Benedict and the TLM; the Pivot has come

Amici,

The "mild" Vatican II Reformer, Joseph Ratzinger, has now passed on to Judgment, and while we can and should pray for him, we cannot be presumptuous one way another or about that Judgment. Certain types of Protestants, and now no few "Catholics", seem to think one's eternal Salvation is "in the bag", not apparently realizing they're wallowing in the Sin of Presumption. The Anti-Pope Bergoglio has plainly said no one can really live up to God's Commandments anyway, so "chill out." Very Protestant, old Bergi is. Luther and Co. should welcome him, if that is how that his own judgment turns out.

Benedict's Greatest Deed

Focusing historically and theologically, however, on one issue, Benedict XVI has forever garnered a pivotal place in ecclesiastical history because of his "freeing" the Traditional Latin Mass. It was the major achievement of his reign and I have no doubt the cause of his downfall. So to note his passing, I would like to bring up what his Summorum Pontificum of July 2007 effected in the Church, or more precisely, what it began to recognize as the Holy Ghost's actions were already bringing about. For now that Ratzinger has died, a major turning point, a true pivot, has been reached.

Hindsight has to reveal to anyone not blinded by Modernist bias that, despite the Official Church doing what it could to suppress the TLM, the Holy Ghost wanted it back. For despite what the spiritually dead, the spiritually deaf, or simply the spiritually stupid insist upon, the record since 1970 shows God wants the Traditional Latin Mass restored. The Church of 2023 bears little resemblance to what it was before 1963. Bringing it back is the strongest – and certainly most Catholic – movement in the Church today. Whatever Pope Benny's true intent, whether he recognized the whole "Vatican II Shtick" was up (something John Paul II could not do), or whether he actually thought that the old Mass could live side-by-side in a happy, symbiotic relationship with the new, both "enriching" the other in a "mutual enrichment" for a goodly length of time – whatever he thought, Benedict certainly did God's will in freeing, or trying to free, the TLM from the clutches of the Modernist hierarchy.

That Modernist hierarchy was enraged, and they got rid of Pope Ratzinger. Fourteen years after Summorum Pontificum, they promulgated its opposite, Traditionis Custodes (best translated literally as "Jailers of Tradition") on 16 July 2021. And they've since worked to undo Summorum Pontificum in more ways with ever more rulings.

For an important article about what damage the Modernist Anti-Catholics have done to the TLM laity and the clergy, review this article at Rorate. The interviewee makes the interesting point that Bergoglio and Traditionis Custodes haven't laid a glove on the growing SSPX and have a spotty record harassing what had been the "Ecclesia Dei" communities (FSSP, ICKSP). What havoc and devastation it has produced are in the regular diocesan priests who have tried to learn and offer the TLM. A very interesting article.

And regarding Benedict and his TLM efforts, it is remarkable how the TLM took off in regular parishes. It would not stay "sidelined" in specialist shops wherein the Modernists clearly hoped to exile it. Average, everyday clergy and laity wanted it, do want it today, and no matter how hard Bergoglio and the Modernist unbelievers try now, all the Mass-closing antics are the detritus of impotent fools and knaves, the shouting of a mob about to be dispersed by God's will. We must prepare. Bergoglio will unleash all Hell on the Church now that Joseph Ratzinger is dead, from many directions, and no one can pretend Bergoglio has the best interests of the Church at heart. Yet when the storm has subsided, the TLM will be welcomed by Catholics as the standard of quiet, holy sanity in worship. It will be welcomed as the most Catholic form of worship. That's the significant pivot that will occur to the multitude of "Survivor Catholics". 

It is an incarnation of the Crucifixion: even as the Devil thought he had defeated Christ by casting down the ancient liturgy, even as he thought he had triumphed, it turned out to be the opposite of what he had thought. If crucifying Christ didn't work, crucifying His liturgy won't, either.

Pray, and hope.

