tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57207771691894063972024-03-06T02:13:28.023-05:00Ecclesia MilitansA blog about my conversion to the true Catholic Church and the Catholics that never changed.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-87430003888030569952011-10-25T18:12:00.001-04:002011-10-26T15:51:10.457-04:00The retirement of Bishop Mckenna.....<div>We are all saddened to hear of the retirement of His Excellency Bishop Robert Fidelis Mckenna OP. Bishop Mckenna is the spiritual father and leader to many, many Catholics throughout the world. He was the pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel in Monroe, CT where he administered the Sacraments to traditional Catholics for decades. Bishop Mckenna has devoted his whole life to the Catholic Church and the following of the Dominican rule. His Excellency can always be found praying tirelessly in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. He will be sorely missed by parishioners there. Bishop Mckenna is also the last remaining Dominican Bishop and the head of the Order. I was blessed enough to be professed into the Dominican Third Order earlier this year and I can say that he is the most saintly man I have ever been blessed to meet. Bishop Mckenna's last Mass as the pastor in Monroe was on Sunday, October 23, 2011.<br />
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Father Rodriguez is the Bishop's successor at the chapel in Monroe and he will definitely be in our prayers with such big shoes to fill. His Excellency will always remain our prayers and our thoughts.<br />
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St Dominic, pray for us!<br />
St Catherine of Siena, pray for us!<br />
St Thomas Aquinas, pray for us!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-58036044923392436342011-10-15T12:26:00.002-04:002011-10-15T17:28:17.823-04:00Very interesting developments in the SSPX according to this letter......<div><a href="http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2011/10/letter-from-bishop-fellay-to-bishop.html">Maurice Pinay Blog: Letter from SSPX Superior General Bishop Fellay to Bishop Williamson</a><br />
I just read this from a link on ChristorChaos.com.......read and make your own assumptions......<br />
God Bless,<br />
Brother Dominic Pius Marie OP</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-31644649352998579622011-09-29T03:29:00.005-04:002011-09-29T03:48:24.525-04:00About our label as "traditionalists".....Dear reader,<br />
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This time around I thought I would write about our situation in the Church of Eternal (not Modernist) Rome. When I say that I'm taking for granted that you know of what I speak. If not, just scroll down the page a bit and read more of the blog. In essence, it means that those people residing in the Vatican at this time are not Catholic, nor do they want to be. They hijacked the Church in the time periods surrounding (and during) the "Second" Vatican Council. Anyway, back to the current subject.....<br />
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If you go to a Novus Ordo parish there are many different groups within it. Generally speaking, there are the <u>liberals/progressives</u> (the ones always playing the guitar at "mass", raising their hands, clapping, wearing next to nothing, coming in late/leaving early, etc), <u>the middle of the road</u>, and the <u>"conservatives"</u>. The conservatives are the ones that are labeled are backwards, crazy, receive "Holy Communion" on the tongue (possibly while kneeling if their pastor hasn't banned it), go to all the parish missions (if the parish actually still has them), complain about the all liberalism in their parish, etc. You know the ones I'm talking about. Maybe you are even one of them. I was in the same boat for a while. I was always complaining about the music, the decorations, lack of Holy art and statues, having "Eucharistic Ministers" when we had 4 "priests" and 3 "deacons"....I could go on and on.<br />
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Back to the point. Many people think of traditionalists as exactly what I mentioned above. They may think they are the "old school" people that want the "Latin Mass" to come back. They might think of them as the folks that go to the "Latin Mass" at some parish within the diocese. They might have even heard of the SSPX and consider them as traditionalists and a fringe group who are/aren't in the "Church". That's not who "traditionalists" are. Real "traditionalists", real <b style="text-decoration: underline;">Catholics</b> are the folks who reject the changes that have happened since Vatican "II" and refuse to go to or have anything to do with the Novus Ordo. Many people incorrectly group all the aforementioned sects together. That couldn't be further from the truth. Those that go to the Novus Ordo don't want what the "Latin Mass" people want and the SSPX don't want what the "conservative" people want, etc. The Latin Mass groups, the Novus Ordo "conservatives", the SSPX, the liberals.......they all have something in common. They are ALL in the false religion of the Novus Ordo and they ALL want something different.<br />
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The Novus Ordo, whether you like it or not, will still continue to be what it is: a false religion. They will continue to bear the fruits of their false religion: liturgical dancing, "Eucharistic ministers", electric guitar "masses", "communion" in the hand, concerts in the sanctuary, invalid sacraments, ecumenical gatherings with false religions, feel-good services for homosexuals, etc. There are many more examples of the fruits of this false religion if you read the rest of the blog posts. You might say "But Benedict XVI does not approve of these things and he is trying to change things back to way they used to be". If you believe that, then you have been living under a rock for the last 53 years. He and John Paul II put in place these charlatans that continue to tell lies and spread their false religion under the name of Catholicism. Just last week he went to St. Augustine's monastery in Germany to an "ecumenical celebration" where:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>"Katrin G. Eickhardt, president of the Synod of the German Evangelical Church, pronounced a greeting, and Evangelical Bishop Friedrich Weber read out <u>Martin Luther's German translation of Psalm 146</u>. The 'Pope' prayed for Christian unity and Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, read the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus from the Gospel of St. John."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>"The meeting closed with all those present praying the Our Father together, after which Pastor Nikolaus Schneider pronounced a blessing after the manner of Aaron and the 'Pope' gave his blessing in the Trinitarian form."</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There are tons of examples of his outright denial of the true Catholic faith in EVERYTHING he does. He doesn't even follow the neo-Catholic rules of his own false religion much less than those of Eternal Rome! You have to ask yourself the question: <b>Is this who I want to follow? Is this man leading me to Holiness? Or is he just telling everyone wh</b></span><b>at they want to hear and hopes that the rest are too stupid to pay attention to what the other hand is doing?</b><br />
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<u>We, as true Catholics, still have the true Mass of the Ages, untouched by protestant ministers, counterfeiters and traitors like Bugnini, Montini and all those that signed the documents of Vatican "II". </u>Fr. Ratzinger himself stated about the Novus Ordo "mass":<br />
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<b>"What happened after the Council was altogether different: instead of a liturgy fruit of continuous development, a fabricated liturgy was put in its place. A living growing process was abandoned and the fabrication started. There was no further wish to continue the organic evolution and maturation of the living being throughout the centuries and they were replaced - as if in a technical production -- <u><i>by a fabrication, a banal product of the moment</i></u>." </b>(my emphasis)<br />
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<u>We, as true Catholics, still have the true and valid Sacraments, unlike the ones fabricated after Vatican "II" by Montini and his ilk.</u><br />
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<u>We as true Catholics, still have valid Bishops and Priests.</u><br />
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<u>We, as true Catholics, still have the true Faith as well, not a watered down neo-Catholic/protestant-ized version of it shoved down our throats by those that purport to be "Catholic" "popes", "bishops" and "priests".</u><br />
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<u>What we want, what we pray for and beg for daily, is that the WHOLE WORLD have the Faith; we pray that they all have this precious Gift that was passed down from Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ through the Apostles and Saints.</u> These Holy Saints of God bled and died for the Faith. <u><b>DIED FOR THE FAITH!</b></u> These saints were tortured for believing what we as "traditionalists" believe: the untouched and spotless Catholic Faith. Do you think these impostors in the Vatican would die for their false religion? I think not. On that note, they won't have anyone to be scared of anymore because they kiss, give pectoral crosses to and shake hands with every other false religion on the planet to appease them and invite them to Assisi to pray together to their false gods and demons.<br />
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<u>What we pray for daily is that we be given a true Pope.</u> We pray for a true Pope to end this period of <i>sede vacante</i> and end this torment that we as humanity have inflicted upon ourselves through our own sins and wickedness. <b>We must do penance, we must pray our Rosaries and we must be willing to sacrifice all that we have, our own lives if necessary, to lift up the Church to Her rightful place in the world. </b>Our Modernist countries with their false religions must submit to the Church and her laws. They must return to the true Faith. Not the false religion of Modernist Rome.<b> </b><br />
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The true "traditionalists" want EVERYTHING to go back the way it was before the robber council of Vatican "II" crept in and snatched away the Catholic faith and replaced it with neo-Catholic/protestant religion and "sacraments". We want a true Pope. We want our once Holy and pure Vatican buildings, our church buildings, our monasteries and our convents back as well. We want the posers in the Vatican playing dress-up as popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and deacons to get <b><u>OUT</u></b>. We don't just want the Mass. <b><u>WE WANT IT ALL BACK.</u></b><br />
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Skeptics might say "That will never happen. Things are too far gone." But as Our Blessed Savior says in Matthew 19:26-<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', georgia, 'trebuchet ms', arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible."</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'll leave you with a quote that sounds like it could have been written yesterday:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff0a4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="times12" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ...</b></span></div><div class="times12" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>"You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.</b></span></div><div class="times12" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. <i><u>Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ</u>.</i>"</b></span></div><div class="times12" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>-St Athanasius (296-373 AD)</b></span></div><div class="times12" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 3ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br />
