Vatican II Destroyed Western Civilization: the Proof

My friends, amici,

To write "Vatican II Destroyed Western Civilization" sounds hyperbolic in the extreme, perhaps, but it is true, and here's the proof.

Vatican II allowed unprincipled, depressed and a number of very, very stupid people to attack the Traditional Latin Mass, and indeed, do their best to erase it. The root of that destruction precede Vatican II, but the project was fully launched via individuals thereafter

Why the depression? 

• The Church's impotency to effect anything regarding World War I and World War II (I think it could have but the pope's involved took their own counsel, and chose caution when their martyrdom would have better served the Faith, and Europe) left a great many Catholic VIPs on the Continent of Europe depressed, morose. 
• They thought a Church Council would be a pick-me-up and a "new beginning", usher in a "new Pentecost" – an inherently blasphemous idea, that God's Pentecost had run out of spiritual steam! (I wish someone had told Pope John Paul II "This is blasphemy!" the minute he first uttered such nonsense).
  
• So, in their pride and unwisdom, these VIPs thought they'd make Catholicism attractive to Protestants by making its central rite Protestant-like, and together they would all march into a glorious new Pentecost sunrise singing Kumbaya.
  

What these desperate, fevered optimists didn't understand was that the entirety of Western Civilization was a superstructure built upon the hull of Catholic culture, and the very keel of Catholic culture, from time immemorial, was the Traditional Latin Mass. (Pope Gregory the Great, died 604, did not create it; it predates him: it comes from the "dream time" of the Church in Rome and Latium, and is actually the oldest liturgy any Church has.)

How the Mass Created Western Civ

Cult is always the root of culture, etymologically and anthropologically. Look at it this way: if your cult is the Twelve Olympians, you are going to have a different culture than if you worship the Aztec gods, with their demand for endless human sacrifice. Or if you adhere to the cults of Vishnu, or Brahma, or Shiva the Destroyer of Worlds (my fav Hindu character), you're going to have a very different culture than if you worship Allah via his "prophet" Muhammad. But when the central cult is gone, collapsed, or retired and replaced by a new cult, then the culture goes too. When NO cult replaces the old, however, then your civilization dies, as well.

A great example is Japan. They worshiped the emperor as a god. No one, and I mean NO ONE could be less "godlike" than Hirohito, but in Shinto, he was their god. After the war, he was allowed to stay as emperor but quickly ceased to be seen as a deity – not exactly hard to do! Now notice Japan today. Wealthy, yes, prosperous, certainly. Technologically very advanced, with their own space program. 

• But a depressed society of people who won't reproduce themselves. 
• The Japanese are going extinct. 
• Why? 
• Well, it is obvious! Their cult is gone, their culture has lost its focus, and neither Christianity – or anything else – has been able to gain their allegiance. (Buddhism has coexisted with Shinto for centuries but never replaced it as the national cult of Nippon. In fact, they kinda-sorta blended together.)

Now...

Compare Japan to Islam. Backward, violent, barbaric, completely misogynistic, the religion of the Prophet is the strongest retrograde force on Earth, according to Winston Churchill. Yet bomb them, slaughter them, do what you want to them, Muslims keep coming back. And back. And back. They're spreading throughout Europe and the world beyond. Move every Muslim Arab from Gaza to Egypt and voila! You've moved an intractable problem 25 miles away. Good luck with that. Islam will keep coming back and back and back, martyring you and martyring themselves in ever increasing numbers! 

Why?

• Because their central cult is still intact! 
• The black-draped Kaaba in Mecca (only women wear black in fully Muslim cultures), with its vulva-shaped silver orifice in which you can see the Moon Goddess' back rock will never cease having millions of Muslim men Haj pilgrims swirling and dancing around it in ecstasy. 
• As long at the cult is intact, that unstable lunar witchcrafty culture will remain. Forever. 

Catholic Church Destroyed Western Civilization

So, cult is the source of culture – with "civilization" being an intentional, planned superstructure built on top of culture, a construction that, unlike one's basic, inherited culture, you have to be educated into. (One has to be taught to like fine art, high literature, or classical music – something most of our current educators have no clue about.) Yet the unprincipled, depressed and ignorant people who created the Reformation 2.0 of the Catholic Church in the decades after 1962, knew none of this. Or they knew, and wrought evil intentionally. 

