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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: St. Peter Meets the Messiah March 28, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=7006 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:51:37 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=7006 St. Peter Meets the Messiah

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Leo XIII, "Restore the Medieval Guilds!" March 26, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=7001 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:05:43 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=7001 Leo XIII, "Restore the Medieval Guilds!"

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: "Boyhood of St Peter" March 24, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6994 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:08:04 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6994 "Boyhood of St Peter"

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Introduction to St. Peter's Life March 21, 2025)]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6982 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:24:50 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6982 Introduction to St. Peter's Life

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: "Tear off the Mask" Pope Leo XIII - March 18, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6978 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:26:04 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6978 "Tear off the Mask" Pope Leo XIII

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Pope Leo XIII Blasts the Lodges - March 11, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6954 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:58:23 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6954 Pope Leo XIII Blasts the Lodges

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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: St. Athanasius Against the World - March 8, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6949 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:55:36 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6949 St. Athanasius Against the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Ultimate Goal: Destroy the Catholic Church - March 7, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6945 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:43:30 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6945 Freemasonry's Ultimate Goal: Destroy the Catholic Church

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]]> <![CDATA[Transcription: Fr. Hewko's Sermon for Quinquagesima Sunday - March 2, 2025]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6935 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:59:34 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6935 The Catholic Trumpet for providing this transcription!
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Fr. Hewko: He Shall Be Mocked & Scourged
Quinquagesima Sunday - March 2, 2025

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Today is Quinquagesima Sunday.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul, his letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13:

Quote:“Brethren, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not Charity, I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I should have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all Faith so that I could remove mountains and have not Charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind. Charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away, where the prophecy shall be made void, our tongues shall cease, our knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that part which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain Faith, Hope, and Charity, these three, but the greatest of these is Charity.

The Holy Gospel from St. Luke chapter 18:

Quote:“At that time Jesus took unto Him the twelve and said to them, Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man. For He shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon. And after they have scourged Him, they will put him to death, and the third day He shall rise again. And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them, and they understood not the things that were said. Now it came to pass, when He drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging. And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this meant. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, and he cried out saying, Jesus son of David have mercy on me. And they that went before rebuked him that he should hold his peace. But he cried out much more, Son of David have mercy on me. And Jesus standing commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, He asked him saying, what wilt thou that I do to thee? But he said, Lord that I may see. And Jesus said to him, receive thy sight, thy Faith has made thee whole. And immediately he saw and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw, gave praise to God.”

Fr. Hewko: He Shall Be Mocked & Scourged
Quinquagesima Sunday - March 2, 2025

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Today is Quinquagesima Sunday.

The Epistle is taken from St. Paul, his letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13:

Quote:“Brethren, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not Charity, I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I should have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all Faith so that I could remove mountains and have not Charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind. Charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never falleth away, where the prophecy shall be made void, our tongues shall cease, our knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that part which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain Faith, Hope, and Charity, these three, but the greatest of these is Charity.

The Holy Gospel from St. Luke chapter 18:

Quote:“At that time Jesus took unto Him the twelve and said to them, Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man. For He shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon. And after they have scourged Him, they will put him to death, and the third day He shall rise again. And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them, and they understood not the things that were said. Now it came to pass, when He drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging. And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this meant. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, and he cried out saying, Jesus son of David have mercy on me. And they that went before rebuked him that he should hold his peace. But he cried out much more, Son of David have mercy on me. And Jesus standing commanded him to be brought unto him. And when he was come near, He asked him saying, what wilt thou that I do to thee? But he said, Lord that I may see. And Jesus said to him, receive thy sight, thy Faith has made thee whole. And immediately he saw and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw, gave praise to God.”

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel.

So it's a joy to come back to St. Catharines for Mass here in the middle of winter. And we left New Hampshire on Friday and had Mass in Erie, Pennsylvania. And then up here in St. Catharines. And then tonight Barry’s Bay. And then tomorrow North Bay. And then Ottawa on Wednesday for an Extreme Unction for Mr. Damien Oyet. So pray for him. And of course we have the Oratory in New Hampshire. And the two first candidates are right here. And pray for them. They are here to discern God's will. Perhaps they will be priests. Perhaps they will just be here to test their vocation to see. But pray for them. They're the first two to come. And there certainly is a growing interest. So pray for all the young men who will still come.

And also pray that if God wills, we can find a house close by to begin the sisters. We need prayers. We need the prayers of nuns, of women consecrated to God, married to Jesus Christ. And by their prayers and penances draw down much grace on the whole world. And does this world ever need an army of priests, an army of monks and nuns consecrated to God? To draw down God's mercy on this world that continues to mock Him, blaspheme Him, and draw down the anger of God. As you know by the Catechism there are four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. They are willful murder, abortion, sodomy, the rainbow agenda, which is being heavily promoted on the children and the youth. Thirdly, a willful oppression of the poor. And fourthly, with defrauding workers of their lawful wages. So these four sins [have] really become daily life almost in modern society. And God is heavily provoked. So let's pray. Pray for these two candidates and pray for the Oratory.

Pray also for the soul of Bishop Richard Williamson, who died on January 29th. His funeral and Requiem Mass were just a couple days ago. Pray for his soul. Pray for Bishop Tissier de Mallerais. They were sons of Archbishop Lefebvre. And they should have continued the work of Archbishop Lefebvre. They should have just continued the seminary training, the fight for Tradition, the opposition to modernist Rome. They should never have compromised and gone with the compromise of the new SSPX. They should never [have] gone with compromise trying to justify the New Mass as “giving you grace” and promoting New Mass miracles. This should never have been done. They knew better. They have now gone to their judgments.

And I am sure that all of our judgments of the Society of St. Pius X priests, of which I am one, traditional SSPX, not the conciliar SSPX, I am sure that Archbishop Lefebvre is at the judgment as well. And he told those bishops, all four of them, two have now gone into eternity and the other two are now still alive and betraying Archbishop Lefebvre, betraying what they were consecrated for. And they need prayers. So the two bishops that are alive, Bishop Fellay and Bishop de Galarreta, they knew well what the warnings of Archbishop Lefebvre [were]: “Do not make compromise with modernist Rome until Rome comes back to Catholic Tradition.”

It is not that difficult in order. It's very clear. It's very clear. No compromise with modernist Rome. Don't accept any New Mass, no Vatican II juggling. Just persevere in the Faith and oppose modernist Rome until Rome comes back to Tradition. Rome is not back to Tradition and they tried to argue that it was because Pope Benedict allowed the Latin Mass here and there. But that was just all games, all games. So Archbishop Lefebvre was right and his sons did betray him. The fact has to be said. They did betray him. They did not keep what he commanded them to keep. They did not uphold what he commanded them to uphold.

Now maybe none of us would do any better, but we have to just pray for those bishops. However, to Bishop Williamson's credit, to his credit at least, he did consecrate six bishops and these bishops are Bishops Zendejas, who you never hear about, and then Bishop Faure, Bishop Ballini in Ireland, who is the most favorable, it seems, to help Catholic Tradition and to help the cause of the work of Archbishop Lefebvre. So pray for him especially, Bishop Ballini. Also Bishop Thomas Aquinas, who is down in Brazil. He's at the prior of the Monastery of the Benedictines. And then there's Polish Bishop Sobieski, or I can't pronounce it, and then Bishop Paul Morgan. And so pray for those six bishops and Bishop Williamson admitted he did two of them, two or three clandestinely at their request. We know that Archbishop Lefebvre would never do clandestine Consecrations. He would never do that. He would never step into that. But Bishop Williamson did, but to his credit at least he consecrated six bishops.

And let's pray that these bishops, you know, start acting like bishops and preaching the Faith and upholding the light of Catholic Tradition and imitate Archbishop Lefebvre. A consecrated bishop that you don't hear, what good is that? What good is a bishop that doesn't do his duty? He's supposed to preach the Faith publicly. He's supposed to be heard. He's supposed to preach the Faith for all to hear. He's supposed to condemn error. He's supposed to condemn all that is opposed to Catholic teaching and he's supposed to stand against all compromise of the Holy Faith. That means all compromise with Vatican II, with the New Mass, with the New Code [of Canon Law]. The bishops are supposed to hold that light. The bishops are the ones to be in the front of the army leading the charge.

And it's not I who say that, it's Pope Pius VI, Pius VII, Gregory XVI, Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Benedict XV, all these popes commanded the bishops, “You must preach and be preached publicly and oppose error, condemn error and never compromise with error.”

So, so far some people don't even know that Bishop Williamson even consecrated six bishops. Because why? Because you never hear them. Why are they so silent? I don't know. And pray for them, now that Bishop Williamson is buried, pray for his soul. Maybe these bishops will start realizing their duties before God and really help the Church. It really is the survival of the Faith. It really is the survival of the Catholic Tradition. And God Has allowed this punishment on the Church: Rome wrapped in darkness. Rome allowing pagan idols into St. Peter's Square, into St. Peter's Church, like Pope Francis did. And Rome blinded these bad popes. We've had six bad popes. What a scourge for the church. And this one, Pope Francis is on the verge of his judgment. And even on his deathbed, he's still giving orders to smash Catholic Tradition. Poor man. What a judgment he's gonna face. Pray for his conversion because his hell will be very terrible. His hell will be very terrible. Unspeakable.

In Quebec, there was that holy nun, Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine. And she saw hell, like many saints have. She went down into hell. The angels showed her hell. And she saw bishops, cardinals, and popes in hell, in the lowest part, and priests. And she noticed some priests that she knew on earth. And she probably saw some popes that she had known about. And that was in the 1600s. So, we would say the good old days.

And, you know, any bishops and popes that were silent with the Protestant heresy, they probably went to hell for it. Any bishops who were silent against the Arian heresy, they probably went to hell for it. So, bishops who don't oppose publicly Vatican II, the New Mass, and the total destruction of Vatican II on the Faith, if they're silent, they probably can expect to go to hell. And I'm not condemning any bishops to hell. I'm just saying, you know, that's their first duty, is to preach the Catholic faith. If they fail in this, they betray the whole Catholic city. It is so serious a responsibility that none of us would want it, believe me. None of us would want to be Pope, Cardinal, Bishops. That's for sure. It's scary enough being a priest. But if we fail in our duty to preach the faith and sanctify souls, we will have hell to pay. That's the way it is.

You've heard of these recent airplane crashes and near crashes. There's hell to pay for those in charge who allow these plane crashes or near crashes. Someone's going to get fired and lose their job. And they should, because they're failing in their duty. Why? Because it could kill whole groups of people, even hundreds of people. Some of these planes will hold over 200 people. And those engineers and those air traffic controllers, someone's going to get fired when these things happen. And I'm sure there's been a lot of firings going on in the past few months. And if that's the case for engineers, because of the danger to life, how much more serious is the air traffic controllers of the Catholic Church, which are the Catholic bishops? How serious is their job before God to tell souls, “Don't go there because you will go to hell.” “Don't go in that path. It is dangerous to the Faith.” That's their duty. And if they fail in their duty and souls crash and burn and burn in hell forever because of their lack of doing their duty, many bishops go to hell. Even traditional bishops, if they fail in their duty and they compromise.

