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The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
03/25/2025
Father Hewko

Transcription gratefully copied from The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | April 2, 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

I wish all of you the many graces and joys and blessings of this beautiful feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is March 25th, 2025. On this day in 1991, Archbishop Lefebvre died. This day is very special because today is the day Our Lord Jesus Christ became priest. He was ordained a priest today. He was also consecrated King, the King of all the universe, the King of all nations, the King of all men, the King of all the angels and devils. He's King. Jesus Christ was made priest and King, and He also received today His body and soul. And that means His human nature was assumed by the divine person. The divine person is God the Son, who is equal with the Father and the Holy Ghost. And it was God the Son who said to the Father, “I will come.”

Sacrifices and oblations you did not want. You did not want the blood of animals, goats and lambs and rams, because blood of animals doesn't do anything except inspire contrition for sin. And that was the Jewish sacrifices, which in their blindness, open brackets, in their blindness, the poor Jews are trying to resurrect the temple, the old temple, and they want to resurrect the Old Testament sacrifices. So they have their red cow ready and their red heifer and poor things, their blindness, poor, poor souls. So we pray for their conversion. And in their blindness, they want to resume all these Old Testament ceremonies, which are long dead.

And for Catholics to participate in any of the Jewish ceremonies, or any Protestant ceremonies, or Mormon or Muslim [ceremonies], is a serious betrayal to Jesus Christ. It is a mortal sin against the first commandment. And you have Pope Benedict XVI lighting the candles of the Jews. You have Pope John Paul II who prayed with the Jews in the synagogue while they were singing that they're still waiting for the Messiah to come. Their Messiah will come. It's the Antichrist. And that's why the Antichrist will be near once they start doing these sacrifices and rebuild their temple. They're really pushing fast forward for this. So are we drawing close to that hour of the Antichrist who will reign for three and a half years, seduce the whole population. All the nations will fall for him. Even the Muslims will adore him as God. The Jews, of course. And many Catholics who have been watered down and eroded by years of the New Mass and the scandals of Vatican II and its new heresies and errors. Many Catholics will fall for the Antichrist. Many will.

So that is the Old Testament priesthood. It's finished. It's done. It's long done. That's why the curtain in the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom, which was 60 feet high of heavy material. Only the hand of God could do this. And it was to show the death of the Jewish ceremonies. It's finished. So it's kind of laughable that they want to resurrect an old beaten skeleton and it will never come to life.

So this is the day Christ assumed the human nature. This is called the Hypostatic Union. It's a big word, but it has to be a big word to be precise. It's a Greek word, hypostasis, which means “the person of God assumed the human nature”. So the imagery you could put is the imagery from Scripture, which is the anointing of Aaron. When the priest was anointed, he would strip to his waist and they would pour down over his head a big vial of oil. And the oil would drip all down his face, down his beard, down his shoulders and bare chest, down to his toes, to show that the whole man was consecrated a priest of the Old Testament. And this prefigures Jesus Christ, who was by the Hypostatic Union, soaked in the oil of the living God, so that every thought, word, action, every sigh of Jesus Christ was an act of God. And it wasn't just a person of man, it was a person of God, but with our body, who would share our nature. As Saint Paul says, he took up and assumed everything in us, hunger, thirst, fatigue, sleep, eating, drinking, but not sin, not sin.

So this Hypostatic Union means also that today is when Jesus Christ took on a human heart in the womb of the Virgin Mary. His heart will be a tiny little dot and it will grow and grow and start beating. The first time the heart of Jesus starts beating in the womb of the Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart beats with her son's. It's the first time Our Lord Jesus Christ will assume a face, a face that would be designed by God. So that's why Our Lord Jesus Christ, His face is the most handsome, the most perfectly built. The Holy Ghost will chisel and form His body, which will be, as Saint Thomas Aquinas says, “the most perfect instrument for our Redemption.” His nervous system will be far keener than the average man in order to suffer for us. So His nervous system was sharp, fine-tuned. His skeletal system was perfectly built. His muscular system was perfectly built. Everything [about] Our Lord was chiseled to perfection. He was the perfect perfection of man.

And then He left us the image of His face in the Shroud of Turin. But it's not, we would say, a most handsome face, although you do see His majesty and His handsomeness come through the divinity and the peace of His face. But what face did He leave us? It's the face of Our God beaten and swollen. His cheek is swollen. His nose is busted. His lips are swollen from thirst. His beard has all [these] blotches from being ripped out. It's a beaten face. It's a spit on face. It's a face that we contributed [by] humiliating [Him] by our sins. So today is the day Jesus Christ, the living God, took on the face and the head of man. It is the first time God, from all eternity, He never had hands and feet. This will be the day the living God will take hands and feet in order to be nailed to the cross. God taking on our hands and feet to be butchered to the cross. And such is His love for us that for all eternity, God will always keep the human body. Jesus Christ, the King, His body is always forever in Heaven, always showing His wounds to the Father and showing the wealth of His spoils, which is all the souls that will enter Heaven. The saints, the innumerable number of saints, their robes [were] “washed in the blood of the Lamb”, as Saint John describes in the Apocalypse. So it's a beautiful thought that for all eternity, God and the Son never had a body from all eternity. But from now on, since today, He will have a body for all eternity. That shows the absoluteness of God's love for us, that he will become one of us and stay one of us forever. The body of Jesus Christ, the King. So he will have hands and feet for the first time.

And today, He will be called “Savior” for the first time, because He can only save us by redeeming us by His blood. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. Today, He's called “Redeemer” for the first time, because He's here to redeem us in the womb of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. Today, He can be called “Mediator”, because He takes on our flesh, and He's also the victim. Every priest must offer some sacrifice. A priest without sacrifice is a joke. It's laughable. That's why Protestantism is such a joke. It's so empty. Anglicanism and all religions that have no sacrifice. Muslims don't have a sacrifice. It's not a religion. Mormonism has no sacrifice. You cannot really call it a religion. At most, you can call it a psychosis. That's it, or an idea. A religion must entail sacrifice, priesthood, and a victim that's killed, that's consumed either in fire or by the fire of love on the cross. So, the only true religion that has the continual priesthood of Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice, and the victim in the Mass is Our Lord Jesus Christ in this holy Catholic religion that he founded.

So, on this day, Archbishop Lefebvre died, and it's also traditionally the day of the Crucifixion and death of Christ. Today was it. Today is, in fact, March 25th, the feast day of St. Dismas, the good thief. This is when he entered into Limbo, and when Our Lord arrived there shortly after, he turned Limbo into a Heaven, a true paradise. “This day, you'll be with me in paradise, ”because limbo was turned into paradise, as the fathers of the Church teach, because Our Lord allowed the souls in Limbo the Beatific Vision. They could see the Holy Trinity from then on, and they will enter [with] Our Lord into Heaven 40 days after His Resurrection, on the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven.

Let me just draw from Archbishop Lefebvre, speaking of this:

“The Church cannot do without the Sacrifice of the Altar. Look at the beauty of the churches that have been built. Rev. Fr. Abbott has just been telling me that in this church”, this is a sermon given on September 8th, 1975, and Mariazell in Austria, Archbishop Lefebvre is preaching, “that at least the origin of this church,” that he's in “dates from the beginning of the 9th century. How many generations have come to this Church of Mariazell to pray and offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to participate in the Sacrifice of the Mass offered by the priests? It is the life of the Church, the altar of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We must therefore have profound Faith in the action which takes place on the altar through the mouth of the priest. When the priest pronounces the words of Consecration, Our Lord, as on the cross, returns to the altar to offer His sacrifice, which continues yet on for the remission of our sins. That is the heart of the Mass. That is [what] the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches us. That is what the apostles teach us. You have learned from your catechism that the Sacrifice of the Altar is a real sacrifice, and that it differs from the Sacrifice of the Cross, only because in that, the Sacrifice of the Cross, there is shedding of blood, and in the Sacrifice of the Mass, there is no shedding of blood. That is the only difference between the Sacrifice of the Cross and the Sacrifice of the Altar. That is why we venerate the Sacrifice of the Altar. It is all there in Catholic doctrine. Everything is gathered into this small and immense reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass, because if there is a sacrifice, the victim must be present. If there is no victim present, there is no sacrifice. Hence, Our Lord must be present, since He offers Himself in sacrifice. Let us not say, therefore, that the Sacrifice of the Mass is simply a commemorative meal, or a meal of remembrance, a memento only of what Our Lord did at the Last Supper. It is all a blasphemy against the teaching of the Church, against what Our Lord Jesus Christ did, and what He meant to do. All that ruins the priesthood. What is it? The New Mass ruins the priesthood. The priest is not merely the president at a commemorative meal. The priest offers sacrifice. The priest is he who brings down upon the altar the victim present, really present, upon the altar. In that you behold all the greatness of the priest, who must be endowed with a special character, that he may offer the sacrifice, who must bear for all eternity a mark on his soul, to offer this sacrifice, who must remain a virgin, celibate, since for him it is a great marvel to bring God down from Heaven to earth, to bring Our Lord Jesus Christ into the Holy Eucharist by his words, by his lips. It is understandable that the priest should be a virgin, that he should not marry, that he should be virgin like the Virgin Mary. That is why the priest is a celibate and not because he is overburdened with the demands of his apostolate. All the greatness of the Sacrifice of the Mass arises simply from the fact that it is a real sacrifice. It is the Sacrifice of Calvary. That is what our forefathers have always believed. That is what the Church has always believed. We cannot change or alter that Faith by one iota. If we vary, if we change the forms, if we now say we are offering a Eucharist, we are holding a Eucharistic feast, we are having a supper, we are becoming Protestants and we are losing the whole reality of the Catholic Church, which rests on that truth. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a priest endowed with the character for the offering of the Holy Sacrifice.”

So what does that tell you when under Pope Paul VI in 1968, they actually changed the rite of ordination and changed several words and one of them is changing “ut” to “et”. And you might think, “well, what is the big deal? It is only two letters.” But many theologians, good theologians say it changes the whole meaning of what the priest is supposed to do. And that is why Pope Leo XIII condemned the Anglican ordinations as all invalid because it no longer expressed what the priest was supposed to do to offer sacrifice. And that is exactly what happened with the New Mass changes in 1968 for the ordination of the priest. So that is why it is not too rash to say there is an objective doubt to the new ordination of the Novus Ordo priest. It is objective.

And it is not for me to settle. It is for the Church to settle whether it all is valid or not. But one thing Archbishop Lefebvre did do, many times, was conditionally ordain priests who were ordained in the Novus Ordo because there was an objective doubt. And if he is not a priest, there is no Mass, no forgiveness of sins, he cannot give anything validly.

So what a triumph for the devil to cause invalid priests, very possibly, and therefore invalid sacraments. It is a very serious attack on the Church, this Novus Ordo changing of the sacraments. It is a direct attack on the Catholic Faith. So Archbishop Lefebvre defended the Catholic priesthood, he defended the Catholic Mass, he defended the Holy Sacrifice of the altar, he defended everything on which hinges all the Catholic Faith to continue. And that is why we must simply continue. Simply continue his position which is keep the Faith, keep the true Mass, keep the true sacraments, no compromise with Vatican II, no compromise with the New Mass, with the new Code of Canon Law, with this new Conciliar Church. And that is why we have to oppose the compromise of Bishop Fellay back in 2012. That is why we have had to stood up and oppose the compromises of Bishop Williamson in his lifetime. Towards the end of his life, he was promoting the New Mass quite heavily, and New Mass miracles. So pray for his soul. And then, of course, we must resist all compromise.

And many Catholics right now, you know, there is so much confusion, so much loss of Faith, so much scandal from Rome that has lost the Faith. What do we do? Well, Saint Vincent Lérin and Archbishop Lefebvre, they always said, “stay with what the Church has always done.” You cannot go wrong with holding the Faith of all the Popes before Vatican II, holding the Mass of all time, holding the Catholic Tradition. And that means not only holding definitions in books, but we must live the charity of Jesus Christ. Love Jesus Christ, the King. Love Him with all our heart, with all our whole being. Have the spirit of the martyrs. This is what's demanded of us in these days, is the spirit of the martyrs, that we have that spirit of the martyrs, which is one of extraordinary charity for God, and extraordinary charity for our neighbor. And that must shine in our lives, the charity of God and the charity of our neighbor.

That's what people used to say about the Catholics in the early Church. The pagans would look at them and know them and see their lives and say, “look at those Catholics. Look how they live. They have such love for one another. And even us pagans, they treat us as brothers and sisters when we need help.” And that shined in the early Catholics, and it needs to shine always, always in us.

So let's beg the Virgin Mary on this beautiful feast. You know, outside on [this day] in Nazareth, there was no comets, no asteroids, there was no fireworks, there was no sudden darkness or extended daylight. It was just a normal day in Nazareth. If you lived in Nazareth, just a few blocks down from where Our Lady was, you wouldn't have noticed anything different. It was just a normal day. But yet in that house of Loreto, it's called the House of Loreto, which the angels carried to Italy later, and the angels did carry it. They did all kinds of engineering and structural and physical and chemistry studies on the House of Loreto. And they say there's no way it was disassembled and put back together. It's not possible because it's made of all tiny rocks. The house was carried by angels, but I won't go into that story here. But just to say that house was where God became man. And if you lived in Nazareth, it wouldn't have been anything out of the ordinary [kind of] day. God worked the greatest miracle in a quiet way. And that's kind of how He was born, wasn't it? In Bethlehem, it was just another day in Bethlehem when He was born. But there were angels, there were shepherds, but for the townspeople, there was nothing all that much going on. So God often works quietly in a barn, in a little house, on a humble altar, the same reality takes place- God comes down on the altar, and a more extraordinary miracle, we could say, takes place. He doesn't become a little infant in Mary's womb. He becomes the Living Bread from Heaven, and the wine is changed to His most Precious Blood. So that's even a more extraordinary miracle, every single Mass.

And then [He] feeds you, feeds you with His body, blood, soul, and divinity, such as the love of the Sacred Heart. He feeds you with His burning heart. You eat fire. When you go to Communion, you eat fire. You consume Him, but He consumes us so that we can become one flame with Him by love of God, by charity with Him, by Sanctifying Grace. He wants this. So He wants to draw us, so this burning fire burns in us hotter and hotter, more intensely, especially when we unite ourselves with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that when we die, this burning fire of Sanctifying Grace turns into the Beatific Vision. And that's what enables the soul to see God as He really is, is Sanctifying Grace. And even if the soul has to pass through some fires of Purgatory, they're at great peace, and they're happy because they know they're going to Heaven. They're just being purged of all their sins on earth, or forgiven sins not yet sufficiently atoned for. But once they leave Purgatory, they love God and are burning in fire for the love of Him, and they will behold Him face to face for all eternity. So this is the day it all started. This is the day.

And traditionally this is also the day Adam and Eve fell. They fell on this day. So God came down to restore. How did He restore everything? What was the crack of dawn that announced the new day, the new age, which will be forever, the true golden age of the Redemption? It started with Mary, the Virgin Mary, and the angel telling her, “Ave Maria, Ave Maria.” “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” This is Our Lady's favorite prayer, so remember that when we pray her rosary every day. We honor her. So let's honor the Virgin Mary and beg her the grace to love the Mass, the re-enactment of Calvary. Love the Catholic priesthood.

Pray for your priests. Pray for priests in purgatory. Pray for priests on earth. Pray for fallen priests. Pray for all the fake resistance priests and bishops, that they wake up and start fighting the real fight and speak in the real truth. Pray for Novus Ordo priests, that they get conditionally ordained and become good priests. Pray for all compromising priests, especially the new SSPX. Many of them who were in my class, good priests in all those before us, they were all trained as crack troops to fight modernism. They were all trained like navy seals to fight the errors of our time. So what would it take to muffle them? What would it take to turn them from boxers in the ring taking on anybody to little mice on the sidelines afraid to say anything that might be uncomfortable or get them in a little trouble because it's the truth? Well, it took the leader to compromise, Bishop Fellay, and he did. It was a serious compromise, and it was public in 2012. It's not something hidden and, you know, little false accusations here or there, they publicly did it, [its] called the Doctrinal Declaration, and then the ongoing approvals with Rome, jurisdiction for confession, jurisdiction for marriages, jurisdiction for Holy Orders, and it puts them in a terrible position.

They should never have done this because now, and I hear this often now, Father, I call the priests of the society, “My grandmother's dying. Can you come and bring her Extreme Unction?” Or “my friend is dying.” Before 2012, any priest of the SSPX would just drop what they're doing, take a car or a flight, and go to that soul. It doesn't matter who it was because it's a dying person, and we have universal jurisdiction because it's the extreme necessity in the Church, the crisis of the Church, but now that they have so-called “jurisdiction”, thanks to Pope Francis and the recognition from Rome, now the priests, they can't say, “Okay, I'll be right there,” although some will still do that because they have good hearts and they have priestly hearts, but now the trend is more and more rising. “Sorry, are you a parishioner?” “No.” “Well, sorry, we can't come. Sorry, we can't help you. You've got to be a parishioner. You've got to be a registered parishioner. That's what the bishop wants.” Click. So what a terrible situation.

So that's what this jurisdiction has done. It has bound them in a way to muzzle them, to silence them, and they succeeded [in this]. Pope Benedict XVI succeeded to bring [about] the silencing of the SSPX, which used to be the powerhouse of the church. It used to be a great infantry, a great phalanx, a great army of priests preaching the Faith fearlessly with good bishops. But how did all this compromise happen? Very slowly, very weasley, very compromisingly.

So we've got to pray for them too in this Mass. Pray for all priests. Pray for all priests. And lastly, pray for this humble home, the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, a house of studies, where priests, if God wills, are starting to be formed. We have two right now, and next month we'll probably have perhaps one, one and a half, one or two more. We have some young men visiting, and in the fall, I understand, some more hope to come. We'll see.

And I just put it all in Our Lady's hands. But at least we got to do something to try to form priests for tomorrow. I shouldn't be doing it. It should be the bishops. But we're in such an emergency situation. Father Ruiz tells me, “You've got to start the seminary, our house of studies for priests. You've got to do it.” But Father, I'm useless. I'm not a bishop. Who's going to ordain our boys? “Don't worry. That's in God's hands. And just do what we can.” So we leave that in Our Lady's hands. So pray for the young men studying. Pray for the brothers that will come, priests, hopefully. Who will ordain them? That's one of the biggest mockery that we have. “You don't have a bishop.” That's what Father Chazal told me when we told him, “You're silent against Bishop Williamson's errors. You should be condemning his compromises with the New Mass and pushing the New Mass miracles. But you're silent.” And Father Chazal said, “Well, at least I have a bishop and you don't.” Well, he has bishops, yes. But at what price? Silence against errors. Sorry, Father Chazal. You know better than that. And Father Chazal is a great priest. He's a great warrior. But he knows he should not be silent on these points. He knows that. I know him well. And I think he still can shine yet bright and come back to the great soldier he always was.

So pray. And who's going to be our bishop? I don't know. God knows. Our Lady knows. There is some hope with Bishop Ballini. He seems very approachable. He did send me holy oils. He personally, he says, “I don't agree with Bishop Williamson's errors.” Thank God. So he doesn't. He doesn't agree with Bishop Fellay’s betrayal. But we need to hear it publicly. And that's what I asked him. We got to hear it publicly. You're a bishop. You're a public figure. We got to see pictures of your consecration and or at least videos, at least something to show you were really consecrated and we're not guessing it was some garage bishop. And today there's tons of garage Tuk bishops, Tuk line bishops that are all doubtful. Or most of them. So that's all I asked of Bishop Ballini. Please release some public photo of your consecration so there's no doubt. And secondly, say something against the errors of Bishop Williamson and the compromise of Bishop Fellay. So our faithful can trust you. How can we trust a bishop who we're not sure if he's compromising or not? We got to hear them speak publicly. That's not unreasonable.

And Archbishop Lefebvre said the faithful have a right to know where their priests and bishops stand. They have a right to know if they're evolutionary, if they're pro-Vatican II, if they're compromising with the New Mass. They have a right to know. And if they are, “Adios amigo, goodbye, I'm not coming to your Mass.” But if they are not compromising and they're preaching the Faith, we will flock to their Mass.

And I told Bishop Ballini we have 10 years, excuse me, now it's 13 years of families that are still waiting for Confirmation all over the U.S. and Canada and in England too, waiting for Confirmation. He nearly fell off his chair when [I] said 10 years or 12 years and he couldn't believe it. So I'm hoping we can see some cooperation on the doctrinal level. And I asked Bishop Zendejas, but forget that, he just shut the door and wouldn't even give any response. So maybe he was just in a bad mood, I don't know. But maybe he yet can turn around and shine also. But we shouldn't be having these weird games with our bishops. The bishops of Archbishop Lefebvre should be like Archbishop Lefebvre, preach the Faith, fight the errors, and take care of souls, and ordain priests. But good priests formed with a serious formation.

So I ask your prayers for this humble home. If Our Lord wants it, blessed be God. And if He doesn't want it, blessed be God. It's all in Our Lady's hands. And then I did announce not long ago about a house, a convent for nuns. And why? Because we need holy sisters that pray, girls that will marry Jesus Christ, consecrate their life totally to Him, and love Him with all their hearts, be married to Him alone, and make reparation to His Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and draw down grace on this wicked world. So there is a house available. It's still not bought. It's still available. They want $800,000 for it. I don't have that, but St. Joseph does. If he wants this convent, blessed be God. And I'm happy to take care of these sisters and so forth, but that's where we stand. I don't know if God wants that, but pray for that as well. So pray.

And then, of course, remember the priests in Purgatory and bishops, Bishop Williamson, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, if they're in Purgatory, pray for them. And then all the Society priests who have died, Fr. Beaumont, Fr. Iscara, Fr. Cooper, Fr. John Peake, and then all the independent priests who have died, who died fighting for Tradition, wonderful priests. And I'm sure many of them are in Heaven.

And pray for more priests. Pray for generous young men, good men. That's what we need is good, generous men who could be good athletes on the NHL hockey rinks or good athletes on the gridiron of the NFL or good military guys in the Army or Navy or Air Force or Marines or Navy SEALs or Green Berets. Why give their life to fight for Israel when they could give their life to fight for the King of Israel, the true Israel, which is the Catholic Church and eternity in Heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem? Why give your life for piles of money and bank accounts and just added on headaches and a Tesla car that will probably blow up and burn anyway because they're useless? Why give your life for that when they could give their life for the Redemption to help Our Lord save souls forever from eternal fires of Hell? What a great vocation and what a meaningful life. The priest's life is so meaningful, so full of excitement. I long for boredom. I would beg for some time of boredom. That's how over exciting it is.

So pray for priests, all priests, and pray for those priests who will die today or this week that they save their souls. Poor priests. The devil told Our lady and Sister Lucia [of] Fatima in her last interview, she said “the devil's waging his last battle and his main target is to attack consecrated souls”, priests and nuns and bishops and popes. Because if he can get one nun to fall, he takes many with him to hell. If he can take one priest to fall, he takes many to hell. A bishop to fall, he takes more to hell. A pope going to hell, oh my goodness, how many fall with him into hell? It's horrifying. So that's the battle we're in.

So and I know I'm going long here but let me just close with one last point. I, you know, the way the media portrays the Catholic priesthood and the smear on the priesthood by the scandals and the horrible bad examples, you know, especially when they are true, you know, when many priests have been falsely accused and ruined. But they're still good priests and they'll save their soul and they're innocent before God. But those who have been truly guilty of horrible crimes, unspeakable crimes, it has smeared the Catholic priesthood. And, you know, sometimes I think to myself and say, you know, if I was young right now, who would want to be a priest with that smeared tar all over it of that horrible reputation? But that's the worldly view of seeing it. And we're not, we're not meant to see the things of the world. We're not meant to love the world. We're to despise the world. We're to see the priesthood as it really is, the way Jesus Christ desires it. Priests who are another Christ, who continue the Redemption, continue the Mass, continue to preach the Faith, continue to love souls and save souls. That's the priest. Saint John Vianney, St. John Bosco, St. Isaac Jogues, St. René Goupil, Well, he wasn't a priest. St. John de Brébeuf was a priest. St. Edmund Campion. And the list goes on and on and on of great priests. And if they were alive right now, they would say exactly the same Mass. The exact same Mass. So, so tremendous is the priest that none of us are worthy of it. St. John Vianney said if a priest understood what he was and what he really is in his being, in his action, he would die out of love. He would just die out of love for God. His soul would be snatched to God. And how many good priests had seen Our Lord on the altar, Padre Pio saw the crucifixion of Our Lord and suffered it through the Mass. That's what the priesthood is. He offers that sacrifice. So how the world needs good priests. One good priest says the devil's told St. John Vianney, “if we had two more like you, our kingdom on earth would be destroyed.” So pray for priests, pray for priests.

And every young man should pass his mind. “Is this something God wills for me?” And if you're not sure, make a retreat this summer at Kansas. We'll have the Ignition Retreats, the men's retreat in the first week of July, women's retreat last week of June. Ask God and pray. We need an army of good priests. And this is what Archbishop Lefebvre really, really saw was so important to save the Church is to save the Catholic priesthood. You save the Catholic priesthood, you save the Church.

And then of course, the rest is in Our Lady's hands. We need a good Pope. We need the Virgin Mary to save this mess. Only she can pull us out of the mess we're in. And that's great because it all goes to her honor. And the Blessed Virgin Mary will have another great victory. The exciting thing is we're all part of it. You get to lay and help prepare that victory. She wants your cooperation. What does she want? Reparation and devotion to her Immaculate Heart. Pray the rosary every day, wear her brown scapular, the five first Saturdays of Reparation. This is what she wants. And by doing this, you are, wherever you are, however old you are, whether you're a woman or a man, a boy or a girl, you will help bring in the victory of our Blessed Mother. That's what she wants. It's a great, exciting time, actually. And if you die not seeing her victory, you'll see it in Heaven. And if you die seeing her victory, which will come eventually with a good Pope and the restoration of the Church and the reign of Christ's Kingship, prophecies say it will surpass the ages of the Faith of the 12th and 13th century. There'll be great saints in that era, generous souls in that era. And we might not be far from it because all it takes is one heavy chastisement. Men will be forced to their knees and realize God is everything. Christ is king. We got to reorder our politics, reorder everything back to Christ the King. That's foretold, and it's going to happen. So we get to be assisting the Virgin Mary in preparing for this reign of the Immaculate Heart. As useless and helpless as we are, you're doing a lot by doing what Our Lady asks.

So be generous. Be generous with Our Lord. And let's pray in this Mass of the Annunciation for all priests.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

And for those who do not have recourse to Thee, especially all Communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.]]> Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
03/25/2025
Father Hewko

Transcription gratefully copied from The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | April 2, 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

I wish all of you the many graces and joys and blessings of this beautiful feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is March 25th, 2025. On this day in 1991, Archbishop Lefebvre died. This day is very special because today is the day Our Lord Jesus Christ became priest. He was ordained a priest today. He was also consecrated King, the King of all the universe, the King of all nations, the King of all men, the King of all the angels and devils. He's King. Jesus Christ was made priest and King, and He also received today His body and soul. And that means His human nature was assumed by the divine person. The divine person is God the Son, who is equal with the Father and the Holy Ghost. And it was God the Son who said to the Father, “I will come.”

Sacrifices and oblations you did not want. You did not want the blood of animals, goats and lambs and rams, because blood of animals doesn't do anything except inspire contrition for sin. And that was the Jewish sacrifices, which in their blindness, open brackets, in their blindness, the poor Jews are trying to resurrect the temple, the old temple, and they want to resurrect the Old Testament sacrifices. So they have their red cow ready and their red heifer and poor things, their blindness, poor, poor souls. So we pray for their conversion. And in their blindness, they want to resume all these Old Testament ceremonies, which are long dead.

And for Catholics to participate in any of the Jewish ceremonies, or any Protestant ceremonies, or Mormon or Muslim [ceremonies], is a serious betrayal to Jesus Christ. It is a mortal sin against the first commandment. And you have Pope Benedict XVI lighting the candles of the Jews. You have Pope John Paul II who prayed with the Jews in the synagogue while they were singing that they're still waiting for the Messiah to come. Their Messiah will come. It's the Antichrist. And that's why the Antichrist will be near once they start doing these sacrifices and rebuild their temple. They're really pushing fast forward for this. So are we drawing close to that hour of the Antichrist who will reign for three and a half years, seduce the whole population. All the nations will fall for him. Even the Muslims will adore him as God. The Jews, of course. And many Catholics who have been watered down and eroded by years of the New Mass and the scandals of Vatican II and its new heresies and errors. Many Catholics will fall for the Antichrist. Many will.

So that is the Old Testament priesthood. It's finished. It's done. It's long done. That's why the curtain in the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom, which was 60 feet high of heavy material. Only the hand of God could do this. And it was to show the death of the Jewish ceremonies. It's finished. So it's kind of laughable that they want to resurrect an old beaten skeleton and it will never come to life.

So this is the day Christ assumed the human nature. This is called the Hypostatic Union. It's a big word, but it has to be a big word to be precise. It's a Greek word, hypostasis, which means “the person of God assumed the human nature”. So the imagery you could put is the imagery from Scripture, which is the anointing of Aaron. When the priest was anointed, he would strip to his waist and they would pour down over his head a big vial of oil. And the oil would drip all down his face, down his beard, down his shoulders and bare chest, down to his toes, to show that the whole man was consecrated a priest of the Old Testament. And this prefigures Jesus Christ, who was by the Hypostatic Union, soaked in the oil of the living God, so that every thought, word, action, every sigh of Jesus Christ was an act of God. And it wasn't just a person of man, it was a person of God, but with our body, who would share our nature. As Saint Paul says, he took up and assumed everything in us, hunger, thirst, fatigue, sleep, eating, drinking, but not sin, not sin.

So this Hypostatic Union means also that today is when Jesus Christ took on a human heart in the womb of the Virgin Mary. His heart will be a tiny little dot and it will grow and grow and start beating. The first time the heart of Jesus starts beating in the womb of the Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart beats with her son's. It's the first time Our Lord Jesus Christ will assume a face, a face that would be designed by God. So that's why Our Lord Jesus Christ, His face is the most handsome, the most perfectly built. The Holy Ghost will chisel and form His body, which will be, as Saint Thomas Aquinas says, “the most perfect instrument for our Redemption.” His nervous system will be far keener than the average man in order to suffer for us. So His nervous system was sharp, fine-tuned. His skeletal system was perfectly built. His muscular system was perfectly built. Everything [about] Our Lord was chiseled to perfection. He was the perfect perfection of man.

And then He left us the image of His face in the Shroud of Turin. But it's not, we would say, a most handsome face, although you do see His majesty and His handsomeness come through the divinity and the peace of His face. But what face did He leave us? It's the face of Our God beaten and swollen. His cheek is swollen. His nose is busted. His lips are swollen from thirst. His beard has all [these] blotches from being ripped out. It's a beaten face. It's a spit on face. It's a face that we contributed [by] humiliating [Him] by our sins. So today is the day Jesus Christ, the living God, took on the face and the head of man. It is the first time God, from all eternity, He never had hands and feet. This will be the day the living God will take hands and feet in order to be nailed to the cross. God taking on our hands and feet to be butchered to the cross. And such is His love for us that for all eternity, God will always keep the human body. Jesus Christ, the King, His body is always forever in Heaven, always showing His wounds to the Father and showing the wealth of His spoils, which is all the souls that will enter Heaven. The saints, the innumerable number of saints, their robes [were] “washed in the blood of the Lamb”, as Saint John describes in the Apocalypse. So it's a beautiful thought that for all eternity, God and the Son never had a body from all eternity. But from now on, since today, He will have a body for all eternity. That shows the absoluteness of God's love for us, that he will become one of us and stay one of us forever. The body of Jesus Christ, the King. So he will have hands and feet for the first time.

