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| Major Overhaul Will Leave Chicago Archdiocese With 123 Fewer Parishes By July |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-11-2022, 09:38 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Major Overhaul Will Leave Chicago Archdiocese With 123 Fewer Parishes By July
The Chicago Archdiocese had 2,400 priests in 1975, that included Diocesan, religious order and retired priests. Today there are 1,200.
NBC5 Chicago | February 8, 2022
The Chicago Archdiocese is in the midst of a major overhaul that will leave it with 123 fewer parishes by July 1 of this year.
The archdiocese faces multiple challenges, including fewer Catholic priests, fewer people in the pews, old buildings that need repairs and financial shortages.
Renata Gryzk, a parishioner who has seen her parish close, said she is "very bitter about it, very hurt."
Gryzk was raised in Our Lady of Victory on Chicago's Northwest Side. She said watching her home parish close last November was "a struggle and a struggle for many, many people."
Rev. Jason Malave, the spokesman for Cardinal Blase Cupich's Renew My Church initiative, said "our culture has shifted so radically, so radically, and we are no longer the church of the 1970s, the 1960s."
Rev. Malave said Pope Francis wants the church to look for "new methods and, when it's necessary, to really evangelize well the community that we find ourselves in."
The Chicago Archdiocese had 2,400 priests in 1975, that included Diocesan, religious order and retired priests. Today there are 1,200.
When it comes to parishes, just four years ago, there were 344 in the Chicago Archdiocese. By July 1, 2022, there will be 221.
Many Chicagoans identify themselves as what parish they are from.
Rev. Malave said "we are such a parochial church, absolutely we know where we grew up." He concedes "people will be getting used to new saints, new saint names, because they've united."
But Gryzk worries about the future of the church as Chicago Catholics believe their parish "it really does define you; you feel so lost, like a part of you is gone."
Corpus Christi in the Bronzeville neighborhood is another parish that has closed. Its school building currently has a for-rent sign on the front door.
In all there will be 57 churches across the archdiocese that will no longer be used for Mass.
Ward Miller with Preservation Chicago worries about the church buildings but also the services centered there as he notes "we not only lose a great church, and a religious center, we lose all those services that come with it. It’s a community center, it’s food pantries, it’s counseling, it’s child care, it’s community that leaves with each one of these institutions."
The major overhaul was in the works before the coronavirus pandemic. Mass attendance has been falling and COVID has also had a huge impact.
As Rev. Malave notes, "there are definitely people who are critical of this journey, but the same people who will know, and will be able to name members of their own family who have stepped away from the practice. Let’s get our foundation firm, and build, reintroduce people to Jesus after that."
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| Pope Francis may be the epitome of Vatican II |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-10-2022, 04:17 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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If Vatican II could be personified, Pope Francis would probably be that personification. He professes, imitates, and emulates all of the errors of that pernicious Council... he invokes the Second Vatican Council in every encyclical (often quoting exclusively Vatican II documents, to the exclusion of all pre-Vatican II Church teaching), he advances the Vatican II 'theology,' and he uses Vatican II as a pretext to every controversial thing he does.
But because so many are unfamiliar with the documents of the Second Vatican Council and it's 'teachings,' it often appears as if Pope Francis errors' are completely of his own volition. But this is not often the case. Take for example his latest scandalous comments.
Quote:In Pope Francis’ Wednesday Audience on 2 February, he claimed the “communion of saints” includes those who have “denied the faith” and “denied their baptism.”
Let us consider, dear brothers and sisters, that in Christ no one can ever truly separate us from those we love because the bond is an existential bond, a strong bond that is in our very nature; only the manner of being together with each of them changes, but nothing and no one can break this bond. “Father, let us think about those who have denied the faith, who are apostates, who are the persecutors of the Church, who have denied their baptism: Are these also at home?”. Yes, these too, even the blasphemers, everyone. We are brothers. This is the communion of saints. The communion of saints holds together the community of believers on earth and in heaven.
But these recent scandalizing comments can also be found to have their roots in the Second Vatican Council.
The following is from the SiSiNoNo series on the Errors of Vatican II, highlighting nearly the same error:
- Vatican II is guilty of the deadly Article 39 in Gaudium et Spes which in the conclusion of its third chapter titled "Man's Activity in the Universe" (GS §§33-39), proposes a final perversion of the idea of the Kingdom of God taught by the Church. This Chapter III contains the outline of the idea of the collective salvation of humanity, and also that all of God's creation was made for man. This is achieved by misinterpreting Romans 8:21 to say that "all of creation," created by God to serve man, will equally obtain eternal salvation.
We know neither the moment of the consummation of the earth and of man nor the way the universe will be transformed. The form of this world, distorted by sin, is passing away and we are taught that God is preparing a new dwelling and a new earth in which righteousness dwells, whose happiness will fill and surpass all the desires of peace arising in the hearts of men. Then with death conquered the sons of God will be raised in Christ and what was sown in weakness and dishonor will put on the imperishable: charity and its works will remain and all of creation, which God made for man, will be set free from its bondage to decay (LG §39).
Article 39 continues with another strange idea:
Quote:We have been warned, of course, that it profits man nothing if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself. Far from diminishing our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come. That is why, although we must be careful to distinguish earthly progress clearly from the increase of the kingdom of Christ, such progress is of vital concern to the kingdom of God, insofar as it can continue to the better ordering of human society.
This appears to mean that the "new earth" is already present in the "present earth," since "the body of the new human family grows [here], foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come." Take note that the prefiguring of the Kingdom of God is not given by the Church Militant (which is the orthodox teaching), but by the growth of "the body of a new family." And this growth of the body of a new human family is calculated on universal progress, universal fraternity, and to human and Christian freedom (LG§§13,36; GS §§30,34,38).
This is to say, the Kingdom of God which is partially realized is this world, is no longer made up of the Church Militant, but of humanity. Humanity is the subject which brings about the Kingdom, and which will enter it one day en masse. In fact, Article 39 of LG concludes:
Quote:When we have spread on earth the fruits of our nature and our enterprise-human dignity, brotherly communion, and freedom-according to the command of the Lord and in his Spirit, we will find them once again, cleansed this time from the stain of sin, illuminated and transfigured, when Christ presents to his Father and eternal and universal kingdom "of truth and life, a kingdom of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love and peace." Here on earth the kingdom is mysteriously present; when the Lord comes it will enter into its perfection.
This is a naturalistic, millenarian vision that calls for the religion of Humanity. It is completely foreign to anything the Catholic Church has ever taught. It is the complete antithesis to the exclusively supernatural reality of the Kingdom of God and of the consummation of the end of time which has been revealed to us by Our Lord and always maintained by the Church.
Because of the scandal brought about with such regularity from this Pope, it is easy to vilify the man, rather than realizing the root cause of his errors. They are not his own most of the time. He simply is repeating the Conciliar errors, the same ones that Archbishop Lefebvre fought so hard against. Recall the words of his famous 1974 Declaration:
“We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it. ... This reform, since it has issued from Liberalism and from Modernism, is entirely corrupt. It comes from heresy and results in heresy, even if all its acts are not formally heretical. It is thus impossible for any faithful Catholic who is aware of these things to adopt this reform, or to submit to it in any way at all. To ensure our salvation, the only attitude of fidelity to the Church and to Catholic doctrine, is a categorical refusal to accept the reform. ... That is why we hold fast to all that has been believed and practiced in the faith, morals, liturgy, teaching of the catechism, formation of the priest and institution of the Church, by the Church of all time; to all these things as codified in those books which saw day before the Modernist influence of the Council.” (Declaration of Faith, November 21, 1974)
It has been 57 years since the end of the Second Vatican Council and untold damage has been done under these Conciliar popes. Some think Francis is the worst of them so far. That may be so. He certainly does seem like he personifies and perfects these past years of treachery and assaults against the Faith. But I think this title might be more accurately reserved for Pope Paul VI, under whose pontificate the worst of the damage was done. Perhaps that is why the good Lord allowed Archbishop Lefebvre to live under that pontificate and not Pope Francis'. Pope Francis is 'simply' continuing the destruction begun under Paul VI!
Mary, Virgin most faithful, pray for us!
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| Prophecies of Père Lamy (1853-1931) |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-10-2022, 10:57 AM - Forum: Catholic Prophecy
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Père Lamy (1853-1931)
Taken from here [adapted].
Source: " Père Lamy: 1855-1931", by Comte Paul Biver.
Jean-Édouard Lamy (John Edward Lamy) was born on June 22, 1853 in a poor family in Pailly (south of Haute-Marne), son of Jean-Frédéric Lamy and Marie Janinel. A very pious family, Père Lamy told the story of who his grandmother used to hide priests during the anti-clerical French Revolution when they were hunted and on the run.
From an early age he knew he had a vocation to became a priest, and was preparing to enter the seminary until first, the family home burned down and set his family back, then, he was called to do his military duty, and so his entrance to the seminary was put off for some time. A great sacrifice for him. From 1875 to 1878, he did his military service, as a private, then a corporal, finally made a sergeant in the 91st Infantry Regiment.
