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| New Policy: Baltimore Archdiocese drops fees for annulments in effort to quicken the process |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2021, 08:09 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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New policy: No contribution needed for annulment cases in Baltimore Archdiocese
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Father Gilbert J. Seitz, judicial vicar, leads the Office of the Tribunal for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)
Catholic Review | August 10, 2021
The Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Baltimore will no longer request a contribution to process an annulment case.
Archbishop William E. Lori implemented the policy change, which went into effect July 1. It was in response to a request by Pope Francis in 2015 to make the annulment process quicker and less expensive for couples.
In documents reforming the annulment process released by Pope Francis in 2015 – especially “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, the Gentle Judge”) for the Latin-rite church – the pope’s chief aim was to reaffirm the indissolubility of marriage while offering pastoral care, mercy and a welcoming hand to people whose broken unions were defective from the beginning.
Father Gilbert J. Seitz, judicial vicar for the archdiocese, told the Catholic Review, “The Holy Father has been trying to impress upon the ministers of justice throughout the world – both in Rome and in other dioceses all over – to eliminate any and all obstacles that would keep people from approaching a Tribunal and see a resolution of the question regarding a marriage bond.
“As a result of that, Archbishop Lori thought that it appropriate, particularly in this year, as we celebrate the year of the Eucharist, that we in Baltimore take the action that the Holy Father has suggested and remove that obstacle,” Father Seitz said.
In the past, the archdiocese requested a contribution of no more than $550 per case, but the contribution was not required. “It wasn’t actually a fee; it wasn’t as if you had to make that payment or you would not receive a final decree from us,” he said.
If people could make the contribution, the Tribunal was happy to accept it to help defray its costs to review and process the case.
Many people believed that there was a “charge” for an annulment, but that was not the case.
“If they were unable to make the contribution, under no circumstances would our service to them or our ministry to them in this matter be interrupted because of the lack of payment,” Father Seitz said. “We simply asked folks for that contribution and if they could, if their means allowed them, then we were very welcoming to receive that, but if their means didn’t allow it, then it became inconsequential.”
As a result of the new policy, there is no longer any financial contribution or financial commitment connected with the ministry the Tribunal offers to those who need it, he added.
“The concern of the archbishop, as was the concern of the Holy Father, is that any and all obstacles be removed so that folks can approach Tribunals when they have that need without being (financially) burdened,” Father Seitz said.
Since the Tribunal’s approach to finances has been so accommodating in the past, he said, some people approaching the Tribunal to begin the annulment process are not surprised that no contribution is being requested, but they are “extremely thankful that the financial burden has been lifted, especially in in the midst of a pandemic and the uncertainty of the economy. I think folks are just grateful that’s a burden that they don’t have to worry about,” he said.
Dominican Father D. Reginald Whitt, tribunal judge, left, discusses a case with Father Gilbert J. Seitz, judicial vicar, Aug. 5, 2021 in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Office of the Tribunal. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)
The archdiocesan Tribunal processes between 150 and 180 marriage cases per year using the formal process. Father Seitz said one of the reforms instituted by Pope Francis’ 2015 letters to make the process more “user-friendly” was to eliminate “the need for an automatic appeal if a decision of a lower court is in favor of the invalidity of the marriage,” that is, to grant the annulment.
That alone made a significant difference in the speed of the process. Since each Tribunal in the Province of Baltimore – which includes much of Maryland and the states of Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia – spent time reviewing cases of nullity from other dioceses, the lesser workload allows the Tribunal to complete cases more quickly.
“Usually in the Archdiocese of Baltimore right now, as in other dioceses in the province, it would be realistic to complete a case in about six months,” Father Seitz said.
He said that resolving marriage cases brought before the Tribunal is essentially pastoral care in the form of a process in Canon Law, the law of the church.
“Our ministry, more than anything else, is about enabling people to encounter the Lord Jesus,” the judicial vicar said. “So many folks, because of the hurt and pain of divorce, feel themselves alienated from former family members, perhaps from their own family members, from the church.
“And they come to us pained and burdened with those hurts and those pains, and our hope is that in utilizing the juridic process that the church establishes in a very pastoral way, we can help facilitate some healing for those folks, which would then enable them to recognize themselves as a member of the Body of Christ, wounded but healed, and as one who has encountered the risen Jesus, wounded and healed,” he said.
“And it’s amazing what can be accomplished when you take that woundedness, and that sense of healing and share it with others.”
Father Seitz said he often reminds his staff that they can follow the legal procedures well and with untold precision, but “if we have not done it in a way that enables folks to meet the risen Christ, we have not fulfilled our service to them, as we should.”
He said one of the tactics he employs is to carefully review a request for a petition or a petition to begin a case, before launching the formal case process.
