tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91749481105120790222024-03-28T20:29:35.272-07:00Fr. T. J. OJEKA- 'A Voice' from Alifokpa: Giving testimony of the Light; Enlightening souls; Arousing consciences -intent on simply informing, not convincing; Unmasking subtle and insidious sophisms by means of Quotes, brief Reflections; and comments; etc... Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-49796727916436924212024-03-12T04:50:00.000-07:002024-03-12T05:41:50.870-07:00An Awakening Or A Descent Into Confussion?<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpeYlmfGXmMnadRH9zDIf1DwFB2uyX6pUonveMuRUa9wAJmTA5j24i3iRBV83K6oSmgTZMy-UbjjjRM8IIYS8QxySzOjjGK_VHNW_5WJUn632PiYNHiCrZtXJ8OeHsgakLyOkXe5KX6-Z7MgwXREVWK_TZ-YKYc3GkPdDjoZeB7szai1KJ6EdmIE6n" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpeYlmfGXmMnadRH9zDIf1DwFB2uyX6pUonveMuRUa9wAJmTA5j24i3iRBV83K6oSmgTZMy-UbjjjRM8IIYS8QxySzOjjGK_VHNW_5WJUn632PiYNHiCrZtXJ8OeHsgakLyOkXe5KX6-Z7MgwXREVWK_TZ-YKYc3GkPdDjoZeB7szai1KJ6EdmIE6n" width="305" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The coiner of the mythical <b><i>"hermeneutics of continuity"</i></b> ["Benedict XVI"] praying at the Blue Mosque in Turkey. This </span><b style="font-size: small;"><i>"hermeneutics of continuity"</i></b><span style="font-size: small;"> lends itself to the defense of the proposition that <u>there is no "<i>Novus Ordo Church</i></u>", an alliance quite shockingly scandalous... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Preamble:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the evening of </span>March 5th,<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> while on a commercial break</span> I stumbled upon <a href="https://twitter.com/FrValerii/status/1764981277474623739" target="_blank">a thread of posts on X </a>making reference to the February 2024 Newsletter of the <a href="https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/" target="_blank">Most Holy Trinity Seminary</a> -once my alma mater. On reading the post, <i>Sister Consistency</i> and <i>Brother Coherence,</i> always at the service of Holy Mother Church, cried out and passionately appealed to me to lend them my feeble voice for them to respond to a duty call. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The duty calling Sister Consistency and Brother Coherence was to clear any doubts as to "<i><b><u>whether there is a Novus Ordo Church". </u></b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>A Review: </b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="101" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Si5hziDanue0S8WmU-YTtac1qL_SSEoxopkJ_VMAl7uRPn1_QeWXDBC3zd7yvCWUb7niilOM7Ogub1bc2VOtRQF2aONp0h2J0FOzqOFdVdgtWykTiw98ZRZhWIjM0MculmRVPFC494z8FJghb1kOLEQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="404" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A historic reiteration that got darling <i>Siter Consistency and Brother Coherence</i> started: <br />an awakening from a 'theological slumber' or lamentably scandalous theological retrogression? </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Noteworthy is that the occasion of the famed Newsletter is not in any way the first time for it to be affirmed [by the Rector the <a href="https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/" target="_blank">Most Holy Trinity Seminary</a>] that <i>"there is no novus ordo church" but "a novus ordo religion, which is a false religion". </i>This was simply a historic reiteration. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bp. Sanborn in particular, and the defenders of the "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Material Pope Thesis"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in general, have been [lately] consistent in the vehement insistence that though the Novus Ordo is a new religion it is</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> neither a separate church nor a new non-Catholic sect.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-03947cfa-7fff-1535-2f9c-b552a3cb00e3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This zealous insistence informs the first part of the first conclusion in Fr. Okerulu'</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/1058228909077591907#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">defense of Theological Sedevacantist position</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. He stated that: “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The institution that proceeded from the Second Vatican Council must be considered as a non-Catholic sect”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. And, in his fine explanation, he noted that: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">"...the formal definition of a sect,... accurately embraces all institutions that have deviated from the Catholic Church even if they retained the Catholic structures and offices. It is interesting to note that the essential definition of a sect does not include a prior condemnation by the Church. In fact history proves that this condemnation is not even required on the part of the Church. A religious assembly must be considered a non-Catholic sect as long as their negation of the Catholic Faith is public."</blockquote></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also, Fr. Lehtoranta in his article on <a href="https://www.fatherlehtoranta.com/post/totalism-vs-the-cassiciacum-thesis" target="_blank">Totalism Vs Cassiciacum Thesis </a> decries how the defenders of the Material Pope Thesis insist that Bergoglio's church is not a separate church. To them, in the words of Fr. Desposito: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">Technically, Vatican II was the beginning
of a new religion, but not of a new
Church</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> Fr. Lehtoranta goes on to note, and rightly so, that:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Here we see how the Thesis attempts to build its own alternative reality. Little bit like in
nominalism, an idea “describes”
some concept which doesn’t necessarily coincide with reality at
all. Things are not how they look
like. It also resembles Kantianism, where the “phenomenon”
as our mind’s idea is really extinct from the thing
itself, which our mind cannot grasp. So <u><b>in this made-up Thesis world, it might appear that this church organization of Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not the Catholic Church, but,
against all sense-information, the true Church of
Christ is still intact in it</b></u>. This is a concept which the Totalists reject
completely. We say that the election of John
XXIII in 1958 was the beginning of both new
religion and a new church. <b><u>Completely independently of anyone’s thoughts, the church organization of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, which is clearly
a visible entity, either is the Mystical Body of
Christ, i.e. the Catholic Church, or it is not</u></b>.
There is no third option. That’s why the opponents of the Thesis are called Totalists, because
we totally reject the idea that this heretical sect
of Bergoglio has anything to do with the true
Church of Christ, either legally or in reality... [<i>emphasis added]</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. The first obvious logical impression created in saying that novus ordo false religion is not a separate church is that presently, in the One Roman Catholic Church there are two religions: one true - the Catholic; the other false - the novus ordo. The is the primal logical implications of finely distinguishing between "Catholic Church" and "Catholic Religion". </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But, as a matter of fact, in the usage of the Church, both expressions are used interchangeably. For instance, in condemning a proposition of indifferentism in the <i>syllabus of errors </i>the idea that there is a "Christian religion" outside the Catholic Church is roundly trashed: </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Protestantism is nothing else than a different form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church</i></span>. [1<i>8th condemned proposition, Denz. 1918]</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, if there is a <i>novus ordo religion</i> other that the Catholic Religion, it must belong to an <i>"organization separate from the Catholic Church</i>". </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>A Substantial Paradigm Shift:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a matter of fact, the Most Reverend Rector of the <a href="https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/" target="_blank">Most Holy Trinity Seminary</a> has not always given this response to the question whether there is a 'novus ordo Church'. It is, however, not clear at what point the substantial paradigm shift took place. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some years ago, he </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">gave a rather moving sermon titled "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/4979672791643692421#" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">cut from the novus ordo</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">". </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Introducing the sermon, he had these to say:</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba6e2205-7fff-8a3e-c933-4c9c548dfc7a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"The title of my sermon is "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">you have to cut from the novus ordo"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. The reason...is because I occasionally have an understanding from people that they have not sufficiently cut from the novus ordo. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">That they come [here] for Mass regularly, but they still have a finger in the novus ordo pie so to speak. And </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><u>they still regard it as the Catholic Church</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><u>..</u>. just as light and darkness are opposed so the Holy Spirit and falsehood. And for this reason, </span><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">it is necessary to cut from the novus ordo because it is a false Church.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is a false church for the reasons that I have explained to you in other sermons</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><u>...</u> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">[</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">emphasis added]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Later on in the sermon he said that: </span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...it is necessary to cut completely from the Novus Ordo and avoid it, and treat in the same way that you would avoid and treat the Lutheran church of America... <u><b>some continue to see this new church as the Roman Catholic Church..</b></u>. <b><u>mentally, and psychologically break from the Novus Ordo, it is not the Catholic Church, - it has the appearance of being it, but it is not the Catholic Church</u></b>. Break from it" </span></span></p></blockquote></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba6e2205-7fff-8a3e-c933-4c9c548dfc7a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So, some years ago, to the question whether there is a "Novus ordo church" the answer was categorically "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">yes"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. However, to the same question </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NOW </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> same respondent answers "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">no". </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What should we make of it all???!!! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Reasons For the Previous Answer:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d4ff12e7-7fff-802a-8240-a298e0db4e8a"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reasons given for which a certain entity tagged 'novus ordo church' was declared both a false church and false religion and NOT to be the Catholic Church by the Most Reverend</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/4979672791643692421#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rector of Most Holy Trinity seminary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">admitted,</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and rightly so, falls under the following categories:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ol><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Novus Ordo Church is a false Church because "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it officially teaches doctrines which are contrary to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church". </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The 'novus Ordo Church' has false rites.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The novus ordo church has evil laws, laws not conducive to eternal salvation but to hell e.g. inter-communion with protestants, [and of course inter-religious worship.]</span></span></li></ol><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the first point, a quick sample of the false doctrines officially taught by the novus ordo church was given by way of summary:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;">...that the Catholic Church is not strictly identified with the One True Church of Christ; heresy concerning religious liberty, the exact thing condemned by Pope Pius IX, Pope Gregory XVI, Pope Leo XII; heresy concerning the necessity of the Church for salvation; heresy concerning the sacrifice of the Mass.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, while these reasons still hold true, the entity called 'novus ordo' is being denied the status of being a separate 'church', even though these reasons made her qualify for such status in the past. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What exactly should we make of it all???!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Novus Ordo: A Non-Catholic Sect:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the same sermon, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the Most Reverend</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/4979672791643692421#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rector of Most Holy Trinity seminary</span></a> b<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ewailed those <i>who are still confused</i> about the issues concerning Catholic Buildings passing into heresy in our time as during the English reformation. These, he said "<i>look forward to the day when they can have the traditional Latin Mass in the Novus ordo Church",</i> thus able to "<i>exercise their preference without stepping out of the auspices of Novus ordo church". </i>He insisted, and rightly so, that: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><i>...to reduce the Catholic Church to such a state where you have contradictory faiths under the umbrella of the same church is to turn it into a sect. Every sect has that... to split the [Catholic] Church into splinters of conservative or liberal observance is to reduce the Catholic Church to a sect. It no longer has the quality of being Catholic"</i></blockquote></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">More so, not very long ago, while writing on "<a href="https://inveritateblog.com/2023/01/13/the-death-of-ratzinger/" target="_blank">The Death of Ratzinger"</a>, identifying him as a 'conservative, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-33ef024b-7fff-3792-4733-b330c216fd66"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His Excellency went on to underline that: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"It is the characteristic of non-Catholic sects to have liberal and conservative branches. The very term “conservative” implies the legitimacy of its correlative, namely “liberal.” So there are liberal and conservative Jews, liberal and conservative Protestants, liberal and conservative Moslems."</span></blockquote></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="184" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/c07X5jof5DNaNeh5VzNp7rJ5fo9MOBK_Sw5YGjIBcB3TSww3y-cNMqscPR1oBbgxuRbvUrqbvV7P2Wuj3yrwk3OhstpuI5i-yLp2nbAbU690iFQaHMsRG5bkdPqX5UP8tv6n314MqGKp0i1ef1kf87Q" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="327" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-40bd4a06-7fff-65bb-e4a0-f626a10654a8"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Modernist Papal imposters</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">:
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Radical-conservative Ratzinger: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1ff48a75-7fff-ab41-6d12-16a26beb3f81"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> who, according to Bp. Sanborn, and truly so, was among those that inspired and directed godless revolution of Vatican II which infected dogma, morals, discipline, canon law, and the liturgy; and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">radical-liberal Bergoglio:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span>who is vilified for merely being a consistent Vatican II proponent. According to the <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Material Pope Thesis</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> strongly defended by Bp. Sanborn, they are both legitimate Catholic Popes '</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">materially but not formally </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-with material but not formal authority: both being heads and promoters of a religion affirmed by Bp. Sanborn to be 'diametrically opposed to the Catholic Religion., -a '</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">poisonous religion'</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">: which, the Material Pope Thesis defenders insist cannot be designated as Catholic Church 'formally' -but 'materially'! These </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">'legal-material-Catholic-Popes':</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> executors of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">conciliabulum -the illegal and phony</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Vatican II Council...</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-59cb6394-7fff-f93d-9eeb-ac639f0ff294"><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Thus, it is characteristic of "non-Catholic Sects" that there is the legitimate division into "conservative " and "liberal" branches: each respects the rights of the other since they are equal in their difference. There, the ruling team determines how the affairs are steered: thus, with the radical-conservative Ratzinger in power with his conservative cohort, a version of the Traditional Latin Mass was permitted, albeit with a modernist taint; while with the radical-liberal Bergoglio in charge with his liberal cohort, it is outlawed.</div></span><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The shocking twist here is that His Excellency wrote this while he and the other </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">defenders of the "</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Material Pope Thesis"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in general, continued in the vehement insistence that though the Novus Ordo is a new religion,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> it is neither a separate church nor a new non-Catholic sect.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Material Continuity - Cause of Confusion: </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6e0b63f4-7fff-8034-0722-4a128ef8b29d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, based on the principle of identity based on what is essential to a reality, the Most Reverend</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/4979672791643692421#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rector of Most Holy Trinity seminary</span></a><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the same sermon, "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/9174948110512079022/4979672791643692421#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cut from the Novus Ordo"</span></a><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> insisted vehemently that the novus ordo church "</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">has the appearance of being the Roman Catholic Church" </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and noted that this is "</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>one of the reasons for confusion"</u></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>.</u> He went on to liken the novus ordo church to a corpse, calling it "t</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">he corpse of the Catholic Church"</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. He said:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.38; margin: 12pt 30pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">just like the corpse at the funeral home looks very much like the living person, so this corpse of the Catholic Church which has the life of God pulled out of it looks like what was - the same buildings, in many cases the same people and the same structures of hierarchy - but because they are imposing [this] heresy the life of God is not in it... [</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">emphasis added]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In the same vein, this 'corpse of the Catholic Church' infused by the "life" of [modernist] heresy, but "having the appearance of Catholic Church" he calls the "Frankenstein church", "monster church". He insisted that the use of this analogy is "perfect" and a "good explanation of what is taking place". And thus far in this matter there is nothing to disagree with.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Summing Up: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>In a historic sermon, Bp. Sanborn affirmed that<u> there a novus ordo church and that it is a false church.</u> In the same sermon he implied that <u>the novus ordo church is a non-Catholic sect </u>and confirms that while analyzing conservative Ratzinger. </li><li>But in order to defend the material Pope Thesis, he reiterates vehemently that <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the Novus Ordo is a new religion,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">but it is <u>neither a separate church nor a new non-Catholic sect.</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><u> </u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This "Thesis" which make its defenders to affirm contradictory things [as I have shown in this <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-schema-of-opposition-and-church.html" target="_blank">memorial reflection</a>] is affirmed to be "<i>the only correct response"</i> to "<i>the Vatican II problem in a Catholic way...both because of the intrinsic evidence for it, and because it preserves both the continuity of apostolic succession (the material) and the indefectibility of the Catholic Church (the formal)". </i>Meanwhile, "<i>most" </i>of the "<i>positions" </i>providing solutions to the Vatican II problem are affirmed to be "<i>objectively... erroneous, and dangerously so, since they would easily lead to heresy". </i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The 'material continuity' he once affirmed as being 'a cause of confusion' to many, which confusion makes them still to regard the novus ordo 'Frankenstein church' as the Catholic Church, the same "material continuity" is cited in defense of the Material Pope Thesis. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Though the novus ordo is now said not to be a 'separate organization' from the Catholic Church, Bishop Sanborn continues to urge people to 'cut from novus ordo" just as he did when he considered it </span></span><u>a false church and a false religion. </u> </li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Taking all of these into consideration, who does not see that "<b><u>to know the Thesis is to reject it"</u></b>?!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="http://www.catholicmessage.org/blog/material-pope-thesis/2021-02-11-358" target="_blank">Among other things</a>:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes its adherents erect an alternate reality with a nominalist ambience.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes its adherents affirm <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-schema-of-opposition-and-church.html" target="_blank">contradictory things.</a></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes them give in to the temptation to twist historical fact in search of precedence in its favor [see the of "<a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2022/12/victor-iii-thesis-dead-on-arrival.html" target="_blank">Victor III & The Thesis"</a>]</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes them obfuscate the visibility of the Catholic Church.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes them to be set against indefectibility while poised as defenders of Apostolicity: affirming that the guarantors of Apostolicity are none but the purveyors of apostate apostolicity. </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">It makes them sorely confuse like many today. They confuse "<i>the corpse</i>" of the Catholic Church "</span></span><i>which has the life of God pulled out of it"</i> and "<i>looks like what was - the same buildings, in many cases the same people and the same structures of hierarchy;</i> they confuse this for the Catholic Church whose animating principle is the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, is it not the case that the Material Pope Thesis rather is <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>objectively... erroneous, and dangerously so, since" </i><b><u>IT</u></b><b><u> </u></b><i>"would easily lead to heresy"? </i>Is it not easy to see how the Thesis leads to heresy objectively? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Well, in the company of darling <i>Sister Consistency</i> and <i>Brother Coherence,</i> let anyone with an informed Catholic Common Sense see and judge justly. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYhcF-uWerjGyKkePhi-BFl-f6FdDtmYFNf9fLzEmH0IepA-19p8-ddBF43Ss6JHBFuhDC75I3YGFoawqTGnfzxklSuYEdKf8ByBsYajSZDD5JOhM1JG8MhNvo9ZEOGXt4FD6YTfqDdAgDkZbHqxS1K-E9xTjgzO0qokWS9wIOjWQEfQOs12FP_So/s724/Screenshot_12-3-2024_113719_twitter.com.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="724" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpYhcF-uWerjGyKkePhi-BFl-f6FdDtmYFNf9fLzEmH0IepA-19p8-ddBF43Ss6JHBFuhDC75I3YGFoawqTGnfzxklSuYEdKf8ByBsYajSZDD5JOhM1JG8MhNvo9ZEOGXt4FD6YTfqDdAgDkZbHqxS1K-E9xTjgzO0qokWS9wIOjWQEfQOs12FP_So/w370-h367/Screenshot_12-3-2024_113719_twitter.com.jpeg" width="370" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To know the Thesis is to reject it, and not otherwise... </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i><br /></i></span></div><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer active" rounded-container="" style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div aria-label="8 minutes, 56 seconds preference this they say will solve everything now to reduce the Catholic" class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" style="align-items: baseline; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: var(--yt-spec-badge-chip-background); background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.8rem; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 12px 16px 8px 4px; position: relative;" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" style="color: var(--yt-spec-text-primary); margin-left: var(--ytd-transcript-segment-text-margin-left); overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 303.575px;" tabindex="-1"><br /></yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer></span><div><div><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Fr. 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OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-96823385229524562024-02-22T02:05:00.000-08:002024-02-22T02:07:28.445-08:00The Brood Of Latin-Massists: A Cursory Glance <p> <b>Preamble:</b></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyQZHXvaYuJPOv21SD-VnSXQPistI5YBultrObmg2g5KXz6gZmRCJSB_ex0XKpGKuLotk6E7jFUd3FPiqEwMsEFQxxc9MP3izZvc3iivV-iMBEr8rWAit8_6ZC8aEDMfOCi11kqsZhmbjgNR_nEpqz3nGkD2vuSXPZpPfvvscHfWWhNl-ZEFf3727/s1273/Screenshot_20240222-092325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="1080" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyQZHXvaYuJPOv21SD-VnSXQPistI5YBultrObmg2g5KXz6gZmRCJSB_ex0XKpGKuLotk6E7jFUd3FPiqEwMsEFQxxc9MP3izZvc3iivV-iMBEr8rWAit8_6ZC8aEDMfOCi11kqsZhmbjgNR_nEpqz3nGkD2vuSXPZpPfvvscHfWWhNl-ZEFf3727/w239-h282/Screenshot_20240222-092325.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Latin-Massists blush at scenes like those in these pictures and reduce the question to a "bad-dad" theology... They reject the "ordinary" law of worship prescribed by their "Popes" and have had an "extraordinary" law of worship granted them to flatter their nostalgia while being coreligionists in the new order religion... They have a "living magisterium" but appeal to "tradition" to justify their resistance... </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Few days ago a fellow left a comment on my video post on Facebook. He finds himself confused as he notices a difference, obvious difference, between what the contents of my posts uphold and that upheld by those usually called "Latin-Massists". Below is a screenshot of the comment.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgySCrr4XXD-SM39rpLsZF5eerTnHZKse0Vq5l3Q22nVVGEZm4AIJjlj00RXi-ltU-nk6_JL6A6VRDRQwrGfSBLZeguL8ywdipzL7-y7uj_xP_OZcjJqdDAiSLEolQPk8wtRTretHzPN80Yv9sFlt6E21epkYEJddutttV8KvTof_Z_gTmjktNQ75/s1080/Screenshot_20240218-224419_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="1080" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgySCrr4XXD-SM39rpLsZF5eerTnHZKse0Vq5l3Q22nVVGEZm4AIJjlj00RXi-ltU-nk6_JL6A6VRDRQwrGfSBLZeguL8ywdipzL7-y7uj_xP_OZcjJqdDAiSLEolQPk8wtRTretHzPN80Yv9sFlt6E21epkYEJddutttV8KvTof_Z_gTmjktNQ75/s320/Screenshot_20240218-224419_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The "other priests" here referred to are those of the brood of Latin-Massists that have invaded Nigeria over the years... You can be sure that the majority of them are products of the 1968 revised Rite of Episcopal consecration and Priestly ordination, thus nothing more than lay-robed men... a couple of them have secured to themselves valid Orders with little or no training; others, being desperate, have only secured to themselves doubtful Orders from doubtful Bishops</b>... <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">This post is an attempt to get to the cause of the said confusion and to correct the misrepresentation of what I stand for as insinuated in the comment. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Latin-Massist Clan</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Basically two groups of people make up the brood of Latin-Massists. On the one hand we have the Neo-trads, Ultra-conservatives, who tread what I call the "Extraordinary Highway". On the other hand we have the "Recognize and Resisters" treading the "Sifters Highway".</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> In the eighteenth chapter of "<a href="https://youtu.be/0neqTWXzQwo" target="_blank">My Treasured Mistake</a>" I recount, how in the course of my adventure to discern the Catholic response to the Vatican II question, I encountered the brood of Latin-Massists and found them wanting. </p><p><b>On The Neo-trads</b></p><p>I wrote thus concerning my intellectual encounter with the Neo-trads: </p><p><b></b></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The second highway goes by the name “Extraordinary Highway.” According to those on this way, the Catholic response to Vatican II of course is obedience: Rome has said it, so be it. While they accept the New Mass – the Ecumenical (Mess) Service – as genuinely Catholic (the so-called ordinary form of the Roman Rite!), they see themselves filled with a nostalgia for the Old Mass. Having the indulgence from the modernist hierarchy to assuage this nostalgia by retaining what is called the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite” (a revised Rite of the Old Mass bearing every evidence of the filthy fingers of the Modernist liturgical heretics), they are at peace. To them the question as to whether Vatican II taught heresies, or whether the “priest” using the “Extraordinary Form,” is not a priest but a robed layman, is of no consequence; they have a set of rites that is more pleasing to them, that saves the day. Theirs is that odious phenomenon rightly tagged “Latin Mass-ism.”</span></b></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Those on this way are the Ultra-conservatives, neo-Traditionalists, who are so deplorably affected by the Modernist poison as to be ready to sacrifice Catholic doctrine on the altar of their preference and permit themselves to be so blind so as to be coreligionists with the Modernists. They accept Vatican II and all of the official aggiornamento/update made in its consequence. Under this alliance, they have also right granted them by the Modernist hierarchy to operate seminaries and institutes according to more or less pre-Vatican II lines. But they are bound to accept the revised rites for Episcopal consecration, thus parading ornate vestments and beautiful ceremonies, that placate their fancy, but are not only objectively empty, having no sacramental grace, but as well sacrilegious and constitute a pernicious worship. Their response is not Catholic: it is not Catholic to be ready to sacrifice divine doctrine on the altar of one’s preference; neither is it Catholic to equally estimate a God-centered worship and a Man-centered worship, and allowing one’s preference for the man-centered worship as legitimate. Preference for impiety (due to ill-formed judgement) can never be given a right to exist under any pretense by a Catholic. It is odious to an informed Catholic common sense. </span></b></p><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>On the Recognize and Resisters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my intellectual encounter with those on the "Sifters Highway":</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>... It was, at first, consoling to hear those on this path admit that Vatican II indeed introduced novelties at variance with consistent Church teachings, novelties once condemned as either heretical or pernicious errors injurious to the faith or of several other theological qualifications. They admit that the liturgical changes made after Vatican II are the flowering of its heresies and that these changes are poisonous to the faith of each Catholic. So far so good!</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Now concerning what ought to be the Catholic response to Vatican II, I was told we must resist the substantial changes both in doctrine and praxis made by Vatican II’s aggiornamento and hold on to the traditional, age-old teaching. Concerning the authorities behind the aggiornamento, they insist we must give them due recognition as legitimately Catholic, but we must ignore them when they impose anything in line with Vatican II’s aggiornamento or anything that smacks of Modernism. In other words, we must recognize the authorities responsible for these substantial changes and those enforcing the changes today as legitimate and genuine Roman Catholic authorities having the Infallible Spirit of the Eternal Truth for a principle, but resist and ignore them. On hearing this, I knew at once that those on this way lack the not-so-common virtue of consistency in logic and operate on an assumption at loggerheads with the first principle of reason, the law of contradiction: how could an authority responsible for heresies and novelties injurious to the faith be at the same time legitimately and genuinely Catholic? How could a Catholic faithful ignore a legitimate and genuine Catholic authority without being guilty of schism? These questions reveal the depressing drama of the “Recognize and Resist-ers,” in whose pseudo-traditionalism I saw nothing but a handy tool in the attempt of the enemies of the Papacy to destroy it by devaluing it. They work for the destruction of the Papacy by promoting that monstrosity called a “heretical pope” akin to saying a “square circle.” Under this agenda, their attitude is best summed in the famous epithet: “The Pope speaks, you decide” – sift what (you feel/think) is traditional (or Catholic), resist what is modernist, and life goes on. These Recognize and Resist-ers would have me, or anyone unfortunate enough to give them a hearing, admit the possibility that a Pope can promulgate false doctrines and enact universal disciplines which are evil. But such an admission is itself a heresy against the teaching that the Catholic Church is infallible in these matters!</b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>They would have me or anyone unfortunate enough to give them a hearing to conceive the idea that, in following the universal teachings of the Church or her universal disciplines, one could be led astray and go to hell. But if this were possible, one would have to conclude that the Roman Catholic Church is not the true Church, but a human institution like any other false church! While I recognized their zeal as such, I was obliged to reject their un-Catholic response to Vatican II which is essentially Protestant: the response of private judgment. In it, the doctrines, decrees, and universal disciplines of what they recognize as the Church are subjected to their private scrutiny. Their response at best ruins the indefectibility of the Catholic Church by identifying the doctrinal and disciplinary defection of Vatican II and its subsequent reforms with the Catholic Church. In sum, their response labors under the spirit of schism and their guiding principle of sifting the magisterium is nothing but heretical. To that extent, I could not join their bandwagon.</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b>Recognizing The Seat of The Pope.</b></p></blockquote><p> The correspondent leaves a supposition that I do not recognize the "seat of the Pope". In another comment he posed a direct question as shown in the screenshot below:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRy-JTXyIQAXMejeFvfQBhNGjGYJj37uofVasvcfpbGYQZ8-V6mffyoBw-vVwNz93yWVPbIhk0T5xjAmOsfQWH3nm4sI_yWmzA8MOTsYF4oay3vzwMwoqTQe-8i_j4QlVBqdamKUDqL4_acVYBPI2W0Ihke_LB7rT3OyC_kKTFMUWaEP-ajqiY5Me8/s1066/Screenshot_20240221-161937_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="1066" height="62" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRy-JTXyIQAXMejeFvfQBhNGjGYJj37uofVasvcfpbGYQZ8-V6mffyoBw-vVwNz93yWVPbIhk0T5xjAmOsfQWH3nm4sI_yWmzA8MOTsYF4oay3vzwMwoqTQe-8i_j4QlVBqdamKUDqL4_acVYBPI2W0Ihke_LB7rT3OyC_kKTFMUWaEP-ajqiY5Me8/s320/Screenshot_20240221-161937_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How my senses (external and internal) revolt as they are subjected to the violence of having to read the words "the Holy Father...(Pope Francis)! Why so? Because those words do not describe a reality: they are forced to pronounce something contrary to fact... <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Of course to infer from my posts that I do not recognize the "</span><i style="text-align: justify;">Seat of the Pope</i><span style="text-align: justify;">" would be a gross misrepresentation of fact: it is my recognition of that seat and my unflinching Faith that it is repulsive to any stain of heresy that defines my identity. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;">Put differently, because I am convinced that the strength and the solidity of the whole Church rests on the institution, perpetuity and nature of the Sacred Apostolic Primacy (as taught by the only Vatican Council the Church has had), I hold that the Seat of Blessed Peter untouched by any stain of heresy including the synthesis of all heresies (modernism) is totally vacant by Divine Law. Yes, in the Pope, when we have a Pope, Christ lives in the infallibility of His teaching authority. When we do not have a Pope the infallible doctrine handed down from apostolic times till the last Pope remain the rule for the faithful in all things concerning faith and morals. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>"Pope Francis" : a Case Study.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my quick reply to his direct question I wrote thus:</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Catholic Church is presently totally POPE-LESS (without a Pope). </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note these points:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1. A manifest heretic is not a member of the Catholic Church.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>~~But Bergoglio is a manifest Modernist heretic.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>===>>> Therefore Bergoglio is not a member of the Catholic Church.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2. One who is not a member of the Catholic Church cannot be the head of the Catholic Church.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>~~~ but Bergoglio is not a member of the Catholic Church since he is a manifest Modernist heretic.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>===>>> Therefore Bergoglio is not the (Visible) Head of the Catholic Church, a Pope. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I do recognize him for who/what he is: a Modernist papal impostor. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>And I do recognize him for who/what HE IS NOT: a Pope.</b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. Fully conscious of the honor due to divine prerogatives of Blessed Peter to which Christianity owes its preservation, and unmistaken about my obligations to the Apostolic See, I do not devalue it as to concede Papal honor to a Modernist papal intruder and impostor. It is that simple and gives no room for confusion.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Padre Pio: His Canonization.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is no doubts that Padre Pio, an Italian priest, was known for his piety and charity, as well as the gift of the stigmata. He died in 1968 -just few weeks to make ten years of the reign of the Modernist papal impostors. The Modernist Papal impostor, "John Paul II" the great Apostate, pretended to both "Beatify" and "Canonize" Padre Pio. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, Canonization belongs to the exercise of Papal infallibility in matters of Faith and morals. But, Bishop <span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Karol Józef Wojtyła, being an Apostate apostle and therefore not a member of the Catholic Church could not have been the Head of the Catholic Church as to enjoy and exercise Papal prerogatives<b>. </b>Thus, Catholics with informed Catholic common sense, while they genuinely admire the piety of Padre Pio and hold him in high esteem for his charity and doctrinal rectitude, refrain from addressing him as "St. Padre Pio" since a Modernist papal impostor who has not the Catholic faith cannot tell Catholics who to venerate as a Saint, nor has the cause for his sainthood been declared open or concluded by a Pope truly so. Yes. The Church has not infallibly granted him the title "Saint". </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Summing Up: </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">To anyone with an informed Catholic common sense, it is easy to see that the Latin-Massist Clan is indeed a bane to the Catholic cause in the face of the apparent Modernist revolution in permanence. Stuck in the rut of their abominable theology, they insist that Sedevacantists are not Catholics and are deceived by the devil. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">But when you consider that the divine prerogatives of Blessed Peter and his legitimate successors in the Primacy have always been the object of attacks by the enemies of the cause of Christ at the service of the father of lies, it becomes easy to discern the truth of the matter as to who is deceived by the devil:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Latin-Massists constituting a handy tool in the attempt of the enemies of the Papacy to destroy it by devaluing it; They who work for the destruction of the Papacy by either promoting that monstrosity called a “heretical pope” akin to saying a “square circle" or by keeping a blind eye and deaf ear to principles of Catholic theology as to promote their "bad-dad theology"</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">Or the Sedevacantists, who defend the divine prerogatives of the Papacy in all </span>details, and refuse to compromise in so much as an "iota"? </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, the point is certainly clear as to remove any confusion in the matter. The illogic of the Latin-Massists is both their own very undoing and a cause of confusion for for those honestly trying to make sense of the chaos the new order religion occupying Catholic buildings present to them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Latin-Massists wish to maintain the Modernist new order religion while pretending to promote and uphold integral Catholicism: but both are mutually exclusive in all details. They are ever ready to sacrifice Catholic doctrine on the altar of their preference. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, the fear of losing "something" or "someone" keeps them trapped in their own mess. Kyrie Eleison! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-74251133851248697892024-01-18T08:11:00.000-08:002024-01-18T08:11:25.405-08:00In Apostate Rome...<p> <b>Preamble:</b></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAkUGVT1d-rWKNIWjCPDZCJjs_s8pA2xQxjSD975UxHrKvVsKrgKLlD_PxfepXpOwA9AG6s2QiTAcNtlmSwd07rUxx3HDiRKmaRbxWnDGA2q8Fh9IEHTczJ4wK8kQjDUA3oAO5hnYr87wHa96NCcvVFKGJmvVIDpJXOpflenSc66pY67SNM8ndOXa/s1204/FB_IMG_1705590111757_2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAkUGVT1d-rWKNIWjCPDZCJjs_s8pA2xQxjSD975UxHrKvVsKrgKLlD_PxfepXpOwA9AG6s2QiTAcNtlmSwd07rUxx3HDiRKmaRbxWnDGA2q8Fh9IEHTczJ4wK8kQjDUA3oAO5hnYr87wHa96NCcvVFKGJmvVIDpJXOpflenSc66pY67SNM8ndOXa/s320/FB_IMG_1705590111757_2.jpg" width="287" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Apostate Rome the Chair of St. Peter, untouched by any stain of heresy in general and the stain of the synthesis of all heresies in particular, is totally vacant by Divine Law... </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today is the feast of St. Peter's Chair at Rome. This Feast reminds us that the manifestation of the divinity of Jesus which echoes during this this after Epiphany demands of us the recognition of His kingship over our souls. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">St. Peter, as Vicar of Christ, sit on the chair of authority once occupied by Jesus Himself and hold the keys in his hand as a symbol of supreme authority. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rome Before St. Peter's Advent.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pope St. Leo the Great paints for us a dine portrait of Rome before St. Peter's coming to it. This is found in the readings of the second nocturne of the feast (the fifth lesson). He says:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In Rome were the dreams of an unbelieving philosophy to be destroyed, in Rome were the empty utterances of earthly wisdom to be confuted, in Rome was idolatry to be overcome, in Rome was profanity to be put down, even in Rome, where the activity of superstition had gathered together from the whole earth every error which it could find. O most blessed Apostle Peter! this was the city to which thou didst not shrink to come.</b></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"> Yes, to this City St. Peter went. He made it the headquarters of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded on him, Peter, the Rock. He made Rome the headquarters of the Kingdom of God on earth. He did this, so that the light of the true Faith may spread and shine to every part of the civilized world, since "all roads" led to Rome. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then, In Apostate Rome...</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2ac7rmfe1uXS9327hrpHJv8kXP0NmYKIS-WmFBGD1H4-oxHtAgSahyphenhyphenBm40uq0LymD65CVgw8L7sLcmBJNrUSdkVmU6CS-DeuFvfVGa7RAlGWHVob4czM9lhQIv8pJ-2Zvd3FXFp6we2ln66hfWMuB_f_OKIsBFMQBreTunelOYjlQFGiZyoamhGZ/s635/images%20(13).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="635" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2ac7rmfe1uXS9327hrpHJv8kXP0NmYKIS-WmFBGD1H4-oxHtAgSahyphenhyphenBm40uq0LymD65CVgw8L7sLcmBJNrUSdkVmU6CS-DeuFvfVGa7RAlGWHVob4czM9lhQIv8pJ-2Zvd3FXFp6we2ln66hfWMuB_f_OKIsBFMQBreTunelOYjlQFGiZyoamhGZ/s320/images%20(13).jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Apostate Rome idolatry walks boldly, seeking revenge as it were... </td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today, in Apostate Rome:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">The unbelieving philosophy of the Modernist impostors resigns supreme -filling everywhere with the empty utterances of the naturalist wisdom whose trademark is indifferentism.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Idolatry walks boldly - seeking revenge as it were, having being once trampled upon by St. Peter and his true successors.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Profanity seeks bold recognition of it's right to exist in the public square, though once driven to hide in the darkness where it belongs.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The activity of superstition has reconvened every error which it can find from the whole earth: it goes by the name "modernism" -the synthesis of all heresies. </li><li style="text-align: justify;">The most pernicious of the precursors of the antichrist sanction and approve abominable vices. They give equal rights to vice and virtue, truth and error. </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">The heart wrenching fact, however, is that the majority cannot yet figure out the imposture of the manifest Modernist apostates occupying Rome and Catholic buildings across the world.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfTTYI1yNj5L8QVZjVkt_byWLKVwAG0-tXDgs_5kogJjM06iznh-8ZnJrN8AjIE4_3ipNz375yugcCwYxXn7p17pBf_RMTYp6b2aHmFQ4MKyUjFkBbOqkNfH6xKDBmK4CIHeS1DJyTzPbeSqxsxtm_EYKZ1lHddfA8vrRF_u5yHU5ac0sSUIldjNK/s640/images%20(22).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfTTYI1yNj5L8QVZjVkt_byWLKVwAG0-tXDgs_5kogJjM06iznh-8ZnJrN8AjIE4_3ipNz375yugcCwYxXn7p17pBf_RMTYp6b2aHmFQ4MKyUjFkBbOqkNfH6xKDBmK4CIHeS1DJyTzPbeSqxsxtm_EYKZ1lHddfA8vrRF_u5yHU5ac0sSUIldjNK/s320/images%20(22).jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Apostate Rome the activity of superstition has reconvened every error which it can find from the whole earth...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Unflinching Faith...</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eternal, Catholic Rome is eclipsed, this is certain. But, we know that the gates of hell shall not prevail. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The seat of blessed Peter, untouched by any stain of heresy, including that of the synthesis of all heresies, is, by Divine Law, totally empty, vacant. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The light of the true Faith keeps burning. And, men of good will being led to recognize it. Blessed be God, ordering all things sweetly! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-49878769446803832692024-01-16T01:58:00.000-08:002024-01-16T05:39:58.889-08:00Frown, You Must!<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Sxhb8kJMMX9ZDEJrJBeDOzX8K7WRC4fqU6GXBoyupgaDXALCJyhqixCv5qz143SrK7JOyolzaygiNkFNTt6Z65x-JJ6Fy7Y2hJHfVOSkrdN3T1pDiOSEyOCAsCe6m-PRb8X77j18gD4ZatFHqA2Ib1kDGuiAC8DUXEaLKg9prMDE7qpUujd3bAFA/s583/images%20-%202024-01-16T101352.836.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="583" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Sxhb8kJMMX9ZDEJrJBeDOzX8K7WRC4fqU6GXBoyupgaDXALCJyhqixCv5qz143SrK7JOyolzaygiNkFNTt6Z65x-JJ6Fy7Y2hJHfVOSkrdN3T1pDiOSEyOCAsCe6m-PRb8X77j18gD4ZatFHqA2Ib1kDGuiAC8DUXEaLKg9prMDE7qpUujd3bAFA/w250-h211/images%20-%202024-01-16T101352.836.jpeg" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The fruit of the Modernist anti-liturgical heresy of archeologism: pretended reversion to concelebration as normative; altar replaced by a table-like junk... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Preamble</b>: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few days ago I woke up to a rather interesting prologue attached to a list of carefully worded questions. Here we wish to attend to the first on the list: </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Fr. Good morning. Please permit me to perturb your peace as I seek for your clarifications regarding some theological/liturgical questions besetting my mind.</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>1. Of the many ills numbered in the Novus Ordo is the issue of con celebration at which I have consistently frowned given its mockery of one priest(in persona christi) offering the sacrifice. However, my research on the matter made me stumble at the STh III. q. 82. A 2 which seems to give a supportive vigour to concelebration. Please, may I be better enlightened….</i></span></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*******************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear -N-</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A peculiar source of peace to a Catholic Priest is to see the faithful desirous to learn how to 'think with the Church', their Mother and Teacher. Be sure that my peace is in no way disturbed, but enobled, by your questions. My hope is that my responses may be instruments in the hands of Providence in confirming you in the truth, the saving Truth, thus setting your mind at peace in possession of it's very object.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> On the question of con-celebration these points suggest themselves for consideration: </span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The very idea of concelebration.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ecclesiastical law in force.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Modernist reversion. </span></p></li></ol><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The very idea of Concelebration</b></span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certainly you must add to your list of "<i><b>things you discover" </b></i>the fact that the very idea of concelebration is not repugnant in itself. From your research, you see that St. Thomas (STh III. q. 82.) defends it both from sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition. From this, it becomes obvious that frowning at the very idea of concelebration as such could only spring from not knowing better. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, "many priests can consecrate and concelebrate simultaneously" a manual of Moral Theology affirms (Merkelbach III, 331). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3qJXoKR3yyifC0JLCODqYOwq3JHDEsAjoyfHpFcXcxWwF4AuLzmiJZqGOeVIrw0xe39tGMN1GuC8lF4gIJHCQr2qLdjbvbptgt6DAVVZV-kmlgva8qngRskjRTjKo6vBNV0KITo24ZI3miABATdhH5GiNSRZNA2lwOdj66ipUSJLOPeuOiY2gHGz/s4608/Ordination%20115.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3qJXoKR3yyifC0JLCODqYOwq3JHDEsAjoyfHpFcXcxWwF4AuLzmiJZqGOeVIrw0xe39tGMN1GuC8lF4gIJHCQr2qLdjbvbptgt6DAVVZV-kmlgva8qngRskjRTjKo6vBNV0KITo24ZI3miABATdhH5GiNSRZNA2lwOdj66ipUSJLOPeuOiY2gHGz/w305-h229/Ordination%20115.jpg" width="305" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The "<b>Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</b>" <br />Concelebrating with their Ordaining Bishop, May 11, 2022, in accordance with the provisions of the Roman Pontifical; at Saint Gethrude The Great Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b>The Ecclesiastical Law In Force:</b></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Commenting on Can. 803 of the 1917 code of canon Law, a renowned Canonist explains that concelebration was once common in both East and West, and is still in vogue in the Orient in cities where there is but one church. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is also affirmed that under Innocent III (1198-1216) con-celebration was customary in higher feasts, but now it is forbidden in the Latin Church except on two occasions. The canon governing the practice of con-celebration reads thus:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="font-size: large;">"It is not licit that several priests concelebrate, beyond the Mass of ordination of priests and in the Mass of consecration of Bishops according to the Roman Pontifical" (Can. 803) </span></b></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">For the Concelebration, Roman Pontifical prescribes that the Bishop should recite the words of consecration <b style="font-style: italic;">slowly and in rather loud voice </b>so that the newly ordained may follow. It suffices that the later should have the intention of consecrating the same bread and wine together with the Bishop: it is negligible whether they finish the words a little before or after the Bishop - the consecration is valid.</div><div><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: upper-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>A reason to frown: Modernist reversion. </b></span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Given that you missed the chance to justify your frowning at the very idea of concelebration as practiced in the Modernist new order religion which they present to the public as Catholic, you certainly could not miss the chance to frown at their reversion to the practice despite the ecclesiastical law in force. Yes, frown you must, and for a good reason. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, from <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">Pope St. Pius X, (Pascendi, 38)</a> we know very well the reforming mania of Modernists. We know that "in all of Catholicism there is absolutely nothing on which it does not fasten itself". Yes, in all Catholicism, nothing is spared from the odious slime of the Modernist reforming mania. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reason to frown at the Modernist reversion to concelebration is that it is a fruit of what Don Gueranger calls the "anti-liturgical heresy". This, Fr. Cekada explains, is the hostility that all heresies show towards the traditional Catholic liturgy by trying to change it to achieve their own ends ( Work of Human Hands, 15). Amongst other things, the anti-liturgical heresy, as Dom Gueranger explains, promotes a hatred for tradition, contradictory principles, false appeals to antiquity, replacing altar with a table, use of vernacular etc. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The particular anti-liturgical heresy which birthed this reversion by the Modernists is "archeologism" definitively condemned by Pope Pius XII in his "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_20111947_mediator-dei.html" target="_blank">Mediator Dei" (#61 & ff</a>). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Modernist liturgical wrecknovators, despising ecclesiastical authority, and dazed by their nostalgia to restore certain ancient rite and ceremony on the simple ground that it carries the savor and aroma of antiquity, pretended to restore the custom of concelebration in the West, contrary to the prevailing liturgical law and practice. The reason for this is simple: this pretended restoration is favorable to their ecumenical agenda. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Concelebration is still in vogue in the Orient, even among the dissidents; for ecumenical reasons, Modernists, the most pernicious dissidents in the West, take the initiative to make the custom uniform, achieving a certain distinctive mark of unity in their anti-Apostolic Catholicity. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Summing Up</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, the practice of the Church shows that concelebration is not repugnant per se. However, the practice has gone out of use except for two cases: ordination of a priest and consecration of a Bishop. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The manuals available to me simply state the law as such without giving reasons. But, the authority of the Church in matters liturgical suffices for a Catholic true to so fair a title. The Modernists however, clinging only to the Catholic name while despising Catholic teaching authority, have worked hard to indulge their mania for reformation to its fullest. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If they were to have done this in their name as Modernists, it would have been none of our business. But, no, they have done it pretending to be Catholics and as promoting the Catholic cause. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a Catholic, both at the Modernist anti-liturgical heresy of archeologism at the service of their ecumenical agenda, and the very ecumenical agenda itself, frown you must! </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-63523815279055857802023-12-22T14:07:00.000-08:002023-12-22T19:57:21.133-08:00An Innovative Contribution Of Course!<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1jHSJCZ1nnuw7B9fa7zPU-8QYatRy9S-d-TN4j2kct6BFVJuDNmIc357aO3t-XtVEn25D5ryYcNWaTyZGUJxlKmZtNlwo22NM9M95owf9ajPLexharfef1II71V7uQ6k1j47wW1ZqwZP6BtX3Oq3aCih9PMOxTn-rxeSDQ4WkXfh7DEr1XUMSVYgc" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="474" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1jHSJCZ1nnuw7B9fa7zPU-8QYatRy9S-d-TN4j2kct6BFVJuDNmIc357aO3t-XtVEn25D5ryYcNWaTyZGUJxlKmZtNlwo22NM9M95owf9ajPLexharfef1II71V7uQ6k1j47wW1ZqwZP6BtX3Oq3aCih9PMOxTn-rxeSDQ4WkXfh7DEr1XUMSVYgc=w245-h163" width="245" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">...a major step forward for the members of the L.G.B.T.Q community <br />who cling tenaciously to the Catholic name: <br />rather than penance and firm purpose of amendment, <br />they have longed for some sort of official endorsement <br />of their perversion by means of a public blessing by 'the church', <br />and now they have it... </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Preamble:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the topical themes in many quarters most recently revolves around the pretended doctrinal declaration, "<a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/0901/01963.html#en" target="_blank">Fiducia supplicans"</a> published by an organ of the modernist impostor hierarchy. The<span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"> value of this document is said to be that "it offers a specific and innovative contribution </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">to the pastoral meaning of blessings</i><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">, permitting a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings... based on the pastoral vision" of the incumbent modernist papal impostor whose stage name is 'Pope Francis. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Those who have kept track of the different phases leading to this 'doctrinal declaration' rightly affirm that, despite its seemingly cautious provisions, it represents a major step forward for the members of the L.G.B.T.Q community who cling tenaciously to the Catholic name: rather than penance and firm purpose of amendment, they have longed for some sort of official endorsement of their perversion by means of a public blessing by 'the church', and now they have it... It is, of course, also a major step forward for those nominal Catholics who, based on modernist pastoral principles are known under the euphemism 'those in irregular situation" i.e. the divorced and re-married, those living in concubinage, etc: they too are beneficiaries of the specific and innovative contribution of </span></span></span>"<a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/0901/01963.html#en" target="_blank">Fiducia supplicans"</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Scriptural/ Apostolic Foundation?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>We know that "...the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire...out of heaven" [Gen. 19: 24] because of their abominable same-sex unions.</li><li>St. Paul, writing to the Romans, [Rom. 1:24-27] underlines that God justly abandoned the godless to uncleanness: to dishonor their own bodies among themselves and delivered them to shameful affections - men with men also. </li><li>writing to the Corinthians, [1 Cor. 6:10] St. Paul numbers unrepentant "liers with mankind" among those to not possess the kingdom of God.</li><li>St. Jude [1:7] writes that Sodom and Gomorrha were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The modernist declaration,</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> providing for the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex, states that:</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">a blessing may be imparted that not only has an ascending value but also involves the invocation of a blessing that descends from God upon those who—recognizing themselves to be destitute and in need of his help—do not claim a legitimation of their own status, but who beg that all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships be enriched, healed, and elevated by the presence of the Holy Spirit" [FS 31]</span></blockquote><p></p><ul><li>We know, from Sacred Scripture and from Apostolic times to-date that anyone who does not desire to claim legitimization of their sinful status undergoes a thorough examination of conscience and be filled with deep sorrow and a firm purpose of amendment, resolved to return to God with his whole heart.</li><li>by Apostolic tradition, the formular for one who does not desire legitimization for his sinful state is to, after a thorough examination of conscience, request for the blessing of a confessor saying "<b>BLESS ME, FATHER, FOR I HAVE SINNED..."</b></li><li> But the modernist false teachers encourage those who proudly identify as same-sex couples to deal with God as with an untrustful merchant: asking His blessing on some elements of their lives, while having their backs turned to God on account of their refusal to accept His moral law in this or that matter. what sacrilege. what impiety. </li></ul><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>A Defaming Project</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The victims of the modernist hypocrisy are terribly horrified by the fact that a possibility is made for blessing those who are proudly same-sex couples by one they revere as 'Pope'. They find it hard to reconcile this authorization with the little they remember of the doctrine concerning the infallibility of the Pope in matters of faith and morals. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, in the heat of misrepresentation of the content of the declaration under consideration, the modernist bishops conference of Nigeria weighed in to offer a <a href="http://clarification.">clarification.</a> In their intervention, they justify the innovative theology of the pastoral meaning of blessing, while insisting that the 'Church's' teaching on marriage remain intact. Well, we are not unaware of the modernist strategy of hypocritically affirming "no change in doctrine" while changing a pastoral practice knowing fully well that the changed practice will, by a gradual progression, lead to a change in doctrine in the mind and heart of the beneficiaries or rather victims of the said pastoral practice. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, all this gives the Papacy and the Catholic Church a bad name before those who still mistake the religion promoted by Bergoglio and his modernist cohorts to be the Catholic religion; the church headed by them to be the Catholic Church. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But, of course, giving a bad name to the Papacy and the Catholic Church and to reduce the moral influence of both in society has been the sworn project of the synagogue of Satan. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTkYXdzpbLI_ajjgxHPHfTnTkkQXsrqBqS8PYFCcnG_7TkxKsbOUEEn_Bll_S4lUgBUligJDUHBteZV78I5KEYpK67l0U9zsESCkh4im2vm26K5ZeCxLIY-bYianplIi9lTxpQeYL8-40V9Vj-PeOnKF3HdlttbeSxtwjgg4bSvmyR_YEb8h-EHBW/s293/Web%20capture_22-12-2023_23025_www.bing.com.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="293" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTkYXdzpbLI_ajjgxHPHfTnTkkQXsrqBqS8PYFCcnG_7TkxKsbOUEEn_Bll_S4lUgBUligJDUHBteZV78I5KEYpK67l0U9zsESCkh4im2vm26K5ZeCxLIY-bYianplIi9lTxpQeYL8-40V9Vj-PeOnKF3HdlttbeSxtwjgg4bSvmyR_YEb8h-EHBW/s1600/Web%20capture_22-12-2023_23025_www.bing.com.jpeg" width="293" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bergoglio's blessings for homosexual couples <br />show he is a "<a href="https://www.complicitclergy.com/2023/12/21/vigano-bergoglios-blessings-for-homosexual-couples-show-he-is-a-servant-of-satan/">servant of Satan"</a> <br />says "Archbishop" Vigano</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>An Innovative Contribution Of Course!</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, in the wake of this modernist doctrinal declaration, those with informed Catholic Common Sense, knowing that Bergoglio is a modernist papal pretender, would be wont to congratulate him for taking of something of the modernist mask and be honest at least for once as the minister of the antichrist by overtly promoting vice in honor of his master, the vicious one. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, the modernist declaration, <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/0901/01963.html#en" target="_blank">Fiducia supplicans"</a>, is indeed a specific and innovative modernist contribution as a step further in setting the stage for the reign of the antichrist when he appears. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Catholic Cause</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The true Catholic Bishops and Priests to-day, being instant in season and out of season, reproving, entreating, rebuking in all patience and doctrine [2 Tim. 4;14] continue to preach on the intrinsic evil of same sex unions, the evil of divorce and remarriage [its status as public adultery] and the evil of living in concubinage. They know that no tacit approval whatsoever could be given to these evils under whatever pretext. They continue to teach that there is forgiveness for every sin provided that the sinner repents; that there shall be joy before the angels of God in heaven for one sinner doing penance; and to the obstinate they repeat the words of Our Lord "unless you do penance, you shall perish". </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-44524066552352845342023-11-29T12:42:00.000-08:002023-11-29T12:42:56.000-08:00"Cardinal" Arinze: His Formula for Confusion.<p> <b>Preamble</b> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEs-_xygpRqlRBkZnwe1YeZruMoideP2S_goBY156P4XCkohgSjtVxJhTP4-JB-8OxyvRvap-VjjJX6b3TjcIIo8pG1CGAIxgfDHx1t2Xuvk-7DS9hLEZUJGN4W3ulbzj_y6rGGi98wwNoYjhmalJlyCOKFU-oIFVkhguzlKMr7FQxvxWTwPkTtTBz/s1080/Screenshot_20231122-172742.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="1080" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEs-_xygpRqlRBkZnwe1YeZruMoideP2S_goBY156P4XCkohgSjtVxJhTP4-JB-8OxyvRvap-VjjJX6b3TjcIIo8pG1CGAIxgfDHx1t2Xuvk-7DS9hLEZUJGN4W3ulbzj_y6rGGi98wwNoYjhmalJlyCOKFU-oIFVkhguzlKMr7FQxvxWTwPkTtTBz/s320/Screenshot_20231122-172742.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<b><i>Material</i></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Cardinal" Arinze affirming that "<br />...the wrong answers are as many as the students <br />who do not know arithmetic, the correct answer is only one..." <br />- a topnotch analogy: an informed Catholic Common Sense <br />can imagine the good that could come from him <br />applying this same analogy to "interreligious dialogue" <br />and his slippery 'both and/or' regarding the so-called<br /> "ordinary" and "extraordinary" form of the Mass... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A few days ago an inquirer sent me a video clip which was a source of confusion for him: the video had Francis "Cardinal" Arinze on the spotlight commenting on a question concerning the sacred liturgy. After making a few comments on the clip, I told him I would write an article on it. A day after that, as if by a coincidence, but indeed providentially, I saw another <a href="https://fb.watch/oD2zSsHz6j/" target="_blank">clip on Facebook</a> featuring "Cardinal" Arinze again. It was from this later clip that I was inspired to derive the title of my article, using his own expression "formula for confusion". </p><p>Commenting on the controversy surrounding the so-called "synod of synodality" and arguing for he said </p><blockquote><p>...if a synod is studying our faith and following tradition and Church teaching, correct; but if it is meant to be free for all where every individual comes out, that is individual opinion: - then we are not talking of our faith anymore. It is a formula for confusion.</p></blockquote><p>There you have it! </p><p>But, what is "Cardinal" Arinze's 'formula for confusion'? This present article is a feeble attempt to underline just that. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Summary from the Video Clip.</b></p><p>The video clip which serves as the point of departure for our purposes is attached below:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxkVvpIBoUZITK491U6-DPBRL4LtTUQHgnlBrVcpV6bMIYxJdq8dyRex4ffU8-oXM54T-QzqKpvXEdmKG874w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>While much is left to be desired of my summary skills, I am of the persuasion that the whole video can be summarized thus:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">In the Catholic Church there is an "ordinary" and "extraordinary" form of the sacrifice of the Mass.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Both forms can, and should be left to, co-exist: and there should be freedom to celebrate one form or the other, with none imposing his preference, nor condemning another's preference.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The elements stressed in either forms can be exaggerated - direct relationship with God; adoration, transcendence of God (for the extraordinary form); and the community and the congregation, (for the ordinary form).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">In the controversy surrounding "ordinary form" and "extraordinary form" the problem has nothing to do with Latin.</li></ol><div>Many volumes can be written in developing each of these points. As Fr. Cekada of blessed memory would tease during lectures, someone may want to pick up any of them for a doctoral thesis. For our purposes, it would suffice to scheme through a few key points. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Is there an "Ordinary Form" And "Extraordinary Form" Of the Mass In The One, Holy, Apostolic Roman Catholic Church? </b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To an informed Catholic Common Sense, the answer is obviously in the negative: to affirm otherwise can stem either from lack of due knowledge (i.e. Ignorance) or malice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fact is that in the One, Holy, Apostolic Roman Catholic Church there simply is the Traditional Rite of the Sacrifice of the Mass: to say that there are two forms, one ordinary and the other extraordinary, can only be from the father of lies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, anyone slightly deep in recent history knows with certainly that even when the Modernist liturgical wrecknovators concocted the ecumenical mess falsely called the 'new order of the Mass' it was meant to <b><i>displace and substitute</i></b> the traditional Catholic Mass all over the world and those who wanted the Old Mass were treated by the impostor Modernist hierarchy as outcasts and misfits between 1964-1684. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, by an indult in 1984 and then the establishment of the '<i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_02071988_ecclesia-dei.html" target="_blank">Ecclesia Dei Commission of 1988</a>, </i>something of the stigma was removed as a stripped version of the Old Mass according to the Missal of Papal pretender John XXIII was permitted to be celebrated following a set of restrictions. This indulgence had to be granted since modernist Vatican could not do away with the ongoing traditionalist resistance to the New Mass that began in the 1960s. The indult was to satisfy the nostalgia of those who were attached to the bells and smells of the Old Rite but have no qualms concerning the new doctrines characteristic of the Modernist impostor religion. It was to satisfy their "religious sense" with Catholic rituals, while they adhere to Modernist doctrines with tranquility. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tags, "<i>ordinary"</i> and <i>"extraordinary</i>" form never existed until 2007 when the Papal pretender Benedict XVI issued a pretended <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum.html" target="_blank">Motu Proprior (Summum Pontificum)</a> </i>in which he allowed a more widespread use of the 1962 stripped-down version of the Old Mass within the Modernist impostor church occupying Catholic buildings. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, i<span style="text-align: justify;">t seems he is forced to 'save his baby', his legacy, as it were, for, the terms "ordinary form" and "extraordinary form" were coined by the then modernist papal impostor, Benedict XVI when he, "Cardinal" Arinze was the incumbent modernist "<i>Prefect for the Congregation for Divine worship and Discipline of Sacraments". </i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Both Forms Express The Catholic "Law of Prayer" and "Law of Faith"?</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Cardinal" Arinze says that both forms can, and should be left to, co-exist: and there should be freedom to celebrate one form or the other, with none imposing his preference, nor condemning another's preference. From this it is clear that for him both forms are expressions of the Catholic law of prayer and of Faith. Here again he is sorely wrong. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, after the Papal impostor, Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae and it's General Instruction on 3rd April, 1969, came the famed <a href="https://www.doctrinaliturgica.com/2012/07/fr-cekada-on-the-ottaviani-intervention-video-interview/" target="_blank">Ottaviani Intervention</a>" whose principal point was that </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">...the <i>Novus Ordo Missae...</i>represents, both as a whole and in it's details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent... </span>(As quoted in Fr. Cekada's "Work of Human Hands, 135)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It is superfluous to underline that what constitutes "<i>a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass</i>" cannot be at the same time an <i>expression of the Catholic law of prayer and law of Faith</i>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, although the so-called extraordinary form is a stripped version of the integral traditional Catholic liturgy, it retains some vestiges of the Old Mass to summarily show that, in comparison, the so-called ordinary form represents a new religion, a "man-centered" religion as one of its creators is quoted to have proudly proclaimed. </p><p>"Cardinal" Arinze himself attests to this by his own attempt to compare the two but fails to draw the logical conclusion. He words are:</p><blockquote><p>....you see, what we call the extraordinary form or Missa Tridentina in general is stressing more relationship with God direct -it stresses more adoration...it stress more... God is 'super', 'above', 'transcendental', and that is an important element we need very much in the world today... The present form stresses more the community, the congregation, that is also an important element...</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Obviously: the former, from his own words, is "<i>God-centered</i>" and the later "<i>man-centered"</i>, but the overpowering influence of conservative modernism in him compels him to affirm that both have equal rights as expressions of Catholic law of prayer and Faith, and that both must be let to co-exist with the hope of exerting mutual influence, one on the other... <i>How are the valiant fallen in battle, and the weapons of war perished?! </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>A Humorous Defender, Indeed! </b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49BIRHuF2ICyAtNrOesJ7J2bP3Qho8H4M5DVU1T9_2S1VpZF4bjltVVIHxauy6aSwxoKaDyn5lxT0mSMfeAMdQ_FsVGlbb9SHJFW4E4d3rF_vOQISdGVKeZWfcfql1_SGCofYhMJ_f1ZX2Uht4-UXKOEEURy9zxuYkd3inXsSM302bDdIZUb2BJw6/s474/the%20six%20and%20paul%20the%20sick.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="474" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49BIRHuF2ICyAtNrOesJ7J2bP3Qho8H4M5DVU1T9_2S1VpZF4bjltVVIHxauy6aSwxoKaDyn5lxT0mSMfeAMdQ_FsVGlbb9SHJFW4E4d3rF_vOQISdGVKeZWfcfql1_SGCofYhMJ_f1ZX2Uht4-UXKOEEURy9zxuYkd3inXsSM302bDdIZUb2BJw6/s320/the%20six%20and%20paul%20the%20sick.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Papal impostor, "Paul VI", with the six protestant ministers<br />who inspired him and his cohorts with the wisdom needed <br />to concoct a fitting ecumenical service.<br /> This man-centered ecumenical mess <br />'<b><i>Material</i></b> Cardinal' Arinze affirms to be an expression <br />of the Catholic law of worship and of believing: <br />what a formula for spiritual confusion... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"Cardinal" Arinze is acclaimed a 'humorous defender of orthodoxy' by the neo-trads stuck in the rut of the modernist impostor church. He did not fail to impress his fans in this instance; says he: </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"> ...the Church is alive, the Catholic Church does not live in the Vatican Museum, the liturgy is sacred and the essentials are fixed, nevertheless, the manner of celebrating can be retouched by Holy Mother Church. when Christ came, He did not tell us "when you start the Mass, start at the foot of the altar, say kyrie, say gloria, don't say gloria during lent, say credo on Sunday"; the Church works out all that, and we must trust the Church. so every good Catholic will remain flexible and open to what Holy Mother Church says, know that the Church is much wiser than you or me... </p></blockquote><p>Here we have an example of the modernist tactic of saying one truth so as to defend a host of errors. Now, it is true that</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"since the Church has received from her Founder, Christ, the duty of guarding the holiness of divine worship, surely it is part of the same, of course after preserving the substance of the Sacrifice and the sacraments, to prescribe the following: ceremonies, rites, formulas, prayers, chant - by which that august and public ministry is best controlled, whose special name is <i>Liturgy, </i>as if an exceedingly sacred action... Therefore Celestine I proposed and expressed a canon of faith in the venerated formulas of the Liturgy: "Let the law of supplication establish the law of believing..." [Pope Pius XI, Denz. 2200]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"> However, saying that Christ <i>"</i><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>did not tell us "when you start the Mass, start at the foot of the altar, say kyrie, say gloria, don't say gloria during lent, say credo on Sunday" </i>exuding a comic appeal, he slyly radicles the revered traditional rite of the Sacrifice of the Mass in defense of the ecumenical mess falsely called the ordinary form, manifesting himself a 'humorous defender' of the mass of the new order... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>A Woeful Failure</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to "Cardinal" Arinze, t<span style="text-align: justify;">he elements stressed in either form can be exaggerated - direct relationship with God; adoration, transcendence of God (for the extraordinary form); and the community and the congregation, (for the ordinary form). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">However, in attempting to exemplify such exaggeration, he failed woefully to show how stress on the "direct relationship with God; adoration, transcendence of God" can be exaggerated. His only case against what he called the 'extraordinary form' is the bad pronunciation of Latin </span><span style="text-align: left;">words by priests and this has nothing to do with 'exaggerating' stress on relationship with God, adoration etc...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Meanwhile, what he affirms to be 'exaggerations' in the new form are actually things intrinsic to the people-centeredness of the ecumenical mess: the presiding lay-robed man looking at the celebrating lay congregation as radio announcers do, attracting their attention with gesticulations, stealing a few smiles with some of the people he knows; clapping and applauding each other, dancing... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Latin, Not The Problem</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Once again, "Cardinal" Arinze affirms something true: i<span style="text-align: justify;">n the controversy surrounding "ordinary form" and "extraordinary form" the problem has nothing to do with Latin. Put differently, when those still with some vestiges of Catholic Common Sense reject the "<i>Novus Ordo Missae" </i>their rejection has nothing to do with Latin as the starting point. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">He is correct to say that the so-called "<i>ordinary form can be celebrated in Latin, a whole lot in Latin, so Latin is not the problem"</i>. However, he, again, affirms this in the attempt to patronize the ecumenical mess in saying that "the main fault [i.e. what he calls exaggerations] is not in the extra-ordinary form or the ordinary form". </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, someone attending the Traditional Catholic Mass and has a Missal would also have the whole text of the Mass in English beside the Latin text: so, the creation of the so-called New order of Mass had nothing to do with Latin. Everyone with an informed Catholic Common Sense knows that modernist ecumenical project was the driving force. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"Cardinal" Arinze, then a young Bishop, could not be numbered among the few uncompromising Catholics -Bishops, Priests and Laity- in the 1960s who rejected the so-called "<i>New order of Mass</i>" on doctrinal and moral grounds: he could not see, and still fails to see, that the new mass is Protestant, non-Catholic, destructive of Catholic Faith, a vehicle for doctrinal revolution and represents a new religion. He could not see, and still fails to see, that the new mass is grossly irreverent and sacrilegious and even invalid [as the meaning of the sacramental form had be changed back and forth...] </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Yes, he <i>still </i>cannot see it, and sadly so... </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPxeeGgtn52g_ENpg9CUIPCdwdGL5wubYdTmrZEeL2Ok6JzMR7UUP1v9GcoIgta-gEBiouqgxwXhFUeJ-Vexyqe85kfeAXyGQD05-MTajvc66GqNItufO8lDYQkA1VfmDu38idy6ENbFXUPvT2h-grItNNyRREAfhyphenhyphenqw188pQkCli5EaUp3C-yuiI/s401/Cardinal-Francis-Arinze.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPxeeGgtn52g_ENpg9CUIPCdwdGL5wubYdTmrZEeL2Ok6JzMR7UUP1v9GcoIgta-gEBiouqgxwXhFUeJ-Vexyqe85kfeAXyGQD05-MTajvc66GqNItufO8lDYQkA1VfmDu38idy6ENbFXUPvT2h-grItNNyRREAfhyphenhyphenqw188pQkCli5EaUp3C-yuiI/s320/Cardinal-Francis-Arinze.webp" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Material</i></b> Cardinal" Arinze with his colorful miter <br />which some take to represents his sympathy for the LGTBQ+ community; <br />but others insist that it represents "African Culture" <br />since African often wear beautiful and colorful things... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Summing Up</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-align: justify;">Ordained a Priest [9/12/1958] few months after the first in the line of modernist papal impostors </span><span style="text-align: justify;">began his pretended and apostate papacy </span><span style="text-align: justify;">[the first </span><i>Pope according to the wants of militant Judeo-Masonry with his little finger engaged in