At last, he entered the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in 1879, then directed the youth work in Troyes and was ordained a priest on December 12, 1886 at the chapel of the Spiritans in the Rue Lhomond in Paris.
In the spring of 1892, he arrived in Guéret (Creuse) and left there on September 8, of the same year to be named the curate of Monsieur de La Perche in Saint-Ouen (northern suburb of Paris) in September 27. In 1900 he became parish priest of La Courneuve and was installed on September 14, a very poor and neglected area where he was nicknamed the 'curé of hoodlums' and the 'priest of the rag pickers'.
He was a friend of Jacques Maritain (1882 1973), whom he met in 1921 and at whose house he celebrated mass on certain feast days. In 1923, retiring, he returned to Pailly and devoted himself to the pilgrimages to Notre-Dame des Bois in Violot, which he founded on April 20, 1914. This pilgrimage has since become very popular. In 1930 he at last was able to fulfil Our Lady's desire and founded the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary. He died on December 1, 1931 and is buried in La Courneuve Cemetery next to Saint-Lucien Church.
From an early age he had some mystical experiences, he had a vision of the Mystical Lamb of God, and, saw Our Lady before his First Communion, then later he began to experience visions of Our Lord, Our Lady, the Angels, Saints, and also Lucifer. He was devoted to Our Lady as a child, and, she revealed to him she had wanted him to become and priest, then noted in a way to let him know it was due to this desire for him to be a priest he received the grace and vocation to become one, despite the obstacles and set-backs that had occurred. St. Joseph also appeared when the obstacles seemed insurmountable and told him to become a priest, and a good priest! He also received singular insights on Our Lady, her life, and also her likes and dislikes! He had notoriously bad eyesight was almost blind, but Our Lady gave the reason why his eyesight wasn't improved immediately: it would keep him humble. Virtue is more important than health. As he himself noted: “The souls God loves are not gorged with honey. He gives sugar to the children an then later, hardly any. The Gospel is not 'pretty-pretty'.”, meaning, one must take up the cross. He received many mystical graces, such as the discernment of souls, and, a mystical illumination to be able to see, walk and read in the dark without aid of light when necessary due to the light of the angels. His own bishop declared. “I have in my diocese another Curé of Ars.”
His Prophecies
The Prophecies of WWI
Père Lamy also had the gift of prophecy, yet, he rarely spoke of what was revealed to him, he did not like to be the center of attention, saving souls was mote important to him, not obsessions with future events. Eventhough St. Paul says to not despise prophecies, Père Lamy noted we are not to make visions the rule of our lives, there is a danger of spending too much time chasing after visions. Even the Church noted it is better not to long for such things. Père Lamy stated:
Quote:“You must never build a life on visions; above all, on the other people's visions. In material things, you need anything but common sense, and in spiritual things you need common sense, but there (spiritual matters) we cannot be deceived, being the infallible rules which God has laid down for us. (I.e. through His Church). Beware of mysticism, the fiend (the devil) is behind the Mother of God. If you let her go by, you find the fiend.”
That is, if we constantly crave and seek after mystical visions to direct our lives, Satan and not Our Lady might be the one to answer! Also, beware of having real visions, because Lucifer is also behind - there is suffering that comes with a true visions he learned. Père Lamy remarked that if he knew Our Lady was behind a door he would not let her in as the suffering for such a grace is very great indeed, a statement meant to shock as he wished to stress the amount of suffering required for greater graces.
Yet still, Père Lamy would leave a prophecy or two slip.
One of the most famous apparitions related by him happened on September 9, 1909 when Our Lady came as Queen in all her glory right as he begin to say Mass. Lucifer, the fiend, was permitted to attend and skulk during the heavenly visit. Père Lamy relates:
Quote:“The Blessed Virgin foretold the War (I.e. WWI). She spoke to me very maternally about my childhood, founded the pilgrimage of Our Lady of the Woodland; told me she wanted a new congregation. With great energy she condemned modernism, treated several matters, defending me from Lucifer.
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After the Credo, she spoke of the War in very sorrowful tones (i.e. World War I). 'It will be slow to kindle' It will set all Europe on fire. It will set the world on fire. There will be about five millions killed, but (turning towards Lucifer) I shall save many in spite of you.' The fiend said, 'They'll pass through the Vosges.' The Blessed Virgin: 'No, no, they will pass through Belgium.' Satan said, 'They are just as guilty on one side as the other.'. Satan understands guilt very well./quote]
Before and right up to the Consecration, Our Lord appeared. He spoke to Père Lamy as well. Père Lamy recalls that Our Lord told him why WWI was permitted:
[quote]“Our Lord told me that the War had three causes: Blasphemy, Sunday labour, and the desecration of marriage.” (i.e. adultery, breaking the marriage vow through extramarital affairs.)
Père Lamy then explained.
Quote:“When a young man or a young girl falls into sin, (i.e. if they are not married,) it is nothing in comparison. It is a grave sin, but after all it is human weakness.”
That is, while it is still a grave mortal sin, God is merciful where human weakness is concerned and considers it not as bad as adultery. In contrast, Marriage vows are sacrosanct and agreed upon by one's free will, Marriage is a sacrament and represents Christ's espousal to His Church. In the Old Testament, God gave an indication how bad adultery was by equating it with worshiping idols and witchcraft. To worship a false god was to break your loyalty and covenant with the One True God, and therefore 'adultery'. Adultery is a grave sin.
Père Lamy also took to heart keeping Sunday holy. He noted:
Quote:“You think I am very strict about Sunday work. (I.e. no servile work should be done on Sundays.) You cannot be too much so. I go so far as to say no offering flowers to the Blessed Virgin, no cutting them on Sunday. When working on Sundays gets into the soul it is like gangrene everything goes.”
This strictness also extended to no sports should be played on Sundays. Père Lamy revealed:
Quote:“Games and sports, as they are generally under stood by the majority, are the direct attack of Satan against Sunday services. He (the devil) said with scorn: 'I am the master here; I drive them like a herd.'. In order to avoid the judgment of Heaven, the first thing Catholics must do is to get together to observe, and get observed the sanctification of Sunday. I have always been strict on this point in my parish and the Blessed Virgin approved this strictness. (…) She complained of the profanation of the Sunday, but she throws no stone at those ho profane it. The profanation of the Sunday is a failure in reverence and adoration. She feels keenly the outrage against God. It is a fact that she pities those who make it so.”
One can only imagine what God and Our Lady feel about the modern craze for sports for the mega-industry of sports today!
Later, when WWI was over, in 1923 Père Lamy remarked:
Quote:“The war was a punishment for the French and German peoples, both equally guilty. But Mary is all powerful. She kept the Germans from coming through the gap in the Vosges, as Satan wanted it. She answered that fellow: ' While he lives (I.e Pere Lamy), the Germans shall not pass this way.' Then pointing out the district of Our Lady of the Woodlands (I.e where she wished her congregation to be established by him,) she said 'Nor after his death; that is his cradle, that's the village where he was born. (Le Pailly). 'Nor after his death'. These words incline me to believe she saw another German invasion coming.”
True to the predictions, his home village was spared.
Prophecies of WWII
As mentioned, Père Lamy did not like to reveal what he knew, however, sometimes he let a few sentences slip:
Quote:“About the next war (WWII), I shall not give any details, as I gave about the other (i.e, WWI). They made nothing of that warning (iI.e. people did not listen or believe him), and this will be the same. All I can tell you is that it will begin through Poland, and when it is over, you will not be on velvet.”
He also said in 1925:
Quote:“The war will be slow to blaze up. It will set Europe on fire. As for Europe, that has been done. (I.e. WWI). It will set the Universe on fire, China Japan, Morocco. They have had no war as yet. But this (i.e. WII) will be the continuation of the last war. After these hard calamities, God will give peace back to the world.”
He noted England would be 'saved', and why? 'Keeping the Sunday holy', he said, 'is what will save England.'
This occurred as the Allies won the war: despite being a Protestant nation, England used to observe the Sunday rest and kept it holy.
Indications of the Age of Peace and What It will be Like Afterwards
Père: Lamy:
Quote:“The Holy archangel Gabriel tole me, speaking of Lucifer: 'he is playing his trump card; he thinks he has won': in which he is mistaken. Satan is playing all out. You must pray with hope in spite of the noise he makes. I tell you these things in confidence; they are breadcrumbs. (I.e. what he was revealing just then was nothing compared to what he was saw). We shall feel still more the delicate goodness of the Blessed Virgin, Mother Most Amiable; Mother most Admirable. You feel it coming from the Blessed Virgin.” (…)
“Peace will be given back to the world, but I shall not see it, and other things will come to pass! War is Big Business. The manufacturer of the aeroplane, the exploitation of the mines, the iron works, all that will dwindle. There will be no longer those great factories where morality withers and disappears. The working-class will be bound to turn back to the land. Land work will receive great impetus. Land will again be very dear.
When peace is given back to the world, big business will shrink to smaller proportions and will stay there. Everything will grow less. They are trying to avoid the inevitable, but it will happen just the same. (…) When peace is given back to the world, plots of land will rise to more value than they have now. Even if the old workmen insist on dying in towns, that will come to pass.
