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| Sorrowful Heart of Mary Newsletter - Spring 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-30-2024, 07:31 AM - Forum: Sorrowful Heart of Mary
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Spring 2024
Dear Few, Happy Few!
In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:
1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,
2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and
3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.
How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a Bishop Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!
The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!”
Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “Many are called, few are chosen.” And, “How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!
The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “Athanasians” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!
Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?
What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the status quo, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.
Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!
Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp. Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘a divinis’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.
Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.
This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.
Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.
Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, it is always Faith before Liturgy; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!
But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now”, “we have new friends in Rome” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “Rome will not tolerate it any longer” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “having our approval for the traditional Liturgy.”
Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine.
Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the Doctrinal Declaration along with the “Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome.” This was the “thirty pieces of silver” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace.” (Ezekiel 13:10).
In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. The Angelus magazine announced a new 'non-militant approach' to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.
Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “thirty pieces of silver” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will remark: “This is not a trap!” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).
Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!
By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resistants” who needed to, once and for all, “put away the toys” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “the New Mass can nourish your faith,” “the New Mass gives grace,” “this is not the time for structure and organization,” “this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent,” “scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles,” "The Thuc line poses no problem now,” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!
Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson publicly oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?
Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “only She can help you!” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!” (Apocalypse 2:4).
Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!
In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Charlotte area] - June 9, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-28-2024, 07:01 AM - Forum: June 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart
[Third Sunday after Pentecost]
Date: Sunday, June 9, 2024
Time: Confessions - 8:30 AM
Holy Mass - 9:00 AM
Location: 3802 Solen Drive
Harrisburg, NC 28075
Contact: Nino 980-833-2379
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Raleigh area] - June 8, 2024 |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-28-2024, 06:56 AM - Forum: June 2024
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Date: Saturday, June 8, 2024
Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
Holy Mass - 4:00 PM
Location: 2722 Kudrow Lane
Morrisville, NC 27560 [Raleigh area]
Contact: Margarita 510-361-4394
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| Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho |
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Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:32 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Oregon Counties Voting to Join 'Greater Idaho'
Demonstrators hold signs in favor of the Greater Idaho Movement
in Enterprise, Oregon, on May 12, 2023. Voters in Crook County, Oregon,
backed the project on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Crook County in Oregon became the 13th county to approve a proposal to secede from the state and join neighboring Idaho by 53.5 percent of the vote against 46.5 percent, as part of what supporters are calling the "Greater Idaho" project.
Backers of the plan argue the more conservative areas of eastern and central Oregon are currently dominated by liberal-leaning cities such as Portland and Salem and argue their interests would be better represented in traditionally Republican Idaho.
Thus far, the Oregon counties of Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Grant, Harney, Morrow, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, Sherman, Jefferson and Klamath have all voted to support the Greater Idaho project according to Citizens for Greater Idaho, a group campaigning in favor of such a split.
Advocates of Greater Idaho hope Umatilla and Gilliam counties will vote to join the project in full, as well as Wasco and Deschutes counties in part, at which point roughly the eastern two-thirds of what is now Oregon will have backed secession. Initially, Citizens for Greater Idaho also hoped to incorporate part of southern Oregon, but they ended this plan after voters in Josephine and Douglas counties voted against the proposal.
Citizens for Greater Idaho executive director Matt McCaw welcomed the Crook County result in a statement, saying: "The voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward. With this latest result in Crook County, there's no excuse left for the Legislature and Governor to continue to ignore the people's wishes."
Speaking to Newsweek he added: "We are happy for the people of Crook County that they had a chance to have their voice heard on the matter, and that their elected leaders now have no doubt what the people want.
"Crook County voters, as well as the rest of eastern Oregon, have made clear that they want to pursue changing their state governance through this peaceful, win-win solution. We call on the governor and leaders of the Oregon legislature to move this forward and open up border talks."
Idaho Governor Brad Little told Newsweek: "I understand why many people want to be Idahoans. They're looking at Idaho fondly because of our strong economy, regulatory atmosphere and our values.