the plot to carry out a revolution in Tiarra and cope, a religious version of the French Revolution, within the four walls of the Catholic Church considered the arch enemy by that synagogue of Satan]; - see "Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita" <a href="https://archive.org/details/GrandOrientFreemasonryUnmasked/page/n20/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a></i></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;">consecrated a Bishop [at 32; -23/11/1965] while the modernist robber council was still in session and called up to be numbered among the modernist "Council Fathers" during its last session; </span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;">created a modernist <i><b>[some would add, Material]</b></i> "Cardinal" [25/5/1985] </span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;">made the prefect of the secretariat for Non-Christians [1948] later renamed Pontifical council for interreligious dialogue [1985-2002]</span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;">made a modernist prefect of <i>the Congregation for Divine worship and Discipline of Sacraments".</i></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">"Cardinal" Arinze's entire career has been one of marching zealously under the Judeo-Masonic banner, at the forefront of the Great apostasy, always believing himself to be marching under the banner of the Apostolic Keys. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Still very much committed to the modernist project, he promotes the "Ordinary form" and "Extra-ordinary form" myth, this a formula for confusion for those attempting to examine the questions surrounding the famed glories of Vatican II vis</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> á vis the doctrine of the infallibility and indefectibility of the One, Holy an Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Like a student who do not know arithmetic, he affirms that a 'God-centered' rite and a 'man-centered' rite are both expressions of the same Catholic law of worship and law of faith, obviously a wrong answer, showing he <b><i><u>does not know</u></i></b> Catholic law of worship and law of Faith -following his analogy that <i><b>"</b></i></span><i><b><span style="text-align: center;">the wrong answers are as many as the students </span><span style="text-align: center;">who do not know arithmetic, the correct answer is only one..."</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Given that modernist doctrine and practice of inter-religious dialogue stems from the condemned propositions that: "<i>everyman is free to embrace and profess that religion which he, led by the light of reason, thinks to be the true religion</i>" and "<i>in the worship of any religion whatever, men can find the way to eternal salvation, and can attain eternal salvation", </i>he, having been a key player in the Modernist inter-religious dialogue project, shows that <b><i><u>he does not know </u></i></b>that there is only one True Religion, the Catholic Religion, and that all others are false, and that inter-religious dialogue is, on the one hand, akin to a teacher dialoguing with the students who give a wrong answer in an Arithmetic class when the correct answer is only one, and on the other hand, a rejection of the divine institution of the Catholic Religion: placing her on equal footings with the products of the malice of the father of lies and the figment of men's weak imaginations.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">His failure in the 1960s, as well his fellow Bishops then in Nigeria, to see that </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the </span><i style="text-align: justify;">Novus Ordo Missae <b>"...</b></i><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>represents, both as a whole and in it's details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent...</i></b>" accounts for the easy-going institutionalization of the modernist new religion in Catholic buildings in Nigeria while retaining Catholic names. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Catholic charity urges us to pray that </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-align: justify;">he be granted that grace to realize that his </span><span style="text-align: justify;">entire career since his priestly ordination has been one of marching zealously</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> under the Judeo-Masonic banner always believing himself to be marching under the banner of the Apostolic Keys, </span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;">and that, collaborating with that grace, he rejects the whole of the modernist project and stand up for integral Catholic Faith, the Faith he professed when the saintly Fr. Michael Tansi baptized him [1/11/1941]. </span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Hope is not hope if one were not to be hoping against hope, is it not? </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Until that happens, the same Catholic Charity urges that people of good will be warned of his formula for spiritual confusion.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> No hard feelings. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-41880917430136602752023-11-08T07:04:00.001-08:002023-11-08T08:07:04.313-08:00A Serious And Sincere Question On All Saints Day <p><b>Preamble</b>:</p><p>While on a 'commercial break' on All Saints Day, I chanced upon a notification: it was a comment, a reply on a previously published article. My initial impression was "<i><b>oops... a trap?! on All Saints Day"... </b></i>However, the respondent insisted it was "a serious and sincere question". This is a feeble attempt to propose a reply, hopefully serious, but certainly sincere. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKl3AJw9rOCFDo8RmK2LH1KN_mJ5U2O94bKOjAXx3rUMNHZxqDqZebeVyYSRER7JwomMj9ivD5Lt1fKMhvnA-sQlzKaJ-jxvn89QM5_fEZb99AGcLkNjnpcRR26_go_bOIlkwzFJvtSMhcvbM0C1wPFYuTSWAUn9isVgu026c_0ncZjDnJliscfgnF" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="464" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKl3AJw9rOCFDo8RmK2LH1KN_mJ5U2O94bKOjAXx3rUMNHZxqDqZebeVyYSRER7JwomMj9ivD5Lt1fKMhvnA-sQlzKaJ-jxvn89QM5_fEZb99AGcLkNjnpcRR26_go_bOIlkwzFJvtSMhcvbM0C1wPFYuTSWAUn9isVgu026c_0ncZjDnJliscfgnF" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<b><i>It is a fact that they have the premises─but you [WE] have the apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true faith..." </i></b>-St. Athanasius.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Background to the Question </b></p><p>In an <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/10/they-have-no-prince.html?m=1#more" target="_blank">earlier article</a>, I wrote that </p><blockquote><p>...The primordial war strategy of the "heathens", the Modernists, was usurpation of the Papal seat for Roncalli whom they knew was capable of calling a council and canonizing ecumenism; this, of course, has everything to do with the plan of the synagogue of Satan, whose ready agents Modernists are, to use the structure of the Catholic Church and carry out a "revolution in tiara and cope" with the "little finger" of a 'pope' involved in the plot...</p></blockquote><p>Now the question is what this "structure of the Catholic Church" (which the Modernists used, to carry out their revolution in tiara and cope, and use still, to continue their revolution in permeance), consist of. </p><p>Before delving into what "the structure of the Catholic Church" is, it will be necessary to first understand what a "structure" is per se.</p><p>"<b>Structure": What It Is</b></p><p>Below is the screenshot of a quick search for "structure" on the net. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgtwTAvZXgGCZgruSydsMoEkbYo484sgv0YMuZA097O8NKf0RFCri3vyatszAm8Fc4v_5e8mnlOSY7aPQhyDmocYDrd_iPLKZPeYNQ8aYiBLwM5QiwocEOHPY7DXfLFjDt5CsPtEGnWWWyn2e8qZ0eqqjOEek-pQ-tEZuUVBxSbRevs-2Y1DpNFbV/s1369/Screenshot_20231105-194522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1369" data-original-width="1080" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgtwTAvZXgGCZgruSydsMoEkbYo484sgv0YMuZA097O8NKf0RFCri3vyatszAm8Fc4v_5e8mnlOSY7aPQhyDmocYDrd_iPLKZPeYNQ8aYiBLwM5QiwocEOHPY7DXfLFjDt5CsPtEGnWWWyn2e8qZ0eqqjOEek-pQ-tEZuUVBxSbRevs-2Y1DpNFbV/w205-h260/Screenshot_20231105-194522.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><br /><p>And for it's synonyms, <a href="http://thesaurus.com">thesaurus.com</a> has the following: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv88ctAFPhnfsXPURr9xugJpE28k4ojzTJu1-rWXupt9vMi6xbDNdRvzYbj_U4O6irJzdb4L5QNnKhsaH0uXlznhkwtV709hlSN6XjUWWhxB6gHaze0Hm79VChPVTE_bubXjCSgU7ZCLIU-sMG8HEo-D8-XqVF3ypw7DwrTgbM00-VrfcfZWrNA6NH/s1782/Screenshot_20231105-195039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1782" data-original-width="1076" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv88ctAFPhnfsXPURr9xugJpE28k4ojzTJu1-rWXupt9vMi6xbDNdRvzYbj_U4O6irJzdb4L5QNnKhsaH0uXlznhkwtV709hlSN6XjUWWhxB6gHaze0Hm79VChPVTE_bubXjCSgU7ZCLIU-sMG8HEo-D8-XqVF3ypw7DwrTgbM00-VrfcfZWrNA6NH/w183-h304/Screenshot_20231105-195039.jpg" width="183" /></a></div>So? We may take "structure" as the arrangement of, and relations between the parts or elements of something complex, or as a building or object constructed from different parts. And for it's synonyms, framework, system, organization, and even carcass (!) comes in handy for our purposes... <br /><p><b>The Structure of the Catholic Church</b></p><p>Now, I have heard it said, and it is true, that every institution has a body and soul. The "body", it is said, refers to the people, management and institutions of management, and by extension, the buildings. On the other hand, the "soul" refers to the authority; what gives validity, direction, identity to the institution. Thus, while two corporate institutions may have similar or even the same "body", the "soul" makes one distinct from the other as separate corporate entities. </p><p>Here, the Catholic Church, as an institution is thus said to have a "body" -people, hierarchy, institutions of management, buildings; and a "soul" - the authority of God.</p><p>In the same way, using the term "religions" loosely, it is said, and truly so, that all religions have members, hierarchy, institutions and buildings. Also, it is said correctly that not all religions (taken singly or together), including the Protestant religion, are the true Church of God, because they lack the authority of God.</p><p> Keeping in mind what "structure" is and it's handy synonyms, it is easy to glean the answer to the question as to what constitutes the "structure of the Catholic Church" which the Modernists use. </p><p>In the same article from which the question at hand was derived, I had stated in an earlier paragraph that the Modernists were:</p><blockquote><p>Bent on transforming modern Catholicism "into a non-dogmatic Christianity; that is to say, into a broad and liberal Protestantism" (the 65th condemned proposition of the Modernists), and [they used] their choicest strategy -duplicity- to infiltrate Catholic sacristies, seminaries, chanceries, etc</p></blockquote><p>So? Sacristies, seminaries, chanceries, Catholic universities, -as Catholic institutions of management; and other Catholic buildings, all constitute "the structure of the Catholic Church". And, what is the primordial intention - objective primordial intention! of the Modernists for infiltrating these "structures"? Precisely this: to use those same institutions of management and buildings as instruments for the very undermining of Traditional Catholic religion which they hate with a passion that can be nothing but diabolical. </p><p>Their intention, in Pope St. Pius X's words is "<i>to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, if they can, to overthrow utterly Christ's kingdom itself</i>" (Pascendi, n.1). The Modernists, the Pope tells us:</p><blockquote><p><i> <span face="Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;">lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fires. And having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to disseminate poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth from which they hold their hand, none that they do not strive to corrupt.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.6667px;"> (Pascendi, n. 3)</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p>These are fulfilled, word for word, before our eyes in our days, are they not?</p><p>It would seem that what is said thus far suffices as a reply to the question asked. However, some further considerations in relation to the question of the "structure of the Catholic Church" which the Modernists use may be helpful.</p><p><b>A Material-legal Carcass; Material-legal Frankenstein? </b></p><p>Now, some, by a way of analogy, affirm correctly that if you were to take the authority of God from the "body" of the Catholic Church you have nothing but the corpse of the Catholic Church. However, keeping in mind the divine institution and indefectibility of the Church, we must note that such is absolutely impossible, however, relatively, Catholic buildings can be unjustly usurped and occupied by heathens and the enemies of the Cross and thus have the authority of God removed from them, and the said buildings becoming a "corpse" of the Catholic Church - here examples that come to mind are the basilicas and Churches overtaken by Mohammedan impiety, Lutherans and Anglicans during the so-called"reformation", and the Judeo-Freemasonic revolutionaries since the French revolution... </p><p>Also it is affirmed correctly that, just like the corpse at the funeral home looks very much like the living person so the corpse of the Catholic Church looks like what was -the same buildings, in many cases the same people, and the same structures of hierarchy. A "carcass" of the Catholic Church, infused by the Modernist "life" of heresy, thus having a new identity though retaining the appearance of the Catholic Church, they accurately call "Frankenstein", a "monster Church". </p><p>The irony is that this same post Vatican II Church which they call a monster Church, a Frankenstein, they turn around and insist that it is "not a new Church"! Their reason is that it is the continuation of the material-legal structure of the Catholic Church. But did not Pope Pius IX say that "<i>that Church which truly is, and is called Catholic, should at the same time shine with the prerogatives of unity, sanctity, and apostolic succession"</i>? (Denz. 1686). These prerogatives, do they shine out in the Modernist monster Church? How the indefectibility of Holy Mother Church is besieged! A "body" animated by the "life" of Modernist heresy, is not a new one with an identity different from that body animated by the life and power of God? How quickly the principle identity is here forgotten...</p><p>Here we must recall one of the condemned propositions in the "Syllabus" of Poor Pius IX; it reads thus: "<i>Protestantism is nothing else than a different form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church" (Denz. 1718). In</i> condemning this proposition, we see that in the mind of the Church, Christian religion cannot exist outside the Catholic Church so much so that to speak of a Christian religion is to speak of the Catholic Church. Thus, if a "religion" is a "new" one other than the Catholic religion, it must be of a new "church" - an assembly of innovators. But! They concede that the Modernist post Vatican II Church is a new religion and insist it is not a new church, oops...</p><p>That aside, if the Post Vatican II Church not a new church and is thus that same Church that "<i>God, through His begotten Son, has instituted...and provided...with clear signs of His institution, so that it can be recognized by all as the guardian and teacher of the revealed word</i>" [Vatican Council, Denz. 1793], why do they enjoin everyone to "cut off" from it? By whose authority do they insist it must be abandoned? It must be an authority contrary to God's... </p><p>Now, if what makes an institution the corpse, carcass of the Catholic Church, is it's loss of the authority of God; i.e. its loss of legality, validity, Catholic direction and Catholic identity; how can the same legality, validity, Catholic direction and identity continue to subsist in the said carcass? A Material-legal Carcass? A Material-legal Frankenstein? What a misnomer!!! </p><p><b>The "Continuity Theory" To The Rescue?</b></p><p>In a <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-schema-of-opposition-and-church.html?m=1" target="_blank">previous article,</a> we noted, and decried the fact that:</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><i>They are some who hold firmly that "the post Vatican II church is not a new church", but the same people insist that "the post Vatican II church must be absolutely rejected".</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p>By arguing that "Post Vatican II is not a new Church", they, perhaps unbeknownst to them, repeat the very proscribed "Continuity Theory" of certain Anglicans back in the days, which is an extension of another proscribed theory: the "Branch Theory". </p><p>This "Continuity Theory" has it that the Anglican Church is a continuation of the Catholic Church that existed in England before the so called "Reformation", and is therefore an integral part, a branch, of the universal Church and truly apostolic in it's succession (<i>see BERRY, The Church of Christ, p.180</i>). Does not the proposition that the post Vatican II Church is not a new Church because of material continuation smells of this "Continuity Theory"? </p><p>Now, underlining the point that even if validity of orders were to be conceded to the Anglican Church, she would have nothing more than a material succession since her whole line is derived from an intruder who obtained his position contrary to the canons of the Church and therefore did not receive jurisdiction and authority at the beginning of the office, Fr. Sylvester Berry concludes that "a usurper may found a new dynasty, he cannot continue the old". (BERRY, The Church Of Christ, pp. 182-183)</p><p>From here it is easy to see that merely "material succession" is by definition illegal: thus a subsisting merely Material-legality, and merely material ordinary jurisdiction of a merely material Pope, cannot but be a classic model of innovation at best offensive to pious ears. It is an invention of an alternate universe distinct from, and contrary to, the Catholic universe of legality.</p><p>Obviously, any leaning, scandalous to say the least, towards the "Continuity Theory" cannot but end in a woeful failure, who says nay? </p><p><b>Summing Up</b></p><p>The Arians, Mohammedans, Lutheran and Anglican protestants and Judeo-Freemasonic revolutionaries took over a number of Catholic buildings and those buildings lost the authority of God and became desecrated (though they remain properties of the Catholic Church under unjust occupation) </p><p>To-day, Modernists, the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church, having infiltrated Catholic buildings, have carried out a wholesale usurpation of them all over the world. Just like Catholic buildings taken over by Arians, Mohammedans, Lutheran and Anglican protestants and Judeo-Freemasonic revolutionaries, could be referred to as "carcass" of the Catholic Church, on account of the loss of the authority of God in them, those taken over by the Modernists share in the same description.</p><p>Think on this: St. Augustine is quoted by Fr. Berry to have said </p><blockquote><p>In the Catholic Church there are many things which justly me hold me; ...among this the very name itself which this Church alone among all heresies has obtained. even those heretics who wish to be known as Catholics, when asked by a stranger where the Catholics meet to worship, will never point to their own basilica or places of worship " (BERRY, The Church of Christ, p.166)</p></blockquote><p>In our own day, the Modernists, having usurped not only Catholic buildings and institutions but the very Catholic name point to the same buildings under their unjust occupation when asked by a stranger "where Catholics meet to worship" and would NEVER point to where Catholics actually meet to worship -the present-day catacombs: rented halls, private sitting rooms, bed rooms -turned-Mass rooms, hotel rooms etc. </p><p>Now, </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>granted that these once Catholic buildings, retaining all the "material appearance" of the Catholic Church and the Catholic name, have fallen into the unjust occupation of Modernist usurpers; and that they have lost the authority of God, i.e. legality, Catholic identity, etc; </li><li>but are "enlivened" by the Modernist "life" of heresy and thus branches of the Modernist "Frankenstein, Monster, Church"; </li><li>and given that merely material (structural) succession is by its definition illegal,</li></ul><p></p><p>Catholic Common sense forbids us to affirm the subsistence of some (impossible) Catholic material-legality in them; does it not?</p><p>True, as I have heard it said, the Modernist impostors rule, not the body, (the living body), but the dead body of the Catholic Church i.e. institutions and buildings sunk in the synthesis of all heresies suffering the total dearth of Catholic legality and identity which derives from the very authority of God. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhImWQyksb5F87nSWnFx_5ToSJIm-u-lYrLqFeYbIqBw_C1UHZsM9XPx42BWYvC78_SEi_CNkxVzvRFkdNOEZKjAGtZ09tTeNIpuIIVEYf-8VTQAAIliTvw1QNarLleRlk58sGK81q3H-A8CZ6CeODUfwSnk3HlUzlKbW49XlSi7xa2QyoQpjFCK_Uj" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="149" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhImWQyksb5F87nSWnFx_5ToSJIm-u-lYrLqFeYbIqBw_C1UHZsM9XPx42BWYvC78_SEi_CNkxVzvRFkdNOEZKjAGtZ09tTeNIpuIIVEYf-8VTQAAIliTvw1QNarLleRlk58sGK81q3H-A8CZ6CeODUfwSnk3HlUzlKbW49XlSi7xa2QyoQpjFCK_Uj" width="178" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">St. Athanasius, the champion of Catholic Orthodoxy: from whom we learn that the Modernist occupation of Catholic buildings by no means lend them any legality, not even material-legality... They have the premises, but WE have the apostolic Faith...which is more important! Blessed be God 🙏</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p></p><p>We must here listen to St. Athanasius, the champion of Catholic Orthodoxy during the apparent triumph of Arianism :</p><blockquote><p>It is a fact that they have the premises─but you <b>[WE]</b> have the apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true <b> </b>faith. ...What is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this 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 ...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.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.</p></blockquote><p> Yes, Catholic buildings can be usurped and unjustly occupied here and there: but the Catholic Church cannot defect. The kingdom of Christ on earth, His Holy Church, cannot be overthrown even if all her de facto structures are usurped and unjustly occupied with the aid of the synagogue of Satan.</p><p>Should it be that this reply which I have feebly attempted to compose fails to have airs of seriousness, let the reader rest assured that it is a sincere reply. </p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-12270650960835065132023-10-26T06:18:00.000-07:002023-10-26T06:18:00.503-07:00They Have No Prince <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibHJGmY8f9hY6JVTTNLIHimkyw9d9rAQ-UgPVsSfl19abcSDp810QFN62AyOIuTkAtwol78uYE46e2KytgcYbw2PiAE4nweAL7sZmXoWyeNPR8Uv7FYc9Hr2ujktPFETw0ISmMpBe4vXwg5t8wQT1vydmsskA63-QpZVGSCGXkqQMqDmcq0AB14ek5" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="187" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibHJGmY8f9hY6JVTTNLIHimkyw9d9rAQ-UgPVsSfl19abcSDp810QFN62AyOIuTkAtwol78uYE46e2KytgcYbw2PiAE4nweAL7sZmXoWyeNPR8Uv7FYc9Hr2ujktPFETw0ISmMpBe4vXwg5t8wQT1vydmsskA63-QpZVGSCGXkqQMqDmcq0AB14ek5" width="167" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pope Pius XII: after whose death Modernists rallied themselves saying of uncompromising Catholics "<i><b>they have no prince, nor anyone to help them. Let us...take away the memory of them from amongst men"</b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Preamble</b></p><p>Today is October 26th, 2023: the 65th anniversary of <a href="https://novusordowatch.org/2013/10/conclave-1958-bizarre-anniversary/" target="_blank">the mysterious conclave of 1958</a>. </p><p>Now, a week ago, while going about my devotional exercise of meditation on the excerpts from First Maccabees meant for the Third Thursday of October, I came across some thought provoking verses of the day: 1 Macc. 12:53 & 54; which took my mind to the events leading to the conclave of 1958 and an embarrassing and scandalous reality to-day. These thought provoking verses read thus:</p><p>" <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them. For they said: They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men"</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p><b>The thinking of "heathens" in 1958</b></p><p>Most certainly, anyone with an informed Catholic Common Sense today will conceive no doubt as to what was the thinking of those ("heathens") described by Pope St. Pious X of "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church" -the Modernists,</a> after the death of Pope Pius XII.</p><p>Bent on transforming modern Catholicism "into a non-dogmatic Christianity; that is to say, into a broad and liberal Protestantism" (the 65th condemned proposition of the Modernists), and using their choicest strategy -duplicity- to infiltrate Catholic sacristies, seminaries, chanceries, etc, they could say on the occasion of the demise of Pope Pius XII concerning uncompromising Catholics of the time: </p><blockquote><p> "<i>They have no prince, nor any to help them: now therefore, let us make war upon them, and take away the memory of them from amongst men". </i></p></blockquote><p>Yes, a leading figure from that execrable sect, a Dom Lambert Beauduin, affirmed without mincing words </p><p></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "If they elect Roncalli, all will be saved. He will be capable of calling a council and canonizing ecumenism… I believe we have a good chance. Most of the Cardinals are not sure of what to do. They are capable of voting for him" (</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Quoted in Anthony CEKADA, Work of Human Hands, (West Chester, OH: SGG Resources, 2015), 15-16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></i></p></blockquote><p><b>The "War" Strategy.</b></p><p>So, the Modernist knew exactly what they wanted: one from their ranks, Roncalli, capable of calling a council and of canonizing ecumenism -condemned under the name of pan-christianity in Pope Pius XI's "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos.html" target="_blank">Mortalium Animos</a>", the fruit of indifferentism condemned several times by different Popes more than a century: Gregory XVI, (1832); Pius IX (1854, 1863, 1864); Leo XIII (1885) St. Pius X (1907); and Pius XI [See Denz. 1613f, 1642, 1646f, 1677f, 1687, 1715ff, 1779, 1868, 2082ff., 2199]. </p><p>Then came the <a href="https://novusordowatch.org/2013/10/conclave-1958-bizarre-anniversary/" target="_blank">mysterious conclave of 1958</a>: on the 26th of October, there was white smoke, but no Pope came out; and, two days later, October 28, 1958, Roncalli emerged as "Pope John XXIII". </p><p>So? The primordial war strategy of the "heathens", the Modernists, was usurpation of the Papal seat for Roncalli whom they knew was capable of calling a council and canonizing ecumenism; this, of course, has everything to do with the plan of the synagogue of Satan, whose ready agents Modernists are, to use the structure of the Catholic Church and carry out a <a href="https://archive.org/details/a-masonic-blueprint-for-the-subversion-of-the-catholic-church-pdf_202203" target="_blank">"revolution in tiara and cope" </a> with the "little finger" of a 'pope' involved in the plot...</p><p>And, not long after the fact of the usurpation what did he, Roncalli-then-turned-John XXIII, announce to the world? His "sudden inspiration" to call an ecumenical council, of course! And what was the topmost item on the agenda? "Christian unity", i.e. ecumenism! And, this was solemnly promulgated by his hand-picked successor in the plot, a fellow die-hard ecumenist, Montini… And, ever since he, Roncalli, set the revolutionary ecumenical stone rolling, we know what has been the touchstone for all Modernist endeavors, don't we? </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXyhIGQMwUzv1yLcmUv25-sSOpCVvQbxL-BynjWNi_uofEnJk1kX2k7tX8JIsEapiJKo8uVttGCWBRIHBC7bMCMWzEK4w5-3AjpA1q0R9L_iG9Sf4HDU0b5hr-y2OV4qSnk0EBkfkaOxJtG5zm4frgSM849dwOQlXLdp624CRiDLr3HDnfQBPMs8NK" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXyhIGQMwUzv1yLcmUv25-sSOpCVvQbxL-BynjWNi_uofEnJk1kX2k7tX8JIsEapiJKo8uVttGCWBRIHBC7bMCMWzEK4w5-3AjpA1q0R9L_iG9Sf4HDU0b5hr-y2OV4qSnk0EBkfkaOxJtG5zm4frgSM849dwOQlXLdp624CRiDLr3HDnfQBPMs8NK" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some see a legally designated Modernist material Pope and Modernist material cardinals legally appointed by a legally designated Modernist material Pope by virtue of the exercise of his ordinary jurisdiction; manifesting their lack of "objective intention" to will the good of the Church... Informed Catholic common sense sees manifest Modernist heretics and pan-religioninsts, ecclesiastical intruders, without their deceptive mask, overtly promoting the mystery of iniquity... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>An Embarrassing and Scandalous Reality To-day </b></p><p>Now, to-day some would have us believe that:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Modernist electors, as Modernist electors, who may be in principle "phony cardinals" are not in anyway "phony electors", and that they "intend to designate someone legally to receive the papacy", so as to perpetuate the "material-legal structure" of the Catholic Church. </li><li>A Modernist thus "legally designated" to receive the papacy, while due to the lack of some "objective intention to will the good of the Church" is merely 'Pope materially not formally', in his turn however, "intend to nominate subjects to have the faculty or right of designating a Pope when he nominates cardinals.</li><li>A Modernist material pope has the "ordinary jurisdiction "to designate electors and even bishops for the purpose of succeeding to the sees of authority , and even to validly change the rules of election".</li><li>That therefore Modernist conclaves "intend the good of succession to the papacy objectively and those whose are elected to this see objectively intend the good of naming electors of the Pope.</li><li>This "mere material continuity of authority is able to continue indefinitely…" </li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCQYFJ8s1KSUyGqYotlECEB_mSLVo0GnN75IDbod55_JB4VQNFteryc0Hjd8QYJ5fgWNKurV9xPs9RMf5fs2a8kV4aPl74iNVZN_wzgNZXNTmOshmblcmri55deGe4wX22mU35jk8OHk89zEbZgr6D5a4CO-wiCn5LaPEGeY4E5t2V7tzCfq5D-hQ/s1078/Screenshot_20231024-090543.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1078" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCQYFJ8s1KSUyGqYotlECEB_mSLVo0GnN75IDbod55_JB4VQNFteryc0Hjd8QYJ5fgWNKurV9xPs9RMf5fs2a8kV4aPl74iNVZN_wzgNZXNTmOshmblcmri55deGe4wX22mU35jk8OHk89zEbZgr6D5a4CO-wiCn5LaPEGeY4E5t2V7tzCfq5D-hQ/s320/Screenshot_20231024-090543.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Behold the newest Modernist material (phony) Cardinal who, we are told, would exercise their right someday together with their comrades in the material cardinalate, as legitimate Cardinal electors to designate someone (from their ranks of course) to legally receive the Papacy (materially)...</span> <br />Catholic Common Sense laments:<br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Undisputed: “operation follows being”, the best duly do teach. Sadly, “phony cardinals but not phony electors” they also preach. What scandal, the best, such a conclusion reach?! </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Now, an informed Catholic Common Sense wonders: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>We know that action flows from being -"operation follows being": if in principle Modernist cardinals may be "phony" in their being "Cardinals", how is it that their pretended action as "electors" escapes being "phony"? </li><li>So, Modernist electors will the good of the Church by intending the good of succession to the papacy objectively, while one from among their ranks thus objectively elevated turns around objectively not willing the good of the Church on the one hand, and wills the good of the Church on the other hand by nominating electors who can legally designate someone else after him who will also continue the trend: objectively willing the good of succession but objectively not willing the good of the Church? What a vicious cycle! </li><li>Meanwhile, how could Modernist usurpation, made possible by a diabolical infiltration contrived in the synagogue of Satan, by any means be intended to perpetuate the material-legal structure of Traditional Catholicism for the the good of Traditional Catholicism whose memory they want extirpated from among men?" </li><li>"What "legality?" "Apostate legality to the rescue of Apostolic legality?" <i>"What participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6:15). </i></li></ul><div>Should not an informed Catholic Common Sense blush for shame in the face of these considerations? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8qptUhTsxGH2etsaz_As0EmMvQlAgJgY5NHlP0EYtKXLS8RJ6Touf7hP3w2JAZP8vT3JVGRaclOVuqhwzO6NIqqeoRf6Gq4hzYsFEBPUZJQX2klrWYQ3nTTZ99JaSa6acuZ3B1eCZEtRD9oXt3hnGq4CnpvS8yySMqPyR2Wse3_67FnyQpLqdY0OQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="678" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8qptUhTsxGH2etsaz_As0EmMvQlAgJgY5NHlP0EYtKXLS8RJ6Touf7hP3w2JAZP8vT3JVGRaclOVuqhwzO6NIqqeoRf6Gq4hzYsFEBPUZJQX2klrWYQ3nTTZ99JaSa6acuZ3B1eCZEtRD9oXt3hnGq4CnpvS8yySMqPyR2Wse3_67FnyQpLqdY0OQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some see a Modernist material Pope exercising his ordinary jurisdiction to designate a material cardinal vested with the right or authority to designate someone legally to receive the papacy materially so as to perpetuate the "material-legal structure" of the Church, thus willing the good of material-legal succession... Informed Catholic Common Sense sees Modernist impostors at their best in their hypocrisy... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Summing Up</b></p><p>Some may refuse to see the embarrassment and scandal underlined in the analysis of the reality of our times enshrined herein. Others still may refuse to see how thought-provoking our preoccupation is. </p><p>Such is not surprising in an epoch when men have no love of the truth. </p><p>Be that as it may, the Modernist impostors, unflinching in their determination to de-Catholicise the world hem uncompromising Catholics in today from all sides with calumnies and character assassination as to strip them of any vestiges of believability. But you see? None of this escapes the All-Wise Providence: our Lord and Master, Truth itself, was accused, outraged, mocked, and crucified; and He said it will always be the same for His followers. Meanwhile, the light of the True Faith is still burning despite their concerted efforts to extinguish it, and "men of good will" are being led to discover it. </p><p>The truth of the matter remains that any manifest Modernist, whosoever, occupying <i>de facto a </i>place of authority and presenting himself as holding a place legally in the Catholic hierarchy is but an impostor having absolutely <a href="http://www.fathercekada.com/2014/05/07/bergoglio-hes-got-nothing-to-lose/" target="_blank">nothing to lose. </a>Catholic Apostolicity needs no aid from Modernist apostate material-legal apostolicity for it's perpetuation and unbroken succession. </p><p>You see? "<i>we walk by faith and not by sight</i>" (2 Cor. 5:7) and we know without any iota of doubt that "<i>The gates of hell shall not prevail"</i> (Matt. 16:18) </p><p>By sight, everyone sees some individuals <i>De Facto</i> occupying places of authority (as Pope, Cardinals, Bishops...), and carrying our pope-like, cardinal-like, bishop-like actions. But by faith, we know that these <i><b>de jure </b></i>are phony and are impostors and ecclesiastical intruders at the service of the "mystery of iniquity" set against "the mystery of faith". </p><p>Yes, since the death of Pope Pius XII we have had no Pope <i>de jure</i> simply so. But we are not without hope. We are are Pope-less. But we are not hopeless. Blessed be God ordering all things sweetly for His Honor and Glory and for our sanctification through Mary Immaculate, Mother of Divine Providence! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-5962105510616549282023-10-24T04:51:00.002-07:002023-10-24T06:16:14.989-07:00Ever Met The Servant Of God, Don Luigi Guanella?<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5IXPUoE1d_RKEhsbUWQ5TprUuVbyGIPSDNoYX_FldLQtQ_jk_ocgRqTuchMB7U6tjDt6KkUBDeu_NqpBd8xRdnB7boiamxtSD_RwyPdCjhOMl_sDngA_sul1lYLOzKT08RXOAiv6yN8DYx7Nje1uMiTLhIaqP64-CicsG3EwkiUxXRLK5Ob_DuKSx" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="583" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5IXPUoE1d_RKEhsbUWQ5TprUuVbyGIPSDNoYX_FldLQtQ_jk_ocgRqTuchMB7U6tjDt6KkUBDeu_NqpBd8xRdnB7boiamxtSD_RwyPdCjhOMl_sDngA_sul1lYLOzKT08RXOAiv6yN8DYx7Nje1uMiTLhIaqP64-CicsG3EwkiUxXRLK5Ob_DuKSx" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Servant of God, Don Luigi Guanella, a Saint of Charity and Model of Catholic Intransigence...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Preamble</b>:</p><p>Today, October 24th, 2023 marks the 108th anniversary of the death of an Apostle of Charity, the Servant of God, Don Luigi Guanella. </p><p>My first contact with his person took place in 2007 when, in my search for a clerical religious congregation, the congregation of the "Servants of Charity", founded by him, was introduced to me amongst others. </p><p><b>A Model Priest </b></p><p>As I read about his life I found in him a priestly model.</p><p> Ordained priest on May 26, 1866 for the diocese of Como, Italy, his sole wish was to be a “ <i>sword in the ministry,”</i> devoting all his gifts of grace and nature to the cause of the Cross – “<i>indeed a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles, but to those who are called… the Wisdom of God</i>.” (1Cor. 1:23, 24) </p><p>He espoused a blend of contemplative and active spirituality, with an ardent devotion to the Eucharist, devotion to Our Lady under the title of “Mother of Divine Providence,” and devotion to the Sacred Heart. His program of life is summed up in his famous catchy phrases: “<i>To pray and to suffer”; “give bread and the Lord.”</i></p><p> He made these a lived pastoral experience by doing good to those in need both in body and in spirit amid great and numerous difficulties, filled with a filial and compassionate heart with a tender charity to the poorest and an unwavering and serene trust in Divine Providence. By this epithet, give bread and the Lord, his sensitivity to the integral dimension of charity is made evident. To him, as he underlined in his commentary on the beatitudes, “<i>...the highest satisfaction here on earth is to do good to those in need both in body and in spirit.</i>” Taking himself merely to be an instrument of Divine Providence he was always accustomed to affirm <i>“it is God who does it</i>,” referring to his works.</p><p> To him, "<i>we have no rest in this life as long as there are poor souls to be served and saved.” “Our rest is in heaven</i>” he often reiterated. </p><p> Being from a mountainous region, to drive in the massage that his motto “<i>has always been to pray and to suffer,</i>” he draws an analogy from the difficulty it takes to ascend a mountainous path that <i>“to do charity we must climb the mountain”</i> – here meaning mount Calvary with the Crucified Lord. To manifest his sense of total filial trust in Providence and sense of duty as an unprofitable servant and instrument in the hands of Providence, he always admonished: “<i>We must pray as though all depends on prayer and work as though all depends on work.”</i> </p><p>For him, by suffering cold, heat, smoke, and hunger in the course of executing the works of charity animated by the true faith, we become “victims” for and with Christ. By this he sums up all the inconveniences that must be joyfully, patiently and perseveringly born in order to walk straight in the winding path of perfection of charity and arrive at “<i>the Mountain of Happiness”</i> as he fondly calls the heavenly homeland of the blessed. </p><p> In his passionate pastoral care for the good of the souls of the poor and susceptible faithful entrusted to him, he saw their faith and eternal salvation threatened by the secular forces at play in his time – the forces that diabolically predominate in our time on a global scale. He recognized these secularist trends as having the wherewithal for corruption and of endangering their souls for eternity; since for him, the salvation of souls was his primary apostolate. Thus, his devoted commitment to promote a well-founded and authentic Catholic education and formation in piety and morals brought him into conflict with those, both ecclesiastical and secular, who stood for the triumph of liberalism. </p><p>This conflict took a dramatic turn when in 1872 – six years after his ordination, he published a “little book” titled “<i>Familiar Advice for All, Especially the Country People</i>”. His dedication to assisting and saving souls saw him establishing the Pious Union of the death of Saint Joseph to help the dying. Among other things, he also promoted the circulation of good literature by publishing ascetic, moral, historical writings and lives of the saints to counter the products of the impious liberal press that were being circulated; for, to him, “<i>...if it is ruinous to have a wicked companion, to have impious books is even more ruinous.</i>” </p><p>In his days as a priest, he had close relationship with Pope St. Pius X, who condemned modernism in September 1907, less than a year before the official foundation of the congregation of the Servants of Charity in March, 1908. If Fr. Guanella had any stench of modernism about him, guess what would have been his fate and that of his works...</p><p>Now, during my days in the congregation of the Servants of Charity I counted, and still do count, myself the “new Guanella”; for, on the date he completed his 72-going-73-year sojourn and was called to, in his own words, the mountain of happiness – 24th of October 1915. On that same date 73 years later, I began my pilgrimage in this valley of tears. His death-day is my birthday; inspiring, isn't it? </p><p>The cause for his canonization was begun under Pope Pius XII, however, his cause fell into the impious hands of Modernist impostors who went about a pretended "Beatification" and "Canonization": the former, by the Papal impostor, "Paul VI", and the later by his successor in what some call the "material papacy", "Benedict XVI". Though very much convinced of his sanctity, we do not address him as "Saint" as an official title, since our Holy Mother the Church has not granted him that title. We do not need manifest Modernist impostors to instruct us on who to address as "Saint", being themselves the most pernicious of adversaries of that saving Faith which the Saints lived and died for.</p><p>Now, some "confreres" back in the days were wont to tease me as "the Guanellian from Alifokpa". And, I was wont to say that "I may not always be a Servant of Charity, but I will always be a Guanellian". How prophetic those words proved to be...</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahhDP2M2okmzQSZL_hmfwOMNxC01TSIXfbhWzalkpCVZR_7X1zYbh34q6gq_XbfV6rQ07KjIdjuWwHt1lJFJEuD3CHCQzNAMKBctayiL0HJMyc2fZODjUfbdGM6v_MV1J3vFahYnj6k4hdnqhg88VXjeVq8dGJ0s_kLkdhdte3eaMWWjWXV2p5umD/s400/images%20(42).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahhDP2M2okmzQSZL_hmfwOMNxC01TSIXfbhWzalkpCVZR_7X1zYbh34q6gq_XbfV6rQ07KjIdjuWwHt1lJFJEuD3CHCQzNAMKBctayiL0HJMyc2fZODjUfbdGM6v_MV1J3vFahYnj6k4hdnqhg88VXjeVq8dGJ0s_kLkdhdte3eaMWWjWXV2p5umD/s320/images%20(42).jpeg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pope St. Pius X: the Pope of Divine Providence, with whom Fr. Guanella had close relationship, and through whose intervention Fr. Guanella's works found a home in Rome... He condemned modernism as the synthesis of all heresies: to-day the deviated Congregation of the Servants of Charity marches eagerly under the banner of the Modernist impostors and fully committed to their ecumenical endeavors in all it's details, preaching the misnomer "ecumenism of Charity" oozing the stench of modernism... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>A Disciple's Token of Admiration </b></p><p> In my admiration for his unique evangelical fervor, the lyrics of one of the songs I composed (in 2015) in his honor go thus: </p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">In your heart we see Christ’s Heart: Docile to the Father’s will; Brimming with sensitivity; Burning with unswerving love! </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes in your heart we see Christ’s Heart: Filled with utmost compassion; Tender to weak and oppressed; embracing the lowly! </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In your zeal we see Christ’s Zeal For his Father’s business! Simple; earnest and committed: Firm to withstand all ordeals! </span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Obtain for us; obtain for us the grace we need to be true disciples of the Master, Spreading the treasures of his Sacred Heart Just the way you did long ago: Father, Father Guanella! </span></i></p></blockquote><p>Prior to this, in 2013, based on the text of the official prayer composed by the General government of the congregation of the Servants of Charity, after the pretended “canonization” of Don Guanella by the Modernist papal impostor “Pope” Benedict XVI in 2011, I had composed another hymn in his honor thus: </p><p></p><blockquote> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">O Holy Father Guanella! Apostle of Charity! obtain for us, we pray, the grace to imitate your virtues; Know and love Jesus; keep step with Him the Master towards the mountain of happiness, the prize of his love to us.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> You showed us the way of love: Jesus who came to bring the love of the Father, and be support and comfort of the lowly and afflicted. We are joyful and thankful to the Master: you are to us, a wonderful reflection of his love.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> May the radiance of your sanctity shine through the world for the glory of the Father and the succor of the needy: You had an ardent devotion to the Eucharist; serene trust in Divine Providence; tender charity with the poorest; and passionate pastoral care for the people of God.