That's why we got to really pray for Bishop Fellay. He has betrayed in a serious way Archbishop Lefebvre and his mission. And he's still alive and I appeal to him, Bishop Fellay, come back to what you were consecrated for. And he has destroyed the SSPX, basically destroyed it. Turned it in from an army of soldiers fighting for the Faith, for the reign of Christ the King. Opposing modernism and modernist Rome to a bunch of bunny rabbits who will not oppose error publicly. And now they're even afraid to tell the girls at Mass, “Put a dress on and dress modestly for Mass! And modestly at home as well.” Now they won't even do this. They're too afraid for backlash. Well if you get backlash and empty pews, big deal. As long as you're doing your duty.

And that's a scary thing when bishops do not do their duty. And one of their biggest duties is to make sure there are priests for tomorrow. Catholic priests trained against modernism, like Navy Seals, like Marine Corps, who are in the front line to oppose error and preach the Faith and sanctify souls. That's the duty of every bishop is to make priests. Make sure seminaries are there. St. Pius X, he tells the bishops this under his reign: “Watch over your seminaries. Watch over what's being taught. Make sure there's no modernism, no compromise on the Faith. And he really hammers the bishops and encourages them, “Do your duty and make sure you have seminarians and priests.” Because the Church depends on, the Catholic Church depends on the priesthood and the bishops. And good popes, obviously.

So when the bishops do not do their duty and start closing down seminaries instead of building up more, that's a bad sign. It's a bad sign for a marriage if they can have children and they don't have children. That's a bad sign. Because they refuse the children God sends by contraception and other means. So God is pleased when there's fruitfulness in marriage. Children and many children. That's what marriage is about. Marriage is about many children, large families. “Oh, it's hard work. I can't have another one. It's too much.” Well, if you got married, you take another one and you take another one after that. As many as God sends. It's he that determines the size of the family. Not us calculating Protestant people. Protestant Catholics who want to calculate with God. “Well, we'll have two or three but no more.” Well, what if God wants number ten to be a saint to restore the Catholic Faith? What if he wants one to be a holy nun that by her prayers will save many souls from hell? Maybe number 11, 12 or 13, 14 or 15. So God wants fruitfulness. We see that in the Gospel.

Our Lord walks to a tree. It's winter and the fig tree doesn't give fruit in winter. So it's very mysterious that Our Lord is walking to this tree. He looks for fruit on it and curses the fig tree. And it instantly, says St. John Chrysostom, instantly it withered instantly right before the Apostles' eyes. They just looked at each other. And this tree suddenly with green leaves and thick branches withered into sticks and dry leaves at the curse of Christ. So Our Lord, He wants to see good fruits. He wants to see fruits in marriages. He wants to see fruits in our souls by virtues, living in the state of grace. And with this Lent coming we have a great opportunity to really put the axe to the roots of our sins. Root out our sins. Root out the occasions of sin. See where I fall the most. That's where we have to go to war. And Lent is firstly about cutting out our sins. And then secondly the good works of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. So let's beg the Virgin Mary for this grace to make a good Lent for this holy Lent.

And then our Lord looks for fruitfulness in priests. Priests whose duty is to take care of souls and preach the Catholic Faith, give confessions, baptisms, marriages, and Requiem Mass, Extreme Unction. So priests usually are, today especially, priests are very busy because many people ask for help from the priests, traditional priests. And sometimes the priests will go give Extreme Unction in a hospital. Someone else will say, “Hey father can you come to my grandmother or to my wife? She's dying.” And the priest will come and save a soul, kind of by accident. It was designed by God, not by the priest's schedule, but by God's schedule. He'll save other souls. So that's the nature of the priesthood today. It's very busy, it's very demanding, and the seminarians are certainly under no illusion what they're getting into with the traditional Catholic priesthood. It's hard work and that's the way it is.

So and then the bishops, God wants to see fruitfulness in bishops. How? By seminaries. By seminaries training priests and nuns, formation of nuns, good nuns formed to love our Lord. And if they're teaching nuns to teach well. Hospital nuns, we need that again. And to be trained well and not trained to kill and sicken people like modern medicine, but to help people get better and die holy deaths. That's the purpose of medicine. And then the fruitfulness of bishops of course is in being heard. What good is a shepherd who can't be seen or heard? That's why a lot of people say about the Fake Resistance, where are they? We don't ever hear of these bishops. We don't hear them. You don't see them. Where's their letters? Where's their catechisms? Where's their sermons?

Now I understand some bishops can be found on the website that Father Chazal has called Pre-Vatican II Talks. And there you can find about two or three sermons of Bishop Ballini and one of Bishop Zendejas. But why so few? That's my question. Why so few? Why are we afraid to preach what Christ commanded us to preach? Preach from the housetops, he said. Preach to all nations, not just to our little chapels. All people need to hear the Catholic truth. It's not just for our little chapels and missions. So that's the fruitfulness of bishops, is to preach the Faith.

They must hate me a lot because I do get on the bishops, especially the six of Archbishop Lefebvre and the two that are still alive. I'm sure they can't stand me nor my name, but better they hear a little barking dog that's annoying and a pain in the neck from a priest that tries to remind them, Please preach the Faith. Please condemn Vatican II and the New Mass like you're supposed to. Please be heard by letters. Use the internet. And if you don't want to use internet, okay, understandable. Put out letters. Archbishop Lefebvre put out letters and used the video and used the radio. He used everything, like Bishop Sheen did, to reach souls. And that fruitfulness is being heard, preaching the Catholic faith. That's the command by Christ himself to the Catholic bishops. So serious is this command that if Trudeau or President Trump were to shut down a bishop and say “You're not allowed to preach the Faith anymore,” they have to disobey the political leaders and say “You have no right over the mouth and the voice of the Catholic bishop or a Catholic priest.” They have no right, no political power can shut up a priest or bishop. If they're preaching the true Catholic faith, they have no right to shut them up. No political power has that right, nor power.

And we have the examples of great saints who stood up to kings, emperors. Look at the first bishops and priests of the Catholic Church for 300 years, martyred and beheaded one after the other for preaching the Faith. Look at St. Thomas of Canterbury opposing the King. Look at the great martyrs of England standing up to Henry VIII and a great St. John Fisher, the only bishop in all of England who did his duty. The rest caved in by compromise, a false fear, a false human respect. So this is how we have to pray for our bishops. Pray for them. Pray for them. And it is a blessing when a Pope does his duty. It's a huge blessing. It's a blessing when a bishop does his duty. It's a blessing on souls when priests do their duty. It's a blessing on society when fathers and men do their duties, fathers of families, which is to lead their family to God, to virtue, take all the children God sends, to love and cherish his wife, to vote wisely for their country. And leaders, men, especially fathers, they have a duty, as Archbishop Lefebvre said, not to allow their country to fall to communism. So they must in some degree be involved with politics, be involved with what concerns the good of their nation. They have to do some activity. And Canada really shined in the couple years ago with the whole convoy and truck movement. It was a wonderful, wonderful display of true patriotism and opposition to the crushing of their country by illegal laws and unjust laws. That was a great thing to see. It was an inspiration for all other countries. And that was the Canadian people, the Canadian blood, the Canadian men who stood up and good ladies. Of course, instead of receiving gold medals, they were crushed by their Prime Minister. Instead of being praised, they were humiliated by their Prime Minister. He'll answer for that.

So no bishop or priest can be shut up. And look at the great Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Andrey Sheptytsky, some difficult Ukrainian name. And then look at Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary. They were ordered by the Communists, “Shut your mouths, stop condemning Communism or you're gonna you're gonna pay for it.” And these bishops, they understood Christ's command: “You are not allowed to be silent with any political authority telling you to hide the light of the Catholic faith.” And these good bishops, they refused to be silent and they were kidnapped in the middle of the night. And in the case of Bishop Andrey Sheptytsky, he was trained off to the gulag and died in the gulag. He died in the concentration camps. In the case of Cardinal Mindszenty, he was kidnapped and imprisoned in the communist camp for 14 years. 14 years. Tortured. And he told the people, “If you hear me praise Communism outside of prison, you know that I have been drugged.” And even in prison he said he would be careful to eat only the edges of the food, not to eat what he knew would be poison. To make him go back on radio and praise the Communist government.

So far worse than Communism is Modernism, which makes Catholics lose their Faith. So if these bishops were not silent against Communism, how much more they have a duty to be not silent against Modernism, which is really destroying the Catholic Faith and making Catholics lose their Faith. And what is Modernism in flesh and bones? It's Vatican II and the New Mass and the new Code of Canon Law. That's what it is. It's everything there to demolish your Faith.

So Our Lord tells His Apostles: “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed. He'll be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon. And after they have scourged Him, they will put Him to death.” And the Apostles are hearing this, the first bishops of the Catholic Church and our first Pope, they're hearing this about Our Lord, but it's not registering. They're not getting it. And on the third day He shall rise again. And our Lord even says this, 'and they understood none of these things, and they understood not the things.'

It says it twice. They just didn't get it. They were thick, like we can be thick. And the Apostles were thick. They didn't get it. So when the hour of the Passion came, even though they were forewarned, they weren't ready. And they weakened, and they stumbled, and they betrayed Our Lord. One of them hanged himself after getting 30 pieces of silver. Another one betrayed Our Lord, our first Pope, over a threatening [of] a few girls around the fireplace. A few girls asked him questions, and he betrayed Our Lord with cusses and his old sailor language that St. Peter certainly had. He cussed and sweared, and then Our Lord looked at him as He was being led to the dungeon, and Our Lord looked at him with the eyes of a fatherly lover of souls. The eyes of Our Lord, the Sacred Heart, pierced Peter after he just betrayed Him, and Peter went out and wept bitterly.

And then the other bishops of the Catholic Church, where were they? They all scattered. They weren't even at Calvary. They weren't even at the Scourging, the Crowning of Thorns, the Way of the Cross, and on Mount Calvary except one, St. John. St. John stood with the Virgin Mary. He was devoted to the Virgin Mary in a special way because of his purity, his virginal body and soul, and so he was very close to the Virgin of Virgins, the Blessed Virgin Mary. And it's only because of her that he stood by the cross, but even then, standing at Calvary, he lost the Faith. He didn't believe anymore. When he saw Christ panting for air and dying on the cross, he stopped believing. What a frightening thing, but it's a warning to us that the Catholic Church can go through a terrible crisis like we're going through now, and the Pope can lose the Faith, the bishops can lose the Faith, they can be betrayers, traitors to Jesus Christ, scandals by their bad immoralities and bad doctrines, and yet the Faith continues.

And the most stunning of stunning things is St. Dismas. St. Dismas, listen to what some of the saints say about St. Dismas, the good thief on the cross. “This thief purchased salvation from the tree”, says St. John Chrysostom. “This thief stole the heavenly Empire. He used force upon His Majesty.” And then he says, “We find no one before the thief to have merited the promise of Paradise. Not Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jacob, nor Moses, nor the prophets or apostles, but before all of them we find the thief promised Paradise.” St. John Chrysostom says, “The good thief sees Christ on the cross in torments and adores Him as if He were in glory. He sees Him on the cross and prays to Him as if He were sitting in Heaven. The good thief, St. Dismas, sees Him condemned and he calls upon Him as a king, saying, ‘Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into Thy kingdom.’Thou seest Him crucified and you proclaim Him a King. You see Him hanging on a tree and you think of the Kingdom of Heaven. Oh, admirable conversion of the thief.”