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</div>May God bless you and Our Blessed Mother keep you,<br />
-Brother Dominic Pius Marie OP<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope.<br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />
<div>Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.</div>St. Pius V, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.<br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.<br />
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I'm writing this not only due to the divisions and differences between all the groups, but because there are so many things floating around on the web that it seems there is no unity and to be honest, there's not much right now. If you take a look at all the different traditional Catholic sites you will see this one speaking ill of that one and that one speaking ill of this one. Frankly, it's disturbing and unnerving to a lay person who just wants to go to Holy Mass on Sunday and receive the Sacraments and try to live a holy life. It's nearly impossible to stay out of the mess that's going on in the trad world much less the world itself. Sometimes these things ARE important issues, but for the most part need to be handled as private matters. They are not meant for to break down and pick apart for our own amusement. I can not for the life of me understand why some of the things that are made public ever see the light of day, especially on the world wide web. We as a part of the Church, as the FACE of the Church (at times) have to get it together. We can NOT continue to cause division amongst ourselves ESPECIALLY in a public manner. We can NOT continue to drag fellow Catholics and especially Catholic clergy through the mire. The last time I checked, the Catholic Church is a hierarchy, NOT a democracy. If we have a problem with a decision that has been made by a priest or a bishop we have the capability to speak to them personally to discuss it. If an issue involves another group or congregation, it is exactly that: ANOTHER group or congregation, not ours. Frankly it is none of our business. It is up to their priest or bishop. Not ours. and if it does involve our priest or bishop our first avenue of complaint surely can not be the world wide web. <br />
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Think about this for a minute: Do you think someone that is thinking about leaving the Novus Ordo would really be interested in coming to the Church when all they see is the constantly stirred pot of slander, calumny and ill will of those associated with traditional Catholicism? I think we all know the answer to that question. I do realize that some things that are said are of a very important nature and possibly even involve grave sin. But what we have to understand is that none of us are without fault and ask ourselves if we would like our decisions made public for the world to criticize. Yes, I know, I know, some of the things being said are about priests and even men that are consecrated as Bishops and sometimes these accusations are even made from the clergy themselves. Yes, I know that they should be able to handle these issues, but unfortunately sometimes these things can be very difficult in nature due to the time period we live in. These men need our support and most of all our prayers. It's hard enough to deal with the situation they are in during this period of Church history and even harder to deal with the laity at times. Pope Leo XIII's Prayer to St Michael states " when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered." Unfortunately these are the times we have been given to live in. <br />
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As I stated before, sometimes the issues that I'm speaking about even come from the clergy, but we must keep praying for them, NOT report to the world every time we feel they didn't do things just the way we would like. Last time I checked I'm not able to change common bread and wine into the Sacred Body and Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must show them our respect because that's exactly what they deserve and and that's exactly what they should get. Their level of culpability is much higher than ours and they will answer to Our Lord when the time comes. On the same note so will we. Will you be able to say that everything you have done is charitable and truly with the best interests of Christ's Church? I pray that I will.<br />
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I know that this little blog that probably has no regular readers is not going to help or have much of a voice, but I hope those that might read this will realize that these are difficult times we live in, but we must remain charitable to one another and especially to the clergy if we are to function as Catholics and live holy lives. Be thankful that we have the Sacraments and keep praying for each other and especially our clergy. They have many difficult decisions to make and they need our support at every turn. <br />
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May God bless you and Mary keep you!</div></div><br />
Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us. <br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-66076015352535550122011-06-23T01:42:00.000-04:002011-06-23T01:42:54.558-04:00So, it's been a while since I started the blog..........I just thought I would take a few moments to write about something that I've said many, many times, but still some folks just don't get it. I'd like to talk about the Church and the state she is in. <br />
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If you look around you, chances are that you will see many "Catholic" parishes. They call themselves Catholic, hey, some may even look Catholic, but are they? The short answer is no. Here's why: yes, they have what appear to be Sacraments to the folks that don't know any better, but in reality they are not. I'm not going to delve into deep waters talking about theological issues; I'm just going to say this: If you think I'm crazy, start reading. Pick up an old Catholic book and start reading. Does what you read look like what going on in your local "Catholic" parish? Chances are the answer is no. You may say "Just because the parishioners aren't faithful" or " Just because the priest isn't faithful doesn't mean that the "Church" is wrong". You may go to an indult "Mass" that uses the 62 Missal. You're saying: "I'm not affected by all the garbage in the Novus Ordo. Think again. The reason things are that way is because the rot and the evil infestation goes all the way to the top. Yes, all the way up to Father Josef Ratzinger. The man that calls himself the Pope. That rot goes all the way back to Angelo Roncalli who claimed to be Pope John XXIII. <br />
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Right now, if you've gotten this far, you're saying "This guy is nuts!". I may be, but the proof is in the pudding so to speak. If you compare what your church believes to what the Catholic Church taught before the Second Vatican Council you will find that they are vastly different. VASTLY. All the Rites were "changed". The Baptismal Rite, the Holy Mass, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Marriage, Penance and Extreme Unction. ALL OF THEM. If you don't believe me look it up. Then ask yourself WHY they were changed. If you care at all about your everlasting and eternal soul....ASK! Then you will see. They were changed to suit man. Not God. In the 2,000 year history of the Church nothing has ever been done this way. NEVER. Sure, some of the things in the Sacraments have been changed, but only to give more glory and honor to God and unify the Church (the canonization of the Mass by Pope St Pius V for example). They changed things to be more friendly to other religions. The same religions that they now say that are relevant and the same religions that your "pope" goes to pray with on a regular basis. They are leading people straight to eternal damnation. Just because someone prays to Jesus in another religion doesn't mean that it's "OK" and that they will go to Heaven when they die. It means that they are outside of Holy Mother Church and need to be converted. Find any place in Church history where it says that before Vatican II. You can't because it doesn't exist. Some folks like to go off on a tangent about the infiltration of the Church to try and show people that the current Vatican religion is wrong. That's fine. But it's as simple as this: what they teach from the Vatican is not Catholicism. You might as well be Anglican because it's not Catholicism. Again, just do some reading and pray to the Holy Ghost for guidance. If you truly care about the final resting place of your soul, investigate what I am saying. Pick up an old Catechism of the Council of Trent says and read it. You will find a huge difference in what your "Catechism of the Catholic Church" says and what it says. Most folks say it could never happen, but it did. It happened during the times of Arius and it's happening now. The Faith never changes. People have tried to destroy the Church since its inception. Right now is a dire time for the Church. It has almost disappeared, but not quite, and it never will. The Vatican religion worships man. The Catholic religion worships God and God alone. You cannot serve God and man. <br />
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The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end. <br />
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May God bless you and Our Blessed Mother keep you.<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us. <br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.<br />
St. Pius V, pray for us. <br />
St. Pius X, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-35003691161792809982011-05-16T20:19:00.000-04:002011-05-16T20:19:02.765-04:00Ratzinger squirming? Probably not, but interesting nonetheless.....Within the last week, Ratzinger released an instruction regarding the application of the Motu Proprio from 2007 about the Motu "mass". <br />
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I'm not really going to write much about it other than a sentence or two. The one paragraph that stuck out to me was paragraph 19 which states:<br />
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"19. The faithful who ask for the celebration of the forma extraordinaria must not in any way support or belong to groups which show themselves to be against the validity or legitimacy of the Holy Mass or the Sacraments celebrated in the forma ordinaria or against the Roman Pontiff as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church."(Sic)<br />
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Obviously it doesn't matter one bit to true Catholics, but it is interesting to note that some folks are obviously making enough noise for it to make it to the Conciliar Vatican. People want substance and are starting to show it. These poor folks want a real Mass and Sacraments, not a simulation. You might as well go to a Protestant "church" than go to to either the Novus Ordo "mess" or the Motu "mess" because there is no substance there either. Both are loyal to Modernist Conciliar Rome who has no real Catholic Sacraments. <br />
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Below is the original article. God bless.<br />
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http://www.zenit.org/article-32564?l=english<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope.<br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.<br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.<br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-72738933669489004152011-03-01T03:39:00.003-05:002011-03-01T03:42:28.375-05:00The Last Year.......Greetings!<br />
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It's been almost two months since I wrote my last post....my, how time flies! <br />
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It has been a very busy two months and I have not had much time to do anything other than eat, sleep, pray, study and spend time with my family. The new job is going well and I am finally getting adjusted to my new schedule. <br />