1. Destroying the Traditional Latin Mass cut the keel out of the hull of Western Civ. 
2. Think just of the great churches, the cathedrals and monastic churches that were built from the Dark Age on through the early Middle Ages and on into the High Middle Ages, right up till the Reformation put an abrupt halt to it in much of Europe. 
3. Or think of the Baroque gems created from the Counter-Reformation on. Magnificent. All "stage-sets" for the Traditional Latin Mass! 
4. And beyond the architecture, think of the exquisite music, the philosophy, the grand theology, the paintings and sculpture and carvings in stone and wood! 
5. ALL that, the very STUFF of a civilization, its heart, its soul created to house, adorn, honor, glorify that Traditional Latin Mass and the Real Presence of Christ within it, to defend it and promote His Presence.

All to be replaced with a quasi-Methodist knock-off service having some Catholics prayers shoe-horned in.

Words fail.

One can go to that excellent website Canon212.com to read the many articles detailing the collapse of Catholicism. I see the Church is going comatose in Poland, with fewer and fewer seminarians for every year Bergoglio does his "Emperor's New Clothes" shtick. And via Canon212 I read a comment the other day in Fr Z's blog about how the Faith has fled "Atlantic Canada" and how the author expected it not to survive in the western Provinces much longer. Anyone reading this from Europe or the U.S.A. also can attest to the simply jaw-dropping fall-off in Mass attendance, and the growing imbecility of sermons in the Masses they do attend, and the general meretriciousness of the Novus Ordo "liturgy" and the bishops who promote it. (No one is more meretricious than Bergoglio.)

I do not counsel despair. Fr. Mawdsley has an excellent podcast titled Can you stand? Endure the Church's passion, enjoy the victory of the resurrection. Christus vincit! It isn't exactly easy right now to be Catholic, but it wasn't easy for the first 300 years of the Church, either, or for much of the rest of Church history. Wars, invasions, great heresies (Arianism, Islam itself, Protestantism) have afflicted us since the beginning. Think of the persecutions Christians are suffering today, in all manner of ways. "Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Matt 16:24-25) And "If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you." (John 15:18)

Fight Back Knowing this about the Mass

But at least we can fight back for the Traditional Latin Mass. Knowing its civilizational importance; we can demand it be returned to us and categorically refuse the false web of wizardry the "Lavender Mafia" has woven around it, and us, for 60 years. We don't just want our Mass back, we want to save what's left of our civilization, and everyone from your local parish priest to Bergoglio has to know that we know exactly just what the Traditional Latin Mass is, and how our civilized world depends on it. For just as the Church took the heart from Western Civilization, the Church can restore it, with God's help.

Not to mention our salvation. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi. The law of prayer is the law of belief. If we pray like Catholics, we'll believe like Catholics.

How hard can this be to understand, Tio Jorge?

          AnP

Playwright David Mamet tells us about how Christianity came to be...

Amici,

The Muslims smell blood in the water. Like sharks, they're beginning to swim around Israel in ever closer circles.

And the USA are about at war with the world. Should Israel go into Gaza to wipe out Hamas (remember, an organization that certain Israelis helped in some way to form), it will potentially be like Stalingrad, a fighting step-by-step through a pile of ruins. House to house, and of course, civilians will be killed. As Col. Macgregor says, no soldier will try to ask first, "Excuse me, are you a Hamas terrorist or...?" No one can expect soldiers to do that. It would be a repeat of trying to figure out who was a Viet Cong guerilla and who a Vietnamese peasant. And as for the Jihadi Muslims, the two million Gazans are already dead, martyrs for Allah. The men among them will get to spend Eternity in carnal relations with the legendary 72 virgins per Muslim man, while their women can look on from the sidelines.