And today, He will be called “Savior” for the first time, because He can only save us by redeeming us by His blood. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. Today, He's called “Redeemer” for the first time, because He's here to redeem us in the womb of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. Today, He can be called “Mediator”, because He takes on our flesh, and He's also the victim. Every priest must offer some sacrifice. A priest without sacrifice is a joke. It's laughable. That's why Protestantism is such a joke. It's so empty. Anglicanism and all religions that have no sacrifice. Muslims don't have a sacrifice. It's not a religion. Mormonism has no sacrifice. You cannot really call it a religion. At most, you can call it a psychosis. That's it, or an idea. A religion must entail sacrifice, priesthood, and a victim that's killed, that's consumed either in fire or by the fire of love on the cross. So, the only true religion that has the continual priesthood of Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice, and the victim in the Mass is Our Lord Jesus Christ in this holy Catholic religion that he founded.

So, on this day, Archbishop Lefebvre died, and it's also traditionally the day of the Crucifixion and death of Christ. Today was it. Today is, in fact, March 25th, the feast day of St. Dismas, the good thief. This is when he entered into Limbo, and when Our Lord arrived there shortly after, he turned Limbo into a Heaven, a true paradise. “This day, you'll be with me in paradise, ”because limbo was turned into paradise, as the fathers of the Church teach, because Our Lord allowed the souls in Limbo the Beatific Vision. They could see the Holy Trinity from then on, and they will enter [with] Our Lord into Heaven 40 days after His Resurrection, on the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven.

Let me just draw from Archbishop Lefebvre, speaking of this:

“The Church cannot do without the Sacrifice of the Altar. Look at the beauty of the churches that have been built. Rev. Fr. Abbott has just been telling me that in this church”, this is a sermon given on September 8th, 1975, and Mariazell in Austria, Archbishop Lefebvre is preaching, “that at least the origin of this church,” that he's in “dates from the beginning of the 9th century. How many generations have come to this Church of Mariazell to pray and offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to participate in the Sacrifice of the Mass offered by the priests? It is the life of the Church, the altar of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We must therefore have profound Faith in the action which takes place on the altar through the mouth of the priest. When the priest pronounces the words of Consecration, Our Lord, as on the cross, returns to the altar to offer His sacrifice, which continues yet on for the remission of our sins. That is the heart of the Mass. That is [what] the Blessed Virgin Mary teaches us. That is what the apostles teach us. You have learned from your catechism that the Sacrifice of the Altar is a real sacrifice, and that it differs from the Sacrifice of the Cross, only because in that, the Sacrifice of the Cross, there is shedding of blood, and in the Sacrifice of the Mass, there is no shedding of blood. That is the only difference between the Sacrifice of the Cross and the Sacrifice of the Altar. That is why we venerate the Sacrifice of the Altar. It is all there in Catholic doctrine. Everything is gathered into this small and immense reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass, because if there is a sacrifice, the victim must be present. If there is no victim present, there is no sacrifice. Hence, Our Lord must be present, since He offers Himself in sacrifice. Let us not say, therefore, that the Sacrifice of the Mass is simply a commemorative meal, or a meal of remembrance, a memento only of what Our Lord did at the Last Supper. It is all a blasphemy against the teaching of the Church, against what Our Lord Jesus Christ did, and what He meant to do. All that ruins the priesthood. What is it? The New Mass ruins the priesthood. The priest is not merely the president at a commemorative meal. The priest offers sacrifice. The priest is he who brings down upon the altar the victim present, really present, upon the altar. In that you behold all the greatness of the priest, who must be endowed with a special character, that he may offer the sacrifice, who must bear for all eternity a mark on his soul, to offer this sacrifice, who must remain a virgin, celibate, since for him it is a great marvel to bring God down from Heaven to earth, to bring Our Lord Jesus Christ into the Holy Eucharist by his words, by his lips. It is understandable that the priest should be a virgin, that he should not marry, that he should be virgin like the Virgin Mary. That is why the priest is a celibate and not because he is overburdened with the demands of his apostolate. All the greatness of the Sacrifice of the Mass arises simply from the fact that it is a real sacrifice. It is the Sacrifice of Calvary. That is what our forefathers have always believed. That is what the Church has always believed. We cannot change or alter that Faith by one iota. If we vary, if we change the forms, if we now say we are offering a Eucharist, we are holding a Eucharistic feast, we are having a supper, we are becoming Protestants and we are losing the whole reality of the Catholic Church, which rests on that truth. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no longer a Catholic Church if there is no longer a priest endowed with the character for the offering of the Holy Sacrifice.”

So what does that tell you when under Pope Paul VI in 1968, they actually changed the rite of ordination and changed several words and one of them is changing “ut” to “et”. And you might think, “well, what is the big deal? It is only two letters.” But many theologians, good theologians say it changes the whole meaning of what the priest is supposed to do. And that is why Pope Leo XIII condemned the Anglican ordinations as all invalid because it no longer expressed what the priest was supposed to do to offer sacrifice. And that is exactly what happened with the New Mass changes in 1968 for the ordination of the priest. So that is why it is not too rash to say there is an objective doubt to the new ordination of the Novus Ordo priest. It is objective.

And it is not for me to settle. It is for the Church to settle whether it all is valid or not. But one thing Archbishop Lefebvre did do, many times, was conditionally ordain priests who were ordained in the Novus Ordo because there was an objective doubt. And if he is not a priest, there is no Mass, no forgiveness of sins, he cannot give anything validly.

So what a triumph for the devil to cause invalid priests, very possibly, and therefore invalid sacraments. It is a very serious attack on the Church, this Novus Ordo changing of the sacraments. It is a direct attack on the Catholic Faith. So Archbishop Lefebvre defended the Catholic priesthood, he defended the Catholic Mass, he defended the Holy Sacrifice of the altar, he defended everything on which hinges all the Catholic Faith to continue. And that is why we must simply continue. Simply continue his position which is keep the Faith, keep the true Mass, keep the true sacraments, no compromise with Vatican II, no compromise with the New Mass, with the new Code of Canon Law, with this new Conciliar Church. And that is why we have to oppose the compromise of Bishop Fellay back in 2012. That is why we have had to stood up and oppose the compromises of Bishop Williamson in his lifetime. Towards the end of his life, he was promoting the New Mass quite heavily, and New Mass miracles. So pray for his soul. And then, of course, we must resist all compromise.

And many Catholics right now, you know, there is so much confusion, so much loss of Faith, so much scandal from Rome that has lost the Faith. What do we do? Well, Saint Vincent Lérin and Archbishop Lefebvre, they always said, “stay with what the Church has always done.” You cannot go wrong with holding the Faith of all the Popes before Vatican II, holding the Mass of all time, holding the Catholic Tradition. And that means not only holding definitions in books, but we must live the charity of Jesus Christ. Love Jesus Christ, the King. Love Him with all our heart, with all our whole being. Have the spirit of the martyrs. This is what's demanded of us in these days, is the spirit of the martyrs, that we have that spirit of the martyrs, which is one of extraordinary charity for God, and extraordinary charity for our neighbor. And that must shine in our lives, the charity of God and the charity of our neighbor.

That's what people used to say about the Catholics in the early Church. The pagans would look at them and know them and see their lives and say, “look at those Catholics. Look how they live. They have such love for one another. And even us pagans, they treat us as brothers and sisters when we need help.” And that shined in the early Catholics, and it needs to shine always, always in us.

So let's beg the Virgin Mary on this beautiful feast. You know, outside on [this day] in Nazareth, there was no comets, no asteroids, there was no fireworks, there was no sudden darkness or extended daylight. It was just a normal day in Nazareth. If you lived in Nazareth, just a few blocks down from where Our Lady was, you wouldn't have noticed anything different. It was just a normal day. But yet in that house of Loreto, it's called the House of Loreto, which the angels carried to Italy later, and the angels did carry it. They did all kinds of engineering and structural and physical and chemistry studies on the House of Loreto. And they say there's no way it was disassembled and put back together. It's not possible because it's made of all tiny rocks. The house was carried by angels, but I won't go into that story here. But just to say that house was where God became man. And if you lived in Nazareth, it wouldn't have been anything out of the ordinary [kind of] day. God worked the greatest miracle in a quiet way. And that's kind of how He was born, wasn't it? In Bethlehem, it was just another day in Bethlehem when He was born. But there were angels, there were shepherds, but for the townspeople, there was nothing all that much going on. So God often works quietly in a barn, in a little house, on a humble altar, the same reality takes place- God comes down on the altar, and a more extraordinary miracle, we could say, takes place. He doesn't become a little infant in Mary's womb. He becomes the Living Bread from Heaven, and the wine is changed to His most Precious Blood. So that's even a more extraordinary miracle, every single Mass.

And then [He] feeds you, feeds you with His body, blood, soul, and divinity, such as the love of the Sacred Heart. He feeds you with His burning heart. You eat fire. When you go to Communion, you eat fire. You consume Him, but He consumes us so that we can become one flame with Him by love of God, by charity with Him, by Sanctifying Grace. He wants this. So He wants to draw us, so this burning fire burns in us hotter and hotter, more intensely, especially when we unite ourselves with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that when we die, this burning fire of Sanctifying Grace turns into the Beatific Vision. And that's what enables the soul to see God as He really is, is Sanctifying Grace. And even if the soul has to pass through some fires of Purgatory, they're at great peace, and they're happy because they know they're going to Heaven. They're just being purged of all their sins on earth, or forgiven sins not yet sufficiently atoned for. But once they leave Purgatory, they love God and are burning in fire for the love of Him, and they will behold Him face to face for all eternity. So this is the day it all started. This is the day.

And traditionally this is also the day Adam and Eve fell. They fell on this day. So God came down to restore. How did He restore everything? What was the crack of dawn that announced the new day, the new age, which will be forever, the true golden age of the Redemption? It started with Mary, the Virgin Mary, and the angel telling her, “Ave Maria, Ave Maria.” “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.” This is Our Lady's favorite prayer, so remember that when we pray her rosary every day. We honor her. So let's honor the Virgin Mary and beg her the grace to love the Mass, the re-enactment of Calvary. Love the Catholic priesthood.

Pray for your priests. Pray for priests in purgatory. Pray for priests on earth. Pray for fallen priests. Pray for all the fake resistance priests and bishops, that they wake up and start fighting the real fight and speak in the real truth. Pray for Novus Ordo priests, that they get conditionally ordained and become good priests. Pray for all compromising priests, especially the new SSPX. Many of them who were in my class, good priests in all those before us, they were all trained as crack troops to fight modernism. They were all trained like navy seals to fight the errors of our time. So what would it take to muffle them? What would it take to turn them from boxers in the ring taking on anybody to little mice on the sidelines afraid to say anything that might be uncomfortable or get them in a little trouble because it's the truth? Well, it took the leader to compromise, Bishop Fellay, and he did. It was a serious compromise, and it was public in 2012. It's not something hidden and, you know, little false accusations here or there, they publicly did it, [its] called the Doctrinal Declaration, and then the ongoing approvals with Rome, jurisdiction for confession, jurisdiction for marriages, jurisdiction for Holy Orders, and it puts them in a terrible position.

They should never have done this because now, and I hear this often now, Father, I call the priests of the society, “My grandmother's dying. Can you come and bring her Extreme Unction?” Or “my friend is dying.” Before 2012, any priest of the SSPX would just drop what they're doing, take a car or a flight, and go to that soul. It doesn't matter who it was because it's a dying person, and we have universal jurisdiction because it's the extreme necessity in the Church, the crisis of the Church, but now that they have so-called “jurisdiction”, thanks to Pope Francis and the recognition from Rome, now the priests, they can't say, “Okay, I'll be right there,” although some will still do that because they have good hearts and they have priestly hearts, but now the trend is more and more rising. “Sorry, are you a parishioner?” “No.” “Well, sorry, we can't come. Sorry, we can't help you. You've got to be a parishioner. You've got to be a registered parishioner. That's what the bishop wants.” Click. So what a terrible situation.

So that's what this jurisdiction has done. It has bound them in a way to muzzle them, to silence them, and they succeeded [in this]. Pope Benedict XVI succeeded to bring [about] the silencing of the SSPX, which used to be the powerhouse of the church. It used to be a great infantry, a great phalanx, a great army of priests preaching the Faith fearlessly with good bishops. But how did all this compromise happen? Very slowly, very weasley, very compromisingly.

So we've got to pray for them too in this Mass. Pray for all priests. Pray for all priests. And lastly, pray for this humble home, the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, a house of studies, where priests, if God wills, are starting to be formed. We have two right now, and next month we'll probably have perhaps one, one and a half, one or two more. We have some young men visiting, and in the fall, I understand, some more hope to come. We'll see.

And I just put it all in Our Lady's hands. But at least we got to do something to try to form priests for tomorrow. I shouldn't be doing it. It should be the bishops. But we're in such an emergency situation. Father Ruiz tells me, “You've got to start the seminary, our house of studies for priests. You've got to do it.” But Father, I'm useless. I'm not a bishop. Who's going to ordain our boys? “Don't worry. That's in God's hands. And just do what we can.” So we leave that in Our Lady's hands. So pray for the young men studying. Pray for the brothers that will come, priests, hopefully. Who will ordain them? That's one of the biggest mockery that we have. “You don't have a bishop.” That's what Father Chazal told me when we told him, “You're silent against Bishop Williamson's errors. You should be condemning his compromises with the New Mass and pushing the New Mass miracles. But you're silent.” And Father Chazal said, “Well, at least I have a bishop and you don't.” Well, he has bishops, yes. But at what price? Silence against errors. Sorry, Father Chazal. You know better than that. And Father Chazal is a great priest. He's a great warrior. But he knows he should not be silent on these points. He knows that. I know him well. And I think he still can shine yet bright and come back to the great soldier he always was.

So pray. And who's going to be our bishop? I don't know. God knows. Our Lady knows. There is some hope with Bishop Ballini. He seems very approachable. He did send me holy oils. He personally, he says, “I don't agree with Bishop Williamson's errors.” Thank God. So he doesn't. He doesn't agree with Bishop Fellay’s betrayal. But we need to hear it publicly. And that's what I asked him. We got to hear it publicly. You're a bishop. You're a public figure. We got to see pictures of your consecration and or at least videos, at least something to show you were really consecrated and we're not guessing it was some garage bishop. And today there's tons of garage Tuk bishops, Tuk line bishops that are all doubtful. Or most of them. So that's all I asked of Bishop Ballini. Please release some public photo of your consecration so there's no doubt. And secondly, say something against the errors of Bishop Williamson and the compromise of Bishop Fellay. So our faithful can trust you. How can we trust a bishop who we're not sure if he's compromising or not? We got to hear them speak publicly. That's not unreasonable.

And Archbishop Lefebvre said the faithful have a right to know where their priests and bishops stand. They have a right to know if they're evolutionary, if they're pro-Vatican II, if they're compromising with the New Mass. They have a right to know. And if they are, “Adios amigo, goodbye, I'm not coming to your Mass.” But if they are not compromising and they're preaching the Faith, we will flock to their Mass.

And I told Bishop Ballini we have 10 years, excuse me, now it's 13 years of families that are still waiting for Confirmation all over the U.S. and Canada and in England too, waiting for Confirmation. He nearly fell off his chair when [I] said 10 years or 12 years and he couldn't believe it. So I'm hoping we can see some cooperation on the doctrinal level. And I asked Bishop Zendejas, but forget that, he just shut the door and wouldn't even give any response. So maybe he was just in a bad mood, I don't know. But maybe he yet can turn around and shine also. But we shouldn't be having these weird games with our bishops. The bishops of Archbishop Lefebvre should be like Archbishop Lefebvre, preach the Faith, fight the errors, and take care of souls, and ordain priests. But good priests formed with a serious formation.

So I ask your prayers for this humble home. If Our Lord wants it, blessed be God. And if He doesn't want it, blessed be God. It's all in Our Lady's hands. And then I did announce not long ago about a house, a convent for nuns. And why? Because we need holy sisters that pray, girls that will marry Jesus Christ, consecrate their life totally to Him, and love Him with all their hearts, be married to Him alone, and make reparation to His Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and draw down grace on this wicked world. So there is a house available. It's still not bought. It's still available. They want $800,000 for it. I don't have that, but St. Joseph does. If he wants this convent, blessed be God. And I'm happy to take care of these sisters and so forth, but that's where we stand. I don't know if God wants that, but pray for that as well. So pray.

And then, of course, remember the priests in Purgatory and bishops, Bishop Williamson, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, if they're in Purgatory, pray for them. And then all the Society priests who have died, Fr. Beaumont, Fr. Iscara, Fr. Cooper, Fr. John Peake, and then all the independent priests who have died, who died fighting for Tradition, wonderful priests. And I'm sure many of them are in Heaven.

And pray for more priests. Pray for generous young men, good men. That's what we need is good, generous men who could be good athletes on the NHL hockey rinks or good athletes on the gridiron of the NFL or good military guys in the Army or Navy or Air Force or Marines or Navy SEALs or Green Berets. Why give their life to fight for Israel when they could give their life to fight for the King of Israel, the true Israel, which is the Catholic Church and eternity in Heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem? Why give your life for piles of money and bank accounts and just added on headaches and a Tesla car that will probably blow up and burn anyway because they're useless? Why give your life for that when they could give their life for the Redemption to help Our Lord save souls forever from eternal fires of Hell? What a great vocation and what a meaningful life. The priest's life is so meaningful, so full of excitement. I long for boredom. I would beg for some time of boredom. That's how over exciting it is.

So pray for priests, all priests, and pray for those priests who will die today or this week that they save their souls. Poor priests. The devil told Our lady and Sister Lucia [of] Fatima in her last interview, she said “the devil's waging his last battle and his main target is to attack consecrated souls”, priests and nuns and bishops and popes. Because if he can get one nun to fall, he takes many with him to hell. If he can take one priest to fall, he takes many to hell. A bishop to fall, he takes more to hell. A pope going to hell, oh my goodness, how many fall with him into hell? It's horrifying. So that's the battle we're in.

So and I know I'm going long here but let me just close with one last point. I, you know, the way the media portrays the Catholic priesthood and the smear on the priesthood by the scandals and the horrible bad examples, you know, especially when they are true, you know, when many priests have been falsely accused and ruined. But they're still good priests and they'll save their soul and they're innocent before God. But those who have been truly guilty of horrible crimes, unspeakable crimes, it has smeared the Catholic priesthood. And, you know, sometimes I think to myself and say, you know, if I was young right now, who would want to be a priest with that smeared tar all over it of that horrible reputation? But that's the worldly view of seeing it. And we're not, we're not meant to see the things of the world. We're not meant to love the world. We're to despise the world. We're to see the priesthood as it really is, the way Jesus Christ desires it. Priests who are another Christ, who continue the Redemption, continue the Mass, continue to preach the Faith, continue to love souls and save souls. That's the priest. Saint John Vianney, St. John Bosco, St. Isaac Jogues, St. René Goupil, Well, he wasn't a priest. St. John de Brébeuf was a priest. St. Edmund Campion. And the list goes on and on and on of great priests. And if they were alive right now, they would say exactly the same Mass. The exact same Mass. So, so tremendous is the priest that none of us are worthy of it. St. John Vianney said if a priest understood what he was and what he really is in his being, in his action, he would die out of love. He would just die out of love for God. His soul would be snatched to God. And how many good priests had seen Our Lord on the altar, Padre Pio saw the crucifixion of Our Lord and suffered it through the Mass. That's what the priesthood is. He offers that sacrifice. So how the world needs good priests. One good priest says the devil's told St. John Vianney, “if we had two more like you, our kingdom on earth would be destroyed.” So pray for priests, pray for priests.

And every young man should pass his mind. “Is this something God wills for me?” And if you're not sure, make a retreat this summer at Kansas. We'll have the Ignition Retreats, the men's retreat in the first week of July, women's retreat last week of June. Ask God and pray. We need an army of good priests. And this is what Archbishop Lefebvre really, really saw was so important to save the Church is to save the Catholic priesthood. You save the Catholic priesthood, you save the Church.

And then of course, the rest is in Our Lady's hands. We need a good Pope. We need the Virgin Mary to save this mess. Only she can pull us out of the mess we're in. And that's great because it all goes to her honor. And the Blessed Virgin Mary will have another great victory. The exciting thing is we're all part of it. You get to lay and help prepare that victory. She wants your cooperation. What does she want? Reparation and devotion to her Immaculate Heart. Pray the rosary every day, wear her brown scapular, the five first Saturdays of Reparation. This is what she wants. And by doing this, you are, wherever you are, however old you are, whether you're a woman or a man, a boy or a girl, you will help bring in the victory of our Blessed Mother. That's what she wants. It's a great, exciting time, actually. And if you die not seeing her victory, you'll see it in Heaven. And if you die seeing her victory, which will come eventually with a good Pope and the restoration of the Church and the reign of Christ's Kingship, prophecies say it will surpass the ages of the Faith of the 12th and 13th century. There'll be great saints in that era, generous souls in that era. And we might not be far from it because all it takes is one heavy chastisement. Men will be forced to their knees and realize God is everything. Christ is king. We got to reorder our politics, reorder everything back to Christ the King. That's foretold, and it's going to happen. So we get to be assisting the Virgin Mary in preparing for this reign of the Immaculate Heart. As useless and helpless as we are, you're doing a lot by doing what Our Lady asks.

So be generous. Be generous with Our Lord. And let's pray in this Mass of the Annunciation for all priests.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary, conceived without sin. pray for us who have recourse to thee.

And for those who do not have recourse to Thee, especially all Communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

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]]> <![CDATA[Transcription: Fr. Hewko's Sermon for Third Sunday after Epiphany [2025] "I Will Be Made Clean"]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6833 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:36:01 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6833 Third Sunday After Epiphany
"I Will Be Made Clean"
January 26, 2025
By: Father Hewko

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Transcription by The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted]| January 29, 2025

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Today is the third Sunday after Epiphany here in central New York.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Catholics in Rome, chapter 12:

Brethren, be not wise in your own conceits to no man render evil for evil but provide good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as far as in you lies, be at peace with all men. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to to the wrath, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. But if your enemy is hungry, give him food, and if he is thirsty, give him to drink, for by so doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

The Holy Gospel from St. Matthew, chapter 8:

At that time when Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, and behold, a leper came up and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And stretching forth his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will be made clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priests, and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a witness to them. Now when he had entered Capernaum, there came to him a centurion, who entreated him, saying, Lord, my servant is lying sick in the house, paralyzed, and is grievously afflicted. Jesus said to him, I will come and cure him. But in answer the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, and I have soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, go, and he goes, and to another, come, and he comes, and to my servant, do this, and he does it. And when Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who were following him, Amen. I say to you, I have not found such great faith in Israel.And I tell you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and will feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom will be put forth into the darkness outside. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then Jesus said to the centurion, Go your way, as you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was healed in that hour.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

By way of announcement, please pray for Bishop Williamson. There's been a few reports that he's already dead, but as far as I (can) confirm now, from a very reliable source, Bishop Williamson is not dead. He's still hanging on. He's now on life support in England, and apparently he's waiting for his brother [...] to come, and some of the bishops to come. So please pray for Bishop Williamson, but he's not expected to live much longer. So pray for him, and Bishop Williamson, as you know, consecrated six bishops for tradition, and at least he did this for the continuation of the true Catholic Mass and of Catholic tradition. So pray for him, because very soon he will face his judgment.

Judgments of bishops are always more severe than priests, and judgment of priests are more severe than the laity. So it's a scary thing when bishops and popes and priests come before the throne of God. So they do need prayers, and don't forget Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, who died also about a month or so ago. Pray for him as well.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

St. Ambrose makes a very powerful point on this Gospel. He says this: “When Christ said, “I will be made clean”, he said this because of Photinus. He commands and says, “Be made clean”, on account of Arius, the heretic, and he touches the leper on account of Manicheus, the heretic.” “For Photinus”, that's P-H-O-T-I-N-U-S, Photinus. “Photinus the heretic taught that Christ was a mere man and not God, whose attribute is an almighty will by which He says, ‘I will be thou clean’.” So Photinus the heretic said Christ was just a man and not God, and Arius the heretic taught that Christ was inferior to the Father, and not equal to the Father, and therefore did not himself command, but received the Father's commandments. So to counter that heresy, Christ commands the leprosy to go: “I will it. Be made clean.” So Christ shows He's God by commanding the sickness to leave. And then thirdly, “Manicheus, the heretic, taught that Christ had not real flesh, but only an appearance such as a ghost, as could not in reality either touch or be touched.” So to refute that heresy, Christ touches the leper with His hands to show He's not a ghost, He's a real body. So Christ counters all these heresies in this one curing of the leper, that He's really the true God, He really commands, and He really has a real body to sanctify that touches.

And when we go to Communion today, in the Holy Eucharist, Christ is truly present, His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. It's not a representation, it's not a symbol, it's not as they say in the New Mass, 'a symbol of the communities gathering and sharing one another's awareness and consciousness.' That's not what the Holy Eucharist is, but that's what they turned it into, some kind of symbol of the fellowship of the community, which is all just Protestant and Lutheran garbage. That's not the Catholic faith. The Catholic faith is this, that Jesus Christ is truly present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the most Holy Eucharist.

The angels know it and adore Him by the millions. Right now the angels are gathering all in this whole area for miles. Millions of angels are coming down from heaven to get ready for the sacrifice of the Mass. And even the devils, they also form their flanks, because they hate the Mass, and they want to do everything to destroy the Mass. And is the devil ever wreaking havoc now? He wants to destroy this Catholic Mass, and now he has a Pope who is working with him to destroy the Mass. Pope Francis is trying to destroy the Tridentine Latin Mass. He can't stand the Latin Mass, and he mocks priests and says, “They have mental disease.”, all those priests who want to say the Tridentine Catholic Mass. Well, at his judgment, he'll see who really has the mental disease, and it's not Catholic tradition. It's not those priests faithful to tradition. So let's pray for this Pope. It'll be a frightening thought when he dies, and he's not far from it. Pray for his conversion. It's a frightful thought when these Popes die.

You know that Pope John Paul II, when he died two years later in Poland, there was a photograph at a celebration of his life. Someone took a photograph of a huge bonfire that just, you know, happened to be there in Poland celebrating Pope John Paul II. And when he developed the photograph, he was shocked to see the flames took the shape of the body of Pope John Paul II. And in Poland, the Polish people tell me the Muslims could not destroy Poland's Catholic faith. The Communists could not destroy Poland's Catholic faith. But who could? Pope John Paul II and Vatican II could destroy the faith of the Poles with a New Mass and the whole new religion. And they only keep the faith through the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Czestochowa.

So when Pope John Paul II's body was taken in that photograph, shaped in flames, let's just be very kind and hope that's the fires of purgatory and not the fires of hell. Let's just pray that's the case. At least Pope John Paul II condemned what every bishop and pope and priest should condemn. He condemned the IVF and he condemned abortion. And he told priests and nuns, “Wear your habits!” And he did have a devotion to the Virgin Mary. So maybe Our Lady saved him. Remember, he was one of the most scandalous popes in the history of the Church. People declare him a saint and even the fake Church declares him a saint. But no saint can crucify Our Lord again, gathering all the world religions and praying with them, which he did. He started that Assisi meeting, which Pope Benedict continued to do, to the scandal of the whole world. And of course, Pope Francis continues this horrible ecumenism, which is really insulting to God. It really mocks the First Commandment: “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.”

And what do these modernist popes do? They gather all the world religions and treat them like they're all valid religions. And it's a very grave insult and blasphemy against the Most Holy Trinity. There's only one God and you have a beautiful depiction of the Most Holy Trinity here on the wall behind the altar. You see God the Father, God the Son holding the Cross of our redemption, and God the Holy Ghost, the Dove. And the love of the Father and the Son spirates the Holy Ghost without a beginning of time. And in God the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God. The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Ghost is uncreated. They are all eternal, yet (there) are not three gods, but one God, as the creed of St. Athanasius says: “And he who does not hold the Catholic faith cannot save his soul. He will be cast to the eternal fires of hell”, says the Athanasian Creed.

And we read in the Gospel today where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. So that gives us an insight of what hell will be like for the souls who go there, and how Our Lord does not want any soul to go there. He died on the cross to rescue souls. But if a soul rejects God and doesn't want to go to heaven, and doesn't want to keep His commandments, what can our Lord do? He's not going to force us into heaven. Our Lord does not want battery-operated robots in heaven that are forced to say, “I love you Lord, I love you Lord, I obey you Lord.” Our Lord does not want robots. He wants those who love him freely.

If you get married, or if you are married, (do) you want your wife and spouse or your husband to be forced to tell you that you love them at gunpoint? There wouldn't be love. So in heaven, God only wants those who freely love Him and seek Him. He doesn't force us. So those who go to hell, knowingly, turn their back to God. And no one in hell can say that our Lord did not do all He could to save them. Because every soul in hell knows that our Lord knocked and knocked and knocked to save them. And if they're in hell, they have only themselves to blame. So it's such a sad tragedy when even one soul is lost, to know that our Lord suffered the whole passion, scourging, crowning of thorns, the way of the cross, the agony on the cross for three eternal hours, suffocating for the love of souls. And it kills Him literally, if one soul is lost. And we know that many souls are lost by their free will. So it's so tragic.

And St. Anthony of Padua says, “What is the weeping and the gnashing of teeth?” He says, “The weeping is the flames”, the souls in the burning flames. They can't get out. And another aspect of hell is they lose all equilibrium. When Sister Lucia looked into hell, the children saw the souls tossed around like sparks in a flame. So they have no balance. We appreciate being able to stand on solid ground. If ever you've been out deep sea fishing, and you're easily seasick, and you get sick, you're happy to get back on ground because it's solid. But in hell, you're never on ground. You're always being tossed around. You're always bubbling in lava and flames. Nothing is solid to stand on. And that alone is a hell, let alone the flames. So the tears of hell, and then the terrible loneliness of hell.

The rock musicians, in their delusion, and poor things often sell their souls to the devil, poor souls. But in hell, it's an extreme loneliness. There's no friends. There's no father or mother to turn to. There's nobody. Everybody's panicking, screaming. Everybody's in a state of eternal frenzy, like a psych ward. Nobody's normal. Everybody's panicking and screaming wildly, like a bunch of wild animals. So there's no calm to just say, look, I got a headache. Can we just discuss a little thing? Any friendship at all? None in hell. Nothing. No consolation. It's a total loneliness. Yet in parts of hell, their bodies are crushed together. Someone's elbow is here. Someone's knee is there. Someone's feet are in your back, and they're all kicking and biting each other. It's a horrible thing. And it's not, as the souls of hell said, in the case of Annette and Claire, Annette told Claire who was in hell, she said, “Your silly priests can try to scare you with what hell is like, but nothing they say even compares to how terrible it is.” And then St. Anthony says that “What is the gnashing of teeth?” He says “It's the ice cold parts of hell.” There are parts of hell that are so cold that when they have their bodies reunited to their soul, the bodies just crack and fall off. Arms and legs will just crack off and then be put back together again. It's so bitterly cold.

So this is why the battle for Catholic tradition is really a matter of saving our soul. It's not an option. The New Mass and the New Conciliar Church and any false religion, they're not options because we can't save our soul in them. It's not a question of which one is better, the Catholic tradition or the Novus Ordo or some false religion, the Buddhist, Muslim. There is no other option. The only bridge Christ built, and He was a very good carpenter, the only bridge He built is His cross that leads to heaven and His holy Catholic Church of tradition, not the phony Conciliar Church.

Listen to Archbishop Lefebvre. This is from the recent Recusant of Autumn 2024: “The real fundamental opposition between modernist Rome and Catholic tradition is the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord came to reign. They, (modernist Rome,) they say no and we say yes along with all the popes.” And he's talking about all the popes from Pius XII before him.

