jewish communities in Europe until the period after the French Revolution which theyused to piggy back on the rights of man above the rights of God movement Like the jehovhas witnesses , hare krishnas, buddhism , hindusim and islam – all of it… including judaism… is the same religion… It’s ariansim , a pagan form of worship that denies the Son of God, denies his divinity and exclusivity in the salvation of man
Are the prophesies about the beginning of the end of days starting to be fulfilled
The Jews are flooding out of Europe, especially countries like France for the last 3 to 4 years, and now with the trickle of exodus from the UK beginning to break into its own flow to the palastine israel –Pretty soon Israel will need to expand at their borders, even though today they deny that they would ever do so. At the same time , Islam demands Israel’s destruction is mandated by the Quran
Are major wars not far off?
Europe is surrendering to massive muslim influx While Vatican II has ordered mainstream Catholicism’s surrender to a false ecumenism and a belief in universal salvation Catholics that remain in the old religion adherent to beliefs of infallible Catholicism are but a remnant , small minority of the Church while our hierarchy is completely infiltrated with clergy that are dissident to the teaching of the Church and infected with pro-homosexual ideology It is a crisis that many say is now exceeding the levels of the arian heresy of the early Church
See the evidence of what’s really going on through the eyes of another culture
A Special Jewish Woman, the Pharisees, and a Good Opportunity Missed By Pope Francis – On Magister Settimo Cielo – L’Espresso
“In spite of the progress in the historical work on the Pharisees, preaching all over the Christian world continues to depict these Jewish teachers as xenophobes, elitists, legalists, lovers of money and moral hypocrites. Moreover, in general the term ‘Pharisee’ implies ‘Jew,’ since many Jews and Christians consider the Pharisees the precursors of rabbinic Judaism. Therefore, even when Christians use the term ‘Pharisee’ to denounce clericalism in ecclesial contexts, they do nothing but reinforce prejudice toward Jews.”
“The theological significance of the dialogue between Jews and Christians” Should be called the theological heresy of the dialogue between Jews and Christians
Grace and Vocation without Remorse: Comments on the Treatise De Iudaeis | Articles | Communio
What’s Happening in Hong Kong, 2019 – Elite Catholic -Pro-Communists Partner With The Novus Ordo Regime In The Favor Of The Vatican – On The Remnant Newspaper –
Not All Walls Are Bad: It Depends on Who Is Building Them – TFP.org
They believe that the Synod will wall off traditional Church teachings and deprive these poor indigenous peoples of the saving Truths of the Faith. It might well do the same for the entire Church by introducing dangerous innovations that will endanger all the faithful.
We’ll confiscate the assets of white South Africans – Ace Magashule sketched a kind of Marxist-Leninist future for the country in which private property, banks and industries will be confiscated in South Africa – On praag.org
But we can know that if this became a Catholic country, the system would organically turn into something else — something better. In the meantime, let us remember that our chief of state and government is a politician from whom we routinely demand the behaviour of a King.
Mosque Murderer Was A Communism Activist Sympathizer – New Zealand shooter has more in common with radical environmentalists than ‘right-wingers’ | LifeSite Islam
UK Thought Police – Man arrested for “malicious” social media post about New Zealand shootings – As Media Censorship Rises In Western Europe – On Robert Spencer’s Site
Netherlands: Counter-terror chief confirms there have been shootings at multiple locations in Utrecht today – Mainstream Media Is Not Covering It – As Reported On Robert Spencer’s Site
Media Censorship In North America Escalates – Thought Police Come After Canada: Man under fire for “Islamophobic” 2-year-old video with 475 views that links Islam to violence – On Robert Spencer’s Site
Mainstream Media And Social Media In Total Corruptive Anti-Christian Anti-Social Media Mode
A Catholic Call to Courage – On Crisis Magazine Let us stop calling it “fake news” and start calling it by its other name—lies. Let us stand up for life—all life, the unborn, the refugee, the poor, the sick, and the elderly. Let us test our courage …..Said Solzhenitsyn: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today… Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life… Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice… Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?”