Since the U.S. is stitched cheek by jowl to Israel – well, the Obama/Biden Regine is cheek by jowl with Iran, insanely enough – the Americans will get dragged into whatever war develops. It all depends on what Israel does, but nothing stays the same forever, as the old saying goes. And Israel is badly, badly divided in many ways, a large segment of the population was enraged about the government's attempt to reign in their out-of-control supreme court. Many reservists were not showing up for duty, and air force pilots wouldn't fly. So no wonder the Muslims scented blood in the water, all right. They're now in it for the kill. (And the American's pending collapse will be icing on their cake.) Ironically, Israel has lasted about as long as the Crusader states in the same exact region. A bitter irony, indeed, for them, and for us Catholics with long memories.

Meanwhile, we must seemingly blindly follow the Biden Regime into war, but I don't think they're going to war for Israel. And anyway, Israel, so loved by evangelical Christians in America, loathes Christians. A controversial statemet? Yes, but let's see the celebrated American Jew David Mamet has to say in his essay about it. 

I read it. “Very intense” is one way to describe it. Mamet's angry and he doesn't "hold back". No doubt he, too, senses this is a critical time for Israel, and its survival is at stake. First, Mamet clearly points out how the Democrats in the USA have betrayed Jews in various way, and that’s all too true, in various ways. Especially about that evil man, FDR. But then the playwright points out that the American Jews tended to vote in a block for Democrats. There's an old joke that Jews live like Episcopalians yet vote like Puerto Ricans. Somehow – like the American Negroes – the Democrats keep Jews "down on the plantation" too.

Mamet and Christianity

Mamet also writes of Christianity that “Christianity came into being with the destruction of the Jewish State — the adherents were Jews whose Temple and culture had been destroyed. Every new religion, in its foundation myths, slanders its parent faith.”

Lovely. Let's get this straight. So Christianity, founded on a myth, only exists because the Romans destroyed the Temple and murdered up to a million Jews (some historians estimate that high a number for the 70 A.D. war, and a like number later with the later Bar Kochba revolt, when the Romans renamed the region "Palestine") and scattered the rest, and some of these traumatized survivors formed the first the Christian Jews? Most Christians of that first generation were indeed Jews. St Luke is the only Gentile writer of the New Testament (though some claim he was a Hellenized Jew). But nothing supernatural about the origin of Christianity occurred, Mamet seems to say; they only became Christians because they were depressed that the Temple was destroyed, so they made up the Jesus Myth. Nice. And remember as you contemplate that bit of insight that Mamet is a famous playwright and not supposedly some ignorant yahoo.

Mamet also writes: “Afterwards, we find the Christian libel that the Jews killed Christ, the medieval information that we slay Christian children to bake their blood into matzoh, that we were the cause of the Second World War; and, currently, that we exist to murder Moslems.”

• Well, well. Sadly, the “blood libel” has indeed been around for ages, and it is a great evil. Mamet left off that many Medieval people blamed Jews for the Black Death, by the way. And Muslims hate Jews for a host of reasons, and certainly slander them. When they're not killing them.

So, to sum up, the Jewish leaders of Christ's day didn’t kill Christ. (Maybe it was the Buddhists?) I suppose the Romans did the deed just for the heck of it. Pontius Pilot got up that morning and said, "I'm feeling bad today. Go round up some harmless Jewish dreamer and crucify him for me. I'll feel better." "But hey, boss, we got Barabbas. We can crucify him. He's a murderer!" "Naw, an innocent day dreamer is who I want to see crucified today."

And Christians have been slandering Jews ever since? In fact, Mamet quotes St John's Gospel, 8:44: “You are of your father, the Devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the Beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth because the truth is not in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

Ouch. But curiously enough, gee whiz, Mamet the playwright doesn't bother to stage the scene. So, allow me to do so. 

• Jesus of Nazareth is brought the "woman caught in the act of adultery" at the beginning of St. John 8. 
• He says His famous, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." 
• So the whole trap they had set blew up in the Pharisees' faces. I suppose Mamet would say that whole scene didn't actually occur. Part of that Christian mythology, dontcha know? 
• Then Our Lord says, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

The Pharisees immediately dispute His self-witness, and assert that "Your witness is not true." So Our Lord Christ goes into long conversation where after much give and take, they insist “Abraham is our father.” (In St Matthew 3:9 the Jews are saying the same thing, "Abraham is our father" so often that St John the Baptist shouts out, "God could raise up children to Abraham from these very stones!") In St John's Gospel scene, Jesus tells them no, they are not Abraham's children for were they Abraham's descendants, "You would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this." 