And then listen to Eusebius of Emesa, a holy bishop. “The criminal, how singular and how stupendous that devotion. The criminal believed at the very moment when the elect denied Him.” So all those who believed Our Lord lost the Faith and the good thief, who was not a great virtuous soul, converts. “It was more praiseworthy and more noble than the thief to believe in the Lord when He was on the cross and failing under the last punishments than if he had done so when He was doing mighty works. Not without reason then did he merit such a reward. He adds the cause. Divinity in bodily form had illuminated, I believe, the nascent Faith of the thief, who was now a believer in Christ, which Divinity had infused itself more widely at that moment when Redemption was to be consummated. And then he did not say, ‘If you are God, deliver me from the present suffering, but rather, because you are God, deliver me from the judgment to come.’ Thus the good thief shows to the world it's Judge and the King of ages. Although punishment began in the thief, it is perfected in a new manner in the martyr.”

Saint Athanasius says, “O thou excellent one, you were crucified as a thief and dying on the cross, he preaches the Gospels. He is called by Saint Chrysostom, a prophet, that is, a preacher and proclaimer of the greatness of Christ. O the might of Jesus, he says, the thief is now a prophet and preaches from the cross.” The same author calls him in that work, “a robber and a seizer of paradise. You saw,” he says, “how he did not forget his former craft, being a thief, even when he was on the cross, that by his confession he stole the Kingdom of Heaven.” Saint Cyril, Saint Peter Damian, calls him “the firstfruits of Christ's cross and of all believers. He is labeled Peter on the Cross: You were Peter on the Cross and Peter in the house of Caiaphas was the thief, because Peter, our first Pope, denied Christ, whom the thief on the cross professed before all the world.”

So Peter, our first Pope, denies Him, but the good thief converts and professes Him.

Saint John Chrysostom in his homily says, “The advocate of Christ, because he defended Him against the Jews like an advocate, defends Christ's name.” Saint Bridget of Sweden, she says, “Christ answered her prayers. Saint Bridget prayed for a penitent sinner who had no opportunity to make his confession. Our Lord answered her in these words, “That sinner laments because he has none to hear his confession. Tell him that the will is sufficient. For what benefited the thief on the cross? Was it not his goodwill? Or what opened Heaven to him but his wish to desire good and hate evil? What makes hell but an evil inclination and inordinate concupiscence?” So our Lord says to Saint Bridget.

So Saint Bridget, she says, “Many souls are saved by what the Catholic Church has taught, perfect contrition.” Those who don't have a chance to go to Confession, they tell Our Lord, “I'm sorry, I wish I could go to Confession if I had the chance to [go to] a traditional priest, but I can't. Have mercy on me, forgive me.” And like the good thief, Our Lord can open Heaven to these souls, and he does. So when Our Lord said to the good thief, “Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.” One of the Fathers says, “When the Jews heard the good thief proclaim Christ as God and King, they had the revenge on the good thief.” They made sure the Roman soldiers beat him heavily by crushing his legs. So they had revenge on St. Dismas for professing the Catholic Faith when they were denying and mocking Christ.

So when St. Dismas went down into Limbo, right before Our Lord arrives, all of Limbo sees the good thief. And all of Limbo, that is Adam and Eve, Jacob, Isaiah, Daniel, all these prophets, all the saints of the Old Testament, they see the good thief arrive at the gates. And he tells them, “I saw the Redeemer on the Cross, and He opened heaven to me.” And then very soon Our Lord dies on the Cross, and he comes and gives Paradise to the saints in limbo. How? The Fathers of the Church say, when Our Lord entered into Limbo, he gave them the Beatific Vision. They could see the Holy Trinity from Limbo. And in Christ, they saw the glory of the Father and the Holy Ghost, because He is the Divine Son. So truly, Limbo was turned into Paradise. And the good thief announced it right before Christ. So the good thief is also, in a way, one of the prophets for Limbo as well. So if the good thief can steal Heaven, there's hope for all of us.

And when all the bishops of the Catholic Church and the Pope betrayed Christ, out came this good thief, professing Him right on the cross. What an amazing thing. And our Lord wants us to do the same. Proclaim Him by your charity, by the good works that people see in you, by your good example, by your honesty and work, by your non-participation in the dirty talk at the workplace and boasting of their adulteries and their fornications. Have no place with that. Make the Sign of the Cross when you say grace. Proclaim the glory of Christ and let your example be a light and profess Christ as God and King to this dark age, this dark and adulterous generation. As if anything is needed more than ever in this world, it is those proclaiming our Lord Jesus Christ.

So you can find good, good talks on The Recusant, on The Catacombs and the recent production, The Catholic Trumpet. The Catholic Trumpet has been putting out some very good stuff. I encourage you to listen to it, just summarizing the fight of Catholic Tradition and of Archbishop Lefebvre.

That's our privilege right now in this dark age is to profess the Catholic Faith and try our best to live by it in this age that denies Him and betrays Him.

May the Queen of Heaven step in and hasten the hour of her victory.

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, Freemasons, and all other enemies of Holy Mother Church, Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Amen. ]]> <![CDATA[Video Compilation: 62 Reasons not go to the New Mass]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6731 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:34:45 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=6731 Video Compilation: 62 Reasons Not to Go to the New Mass
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Transcript of the above sermon [any inadvertent errors in transcription are mine]:

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Today is March 16th here in Post Falls area in Idaho. And tomorrow will be Passion Sunday. Normally the statues are veiled. No flowers on the altar. The organ doesn't play. The prayers at the foot of the altar at the beginning of Mass are shortened. The Psalm is dropped, the Gloria Patri is dropped, and the whole focus is the passion of Our Divine Lord. So here we are the night before its March 16th. Let's look at one of the saints today that we don't hear much of, but whose St. John Chrysostom gave a panegyric in praise of, and his name is St. Julian of Cilicia. Here's his story. It's always refreshing to go back to the early saints and their martyrdoms and their strength and their courage.

Listen to this, this saint, he was Cilician of a Sanatorium family in Anazarbus and a minister of the Gospel. During the persecution of the emperor, Diocletian, he fell into the hands of a judge, who by his brutal behavior, resembled more a wild beast than a man. The president seen his constancy proof against the sharpest torments hoped to overcome him by the long continuance of his martyrdom. So everything was dragged out. He caused him to be brought before his tribunal every day.

Sometimes he caressed him, patted him on the back and so forth. At other times, threatened him with 1000 tortures. For a whole year together he caused St. Julian to be dragged as a malefactor through all the towns of Cilicia. Imagining that this shame and confusion might vanquish him, but it served only to increase the martyr's glory and gave him an opportunity of encouraging in the faith all the Catholic people of Cilicia by his example and exhortations. He suffered every kind of torture. The bloody executioners had torn his flesh, furrowed, dug his sides with iron spikes, laid his bones bare and exposed his very bowels to view. Scourges, fire, and the sword were employed various ways to torment him with the utmost cruelty. The judge saw that to torment him longer was laboring to shake a rock.

And was forced at length to own himself, conquered, by condemning him to death, in which however, he studied to surpass his former cruelty. He was then at Aegea, a town on the sea-coast, and he caused the martyr to be sewed up in a sack with scorpions, serpents, and vipers and so thrown into the sea.

This was the Roman punishment for paracides, the worst of malefactors, yet seldom executed on them. Eusebius mentions that St. Ulpian of Tyre suffered a like martyrdom being thrown into the sea in a leather sack together with a dog, a rabid dog, and a poisonous snake. The sea gave back the body of our holy martyr, St. Julian, which the faithful conveyed to Alexandria of Cilicia and afterwards to Antioch where St. John Chrysostom pronounced his panegyric before his shrine. He eloquently sets forth how much these sacred relics were honored and affirms that no devil could stand the presence of his relics. And that men, by them, found a remedy for then bodily distempers in the cure of the evils of the soul.

And then here's words from Father Alban Butler, "The martyrs lost with joy their worldly honors, dignity, estates, friends, liberty, and their very lives, rather than forfeit for one moment their fidelity to God. They courageously bade defiance to pleasures and torments to prosperity and adversity, to life and death saying with the Apostle, 'Who shall separate us from the love of Jesus Christ? Crowns, scepters, worldly riches and pleasures. You have no charms which shall ever tempt me to depart in the least from the allegiance which I owe to God. Alarming fears of the most dreadful evils, prisons, racks fire and death itself in every shape of cruelty, you shall never shake my constancy. Nothing shall ever separate me from the love of Christ.' This must be the sincere disposition of every Catholic."

"Lying protestations of fidelity to God cost us nothing, but he sounds the heart. Is our constancy, is our fidelity such as to bear evidence to our sincerity that rather than to fail in the least duty to God, we are ready to resist to blood. And there we are always upon our guard to keep our ears shut to the voices of those sirens, which never cease to lay snares to our senses." So we look back and we say, "Yeah, it would be a lot easier if it was just Catholics and pagans." Pagans are bad, Catholics are good, the lines are drawn and it's nice and clear. But here we are. I'm in Post Falls area. In Post Falls like some other places in the world, you got every form of Catholicism. You got the whole banquet set with all sorts of platters and flavors and sauces and from soup to nuts as well.

What do I mean by that? Here you've got every form of, they're all saying the Latin Mass. You've got Sedevacantist, up on the Mount, you've got CMRI. Some of them are Sedevacantist, some are not. Most of the CMRI are consecrated and ordained. Unless I misunderstand, but as far as I know, and I could stand to be corrected on this, but I understand most of the CMRI are from the Thuc line. And of course, yeah, you got Father Pfeiffer coming in with Episcopal robes and he got himself consecrated in the Thuc line. Who else do we have up here? We've got, of course the long-standing, Society of St. Pius X, which since 2012 has gone more Conciliar and has compromised with the New Mass, Vatican II. After all, Bishop Fellay said, "I accept 95% of it." They accept the New Code with no distinctions anymore and the new fidelity, the new Profession of Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger. And then all the jurisdictions they've received from Pope Francis.

And then who else we got here? Oh, of course you got the Resistance coming through. So Resistance priests coming through, not so luxuriously, only once every five, six months if you're lucky, or three or four months if you're lucky. So that's not too appealing, because you don't get mass every week. So who else we have around here? Of course, yeah, St. Joan of Arc and Fraternity of St. Peter who hate the Society, because the Society is schismatic and their sacraments they say are invalid, because they're not under a bishop. But honestly, that's just bad Canon Law. That's bad Canon Law, because even an honest Novus Ordo canon lawyer like such as Father Murray, he says, "I don't agree with Archbishop Lefebvre. I don't follow Archbishop Lefebvre, but he does not incur excommunication and his sacraments and all his priests are all valid." There's no question of validity. And their marriages are valid and their sacraments of confession are valid, because of the crisis of the church. So I think we covered most of them. And if I forgot any, well what's a few more dishes or a few missing?