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The Connection Between Distributist Land Reform And The New Liturgy by Patrick Odou SocialismAway with “medievalism” and “medieval customs” Distributists constantly present to Catholics the idea that they are trying to revive Christendom. They build socialist worker communes and call them guilds, as if their self-management socialist groups have anything to do with medieval guilds. But Eric Gill, a founder of Distributism, said the exact opposite concerning the Middle Ages. Gill viewed medieval customs and medievalism as an obstacle to the Church’s revival:…
“The liturgy must be revived, revived, i.e., made alive again. But ‘to revive the liturgy it is first necessary to disinter it.’ It is buried at present beneath a load of medieval and post-medieval custom.” (p.9)
He added: “Will this cause scandal?…What do you want? Do you want a continuance of an obscure medievalism? Do you pin your faith to a mere revival of medieval music?” (p.10)
Link between liturgical reform & the back to the land movement The Distributist founder makes an interesting comparison of ideas. He compared the liturgical reforms he proposed to the “back to the land” movement. According to him, both are trying to bring power and control back to the people: “The only important thing and the only thing that matters is to bring the altar to the people. Its is like the cry “back to the land” which means back to the people, back to humanity and in this connection we must add, back to Christianity, back to the Incarnation.” (p.10) The sin of pride creates an egalitarian mentality that hates any inequalities. Just as Gill’s Distributism hates the division between intellectual and manual labor, the existence of different classes, and the inequalities between the employee and employer, so also does Gill hate the division between the people and the clergy, or even any division between the people and God. He declared:
“The divorce between the clergy and the people, between the people and the altar, has become as wide as the distinction between the artist and the factory hand, the responsible human worker on the one hand and the irresponsible tool on the other.” (p.9)Gill’s hatred for the rich as such is well summarized in this statement: “He [Christ] came not to make the poor rich and the rich richer, but to make the rich poor … and the poor holy.” (p.10) The conclusion to this article is both solid and clear: Eric Gill, a founder of Distributism, was a progressivist and a precursor of Vatican II.
Benedict XVI On Liberation Theology (Which Is Closely Tied To Religious Liberty )
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.vahttp://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19860322_freedom-liberation_en.html
Top Vatican Official Embraces ‘Sinicization’ of Christian Faith in China
How did we get this far , why is the entire western world unwinding ? All of it , all roads lead to Rome . The Vatican II corruption of Catholicism and the heresies of religious liberty
Answers
A Question of Doctrine: Religious Liberty According to Vatican II – On News
The current issues with the International States Governments and the Media Censorship Worldwide All Stem From The Black And White Errors Within These Documents & Concepts From The Vatican II Council – ……A Question of Doctrine: Religious Liberty According to Vatican II – On FSSPX.News
Dignitatis humanae – On The Vatican Web Site This document contains more heresies that violate established , proclaimed, and infallibly declared doctrines, dogmas and teachings of Roman Catholicism than has ever been published in any document . The central tenets of the fraternal brotherhood of mankind , liberty and equality for all beliefs and the rights of man above all other rights. While only 50 years old the texts are actually hundreds of years old and come out of the constituions of the lodges of grand orient ecclesial freemasonry AND ARE NOT BINDING UPON THE FAITHFUL ROMAN CATHOLIC
Can Documents of the Magisterium Contain Errors? Can Catholic Laymen Resist Them?: – The Teachings Of The Doctor Saints and Popes Of The Eternal Magisterium of The Church and collected in one volume By Arnaldo Xavier da Silveira
Saint Joseph depicted from the Quito school of royal sacred art and architecture
March 19Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin MarySolemnity Written by Sarah Ciotti And Taken From The New Rite Divine Office
Today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, of the house of David. At the time of the Annunciation, he was working as a carpenter in Nazareth. He trusted his angelic vision, accepted Mary as his wife, and dutifully traveled to Bethlehem for the census. Later, he participated in the Presentation, led his family safely into Egypt and when called, faithfully returned to Nazareth. In other words, his decisions were integral in God’s plan for humanity and this holy man chose well. John Paul II honored Joseph in an exhortation entitled, Redemptoris Custos (Guardian of the Redeemer). In it, he discussed St. Joseph’s role in the plan of redemption and states, “’The obedience of faith’ must be given to God as he reveals himself. By this obedience of faith man freely commits himself entirely to God, making ‘the full submission of his intellect and will to God who reveals,’ and willingly assenting to the revelation given by him.’ This statement, which touches the very essence of faith, is perfectly applicable to Joseph of Nazareth.”[1][2][3]
Take from the new Rite Office of the Readings
From the letter to the Hebrews 11-1-6 The faith of the ancients
Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction about things we do not see. Because of faith the men of old were approved by God. Through faith we perceive that the worlds were created by the word of God, and that what is visible came into being through the invisible.