God willed to purify the faith of His people by giving them a long sojourn in the desert. The Israelites were a whole generation in the desert. All the same, when God gives peace back to the world, it will have to be re-evangelized over again and that will be work for a whole generation.
A great effort will have to be made for the conversion of man after the peace. There will be quite a lot of difficulties. Did not St. Paul encounter them? The spiritual state of the first Christians will come back moreover, but there will be then so few men on the earth. And there will be once more a splendid efflorescence of Orders and Congregations.”
Another time he cryptically and ominously noted regarding religion and people returning to the faith, things will literally be 'squelched' before it happens, meaning, something drastic is going to happen first:
Quote:“They will be bound to come back when they are squelched (making a gesture of squeezing pastry). When they are squelched, it will be by a master hand.”
He also said:
Quote: “Miracles are no use for the conversion of the world. Catholics accept them, and yet, so few of them. But this little number is confirmed in the faith by wonders. (…) The world, and even Christians, no longer admit the supernatural. But they will be duly bound to take notice some day and bow their heads. Then they will be interested.”
Of interest Our Lord said to the mystic Marie-Julie Jahenny the world would get so corrupt, it would not believe in miracle or the supernatural, but that He would send an outpouring of miraculous warnings and signs so great before and during the chastisements, it will be to confound those who disbelieve in the supernatural. They will, as Père Lamy hinted, will be bound to notice some day that the supernatural exists.
(GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: we have to remember Père Lamy spoke the following while WW I had ended, and therefore WW II had not yet begun, so technically, he saw a 'peacetime' -- but we see this was not the only peacetime he was referring to. Since he did not live to see WWII, some might argue he meant only the peacetime after WWII, but we see he also alluded to another time.
The Big Business of war still exists right now, the factories have not yet dwindled, and, we have not yet had a catastrophic dwindling of the population to which he he alluded to where 'there will be so few men on earth', when the peace he is talking about occurs.
Obviously he is referring to the Age of Peace that other mystics have foretold will come after cataclysmic wars and supernatural events, like the 3 Days of Darkness. One can wonder if he was shown this, but he didn't mention it. We only know he did allude to an event when people will be 'squelched' by a master hand before they return to the faith, that a major depopulation of the entire earth was alluded to as well, and, hinted at a great decimation of the faith and lack of belief in the supernatural like never before when this occurs as the whole world will need to be re-evangelized again when 'Big Business' dwindles and the Peace comes.
While yes, many of the faithful who prepared will be spared as we have learned from other mystics, at the same time we have to observe ... [that] MODERNISM, which Our Lady also spoke to Père Lamy about, has infected everything in these last decades so all perversely, one must be on their guard to learn the faith properly. Many who are Catholics believe certain errors of modernism without realizing it. It takes more effort now to know one's faith, and be able to recognize error. The best way to ensure one has a proper grounding in the Faith is to adhere to Tradition and the decrees of the Council of Trent, which Ven. Bartholomew Holzhauser said would be the one major help during the time of the great corruption when the faith is attacked before the Age of Peace.)
An Indication Our Lady will Keep Her Promise Père Lamy's Home Village of Le Pailly will Still be Protected After his death.
We learn from the prophecies of other mystics that France despite being punished, will have special graces of protection, especially certain areas.
Of interest, when he noted Our Lady rebuked Satan and promised the Germans would not pass Père Lamy's home village of La Pailly even after his death, of course it meant during WWII, as he said Our Lady must have seen another German invasion coming, which happened. His prediction that he would not live to see the peace after the next war occurred as he died in 1931.
However, it is obvious his prediction of his home village being protected also extends further than that:
Quote:“And when (Our Lady) says 'nor after his death', it is because she sees farther than an archangel. Peace will be given back to the world, but I shall not see it, and before that, other things will happen of which I personally do not see the end.”
We note this was the cryptic phrase he used when alluding to another peace that would happen after another horrific time had happened, after which 'Big Business' and industrialism would finally diminish, after the decimation of the world population and the restoration of the Faith, but more like the early Christians with the flourishing of orders.
So, we can see an indication his home village will still be protected in the future, thanks to Our Lady, and also Pere Lady's intercession.
He also noted France was under Our Lady's special protection. Although he was speaking of the threat of WWII, this also applies to the future: “I am not worrying about the future of our country. It is in the hands of the Blessed Virgin. When you save a child once, you will save it again.”
Another Indication of What Life in the Age of Peace might be Like
Père Lamy noted that 'Big Business' and factories will dwindle, people will return to the land and cottage industries, life will return to like that old days before industrialism sunk its teeth into the world. Christianity will resemble the early days of the Church.
Since he did not like to reveal prophecies given to him, we have to glean some other details from remarks he let slip.
We can assume life might return to the days of bustling country villages and the old monarchy judging from an interesting observation Père Lamy made regarding his childhood and the piety of the rural populace, how it was all destroyed with the arrival of 'modernity':
Quote:“Stone crosses were at the entrance and exit of every village. The Haute Marne must thank the monks of old for much of the Faith which it has been able to keep. All the customs were pious. If there were many of you, people saluted you (saying), 'Good evening, and good evening the company.' Even when you were alone, 'Good evening, and good evening the company.' The custom was to salute you and your good angel. Yes, now all is silent in those villages where once you heard constant singing. I used to sing from morning till night like the nightingale. Look how wide that horizon is, how calm. See the contrast between God's immensity and those mechanisms there, (pointing out the pylon of the electric line).”
And, we see something similar in a remark he made about La Courneuve where he was parish priest, the last vestiges of the old monarchy were being burnt and scattered, modern progress was ruining everything:
Quote:“There were six to seven thousand inhabitants. I set off with 1,800. When I left there were nearly 8,000. Deeds of the day of St. Louis were dated Curgis Nova. I have seen traces of its manor. I have seen the rest of its paving scattered. Fine varnished and decorated tiles. I knew its last ruins at La Courneuve and also the château of Joinville, burnt in 1870. (i.e. during the Prussian invasion after the collapse of the regime of Napoleon III), All that has gone very ugly, very common just now. Industrialism flattens out everything.”
So, we can assume when the ugly industrialism of 'Big Buiness' dwindles, never to rise as big again, as he predicted, we will see a bucolic Age of piety and peace once again.
Another Indication Our Lady will Bring the Peace
We Must Place Ourselves Under Her Care - How to Pray to Our Lady. Père Lamy:
Quote:“What a much better place this wretched world would be if Our Lady could have her way; if we didn't place hindrances to her empire over our souls. We keep her from acting in our favour. For those who give themselves up to Her, she sees everything in advance.” (I.e. Père Lamy was saying she takes care of them, things will turn out much better if people place themselves under her care.)
He also noted: “She loves us to pray with confidence and then let her do everything her own way.”
For effective prayer with her, keep things simple he noted! Our Lady does not like long, proud prayers as if she did not know what you are praying about. Perhaps trying to 'explain everything' to her is a lack of trust and confidence, in that we do not trust she understands us or that she can help us, so we feel we have to 'command', or spell out our needs. Père Lamy said:
Quote:“She listens to us all but she gives special preference to the trustful, humble prayer of the little ones. Imperious prayers cannot be heard much. She likes simplicity. I get requests (to pray to her with) 'firstly', 'secondly'. She does not care for those mechanics. As for me, I put everything into the bag. I mean to say, I do not go into details. You offer her those requests. That's alright. (…) I say to her, 'Sweet Mother, I am bringing you a lot of tiresome things. All these petitions.'. She is straight. She has sound judgment. You don't need to explain things to her, as 'Cure me this nerve, because this nerve regulates such and such a joint which hinders me from this or that movement of my foot.' She knows all that. Not, 'such a malady, such a foot or such a thing.' No; say 'I am ill.' She said to me one day, 'They want me to work in matter; they understand only that.' (He explained later, 'she would prefer to be asked to work a miracle on a soul. Her Son suffered for souls; the body passes.) She does not lose herself in complicated entreaties when she addresses Our Lord. She says, 'Jesus', or 'My Son.' He says 'Mother', and they have understood each other. Let us say, like the sick used to say to her Son, “Mary, Daughter of David, take pity on me.' She never says a useless word. She doesn't want you to say more than is necessary.”
He explained why she sometimes doesn't grant a request:
Quote:“When you ask a miracle from the Blessed Virgin and she refuses you, she says why. It is because your wish contradicts the designs of God. The Father establishes certain rules and everyone must conform. Now hardly any one asks to do the will of God. Most prayers are orders. My God, do this; do that. Speaking of favours unobtained the Blessed Virgin used to say to me: 'You are on the earth to do the will of God and my will is in accord with His.”
Regarding Peace in the World
Père Lamy:
Quote:“You must place all your trust in the Blessed Virgin. She holds the rudder. She told me, 'I have only to ask. God will give peace to the world.'. He noted how merciful she is, even with this wicked world. She revealed: “If God in his wrath were to smash the world, I would bring Him back the pieces.”
Regarding France, he noted: “A day will come when right-thinking men will rebuild the country. I could easily tell you when. When the wind passes all the corn bends one way, so when the Mother of God passes by, all will bend willy-nilly.