If the petition is weak, or lacks something, he won’t accept it, sometimes encouraging the minister working with the party to dig deeper into the grounds for annulment. In that way, if and when the petition is accepted and the case begins, the questions the Tribunal asks can be better targeted to get the information the judges need to make a determination.
Without that care and concern, the case could go to completion and get a negative decision. “That, to me, will only add to the hurt and pain that folks have experienced,” Father Seitz said.
Even so, the process is not always easy for those going through it, because they need to address and acknowledge some things about their failed relationship that they would prefer not to admit.
“Hopefully, we can do that in a way that folks feel safe and not judged,” Father Seitz said. “And if we do that right, we can help people to grow and heal. And that’s our first concern because ultimately that gets to their salvation.”
He said that, in some cases, the decree of nullity may also allow people to return in full to the sacraments. He emphasized that it is incorrect that all divorced Catholics are unable to receive the Eucharist. Only those who are divorced and remarried outside the church are not to receive the Eucharist.
“If we grow and heal, we can find ourselves closer to the Lord Jesus and when we are closer to the Lord Jesus, we are that much closer to our salvation,” he said.
Father Seitz said he hopes that no longer being asked for a financial contribution for the annulment process enables people to “make a financial contribution or a contribution of their talent to other needs of the archdiocese or to the wider church. Perhaps the monies that would have come to us because of our service to someone could be given to a shelter for homeless people or to further the cause of justice in the archdiocese,” Father Seitz said.
“Maybe because of our service to folks, they will find themselves in a position to contribute their time more generously to a cause that furthers the Gospel.”
To begin the annulment process, Father Seitz said parishioners can contact their local parish or contact the Tribunal directly.
For more information, visit www.archbalt.org/marriage-tribunal.
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| August 12th – St Clare, Virgin |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2021, 07:46 AM - Forum: August
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August 12 – St Clare, Virgin
The same year in which St. Dominic, before making any project with regard to his sons, founded the first establishment of the Sisters of his Order, the companion destined for him by heaven received his mission from the Crucifix in the church of St. Damian, in these words: “Go, Francis, repair my house which is falling to ruin.” The new patriarch inaugurated his work, as Dominic had done, by preparing a dwelling for his future daughters, whose sacrifice might obtain every grace for the great Order he was about to found. The house of the Poor Ladies occupied the thoughts of the seraph of Assisi, even before St. Mary of the Portiuncula, the cradle of the Friars Minor. Thus, for a second time this month, Eternal Wisdom shows us that the fruit of salvation, though it may seem to proceed from the word and from action, springs first from silent contemplation.
Clare was to Francis the help like unto himself, who begot to the Lord that multitude of heroic virgins and illustrious penitents soon reckoned by the Order in all lands, coming from the humblest condition and from the steps of the throne. In the new chivalry of Christ, Poverty, the chosen Lady of St. Francis, was to be the queen also of her whom God had given him as a rival and a daughter. Following to the utmost limits the Man-God humbled and stripped of all things for us, she nevertheless felt that she and her sisters were already queens in the kingdom of heaven: (Regula Damianitarum, viii); In the little nest of poverty,” she used to say, “what jewel could the bride esteem so much as conformity with a God possessing nothing, become a little One whom the poorest of mothers wrapped in humble swathing bands and laid in a narrow crib?” And she bravely defended against the highest authorities the privilege of absolute poverty, which the great Pope Innocent III feared to grant. Its definitive confirmation, obtained two days before the Saint’s death, came as the long-desired reward of forty years of prayer and suffering for the Church of God.
This noble daughter of Assisi had justified the prophecy, whereby sixty years previously, her mother Hortulana had learned that the child would enlighten the world; the choice of the name given her at her birth had been well inspired. “Oh! how powerful was the virgin’s light,” said the sovereign Pontiff in the Bull of her Canonization; “how penetrating were her rays! She hid herself in the depth of the cloister, and her brightness transpiring filled the house of God.” From her poor solitude which she never quitted, the very name of Clare seemed to carry grace and light everywhere, and made far-off cities yield fruit to God and to her father, St. Francis.
Embracing the whole world where her virginal family was being multiplied, her motherly heart overflowed with affection for the daughters she had never seen. Let those who think that austerity embraced for God’s sake dries up the soul read these lines from her correspondence with Blessed Agnes of Bohemia. Agnes, daughter of Ottacar I, had rejected the offer of an imperial marriage to take the religious Habit, and was renewing at Prague the wonders of St. Damian’s. “O my mother and my daughter,” said our Saint, “if I have not written to you as often as my soul and yours would wish, be not surprised: as your mother’s heart loved you, so do I cherish you; but messengers are scarce, and the roads full of danger. As an opportunity offers today, I am full of gladness, and I rejoice with you in the joy of the Holy Ghost. As the first Agnes united herself to the immaculate Lamb, so it is given to you, O fortunate one, to enjoy this union (the wonder of heaven) with him, the desire of whom ravishes every soul; whose goodness is all sweetness, whose vision is beatitude, who is the light of the eternal light, the mirror without spot! Look at yourself in this mirror, O queen! O bride! unceasingly by its reflection enhance your charms; without and within adorn yourself with virtues; clothe yourself as beseems the daughter and the spouse of the supreme King. O beloved, with your eyes on this mirror, what delight it will be given you to enjoy in the divine grace! … Remember, however, your poor Mother, and know that for my part your blessed memory is for ever graven on my heart.”