</span></i></blockquote><p>Thus wooed by the project of life pursued by Don Guanella, mine was the singular will to learn to contribute, as far as it lied within my capacity, to make his legacy for the cause of Christ crucified and His Holy Church appreciated and imitated by all, thus glorify God by winning souls for Him in this valley of tears, souls to populate heaven, fondly called by Don Guanella “the mountain of happiness” – this was my sole and an unflinching intention. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_JEBw-C1i1C0cvL9GPapHRPIA7aHe61_POh3xlkl8unC6bbfFQzkMTAzXlfbBqNskw2PoP3_1WX93FbCZRWZ3Qr8SaNkd68iQI2WTNsoeg72w5E8E0jslfHADuwI_2nWTEVwJO6EgMaOH0XwNgQEb6WjizHLJYfS7cqdJsHlPqfW9zbT5jhvTIeHs/s259/download%20(4).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_JEBw-C1i1C0cvL9GPapHRPIA7aHe61_POh3xlkl8unC6bbfFQzkMTAzXlfbBqNskw2PoP3_1WX93FbCZRWZ3Qr8SaNkd68iQI2WTNsoeg72w5E8E0jslfHADuwI_2nWTEVwJO6EgMaOH0XwNgQEb6WjizHLJYfS7cqdJsHlPqfW9zbT5jhvTIeHs/s1600/download%20(4).jpeg" width="194" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mother of Divine Providence: this picture, says Fr. Guanella, reminded him of how the Provident Father clasps us in His warm embrace caressing us fondly with his merciful eyes ever turned toward us to provide for our needs for His honor and glory and our sanctification... </span> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>A Spark Of Guanellian Intransigence</b></p><p>Ten years later, then six years as a temporary professed in the congregation of the Servants of Charity, having completed my supposed second year in theological formation, at the climax of a session in soliloquy my other self addressed me saying</p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ayakana, you make bold to call yourself the “new Guanella” because, by some secret design of Providence, you were born on the very date the Servant of God, Don Guanella, was called to the Mountain of Happiness, having fought the good fight and ran the race to the finish. What do you think Don Guanella would do, if, being in your shoes, he was granted to know and understand what you now know and understand (about Modernism, Modernist Vatican II, Modernist impostors, their hypocrisy etc)? </span></i></blockquote><p></p><p>In conscience, I couldn't but reply:</p><p></p><blockquote> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I can be sure that, being one of those men that knew not how to flinch when truth and justice due to God are at stake, he would publish a “Familiar Advice to All...” and he would roar thus with fearless Catholic spirit and with all the power he can muster: Brethren! The Judases and Caiaphases who crucified Jesus Christ still exist today. They are the Modernists who, so many times every day blaspheme God and seek to put the Almighty to death by their subjectivism and indifferentism... in our times the executioners who crush skulls by axes and hatchets or throw holy people into rivers are rare. Yet there are many who take their places. To these I want to say: “You crucify your Prophets...!” How many are those who are crucified by the impious and perverse Modernist poison – subjectivism and indifferentism! I turn to the four Cardinal poles and shout to the entire world: “Find out who spread this poison... and you can easily see in them the executioners.” ... Can one wonder, then, as St. Francis De Sales said, why so many people, who are infected with this poison, ... equally esteem Catholic and Protestant religion? </i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><b>Logical Action</b></p><p>Like the Servant of God Don Luigi Guanella, finding it “impossible to silence the truth” and knowing no “fear or deceit,” I left the community of the deviated Congregation of the Servants of Charity on the 1st of August, 2017, for, by designs of Providence, I was led sweetly and surely to recognize that the Guanellian ideal which I admire through and through is compromised within the pernicious Ecumenical pan-religious framework of the Modernist impostor institution occupying Catholic buildings, the very ecumenical endeavor to which the deviated Servants of Charity are committed without reserve. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvnYKDE4l-vnhk5ihVzUR2MAqRsQBv1wbqomqpnhZdBi-J-orJ1cBxgTsgVHnJxwlmQ06CY_Tt7poBz8uiqjTr19D4LMJDEfUzwm5IuWTJbKRDintT__4pNb8oBYXkSddPYDmK80eZBpzMWySpLX3YbJTuT-Iw-_5AG89P-Rzva1HU0yHmzE_D93e/s4160/Ordination%20193.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvnYKDE4l-vnhk5ihVzUR2MAqRsQBv1wbqomqpnhZdBi-J-orJ1cBxgTsgVHnJxwlmQ06CY_Tt7poBz8uiqjTr19D4LMJDEfUzwm5IuWTJbKRDintT__4pNb8oBYXkSddPYDmK80eZBpzMWySpLX3YbJTuT-Iw-_5AG89P-Rzva1HU0yHmzE_D93e/s320/Ordination%20193.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Intransigent Guanellian from Alifokpa on the day of his Priestly Ordination, 11th May, 2022... </td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>A Wish, A Prayer </b></p><p>Oh that Fr. Guanella's Catholic intransigence, born of, and nurtured by genuine Catholic charity, may live on in the "Guanellian from Alifokpa"! </p><p></p><blockquote><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Oh heavenly patron, (Holy Servant of God, Don Luigi Guanella,) in whose name I glory, pray ever to God for me. Strengthen me in my faith, establish me in virtue, guide me in the conflict, that I may vanquish the foe malign, and attain to glory everlasting. Amen! (</span></i></b>From the Racoltta)</blockquote><p></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-77968274486939970472023-09-24T22:24:00.000-07:002023-09-24T22:24:03.891-07:00A New Unpleasant, Disagreeable Odor?!<p> <b>Preamble: </b></p><p>A certain Faithful from one our missions was in town and during a chat in which he explained the reason for his visit, he wanted to mention that the event that brought him was connected with family members who are "typically pentecostal". However, by a slip of finger he ended up typing for me "typically Novus odor". </p><p>When I read "Novus odor", I simply took it that he wanted to type "Novus Ordo", the popular short form for the Modernist so-called "<i>Novus Ordo Missae</i>" , i.e. the "<i>new order of the Mass</i>", which short form is frequently used to represent the entirety of the Modernist hybrid ecumenical pan-religion being imposed on unsuspecting Catholics in Catholic buildings all over the world. This chat became the immediate occasion for this literary exercise... </p><p><b>No Difference Anyway...</b></p><p>Re-reading his text, the fellow wrote back to correct his mistake: <i>"Sorry, they're typical Pentecostal not Novus odor" </i>said he. I quipped <i>"Smiles... There is no difference after all </i>😄". And, his reply was topnotch: "<i>Yes, just the nomenclature Catholic attached to their name is the difference". </i></p><p>Perhaps, someone, having an unformed and uninformed Catholic Common Sense may say nay! A picture, they say, speaks a thousand words: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdi7kum--2IR-wEcaJSctj1bbyWrfUEoidsrHGrkM_lnaFqOhkMsj6Bipec4UChzppNo5OgLlCx-UZcEOOAyvRLTsuxuIBsfXv10eMsqU_cJu4812R05kvrTq-akhp_rN6hdw3w7U6IMDZ-hKvUBXla48Yu4uyIRqpJqONNIFT6yIkw49RDhjPtk2V/s304/download%20(6).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="304" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdi7kum--2IR-wEcaJSctj1bbyWrfUEoidsrHGrkM_lnaFqOhkMsj6Bipec4UChzppNo5OgLlCx-UZcEOOAyvRLTsuxuIBsfXv10eMsqU_cJu4812R05kvrTq-akhp_rN6hdw3w7U6IMDZ-hKvUBXla48Yu4uyIRqpJqONNIFT6yIkw49RDhjPtk2V/s1600/download%20(6).jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Qo1qagBxaYSCYRc20Oiloc6BDUnNMN59b9-4dI0SaY5b9_5DxQODaqsb7Tv8HZs6N1TUXSnKUb7PjQ6LHLG-uBB5BtukH5dITIJW6_D_E6jT42t9JpikT54RGaocX6SrHxu-XW5lbY3n98AF1CCFrPeuMAhIu4amTRpJwSxN_S4k0gWFPvHPxdQf/s640/images%20(54).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="640" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Qo1qagBxaYSCYRc20Oiloc6BDUnNMN59b9-4dI0SaY5b9_5DxQODaqsb7Tv8HZs6N1TUXSnKUb7PjQ6LHLG-uBB5BtukH5dITIJW6_D_E6jT42t9JpikT54RGaocX6SrHxu-XW5lbY3n98AF1CCFrPeuMAhIu4amTRpJwSxN_S4k0gWFPvHPxdQf/s320/images%20(54).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1xXnUwhazhDZJhBzVdQXWCrdjaYnLkrUlvDyhKRn6Fu0m5mUd86B5v_6WKr5CEKzT-eMsjQt--c9OhyYcZn0aNOinQViG3t-iZ8iYQAnskspPanlzlxTdKabPMWAzo5GlWNSsPrkrbea6GPYuzORUU-xv9QJ8Fxmhwcyqjb56kuFZC7soLVHAxCL/s678/images%20(53).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="678" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1xXnUwhazhDZJhBzVdQXWCrdjaYnLkrUlvDyhKRn6Fu0m5mUd86B5v_6WKr5CEKzT-eMsjQt--c9OhyYcZn0aNOinQViG3t-iZ8iYQAnskspPanlzlxTdKabPMWAzo5GlWNSsPrkrbea6GPYuzORUU-xv9QJ8Fxmhwcyqjb56kuFZC7soLVHAxCL/s320/images%20(53).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe_m-FifNarp915JMOnAe50ulb87hei-yw6Wf_T76wu4Ang0MAwVB0Q1Olf3I_4NdDImQ9VoGPCuKs19McCjfgNkXKpMSpuxecxaMDfP5HkoanjyD1m6lzxoUTMO_CFr8lfMzMz5Yy8cS3FbZjCfdgJCDP_i4zz6nUzOb0a-UoGPN-Y_tgXPCdnb0F" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="542" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe_m-FifNarp915JMOnAe50ulb87hei-yw6Wf_T76wu4Ang0MAwVB0Q1Olf3I_4NdDImQ9VoGPCuKs19McCjfgNkXKpMSpuxecxaMDfP5HkoanjyD1m6lzxoUTMO_CFr8lfMzMz5Yy8cS3FbZjCfdgJCDP_i4zz6nUzOb0a-UoGPN-Y_tgXPCdnb0F" width="320" /></a></div><br />N.B: two of these pictures above have the nomenclature "Catholic" attributed to them, thus a nominal difference...; good luck spotting what may pass for a substantial difference.... <p></p><p><b>An Etymological Frolicking </b></p><p>Shortly after the last reply from the Faithful in question, the idea of gleaning from the expression "Novus odor" a sort of 'pigin Latin' slipped into my mind and it amused me: thinking it a combination of a Latin word "Novus" meaning 'new', and an English word "odor", so new odor...</p><p>Well, conceiving an idea of the root of the English word "<i>Odoriferous</i>" I was quickly set on the track to abandon any 'pigin Latin' adventure whatsoever. Why so?A Latin dictionary revealed that "odor" is indeed a proper Latin word which means "a smell, scent, odor". So, "Novus odor" simply means "new odor, scent, smell".</p><p> But what has that to do with the Modernist Ecumenical Mess falsely called the "new order or the Mass", the ritual expression of their impostor religion? </p><p>Well, everything!</p><p>Assuming for instance that each heresy that has asailed the Church since the Apostolic age always had a characteristic unpleasant, disagreeable stench, odor, this leads us on a track to unraveling the link we seek... </p><p>So, if each heresy has always had a characteristic unpleasant, disagreeable stench, odor, recalling that Modernism is the "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">synthesis of all heresies</a>" [Pascendi Dominic Gregis, no. 39] it stands to reason that a synthesis of many distinct unpleasant, disagreeable stenches should produce a "new unpleasant, disagreeable stench" a "new unpleasant, disagreeable odor", does it not? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil5rKBOITiGIBFcgASDXXPsAGoGDqJvKzO_2C0njJ8FgASP6_Pkz8ij1DKj_914LgePak4DF85vbR31gR8SxbtZXviKGzietAoBn-JK56LmF5tt84JFB8sJGyOhQ6EOurpRwGUxYz0BSj5FTdz76wTHRLT6pmbgAg80nCBH2JMhrCCLDOpb-JG6QAE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="745" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil5rKBOITiGIBFcgASDXXPsAGoGDqJvKzO_2C0njJ8FgASP6_Pkz8ij1DKj_914LgePak4DF85vbR31gR8SxbtZXviKGzietAoBn-JK56LmF5tt84JFB8sJGyOhQ6EOurpRwGUxYz0BSj5FTdz76wTHRLT6pmbgAg80nCBH2JMhrCCLDOpb-JG6QAE" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Meanwhile, considering that this ecumenical mess falsely called the new order of the Mass is a synthetic product of the collaboration of six protestant pastors with a commission of Modernist liturgical wreck-novators, who would be surprised that it should have a characteristic oozing of a "new unpleasant, disagreeable odor"? </p><p>Now, everyone with an informed Catholic Common Sense has an idea of how pungent and poisonous this Modernist hybrid new odor is... </p><p><b>Rounding up...</b></p><p>Yes, if each heresy could be distinguished by a characteristic unpleasant, disagreeable odor, a synthesis of all heresies is certainly to produce a new characteristic unpleasant, disagreeable odor. </p><p>What must a Christian do in the face of a heresy, a strange teaching from anyone whosoever? St. Paul insists: </p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;">"<i>As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema."</i> (Gal. 1:9)</span></p><p>Now, they are some who are bent on seeing a hermeneutics of continuity between that religion born of the synthesis of all heresies and the Religion founded by the God-Man. These do not anathematize those who promote and impose this new religion born of a synthesis of "strange teachings", rather they anathematize those who "<i>contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3)</i>.</p><p>Meanwhile, some version of this contrary-to-fact hermeneutics of continuity insists that the Modernist hybrid Ecumenical pan-religion, a new religion for sure, with it's new characteristic unpleasant, disagreeable odor, constitute the subsisting, and indispensable, material-legal structure of the Mystical Body of a Christ because the nomenclature 'Catholic' is tenaciously retained. Oops! That's sad, isn't it?</p><p>"<b><i>How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?"</i></b> (2nd Kgs. 1:27)</p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-25502161037394120842023-08-01T01:23:00.000-07:002023-08-01T01:23:38.883-07:00The Schema Of Opposition And The Church: A Memorial Reflection.<span id="docs-internal-guid-9d0faaaf-7fff-9fb6-a2f5-ba66bf213284"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Preamble: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Today, August 1st, 2023, marks the 6th anniversary of my flight from the modernist impostor church occupying Catholic buildings and hypocritically laying claims to the Catholic name. This flight took place after my ninth year in “formation” as a temporary professed Religious and a Seminarian: and that ninth year was my second year in theology. This flight was informed by my firm conviction that the “sedevacantist” position, as it is ‘sedevacantism’ simply so, is the only Catholic response to the Vatican II question if I must still profess my faith that the Catholic Church is infallible and indefectible. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My resolve, to the majority, was simply foolish and senseless: six years later it is still not seen in a better light by the majority -blessed be God, truth is not determined by the majority, but by conformity of the mind to objective reality!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For a while now I have considered utilizing the “schema” or “square” of opposition as an attempt to situate the discussion thus far concerning the status of the ‘church’ who identifies itself as ‘conciliar church’, ‘post Vatican II church’, among other titles. Providence ordering all things sweetly, I felt persuaded that this occasion of the sixth anniversary of my flight from the ‘conciliar church’, ‘post Vatican II church’ is a fitting opportunity. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Oh that this adventure with the schema of opposition proves to be "devotional", (as in an expression of my devotion to the Catholic cause ( and "thought provoking"! (I.e. urge others to cultivate the same devotion to the Catholic cause)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxNshmACmrlnfXCbgnUnktFBAg02VT5QwdoEhclkmU5faXJd-W37lX3Z_Ck5RchVnqzZjLzsnwhIcwYmMyvKShNV3mmJLxhG6KYBioO3xenZxPwNOykhcYSehOqztu_BAAmmcOVi2nZ850ni4Prce08ZgBA1H0qoFfIH0ZrQtcne5kqoo658D0ufS/s1179/IMG_20230728_213648_814.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="1179" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxNshmACmrlnfXCbgnUnktFBAg02VT5QwdoEhclkmU5faXJd-W37lX3Z_Ck5RchVnqzZjLzsnwhIcwYmMyvKShNV3mmJLxhG6KYBioO3xenZxPwNOykhcYSehOqztu_BAAmmcOVi2nZ850ni4Prce08ZgBA1H0qoFfIH0ZrQtcne5kqoo658D0ufS/w500-h348/IMG_20230728_213648_814.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Schema of Opposition showing the opposed propositions concerning the status of the post Vatican II church/religion, the conciliar church/religion: what a sad enigma to see some oscillating between the propositions "E", "I" and "O", be it willfully or despite their very best intentions... This oscillation works to justify the epithet "<a href="https://novusordowatch.org/2017/04/anything-but-sedevacantism/" target="_blank">anything but Sedevacantistism</a>"... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">The Opposed Propositions Concerning the 'Post Vatican II Church': </b></td></tr></tbody></table></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span><b> C</b>aught as it were in the heat of the controversy concerning the status of the 'post Vatican II church', I consider [and, I stand to be corrected] that the opposed propositions involved can be reduced to the following: </span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>The post Vatican II Church is a new church.</b></li><li><b> The post Vatican II church is not a new church.</b></li><li><b>The post Vatican II church partly a new church.</b></li><li><b>The post Vatican II church partly not a new church. </b></li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">In Logic, the first proposition fits the form of an "<b><u>A</u></b>" proposition: <i>a universal affirmative proposition</i>; the second, an <b>"<u>E</u></b>" proposition: <i>a universal negative proposition</i>; the third, an <u>"<b>I"</b></u> proposition: a <i>particular affirmative proposition</i>; and the fourth, an <b>"<u>O"</u></b> proposition: <i>a particular negative proposition. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Noteworthy is that each of these categorical propositions has corresponding consequences, admitting no entrance into a maze of sophistry -it is negligible whether the entrance into a maze of sophistry is merely for the fun of it or calculated to mislead. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Six years ago, having reached the conclusion </span>that the first proposition <b><i>alone</i></b> describes the 'post Vatican II church', the 'conciliar church', I saw <i><a href="http://www.fathercekada.com/2013/11/19/sedevacantism-a-quick-primer/" target="_blank">sedevacantism</a> per se</i> as the only position upholding this first proposition, to the extent the point of departure is the visible Catholic Church, One in itself and markedly distinct from any other. On account of the need for precision, this <i>Sedevacantism per se</i> is now defended as "<a href="https://www.fatherlehtoranta.com/post/totalism-vs-the-cassiciacum-thesis" target="_blank">Totalism</a>" and "<a href="https://www.strcnigeria.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/A-Defense-of-the-Theological-Sedevacantist-Position.pdf" target="_blank">Theological Sedevacantism"</a>.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMX8hPvKCuvdOoQ0Q-0rzI7_nbjeoasZfGcyM7egYHrP235qJ49gXeDUBikI6sitzXBbCxIQ4l19qvyBLbIrlS6LRfjj2msF1JYr1ZiBBFwL9ZJT5tzUzDcmPv-UlGqtvU21zOl4kkWRc2eNZGQiAmexylC-lXHE4-No_XErh79ijlkR12hN8U2YKq/s640/images%20(22).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMX8hPvKCuvdOoQ0Q-0rzI7_nbjeoasZfGcyM7egYHrP235qJ49gXeDUBikI6sitzXBbCxIQ4l19qvyBLbIrlS6LRfjj2msF1JYr1ZiBBFwL9ZJT5tzUzDcmPv-UlGqtvU21zOl4kkWRc2eNZGQiAmexylC-lXHE4-No_XErh79ijlkR12hN8U2YKq/w215-h161/images%20(22).jpeg" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The post Vatican II church in action: <br />the Assisi interfaith gross impiety, <br />with the then "Pope Materially" in attendance, and presiding...</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, the second proposition, "<i><b>the post Vatican II church is not a new church",</b></i> cannot be true, since this post Vatican II church has done what the Catholic Church, being infallible and indefectible, cannot do: teaching of heresies and attempting to alter the mission of the Church [the "subsists in" heresy, Ecumenism, collegiality, religious indifferentism, other churches/ religions as means of salvation, stress on dialogue with other religions, not conversion from there; promotion of inter-religious worship ...to name but a few] </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nor can the third proposition, "<i><b>the post Vatican II church is partly a new church</b></i>", and the fourth "<i><b>the post Vatican II church partly not a new church</b></i>" hold true, since they deal a deadly stroke, not only at the visibility of the Church, but also at her infallibility and indefectibility, nor is her Unity, Holiness, Catholicity and Apostolicity spared. If "something" is missing in what constitutes a Church the Catholic Church, then that church is simply not the Catholic Church.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am persuaded that a quick review of basic catechism suffices to clear whatever doubts anyone may have on the matter... </div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Laws Of Opposed Propositions:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>The laws governing opposed propositions are as shown in the screenshot view of the text of the class note in Dialectics made available to us back in the Seminary: </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Qir4hVyQfExj93c-voFwETTd_Pkfvmyv-iwXyWiVEPwspKJmORinwUCSOzgIvjQQlGxo88gXFqmSp7fJjK2_UsB7q2e-ddHAMOVXJudzLjKzq3oeOJAFK4_6RleDJl9lVKhx2PyoShlq2SMRUtQnEs9ptdM4CFufNWj7NM2nWfs-IpkstE_BB5w/s941/Screenshot_20230728-092438.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="941" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Qir4hVyQfExj93c-voFwETTd_Pkfvmyv-iwXyWiVEPwspKJmORinwUCSOzgIvjQQlGxo88gXFqmSp7fJjK2_UsB7q2e-ddHAMOVXJudzLjKzq3oeOJAFK4_6RleDJl9lVKhx2PyoShlq2SMRUtQnEs9ptdM4CFufNWj7NM2nWfs-IpkstE_BB5w/w617-h496/Screenshot_20230728-092438.jpg" width="617" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Laws of opposed propositions: one can't make this stuff up... </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Status Quo: An Enigma.</b></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZMspBaznyLgtZtBNIMVVJbmkCxaxhbNgDw7Dejo9SfD3vD6mOagbtSSj9QI9KrYLpIOvYyadq8GBFccBGVyDfq5WPpUDDRRlud6Uz6K6_rHGv_thvh_MfauZG3XbO1B1W65j5qur1GJkDSzvJW1hzwNli2lAk026ortrkP8D_sLZodjJg9dJkz2O/s635/images%20(13).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="635" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZMspBaznyLgtZtBNIMVVJbmkCxaxhbNgDw7Dejo9SfD3vD6mOagbtSSj9QI9KrYLpIOvYyadq8GBFccBGVyDfq5WPpUDDRRlud6Uz6K6_rHGv_thvh_MfauZG3XbO1B1W65j5qur1GJkDSzvJW1hzwNli2lAk026ortrkP8D_sLZodjJg9dJkz2O/w258-h196/images%20(13).jpeg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The post Vatican II church in action: <br />fully represented by the reigning "Pope Materially" <br />with his "material-legal cardinals" of divine institution... </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>A. Contradictory Things affirmed: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They are some who hold firmly that "<i><b>the post Vatican II church is not a new church"</b></i>, but the same people insist that "<b><i>the post Vatican II church must be absolutely rejected"</i></b>. Meanwhile, in the real world, only those who hold to the first proposition, i.e. that "<i style="font-weight: bold;">the post Vatican II church is anew church"; </i>could logically say that it must be absolutely rejected. What a contradiction: saying "the post Vatican II church is not a new church" while saying "it must be absolutely rejected!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, to say that the "post Vatican II church" is not a new church, and therefore the Catholic Church it claims to be, and insist that it must be absolutely rejected is to affirm that the Catholic Church must be absolutely rejected. But we know that these persons in question who refuse to see in the post Vatican II church a new Church have no intention whatsoever either to reject or to promote the absolute rejection of the Catholic Church, or are we in a way mistaken? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But what is the basis for the rejection of the post Vatican II church according to these who hold that the post Vatican II church is not a new church? <b><i>"The Post Vatican II church is a new religion</i></b>" they say. Thus, for them the post Vatican II church is a different religion, a new religion and must be treated as Protestantism or Arianism or any of the heresies that has afflicted the Catholic Church; a new religion and that therefore it must be absolutely rejected. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One wonders then: while there is a continuity of "<i>Church-ness</i>" between the "pre-Vatican II" and "post Vatican II church", that continuity does not extend to the "<i>religion</i>" practiced by the "post Vatican II church? So, in one and the same Church there is both an "old religion" [to be absolutely accepted] and a "new religion" [to be absolutely rejected]? Perhaps, using Modernist lingo, the "old religion" within this one church is "extraordinary", and the new religion "ordinary"? What an apology for the existence of an "ordinary " and "extraordinary " form of the "Mass" in the post Vatican II church/religion! Be that as it may, who does not see the Unity of the Church assailed in this scheme? And the visibility, Holiness, Apostolicity of the Church, how not imperiled?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, to the extent the post Vatican II church is not a new church different from the Catholic Church, we should suppose that it must be absolutely accepted. Or should we not? That being the case, the majority is right in thinking my resolve six years ago to absolutely reject it and flee from it's four walls, foolish and senseless; are they not? Then, to the extent it is a different religion, a new religion other that the Catholic religion, it must be absolutely rejected, and I was correct to have rejected it absolutely six years ago, and what do we think of the majority who consider my resolve foolish and senseless? Well! Good luck with the fine church-religion distinction in the real world and the corresponding logical action...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YDEbhadvB7gqgW2yKeEXZQ98T4ElE3SzUrGoECIh89mF8_eSKYeW2uPHo0XQC32ykDS80YOgpVr9nIC7D_2WHxFl9MMaD9GvgxE2buMdfMelRwiF7ta8zES1yNSubpB9Ul_jMRPqhLE8uUayYsc3H-IAZvrV8SoaYX3qGvBIoNyse6WLAaleDy4i/s372/images%20(28).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="372" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YDEbhadvB7gqgW2yKeEXZQ98T4ElE3SzUrGoECIh89mF8_eSKYeW2uPHo0XQC32ykDS80YOgpVr9nIC7D_2WHxFl9MMaD9GvgxE2buMdfMelRwiF7ta8zES1yNSubpB9Ul_jMRPqhLE8uUayYsc3H-IAZvrV8SoaYX3qGvBIoNyse6WLAaleDy4i/s320/images%20(28).jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The post Vatican II church in action: <br />a one-time "Pope Materially" in a joint prayer <br />with Islamic clerics in a historic Mosque... </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>B. A Sub-alternate and Sub-contrary Proposition insinuated:</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Now, the same people who refuse to see in the post Vatican II church a new church but would have it absolutely rejected because it is a new religion, insinuate the sub-alternate proposition that "<i style="font-weight: bold;">the post Vatican II church is partly not a new church", </i>this in turn insinuates the Sub-contrary Proposition "the<i style="font-weight: bold;"> post Vatican II church is partly a new church". </i></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, the refusal to see the post Vatican II church as a new church stem from a hidden conviction that the post Vatican II church is <i>partly not</i> a new church. How so? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The material-legal structure of the post Vatican II church is recognized by them as a continuation of the legal structure of the pre-Vatican II Church merely lacking formality. This material-legal structure is sustained by a material-legal college of cardinals. These material-legal cardinals could as well be phony Cardinals but are not phony electors. As material-legal electors, they can designate a person with a material-legal title to the papacy who lacks a formal title due to the positing of an obstacle. This individual with material-legal title to the papacy they do not shy at different points to labeled "heretic”, “apostate”, “antichrist” as occasion presents itself. Though, to the extent he has a material-legal title to the papacy, they insist he must be called also "Pope materially”, sadly, this Pope Materially does not enjoy so much as "<i>obedience Materially</i>" from them, nor does he enjoy "<i>communion Materially"</i> with them... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At any events, given this scheme, we are stuck with the paradox that the guarantors of Apostolic Apostolicity are none but the purveyors of apostate apostolicity: the heretical, apostate and antichrist material-legal Modernists... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuRx-kEFUEy35n7dZ1_nQrFS4Af7hwKGHFdToQR51PPFLYM_fLg3Ex-YfAr5mKZCFs9D_55xo0_dWKcCIMwMMomqWA___frnPZ2SenbLmmuEwydjd7EAHIYU24hRZlGvsMOlHL7CTrFplOefu6l0dUJO1czjf34ouC_7RA0e-D2zKkY9qvkfkGeVO/s314/koran%20kiss.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="314" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuRx-kEFUEy35n7dZ1_nQrFS4Af7hwKGHFdToQR51PPFLYM_fLg3Ex-YfAr5mKZCFs9D_55xo0_dWKcCIMwMMomqWA___frnPZ2SenbLmmuEwydjd7EAHIYU24hRZlGvsMOlHL7CTrFplOefu6l0dUJO1czjf34ouC_7RA0e-D2zKkY9qvkfkGeVO/w246-h183/koran%20kiss.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Post Vatican II church in action: <br />a one-time "Pope Materially" <br />reverencing the Koran with a kiss materially... <br />The Koran: containing Mohamedan blasphemies <br />against the Most Holy Trinity and a host of other impieties... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>C. <b>Scandalous</b> <b>Substantial Identification:</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though they hold that the post Vatican II church is a new religion, identifying the Catholic Church with the same post Vatican II church they categorically affirm also that the "<i>Church is sinking</i>" like the titanic. They say that all the life signs of the Church are bad such that the "prelates" have to do something about it, needing some action, not just words. And this leaves one with an informed Catholic Common Sense wondering... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, the Catholic Church, which is not different from the post Vatican II church, is "<i>sinking</i>" like the titanic! Let the reader let that sink in! The Catholic Church, the Barque of Blessed Peter, is sinking like the titanic?! Oops...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But we know that the Catholic Church, the Barque of Blessed Peter, is not "sinkable", for her Divine Founder says, and it is written "<b><i>...</i></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span face="sans-serif">the</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">gates</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">of</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">hell</span></i></b><span face="sans-serif"><b><i> shall not prevail against it"</i></b> (Matt. 16:18) If the post Vatican II church is sinking like the titanic, what evidence is needed for them to call it a new church which is NOT the Catholic Church? In the real world, as it is obvious, either this post Vatican II church which is sinking like the titanic IS the Catholic Church or IT IS NOT... Who dares say nay?!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="sans-serif">Meanwhile, it would seem that since the material-legal structure of the post Vatican II church is the continuation of the legal structure of the Catholic Church, the Church of Christ, shying of an outright identification, at best they will say that by means of the said material-legal structure, the Catholic Church "susbsists in" in the post Vatican II church... But, it is not clear how that helps: a species of the Modernist "subsists-in" heresy to the rescue? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-Wu1MV0GcncYMTFmRzMwtUwvZ_hf_YqDHfjpawF4aqrBR7nHTq-BI0yZ6kivU6ub7EkpCGaBGPCIKkGKm1XmpNNPHS-xW6Z5SbOVZK9rvtSmTIRSV1UsoaHgOaiM81yR81IUwhFyZ2ASMyRejedPf_xnh4anGT7vqlf604ljGwEd-8vqF5E74Wz2/s1618/pape_francois_grand_imam_al-azhar_du_caire.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1618" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-Wu1MV0GcncYMTFmRzMwtUwvZ_hf_YqDHfjpawF4aqrBR7nHTq-BI0yZ6kivU6ub7EkpCGaBGPCIKkGKm1XmpNNPHS-xW6Z5SbOVZK9rvtSmTIRSV1UsoaHgOaiM81yR81IUwhFyZ2ASMyRejedPf_xnh4anGT7vqlf604ljGwEd-8vqF5E74Wz2/s320/pape_francois_grand_imam_al-azhar_du_caire.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The reigning "Pope Materially" <br />locked in a material embrace and kiss with a Mohamendan cleric<br /> after co-signing a document teaching that <br />God in His wisdom wills religious pluralism and diversity of religions... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>D. <b>A Yardstick for Vigor</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, when in the mode to defend the claim that the post Vatican II church must be absolutely rejected with a vigor worthy of being the yardstick for vigor in defending something, (irrespective of whether that thing is the truth simply so or one's pet opinion that must be defended just because it is a pet...), they bellow thus:</div><div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"> "if Bergoglio is a true Pope, the Catholic Church is a false religion and you don't have to worry about Heaven, Hell or Purgatory"... </blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, here of course, none with an informed Catholic Common Sense would disagree...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, it should be noted that using the expression "<i>if Bergoglio is a true Pope"</i> makes allowance for the affirmation that he is a "<i>Pope Materially but not formally"</i>. But, again: in the real world, heretic, apostate, antichrist Bergoglio is either the Pope or he is not. But we know that a heretic, apostate, antichrist is not a member of the Church, and that one who is not a member of the Church cannot be a "material" for being designated a Pope: put differently, a heretic, apostate, antichrist is in no way "Papabile". What monster then is this creature called "Pope Materially"! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rounding up:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We will be in no way taken by surprise if someone fails to see the enigmatic element just analyzed concerning the discussion on the status of the post Vatican II church. Nor would we be taken aback if someone fails to see how scandalous and embarrassing it all amounts to.</div><div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-axgbkd0oG_TXDHIxwoWxlVwmUzxM1-bMNfiOFNw21d3N3JoIP4VVdDu9yRrmUwz4JiBAngQhn7_o8FoSD5G1_W07_4-QIbKSdxAGEQRuTntU-xoX_6q6YEBNetBAKDgR1lgtBHlktoi29hUsfD24UVvC-KxWloFbY4iTykGe2eSUJCs_U6SUcyeQ/s459/images%20(29).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="300" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-axgbkd0oG_TXDHIxwoWxlVwmUzxM1-bMNfiOFNw21d3N3JoIP4VVdDu9yRrmUwz4JiBAngQhn7_o8FoSD5G1_W07_4-QIbKSdxAGEQRuTntU-xoX_6q6YEBNetBAKDgR1lgtBHlktoi29hUsfD24UVvC-KxWloFbY4iTykGe2eSUJCs_U6SUcyeQ/w123-h188/images%20(29).jpeg" width="123" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Post Vatican II church in action: <br />A one-time "Pope Materially" <br />receiving "Confirmation materially" perhaps? <br />and, they say "he was a true embarrassment for the Catholic Church". <br />How about saying "he was a true revealer <br />of the non-Catholicity of the post-Vatican II church?" </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As noted earlier: the second proposition, "<b><i>The post Vatican II church is not a new church"</i></b>, cannot hold true since this post Vatican II church has done, and continues to do, what the Catholic Church, being infallible and indefectible, cannot do. By it fruits, the post Vatican II church has shown itself as <b><i>not being </i></b>the Catholic Church. Nor can the third proposition, "<b><i>the post Vatican II church is partly a new church"</i></b>, and the fourth "<b><i>the post Vatican II church partly not a new church</i></b>" hold true, since they deal a deadly stroke, not only at the visibility of the Church, but also at her infallibility and indefectibility, nor is her Unity, Holiness, Catholicity and Apostolicity spared. Yes, if "something" is missing in what constitutes a Church the Catholic Church, then that church is simply not the Catholic Church. Here it is negligible whether they are categorically affirmed or merely insinuated... </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, I am still persuaded that a quick review of basic catechism suffices to clear whatever doubts anyone may have on the matter... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, St. Pater, who was in chains just a moment before, "<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span face="sans-serif">com</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">ng to h</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">mself, sa</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">d: </span><span face="sans-serif">Now</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">I</span><span face="sans-serif"> k</span><span face="sans-serif">now</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">n very deed that the Lord hath sent h</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">s angel and hath del</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span><span face="sans-serif">vered me out of the hand of Herod and from all the expectat</span><span face="sans-serif">i</span></i><span face="sans-serif"><i>on of the people of the Jews.</i>" (Acts. 12:11).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="sans-serif">Six years ago, on this very date, Providence ordering all things sweetly, the grace was granted me to categorically affirm that "</span><b style="font-family: sans-serif;"><i><u>The post Vatican II Church is a new church"</u> ; </i></b><span face="sans-serif">and to act logically: absolutely rejecting it; and thus delivered, as it were by an Angel from the Lord, from the quicksand made of: my then de facto lecturers and formators, who, insisting on a spurious <i>"hermeneutics of continuity</i>" kept insisting on the second proposition: "</span><b style="font-family: sans-serif;"><i>The post Vatican II church is not a new church</i></b><span face="sans-serif">"; and the pseudo-trads who alternated between the third and fourth propositions:</span> "t</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><b><i>he post Vatican II church is partly a new religion"</i></b> and </span><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><i><b>the post Vatican II church is partly not a new religion" </b></i><span style="background-color: white;">respectively. </span><i>How can I repay the Lord for His goodness to me?! </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdK67E9_jOQlsJPC_8xS685_tSTEmHpgckB2lLKOdNpJm84kVC9TN8NkILencLTT-rWIjM10NlCkuwpFx9Pu0xlw2sZS38EiCz9QwdtxjUMwUzzEIlgsvZr1uTn3csQxKBhJO8CXuzDV6wqga1BPkKZ5rBLjKLGWN90Oh4NmHEbahBmk40_4pJrTS/s1060/IMG_20230801_81256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdK67E9_jOQlsJPC_8xS685_tSTEmHpgckB2lLKOdNpJm84kVC9TN8NkILencLTT-rWIjM10NlCkuwpFx9Pu0xlw2sZS38EiCz9QwdtxjUMwUzzEIlgsvZr1uTn3csQxKBhJO8CXuzDV6wqga1BPkKZ5rBLjKLGWN90Oh4NmHEbahBmk40_4pJrTS/w158-h320/IMG_20230801_81256.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Raising the Chalice of Salvation<br />and calling on the Lord's Name: <br />in thanksgiving for my deliverance<br /> from the chains of Modernist impostors occupying Catholic buildings...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;">While through, with and in Mary Immaculate, Mother of Divine Providence, I will sing forever of God's mercies and the praise of God will always be on my lips as a token of an unalloyed gratitude for that deliverance so miraculous; I entertain some hope that this memorial reflection would pass for something "devotional", and "thought provoking".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;">However, perhaps just like six years ago, even today on account of my resolve and my memorial reflection concerning my resolve, of me the majority would say: “<i>.. according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him...</i>” (1Kgs. 25:25) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;">On my own part, knowing “<i>whom I have believed</i>” (2 Tim 1:12) and conscious of being “<i>pressed</i>” (2 Cor. 5:14) by “<i>the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge...</i>” (Eph. 3:19) I claim for myself these words of King David: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><blockquote><span style="background-color: white;"><i>I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee: Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. </i>(Pss. 21: 7-8; 68: 6-10. )</span></blockquote></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"> At any events, I am persuaded that with the enigmatic element in the discussion thus far concerning the status of the post Vatican II church in mind, one with an informed Catholic Common Sense cannot but lament:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>How are the valiant fallen in battle and the weapons of war perished?! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Would to God, it be ours to be welcomed to a news of retraction! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>What the truly “best”, says history, boldly made; winning admiration </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Attesting, from the Original wound of ignorance, even the best has no exemption. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>While waiting, we wait </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Pacing calmly but surely the gait </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>We cannot but toot the plait: </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i> How are the valiant fallen in battle And the weapons of war perished?! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>How, pray, tell, Even those who claim the title “the best”, prey, of such spell! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i> Oh, tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon:</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><i> Lest they rejoice in triumph who regard the anti-Modernist Catholic cause a delusion! </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-40484193143661372132023-07-17T15:22:00.003-07:002023-07-17T15:27:36.350-07:00The Elephant And Signs Of End Time <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeABTEHNBp3TC_5XgBOXhATDNt_XO7Vv0LtvFGOAz4NMSR9mIHiilqldypdsK4JFQuJqj0SUr6Hk9G4Sg0TraDLF2b3jxUHHh78AHIsF-ze-Dpr3Rmvmqo95aJZlU87b0erQIWNyYyfMXIdF7rDm7PQgwaXUOsQ27MnQc1gc3igXdjj4v7egrr9RF/s663/images%20(3).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="663" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOeABTEHNBp3TC_5XgBOXhATDNt_XO7Vv0LtvFGOAz4NMSR9mIHiilqldypdsK4JFQuJqj0SUr6Hk9G4Sg0TraDLF2b3jxUHHh78AHIsF-ze-Dpr3Rmvmqo95aJZlU87b0erQIWNyYyfMXIdF7rDm7PQgwaXUOsQ27MnQc1gc3igXdjj4v7egrr9RF/s320/images%20(3).png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">No. What is before them is neither a snake, nor a spear nor a fan nor a wall nor a tree nor a rope: it is an elephant. To that extent none is entitled to his false opinion... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Preamble</b>:</p><p>The hypothetical scenario of blind men with an elephant in front of them and each describing the elephant according to what part of the elephant each touched; Or, a figure drawn on the floor with two men looking at it from two different directions: from one side it is "6" and from the opposite side it is "9": how readily have these come handy for those who defend the proposition that "everyone is entitled to his own opinion"! </p><p>Plenty of people, who otherwise seem well intentioned, are subscribers to this pernicious error. But it is easy to undeceive them if they want to go into the matter in good faith.</p><p>In a recent chat someone most pompously affirmed that "religion is like blind men speaking about an elephant: everyone is entitled to his opinion", and that got me started…</p><p><b>The Forgotten Fact:</b></p><p>Now, it is quite understandable for a group of men born-blind to be mistaken concerning the idea of an elephant. But, It is a different thing altogether to make their mistaken ideas a reality, having equal rights to immunity from correction given by someone who can actually see the elephant in question as a complete entity. </p><p> Why is the right to immunity accorded and defended? Precisely because it is altogether forgotten that there is indeed an elephant objectively there before these blind men, independent of the blind men and whatever the progeny of their weak imagination could be. </p><p>And, in relation to the real elephant out there as such, what anyone, blind or not, says of it would either be correct and true, or simply false.