(Note: Our Lord revealed to other mystics such as Marie-Julie Jahenny that the coming of the Age of Peace has been left to the discretion of His Mother, and France would see the beginning of it –let us pray to her to bring the promised peace!)
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Posted by: Stone - 02-09-2022, 08:05 AM - Forum: Fathers of the Church
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1 John 1:1-2:11
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, and which we have seen with our eyes, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life: and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us: the things which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and that our fellowship may be with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son shall cleanse us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins: not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And in this we do know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that says he knows Him, and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. In this we know that we are in Him, if in Him we be perfect. He that says he abides in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. Beloved, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard. Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. For he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, and our hands have handled, of the word of life. Who is he that with hands does handle the Word, except because The Word was made flesh, and dwelt in us? Now this Word which was made flesh that it might be handled, began to be flesh, of the Virgin Mary: but not then began the Word, for the Apostle says, That which was from the beginning. See whether his epistle does not bear witness to his gospel, where ye lately heard, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. John 1:1 Perchance, Concerning the word of life one may take as a sort of expression concerning Christ, not the very body of Christ which was handled with hands. See what follows: And the Life was manifested. Christ therefore is the word of life. And whereby manifested? For it was from the beginning, only not manifested to men: but it was manifested to angels, who saw it and fed on it as their bread. But what says the Scripture? Man did eat angels' bread. Well then the Life was manifested in the flesh; because it exhibited in manifestation, that that which can be seen by the heart only, should be seen by the eyes also, that it might heal the hearts. For only by the heart is the Word seen: but the flesh is seen by the bodily eyes also. We had wherewith to see the flesh, but had not wherewith to see the Word: the Word was made flesh, which we might see, that so that in us might be healed wherewith we might see the Word.
2. And we have seen and are witnesses. 1 John 1:2 Perhaps some of the brethren who are not acquainted with the Greek do not know what the word witnesses is in Greek: and yet it is a term much used by all, and had in religious reverence; for what in our tongue we call witnesses, in Greek are martyrs. Now where is the man that has not heard of martyrs, or where the Christian in whose mouth the name of martyrs dwells not every day and would that it so dwelt in the heart also, that we should imitate the sufferings of the martyrs, not persecute them with our cups! Well then, We have seen and are witnesses, is as much as to say, We have seen and are martyrs. For it was for bearing witness of that which they had seen, and bearing witness of that which they had heard from them who had seen, that, while their testimony itself displeased the men against whom it was delivered, the martyrs suffered all that they did suffer. The martyrs are God's witnesses. It pleased God to have men for His witnesses, that men also may have God to be their witness. We have seen, says he, and are witnesses. Where have they seen? In the manifestation. What means, in the manifestation? In the sun, that is, in this light of day. And how should He be seen in the sun who made the sun, except as in the sun He has set His tabernacle; and Himself as a bridegroom going forth out of his chamber, exulted as a giant to run His course? He before the sun, who made the sun, He before the day-star, before all the stars, before all angels, the true Creator, (for all things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made,) that He might be seen by eyes of flesh which see the sun, set His very tabernacle in the sun, that is, showed His flesh in manifestation of this light of day: and that Bridegroom's chamber was the Virgin's womb, because in that virginal womb were joined the two, the Bridegroom and the bride, the Bridegroom the Word, and the bride the flesh; because it is written, And they two shall be one flesh; Genesis 2:24 and the Lord says in the Gospel, Therefore they are no more two but one flesh. Matthew 19:6 And Esaias remembers right well that they are two: for speaking in the person of Christ he says, He has set a mitre upon me as upon a bridegroom, and adorned me with an ornament as a bride. One seems to speak, yet makes Himself at once Bridegroom and Bride; because not two, but one flesh: because the Word was made flesh, and dwelt in us. To that flesh the Church is joined, and so there is made the whole Christ, Head and body.
3. And we are witnesses, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us: i.e., manifested among us: which might be more plainly expressed, manifested to us. The things, therefore, which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you. 1 John 1:3 Those saw the Lord Himself present in the flesh, and heard words from the mouth of the Lord, and told them to us. Consequently we also have heard, but have not seen. Are we then less happy than those who saw and heard? And how does he add, That ye also may have fellowship with us? Those saw, we have not seen, and yet we are fellows; because we hold the faith in common. For there was one who did not believe even upon seeing, and would needs handle, and so believe, and said, I will not believe except I thrust my fingers into the place of the nails, and touch His scars. John 20:25-29 And He did give Himself for a time to be handled by the hands of men, who always gives Himself to be seen by the sight of the angels; and that disciple did handle, and exclaimed, My Lord, and my God! Because he touched the Man, he confessed the God. And the Lord, to console us who, now that He sits in heaven, cannot touch Him with the hand, but only reach Him with faith, said to him, Because you have seen, you have believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believe. We are here described, we designated. Then let the blessedness take place in us, of which the Lord predicted that it should take place; let us firmly hold that which we see not; because those tell us who have seen. That ye also, says he, may have fellowship with us. And what great matter is it to have fellowship with men? Do not despise it; see what he adds: and our fellowship may be with God the Father, and Jesus Christ His Son. And these things, says he, we write unto you, that your joy may be full. 1 John 1:4 Full joy he means in that fellowship, in that charity, in that unity.
4. And this is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you. 1 John 1:5 What is this? Those same have seen, have handled with their hands, the Word of life: He was from the beginning, and for a time was made visible and palpable, the Only-begotten Son of God. For what thing did He come, or what new thing did He tell us? What was it His will to teach? Wherefore did He this which He did, that the Word should be made flesh, that God over all things should suffer indignities from men, that He should endure to be smitten upon the face by the hands which Himself had made? What would He teach? What would He show? What would He declare? Let us hear: for without the fruit of the precept the hearing of the story, how Christ was born, and how Christ suffered, is a mere pastime of the mind, not a strengthening of it. What great thing do you hear? With what fruit you hear, see to that. What would He teach? What declare? Hear. That God is light, says he, and there is no darkness in Him at all. Hitherto, he has named indeed the light, but the words are dark: good is it for us that the very light which he has named should enlighten our hearts, and we should see what he has said. This it is that we declare, that God is light, and there is no darkness in Him at all. Who would dare to say that there is darkness in God? Or what is the light? Or what darkness? Lest haply he speaks of such things as pertain to these eyes of ours. God is light. Says some man, The sun also is light, and the moon also is light, and a candle is light. It ought to be something far greater than these, far more excellent, and far more surpassing. How much God is distant from the creature, how much the Maker from the making, how much Wisdom from that which is made by Wisdom, far beyond all things must this light needs be. And haply we shall be near to it, if we get to know what this light is, and apply ourselves unto it, that by it we may be enlightened; because in ourselves we are darkness, and only when enlightened by it can we become light, and not be put to confusion by it, being put to confusion by ourselves. Who is he that is put to confusion by himself? He that knows himself to be a sinner. Who is he that by it is not put to confusion? He who by it is enlightened. What is it to be enlightened by it? He that now sees himself to be darkened by sins, and desires to be enlightened by it, draws near to it: whence the Psalm says, Draw near unto Him, and be ye enlightened; and your faces shall not be ashamed. But you shall not be shamed by it, if, when it shall show you to yourself that you are foul, your own foulness shall displease you, that you may perceive its beauty. This it is that He would teach.
5. And may it be that we say this over-hastily? Let the apostle himself make this plain in what follows. Remember what was said at the outset of our discourse, that the present epistle commends charity: God is light, says he, and in Him is no dark ness at all. And what said he above? That ye may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with God the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. But moreover, if God be light, and in Him is no darkness at all, and we must have fellowship with Him, then from us also must the darkness be driven away, that there may be light created in us, for darkness cannot have fellowship with light. To this end, see what follows: If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie. 1 John 1:6 You have also the Apostle Paul saying, Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14 You say you have fellowship with God, and you walk in darkness; and God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all: then how should there be fellowship between light and darkness? At this point therefore a man may say to himself, What shall I do? How shall I be light? I live in sins and iniquities. There steals upon him, as it were, a desperation and sadness. There is no salvation save in the fellowship of God. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. But sins are darkness, as the Apostle says of the devil and his angels, that they are rulers of this darkness. Ephesians 6:12 He would not call them of darkness, save as rulers of sins, having lordship over the wicked. Then what are we to do, my brethren? Fellowship with God must be had, other hope of life eternal is none; now God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all: now iniquities are darkness; by iniquities we are pressed down, that we cannot have fellowship with God: what hope have we then? Did I not promise to speak something during these days, that shall cause gladness? Which if I make not good, this is sadness. God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all; sins are darkness: what shall become of us? Let us hear, whether perhaps He will console, lift up, give hope, that we faint not by the way. For we are running, and running to our own country; and if we despair of attaining, by that very despair we fail. But He whose will it is that we attain, that He may keep us safe in our own land, feeds us in the way. Hear we then: If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. Let us not say that we have fellowship with Him, if we walk in darkness. If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. 1 John 1:7 Let us walk in the light, as He is in the light, that we may be able to have fellowship with Him. And what are we to do about our sins? Hear what follows, And the blood of Jesus Christ His Son shall purge us from all sin. Great assurance has God given! Well may we celebrate the Passover, wherein was shed the blood of the Lord, by which we are cleansed from all sin! Let us be assured: the handwriting which was against us, Colossians 2:14 the bond of our slavery, the devil held, but by the blood of Christ it is blotted out. The blood, says he, of His Son shall purge us from all sin. What means, from all sin? Mark: lo even now, in the name of Christ whom these here have now confessed, who are called infants, have all their sins been cleansed. They came in old, they went out new. How, came in old, went out new? Old men they came in, infants they went out. For the old life is old age with all its dotage, but the new life is the infancy of regeneration. But what are we to do? The past sins are pardoned, not only to these but to us; and after the pardon and abolition of all sins, by living in this world in the midst of temptations, some haply have been contracted. Therefore what he can, let man do; let him confess himself to be what he is, that he may be cured by Him who always is what He is: for He always was and is; we were not and are.