Not only did the Franciscan family benefit by a charity which extended to all the worthy interests of this world. Assisi, delivered from the lieutenants of the excommunicated Frederick II and from the Saracen horde in his pay, understood how a holy woman is a safeguard to her earthly city. But our Lord loved especially to make the princes of holy Church and the Vicar of Christ experience the humble power, the mysterious ascendancy, wherewith he had endowed his chosen one. St. Francis himself, the first of all, had in one of those critical moments known to the Saints, sought from her direction and light for his seraphic soul. From the ancients of Israel, there came to this virgin, not yet thirty years old, such messages as this: “To his very dear Sister in Jesus Christ, to his mother the Lady Clare, handmaid of Christ, Hugolin of Ostia, unworthy bishop and sinner. Ever since the hour when I had to deprive myself of your holy conversation, to snatch myself from that heavenly joy, such bitterness of heart causes my tears to flow, that if I did not find at the feet of Jesus the consolation which his love never refuses, my mind would fail and my soul would melt away. Where is the glorious joy of that Easter spent in your company and that of the other handmaids of Christ? … I knew that I was a sinner; but at the remembrance of your supereminent virtue, my misery overpowers me, and I believe myself unworthy ever to enjoy again that conversation of the Saints, unless your tears and prayers obtain pardon for my sins. I put my soul, then, into your hands; to you I entrust my mind, that you may answer for me on the day of judgment. The Lord Pope will soon be going to Assisi; Oh! that I may accompany him, and see you once more! Salute my sister Agnes (i.e. St. Clare’s own sister and first daughter in God); salute all your sisters in Christ.”
The great Cardinal Hugolin, though more than eighty years of age, became soon after Gregory IX. During his fourteen years’ pontificate, which was one of the most brilliant as well as most laborious of the thirteenth century, he was always soliciting Clare’s interest in the perils of the Church, and the immense cares which threatened to crush his weakness. For, says the contemporaneous historian of our Saint, Luke Wadding: “He knew very well what love can do, and that virgins have free access to the sacred court: for what could the King of heaven refuse to those, to whom he has given himself?”
At length her exile, which had been prolonged twenty-seven years after the death of Francis, was about to close. Her daughters beheld wings of fire over her head and covering her shoulders, indicating that she to had reached seraphic perfection. On hearing that a loss which so concerned the whole Church was imminent, the Pope, Innocent IV, came from Perugia with the Cardinals of his suite. He imposed a last trial on the Saint’s humility, by commanding her to bless, in his presence, the bread which had been presented for the blessing of the sovereign Pontiff; heaven approved the invitation of the Pontiff and the obedience of the Saint, for no sooner had the virgin blessed the loaves than each was found to be marked with a cross.
A prediction that Clare was not to die without receiving a visit from the Lord surrounded by his disciples was now fulfilled. The Vicar of Jesus Christ presided at the solemn funeral rites paid by Assisi to her who was its second glory before God and men. When they were beginning the usual chants for the dead, Innocent would have had them substitute the Office for holy Virgins; but on being advised that such a canonization, before the body was interred, would be considered premature, the Pontiff allowed them to continue the accustomed chants. The insertion, however, of the Virgin’s name in the catalogue of the Saints was only deferred for two years.
The following lines are consecrated by the Church to her memory:
Quote:The noble virgin Clare was born at Assisi, in Umbria. Following the example of St. Francis, her fellow-citizen, she distributed all her goods in alms to the poor, and, fleeing from the noise of the world, she retired to a country church, where blessed Francis cut off her hair. Her relations attempted to bring her back to the world, but she bravely resisted all their endeavors; and then St. Francis took her to the church of St. Damian. Here our Lord gave her several companions, so that she founded a convent of consecrated virgins, and her reluctance being overcome by the earnest desire of her holy father, she undertook its government. For forty-two years she ruled her monastery with wonderful care and prudence, in the fear of God and the full observance of the Rule. Her own life was a lesson and an example to others, showing all how to live aright.