  An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Pope Benedict Passing Away

Amici,

I've been silent for a while, afflicted with the reality we all must live in. I've been wandering with Frodo and Sam among the poisonous ruined landscape before the Gate of Mordor, little squeaking ghosts lost among the ash-heaps of the Dark Lord. Whether the political, economic, or moral situations are irretrievable now or not – and signs of hope do show themselves, even now, even here – the Church's situation itself is dire indeed, as Pope Benedict XVI prepares (or is being prepared by Bergoglio and Co.) to pass away. I agree with Ann Barnhardt here (and as listed at Canon212, along with many other important articles noted there) that once he's gone, the Anti-Church will unleash its fury against what remains of the one, holy Catholic Church.

I won't go into detail, as Ann does such a superlative job of that, but I will say such terror that's about to be unleashed unintentionally carries a bit of good along with it, and more than a bit. We will all finally see what the Progressive, Modernist Church really is. No room for doubt will remain. People will have to choose.

And that is all to the good.

But whither this true pope, Joseph Ratzinger? There's an Irish saying, "An áit a bhfuil do chroí is ann a thabharfas do chosa thú." Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. Where indeed would Pope Benedict's feet taken him since February 2013, had he not been bound and gagged by the Modernists? We don't know. Benedict seems a milder version of the Vatican II Reformers, one who yet began to backtrack and undo some of the devastation caused by "the Spirit of Vatican II", that "animus" that still howls in the empty reaches of Sauron's twisted devastation. Bergoglio is no enigma: he's a Nazgûl; he's hell and death to the Catholic Church. But Ratzinger? Where was his heart, really? He feet were not allowed to tell us.

        AnP

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Can Kari Lake's lawsuit win in Arizona? What it means for American and World elections.

Friends,

If you're interested in elections and government, read Kari Lake's lawsuit she has filed to win the governorship of Arizona. Some say it reads like a "thriller" and of course others dismiss it entirely, as does the Arizona Mirror and Arizona Central.

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Lake makes the case in her own words here (third interview down) with Steve Bannon. 

Plainly, the Arizona Mirror and the Arizona Central above are two partisan news orgs against Lake, and whether their arguments have merit depends on the judge, ultimately. We'll see how the judge rules on the upcoming petitions to throw the lawsuit out. Were the judge to order the suit to trial, however, the trial would begin this coming week. I would guess that if the judge keeps the suit and tries it, Lake might well win. Should she win, the Democrats will appeal it all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, which I believe leans more Leftist than not.

• Given the state-controlled power in American government, it seems unlikely it will go to trial, or if it did, that Lake would win, because such a turn of events would demand attention focus on just how badly U.S. elections are run. The Deep-state rulers do not want that.
  
• Conversely, if it is dismissed or obviously dispatched with contempt, the people of the country will be both educated and enraged, producing a revolutionary environment. After all, if ballots are suppressed, bullets rule. Polls suggest some 70 percent of Americans already think their elections are rigged. 
  

For anyone wanting a "deep dive" into current election rigging and theft, this article has a lot of detail, and many worthwhile links.

As Covid and the longer-running "Climate Change" frauds show, the "Powers-that-Be" in the world – those who control most governments – have a plan to reduce us to serfs, or more likely genetically impoverished slaves. (A good portion of humanity suffering as slaves is the traditional human scheme, actually. The World Economic Forum, etc., are just depriving us of our 300-plus years of Western Classical Liberal birthright for the older paradigm.) As part of that, they cannot allow Kari Lake or Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro or even Viktor Orbán to last. (See the excellent essay Hungary, the Only Country in the West.) They must suppress these leaders, and because Lake was so popular and such a prime, superior campaigner, they had to go "over the top" or "jump the shark" in Arizona, ridiculously messing up their election rigging so badly that the whole world will see it. The Arizona election is that significant.

Hence, my friends, the stakes. Allowing the Democrats to steal the 2020 election put a Chinese Communist Party operative in control of the U.S. (Biden's probably mostly just a figurehead, of course, but still a "gopher" for Xi): Read Sam Faddis interview here. We simply must stop this insanity if we want a future other than perpetual servitude. (That is, those of us who are not eliminated already via the "vaccines".)