"Still, the decision to change Idaho and Oregon's borders would need to go through both states' legislatures and the U.S. Congress for approval. There's a lot that needs to happen before moving the border is within the realm of possibility."
The proposal would require approval by the legislatures in both states and Congress itself for counties to leave Oregon and join Idaho.
On its official website the Citizens for Greater Idaho states: "If the United States were governed as a single state, we wouldn't have the opportunity for state governance to vary according to the culture of a local area. The purpose of having state lines is to allow this variance.
"The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated. It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon. The Oregon/Washington line was updated in 1958. It's time to move other state lines."
If the Greater Idaho plan comes to fruition, Oregon would lose around two-thirds of its land but only 10 percent of its population, the New York Post reported, reflecting the more rural nature of the state's east.
Western States Strategies, the political arm of the Portland-based nonprofit Western States Center, opposes the Greater Idaho movement.
Speaking to Oregon Public Broadcasting in 2023, Western States chief of staff Jill Garvey said the group was concerned about Greater Idaho because of the history of secessionist movements in eastern Oregon linked to white nationalist campaigners.
"What we're doing is just pulling back the curtain. Nothing else. These are how these organizations are connected. We're naming what we believe their real goals are," Garvey said.
Newsweek has not seen any evidence that those behind Citizens for Greater Idaho hold white nationalist views.
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| Courage Under Fire- ‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’ |
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Posted by: SAguide - 05-25-2024, 02:13 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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NFL’s Harrison Butker doubles down on pro-
family speech: ‘What I value most is my Catholic faith’
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews) — In his first public appearance since enduring relentless attacks from mainstream media outlets for his pro-family commencement address last week, Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker showed no sign of backing down, declaring that the “shocking level of hate” is a clear sign that “timeless Catholic values are hated by many.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered his latest remarks at a fundraising event in Nashville for the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA), a classical preK-12 homeschool hybrid for Catholic families. Butker serves on the academy’s board.
“The theme for tonight’s gala, ‘Courage Under Fire,’ was decided many months ago,” began the tuxedoed Butker, “but it now feels providential that this would be the theme after what we have all witnessed these past two weeks.”
“If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now,” he said, referring to the storm of criticism against his earlier speech at Benedictine College.
‘It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please’
During last week’s 20-minute address at Benedictine, Butker unapologetically pushed back against abortion as well as so-called Pride Month, which he called a “deadly sin.” He singled out President Joe Biden, cowardly U.S. Catholic bishops, and “people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.”
Butker also addressed himself to female graduates specifically, warning them to be aware of the “diabolical lies” the world tells them about putting their job ahead of their family.
“The more I’ve talked about what I value most – which is my Catholic faith – the more polarizing I have become,” explained Butker in his address last night to the RCA. “It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all.”
“If we have truth and charity, we should trust in the Lord’s providence and let the holy Ghost do the rest of the work,” he continued to loud applause from the crowd. “Our love for Jesus, and thus our desire to speak out, should never be outweighed by the longing of our fallen nature to be loved by the world. Glorifying God, and not ourselves, should always remain our motivation despite any pushback or even support.”
“It is not people, but Jesus Christ who I am trying to please,” he added.
“If heaven is our goal, we should embrace our cross, however large or small it may be, and live our life with joy, to be a bold witness for Christ,” declared Butker, adding that he hoped that “many more will be unapologetic of their Catholic faith and never be afraid to speak out for truth, even when it goes against the loudest voices.”
A LifeSiteNews petiotion supporting Butker has garnered more than 20,000 signatures in less than a week after being launched.
A growing number of clergy, including Bishop Joseph Strickland, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, as well as prominent lay persons like former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz have expressed support for Butker in recent days. His red number 7 jersey has become a best-seller.
A devout Catholic who exclusively attends the Latin Mass, Butker, the 28-year-old father of two was signed by the Chiefs in 2017 after being waived by the Carolina Panthers. The franchise won its third Super Bowl in five years in 2024. He has constantly given “glory to God” after his many impressive performances.
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