She subdued her body in order to grow strong in spirit. Her bed was the bare ground, or, at times, a few twigs, and for a pillow she used a piece of hard wood. Her dress consisted of a single tunic and a mantle of poor coarse stuff; and she often wore a rough hair-shirt next to her skin. So great was her abstinence, that for a long time she took absolutely no bodily nourishment for three days of the week, and on the remaining days restricted herself to so small a quantity of food, that the other religious wondered how she was able to live. Before her health gave way, it was her custom to keep two Lents in the year, fasting on bread and water. Moreover, she devoted herself to watching and prayer, and in these exercises especially she would spend whole days and nights. She suffered from frequent and long illnesses; but when she was unable to leave her bed in order to work, she would make her sisters raise and prop her up in a sitting position, so that she could work with her hands, and thus not be idle even in sickness. She had a very great love of poverty, never deviating from it on account of any necessity, and she firmly refused the possessions offered by Gregory IX for the support of the sisters.
The greatness of her sanctity was manifested by many different miracles. She restored the power of speech to one of the sisters of her monastery, to another the power of hearing. She healed one of a fever, one of dropsy, one of an ulcer, and many others of various maladies. She cured of insanity a brothers of the Order of Friars Minor. Once when all the oil in the monastery was spent, Clare took a vessel and washed it, and it was found filled with oil by the loving kindness of God. She multiplied half a loaf so that it sufficed for fifty sisters. When the Saracens attacked the town of Assisi and attempted to break into Clare’s monastery, she, though sick at the time, had herself carried to the gate, and also the vessel which contained the most Holy Eucharist, and there she prayed, saying, “O Lord, deliver not unto beasts the souls of them that praise thee; but preserve thy handmaids whom Thou hast redeemed with thy precious Blood.” Whereupon a voice was heard, which said: “I will always preserve you.” Some of the Saracens took to flight, others who had already scaled the walls were struck blind and fell down headlong. At length, when the virgin Clare came to die, she was visited by a white-robed multitude of blessed virgins, amongst whom was one nobler and more resplendent than the rest. Having received the Holy Eucharist and a Plenary Indulgence from Innocent IV, she gave up her soul to God on the day before the Ides of August. After her death she became celebrated by numbers of miracles, and Alexander IV enrolled her among the holy virgins.
O Clare, the reflection of the Spouse which adorns the Church in this world no longer suffices thee; thou now beholdest the light with open face. The brightness of the Lord plays with delight in the pure crystal of thy soul, increasing the happiness of heaven, and giving joy this day to our valley of exile. Heavenly beacon, with thy gentle shining enlighten our darkness. May we, like thee, by purity of heart, by uprightness of thought, by simplicity of gaze, fix upon ourselves the divine ray, which flickers in a wavering soul, is dimmed by our waywardness, is interrupted or put out by a double life divided between God and the world.
Thy life, O Virgin, was never thus divided. The most high poverty, which was thy mistress and guide, preserved thy mind from that bewitching of vanity which takes off the bloom of all true goods for us mortals Detachment from all passing things kept thine eye fixed upon eternal realities; it opened thy soul to that seraphic ardor wherein thou didst emulate thy father Francis. Like the Seraphim, whose gaze is ever fixed on God, thou hadst immense influence over the earth; and St. Damian’s, during thy lifetime, was a source of strength to the world.
Deign to continue giving us thine aid. Multiply thy daughters; keep them faithful in following their Mother’s example, so as to be a strong support to the Church. May the various branches of the Franciscan family be ever fostered by thy rays, and may all Religious Orders be enlightened by thy gentle brightness. Shine upon us all, O Clare, and show us the worth of this transitory life and of that which never ends.
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| Archbishop Viganò Calls On Clerics Worldwide To Recite Exorcism on Vigil of Assumption |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2021, 06:26 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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ARchbishop Viganò Calls On Clerics Worldwide To Recite Exorcism
August 12 Statement by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
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INVITATION TO BISHOPS AND PRIESTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO A DAY OF FASTING AND THE RECITATION OF THE EXORCISM OF LEO XIII
ON THE VIGIL OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY INTO HEAVEN
In this moment of very serious spiritual and material crisis in which the public authorities support the plans of the New World Order and the shepherds are silent accomplices in the face of the destruction of society and of the Church of Christ Herself, it is our sacred duty to unite ourselves to the spiritual battle, aligning ourselves without hesitation under the banners of Christ our King and Mary our Queen.
The Lord has given to bishops and priests the power to cast out demons in His name. Already, on Holy Saturday of 2020, many of them welcomed my appeal with generosity and a supernatural spirit.
Today, I intend to renew this appeal.
I ask, therefore, my venerable brothers in the episcopate and priesthood to dedicate the vigil of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary to prayer and fasting and to reciting the Exorcismus in Satanam et Angelos Apostaticos of Leo XIII (Rituale Romanum, Tit. XII, Caput III), at the hour of 12 noon in Rome.