“Our Lord did not come to be hidden inside houses without coming out. Why missionaries, so many of them were massacred to preach that our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true God, to tell the pagans to convert. So the pagans wanted to make them disappear, but they didn't hesitate, (the missionaries), they didn't hesitate to give their lives to continue preaching our Lord Jesus Christ. But now we're meant to do the opposite, telling the pagans, ‘Your religion is good. Keep it as long as you are a good Buddhist, a good Muslim, or a good pagan.’” And that's what Vatican II teaches, by the way. And this is what Pope John Paul II taught, by the way. And so did Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. And these are outright heresies. You cannot save (your) soul in these false religions.

And Archbishop Lefebvre says, “That's why we can't get along with them, because we are obeying our Lord who said to the Apostles, go and teach the Gospel to the ends of the earth. That's why we shouldn't be surprised that we cannot get along with modernist Rome. This will not be possible as long as Rome does not return to the Faith [and] the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as long as it gives the impression that all religions are good. We clash on a point of the Catholic faith, just as Cardinal Bea and Cardinal Ottaviani clashed over it, and as all the popes clashed with liberalism. It's the same thing, the same current, the same ideas, and the same divisions within the church.

But before the Council of Vatican II, (which was from 1962-65), the Popes and Rome supported tradition against liberalism, whereas now the liberals have taken their place. Obviously they are against traditionalists, so we are persecuted. But we are at peace, because we are in communion with all the Popes since Our Lord and the Apostles. We are keeping their faith, and we're not going to switch now to the revolutionary faith in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. We do not want to be Sons of 1789, but the sons of Our Lord, sons of the Holy Gospel. The representatives of the [Conciliar] Catholic Church say that everyone is free, and that we can bring all religions together to pray, like at Assisi. (That was in 1986 with Pope John Paul II.) This is an abomination, and the day when our Lord gets angry, it will be no laughing matter. For if our Lord punished the Jews as He did, it was because they had refused to believe in Him. He had announced that Jerusalem would be razed to the ground, and Jerusalem was razed to the ground, and the Temple has never been rebuilt since. He could well say the same thing now, that all His pastors are against Him. They no longer want to believe in His universal reign.”

So when you get popes, cardinals, bishops fighting the reign of Christ the King, the punishment, he's saying, will be severe. And one of those punishments is blindness. The blindness, they've lost the faith. The blindness is just stunning. The Catholic Church of Vatican II is falling to pieces. It's dying. It's sterile. It's empty. Dying monasteries, dying convents, dying parishes, selling off churches, and is being punished by the blindness.

And Archbishop Lefebvre says, “We must remain attached to the doctrine of the Church, remain attached to our Lord, who is everything to us. He is the master. He is the one who will judge us as He will judge everyone else. So we must pray for His kingdom to come, even if we are persecuted.”

So this beautiful little chapel, where does it exist? [It is a] barn on the outside, it's a barn. It's a chapel in a barn. Why? Because you and I cannot go to our local parish, because the bishops are modernists. They don't want the Tridentine Mass. And if they allow the Tridentine Mass, it's only because the priest has to compromise with the devil. He has to shake hands with the devil and say, “I accept Vatican II. I accept the New Mass. I accept the new Code of Canon Law.” Only then is he allowed to say the Latin Mass. So he makes a mockery of the Latin Mass. And no priest should compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass. That goes with the compromises of Bishop Fellay in 2012. That goes with the Fake Resistance also, with its dancing with the New Mass.

So Archbishop Lefebvre says: “Extraordinary as it may seem, that's the situation today. I didn't invent it. Why do I find myself almost alone in opposing this liberalism, when the vast majority of bishops, even in Rome, are in favor of it? It's a great mystery. In remaining faithful as before to everything the popes have said, one finds oneself almost alone.”

And that's true. Archbishop Lefebvre was basically alone, like Saint Athanasius against the whole world. It was Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer against the whole tidal wave of modernism. “If you're with our Lord, that's the main thing, even if you have to be alone. If you are with all the teaching of the Church over more than 20 centuries, you have nothing to fear. There's nothing to worry about. It is there. Thanks be to God, the good Lord who knows the future will set things right one day, because the Church cannot remain in this situation indefinitely. So let's put our trust in the Blessed Virgin and our Lord, and let's not be discouraged or worried, because we are carrying on the Church. Let us remain in peace. May the good Lord bless you.” Archbishop Lefebvre.

So that's his conference in this, Liberalism, the Church's worst enemy, the conference of Archbishop Lefebvre. So yes, so we must simply fight on and carry on the Catholic faith and Tradition. Keep what Our Lady asks us to keep, the daily Rosary, wear Her Scapular, make devotion to the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, be greatly devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, do the five first Saturdays as best you can to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart. And we must also study liberalism. We must understand this beast, this devil, this horde of devils that makes Catholics lose their faith and get confused. So we follow our Lord, we follow the Catholic tradition, and the teachings are clear.

The Popes have condemned modernism, liberalism, evolution. They have condemned communism, socialism. They have condemned compromise with error. They have condemned the New Mass. The Council of Trent clearly condemns the New Mass and says, “If anybody dares to take this Mass, turn it to face the people, let him be condemned. If anyone dares to say that the Mass should be put in the English or vernacular, let him be condemned. If anyone says that you got to simplify the rites and cut the prayers and cut and shorten everything, let him be condemned. If anyone denies that the Sacrament of Penance is the sacrament whereby sins are forgiven, let him be condemned. If anyone denies that the Sacrifice of the Mass is the same exact Sacrifice of Calvary and denies this, let him be condemned.” That's the Council of Trent. The teachings are clear.

And then you've got Pope Pius VI condemning all compromise and (the) using (of) slippery language and ambiguous phrases to seduce Catholics into error. And that's Vatican II. It's a total double-tongued document. All the documents have double-tongued. And our Lord hates the double-tongued, says the Holy Ghost. “I have hated the double-tongued.” So our Lord says, “Say yes or no but not double-tongued.” And that's Vatican II. And Vatican II is still destroying the church. Pope Francis is destroying marriage. He's destroying the priesthood. He's destroying the Mass. He's doing everything to destroy our Catholic Church in the name of what? Vatican II. Vatican II. And you might say well what does Vatican II have to do with us now? That's back in 1965. Well good question. But all that these modernist bishops and popes are doing is in the name of Vatican II. And Vatican II stands condemned by all of Catholic tradition. Every bit of it. [Emphasis - The Catacombs]

So you're fighting on the right side. And who cares if we have Mass up in a barn? Big deal. Saint John Vianney grew up going to Mass also in a barn. He didn't have a chapel this fancy. He had hay and cows and some chickens, (he was) probably sleeping on the rafters during Mass because it would be at midnight in a barn in the middle of the night. And the people would gather at the neighbor's barn when the priest would come. A priest who did not sign the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. The Catholics would not go to Mass (with) a priest who signed the Oath. They were called juring priests- traitor priests. So today it's the same thing. Priests who compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass or the New Code. They're traitor priests. “Yeah but they're nice. They wear the cassock. They say the Latin Mass.” Big deal. They're still traitors if they accept Vatican II and the New Mass and the New Code in any way.

Sorry that's the way it is. And if I accept the New Mass or try to argue New Mass miracles or try to argue that you can get grace at the New Mass or “Vatican II is not so bad”, “You have to interpret it in the light of tradition”. If I start talking that way I become a traitor. I become a traitor to Jesus Christ our God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the court of heaven and to the most Holy Trinity. I have become salt that has lost its flavor worth nothing to be thrown out on a field to be trampled on by the Amish wagons and cow's feet. That's a priest who compromises or a bishop or a pope.

So it's a frightening thing today because we are quite alone but on the other side tradition is building. The Modernists are scared now because tradition is growing all around the world. It's growing and it's young people, young families who are having children and lots of children and that was an encouraging thing to hear from the vice president two days ago at the March for Life. It's encouraging to hear. Let's keep praying for Trump and Vance. They came in saying we're pro-abortion so let's pray they convert and condemn abortion and take action against it but at least Vance, J.D. Vance, at his talk at the March for Life he said: “America needs many babies, many children, families and good mothers and fathers to raise them.” Those are good words. Those are good words and President Trump, just yesterday, he cut the tax funding for Planned Parenthood which Biden, a traitor Catholic, funded the Planned Parenthood but Trump just cut that so that's a good thing. Those are good steps and he also released from prison these good people who were arrested under the Biden administration, even an old lady, 89 years old, in a wheelchair (was) put in prison, put in prison and when she was nine she was in a concentration camp under the Communists in Yugoslavia. She comes to America and Biden puts her in prison because in her wheelchair she goes down the hall singing hymns in a hallway where they're doing abortions in the hospital. Horrible thing. So Trump if he keeps going this way, it will win his conversion. Let's pray for him. Pray for him. He's a good man, in the sense that he's a good natural leader. He does have the ability to be a good leader but is he working with the dark side? Is he only playing two faces? Is he trying to please the synagogue of Satan? I don't know. God knows but let's pray for him and let's pray for Vance. Let's pray for Pope Francis.

Let's beg the Virgin Mary to give us finally a good pope, a good pope who will restore tradition, condemn Vatican II, condemn the New Mass, condemn the new Code of Canon Law, restore the pre-55 Liturgy where it belongs and restore our Catholic tradition. This day is going to come! It's promised: “In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

But our Lord, He could grant this today, and many people are praying the rosary, but we got to keep faithful. He just wants us fighting. He is pleased that we are fighting and walking the trenches with bullets flying and bombs and mines. He's just as pleased that we fight that's all, like Saint Joan of Arc said: “God may not want us to see the victory.” He may not want us to live to see a good pope or the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, maybe He will, but that doesn't matter. What He wants of us now is that we keep fighting and we keep fighting and we keep fighting and persevere with grace. I ask (this) for all of you through the hearts of Jesus and Mary in this holy Mass.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially all Communists and Freemasons and other enemies of holy mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Ghost, Amen.]]> Third Sunday After Epiphany
"I Will Be Made Clean"
January 26, 2025
By: Father Hewko

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Transcription by The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted]| January 29, 2025

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Today is the third Sunday after Epiphany here in central New York.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Catholics in Rome, chapter 12:

Brethren, be not wise in your own conceits to no man render evil for evil but provide good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as far as in you lies, be at peace with all men. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to to the wrath, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. But if your enemy is hungry, give him food, and if he is thirsty, give him to drink, for by so doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

The Holy Gospel from St. Matthew, chapter 8:

At that time when Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, and behold, a leper came up and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And stretching forth his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will be made clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priests, and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a witness to them. Now when he had entered Capernaum, there came to him a centurion, who entreated him, saying, Lord, my servant is lying sick in the house, paralyzed, and is grievously afflicted. Jesus said to him, I will come and cure him. But in answer the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou should come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, and I have soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, go, and he goes, and to another, come, and he comes, and to my servant, do this, and he does it. And when Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who were following him, Amen. I say to you, I have not found such great faith in Israel.And I tell you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and will feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom will be put forth into the darkness outside. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then Jesus said to the centurion, Go your way, as you have believed, so be it done to you. And his servant was healed in that hour.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

By way of announcement, please pray for Bishop Williamson. There's been a few reports that he's already dead, but as far as I (can) confirm now, from a very reliable source, Bishop Williamson is not dead. He's still hanging on. He's now on life support in England, and apparently he's waiting for his brother [...] to come, and some of the bishops to come. So please pray for Bishop Williamson, but he's not expected to live much longer. So pray for him, and Bishop Williamson, as you know, consecrated six bishops for tradition, and at least he did this for the continuation of the true Catholic Mass and of Catholic tradition. So pray for him, because very soon he will face his judgment.

Judgments of bishops are always more severe than priests, and judgment of priests are more severe than the laity. So it's a scary thing when bishops and popes and priests come before the throne of God. So they do need prayers, and don't forget Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, who died also about a month or so ago. Pray for him as well.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.

St. Ambrose makes a very powerful point on this Gospel. He says this: “When Christ said, “I will be made clean”, he said this because of Photinus. He commands and says, “Be made clean”, on account of Arius, the heretic, and he touches the leper on account of Manicheus, the heretic.” “For Photinus”, that's P-H-O-T-I-N-U-S, Photinus. “Photinus the heretic taught that Christ was a mere man and not God, whose attribute is an almighty will by which He says, ‘I will be thou clean’.” So Photinus the heretic said Christ was just a man and not God, and Arius the heretic taught that Christ was inferior to the Father, and not equal to the Father, and therefore did not himself command, but received the Father's commandments. So to counter that heresy, Christ commands the leprosy to go: “I will it. Be made clean.” So Christ shows He's God by commanding the sickness to leave. And then thirdly, “Manicheus, the heretic, taught that Christ had not real flesh, but only an appearance such as a ghost, as could not in reality either touch or be touched.” So to refute that heresy, Christ touches the leper with His hands to show He's not a ghost, He's a real body. So Christ counters all these heresies in this one curing of the leper, that He's really the true God, He really commands, and He really has a real body to sanctify that touches.

And when we go to Communion today, in the Holy Eucharist, Christ is truly present, His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. It's not a representation, it's not a symbol, it's not as they say in the New Mass, 'a symbol of the communities gathering and sharing one another's awareness and consciousness.' That's not what the Holy Eucharist is, but that's what they turned it into, some kind of symbol of the fellowship of the community, which is all just Protestant and Lutheran garbage. That's not the Catholic faith. The Catholic faith is this, that Jesus Christ is truly present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the most Holy Eucharist.

The angels know it and adore Him by the millions. Right now the angels are gathering all in this whole area for miles. Millions of angels are coming down from heaven to get ready for the sacrifice of the Mass. And even the devils, they also form their flanks, because they hate the Mass, and they want to do everything to destroy the Mass. And is the devil ever wreaking havoc now? He wants to destroy this Catholic Mass, and now he has a Pope who is working with him to destroy the Mass. Pope Francis is trying to destroy the Tridentine Latin Mass. He can't stand the Latin Mass, and he mocks priests and says, “They have mental disease.”, all those priests who want to say the Tridentine Catholic Mass. Well, at his judgment, he'll see who really has the mental disease, and it's not Catholic tradition. It's not those priests faithful to tradition. So let's pray for this Pope. It'll be a frightening thought when he dies, and he's not far from it. Pray for his conversion. It's a frightful thought when these Popes die.

You know that Pope John Paul II, when he died two years later in Poland, there was a photograph at a celebration of his life. Someone took a photograph of a huge bonfire that just, you know, happened to be there in Poland celebrating Pope John Paul II. And when he developed the photograph, he was shocked to see the flames took the shape of the body of Pope John Paul II. And in Poland, the Polish people tell me the Muslims could not destroy Poland's Catholic faith. The Communists could not destroy Poland's Catholic faith. But who could? Pope John Paul II and Vatican II could destroy the faith of the Poles with a New Mass and the whole new religion. And they only keep the faith through the Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Czestochowa.

So when Pope John Paul II's body was taken in that photograph, shaped in flames, let's just be very kind and hope that's the fires of purgatory and not the fires of hell. Let's just pray that's the case. At least Pope John Paul II condemned what every bishop and pope and priest should condemn. He condemned the IVF and he condemned abortion. And he told priests and nuns, “Wear your habits!” And he did have a devotion to the Virgin Mary. So maybe Our Lady saved him. Remember, he was one of the most scandalous popes in the history of the Church. People declare him a saint and even the fake Church declares him a saint. But no saint can crucify Our Lord again, gathering all the world religions and praying with them, which he did. He started that Assisi meeting, which Pope Benedict continued to do, to the scandal of the whole world. And of course, Pope Francis continues this horrible ecumenism, which is really insulting to God. It really mocks the First Commandment: “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.”

And what do these modernist popes do? They gather all the world religions and treat them like they're all valid religions. And it's a very grave insult and blasphemy against the Most Holy Trinity. There's only one God and you have a beautiful depiction of the Most Holy Trinity here on the wall behind the altar. You see God the Father, God the Son holding the Cross of our redemption, and God the Holy Ghost, the Dove. And the love of the Father and the Son spirates the Holy Ghost without a beginning of time. And in God the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God. The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Ghost is uncreated. They are all eternal, yet (there) are not three gods, but one God, as the creed of St. Athanasius says: “And he who does not hold the Catholic faith cannot save his soul. He will be cast to the eternal fires of hell”, says the Athanasian Creed.

And we read in the Gospel today where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. So that gives us an insight of what hell will be like for the souls who go there, and how Our Lord does not want any soul to go there. He died on the cross to rescue souls. But if a soul rejects God and doesn't want to go to heaven, and doesn't want to keep His commandments, what can our Lord do? He's not going to force us into heaven. Our Lord does not want battery-operated robots in heaven that are forced to say, “I love you Lord, I love you Lord, I obey you Lord.” Our Lord does not want robots. He wants those who love him freely.

If you get married, or if you are married, (do) you want your wife and spouse or your husband to be forced to tell you that you love them at gunpoint? There wouldn't be love. So in heaven, God only wants those who freely love Him and seek Him. He doesn't force us. So those who go to hell, knowingly, turn their back to God. And no one in hell can say that our Lord did not do all He could to save them. Because every soul in hell knows that our Lord knocked and knocked and knocked to save them. And if they're in hell, they have only themselves to blame. So it's such a sad tragedy when even one soul is lost, to know that our Lord suffered the whole passion, scourging, crowning of thorns, the way of the cross, the agony on the cross for three eternal hours, suffocating for the love of souls. And it kills Him literally, if one soul is lost. And we know that many souls are lost by their free will. So it's so tragic.

And St. Anthony of Padua says, “What is the weeping and the gnashing of teeth?” He says, “The weeping is the flames”, the souls in the burning flames. They can't get out. And another aspect of hell is they lose all equilibrium. When Sister Lucia looked into hell, the children saw the souls tossed around like sparks in a flame. So they have no balance. We appreciate being able to stand on solid ground. If ever you've been out deep sea fishing, and you're easily seasick, and you get sick, you're happy to get back on ground because it's solid. But in hell, you're never on ground. You're always being tossed around. You're always bubbling in lava and flames. Nothing is solid to stand on. And that alone is a hell, let alone the flames. So the tears of hell, and then the terrible loneliness of hell.

The rock musicians, in their delusion, and poor things often sell their souls to the devil, poor souls. But in hell, it's an extreme loneliness. There's no friends. There's no father or mother to turn to. There's nobody. Everybody's panicking, screaming. Everybody's in a state of eternal frenzy, like a psych ward. Nobody's normal. Everybody's panicking and screaming wildly, like a bunch of wild animals. So there's no calm to just say, look, I got a headache. Can we just discuss a little thing? Any friendship at all? None in hell. Nothing. No consolation. It's a total loneliness. Yet in parts of hell, their bodies are crushed together. Someone's elbow is here. Someone's knee is there. Someone's feet are in your back, and they're all kicking and biting each other. It's a horrible thing. And it's not, as the souls of hell said, in the case of Annette and Claire, Annette told Claire who was in hell, she said, “Your silly priests can try to scare you with what hell is like, but nothing they say even compares to how terrible it is.” And then St. Anthony says that “What is the gnashing of teeth?” He says “It's the ice cold parts of hell.” There are parts of hell that are so cold that when they have their bodies reunited to their soul, the bodies just crack and fall off. Arms and legs will just crack off and then be put back together again. It's so bitterly cold.

So this is why the battle for Catholic tradition is really a matter of saving our soul. It's not an option. The New Mass and the New Conciliar Church and any false religion, they're not options because we can't save our soul in them. It's not a question of which one is better, the Catholic tradition or the Novus Ordo or some false religion, the Buddhist, Muslim. There is no other option. The only bridge Christ built, and He was a very good carpenter, the only bridge He built is His cross that leads to heaven and His holy Catholic Church of tradition, not the phony Conciliar Church.

Listen to Archbishop Lefebvre. This is from the recent Recusant of Autumn 2024: “The real fundamental opposition between modernist Rome and Catholic tradition is the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord came to reign. They, (modernist Rome,) they say no and we say yes along with all the popes.” And he's talking about all the popes from Pius XII before him.

“Our Lord did not come to be hidden inside houses without coming out. Why missionaries, so many of them were massacred to preach that our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true God, to tell the pagans to convert. So the pagans wanted to make them disappear, but they didn't hesitate, (the missionaries), they didn't hesitate to give their lives to continue preaching our Lord Jesus Christ. But now we're meant to do the opposite, telling the pagans, ‘Your religion is good. Keep it as long as you are a good Buddhist, a good Muslim, or a good pagan.’” And that's what Vatican II teaches, by the way. And this is what Pope John Paul II taught, by the way. And so did Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. And these are outright heresies. You cannot save (your) soul in these false religions.

And Archbishop Lefebvre says, “That's why we can't get along with them, because we are obeying our Lord who said to the Apostles, go and teach the Gospel to the ends of the earth. That's why we shouldn't be surprised that we cannot get along with modernist Rome. This will not be possible as long as Rome does not return to the Faith [and] the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as long as it gives the impression that all religions are good. We clash on a point of the Catholic faith, just as Cardinal Bea and Cardinal Ottaviani clashed over it, and as all the popes clashed with liberalism. It's the same thing, the same current, the same ideas, and the same divisions within the church.

But before the Council of Vatican II, (which was from 1962-65), the Popes and Rome supported tradition against liberalism, whereas now the liberals have taken their place. Obviously they are against traditionalists, so we are persecuted. But we are at peace, because we are in communion with all the Popes since Our Lord and the Apostles. We are keeping their faith, and we're not going to switch now to the revolutionary faith in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. We do not want to be Sons of 1789, but the sons of Our Lord, sons of the Holy Gospel. The representatives of the [Conciliar] Catholic Church say that everyone is free, and that we can bring all religions together to pray, like at Assisi. (That was in 1986 with Pope John Paul II.) This is an abomination, and the day when our Lord gets angry, it will be no laughing matter. For if our Lord punished the Jews as He did, it was because they had refused to believe in Him. He had announced that Jerusalem would be razed to the ground, and Jerusalem was razed to the ground, and the Temple has never been rebuilt since. He could well say the same thing now, that all His pastors are against Him. They no longer want to believe in His universal reign.”

So when you get popes, cardinals, bishops fighting the reign of Christ the King, the punishment, he's saying, will be severe. And one of those punishments is blindness. The blindness, they've lost the faith. The blindness is just stunning. The Catholic Church of Vatican II is falling to pieces. It's dying. It's sterile. It's empty. Dying monasteries, dying convents, dying parishes, selling off churches, and is being punished by the blindness.

And Archbishop Lefebvre says, “We must remain attached to the doctrine of the Church, remain attached to our Lord, who is everything to us. He is the master. He is the one who will judge us as He will judge everyone else. So we must pray for His kingdom to come, even if we are persecuted.”

So this beautiful little chapel, where does it exist? [It is a] barn on the outside, it's a barn. It's a chapel in a barn. Why? Because you and I cannot go to our local parish, because the bishops are modernists. They don't want the Tridentine Mass. And if they allow the Tridentine Mass, it's only because the priest has to compromise with the devil. He has to shake hands with the devil and say, “I accept Vatican II. I accept the New Mass. I accept the new Code of Canon Law.” Only then is he allowed to say the Latin Mass. So he makes a mockery of the Latin Mass. And no priest should compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass. That goes with the compromises of Bishop Fellay in 2012. That goes with the Fake Resistance also, with its dancing with the New Mass.

So Archbishop Lefebvre says: “Extraordinary as it may seem, that's the situation today. I didn't invent it. Why do I find myself almost alone in opposing this liberalism, when the vast majority of bishops, even in Rome, are in favor of it? It's a great mystery. In remaining faithful as before to everything the popes have said, one finds oneself almost alone.”

And that's true. Archbishop Lefebvre was basically alone, like Saint Athanasius against the whole world. It was Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer against the whole tidal wave of modernism. “If you're with our Lord, that's the main thing, even if you have to be alone. If you are with all the teaching of the Church over more than 20 centuries, you have nothing to fear. There's nothing to worry about. It is there. Thanks be to God, the good Lord who knows the future will set things right one day, because the Church cannot remain in this situation indefinitely. So let's put our trust in the Blessed Virgin and our Lord, and let's not be discouraged or worried, because we are carrying on the Church. Let us remain in peace. May the good Lord bless you.” Archbishop Lefebvre.

So that's his conference in this, Liberalism, the Church's worst enemy, the conference of Archbishop Lefebvre. So yes, so we must simply fight on and carry on the Catholic faith and Tradition. Keep what Our Lady asks us to keep, the daily Rosary, wear Her Scapular, make devotion to the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, be greatly devoted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, do the five first Saturdays as best you can to make reparation to her Immaculate Heart. And we must also study liberalism. We must understand this beast, this devil, this horde of devils that makes Catholics lose their faith and get confused. So we follow our Lord, we follow the Catholic tradition, and the teachings are clear.

The Popes have condemned modernism, liberalism, evolution. They have condemned communism, socialism. They have condemned compromise with error. They have condemned the New Mass. The Council of Trent clearly condemns the New Mass and says, “If anybody dares to take this Mass, turn it to face the people, let him be condemned. If anyone dares to say that the Mass should be put in the English or vernacular, let him be condemned. If anyone says that you got to simplify the rites and cut the prayers and cut and shorten everything, let him be condemned. If anyone denies that the Sacrament of Penance is the sacrament whereby sins are forgiven, let him be condemned. If anyone denies that the Sacrifice of the Mass is the same exact Sacrifice of Calvary and denies this, let him be condemned.” That's the Council of Trent. The teachings are clear.

And then you've got Pope Pius VI condemning all compromise and (the) using (of) slippery language and ambiguous phrases to seduce Catholics into error. And that's Vatican II. It's a total double-tongued document. All the documents have double-tongued. And our Lord hates the double-tongued, says the Holy Ghost. “I have hated the double-tongued.” So our Lord says, “Say yes or no but not double-tongued.” And that's Vatican II. And Vatican II is still destroying the church. Pope Francis is destroying marriage. He's destroying the priesthood. He's destroying the Mass. He's doing everything to destroy our Catholic Church in the name of what? Vatican II. Vatican II. And you might say well what does Vatican II have to do with us now? That's back in 1965. Well good question. But all that these modernist bishops and popes are doing is in the name of Vatican II. And Vatican II stands condemned by all of Catholic tradition. Every bit of it. [Emphasis - The Catacombs]

So you're fighting on the right side. And who cares if we have Mass up in a barn? Big deal. Saint John Vianney grew up going to Mass also in a barn. He didn't have a chapel this fancy. He had hay and cows and some chickens, (he was) probably sleeping on the rafters during Mass because it would be at midnight in a barn in the middle of the night. And the people would gather at the neighbor's barn when the priest would come. A priest who did not sign the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. The Catholics would not go to Mass (with) a priest who signed the Oath. They were called juring priests- traitor priests. So today it's the same thing. Priests who compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass or the New Code. They're traitor priests. “Yeah but they're nice. They wear the cassock. They say the Latin Mass.” Big deal. They're still traitors if they accept Vatican II and the New Mass and the New Code in any way.

Sorry that's the way it is. And if I accept the New Mass or try to argue New Mass miracles or try to argue that you can get grace at the New Mass or “Vatican II is not so bad”, “You have to interpret it in the light of tradition”. If I start talking that way I become a traitor. I become a traitor to Jesus Christ our God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the court of heaven and to the most Holy Trinity. I have become salt that has lost its flavor worth nothing to be thrown out on a field to be trampled on by the Amish wagons and cow's feet. That's a priest who compromises or a bishop or a pope.

So it's a frightening thing today because we are quite alone but on the other side tradition is building. The Modernists are scared now because tradition is growing all around the world. It's growing and it's young people, young families who are having children and lots of children and that was an encouraging thing to hear from the vice president two days ago at the March for Life. It's encouraging to hear. Let's keep praying for Trump and Vance. They came in saying we're pro-abortion so let's pray they convert and condemn abortion and take action against it but at least Vance, J.D. Vance, at his talk at the March for Life he said: “America needs many babies, many children, families and good mothers and fathers to raise them.” Those are good words. Those are good words and President Trump, just yesterday, he cut the tax funding for Planned Parenthood which Biden, a traitor Catholic, funded the Planned Parenthood but Trump just cut that so that's a good thing. Those are good steps and he also released from prison these good people who were arrested under the Biden administration, even an old lady, 89 years old, in a wheelchair (was) put in prison, put in prison and when she was nine she was in a concentration camp under the Communists in Yugoslavia. She comes to America and Biden puts her in prison because in her wheelchair she goes down the hall singing hymns in a hallway where they're doing abortions in the hospital. Horrible thing. So Trump if he keeps going this way, it will win his conversion. Let's pray for him. Pray for him. He's a good man, in the sense that he's a good natural leader. He does have the ability to be a good leader but is he working with the dark side? Is he only playing two faces? Is he trying to please the synagogue of Satan? I don't know. God knows but let's pray for him and let's pray for Vance. Let's pray for Pope Francis.

Let's beg the Virgin Mary to give us finally a good pope, a good pope who will restore tradition, condemn Vatican II, condemn the New Mass, condemn the new Code of Canon Law, restore the pre-55 Liturgy where it belongs and restore our Catholic tradition. This day is going to come! It's promised: “In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

But our Lord, He could grant this today, and many people are praying the rosary, but we got to keep faithful. He just wants us fighting. He is pleased that we are fighting and walking the trenches with bullets flying and bombs and mines. He's just as pleased that we fight that's all, like Saint Joan of Arc said: “God may not want us to see the victory.” He may not want us to live to see a good pope or the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, maybe He will, but that doesn't matter. What He wants of us now is that we keep fighting and we keep fighting and we keep fighting and persevere with grace. I ask (this) for all of you through the hearts of Jesus and Mary in this holy Mass.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially all Communists and Freemasons and other enemies of holy mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Ghost, Amen.]]> <![CDATA[Transcription: Fr. Hewko's Sermon for Feast of St. Stephen 2024 "Liars Detest Truth"]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6750 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:27:40 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6750 "Liars Detest Truth"
Transcription of Fr. Hewko's Sermon for the Feast of St Stephen, Protomartyr
12/26/24

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Transcript by The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | December 28, 2024

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who stoned the prophets that I have sent you, and kill those who speak to you, how I would have gathered you under my wings, like a mother hen gathers her chicks, but you would not.”

And Our Lord warns His apostles, “You will preach to the synagogue, you will preach to these Pharisees, you will preach to the whole world, and many will not like it. Many will stone you, crucify you, they will put you to death, thinking they do a service to God.”

And today, Mother Church, right after the adoration of the baby Jesus in the crib, the charming Christmas night in Bethlehem, with the Angels singing, and the Shepherds adoring, and the Star appearing to the Three Kings, leading them for 13 days on the journey to find the face of the Savior, of the true Messiah, on this beautiful, charming night, we have the first day after the splash of blood.

Second day, splash of, not physical blood, but he was ready to give it- St. John- tomorrow. Tomorrow's feast is a blessing for wine and beer on a special day. St. John was boiled in oil, he should have sizzled into a french fry, but he didn't. God saved him to write the Apocalypse and to see the visions of the Last Days.

And then we have the Holy Innocents on the 28th. All the blood of those, some say up to 14,000 babies, baby boys, who were slaughtered under Herod's abortion law, abortion policy, post-abortion policy. So, all this blood splashed right after Our Lord Jesus Christ is born to tell us, “This is how they loved Me, they gave their life for Me”, and you and I love Our Lord this much that we would give our life for Him.

And the Church has seen so many martyrs and canonized so many of them, and there's many that are not canonized, many saints and martyrs who are just not known. In China, think of the millions killed in China and under Stalin, and even now going on in the Muslim countries, Catholics being slaughtered in cold blood, whole families just being massacred with machetes, and the news coverage is absolutely silent about it. And the persecution will come to blood again, as Our Lady of Fatima forewarned.