By this time they're really angry, not least because He obviously knows they plan to kill him (oh, right; it wasn't the Jews!) and they say, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.” Notice how they've moved from Abraham to God? We're now up to verses 42 and 43, and Our Lord says, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word." It is then with verse 44 that He begins the speech Mamet quoted. 

This dramatic scene builds and builds, and is excellent dialogue. It would be fantastic on a stage. Doesn't the playwright notice that? In any event, the whole confrontation goes on until they say, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus answers them with his famous “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” That's it for the Jews He has been speaking with. Without ever uttering it themselves, they know the Sacred Tetragrammaton, the "I Am Who Am." This unemployed wanderer Who performs endless miracles is claiming to be God Himself, so they take up stones to stone him with, and He disappears from the Temple.

Now, wouldn't that make a fantastic drama on the stage, Mr. Playwright? Oh, yeah, it's mythology. Um, but still...

A Revelation

Perhaps an article like this gives insight for those who might be interested into the intractable separation between Judaism and Christianity. They are non-negotiable. No middle ground can be reached except to go their separate ways, a lot like Abraham and Lot. The average Christian has no idea of how Jews loathe Christians who take their religion seriously. It is widely taught by Jews that a gentile who obeys the Noahide covenant might have some share in the afterlife, but a Christian who tries to convert a Jew will go to the deepest part of Hell for eternity. A wise rabbi, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, famously said “Christianity is Judaism for Gentiles” But his was a rare wisdom, and sorely missed in these times.

But I digress. Armageddon does that to me.

God bless them and have mercy on all of us. 

The Jewish people, or Biblically speaking, the People Israel (St. Paul seems to see a difference), have a major role to play in the End Times. Fr. Mawdsley discusses that with Kennedy Hall here. "ISRAEL: Biblical prophecy of the conversion of the Jews to Christianity with Fr. Mawdsley". This second is a new one: "Jesus is no Zionist. Neither is Moses." Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss is a revelation, and Brother Nathaniel in a clip from his: "Why I Left Judaism", is priceless.

Fr Mawdsley going to get himself banned from YouTube, no matter how pro-Jewish he otherwise is. The other day he had one where he showed video clips of an altar they erected somewhere in Jerusalem (IIRC) where newly reconstituted Levitical priests offered the carcass of a freshly slain lamb up in the fire. The lamb had been butchered somewhere else, but it was a pathetic – truly the word for it – sight. Skinned carcass. Guys in robes awkwardly leaning toward fire. THAT's the religion religious Jews want to bring back?

Most Jews are not "religious observant". I read a Times of Israel article recently about just how religious Israeli Jews actually are. Most Jews in the U.S., which some say has 51 percent of the world's Jews, are not "religious" either. Note this doesn't necessarily mean they're atheists, just not that into God. Being Jewish without God can great if no Muslims are around. Fun festivals, a strong identity, lots of connections. But to really believe it...? Those poor kids at the music festival had a huge statue of the Buddha there. Isn't that like setting up a pillar to Baal or an Asherah? Does anyone besides the religious observant in Israel know about false idols? Do they ever wonder, "Gee, maybe...?"

Asking for a friend, as they say.

           AnP

False Pope Creating a False Church because Good Catholics Will Not Stop Him

 Amici,

Whatever Jorge Mario Bergoglio is creating in Rome via his "Synod", now extended apparently a number of years (we'll never get rid of it! You KNOW it is "Vatican III") – whatever it is, it is not the Catholic Church.

How obvious is this? Just reading, even skimming, some of the stuff going on at that Synod strikes me as completely alien to EVERYTHING Catholic. So, clearly, the false pope is creating a false Church.

Can we be remotely surprised?