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I just wanted to talk about what it has been like to have left the Conciliar religion to the true Catholic Faith and write about the last year and what my family and I have gone through.<br />
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First off, I am going to put it right out there: it has not been easy. There are times where my decision to leave my job in the Novus Ordo has put me in a hard spot financially and at odds with many people I know. I have barely talked to any of the people I used to work with, in fact I have only spoken to 2 of them a total of 3 times and those were very brief. Most of the people I knew from the Novus Ordo haven't even sent a hello or anything of the likes. I understand their predicament. They know that things are completely a wreck for the Novus Ordo, but they are scared to do anything about it. I was in the same mindset in the beginning. But once you realize that the Conciliar "church" isn't the Catholic Church, you can't get out fast enough. I know what many folks are going through. It's hard to see what you love so dearly be so far from the Truth. It pierces you deeply, but you must realize that it is NOT Catholic. Plain and simple. Needless to say, I do still agonize about the folks still there and pray for their conversion, but that is all I can do. <br />
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It has not been easy with some of my family either. When you have "a perfectly good job" and you leave it without a replacement, it can make folks look at you differently, even your closest family. For the most part, no one understood my problem with the whole Conciliar religion anyway. You see, most of my family are non-denominational or Baptists so they had no clue what was going on in the first place. All of this was foreign to them and it was silly for me to leave and go out into the great unknown. I mean, I had a family to support and I was resigning a job that paid the bills and kept food on the table. Why would I do such a thing? I'll tell you why. The same reason a soldier would not kill innocent people: it was against my conscience. You might say "That's not even remotely the same!" and I would agree. Mine situation was far more dire and possibly more damning on my part. If I were to stay, what I would have been teaching could have sent souls to Hell. That's much worse than killing someone. Don't you agree?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Luke 17:1-2</strong> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: small "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "times new roman", georgia, "trebuchet ms", arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><em>And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.</em></span></span></span></div><br />
Those are Our Blessed Lord's words. Read them again.That's what I was living with every day when I would look in the mirror. Thank God that is something I no longer have to do! That alone is reason enough to help me sleep at night! <br />
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Leaving the Novus Ordo was very difficult because it turned everyone against me. Family, friends, acquaintances, everyone. You don't need me to tell you that Catholics are hated pretty much everywhere here in the United States and when you break that relationship with the Conciliar "church" there isn't much left especially when your family disapproves of what you believe. But there is hope:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Matthew 10:35-39:</span></strong><em> <span style="color: red;">For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.</span></em></div><br />
Our Blessed Lord never said it would be easy, but He did say that He would help us. You have to remember, in this day and age making the right choices is difficult and most definitely not popular. But the joy I receive from knowing that I'm raising my children in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church can not be measured. Their souls are the only thing that are important. <strong>Nothing</strong> else matters. The things that I've had to bear and deal with over the last year have been nothing compared to what Our Lord went through during His Passion. I offer up everything that I have gone through to Him through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That's all we can do. I'm not going to say that it isn't hard sometimes, but there is no other option. It would be like going to a Protestant "church". You know it's wrong and that there is nothing there so why on earth would go back? <br />
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We must continue to follow Our Lord's Church and do all that is asked of us in these most difficult times. Our mortal life is short, but eternity is forever. Remember that when you pray your Rosary tonight. Please pray for my family and I. We will do the same for you. May God bless you.<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />
St Pius V, pray for us.<br />
St Pius X, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Go to my site at <a href="http://nihilinnovetur.com/">nihilinnovetur.com </a>for news and links to many more real Catholic sites and articles!!!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-26241296786087671482011-01-09T21:21:00.000-05:002011-01-09T21:21:18.684-05:00Sad News.....I was saddened to hear the news of the death of a great warrior for the Catholic faith. Abbot Leonard Giardina, founder of the traditional Benedictine Abbey in Cullman, Alabama passed away on Friday, January 7th. I wrote a short article recently about his fight with the "Diocese" of Birmingham. Although I am a new convert to the Church, I have heard many great things about the Abbot and his fight for the Catholic faith. Please pray for the repose of his soul.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.</b></span></span><br />
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Please pray for a true Pope.<br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.<br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.<br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-63737969163123681012010-11-20T16:43:00.000-05:002010-11-20T16:43:01.360-05:00Ratzinger approves use of condomsThe headline reads:<br />
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<strong>"Pope approves use of condoms in fight against Aids</strong><br />
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<strong>After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the pontiff will end the Catholic Church's absolute ban on the use of condoms." </strong><br />
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Well, there you have it. In black and white. Another unprecedented un-Catholic decision by the man who claims to be the "Pope". I really don't know what more you need to show you that the Novus Ordo is not the Catholic Church. <br />
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Here a most disturbing quote from the article: <br />
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<strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"There may be justified individual cases, for example when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be ... "</span></span></em></strong> <br />
<strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span></span></em></strong> <br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why, in the name of all that's Holy, would he even bring up something like this? WAKE UP PEOPLE! This is the man who is walking you straight to Hell if you continue to ignore his heretical actions! I pray that the Holy Ghost opens your eyes. </span><br />
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Here is the full article: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8148899/Pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-Aids.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8148899/Pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-Aids.html</a> <br />
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Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us. <br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-76293240551220579882010-11-08T21:41:00.000-05:002010-11-08T21:41:01.892-05:00This was too disturbing for me not to post here.....<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"></span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ROME—The crypt of the Basilica di San Carlo al Corso near St. Peter's Square has boasted tombs of cardinals for centuries. Today it is taking on a livelier vibe.</span><br />
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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Catholic church in Rome is trying to win back young people with a nightclub in the crypt of the Basilica di San Carlo al Corso, complete with a beer and wine bar.</span></div></div></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rev. Maurizio Mirilli, head of youth ministry in Rome's Catholic Church, has converted a section of the crypt into a nightclub with a live-music stage and a bar stocked with beer, Prosecco and other wine. 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(Actually, he was referring to water).</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"There should be more places like this," said Annalisa Gennaro, a 21-year-old theology student, as she and a friend made their way into the club. "It's about time the church woke up."</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Father Mirilli sees the club as a bridge to carry young Italians back into the Catholic fold. Like most dioceses across Europe, the Vicariate of Rome—as the city's local church is formally known—is looking for new blood. As it is, the pews at Basilica di San Carlo al Corso and other Roman churches have increasingly become the domain of the elderly as fewer young people turn up for Mass.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="" name="U401451834366WLH"></a></span></span><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Vicariate doesn't keep statistics on practicing members of its flock. A recent nationwide poll by the Italian think tank Instituto IARD, however, found that only 15% of Italian Catholics between the ages of 18 and 29 consider themselves "practicing Catholics," compared with 18% in 2004.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="" name="U401451834366GS"></a></span></span><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Father Mirilli joined the priesthood at the age of 29, when the late Pope John Paul II was gearing up for the church's Jubilee celebration in Rome. Among the highlights of the Jubilee was the Vatican's World Youth Day, which brought two million young Catholics from around the world to Rome in droves—an event that became known as the "Catholic Woodstock."</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the years that followed, the priest took over the Vicariate's youth ministry and began hunting for ways to revive the Jubilee's youthful spirit. The crypt of Basilica di San Carlo al Corso, located along the city's main shopping strip, had long been a popular daytime hangout for young Catholics. Father Mirilli decided to raise a few thousand euros to remodel the crypt's vaulted interior into a nighttime hangout.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Two years ago, the priest found financial backing from ACLI, a lay group of Italian Catholics. "Christian young people need to find a way to own the night again," says Gianluigi De Palo, an ACLI organizer who frequents GP2. "Being Christian doesn't necessarily mean sad, serious or old."</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Father Mirilli also got the nod from his boss, Bishop Ernest Mandara, who oversees the churches in Rome's historical center and reports to Pope Benedict XVI. So far, there have been no complaints from on high, Father Mirilli says. "This place wouldn't exist if [the pope] weren't OK with it."</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many of GP2's features are typical of the Roman bar scene. Speakers pump pop music and disco anthems. Bartenders in black T-shirts serve up drinks from 7 p.m. until midnight, Sundays included.