So, let's, I always quote this magnificent sermon of Saint Fulgentius, a holy bishop, speaking of Saint Stephen. Here it is:

Quote:“Yesterday we celebrated the birth in time of our eternal King. Today, the triumph through suffering of His soldier, Saint Stephen. Yesterday Our King, having put on our robe of flesh, came forth from the sanctuary of the Virgin's womb to visit the world. Today, His soldier, Stephen, going forth from the tabernacle of his body, enters Heaven a conqueror.

The one, Our Lord Jesus Christ, retaining the majesty of the everlasting Godhead, girded Himself with the servile cincture of flesh and entered upon the battlefield of this world. The other, Saint Stephen, laying down the garments of this corruptible body, ascended to the palace of Heaven to reign eternally. The one, the Christ Child, descended veiled in the flesh.

The other ascended, laureled in blood. The one ascended amid the stoning of the Jews, because the other, the Christ Child, descended amid the jubilation of angels. Yesterday the holy angels chanted exultantly, ‘Glory to God in the Highest.’ Today, still rejoicing, they take Saint Stephen into their company. Yesterday, the Lord came forth from the womb of the Virgin. Today, His soldier, Saint Stephen, goes forth from the prison house of the flesh.

Yesterday, for our sake, Christ was wrapped in swaddling clothes. Today He clothes Saint Stephen in the robe of immortality. Yesterday a narrow manger held the infant Christ. Today the immensity of heaven receives a triumphant Saint Stephen. Alone the Lord came upon earth that He might raise up the many to Heaven. Our King humbled himself that He might exalt His soldiers. Now let us consider, brethren, the arms with which Saint Stephen girt himself to overcome the cruelty of the Jews and arrive at so blessed a triumph.”

In other words, what weapons did he use to overcome them?

Quote:“Saint Stephen indeed deserved to bear his name, which means, the crowned one, for he had armed himself with the mail, the chain mail of law and conquered through it everywhere. Because of his love for God, he was unshaken before the cruelty of the Jews. Through his love for his neighbor, he interceded even for those who stoned him. Through love, he argued with the erring that they might be corrected. Through love, he prayed for those who stoned him, lest they be punished. Strong with the might of love, he overcame Saul who had compassed his death cruelly and won his persecutor on earth as his comrade in Heaven.”

So by love, Saint Stephen conquered. Those were his weapons. Those were his weapons.Those are the weapons of all the martyrs. They say the truth. They preach the truth.

They get persecuted for it. Look at Saint Athanasius, exiled many times, condemned over five times, excommunicated by Pope Liberius. Look at Archbishop Lefebvre, a white martyr, we could call him, of Catholic tradition, suspended unjustly, excommunicated unjustly, all for what? For preaching the truth, condemning the Vatican II’s monstrous heresies and errors, and that horrible New Mass, and (he) called the Code of Canon Law full of heresies, which it is. So we can't just accept the Code of Canon Law of 1983 without distinction. Yet that's what happened in 2012 with the leaders of our SSPX.

So they raise their voices because they love, they love the truth, and they want to bring them to the truth. But Rome would not hear it. Rome, like the modern Pharisees, blocked their ears, gnashed their teeth, and came on him (Archbishop Lefebvre) with knives of abuse of their authority by persecuting Catholic tradition. And they changed their tactics under Pope Benedict XVI. They changed their tactic: “Let's not… let's not show our teeth. Let's not show our sharp ears, like Little Red Riding Hood.”

Oh, what nice teeth you have, and what nice ears you have. And it's the wolf dressed as the nice granny. And that's the tactic modernists used to seduce many traditional groups, many traditional priests.

And think of the great fighting priests of Bishop de Castro Mayer. Read The Mouth of the Lion by Dr. David Alan White to get an idea of the greatness of Archbishop de Castro Mayer. And he really built an army of great priests who would defend tradition.

But when he died in 1991, one month after Archbishop Lefebvre, [and] in 2003, they crumbled. They crumbled under a liberal bishop, Bishop Rangel, who wanted to make peace with modernist Rome. And he was seduced by Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, to lay down their weapons. “You (can) have your Latin Mass, you can preach against modernism.”

Sounds nice, doesn't it? But for Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer, “You make no peace until Rome comes back to tradition and proclaims the Kingship of Christ. No peace.”

And that's the same with the Catholic Resistance today. The good priests who are trying to defend the Faith, trying to rebuild, trying to continue “Operation Survival”. Yes, those priests do raise their voice against the modern compromises with the new SSPX of 2012, with the New Mass, the New Sacraments, Vatican II, the [false] Hermeneutics of Continuity, which is just a buzzword for accepting modernism under a mitigated form.

And then accepting point-blank the New Code of Canon Law, we just can't accept this. And our leaders know better, Bishop Fellay and Bishop de la Galaretta, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, may he rest in peace, they all knew better.

They all knew better. And then the later developments in what we call the “fake resistance”, which is exactly what it is, a fake resistance. You can't resist while accepting error.

You can't resist modernism while accepting that the New Mass can still nourish your faith and give grace. And I know there's many arguments that theologians can have over these questions. Does the New Mass, if it's valid, give grace? You're going to have different opposing opinions on this.

But we have to admit it's a dangerous teaching. And Archbishop Lefebvre, who was the best theologian of all, he said it very point-blank and without any mitigation: “The New Mass is sterile. The New Mass does not give grace!”

And there's a strong argument from St. Thomas Aquinas for this. And he says he's talking about the Orthodox Schismatics because they have a valid priesthood. They stole the Catholic priesthood. They stole the Catholic sacraments, and they are valid. So the argument that many liberals hold today is, “well, if the mass is valid, if the priests are valid and the bishops are valid, it's good to go to. It's safe. It's no problem at all.”

That's not how the Church thinks because they're not licit. They stole the Sacraments. So St. Thomas Aquinas raises the question, “Do they receive grace at those valid Masses?” And he says, “No, those Masses do not pass grace because they are not united to the head. The branches are not united to the Tree, Jesus Christ. We have to be united to the one holy Roman Catholic Faith to receive the grace through the Mass.” That's his argument. And that's St. Thomas Aquinas. I just bow down to him. And to me, case closed. With Archbishop Lefebvre, case closed.

So yes, you might have your arguing opinions, but it's certainly dangerous, to say the least, to argue that the New Mass so-called Eucharistic Miracles are all true and valid. These are very dangerous teachings because it just causes confusion. And it smears the lines of clarity.

When with Archbishop Lefebvre, he never descended to that level, “Does it give grace to me or not? Does it nourish my faith or not?” No, he said the New Mass attacks the Faith and dogmas of the Faith. It attacks the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist by focusing the real presence from the altar to the people. Hence, The Sign of Peace.

'You have to acknowledge the presence of Jesus in the presence of your neighbor and your brothers and sisters.' And that's the New Mass. It's an attack on the Real Presence. It's an attack on the Sacrifice of Christ on the altar by calling it a meal and diminishing every reference to sacrifice and diminishing all the reverence, genuflections, Signs of the Cross, bows, many of these just obliterated, which really makes the priest lose the faith when he says that New Mass. And then the New Mass attacks the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the propitiatory effect of the Mass for the souls in Purgatory, for example. Nowhere in any New Mass, even the one for the dead, will you find the word “soul” mentioned.

They don't mention “soul” to pray for the soul of the dead. It's been erased by Bugnini. So we have to be really blind not to see the attack of the New Mass, what it is really on our Catholic faith, and to pretend that it can be a means of grace is really insulting to the Catholic truth.

And Archbishop Lefebvre would recall all the people to remember the Martyrs of England, how many martyrs, boys, girls, young, old, priests, families, went to death or imprisonment or heavily fined, which they wouldn't have to have gone through if they just attended one time the Anglican service, which in those days, 1500-1600, you still had valid priests who before said the Tridentine Catholic Mass and now went with Henry VIII's “new religion” and are now saying the new Anglican service. So many of those masses, were still valid because the priests still kept the old consecration form, but (they) adapted to the whole Anglican service. And yes, you had Catholics in a quandary. They could have argued till the moon turns to cheese. They could have argued, “Well, it's valid. I can go to it. I can get grace.” But they didn't.

And you had St. Margaret Clitherow, a heroine of York. She had priests in her house. She was warned, “don't do this. If you get caught, off with your head.” And she had priests come to say Mass in disguise. They said Mass, and someone squealed on her, and she was sentenced to a cruel death. She was pregnant too.

And just the other few weeks ago, I was in England, and we prayed at the spot under the bridge where she was crushed with a door laid over her, over a rock, and then heavy weights put on her until her ribs snapped and penetrated through her skin. And she was suffocated to death and the little baby in her womb. So they wouldn't compromise on error.

And Saint Stephen too, look, he's talking to the Jews. He's telling them, “You uncircumcised bandits, you refuse to hear the truth. You refuse to realize that Moses was speaking of Jesus Christ, that all the prophets were speaking about Jesus Christ. He fulfilled all the prophets. Look at Daniel. Daniel said He would be sacrificed, the Lamb would be sacrificed outside the city of Jerusalem, and that's what you did on Calvary. And you remember John the Baptist pointing him out, there's the Lamb of God. You refuse that Lamb. And remember when Caiaphas and Annas were stabbing the Lamb at 3 p.m. on Good Friday, the Passover day, the earthquake hit, and the temple shook, and the veil of the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom. Don't you remember this?”

And Saint Stephen brought up all the prophecies, and still they blocked their ears and would not hear it. So that's how modernist Rome has treated Catholic tradition, and still is trying to crush tradition. So they won't succeed.

So we have to raise our voice, priests and bishops. We cannot pretend to have peace where there is no peace. Pretend to declare peace when there is war, and a war for the reign of Christ the King, the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the triumph of true Catholic doctrine in the dogmas of the Faith. These are the lights that will enlighten the world, and we cannot put these lights under a bushel. So let us in this happiness of Christmas time rejoice with all the angels in receiving Saint Stephen today in Heaven.

Pray for our bishops. Pray that we get a good pope. Pray for all the priests, especially of tradition, that all know better. Pray for all the priests who have compromised and have agreed to be silent, that they snap out of that trance.

Pray for all the priests of the Catholic resistance. Father Ruiz just visited the Oratory last week from Mexico. He spent a week, and he gave a couple great talks on the spirit of liberalism. I encourage you to hear it. They are posted on the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary [You Tube channel]. Also, The Catholic Trumpet is a powerful little website, and also, of course, The Catacombs and The Recusant. These are the few anti-liberal Catholic publications that are warning the faithful: “They cannot compromise with error.”

So let's fight on, learning from Saint Stephen that we must love, conquer by love, conquer by charity, forgive those who injure us, pray for them, wish them no evil, hold no grudges, but always hold up the light and be ready to shed our blood for the beautiful Christ Child, who invites us to love Him with all our heart, all our strength, all our mind, all our efforts.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, You who burned with love at the foot of the Christ Child and held Him in Your arms and nursed Him, inflame our hearts to love Our Lord and receive Him today in Communion, and inflame us like gas on a dying fire. Inflame our hearts with the fuel of the love of God, that we may really love Him with all our heart, strength, and capacity.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially, all communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.]]> "Liars Detest Truth"
Transcription of Fr. Hewko's Sermon for the Feast of St Stephen, Protomartyr
12/26/24

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Quote:“Yesterday we celebrated the birth in time of our eternal King. Today, the triumph through suffering of His soldier, Saint Stephen. Yesterday Our King, having put on our robe of flesh, came forth from the sanctuary of the Virgin's womb to visit the world. Today, His soldier, Stephen, going forth from the tabernacle of his body, enters Heaven a conqueror.

The one, Our Lord Jesus Christ, retaining the majesty of the everlasting Godhead, girded Himself with the servile cincture of flesh and entered upon the battlefield of this world. The other, Saint Stephen, laying down the garments of this corruptible body, ascended to the palace of Heaven to reign eternally. The one, the Christ Child, descended veiled in the flesh.

The other ascended, laureled in blood. The one ascended amid the stoning of the Jews, because the other, the Christ Child, descended amid the jubilation of angels. Yesterday the holy angels chanted exultantly, ‘Glory to God in the Highest.’ Today, still rejoicing, they take Saint Stephen into their company. Yesterday, the Lord came forth from the womb of the Virgin. Today, His soldier, Saint Stephen, goes forth from the prison house of the flesh.

Yesterday, for our sake, Christ was wrapped in swaddling clothes. Today He clothes Saint Stephen in the robe of immortality. Yesterday a narrow manger held the infant Christ. Today the immensity of heaven receives a triumphant Saint Stephen. Alone the Lord came upon earth that He might raise up the many to Heaven. Our King humbled himself that He might exalt His soldiers. Now let us consider, brethren, the arms with which Saint Stephen girt himself to overcome the cruelty of the Jews and arrive at so blessed a triumph.”

In other words, what weapons did he use to overcome them?

Quote:“Saint Stephen indeed deserved to bear his name, which means, the crowned one, for he had armed himself with the mail, the chain mail of law and conquered through it everywhere. Because of his love for God, he was unshaken before the cruelty of the Jews. Through his love for his neighbor, he interceded even for those who stoned him. Through love, he argued with the erring that they might be corrected. Through love, he prayed for those who stoned him, lest they be punished. Strong with the might of love, he overcame Saul who had compassed his death cruelly and won his persecutor on earth as his comrade in Heaven.”

So by love, Saint Stephen conquered. Those were his weapons. Those were his weapons.Those are the weapons of all the martyrs. They say the truth. They preach the truth.

They get persecuted for it. Look at Saint Athanasius, exiled many times, condemned over five times, excommunicated by Pope Liberius. Look at Archbishop Lefebvre, a white martyr, we could call him, of Catholic tradition, suspended unjustly, excommunicated unjustly, all for what? For preaching the truth, condemning the Vatican II’s monstrous heresies and errors, and that horrible New Mass, and (he) called the Code of Canon Law full of heresies, which it is. So we can't just accept the Code of Canon Law of 1983 without distinction. Yet that's what happened in 2012 with the leaders of our SSPX.

So they raise their voices because they love, they love the truth, and they want to bring them to the truth. But Rome would not hear it. Rome, like the modern Pharisees, blocked their ears, gnashed their teeth, and came on him (Archbishop Lefebvre) with knives of abuse of their authority by persecuting Catholic tradition. And they changed their tactics under Pope Benedict XVI. They changed their tactic: “Let's not… let's not show our teeth. Let's not show our sharp ears, like Little Red Riding Hood.”

Oh, what nice teeth you have, and what nice ears you have. And it's the wolf dressed as the nice granny. And that's the tactic modernists used to seduce many traditional groups, many traditional priests.

And think of the great fighting priests of Bishop de Castro Mayer. Read The Mouth of the Lion by Dr. David Alan White to get an idea of the greatness of Archbishop de Castro Mayer. And he really built an army of great priests who would defend tradition.

But when he died in 1991, one month after Archbishop Lefebvre, [and] in 2003, they crumbled. They crumbled under a liberal bishop, Bishop Rangel, who wanted to make peace with modernist Rome. And he was seduced by Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, to lay down their weapons. “You (can) have your Latin Mass, you can preach against modernism.”

Sounds nice, doesn't it? But for Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer, “You make no peace until Rome comes back to tradition and proclaims the Kingship of Christ. No peace.”

And that's the same with the Catholic Resistance today. The good priests who are trying to defend the Faith, trying to rebuild, trying to continue “Operation Survival”. Yes, those priests do raise their voice against the modern compromises with the new SSPX of 2012, with the New Mass, the New Sacraments, Vatican II, the [false] Hermeneutics of Continuity, which is just a buzzword for accepting modernism under a mitigated form.

And then accepting point-blank the New Code of Canon Law, we just can't accept this. And our leaders know better, Bishop Fellay and Bishop de la Galaretta, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, may he rest in peace, they all knew better.

They all knew better. And then the later developments in what we call the “fake resistance”, which is exactly what it is, a fake resistance. You can't resist while accepting error.

You can't resist modernism while accepting that the New Mass can still nourish your faith and give grace. And I know there's many arguments that theologians can have over these questions. Does the New Mass, if it's valid, give grace? You're going to have different opposing opinions on this.

But we have to admit it's a dangerous teaching. And Archbishop Lefebvre, who was the best theologian of all, he said it very point-blank and without any mitigation: “The New Mass is sterile. The New Mass does not give grace!”

And there's a strong argument from St. Thomas Aquinas for this. And he says he's talking about the Orthodox Schismatics because they have a valid priesthood. They stole the Catholic priesthood. They stole the Catholic sacraments, and they are valid. So the argument that many liberals hold today is, “well, if the mass is valid, if the priests are valid and the bishops are valid, it's good to go to. It's safe. It's no problem at all.”

That's not how the Church thinks because they're not licit. They stole the Sacraments. So St. Thomas Aquinas raises the question, “Do they receive grace at those valid Masses?” And he says, “No, those Masses do not pass grace because they are not united to the head. The branches are not united to the Tree, Jesus Christ. We have to be united to the one holy Roman Catholic Faith to receive the grace through the Mass.” That's his argument. And that's St. Thomas Aquinas. I just bow down to him. And to me, case closed. With Archbishop Lefebvre, case closed.

So yes, you might have your arguing opinions, but it's certainly dangerous, to say the least, to argue that the New Mass so-called Eucharistic Miracles are all true and valid. These are very dangerous teachings because it just causes confusion. And it smears the lines of clarity.

When with Archbishop Lefebvre, he never descended to that level, “Does it give grace to me or not? Does it nourish my faith or not?” No, he said the New Mass attacks the Faith and dogmas of the Faith. It attacks the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist by focusing the real presence from the altar to the people. Hence, The Sign of Peace.

'You have to acknowledge the presence of Jesus in the presence of your neighbor and your brothers and sisters.' And that's the New Mass. It's an attack on the Real Presence. It's an attack on the Sacrifice of Christ on the altar by calling it a meal and diminishing every reference to sacrifice and diminishing all the reverence, genuflections, Signs of the Cross, bows, many of these just obliterated, which really makes the priest lose the faith when he says that New Mass. And then the New Mass attacks the sacrificial nature of the Mass, the propitiatory effect of the Mass for the souls in Purgatory, for example. Nowhere in any New Mass, even the one for the dead, will you find the word “soul” mentioned.

They don't mention “soul” to pray for the soul of the dead. It's been erased by Bugnini. So we have to be really blind not to see the attack of the New Mass, what it is really on our Catholic faith, and to pretend that it can be a means of grace is really insulting to the Catholic truth.

And Archbishop Lefebvre would recall all the people to remember the Martyrs of England, how many martyrs, boys, girls, young, old, priests, families, went to death or imprisonment or heavily fined, which they wouldn't have to have gone through if they just attended one time the Anglican service, which in those days, 1500-1600, you still had valid priests who before said the Tridentine Catholic Mass and now went with Henry VIII's “new religion” and are now saying the new Anglican service. So many of those masses, were still valid because the priests still kept the old consecration form, but (they) adapted to the whole Anglican service. And yes, you had Catholics in a quandary. They could have argued till the moon turns to cheese. They could have argued, “Well, it's valid. I can go to it. I can get grace.” But they didn't.

And you had St. Margaret Clitherow, a heroine of York. She had priests in her house. She was warned, “don't do this. If you get caught, off with your head.” And she had priests come to say Mass in disguise. They said Mass, and someone squealed on her, and she was sentenced to a cruel death. She was pregnant too.

And just the other few weeks ago, I was in England, and we prayed at the spot under the bridge where she was crushed with a door laid over her, over a rock, and then heavy weights put on her until her ribs snapped and penetrated through her skin. And she was suffocated to death and the little baby in her womb. So they wouldn't compromise on error.

And Saint Stephen too, look, he's talking to the Jews. He's telling them, “You uncircumcised bandits, you refuse to hear the truth. You refuse to realize that Moses was speaking of Jesus Christ, that all the prophets were speaking about Jesus Christ. He fulfilled all the prophets. Look at Daniel. Daniel said He would be sacrificed, the Lamb would be sacrificed outside the city of Jerusalem, and that's what you did on Calvary. And you remember John the Baptist pointing him out, there's the Lamb of God. You refuse that Lamb. And remember when Caiaphas and Annas were stabbing the Lamb at 3 p.m. on Good Friday, the Passover day, the earthquake hit, and the temple shook, and the veil of the temple was ripped in half from top to bottom. Don't you remember this?”

And Saint Stephen brought up all the prophecies, and still they blocked their ears and would not hear it. So that's how modernist Rome has treated Catholic tradition, and still is trying to crush tradition. So they won't succeed.

So we have to raise our voice, priests and bishops. We cannot pretend to have peace where there is no peace. Pretend to declare peace when there is war, and a war for the reign of Christ the King, the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the triumph of true Catholic doctrine in the dogmas of the Faith. These are the lights that will enlighten the world, and we cannot put these lights under a bushel. So let us in this happiness of Christmas time rejoice with all the angels in receiving Saint Stephen today in Heaven.

Pray for our bishops. Pray that we get a good pope. Pray for all the priests, especially of tradition, that all know better. Pray for all the priests who have compromised and have agreed to be silent, that they snap out of that trance.

Pray for all the priests of the Catholic resistance. Father Ruiz just visited the Oratory last week from Mexico. He spent a week, and he gave a couple great talks on the spirit of liberalism. I encourage you to hear it. They are posted on the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary [You Tube channel]. Also, The Catholic Trumpet is a powerful little website, and also, of course, The Catacombs and The Recusant. These are the few anti-liberal Catholic publications that are warning the faithful: “They cannot compromise with error.”

So let's fight on, learning from Saint Stephen that we must love, conquer by love, conquer by charity, forgive those who injure us, pray for them, wish them no evil, hold no grudges, but always hold up the light and be ready to shed our blood for the beautiful Christ Child, who invites us to love Him with all our heart, all our strength, all our mind, all our efforts.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, You who burned with love at the foot of the Christ Child and held Him in Your arms and nursed Him, inflame our hearts to love Our Lord and receive Him today in Communion, and inflame us like gas on a dying fire. Inflame our hearts with the fuel of the love of God, that we may really love Him with all our heart, strength, and capacity.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

O Mary Conceived without sin.

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially, all communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.]]> <![CDATA[Transcription: Saving Souls in Wartime: Fr. Hewko (& Bp. Rejects Error)]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6674 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:43:13 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6674 Saving Souls in Wartime: Fr. Hewko (& Bp. Rejects Error)

The Catholic Trumpet - slightly adapted | December 2, 2024

In his November 26 sermon, “Saving Souls in Wartime,” Father Hewko reflects on the Feast of St. Sylvester and shares powerful insights from his recent travels through England, Ireland, and Wales. Notably, he recounts his meeting with Bishop Giacomo Ballini in Derry, Northern Ireland, where critical topics concerning the Catholic Resistance were discussed. Father Hewko details Bishop Ballini’s firm rejection of Bishop Williamson’s errors, including the intrinsic evil of the New Mass and the dangers of promoting alleged novus ordo “miracles” without Church approval.

Father Hewko also underscores the necessity of seminaries to preserve the priesthood, in stark contrast to Bishop Williamson’s discouragement of structured formation. Furthermore, Father Hewko touches upon Bishop Ballini’s exorcism over Dublin City Hall amidst Ireland’s spiritual crisis.

This transcript serves as a vital record of Father Hewko’s defense of +Archbishop Lefebvre’s principles and his call to resist modernist errors infiltrating the Church.

-The ☩ Trumpet

Fr Hewko: Feast of St. Sylvester
“Saving Souls in Wartime”
November 26, 2024

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost, Amen.

Today is November the 26th, Feast of St. Sylvester. Just listen to the Collect of the Mass, which really explains the whole life of this saint: “Oh most merciful God, who, when the holy abbot Sylvester was piously pondering over the vanity of earthly things, while he stood by an open grave, didst vouchsafe to call him to the desert. We supplicate thee that, despising earthly things, after his example, we may forever enjoy thy presence. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee, forever and ever. Amen.”

That defines his life, St. Sylvester. He was an abbot of monks, but what moved him to become a monk was to see an empty tomb, to smell the rotting body, to see the features all caved in, grey and lifeless. Indeed, death strikes everyone this way. It is a grace for many people to see death, to see just how passing, how vain, how speedy is this life on earth, and how we must not bank our life on this earth but for Heaven. And how many poor souls are deceived by the vanities, the splendor, the youthfulness, the pazazz of the modern world, and indeed, yes, the internet and all the colors and flashes and video games and all these things. They encapture and rapture the senses. But we are supposed to rise above the senses. We’re supposed to be men of prayer that can restrain our enslavement to the external things and raise our heart and mind and the soul to union with God to contemplate eternal things, and that’s why in many collects of the Mass, the Church will pray, “Lord, grant that I may despise earthly things and seek the heavenly things.”

So, we want to ask this of Saint Sylvester to despise earthly things. Now, just a kind of a side note, but an important point. I just came back from England and Ireland and a short visit in Wales. There were a handful of Extreme Unctions to give. There was a planned adult baptism, but that will be reserved for the next visit or whatever priest visits next in probably April or May, and then we went to Ireland, and that was another quick visit, and I was able to spend four or five hours with Bishop Ballini, and Bishop Ballini was in the northern Ireland in Derry, so he was very gracious to receive my visit with the two seminarians and the driver and another visitor.

So, what came of that visit? It's my second visit with him. He was very gracious, of course, and invited us to lunch. The bishop cooked himself, and basically, I was asking him, “Your Excellency, nobody hears you, nobody knows you, at least here in the US. We say Bishop Ballini, and people say, well, “Who's that? Who consecrated him?” So, I did ask if he would consider making public the video of his consecration. It would certainly settle a lot of questions, and down the road, you know, 15-20 years, people are going to say, well, “How do you know he's valid? How do you know who consecrated him? Where was the ceremony? Who did the ceremony?” So, to make these things public would certainly settle a lot of these questions that do arise with these bishops, and down the centuries, bishops were always consecrated in public churches, and everyone was there, hundreds and hundreds of witnesses to testify to that. So, his answer to that was he didn't deny, he didn't refuse. Maybe he'll consider it, and I think it would help a lot, myself, and let's hope he'll consider that.

It's not the be-all and end-all, but it would certainly settle many questions. We always witness, if you're long in the battle of tradition, we often saw these, what was called, “the garage bishops”, and that was a standing, kind of a standing joke. There's a bishop in every garage, meaning that the Thục Line, they went bishop-consecration haywire. In every garage, they had a bishop. They were consecrating bishops everywhere, and of course, these are questionable from the Thục Line because the Thục Line is riddled with confusion and often doubt, especially when Archbishop Thục consecrated a non-Catholic as a bishop. That's invalid, and it's a terrible sacrilege, and +Archbishop Lefebvre even questioned, was he even in his right mind? But that's another issue, and really, the bottom line is, like many issues today that are debatable and questionable and battles fought over, it's really up to Mother Church to declare when she gets back to good health with a good pope, to declare on the Thục Line- Was it invalid? Was it valid? Does he stand condemned? What's their position? Do they have to be all re-ordained and re-consecrated or reduced to the lay state? I don't know. These are questions for Mother Church. Same with all these apparitions.

We have all these true apparitions and some phony apparitions. Medjugorje is certainly one of those phony ones. Bayside also, and the one down in Texas [Divine Mercy] is certainly doubtful because it's all promoting the New Mass. It's all tied in with ecumenism, and Bayside even was tied in with some witchcraft, I understand. And yes, the apparition says, “Pray the Rosary”, and it's strange. It's true. God can use even a false apparition to bring souls to truth because I know a handful of people who were drawn to Bayside, drawn to even Medjugorje, but through that they started to pray the Rosary, and Our Lady always keeps her promise. If you pray the Rosary, she's going to lead you to salvation and lead you to Her Son. So many people who followed at first Bayside or Medjugorje or false apparitions were led to tradition, and they realized, oh, these are wrong because of these messages that counter tradition.

So anyway, in the course of the conversation, I did ask if he would publicly condemn some of these errors of Bishop Williamson that have been promoted for the past. Since 2014, Bishop Williamson has started promoting these opinions and errors,“erroneous opinions”, we could more accurately call them, and Bishop Williamson himself admits they’re “opinions”. And maybe if he treated the priests who opposed him, because these are publicly being taught, it's not like they're just private conversations, and when Bishop Williamson introduced these erroneous opinions, he always said, “I know that some of my colleagues, some priests will cut off my head for saying this; I know that I'm going to get in trouble for saying this; I know that there's going to be some who don't agree with me”, but then he goes on to say it and introduces it into the public domain.

So when priests do raise their voice, then why are there repercussions such as they don't receive holy oils? In my case, I was told I wouldn't get holy oils unless I publicly promoted the New Mass miracles, especially the one in Poland, Sokółka, and well, I mean, with all respect to Bishop Williamson who was a dynamite bishop and priest in the United States, he did so much good. And I, in fact, I encourage people, listen to his great talks, doctrinal talks in the 1990s and some of his many great interviews, and even now he's doing some good interviews, but you just got to be careful when he promotes “New Mass miracles”, “conservative New Mass”, “New Mass nourishes your faith”, and all these erroneous opinions that can deceive many souls.

And I've been very vocal against these erroneous opinions myself. Why? Because I've seen priests become neutralized. They used to, good priests of the Catholic Resistance, they used to preach out in 2012, 13, 14, 15, but then because they were scared to oppose these opinions being promoted out of Broadstairs, they became silent. And some told me, “you are disrespectful to mention the name of Bishop Williamson, you shouldn't attack him in public”, and so forth. But I think, you know, accuse me if I'm wrong, and if I am, I will gladly apologize and make things straight and humble myself, which I'm happy to do. But I can attest that I have never attacked the name of Bishop Williamson. I have never attacked his person. And I've always repeated over and over again, I have the greatest filial respect and affection and loyalty to what he always stood for, a consecrated bishop of Catholic tradition, who stood for +Archbishop Lefebvre's position until he started changing his positions in 2014. But before that, he was always solid, just like Bishop Fellay. So before 2000, 2001, he was always solid. And in 2003, even he (Bishop Fellay) told Campos, Brazil priests, “Don't make an agreement with Rome, you will be silenced; By accepting jurisdictions from Rome, you will be silenced; And you'll have to compromise with the New Mass and Vatican II”. He was right. But in 2001, and then certainly 2010, 11, 12, he himself committed the same tragic mistake of stepping into the traps of modernist Rome.

So ever since he's been quite silent, and even punished priests who spoke out openly against, for example, the [SSPX bishops] meeting [with] Benedict XVI in 2011, one of the great French priests, Father de Caqueray, wrote a public letter, an excellent letter, which would be worth reading here, but this would be too long. An excellent letter, just blasting that ecumenical prayer service of Pope Benedict XVI. It was a classic SSPX letter, just glorious. And many priests read it from the pulpit. It was a great letter. And then I understand Bishop Fellay rebuked him for putting out that letter publicly.

So Bishop Fellay changed. And why? I don't know. I pray for him. And he's basically turned the Society of the SSPX into something else than what +Archbishop Lefebvre founded. And some of you may remember the old SSPX telling Rome, “We glory in our excommunication!”, “You excommunicate +Archbishop Lefebvre and the three bishops. Why don't you excommunicate us also? Because we don't want to be part of this ecumenical, evolutionary church of Vatican II and the New Mass.” But a wonderful letter, a wonderful spirit. And the SSPX priests and bishops, as +Archbishop Lefebvre left it, were a united front of the soldiers of Christ, spreading the Kingship of Christ, battling the heresies of Vatican II and the New Mass.