This sacramental will be placed under the mantle of the most fearful adversary of the infernal powers so that the choral prayer of the ministers of God will remove from the Church and the world the snares of the enemy of mankind, which today threaten society, families, individuals and, in a particular way, the faithful of Christ.
The secularized world and, along with it, not a few shepherds, will be able to mock this appeal and the exorcism itself, considering it the legacy of a past to be cancelled along with the Faith of our fathers.
But we know well that, although we are unworthy sinners, a power has been given to us by Our Lord which terrorizes the Gates of Hell and its servants.
In the silence and fasting which prepares us for the Feast of the Assumption of the Queen of Heaven, let us invoke the Most Holy Virgin, terrible as an army set in battle array, and St. Michael the Archangel, the patron of the Holy Church and prince of the heavenly hosts.
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| Chaplet of St. Philomena |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 03:31 PM - Forum: Prayers and Devotionals
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The CHAPLET OF ST. PHILOMENA consist of thirteen small red beads and three large white beads with a crucifix and a medal of St. Philomena attached. The small red beads are symbolic. Thirteen refers to the age of the girl and the red color connotes martyrdom. Three white beads symbolize purity. Three refers to the Blessed Trinity.
The Apostle's Creed is said on the crucifix to beg the gift of faith.
An Our Father is said on each three white beads.
On each of the red small beads, the following prayers are said: Hail, O holy Saint Philomena, whom I acknowledge, after Mary as my advocate with thy Divine Spouse, intercede for me now, and at the hour of my death. Saint Philomena, beloved daughter of Jesus and Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee, Amen.
On the medal say: Hail, O illustrious St. Philomena, thou who courageously shed thy blood for Jesus Christ! I bless the Lord for all the graces He has bestowed upon thee during thy life, and especially at thy death. I praise and glorify Him for the honor and power with which He has crowned thee, and I beg thee to obtain for me, from God the graces I ask through thine intercession. Amen.
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| August 11th - St. Philomena |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 03:11 PM - Forum: August
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St. Philomena
On 25 May, 1802, during the quest for the graves of Roman martyrs in the Catacomb of Priscilla, a tomb was discovered and opened; as it contained a glass vessel it was assumed to be the grave of a martyr. The view, then erroneously entertained in Rome, that the presence of such vessels (supposed to have contained the martyr's blood) in a grave was a symbol of martyrdom, has been rejected in practice since the investigations of De Rossi (cf. Leclercq in "Dict. d.archéol. chrét. et de liturg.", s.v. Ampoules de sang). The remains found in the above-mentioned tomb were shown to be those of a young maiden, and, as the name Filumena was discovered on the earthenware slabs closing the grave, it was assumed that they were those of a virgin martyr named Philumena. On 8 June, 1805, the relics were translated to the church of Mugnano, Diocese of Nola (near Naples), and enshrined under one of its altars. In 1827 Leo XII presented the church with the three earthenware tiles, with the inscription, which may be seen in the church even today. On the basis of alleged revelations to a nun in Naples, and of an entirely fanciful and indefensible explanation of the allegorical paintings, which were found on the slabs beside the inscription, a canon of the church in Mugnano, named Di Lucia, composed a purely fictitious and romantic account of the supposed martyrdom of St. Philomena, who is not mentioned in any of the ancient sources.
In consequence of the wonderful favours received in answer to prayer before the relics of the saint at Mugnano, devotion to them spread rapidly, and, after instituting investigations into the question, Gregory XVI appointed a special feast to be held on 9 September, "in honorem s. Philumenae virginis et martyris" (cf. the lessons of this feast in the Roman Breviary). The earthenware plates were fixed in front of the grave as follows: LUMENA PAX TECUM FI. The plates were evidently inserted in the wrong order, and the inscription should doubtless read PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The letters are painted on the plates with red paint, and the inscription belongs to the primitive class of epigraphical memorials in the Catacomb of Priscilla, thus, dating from about the middle or second half of the second century. The disarrangement of the inscription proves that it must have been completed before the plates were put into position, although in the numerous other examples of this kind in the same catacomb the inscription was added only after the grave had been closed. Consequently, since the disarrangement of the plates can scarcely be explained as arising from an error, Marucchi seems justified in concluding that the inscription and plates originally belonged to an earlier grave, and were later employed (now in the wrong order) to close another. Apart from the letters, the plates contain three arrows, either as a decoration or a punctuation, a leaf as decoration, two anchors, and a palm as the well-known Christian symbols. Neither these signs nor the glass vessel discovered in the grave can be regarded as a proof of martyrdom.
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| UN to Consider Spraying “Sulfate Aerosols” Above the Earth’s Surface to Reduce Global Temperatures |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 08:41 AM - Forum: Global News
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UN to Consider Spraying “Sulfate Aerosols” Above the Earth’s Surface to Reduce Global Temperatures
“Controversial” geoengineering method could cause crop failure in certain regions.