6. For see what He says; If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8 Consequently, if you have confessed yourself a sinner, the truth is in you: for the Truth itself is light. Your life has not yet shone in perfect brightness, because there are sins in you; but yet you have already begun to be enlightened, because there is in you the confession of sins. For see what follows: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to purge us from all iniquity. 1 John 1:9 Not only the past, but haply if we have contracted any from this life; because a man, so long as he bears the flesh, cannot but have some at any rate light sins. But these which we call light, do not make light of. If you make light of them when you weigh them, be afraid when you count them. Many light make one huge sin: many drops fill the river; many grains make the lump. And what hope is there? Before all, confession: lest any think himself righteous, and, before the eyes of God who sees that which is, man, that was not and is, lift up the neck. Before all, then, confession; then, love: for of charity what is said? Charity covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8 Now let us see whether he commends charity in regard of the sins which subsequently overtake us: because charity alone extinguishes sins. Pride extinguishes charity: therefore humility strengthens charity; charity extinguishes sins. Humility goes along with confession, the humility by which we confess ourselves sinners: this is humility, not to say it with the tongue, as if only to avoid arrogancy, lest we should displease men if we should say that we are righteous. This do the ungodly and insane: I know indeed that I am righteous, but what shall I say before men? If I shall call myself righteous, who will bear it, who tolerate? Let my righteousness be known unto God: I however will say that I am a sinner, but only that I may not be found odious for arrogancy. Tell men what you are, tell God what you are. Because if you tell not God what you are, God condemns what He shall find in you. Would you not that He condemn you? Condemn you. Would you that He forgive? Do you acknowledge, that you may be able to say unto God, Turn Your face from my sins. Say also to Him those words in the same Psalm, For I acknowledge mine iniquity. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to purge us from all iniquity. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. 1 John 1:9-10 If you shall say, I have not sinned, you make Him a liar, while you wish to make yourself true. How is it possible that God should be a liar, and man true, when the Scripture says the contrary, Every man a liar, God alone true? Romans 3:4 Consequently, God true through Himself, you true through God; because through yourself, a liar.
7. And lest haply he should seem to have given impunity for sins, in that he said, He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all iniquity; and men henceforth should say to themselves, Let us sin, let us do securely what we will, Christ purges us, is faithful and just, purges us from all iniquity: He takes from you an evil security, and puts in an useful fear. To your own hurt you would be secure; you must be solicitous. For He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, provided you always displease yourself, and be changing until you be perfected. Accordingly, what follows? My little children, these things I write unto you, that you sin not. 1 John 2:1 But perchance sin overtakes us from our mortal life: what shall be done then? What? Shall there be now despair? Hear: And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and He is the propitiator for our sins. 1 John 2:1-2 He then is the advocate; do your endeavor not to sin: if from the infirmity of this life sin shall overtake you, see to it straightway, straightway be displeased, straightway condemn it; and when you have condemned, you shall come assured unto the Judge. There have you the advocate: fear not to lose your cause in your confession. For if oft-times in this life a man commits his cause to an eloquent tongue, and is not lost; you commit yourself to the Word, and shall you be lost? Cry, We have an advocate with the Father.
8. See John himself observing humility. Assuredly he was a righteous and a great man, who from the Lord's bosom drank in the secrets of His mysteries; he, the man who by drinking from the Lord's bosom indited of His Godhead, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God: he, being such a man as this, says not, You have an advocate with the Father; but, If any man sin, an advocate, says he, have we. He says not, you have; nor says, you have me; nor says, you have Christ Himself: but he puts Christ, not himself, and says, also, We have, not, you have. He chose rather to put himself in the number of sinners that he might have Christ for his advocate, than to put himself in Christ's stead as advocate, and to be found among the proud that shall be condemned. Brethren, Jesus Christ the righteous, even Him have we for our advocate with the Father; He, even He, is the propitiation for our sins. This whoever has held fast, has made no heresy; this whoever has held fast, has made no schism. For whence came schisms? When men say, we are righteous, when men say, we sanctify the unclean, we justify the ungodly; we ask, we obtain. But what says John? And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. But some man will say: then do the saints not ask for us? Then do bishops and rulers not ask for the people? Yea, but mark the Scriptures, and see that rulers also commend themselves to the prayers of the people. Thus the apostle says to the congregation, Praying withal for us also. Colossians 4:3 The apostle prays for the people, the people prays for the apostle. We pray for you, brethren: but do ye also pray for us. Let all the members pray one for another; let the Head intercede for all. Therefore it is no marvel that he here goes on and shuts the mouths of them that divide the Church of God. For he that has said, We have Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the propitiation for our sins: having an eye to those who would divide themselves, and would say, Lo, here is Christ, lo, there; Matthew 24:23 and would show Him in a part who bought the whole and possesses the whole, he immediately goes on to say, Not our sins only, but also the sins of the whole world. What is this, brethren? Certainly we have found it in the fields of the woods, we have found the Church in all nations. Behold, Christ is the propitiation for our sins; not ours only, but also the sins of the whole world. Behold, you have the Church throughout the whole world; do not follow false justifiers who in truth are cutters off. Be in that mountain which has filled the whole earth: because Christ is the propitiation for our sins; not only ours, but also the sins of the whole world, which He has bought with His blood.
9. And in this, says he, we do know Him, if we keep His commandments. 1 John 2:3-4 What commandments? He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But still you ask, What commandments? But whoever, says he, keeps His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. 1 John 2:5 Let us see whether this same commandment be not called love. For we were asking, what commandments, and he says, But whoever keeps His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Mark the Gospel, whether this be not the commandment: A new commandment, says the Lord, give I unto you, that you love one another. John 13:34 — In this we know that we are in Him, if in Him we be perfected. Perfected in love, he calls them: what is perfection of love? To love even enemies, and love them for this end, that they may be brethren. For not a carnal love ought ours to be. To wish a man temporal good, is good; but though that fail, let the soul be safe. Do you wish life to any that is your friend? You do well. Do you rejoice at the death of your enemy? You do badly. But haply both to your friend the life you wish him is not for his good, and to your enemy the death you rejoice at has been for his good. It is uncertain whether this present life be profitable to any man or unprofitable: but the life which is with God without doubt is profitable. So love your enemies as to wish them to become your brethren; so love your enemies as that they may be called into your fellowship. For so loved He who, hanging on the cross, said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34 For he did not say, Father let them live long, me indeed they kill, but let them live. He was casting out from them the death which is for ever and ever, by His most merciful prayer, and by His most surpassing might. Many of them believed, and the shedding of the blood of Christ was forgiven them. At first they shed it while they raged; now they drank it while they believed. In this we know that we are in Him, if in Him we be made perfect. Touching the very perfection of love of enemies, the Lord admonishing, says, Be therefore perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 He, therefore, that says he abides in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 1 John 2:6 How, brethren? What does he advise us? He that says he abides in Him, i.e., in Christ, ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. Haply the advice is this, that we should walk on the sea? That be far from us! It is this then, that we walk in the way of righteousness. In what way? I have already mentioned it. He was fixed upon the cross, and yet was He walking in this very way: this way is the way of charity, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. If, therefore, you have learned to pray for your enemy, you walk in the way of the Lord.