</p><p><b>The Fine Twist</b></p><p>Let us suppose that one of the "blind men" was once able to see. And that when he had his sight intact, he was always fascinated about going to the zoo to see elephants, among other animals. He is sure to have a vivid mental image of what an elephant looks like and would be greatly amused by the products of the weak imaginations of those who have never seen one. And, someone, having good eyesight and can see an elephant in the present can either confirm or disprove what this fellow would have to say. </p><p>Next, two things are involved in the "debate" between the fellow who once could see and saw what an elephant looks like but can no longer see due to the silent theft of his eyesight by glaucoma, and those Who never saw what an elephant looks like because they have never enjoyed the use of their eyes: either the judges, who themselves can see here and now what an elephant looks like, would prove themselves to be associates of common sense and perform their duty to honesty as such, or they would, as victims of malice, pronounce a distorted verdict in favor of those born blind who have never set their eyes on an elephant or the picture of an elephant. If the latter, they would give equal rights to the "opinions" of both camps in the debate. If the former, they would simply confirm the vivid description of what an elephant looks like by the fellow who, though now blind, has a clear mental image of an elephant since he had seen what an elephant looks like several times in the past, however distant, and disabuse the born-blinds of their illusions. </p><p><b>The Sad backgrounds to the Pernicious Error</b></p><p>At the base of this claim that "everyone is entitled to his opinion" is the refusal to recognize the existence of solid reality as a knowable thing, and making truth dependent upon “the way you look at it” or “the way you experience it.” </p><p>Here you see "Relativism" according to which what is true for one may not be true for all, or may not be true for one in all circumstances. But that is sheer foolery since every statement of fact must take into account the circumstances of the said fact. Here what comes to mind is the classical case of two men looking at a figure drawn on the ground from opposite directions: one seeing "6" , the other "9". Taking the circumstances into consideration a third party can verify whether each of the two men is right in affirming "this is 6" or "this is 9". </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDciCmq20jSlEo7m1NOhE6WkUhrAadr7oso8Cpv_t7SmaP1xZsXXO8oJbWKPVKrcUSPzJ8GwMpoJjHJWV9YHWMJbrj5GbXNXDdUadGqOwXGIpSZEkRc3fQLMuVEolnNO_r0BaEH8iNizEz0W_gsC9f-ghHrPo2heXHc1rqVURPkfWAwmBmXQKU50Of/s490/images%20(4).jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="490" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDciCmq20jSlEo7m1NOhE6WkUhrAadr7oso8Cpv_t7SmaP1xZsXXO8oJbWKPVKrcUSPzJ8GwMpoJjHJWV9YHWMJbrj5GbXNXDdUadGqOwXGIpSZEkRc3fQLMuVEolnNO_r0BaEH8iNizEz0W_gsC9f-ghHrPo2heXHc1rqVURPkfWAwmBmXQKU50Of/s320/images%20(4).jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes: both are correct under different factual circumstances, but both cannot be right under the same respects. We can know with certainty that the figure is either 6 or 9 depending on the perspective taken... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>More so, related to this claim that "everyone is entitled to his opinion" is another cesspool of error that we cannot know with certainty that God exists. Here we have agnosticism. With this as a springboard, the presupposition is that we cannot know with certainty who is correct or not, to that extent each must be and let others be. </p><p>The poor victims of the agnostic poison are rendered incapable of understanding that though the field of human knowledge is indeed limited, it's limit is only in proportion to the non availability of evidence to work with and to rest upon. To that effect, they arbitrarily limit knowledge even where evidence is available; <a href="http://www.fathercekada.com/2013/11/19/sedevacantism-a-quick-primer/" target="_blank">the evidence for the total vacancy </a>of the seat of the Pope by Divine Law, for instance...</p><p>That relativism and agnosticism is so widespread today among those who frequent popular houses still bearing that tag "Catholic" is in no way surprising: Pope St. Pius X tells us that the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">philosophical foundation of Modernism</a> is agnosticism and subjectivism, which does away with all objectivity. </p><p>Now, as a matter of fact, only those so dazed with Modernist agnosticism and subjectivism are incapable of seeing the Modernist infiltration, usurpation and occupation of Catholic structures and institutions and their impersonation of the teaching authority of the Church. It would be a miracle of the first class that those steeped in, and fed by the Modernistic agnostic and subjectivist poison should be free from agnosticism and subjectivism. For our part, with an informed Catholic Common Sense and steeped in objectivity, we cannot forget that "<i><b>A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit"</b></i> (Matt. 7:18). </p><p><b>The Elephant And the signs of End Time…</b></p><p>It is written:</p><p></p><blockquote><p> "<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables" ( 2 Tim. 4:3&4) </i></b></span></p></blockquote><p>In this is seen a succinct description of our times: people, imbued with agnosticism and subjectivism, have ears only for the fables that "everyone is entitled to his opinion" since such doctrine favours their passions, not obliging them to conform to any objective norm in matters concerning Faith and morals. </p><p>Those imbued with agnosticism and subjectivism are no longer eager to be taught: they seek only such teachers who simply tell them what they want to hear: that "everyone is entitled to his opinion", that "one religion is as good as the other", that "what matters is your heart not the Church you attend" etc, , and hearing these, they are elated with a sense of satisfaction. They seek for such who speak to gratify and delight their hearers.</p><p>Intoxicated by agnosticism and subjectivism, they take it as a given that it is impossible to know that there is only one true religion or Church. They have disdain for intransigent Catholics who insist on the objective rule of Faith and morals and continue to point out objective factual evidence from which the truth of the Modernist infiltration, usurpation and occupation of Catholic structures and institutions can be ascertained beyond any reasonable doubts. </p><p>Be that as it may, we are resolved to be vigilant, to labour in all things, to do the work of an evangelist, to fulfil our ministry; to be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine (2 Tim. 4: 2;5) knowing that only to those who "have not love of the truth" is the "operation of error" sent that they may believe lying. (2 Thess. 2:10). We are persuaded that a handful of them that love the truth are still out there: such as these are easily undeceived of the Modernist hypocrisy, and to the we bear our witness, to the greater glory of God... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-43409103923226047582023-06-24T14:21:00.002-07:002023-06-24T14:27:43.364-07:00The Devil's Strategy And Eucharistic Piety in the Ecumenical Mess<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f877d639-7fff-551e-bd4a-d82db55b8732"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Preamble</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>There is rather an endless tug-of-war between the conservatives and the liberals and progressives within the confines of the Modernist robber church occupying Catholic buildings. To be sure, this breeds both laughter and pity in one with an informed Catholic Common Sense: laughter - when one considers that the conservatives are bent on making the ecumenical mess Catholic by all means (like adorning a pig with lipstick, expecting it to remain thus made-up without returning to the mud, and like on insisting on placing order for a healthy poison…); pity - when one considers that the majority of the conservative ilk are blinds led by the blind. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3swMsyVzG350yA_QWeSLaP9PRMriNMXuo6OJ-BtscL1m8l4yLQdcc86JU8RaHnrwP1xSd5nSrma3fnAJoutcql0CXNocBk6JqwpkLljkcCLQEaDBpaFx_QdjbbxKKaWTxPzJycpasYAbmlDR60tfrayw8cOa6_Ofj9MG5GWNp-4IpHUvd_WpAx7-W" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3swMsyVzG350yA_QWeSLaP9PRMriNMXuo6OJ-BtscL1m8l4yLQdcc86JU8RaHnrwP1xSd5nSrma3fnAJoutcql0CXNocBk6JqwpkLljkcCLQEaDBpaFx_QdjbbxKKaWTxPzJycpasYAbmlDR60tfrayw8cOa6_Ofj9MG5GWNp-4IpHUvd_WpAx7-W=w185-h104" width="185" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lipstick on a pig: <br />a type for the nostalgia of Conservatives<br /> stuck in the modernist impostor church <br />occupying Catholic buildings <br />on making the ecumenical mess Catholic by all means... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Recently, one stuck in the Modernist robber church who clings to the Catholic name and is intent on seeing everything Catholic about the ecumenical mess wrongly called the new order of the Mass, or the ordinary form of the Mass in the Roman Rite, blamed the devil for his strategy of ruing effective preparation on account of which he makes its attendants not to have an active participation. The "Catholics" thus preyed upon by the devil, are said by this fellow to receive 'communion' but "do not understand the great things happening therein". They "receive communion as though it is normal bread and never get transformed". They are said to be "only Catholics in name and are far from being Catholics in fact". </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>More so, on account of the devil's strategy, the author wonders little why the worship sessions in the Modernist robber church, which he identifies as "Masses", "are becoming places of entertainment, self-centered worship, stripped of the awe and ardor that ordinarily permeate the sacrificial nature of the Catholic Mass".</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>In the "awe and ardor" clause, one gleans a nostalgia that is quite understandable. Now, to the extent the so-called "new order of the Mass" is the starting point in preaching Eucharistic Piety, what is really the devil's strategy: to rue the preparation process of those who attend it; Or to make those of conservative bent intent on seeing it to be a "Catholic Mass" which must be imbued with "awe and ardor" reflective of the "great things" intrinsically characteristic of Catholic Mass? It is this question that we will attempt to address here… </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Disjunctive Conjunction <i>"Or" </i>and the </b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Emphatic</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Conjunction "<i>That is"</i> and the Essence of the So-called New Order of the Mass:</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In basic grammar, a disjunctive conjunction indicates a contrast or alternative between words, clauses, etc. Thus, the two or more parts of a sentence joined by a disjunctive conjunction hold true as alternatives one to another, though no two parts may hold true at the same time. Classic examples could be: "either Kofi or Koku may go"; "your action is either morally good or evil", etc. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Now, according</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to one </span></span><a href="https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/GIRM/Documents/GIRM.pdf" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">translation,</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> in describing the ecumenical impiety falsely called the "new order of the Mass", the Modernist liturgical wreck-novators, helped by </span></span><a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;" target="_blank">six Protestant clerics,</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> have this to say in their "</span></span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">General Introduction to the Roman Missal" </i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(GIRM): </span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"At Mass <b><u>or</u></b> the Lord’s Supper the People of God is called together, with a Priest presiding and acting in the person of Christ, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord or Eucharistic Sacrifice"... (GIRM, #27)</span></i></blockquote></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>In an explicitly ecumenical spirit, this description allows that the ecumenical service could be either seen as "Mass" or "the Lord's Supper". This alternative viewpoint depends on whether the person identifies as a Catholic or Protestant, and both would be right in each case. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> M</span>eanwhile, from the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_en.html" target="_blank">official translation </a> the emphatic conjunction "<i>that is"</i> was used thus: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: -webkit-left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">At Mass, <b><u>that is,</u></b> the Lord’s Supper, the People of God is called together, with a priest presiding and acting in the person of Christ, to celebrate the memorial of the Lord, the Eucharistic Sacrifice.</span></i></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By way of synthesis, to the Modernists, the "Mass" re-presents the Lord's Supper. This affirmation is ecumenically acceptable as opposed to the ecumenically unacceptable Catholic doctrine that Mass re-presents the Sacrifice of the Cross in an un-bloody manner. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Now, while "the Lord's Supper" can have an Orthodox meaning, it must be noted that Protestants, led by apostate Luther, adopted it: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> to deny, without any apology, that the Mass was a true, unbloody Sacrifice of the real Body and Blood of Christ</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">to distinguish their communion services from the Catholic Mass, </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and to emphasize that their service is nothing more than a simple memorial meal. </span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Also, having equated "Mass" with "the Lord's Supper" with undertones of ambiguity - always to pay lip service to the conservatives, the ecumenical motive for such an equation demanded the <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/" target="_blank">systematic removal</a> of liturgical doctrines and gestures presupposing the Catholic idea of Mass, -the same principles and gestures removed by apostate Luther in concocting what he termed the "evangelical Mass". </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Thus, while the ecumenical service is acceptable to a conservative Modernist, liberal/progressive Modernist (Protestants within the walls) and a Protestant outside the walls, to Catholics simply so, it is <a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/ottaviani.htm" target="_blank">essentially protestant</a> and therefore constitutes false worship, a new religion, absolutely preposterous and unacceptable, worthy of nothing but an anathema. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd0Ix3tkx8jSKTxhefpynLGcoP29tdgspRqTIvyYZXpNSdIO4Aq6vYfbF2PNnCX78A7HXrOOIV-GB9O6I3EcAj0Aywn8SqlyQXMIE24el5gOQtS9C2gbIQNKjNOeQu81NDY9D1tNm6dngTmmoFWSWB5qYccOcvpyMLvkb-6FirqvA44aRc0m5vgbbT" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="258" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd0Ix3tkx8jSKTxhefpynLGcoP29tdgspRqTIvyYZXpNSdIO4Aq6vYfbF2PNnCX78A7HXrOOIV-GB9O6I3EcAj0Aywn8SqlyQXMIE24el5gOQtS9C2gbIQNKjNOeQu81NDY9D1tNm6dngTmmoFWSWB5qYccOcvpyMLvkb-6FirqvA44aRc0m5vgbbT=w84-h126" width="84" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">When pitiful conservatives stuck <br />in the quicksand of modernist impiety clamor<br /> for a 'reverent Mass' while referring to the ecumenical mess, <br />think of a <b><u>'healthy poison'..</u></b>. and understand the misnomer... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The Wonder of a Eucharistic Piety in a Conservative Modernist</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Having seen that the New "Mass" and Protestant "Lord's Supper" are one and the same thing, on what grounds could a Catholic-like sense of Eucharistic piety subsist in the nostalgic conservatives? We find the explanation in the Modernist notion of faith. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>To the Modernists, faith has nothing to do with yielding to "God the revealer full submission of intellect and will" as the Catholic Faith requires. On the contrary, it is a <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">sentiment of the heart,</a> a religious sense, which originates from man's need for the divine and is brought forth by a religious experience which surpasses all rational experience. This Modernist faith does not conform to an objective divine reality but imposes its own fantasy on reality and this projected reality must be true since it is a product of the sentiments of the person experiencing it. This faith is akin to Protestant confidence and affirmation which what you believe becomes true to you, not that you believe because it is true. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Thus, while, helped by <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/" target="_blank">six Protestant clerics</a> outside the walls, Modernists have removed every idea of sacrifice, Transubstantiation, Real Presence etc., in order to concoct the ecumenical service, they insist on using Catholic terms as alternatives to Protestant terms. That being so, while in reality it is nothing but ordinary bread that is received in the ecumenical service, the conservatives reading those Catholic terminologies conceives those ideas [ideas of Sacrifice, Transubstantiation, Real Presence…] and force them onto the ecumenical mess: and this is no little a violence. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Now, the progressives and liberals, knowing exactly that what they get is what they see -ordinary bread and wine; treat it as such, having no qualms of conscience. Knowing that their assembly is man-centered and meant to meet the needs of modern man, they are ever evolving in their attempt to make it more and more pleasing and consoling to modern man as such: modern man whose interest is only sustained by something energetically entertaining and forcefully indulging to his five senses. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>But the conservatives, fooled by the lip service paid them by means of the use of Catholic terminologies, one the one hand, accuses the progressives and liberals of being irreverent and guilty of sacrilege; on the other hand, they are filled with a nostalgia for an outward manifestation of the sentiments of awe and ardor which they experience as they contemplate those terms bespeaking a Catholic reality -a reality indeed great and tremendous. What a great deception: but "<i>Who hath believed our report?"</i> (Isaias. 53:3)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>The Devil in the Details </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>An average student of <a href="https://archive.org/details/AGeneralHistoryCatholicChurchV4" target="_blank">ecclesiastical history</a> will recall apostate Luther saying of himself that during his time spent in solitude (in the wake of his revolt) he "was holding conferences with infernal spirits for the abolition of the Mass". </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">After such conferences with infernal spirits, he came to the conclusion that "we can believe without heresy that real bread is present on the altar". For which reason he insisted on "communion " in the hand…</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">After such conferences with infernal spirits, he came to the conclusion that "the Mass is nothing but the words of Christ "take and eat", "take and drink"...: I.e. it is simply a memorial narrative of the words of Christ and nothing more - no consecration takes place, no Transubstantiation… He came to the conclusion that the Mass is an act of praise and Thanksgiving: not a good work, a sacrifice of expiation…</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">After such conferences with infernal spirits, he came to the conclusion that the Sacrament of Orders was invented by the Pope's Church -that Catholic priests have no special powers to effect consecration and Transubstantiation; and that, the character of priesthood is infused in all mankind as the soul into the body: thus for him, the people gathered celebrate the evangelical Mass, with someone simply delegated to preside as a man of order and discipline…</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">After such conferences with infernal spirits he came to the conclusion that, while the Catholic Mass, which he called "cult", was formerly meant to render homage to God, his evangelical Mass shall be directed to man in order to console him and enlighten him; whereas the sacrifice held a pride of place (in the Catholic Mass), the sermon will be the most important part of his evangelical Mass… </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In these and all that pertain to the Protestant impiety championed by apostate Luther, we see, as a renowned author puts it, a collection of past heresies into a great pandemonium called "Protestantism". </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Now, Pope St. Pius X tells us that Modernism is the "synthesis of all heresies", and that Modernists continue on the path begun by the Protestants, and that this path is headed to atheism (<a href="https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius10/p10pasce.htm" target="_blank">Pascendi, # 39).</a> Logically continuing on the path of Protestantism, though intent on remaining inside the walls of the Church:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Modernists revised the Rites of all the Sacraments, and in so doing rendered the Rite for Episcopal Consecration <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/NewEpConsArtPDF2.pdf" target="_blank">absolutely null, utterly void</a> in the Catholic sense of making a Bishop. It is in no way an accident that the promulgation of this revised Rite of Episcopal Consecration came first, and then the ecumenical service. With no intention to make a Bishop in the Catholic sense, and thus no intention to make Priests for the sacrifice of the Mass in the Catholic sense, the stage was set for the introduction of the ecumenical mess. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">In the ecumenical service, just like in apostate Luther's communion service, the people, exercising their priesthood, celebrate while a nominal 'ministerial priest', robed with something that camouflages as Catholic Priestly vestments, presides, playing the role of a man of order and discipline for the assembly. </span></p></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Now, though their liberal counterparts have seen to it to be well documented, with the help of <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/" target="_blank">six Protestant clerics,</a> that their assembly is exactly the same as Luther's evangelical Mass (<i>recall the disjunctive conjunction "</i><u style="font-style: italic;"><b>or"</b></u><i> and the emphatic conjunction "</i><b>that is")</b>, avid "conservatives', having no love of the truth and thus no interest in informing their conscience, continue to see it as a Catholic Mass -the so-called ordinary form of…you know what! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Also, concerned Catholics with informed Catholic Common Sense have strived to awaken such as are yet able to recognize the ecumenical mess for what it really is, the reward they get is their being tagged "deluded", "rigid", "heretics", "fundamentalists", "schismatics", "clericalists", the list goes on…</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Who, taking into consideration the fine details of our analysis thus far, cannot see the devil's strategy at work? What strategy? To keep the avid conservatives in the Modernist robber church who clings tenaciously to the Catholic name fooled into calling the ecumenical mess a Catholic Mass so as to hasten the normalization of atheism to which the path first taken by Protestants and continued by Modernists is headed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Thus fooled and bent on satisfying their <i>need </i>for something Characteristically Catholic, the pitiful conservatives imagine <i>Sacrifice, Transubstantiation and Real Presence</i> where none of these realities exist. They receive a mere bread (piously kneeling) believing it to be the Holy Eucharist. They worship an ordinary bread (genuflecting and prostrating) as if it were the Blessed Sacrament. What a great deception: but we ask again "<i>Who hath believed our report?"</i> (Isaias. 53:3)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>On the flip side of the coin, the liberals give no sign of any belief whatsoever, and correctly so, that their assembly is a sacrifice in the Catholic sense, nor do they pretend to suggest that any vestige of the idea of Transubstantiation and Real Presence subsists in their assembly: exercising their cherished priesthood they dance and clap, eat and drink (with their own hands, and standing) and merry round and round and round... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>In Fine</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Many, in their days of utter blindness concerning the whole truth about Vatican II and it's aggiornamento in doctrine, worship and discipline, wondered why what they read either in the lives of the Saints or books written by Saints about the beauty, awe and ardor of the Mass was never part of their own experience in participating in what they knew, but falsely so, to be the "new order of the Mass". </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>However, having love of the truth, and willing to fully submit their intellect and will to the Church teaching on the authority of God, it is often the edifying story that a rudimentary intellectual exposition to the fact of the substantial difference between the modernist ecumenical mess and the Catholic Mass was sufficient to undeceive them, and being thus undeceived, fleeing they fled the assembly of Modernist impiety without looking back. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>That goes to show, as St. Thomas Aquinas puts it, that "<i>to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible". </i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-57492203979697138112023-06-06T07:11:00.002-07:002023-06-06T07:43:15.940-07:00The Time After Pentecost: No way ordinary! <p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioTBtRIJoJYSpyHgOjPh96P36ChUGPIamgnROuevZ-pScVZK1r7Hn1j3S1OxLwWmz9POzefYJhNCg0TZyWBBk0x_o-prWEceGVuzmIfLXtLWPOC2xWGTZ-Ev8eLDE91fKscBycsge7ckQBwCHrGm_SVo8R3XM9mnW1App9CV4_fYZ8s6hRU_3znA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="711" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioTBtRIJoJYSpyHgOjPh96P36ChUGPIamgnROuevZ-pScVZK1r7Hn1j3S1OxLwWmz9POzefYJhNCg0TZyWBBk0x_o-prWEceGVuzmIfLXtLWPOC2xWGTZ-Ev8eLDE91fKscBycsge7ckQBwCHrGm_SVo8R3XM9mnW1App9CV4_fYZ8s6hRU_3znA" width="178" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">A post on the Facebook page of <br />a <b><u>Modernist-dressed-as-Catholic </u></b>Major Seminary <br />pouring out the modernist 'ordinary time' gibberish... <br />the blind leading the blind: most certainly! </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><b>Preamble:</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">We have affirmed in the recent past with all the strength we could muster that <span style="background-color: white;"> <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/01/no-ordinary-time.html" target="_blank">there is nothing ordinary at any point in the Christian year</a>.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;">However, as also noted: </span></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"for whatever reason, be it ecumenical or some other modernist motive, Sundays after Epiphany and Sundays after Pentecost are rebranded as “Sundays in ordinary time” by modernist liturgical revolutionists and wrecknovators in the attempt to update Catholic liturgical year to a standard pleasing to the modern man in his ordinary self: I.e. modern man who has no use for divine revelation or mystery, but is content with his religious sense welling up from his subconsciousness. </span></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> In this present post, for the edification and instruction of the brethren, we shall present briefly the character of the time after Pentecost in the Liturgical year of the Roman Catholic Church, that Church to whom the Modernists are "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">the most pernicious of her adversaries."</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Noteworthy is that this 'Time after Pentecost', the long period between Trinity Sunday and Advent, comprising nearly half of the liturgical year, coincides with the summer season. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Character of the Time After Pentecost.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Bishop Angrisani, in his "Daily Breviary Meditations" gives a captivating picture of the character of this period in the Church's year. He notes that: </span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>After the reign of the Father over the people of God, which the season of Avent recalls; after that of the Son, which began with His birth at Christmas and ended with His ascension; and which the seasons of Christmas and Easter recall, the liturgy celebrates the reign of the Holy Spirit, which extends over the whole Church and is made manifest from Pentecost to the end of the world,, mentioned on the twenty-fourth or last Sunday after Pentecost. during the first half of the ecclesiastical year, Avent to Pentecost, the Church has reconstructed the whole life of Christ. During the second half, Trinity to Advent, she retraces the life of the Church, striving to reproduce in her saints the virtues of the Master.</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The summer season with its exuberant growth serves as an image and a reminder of the growth and fruitfulness of the Church in Christ at this time. This fruitful growth takes place through the operation of the Holy Ghost, Who is also the Church's visible Teacher and Guide bringing to her mind all that Christ had taught. </i></span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>...the long period between Trinity Sunday and Advent, comprising nearly half the liturgical year, represents the daily history of the Church throughout the ages, a history which begins with the first Christian Pentecost and comes to a close with the second coming of Christ as Judge at the end of the world. The Church as the kingdom of God on earth stands in continual opposition to the kingdom of Satan, that is, to the world, by which is meant all those who have fallen from God or have rejected Christ and are therefore ruled by the devil. our Lord predicted the hatred and persecution of the world against the Church whose earthly pilgrimage is therefore one of continual hostility against the powers of evil. Hence, the Church on earth has become known as the Church Militant. The militant character of the Church is reflected also in the lives of her children who must constantly struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil... </i></span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;">Our esteemed reader can see that there is absolutely nothing ordinary about the period between Trinity Sunday and Advent! </span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="text-align: left;"> </i><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Dom Gueranger weighs in:</b></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> While describing the "<a href="http://www.liturgialatina.org/lityear/" target="_blank">mystery of the time after Pentecost"</a>, the renown Dom Gueranger notes that our life of regeneration in Christ is signified and expressed during the 'Time after Pentecost', a time to be spent on modelling ourselves on Christ under the direction of His Spirit. He goes on to say that:</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Two objects here offer themselves to our consideration: the Church and the Christian soul. As to holy Church, the Bride of Christ, filled as she is with the Paraclete Spirit, who has poured himself forth upon her, and, from that time forward, is her animating principle,—she is advancing onwards in her militant career, and will do so till the second Coining of her heavenly Spouse. She has within her the gifts of Truth and Holiness. Endowed with Infallibility of Faith and Authority to govern, she feeds Christ's flock, sometimes enjoying liberty and peace, sometimes going through persecutions and trials. Her divine Spouse abides with her, by his grace and the efficacy of his promises, even to the end of time; she is in possession of all the favours he has bestowed upon her; and tile Holy Ghost dwells with her, and in her, forever. A11 this is expressed by this present portion of the Liturgical Year. It is one wherein we shall not meet with any of those great events which prepared, and consummated the divine work; but, on the other hand, it is a season when holy Church reaps the fruits of that holiness and doctrine, which those ineffable mysteries have already produced, and will continue to produce, during the course of ages. It is during this same season, that we shall meet with the preparation for, and, in due time, the fulfilment of, those final events which will transform our Mother's militant life on earth into the triumphant one in heaven. As far, then, as regards holy Church, this is the meaning of the portion of the Cycle we are commencing... </i></span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>...Such is the Mystery of this portion of the Liturgical Cycle, which is called The Time after Pentecost. It includes also the use of green Vestments; for that colour expresses the hope of the Bride, who knows that she has been entrusted, by her Spouse, to the Holy Ghost, and that he will lead her safe to the end of her pilgrimage. St. John says all this in those few words of his Apocalypse: The Spirit and the Bride say: Come!</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;">You see? there is nothing, absolutely nothing ordinary about the mystery of the 'Time After Pentecost'. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Modernists' 'Ordinary' Project:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Modernists, true to their character as <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">the most pernicious of the adversaries</a> of the<span style="text-align: justify;"> Church, are ever intent on transforming her from within. Thinking themselves to have succeeded -by means of their astute infiltration and de facto occupation to-date of Catholic structures and institutions, they project the product of the figments of their imagination to the whole world as the 'Catholic Church' which is no longer militant but conciliary, and the greatest of the great participants in the almighty dialogue required for the world's peace. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Now:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;">While the Militant Church has not given up her just claim as The Infallible Church of Christ, Modernist impostors tell the world that the Church of Christ merely "subsists in" the Catholic Church, i.e., it is not identified with it, but is present in it, and is a reality larger than it. That, the Catholic Church, not being infallible, has taken upon herself to enter into dialogue with other legitimate 'ecclesiastical communities' having the sanction of the Holy Spirit as means of salvation... [<b>note: <u>that is what 'ecumenism' is all about...</u></b>] </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: justify;">While the Militant Church continues to insist on everyone's duty to the Truth and the Only One True Religion; the modernist impostors tell the whole world that at Vatican II the Catholic Church changed her mind on indifferentism; that she made bold to reconcile with the world so as to be relevant to the modern man in his ordinary self... that, now, there is no such thing as 'one only religion': all religions are more or less true and salutary, thus all must simply enter into dialogue to learn from each other and enrich each other, focusing on what unites them all -the <i>religious sense </i>welling from the subconscious; and avoiding what divides -any claim to absolute truth and insistence of flight from error to the truth... [<b>note: that is what the doctrine of the Modernists on religious liberty; and the practice of interreligious dialogue and inter-faith worship etc., is all about...]</b></span></span></li></ul><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p></blockquote><p></p><h2 align="center"><span style="font-size: small;">In Fine</span></h2><div>Perhaps this period is the 'ordinary time' for the Modernist impostors and their sheep-like robed-lay agents to execute with particular vigor the Modernists' ordinary project, if so, we would not dare contend the designation 'ordinary time'. </div><div><br /></div><div>However, to the extent they project such naming as something Roman Catholic, we must affirm over and over again that the 'Time After Pentecost' is in no way ordinary, and that there is no such thing as 'ordinary time' in the liturgical year of the Roman Catholic Church, no ordinary time in the Christian year. </div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-80300822735893046652023-05-23T00:36:00.003-07:002023-05-25T00:32:09.517-07:00Dumb, Sleeping Dog: A Tale of A Nominal Dominican <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <b>Preamble:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu6xr0z6DR9bgLgiKresfXSJ9AR_BHygtDvM1f1ncT64LUmsQODf9d0_VPk3dTIPElR1jyTNFIMlp8xTdlGBLBv1SbPSgppRdi99b-LOtzqRSzvxHTJHRawYhmhE7qNugQOPPmahnawVcfIi1zyupukjJBTzPUwe1VM1CfC54EdHLVV9n5jOxpiA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img alt="" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="474" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu6xr0z6DR9bgLgiKresfXSJ9AR_BHygtDvM1f1ncT64LUmsQODf9d0_VPk3dTIPElR1jyTNFIMlp8xTdlGBLBv1SbPSgppRdi99b-LOtzqRSzvxHTJHRawYhmhE7qNugQOPPmahnawVcfIi1zyupukjJBTzPUwe1VM1CfC54EdHLVV9n5jOxpiA" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A representation of the dream of St. Dominic's Mother of a dog leaping from her womb with a torch in its mouth which seemed to set the earth on fire. The dream taken as a sign of a great child she was to bear: St. Dominic <i>-the Lord's [Watch] Dog.</i>..</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams" (</b>Isaias 56:10)</i></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><i></i></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>A very common proverb has it that "<i>ignorance is a bliss</i>". This is supposed to mean that if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. But is it true? that <i>ignorance, i.e., lack of due knowledge; </i>is a bliss? Well, it would seem that only one lacking due knowledge could respond in the affirmative... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> What damage ignorance is not capable of! Imagine what could result from the service of an ignorant doctor, or pilot, or captain, or driver, or teacher etc... Many lives have been lost due to ignorance; and more importantly, many souls lost on account of the services of false teachers! Could one in conscience say that 'ignorance is a bliss'? </span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Eight days after the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFYA67YpC8" target="_blank">Episcopal Consecration of Bishop Nkamuke</a> the administrator of a Facebook media page, "<a href="https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071928806230" target="_blank">Magnificat Series"</a>, took it upon himself to begin a series of publication with the title <a href="https://web.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3407591596161887&set=pcb.3407592512828462" target="_blank">"TRUE CATHOLICISM Ep. 1"</a>. This was brought to my notice by a faithful in one of our missions. He noted how he has had to engage the author, a 'Dominican', in the past on themes bordering on the Vatican II question, and how the same have evaded accepted invitations for public debate on the points disputed. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> When I shared the article </span>titled "<a href="https://web.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3407591596161887&set=pcb.3407592512828462" target="_blank">TRUE CATHOLICISM Ep. 1"</a> with someone, he found it to be a "very lazy write up" and "not worth the read." I am of the same persuasion, as far as the climax of the article is at stake. Now, could we have been mistaken about it due to some biases? Let an objective reader be the judge! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Climax of </b><a href="https://web.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3407591596161887&set=pcb.3407592512828462" target="_blank">TRUE CATHOLICISM Ep. 1"</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">The author gave a rather interesting, and indeed commendable, tour of the history of the Church in relation to persecutions and persecutors; external - by emperors and secular powers; and, internal - by heretics. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">This historical peregrination was meant to set the stage to make his reader appreciate the status of those:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-27c8fef5-7fff-09da-de1c-ab7c273c0439"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...persecutors of the Church parading themselves as the true Catholics and talking down on the Church, the Second Vatican Council and her Ministers"</i></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">These "persecutors", he identified as 'Sedevacantists" when he went on to affirm the following: </span></p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-small;"><i> I was shocked when I heard a man who calls himself a sedevacantist assert that all priests in the Church are nothing but laymen. Usually they appear as thought angels but in reality they are hirelings willingly intent on causing confusion and commotion in the Church.</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span id="docs-internal-guid-baade513-7fff-4876-a8dc-125948ba9964" style="font-family: times;"></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: xx-small;"><i>One of such commotion and confusion took place on the first day of May when the sedevacantist group went ahead to ordain someone bishop…this episcopal consecration did not follow the laws and proceedings of the Church of Rome in matters related to the installing a bishop…</i></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> With that said, he went on to urge his readers thus </span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>"<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">while I leave you to judge the validity of this ordination I wish to beg that YOU REMAIN AND TRULY CATHOLIC…"</span></i></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Meanwhile, to crown it all, he went to make bold and emphatic affirmations and professions, ending it all with an authoritative signature, a seal of authentication: </span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">SEDEVACANTISM IS NOT CATHOLICISM!</span></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-33aae940-7fff-a9b6-0e47-ef02ccde04e2" style="font-family: times;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">LIBERALISM IS NOT CATHOLICISM!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">CATHOLICISM IS BEING IN COMMUNION WITH CHRIST AND THE FAITHFUL THROUGH THE VISIBLE HEAD HE INSTITUTED (THE POPE, BISHOPS, PRIESTS etc). CATHOLICISM MEANS KNOWING THAT THE CHURCH MAY SHAKEN, TRIED AND EVEN APPEAR TO BE IN THE DARK… BUT SHE STILL HAS JESUS WITHIN; WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO BRING TOTAL PEACE WITH THE WORDS “PEACE BE STILL”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I STAND WITH THE CHURCH</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I BELIEVE ALL THE COUNCILS TAUGHT</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I BELIEVE IN THE WORD OF GOD</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I BELIEVE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I BELIEVE IN GOD FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.59996; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">PREACHING-FRIAR@2023</span></span></p></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">One thing is obvious: the climax of this episode in the '<i>Magnificat Series'</i> under scrutiny is packed with compelling themes betraying, not only a laughable marriage between a certain species of ignorance and intellectual laziness, but also a certain species of ignorance mixed with an element of malice. To deal with the themes minutely as deserved, one would have to undertake hundred pages of well researched doctoral degree theses. For our purposes here, it suffices to get to the basics which will show that what his article promotes is neither "Catholicism" nor "True"... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> <b>Quick Facts </b><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Any student of the history of the Church unfailingly knows that on account of ignorance of what Christianity is, the early Christians were persecuted by cultured paganism and savage heathenism as being cannibals, enemies of the state, Sowers of discord, etc. Was that ignorance in any way a <i>bliss</i>? by no means!