And if in those days a priest was teaching the “New Mass nourishes your faith; The New Mass gives grace”, and certainly promoting “New Mass miracles”, he would have been smashed by his fellow priests. And the bishops back then would have done the same. +Archbishop Lefebvre would never have tolerated it. Why? Because the New Mass is not just a liturgical question. It is a doctrinal question, a doctrinal issue. “As you pray, so you believe.” And the New Mass attacks Christ's priesthood. It attacks the essence of the Sacrifice of the Mass. And it attacks the Victim, that Jesus Christ is the Victim on the altar. And all that is ignored, erased, watered down, or obliterated into the meal by the New Mass. So anyway, back to our visit with Bishop Ballini. Let me just make clear some things that we covered.

And I have two letters from him, and I'm going to quote from them. He gave me permission to. He said, you know, “Please tell your faithful where my position is.” And I'm happy to do it. And I'm happy to say that Bishop Ballini, Giacomo Ballini, basically, does not agree with Bishop Williamson's erroneous opinions. And let me draw some quotations from them. Firstly, when he, in the previous letter, he said, I was calling Bishop Williamson a heretic. And I told him I never called him a heretic, ever. I attack his errors, his opinions, but never his person. So then he explains, obviously, in my letter, when I use the word heretic, I did not mean for it to bear its literal sense. I simply used it to hyper-publicly express the reality of some of the disputes which we have witnessed in the last few years. Okay, fair enough.

And then I brought him, brought to him the questions of the new teaching, the new opinions: “The New Mass gives grace; One can nourish one's faith with the New Mass.” This was heavily promoted by Bishop Williamson and heavily attacked by good priests who openly opposed this. And many of the priests wrote Bishop Williamson personally and said, “Why are you teaching this? This is erroneous; This is scandalous.”

So I'm happy to say, Bishop Ballini, he says here, “Can active participation in the New Mass be a meritorious act?” Bishop Ballini says, “I think that we all agree that the New Mass is to be considered intrinsically evil.This belief is at the foundation of our apostolate and our work as priests. If we considered the New Mass only evil in reason of the circumstances, we must agree that there would be certain cases where the New Mass would be good and consequently, we would have to agree in celebrating it in principle. So the question can be brought into more general terms. Can active participation to an intrinsically evil act be meritorious? If yes, what would be the conditions?” And then he goes through numerous quotes from theologians on invincible ignorance and all these other questions, which are kind of aside from the point. And then Bishop Ballini concludes, “I would say that the statement, ‘The New Mass gives grace’ or ‘nourishes one's faith’, is ambiguous and should be clarified in accordance to the moral principles offered. If I were asked if the New Mass gives grace or nourishes one's faith, I would say with a certain sarcasm that for a Catholic, if it is valid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox schismatic Church. And if it is invalid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Protestant worship.”

In other words, it doesn't because the schismatic Mass of the Orthodox doesn't pass grace because they're not united to Christ the head and the members. To receive the grace of Christ, we must be united to him. And since the schismatics are not united to him, they're broken off from the true Catholic Church. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches this, that because they lack that unity with Christ and the Mystical Body, the grace does not pass, even though their Masses can be valid. And God can give grace to the simple, pious souls in the pews who just don't know better. God certainly will answer their prayers if their heart is pure and humble before him, because God always is generous with his gifts and will want to lead them to the true religion.

So Bishop Ballini goes on to say, “And if it is invalid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Protestant worship. I would then ask the person if he or she would take part in an Orthodox schismatic Divine Liturgy or a Protestant worship. I would say that the New Mass is poisonous for one's faith. And I would quote the words of, The Gospel of St. Mark, 16:18: ‘They shall take up serpents and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.’ If one is not poisoned by the New Mass, this is simply because God performs a miracle by preventing the normal effect of the New Mass to take place, which is to poison the faith.” So if they're not poisoned, it's a miracle, he's saying, that they're not poisoned. “One is not allowed to attempt to tempt God and consequently, absolutely speaking, one is not allowed to take active part in the New Mass.” So of course, happy to say this is the exact position of +Archbishop Lefebvre, who didn't pull any punches. The New Mass is a bastard mass, he called it, illegitimate, destroys the faith, it's a new religion, a new expression of a new religion.

So says Bishop Ballini. So he sides with +Archbishop Lefebvre on that, thank God. And then when I asked him about the New Mass miracles that Bishop Williamson promotes constantly: “New Mass miracles cannot be rejected because of scientific evidence.” And he, Bishop Ballini, basically says, well, the scientists might call it unexplainable, but it's really up to the Church to call it a miracle. So it's wrong to promote these as real miracles, really, until Mother Church declares them as miracles, because we know the devil can deceive, and Bishop Ballini mentions this, and scientists can be wrong. “I have the impression that”, says Bishop Ballini, “there is some confusion on this point. Some seem to imply that a doctor or a scientist have the ability to tell us that a certain fact or phenomenon is a miracle. At best, a doctor or a scientist can say that through the means of experimental science, they are not able to explain a certain fact or phenomenon. This is as far as they can go.

We should keep in mind that they are not infallible and that spirits of different kinds can interfere with their instruments. The Church, speaking through its lawful authorities, after all the necessary investigations, will decide that a certain fact or phenomenon is or is not a miracle.” And then he quotes the Council of Trent about how that “No new miracles are to be acknowledged or new relics recognized unless the said bishop has taken cognizance and approved thereof, who, as soon as he has obtained some certain information in regard to these matters, shall, after having taken the advice of theologians and other pious men, act therein as he shall judge to be consonant with truth and piety.”

So, and so forth. So, of course, the Council of Trent is dealing with good bishops, not modernists, which we're dealing with since Vatican II. Bishop Ballini then goes on to say, “a fact or phenomenon which cannot be scientifically explained will be accepted as a miracle in the Church only after the decision of the ordinary, the bishop, or the Holy See. Obviously, a fact or phenomenon is what it is, independently from the judgment of the church, but this judgment is not without implications.This is what God himself has decided. No doctor or scientist is going to tell a Catholic that this fact or event is a miracle.Their arguments can be the best in the world, and one may also believe them, but unless one is the ordinary, the bishop, or the Holy See, what one thinks is just one's opinion, which does not imply or require doctrinal assent.”

So, fair enough. And then he goes on to say, “In this matter, the best one can say is that the scientific arguments offered are indisputable, and that the fact or phenomenon in question cannot be scientifically explained. But unfortunately, if one has no authority, because one is not the bishop, ordinary, or the Holy See, one cannot say that the fact or phenomenon in question is a miracle, propriae dictum (properly speaking). It belongs to the lawful authority to decide.”

So, I agree with Bishop Ballini on this. It's really up to Mother Church to decide if these Eucharistic miracles, and many of them, quite a lot of them, are actual true or not. The danger of pushing this opinion is it gives the impression of approval of the New Mass. And that's why I have been very vocal against pushing this opinion, because souls are affected by these opinions. And as I see happen, it won't be the older generation that fought against Vatican II and the New Mass that's going to start going to the New Mass, if they're told that there's New Mass miracles, and “New Mass gives grace”, and “New Mass nourishes your faith”, it's going to be the second generation. And they're going to say, well, you know, there was this bishop teaching that New Mass gives a trickle of grace, there's New Mass miracles, Why can't we go to it? Why do we have to suffer through driving five hours to get to mass, and go through all these sacrifices to keep the Tridentine Mass, when we have a pious Novus Ordo priest who wears his cassock, says Mass reverently, prays the chaplet of the Divine Mercy, has a picture of Sister Faustina and the heartless Jesus with rays of light in this chapel. What's wrong with going to his mass? That's the danger of these teachings. They're going to go to the New Mass. And I've seen it happen through these false teachings.

And so, fair enough, with Bishop Ballini, he pushes it as an opinion. And it is an opinion. And he's right, it should not be promoted and pushed until Mother Church decides. So I told him, well, I was in a position where I was refused holy oils from Bishop Williamson for refusing to promote this nonsense. And he just said, well, he never did that to me, and I wrote him, and I told him I don't agree. So, all right, well, maybe because I am so outspoken against this. So, which I will always continue to be not nothing against Bishop Williamson, but the errors, once they take root in people's souls, it's like a disease, and it does spread. And that's why the great Pope Pius VI, in Autorum Fidei, that +Archbishop Lefebvre loved to quote often, he says, “Any error in any diocese or parish doesn't attack just that parish or diocese, it attacks the whole universal Church.”

And that's why bishops, he says, “you must root out erroneous teachings”. And then I brought to his attention the teaching that, “This is not the time for structure and organization”, which was also promoted in the Eleison comments. And, you know, it's just kind of obvious. Here's what he says at the end of his point. “I am of the opinion that if one wishes to have a structure or organization, he should have it, but I do not have the power or authority to impose one on anyone. At the same time, I do not believe that priests should be ordained without what, in our circumstances, would correspond the most to what traditionally would be recognized as a title.”

So, so again, he's just basically saying what +Archbishop Lefebvre did. We are in an emergency situation. +Archbishop Lefebvre saw we have to save the Catholic Priesthood and the Mass, and he founded the Society of St. Pius X, which was approved by the local bishop, and which is normal. And so the Council of Trent wanted seminaries. And when Bishop Williamson has told numerous people, no, you don't need to go to the seminary. Go back to the world. Go get a job in the world. There's no convent. Go get to go somewhere else. Go back in the world. Well, for +Archbishop Lefebvre, when people came to him, he didn't say, “Go back in the world”, he took it as, this is God telling me I must do something for the Church, for the priesthood. He didn't want to start a seminary at first. He wanted to just peacefully retire. But God called him to something else. So Bishop Ballini does make the point that Bishop Williamson approves his seminary, and he encourages Bishop Faure to start his seminary, and Bishop Thomas Aquinas down in Brazil has the seminary going in his monastery. So, and that's another good point with Bishop Ballini. He is forming priests. He ordained Father Joseph Ortolano, who I knew as a boy on camp, and he also will be ordaining in a year or two another candidate, an American, to the priesthood. So that's a very good point. He is a bishop forming priests. This is what they need to be doing, and so that's good. That's very good.

So, and then recently I was, you know, there's some accusations going about Father Hewko: “He’s Schismatic; He’s a rogue; He’s starting a seminary without permission, without a bishop”, and so forth and so forth. Well, I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to call this a seminary. I'd prefer to just call it an Oratory and a house of studies. The purpose? To form, if God wills, priests and brothers, and hopefully down the road, holy sisters. Not here, but somewhere else down the road, and I know Canon Law says you have to have a number of priests. You have to have confessors. You have to have the facilities, but Canon Law also is dealing with normal times, and we are not in normal times. So even Bishop Williamson has ordained and encourages some priests to take in boys and form them themselves.

Father Pivert does that in France. He just takes boys in and forms them, and he's teaching them now. He's a good priest, and so down the centuries, priests were often formed by other priests. They would just live with them in the priory, live with them in the rectory or the monastery, and this was often the case. Even St. John Bosco, who wanted to be a priest, lived with a priest to learn Latin, learn basic catechism, start learning the rudiments of philosophy, and that priest taught him. So he lived with the priest. He prayed with the priest, rosary, served mass, and that's quite normal down the history of the Church. So in this terrible crisis of the Church, I'm just doing what I can for the glory of God, and if it's clear to me this is not God's will, I'll close it down gladly tomorrow, but as far as I can tell, this is God's will, and I know Our Lady will provide a good bishop to take care of the boys and ordain them, and hopefully some priests that will join and help teach. So is this the time for seminaries? Definitely, but we have to do all we can in this terrible crisis.

So back to the letter here. Bishop Ballini says, “It is difficult to create seminaries. We hardly have the means, but it is not impossible. Perhaps we should work together and try to unite and not divide. Everything should be done, put in place to continue the holy priesthood and ordain ministers for the celebration of the True Mass.” Of course, Bishop Ballini, his first language is Italian, so normally we wouldn't use the word ministers, that's always associated with Protestants, but in the Canon Law, that's the word used in Latin, ministeriae, but it means, “the priest”.

And then the other point I brought up with him in our conversation in Ireland was about Valtorta, how Bishop Williamson is promoting a book that was condemned in 1948. And interestingly enough, Pope Leo XIII, on January 25, 1897, Bishop Ballini quotes these words, basically saying, “By authority of the Apostolic See, any books that are not approved, that are condemned as heretical, are on the index, they incur an ipso facto excommunication, reserved in a special way to the Holy Father, to the Roman Pontiff.”

In other words, they incur a punishment which only the Pope can remove for promoting bad books. So Bishop Ballini then goes on to say, “However, +Archbishop Lefebvre didn't condemn Father Barrielle, who promoted the Valtorta to seminarians in Écône.” He actually promoted it in the retreats, and he was a big promoter of the five-day retreats, and Father Barrielle was a very good priest. So +Archbishop Lefebvre kind of just tolerated him promoting it, but +Archbishop Lefebvre himself never supported the Valtorta works. In fact, Bishop Ballini quotes +Archbishop Lefebvre. Here's his words. So I quote Bishop Ballini quoting Archbishop Lefebvre: “It is better for us not to spend too much time on the material details of the life of our Lord. These books which represent themselves as revelations of the life of our Lord, in my opinion, can be a danger, precisely because they represent our Lord in a too concrete manner, too much in the details of his life. I am thinking, of course, of Maria Valtorta, and perhaps for some this reading can be good. It can bring them close to our Lord to try to imagine what would have been the life of the apostles with our Lord, the life at Nazareth, the life of our Lord as the visits of the cities of Israel. But there is a danger, a great danger, that is to humanize too much, to concretize too much, and to not sufficiently show the face of God in this life of our Lord. This is the danger. I do not know if we should recommend so much to people the reading of these books if they are not forewarned. I do not know if that would raise them up and make them know our Lord such as He was, such as He is, such as we should know Him and believe Him to be.” So says +Archbishop Lefebvre.

And then Bishop Ballini then says, “My personal opinion on the matter is that having this book being put on the index, we should not promote it in any way. We might tolerate people reading it, but they should be warned about the dangers. Nevertheless, if the promotion of this book is to be understood as a grave sin against faith, one is allowed to wonder why +Archbishop Lefebvre has permitted Father Barrielle to continue his promoting campaign by maintaining him as spiritual director of the seminary in Écône until his death. I imagine that +Archbishop Lefebvre considered the promotion of this book as an act of imprudence, but not as serious as to cut ties with the promoter.”

So again, it was condemned by the Holy Office in 1948 under a good Cardinal Ottaviani. And then I read numerous chapters myself of the Valtorta, and there are some wonderful descriptions, let's be honest, some wonderful descriptions of some details of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Our Lord walking on the water. But there's some things also that kind of make your skin crawl, such as the apostles are sitting with Our Lord, and our Lord is putting his hands over the head of St. John the Baptist and running his fingers through his hair. And yes, that makes your skin crawl. And that's what +Archbishop Lefebvre means by it's too sensual. And then I read another comment of +Archbishop Lefebvre saying it's too sensual, too skin-crawling details. He didn't use those (exact) words.

So anyway, here's what Bishop Ballini in his letter concludes: “When I visit an apostolate, wherever it might be, I try to offer support, public support to the priest or priest responsible for that apostolate. I might not agree on some elements of his or their work and statements, which I might make known privately. But for as long as we agree on the principles, I offer as much support as possible.”

So that's fair enough. And I think with Bishop Ballini, we can say he agrees on the principles- The New Mass is intrinsically evil; It doesn't give grace; It's dangerous; It is the time for seminaries, and New Mass miracles, we shouldn't be promoting them until Mother Church has decided on them. And even at Lourdes, there's thousands of miracles that happened at Lourdes in France, but only four or five have been declared and approved by the Church as miracles, believe it or not. So we have to be, and he's right. And I agree with him on that. So, he says, “I hope that these long pages have not bored or worried you in any way, but that they have reassured you that once the principles are established, a successful collaboration can be brought into being. Let us now move to some more recent events…” and so forth.

And then at the conclusion of the letter, Bishop Ballini said to me, “Dear Father, I think that what needed to be stated has been stated in this long letter and in our conversations. Hopefully this 14 page letter is sufficient to provide the necessary details to establish a framework which would make available to the faithful who put themselves under your care. All the sacraments with the Church can provide into you a durable continuity for your priesthood, your ministry. Many practical aspects could be discussed and will be. It is the duty of each one of us to do our best to stretch ourselves.”

He's quoting St. Paul there, “to stretch ourselves, putting aside many issues that might be secondary so that we may continue the work of the Church, which by its nature is traditional, which was at the heart of the life of +Archbishop Lefebvre. Be assured of my prayers for you and your faithful and please keep all of us in yours. Bishop Giacomo Ballini.”

So he was consecrated a bishop about, I think, two years, two and a half years ago, by Bishop Williamson in England. And it was during the lockdowns. So okay, maybe you can argue it was fine to keep it secret then because England and Ireland, certainly Ireland, was far more severe with the lockdowns than in the U.S. And Bishop Ballini also explained to me the circumstances in Ireland are not all that favorable. And he has to deal with a very communist government and he has to basically walk on eggshells in dealing with the government because it could affect the visas of the seminarians, it could affect other things. So having only met him a few times, Bishop Ballini, I have to say, I heard good news that during the lockdowns he didn't hide in his priory. He went out to say Mass. In one case, I'm told, the police pulled him over and said, “You're over 15 miles away from where you live. Go back. You're not allowed to be driving,” and I'm told by those who talked to Bishop Ballini that Bishop Ballini told them, “look, I'm a priest. I'm taking care of souls. I'm saying Mass. If you want to arrest me, go ahead”. So the police, who are Irish and mostly Catholic, they said, “Oh, okay, Father, go ahead.” And they didn't bother him.

And then he also led a Rosary around the Dublin City Hall and did an exorcism over it, actually, which really needed it because Ireland would approve the abortion bill, which was a horrendous thing. And Pope Francis was there shortly before they passed it. He didn't say a word against abortion. And had Pope Francis told the Catholics, you cannot vote for this bill, otherwise you'll be excommunicated, that would have stopped it right in the bud. But Pope Francis blew his chance. And so it does need an exorcism.

So anyway, my opinion and my conclusion is on these letters and visits with Bishop Ballini, I really wish, and I told him that, I really wish you would publicly preach. I wish you condemned these errors publicly, and it would be more clear, and I wouldn't have to explain to the people what you hold in your opinions. But fair enough, he condemns these. He doesn't agree with Bishop Williamson's errors and erroneous opinions, and he's a bishop willing to help. So I'm not pushing things too quickly, but I just ask your prayers.

I don't want to also be stepping into a trap because Bishop Williamson has abused his authority to punish priests who don't agree with his opinions. And the thing is, he calls them “opinions”. So if anyone disagrees with them, even publicly, they shouldn't be punished because they're “opinions”. So you can argue about opinions. And we know in the history of the Church, for example, it came to fists flying between Jesuit priests and Dominicans over the question of grace and free will. And they argued and argued and it came to fists in some meetings. And it was the pope who had to say, all right, the Jesuits, you hold an opinion on grace and free will that favor more the free will, but it's not condemned, and the Dominicans stand with St. Thomas, which gives more to grace, but that's also not condemned. So, since your both opinions are not condemned, stop fighting. Both opinions can be held and (so) stop fighting. That was what the pope had to settle with the Dominicans and the Jesuits, but it did come to fists. And then you had arguments between the Franciscans and the Dominicans over questions of the Beatitude(s) and the essence of beatitude. And you had other disputes between religious orders. So down the history of the Church, this is not uncommon that there be “opinions”, and sometimes the opinions are condemned by the Church as erroneous.

And we know this is why I'm very vocal about opposing these errors myself, because we have +Archbishop Lefebvre, who spoke very loud and clear: “The New Mass does not give grace; The new mass poisons the faith; The new mass is dangerous to the faith; It's a new religion- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi. As you pray, so you believe.” If you pray as a Protestant, you're going to believe as a Protestant. And +Archbishop Lefebvre even said the New Mass does not fulfill the Sunday obligation. And he would never, he always kept it at the level of the faith. He would never descend to that question, “Oh does it give grace or not”? Because then you get into, oh so if the New Mass is valid, is it a real Mass? Well yes, it would be a real Mass. It would be a real sacrifice. Does it pass grace? +Archbishop Lefebvre said, “No, it doesn't pass grace, even if it's valid”. And he said it can be valid, and I never denied that it can be valid if it's proper matter, form, and intention. And certainly in the early days of the 70s, the priests went from the Tridentine mass into the New Mass, and certainly those early masses, most of them were probably valid, because those priests had the faith. But they didn't like the New Mass, but they were just falsely obeying their bishops.

But as +Archbishop Lefebvre made very clear, as time goes by, and the young priests are formed in the theology of Vatican II, and no longer the sacramental theology of the Council of Trent and of Tradition, they don't believe anymore in the Sacrifice. They don't believe anymore that the Mass is a real reenactment of Mount Calvary. So those Masses wouldn't even be valid. And we know that the Diocese of Chicago and some other dioceses throughout the world have used hosts made with brown sugar or honey or sweet flavor stuff, and it's just not valid. It's invalid matter, invalid form, and invalid intention. So when they change these, it's not valid.

So the question is, “If it's a true valid Mass and the Sacrifice takes place in a New Mass with a priest who has the right intention, matter, and form, does it pass grace?” Well, I'm the first to say this is disputed. It's a dispute among theologians, this question, but it shouldn't be out there saying, “The New Mass gives grace and nourishes your faith.” You can't be saying that because it's a wrong message.

But I agree. Is it disputed? Yes. Is it dangerous to promote it? Yes.

But it's safer to take the position (which) +Archbishop Lefebvre held that: The New Mass is sterile; The New Mass does not pass grace; The New Mass is poisonous. And as Father Pulvermacher said many times, “If you want to know if the New Mass gives grace, do what our Lord said. Look at the fruits”. What's the fruits of the New Mass? Devastation, loss of faith, apostasy, lukewarmness, abuse, and every disaster you can imagine.

So does that give grace? No. In all these, there was a very good issue out of the Recusant a number of years ago rebutting one of the so-called Eucharistic miracles in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And it was a very thorough article debunking that this was not a miracle at all. And it was just a phony. And some of these parish priests and bishops don't mind to have a miracle in their parish because it brings in people and it brings in money. So it pays the bills. So that's why some of these bishops just let it go. Like Medjugorje as well. And the Bishop of Sokółka in Poland, I understand himself, has never declared it a miracle. So we shouldn't be promoting it as a real miracle. And the scientific evidence, yeah, yeah, yes, but it's the Church to declare what's a miracle or not.

So Bishop Ballini, I can say I agree with him on the principles. And it's just some details I don't agree with him, such as I wish he was more vocal myself. But I understand in his situation in Ireland, he has to be a bit careful of the political situation. Fair enough. But I think in principle, I don't think any of you would have an objection either. So let's pray for him. And he gave me permission to quote his letter.

He said, “Father, you can tell your people where I stand.” And I warned him, well, I hope you don't get punished the way I was by Broadstairs. But he just says, “Well, what can you do to me?” So anyway, let's pray for all the bishops of tradition: Bishop Fellay, Bishop Williamson, Bishop de Galarreta, the soul of Bishop Tissier. And then the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bishop Williamson. And I've said this before many times, at least Bishop Williamson did consecrate bishops, while the Society of St. Pius X, they're not consecrating bishops. And I can bet if they do, it's going to be one approved by Pope Francis. So it's going to be some liberal, maybe Father Paul Robinson, I wouldn't be surprised. He's a big promoter of evolution. And so it'll be some liberal. But at least Bishop Williamson did consecrate bishops. Was it the best circumstances and the best situation? No, but he did. He did. And so the validity of ordinations and consecrations and blessings goes on. So I'd rather work with Bishop Ballini, who at least agrees in principles and doesn't hold the errors of Bishop Williamson that he publicly promotes. I'd rather work with him knowing it's a valid line from +Archbishop Lefebvre than ever, and God forbid, ever work with the Thục Line, which is all full of doubt or some other crazy line. Another line is the Bishop Duarte Costa Line, who was a bishop in Brazil, excommunicated by Pope Pius XII, and he wanted women priests, he wanted the mass in the vernacular. He was just off the wall, yet in the United States, there's a number of priests who are working, saying mass in traditional parishes who are from that line. And I've warned them, “Beware of this Duarte Costa Line, you shouldn't be having priests from this line.”, but some just don't care. And they say, “Well, he says the Latin mass, that's all I need.” No, we need to look into the lineage and make sure it's valid, make sure it's sound and sound doctrine. And that's with +Archbishop Lefebvre, we have that. Thank God.

So anyway, I know this went very long. It's kind of a conference sermon, sermon conference. And I'm not rushing anything, I'm just saying, here's the position of Bishop Ballini, pray for him, and in principle, we have to say, he's sound. He's sound.

I wish he would act in some ways differently, but I'm not living in Ireland. But at least when he went to visit Father Chazal, he did an ordination or some sort down there in Asia, and he gave a sermon, blasting the New Mass. Well, that's normal. It's a normal SSPX sermon, and we're kind of used to that, but it's kind of novel when you hear that anymore from our own bishops.

So let's encourage Bishop Ballini to continue preaching like +Archbishop Lefebvre did, and don't pull punches. Do not pull punches. This is not the time to pull punches. You know, when a boxer enters the ring, he's got to swing. He's got to play smart. He's got to protect his face. He's got to be in a good position. He's got to be fast on his feet. And he's got to blow at the right time at the right place. But he has to blow. He has to pound. He has to swing his arms. He has to swing punches. And so let's pray for our bishops and pray for Bishop Ballini. I'm not saying he's the second +Archbishop Lefebvre. I'm not saying he has the glowing courage of +Archbishop Lefebvre, but maybe with our prayers, he can be a better boxer. So let's pray for him.

And this is quite open. I'm going to make this public. If any of the faithful have any words for me or any advice or any questions for Bishop Ballini that I should relay to him, I'll be happy to. But let's work. I plan to work slowly, and let's hope if God wills, things can work out without any compromise and no silence either. I will never agree to be silent against these errors. So that's what we have to avoid.

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially, all communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.]]> Saving Souls in Wartime: Fr. Hewko (& Bp. Rejects Error)

Fr Hewko: Feast of St. Sylvester
“Saving Souls in Wartime”
November 26, 2024

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost, Amen.

Today is November the 26th, Feast of St. Sylvester. Just listen to the Collect of the Mass, which really explains the whole life of this saint: “Oh most merciful God, who, when the holy abbot Sylvester was piously pondering over the vanity of earthly things, while he stood by an open grave, didst vouchsafe to call him to the desert. We supplicate thee that, despising earthly things, after his example, we may forever enjoy thy presence. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee, forever and ever. Amen.”

That defines his life, St. Sylvester. He was an abbot of monks, but what moved him to become a monk was to see an empty tomb, to smell the rotting body, to see the features all caved in, grey and lifeless. Indeed, death strikes everyone this way. It is a grace for many people to see death, to see just how passing, how vain, how speedy is this life on earth, and how we must not bank our life on this earth but for Heaven. And how many poor souls are deceived by the vanities, the splendor, the youthfulness, the pazazz of the modern world, and indeed, yes, the internet and all the colors and flashes and video games and all these things. They encapture and rapture the senses. But we are supposed to rise above the senses. We’re supposed to be men of prayer that can restrain our enslavement to the external things and raise our heart and mind and the soul to union with God to contemplate eternal things, and that’s why in many collects of the Mass, the Church will pray, “Lord, grant that I may despise earthly things and seek the heavenly things.”

So, we want to ask this of Saint Sylvester to despise earthly things. Now, just a kind of a side note, but an important point. I just came back from England and Ireland and a short visit in Wales. There were a handful of Extreme Unctions to give. There was a planned adult baptism, but that will be reserved for the next visit or whatever priest visits next in probably April or May, and then we went to Ireland, and that was another quick visit, and I was able to spend four or five hours with Bishop Ballini, and Bishop Ballini was in the northern Ireland in Derry, so he was very gracious to receive my visit with the two seminarians and the driver and another visitor.

So, what came of that visit? It's my second visit with him. He was very gracious, of course, and invited us to lunch. The bishop cooked himself, and basically, I was asking him, “Your Excellency, nobody hears you, nobody knows you, at least here in the US. We say Bishop Ballini, and people say, well, “Who's that? Who consecrated him?” So, I did ask if he would consider making public the video of his consecration. It would certainly settle a lot of questions, and down the road, you know, 15-20 years, people are going to say, well, “How do you know he's valid? How do you know who consecrated him? Where was the ceremony? Who did the ceremony?” So, to make these things public would certainly settle a lot of these questions that do arise with these bishops, and down the centuries, bishops were always consecrated in public churches, and everyone was there, hundreds and hundreds of witnesses to testify to that. So, his answer to that was he didn't deny, he didn't refuse. Maybe he'll consider it, and I think it would help a lot, myself, and let's hope he'll consider that.

It's not the be-all and end-all, but it would certainly settle many questions. We always witness, if you're long in the battle of tradition, we often saw these, what was called, “the garage bishops”, and that was a standing, kind of a standing joke. There's a bishop in every garage, meaning that the Thục Line, they went bishop-consecration haywire. In every garage, they had a bishop. They were consecrating bishops everywhere, and of course, these are questionable from the Thục Line because the Thục Line is riddled with confusion and often doubt, especially when Archbishop Thục consecrated a non-Catholic as a bishop. That's invalid, and it's a terrible sacrilege, and +Archbishop Lefebvre even questioned, was he even in his right mind? But that's another issue, and really, the bottom line is, like many issues today that are debatable and questionable and battles fought over, it's really up to Mother Church to declare when she gets back to good health with a good pope, to declare on the Thục Line- Was it invalid? Was it valid? Does he stand condemned? What's their position? Do they have to be all re-ordained and re-consecrated or reduced to the lay state? I don't know. These are questions for Mother Church. Same with all these apparitions.

We have all these true apparitions and some phony apparitions. Medjugorje is certainly one of those phony ones. Bayside also, and the one down in Texas [Divine Mercy] is certainly doubtful because it's all promoting the New Mass. It's all tied in with ecumenism, and Bayside even was tied in with some witchcraft, I understand. And yes, the apparition says, “Pray the Rosary”, and it's strange. It's true. God can use even a false apparition to bring souls to truth because I know a handful of people who were drawn to Bayside, drawn to even Medjugorje, but through that they started to pray the Rosary, and Our Lady always keeps her promise. If you pray the Rosary, she's going to lead you to salvation and lead you to Her Son. So many people who followed at first Bayside or Medjugorje or false apparitions were led to tradition, and they realized, oh, these are wrong because of these messages that counter tradition.

So anyway, in the course of the conversation, I did ask if he would publicly condemn some of these errors of Bishop Williamson that have been promoted for the past. Since 2014, Bishop Williamson has started promoting these opinions and errors,“erroneous opinions”, we could more accurately call them, and Bishop Williamson himself admits they’re “opinions”. And maybe if he treated the priests who opposed him, because these are publicly being taught, it's not like they're just private conversations, and when Bishop Williamson introduced these erroneous opinions, he always said, “I know that some of my colleagues, some priests will cut off my head for saying this; I know that I'm going to get in trouble for saying this; I know that there's going to be some who don't agree with me”, but then he goes on to say it and introduces it into the public domain.

So when priests do raise their voice, then why are there repercussions such as they don't receive holy oils? In my case, I was told I wouldn't get holy oils unless I publicly promoted the New Mass miracles, especially the one in Poland, Sokółka, and well, I mean, with all respect to Bishop Williamson who was a dynamite bishop and priest in the United States, he did so much good. And I, in fact, I encourage people, listen to his great talks, doctrinal talks in the 1990s and some of his many great interviews, and even now he's doing some good interviews, but you just got to be careful when he promotes “New Mass miracles”, “conservative New Mass”, “New Mass nourishes your faith”, and all these erroneous opinions that can deceive many souls.