By faith Abel offered God a sacrifice greater than Cain’s. Because of this he was attested to be just, God himself having borne witness to him on account of his gifts; therefore, although Abel is dead, he still speaks.
By faith Enoch was taken away without dying, and “he was seen no more because God took him.” Scripture testifies that, before he was taken up, he was pleasing to God – but without faith, it is impossible to please him. Anyone who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.
By faith Noah, warned about things not yet seen, revered God and built an ark that his household might be saved. He thereby condemned the world and inherited the justice which comes through faith.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called, and went forth to the place he was to receive as a heritage; he went forth, moreover, not knowing where he was going. By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise; for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose designer and maker is God.
By faith Sarah received power to conceive though she was past the age, for she thought that the One who had made the promise was worthy of trust. As a result of this faith, there came forth from one man, who was himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sands of the seashore.
All of these died in faith. They did not obtain what had been promised but saw and saluted it from afar. By acknowledging themselves to be strangers and foreigners on the earth, they showed that they were seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking back to the place from which they had come, they would have had the opportunity of returning there. But they were searching for a better, a heavenly home. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
From a sermon by Saint Bernadine of Siena, priest The faithful foster-father and guardian
There is a general rule concerning all special graces granted to any human being. Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand.
This general rule is especially verified in the case of Saint Joseph, the foster-father of our Lord and the husband of the Queen of our world, enthroned above the angels. He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph’s wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying: Good and faithful servant enter into the joy of your Lord.
What then is Joseph’s position in the whole Church of Christ? Is he not a man chosen and set apart? Through him and, yes, under him, Christ was fittingly and honorably introduced into the world. Holy Church in its entirety is indebted to the Virgin Mother because through her it was judged worthy to receive Christ. But after her we undoubtedly owe special gratitude and reverence to Saint Joseph.
In him the Old Testament finds its fitting close. He brought the noble line of patriarchs and prophets to its promised fulfillment. What the divine goodness had offered as a promise to them, he held in his arms.
Obviously, Christ does not now deny to Joseph that intimacy, reverence and very high honor which he gave him on earth, as a son to his father. Rather we must say that in heaven Christ completes and perfects all that he gave at Nazareth.
Now we can see how the last summoning words of the Lord appropriately apply to Saint Joseph: Enter into the joy of your Lord. In fact, although the joy of eternal happiness enters into the soul of a man, the Lord preferred to say to Joseph: Enter into joy. His intention was that the words should have a hidden spiritual meaning for us. They convey not only that this holy man possesses an inward joy, but also that it surrounds him and engulfs him like an infinite abyss.
Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster-child. Ask your most holy bride, the Virgin Mary, to look kindly upon us, since she is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns eternally. Amen.
TE DEUM
You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord: we acclaim you; You are the eternal Father: All creation worships you.
To you all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory.
The glorious company of apostles praise you. The noble fellowship of prophets praise you. The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.
Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you: Father, of majesty unbounded, your true and only Son, worthy of all worship, and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.
You, Christ, are the King of glory, the eternal Son of the Father.
When you became man to set us free you did not spurn the Virgin’s womb.
You overcame the sting of death, and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
You are seated at God’s right hand in glory. We believe that you will come, and be our judge.
Come then, Lord, and help your people, bought with the price of your own blood,
and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting.
Save your people, Lord, and bless your inheritance. — Govern and uphold them now and always.
Day by day we bless you. — We praise your name for ever.
Keep us today, Lord, from all sin. — Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy.
Lord, show us your love and mercy, — for we have put our trust in you.
In you, Lord, is our hope: — And we shall never hope in vain.