And we could look at it and if we took all the priests of each group together, sat them down together at a nice meal and sat together and talked and you put questions to them and you asked, "Do you believe in the Apostles Creed?" Every one of them would probably die to shed their blood for the Apostles Creed. They would all accept the teachings of the Church, the Magisterium. They would all accept the condemnations of liberalism and modernism. They would all accept the Council of Trent. They would all accept the Novus Ordo is at least bad.

But then when you get down to the details of Vatican II and the New Mass and the new Code of Canon Law, that's where the battles begin, because the devil has arranged things such that Catholicism has been attacked at every level. And with the embodiment of the New Mass and Vatican II, it's a whole new fresh attack on the Catholic religion in a way only the devil could invent.

Now, what would really be the solution to all these traditional Latin Mass groups coming together? How would you ever get them together? Well, we have to always judge the way the Church judges. The only way to pull any groups of Catholics together is on the Catholic Truth. We must profess the same Faith. Partake of the same traditional sacraments and we must be under one Shepherd. Christ is the invisible head of the Church and the reining Pontiff is the visible head.

And that's where we get the confusion. I would say maybe the second layer for the confusion, the heart of the confusion is doctrine. The doctrine is not confusing, truth is not confusing. It's us men who make it confusing by our trying to water it down or trying to mix truth like liberal Catholics. Mix Catholicism with the modern ideas, which is perfectly embodied in the Vatican Council II, which was, as Pope Benedict XVI said, "Vatican II is nothing more than taking two centuries of Liberalism and Freemasonry and bringing it into the Church, liberal culture and bringing it into the church." So he admitted that. That Vatican II is the epitome of liberal Catholicism, which was condemned under Pope Pius IX.

So I think if we had all these priests in a room, I think everyone would agree that if we had a good pope on the throne of Peter who would condemn Vatican II and all its heresies and errors, condemn the New Mass, condemn and basically chuck the new Code of Canon Law and restore the old Code, which was not ecumenical and not giving communion to Protestants, for example, which is promoted in the New Code. Nor encouraging the use of other oils, putting the sacraments in doubt, because the new code permits oils that the Catholic Church has never considered valid. The only one that considered valid for the sacraments is olive oil. Why? Because when Christ, just as when he stood in the waters of the Jordan and St. John the Baptist baptized him, St. Thomas Aquinas says, "Christ sanctified all the waters of the earth. So any water anywhere on the earth can be used for baptism. So when Christ also entered the Garden of Olives, which was full of olive trees from where you get olive oil, Christ sanctified all the olive oil of the world that ever will be used for the sacraments if it's properly consecrated, exercised and blessed," which is done by the bishop on the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday.

So I think all the priests would agree that if we had a good pope, the Sedevacantist would say, "All right, we have a good pope. The see is no longer empty." And then all the poor lost Novus Ordo's, they're probably the only ones that would probably form a system and rebel, because they're quite comfortable in the new religion of Vatican II, which allows divorce, which allows all kinds of immorality, which allows contraception, which permits every form of liberalism. So I think if we ever get a good pope, which we will and is promised by Our Lady, the real schismatics then will be the Novus Ordo's who reject the Pope's traditionalism. I'm sure that will happen when it comes, because liberals are quite contradictory and they're quite sectarian. As Pius X said, and Leo XIII, "There's no one more sectarian than a liberal."

And then with a good pope, of course Society of St. Pius X, bishops and priests would be very happy, because the good pope would condemn Vatican II and the New Mass, make things clear and restore the sacred liturgy of the Tridentine Mass.

If Archbishop Viganò , I don't know, none of us know, but if that's in God's plan that in the future he becomes pope, he would certainly restore the liturgy to the pre '55 without any question. He already said publicly the Society St. Pius X should go back to the pre '55 liturgy. But that's another debate and that's another question. And then if it was Archbishop Viganò as pope, he would certainly consecrate Russia, that would be one of his first acts. So God alone knows. But so I think we could say that under a good pope, just as strike the shepherd and the sheep scatter as Christ said, our shepherd has been struck since Vatican II, 59 years since 1965 the shepherd has been struck. The Pope has been the cause of error, confusion, heresy, scandal. So the sheep have scattered to all different groups.

As I said before, you got them all here in Post Falls, you got all of them. The only ones missing in Post Falls, I think, are bishops and priests from the da Costa line. I forgot about them. Da Costa was excommunicated under Pius XII. He was from Brazil and he wanted women priests. He wanted vernacular. He was pretty radical and his orders are quite doubtful while he was certainly excommunicated under Pius XII for legitimate reasons. So otherwise you got everybody here in Post Falls. So it makes it quite interesting for traditional Catholics. And of course they are fighting each other on questions of how much Vatican II do you accept? How much liberalism do you accept? And I think that's the dividing line among the traditional groups is how much mingling of liberal Catholicism do you swallow? And that's the dividing line.

With the Sedevacantists, most of them are not liberals. Most of them will not accept any liberalism. For most of them the question is just the papacy. But they will never accept evolution. They will never accept the compromise with modernism and they will never accept, for example, the new Code of Canon Law, ever. So when we get a good pope, the Sedevacantists will pretty much be very strong on the Faith, except on the papacy, which would be no more an issue.

For the Society St. Pius X, they'd be happy. Some of them might have to correct their wrong ideas, such as Father Paul Robinson, who's been promoting evolution in his book, heavily promoted. Promoting that the 13.5 billion year old earth, which is complete fiction and completely against Scripture and Tradition. So that's just one example. And then Bishop Fellay dreams of being back with, as he calls, the 'Official Church.'

But Archbishop Lefebvre was very clear, we want nothing to do... He never called it the 'Official Church.' He called it what it was, the Conciliar Church, a schismatic church with a bastard Mass, with its bastard rights, with its bastard priesthood. Bastard, because you don't know if they're valid or not. And under a good pope, he would declare whether those Novus Ordo ordinations and Masses were valid or not. And that's where [the Fraternity of] St. Peter's are in a pickle as well. St. Peter's Society, because most of their priests are ordained by bishops consecrated in the Novus Ordo rite.

And quite honestly, that's objectively doubtful and you can have some hot debates and snowball wars over these questions, but let me just say this, because of if you compare the changes for the Novus Ordo Mass and Ordinations and Consecration of bishops with what was done by the Anglicans in the 1500s, you would see a striking similarity. And as certain that Mother Church under Pope Leo XIII, who called together all the best theologians to settle the question, are the Anglican orders valid? They came to the conclusion they're not valid.

My point is, and not just mine, but many other traditional priests, is if the church declared the Anglican changes and rites and sacraments invalid and the Novus Ordo changes sacraments and rites and ordinations and consecration of bishops are very similar to those changes, it's very possible some day the church will declare them absolutely invalid. It's very possible. We must just wait for the proper authority to draw the proper conclusion. And only one authority has the authority from God and the guidance of the Holy Ghost to settle the question, and that's the Roman Catholic Church. This is the beauty of our Catholic faith. We can debate, we can throw snowballs at each other, but really the questions will be settled when the Rome has returned to tradition and that will be a happy day.

And then all these phony canonizations of so-called St. Paul VI, so-called St. John Paul II and St. Joseph Escriva. They are probably not saints if they even made it to heaven at all. But some of them are saints, Pope Francis of all Popes canonized Jacinta and Francisco of Fatima. So we know they're saints because Our Lady said they're going to go to Heaven, "You will be with me in Heaven." And Lucia was so upset and sad, "You mean I got to stay on this earth, I got to live longer here?" But Our Lady said, "You will come to Heaven also, but you must suffer much."

So these canonization questions will be all settled by a good pope and all these groups who we must suppose are of goodwill, all these priests and scattered bishops will come under a good pope and that's a happy day when you think of that. That's the true unity, isn't it? It's the true unity of Faith. We all profess the same Faith under the one head, the Pope visible, and Our Lord the invisible Head, united at the same Sacraments, but not the Novus Ordo Sacraments, but the real traditional Sacraments.

I say St. Peter's will be in a pickle, because if those ordinations and those changes of the consecration of the bishops are doubtful and they're declared to be invalid, all those priests will have to be conditionally reordained. And I think they would gladly do it. So if you had all these priests together, they would all agree on the doctrines of the Faith. That's for sure. I guess the only thing that we fight about is really how much liberalism do you want to swallow?

And by liberalism I mean the mixing of the ideas of Freemasonry, the ideas of the enlightenment, the ideas condemned by the Church, by the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX and all the great magisterial, papal encyclicals condemning the modern errors, evolution, modernism, separation of Church and State, freedom of the press, freedom of the video we would add today, freedom of speech, freedom of education, freedom of conscience. All these false freedoms which have been condemned would all be clarified.

And one of the great ones, as Archbishop Lefebvre said, "The real heart of the fight is the Kingship of Christ. The devil wants Him uncrowned, the liberals want Him uncrowned, they can't tolerate the Kingship of Christ." And that's where the heart of the fight really is. And that's where we, in this confusion, we gather around the tradition of the Church, we gather around the one who taught and defended the papal encyclicals. And that's Archbishop Lefebvre. Who warned his own priests and bishops, "Don't make any agreements with Rome until Rome comes back to tradition. Don't call the New Mass legitimate, because it's not," but they did. But Bishop Fellay did and they have to all accept that now with the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012.

And the Archbishop warned, "Be careful, don't make any... shaking hands with modernists. Don't seek any deals, any agreements, because Rome has the authority and they will crush tradition and they will try to put you in a position of silence." If you make any deals, you sign any deals with modernist Rome, you will be put in a position of silence. And that's exactly the trap Bishop Fellay led the new SSPX into. They are in a position of silence. They cannot preach publicly and boldly against the teachings of Pope Francis, his heresies and his bad example, his scandals and Vatican II in the New Mass. They can attack some points of these still, but overall it's a position of silence and compromise. And this is why the Catholic Resistance, we want to hold the line of Archbishop Lefebvre, because we can't put the light under a bushel.

As far as Father Pfeiffer and the Thuc line, Archbishop Lefebvre warned, "Stay away from the Thuc line, because it's riddled with dubiousness and strange behavior." Because Bishop Thuc consecrated five bishops in Palmer de Troya in Spain, and they later elected their own Pope. And many strange things going on there with apparitions. "And Bishop Thuc," Archbishop Lefebvre said, "judging by his actions, he didn't seem to be in his right mind, because he consecrated a non-Catholic as a bishop. That's one of the heaviest punishments the Church could give and he would probably be reduced to the lay state." But then Bishop Thuc was known to apologize to Pope Paul XI saying, "I'm sorry."

And he told Pope John-Paul II, "I withheld my intentions of these consecrations in ordinations." So he puts himself into a bag of confusion. Did he withhold his intentions? If he did, then they're invalid. And that's what he told the Pope. So that's why Archbishop Lefebvre so wisely said, "Stay away from the Thuc line." Father Pfeiffer knew this and he should have listened and he should have trusted more in God and Our Lady who will give a solution to a good bishop. He will. And sometimes He just wants us to fight longer and in the trenches longer, but God will always give a solution in Our Lady. But we must not throw ourselves into dubious lines when the Thuc line is really dubious. And of course the Sedevacantist say, you've got two Thuc lines, you've got the more reliable one from Bishop des Lauriers, and then you got the quacky ones under Bishop Tessarone and Henenberry.