10. Dearly beloved, I write unto you no new commandment, but the old commandment which you had from the beginning. 1 John 2:7 What commandment calls he old? Which you had, says he, from the beginning. Old then, in this regard, that you have already heard it: otherwise he will contradict the Lord, where He says, A new commandment give I unto you, that you love one another. John 13:34 But why an old commandment? Not as pertaining to the old man. But why? Which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard. Old then, in this regard, that you have already heard it. And the selfsame he shows to be new, saying, Again, a new commandment write I unto you. 1 John 2:8 Not another, but the selfsame which he has called old, the same is also new. Why? Which thing is true in Him and in you. Why old, you have already heard: i.e., because you knew it already. But why new? Because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. Lo, whence it is new: because the darkness pertains to the old man, but the light to the new man. What says the Apostle Paul? Put off the old man, and put on the new. Colossians 3:9-10 And again what says he? You were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord. Ephesians 5:8
11. He that says he is in the light — now he is making all clear that he has been saying — he that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. 1 John 2:9 What! My brethren, how long shall we say to you, Love your enemies? Matthew 5:44 See whether, what is worse, you do not hate your brethren. If you loved only your brethren, you would be not yet perfect: but if you hate your brethren, what are you, where are you? Let each look to his own heart: let him not keep hatred against his brother for any hard word; on account of earthly contention let him not become earth. For whoever hates his brother, let him not say that he walks in the light. He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. Thus, some man who was a pagan has become a Christian; mark well: behold he was in darkness, while he was a pagan: now is he made henceforth a Christian; thanks be to God, say all joyfully; the apostle is read, where he says joyfully, For you were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord. Ephesians 5:8 Once he worshipped idols, now he worships God; once he worshipped the things he made, now he worships Him that made him. He is changed: thanks be to God, say all Christians with joyful greeting. Why? Because henceforth he is one that adores the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost; one that detests demons and idols. Yet still is John solicitous about our convert: while many greet him with joy, by him he is still looked upon with apprehension. Brethren, let us gladly welcome a mother's solicitude. Not without cause is the mother solicitous about us when others rejoice: by the mother, I mean charity: for she dwelt in the heart of John, when he spoke these words. Wherefore, but because there is something he fears in us, even when men now hail us with joy? What is it that he fears? He that says he is in the light — What is this? He that says now he is a Christian —and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. Which there is no need to expound: but to be glad of it, if it be not so, or to bewail it, if it be.
12. He that loves his brother abides (manet) in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2:10 — I beseech you by Christ: God is feeding us, we are about to refresh our bodies in the name of Christ; they both are in some good measure refreshed, and are to be refreshed: let the mind be fed. Not that I am going to speak for a long time, do I say this; for behold, the lesson is now coming to an end: but lest haply of weariness we should hear less attentively than we ought that which is most necessary. — He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no scandal, or none occasion of stumbling, in him. Who are they that take scandal or make scandal? They that are offended in Christ, and in the Church. They that are offended in Christ, are as if burnt by the sun, those in the Church as by the moon. But the Psalm says, The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night: i.e., if you hold fast charity, neither in Christ shall you have occasion of falling, nor in the Church; neither Christ shall you forsake, nor the Church. For he that forsakes the Church, how is he in Christ who is not in the members of Christ? How is he in Christ who is not in the body of Christ? Those therefore take scandal, or, occasion of falling, who forsake Christ or the Church. Whence do we understand that the Psalm in saying, By day shall the sun not burn you, nor the moon by night, says it of this, that the burning means scandal, or occasion of stumbling? In the first place mark the similitude itself. Just as the person whom something is burning says, I cannot bear it, I cannot away with it, and draws back; so those persons who cannot bear some things in the Church, and withdraw themselves either from the name of Christ or from the Church, are taking scandal. For see how those took scandal as from the sun, those carnal ones to whom Christ preached of His flesh, saying, He that eats not the flesh of the Son of Man and drinks His blood, shall have no life in him. John 6:54-69 Some seventy persons said, This is an hard saying, and went back from Him, and there remained the twelve. All those the sun burnt, and they went back, not being able to bear the force of the Word. There remained therefore the twelve. And lest haply men should imagine that they confer a benefit upon Christ by believing on Christ, and not that the benefit is conferred by Him upon them; when the twelve were left, the Lord said to them, Will you also go? That you may know that I am necessary to you, not you to me. But those whom the sun had not burnt, answered by the voice of Peter: Lord, You have the word of eternal life; whither shall we go? But who are they that the Church as the moon burns by night? They that have made schisms. Hear the very word used in the apostle: Who is offended, and I burn not? 2 Corinthians 11:29 In what sense then is it, that there is no scandal or occasion of stumbling in him that loves his brother? Because he that loves his brother, bears all things for unity's sake; because it is in the unity of charity that brotherly love exists. Some one, I know not who, offends you: whether it be a bad man, or as you suppose a bad man, or as you pretend a bad man: and do you desert so many good men? What sort of brotherly love is that which has appeared in these persons? While they accuse the Africans, they have deserted the whole world! What, were there no saints in the whole world? Or was it possible they should be condemned by you unheard? But oh! If you loved your brethren, there would be none occasion of stumbling in you. Hear the Psalm, what it says: Great peace have they that love Your law, and there is to them none occasion of stumbling. Great peace it says there is for them that love the law of God, and that is why there is to them none occasion of stumbling. Those then who take scandal, or, occasion of stumbling, destroy peace. And of whom says he that they take not and make not occasion of stumbling? They that love God's law. Consequently they are in charity. But some man will say, He said it of them that love God's law, not of the brethren. Hear what the Lord says: A new commandment give I unto you that you love one another. John 13:34 What is the Law but commandment? Moreover, how is it they do not take occasion of stumbling, but because they forbear one another? As Paul says, Forbearing one another in love, studying to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:2-3 And to show that this is the law of Christ, hear the same apostle commending this very law. Bear one another's burdens, says he, and so shall you fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
13. For he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not whither he goes. 1 John 2:11 A great thing, my brethren: mark it, we beseech you. He that hates his brother walks in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. What so blind as these who hate their brethren? For that you may know that they are blind, they have stumbled at a Mountain. I say the same things often, that they may not slip out of your memory. The Stone which was cut out of the Mountain without hands, is it not Christ, who came of the kingdom of the Jews, without the work of man? Has not that Stone broken in pieces all the kingdoms of the earth, that is, all the dominations of idols and demons? Has not that Stone grown, and become a great mountain, and filled the whole earth? Do we point with the finger to this Mountain in like manner as the moon on its third day is pointed out to men? For example, when they wish people to see the new moon, they say, Lo, the moon! lo, where it is! And if there be some there who are not sharp-sighted, and say, Where? Then the finger is put forth that they may see it. Sometimes when they are ashamed to be thought blind, they say they have seen what they have not seen. Do we in this way point out the Church, my brethren? Is it not open? Is it not manifest? Has it not possessed all nations? Is not that fulfilled which so many years before was promised to Abraham, that in his seed should all nations be blessed? Genesis 22:18 It was promised to one believer, and the world is filled with thousands of believers. Behold here the mountain filling the whole face of the earth! Behold the city of which it is said, A city set upon a mountain cannot be hid! Matthew 5:14 But those stumble at the mountain, and when it is said to them, Go up; There is no mountain, say they, and dash their heads against it sooner than seek a habitation there. Esaias was read yesterday; whosoever of you was awake not with his eyes only but with his ear, and not the ear of the body but the ear of the heart, noted this; In the last days shall the mountain of the house of the Lord be manifest, prepared upon the top of the mountains. Isaiah 2:2 What so manifest as a mountain? But there are even mountains unknown, because they are situated in one part of the earth. Which of you knows Mount Olympus? Just as the people who dwell there do not know our Giddaba. These mountains are in different parts of the earth. But not so that Mountain, for it has filled the whole face of the earth, and of it is said, Prepared upon the top of the mountains. It is a Mountain above the tops of all mountains. And, says he, to it shall be gathered all nations. Who can fail to be aware of this Mountain? Who breaks his head by stumbling against it? Who is ignorant of the city set upon a mountain? But marvel not that it is unknown by these who hate the brethren, because they walk in darkness and know not whither they go, because the darkness has blinded their eyes. They do not see the Mountain: I would not have you marvel; they have no eyes. How is it they have no eyes? Because the darkness has blinded them. How do we prove this? Because they hate the brethren, in that, while they are offended at Africans, they separate themselves from the whole earth: in that they do not tolerate for the peace of Christ those whom they defame, and do tolerate for the sake of Donatus those whom they condemn.
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| 300 Catholics attend rosary rally in Chicago to protest Cdl. Cupich’s crackdown on Latin Mass |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2022, 12:28 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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300 Catholics attend rosary rally in Chicago to protest Cdl. Cupich’s crackdown on Latin Mass
A movement to 'save the Latin Mass' and reverse the 'destructive new restrictions' on the traditional liturgy is gaining momentum.
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Mon Feb 7, 2022
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Over 300 Chicago Catholics on Sunday protested Cardinal Blase Cupich’s crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass.
The Catholics gathered to pray the rosary outside of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral on February 6, the “commencement day” of Cupich’s ban on Traditional Latin Masses celebrated on the first Sunday of the month.
“What have we done to deserve this punishment?” a man asked the crowd of protestors on a loudspeaker during the rally, before announcing that they would begin by crowning a statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
Attending demonstrators held a variety of signs and banners with messages such as “Saints love the TLM,” “This is the Restoration,” and “Cardinal Cupich, have mercy on the Latin Mass.” Alluding to Cupich’s claim that the Latin Mass restrictions are ordered toward the “unity” of the Church, some of the protestors held a banner reading, “Unity in Fidelity.”
These Catholics are part of a passionate movement, now called “Catholic Solidarity,” that is uniting Catholic organizations and individuals in a fight to defend and preserve the Latin Mass. This past Sunday was their fifth time gathering, and they plan on continuing to meet weekly.
One of the central organizers of the movement, Richard Smaglick, explained to LifeSiteNews that the goal is to “reverse Cardinal Cupich’s edict and crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass” so that it doesn’t become a precedent for other bishops around the country.”