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Not all the rules of running a successful club apply, however. There is no cover charge to get past the club's dimly lit entrance. And there's no two-drink minimum. In fact, clients are expected to observe a two-drink <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">maximum</em>, and GP2 doesn't serve hard spirits, like vodka and gin.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"We don't keep a list of what every customer orders, but we want people to drink, not to get drunk," Father Mirilli says.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A big crucifix hangs on one wall, and footage of John Paul II is projected onto another. The music pulsing through GP2 should be of "Christian inspiration," the priest says, though the club is "sometimes" willing to bend its guidelines to popular demand.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On Saturday, a group of young women thrust their hands and hips to the beat of a dance classic, "YMCA" by the Village People. "There's nothing wrong with listening to a bit of secular music…right?" the priest grinned.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And then there's the club confessional. At the back of the club, a narrow tunnel opens onto an underground chapel where a marble sarcophagus encases the remains of Federico Borromeo, the 17th-century cardinal immortalized by Alessandro Manzoni's novel "The Betrothed." There, Father Mirilli recalled how he recently took a late-night confession from a clubber.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"It was beautiful. Here's a kid that never goes to church, and he's here discussing the Gospel with me," the priest said, adding that he now plans to open a small counseling center adjacent to the bar.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Although word of GP2 has begun to spread around town, the club is facing cutthroat competition—mainly from a dark, leather-upholstered club next door. One of the city's posh clubs, it regularly throbs with techno beats and scantily clad customers who overflow onto the sidewalk. GP2 can hold more than 100 people, but turnout recently has been far lower. Father Mirilli is working hard to increase the numbers.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The priest is "keeping a lid" on prices, charging €2.50 (about $3.50) for a beer—about a third of what his rivals charge. Crimson fliers have been distributed throughout the city's churches emblazoned with the club's catch phrase: "Come and you will see!" The priest says he is also working his contacts to get Italian celebrities to show up and talk about their faith with clubbers.</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">David Mahawili, a 31-year-old luggage handler, has become a regular at GP2. He says most other clubs attract people who are "trying to act like someone they're not." His friend Flaviano Tacchone, a 29-year-old optometrist, agrees. GP2 is the spot to "get to know" a girl, he says, rather than "pick her up."</span></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 10px;"></span></div><h3 class="byline" style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.583em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By STACY MEICHTRY And NATHANIA ZEVI</span></h3><br />
<div style="display: block; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If this article doesn't prove to you that Ratzinger and his followers are sending people to hell then I don't know what will. This sacrilege was done with his seal of approval as stated in the article. What more proof do you need?</span></span></b></span></div><br />
Please pray for a true Pope.<br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.<br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.<br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-46542862148476573672010-11-03T23:00:00.000-04:002010-11-03T23:00:09.676-04:00Life has been crazy lately......I apologize for not having written in so long; my personal life has been pretty busy lately. I am actually in the process of leaving a job that I have been trying to get out of for a while now and dealing with the stress of that has been overwhelming at times. I have done a Novena to St Joseph and have complete faith that he will help me find employment. I have been worried about how all this will play out, but I know that God works on His timetable and not my own. <br />
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I just wanted to write shortly about the whole Novus Ordo issue. It all basically boils down to the fact that what goes on in those buildings in not Catholic, from the "mass", the outright denial of the pillars of the Faith, the doubtful (at best) Sacraments, to the liturgical and other abuses that continue to run rampant in the Vatican institution. The Church has had its dark days, but what the Church teaches has and will never change. The Novus Ordo has changed what they teach, believe and practice to please man rather than God. Plain and simple. <br />
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On another note, there will be some pretty major additions coming soon to the website: <a href="http://nihilinnovetur.com/">Nihilinnovetur.com </a>. I will FINALLY be adding my conversion story which might have to be in a few different parts due to length. I assure you that it will, at the very least, be interesting and probably similar to what you have seen and dealt with in your life in the Novus Ordo. Not to give away too much, but for the last few years I have had a very internal view of the goings on in a certain Conciliar church here in the United States. Hint: look above in the first paragraph of this entry. Once I add it you will be able to find my conversion story in the tab titled "Tales from the Trenches" or <a href="http://www.nihilinnovetur.com/Tales_from_the_Trenches.html">click here</a>. I will also be adding some stories from some very close friends of mine. <br />
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I ask for your prayers and I will leave you with this quote below that comes from Traditio.com. Read it, think about it and pray for discernment from the Holy Ghost.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>"We are what you once were.</u></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u></u></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>We believe what you once believed.</u></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>We worship as you once worshipped.</u></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>If you were right then, we are right now.</u></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br />
</u></div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>If we are wrong now, you were wrong then."</u></strong> </div> <br />
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Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us. <br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-26643386615707051722010-09-10T00:09:00.000-04:002010-09-10T00:09:20.856-04:00I ran across an interesting letter.........Greetings!<br />
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I haven't written in a while because I have been working on the website for the last month or so. I just wanted to write briefly about a letter I ran across tonight.<br />
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Just to give you a little background:<br />
In Cullman, Alabama there is a Benedictine monastery called Christ the King Abbey. Fr Leonard Giardina founded this Abbey in 1984 after receiving the Abbiatal blessing from Bishop McKenna. Fr Giardina has been a priest since 1949 and has held to the Roman Catholic faith ever since. He left his original monastery after seeing the devastating effects of the Second Vatican Council and what it did to the Roman Catholic faith. He realized that he must do everything in his power to continue the traditional Benedictine order and founded the Abbey.<br />
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Now to the subject of the letter. In 1999, "Bishop" David Foley of Birmingham, Alabama issued a letter to the "Catholics" in the area stating the status of Fr Giardina. You can read the letter for yourself <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/bishops/christ-the-king.htm">here</a> on EWTN's website. It states:<br />
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<li style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><i>The Masses celebrated by Father Leonard Giardina or other members of his community either at Christ the King Monastery, Simcoe, Alabama or other locations within or outside the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama are illicit. The Catholic Faithful do not fulfill their Sunday Obligation by attending them. Therefore, I advise the faithful that they should not attend these Masses.</i></li><br />
<li style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><i>Neither Father Leonard Giardina nor other members of his community have the faculties of the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama. Because they do not possess faculties, they cannot validly administer the Sacrament of Penance (hear Confessions), nor validly perform Roman Catholic marriages (Sacrament of Matrimony).</i></li><br />
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Now, let's look at this statement. "Bishop" Foley says that Fr Giardina' Masses are illicit and that he cannot validly administer the Sacraments of Penance or Matrimony. First of all, "Bishop" Foley is not really a Bishop at all. he was ordained a Catholic priest in 1956, but was invalidly "consecrated" in 1986. When the Rite of Episcopal Consecration was changed by false "pope" Paul VI it left out many parts that Pope Pius XII said were essential for the Consecration to take place. I'm not going to get into that tonight, but you should look it up for your own knowledge. I plan on having that information up on the website very soon. Now back to the matter at hand. Fr. Foley has no authority to take away Father's right to administer the Sacraments because he is NOT a bishop. He's not even a Catholic anymore for that matter.<br />
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One of the most interesting things about this is the wording in Fr. Foley's letter. he says "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><i>I advise the faithful that they should not attend these Masses". </i>He also says they would not fulfill their Sunday obligation by their attendance. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">I find that very interesting.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">The Novus Ordo clergy have truly become spineless when it comes to what they claim to believe. To put this into perspective: If this were 60 years ago and a true Roman Catholic Bishop were making a statement such as this about, let's say, an Orthodox group, he would FORBID them to attend the Orthodox liturgy. Plain and simple.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Now to the second part of the statement from Fr. Foley. He states: <i>"</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><i>Because they do not possess faculties, they cannot validly administer the Sacrament of Penance (hear Confessions), nor validly perform Roman Catholic marriages (Sacrament of Matrimony).</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><i>" </i>What's <u>almost</u> laughable about this is what he stated in parenthesis. He has to explain what the Sacrament of Penance is and that Marriage is called the Sacrament of Matrimony. Now before you get upset, notice I said <u>almost</u> laughable. It is a very sad and serious situation. People have been lulled to sleep over the past 50 or so years by the Vatican II religion. If they were truly Catholic and taught the Catholic faith these things would have never taken place. People in the Novus Ordo religion are completely un-catechized and have no idea what the Catholic faith is. False "popes" John XXIII through Benedict XVI would have it no other way. Maybe if this were an Anglican or Lutheran group "Bishop" Foley would have asked Fr Giardina to participate in a <a href="http://www.richmonddiocese.org/ecumenical/larc.htm">joint covenant like he did HERE</a> in 1990 in Richmond, Virginia with "</span>A Call into Covenant<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">" with the Anglicans and Lutherans in Virginia.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This letter from "Bishop" Foley was written in 1999 and may seem like it is irrelevant today. It is very much the opposite. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This is just an example of what goes on in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Novus</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Ordo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">religion on a regular basis and will continue to happen with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Conciliar Rome until we have a true Pope. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">These men will continue to deny the Roman Catholic faith and lead many more into darkness. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">On another note, please pray for the Abbot. He had a stroke recently and needs many prayers. May God bless you.</span><br />