So if you want to study the question, there's a good study done by Father Clarence Kelly at the time, who is Bishop Kelly now, who is Sedevacantist. But aside from that question of Sedevacantist, he does treat well the question of the Thuc line and he just shows its absurd events of that history.

So we don't say there's no pope. We do pray for the Pope. And again, that's another question that a future pope will settle. Were these popes, popes? Pope Francis, John Paul II, were they popes at all? The Pope may declare, "No, they were not popes, the seat was vacant for that time." That's possible. It's possible. Or the Pope may say, which I think is more likely, "They were popes, they were validly elected, but they are condemned. All their teaching are condemned, because they went openly and publicly against Catholic tradition."

That's probably what will be the case, because we have examples of that from history. Pope Honorius III, Pope John XXII, and Pope Liberius, who either signed heretical documents or were weak in correcting heresy and error. But all of them were condemned by their success in popes, but they never said they were not popes. So our position is with Archbishop Lefebvre who says, "As far as we know, they're popes. We pray for them as popes, but we resist them. We resist them to the face." And that's based on Scripture. St. Paul standing up to the first Pope St. Peter. Cephas is Peter.

And you have one group who don't say Mass here, because they don't have priests, but one group says that Cephas wasn't St. Peter, which is also ridiculous. Cephas is Peter.

Basically it's how much liberalism do you want to swallow or that's on the left, errors with the left and on the right you've got Sedevacantism. That he's just not a pope, which is easy to conclude with this bad pope, and he's so scandalous.

And they might be proven right, God knows. But as far we stand on the sound, theological position of Archbishop Lefebvre, which was and most Catholics I think stand on this. And my question would be, if Pope Francis was not really Pope, could he do so much damage as he's doing now? If Pope Francis wasn't really the Pope, could he do the damage? He couldn't do the damage he's doing. So another angle on this is also how heavily the popes will be judged. And we know there are popes in hell, Dante painted some popes in hell and he put some popes in hell in the Inferno. And I think Michelangelo and some other artists painted some popes in hell, because they were so scandalous. So there are popes in hell.

So dear flock here in Post Falls area, yes, the confusion is great. The devil is having a heyday. On the positive side of the state of affairs now, on the positive side, every one of these traditional Catholic groups would agree, we profess the Faith, we agree on the Creed, we profess all that the Church has taught. I think most would say that. The fighting only comes from whether you go to the right saying there's no pope or onto the left, how much liberalism are you willing to swallow? The Novus Ordo's have swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. The St. Peter's have swallowed it, hook and line, but not the sinker. The SSPX has swallowed it, the hook, but not the sinker and the line. And then the Catholic resistance priests will not swallow the hook line or sinker at all.

And I think we got to go back to Pius IX. We got to go back to Archbishop Lefebvre and St. Pius X to be our guides. And Pius IX said, "There's no enemy more harmful to the church than the liberal Catholics." And what is liberal Catholicism today at the doctrinal level, because at the practical level there's a lot of liberal Catholicism. But at the doctrinal level it's any compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass and the New Code. Any degree of compromise, how much you compromise with that determines how much liberal Catholicism you swallowed. And that's the barometer. So we want to stand with Archbishop Lefebvre and Cardinal Pie of Poitier, of the great popes and St. Pius X, and all the good popes. And Pius IX and Pope Pius VI do not accept any liberal Catholicism, because the liberalism is the destruction of the Catholic faith, the destruction of the church.

And so we must refuse all compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass. And that's where the new SSPX slid in 2012, because now they have a public documents and signed and the ongoing jurisdictions for marriages, confessions, and Holy Orders. They did everything that our Archbishop Lefebvre, our founder, warned not to do. The only thing they're not doing now is saying the New Mass, but they agreed that it's legitimately promulgated, which is one step from saying it. And they will not accept Vatican II 100%, but they accept 95% of it, which that's swallowing 95% poison.

So this is where again, where's our compass in this confusion? St. Vincent Ferrer said, "Look to what the Church is always taught." There's your compass, there's your guideline. And what did the martyrs do? They went to death rather than compromise an inch with the faith, they would not burn one half a grain before the goddesses and gods of Rome and they could have gotten away with it.

And then the great Eleazar in the book of Maccabees Book Two, and he was 80-something year old, and they said, "Look, you're an old man, don't make your life difficult. Retire in peace. All the Jews are looking at you." This is before Christ, of course. "All the Jews are looking at you, just look like you're eating pork. But when we serve your plate, we won't serve pork. But everybody will think you're eating pork. But don't worry, you're not compromising, because you're not really eating it." And Eleazar, the old wise man said, "Wait a minute, if they think that I'm eating pork, even though I'm not, that already is a terrible scandal." And he says, "I haven't lived this long to throw my soul to hell. I will not eat pork and I will not be seen to eat pork." In our case today, I will not accept the New Mass nor say that it's legitimately promulgated nor accept Vatican II nor accept the new Code of Canon Law with its heresies and errors. That's the position of Archbishop Lefebvre. We will not mix Catholicism with error.

So what did the old man Eleazar do? He accepted to be tortured and [was] put to death. And that's true Catholicism. That's the Catholics our Lord wants from us, to be non-compromising. And of course you get the normal snowballs thrown at you and tomatoes and eggs, you're bigoted, you're stuck in the past, you're disobedient, you're a rebel, you're a renegade. And the list goes on and on. Those are all badges of honor. That's why Archbishop Lefebvre said, "It's a badge of honor to be excommunicated from this Vatican II Church of Assisi, of ecumenism, of collegiality, of the New Mass, of evolution. It's a badge of honor.

And that's why it was a shame for the four bishops of the Society St. Pius X to ask Pope Benedict XVI, "Please, Holy Father, we know we were bad boys, can you lift our excommunication?" That was in fact, objectively speaking, and I know that maybe they had the best of good wills, but objectively speaking, it was a real betrayal to Our Lord, to Archbishop Lefebvre our founder, and to all the faithful who depended on them to take the heat, to be crucified with Our Lord, but they wanted to come down from the cross and they burnt the incense to come down from the cross.

So let's not imitate that, but pray for them. Pray for all the bishops of the society. Pray for all the Novus Ordo bishops, pray for these modernist Popes. Pray for them, because they all have souls to save. But you and I, we must beg the Virgin Mary, "Don't let me compromise the Faith." And so we got to study liberalism. We got to study the writings of Archbishop Lefebvre, of Cardinal Pie of Poitier, of the great popes.

If I could close this sermon with one study, which I encourage for all of you, and Archbishop Lefebvre spoke about this one quite often, it's called the papal bull, the papal bull called Auctorem Fidei, A-U-C-T-O-R-E-M, fidei, F-I-D-E-I. A papal bull of Pope Pius VI in 1794. And it is a beautiful document, because it condemns Vatican II long before Vatican II. It condemns all compromise with the errors of Vatican II long before Vatican II. [See here and here.]

And he exposes the snakes, how they want to use double tongued phrases to weave in their errors into the minds of Catholics. And that's what happened in Vatican II. And that was Bishop Fellay himself admitted that the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15th, 2012 was a double tongued document. Do you remember when he said that? He said, "If you read it with black sunglasses, you'll read it traditionally. But if you look at it with pink sunglasses," he said, "you'll read it in a liberal way." So why would he sign a double tongued document when he knows as well as I and all of you, how God says, "I have detested, I have hated the double tongued." And when St. Pius X said, "Modernism is perfect. On one page they'll say, 'Traditional Catholicism,' on the next page is pure heresy or error or compromise or modernism." That's what a modernist is. He tries to combine oil and water and they can't mix. Tries to combine uncombinables, reconcile light and darkness, reconcile truth and error, reconcile Christ and Satan to sit at the same table and enjoy a dinner together. It just can't happen.

And that's where we must love Christ. We must love truth to death and hate compromise. We must hate it and be allergic to it. And that's why when Catholics hear language like, "The New Mass isn't so, so bad, you can go to it to nourish your faith if there's nothing else." And when you hear about New Mass Eucharistic miracles being heavily promoted and pushed, the Catholic reaction is, "No, this is wrong." And that's the right reaction, because a Catholic, he's allergic to liberalism. And if you are, and if we have that grace, pray to the Mother of God never to lose that grace, because the modern world swims in the soup of compromise and the devil loves it.

So yes. So if you get all these priests together and sat down together and you come down to the nitty-gritty, the nuts and bolts of Vatican II, New Mass, New Code, then the fights and the punches and the punching gloves come out. Why? Because truth does matter after all. And so let's pray to the Mother of God that she grants us a good pope, a very good pope.

As I repeated thousands of times, blessed Anna Maria Taigi, she said, "It'll get so bad, the state of the church, that God will send St. Peter and Paul from Heaven onto earth and point out the next pope." Are we at that point when Pope Francis dies? I would say definitely Heaven has to step in, because he's already set up the cardinals to be all modernist and rotten. They're all rotten. The only one I can see papabul, from my 2 cent angle, is Archbishop Viganò or one of the bishops of the line of Archbishop Lefebvre. But even they are not strong like Bishop Viganò, they've all become cushy and wooshy. I hear rumblings that a few of the ones Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated, some of them, one or two of them is starting to shine. Let's hope that's true. Let's hope that at least one of them or two of them rise up like Archbishop Lefebvre.

So here's the state of affairs, but it always comes down to we must not be liberal Catholics. And when you get all those priests together and they're all fighting over Vatican II and the new mass, the question is how much liberalism do you swallow? How much do you want to compromise the Catholic faith? That's where the crunch is. And as I said, St. Peter's will accept Vatican II, they'll accept the New Mass. At least [they] don't condemn it in the pulpit, but 'we got to work with the local bishop.' Well, there's your compromise. "Well, why? They're legitimate authority. Why don't you work with them?" Because that same bishop of Coeur d'Alene here, he has the Latin Mass and St. Peter's approved at St. Joan of Arcs. But down in another church of his diocese, he's got the rock and roll mass and another church of his diocese, he's got of course the 'Dignity Mass' with rainbow flags. And he is got the friendly Mass with Buddhists coming to pray together with the Catholic priest on the altar and Jews and Protestants.

That's the perfect Vatican II religion. It's called pluralism. It's the church with many altars to many gods. And when it comes to that, the Catholic says, "I'm out of here. It's Christ the King or nothing." "Oh, you're bigoted. You're being snobbish. You're being proudful, conceited, renegade, disobedient." "Yes, you're right. For Christ the King? Yes, you're right." And that's what Archbishop Lefebvre said to Pope Paul VI, "You call me disobedient, renegade, rebellious, and disobedient." He said, "Yes, I am. If it means disobedience and renegade to tradition, I'm not a renegade nor disobedient. But if it means disobedient to you, Holy Father, and your new Vatican II and your new doctrines and New Mass, yes, I am disobedient and rebellious and renegade, because I will not make peace with the uncrowning of Christ the King, and what will take souls to hell." And that's really the bottom line, isn't it?