In addition to banning the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass on the first Sunday of each month, Cupich’s directive applying Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis custodes, announced two days after Christmas, required all priests, deacons, and instituted ministers to request permission to celebrate the Latin Mass either publicly or privately after January 25.
Cupich also banned the traditional Mass on Christmas, Easter Sunday, and Pentecost Sunday, strictly prohibiting the traditional sacraments and the celebration of Mass ad orientem without his permission.
Smaglick told LifeSite that “as far as liturgy is concerned,” “ultimately our goal is what Bishop Athanasius Schneider is calling for, and that’s for Traditionis Custodes to be rescinded.”
The movement began with a coalition of groups including those behind the “Save the Latin Mass” mission, the Coalition for Canceled Priests, the Lepanto Institute, Regina Magazine, a group of Polish Catholics, and others.
The Save the Latin Mass website affirms that they see their “public witness to Catholic tradition and the timeless validity of the Mass of the ages” as “a vital part of the growing effort to turn back the unwarranted and destructive new restrictions.”
The group sees the crackdown as part of a larger repudiation of Catholic morality and doctrine: “Who will stand to defend the integrity of the faith? One by one, priests who do so are losing their faculties. The coercive authoritarian oppression to which good priests and faithful traditionalist communities are being subjected is crushing.”
They believe “this oppression cannot be sustained” if the laity carry out their “duty,” as spelled out in can. 212 of the Church’s law, to “manifest” to their pastors “their views on matters which concern the good of the Church.”
They invited Catholics to attend Sunday’s rally “to pray the rosary for the Church and to make known to the Pope, bishops, clergy and the wider world, that neither the destruction of our strong traditional Catholic communities nor the corruption of the Catholic faith itself will be tolerated.”
The power of the Catholic Solidarity movement relies on the “spiritual foundation” of prayer, as well as the influence of their public witness, according to Smaglick.
It shows “people in the community that there is legitimate and serious resistance,” and “shows the Catholic media and secular media” that this effort “isn’t going away, it’s something that’s growing,” said Smaglick.
It also “shows the bishops who haven’t taken a public stance on this, but who have greater concerns about the destructive ramifications of Traditionis Custodes that there are good reasons to resist it, there are good people to defend, and that we are there to support them in that process. And we invite them to support us,” he continued.
He believes that “lone priests going out and making a statement can start a phenomenon where priests unite to resist this,” but that this “organized, unified resistance” is key to their efforts. Otherwise, “they end up being picked off one by one, sort of like clay pigeons being launched at a shooting range.”
Smaglick said the movement is gaining traction and has attracted “a lot” of support for its driving principles. “Requests for banners are coming in. Ideas for people to use this in similar ways throughout the country are coming. It’s growing,” he told LifeSiteNews.
He added that his group is “interested in building relationships” with other Catholic groups “that share the goal of defending Catholic tradition and the integrity of the faith.”
The making of a movement
Cupich’s suppression of the Latin Mass, enacted to conform with Traditionis Custodes and its later-released accompanying directive, was met with immediate backlash and renewed calls for his resignation. A change.org petition launched in 2018 urging him to step down also received a boost of signatures, and now has amassed over 52,000.
The Coalition for Canceled Priests (CFCP), a lay-led organization formed in July to support priests punished for unapologetically proclaiming the Truth, launched a billboard campaign in November to encourage the defense of the Traditional Latin Mass, in anticipation of its restriction by Cupich following his article in America magazine.
One of the goals of the campaign is to show a swell of support from the laity for those priests who are “in fear of being canceled” for their willingness to continue offering the Latin Mass, the CFCP said.
“The Coalition will stand up for these priests, so they know that the laity are behind them, and they know our appreciation for the access they provide to the Mass of the Ages,” said the CFCP.
The CFCP has since served as a core member around which the Catholic Solidarity movement coalesced.
Fr. John Lovell, co-founder of the Coalition for Canceled Priests, and himself a ten-year canceled priest of the Diocese of Rockford, is attending the weekly rallies. He wrote in late December on why the CFCP is fighting back against TLM restrictions.
He explained that in his experience, while he has “learned … that once a bishop has made a decision and issued a decree, it is a rarity that he reverses course,” the submission of a canceled priest to his decree only “embold[ens]” the bishop in his ongoing persecution of other priests.
“Over and over again, the mantra of ‘let us wait and see’ has allowed the aggressors to seize the initiative and control the narrative,” wrote Lovell.
“So many are hoping that if they just look flexible to the bishops, they will be left alone. A major problem with this approach is that it sends the message that some TLM communities will turn a blind eye to other TLM communities being shut down, dividing rather than uniting against the injustice being done to all of them,” noted Lovell.
He called for a true united front on the part of all who celebrate and assist at the TLM: “The FSSP should stand shoulder to shoulder with ICKSP (and all other Ecclesia Dei communities) and vice-versa. Diocesan parishes with the TLM should stand with the Ecclesia Dei communities and vice-versa.”
The rosary rallies to save the Latin Mass are being held every Sunday in front of Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N State St., Chicago, Illinois, at 11 a.m.
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| Non-Vaccinated Austrians to Be Fined Starting From March 15 |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2022, 09:01 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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Non-Vaccinated Austrians to Be Fined Starting From March 15
schengenvisainfo.com | February 6, 2022
Since February 4, the mandate of imposing full and booster vaccination from Austrian citizens has entered force in the country. As a result, President Alexander Van der Bellen has signed the new law, according to which all adults residing in the country have to be vaccinated or risk being fined €600, starting from March 15.
Except for specific categories, such as pregnant people, those with health conditions affected by vaccines, and those who have been previously infected with COVID-19, the rest are required to get vaccinated, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
From March 15, authorities will begin conducting random checks for vaccination certificates, including traffic stops. Moreover, according to this vaccine mandate, which is set to expire on January 31, 2024, people can be fined up to four times a year, with fines increasing up to €3,400.
>> Austria to Shorten Vaccination Certificates’ Validity to 180 Days From February 1
According to The Times, the Austrian government plans to create an official registry of everyone who has been vaccinated and give those fined due vaccination dates, which can result in more fines.
However, the European Member States have adopted different approaches to the matter. For example, Germany, which, together with Austria, has some of the highest vaccination rollouts in the EU, intends to have more stringent measures in place. On the other hand, Denmark ended numerous COVID-19 imposed restrictions thanks to high vaccination rollouts.
Nonetheless, while authorities have decided to tighten COVID-19 rules, they have lifted the requirement for a pre-entry test, which was imposed previously as a preventive measure.
“From February 1, 2022, two-dose vaccinations are only valid for 180 days in Austria (exception: 210 days for under 18-year-olds). However, for ENTERING, the 270 days remain in place. The booster vaccination is valid for 270 days in both scenarios,” the Austrian authorities explained.
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) data, 72.8 per cent of the Austrian population has received primary vaccination, about 2.3 per cent more than the average EU/EEA population uptake. Moreover, 54.1 per cent has received the booster shot.
Similarly, vaccination rates in Germany are amongst the highest in the EU, as 74 per cent is fully vaccinated and 52.8 per cent has received the additional dose.
On the other hand, Denmark has an average of 81.5 per cent fully vaccinated inhabitants, while 83.2 per cent is partially vaccinated, and 61.2 per cent received the booster shot.
In addition, the World Health Organisation (WHO) data reveals that 231,697 positive cases have been registered in Austria in the last seven days, in addition to 84 deaths. Moreover, since the pandemic started, 1,968,963 positive cases and 13,671 deaths have been registered.
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| Letter of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI regarding the Munich Report on Abuse |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2022, 08:40 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Very Novus Ordo-esque...
Letter of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI regarding the Munich Report on Abuse
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gloria.tv | February 8, 2022
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Following the presentation of the report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising on 20 January last, I feel the need to address a personal word to all of you. Even though I served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising for a little less than five years, I continue to feel very much a part of the Archdiocese of Munich and to consider it home.
I would like first to offer a word of heartfelt thanks. In these days marked by examination of conscience and reflection, I was able to experience greater friendship and support, and signs of trust, than I could ever have imagined. I would like to thank in particular the small group of friends who selflessly compiled on my behalf my 82-page testimony for the Munich law firm, which I would have been unable to write by myself. In addition to responding to the questions posed by the law firm, this also demanded reading and analyzing almost 8,000 pages of documents in digital format. These assistants then helped me to study and analyze the almost 2,000 pages of expert opinions. The results will be published subsequently as an appendix to my letter.
Amid the massive work of those days – the development of my position – an oversight occurred regarding my participation in the chancery meeting of 15 January 1980. This error, which regrettably was verified, was not intentionally willed and I hope may be excused. I then arranged for Archbishop Gänswein to make it known in the press statement of 24 January last. In no way does it detract from the care and diligence that, for those friends, were and continue to be an evident and absolute imperative. To me it proved deeply hurtful that this oversight was used to cast doubt on my truthfulness, and even to label me a liar. At the same time, I have been greatly moved by the varied expressions of trust, the heartfelt testimonies and the moving letters of encouragement sent to me by so many persons. I am particularly grateful for the confidence, support and prayer that Pope Francis personally expressed to me. Lastly, I would thank the little family in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, whose communion of life in times of joy and sorrow has given me the interior serenity that supports me.