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Pactum Serva.<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope.<br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.<br />
St. Pope Pius V, pray for us.<br />
St Pope Pius X, pray for us.<br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.<br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-8192963993863599142010-08-13T19:58:00.001-04:002010-08-14T18:28:34.602-04:00My New Website!!!!Hello! <br />
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I just set up a new website at <a href="http://nihilinnovetur.com/">nihilinnovetur.com</a>. <br />
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I plan on using the website to educate as many people as possible about the apostasy in the Vatican. Please visit the site and tell me what you think!!! God bless!!!<br />
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Please pray for a true Pope. <br />
Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us. <br />
St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. <br />
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. <br />
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. <br />
St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us. <br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-45792553170916791592010-07-26T22:54:00.000-04:002010-07-26T22:54:00.769-04:00The "Traditional" Novus Ordo group<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, here we are again. I've been very busy lately, but I had to find time to write about something that has been on my mind. Recently, I found myself in a situation where I HAD to go to a Novus Ordo "mass". After much thought and speaking with the priest from my chapel I did my best to prepare myself for what was coming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hadn't been to a Novus Ordo "mass" in almost a year and I was not looking forward to it to say the least. Father said the best way to deal with the Novus Ordo is to obviously avoid it, but if is impossible to avoid go but do NOT participate. They may call themselves Catholic, but they are no more Catholic than the Eastern Orthodox or the Methodists who say the Creed on Sundays. Anyway, I tried to mentally prepare myself for this and pray as much as possible before, during and after. The place that I had to go was associated with a very "traditional" Novus Ordo group and when I say "traditional" I mean no girl altar servers or lectors, incense, no hand holding during the Our Father, some women covering their heads, etc. That being said, I was still blown away with the lack of reverence and the many liturgical abuses (to Novus Ordo standards anyway) that went on. They ranged from the lack of bowing by the presbyters to the presider coming down from the sanctuary to give the sermon, communion in the hand, etc. They still refer to Protestants as "our brothers and sisters"....you know where I'm going with all this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The fact is they STILL don't get it. They still praise John Paul II and name their kids after him even though he kissed the Koran, had a prayer service with all the Protestants and Voodoo priests in Assisi back in the 80's, as well as participating in sacrilege with various religious sects. These are people that should know better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After going to one of these services I soon realized that nothing had changed and nothing will change with them. The whole time I was there I prayed my Rosary and asked Our Blessed Mother to help open their minds and hearts to the sacrilege that was happening before our eyes. They hear fabricated doctrine and hear and see completely un-Catholic deeds, but still have no clue (or maybe it's no desire) to find the Truth. We just have to pray that God will open their eyes and their souls to the Truth.</span><br />
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I truly believe that with the way things are going with the Novus Ordo one of two things is going to happen. First, the Novus Ordo is going to crumble and people are going to either jump ship to some Protestant group or they will find the true Faith and realize there is no Pope. Or second, a miracle will occur and there will be, by some divine intervention, a true Pope placed over the Church and all will be restored. Hopefully this day will soon come and we can all rest easy again. It will be a great day when this occurs. I might never see it in my lifetime, but if that is the case, so be it. I can still be a good Catholic and still receive the Sacraments while all this going on in the world. We must stay vigilant and keep the faith. <br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Luke 18:7-8 says: <span style="color: red;">And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard? I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Those are definitely words to make you think. Many people just don't realize how badly they have been deceived all these years. We MUST keep the Faith even when it looks like all hope is lost and the world is overrun. God will provide.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pactum Serva </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Please pray for a true Pope. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">St. Joseph, Most Chaste Spouse, pray for us.</span><br />
St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-10639034690324247562010-06-05T23:08:00.000-04:002010-06-05T23:09:44.881-04:00<div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Greetings!</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I haven't written in a over a month as things have been very busy at home! School has been wrapping up which has really taken much of my time and I just haven't had the time to write. On this post I would like to talk about my transition from the Novus Ordo "church" to the true Roman Catholic Church. It has been about 6 months since I made the decision to leave and about 3 months since I began going to the Holy Mass of the Ages at a traditional Roman Catholic chapel. The obvious differences between the two is the validity of Holy Orders and the Sacraments as well as their stance on the papal see being vacant (i.e.: sedevacante). What I would really like to cover in this post is the manner in which some things are done in the Roman Catholic Church and the types of people that are sedevacantists versus the average Novus Ordites.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">There are so many ways that the Novus Ordo "church" differs from the true Roman Catholic Church. These are pictures of the </span><a href="http://servus.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sites/cafn/13Kafarn39.JPG"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">outside </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">and the </span><a href="http://www.pano4you.com/stmaryoftheangels/images/0661.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">inside </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">of a Novus Ordo "church" and these are pictures of the </span><a href="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/NewYorkStPatrick03a.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">outside </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(what used to be one anyway) and the </span><a href="http://www.rosarychapel.net/images/chapel-altar.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">inside </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">of a real Roman Catholic Church. </span><a href="http://www.sedisvakantismus.org/images/135_PunkPriest01.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This is a picture</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> of a Novus Ordo "priest" and </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDiFx4FyLWiLlxF6pz6DtfCbfoA1ppJhTHac2iFLq2TuXMCBGMMgWuO5GsOpLKxfXTXJxpjtXRrSUZ1M9ugBKsuFJqmBICBvBWaKJjAZFWNcYZoavGlOQzhOT2xxwDQdRisIkJEQsCek/s400/firstcommunion.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">this a picture</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> of a real Roman Catholic priest. </span><a href="http://www.we-are-church.org/suedtirol/images/gottesdienst.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">This is a picture </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">of a Novus Ordo "mass" and </span><a href="http://www.stdominicchapel.com/gallery/index.php?Qwd=./2007&Qif=h1.JPG&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=S"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">this is a picture</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. What a drastic difference!</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I would like to briefly touch on the differences in the people that are true Roman Catholic and the Novus Ordo crowd. The main difference I have found is charity. Yes, charity. Believe it or not, those hard-headed, pius, old-fashioned, old-timers are actually very charitable. Of course, they might get a little upset when discussing their Faith because they see what the likes of false "popes" John XXIII, Paul VI, etc have done to the Catholic Faith. But I will give you this challenge. Tell one of the "pius" Novus Ordites that you are a sedevacantist and see what type of charity you get then. You will not receive anything but bitterness and hate. Believe me, I know from experience. They hate anything that has to do with tradition and the true Catholic faith because they know it disproves their Novus Ordo faith. I have been warmly welcomed at the chapel I started going to and have never been happier in my life. I'm not saying that these people are perfect. Some sedevacantists have a notorious reputation for being uncharitable, but I am intent on personally breaking that reputation. I know where they are coming from. The people in the Novus Ordo "church" have been lied to for over 40 years and it has sent many people to damnation.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Another example in the difference in the sedevacantist Roman Catholic chapels and the Novus Ordo "churches" is the way people live their faith. I don't want to give a blanket description to Novus Ordites, but for the most part many of these people would rather be anywhere than "mass". They come in late, dress inappropriately and leave as soon as they receive "communion". Those types of things broke my heart when I was still going to the Novus Ordo "mass". Now granted, a lot of that has to do with the total lack of catechesis as well as the lack of fear of God, but MANY of those people frankly don't care. They would be just as happy going to a McChurch and clapping and dancing and listening to drums and electric guitars (which, by the way, has crept into many Novus Ordo parishes). It's a sad sight indeed.