If we believe like liberals, we will lose the faith like liberals and end up in hell. And that's the bottom line. We don't want to lose the faith, because without the faith, we can't save our soul. And how many are in hell who have compromised and played with the faith? So little flock here in Post Falls area, you have a whole bunch of drive-thru, traditional masses you can pull up to and order your platter or make your order, but stay with the truth. And I know some people say, "Well, how can you be right? The priests of the Resistance, you're just a few idiots and you're just this and you're that." I know, I'll be the first to admit that.

But if I compromise tomorrow and accept Vatican II and accept the New Mass or accept that it's legitimate, then I am salt that's also lost its flavor, to be stepped on. And God will raise some other priests. He'll raise a good SSPX priest who finally sees the light and makes a stand. That could happen, or better yet more, a whole bunch of them come together and make a stand. That would be wonderful.

So it doesn't depend on Father X, Y, Z. It depends on our Lord Jesus Christ and what priests and what bishops are in line with the Catholic tradition, with the magisterium of tradition, with the line of the great defenders of tradition and the Christ the King, Archbishop Lefebvre, Cardinal Pie of Poitier and all the popes. There's your litmus test. And a priest [that] departs from that, stay away from them. If they stay with that, then stay faithful with them. It's the crisis of the Church. But what's wonderful about these events of our times, we know it's going to have a happy ending, which will be, in the end, 'My Immaculate Heart will triumph.' The Pope will consecrate Russia. Our Lady did say that. And there will be peace. And there's the peace, not a Cold War peace, but the real reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary. That's the peace that She speaks of.

So it has a happy ending. And all these scattered groups that say the Latin Mass, they will be brought together under a good Pope. And those that are liberal will straighten out and become Catholic again in their thinking, hopefully. And those who say there's no Pope, well, they won't need to say that anymore, because there'll be a good pope. And then the Catholic Resistance, will we just continue like we've always been fighting. That's all. Like Archbishop Lefebvre said, "When Rome comes back to tradition, it'll be not us coming back to the Church, but they coming back to where we always stood and fought and held the position." So little flock here, hold strong.

And the last point, Our Lord had many for lunch at His table, 5,000 in one crowd, 4,000 in another crowd, and He fed them delicious, probably the best bread ever made, and the best-tasting fresh fish. And they all ate to be satisfied and well-filled. So that's quite a crowd, 5,000, 4,000.

But when it came to Calvary, when it came to the crunch, who stood at the foot of the Cross? What is it for? Our Blessed Mother, St. John, St. Mary Magdalene, Mary of Salome, and Mary of Cleopas stood at the foot of the cross. That's it. That's it. Where's the thousands? So that's our honor today, and we want to pray for that grace to stay at the foot of the Cross. Come what may, stay at the foot of the Cross with Our Lady. And with Her you're going to stay faithful to death and persevere.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

And for those who do not every course 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.]]>

Transcript of the above sermon [any inadvertent errors in transcription are mine]:

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Today is March 16th here in Post Falls area in Idaho. And tomorrow will be Passion Sunday. Normally the statues are veiled. No flowers on the altar. The organ doesn't play. The prayers at the foot of the altar at the beginning of Mass are shortened. The Psalm is dropped, the Gloria Patri is dropped, and the whole focus is the passion of Our Divine Lord. So here we are the night before its March 16th. Let's look at one of the saints today that we don't hear much of, but whose St. John Chrysostom gave a panegyric in praise of, and his name is St. Julian of Cilicia. Here's his story. It's always refreshing to go back to the early saints and their martyrdoms and their strength and their courage.

Listen to this, this saint, he was Cilician of a Sanatorium family in Anazarbus and a minister of the Gospel. During the persecution of the emperor, Diocletian, he fell into the hands of a judge, who by his brutal behavior, resembled more a wild beast than a man. The president seen his constancy proof against the sharpest torments hoped to overcome him by the long continuance of his martyrdom. So everything was dragged out. He caused him to be brought before his tribunal every day.

Sometimes he caressed him, patted him on the back and so forth. At other times, threatened him with 1000 tortures. For a whole year together he caused St. Julian to be dragged as a malefactor through all the towns of Cilicia. Imagining that this shame and confusion might vanquish him, but it served only to increase the martyr's glory and gave him an opportunity of encouraging in the faith all the Catholic people of Cilicia by his example and exhortations. He suffered every kind of torture. The bloody executioners had torn his flesh, furrowed, dug his sides with iron spikes, laid his bones bare and exposed his very bowels to view. Scourges, fire, and the sword were employed various ways to torment him with the utmost cruelty. The judge saw that to torment him longer was laboring to shake a rock.

And was forced at length to own himself, conquered, by condemning him to death, in which however, he studied to surpass his former cruelty. He was then at Aegea, a town on the sea-coast, and he caused the martyr to be sewed up in a sack with scorpions, serpents, and vipers and so thrown into the sea.

This was the Roman punishment for paracides, the worst of malefactors, yet seldom executed on them. Eusebius mentions that St. Ulpian of Tyre suffered a like martyrdom being thrown into the sea in a leather sack together with a dog, a rabid dog, and a poisonous snake. The sea gave back the body of our holy martyr, St. Julian, which the faithful conveyed to Alexandria of Cilicia and afterwards to Antioch where St. John Chrysostom pronounced his panegyric before his shrine. He eloquently sets forth how much these sacred relics were honored and affirms that no devil could stand the presence of his relics. And that men, by them, found a remedy for then bodily distempers in the cure of the evils of the soul.

And then here's words from Father Alban Butler, "The martyrs lost with joy their worldly honors, dignity, estates, friends, liberty, and their very lives, rather than forfeit for one moment their fidelity to God. They courageously bade defiance to pleasures and torments to prosperity and adversity, to life and death saying with the Apostle, 'Who shall separate us from the love of Jesus Christ? Crowns, scepters, worldly riches and pleasures. You have no charms which shall ever tempt me to depart in the least from the allegiance which I owe to God. Alarming fears of the most dreadful evils, prisons, racks fire and death itself in every shape of cruelty, you shall never shake my constancy. Nothing shall ever separate me from the love of Christ.' This must be the sincere disposition of every Catholic."

"Lying protestations of fidelity to God cost us nothing, but he sounds the heart. Is our constancy, is our fidelity such as to bear evidence to our sincerity that rather than to fail in the least duty to God, we are ready to resist to blood. And there we are always upon our guard to keep our ears shut to the voices of those sirens, which never cease to lay snares to our senses." So we look back and we say, "Yeah, it would be a lot easier if it was just Catholics and pagans." Pagans are bad, Catholics are good, the lines are drawn and it's nice and clear. But here we are. I'm in Post Falls area. In Post Falls like some other places in the world, you got every form of Catholicism. You got the whole banquet set with all sorts of platters and flavors and sauces and from soup to nuts as well.

What do I mean by that? Here you've got every form of, they're all saying the Latin Mass. You've got Sedevacantist, up on the Mount, you've got CMRI. Some of them are Sedevacantist, some are not. Most of the CMRI are consecrated and ordained. Unless I misunderstand, but as far as I know, and I could stand to be corrected on this, but I understand most of the CMRI are from the Thuc line. And of course, yeah, you got Father Pfeiffer coming in with Episcopal robes and he got himself consecrated in the Thuc line. Who else do we have up here? We've got, of course the long-standing, Society of St. Pius X, which since 2012 has gone more Conciliar and has compromised with the New Mass, Vatican II. After all, Bishop Fellay said, "I accept 95% of it." They accept the New Code with no distinctions anymore and the new fidelity, the new Profession of Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger. And then all the jurisdictions they've received from Pope Francis.

And then who else we got here? Oh, of course you got the Resistance coming through. So Resistance priests coming through, not so luxuriously, only once every five, six months if you're lucky, or three or four months if you're lucky. So that's not too appealing, because you don't get mass every week. So who else we have around here? Of course, yeah, St. Joan of Arc and Fraternity of St. Peter who hate the Society, because the Society is schismatic and their sacraments they say are invalid, because they're not under a bishop. But honestly, that's just bad Canon Law. That's bad Canon Law, because even an honest Novus Ordo canon lawyer like such as Father Murray, he says, "I don't agree with Archbishop Lefebvre. I don't follow Archbishop Lefebvre, but he does not incur excommunication and his sacraments and all his priests are all valid." There's no question of validity. And their marriages are valid and their sacraments of confession are valid, because of the crisis of the church. So I think we covered most of them. And if I forgot any, well what's a few more dishes or a few missing?

And we could look at it and if we took all the priests of each group together, sat them down together at a nice meal and sat together and talked and you put questions to them and you asked, "Do you believe in the Apostles Creed?" Every one of them would probably die to shed their blood for the Apostles Creed. They would all accept the teachings of the Church, the Magisterium. They would all accept the condemnations of liberalism and modernism. They would all accept the Council of Trent. They would all accept the Novus Ordo is at least bad.

But then when you get down to the details of Vatican II and the New Mass and the new Code of Canon Law, that's where the battles begin, because the devil has arranged things such that Catholicism has been attacked at every level. And with the embodiment of the New Mass and Vatican II, it's a whole new fresh attack on the Catholic religion in a way only the devil could invent.

Now, what would really be the solution to all these traditional Latin Mass groups coming together? How would you ever get them together? Well, we have to always judge the way the Church judges. The only way to pull any groups of Catholics together is on the Catholic Truth. We must profess the same Faith. Partake of the same traditional sacraments and we must be under one Shepherd. Christ is the invisible head of the Church and the reining Pontiff is the visible head.

And that's where we get the confusion. I would say maybe the second layer for the confusion, the heart of the confusion is doctrine. The doctrine is not confusing, truth is not confusing. It's us men who make it confusing by our trying to water it down or trying to mix truth like liberal Catholics. Mix Catholicism with the modern ideas, which is perfectly embodied in the Vatican Council II, which was, as Pope Benedict XVI said, "Vatican II is nothing more than taking two centuries of Liberalism and Freemasonry and bringing it into the Church, liberal culture and bringing it into the church." So he admitted that. That Vatican II is the epitome of liberal Catholicism, which was condemned under Pope Pius IX.

So I think if we had all these priests in a room, I think everyone would agree that if we had a good pope on the throne of Peter who would condemn Vatican II and all its heresies and errors, condemn the New Mass, condemn and basically chuck the new Code of Canon Law and restore the old Code, which was not ecumenical and not giving communion to Protestants, for example, which is promoted in the New Code. Nor encouraging the use of other oils, putting the sacraments in doubt, because the new code permits oils that the Catholic Church has never considered valid. The only one that considered valid for the sacraments is olive oil. Why? Because when Christ, just as when he stood in the waters of the Jordan and St. John the Baptist baptized him, St. Thomas Aquinas says, "Christ sanctified all the waters of the earth. So any water anywhere on the earth can be used for baptism. So when Christ also entered the Garden of Olives, which was full of olive trees from where you get olive oil, Christ sanctified all the olive oil of the world that ever will be used for the sacraments if it's properly consecrated, exercised and blessed," which is done by the bishop on the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday.