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Summit News | 10 August, 2021
The United Nations is considering the risks of spraying “sulfate aerosols” above the earth’s surface to reduce global temperatures, according to a Reuters report.
Yesterday, a U.N. climate panel released a “code red” report that warned of “deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurricanes and other weather extremes” if drastic action isn’t taken quickly to stop man-made climate change.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), humans are “unequivocally” to blame, with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calling for a total end to the use of coal and fossil fuels.
According to a Reuters report on the issue, “controversial methods” of geoengineering are now being actively considered by the UN to limit and reverse global temperature increases.
“For example, humans could spray sulfate aerosols – tiny reflective particles – into the stratosphere 20 to 25 kilometers (12 to 16 miles) above the earth’s surface to reflect more sunlight back into space, which lowers global temperatures,” states the report.
However, using this method would create “uncertainty, moral issues (and) ethical issues” because “sulfate aerosols have the side effect of also lowering average precipitation.”
While such methods would benefit some countries by creating a cooling effect, other regions “could suffer by, for example, no longer having conditions to grow crops.”
“The side effects of any of the known geoengineering techniques can be very significant,” said physicist Paulo Artaxo. “Society has to consider if these side effects are too big to try any strategy.”
Geoengineering methods such as spraying sulfate aerosols or even parking giant spaceships above the earth to deflect sunlight have long been proposed by globalists to change the earth’s climate.
Much of the lobbying for such measures was funded by people like Bill Gates, who in 2012 joined with scientists to bankroll and publicly advocate “geoengineering methods such as spraying millions of tonnes of reflective particles of sulphur dioxide 30 miles above earth.”
Meanwhile, many of the same people warning us today about the necessity to radically alter our lifestyles to combat global warming were the same voices insisting that ‘global cooling’ was the biggest environmental threat in the 1970’s.
But apparently, we shouldn’t question a word they say.
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| White House Chief Of Staff Admits Pushing Employers To Mandate Vaccines |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 08:34 AM - Forum: COVID Passports
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White House Chief Of Staff Admits Pushing Employers To Mandate Vaccines
“We need to put requirements on people to get vaccinated. That’s how we’re going to get this behind us.”
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Summit News | 11 August, 2021
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain declared Tuesday on CNN that the Biden administration is “working closely with private employers” to get them to mandate coronavirus vaccines for employers, claiming that “That’s how we’re going to be able to go back to normal.”
“We need to put requirements on people to get vaccinated. That’s how we’re going to get this behind us,” Klain said.
Klain referred to the decree for all federal workers to get vaccinated, as well as active duty military.
“Well, you know, two weeks ago, the president announced we were going to require all federal civilian employees to either be vaccinated or to face rigorous testing, limits on their activities, other restrictions to try to really pressure them to get vaccinated,” he said.
“Yesterday, the secretary of defense, joined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Milley, said that they were going to mandate vaccines for our troops,” Klain added.
So, government workers and soldiers are in the bag, now the question remains, how to force those pesky everyday Americans to take their shots.
“We’re obviously working closely with private employers to try to encourage them to do the same thing,” Klain added.
The comments come after Big Tech companies announced they would mandate the shots, and Joe Biden admitted he would like to be able to mandate the entire country to take vaccines:
Yesterday, Biden also said he was ‘checking’ to see if he has the power to overrule States on banning federal mandates:
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| New York Archdiocese Urges Priests to Not Give Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccine |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:28 AM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Spiritual]
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New York Archdiocese Urges Priests to Not Give Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Vaccine
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TH.com | Aug 10, 2021 2:30 PM
The Archdiocese of New York reportedly issued a memorandum urging priests to not issue religious exemptions for Catholics who do not want to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine.
The memo, dated July 30, was obtained and posted on Twitter by Bree Dail from The Epoch Times. Dail shared on Twitter that she received confirmation from the archdiocese that the memo was authentic, however, they declined to comment.
The memo, sent by John P. Cahill, chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York, argues that issuing religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine could pose serious health risks to others as unvaccinated individuals could spread the virus.
“There is no basis for a priest to issue a religious exemption to the vaccine. By doing so, he is acting in contradiction to the directives of the Pope and is participating in an act that could have serious consequences to others,” the memo states.
One example provided in the memo describes a student, unvaccinated due to religious exemption, spreading the virus throughout campus. It also mentions that a COVID-19 outbreak as a result of a religious-exempted unvaccinated individual would be an embarrassment to the archdiocese.
“Imagine a student receiving a religious exemption, contracting the virus and spreading it throughout campus,” the memo states. “Clearly this would be an embarrassment to the archdiocese. Some even argue that it might impose personal liability on the priest.”