Yes, Bergoglio is creating a false Church via his "Synod on Synodality". And good men like Cardinals Burke, Müller, bishops such as Bishop Athanasius Schneider, and of course a host of Conservative Catholics (Fr. Gerald Murray and Robert Royal are exemplars) and Trad Catholics – too numerous to count, but Professor Peter Kwasniewski is an excellent example, are letting him do it.

They're letting Bergoglio get away with it because they insist he is a valid pope, and actually occupies the cathedra of St. Peter. As I've written a number of times, Bergoglio is painfully obviously not a pope, and has never acted like one, so therefore insisting he is a valid pope leads inevitably to cognitive dissonance. You'll go cross-eyed insisting this fool – and no, I'm not very nice to "Bergi" – is an actual pope. In fact, you'll lose your faith if you insist on maintaining the charade.

Video Tells All

Ever see see that video of Bergoglio nine years ago walking along a hallway, spying two young altar servers, one with his hands in the classic prayer position? Bergoglio says something, then stops, and physically pulls the boy's hands apart, saying "Are your hands bound together? Seems like they're stuck." That little scene, right there, affirmed my growing suspicions and I've never believed he was pope after that. (If I ever really believed it before.)

He wears a diabolical pectoral cross, too, as I've written here.  And the man has consistently proven he is not a pope, nor a Catholic, and not even a Christian. Yet all these good men noted above insist he is actually pope and must be "resisted". Don't they comprehend doing that is driving a stake through the heart of the papacy? If it survives Bergoglio's wrecking ball at all, it will be stunted, shackled, and marginalized. Thanks to them.

And so will the Church.

Now, Ann Barnardt and her friends insist Benedict XVI did not validly resign in the first place. I think they make excellent arguments. Archbishop Viganò makes the superb argument that Bergoglio accepted his election without intending to serve as pope's are supposed to; it would be like a marriage being declared invalid because one of the partners had no intention of keeping any of his vows in the first place. Both these arguments are splendid, indeed, but for me, I think it is simply, horrifically blatant that there's nothing papal about this lout. So, GET HIM OUT! And any argument that can effect that is a most excellent argument, indeed!

Otherwise, all these well-meaning folk will do as much damage to Holy Mother Church as Bergoglio himself, and ALL his perverted peeps, are doing.

          AnP

Israel, the Crusader States, Muslim Violence and Gnostic ranks, and Baron von Sebottendorf

Amici,

What a duplicitous world we live in. One that keeps replaying a sad tale, like a broken record.

Israel, the U.S. Government, and Terrorists

The American government supports a lot of folks via American taxpayer money. Much money goes to Ukraine, obviously. About a 100 billion dollars, in fact, for a war American surrogates and proxies lost. Yet another war, in other words, that the U.S. lost. At least, short of some nuclear disaster, this war will be over soon. The U.S. is broke, if for no other reason.

But the American government (and the EU, no doubt) support in various ways Mideastern bad buys like the Iranian mullahs, who terrorize their own people as horrifically as Hezbollah or Hamas do theirs. Joe Biden is really big on the Iranian regime, as literally everyone knows. And of course he's a wholly owned subsidiary of the Communist Chinese. You know, like Bergoglio's church.

But really, the whole Mid-East thing is such a mess that one can be justified in washing one's hands of it. For example, check out Emerald Robinson's details on how (and why) Israel "created" (encouraged the development of) Hamas for their own political ends.

Their creation, like Frankenstein, got out of control and attacked its creators, sci-fi style. Just incredible. But true.

Neocon American foreign policy has often been stupid. Vietnam comes to mind, as does American involvement in the Balkans, and the endless Middle Eastern wars. But Biden himself always was stupid, even before he lost what little mind he had. Now, to complicate matters even more than usual, it has come out that Benjamin Netanyahu and those Israelis who opposed the "Two-State Solution" for Israel and Palestine, sabotaged it with Hamas. I suspect most leaders on both sides believed it would have never worked, anyway. Those who promoted it were hypocrites about it. Why? See the fate of the Crusader states below for details. But as noted, those Israelis who opposed the Two-State solution created – or really better to say, encouraged – Hamas as a religious fanaticism sect against Yasser Arafat and his secular Palestinian crowd. Well, their plan worked, sort of. (Hamas is now just another part of Muslim Jihad against the West in general, for whatever that factoid is worth.)