So I think all the priests would agree that if we had a good pope, the Sedevacantist would say, "All right, we have a good pope. The see is no longer empty." And then all the poor lost Novus Ordo's, they're probably the only ones that would probably form a system and rebel, because they're quite comfortable in the new religion of Vatican II, which allows divorce, which allows all kinds of immorality, which allows contraception, which permits every form of liberalism. So I think if we ever get a good pope, which we will and is promised by Our Lady, the real schismatics then will be the Novus Ordo's who reject the Pope's traditionalism. I'm sure that will happen when it comes, because liberals are quite contradictory and they're quite sectarian. As Pius X said, and Leo XIII, "There's no one more sectarian than a liberal."

And then with a good pope, of course Society of St. Pius X, bishops and priests would be very happy, because the good pope would condemn Vatican II and the New Mass, make things clear and restore the sacred liturgy of the Tridentine Mass.

If Archbishop Viganò , I don't know, none of us know, but if that's in God's plan that in the future he becomes pope, he would certainly restore the liturgy to the pre '55 without any question. He already said publicly the Society St. Pius X should go back to the pre '55 liturgy. But that's another debate and that's another question. And then if it was Archbishop Viganò as pope, he would certainly consecrate Russia, that would be one of his first acts. So God alone knows. But so I think we could say that under a good pope, just as strike the shepherd and the sheep scatter as Christ said, our shepherd has been struck since Vatican II, 59 years since 1965 the shepherd has been struck. The Pope has been the cause of error, confusion, heresy, scandal. So the sheep have scattered to all different groups.

As I said before, you got them all here in Post Falls, you got all of them. The only ones missing in Post Falls, I think, are bishops and priests from the da Costa line. I forgot about them. Da Costa was excommunicated under Pius XII. He was from Brazil and he wanted women priests. He wanted vernacular. He was pretty radical and his orders are quite doubtful while he was certainly excommunicated under Pius XII for legitimate reasons. So otherwise you got everybody here in Post Falls. So it makes it quite interesting for traditional Catholics. And of course they are fighting each other on questions of how much Vatican II do you accept? How much liberalism do you accept? And I think that's the dividing line among the traditional groups is how much mingling of liberal Catholicism do you swallow? And that's the dividing line.

With the Sedevacantists, most of them are not liberals. Most of them will not accept any liberalism. For most of them the question is just the papacy. But they will never accept evolution. They will never accept the compromise with modernism and they will never accept, for example, the new Code of Canon Law, ever. So when we get a good pope, the Sedevacantists will pretty much be very strong on the Faith, except on the papacy, which would be no more an issue.

For the Society St. Pius X, they'd be happy. Some of them might have to correct their wrong ideas, such as Father Paul Robinson, who's been promoting evolution in his book, heavily promoted. Promoting that the 13.5 billion year old earth, which is complete fiction and completely against Scripture and Tradition. So that's just one example. And then Bishop Fellay dreams of being back with, as he calls, the 'Official Church.'

But Archbishop Lefebvre was very clear, we want nothing to do... He never called it the 'Official Church.' He called it what it was, the Conciliar Church, a schismatic church with a bastard Mass, with its bastard rights, with its bastard priesthood. Bastard, because you don't know if they're valid or not. And under a good pope, he would declare whether those Novus Ordo ordinations and Masses were valid or not. And that's where [the Fraternity of] St. Peter's are in a pickle as well. St. Peter's Society, because most of their priests are ordained by bishops consecrated in the Novus Ordo rite.

And quite honestly, that's objectively doubtful and you can have some hot debates and snowball wars over these questions, but let me just say this, because of if you compare the changes for the Novus Ordo Mass and Ordinations and Consecration of bishops with what was done by the Anglicans in the 1500s, you would see a striking similarity. And as certain that Mother Church under Pope Leo XIII, who called together all the best theologians to settle the question, are the Anglican orders valid? They came to the conclusion they're not valid.

My point is, and not just mine, but many other traditional priests, is if the church declared the Anglican changes and rites and sacraments invalid and the Novus Ordo changes sacraments and rites and ordinations and consecration of bishops are very similar to those changes, it's very possible some day the church will declare them absolutely invalid. It's very possible. We must just wait for the proper authority to draw the proper conclusion. And only one authority has the authority from God and the guidance of the Holy Ghost to settle the question, and that's the Roman Catholic Church. This is the beauty of our Catholic faith. We can debate, we can throw snowballs at each other, but really the questions will be settled when the Rome has returned to tradition and that will be a happy day.

And then all these phony canonizations of so-called St. Paul VI, so-called St. John Paul II and St. Joseph Escriva. They are probably not saints if they even made it to heaven at all. But some of them are saints, Pope Francis of all Popes canonized Jacinta and Francisco of Fatima. So we know they're saints because Our Lady said they're going to go to Heaven, "You will be with me in Heaven." And Lucia was so upset and sad, "You mean I got to stay on this earth, I got to live longer here?" But Our Lady said, "You will come to Heaven also, but you must suffer much."

So these canonization questions will be all settled by a good pope and all these groups who we must suppose are of goodwill, all these priests and scattered bishops will come under a good pope and that's a happy day when you think of that. That's the true unity, isn't it? It's the true unity of Faith. We all profess the same Faith under the one head, the Pope visible, and Our Lord the invisible Head, united at the same Sacraments, but not the Novus Ordo Sacraments, but the real traditional Sacraments.

I say St. Peter's will be in a pickle, because if those ordinations and those changes of the consecration of the bishops are doubtful and they're declared to be invalid, all those priests will have to be conditionally reordained. And I think they would gladly do it. So if you had all these priests together, they would all agree on the doctrines of the Faith. That's for sure. I guess the only thing that we fight about is really how much liberalism do you want to swallow?

And by liberalism I mean the mixing of the ideas of Freemasonry, the ideas of the enlightenment, the ideas condemned by the Church, by the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX and all the great magisterial, papal encyclicals condemning the modern errors, evolution, modernism, separation of Church and State, freedom of the press, freedom of the video we would add today, freedom of speech, freedom of education, freedom of conscience. All these false freedoms which have been condemned would all be clarified.

And one of the great ones, as Archbishop Lefebvre said, "The real heart of the fight is the Kingship of Christ. The devil wants Him uncrowned, the liberals want Him uncrowned, they can't tolerate the Kingship of Christ." And that's where the heart of the fight really is. And that's where we, in this confusion, we gather around the tradition of the Church, we gather around the one who taught and defended the papal encyclicals. And that's Archbishop Lefebvre. Who warned his own priests and bishops, "Don't make any agreements with Rome until Rome comes back to tradition. Don't call the New Mass legitimate, because it's not," but they did. But Bishop Fellay did and they have to all accept that now with the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012.

And the Archbishop warned, "Be careful, don't make any... shaking hands with modernists. Don't seek any deals, any agreements, because Rome has the authority and they will crush tradition and they will try to put you in a position of silence." If you make any deals, you sign any deals with modernist Rome, you will be put in a position of silence. And that's exactly the trap Bishop Fellay led the new SSPX into. They are in a position of silence. They cannot preach publicly and boldly against the teachings of Pope Francis, his heresies and his bad example, his scandals and Vatican II in the New Mass. They can attack some points of these still, but overall it's a position of silence and compromise. And this is why the Catholic Resistance, we want to hold the line of Archbishop Lefebvre, because we can't put the light under a bushel.

As far as Father Pfeiffer and the Thuc line, Archbishop Lefebvre warned, "Stay away from the Thuc line, because it's riddled with dubiousness and strange behavior." Because Bishop Thuc consecrated five bishops in Palmer de Troya in Spain, and they later elected their own Pope. And many strange things going on there with apparitions. "And Bishop Thuc," Archbishop Lefebvre said, "judging by his actions, he didn't seem to be in his right mind, because he consecrated a non-Catholic as a bishop. That's one of the heaviest punishments the Church could give and he would probably be reduced to the lay state." But then Bishop Thuc was known to apologize to Pope Paul XI saying, "I'm sorry."

And he told Pope John-Paul II, "I withheld my intentions of these consecrations in ordinations." So he puts himself into a bag of confusion. Did he withhold his intentions? If he did, then they're invalid. And that's what he told the Pope. So that's why Archbishop Lefebvre so wisely said, "Stay away from the Thuc line." Father Pfeiffer knew this and he should have listened and he should have trusted more in God and Our Lady who will give a solution to a good bishop. He will. And sometimes He just wants us to fight longer and in the trenches longer, but God will always give a solution in Our Lady. But we must not throw ourselves into dubious lines when the Thuc line is really dubious. And of course the Sedevacantist say, you've got two Thuc lines, you've got the more reliable one from Bishop des Lauriers, and then you got the quacky ones under Bishop Tessarone and Henenberry.

So if you want to study the question, there's a good study done by Father Clarence Kelly at the time, who is Bishop Kelly now, who is Sedevacantist. But aside from that question of Sedevacantist, he does treat well the question of the Thuc line and he just shows its absurd events of that history.

So we don't say there's no pope. We do pray for the Pope. And again, that's another question that a future pope will settle. Were these popes, popes? Pope Francis, John Paul II, were they popes at all? The Pope may declare, "No, they were not popes, the seat was vacant for that time." That's possible. It's possible. Or the Pope may say, which I think is more likely, "They were popes, they were validly elected, but they are condemned. All their teaching are condemned, because they went openly and publicly against Catholic tradition."

That's probably what will be the case, because we have examples of that from history. Pope Honorius III, Pope John XXII, and Pope Liberius, who either signed heretical documents or were weak in correcting heresy and error. But all of them were condemned by their success in popes, but they never said they were not popes. So our position is with Archbishop Lefebvre who says, "As far as we know, they're popes. We pray for them as popes, but we resist them. We resist them to the face." And that's based on Scripture. St. Paul standing up to the first Pope St. Peter. Cephas is Peter.

And you have one group who don't say Mass here, because they don't have priests, but one group says that Cephas wasn't St. Peter, which is also ridiculous. Cephas is Peter.

Basically it's how much liberalism do you want to swallow or that's on the left, errors with the left and on the right you've got Sedevacantism. That he's just not a pope, which is easy to conclude with this bad pope, and he's so scandalous.

And they might be proven right, God knows. But as far we stand on the sound, theological position of Archbishop Lefebvre, which was and most Catholics I think stand on this. And my question would be, if Pope Francis was not really Pope, could he do so much damage as he's doing now? If Pope Francis wasn't really the Pope, could he do the damage? He couldn't do the damage he's doing. So another angle on this is also how heavily the popes will be judged. And we know there are popes in hell, Dante painted some popes in hell and he put some popes in hell in the Inferno. And I think Michelangelo and some other artists painted some popes in hell, because they were so scandalous. So there are popes in hell.

So dear flock here in Post Falls area, yes, the confusion is great. The devil is having a heyday. On the positive side of the state of affairs now, on the positive side, every one of these traditional Catholic groups would agree, we profess the Faith, we agree on the Creed, we profess all that the Church has taught. I think most would say that. The fighting only comes from whether you go to the right saying there's no pope or onto the left, how much liberalism are you willing to swallow? The Novus Ordo's have swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. The St. Peter's have swallowed it, hook and line, but not the sinker. The SSPX has swallowed it, the hook, but not the sinker and the line. And then the Catholic resistance priests will not swallow the hook line or sinker at all.