In recent months, several Catholic organizations have voiced their support for the COVID-19 vaccine, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). On the other hand, some Catholic leaders have shared their concerns regarding the ethics behind the COVID-19 vaccine and its ties to abortion. The latter could perhaps sway a Catholic into obtaining a religious exemption for the vaccine as vaccine mandates become instated in areas all across the country. New York City, for example, will soon require a “vaccine passport,” dubbed the “Key to NYC Pass,” providing proof of vaccination for individuals to access various indoor facilities.
In regards to the concerns that the COVID-19 has scientific ties to abortion, the USCCB addressed this in a statement published in March. “While we should continue to insist that pharmaceutical companies stop using abortion-derived cell lines, given the world-wide suffering that this pandemic is causing, we affirm again that being vaccinated can be an act of charity that serves the common good,” the statement said. The statement also urged Catholics to opt for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine over Johnson & Johnson due to the development of the J&J vaccine involving “abortion-derived stem cells.” “[I]f one has the ability to choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines should be chosen over Johnson & Johnson’s,” the statement said.
The Archdiocese of New York’s memo seemed to build off this notion that it’s our moral obligation to be vaccinated to stop the spread of COVID-19.“Pope Francis has made it very clear that it is morally acceptable to take any of the vaccines and said that we have the moral responsibility to get vaccinated,” the memo states.
“Any individual is free to exercise discretion on getting the vaccine based upon his or her own beliefs without seeking the inaccurate portrayal of Church instructions” the memo states. “Our priests should not be active participants to such actions.”
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| The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the French Revolution |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:03 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Lyrics for the opening hymn "O Sacred Heart' by F. Stanfield (1835-1914) was written for the conversion of England:
"O Sacred Heart, Our home lies deep in thee. On earth thou art the exile's rest, In heaven the glory of the blest, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Thou fount of contrite tears; Where'er those living waters flow, New life to sinners they bestow, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred heart, Bless our dear native land; May England's sons in truth e'er stand, With faith's bright banner still in hand, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Our trust is all in thee; For though earth's night be dark and drear, Thou breathest rest where thou art near, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, When shades of death shall fall, Receive us 'neath thy gentle care, And save us from the tempter's snare, O Sacred Heart. O Sacred Heart, Lead exiled children home, Where we may ever rest near thee, In peace and joy eternally, O SACRED HEART!"
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| August 11th - Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-11-2021, 07:00 AM - Forum: August
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August 11 – Second Day Within the Octave of St. Laurence; Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs
Laurence is followed today by the son of Chromatius, prefect of Rome, Tiburtius, who also suffered upon burning coals for the confession of his faith. Though forty years intervened between the two martyrdoms, it was the same Holy Spirit that animated these witnesses of Christ and suggested to them the same answer to their executioners. Tiburtius, walking upon the fire, cried out: “Learn that the God of the Christians is the only God, for these hot coals seem flowers to me.”
Equally near to the great Archdeacon stands an illustrious virgin, so bright herself as not to be eclipsed by him. A relative of both the Emperor Diocletian and the holy Pope Caius, Susanna, it is said, one day beheld the imperial crown at her feet. But she obtained a far great nobility; for, by preferring the wreath of virginity, she won at the same time the palm of martyrdom.
Now, as St. Leo remarks, on the glorious solemnity whose Octave we are keeping, if no one is good for himself alone, if the favors of Divine Wisdom profit not only the recipient, then, no one is more wise than the martyr, no eloquence can instruct the people so well as his. It is by this excellent manner of teaching that, as the Church tells us today, “Laurence enlightened the whole world with the light of his fire, and by the flames which he endured he warmed the hearts of all Christians. By the example of his martyrdom, faith is enkindled and devotion fostered in our souls. The persecutor lays no hot coals for me, but he sets me on fire with desire of my Savior.” If, moreover, and it is not mere theory to repeat it in our days, if, as St. Augustine remarks, “circumstances place a man in the alternative of transgressing a divine precept or losing his life, he too must know how to die for the love of God, rather than live at enmity with him.” Morality does not change, neither does the justice of God, who in all ages rewards the faithful, as in all ages he chastises cowards.
The Mozarabic Missal eloquently expresses the grandeur of St. Laurence’s martyrdom in this beautiful formula which precedes the Consecration on the day of this feast.
Post Sanctus
Hosanna in excelsis: very dignum et justum est, omni quidem tempore, sed præcipue in honorem Sanctorum tuorum, nos tibi gratias, consempiterna Trinitas et consubstantialis et cooperatrix omnium bonorum Deus, et pro beatissimi Martyris tui Laurentii celeberrimodie, laudum hostias immolare. Cujus gloriosum passionis triumphum, anni circulo revolutum, Ecclesia tua læta concelebrat: Apostolis quidem tuis in doctrina supparem: sed in Domini confessione non imparem. Qui niveam illam stolam. Levitaicam, martyrii cruore purpureo decoravit: cujus cor in igne tuo, quem veneras mittere super terram, ita flammasti: ut ignem istum visibilem non sentiret: et appositas corpori flammas mentis intentione superaret: ardentemque globum fide validus non timeret. Hosanna in excelsis.