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Like I stated before, no one is perfect, but if you examine how sedevacantist Catholics live and act it is a totally different story. They are very devout Catholics and are intent on following the rules of the Roman Catholic Church and raising their families in the Catholic Faith. Nowadays, most Novus Ordites couldn't even tell you how to pray the Rosary or the last time they went to confession. I don't mean to blast these poor folks; many of them (maybe even you) are just doing the best they can. I just mean to show the drastic differences in the two.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I hope the Holy Ghost will use some of what I have written to pierce your heart and help you realize that the Novus Ordo "church" is NOT the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. They abandoned they faith long ago. May the Holy Ghost and Our Blessed Mother bless you.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Pactum Serva</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Please pray for a true Pope.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">St. Dominic, pray for us.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">St. Joseph, pray for us.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-30039932640696998132010-04-27T08:37:00.010-04:002010-04-27T11:27:47.184-04:00The Current State of the true Roman Catholic ChurchHello!<br /><br />I haven't written in a couple of weeks and I have been praying about what I should discuss this time around. The topic that has kept nagging me the most is the well being and state of the Roman Catholic Church. This is a very relevant topic and affects all of us from where we receive the Sacraments and spiritual advice, who we actually can trust and associate with, who is actually Catholic and who isn't, etc.<br /><br /><br />I'll start out by addressing where we receive the Sacraments and get spiritual guidance. This can be tricky at best because of the people that "offer" the Sacraments. There are many different groups that claim to offer the the Sacraments, but there are only a small number that licitly and validly give them. The Conciliar church doesn't give valid Sacraments because they don't have valid Orders to enable them to do so. The reason they don't have valid orders is because false pope <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P6ORDIN.HTM">Paul VI illegally changed the Ordination Rite (and the Episcopal Consecration Rite) in 1968.</a> You might ask: What about the old priests that were ordained before 1968? Those specific priests can still give valid Sacraments as long as they follow the old Rites. During <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1951&dat=19631015&id=L2UhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aocFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1000,2959620">Vatican II they also changed the Sacraments</a> along with the liturgy and the Faith itself. All of the changes made in Vatican II were made to modernise and Protestantize the Roman Catholic Church so (guess who?) <a href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/p6_protestants.JPG">Protestants </a>would find it attractive. Because the Novus Ordo church follows these invalid changes from the Second Vatican Council to the Roman Catholic faith and Sacraments they are heretics, plain and simple and they cannot be trusted. My comment on all this speaks for itself: when Our Blessed Lord came to this earth and spoke of things that were hard to hear, He did not run after those that left Him (John 6:67). He let them go. We are to preach to the ignorant unbelievers and the heretics (Jews, Protestants, Muslims, etc.), but we are NEVER to change for their sake. Christ didn't change His teaching to suit anyone and neither should we.<br /><br /><br />There are some groups such as the SSPX and the FSSP that still use the old liturgy and some of the Rites for the Sacraments, but many of the SSPX priests were ordained in the Novus Ordo Rite and left because they didn't agree with all the modernism in the Conciliar church. As far as I know, the FSSP uses the Novus Ordo rites for all of their "ordinations" and that would render them invalid. All of that is another topic for another day.<br /><br /><br />Now that is out of way we can discuss the <strong><em>traditionalists</em></strong> within the Conciliar church. There are many people, like myself that are (were in my case) within the Conciliar church that are of the following groups:<br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"><strong><em>1-Around during Vatican II and don't know what to do now that all that "was" the Catholic Faith is gone</em></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>2-New to the Conciliar church and realize things are not what they seem to be from the outside</em></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>3-Raised in the Conciliar church and don't understand all the chaos that has been going on their whole life and why their church doesn't practice what they claim to be</em></strong></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">These people are in a sad shape. Believe me, I was one of those new ones that started complaining right off the bat that things were not right. When you go to "mass" and there is no consistency to what is going on in the liturgy you realize something is very wrong. The liturgy varies from "priest" to "priest" and parish to parish. That, my friends, is wrong. Plain and simple. The variations I speak of are: hand holding during the Our Father, standing or sitting at the inappropriate time, clapping, "priests" leaving the altar area, liturgical dancing, female altar servers, using glass or wood for sacred vessels, communion in the hand, "Eucharistic ministers" to EVERYTHING in between. I'm sure you have seen this many times if you have been to a Novus Ordo "mass". All the people I listed above see these things and cringe. If you don't, you are either ignorant or a heretical and liberal modernist. Neither is a good thing. If you think Christ is pleased with that garbage you have another thing coming. In my case, I tried my best to keep the faith the best I could and "hope the next pope is better and straightens things out". The only problem with that is we could wait a hundred more years and all that the modernists in the Conciliar church are going to do is become more Protestant and modern.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">I hear all the time "The new seminarians are very traditional and orthodox". To whose standards? The Novus Ordo church? I suppose maybe the new seminarians are heterosexual, so maybe that makes them "orthodox". I will put it this way. I know almost all the "priests" in the "diocese" I live in and out of the hundred or so, I would say maybe three of them are "orthodox" and that is to Novus Ordo standards. Out of all the ones I have met probably only 10-15 of them are not homosexual. If you receive communion on the tongue or you tell a "Catholic"around here you pray the Rosary every day, they look at you as if you have three eyes! THAT is the shape of the Conciliar church and what the "traditionalists" deal with on a daily basis. It is very sad because many of them don't know what to do. I sure didn't. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">This brings me to the point about the older generation that lived through Vatican II and all the changes that were made. If you lived at that time it was definitely a shock. When someone that you think is the pope starts making changes, what else can you do but follow? I couldn't imagine the horror some must have felt as the consecrated High Altars were destroyed and thrown in the dumpster and replaced by tables. Tabernacles were hidden in closets (if you think I am exaggerating read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Renovation-Manipulation-Church-Counter-Renovation-Handbook/dp/0967637104">this book</a>). the Mass of the Ages was replaced by a liturgy that a child could memorize and perform. This also relates to the generation that has grown up in the Conciliar church. They sit and wonder where the Faith has gone. The fact is, the Faith isn't gone. It was taken from them and they were lied to. They have much in common with the older generation. They all try their best to be reverent when no one else is. They pray the Rosary and have devotions to the Saints and Our Lady. They truly have the desire to be Catholic and to do what Our Lord and His Church would have them do. The only problem is that they are not IN Christ's Church. They think they are because they believe there is no other option. That is the issue that I take VERY personally. Many of these folks don't know where to turn. There are so many true Roman Catholic priests out there that we can receive the Sacraments from and turn to for advice, but they are non-existent on a public level. You really have to know what to look for to find them. That is a shame because that is where the true Roman Catholic faith is. I want people to know the Truth. It is NOT in the Conciliar church. They are NOT what they claim to be. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Here's some homework. I actually found out about this through my own studies. <strong>Look on the </strong><a href="http://www.vatican.va/"><strong>Vatican website </strong></a><strong>and try to find ANY of the documents from the 21 Church Councils.</strong> The only council documents on the site are from Vatican II. I looked ALL over and could not find any trace of them. I'll let you figure out why for yourself. (Hint: It's because they don't want you to see them!)</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">My best advice to you is to contact a traditional Roman Catholic priest or bishop from CMRI or Bishop McKenna's chapel. Both of these sites are listed on the right side of the page and just ask them some questions. Talk to them. They WILL listen and do their best to help you understand. These men have valid Holy Orders and are in the lines of valid Bishops. You have to realize that the Conciliar church LEFT the Faith. All that is wrong with the Conciliar church today is because of the modernization and liberalization of the Faith during Vatican II. It is NOT the true Roman Catholic faith. Ask yourself this question: <strong><em>Who changed?</em></strong> The old saying is:<strong><em> If it ain't broke, don't fix it.</em></strong> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">I know all this is very hard to hear. I was a convert to the Conciliar church and it was definitely easier for me to leave than many of those that were raised there. Your whole life has been invested with these people. But the Truth is the Truth and it doesn't matter what you or I or anyone thinks. The sky is blue whether you believe it is or not. All I ask is that you pray to Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Ghost to guide you to the truth. May God bless you and your family with understanding.</div><br />Pactum Serva<br /><br />Please pray for a true Pope.<br />Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.<br />Holy Father St. Dominic, pray for us.<br />St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.<br />St. Joseph, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-90691743583329698732010-04-12T10:32:00.007-04:002010-04-12T12:27:59.086-04:00Current EventsHello again!<br /><br />Due to all the negative press the Conciliar church has been getting due to sex abuse scandal in Ireland, Germany and the United States I thought I would comment on these different cases from a true Catholic point of view.<br /><br />These cases are just the by-product of the liberalism of the 1950's and 1960's and the people and ideas that were rearing their ugly heads in that era. Those same people, namely false "popes" John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI were all right in the middle of the Second Vatican Council and specifically it's outcome.