And I've been very vocal against these erroneous opinions myself. Why? Because I've seen priests become neutralized. They used to, good priests of the Catholic Resistance, they used to preach out in 2012, 13, 14, 15, but then because they were scared to oppose these opinions being promoted out of Broadstairs, they became silent. And some told me, “you are disrespectful to mention the name of Bishop Williamson, you shouldn't attack him in public”, and so forth. But I think, you know, accuse me if I'm wrong, and if I am, I will gladly apologize and make things straight and humble myself, which I'm happy to do. But I can attest that I have never attacked the name of Bishop Williamson. I have never attacked his person. And I've always repeated over and over again, I have the greatest filial respect and affection and loyalty to what he always stood for, a consecrated bishop of Catholic tradition, who stood for +Archbishop Lefebvre's position until he started changing his positions in 2014. But before that, he was always solid, just like Bishop Fellay. So before 2000, 2001, he was always solid. And in 2003, even he (Bishop Fellay) told Campos, Brazil priests, “Don't make an agreement with Rome, you will be silenced; By accepting jurisdictions from Rome, you will be silenced; And you'll have to compromise with the New Mass and Vatican II”. He was right. But in 2001, and then certainly 2010, 11, 12, he himself committed the same tragic mistake of stepping into the traps of modernist Rome.

So ever since he's been quite silent, and even punished priests who spoke out openly against, for example, the [SSPX bishops] meeting [with] Benedict XVI in 2011, one of the great French priests, Father de Caqueray, wrote a public letter, an excellent letter, which would be worth reading here, but this would be too long. An excellent letter, just blasting that ecumenical prayer service of Pope Benedict XVI. It was a classic SSPX letter, just glorious. And many priests read it from the pulpit. It was a great letter. And then I understand Bishop Fellay rebuked him for putting out that letter publicly.

So Bishop Fellay changed. And why? I don't know. I pray for him. And he's basically turned the Society of the SSPX into something else than what +Archbishop Lefebvre founded. And some of you may remember the old SSPX telling Rome, “We glory in our excommunication!”, “You excommunicate +Archbishop Lefebvre and the three bishops. Why don't you excommunicate us also? Because we don't want to be part of this ecumenical, evolutionary church of Vatican II and the New Mass.” But a wonderful letter, a wonderful spirit. And the SSPX priests and bishops, as +Archbishop Lefebvre left it, were a united front of the soldiers of Christ, spreading the Kingship of Christ, battling the heresies of Vatican II and the New Mass.

And if in those days a priest was teaching the “New Mass nourishes your faith; The New Mass gives grace”, and certainly promoting “New Mass miracles”, he would have been smashed by his fellow priests. And the bishops back then would have done the same. +Archbishop Lefebvre would never have tolerated it. Why? Because the New Mass is not just a liturgical question. It is a doctrinal question, a doctrinal issue. “As you pray, so you believe.” And the New Mass attacks Christ's priesthood. It attacks the essence of the Sacrifice of the Mass. And it attacks the Victim, that Jesus Christ is the Victim on the altar. And all that is ignored, erased, watered down, or obliterated into the meal by the New Mass. So anyway, back to our visit with Bishop Ballini. Let me just make clear some things that we covered.

And I have two letters from him, and I'm going to quote from them. He gave me permission to. He said, you know, “Please tell your faithful where my position is.” And I'm happy to do it. And I'm happy to say that Bishop Ballini, Giacomo Ballini, basically, does not agree with Bishop Williamson's erroneous opinions. And let me draw some quotations from them. Firstly, when he, in the previous letter, he said, I was calling Bishop Williamson a heretic. And I told him I never called him a heretic, ever. I attack his errors, his opinions, but never his person. So then he explains, obviously, in my letter, when I use the word heretic, I did not mean for it to bear its literal sense. I simply used it to hyper-publicly express the reality of some of the disputes which we have witnessed in the last few years. Okay, fair enough.

And then I brought him, brought to him the questions of the new teaching, the new opinions: “The New Mass gives grace; One can nourish one's faith with the New Mass.” This was heavily promoted by Bishop Williamson and heavily attacked by good priests who openly opposed this. And many of the priests wrote Bishop Williamson personally and said, “Why are you teaching this? This is erroneous; This is scandalous.”

So I'm happy to say, Bishop Ballini, he says here, “Can active participation in the New Mass be a meritorious act?” Bishop Ballini says, “I think that we all agree that the New Mass is to be considered intrinsically evil.This belief is at the foundation of our apostolate and our work as priests. If we considered the New Mass only evil in reason of the circumstances, we must agree that there would be certain cases where the New Mass would be good and consequently, we would have to agree in celebrating it in principle. So the question can be brought into more general terms. Can active participation to an intrinsically evil act be meritorious? If yes, what would be the conditions?” And then he goes through numerous quotes from theologians on invincible ignorance and all these other questions, which are kind of aside from the point. And then Bishop Ballini concludes, “I would say that the statement, ‘The New Mass gives grace’ or ‘nourishes one's faith’, is ambiguous and should be clarified in accordance to the moral principles offered. If I were asked if the New Mass gives grace or nourishes one's faith, I would say with a certain sarcasm that for a Catholic, if it is valid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox schismatic Church. And if it is invalid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Protestant worship.”

In other words, it doesn't because the schismatic Mass of the Orthodox doesn't pass grace because they're not united to Christ the head and the members. To receive the grace of Christ, we must be united to him. And since the schismatics are not united to him, they're broken off from the true Catholic Church. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches this, that because they lack that unity with Christ and the Mystical Body, the grace does not pass, even though their Masses can be valid. And God can give grace to the simple, pious souls in the pews who just don't know better. God certainly will answer their prayers if their heart is pure and humble before him, because God always is generous with his gifts and will want to lead them to the true religion.

So Bishop Ballini goes on to say, “And if it is invalid, it gives graces, nourishes one's faith as much as a Protestant worship. I would then ask the person if he or she would take part in an Orthodox schismatic Divine Liturgy or a Protestant worship. I would say that the New Mass is poisonous for one's faith. And I would quote the words of, The Gospel of St. Mark, 16:18: ‘They shall take up serpents and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.’ If one is not poisoned by the New Mass, this is simply because God performs a miracle by preventing the normal effect of the New Mass to take place, which is to poison the faith.” So if they're not poisoned, it's a miracle, he's saying, that they're not poisoned. “One is not allowed to attempt to tempt God and consequently, absolutely speaking, one is not allowed to take active part in the New Mass.” So of course, happy to say this is the exact position of +Archbishop Lefebvre, who didn't pull any punches. The New Mass is a bastard mass, he called it, illegitimate, destroys the faith, it's a new religion, a new expression of a new religion.

So says Bishop Ballini. So he sides with +Archbishop Lefebvre on that, thank God. And then when I asked him about the New Mass miracles that Bishop Williamson promotes constantly: “New Mass miracles cannot be rejected because of scientific evidence.” And he, Bishop Ballini, basically says, well, the scientists might call it unexplainable, but it's really up to the Church to call it a miracle. So it's wrong to promote these as real miracles, really, until Mother Church declares them as miracles, because we know the devil can deceive, and Bishop Ballini mentions this, and scientists can be wrong. “I have the impression that”, says Bishop Ballini, “there is some confusion on this point. Some seem to imply that a doctor or a scientist have the ability to tell us that a certain fact or phenomenon is a miracle. At best, a doctor or a scientist can say that through the means of experimental science, they are not able to explain a certain fact or phenomenon. This is as far as they can go.

We should keep in mind that they are not infallible and that spirits of different kinds can interfere with their instruments. The Church, speaking through its lawful authorities, after all the necessary investigations, will decide that a certain fact or phenomenon is or is not a miracle.” And then he quotes the Council of Trent about how that “No new miracles are to be acknowledged or new relics recognized unless the said bishop has taken cognizance and approved thereof, who, as soon as he has obtained some certain information in regard to these matters, shall, after having taken the advice of theologians and other pious men, act therein as he shall judge to be consonant with truth and piety.”

So, and so forth. So, of course, the Council of Trent is dealing with good bishops, not modernists, which we're dealing with since Vatican II. Bishop Ballini then goes on to say, “a fact or phenomenon which cannot be scientifically explained will be accepted as a miracle in the Church only after the decision of the ordinary, the bishop, or the Holy See. Obviously, a fact or phenomenon is what it is, independently from the judgment of the church, but this judgment is not without implications.This is what God himself has decided. No doctor or scientist is going to tell a Catholic that this fact or event is a miracle.Their arguments can be the best in the world, and one may also believe them, but unless one is the ordinary, the bishop, or the Holy See, what one thinks is just one's opinion, which does not imply or require doctrinal assent.”

So, fair enough. And then he goes on to say, “In this matter, the best one can say is that the scientific arguments offered are indisputable, and that the fact or phenomenon in question cannot be scientifically explained. But unfortunately, if one has no authority, because one is not the bishop, ordinary, or the Holy See, one cannot say that the fact or phenomenon in question is a miracle, propriae dictum (properly speaking). It belongs to the lawful authority to decide.”

So, I agree with Bishop Ballini on this. It's really up to Mother Church to decide if these Eucharistic miracles, and many of them, quite a lot of them, are actual true or not. The danger of pushing this opinion is it gives the impression of approval of the New Mass. And that's why I have been very vocal against pushing this opinion, because souls are affected by these opinions. And as I see happen, it won't be the older generation that fought against Vatican II and the New Mass that's going to start going to the New Mass, if they're told that there's New Mass miracles, and “New Mass gives grace”, and “New Mass nourishes your faith”, it's going to be the second generation. And they're going to say, well, you know, there was this bishop teaching that New Mass gives a trickle of grace, there's New Mass miracles, Why can't we go to it? Why do we have to suffer through driving five hours to get to mass, and go through all these sacrifices to keep the Tridentine Mass, when we have a pious Novus Ordo priest who wears his cassock, says Mass reverently, prays the chaplet of the Divine Mercy, has a picture of Sister Faustina and the heartless Jesus with rays of light in this chapel. What's wrong with going to his mass? That's the danger of these teachings. They're going to go to the New Mass. And I've seen it happen through these false teachings.

And so, fair enough, with Bishop Ballini, he pushes it as an opinion. And it is an opinion. And he's right, it should not be promoted and pushed until Mother Church decides. So I told him, well, I was in a position where I was refused holy oils from Bishop Williamson for refusing to promote this nonsense. And he just said, well, he never did that to me, and I wrote him, and I told him I don't agree. So, all right, well, maybe because I am so outspoken against this. So, which I will always continue to be not nothing against Bishop Williamson, but the errors, once they take root in people's souls, it's like a disease, and it does spread. And that's why the great Pope Pius VI, in Autorum Fidei, that +Archbishop Lefebvre loved to quote often, he says, “Any error in any diocese or parish doesn't attack just that parish or diocese, it attacks the whole universal Church.”

And that's why bishops, he says, “you must root out erroneous teachings”. And then I brought to his attention the teaching that, “This is not the time for structure and organization”, which was also promoted in the Eleison comments. And, you know, it's just kind of obvious. Here's what he says at the end of his point. “I am of the opinion that if one wishes to have a structure or organization, he should have it, but I do not have the power or authority to impose one on anyone. At the same time, I do not believe that priests should be ordained without what, in our circumstances, would correspond the most to what traditionally would be recognized as a title.”

So, so again, he's just basically saying what +Archbishop Lefebvre did. We are in an emergency situation. +Archbishop Lefebvre saw we have to save the Catholic Priesthood and the Mass, and he founded the Society of St. Pius X, which was approved by the local bishop, and which is normal. And so the Council of Trent wanted seminaries. And when Bishop Williamson has told numerous people, no, you don't need to go to the seminary. Go back to the world. Go get a job in the world. There's no convent. Go get to go somewhere else. Go back in the world. Well, for +Archbishop Lefebvre, when people came to him, he didn't say, “Go back in the world”, he took it as, this is God telling me I must do something for the Church, for the priesthood. He didn't want to start a seminary at first. He wanted to just peacefully retire. But God called him to something else. So Bishop Ballini does make the point that Bishop Williamson approves his seminary, and he encourages Bishop Faure to start his seminary, and Bishop Thomas Aquinas down in Brazil has the seminary going in his monastery. So, and that's another good point with Bishop Ballini. He is forming priests. He ordained Father Joseph Ortolano, who I knew as a boy on camp, and he also will be ordaining in a year or two another candidate, an American, to the priesthood. So that's a very good point. He is a bishop forming priests. This is what they need to be doing, and so that's good. That's very good.

So, and then recently I was, you know, there's some accusations going about Father Hewko: “He’s Schismatic; He’s a rogue; He’s starting a seminary without permission, without a bishop”, and so forth and so forth. Well, I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to call this a seminary. I'd prefer to just call it an Oratory and a house of studies. The purpose? To form, if God wills, priests and brothers, and hopefully down the road, holy sisters. Not here, but somewhere else down the road, and I know Canon Law says you have to have a number of priests. You have to have confessors. You have to have the facilities, but Canon Law also is dealing with normal times, and we are not in normal times. So even Bishop Williamson has ordained and encourages some priests to take in boys and form them themselves.

Father Pivert does that in France. He just takes boys in and forms them, and he's teaching them now. He's a good priest, and so down the centuries, priests were often formed by other priests. They would just live with them in the priory, live with them in the rectory or the monastery, and this was often the case. Even St. John Bosco, who wanted to be a priest, lived with a priest to learn Latin, learn basic catechism, start learning the rudiments of philosophy, and that priest taught him. So he lived with the priest. He prayed with the priest, rosary, served mass, and that's quite normal down the history of the Church. So in this terrible crisis of the Church, I'm just doing what I can for the glory of God, and if it's clear to me this is not God's will, I'll close it down gladly tomorrow, but as far as I can tell, this is God's will, and I know Our Lady will provide a good bishop to take care of the boys and ordain them, and hopefully some priests that will join and help teach. So is this the time for seminaries? Definitely, but we have to do all we can in this terrible crisis.

So back to the letter here. Bishop Ballini says, “It is difficult to create seminaries. We hardly have the means, but it is not impossible. Perhaps we should work together and try to unite and not divide. Everything should be done, put in place to continue the holy priesthood and ordain ministers for the celebration of the True Mass.” Of course, Bishop Ballini, his first language is Italian, so normally we wouldn't use the word ministers, that's always associated with Protestants, but in the Canon Law, that's the word used in Latin, ministeriae, but it means, “the priest”.

And then the other point I brought up with him in our conversation in Ireland was about Valtorta, how Bishop Williamson is promoting a book that was condemned in 1948. And interestingly enough, Pope Leo XIII, on January 25, 1897, Bishop Ballini quotes these words, basically saying, “By authority of the Apostolic See, any books that are not approved, that are condemned as heretical, are on the index, they incur an ipso facto excommunication, reserved in a special way to the Holy Father, to the Roman Pontiff.”

In other words, they incur a punishment which only the Pope can remove for promoting bad books. So Bishop Ballini then goes on to say, “However, +Archbishop Lefebvre didn't condemn Father Barrielle, who promoted the Valtorta to seminarians in Écône.” He actually promoted it in the retreats, and he was a big promoter of the five-day retreats, and Father Barrielle was a very good priest. So +Archbishop Lefebvre kind of just tolerated him promoting it, but +Archbishop Lefebvre himself never supported the Valtorta works. In fact, Bishop Ballini quotes +Archbishop Lefebvre. Here's his words. So I quote Bishop Ballini quoting Archbishop Lefebvre: “It is better for us not to spend too much time on the material details of the life of our Lord. These books which represent themselves as revelations of the life of our Lord, in my opinion, can be a danger, precisely because they represent our Lord in a too concrete manner, too much in the details of his life. I am thinking, of course, of Maria Valtorta, and perhaps for some this reading can be good. It can bring them close to our Lord to try to imagine what would have been the life of the apostles with our Lord, the life at Nazareth, the life of our Lord as the visits of the cities of Israel. But there is a danger, a great danger, that is to humanize too much, to concretize too much, and to not sufficiently show the face of God in this life of our Lord. This is the danger. I do not know if we should recommend so much to people the reading of these books if they are not forewarned. I do not know if that would raise them up and make them know our Lord such as He was, such as He is, such as we should know Him and believe Him to be.” So says +Archbishop Lefebvre.

And then Bishop Ballini then says, “My personal opinion on the matter is that having this book being put on the index, we should not promote it in any way. We might tolerate people reading it, but they should be warned about the dangers. Nevertheless, if the promotion of this book is to be understood as a grave sin against faith, one is allowed to wonder why +Archbishop Lefebvre has permitted Father Barrielle to continue his promoting campaign by maintaining him as spiritual director of the seminary in Écône until his death. I imagine that +Archbishop Lefebvre considered the promotion of this book as an act of imprudence, but not as serious as to cut ties with the promoter.”

So again, it was condemned by the Holy Office in 1948 under a good Cardinal Ottaviani. And then I read numerous chapters myself of the Valtorta, and there are some wonderful descriptions, let's be honest, some wonderful descriptions of some details of the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Our Lord walking on the water. But there's some things also that kind of make your skin crawl, such as the apostles are sitting with Our Lord, and our Lord is putting his hands over the head of St. John the Baptist and running his fingers through his hair. And yes, that makes your skin crawl. And that's what +Archbishop Lefebvre means by it's too sensual. And then I read another comment of +Archbishop Lefebvre saying it's too sensual, too skin-crawling details. He didn't use those (exact) words.

So anyway, here's what Bishop Ballini in his letter concludes: “When I visit an apostolate, wherever it might be, I try to offer support, public support to the priest or priest responsible for that apostolate. I might not agree on some elements of his or their work and statements, which I might make known privately. But for as long as we agree on the principles, I offer as much support as possible.”

So that's fair enough. And I think with Bishop Ballini, we can say he agrees on the principles- The New Mass is intrinsically evil; It doesn't give grace; It's dangerous; It is the time for seminaries, and New Mass miracles, we shouldn't be promoting them until Mother Church has decided on them. And even at Lourdes, there's thousands of miracles that happened at Lourdes in France, but only four or five have been declared and approved by the Church as miracles, believe it or not. So we have to be, and he's right. And I agree with him on that. So, he says, “I hope that these long pages have not bored or worried you in any way, but that they have reassured you that once the principles are established, a successful collaboration can be brought into being. Let us now move to some more recent events…” and so forth.

And then at the conclusion of the letter, Bishop Ballini said to me, “Dear Father, I think that what needed to be stated has been stated in this long letter and in our conversations. Hopefully this 14 page letter is sufficient to provide the necessary details to establish a framework which would make available to the faithful who put themselves under your care. All the sacraments with the Church can provide into you a durable continuity for your priesthood, your ministry. Many practical aspects could be discussed and will be. It is the duty of each one of us to do our best to stretch ourselves.”

He's quoting St. Paul there, “to stretch ourselves, putting aside many issues that might be secondary so that we may continue the work of the Church, which by its nature is traditional, which was at the heart of the life of +Archbishop Lefebvre. Be assured of my prayers for you and your faithful and please keep all of us in yours. Bishop Giacomo Ballini.”

So he was consecrated a bishop about, I think, two years, two and a half years ago, by Bishop Williamson in England. And it was during the lockdowns. So okay, maybe you can argue it was fine to keep it secret then because England and Ireland, certainly Ireland, was far more severe with the lockdowns than in the U.S. And Bishop Ballini also explained to me the circumstances in Ireland are not all that favorable. And he has to deal with a very communist government and he has to basically walk on eggshells in dealing with the government because it could affect the visas of the seminarians, it could affect other things. So having only met him a few times, Bishop Ballini, I have to say, I heard good news that during the lockdowns he didn't hide in his priory. He went out to say Mass. In one case, I'm told, the police pulled him over and said, “You're over 15 miles away from where you live. Go back. You're not allowed to be driving,” and I'm told by those who talked to Bishop Ballini that Bishop Ballini told them, “look, I'm a priest. I'm taking care of souls. I'm saying Mass. If you want to arrest me, go ahead”. So the police, who are Irish and mostly Catholic, they said, “Oh, okay, Father, go ahead.” And they didn't bother him.

And then he also led a Rosary around the Dublin City Hall and did an exorcism over it, actually, which really needed it because Ireland would approve the abortion bill, which was a horrendous thing. And Pope Francis was there shortly before they passed it. He didn't say a word against abortion. And had Pope Francis told the Catholics, you cannot vote for this bill, otherwise you'll be excommunicated, that would have stopped it right in the bud. But Pope Francis blew his chance. And so it does need an exorcism.

So anyway, my opinion and my conclusion is on these letters and visits with Bishop Ballini, I really wish, and I told him that, I really wish you would publicly preach. I wish you condemned these errors publicly, and it would be more clear, and I wouldn't have to explain to the people what you hold in your opinions. But fair enough, he condemns these. He doesn't agree with Bishop Williamson's errors and erroneous opinions, and he's a bishop willing to help. So I'm not pushing things too quickly, but I just ask your prayers.

I don't want to also be stepping into a trap because Bishop Williamson has abused his authority to punish priests who don't agree with his opinions. And the thing is, he calls them “opinions”. So if anyone disagrees with them, even publicly, they shouldn't be punished because they're “opinions”. So you can argue about opinions. And we know in the history of the Church, for example, it came to fists flying between Jesuit priests and Dominicans over the question of grace and free will. And they argued and argued and it came to fists in some meetings. And it was the pope who had to say, all right, the Jesuits, you hold an opinion on grace and free will that favor more the free will, but it's not condemned, and the Dominicans stand with St. Thomas, which gives more to grace, but that's also not condemned. So, since your both opinions are not condemned, stop fighting. Both opinions can be held and (so) stop fighting. That was what the pope had to settle with the Dominicans and the Jesuits, but it did come to fists. And then you had arguments between the Franciscans and the Dominicans over questions of the Beatitude(s) and the essence of beatitude. And you had other disputes between religious orders. So down the history of the Church, this is not uncommon that there be “opinions”, and sometimes the opinions are condemned by the Church as erroneous.

And we know this is why I'm very vocal about opposing these errors myself, because we have +Archbishop Lefebvre, who spoke very loud and clear: “The New Mass does not give grace; The new mass poisons the faith; The new mass is dangerous to the faith; It's a new religion- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi. As you pray, so you believe.” If you pray as a Protestant, you're going to believe as a Protestant. And +Archbishop Lefebvre even said the New Mass does not fulfill the Sunday obligation. And he would never, he always kept it at the level of the faith. He would never descend to that question, “Oh does it give grace or not”? Because then you get into, oh so if the New Mass is valid, is it a real Mass? Well yes, it would be a real Mass. It would be a real sacrifice. Does it pass grace? +Archbishop Lefebvre said, “No, it doesn't pass grace, even if it's valid”. And he said it can be valid, and I never denied that it can be valid if it's proper matter, form, and intention. And certainly in the early days of the 70s, the priests went from the Tridentine mass into the New Mass, and certainly those early masses, most of them were probably valid, because those priests had the faith. But they didn't like the New Mass, but they were just falsely obeying their bishops.

But as +Archbishop Lefebvre made very clear, as time goes by, and the young priests are formed in the theology of Vatican II, and no longer the sacramental theology of the Council of Trent and of Tradition, they don't believe anymore in the Sacrifice. They don't believe anymore that the Mass is a real reenactment of Mount Calvary. So those Masses wouldn't even be valid. And we know that the Diocese of Chicago and some other dioceses throughout the world have used hosts made with brown sugar or honey or sweet flavor stuff, and it's just not valid. It's invalid matter, invalid form, and invalid intention. So when they change these, it's not valid.

So the question is, “If it's a true valid Mass and the Sacrifice takes place in a New Mass with a priest who has the right intention, matter, and form, does it pass grace?” Well, I'm the first to say this is disputed. It's a dispute among theologians, this question, but it shouldn't be out there saying, “The New Mass gives grace and nourishes your faith.” You can't be saying that because it's a wrong message.

But I agree. Is it disputed? Yes. Is it dangerous to promote it? Yes.

But it's safer to take the position (which) +Archbishop Lefebvre held that: The New Mass is sterile; The New Mass does not pass grace; The New Mass is poisonous. And as Father Pulvermacher said many times, “If you want to know if the New Mass gives grace, do what our Lord said. Look at the fruits”. What's the fruits of the New Mass? Devastation, loss of faith, apostasy, lukewarmness, abuse, and every disaster you can imagine.

So does that give grace? No. In all these, there was a very good issue out of the Recusant a number of years ago rebutting one of the so-called Eucharistic miracles in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And it was a very thorough article debunking that this was not a miracle at all. And it was just a phony. And some of these parish priests and bishops don't mind to have a miracle in their parish because it brings in people and it brings in money. So it pays the bills. So that's why some of these bishops just let it go. Like Medjugorje as well. And the Bishop of Sokółka in Poland, I understand himself, has never declared it a miracle. So we shouldn't be promoting it as a real miracle. And the scientific evidence, yeah, yeah, yes, but it's the Church to declare what's a miracle or not.

So Bishop Ballini, I can say I agree with him on the principles. And it's just some details I don't agree with him, such as I wish he was more vocal myself. But I understand in his situation in Ireland, he has to be a bit careful of the political situation. Fair enough. But I think in principle, I don't think any of you would have an objection either. So let's pray for him. And he gave me permission to quote his letter.

He said, “Father, you can tell your people where I stand.” And I warned him, well, I hope you don't get punished the way I was by Broadstairs. But he just says, “Well, what can you do to me?” So anyway, let's pray for all the bishops of tradition: Bishop Fellay, Bishop Williamson, Bishop de Galarreta, the soul of Bishop Tissier. And then the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bishop Williamson. And I've said this before many times, at least Bishop Williamson did consecrate bishops, while the Society of St. Pius X, they're not consecrating bishops. And I can bet if they do, it's going to be one approved by Pope Francis. So it's going to be some liberal, maybe Father Paul Robinson, I wouldn't be surprised. He's a big promoter of evolution. And so it'll be some liberal. But at least Bishop Williamson did consecrate bishops. Was it the best circumstances and the best situation? No, but he did. He did. And so the validity of ordinations and consecrations and blessings goes on. So I'd rather work with Bishop Ballini, who at least agrees in principles and doesn't hold the errors of Bishop Williamson that he publicly promotes. I'd rather work with him knowing it's a valid line from +Archbishop Lefebvre than ever, and God forbid, ever work with the Thục Line, which is all full of doubt or some other crazy line. Another line is the Bishop Duarte Costa Line, who was a bishop in Brazil, excommunicated by Pope Pius XII, and he wanted women priests, he wanted the mass in the vernacular. He was just off the wall, yet in the United States, there's a number of priests who are working, saying mass in traditional parishes who are from that line. And I've warned them, “Beware of this Duarte Costa Line, you shouldn't be having priests from this line.”, but some just don't care. And they say, “Well, he says the Latin mass, that's all I need.” No, we need to look into the lineage and make sure it's valid, make sure it's sound and sound doctrine. And that's with +Archbishop Lefebvre, we have that. Thank God.

So anyway, I know this went very long. It's kind of a conference sermon, sermon conference. And I'm not rushing anything, I'm just saying, here's the position of Bishop Ballini, pray for him, and in principle, we have to say, he's sound. He's sound.

I wish he would act in some ways differently, but I'm not living in Ireland. But at least when he went to visit Father Chazal, he did an ordination or some sort down there in Asia, and he gave a sermon, blasting the New Mass. Well, that's normal. It's a normal SSPX sermon, and we're kind of used to that, but it's kind of novel when you hear that anymore from our own bishops.

So let's encourage Bishop Ballini to continue preaching like +Archbishop Lefebvre did, and don't pull punches. Do not pull punches. This is not the time to pull punches. You know, when a boxer enters the ring, he's got to swing. He's got to play smart. He's got to protect his face. He's got to be in a good position. He's got to be fast on his feet. And he's got to blow at the right time at the right place. But he has to blow. He has to pound. He has to swing his arms. He has to swing punches. And so let's pray for our bishops and pray for Bishop Ballini. I'm not saying he's the second +Archbishop Lefebvre. I'm not saying he has the glowing courage of +Archbishop Lefebvre, but maybe with our prayers, he can be a better boxer. So let's pray for him.

And this is quite open. I'm going to make this public. If any of the faithful have any words for me or any advice or any questions for Bishop Ballini that I should relay to him, I'll be happy to. But let's work. I plan to work slowly, and let's hope if God wills, things can work out without any compromise and no silence either. I will never agree to be silent against these errors. So that's what we have to avoid.

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee

And for those who do not have recourse to thee especially, all communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.]]> <![CDATA[Transcription: Fr. Hekwo's Sermon for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6614 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:42:25 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6614 Fr. Hewko: 24th Sunday after Pentecost

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☩PRAEDICATIO☩ from THE☩TRUMPET | November 5, 2024

Today is the Epistle and Gospel from the 4th Sunday after Epiphany. For today, the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. Here in Tannersville, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 13: “Brethren, owe no man anything but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment it is comprised in this word, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love, therefore, is the fulfilling of the law.”

The Holy Gospel, taken from St. Matthew, chapter 8: “At that time when Jesus entered into the ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the ship was covered with waves. But he was asleep, and they came to him and awaked him, saying, Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus saith to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds in the sea, and there came a great calm. But the men wondered, saying, What manner of man is this? For the winds in the sea obey him.”

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

Listen to the words of Pope Leo XIII: He says, “If the natural law enjoins upon us to love devotedly and to defend the country that gave us birth, very much more is it the urgent duty of Christians to be ever animated by like sentiments towards the Church. For the Church is the holy city of the living God, born of God himself, and by him built up and established. Therefore we are bound to love dearly the country once we have received the means of enjoyment this mortal life affords. But we have a much more urgent obligation to love with ardent love the Church to which we owe the life of the soul, a soul that will endure forever.”

That's Pope Leo XIII, Sapiensa Christiane. And then Pope Pius XI, in his Encyclical Caritate Christi Compulsi, he says, “To create this atmosphere of lasting peace, neither peace treaties, nor the most solemn pacts, nor international meetings or conferences, nor even the noblest and most disinterested efforts of any statesman will be enough, unless in the first place are recognized the sacred rights of natural and divine law.” Pius XI.

So in other words, if the natural law, which is the very bottom of morality, the very basis of morality, if that is violated, you cannot have lasting peace. And we just heard in the Epistle the basics of the natural law.

You shall not commit adultery. When a man is married to another woman, he cannot even think of another woman, nor a woman of another man in their marriage. They cannot even think of that, nor commit adultery, either in thought or actions.

It's against the natural law. It's also against the natural law to kill. Now, there's a legitimate self-defense. There's a legitimate self-defense of one's country. When it's being unjustly attacked, soldiers may rise up to defend their country. These are obvious duties of justice.

But outside of those extraordinary measures, we cannot kill. And abortion, as you know as well as I, I don't need to convince you, abortion is horrible murder. It is against the natural law.

And at any time, the moment there's conception, God infuses the soul. That's a living human being. And God showed this when St. John the Baptist danced in the womb of his mother, St. Elizabeth, when our Lord approached him in the womb of his mother, the Virgin Mary, the new tabernacle of the New Testament.

And St. John the Baptist, in his mother's womb, at about seven or eight months, was jumping with joy. So at any time, from conception to birth, after birth, until old age even, to kill anyone is murder and is against the natural law.

Listen to Pope Leo XIII on his encyclical, Immortale Dei, paragraph 46.

“In these are days as well to revive the examples of our forefathers. First and foremost, it is the duty of all Catholics, worthy of the name, and wishful to be known as most loving children of the Church, to reject without swerving whatever is inconsistent with so fair a title, to make use of popular institutions so far as can honestly be done for the advancement of truth and righteousness. To strive that liberty of action should not transgress the bounds marked out by nature and the law of God. To endeavor to bring back all civil society to the pattern and form of Christianity which we have described.”

So Pope Leo XIII had been describing in this encyclical the urgent necessity that the Church and State work together and that the State cannot be indifferent on religion. The State must profess the true religion.