  An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

A St. Anselm Reflection on this Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Amici,

We Catholics often can in no wise even begin to explain the importance of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the great theological sense of things. Tonight, one of my children asked me about this Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I explained to her that Mary was conceived without sin, alone of all the people ever born. The child asked why, and I said she needed to be without Original Sin because Jesus had to be born without original sin, and as He received His human nature from His Mother, she couldn't have been born with Original Sin.

My child understood that. "That makes sense," she said. Indeed, it does.

But Mary is a full partner with her Son in Redemption, not just the means of his Incarnation into the human race. St. Anselm (died 1109) wrote the following, which I found in the Monday morning reading of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It gives the reader a very strong idea of her essential role and why she is sometimes called "Co-Redemptrix" (something Bergoglio repudiated a good while ago, the ogre). I've sent it around before, in other contexts, but it is appropriate here, too.

As St. Anselm writes, "He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary."

Monday Morning Prayers

From a sermon by Saint Anselm, bishop (1033/4–1109)

Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth an rivers, day and night – everything that is subject to the power or use of man—rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for human beings or for the praise of God, who made them. The world, contrary to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of human beings who served idols. Now all creation has been restored to life and rejoices that it is controlled and given splendor by those who believe in God.

The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God Himself, its Creator, it sees him openly working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb.

Through the fullness of the grace that was given you, dead things rejoice in their freedom and those in heaven are glad to be made new. Through the Son who was the glorious fruit of your virgin womb, just souls who died before his life-giving death rejoice as they are freed from captivity, and the angels are glad at the restoration of their shattered domain.

Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation received new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator Himself has been blessed by creation.

To Mary God gave his only-begotten Son, whom he loved as himself. Through Mary God made himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe was created by God, and God was born of Mary. God created all things and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation. He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary.

God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world. Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s son, nothing could be redeemed.

Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted that all nature should owe as much to you as to himself.

A blessed feast to all of you!

An Préachán

Incredible: Sister Lucia of Fatima replaced in the 1960s

 Friends,

I thought myself pretty well informed about all things Catholic, but I had never heard that Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima fame, the only one of the three seer children to survive into adulthood, was replaced by a double in the 1960s. This has been proven via facial recognition experts and the corresponding new technology. See Sister Lucy Truth for excessive detail that proves this. In an episode of his John Henry Weston Show at LifesiteNews, you can access John Henry's interview with Dr Peter Chojnowski, who runs the website. Handwriting analysis demonstrates it as well. Linguistic experts affirm that the "New Lucy" had a Portuguese accent not arising from the region of Fatima.

The new Lucia first appeared publicly at Fatima with that Wretch of Wretches, Pope Paul VI, on the Fatima anniversary in 1967, and from then on, towed the party line, i.e. the Vatican II (Spirit of) party line. No more "Men are in imminent danger" but a mushy "Glad the window to the world was opened by good Pope John." No more the Jews must convert or that Russia must become Catholic, only that everyone should be free to practice whatever religion they want.

Sound Incredible?

Of course they'd "deep-six" the original and replace her. Her message was NOT what the Modernist-controlled Church wanted broadcast. The original Lucia was a thorn in the sides of popes Pius XI and XII because they would not consecrate Russia as The Blessed Mother had asked in 1929. JPII's halfway attempt in March 1984 was not what was asked for, nor Bergoglio's more recent knock-off. Apparently the "New Lucy" said that JP2's version was sufficient. But now that we knew the "New Lucy" was a fraud, all bets are off.

And of course the "New Lucy" lied like a rug regarding the Fatima Secret, which was to be opened and read publicly in 1960 (notice that date) whether she herself was alive or not. The "Original Lucy" was adamant about that.

The long and the short of it is clear: we're going to get gobsmacked spiritually and physically good and hard because the Modernists who controlled the Church by the early 1960s didn't believe any aspect of the Fatima story.

Prepare yourselves as best you can.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.