<br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 108px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 112px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459265215759464386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFZDPxu9EpMFbcchU1_4e3ls_RIsIodx0gUc-o0qc4HooMMFDQiwNTZ1A-Unm0n157Nrc6dUpzSKx3F_lMGx2WnSyPJyokFiKJqVEfbYtCE7smdetlkDnFvgeyqdbmWFif9evKnB9eIhU/s200/fr+ratzinger.jpg" /><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;">Notorious heretics Frs. Ratzinger and Rahner wearing a suit and tie to the Scond Vatican Council<br /></span><br />Let's look at Ratzinger for an example: He has, since "elected", been the definition of a heretic according to all true Catholic teaching. From his <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1897660,00.html">prayers at the wailing wall</a> to <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/In-Istanbul">prayers in the mosque </a>in Istanbul to his <a href="http://www.dfwcatholic.org/benedict-xvi-visits-romes-evangelical-lutheran-church-8321/.html">preaching in a Lutheran "church"</a> and a COUNTLESS list of other heresies that he has taught from <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/the-covenant-with-israel---42">denying that the Old Covenant with the Jews is dissolved </a>to saying that the words of consecration are meaningless in his book:<br /><br /><em>"There is an obsession with the letter that regards the liturgy of the Church as invalid and thus puts itself outside the Church. It is forgotten here that the validity of the liturgy depends primarily, not on specific words, but on the community of the Church..."</em></p><p align="center"><em>-<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=a6lpzThdPQYC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Principles+of+Catholic+Theology+(1982)&source=bl&ots=EUVAkvZ280&sig=ONXtTbpgIt8n--P3_dBcrj8i8VU&hl=en&ei=oEnDS8GrDYG88gbFgd2cCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Principles%20of%20Catholic%20Theology%20(1982)&f=false">Principles of Catholic Theology</a>,</em> Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger 1982.</p><p align="left"> </p><p align="left">His main pals coming up the ranks were Karl Rahner and and Hans Kung. </p><p align="center">Rahner holds some wild ideas about the Eucharist:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"<a href="http://www.ewtn.net/library/DOCTRINE/MODMISC.TXT">In 1966 the late Fr. Karl Rahner stated that "one can no longer<br />maintain today that bread is a substance, as St. Thomas and the<br />Fathers of the Council (of Trent) obviously thought it was".For<br />Rahner, the "substance" of a thing did not include its <material>reality, but the "meaning and purpose" of the thing. So, according to Karl Rahner, transubstantiation meant that, after<br />the consecration of the Mass, the physical bread remained physical<br />bread but it now had a new "meaning" of spiritual food because it was<br />now a "symbol" of Jesus Christ."</a> -taken from EWTN's website</span></p><br /><p align="left">....as well as his view of vows of chastity and celibacy, considering <a href="http://www.cfnews.org/rahner.htm">he had a girlfriend for 22 years</a>. </p><br /><p align="left">Hans Kung is in the same boat. He believes <a href="http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=bb8b8714-bdda-46a3-9550-3c17ee8f7aa4">abortion is an option</a> and <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7054181.ece">blames the sex abuse scandal</a> on the uptight view of sex held by the Catholic Church.</p><br /><p align="left">Those are just a few of the things these heretics believe and profess while denying the authority and teachings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. These are two of Fr Ratzinger's aka. Benedict XVI best friends and mentors while coming up through the ranks. Due to some of his writings, Pope Pius XII placed him under investigation of the Holy Office for suspicion of heresy. </p><br /><p align="left">I don't need to go on and on about all the heresies of these men because I don't have the time to type it all out, but the point I am trying to make is that <strong>these liberal modernists, from the beginning, have done everything they can to unseat and disrupt authority and now the fruits of their labor are being reaped by all those post-Vatican II "Catholics".</strong> The last 45 years of liberalism and modernism are starting to wear and show negative effects, not just to the liturgy and faith of the those in the clutches of the Conciliar church, but unfortunately, to many people on a physical level as well. These people and all those in the Conciliar church need our prayers not only for for the devastation that has been inflicted upon them, but for the realization of the Truth.</p><br /><p align="left"></p><br /><p align="left"></p><br /><p align="left">Pactum Serva<br /><br />Please pray for a true Pope.<br />Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.<br />St. Dominic, pray for us. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-60329353066404088582010-04-08T08:55:00.022-04:002010-04-08T12:58:19.880-04:00What has REALLY happened over the last 45 years?Let's look at a few facts, shall we?<br /><br />These stats <span style="font-family:georgia;">taken from Kenneth</span> Jones' <em>Index of Leading Catholic Indicators </em>published in 2002:<br /><br /><br />Priests- While the number of priests in the United States more than doubled to 58,000, between 1930 and 1965, since then that number has fallen to 45,000. By 2020, there will be only 31,000 priests left, and more than half of these priests will be over 70.<br /><br />Ordinations- In 1965, 1,575 new priests were ordained in the United States. In 2002, the number was 450. In 1965, only 1 percent of U.S. parishes were without a priest. Today, there are 3,000 priestless parishes, 15 percent of all U.S. parishes.<br /><br />Seminarians- Between 1965 and 2002, the number of seminarians dropped from 49,000 to 4,700, a decline of over 90 percent. Two-thirds of the 600 seminaries that were operating in 1965 have now closed.<br /><br />Sisters- In 1965, there were 180,000 Catholic nuns. By 2002, that had fallen to 75,000 and the average age of a Catholic nun is today 68. In 1965, there were 104,000 teaching nuns. Today, there are 8,200, a decline of 94 percent since the end of Vatican II.<br /><br />Religious Orders- For religious orders in America, the end is in sight. In 1965, 3,559 young men were studying to become Jesuit priests. In 2000, the figure was 389. With the Christian Brothers, the situation is even more dire. Their number has shrunk by two-thirds, with the number of seminarians falling 99 percent. In 1965, there were 912 seminarians in the Christian Brothers. In 2000, there were only seven.<br />The number of young men studying to become Franciscan and Redemptorist priests fell from 3,379 in 1965 to 84 in 2000.<br /><br />Catholic schools- Almost half of all Catholic high schools in the United States have closed since 1965. The student population has fallen from 700,000 to 386,000. Parochial schools suffered an even greater decline. Some 4,000 have disappeared, and the number of pupils attending has fallen below 2 million -- from 4.5 million.<br /><br />Catholic Marriage- Catholic marriages have fallen in number by one-third since 1965, while the annual number of annulments has soared from 338 in 1968 to 50,000 in 2002.<br /><br />Attendance at Mass- A 1958 Gallup Poll reported that three in four Catholics attended church on Sundays. A recent study by the University of Notre Dame found that only one in four now attend.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457806858652145058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHDIuRoNjFfu7PjdkckWeYwPWAi2AciwyoVMW0lELVYusQ6xaqHio9R9nfG8gTWOWTYvaLjNSQ6PmXAC7wDTfYYZivVUaP7L9bdCtikr5QaIHPtyksWXtyForwiptDAbXrfh1VD8BlVeg/s200/chart.jpg" /><br />Those are pretty staggering statistics, aren't they? Especially when you look at the statistics next to the Protestant churches. According to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/DailyNews/church_poll020301.html">ABCnews.com </a>their church attendance is around 46% in the United States and according to other statistics around 38% worldwide.<br /><br />Now, that being said, I am not nor will I ever say that "If the Second Vatican Council had never taken place things would be exactly the same as they were then". I honestly don't believe they would be. The world has turned into a dire place to live and an even worse place to raise children. Believe me, I know all about it. I have 3 children of my own and I dread what they will have to live with in their lifetime. But the facts above do tell a scary tale.<br /><br />Here are some more facts:<br />According to <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/117382/Church-Going-Among-Catholics-Slides-Tie-Protestants.aspx">Gallup.com</a> the percentage of Protestant churchgoers in the United States has risen from 42% in 1955 to 45% in 2003. <strong>What that tells you is that something drastically changed in the late 1950's to the mid 1960's that affected the Catholic Church and did not affect the Protestant churches.</strong> It may sound like a stretch, but is it coincidence that the "Catholic" church has numbers that rival the Protestant church's attendance percentages? I think not. There is definitely something to be said for the fact that <strong>in 1955 the Roman Catholic Church Mass attendance percentage was 75% to the Protestant church's 42%</strong>. The most frightening of all these stats is that from 1965 the "Catholic" church's mass went from <strong>67% to 54%</strong> and the Protestant church attendance actually raised <strong>3%</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Now let's look at what actually caused these problems:</strong><br />Almost everywhere you go it is the same. Most of the time, the outside of the Conciliar churches look like a monstrosity of modern art. The church buildings that have been around for 50 years or more have been stripped inside of everything Catholic. The tabernacle that used to sit on the High Altar has been hidden away in a room where no one can see it. The High Altar has been replaced with nothing more than a table. The beautiful stained glass windows and statues of our Blessed saints have been replaced with gaudy banners and modern art. The Sacred Music of Gregorian chant has been replaced with string bands and guitar masses.The Second Vatican Council changed the Holy Mass of the Ages into something that is no more than a glorified show. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has been thrown away and a Protestantized service put in it's place. We went from receiving Our Blessed Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament on the tongue while reverently on our knees to standing in line and irreverently receiving communion in the hand without so much as a bow.<br /><br />The belief that "Outside of the Church there is no Salvation" has been replaced by Lumen Gentium that states:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"<strong>But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Mohammedans</strong>, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind." <em><a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html">Lumen Gentium par. 16</a>. </em><br /></span><br />The complete rejection of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Limbo a place where those who died before Christ went to wait for his arrival to free their souls. Limbo is also referred to as Abraham's Bosom <em>ref:</em><em>Luke 16:22. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailycatholic.org/history/17ecume8.htm">The sixth session of the Council of Florence states about limbo: </a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"Also, the souls of those who have incurred no stain of sin whatsoever after baptism, as well as souls who after incurring the stain of sin have been cleansed whether in their bodies or outside their bodies, as was stated above, are straightaway received into heaven and clearly behold the triune God as he is, yet one person more perfectly than another according to the difference of their merits. But <strong>the souls of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone, go down straightaway to hell to be punished, but with unequal pains</strong>"<br /></span><br />Another product was the total unadulterated adherance to <strong>false Ecumenism</strong>. Fake "Pope" John Paul II was one of the most notorious of these. He called the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/special/assisi-testimonianze_20020124_en.html">World Day of Prayer in 1986 </a>which included leaders from Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Orthodoxy and even Voodoo.