It is truly meet and just, at all times, but especially in honor of thy saints, to return thanks to thee, O God, co-eternal and consubstantial Trinity, cooperator of all good things, and to offer sacrifice of praise on this illustrious day of thy most blessed martyr Laurence. The glorious triumph of whose passion brought round again by the circle of the year, the Church doth joyfully celebrate: for in teaching he was nearly equal to thine Apostles; but in the confession of Lord not unequal. He adorned the snow-white robe of the Levite with the purple of the blood of martyrdom: thou didst so inflame his heart with thy fire which thou camest to cast on the earth, that he felt not the invisible fire; by the strong purpose of his mind he overcame the flames that surrounded his body; and strong in faith, feared not the burning coal.
Quique craticulæ superpositus, novum sacrificium tibi semetipsum castus minister exhibuit: et veluti super aram holocausti more decoctus, saporem Domino suavitatis ingessit. In quo incomparabilis Martyr prædicordiis pariter ac visceribus medullisque liquescentibus desudavit, ac defluentia membra torreri invicta virtute patientiæ toleravit. In quo extensus ac desuper fixus, subjectis jacuit ac pependit incendiis: et holocaustum pietatis cruda coxit impietas: quæ sudorem liquescentium viscerum bibulis vaporibus suscepit. Supra quam velut super altare corpus suum, novi generis sacrificium celebrandum minister imposuit: et Levita prædicandus ipse sibi Pontifex et hostia fuit. Et qui fuerat minister dominici corporis, in offerendo semetipsum officio functus est sacerdotio.
Placed upon the gridiron, thy chaste minister offered himself a new sacrifice to thee: and burnt as a holocaust upon the altar, sent up a sweet savor to the Lord. There the incomparable Martyr, while his heart and bowels and the marrow of his bones were melting away, suffered his limbs to be roasted, with invincible virtue of patience. There stretched out he lay hanging over the fire: crude impiety broiled the holocaust of piety, and inhaled the hot vapors from the liquefying members. Thy minister laid his own body on the altar, a new kind of sacrifice to be celebrated. The praiseworthy Levite was to himself both pontiff and victim. And he who had been a minister at the offering of the Lord’s Body, in offering himself performed the office of priest.
Tuam igitur Domine in eo virtutem, tuamque potentiam prædicamus. Nam quis crederet corpus fragili compage conglutinatum, tantis sine te sufficere conflictibus potuisse? quis incendiorum æstibus humana æstimaret membra non cedere: nisi flagrantior a te veniens interiorem hominem lampas animasset: cujus potentia factum est, ut læta rore suo anima, coctione proprii corporis exsultaret: dum versari se Martyr præcipit, et vorari: ne et paratam coronam uno moriendi genere sequeretur: et sic lenitate cruciatuum vitalis tardaret interitus, non existeret gloriosus cornatus. Per te Dominum qui es Salvator omnium et Redemptor animarum.
It is therefore, O Lord, thy power and thy might that we praise in him. For who would believe that a body formed of fragile structure could, without thee, endure such torments? Who would not think that human members would yield before the heat of the fire, had not a fiercer flame, coming from thee, fired the interior man? By thy power it was, that the soul, rejoiced with spiritual dew, exulted at the broiling of its own body: the Martyr bade them turn him and devour him: lest he should obtain the crown by only one death; and thus, the mildness of the torments should retard life-giving death, and he should be less gloriously crowned. Through thee, our Lord, who art the Savior and Redeemer of all souls.
The following commemoration is made of SS. Tiburtius and Susanna:
Ant. Istorum est enim regnum cœlorum, qui contempserunt vitam mundi, et pervenerunt ad præmia regni, et laverunt stolas suas in sanguine Agni.
Ant. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven, who despising an earthly life, have obtained heavenly rewards, and washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
℣. Lætamini in Domino, et exsultate justi.
℣. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice ye just.
℟. Et gloriamini omnes recti corde.
℟. And glory all ye right of heart.
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Sanctorum Martyrum tuorum Tiburtii et Susannæ nos, Domine, foveant continuata præsidia: quia non desinis propitius intueri, quos talibus auxiliis concesseris adjuvari. Per Dominum.
May the constant protection of Thy holy martyrs Tiburtius and Susanna, support us, O Lord: for Thou never ceasest mercifully to regard those whom Thou grantest to be assisted by such helps. Through, etc.
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