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Our "<i>Preaching-Friar", </i>being a victim of <i> </i></span>a laughable marriage between a certain species of ignorance and intellectual laziness, would have his audience believe that Sedevacantists are "internal persecutors" of the Church, and "talk down on the Church". On the contrary, however, their single-hearted goal is to prove to all with a listening ear that the Roman Catholic Church is the only True Church - the Infallible and Indefectible Pure Bride and Mystical of Christ, the Ground of Truth and that Modernist universal impostor church occupying Roman Catholic institutions and properties is simply an impostor church. A little diligence on his part would have made him to know that the 'second Vatican council', having modernism for its animating principle, is not only non-Catholic but indeed anti-Catholic. He most certainly needs to educate himself on the <a href="http://www.fathercekada.com/2013/11/19/sedevacantism-a-quick-primer/" target="_blank">iron-clad logic of the Sedevacantist postiton. </a></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the same way, a little diligence would have made him to know that Sedevacantists <i>do not talk</i> down on the '<i>ministers' </i>of the Church. Applying the objective principles of Catholic Dogmatic and Sacramental theology, they simply draw the logical conclusion that the pioneers of the modernist impostor church occupying Catholic buildings were apostate apostles, on the one hand; and that the ministers of this same church to-day, being paraded as Catholic Bishops or Priests are simply lay-robed men. This fact a disinterested research student can <a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/NewEpConsArtPDF2.pdf " target="_blank">verify </a>with no hard feelings. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">As a steppingstone toward affirming the Sedevacantists to be 'internal persecutors' of the Church to-day, our "<i>Preaching Friar' </i>stated that: <i>"</i></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fac386d1-7fff-904e-20c0-aed6c368ec1e"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">We read from history about the thunderous </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">results many</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> priest [sic] and heretics who occupied influential positions in the Church brought about when they left the Church. Many of them like Martin Luther drew thousands and thousands of Catholics away from obeying the Vicar of Christ the Pope". </i>Just a little diligence would have made him to know that Sedevacantists reject the Modernist hierarchy precisely because they are continuing the impiety of Martin Luther both in doctrine and in worship: would that he reads </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Information/Mass_of_Luther.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">An Examination of the Shocking Similarities Between the New Mass and Luther's "Mass"</a><b>! </b>And, of course, a quick perusal of Fr. Cekada's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7oftiL4XY" target="_blank">Work of Human Hands"</a> would come in handy as well... </span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">More so, with a little diligence, our '<i>Preaching Friar' </i>would have known that if there is any 'confusion' in the minds of people to-day concerning the Church, the Modernist impostors, and not the Sedevacantists, are to blame. No doubts, he is in need of a <a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2022/12/confused-take-catholicity-test.html#more" target="_blank">Catholicity test</a>... </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Fully aware that <a href="https://archive.org/details/liberalismissin0000sard">Liberalism is a sin</a>, we cannot but commend him for knowing that 'Liberalism is not Catholicism". However, it is surprising that, while he claims to have read <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">Pope St. Pius X's condemnation of the doctrines of the modernists,</a> [as he affirmed in a reply to someone suggesting he does so], he could not see in modernism the flowering of liberalism. If he did, we are even more surprised that he is yet to see modernism as the spirit of Vatican II. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Referring to the Episcopal Consecration of the Most Rev. Bede Nkamuke, our "<i>Preaching-Friar",</i> appeals to his readers to be the judges concerning the 'validity' of the 'ordination' having for his compass, not the principles of Catholic Sacramental theology, but sentimentality, which has no place in Catholic Theological tradition. While he confuses 'validity' with 'liceity', a little diligence would have made him to know that that Episcopal Consecration was both '<a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/TradPriestLeg.pdf" target="_blank">valid' and 'licit'.</a> </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">It is pitiably laughable for one to affirm, as our <i>Preaching-Friar</i><i>" </i>does, "<i>I stand with the Church", "I bleieve all that the Councils taught", "I believe in the Catholic Church</i>"; and still accept Vatican II Council as Catholic, and signed up in the modernist agency for the propagation of its heresy on the nature and identity of the Church of Christ; its heresy on ecumenism; its heresy on religious liberty; its heresy of collegiality; its heresy of other religions as means of salvation, etc... Only crass ignorance or malice could be the principle of such a state of affairs. But, I am afraid, [and the ready may easily see why] our <i>Preaching-Friar </i>would not stoop so low as to plead ignorant... </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Just a little diligence would have made our "<i>Preaching-Friar</i><i>" </i>to know without any iota of doubt that at the dawn of the modernist uprising, Pope St. Pius X, in instituting the "<i>Oath Against Modernism",</i> ordained that being "<i>Catholic</i>" and "<i>Anti-Modernist</i>" become coextensive. And a diligent carrying out of his homework would have revealed to him that in the face of the Modernist usurpation of Catholic hierarchy and institutions for the diabolical purposes of the enemies of the Cross, to be Catholic cannot but be coterminous with being <i>Sedevacantist, </i>since, given the state of affairs, the idea of being "Anti-Modernist" is best communicated by the <i>Sedevacantists </i>stance.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Our '<i>Preaching Friar</i>' would have his readers believe that Sedevacantists are not in <i>"communion with Christ and the Faithful through the visible head He instituted...". </i>Just a little diligence would have helped him to recognize their impeccable devotion to the "visible head" instituted by Jesus Christ, the invisible Head of the Church. Yes. Taking seriously the mutual exclusivity, according to the Divine Law, of the Papacy and the teaching of heresies, they simply affirm the objective <i><b>fact</b></i> that the Seat of Blessed Peter, the Seat of the Pope, untouched by any stain of heresy in general, and the Modernist heresy in particular, has been empty since 1958 to date. In their firm belief in the Petrine office, they are firmly resolved that the vacancy of the Papal Seat is not a licence to join forces with the enemies of the Faith through indifference and compromise. Schooled by St. Athanasius in Catholic intransigence, they know that "<i>even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ". </i>They know that they must love the Catholic Faith more than their own lives and fancies: that it would be better to die than to compromise the Catholic Faith in so much as an <i>iota.</i></span></li></ul><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Canis Domini: The Lord's Dog!</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Now, a quick search reveals that "dog" is mentioned about forty-two times in the Sacred Scriptures, either in the singular or plural, for different reasons. In the context which our choice text quoted at the beginning of this article from the prophet Isaias is taken, dog" is used to represent and describe the watchmen of Israel. We dare to say that this text comes in handy in an attempt to tell the tale of a "<i>nominal Dominican</i>" - i.e. one who lays claims to being, and being called "a Dominican" but is, not only, stuck in the cesspool of the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism; but also actively signed up in the agency of the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church: Modernists.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span> Having darling Sister Patience for a companion, the reader is sure to see exactly how apt this choice text is for our purposes... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>A most common legend says that during a pilgrimage, St. Dominic's mother had a dream of a dog leaping from her womb with a torch in its mouth; and that it seemed to set the earth on fire. This was taken as a sign of a great child she was to bear. Thus, playing on the Latin words "<i>Domini canis</i>" which means "the Lord's Dog", his parents named him Dominic. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Take that for a trivia or a starting point for a bestselling doctorate degree thesis... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Howbeit, it is an undisputed fact that in an era when the union of sensuality and heresy found it's peculiar show off in the <a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01267e.htm" target="_blank">ALBIGENSES</a>, St. Dominic, in using science, as a means of obtaining the glory of God and the salvation of souls, was acclaimed "extirpator of heresies". With science as a ready tool in the hands of his disciples who glory in his name as "Dominicans", to their moral body was addressed the call to become the chief support of the Sovereign Pontiff in uprooting pernicious doctrines, heresies. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>By a play on words therefore, a 'Dominican' is the Lord's Dog, watchdog: entrusted with the duty to check and extirpate any illegality and irresponsibility in matters concerning the purity of doctrine and rectitude of morals, always at the service of the Universal Shepherd of souls, the Supreme Pontiff. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>The big question is this: for one who glories in the "Dominican" name, but is <i>blind </i>to the synthesis of all heresies; <i>ignorant </i>of his being stuck in the cesspool of the synthesis of all heresies, and his being actively signed up in the agency of the most pernicious of the adversaries of the Church to spread the fruits of the synthesis of all heresies; <i>dumb </i>and not able to <i>bark </i>at the synthesis of all heresies; but, <i>seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams </i>barks at Catholics uncompromising with the synthesis of all heresies and the most pernicious adversaries of the Church; for such a one, I say, what is the best description if not a nominal Dominican? That is, a Dominican only in name... I await a better description from anyone charitable enough to make a studied objection. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c61b3ccb-7fff-37c2-fe87-b3ba1dd0c927"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In an age of subjectivism and </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">sentimentality, it</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is never possible to call a spade, spade without being regarded as being offensive and guilty of hate-speech. But, you see? our duty to truth obliges us to call spade, spade… </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">A Model Dominican</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span> In 1946, a true son of St. Dominic, one not only a 'Domincan' in name, Father Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P, a <i>true Preaching-Friar;</i> published an article titled <a href="https://dn790001.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheThreeAgesOfTheInteriorGarrigouLagrangeRginaldO6076_201810/_Where%20is%20the%20New%20Theology%20Lea%20-%20Garrigou-Lagrange%2C%20Reginald%2C%20O_3032.pdf" target="_blank">"Where is the New Theology Leading us?"</a> in Rome’s <i>Angelicum</i>, one of the most
prestigious theological journals. In this article, he warned that the “New Theology" of the "New Theological Movement" is nothing more than a revitalized Modernism, the "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">synthesis of all heresies</a>". This is because, just like Modernism, the starting point for the 'New Theology' is the substitution of a subjective and vital notion of truth for the objective, perverting the eternal concept of truth, thus breaking with Catholic theological tradition. Noteworthy is that this same new theology was subsequently condemned by Pope Pius XII in <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis.html" target="_blank">Humani Generis</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>True to his being the Lords 'whatchdog', Father Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P 'barked' at those 'internal persecutors' of the Church of his time; the neo-modernists. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Now, it is no secret that by admission of its own adherents, this
modernist “new theology" became “the official theology of Vatican II”. I have a fairly clear image of my lecturer in <a href="https://ssppseminaryibadan.org/" target="_blank">modernist-dressed-as-Catholic major seminary</a> categorically affirming this with an air of pomposity. Yes, it was said that the new theology of the new theological movement became the official theology of the 'Church' at Vatican II, and that this was the best thing to have happened to the Church in modern times, since this new theology helped the 'Church' to abandon her old theology of exclusivity to embrace that of inclusivity.... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">A Paradoxical Parallel</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Now: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Dominican, Father Garrigou-Lagrange, <u>making deductions from objective principles and facts,</u> saw in the '<i>New Theology'</i> a revitalized Modernism in thought and action. For doing this, he is rightly hailed as a true son of Holy Mother Church, the Ground of Truth. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sedevacantists, <u>appealing to objective principles of Catholic dogmatic and sacramental theology on the one hand, and to objective facts</u> on the other hand, affirm that Vatican II, -having for its official theology the proscribed 'New Theology' and for its spirit Modernism-, is not only not Catholic but anti-Catholic; and that, the substantial doctrinal and sacramental changes born of this non, nay anti-Catholic source cannot come from the Church whose Infallible Guide is the Spirit of Truth. For saying this, a "Dominican" of this age ranks them among the "internal persecutors of the Church"... </span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Why such a paradox? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Well, we must find the root in the disparity between the paradigm of Father Garrigou-Lagrange, and that of his supposed 'confrere' of to-day: the former, a champion of objectivity of truth, used science -i.e. the knowledge of things from their causes; while the later, schooled and immersed in modernist subjectivism, uses sentimentalism: there is no iota of a <i>hermeneutics of continuity... No! </i>such is the tale of a nominal Dominican.... <i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>One with an informed Catholic Sense cannot but lament: "<i>how are the valiant fallen in battle? ...how are the valiant fallen and the weapons of war perished? </i>[2 Sam. 1: 25; 27]. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>In Fine... </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> However, we are in no way scandalized. Did not Our Blessed Lord said, "<i>the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God"? [John 16:2] . </i>Our "<i>Preaching Friar", </i>nominal Dominican for sure, takes it upon himself to 'kill' the reputation of Sedevacantists thinking himself to be doing service to God and His Holy Church. Of his people St. Paul would say "<i>I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge" [Rom. 10:2]. </i>With our eyes drenched with tears of Catholic Charity, concerning our '<i>Preaching Friar' </i>we cannot but say that we "bear him witness that he has a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge'. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> </span>Dear reader, ignorance in the matter at stake is not a bliss. No. It is a crime. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><p></p></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-85170678672418958662023-05-03T15:47:00.009-07:002023-06-09T09:13:16.056-07:00"It's Too Unecumenical" : A Wager Uncontested.<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ8s7q4elmpppRwG74TvA-edjFGhVJht3kfIFBR8O-ZqKce9YulgnyWv1lLaIXAWHkjPdDsH8R1hOTOXcG_xBUscqYss0Z-2e_y3N835-5OpTZZl8aaztJlcdjz7GZe0gDcJSYLeaBo4XcRN9bpyH6jSZgevx3y4laYHLTCd3JERxyTcuOIrB8JQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="462" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ8s7q4elmpppRwG74TvA-edjFGhVJht3kfIFBR8O-ZqKce9YulgnyWv1lLaIXAWHkjPdDsH8R1hOTOXcG_xBUscqYss0Z-2e_y3N835-5OpTZZl8aaztJlcdjz7GZe0gDcJSYLeaBo4XcRN9bpyH6jSZgevx3y4laYHLTCd3JERxyTcuOIrB8JQ=w139-h200" width="139" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jesus Christ: the "Truth" to be believed and adhered to entirely; The "Way" to be followed exclusively; so as to gain Him the "Life" for eternity... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Preamble:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Sunday of this week, 30th April, 2023, was, according to the Traditional Catholic Liturgical calendar untouched by the impious hands of Modernist liturgical wreck-novators, the 3rd Sunday after the Octave of Easter. I posted on my "WhatsApp status", as is my custom, the Collect for the day. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Few of those who viewed my status update replied with an "Amen", one viewer however, was thrilled by the doctrine enshrined in the Collect. Sending a reply he wrote thus: </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Today's Collect? A powerful prayer. I can wager a 100 bucks that the prayer has been thrown out by the NO. It's too unecumenical.😊</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">N.B: NO = Novus Ordo, the nickname for the Modernist impostor ecumenical one-world religion, derived from "Novus Ordo Missae" -i.e. new order of the Mass; the name they falsely call their ecumenical service... </span></p><p> I told him that I wouldn't dare to counter wager... For it would be a surprise, if it is not among those thrown out. Meanwhile, I opted to dare go into the rabbit hole concerning the topic. The rabbit hole I did dare to enter, and what did I find? Read on... </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQvodZo2B9ADIgiaXan65KYSQ4OcIMk6SYlW640QFqQ9whJ5eEQE5i4Vo-raZ1IAojCTQKeC6y0MDKbBIk5rVcvcOflCZ6csB954fhIU0uYIL-VlCj9knYUM05PVddyh6AOqjRUxy3yWnrZXowgg09JDwwPax01cMX_TYxlv5rrvul_HcPjahyA/s1368/Screenshot_20230502-075652_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="1080" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQvodZo2B9ADIgiaXan65KYSQ4OcIMk6SYlW640QFqQ9whJ5eEQE5i4Vo-raZ1IAojCTQKeC6y0MDKbBIk5rVcvcOflCZ6csB954fhIU0uYIL-VlCj9knYUM05PVddyh6AOqjRUxy3yWnrZXowgg09JDwwPax01cMX_TYxlv5rrvul_HcPjahyA/w211-h267/Screenshot_20230502-075652_1.jpg" width="211" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The historic reply to my status update... </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>The "too Unecumenical" Collect:</b></p><p>The collect for the Third Sunday after the Octave of Easter in question goes thus:</p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Deus, qui errántibus, ut in viam possint redíre justítiæ, veritátis tuæ lumen osténdis: da cunctis, qui christiána professióne censéntur, et illa respúere, quæ huic inimíca sunt nómini; et ea, quæ sunt apta, sectári.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>It translates as: </p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Almighty God, Who showest to them that be in error the light of thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness, grant unto all those who profess themselves Christians to reject those things which are contrary to that name, and follow such things as are agreeable to the same.</span><span> </span></p></blockquote><p> <b>The Unecumenical elements </b></p><p>For anyone familiar with what is essential to Modernist ecumenical endeavor, the contention that the above collect is "too Unecumenical" would pass unchallenged. The accent on the following themes grants this Unecumenical reputation to the above collect:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Showing truth to those in error.</li><li>Returning into the way of righteousness.</li><li>Rejecting things contrary to the Christian name. </li></ul><div>How do these relate to the essentials of Modernist ecumenical endeavor? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Modernist Ecumenism, it's essentials: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Reading the third and fourth paragraphs of the "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html" target="_blank">decree</a>" of the Modernist robber council on ecumenism the following points can be easily gleaned:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Those who are separated from the Catholic Church, but lay hold to the Christian name, do so rightly, and are by no means deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation.</li><li>Being thus not deprived of significance and importance in the mystery of salvation, they cannot be said to be in "error" as to be "shown the light of truth" in order to "return to the way of righteousness". </li><li>Not being in error, but in possession of elements of truth, Catholics must "dialogue" with them on equal footings, avoiding "expressions, judgments and actions" which would suggest that they were at any point in time in error, or are still in error. </li><li>Their separation from the Catholic Church cannot be said to be "contrary to the Christian name": their fidelity to Christ's will remains unimpaired and must be a paradigm for Catholics to evaluate their own fidelity, which evaluation will predispose them to enter with vigor the path of renewal and reform. </li><li>Obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical union being gradually overcome, [<span style="color: red;"><i>i.e. with Catholics not insisting on possessing the Truth exclusively, and all others being in error; Catholics not calling those separated from Church either heretics or schismatics...etc]</i></span>; all will be gathered in an ecumenical service pleasing to the separate branches of "Christianity"</li></ul></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Having these essentials of Modernist ecumenical endeavor in mind, the "too Unecumenical" character of the Collect in question becomes unmistakably obvious. </p><p><b>Thrown out? </b></p><p>Thus far we tried to establish how "too Unecumenical" our choice Collect is. It must be remembered that my respondent unabashedly said "<i><b>I can wager a 100 bucks that the prayer has been thrown out by the NO"</b></i></p><p>Though my respondent quickly noticed that </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Well, it happens that today the NO can't quite count. They celebrate today the 4th Sunday of Easter. And it's their good shepherd Sunday. </span></p></blockquote><p>It is interesting to see that, that Collect as it exists in the Traditional Roman Catholic Missal for the Third Sunday After Easter no longer exists in the apostate Roman missal. </p><p>It is of no importance whether what is Traditionally the "Third Sunday After Easter" is in their calendar the "Fourth Sunday of Easter" and their own "Good Shepherd Sunday". The Traditional collect for the "Good Shepherd Sunday " (which is the second Sunday after Easter, coinciding with the Modernists' "Third Sunday Of Easter") is entirely different from what is obtainable in the Modernist Missal; thus:</p><p>Traditional Good Shepherd Sunday Collect:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">O God, Who by the humility of Thy Son hast raised up a fallen world, grant to Thy faithful people abiding joy; that those whom Thou hast delivered from the perils of eternal death, Thou mayest cause to enjoy endless happiness"</span></i></b></p><p>Modernist Good Shepherd Sunday Collect:</p><p>"<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven, so that the humble flock may reach where the brave shepherd has gone before"</b></span></p><p>Evidently, the traditional Good Shepherd Sunday Collect was also displaced. Why so? Also "Unecumenical "? Well, apart from the ecumenical motive, there exists some other motives for such displacement reaction: the "negative theology" motive, based on the mentality of modern man to whom, according to the Modernists, the Church must conform so as to be relevant to-day.</p><p><b>"Negative"Theology, Doctrine: Motive for displacement.</b></p><p>Writing on "elimination of 'negative theology '" from the revised orations in the apostate Roman missal, Fr. Anthony Cakada of blessed memory says:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What doctrinal realities in the traditional orations are too negative or create difficulties for contemporary man? The list is extensive. The best way to get the flavor of the offending or now-irrelevant concepts is to imagine "contemporary man", and discover what he does <i>not </i>believe in, based on the texts Concilium altered or cut out of the Missal: </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Contemporary man can no longer bear to hear of the depravity of sin, the wounds sin inflicts, sin as snares of wickedness, sin gravely offending the divine Majesty, and sin as the way to perdition.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But why should he? There is no longer any need to feel terror in the face of God's fury, His indignation, or His blows of wrath, nor to feel weighed down by the burden of evil, like captive in the bonds of sin.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Contemporary man is at ease in his life, where he prefers not to be reminded of adversities, dangers, enemies, evils, and tribulations. He does not believe he merits evil in this life for evil deeds, that afflictions here result from sins, that being struck down by God heals him, or that he is worthy of chastisements.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks to the diligent work of Concilium, the "psychology" of this man will encounter few difficulties with the new orations, since they do not emphasize such obsolete notions as the fragility of the human condition, infirmities of soul, our weak will, our languor of soul, our obstinacy of heart, the strength of our vices, concupiscence of the flesh and the eyes and continual affliction from excesses.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Since contemporary man feels no need to express a lack of confidence in his own justice or strength, and balks at putting aside pride by considering his helplessness, or unworthiness, and lack of merits, there is still less need to remind him of troubling concepts such as temptations, wicked thoughts, dangers to the soul, and enemies of soul and body...</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nor, because of his sins, should contemporary man consider himself a criminal, accused of grave offenses and begging for pardon, awaiting a vengeful sentence from an eternally just God, which would result in the loss of heaven, and consign him to everlasting death, eternal punishment, and the pains of hell and it's fire - all of which God so thoughtfully abolished in keeping, one presumes, with the spirit of Vatican II " [Rev. Anthony Cakada, Work of Human Hands, 225-228]</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">From this indepth analysis of the psychology of contemporary man, it is easy to see why the traditional Good Shepherd Sunday Collect had to be replaced: it speaks of a "fallen world", "perils of eternal death" -concepts too negative in themselves, and which creates too much difficulty for contemporary man. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>In Fine </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, the traditional Collect for the Third Sunday After Easter, being too Unecumenical had to be thrown away. Show me one who is unable to see how it is too Unecumenical, and in such a one you see, and sadly so, an uninformed Catholic Common Sense. Only such would contest a wager in favor of Modernist impostors, what must be left uncontested; and what a waste of time, energy and resources that would be! Oops... </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p> </p></blockquote><blockquote><p> </p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-38238819288836864962023-04-16T16:03:00.002-07:002023-04-17T03:34:08.890-07:00Unhappy Hope<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <b>Preamble</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhX0tR6fAAi4mJvh0UKUR3wihaDABxb0meyM2q1sb5NC9V7GNjbKbEwl8YjBWoE7riLiQAhmk3QhpMX4TdqDA7OKfV6caC1_-wCJvkpXs2dvn7qekP6W_A2X9ZZUDJNZ9mXKQ1DIjZJ5xZ94kKVwUkGK0lp1GVJascS7cbb4TiHbA8uhBynh80KBA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1139" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhX0tR6fAAi4mJvh0UKUR3wihaDABxb0meyM2q1sb5NC9V7GNjbKbEwl8YjBWoE7riLiQAhmk3QhpMX4TdqDA7OKfV6caC1_-wCJvkpXs2dvn7qekP6W_A2X9ZZUDJNZ9mXKQ1DIjZJ5xZ94kKVwUkGK0lp1GVJascS7cbb4TiHbA8uhBynh80KBA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Vatican II: <br />The Robber Council which the rotten source of the prevailing unhappy hope <br />-the fruit of the false Christianity having the synthesis of heresies as its foundation...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Among the most common fundamental assumptions of our times the following have a pride of place: </span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. </span></li></blockquote><blockquote><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation. </span></li></blockquote><blockquote><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.</span></li></blockquote><blockquote><li><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.</span></li></blockquote></ol><p></p><div><span style="font-family: times;">If someone feels uneasy about those propositions, it is a good sign that he has a Catholic Common Sense. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">As a matter of fact, and informed Catholic Common Sense would recognize them as condemned propositions under the subheading of "INDIFFERENTISM, LATITUDINARIANISM", numbers 15 - 18 of Pope Pius IX's "<a href="https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius09/p9syll.htm" target="_blank">syllabus of errors</a>".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">St. Alphonsus Liguori weighs in ...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Concluding his "History of heresies and their refutations" St. Alphonsus Liguori writes:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">"The devil always strives to deceive heretics, by suggesting to them that they can be saved in their belief. This was what Theodore Beza said to St. Francis de Sales, when hard pressed by him on the importance of salvation: “I hope to be saved in my own religion.” Unhappy hope! which only keeps them in error here, and exposes them to eternal perdition hereafter, when the error cannot be remedied, I think the danger of eternal perdition, by dying separated from the Church, should be a sufficient motive to convert every heretic. It was this that made Henry IV. forsake Calvinism, and become a Catholic. He assembled a conference of Catholics and Calvinists, and after listening for a time to their arguments, he asked the Calvinistic Doctors if it was possible a person could be saved in the Catholic faith; they answered that it was; “then, said the king, if the faith of the Roman Church secures salvation, and the Reformed faith is at least doubtful, I will take the safe side, and become a Catholic.”</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">All the misfortunes of unbelievers spring from too great an attachment to the things of this life. This sickness of heart weakens and darkens the understanding, and leads many to eternal ruin. If they would try to heal their hearts by purging them of their vices, they would soon receive light, which would show them the necessity of joining the Catholic Church, where alone is salvation. My dear Catholics, let us thank the Divine goodness, who, among so many infidels and heretics has given us the grace to be born and live in the bosom of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and let us take heed and not be ungrateful for so great a benefit. Let us take care and correspond to the Divine Grace, for if we should be lost (which God forbid), this very benefit of Grace conferred on us would be one of our greatest torments in hell".</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">The Root cause of this unhappy Hope Today </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">The fact that many who glory in the Catholic name are promoters of such an unhappy Hope has its cause in that rotten stew of Modernist manifesto: the so-called Vatican II council.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">The Modernists, having infiltrated and usurped Catholic institutions and places of authority, wasted no time to use their pretended authority - the authority to teach in the name of Christ. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">To prepare for solemn unveiling of the Modernist impious manifesto in the so-called Second Vatican Council, the first Modernist Papal impostor, apostolate Card. Roncalli, taught explicitly in the fourteenth paragraph of his pretended encyclical "<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.html" target="_blank">Pacem in Terris"</a> that:</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Also among man's rights is that of being able to worship God in accordance with the right dictates of his own conscience, and to profess his religion both in private and in public."</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">One can easily see how that paraphrases the 1st of the condemned propositions noted above. it must be quickly noted that man can only have the right to believe and practice the True Religion: not anyone his false conscience dictates. To accord such right is to sanction right to impiety.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"> Having set the stage, the Robber Council called by him, and continued by his chosen successor, would teach thus:</span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: 14.6667px;">"This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits." [<a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html" target="_blank">Dignitatis Humanae no. 2]</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">This declaration claims and defends for everyone freedom of conscience in religious matters. Now, Pope Gregory XVI, writing in 1832 had condemned such as absurd and erroneous. He had he following to say after condemning indifferentism: </span></p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="font-size: 16px;">"This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that </span><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 16px;">liberty of conscience </strong><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="font-size: 16px;">must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it" <a href="https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16mirar.htm" target="_blank">[Mirari Vos, no. 14]</a></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Now, presupposing the second of the condemned propositions above, the same Robber Council would teach that:</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Men expect from the various religions answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men... The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men" [N<a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html" target="_blank">ostra Aatate 1&3]</a></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Meanwhile, presupposing both the 3rd and 4th condemned propositions above, the same Robber Council would teach that heretics and schismatics (those who, being baptized, do not profess the Faith entirely or do not preserve communion) have the right to the Christian name; are joined to Catholics in a real way in the Holy Spirit -Who give them also His gifts and grace and is operative among them with His sanctifying power. [<a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html">See Lumen Gentium, no. 15]</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">All of these taken as given, the need for "ecumenical dialogue" on equal footings between Catholics and heretics and schismatics would therefore be affirmed; also affirmed is the need for an ecumenical service which is the visible ritual expression of the unity envisaged by ecumenism; a unity in indifference; - meanwhile, do not forget that ecumenism is "tantamount to abandoning the religion divinely revealed by God", i.e. apostasy <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos.html">[see Mortalium Animos, no.2]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Re-stating the Source of True Hope </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">There can be no doubts that this false and unhappy hope is born of a false Christianity quite alien to the One Church of Christ; sadly, many have been easily deceived by the outward appearance of good which this false hope enjoys just like every other falsehood. How many there are, who, so deceived, holds religious truth to be relative, having no toleration for any claim to objectivity or any attempt to affirm the objective! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">It must be simply stated that:</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">...there can be no true religion other than that which is founded on the revealed word of God: which revelation, begun from the beginning and continued under the Old Law, Christ Jesus Himself under the New Law perfected. Now, if God has spoken (and it is historically certain that He has truly spoken), all must see that it is man's duty to believe absolutely God's revelation and to obey implicitly His commands; that we might rightly do both, for the glory of God and our own salvation, the Only-begotten Son of God founded His Church on earth..." [<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos.html" target="_blank">Mortalium Animos, no. 6]</a></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Thus, it is obvious that to entertain a true hope for salvation, one must profess the true Faith whole and entire, which Faith must be a living faith, working by charity: not a bare speculative or dead faith. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Indeed: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">...With the admonition of the apostle that “there is one God, one faith, one baptism” may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that “those who are not with Christ are against Him,” and that they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore “without a doubt, they will perish forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.” Let them hear Jerome who, while the Church was torn into three parts by schism, tells us that whenever someone tried to persuade him to join his group he always exclaimed: “He who is for the See of Peter is for me.” A schismatic flatters himself falsely if he asserts that he, too, has been washed in the waters of regeneration. Indeed Augustine would reply to such a man: “The branch has the same form when it has been cut off from the vine; but of what profit for it is the form, if it does not live from the root?” <a href="https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16mirar.htm" target="_blank">[Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos no. 13]</a></span></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-46025758762670955712023-03-18T13:12:00.000-07:002023-03-18T13:12:45.031-07:00Capital Punishment: Death by Immolation, In Our Time???!!! <p> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Capital Punishment: Death by Immolation, In Our Time???!!! </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f910fbb7-7fff-0540-b58a-be7386bc93ad"><br /><br /><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 156px; overflow: hidden; width: 263px;"><img height="156" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/r16gCfVHBGSXxGA_cxQisJEgWrU7K-wePTDOsczinOpVSi35tOI0XuEhq41lnO84wDsa6PqKtvq1UABQcB31CpekpoTLvpC9h29bLWKQPx61d62eb1RrHI3HyZEsJeKljeNzxxOrBtGH_SxmZ2RlxLg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="263" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preamble: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone wrote: </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I would like to ask, Father. Now I totally accept Catholic teaching on the death penalty. But is it necessary to use immolation (at least in our time)? Can we execute just by shooting or hanging?” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good evening from Nigeria!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for your question. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I may not have a satisfying response to your question </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; width: 16px;"><img alt="😃" height="16" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yzWRfsQcok7KN0Yjjr9-ZWQccBztMAgSI6tT_ZMVQrUsukU0AboaG-8_B2OUXbEKf1bBeGWHQLZ_bVzkEPMKTDKshr1BYy4ep6SGX_9hOUcyZymizEG1WGsjDP6Aue_PlS0X5Kx5qvTo6QTJ3OcjGYY" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="16" /></span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">... But let us look at it from this perspective…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explaining the exceptions to the prohibitory part of the 5th commandment, the </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Roman Catechism”</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; - the actual Catechism of the Catholic Church - states thus on the “Execution Of Criminals”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment- is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence. Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, once we accept the traditional doctrine of the Church that capital punishment is not opposed to divine law, nor is it required by this law as a necessary thing; but that it's necessity depends on circumstances, it would seem that it is negligible what method is used for it: the method judged to be from a practical standpoint a great deterrent against crimes for which no other intimidation seems to be inadequate…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the fear of immolation (in our time) would deter people from crimes for which death by immolation is the punishment, then that punishment, for practical reasons, is the most appropriate for such a crime... Since no other intimidation would bring the same result... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope this helps... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further…:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, Father. Happy St Patrick’s day… </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Father, according to Catholic teaching, which crimes should be punished by the death penalty?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4769599999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4769599999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I find a list, I will share it with you! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The authors in moral theology whose works are available to me, when speaking of the death penalty, simply treats it from the point of view of its lawfulness as such, without getting into details on the list of crimes worthy of such a penalty. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But , it appears that such crimes are left to the determination of the state which has the right to self-defense, both with respect to an internal and an external aggressor... The question redounds to the extent a crime either undermines the very foundations of social order or the welfare of the whole community... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus, the guiding principle is safeguarding the common good: a practical example - under the military code, crimes such as treason and desertion are punished by the death penalty... To maintain a firm discipline in the military forces...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, there cannot be an arbitrary list, and care must be taken to avoid erroneous condemnations... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The irony is that those states or countries where capital punishment is condemned: there still exists a standing army... And, such a state would gun down armed or violent protesters who cannot be contained by any other means effectively…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.565217391304348; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comes in the Reigning Modernist Papal Impostor:</span></p></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="347" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Wq2T4QUyT21bhTd5wgxDO3rKLwH9U5jq0mnhDMIHOMSc4HXt8eaa-u8NvB9-vOTtSk1a9jx_2zxFW-p45Z3LoZEJQJAzBQ_b1C5xwZZKmnZ-SaMdwUQYPAD4ujW_LN40_SynZE5APlRjNbGXxs4fIbM" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="330" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">by their fruits, i.e., doctrine, we know them... <br />how sad the many have eyes and ears but do not see nor hear...</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="docs-internal-guid-f910fbb7-7fff-0540-b58a-be7386bc93ad"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a so-called “</span><a href="https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/12/17/pope-francis-death-penalty-a-legalistic-value-not-a-christian-one/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">impromptu address” to the Delegation of the International Commission against the Death Penalty on Monday, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dec 17, 2018</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the present modernist papal impostor with the stage name “Pope Francis”, said that: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The certainty that every life is sacred and that human dignity must be safeguarded without exception has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to work at different levels for the universal abolition of the death penalty,”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier in August of the same year, he had ordered a </span><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/39033/vatican-changes-catechism-teaching-on-death-penalty-calls-it-inadmissible" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">revision </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the paragraph 2267 of the modernist catechism falsely called the Catechism of the Catholic Church in which he called the death penalty “inadmissible” in the ‘light of the Gospel” because “it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sure enough, consistent with modernist hypocrisy, at the phase of their revolution in which the so-called “Catechism of the Catholic Church” was first published, the traditional Catholic teaching on death penalty was simply reproduced, certainly paying lip service to the conservative elements in their ranks. The original paragraph, </span><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/39033/vatican-changes-catechism-teaching-on-death-penalty-calls-it-inadmissible" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are told</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, read thus: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2f222a; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the Bergolian intervention, true to the deepest liberal modernist aspirations, it now reads</span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7Z.HTM" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> thus</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2267 Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, [Francis, </span><a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2017/october/documents/papa-francesco_20171011_convegno-nuova-evangelizzazione.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Address to Participants in the Meeting organized by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 11 October 2017] and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dead on arrival.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 118px; overflow: hidden; width: 172px;"><img height="105" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/D3C6cm91tP8QdWhU0oMS-ZVi8f8RLeGRuS3qnQuSKcycFy5JI-g29M9eMIDTrgNN5HxKTLsLXMhq6UTwEcpFPiCEYcHEnx-JVrxKjqIm72SxxCUHHkUpaezhR6BH6hmIc_L10QXdITyDDsRftCHz_44=w152-h105" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="152" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notice that the call for the abolition of the death penalty rests on the argument based on ‘inviolability and dignity of the person’; ‘the increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes’; death penalty ‘depriving the guilty the possibility of redemption’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By this, it seems that the modernist papal impostor had right before his nose the text of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae treating the question “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">whether it is lawful to kill sinners?;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> while fuming with an unmatched modernist hatred. The reason for such supposition is that he sort by all means as it were, to contradict almost word for word the refutation of his argument as made by the Angelic Doctor. Responding to an argument St. explains: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By sinning man departs from the order of reason, and consequently falls away from the dignity of his manhood, insofar as he is naturally free, and exists for himself, and he falls into the slavish state of the beasts, by being disposed of according as he is useful to others. This is expressed in Ps. 48:21: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Man, when he was in honor, did not understand; he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and Prov. 11:29: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fool shall serve the wise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Hence, although it be evil in itself to kill a man so long as he preserve his dignity, yet it may be good to kill a man who has sinned, even as it is to kill a beast. For a bad man is worse than a beast, and is more harmful, as the Philosopher states (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Polit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. i, 1 and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ethic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. vii, 6). [</span><a href="https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q64.A2.Rep1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ST.II-II.Q 64.A2.Rep3]</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From this it is clear that Bergoglio’s argument for the abolition of the death penalty was dead on arrival. What Bergoglio attributes to the "Church" is his own wishful modernist thinking, utterly contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church whose authority he impersonates -an impersonation so diabolical which could only have been contrived from the pit of hell. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The so-called “increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes” is on the contrary a sad, nay diabolical, retrogression in rationality. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, of course, we are the least surprised: speaking of the Modernists, Pope St. Pius X tells us that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their whole system, with all its errors, has been born of the alliance between faith and false philosophy” [</span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pascendi Dominici Gregis, no. 41</span></a><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt 0pt;"><br /></p><br /></span>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-91433959969126894022023-03-07T07:59:00.002-08:002023-03-08T01:08:33.740-08:00Anathema or Not?<p> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anathema or Not?</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ae8e28ff-7fff-5b4e-e04a-fe92495f1a13"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHaW3dwv8K7EqMDfdVOyUnBB3I_wzN9qgk3U2ft_sdr0qI-HYK7m1hUO5k6ufHJHHs28ZYLt8RiuGbMM4jyyNbbXHi5f15Inf6lx5_2iHZmEKYz4pn-wN2BsWYRf5YvJAWIJPAzg33X7ozsac6tge9Dx0tFEwXHvaRDSzIaZFdUsPLtsqamdhFTA/s829/Web%20capture_6-3-2023_17448_imgflip.com.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="562" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHaW3dwv8K7EqMDfdVOyUnBB3I_wzN9qgk3U2ft_sdr0qI-HYK7m1hUO5k6ufHJHHs28ZYLt8RiuGbMM4jyyNbbXHi5f15Inf6lx5_2iHZmEKYz4pn-wN2BsWYRf5YvJAWIJPAzg33X7ozsac6tge9Dx0tFEwXHvaRDSzIaZFdUsPLtsqamdhFTA/w318-h469/Web%20capture_6-3-2023_17448_imgflip.com.jpeg" width="318" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">The choice between: </span><br /><span style="color: red;">"<u>Anathema to modernist impostors: preachers of a strange gospel" </u></span><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">and </span><u style="font-size: small;">"No anathema! Not impostors but legitimate! Not strange, but updated gospel!"</u><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"> is an easy one for one with an informed Catholic Common Sense... </span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Preamble:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St. Paul, writing to the Galatians says ".</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.. though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema"</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (Rom. 1:8). </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Old Testament, to be "anathematized" often entails death and total destruction. And this severity has its explanation in the necessity that there was to preserve the Jewish people and to protect them against the idolatry professed by the neighboring pagans. However, In the New Testament anathema no longer entails death, but the loss of goods or exclusion from the society of the faithful; pronounced chiefly against heretics and innovators in doctrine. Thus, all the councils, from the Council of Nicæa to that of the Vatican, have worded their dogmatic canons: "</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If anyone says . . . let him be anathema"</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Came Vatican II</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his </span><a href="https://vatican2voice.org/91docs/opening_speech.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">opening speech</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the so-called Second Vatican Council, the first in the series of Modernist papal impostors since 1958, </span><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/john-xxiii/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apostate Cardinal Roncalli,</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had everyone believe that though the Church had opposed errors with severity in the past, she now prefers to use the "medicine of mercy". It must be quickly noted that Pope St. Pius X had already instructed us that to “the Modernist as reformer”, “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecclesiastical government requires to be reformed in all its branches, but especially in its <b><i><u>disciplinary </u></i></b>and dogmatic parts” [</span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pascendi, n. 38</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Commenting on this purported change of approach, the lecturer taking us in "Introduction to Vatican II" when I was a student of theology as a Religious seminarian in a </span><a href="https://ssppseminaryibadan.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modernist-dressed as Catholic-Major Seminary;</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would affirm with an air of pride that since Vatican II the relationship between the Church and modernism is no longer that of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rivalry</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but of</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dialogue.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Looking up </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">modernism</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and discovering it to be the "synthesis of all heresies" it was evident to me that such a dialogue is impossible: a dialogue between "the pillar and ground of the Truth" and the "synthesis of all heresies"?! The Church turning around to dialogue with those she had solemnly condemned as "the most pernicious of her adversaries"? Only in the wishful thought of such adversaries could such a dialogue take place… </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The "church" which had apostate cardinal Roncalli for its first authoritative voice was/is intent on making provisions for a "new order of human relations" in the "present order of things", as his opening speech states. Also, its efforts are geared toward corresponding to "the modern expectations and needs of the various peoples of the world". </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Modernist Blueprint: a strange gospel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To an informed Catholic common sense, it is easy to see how the blueprint of the endeavors of "the most pernicious" of the adversaries of the Church, cannot but be a strange gospel, a strange doctrine. This Blueprint lies outlined in the opening speech given by papal impostor Roncalli at the kickoff of his robber council, and subsequently developed during the council and promulgated by his successor in the apostate apostolicity, </span><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/paul-vi/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apostate Montini</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> whose stage name was 'Paul VI'.</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though it is of faith that unity (unity of faith, worship, and government) is one of the distinctive characteristics which render the Church easily recognizable to all, and clearly distinguish it from every other religious society falsely so called, especially from those which claim to be Christian in doctrine and origin; Apostate cardinal Roncalli, then as papal impostor pushing the Modernist agenda, makes all believe the unity Christ wished for His Church is far from being realized: thus the chief aim of his council was to be Christian unity, so-called.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He identifies "a triple ray of beneficent supernal light" in which the unity which Christ implored for his Church shines out: unity among Catholics; unity of Protestants in desiring union with Catholics -on their own terms of course, and the unity among non-christian religions in their esteem and respect for the Catholic Church. He multiplies Catholic unity, thereby distorting it, setting the stage for ecumenism, collegiality, false religious Liberty, inter-religious dialogue, etc. all tied tail-to-tail by indifferentism, and solemnly promulgated by his successor in the plot.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though the Catholic gospel teaches that "</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">... there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved" </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Acts. 4:12); the Modernist robber council, through it's doctrine of religious Liberty by which it grants equal rights to all religions, would have everyone believe that there is some other name by which men may have salvation, and that men must be free to choose whatever name from which they think their salvation derives.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Premised on these equal rights, the need for inter-religious dialogue is affirmed: since the "new order of human relations" demands it. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the unity among protestants in their aspirations to be united with the Catholics is a "ray of beneficent supernatural light", and since this, according to their reckoning, is indicative of the absence of the unity willed by Christ, the need for an ‘ecumenical dialogue’ on ‘equal footing’ is affirmed; and this ecumenical need becomes the touchstone for every other endeavors - liturgical, pastoral, catechetical, etc… </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Responses to the Modernists and their blueprint.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One would think that the points thus outlined suffice for each making a claim to the Catholic name to recognize the modernist blueprint as a strange gospel. Surprisingly, such a unanimous recognition does not exist, not yet. The following are the array of feedbacks vis a vis the Modernist blueprint thus briefly outlined: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The likes of the faculty members of the </span><a href="https://ssppseminaryibadan.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modernist-dressed as Catholic-Major Seminary</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; being themselves products of Vatican II and enamored of its spirit, with their mind fixed on ‘evolution of dogma’; intransigently insists on a ‘hermeneutics of continuity’ between the blueprint of the pre-Vatican II Church and that of the Vatican II church, admitting only a rupture of ‘enmity’ between the ‘Church and modernism: now the ‘Church and Modernism are partners in dialogue’, they say, and this, in order to make the Church relevant to the modern man in the present order of things. In their ranks are numbered those both of a rather conservative bent, and those rather liberal: united in the blueprint for aggiornamento, but not agreed on the pace… </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ultra-conservative, while they also admit a ‘hermeneutics of continuity’ in doctrine and praxis, admits rupture only in matters liturgical, and are content with having their nostalgia -for the smells of incense, the sounds of the bells, and the beautiful scenery of the Traditional liturgical ceremonies- satisfied. They are unable to see that a rupture in matters liturgical is presupposed by the rupture in doctrine to the extent the "law of Faith is the law of worship and vise versa".</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The neo-trads reject any hermeneutics of continuity whatsoever, either in doctrine or in liturgical matters, only admitting a continuity of the legitimate exercise of authority while setting themselves and their heroes past, as the arbiter, as to when this legitimate exercise is favorable to Tradition or not. Thus poised, their battle cry is "recognize and resist": recognize as legitimate, resist when against Tradition.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sedeprivationists also reject any hermeneutics of continuity whosoever, either in doctrine or matters liturgical. However, they admit a continuity in a material-legal claim to authority while affirming a rupture in the formal-legal exercise of the same authority due to a rupture, they say, in the objective intention to will the good of the Church.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Theological Sedevacantists also reject any hermeneutics of continuity whatsoever, either in doctrine or matters liturgical. They also reject the continuity of any so-called material-legal claim to authority in the modernists. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opinionist Sedevacantists reject any hermeneutics of continuity in doctrine, liturgy, discipline, and also reject material-legal continuity. However, they grant that those who accept the authority of the Modernist claimants in places of authority rightfully do so as it all boils down to a matter of mere opinions contra opinions. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anathema or Not?</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those enamored of Vatican II, conservative or liberal, Vatican II preaches no strange gospel: it simply preaches a more updated Gospel suited to the modern times. For this reason, any attempt to anathematize Vatican II and the authority responsible for its convocation, promulgation and execution, is schismatic, heretical, ludicrous and a waste of time.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ultra-conservative also mocks the idea of anathema in relation to Vatican II: they only cry foul when their attachment to the smells and bells bespeaking some vestige of tradition is slightly or sorely threatened.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The neo-trads spurn the idea of anathema also, however, confusing the natural order and the order of Faith, they deem the modernists in the places of authority to be merely bad-dads who still remain dads anyway. They gladly offer their Masses ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">una cum’ [i.e. one with]</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> their bad-dads whose authority they keenly resist.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Sedeprivationists swerve between anathema and no anathema: to the extent they admit an undeniable rupture in doctrine, liturgy, discipline; they cry ‘anathema’ both to Vatican II and the authority responsible for it; however, to the extent they admit a material-legal continuity of authority, thus granting the novel title of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Pope materially but not formally’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to modernist Papal claimants, they spurn the idea of anathema. Such anathema, they insist, deals a deadly stroke at the Apostolicity of the Church. With their anathema suite on, they set themselves as deadly foes to the Mass offered ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">una cum’ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a modernist papal claimant, and justly so. Now, while consistency would demand that they concede Mass offered ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">una cum’ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he who is their 'pope materially but not formally’, they seem to be altogether silent on that. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Theological Sedevacantists, confirmed in the simple Catholic truth that the guarantors of Apostolic Apostolicity cannot be the purveyors of apostate apostolicity, and that Apostolicity is not saved by being set against Visibility and Indefectibility; <i>totally </i>anathemize the modernist claimants to places of authority in the Church and also consistently reject any Mass offered ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">una cum’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a modernist papal or bishopric claimant. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the opinionist Sedevacantists also totally anathemize the modernists papal claimants, they, however, being inconsistent with their sedevacantist claims, allow that a Sedevacantist faithful could assist at a Mass offered ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">una cum’ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a Modernist Papal claimant who they anathemize. In effect, their anathema of a Modernist Papal claimant does not include a Mass offered </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’una cum’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the same Modernist Papal claimant. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which way out?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did St. Paul say? The following: ".</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.. though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema". </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And what has been the attitude of the Church towards heretics and innovators in doctrine if not to anathematize them?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fundamental question is: did Vatican II, in its doctrines of ecumenism, collegiality, religious liberty, inter-religious dialogue, it ‘subsists in’ clause, etc; teach ‘a gospel besides that'' which the Church has consistently preached and guarded jealously against heretics and innovators in doctrine? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a matter of fact, those who cannot see in Vatican II the preaching of a new gospel, a gospel besides that which is Apostolic and Catholic, are either poor victims of the hypnosis-inducing modernist hypocrisy and are bedeviled by a lack of due knowledge, i.e. ignorance, which they have the obligation to removed; or they have their fingers in the Modernist pie, which pie is the resolute determination to transform the Catholic Church from within the walls into a one-world dogma-less church in line with liberal Protestantism while spouting ‘</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hermeneutics of continuity’ </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to hold gullible Catholics spell-bound to the pews, less they run out of business. This transformation, the modernists insist, is necessitated by the "</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">new order of human relations" - relations, we must underline, based on indifference to God and His Rights! Relations based on impiety! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, the many who recognize in Vatican II a new, strange gospel, why do they not all simply anathemize both the modernist innovators and their new, strange gospel without any reservations? Sadly, the reason is that most are stuck in the rut of a couple of slippery analogies and have some ‘baby’ to save and nurture i.e. a private opinion which they have defended for so long and are unwilling to let go despite the evidence in favor of consistency demanding nothing less. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the face of such a sad alliance with inconsistency; obstinacy; and sheer human respect, one with an informed Catholic Common Sense cannot but lament: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How are the valiant fallen in battle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And the weapons of war perished?!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How, pray, tell,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even those who claim the title “the best”, prey, of such spell!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><br /></span>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-22044038834181332612023-02-17T12:29:00.000-08:002023-02-17T12:29:10.261-08:00Not A Mean; Certainly Not Golden! <p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">NOT A MEAN; CERTAINLY NOT GOLDEN!</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw8fRxVSjEMar2E9Tw_rwf1ZOWChpKQQdbcSYuSbwCQ7VggR_s532OW6tN3XCMjJjCg4FwGvlEX2nV7UCnJsHhUS93KKAd64W7SxLrPxRw1pDPmrDcdC8-4IDv8hQa9qp6HOiv2gZdPZR2XMfXg9xtj5429uchQH_sIgOgmFlHQs4dTt7_cyszQ/s788/Web%20capture_17-2-2023_211525_www.bing.com.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="788" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzw8fRxVSjEMar2E9Tw_rwf1ZOWChpKQQdbcSYuSbwCQ7VggR_s532OW6tN3XCMjJjCg4FwGvlEX2nV7UCnJsHhUS93KKAd64W7SxLrPxRw1pDPmrDcdC8-4IDv8hQa9qp6HOiv2gZdPZR2XMfXg9xtj5429uchQH_sIgOgmFlHQs4dTt7_cyszQ/s320/Web%20capture_17-2-2023_211525_www.bing.com.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">there is no golden mean between truth and falsehood...<br />any attempt to find one will result in something <br />that is not a mean, and certainly not golden!</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fdad9ace-7fff-e2d8-5133-a864a2d0780e"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preamble: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During a brief Catechism session after the Mass of Sexagesima Sunday, at some point one of the faithful put forward the following question: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Please, Fr” he said, “some philosophers and Theologians alike believe that virtue lies in the middle. How is that explained? Does it lie at the middle or at the extreme end? Have the modernists misapplied that concept? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though a brief, but satisfying response was given, here we wish to expound on the question in a more encompassing way. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How is it explained? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St. Thomas Aquinas explained “the mean of virtue” in the </span><a href="https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2064.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64th question of the First Part of the Second Part of his Summa Theologiae.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The following points are to be noted: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virtue is a good habit productive of good works, thus the nature of virtue is that it should direct man to good. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good is measured /ruled by its conformity with its rule; while evil is measured by its discordance with its measure. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The good of moral virtue consists in its conformity with the rule of reason; and evil consists in the discordance with the rule of reason.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mean of virtue is its conformity to the rule of reason, and this lies between excess and deficiency. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, virtue can be seen either with respect to reason or with respect to its matter which consists of passions or operations. </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With respect to reason: there are two extremes - conformity and deformity. So, virtue holds the place of the extreme of conformity, while excess and defect holds the other extreme of deformity. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With respect to the matter of virtue: it holds the position of mean, insofar as it makes the passion conform to the rule of reason. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, in actions and passions, the mean and the extreme depend on various circumstances, thus what is an extreme in virtue in a particular circumstance can be the mean with respect to other circumstances. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A classic example is that which applies to the virtue of fortitude, the virtue which makes one brave to meet dangers. Excess with regards to this virtue is reckless daring; while defect is undue timidity or cowardice. What may seem an excess to one naturally timid, could indeed be the mean for the stout hearted. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take justice as another example: the golden mean which consists in conformity with right reason coincides with the objective thing i.e. rendering to every man his due, no more, no less. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And, with regards to the intellectual virtues, the golden mean is truth or conformity to reality, while the excess consists in false affirmation and defect in false negation. For instance, what is true is that God exists; excess will consist in affirming plurality of gods; while defect in negating the existence of God. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modernists and the Golden mean.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expressing the fact that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“their whole system, with all its errors, has been born of the alliance between faith and false philosophy” as Pope St. Pius X acquaints us, Modernists have utilized the principle of the golden mean to unimaginable proportions. It will suffice to single out few instances: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Premised on the presupposition that the Catholic claim to be the unique means of salvation is extreme; and desiring a wishful golden mean, they teach that though the “Church of Christ subsists” in the Catholic Church,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure, </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Lumen Gentium n.8]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and that the Holy Spirit is equally operative among Protestants with His Sanctifying power. </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[LG, n. 15]</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Put differently, “that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as means of salvation which derive their efficacy from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Church” </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Unitatis Redintergratio n.3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, premised on the presupposition that the Catholic stand </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that the Pope alone enjoy supreme power by divine right while the college of bishops enjoy supreme power only by human right, i.e. subject to the Pope as in a general council duly convened, is excess; and, wanting to find a middle way between this Catholic view and the he </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">liberal </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stand -that the only subject of supreme power is the college of bishops together with its head, the Pope; they teach their doctrine of Collegiality according to which the Pope personally is the subject of supreme power </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and also</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the college of bishops when united with its head, the Pope; this supreme authority of the college of Bishops is, they say, is </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unbroken, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i.e. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">habitually </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">constantly, over the whole Church…</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This view which describes Collegiality is called the ‘moderate liberal view”. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the same vein, taking as extreme the Catholic view that “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” </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Mortalium Animos, n. 10]</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, they promote union of Christians based on ecumenical dialogue on equal footing between the Catholic Church and the legion of Protestant sects, this for them is a mark of evangelical moderation. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, on the presupposition that, giving the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"new order of human relations" in the "present order of things", the Catholic position that there is only One True Religion -the Catholic Religion, is extreme, they promote the doctrine of plurality of religions willed by God as such, thus the need to teach a sacred right to religious liberty for all irrespective of religious affiliation; and promote inter-religious dialogue, exchange and collaboration. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moreso, wanting to maintain a middle ground of pleasing both nostalgic Catholics and Protestants, the Modernists permit the terms </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mass” and “Lord’s Supper” and ‘liturgical assembly’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be used interchangeably to describe its ecumenical service falsely called the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “new order of Mass”, which was </span><a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-onaga-depressing-comedy-ridiculous.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">concocted with the help of six protestant ministers.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This promiscuous use of these terms can be found </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in </span><a href="https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/GIRM/Documents/GIRM.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the 27</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> article of the [so-called] “</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Instruction of Roman Missal”, [GIRM]. </span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, in the same article as above, wanting to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maintain a middle ground of pleasing both nostalgic Catholics and Protestants concerning the question of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real Presence,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the Modernists speaks of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a fourfold real presences: the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real presence</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Christ in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">people</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> gathered; in his </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">minister; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in his </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">word; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and in the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eucharistic species. </span><a href="https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/GIRM/Documents/GIRM.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the above instances are cases dealing with intellectual virtues. And, it must be remembered that the golden mean with reference to intellectual virtues is truth or conformity to reality. But, in none of the applications above is there reference to ‘conformity’ to reality. On the contrary, they fall between false affirmation and false negation. The reason is not far-fetched: according to the Modernist system, truth simply or dogmatic truth is not absolute but relative. Yes. The conviction that there is one truth and that, that truth is definable in a precise way does not exist in the Modernist mind. And, the lack of this conviction is present in the masses infected by the modernist poison -indifferentism; made airborne by means of Vatican II Council. What is obvious is that the purported middle way in each of the instances is not a mean, and certainly not golden. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The moderns and the Golden mean.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very often nowadays, when the principle “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtue lies in the middle” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is appealed to, the attainment of a good which is measured by its conformity to right reason, is never the consideration. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who make appeal to this principle have the custom ridiculing whoever they take to be taking things too seriously, for instance, with reference to themes of modesty in dress and manners, and also themes bordering on purity. The victims of their ridicules are accused of being </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“holier than so and so”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: and very often the name of our Blessed Mother, the Immaculate Virgin, is sacrilegiously used. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In their ridiculing spree you hear expressions like: “you cannot be too logical”; “body is not firewood”; “everyone has the right to his own opinion”; “don’t force your opinion on me”; “what is important is the heart, not appearance”, etc. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Getting stuck to such guns, many wallow in all degrees of impurity both in thoughts and actions; thinking to themselves they do not want to ‘go too far’. This not ‘going too far’ often means avoiding pregnancy while at the same time indulging their curiosity about venereal pleasure which can only be lawfully had in a lawful matrimonial bed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of modesty for such as these is not to regulate one’s conduct in matters of dress, deportment, etc, that are apt to induce forbidden pleasure, nor is it to avoid acts that would be for self or others an incitement to passion or to remove sources of danger, close approaches to impurity or to safeguard chastity. Yes, to them, it is not a question of any conformity to a specific rule of reason.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rounding up.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikttymgxl6B3xO3aAyOMvPhI_bjqy4ydiqb5h2DqWQkOhcocDPdqtSU_QRNL2zn25_0e_dfQQrICGFgR2SvjxEijZMGc2QFQfnge6ZkGK_bWyMdKZWMVlTAty8_jCv_NZcdXHhU2U7Ae7Li7SYKbIdsxjIVYbMfoKCnIHMCrL82F969EKS_z3bFg/s831/Web%20capture_17-2-2023_21240_www.bing.com.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="831" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikttymgxl6B3xO3aAyOMvPhI_bjqy4ydiqb5h2DqWQkOhcocDPdqtSU_QRNL2zn25_0e_dfQQrICGFgR2SvjxEijZMGc2QFQfnge6ZkGK_bWyMdKZWMVlTAty8_jCv_NZcdXHhU2U7Ae7Li7SYKbIdsxjIVYbMfoKCnIHMCrL82F969EKS_z3bFg/w232-h127/Web%20capture_17-2-2023_21240_www.bing.com.jpeg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Modernists try in vain to find a golden mean<br />between what is Catholic and what is Protestant;<br />between what is Orthodox and what is Heterodox... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 48px;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">True: virtue lies in a golden mean between excess and defect. However, those having no concept of objective truth -be it philosophical, religious, or moral; have wrongly applied this principle, doing a great disservice to society. Being victims of a false philosophy combined with an appearance of religion, they wishfully strive to establish a ‘golden mean’ between truth and error, between good and evil, between virtue and vice. We know the result too well: something which is not a ‘mean’; and certainly not ‘golden’: rather having the rottenness of falsehood, evil and vice. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-35348046477246087362023-02-02T01:14:00.002-08:002023-02-02T05:07:36.446-08:00Poor Blinds?!<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Poor Blinds?!</b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsITYW64jznR7Jupykkj959uEPGwigeDBMOjVQ7H2-99CAHn0EcxhnP-rmVyCugAW29wA9ynoqgh_fFHRteFX9eq-DzTieFB9Ifx93XwJereRWqDiCIeX4aVu-KfFZvI2Z3NX7JfWrZTy6xMLTAHAplHQgK4eAet-uJmcai_3zPIadIr0gkcI8sQ/s720/FB_IMG_1675066033026.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="720" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsITYW64jznR7Jupykkj959uEPGwigeDBMOjVQ7H2-99CAHn0EcxhnP-rmVyCugAW29wA9ynoqgh_fFHRteFX9eq-DzTieFB9Ifx93XwJereRWqDiCIeX4aVu-KfFZvI2Z3NX7JfWrZTy6xMLTAHAplHQgK4eAet-uJmcai_3zPIadIr0gkcI8sQ/w206-h162/FB_IMG_1675066033026.jpg" width="206" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bergoglian train... how sad to behold! </td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preamble</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, the Modernist Papal impostor with the stage name "Pope Francis" reiterated his teaching on homosexuality with a new vigor and has made for a topical point of interest for those gifted with the art of weaving words - both those who use that gift in defense of the truth and virtue; and those who misuse it in the promotion and defense of falsehood and vice, like a so-called "<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/shouldnt-seem-surprising-pope-says-215644827.html">Catholic theologian"</a> who argues that "<i>it shouldn't seem so surprising when the Pope (sic) says being gay isn't a crime" </i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much virtual ink is already spilled on account of this Bergoglian-topical reiteration, and those on the side of truth have done a good job in setting the records straight. My interest in the topic, however, was ignited on hearing about what some persons, who were my "younger confreres" while I was a Temporary Professed Religious in the Novus Ordo, had to say concerning the matter. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bergoglio on homosexuality: in brief. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the Papal impostor</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexuality is a human condition.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexuality is not a crime. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Criminalization of homosexuality and homosexual people is neither good nor just. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexuality is, simply, "a sin as is any sexual act outside of marriage."</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those who want to criminalize homosexuality are wrong. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These points are retrieved from <a href="https://outreach.faith/2023/01/pope-francis-clarifies-comments-on-homosexuality-one-must-consider-the-circumstances/">here</a>. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My ex-"younger confreres" pro-Bergoglio:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These ex-younger confreres of mine, like many others in their ranks, have refused to give heed to my testimony - and that of a classmate of theirs who I have since called my "<b><i>partner in crime"</i></b>; against modernism and its fruits. Some, having proved themselves well versed in modernist ecclesiology in all ramifications, are presently permanently signed up in the Modernist puppetry agency and are paraded as "Catholic Priests"; never giving any ear to whatever evidence from objective Catholic sacramental theology that they are lay-robed men. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As true products of the spirit of Vatican II, they have the following, among other things, to say in defense of their Pope:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He lives in a society that permits such union. His saying it's not a crime only explains his context. At the end, he calls it a sin. Every state (nation) is independent to decide for its citizens, and so, if he says it's not a crime, it doesn't mean Africans states should accept it. Keep to your principles, both personal and cultural, avoid copying others.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pope is being compassionate to everyone. He's encouraging a lifestyle of welcoming and not judging. For that, I think it's ok. Kick against maltreatment inasmuch as we hate the culture of homo. We should not treat them as less humans.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He's calling for brotherliness. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He took a stance by condemning the act to be a sin. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bergoglio and classic modernist tactics: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The "Pope of Providence", St. Pius X, tells us about modernist that:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"...In the writings and addresses they seem not unfrequently to advocate now one doctrine now another so that one would be disposed to regard them as vague and doubtful. But there is a reason for this, and it is to be found in their ideas as to the mutual separation of science and faith. Hence in their books you find some things which might well be expressed by a Catholic, but in the next page you find other things which might have been dictated by a rationalist…" (Pascendi, n.18).</i></span></blockquote><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here, we see duplicity as the classic modernist strategy. How well schooled is Bergoglio in this! </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the one hand, he slyly says homosexuality is not a crime: what a rationalist and atheist would say without blinking an eye and with no prick of conscience, since the natural law, founded on the Eternal, is denied by all atheists and those who refuse to admit the existence of any supreme objective norm of morality. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the other hand, he says homosexuality is a sin, by which he prides himself to be simply repeating Catholic moral teaching. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scandalized by "the Pope":</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, while a number among these my "younger confreres" -unknown as lay-robed men perpetually signed up in the Modernist puppetry agency- were defending Bergoglio and set themselves up to explain and clarify on his behalf, one of them, a known-lay man (because he did not continue the journey towards being perpetually signed up like his comrades) had the following to say:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one said it's a crime.... but is it moral???. That something is legal doesn't make it Moral.... The Pope is actually making things difficult for Catholics in Africa and Asia.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He shouldn't complicate already complicated issues… We know it's not a crime, but must it be encouraged? It should be frowned at and not be diplomatic about it.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today's world is more sympathetic to them than even straight people… The Church shouldn't join society in this way of life.... The Church should be at the forefront of not sugarcoating issues.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't tell me he is living in a society that encourages it and he is only calling against a culture of maltreatment against them…</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Whenever someone has to try to clarify better on someone's ambiguity, then it's obvious that a lie is being covered. Either he takes a stance or be silent about it...no sitting on the fence....</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What he just said in that statement is that it's ok to be gay even though it's a sin.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All this is about love of God and culture of maltreatment is just sitting on the fence...and when one is sitting on the fence it's obvious his stance already… I give it less than 5 yrs.......the church will dance to the tune of the society.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twisted thinking:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From this thread we see that by his conscious use of the Modernist tactics -ambiguity, the Papal impostor, Bergoglio, has successfully twisted the thought pattern of his victims who falsely recognize him as "Pope". Amongst other things:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He makes some believe that because some elements (diabolic elements, we must say) in society to-day have worked tooth and nail to obtain legality for homosexuality, then, homosexuality is not a crime: but it is a crime against the natural law which participates in the eternal law!</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He instills in others a warped notion of compassion and makes them accept the evolution of morality according to the times. This false compassion confirms people in their perversion and have not the Ultimate End of man in view: that end which is union with God with perfect charity. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being the master "bridge builder": he bridges the gap between legality and morality; -as though there could be true legality without morality. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He makes others accuse the Church, the ground and pillar of the Truth, of siding with error and vice, and to take it upon themselves to call the Church to order. -</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">how heart wrenching it is to see the crimes of the modernist impostor church and its agents being attributed to the Spotless Bride of Christ! </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certainly, only the blind, led by him who is blinded by modernist perversion of the mind, pride, and ignorance, could be a beneficiary of such mind twisting. How rightly Pope St Pius X told us concerning modernists that "<i>their whole system, with all its errors, has been born of the alliance between faith and false philosophy".</i> Of course, he could not have been wrong about that: he was the Pope! Anyone with a properly informed Common Sense sees how ridiculous the Papal impostor sounds in affirming that 'homosexuality is not a crime', even more so an informed Catholic Common Sense! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What must be affirmed and reaffirmed:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite the Bergoglian blind lead, the following must be affirmed and reaffirmed for the benefit of those who have ears to hear and would hear if told the truth without mincing words:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexuality/sodomy is a perversion.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexual act is a sin, intrinsically evil, which cries to heaven for vengeance: remember the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homosexuality is a crime against the Natural law. The pretended positive human law legitimizing sodomy is no law since it contradicts the Eternal and Natural Law: for the Eternal law is concerned the moral order and is the fount of all laws, and all laws cease to be laws once they contradict the eternal law. There is no true legality without morality. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>"..<i>.the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy… are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them"</i></b> (Rom. 1: 27, 32). </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No matter how innate the perversion may be in those in whom it is not an acquired habit, it is most rare that such perversion completely disturbs the balance of the mind, and thus the agent must be regarded as responsible for the consequent acts of impurity. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those sincerely willing to escape the evil habit have always been beneficiaries of the evangelical and pastoral patience and prudence of Confessors. This sincerity comprises: genuine repentance, hatred for the evil against God and firm purpose of amendment -with the resolution to use means necessary to avoid the sin with the help of God's grace and avoidance of the occasion of sin for the future. </span></p></li></ul><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgLkaqTFmDNZXch0IpsC3Q3iROX9GA01fW7UmJ6RxNCjpQD0jYrqThR8Snj5E5XcIgeze6uLpsvZDe_jz89v9g2m1smSZgbFDv0oNzNmCvBvKC4Bme0Td7Bvj5sGw_zRQB7UkC2ga7Nb5z_oQ31GgZoLfn0ES7MHzMIxIefw4rJMEJ09_1zilMYw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgLkaqTFmDNZXch0IpsC3Q3iROX9GA01fW7UmJ6RxNCjpQD0jYrqThR8Snj5E5XcIgeze6uLpsvZDe_jz89v9g2m1smSZgbFDv0oNzNmCvBvKC4Bme0Td7Bvj5sGw_zRQB7UkC2ga7Nb5z_oQ31GgZoLfn0ES7MHzMIxIefw4rJMEJ09_1zilMYw=w146-h146" width="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">and... the joint forces of the agents of naturalism, <br />often speaking through Bergoglio and his cohorts, <br />are insistent on making the so-called 'gay pride' a legal right... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rounding up:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These "Poor Blinds" defending their equally blind leader: what degree of culpability is their ignorance? Only God knows! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, when in the face of a statement of facts and objective moral principles, one gets emotionally charged and sentimental and would not listen to reason, we cannot but suspect the presence of <i>crass</i> and <i>supine</i> ignorance -that sort of ignorance in which there is a grave carelessness and hardly any attempt to remove it. Moreso, considering the inconveniences associated with recognizing and embracing the logical truth that Bergoglio is a Papal impostor, it could be safely deduced that these poor blinds are subjects of <i>studied</i> or <i>affected</i> ignorance -that species of ignorance deliberately fostered as a means of being excused from sin or of not avoiding sin. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> From the neglect of Thine inspirations: deliver us O Jesus! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEKVdV_GUIKaj2g9JgyHIPgqCHABCQfuOrg8d6D530k2TnJ2GAAAKfjP1UsGsYGL_eRhM0nCC7ZHsclPppZUSHDf5YJYUdw5ULGmvvvAuvmWbygPkaETa0NYqphVGOZe4FBlpPzg1WWNXCIW9WxH81tDAevo2TNHNsv1BD6FMlihQR328TL_C1A/s720/FB_IMG_1675066033026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="720" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVEKVdV_GUIKaj2g9JgyHIPgqCHABCQfuOrg8d6D530k2TnJ2GAAAKfjP1UsGsYGL_eRhM0nCC7ZHsclPppZUSHDf5YJYUdw5ULGmvvvAuvmWbygPkaETa0NYqphVGOZe4FBlpPzg1WWNXCIW9WxH81tDAevo2TNHNsv1BD6FMlihQR328TL_C1A/w240-h188/FB_IMG_1675066033026.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-46890071932095374392023-01-24T21:30:00.000-08:002023-01-24T21:30:02.835-08:00Awaiting a Miracle! <p style="text-align: center;"><b> Awaiting a Miracle! </b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EW8yLSRsTcrDEbK-61H0D9Je_uRG-WQvI1xhaxGd7dQrMHR8Ryy3r516KRgfCHMOEPPWp3jHwincooWlae8yMVAmzXLJ14D2zSpJqdp6gR9qXsZzcHBqZkOiwilI1QX7g4ghhUWj1sRn7kUs0mnWQbVgMUC_ms4kQXqKutkrslvm_71FPRzNyw/s616/images%20-%202023-01-24T214153.444.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EW8yLSRsTcrDEbK-61H0D9Je_uRG-WQvI1xhaxGd7dQrMHR8Ryy3r516KRgfCHMOEPPWp3jHwincooWlae8yMVAmzXLJ14D2zSpJqdp6gR9qXsZzcHBqZkOiwilI1QX7g4ghhUWj1sRn7kUs0mnWQbVgMUC_ms4kQXqKutkrslvm_71FPRzNyw/s320/images%20-%202023-01-24T214153.444.jpeg" width="259" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The miraculous conversion of St. Paul... <br />Should we expect similar miracle for many today, <br />who. dazed by the modernist poison of indifferentism, <br />persecute intransigent Catholics?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;">Listen to its YouTube version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWUAOC5pEd4" target="_blank">here... </a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Preamble:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">From Butler's "<i>Lives of the Saints"</i> we have the following extract which gives us a picturesque view of the life of St. Paul whose conversion we celebrate today:</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"...Saul, (he says) surpassing all his equals in zeal for the Jewish law and their traditions, which he thought the cause of God, became thereby a blasphemer, a persecutor, and the most outrageous enemy of Christ...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But God was pleased to show forth in him his patience and mercy; and, moved by the prayers of St. Stephen and his other persecuted servants, for their enemies, changed him, in the very heat of his fury, into a vessel of election, and made him a greater man in his church by the grace of the apostleship, than St. Stephen had ever been, and a more illustrious instrument of his glory...A perfect model of a true conversion, the greatest work of almighty grace! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">...St. Paul never recalled to mind this his wonderful conversion, without raptures of gratitude and praise to the divine mercy. The church, in thanksgiving to God for such a miracle of his grace, from which it has derived such great blessings, and to commemorate so miraculous an instance of his almighty power, and to propose to penitents a perfect model of a true conversion, has instituted this festival..." </p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The state of affairs...</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">To-day, intransigent Catholics, otherwise known as "Sedevacantists" are victims of the bitter zeal and blindness of those who, while clinging to the Catholic name, are dazed by the Modernist poison of indifferentism, with which they have been generously fed. Generally, the bitterness of their zeal and their blindness is in direct proportion to the dosage of the poison already consumed, which in turn is proportionate to the duration of the consumption.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Just like the early Catholics of the Apostolic age, intransigent Catholics to-day are called members of a sect, an outlawed sect that must be crushed by the hook or crook of calumnies and character assassination that can only have the diabolic for it's origin...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In their false zeal and blindness, the victims of the Modernist hypocrisy consider their attachment to, and defense of, the Novus Ordo Robber church as attachment to, and defense of the Catholic Church and the cause of God.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">How are they to know that by promoting the Novus Ordo ecumenical impiety and persecuting instransigent Catholics adhering to the Unchanging and Unchanged Catholic doctrine and morals for the glory of God and salvation of souls, they thereby constitute themselves blasphemers, persecutors, and outrageous enemies of Christ?! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, how stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears they proof to be! How they always resist the Holy Ghost: refusing to give a listening ear and to take the pains to examine factual evidence readily available; facts against which no argument can be made! As their fathers did, the pioneer modernists and modernizers, so they also do today: refusing to hear the objective voice of the Teaching Authority of the Church, preferring their subjective religious sense, welling up from the depths of their subconsciousness. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Earnest Longings...</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">How we look forward to when it would please God to be moved by the prayers of His persecuted servants, and would change these victims of the Modernist imposture in the very heat of their fury, into vessels of election: making them greater men in his church by the grace of their witnesses, and more illustrious instruments of his glory...for the exaltation of His Holy Church and the salvation of souls! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">While awaiting that miracle of Grace, leaving all to the Good Pleasure of the Good Lord Who disposes all things sweetly, may it be ours to persevere in giving testimony to the Unchanging and Unchanged Truth of the Catholic Faith; enlightening souls and unmasking the modernist hypocrisy and trending insidious sophisms. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, St. Paul, a chosen vessel unto God to preach the Gospel throughout the whole world! Pray for us to God who had chosen thee, that we may be made worthy of the grace of God! </p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-46633473526220651592023-01-10T11:38:00.001-08:002023-01-10T11:38:23.517-08:00No ordinary Time<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-weight: bold;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: small; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Hzs4-MSDiD2UulRP-Wn_xvmNEkuoWjDUbLKL_1jCPnXhK53jksiK2A3e5N8YaPITh6wUb7VTw5EG0g-ZAetKD8nmWjrokvnvQq6dx02SnRgIfu6ixexQYso3mrg0jact1aAumjC_OaJZj6JO8po_B2JIgGssmwKptyyTHcYxVt4gSjuJb91g2w/s1399/Screenshot_20230110-170446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1399" data-original-width="1076" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Hzs4-MSDiD2UulRP-Wn_xvmNEkuoWjDUbLKL_1jCPnXhK53jksiK2A3e5N8YaPITh6wUb7VTw5EG0g-ZAetKD8nmWjrokvnvQq6dx02SnRgIfu6ixexQYso3mrg0jact1aAumjC_OaJZj6JO8po_B2JIgGssmwKptyyTHcYxVt4gSjuJb91g2w/w181-h236/Screenshot_20230110-170446.jpg" width="181" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking things divine lightly as things Ordinary, and mundane... Leads to death, death of the soul... <br /><br />Listen to: <a href="https://youtu.be/JJIWhSprW-4">This edition of Sweet Whispers of Providence </a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Consider that in the Christian year, Sundays are arranged based on a set of “cardinal feasts” of our blessed Lord: we have Sundays after Epiphany, Sundays after Easter, and Sundays after Pentecost. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The epiphany season celebrates the threefold manifestation of the Word made Flesh: the adoration of the Magi manifests his kingship. His first miracle at Cana shows him as Lord of all creation. And his baptism in the Jordan reveals him as the true son of God. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The Time after Easter brings to mind the forty days during which the Risen Lord was with His Disciples, speaking to them about the Kingdom of God: working out the organization of His Church, His Kingdom on earth. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The time Pentecost brings to mind the reign of the Holy Spirit in the kingdom of God on earth. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">One thing is obvious: there is nothing ordinary at any point in the Christian year: </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">For whatever reason, be it ecumenical or some other modernist motive, Sundays after Epiphany and and Sundays after Pentecost are rebranded as “Sundays in ordinary time” by modernist liturgical revolutionists and wrecknovators in the attempt to update Catholic liturgical year to a standard pleasing to the modern man in his ordinary self: I.e. modern man who has no use for divine revelation or mystery, but is content with his religious sense welling up from his subconsciousness. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Their utmost crime of course is their hypocrisy in presenting this rebranding <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deal as a Catholic affair. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">To be sure, while should one hear of “<i>Sundays after epiphany or Pentecost </i>“ he would be led to consider either the mysteries celebrated during Epiphany or Pentecost, needing no explanation as such… when one hears of “<i>Sundays in ordinary time”</i> volumes of lines explaining what “ordinary time” would mean as used in the liturgical year would be required. At the end of the day, the explanation says basically nothing of interest to an informed Catholic common sense: precisely because in the Christian year, there is nothing ordinary.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But, such is the tactics of the modernists: they make you take things divine lightly pretending to use familiar expressions, and then flood you with words to explain the simplicity of such familiar expressions and their aptness. But in doing this, they lead slowly but surely to atheism, the path begun by their fore father, apostate Martin Luther. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It must be stated in clear words: there is no such time as “ordinary time“ in the Christian year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.6px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-20002210732873786062023-01-01T05:00:00.000-08:002023-01-01T05:00:11.287-08:00The ‘Onaga’ Depressing Comedy: a ridiculous attempt to ban Protestantism from a Protestant Pudding! <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">By. Rev. Fr. Thomas Ojeka</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7166d2f-7fff-0753-1437-cf10f7a337dd"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preamble.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Few days ago I saw a post from a Facebook account that caught my attention; it read thus: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Catholic bishop bans priests from organizing crusades…</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”. Looking up the headline, I was led to read a fuller story</span><a href="https://gazettengr.com/catholic-bishop-bans-priests-from-organising-crusades-forming-prayer-groups/#:~:text=The%20Catholic%20Bishop%20of%20Enugu%20Diocese%2C%20Callistus%20Onaga%2C,Sacred%20Heart%20Seminary%2C%20Nsude%20%28Junior%20Seminary%29%20in%20Enugu." style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> here</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which reads thus: </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img height="58" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/1MfISeQsX7gXM3h6b5QqdqjjFKpdaFNwzbgdvJ0y8eQ9lzXBms-yaZDnWbYef2IIKpsPog2mNZq6JiklsgncJ0v-JXHrT4FjJqf14GhnlhSJV0fUw4wOmlqmrmyMWhmxq97tFgBOz0zLjRQ8hUaEmUpSpnbKMd1qk8BQY70w-SydheMIB-HacPPTIePxUw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="100" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Bishop" Onaga, of Enugu Diocese: the depressing comedian under the spotlight... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 58px; overflow: hidden; width: 100px;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“T</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Callistus Onaga, on Saturday, banned priests from conducting crusades in their parishes. Mr Onaga announced the ban in his homily at the ordination of 26 priests and the celebration of 50 years anniversary of the Sacred Heart Seminary, Nsude (Junior Seminary) in Enugu.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-left: 48pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bishop charged the priests to organise retreats for their parishioners and pay greater attention to prayers and not hold crusades… “Do not adopt the Pentecostal approach of service, and be careful in forming prayer groups,” he charged.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among other sites, the same news was reported</span><a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/catholic-bishop-bans-priests-from-conducting-crusades/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> here</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; and </span><a href="https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/571018-catholic-bishop-bans-priests-from-conducting-crusades.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here. </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What the fuss?!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone, not getting the point of the comedy, may wonder, “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what is comic about the injunction or order given by Mr. Onaga?</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” as the reporter civilly refers to him. Well, that is precisely what we want to attempt to show, and it should be apparent soon to the reader who does not yet see the point. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To get the point of the comedy, it should be pointed out that: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-checked="false" aria-level="1" dir="ltr" role="checkbox" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This ban was given within the context of the religious [rather irreligious] service falsely called the ‘new order of the Mass’. </span></p></li><li aria-checked="false" aria-level="1" dir="ltr" role="checkbox" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the intention to preserve the faithful from some ‘Pentecostal’ influence - perhaps, in as much as this influence distracts from their love for the ‘mass’ mentioned above. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus, to the extent ‘Pentecostalism’ is a branch of Protestantism, the key to seeing how comic and depressingly so, is the ban by Mr. Onaga on adopting the ‘Pentecostal approach of service’ lies in understanding how Protestant the so-called ‘new order of the mass’ is. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="95" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/OTiRkQVMp0OdcYGVQjGj2ZC9plr3jX3ed5RHo1x11_rKvkhlHWpFPY6oVUvsieFH9OPU3-zRW_ckLhHkt2o9SUbg9LFCjuOg-2vHnaFC1D3D0J2RF6qohVtQrsxe_Yw18ubG0B_7M_xlTjEfqdZvkaVJfCojOuYIUz5X_tqzTAsKK6WiYD1m6v4_iyAfbA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="131" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The six Protestant ministers outside the walls <br />with the then ringleader of the Protestants within the four walls <br />of the Catholic Church -the modernist papal impostor Montini:<br /> immortalizing their fruitful collaboration in concocting the ecumenical service <br />falsely called "the new order of mass" to replace the Traditional Catholic Mass in Catholic buildings... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 95px; overflow: hidden; width: 131px;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quick facts about the so-called ‘new order of the mass’.</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 108pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was concocted with the help of </span><a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/issues/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">six Protestant clerics</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 108pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was concocted with an ecumenical intent: to be a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“common celebration of the Eucharist '</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">' acceptable to Protestants according to the expectations expressed in Vatican II’s document on ecumenism, </span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unitatis Reintergratio n.4.</span></a></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 108pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is stripped of dogmatic themes and ritual gestures considered offensive to Protestants and thus “obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical communion” based on the principles of ecumenism. A Fr. Annibale Bugnini, secretary of the modernist commission for the wreckovation of the Catholic liturgy is quoted to have said </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren”; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that is for the Protestants… -and this stripping they did, with six protestant ministers helping them do a very good job. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 108pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was promulgated to displace and replace the Traditional Catholic Mass whose theology and ritual gestures the Protestant cannot stand: it is the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ecumenist law of worship</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> expressing the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ecumenist law of believing</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which they insist to call the Catholic ‘new order of the Mass’. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catholic Theologians on the ‘New order of Mass’ before its promulgation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noteworthy is that, prior to the promulgation of this so-called ‘new order of the mass’, a group of Catholic theologians made a critique of it, and having a cover note from Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacchi, it was submitted to the man everyone falsely took to be the ‘Pope’ then: the ecumenist </span><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/paul-vi/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montini.</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This document is now popularly known as the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522khOGpfqs" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ottaviani intervention”</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, whose text can be accessed</span><a href="https://lms.org.uk/ottaviani-intervention" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> here</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cardinals, in their cover note wrote thus: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">The accompanying critical study of the Novus Ordo Missae, the work of a group of theologians, liturgists and pastors of souls, shows quite clearly in spite of its brevity that if we consider the innovations implied or taken for granted which may of course be evaluated in different ways, the Novus Ordo represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The "canons" of the rite definitively fixed at that time provided an insurmountable barrier to any heresy directed against the integrity of the Mystery.</span></blockquote></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amongst other things, the critique has it that: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p></li><blockquote><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new form of Mass was substantially rejected by the Episcopal Synod, was never submitted to the collegial judgment of the Episcopal Conferences and was never asked for by the people. It has every possibility of satisfying the most modernist of Protestants; </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By a series of equivocations the emphasis is obsessively placed upon the 'supper' and the 'memorial' instead of on the unbloody renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The three ends of the Mass are altered:- no distinction is allowed to remain between Divine and human sacrifice; bread and wine are only "spiritually" (not substantially) changed.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Real Presence of Christ is never alluded to and belief in it is implicitly repudiated.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Order teems with insinuations or manifest errors against the purity of the Catholic religion and dismantles all defenses of the deposit of Faith.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Novus Ordo has no intention of presenting the Faith as taught by the Council of Trent, to which, nonetheless, the Catholic conscience is bound forever. With the promulgation of the Novus Ordo, the loyal Catholic is thus faced with a most tragic alternative.</span></p></li></blockquote><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This attempt to forestall the abolition of Catholic Mass in Catholic buildings proved abortive: the New Order of mass was promulgated and is now regarded as the ‘ordinary form’ of the Mass of the Latin Rite; while the Traditional Catholic Mass is given the portrait of a historical oddity to be remembered only with a high dosage of shame. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modernists -being Protestants of the highest order; but insistent on remaining within the visible walls of the Catholic Church wanted the Catholic Mass done away with and replaced: the “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">little finger”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of a papal impostor installed by themselves did the job; outlawing the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass from the buildings erected for its sake, and sending it back to the ‘Catacombs”.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The depressing comedy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the foregoing, one thing is clear: the Novus Ordo is essentially non-Catholic. It is ecumenist and Protestant. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, the 65th error condemned in the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df07ls.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Syllabus of Errors Condemning the Errors of the Modernists</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has it that: “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modern Catholicism can be reconciled with true science only if it is transformed into a non-dogmatic Christianity; that is to say, into a broad and liberal Protestantism”. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wanting to achieve this impossible transformation, the modernists infiltrated Catholic institutions, </span><a href="https://novusordowatch.org/2016/10/smoke-signals-white-smoke-1958/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">usurped </span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the papacy for one from among their ranks known to be a thorough-going ecumenist, capable of calling a council that would canonize ecumenism. Such a council was called; ecumenism was canonized; and an ecumenical service promulgated. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here we have a “Mr. Onaga”, while presiding over a session of the ecumenical service, a protestant ape of the Catholic Mass, banning his subjects from adopting protestant/pentecostal approach to service. What could be more comic than that? Banning protestantism from a protestant pudding: what comedy could be more depressing? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A deceptive conservatism</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With such a momentous ban on organizing crusades in the manner of Pentecostals, Mr. Onaga would be projected and congratulated as a ‘Conservative Bishop’ doing his ‘job’ in the face of increasing liberal and radical progressive tendencies. But those deceived by such a display of conservatism are only those who have been first deceived to accept the Novus Ordo simply as Catholic Mass, victims of the ‘hermeneutics of continuity’ thesis of apostate Fr. Ratzinger which is so contrary to fact. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="116" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/GdjpNxQ7Tqj2In5OB8tHe6vdfC-SGsnFLyAouq5ai0yktI2f1by3CJMul7CpjzSRBErAm1qtDtipacxHwl0n6Q5ORFJyWZWqKeYpkwR7BUAEime55cBjpC1HW-RLrO9SYLf1WGQKS66iJT-ovIRuiyfb2eoPoXx0Ub1zxjdJSgwI45R-m-c2eL-U02zhMQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="172" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Radically progressive Mr. Bergoglio, the present modernist papal impostor, <br />manifesting the Pentecostal attitude to service inherent in the Novus ordo, <br />perhaps to the utter dismay of conservative Mr. Onaga our depressing comedian... </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Novus ordo, being an ecumenical pudding, a product of the joint efforts of Protestants within the visible four walls of the Catholic Church [Modernists] and Protestants outside the wall; is inherently ladened with the potentiality to evolve into whatever species of broad and liberal Protestantism there can be; and the so-called “Catholic Charismatic Renewal” is there to bring out this inherent potential of the Novus ordo -and Mr. Bergoglio, the arch-Modernist and Ecumenist-in-chief certainly knows this… it would seem that Mr. Onaga is not privy to this fact, or is he simply intent on ignoring it? Well, his attempt to forestall this necessary evolution is utterly of no consequence. </span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 116px; overflow: hidden; width: 172px;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, what?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IF Mr. Onaga, is not a Modernist but a poor and pitiable victim of modernism; and if he is sincere in professing “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe in the Holy Catholic Church”,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and, is indeed wary of Protestant/pentecostal influence; he has to reject and abandon the Novus ordo, i.e. the so-called New order of the Mass, over which he now presides with all the solemnity he can muster. The reason is obvious: it is obvious to a Catholic with an informed Catholic Common Sense that the Novus Ordo is not only NOT Catholic, but that it is anti-Catholic and must be rejected as such. No hard feelings. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 145px; overflow: hidden; width: 89px;"><img height="145" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/2C_Q-Xz6--_IvrziGi0ZDKLHpIC4h_9RvhjwQEBqnpZBSin_Ddj68hSKDijJL3MS0rZoGMxOGbNz0trOfaTmlU5kdniBKsTBpHlmpPSPxP-HTl_nBMxJapk_JHiKG8j7hlMrZ5WjGJA546sy_uSoHUNoWwkAfDP7Cnkn54Is3Pv2AmDqOi8b3-FlCsQU0A" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="89" /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meanwhile, perhaps Mr. Onaga may need a </span><a href="https://frtjojeka.blogspot.com/2022/12/confused-take-catholicity-test.html#more" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Simple Catholicity Test”</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; and, if he did, and do not fall short of the logical action which that test demands, he would come face to face with the brute fact that, being ‘</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callistus_Valentine_Onaga" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ordained’</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1987, by a ‘bishop’ consecrated using the 1968 Rite of Episcopal Consecration which is </span><a href="http://www.traditionalmass.org/images/articles/NewEpConsArtPDF2.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">absolutely null and utterly void</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and himself ‘consecrated’ using the same Rite by another ‘bishop’ consecrated with the same rite; the reporter, whose report we used as the opening story for this post, was right in addressing him civilly as “Mr. Onaga”, since he is presently neither a Priest nor a Bishop of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. To that extent, the 26 young men during whose purported ‘ordination’ he was promulgating this ban, [and all those he had attempted to ‘ordain’ in the past] came out of that ceremony the same laymen that entered the seminary ten or eleven years earlier. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18pt 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, all of these are simply ripple effects of the impious attempt by the Modernists, [“</span><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the most pernicious of the adversaries”</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Church, remaining within her visible walls] to carry out the impossible transformation of the Catholic Church from within </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“into a dogma-less Christianity: that is to say, into a broad and liberal Protestantism”</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Truth, stranger than fiction! But to the truth we give our simple testimony, and, "</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">everyone that is of the truth"</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> hears and is gladdened: but, not those formed by modernist indifferentism to be "</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears"</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fcfcfc; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 18pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><div><br /></div>Fr. T.J. OJEKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00000789771496453774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174948110512079022.post-61518103272538584762022-12-30T23:29:00.001-08:002022-12-30T23:29:43.278-08:00Ready? Watching?<p style="text-align: center;"> <b>Ready? Watching? </b></p><p style="text-align: center;">- some thoughts for the last day of the year...</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihjihhaL6B2CHeVZNiao6MwsA8J1vLurPlhAamntjFNq6phLEpJCmvfvQv6inPXbOq0sRCyTDFl54nr9LcP46eCrCrtQBE2yr5AaZBGKLDzpI5-cted9wLv2sAu180g61-5VI9zpzQNcxVIYTEHCeL1dUEMy1OnAevCNubYSyFdXfpHTa4HsvV9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="439" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihjihhaL6B2CHeVZNiao6MwsA8J1vLurPlhAamntjFNq6phLEpJCmvfvQv6inPXbOq0sRCyTDFl54nr9LcP46eCrCrtQBE2yr5AaZBGKLDzpI5-cted9wLv2sAu180g61-5VI9zpzQNcxVIYTEHCeL1dUEMy1OnAevCNubYSyFdXfpHTa4HsvV9w=w149-h76" width="149" /></a></div><br />It is the last day of the year 2022 and it is fitting a day to carry out a sort of examination of conscience irrespective of whatever decrees or declarations the false prophets of prosperity gospel have dished out -blind leading the blind.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;">The question to ponder is: what is the state of your conscience at present? if an angel came down from heaven at this moment and told you "<i>Prepare yourself, for you will die within an hour"; </i>what would your heart tell you? would you feel peaceful about dying in the state you are in at present? would you be content to die at this hour and in the state you are now in?</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">our Blessed Lord said "<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #3d3d3d; text-indent: 18pt;">Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. </span><span style="color: #3d3d3d; text-indent: 18pt;">And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. </span></i><span style="color: #3d3d3d; text-indent: 18pt;"><i>Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching...</i>"[Luke 12:35-37]</span></span></p></blockquote><p>The lighted lamp is a symbol of faith that must illumine the road for us in this valley of tears and guide our every step and action. the girted loins points to readiness to walk in the ways of goodness and work generously, without minding fatigue, in the accomplishment of our duty of state. </p><p>St. Augustine explains that to girt the loins is to restrain lustful appetites, and that this is about self-control. while to have lamps burning, he says, is to shine and glow with good works, and that his is about justice. He explains further that, when our Lord comes, "<i>He will repay us who have restrained ourselves from yielding to what lust has demanded and who have done what love has commanded, that we might reign in his perfect and everlasting peace, free from the struggle of evil and enjoying the supreme delight of good"</i></p><p>Through the course of this year that is ending: have you restrained yourself from what lust has demanded? have you done what divine love has commanded? have you nourished your faith, or have you been indifferent to the truths of the faith and all that pertains to the defense of its integrity? how did you fare in regard to prayer, which is the voice of faith? how did you fare in daily meditation, the indispensable oil that keeps your lamp burning? how have you developed the spirit of inner piety, which is the soul and expression of faith? </p><p>Perhaps you may have scored so low. Realize that the first step in going to God, the first means for gaining interior peace is sincere repentance. This sincere repentance makes one ready to die at any moment, even a sudden death, and appear before the Divine Judge. Within this framework, there is no such thing as 'untimely death' which the false prophets of prosperity gospel are always raining declarations against. To one armed with the true faith, a faith nourished and kept burning by means of prayer, daily meditation and the devout use of the Sacraments, the channels of divine grace; to one whose faith has born fruits in good works commanded by divine love, fruits that lasts; at death life is changed, not ended. </p><p>If it be granted you to see the next year, be sure that it is an opportunity offered you by our Merciful Father to learn how to girt your loins and keep your lamp burning as a servant waiting for his master's return.</p><p>Make a resolution now to examine your conscience every day, for you do not know if this year now ending will be the last for you.</p><p>It is imperative that at whatever moment the Lord may call each of us, we be found faithful and worthy to be called blessed.</p><p>On this last day of this year: let us bless the Lord! thanks be to God The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. Amen. </p>Fr. T.J. 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