<br />You may ask why. In <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html"><em>Unitatis Redintegratio</em></a><em> (a Vatican II document) </em>it states:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">8. "In certain special circumstances, such as the prescribed prayers "for unity," and during ecumenical gatherings, <strong>it is allowable, indeed desirable that Catholics should join in prayer with their separated brethren</strong>."</span><br /><br />and<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"Witness to the unity of the Church very generally forbids common worship to Christians, <strong>but the grace to be had from it sometimes commends this practice</strong>."</span><br /><br />and<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">11. <strong>"The way and method in which the Catholic faith is expressed should never become an obstacle to dialogue with our brethren</strong>."</span><br /></p><p>They are saying we should hide our Catholicism to convert the Protestants and other false religions. How is putting our religion in a closet when we are around the Protestants helping to convert them? It is not. It does nothing but water down the Catholic faith.<br /><br />Another interesting fact is about the Divine Mercy Novena. This was brought to my attention by my friend Steven Speray. You can check out his blog by clicking <a href="http://stevensperay.wordpress.com/"><strong>HERE</strong> </a>or the link on the right side of the page. Some sedevacantists (true Roman Catholics) don't believe in the Divine Mercy Devotion, but either way here is an interesting fact:<br /><br />This devotion was submitted in 1936 and approved by the Ordinary of Vilnius in Poland. In 1958 false pope John XXIII put it it on the list of forbidden books. In 1978, John Paul I denied in again and later that year John Paul II approved it. Now, that being said, let's talk about the devotion itself and how it is treated in the Conciliar Church. If you go to EWTN's website and look at the Novena, listed under the <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#4"><strong>4th</strong> </a>and <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#5"><strong>5th</strong> </a>day are <strong>changes in Christ's words</strong><strong>, </strong>yes you read correctly. The words of our Blessed Lord, the Son of God, ie. God Himself are <strong>TOO HARSH AND OFFENSIVE. I'm speechless!</strong><br /><br />All of these statements really speak for themselves don't they? <strong>This is the product of the Second Vatican Council. A false religion that usurped the papacy and the Roman Catholic faith.<br /></strong><br />However, this is what a true Pope says about Ecumenism:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">10. "Venerable Brethren,<strong> it is clear why this Apostolic See has <em>never</em> allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.</strong> To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it."</span><br />-<a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html">Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos</a><br /><br />Well there you have it. You can't place a good apple (Holy Mother Church) in the basket with a bad group of apples (False Religion) and expect the good apple to cure the bad.<br /><br />I know this is all very hard to accept. I went through a long period of denial. If you were raised in post Vatican II Conciliar church this has been your life and completely normal. So have the Protestants down the street. That doesn't make it right. The Truth is the Truth is the Truth. It doesn't matter what you or I or anyone thinks. As a wise man said: "The Truth is no respector of persons". Once we understand and realize that Rome has lost the True Catholic faith we can then decide what to do about it. May God bless you.<br /><br /><br />Pactum Serva<br /><br />Please pray for a true Pope.<br />Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.<br />St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5720777169189406397.post-43450395188353584432010-04-05T13:54:00.006-04:002010-04-08T12:47:49.990-04:00My first postHello! This is my first blog on this site and God willing there will be many more to come!<br /><br /><br />Let me begin and introduce myself! I am a convert from the conciliar church. I have only been in the True Church for a few weeks now, but I thought it might be helpful to document my conversion for others to know what it is like to leave the Conciliar church.<br /><br />I grew up protestant and come from a heavily protestant family. I fell away from "church" when I left home and it took a major event to get me to realize I needed to wake up and figure out what to do with my life. I started searching for the answers. I looked at everything from Buddhism to Islam to Mormonism. I realized the only True religion was in communion with Christ so I began to examine the different Christian "denominations". I studied tirelessly to find the Faith. It didn't take long for me to realize that THE Church was the Roman Catholic Church. So I grabbed a phone book, called up the local "Catholic" church and got started. When I came to the local "Catholic" parish I assumed they were Catholic. Needless to say, when I started going, I wasn't impressed. None of the things I had read about the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church were present. I thought to myself "Well, no parish is perfect" and "things did change after Vatican II" so I went on praying and going to the Novus Ordo mass very frequently. The more I was involved and the more I read, the more I realized something was very wrong. No one from the laity to the parish priests to the bishop believed or observed what the Roman Catholic Church had taught for centuries. If you dare said anything about the goings on, in or out of the parish, you were ostracized and label a "crazy conservative" or a "radical". Now, granted, all Conciliar Church parishes aren't like this, but most are. More on that later......<br /><br />I began to re-read the Church fathers and re-read Church Council documents and things started to clear up. Something was seriously wrong. So I started looking for answers. The more I looked around in old Catholic books and on the Internet, the more I saw many Traditional Catholic websites and began to read them. Many of these sites need to be taken with a grain of salt, but there are some good quality sites that have good solid information for Catholics. I stumbled across a site that was run by a sedevacantist (more on this term later in the article). We corresponded by email MANY, MANY times and didn't see eye to eye for a long time, but the more Church documents I read I began to understand why these sedevacantists lived their faith in the catacombs, so to speak.<br /><br /><br /><br />This is just part of my story. Let's talk about some issues. When I say "Conciliar church" I am speaking of the product of the Second Vatican Council. Before the Second Vatican Council convened in 1962, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church (the Roman Catholic Church) was at its height. Seminaries and and convents were full , priests wore cassocks and sisters wore habits, Mass attendance was at 75%, lines to the confessional were long and most people actually believed in the True Presence of Our Blessed Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist. The Mass of the Ages (the Tridentine rite) was still being said in all Roman Catholic parishes. Total reverence was expected and given at all times. You get the picture.<br /><br />I will not go as far as to say things were perfect in the Church though. What the Church teaches and believes has ALWAYS been perfect. The people in Holy Mother Church are not. Since the 1950's certain groups representing liberal/Masonic interests began to make their way into the Church hierarchy and in positions of leadership. Subsequently they convened/controlled the Second Vatican Council and changed history forever in the Church. With the signing of the Second Vatican Council came total changes in theology, sacraments, etc. Because of those changes the majority of the hierarchy of the Church fell into heresy and led much of the Catholic laity into heresy with them. There were some, howbeit few, that realized exactly what was happening and rejected the heresy that was Vatican II and all it stood for. These True Catholics are sometimes called <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">sedevacantists</span>. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sede</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">vacante</span> is Latin for "empty seat". This means that the chair of St. Peter is empty and has been from the time of John XXIII. This is not the first time this has happened, but it is the first time it has happened for this length of time.<br /><br /><div align="left">A perfect example of the new religion that came out of Vatican II is how the Church has always considered prayer with heretics (protestants, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">muslims</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">jews</span>, etc.) to be heretical and anyone that was involved in activities like this were considered heretics and excommunicated from the Church. Now when the Conciliar church gets together to pray with these heretics it is called "Ecumenism"<em> (see picture below)</em>. False ecumenism. TRUE ecumenism is when you proselytize (try to convert) non-believers and heretics by telling them the Truth and praying FOR them, not WITH them. You don't go on their turf, you invite them to yours so you can lead them to conversion. Why would a true Roman Catholic go to a protestant service? The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is the TRUE Church These other religions are fake churches that either left Holy Mother Church or created their own religion.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456745325043123842" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhpLcE-ucRSOtpXtJtecJWjYkwBqZy3yKQvJHZ-ltOAjjN7vxB1Xj32GVvKNoC3UFYjmcckr7WUwUYFnVGiDzhg7tdJcWBXLUwLd3aIkcuCTypCGofsY1ZAJA8kmxxAq0oBkttapkhcTc/s320/PopeJPkissingKoran.jpg" /> <span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">False "pope" John Paul the "Great" kissing the Koran, a book that denies the Holy Trinity</span><br /></strong></span><br />How can spotless Holy Mother Church believe something for nearly 2,000 years and one day, out of the blue, COMPLETELY go against what it has taught? It can NOT and it did not. These people that engage in these activities are heretics and True Catholics did not then and WILL not now engage in these heretical activities. </div><br />This is all I am going to write about today, but I promise there will be much more to come. I know this may all seem very confusing at first, but I will expound MUCH deeper on all of the things I have talked about and bring many more topic to the table.<br /><br />Maybe you identify with what I went through. Maybe you wonder if where you are is the True Catholic Church. It was a hard road of conversion for me and many of those I know, but with much prayer, especially the Rosary, and after reading the Church Fathers and Church Council documents I know you will gain a better understanding of the True Roman Catholic faith. I understand this may sound strange, but I assure you what I will write and show you is the truth and has <strong>always</strong> been the truth of the Church. I also hope to post articles from friends that are true Roman Catholics and have written many articles and even books of their own. The advice I would give you is to pray to Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Spirit to help lead you to the Truth! May God bless you with understanding!<br /><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Pactum</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Serva</span><br /><br />Please pray for a true Pope.<br />Our Lady of La <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Salette</span>, pray for us.<br />St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0