And I think we got to go back to Pius IX. We got to go back to Archbishop Lefebvre and St. Pius X to be our guides. And Pius IX said, "There's no enemy more harmful to the church than the liberal Catholics." And what is liberal Catholicism today at the doctrinal level, because at the practical level there's a lot of liberal Catholicism. But at the doctrinal level it's any compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass and the New Code. Any degree of compromise, how much you compromise with that determines how much liberal Catholicism you swallowed. And that's the barometer. So we want to stand with Archbishop Lefebvre and Cardinal Pie of Poitier, of the great popes and St. Pius X, and all the good popes. And Pius IX and Pope Pius VI do not accept any liberal Catholicism, because the liberalism is the destruction of the Catholic faith, the destruction of the church.

And so we must refuse all compromise with Vatican II and the New Mass. And that's where the new SSPX slid in 2012, because now they have a public documents and signed and the ongoing jurisdictions for marriages, confessions, and Holy Orders. They did everything that our Archbishop Lefebvre, our founder, warned not to do. The only thing they're not doing now is saying the New Mass, but they agreed that it's legitimately promulgated, which is one step from saying it. And they will not accept Vatican II 100%, but they accept 95% of it, which that's swallowing 95% poison.

So this is where again, where's our compass in this confusion? St. Vincent Ferrer said, "Look to what the Church is always taught." There's your compass, there's your guideline. And what did the martyrs do? They went to death rather than compromise an inch with the faith, they would not burn one half a grain before the goddesses and gods of Rome and they could have gotten away with it.

And then the great Eleazar in the book of Maccabees Book Two, and he was 80-something year old, and they said, "Look, you're an old man, don't make your life difficult. Retire in peace. All the Jews are looking at you." This is before Christ, of course. "All the Jews are looking at you, just look like you're eating pork. But when we serve your plate, we won't serve pork. But everybody will think you're eating pork. But don't worry, you're not compromising, because you're not really eating it." And Eleazar, the old wise man said, "Wait a minute, if they think that I'm eating pork, even though I'm not, that already is a terrible scandal." And he says, "I haven't lived this long to throw my soul to hell. I will not eat pork and I will not be seen to eat pork." In our case today, I will not accept the New Mass nor say that it's legitimately promulgated nor accept Vatican II nor accept the new Code of Canon Law with its heresies and errors. That's the position of Archbishop Lefebvre. We will not mix Catholicism with error.

So what did the old man Eleazar do? He accepted to be tortured and [was] put to death. And that's true Catholicism. That's the Catholics our Lord wants from us, to be non-compromising. And of course you get the normal snowballs thrown at you and tomatoes and eggs, you're bigoted, you're stuck in the past, you're disobedient, you're a rebel, you're a renegade. And the list goes on and on. Those are all badges of honor. That's why Archbishop Lefebvre said, "It's a badge of honor to be excommunicated from this Vatican II Church of Assisi, of ecumenism, of collegiality, of the New Mass, of evolution. It's a badge of honor.

And that's why it was a shame for the four bishops of the Society St. Pius X to ask Pope Benedict XVI, "Please, Holy Father, we know we were bad boys, can you lift our excommunication?" That was in fact, objectively speaking, and I know that maybe they had the best of good wills, but objectively speaking, it was a real betrayal to Our Lord, to Archbishop Lefebvre our founder, and to all the faithful who depended on them to take the heat, to be crucified with Our Lord, but they wanted to come down from the cross and they burnt the incense to come down from the cross.

So let's not imitate that, but pray for them. Pray for all the bishops of the society. Pray for all the Novus Ordo bishops, pray for these modernist Popes. Pray for them, because they all have souls to save. But you and I, we must beg the Virgin Mary, "Don't let me compromise the Faith." And so we got to study liberalism. We got to study the writings of Archbishop Lefebvre, of Cardinal Pie of Poitier, of the great popes.

If I could close this sermon with one study, which I encourage for all of you, and Archbishop Lefebvre spoke about this one quite often, it's called the papal bull, the papal bull called Auctorem Fidei, A-U-C-T-O-R-E-M, fidei, F-I-D-E-I. A papal bull of Pope Pius VI in 1794. And it is a beautiful document, because it condemns Vatican II long before Vatican II. It condemns all compromise with the errors of Vatican II long before Vatican II. [See here and here.]

And he exposes the snakes, how they want to use double tongued phrases to weave in their errors into the minds of Catholics. And that's what happened in Vatican II. And that was Bishop Fellay himself admitted that the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15th, 2012 was a double tongued document. Do you remember when he said that? He said, "If you read it with black sunglasses, you'll read it traditionally. But if you look at it with pink sunglasses," he said, "you'll read it in a liberal way." So why would he sign a double tongued document when he knows as well as I and all of you, how God says, "I have detested, I have hated the double tongued." And when St. Pius X said, "Modernism is perfect. On one page they'll say, 'Traditional Catholicism,' on the next page is pure heresy or error or compromise or modernism." That's what a modernist is. He tries to combine oil and water and they can't mix. Tries to combine uncombinables, reconcile light and darkness, reconcile truth and error, reconcile Christ and Satan to sit at the same table and enjoy a dinner together. It just can't happen.

And that's where we must love Christ. We must love truth to death and hate compromise. We must hate it and be allergic to it. And that's why when Catholics hear language like, "The New Mass isn't so, so bad, you can go to it to nourish your faith if there's nothing else." And when you hear about New Mass Eucharistic miracles being heavily promoted and pushed, the Catholic reaction is, "No, this is wrong." And that's the right reaction, because a Catholic, he's allergic to liberalism. And if you are, and if we have that grace, pray to the Mother of God never to lose that grace, because the modern world swims in the soup of compromise and the devil loves it.

So yes. So if you get all these priests together and sat down together and you come down to the nitty-gritty, the nuts and bolts of Vatican II, New Mass, New Code, then the fights and the punches and the punching gloves come out. Why? Because truth does matter after all. And so let's pray to the Mother of God that she grants us a good pope, a very good pope.

As I repeated thousands of times, blessed Anna Maria Taigi, she said, "It'll get so bad, the state of the church, that God will send St. Peter and Paul from Heaven onto earth and point out the next pope." Are we at that point when Pope Francis dies? I would say definitely Heaven has to step in, because he's already set up the cardinals to be all modernist and rotten. They're all rotten. The only one I can see papabul, from my 2 cent angle, is Archbishop Viganò or one of the bishops of the line of Archbishop Lefebvre. But even they are not strong like Bishop Viganò, they've all become cushy and wooshy. I hear rumblings that a few of the ones Archbishop Lefebvre consecrated, some of them, one or two of them is starting to shine. Let's hope that's true. Let's hope that at least one of them or two of them rise up like Archbishop Lefebvre.

So here's the state of affairs, but it always comes down to we must not be liberal Catholics. And when you get all those priests together and they're all fighting over Vatican II and the new mass, the question is how much liberalism do you swallow? How much do you want to compromise the Catholic faith? That's where the crunch is. And as I said, St. Peter's will accept Vatican II, they'll accept the New Mass. At least [they] don't condemn it in the pulpit, but 'we got to work with the local bishop.' Well, there's your compromise. "Well, why? They're legitimate authority. Why don't you work with them?" Because that same bishop of Coeur d'Alene here, he has the Latin Mass and St. Peter's approved at St. Joan of Arcs. But down in another church of his diocese, he's got the rock and roll mass and another church of his diocese, he's got of course the 'Dignity Mass' with rainbow flags. And he is got the friendly Mass with Buddhists coming to pray together with the Catholic priest on the altar and Jews and Protestants.

That's the perfect Vatican II religion. It's called pluralism. It's the church with many altars to many gods. And when it comes to that, the Catholic says, "I'm out of here. It's Christ the King or nothing." "Oh, you're bigoted. You're being snobbish. You're being proudful, conceited, renegade, disobedient." "Yes, you're right. For Christ the King? Yes, you're right." And that's what Archbishop Lefebvre said to Pope Paul VI, "You call me disobedient, renegade, rebellious, and disobedient." He said, "Yes, I am. If it means disobedience and renegade to tradition, I'm not a renegade nor disobedient. But if it means disobedient to you, Holy Father, and your new Vatican II and your new doctrines and New Mass, yes, I am disobedient and rebellious and renegade, because I will not make peace with the uncrowning of Christ the King, and what will take souls to hell." And that's really the bottom line, isn't it?

If we believe like liberals, we will lose the faith like liberals and end up in hell. And that's the bottom line. We don't want to lose the faith, because without the faith, we can't save our soul. And how many are in hell who have compromised and played with the faith? So little flock here in Post Falls area, you have a whole bunch of drive-thru, traditional masses you can pull up to and order your platter or make your order, but stay with the truth. And I know some people say, "Well, how can you be right? The priests of the Resistance, you're just a few idiots and you're just this and you're that." I know, I'll be the first to admit that.

But if I compromise tomorrow and accept Vatican II and accept the New Mass or accept that it's legitimate, then I am salt that's also lost its flavor, to be stepped on. And God will raise some other priests. He'll raise a good SSPX priest who finally sees the light and makes a stand. That could happen, or better yet more, a whole bunch of them come together and make a stand. That would be wonderful.

So it doesn't depend on Father X, Y, Z. It depends on our Lord Jesus Christ and what priests and what bishops are in line with the Catholic tradition, with the magisterium of tradition, with the line of the great defenders of tradition and the Christ the King, Archbishop Lefebvre, Cardinal Pie of Poitier and all the popes. There's your litmus test. And a priest [that] departs from that, stay away from them. If they stay with that, then stay faithful with them. It's the crisis of the Church. But what's wonderful about these events of our times, we know it's going to have a happy ending, which will be, in the end, 'My Immaculate Heart will triumph.' The Pope will consecrate Russia. Our Lady did say that. And there will be peace. And there's the peace, not a Cold War peace, but the real reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary. That's the peace that She speaks of.

So it has a happy ending. And all these scattered groups that say the Latin Mass, they will be brought together under a good Pope. And those that are liberal will straighten out and become Catholic again in their thinking, hopefully. And those who say there's no Pope, well, they won't need to say that anymore, because there'll be a good pope. And then the Catholic Resistance, will we just continue like we've always been fighting. That's all. Like Archbishop Lefebvre said, "When Rome comes back to tradition, it'll be not us coming back to the Church, but they coming back to where we always stood and fought and held the position." So little flock here, hold strong.

And the last point, Our Lord had many for lunch at His table, 5,000 in one crowd, 4,000 in another crowd, and He fed them delicious, probably the best bread ever made, and the best-tasting fresh fish. And they all ate to be satisfied and well-filled. So that's quite a crowd, 5,000, 4,000.

But when it came to Calvary, when it came to the crunch, who stood at the foot of the Cross? What is it for? Our Blessed Mother, St. John, St. Mary Magdalene, Mary of Salome, and Mary of Cleopas stood at the foot of the cross. That's it. That's it. Where's the thousands? So that's our honor today, and we want to pray for that grace to stay at the foot of the Cross. Come what may, stay at the foot of the Cross with Our Lady. And with Her you're going to stay faithful to death and persevere.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

Oh, Mary conceived without sin.

And for those who do not every course 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[Fr. Hewko: The Higher Calling]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=5928 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:48:21 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=5928

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