Otherwise it will be a disaster for the country. So that is our goal as Catholics and not just as Catholics, it's just part of the natural law that we adore the true God and render to Him adoration and obedience and respect His law. And there's law that's His divine law that He revealed through His Holy Catholic Church the one true Church.

And then there is the human law of the civil law which is in accordance with reason, it's supposed to be anyway. Any laws that go against the laws of God are not laws at all. Such as euthanasia, abortion, sodomite parades and all that.

And then there's what's called the natural law and that's what's most attacked today. All the other laws of God are already out the window. The enemies of Christ are now attacking the very natural law.

And that's why we got this perversity, “oh I want to be a girl when I'm a boy, I'm a boy and I want to be a girl”, it's just sick, absolutely perverse. And all the body piercing and tattooing and all this just shows the revival of pagan practices because we've become pagans again. And when you look at history, what did all the pagans do? The Chaldeans, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Assyrians, the Carthaginians, there was always child sacrifice, always.

Always the murder of children because Satan is bloodthirsty he wants blood and he wants the blood especially of children because he hates their innocence; he hates the fact that they can go to heaven; he hates the fact that our Lord loves children so much. Suffer the little children to come to me for of such is the kingdom of heaven, these little ones, so let's consider the little ones that the church defends. Pope Leo XIII is saying: I continue, “It is barely possible to lay down any fixed method by which such purposes are to be attained because the means adopted must suit places and times widely differing from one another nevertheless, above all things unity of aim must be preserved and similarity must be sought after in all plans of action both these objects will be carried into effect without fail if all will follow the guidance of the apostolic see of tradition of course as the rule of life and obey the bishops of tradition of course whom the Holy Ghost has placed to rule the church of God the defense of Catholicism indeed necessarily demands that in the profession of doctrines taught by the church all shall be of one mind and all steadfast in believing and care must be taken never to connive which is to work with evil in any way at false opinions never to withstand them less strenuously than truth allows, in mere matters of opinion it is permissible to discuss things with moderation but the desire of searching into the truth without unjust suspicion are angry recriminations” and so forth

Pope Leo XIII also stresses that he always stresses over and over again the importance of the state to recognize the natural law, to not violate the natural law to not violate the moral law and again and again and again the most basic moral law is you don't kill your baby in the womb or out of the womb you don't kill them and you don't kill them when they're old age either this is just again as Saint Paul says “the law of God is written in our hearts” nobody needs to be told you don't kill your neighbor everyone knows this is wrong and every woman that aborts her baby she hears the screams of that baby the rest of her life. It will always haunt her although God in his mercy he will always forgive such a crime of a repentant sinner he always will.

But I think we're at the point now where we Catholics we have to make reparation very much reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary because we're on the verge of elections and either candidate either one of them is going to continue the slaughter of the innocents. It's frightening that we have come to this in our country, in any modern country that the only way to be elected is that you want more blood of children. It's frightening that we have come to such a state of degradation and all this blood cries to heaven for vengeance so what do we Catholics do? we must make reparation we must make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be prepared to do more and more because whoever gets in and that's decided, as we all know that's decided by the synagogue of Satan they decide who will run this country and we've already seen stolen elections not just in the United States, but in many other countries that's how the communists take over a country they steal elections they rig them, they lie, they cheat that's their method.

But we have come down to a time now where show me any candidate that's pro-life I mean this is just the basic natural law, where is any candidate running for presidency that's pro-life that will at least defend the most basic natural law the right to live as a human being which happens, you're a human being the moment the soul is infused into the mother by the miracle of this conception so in vitro fertilization involves at least for each child that's conceived in the test tube which is already against the natural law and condemned by the Catholic church and even, believe it or not, Pope Francis of all people condemned this because it's such a violent attack against the order that God established. But every IVF victim and child that survives there's always at least 40 to 50 and more abortions involved direct abortions the pill, which both candidates now fully endorse will go on with the bloodshed and the murder into millions and millions and millions.

As one politician told me, he said that with the pill now they're going to end up closing down the buildings to do abortions because the pills will do it early right through the mail and he made the point that these women who take these pills you're going to have some psychotic, crazy women more and more crazy women come down the road because they're going to see the little baby, which the pill has flushed out, they're going to see that little baby and that will always haunt them the rest of their life and into eternity. And if they're repentant, they're going to thank God for His mercy who is all loving and good and will forgive a repentant sinner there's no doubt about that and that goes for the doctors and nurses who are directly involved with abortions if they are sorry and repentant, God will forgive them.

Look at Abby Johnson she did over 20,000 abortions, poor thing but now she's doing everything to make reparations she's gone to confession, she's converted she's become Catholic, she's abandoned this, pray that she comes fully to Catholic tradition but at least she sees this horrendous crime and she's doing everything she can to stop it. Same with Dr. Bernard Nathanson he was the one that many years put out the film called, The Silent Scream, and now we know that the babies in the mother's womb when they're attacked by abortion and pulls off their legs and arms and rips them to shreds the babies are fighting for their life and some of them scream and now it's visible on the ultrasound. That's what converted Abby Johnson when she saw the horror of what she saw happening on the video of the ultrasound scan she was horrified and it changed her.

So again these are just questions of the natural law and we have fallen this low where the sins against the natural law have become the norm so we Catholics must make reparations because either candidate that is picked by the synagogue of Satan either one of them is going to continue the horrible massacre genocide so what do we do? We want to offer the Sacred Heart of Jesus in reparation, we want to pray the rosary every day in reparation and sometimes do extra prayers, extra penance in reparation. When you have the blessed sacrament, go and adore our Lord to make reparation and in this month of November. Go to the cemeteries, pray for the souls in Purgatory, because you can gain a plenary indulgence up until November 8th. You can gain a plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory by going to the cemetery and praying 6 Our Father, 6 Hail Mary, 6 Glory Be's for the souls in Purgatory and then add a 7th Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be for the Pope to gain the plenary indulgence. You can do that every day and families should go. In Mexico and in many good Catholic countries that used to be very Catholic this was the month many families just went to go pray the rosary at the cemeteries for the souls in Purgatory.

So that's something we can also do is make reparation because this country as Cardinal Pierre Poitier said once: “You don't want Christ the King and you reject his kingship you reject his laws over the government laws”, that now endorse even at the state level which is horrifying, abortion and all these horrible crimes and full rights for the sodomites and full rights for satanism and any false religion. This means the ruination and the collapse of any country, says Cardinal Pierre. If you will not have the blessings and the prosperity that comes with the social kingship of Jesus Christ you will have to endure the collapse the ruin, the devastation, the catastrophic disaster of rejecting him and that's where we're headed that's where we're headed there's a saying that if God doesn't punish us, the modern world, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorra. And our age has fallen worse now than the age of Sodom and Gomorrah. It's plunging fast so we must make reparation to the Heart of Jesus, live in the state of grace, keep the commandments.

And we know there are hundreds and hundreds of prophecies from the Blessed Virgin Mary to many, many saints and mystics who foretell a terrible chastisement on this world which will be one of the worst ever recorded in history, maybe even worse than the flood of Noah maybe even worse worse because one, it won't be by water it'll be by fire and at least by water, you know, when you start drowning you can make an act of contrition before you drown, but with fire, it'll be fast and many will die in mortal sin and that's a tragedy of tragedies. Sister Lucia saw the coming chastisement and she just shuddered in horror but she said that even the worst disaster, she said is that so many souls of children, of married people of boys, girls, men, women priests, bishops, popes go to hell, will go to hell many will be lost, she said and that's the worst disaster is the loss of so many souls.

So we Catholics, we have got to realize we live in Sodom and Gomorrah. It's on the verge of being punished and now we're at the point where there's no more pro-life candidates. There used to always be a pro-life candidate always and the bishops, even Novus Ordo ones and priests, even Novus Ordo ones used to preach you cannot vote pro-abortion you have to vote pro-life, always choose the one pro-life, always, that was always the Catholic position, even by Novus Ordos, and now, where are they? It's frightening that we have come to this, that to get anywhere in politics now, you have to be pro-abortion, which means continue the bloodshed continue the sacrifice of children like they did in the Old Testament giving full grown little babies to Moloch and burn them alive, give them to Satan to burn them alive. And they had to play the drums as Jeremiah shouts out at these people, God will destroy you for killing your young. These sins cry to heaven for vengeance, and then he used to preach to them in the valley of Jopheth. They would pound the drums to hide their conscience and to hide and cover the screams of the dying children which were done very frequently.

So by abortion we have passed it's 4,000 a day at least by abortion and when the pill comes more approved by state level the numbers will just skyrocket into the billions so there's a point when God says enough and we don't know when that is because God, His mercy far outweighs his justice. And we know that from the time he told Noah I'm going to destroy the earth, build the ark here's the instructions, here's the blueprint how many years was it from when he told Noah start building the ark to the actual flood it was 100 years, a whole century, so God is not in a rush to punish.

So while he does not punish us we must make reparation to Him and realize that we don't belong in this world, we should not pick up the spirit of this world and pick up it's fashions, pick up it's ways of thinking, pick up it's ways of speaking pick up it's whole worldly ways of living without prayer, without God, without self sacrifice without ordering our whole life to obedience to God's commandments. The best reparation we can do is to seek God with all our hearts love Him with all our hearts and love His commandments, keep His commandments and the modern world is trying to destroy what's left of God's commandments and make it seem normal to live in mortal sin and Pope Francis, he's added to this he's stacking souls in hell by the hundreds because he now permits giving communion to Catholics who've divorced their husband and wife and remarried and living in adultery and mortal sin and he has no problem giving them communion and approving their lifestyle, same with the rainbow lifestyle so he's just stacking more souls to hell this poor, poor unfortunate man poor unfortunate man so we Catholics, what do we do?

This is the age we must console the Heart of Jesus and Mary and make reparation that is what our lady asked “make reparation to my Immaculate Heart”, pull some thorns out, please and we do this by the daily rosary, keeping the commandments, sanctifying our life devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, doing our duties of state the best we can. We have to make reparation because maybe you're praying the rosary every day and carrying the cross every day when the chastisement does finally hit when it does hit, you might save many souls, you might win for them the grace of conversion and repentance before they die.

On a much happier note today we have the joy of first communion, little Marcella, she will make her first communion and she has a beautiful white dress on she has beautiful white gloves and a beautiful white veil God bless you, Marcella, but what our Lord really wants is your whiteness of soul the purity of our soul that's what He wants that we with all our heart want to love God and all of us with all our heart receive Him in communion asking a burning love of our Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ crucified Jesus Christ showing His heart surrounded by thorns and dripping with blood that's the devotion praised by the Virgin Mary, praised by so many saints praised by the angels who adore the Heart of Jesus the loving Heart of Jesus.

And that's why that vision of Sister Faustina and that painting of the so-called Divine Mercy image, it was condemned by the church and partly because there's no Sacred Heart, there's rays of light from Christ's chest but there's no Sacred Heart and the devil has an immense hatred for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the church had to defend the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus against the attacks of the Jansenists of the Synod of Pistoia and all the modern liberals who called it ‘excessive or too sentimental’. And it was Pius XII who wrote a great encyclical defending devotion to the Heart of Jesus.

But that image of the Christ without the Sacred Heart that cannot be pleasing to God at all and this was recently promoted as you'll read in The Recusant, Bishop Williamson has been promoting recently some apparition in Texas where they're all about the Divine Mercy and all about Novus Ordo Mass so why is he doing this? I have no explanation, but don't listen to it because it's nonsense and it's deceitful. He knows better, you can read about it in The Recusant. I don't know why he's doing this. Archbishop Lefebvre would never approve of that, that's for sure.

So I remind you little flock here in Pennsylvania and those following the Mass, we have come to the time where we have to expect a terrible chastisement, for sure it's foretold, it's going to happen but we must make reparation because we come to a new dimension of evil where any candidate that gets in is pro-abortion and this is unbelievable that we have come to this. That means we have reached a new depth of depravity which will provoke the anger of God and there's a time when God just says “Enough”, as He's done many times in the history of the world and punished a nation and people. And the Virgin Mary gave us a little glimpse of how serious the Chastisement will be, whatever form it takes: world war, a comet, I don't know but she says “whole nations will be annihilated”. Whole nations blown off the face of the earth.

So Marcella, when you receive our Lord today, ask Him a great love for Him and ask Him to love Him with all your heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and we must do the same. And ask always to be white, to be pure in your thoughts to be pure in what you see and permit yourself to see, ask yourself always “am I doing my actions alone or in public to please God?”, because our guardian angels always see us when we're alone or when we're in public it doesn't matter, our guardian angels always are with us. So it's always, St. John Bosco's advice was always, behave like you're in the presence of someone else, our guardian angel always, even in our thinking, in our words always so ask this purity of heart, this purity of soul. It is a grace in such an impure world that glories in its shame whose God is its belly and sins below the belly and glories in murdering children for the sake of convenience and pleasure and economic stability, but even that will be taken away

And in this month, in this month, Marcella, think of the souls in Purgatory you're receiving your First Communion in this month of November so maybe that's a little sign of God that you should have a great devotion to the souls in Purgatory, to pray for them also how many are in Purgatory and they can't help themselves but they can help us.

Let me just close with a few examples about Purgatory to inspire you all to pray for the souls in Purgatory this month and go frequently to the cemetery, especially these next eight days and then throughout November pray for the souls and don't forget them. This is taken from the book on Purgatory, a very good book and here's a few examples the angelic doctor St. Thomas Aquinas offered his prayers and sacrifices to God for his sister who had just died when he was professor of theology at the University of Paris. His sister who had just died in Capua at the convent of St. Mary of which she was the abbess, so his sister was a nun, as soon as he heard of her deceased he recommended her soul to God with great fervor. Some days later she appeared to St. Thomas asking him to have pity on her soul and to redouble his prayers because she suffered cruelly in the flames of Purgatory. St. Thomas hastened to offer for her all the satisfaction of his power and solicited also the suffrages of several of his friends so among his friends was St. Albert the Great, St. Bonaventure so he got the monks and the fellow Dominicans to pray and the nuns to pray and thus attained the deliverance of his sister who came herself to announce the happy news of her entering heaven.

Also sometime after this having been sent to Rome by his superiors the soul of this sister appeared to him in all the glory of triumphant joy she told St. Thomas Aquinas that his prayers had been heard that she was freed from suffering and was going to enjoy eternal rest in the bosom of God. Familiarized with these supernatural communications St. Thomas feared not to interrogate the apparition and asked what had become of his two brothers Arnold and Landolph who had died sometime previous. Arnold is in Heaven, replied his sister and there enjoys a high degree of glory for having defended the church and the sovereign Pontiff against the aggressions of the Emperor Frederick. As for Landolph he is still in Purgatory for he suffers much and is greatly in need of assistance. As regards yourself, my dear brother, she added, a magnificent place awaits you in paradise in recompense for all you have done for the Church. Hasten to put the last stroke of the different works which you have undertaken, for you will soon join us.

So St. Thomas at that time was working on the treatise of the Holy Eucharist. History tells us that in fact he lived but a short time after this event. On another occasion the same saint being in prayer at the church of St. Dominic at Naples, saw approaching him brother Romano who had succeeded him at Paris in the chair of theology teaching theology. St. Thomas Aquinas thought at first that he had just arrived from Paris for he was ignorant of his death. He therefore arose and went to meet him, saluted him and asked him about his health and the motive for his journey and brother Romano answered, I am no longer of this world, the religious said with a smile, and by the mercy of God I am already in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude. I come by the command of God to encourage you in your labors and then St. Thomas Aquinas asked immediately, Am I in the state of grace? He answered, Yes dear brother and your works are very agreeable to God. And you, had you to suffer any Purgatory, said St. Thomas. Yes, for 14 days on account of little infidelities which I had not sufficiently expiated on earth. Then St. Thomas whose mind was constantly occupied with questions of theology profited by the opportunity to penetrate the mystery of the beatific vision, but he was answered with this verse of psalm 47 “as we have learned by faith we have seen with our eyes in the city of our God”, saying these words the apparition of brother Romano vanished leaving St. Thomas Aquinas inflamed with the desire of eternal good.

And then so many other stories of saints seeing the souls in Purgatory burning, some of them in ice and encouraging others to pray for them and then many times the souls in Purgatory answer prayers, and they will protect those who pray for them on earth. They will visibly even intercede to protect them so there is one thing we must imbibe in this month of November, that spirit of the church which is to have pity and compassion on the souls in Purgatory.

“What you have done to the least of these”, our Lord says, “you have done to Me”. So remember always the souls in Purgatory and as the Holy Catholic Church enters into this, we are in a storm that has never been seen before and like the Apostles in the boat when Our Lord was sleeping, they came to Him and said, Lord wake up do something because we are drowning the boat is going to flip it is going to be the end of everything what does Our Lord do? He says very calmly, “Oh ye of little faith” and then Our Lord stands up and He commands the winds and the sea and they instantly obeyed His command, and the sailors who were in the ship who were used to reading the clouds, reading the ocean, reading the sea the waves, they never saw anything like this a sudden calm in the storm and this is what our Lord promises through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We are in the worst storm in the history of the Church ever but through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, He will bring the great calm, the great triumph of the Immaculate Heart and that is what we want, that is what we are praying for, that is the candidate we are going to elect for, The Immaculate Heart of Mary to reign over us because only she can help us at this point.

So let's turn to her in the Heart of Jesus with all our heart, all our strength, to come to our assistance, have pity on us, have pity on this nation, have pity on the western world, on the verge of one of the greatest chastisements, and let's console the heart of Jesus and Mary. Help them rescue as many souls as possible from the eternal flames of hell. “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy.” Amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.]]> Fr. Hewko: 24th Sunday after Pentecost

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☩PRAEDICATIO☩ from THE☩TRUMPET | November 5, 2024

Today is the Epistle and Gospel from the 4th Sunday after Epiphany. For today, the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. Here in Tannersville, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 13: “Brethren, owe no man anything but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment it is comprised in this word, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love, therefore, is the fulfilling of the law.”

The Holy Gospel, taken from St. Matthew, chapter 8: “At that time when Jesus entered into the ship, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the ship was covered with waves. But he was asleep, and they came to him and awaked him, saying, Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus saith to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds in the sea, and there came a great calm. But the men wondered, saying, What manner of man is this? For the winds in the sea obey him.”

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

Listen to the words of Pope Leo XIII: He says, “If the natural law enjoins upon us to love devotedly and to defend the country that gave us birth, very much more is it the urgent duty of Christians to be ever animated by like sentiments towards the Church. For the Church is the holy city of the living God, born of God himself, and by him built up and established. Therefore we are bound to love dearly the country once we have received the means of enjoyment this mortal life affords. But we have a much more urgent obligation to love with ardent love the Church to which we owe the life of the soul, a soul that will endure forever.”

That's Pope Leo XIII, Sapiensa Christiane. And then Pope Pius XI, in his Encyclical Caritate Christi Compulsi, he says, “To create this atmosphere of lasting peace, neither peace treaties, nor the most solemn pacts, nor international meetings or conferences, nor even the noblest and most disinterested efforts of any statesman will be enough, unless in the first place are recognized the sacred rights of natural and divine law.” Pius XI.

So in other words, if the natural law, which is the very bottom of morality, the very basis of morality, if that is violated, you cannot have lasting peace. And we just heard in the Epistle the basics of the natural law.

You shall not commit adultery. When a man is married to another woman, he cannot even think of another woman, nor a woman of another man in their marriage. They cannot even think of that, nor commit adultery, either in thought or actions.

It's against the natural law. It's also against the natural law to kill. Now, there's a legitimate self-defense. There's a legitimate self-defense of one's country. When it's being unjustly attacked, soldiers may rise up to defend their country. These are obvious duties of justice.

But outside of those extraordinary measures, we cannot kill. And abortion, as you know as well as I, I don't need to convince you, abortion is horrible murder. It is against the natural law.

And at any time, the moment there's conception, God infuses the soul. That's a living human being. And God showed this when St. John the Baptist danced in the womb of his mother, St. Elizabeth, when our Lord approached him in the womb of his mother, the Virgin Mary, the new tabernacle of the New Testament.

And St. John the Baptist, in his mother's womb, at about seven or eight months, was jumping with joy. So at any time, from conception to birth, after birth, until old age even, to kill anyone is murder and is against the natural law.

Listen to Pope Leo XIII on his encyclical, Immortale Dei, paragraph 46.

“In these are days as well to revive the examples of our forefathers. First and foremost, it is the duty of all Catholics, worthy of the name, and wishful to be known as most loving children of the Church, to reject without swerving whatever is inconsistent with so fair a title, to make use of popular institutions so far as can honestly be done for the advancement of truth and righteousness. To strive that liberty of action should not transgress the bounds marked out by nature and the law of God. To endeavor to bring back all civil society to the pattern and form of Christianity which we have described.”

So Pope Leo XIII had been describing in this encyclical the urgent necessity that the Church and State work together and that the State cannot be indifferent on religion. The State must profess the true religion.

Otherwise it will be a disaster for the country. So that is our goal as Catholics and not just as Catholics, it's just part of the natural law that we adore the true God and render to Him adoration and obedience and respect His law. And there's law that's His divine law that He revealed through His Holy Catholic Church the one true Church.

And then there is the human law of the civil law which is in accordance with reason, it's supposed to be anyway. Any laws that go against the laws of God are not laws at all. Such as euthanasia, abortion, sodomite parades and all that.

And then there's what's called the natural law and that's what's most attacked today. All the other laws of God are already out the window. The enemies of Christ are now attacking the very natural law.

And that's why we got this perversity, “oh I want to be a girl when I'm a boy, I'm a boy and I want to be a girl”, it's just sick, absolutely perverse. And all the body piercing and tattooing and all this just shows the revival of pagan practices because we've become pagans again. And when you look at history, what did all the pagans do? The Chaldeans, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Assyrians, the Carthaginians, there was always child sacrifice, always.

Always the murder of children because Satan is bloodthirsty he wants blood and he wants the blood especially of children because he hates their innocence; he hates the fact that they can go to heaven; he hates the fact that our Lord loves children so much. Suffer the little children to come to me for of such is the kingdom of heaven, these little ones, so let's consider the little ones that the church defends. Pope Leo XIII is saying: I continue, “It is barely possible to lay down any fixed method by which such purposes are to be attained because the means adopted must suit places and times widely differing from one another nevertheless, above all things unity of aim must be preserved and similarity must be sought after in all plans of action both these objects will be carried into effect without fail if all will follow the guidance of the apostolic see of tradition of course as the rule of life and obey the bishops of tradition of course whom the Holy Ghost has placed to rule the church of God the defense of Catholicism indeed necessarily demands that in the profession of doctrines taught by the church all shall be of one mind and all steadfast in believing and care must be taken never to connive which is to work with evil in any way at false opinions never to withstand them less strenuously than truth allows, in mere matters of opinion it is permissible to discuss things with moderation but the desire of searching into the truth without unjust suspicion are angry recriminations” and so forth

Pope Leo XIII also stresses that he always stresses over and over again the importance of the state to recognize the natural law, to not violate the natural law to not violate the moral law and again and again and again the most basic moral law is you don't kill your baby in the womb or out of the womb you don't kill them and you don't kill them when they're old age either this is just again as Saint Paul says “the law of God is written in our hearts” nobody needs to be told you don't kill your neighbor everyone knows this is wrong and every woman that aborts her baby she hears the screams of that baby the rest of her life. It will always haunt her although God in his mercy he will always forgive such a crime of a repentant sinner he always will.

But I think we're at the point now where we Catholics we have to make reparation very much reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary because we're on the verge of elections and either candidate either one of them is going to continue the slaughter of the innocents. It's frightening that we have come to this in our country, in any modern country that the only way to be elected is that you want more blood of children. It's frightening that we have come to such a state of degradation and all this blood cries to heaven for vengeance so what do we Catholics do? we must make reparation we must make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and be prepared to do more and more because whoever gets in and that's decided, as we all know that's decided by the synagogue of Satan they decide who will run this country and we've already seen stolen elections not just in the United States, but in many other countries that's how the communists take over a country they steal elections they rig them, they lie, they cheat that's their method.

But we have come down to a time now where show me any candidate that's pro-life I mean this is just the basic natural law, where is any candidate running for presidency that's pro-life that will at least defend the most basic natural law the right to live as a human being which happens, you're a human being the moment the soul is infused into the mother by the miracle of this conception so in vitro fertilization involves at least for each child that's conceived in the test tube which is already against the natural law and condemned by the Catholic church and even, believe it or not, Pope Francis of all people condemned this because it's such a violent attack against the order that God established. But every IVF victim and child that survives there's always at least 40 to 50 and more abortions involved direct abortions the pill, which both candidates now fully endorse will go on with the bloodshed and the murder into millions and millions and millions.

As one politician told me, he said that with the pill now they're going to end up closing down the buildings to do abortions because the pills will do it early right through the mail and he made the point that these women who take these pills you're going to have some psychotic, crazy women more and more crazy women come down the road because they're going to see the little baby, which the pill has flushed out, they're going to see that little baby and that will always haunt them the rest of their life and into eternity. And if they're repentant, they're going to thank God for His mercy who is all loving and good and will forgive a repentant sinner there's no doubt about that and that goes for the doctors and nurses who are directly involved with abortions if they are sorry and repentant, God will forgive them.

Look at Abby Johnson she did over 20,000 abortions, poor thing but now she's doing everything to make reparations she's gone to confession, she's converted she's become Catholic, she's abandoned this, pray that she comes fully to Catholic tradition but at least she sees this horrendous crime and she's doing everything she can to stop it. Same with Dr. Bernard Nathanson he was the one that many years put out the film called, The Silent Scream, and now we know that the babies in the mother's womb when they're attacked by abortion and pulls off their legs and arms and rips them to shreds the babies are fighting for their life and some of them scream and now it's visible on the ultrasound. That's what converted Abby Johnson when she saw the horror of what she saw happening on the video of the ultrasound scan she was horrified and it changed her.

So again these are just questions of the natural law and we have fallen this low where the sins against the natural law have become the norm so we Catholics must make reparations because either candidate that is picked by the synagogue of Satan either one of them is going to continue the horrible massacre genocide so what do we do? We want to offer the Sacred Heart of Jesus in reparation, we want to pray the rosary every day in reparation and sometimes do extra prayers, extra penance in reparation. When you have the blessed sacrament, go and adore our Lord to make reparation and in this month of November. Go to the cemeteries, pray for the souls in Purgatory, because you can gain a plenary indulgence up until November 8th. You can gain a plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory by going to the cemetery and praying 6 Our Father, 6 Hail Mary, 6 Glory Be's for the souls in Purgatory and then add a 7th Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be for the Pope to gain the plenary indulgence. You can do that every day and families should go. In Mexico and in many good Catholic countries that used to be very Catholic this was the month many families just went to go pray the rosary at the cemeteries for the souls in Purgatory.

So that's something we can also do is make reparation because this country as Cardinal Pierre Poitier said once: “You don't want Christ the King and you reject his kingship you reject his laws over the government laws”, that now endorse even at the state level which is horrifying, abortion and all these horrible crimes and full rights for the sodomites and full rights for satanism and any false religion. This means the ruination and the collapse of any country, says Cardinal Pierre. If you will not have the blessings and the prosperity that comes with the social kingship of Jesus Christ you will have to endure the collapse the ruin, the devastation, the catastrophic disaster of rejecting him and that's where we're headed that's where we're headed there's a saying that if God doesn't punish us, the modern world, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorra. And our age has fallen worse now than the age of Sodom and Gomorrah. It's plunging fast so we must make reparation to the Heart of Jesus, live in the state of grace, keep the commandments.

And we know there are hundreds and hundreds of prophecies from the Blessed Virgin Mary to many, many saints and mystics who foretell a terrible chastisement on this world which will be one of the worst ever recorded in history, maybe even worse than the flood of Noah maybe even worse worse because one, it won't be by water it'll be by fire and at least by water, you know, when you start drowning you can make an act of contrition before you drown, but with fire, it'll be fast and many will die in mortal sin and that's a tragedy of tragedies. Sister Lucia saw the coming chastisement and she just shuddered in horror but she said that even the worst disaster, she said is that so many souls of children, of married people of boys, girls, men, women priests, bishops, popes go to hell, will go to hell many will be lost, she said and that's the worst disaster is the loss of so many souls.

So we Catholics, we have got to realize we live in Sodom and Gomorrah. It's on the verge of being punished and now we're at the point where there's no more pro-life candidates. There used to always be a pro-life candidate always and the bishops, even Novus Ordo ones and priests, even Novus Ordo ones used to preach you cannot vote pro-abortion you have to vote pro-life, always choose the one pro-life, always, that was always the Catholic position, even by Novus Ordos, and now, where are they? It's frightening that we have come to this, that to get anywhere in politics now, you have to be pro-abortion, which means continue the bloodshed continue the sacrifice of children like they did in the Old Testament giving full grown little babies to Moloch and burn them alive, give them to Satan to burn them alive. And they had to play the drums as Jeremiah shouts out at these people, God will destroy you for killing your young. These sins cry to heaven for vengeance, and then he used to preach to them in the valley of Jopheth. They would pound the drums to hide their conscience and to hide and cover the screams of the dying children which were done very frequently.

So by abortion we have passed it's 4,000 a day at least by abortion and when the pill comes more approved by state level the numbers will just skyrocket into the billions so there's a point when God says enough and we don't know when that is because God, His mercy far outweighs his justice. And we know that from the time he told Noah I'm going to destroy the earth, build the ark here's the instructions, here's the blueprint how many years was it from when he told Noah start building the ark to the actual flood it was 100 years, a whole century, so God is not in a rush to punish.

So while he does not punish us we must make reparation to Him and realize that we don't belong in this world, we should not pick up the spirit of this world and pick up it's fashions, pick up it's ways of thinking, pick up it's ways of speaking pick up it's whole worldly ways of living without prayer, without God, without self sacrifice without ordering our whole life to obedience to God's commandments. The best reparation we can do is to seek God with all our hearts love Him with all our hearts and love His commandments, keep His commandments and the modern world is trying to destroy what's left of God's commandments and make it seem normal to live in mortal sin and Pope Francis, he's added to this he's stacking souls in hell by the hundreds because he now permits giving communion to Catholics who've divorced their husband and wife and remarried and living in adultery and mortal sin and he has no problem giving them communion and approving their lifestyle, same with the rainbow lifestyle so he's just stacking more souls to hell this poor, poor unfortunate man poor unfortunate man so we Catholics, what do we do?

This is the age we must console the Heart of Jesus and Mary and make reparation that is what our lady asked “make reparation to my Immaculate Heart”, pull some thorns out, please and we do this by the daily rosary, keeping the commandments, sanctifying our life devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, doing our duties of state the best we can. We have to make reparation because maybe you're praying the rosary every day and carrying the cross every day when the chastisement does finally hit when it does hit, you might save many souls, you might win for them the grace of conversion and repentance before they die.

On a much happier note today we have the joy of first communion, little Marcella, she will make her first communion and she has a beautiful white dress on she has beautiful white gloves and a beautiful white veil God bless you, Marcella, but what our Lord really wants is your whiteness of soul the purity of our soul that's what He wants that we with all our heart want to love God and all of us with all our heart receive Him in communion asking a burning love of our Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ crucified Jesus Christ showing His heart surrounded by thorns and dripping with blood that's the devotion praised by the Virgin Mary, praised by so many saints praised by the angels who adore the Heart of Jesus the loving Heart of Jesus.

And that's why that vision of Sister Faustina and that painting of the so-called Divine Mercy image, it was condemned by the church and partly because there's no Sacred Heart, there's rays of light from Christ's chest but there's no Sacred Heart and the devil has an immense hatred for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the church had to defend the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus against the attacks of the Jansenists of the Synod of Pistoia and all the modern liberals who called it ‘excessive or too sentimental’. And it was Pius XII who wrote a great encyclical defending devotion to the Heart of Jesus.