Now, to these words of thanks, there must necessarily also follow a confession. I am increasingly struck by the fact that day after day the Church begins the celebration of Holy Mass – in which the Lord gives us his word and his very self – with the confession of our sins and a petition for forgiveness. We publicly implore the living God to forgive [the sins we have committed through] our fault, through our most grievous fault. It is clear to me that the words “most grievous” do not apply each day and to every person in the same way. Yet every day they do cause me to question if today too I should speak of a most grievous fault. And they tell me with consolation that however great my fault may be today, the Lord forgives me, if I sincerely allow myself to be examined by him, and am really prepared to change.
In all my meetings, especially during my many Apostolic Journeys, with victims of sexual abuse by priests, I have seen at first hand the effects of a most grievous fault. And I have come to understand that we ourselves are drawn into this grievous fault whenever we neglect it or fail to confront it with the necessary decisiveness and responsibility, as too often happened and continues to happen. As in those meetings, once again I can only express to all the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness. I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate. Each individual case of sexual abuse is appalling and irreparable. The victims of sexual abuse have my deepest sympathy and I feel great sorrow for each individual case.
I have come increasingly to appreciate the repugnance and fear that Christ felt on the Mount of Olives when he saw all the dreadful things that he would have to endure inwardly. Sadly, the fact that in those moments the disciples were asleep represents a situation that, today too, continues to take place, and for which I too feel called to answer. And so, I can only pray to the Lord and ask all the angels and saints, and you, dear brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Quite soon, I shall find myself before the final judge of my life. Even though, as I look back on my long life, I can have great reason for fear and trembling, I am nonetheless of good cheer, for I trust firmly that the Lord is not only the just judge, but also the friend and brother who himself has already suffered for my shortcomings, and is thus also my advocate, my “Paraclete”. In light of the hour of judgement, the grace of being a Christian becomes all the more clear to me. It grants me knowledge, and indeed friendship, with the judge of my life, and thus allows me to pass confidently through the dark door of death. In this regard, I am constantly reminded of what John tells us at the beginning of the Apocalypse: he sees the Son of Man in all his grandeur and falls at his feet as though dead. Yet He, placing his right hand on him, says to him: “Do not be afraid! It is I…” (cf. Rev 1:12-17).
Dear friends, with these sentiments I bless you all.
Benedict XVI
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| Abp. Viganò endorses Canadian truck drivers, calls for prayers to defeat ‘infernal’ Great Reset |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-08-2022, 08:35 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Abp. Viganò endorses Canadian truck drivers, calls for prayers to defeat ‘infernal’ Great Reset
‘Your protest, dear Canadian truck driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the New World Order on the rubble of nation states.’
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Mon Feb 7, 2022
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(LifeSiteNews) – Dear Brothers and Sisters Canadian truck drivers,
The global coup that in these two years of psycho-pandemic farce has been carried out by the globalist elite appears most clearly if we do not limit ourselves to considering what happened in individual Nations, but broaden our gaze to what has happened everywhere.
Your protest, dear Canadian truck driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the New World Order on the rubble of nation states, through the Great Reset desired by the World Economic Forum and by the United Nations under the name of Agenda 2030. And we know that many heads of government have participated in Klaus Schwab’s School for Young Leaders – the so-called Global Leaders for Tomorrow – beginning with Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron, Jacinta Ardern and Boris Johnson, and before that Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair.
It would seem that Canada is – along with Australia, Italy, Austria and France – one of the nations most infiltrated by the globalists. And in this infernal project we must not only consider the psycho-pandemic farce, but also the attack on traditions and Christian identity – indeed, more precisely the Catholic identity – of these countries.
You understood this instinctively, and your yearning for freedom was shown in all its coordinated harmony, moving towards the capital Ottawa. Dear truck drivers, you are facing great difficulties, not only because you give up your work to demonstrate, but also because of the adverse weather conditions, long nights in the cold, and attempts to be cleared away that you face. But along with these difficulties you have also experienced the closeness of many of your fellow citizens, who like you have understood the looming threat and want to support you in protesting against the regime. Allow me also to express to you my support and my spiritual closeness, to which I join the prayer that your event may be crowned with success and may also extend to other countries.
In these days we see the masks of tyrants from all over the world fall, and unfortunately we also see so much conformism, so much fearfulness, so much cowardice in people who up until yesterday we regarded as friends, even among our family members. Yet, precisely because of this extreme situation, we discover with amazement gestures of humanity made by strangers, signs of solidarity and brotherhood on the part of those who feel close to us in the common battle. We discover so much generosity and so much desire to shake us from this stupor. We discover that we are no longer willing to passively suffer the destruction of our world imposed by a cabal of unscrupulous criminals, thirsty for power and money.
In this relentless attack on the traditional world, not only your way of life and your identity have been affected, but also your possessions, your activities, and your work. This is the Great Reset, this is the future promised by slogans like Build Back Better, this is the future of billions of people being controlled in their every move, in all their transactions, in every purchase, every bureaucratic practice, every activity. Automatons without souls or wills, deprived of their identity, reduced to having a universal income that allows them to survive, to buy only what others have already decided to put up for sale, transformed by a gene serum into people who are chronically ill.
Today more than ever it is essential that you realize that it is no longer possible to passively assist: it is necessary to take a position, to fight for freedom, to demand respect for natural freedoms. But even more, dear Canadian brothers, it is necessary to understand that this dystopia serves to establish the dictatorship of the New World Order and totally erase every trace of Our Lord Jesus Christ from society, from history, and from the traditions of peoples.
Demonstrate for your rights, Canadian friends: but may these rights not be limited to a simple claim to the freedom to enter supermarkets or not to be vaccinated: may it also be a proud and courageous claim to your sacrosanct right to be free men. But your demonstration should be one of true freedom, reminding you that it is the Truth – that is, Our Lord Jesus Christ – who alone can guarantee you freedom: the truth will make you free.
Let us pray that Christ will return to reign in society, in your hearts and in your families. Take up the spiritual weapon of the Holy Rosary, and pray to the Blessed Virgin, Sainte Ann, Saint George and the Holy Canadian Martyrs to protect your homeland.
I would like to conclude my appeal by asking you to pray with me, with the words that Our Lord has taught us: may they be the seal of this awakening, of this national liberation. Let us all pray it together, out loud, so that our prayer may rise to Heaven, but also so that it may resound powerfully in these squares, in these streets, all the way to the palaces of the powerful:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
7 February, 2022.
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| AI 'Nanny' Being Created By Chinese Scientists To Grow Babies In Robot Wombs |
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Posted by: Stone - 02-05-2022, 11:19 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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AI 'Nanny' Being Created By Chinese Scientists To Grow Babies In Robot Wombs
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ZH | FEB 04, 2022
Via TheMindUnleashed.com,
The artificial intelligence nanny has arrived. Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) may now be used in conjunction to optimize the generation of human life, marking a significant milestone in the science.
Robotics and artificial intelligence can now assist in the development of newborns via the use of algorithms and artificial wombs, which is eerily similar to what we see in the cult classic, The Matrix.
According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese experts in Suzhou have pioneered the development of the latest technological breakthrough. However, there are concerns about the ethical implications of raising human beings in an artificial environment.
The discoveries were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Engineering by Suzhou-based scientists. The AI nanny, according to the researchers, might aid in the growth of human kids in a “long-term embryo culture device.”
This artificial womb is a big machine containing compartments for individual fetuses. The infants will be fed as they would be in a real womb if they are in the chamber, which will be filled with an optimized mix of “nutritious fluids.”
In what seems sort of eugenics-y, a record of embryo health and “developmental potential” will be kept on file by the software over the duration of the embryo’s development.
It probably won’t happen any time soon..
At the moment, the new technology is being utilized to assist in the development of animal embryos that are developing into fetuses in the laboratory. This is due to the fact that the act of experimenting on human embryos older than two weeks is prohibited under international law.
Additionally, as the SMCP points out, surrogacy is prohibited in China. Because artificial wombs would effectively convert a hospital or laboratory into a mother under Chinese legislation, the technology is unlikely to be deployed in the area anytime soon.
Having said that, the development of artificial wombs is not a new concept. While this is not a new discovery, bringing the technology into human mass production and mixing it with ranking AI is, and it is a development that is quite dystopian sounding.
Of course, not everything is a hopeless dystopia..
Although the thought of artificially developing human infants is a far-fetched one, there are certain advantages to it. In the past, for example, the process of producing kids within people has been a lengthy, drawn-out, and unpleasant process, and this could potentially aid mothers who would like to have children, but are currently unable to, without having to use a human surrogate. After all, the population is about to start shrinking by the billions by the end of the century and fertility rates around the globe are collapsing at a frightening rate.
This seems like more of a “when” rather than an “if”..
When artificial human growth becomes available, it will enable couples who would otherwise be at danger during delivery to have children. Adoption is also an option for thousands of children currently in foster care who may be placed in permanent families.
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