But that image of the Christ without the Sacred Heart that cannot be pleasing to God at all and this was recently promoted as you'll read in The Recusant, Bishop Williamson has been promoting recently some apparition in Texas where they're all about the Divine Mercy and all about Novus Ordo Mass so why is he doing this? I have no explanation, but don't listen to it because it's nonsense and it's deceitful. He knows better, you can read about it in The Recusant. I don't know why he's doing this. Archbishop Lefebvre would never approve of that, that's for sure.

So I remind you little flock here in Pennsylvania and those following the Mass, we have come to the time where we have to expect a terrible chastisement, for sure it's foretold, it's going to happen but we must make reparation because we come to a new dimension of evil where any candidate that gets in is pro-abortion and this is unbelievable that we have come to this. That means we have reached a new depth of depravity which will provoke the anger of God and there's a time when God just says “Enough”, as He's done many times in the history of the world and punished a nation and people. And the Virgin Mary gave us a little glimpse of how serious the Chastisement will be, whatever form it takes: world war, a comet, I don't know but she says “whole nations will be annihilated”. Whole nations blown off the face of the earth.

So Marcella, when you receive our Lord today, ask Him a great love for Him and ask Him to love Him with all your heart and your whole soul and your whole mind, and we must do the same. And ask always to be white, to be pure in your thoughts to be pure in what you see and permit yourself to see, ask yourself always “am I doing my actions alone or in public to please God?”, because our guardian angels always see us when we're alone or when we're in public it doesn't matter, our guardian angels always are with us. So it's always, St. John Bosco's advice was always, behave like you're in the presence of someone else, our guardian angel always, even in our thinking, in our words always so ask this purity of heart, this purity of soul. It is a grace in such an impure world that glories in its shame whose God is its belly and sins below the belly and glories in murdering children for the sake of convenience and pleasure and economic stability, but even that will be taken away

And in this month, in this month, Marcella, think of the souls in Purgatory you're receiving your First Communion in this month of November so maybe that's a little sign of God that you should have a great devotion to the souls in Purgatory, to pray for them also how many are in Purgatory and they can't help themselves but they can help us.

Let me just close with a few examples about Purgatory to inspire you all to pray for the souls in Purgatory this month and go frequently to the cemetery, especially these next eight days and then throughout November pray for the souls and don't forget them. This is taken from the book on Purgatory, a very good book and here's a few examples the angelic doctor St. Thomas Aquinas offered his prayers and sacrifices to God for his sister who had just died when he was professor of theology at the University of Paris. His sister who had just died in Capua at the convent of St. Mary of which she was the abbess, so his sister was a nun, as soon as he heard of her deceased he recommended her soul to God with great fervor. Some days later she appeared to St. Thomas asking him to have pity on her soul and to redouble his prayers because she suffered cruelly in the flames of Purgatory. St. Thomas hastened to offer for her all the satisfaction of his power and solicited also the suffrages of several of his friends so among his friends was St. Albert the Great, St. Bonaventure so he got the monks and the fellow Dominicans to pray and the nuns to pray and thus attained the deliverance of his sister who came herself to announce the happy news of her entering heaven.

Also sometime after this having been sent to Rome by his superiors the soul of this sister appeared to him in all the glory of triumphant joy she told St. Thomas Aquinas that his prayers had been heard that she was freed from suffering and was going to enjoy eternal rest in the bosom of God. Familiarized with these supernatural communications St. Thomas feared not to interrogate the apparition and asked what had become of his two brothers Arnold and Landolph who had died sometime previous. Arnold is in Heaven, replied his sister and there enjoys a high degree of glory for having defended the church and the sovereign Pontiff against the aggressions of the Emperor Frederick. As for Landolph he is still in Purgatory for he suffers much and is greatly in need of assistance. As regards yourself, my dear brother, she added, a magnificent place awaits you in paradise in recompense for all you have done for the Church. Hasten to put the last stroke of the different works which you have undertaken, for you will soon join us.

So St. Thomas at that time was working on the treatise of the Holy Eucharist. History tells us that in fact he lived but a short time after this event. On another occasion the same saint being in prayer at the church of St. Dominic at Naples, saw approaching him brother Romano who had succeeded him at Paris in the chair of theology teaching theology. St. Thomas Aquinas thought at first that he had just arrived from Paris for he was ignorant of his death. He therefore arose and went to meet him, saluted him and asked him about his health and the motive for his journey and brother Romano answered, I am no longer of this world, the religious said with a smile, and by the mercy of God I am already in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude. I come by the command of God to encourage you in your labors and then St. Thomas Aquinas asked immediately, Am I in the state of grace? He answered, Yes dear brother and your works are very agreeable to God. And you, had you to suffer any Purgatory, said St. Thomas. Yes, for 14 days on account of little infidelities which I had not sufficiently expiated on earth. Then St. Thomas whose mind was constantly occupied with questions of theology profited by the opportunity to penetrate the mystery of the beatific vision, but he was answered with this verse of psalm 47 “as we have learned by faith we have seen with our eyes in the city of our God”, saying these words the apparition of brother Romano vanished leaving St. Thomas Aquinas inflamed with the desire of eternal good.

And then so many other stories of saints seeing the souls in Purgatory burning, some of them in ice and encouraging others to pray for them and then many times the souls in Purgatory answer prayers, and they will protect those who pray for them on earth. They will visibly even intercede to protect them so there is one thing we must imbibe in this month of November, that spirit of the church which is to have pity and compassion on the souls in Purgatory.

“What you have done to the least of these”, our Lord says, “you have done to Me”. So remember always the souls in Purgatory and as the Holy Catholic Church enters into this, we are in a storm that has never been seen before and like the Apostles in the boat when Our Lord was sleeping, they came to Him and said, Lord wake up do something because we are drowning the boat is going to flip it is going to be the end of everything what does Our Lord do? He says very calmly, “Oh ye of little faith” and then Our Lord stands up and He commands the winds and the sea and they instantly obeyed His command, and the sailors who were in the ship who were used to reading the clouds, reading the ocean, reading the sea the waves, they never saw anything like this a sudden calm in the storm and this is what our Lord promises through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We are in the worst storm in the history of the Church ever but through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, He will bring the great calm, the great triumph of the Immaculate Heart and that is what we want, that is what we are praying for, that is the candidate we are going to elect for, The Immaculate Heart of Mary to reign over us because only she can help us at this point.

So let's turn to her in the Heart of Jesus with all our heart, all our strength, to come to our assistance, have pity on us, have pity on this nation, have pity on the western world, on the verge of one of the greatest chastisements, and let's console the heart of Jesus and Mary. Help them rescue as many souls as possible from the eternal flames of hell. “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy.” Amen.
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☩ PRAEDICATIO ☩ by THE ☩ TRUMPET [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | October 28, 2024

Today, the message is unmistakable: Catholics face an uncompromising choice between fidelity to Christ the King or complicity with a world descending into godlessness. Modern governments wage war on faith and life itself, mocking Christ’s rightful kingship and promoting laws that enshrine the killing of the innocent. As Catholics, we stand in a political landscape where both Trump and Harris champion abortion in one form or another—whether pushing for unrestricted access to abortion pills or expanding it through legislative loopholes. There is no choice here for a faithful Catholic, no "lesser evil" to cling to. Voting for either is, in effect, voting for the continued slaughter of innocents.

Rooted in Catholic tradition and the undeniable truth of the Gospel, this sermon pulls no punches: Catholics cannot sell their souls in the voting booth. In the words of Pope Pius XI, Christ reigns not only in hearts but in laws, institutions, and societies. We must heed this call for Catholic integrity, rejecting political systems that defy God’s law. Now more than ever, we need the reign of Christ and the Immaculate Heart of Mary—our only path to true peace and salvation in a culture bent on self-destruction. Stand with Christ the King, or face the inevitable judgment of those who choose to stand against Him.

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KINGSHIP OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, "KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS"
BY: FR. HEWKO
[Transcription of Fr. Hewko's sermon for the Feast of Christ the King - October 27, 2024]

Today is the feast of our Lord Jesus Christ the King.

The Epistle is taken from Saint Paul's letter to the Colossians chapter 1.

Brethren, we give thanks to God the Father, who has made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, for in Him were all things created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and in Him, and He is before all, and by Him all things consist, and He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may hold the primacy, because in Him it has well pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell, and through Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things that are on earth and the things that are in heaven, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Holy Gospel From Saint John chapter 18.

At that time Pilate said to Jesus, Are thou the king of the Jews? Jesus answered, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from hence. Pilate therefore said to him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest it, I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth. Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

You'll find at the entrance The Recusant copies available for Autumn Issue Number 62. There's some very good articles, especially the conference of Archbishop Lefebvre against the liberalism, and he speaks of the reign of Christ the King. It's so very fitting for this feast.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, the Holy Ghost. Amen. We adore Jesus Christ the King.

He is King, why? Because of the Hypostatic Union. We learned that in the Catechism. What is the Hypostatic Union? [It] is the Divine Person of the Son, assuming, taking up to Himself the human nature, that God became flesh for us, so that we could say the person of Jesus Christ is not the person of, it's not a human person, he's the person of God.

We are all human persons. You all have a personality, and the essence of a person which makes up who you are, but it's all the human nature. But our Lord Jesus Christ, His Person is not human.

It is the Divine person. His nature is human, but his Person is one with the Father and the Holy Ghost from all eternity. And that's why Saint John the Baptist will say of Christ, 'His coming forth is from the days of eternity.'

And Daniel the prophet will say 'His days are from before time, before eternity.' And in this Mass, all throughout this Mass of Christ the King, you have these constant references to the Eternal Kingship of Jesus Christ. Look at the intro to Apocalypse 5. 'The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honor.

To him be glory and empire forever and ever. Now remember, the Muslims deny that God can die, and God in his divinity cannot die. But they reject that Christ is God.'

But this refutes the Muslim errors that Christ truly was the Lamb, and he truly died. And in the book of Apocalypse also, our Lord says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, who was dead, but now liveth." So Christ did die.

And that's the only way God could die for us, was to take on human flesh. It was truly an invention of love, an invention of the solution to the worst of all problems, which was how to restore the human race that had fallen from the Fall of Adam and Eve. And the sin of Adam shut the gates of heaven.

So how is it possible, since it takes blood to wash away sins, how would heaven ever be open again? And the answer was within the Holy Trinity. And it says this in the Psalms, "And the Son said to the Father, The Lord said to my Lord, I am this day I have begotten thee. You are my Son.'

And the Son says to the Father, 'Holocausts and oblations You didn't want,' the sacrifice of the Old Testament, animals, bulls being slaughtered, the sprinkling of the blood of the lambs, the lambs being roasted, 'sacrifice and oblation You didn't want.' And then I said, 'Then said I,' says God the Son, 'I will come, Ecce Venio, behold, I will come.' I will take on the human nature.

And this will solve all the problems. Because if I take on the human nature, then the blood can be spilled and man can be redeemed. And our Lord could easily have miraculously taken on a human flesh, miraculously arranged His death and work the Redemption.

He could have done that without any cooperation of anybody else. But notice our Lord loves to recruit helpers, co-redeemers in His work. He could hear your confessions today. Just come down from heaven and sit in the confessional. [He] will absolve your sins. He could come down from heaven and offer the Mass.

He could easily do it. And He did it, actually, in the convent of St. Gertrude many years ago when they had no Mass and no priest. And then Christ himself came and said Mass. So He could do that. And He could do it all over the world, by bilocation. No problem for Him.

But He has chosen to recruit priests, poor, weak clay to be consecrated, excuse me, to be ordained and bishops consecrated to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass, which is the same Sacrifice of Calvary. And so Our Lord, to work the Redemption, He was honored to have a Co-redemptrix, a Mediatrix, which would be the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary. So as St. Louis de Montfort said, 'God came to us through Mary.' He wants us to come to Him through Mary, through Her immaculate heart. That is God's desire, to bring the true peace in the world. But the modern world doesn't want the peace of God.

Ever since the French Revolution, especially, was the beginning of the war of the Freemasonic Lodges and the conspiracies of Satan to wage war against Jesus Christ, the King. How do we get rid of Christ the King? We have to attack His name, remove Him from the governments, therefore secular governments. And that's why the Freemasons, as Pope after Pope after Pope, Pius VI, Pius VII, Pope Leo XIII, Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI even, who had the solution in his hands [condemned Freemasonry]. Pius XI was given the solution by the Virgin Mary to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. He had more interest in solving things through the League of Nations. Unfortunately, Pope Pius XI, he had already had high hopes for the League of Nations, which we call now the United Nations, and which Pope Paul VI would say to the United Nations in his address to them, 'You are the last hope of mankind.' Imagine that, a Pope saying that to a whole bunch of scoundrels and degenerates and enemies of Jesus Christ. 'You are the last hope of mankind.' Very, very sad.

So, Pope after Pope has reminded the whole world and especially leaders of countries and the leader prelates of the church, preach the kingship of Jesus Christ, proclaim his kingship. Listen to Pope Pius XI speaking of this. Christ as our Redeemer, this is from Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI on the Kingship of Christ.

Christ as Our Redeemer purchased the Church at the price of His own blood. As priest, He offered Himself and continues to offer Himself as a victim for our sins. Is it not evident then that His kingly dignity partakes in a manner of both these offices? It would be a grave error, on the other hand, to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to him by the Father, all things are in His power.

And this is what St. Paul just said in this epistle, a very beautiful adoration and glory given to Jesus Christ, 'Through him all things are made, by him all things are made, in him all things consist.' Everything was made by Jesus Christ to the tiniest cell, to the biggest mountain. All the galaxies were in the mind of Jesus Christ and He created them with the Father and the Holy Ghost at the beginning, the Six Days of Creation, not 60 million years, six days of creation. And then Our Divine Lord, 'He is King,' says St. Paul, 'over again of all things visible and invisible.' And then he goes [thru] the hierarchies of Angels, whether of Thrones or Dominations or Principalities or Powers.

All things were created by Him and in Him. So as St. Augustine would say, 'All creation is a wonderful garden created for the glory of Jesus Christ the King. All is for His glory and all will give Him glory.'

We often wonder, well, how can this be since so many men hate Christ and so many men attack him and so many governments dethrone him? And it looks like the enemies of the Church are strangling our Catholic Church. And all governments today have become the last bastion, for example, to defend pro-life, to defend children and to stand against abortion. The last in the modern world was the United States.

It used to be you had a choice between all these rotten candidates who were for abortion, but there was used to always be at least one who was pro-life. And then all the priests and even the Novus Ordo bishops said, 'Don't vote for that one, vote for [the pro-life candidate] because he's pro-life.' And even Protestants say, 'Don't vote for that one, vote for him because he's pro-life.' But now we've come, we have become so degenerate that we have fallen. America has fallen. America has fallen hard and it's been overtaken and it's now in the hands of the enemies of Jesus Christ.

And now there is no option. It's just pro-abortion or pro-abortion. [As] there were centuries before Christ came, where they sacrificed children. That was normal policy in pagan countries. Even the Aztecs, this was what shocked the Spaniards when they arrived in Mexico, there was human sacrifice everywhere.

It was a continuation of that pre-Christian era, the Old Testament sacrifices, the Amorites who killed their children, the Canaanites, the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians. And sometimes the Jews would jump in there and adopt the practices of the pagans and start marrying their girls who were pagan. And their girls would lead them into the pagan religions.

And so they would sacrifice their babies. Jeremiah the Prophet thunders against this and he speaks of the valley of Tophet. In the valley of Tophet, Tophet in Hebrew means the Valley of the Drums because the pagans would pound the drums with pounding rock music as they sacrificed the babies and threw them into the fire to [honor] Baal or Moloch.

And the little babies, of course, fighting for their life, they'd be screaming. So to drown out the screams of the babies and drown out their wicked consciences, they would pound the drums. And the same thing's going on today.

How many going to drive into the Planned Parenthood are driving pounding rock music as they drive into the parking lot to drown their conscience from what they're about to do? And the young lady goes in with her boyfriend and sometimes even their own father. Imagine that. Walk into Planned Parenthood and they get all set up for the procedure, as they nicely call it. And notice, of course, the room is there's no germs. They make sure it's all antiseptic and there's no bugs that they can catch. Everything is clean to work the most disgusting and foul murder abortion.

And this practice of infanticide and child killing always shows up when a society becomes pagan. Marks of paganism is body piercing, tattoos all over the place. These are all signs of paganism and degeneracy.

And then, of course, all the sins that come with it, as St. Paul lists, 'disobedience to parents, rebellion, pride, lack of respect for the elder people.' All this is going. And we are back to killing our own babies.

And if you can kill your own baby, you can kill anybody. Nobody respects anything. And that's where we're at. We Americans. And we're in this position where, who do you vote for? Who do you vote for?

Listen to what happened in 1902. In 1902, there was a huge volcano that erupted on the island of Martinique, the French Caribbean island of Martinique [and its major city, St. Pierre]. [St. Pierre, which was a bustling port city and a significant commercial hub in the Caribbean. The city was known as “the Paris of the Antilles” due to its fine architecture, paved streets, and electricity.]

In 1902, it was it's still claimed to be the worst volcanic eruption, even more severe than Mount St. Helens, in 1902 [on Mount Pelée]. What was going on? There was a governor there, Governor Louis Mouttet, was his name. And they were having elections.

And the Freemasons were putting out all of the newspapers all about the elections coming up. And there were rumblings coming from the mountain. Mount Pelée was the name of the mountain, Mount Pelée.

There were strange signs. There were some earthquakes. And then the town below, St. Pierre, many snakes, poisonous snakes started coming down from the mountain because they knew something was coming. And centipedes, big, huge centipedes, a foot long started invading people's homes and backyards. Ants everywhere, termites, even the horses were rearing up and acting strange and agitated.

But the candidates for the election were telling everybody there's nothing to worry about.

And then more earthquakes started to rumble on Mount Pelée. The governor, Louis Mouttet, ordered voters who started to flee the city and planning to leave and fill the boats and get out get off the island. Even the Catholic priests started warning the people, there's a sign from God, He's angry with the city.

Because the Freemasons in this city [of St. Pierre], they didn't hold back of their mockeries and blasphemies against Jesus Christ. So this governor, he even ordered people back to town by force of law and threat of imprisonment, because he wanted the elections to go through. Even the U.S. consul Thomas Prentiss, wrote to Theodore Roosevelt, President at the time, saying the refusal of elections seems to be something unthinkable.

It's a nightmarish situation when it seems that no one can or does not want to face the truth. So they wanted the elections at any cost. But God didn't want them.

And then the day before May 8th, May 7th, on St. Vincent Island, which was not too far, 100 miles or so from Martinique, a volcano exploded on May 7th. But the scientists and the Freemasons and the newspapers were telling everybody that this was the earth releasing its pressure, so we're going to be safe here on the island of Martinique, so the elections can take place. This governor, Louis Mouttet, received a report from civil leaders who [had] climbed the volcano to assess the danger. Their conclusion was there is nothing in the activity of Mount Pelée that warrants a departure from Saint-Pierre City. The safety of Saint-Pierre is completely assured, so they thought. And [then] this happened.

Now, this May 8th of 1902, was the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. On the Feast of Corpus Christi, just a year before, this happened a year before this [volcanic] event, the Bishop of Saint-Pierre, Monsignor Marie-Charles-Alfred de Cormont, had been forced to curtail the procession of the Blessed Sacrament because of the stones and insults hurled at him during the procession. The anti-Catholic persecution took on such proportions that the Bishop had to flee the island of Martinique for some months in order to let the situation calm down.

At his departure on the boat in the harbor, a group of enemies of the cross were still throwing projectiles at him, to which Bishop de Cormont's only response was, 'you throw stones at us, the volcano will return them.' [His words] proved prophetic. This was written and recorded by the eyewitness, Father Pinot.

During the 1902 Carnival, which starts with Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, right before Lent, the festivities took on a sacrilegious character. Many participants dressed up as monks and made a mockery of Christianity. Marenz, in his book titled Funeral Pilgrimage to the Ruins of Saint-Pierre, he recounts, quote:

Quote:An excessively violent and ungodly crowd strives to dechristianize this unhappy city. Narrow-minded and intolerant, those who have assumed the mission of directing public opinion do not cease in regard to everything and anything to spread blasphemy and cast contempt on all that is most respectable and sacred. On March 28, 1902, which was Good Friday, as an inhabitant of the island testified to one of the most famous newspapers in Paris, said this, a group of men had noisily for one of the city's main hotels, they gathered at one of the hotels, where a feast is being prepared. They are the representatives of the of the free thinking, free thought, who to prove their independence of spirit have decided to stuff themselves with the richest meats they can conjure up in opposition to the church's precepts of fasting and abstinence.

Drunk, these diabolical men began to roam the streets of the small capital, uttering obscenities and mocking a crucifix of our Lord. And it is also recorded elsewhere that they crucified a pig on this day as well, Good Friday, out of mockery of Christ, they crucified a pig. They set out on the road that leads to the mountain.

Fourteen times amidst infamous blasphemies, the mob pauses to mock the stations of the cross and the scenes of the passion. They continue their ascent, ever more agitated, inventing new improprieties at each step. At last they reach the peak of Mount Pelée.

They stop before the gaping mouth of the crater of the volcano. And there, in the midst of an infernal Sarabande, this hellish dance, jeering and gesticulating, waving their arms, they hurled the crucifix to the bottom of the abyss. That sacred image of Our Lord who died 19 centuries ago to redeem their ungrateful souls.

On the island of Martinique, they had three Masonic Lodges. It had sixteen refineries for rum, so it was a very luxurious city, very comfortable, very abundant with all good material things. And many Americans used to go down there and visit as well and spend vacations.

The Monday of the Carnival, during the Lent, was 'devoted to devils and witches, all dressed in red, followed by a horde of children and adults dancing and making frightful guttural noises, says another eyewitness.' Sounds like those Superbowl halftime shows now, doesn't it?

And then what happened? Mud began to flow down the valleys. People decided to flee, but the governor said, 'Don't worry, we have elections coming up. I've already sent a crew up there to test it all. Everything is fine. This happens every few billion years because of evolution and you're going to be safe.'

Well, here's what happened. There, within 70 seconds, the volcano erupted with violence and a pyroclastic flow came down, which is just a wall, like an avalanche of lava and hot coals and smoke and ash came down like a huge avalanche of snow and destroyed the city within 70 seconds. It came down at 100 miles an hour, this hot cloud of gas and incandescent solid particles like glowing clouds.

There was a statue of Our Lady weighing five tons, which was five kilometers, that's about just over three miles away from the crater, it was found some 12 meters away from the pedestal, 72 feet it was moved, this five-ton statue of Our Lady.

There was a bell in the city weighing one ton, which was considerably deformed by all the heat afterwards.

There were 400 boats in the radius of the mountain, only one survived.

Of the 100,000 people who inhabited the city, about 40,000 died from burning, asphyxiation and electrocution. And then, after this terrible disaster, only three survived.

One was a prisoner who was in the prison. The prisoner was so well insulated and he just said it just suddenly got really hot and hard to breathe. He didn't know what happened, he felt the earthquake and later rescue teams came and found him alive.

His name was Louis-Auguste_Cyparis, a big tall black man and he was in prison because he killed someone with a sword, a [cutlass]. Afterwards he joined Barnum and Bailey's circus and toured the world, boasting to be the lone survivor of Martinique Island [volcano]. The other survivor was a shoemaker, Léon Compère-Léandre. Léon, and the other one was a little girl, a little girl about five or six years old. Her name was Havivra Da Ifrile - and she was on a little boat and she was in a position where she was not harmed.

So, this whole island was just destroyed under two minutes, just like that. So, so much for their elections, so much for their blasphemies, so much for the insulting God - God is not mocked. God is not mocked and if this is just a little appetizer of what's coming on our world, it won't be pretty.

Sister Lucia of Fatima, she describes the one of the chastisements and she just, she says she sees like a lance pointed down on the earth and a whole raining of fire, whole cities buried under mountains, she says, in one of her visions. So, where have we come to? When blaspheming Christ in the Super Bowl has become the norm, the Olympics was begun with the whole ceremony mocking the Last Supper, mocking the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that was in Paris. The prophecies say Paris will burn and, you know, when we consider our elections this year, there is no pro-life.

So, here we are back to pre-pagan days when sacrificing children has become the norm. When abortion now totally backed by both candidates, President Trump totally backs, now sad to say, the pill, the abortion pill, which makes up 63% of abortions. And so, when they approve that to be bought or sold on the counter, this is just going to skyrocket abortions.

And there's full approval from both sides also for IVF and abortion. The argument, one wants abortion late term and even after, and the other, the Reds want the abortion earlier, but they approve, they approve of this. So, what are Catholics supposed to do? There are numerous priests and articles out there saying, 'well, you know, lesser evil and and the principle of trying to apply the principle of the lesser evil and the other moral principles.'

But for Catholics, you know, you can use moral distinctions and acrobatics all you want. The bottom line is we have become like the nations Jeremiah and Isaiah the prophet thundered against. And Isaiah and Jeremiah say, they quote God saying, 'The Lord God says, because you have sacrificed your children and have played your music at these pagan ceremonies, I will take you like a clay vessel of a potter and smash you against the rocks and you'll be shattered and your names will be no more.'

And is this what we're on the verge of? America being just one of the other pages of history? Yeah, there was once a nation that was started and was discovered by Christopher Columbus and the Masons settled up in the north and they took over. America was baptized Catholic, but it became overtaken by the Masons and they decided we don't want Christ the King. So this nation became very proud and pompous, started spreading wars everywhere in the name of liberty, freedom, and the rights of man.

And they started killing their own children by the millions, building up little hospitals and clinics everywhere. Then they invented pills to kill their own children so they could be more free for their vacations and to pursue their careers. And this nation, they had elections and it came to the point where there was no longer anyone fighting for the little ones, the little ones that Christ said, what you do to the least of these, you do to me.

What you do to the least baby in the mother's womb, you do to Christ himself. And these people became gross and hardened. And where were the Catholic people in those days to stand up and finally draw the line and say, enough, no more.

You don't deserve our elections if you're going to destroy and stand for the constant killing of the children. And even many Catholics voted these people in, says the books of history in the future, many Catholics voted them in trying to do moral theology acrobatics and make distinctions here and lesser evil there and distinctions there and material this, formal that, when it all just came down to slaughtering the innocents. And then this nation under the great chastisement was buried and they, whatever way God is going to punish the West, we know it's going to be, and it will be worse than Saint-Pierre, I'm afraid, much worse, because Saint-Pierre, they weren't doing abortions in that city.

They probably did them in the back alleys, but it wasn't approved by that governor. But now we have approved abortion and either candidate, whoever wins, is just going to fast forward abortions. To Trump's credit, he did reduce it from federal to state level and God may spare states like Oklahoma that has banned abortion.

Texas also is gravely trying to limit abortion, but it's still permitting it at the younger levels. So some states may be spared the chastisement, but where were the Catholics of those days when America was once a powerful nation? Where were those traditional Catholics to stand up and defend the little ones? Where were they when they cast all their elections and ballots in favor of candidates that would continue the bloodshed? That will be the future history books, and then the new books will be written. But America, God spared a few families, God spared a few people who did not want any participation in this wickedness, this wicked and adulterous generation, and out of these, few that survived that chastisement, God used them to rebuild, and priests began to fill seminaries and convents filled with nuns, and the faith spread, and the Pope finally consecrated Russia, and the United States, what used to be, became a Catholic nation.

In the reign of Christ the King was proclaimed, and in the laws was banned forever abortion and sodomite parades, and in their constitution, in their declaration of dependence on Christ the King, they declared Christ is King of this nation, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary reigns with Her Divine Son over our laws, over our people, and that people became strong and prosperous and blessed by God, and out of this era came many saints. Is this the future of what land we're standing on? Well, it can all be averted if we do what Our Lady says, 'Pray Her Rosary, Wear Her scapular, [make] reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and defend the unborn.

That's the last line in the sand for all of us.

We have to draw the line somewhere, and it has to stop with abortion. You cannot compromise on that question. In 2006, in Mexico, the tilma of Our Lady hangs in Mexico City, near Tepeyac, where Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego [as Our Lady of Guadalupe].

In 2006, Mexico passed the abortion law. It was a terrible tragedy for Mexico, but Our Lady protested, Heaven protested, and the tilma miraculously spoke again to the world, as she always does. Because where the baby Jesus is in her womb, for 24 hours, He was visible, shining through the tilma, the baby Jesus, and you can still see photographs of this and footage. And some scoffers tried to say, 'well, it was just reflection of camera glass.' No, it wasn't, because people came and saw it from all angles, and for 24 hours, they could see the baby Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and still today, people can put a stethoscope to the image of the tilma, and they hear two hearts beating miraculously, the heart of Mary slower, and the heart of Jesus pumping faster.

Why did she do this when the abortion was passed? Because Heaven hates this child sacrifice, which we have reverted to as decadent modern nations. So do we ever need Christ the King, and do we ever want to proclaim him Christ, King of our nation? May the Sacred Heart of Jesus come back to reign over our governments, over our constitutions, over our laws. That's the only path to freedom, and true liberty, and true prosperity. So, is God going to let us fall into these hands of these degenerates that will just bring down the more chastisement from heaven? Well, let's do our part.

Stay with Our Lady. Would she vote for a pro-abortion candidate if she was alive in St. Joseph? Do you think they would? And get into all these arguments of material, formal participation, and lesser evil, and this principle and that principle from the 1940s and 50s? I don't think so, and it really is that simple. It really is that simple, but you stand with Our Lady, opposed to this wicked and perverse generation.

Stand with her, and God will protect you, and at least you'll die in peace knowing that you've never cast your ballot to the massacre of children. Happy you, if you could say that. Let's turn to the Virgin Mary.

Let's turn to this Mother of God. Very soon, we're going to be escorting, carrying, and accompanying Jesus Christ the King through the little road here, out in the country. If we were in the city, a parish in the city, we'd walk right down the streets of the main city, but for now, here we are outside.

A little cool, but a beautiful day to honor Christ the King, and let's make reparation to the heart of Jesus. Let's pray. Pray to the Mother of God to spare this nation and our country, and beg Mother of God to grant a Pope to consecrate Russia.

That is the bottom line.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee, and for those who do not have recourse to Thee, especially all communists and Freemasons and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

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KINGSHIP OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, "KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS"
BY: FR. HEWKO
[Transcription of Fr. Hewko's sermon for the Feast of Christ the King - October 27, 2024]

Quote:An excessively violent and ungodly crowd strives to dechristianize this unhappy city. Narrow-minded and intolerant, those who have assumed the mission of directing public opinion do not cease in regard to everything and anything to spread blasphemy and cast contempt on all that is most respectable and sacred. On March 28, 1902, which was Good Friday, as an inhabitant of the island testified to one of the most famous newspapers in Paris, said this, a group of men had noisily for one of the city's main hotels, they gathered at one of the hotels, where a feast is being prepared. They are the representatives of the of the free thinking, free thought, who to prove their independence of spirit have decided to stuff themselves with the richest meats they can conjure up in opposition to the church's precepts of fasting and abstinence.

Drunk, these diabolical men began to roam the streets of the small capital, uttering obscenities and mocking a crucifix of our Lord. And it is also recorded elsewhere that they crucified a pig on this day as well, Good Friday, out of mockery of Christ, they crucified a pig. They set out on the road that leads to the mountain.

Fourteen times amidst infamous blasphemies, the mob pauses to mock the stations of the cross and the scenes of the passion. They continue their ascent, ever more agitated, inventing new improprieties at each step. At last they reach the peak of Mount Pelée.

They stop before the gaping mouth of the crater of the volcano. And there, in the midst of an infernal Sarabande, this hellish dance, jeering and gesticulating, waving their arms, they hurled the crucifix to the bottom of the abyss. That sacred image of Our Lord who died 19 centuries ago to redeem their ungrateful souls.

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