Thus,  the Israelis are in an impossible position today, of course. Hamas has demonstrated they'll release the very Hounds of Hell on all Israelis. Far beyond any political violence any government could tolerate. Hamas clearly demands Israel "martyr" them. Were the Israelis to ease off on Hamas, that would just embolden Hamas and all the Arabs, terrorist or not, to push Israel into the sea. If the Israelis destroy Hamas, on the other hand, some other group will just replace them. 

Islam and Violence

Violence and grievance are endemic to Islam. Why? Partly because Islam is a "Shame-Honor Response" culture, where insults, real or imagined, must be paid in blood. No "I am the Lord, I will repay" (Romans 12:19; Deut 32:35) teachings in Islam. Just the opposite. Besides that, there's an endless supply of young Muslim men for violence because their leaders are terrorists or thugs and they can't get good jobs or an education outside of crazy "Islam for the Masses" type stuff. (Traditionally, the only "science" Islam recognizes is Muslim religious studies.)

• Tecnically, the word for "Islam for the masses is "Ibara". That's the one form of Islam most Muslims you could ever meet would know about.  
• N.B. Very few Muslims reach the level of Ishara, the next highest level up. That's for the spiritual, i.e. Gnostic, elite; above that is the latā'if and then the highest, the 33rd degree Mason equivalent, is the "haqā'iq". That's Moon Goddess worship territory.
• (These are courtesy of Lloyd de Jongh's work; he culled this info from the Latā'if al-Isharat bi-Tafsīr al-Qur'ān, a famous tome and complete Koranic commentary by Abu l-Qasim Al-Qushayri, who died in 1074.)

Not only that, but because a Muslim man can have up to four wives (and numberless concubines) the average young Muslim man can't very easily find a wife – even if he has a job! So, all that, with a religion calling endlessly for vengeance, murder, and mayhem, with an entire people "shamed and dishonored" by Jews and the larger world, one can see how becoming a terrorist would work off a lot of in-built aggression in that culture.

To sum up, Israel crushing Hamas and Gaza would result in the whole world erupting in Jew-hatred, something it seems to be inbred with. There's even a lot of Jews who hate Jews. Leftist American Jews seem to hate Israeli Jews or Conservative American Jews. They hate Trump whose daughter converted to Judaism and who backs Israel 100 percent. But then even Netanyahu seems to hate Trump (couldn't wait to congratulate Biden on his fraudulent presidential election win). 

Ergo, all in all, my friends, the future, like the present, is grim. 

The Crusader States

Being destroyed en mass was the fate (well, being conquered and enslaved en mass to be specific) of the Medieval Crusader states occurred in exactly this same geographic area Israel now exists in. It took a 100 years or so, but the Muslims were relentless. These statelets, the "Outremer" as they were called in Medieval French, lasted from 1098 to 1291. The Kingdom of Jerusalem remains perhaps the best-known. It existed from 1099-1291. The states were little Europes in the Levant sea of Muslims (with submerged continental shelves of indigenous Christians slowly dying out). They had sheriffs, courts of law, lawyers, all the details and minutiae of a European state of that time. All that was swept away with the Muslim reconquest, of course. Islamic rule meant absolute personal rule by the sheik, or amir, or sultan, who did whatever he wanted, whenever and however he wanted. By the time Mark Twain wrote "Innocents Abroad" in 1884, the entire area had been rendered into one miserable desert of despair, backwardness, and misery. (Sort of like most of the rest of the Muslim world.)

This quote is perfecto; Twain could have written it (but didn't):

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apa­thy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Written by none other than Winston Churchill. (He says a lot more in the same vein, but has a few good words for the fine soldiers of the empire some Muslims could make.)

So, not long after Mark Twain visited that most depressing and bleak region of the Earth, the idealistic, romantic, and mostly Socialist Leftist Jews from Europe began their Zionist effort to resettle their ancient land. At first, no one cared. It was a wasteland. Landlords in Istanbul were happy to sell it off. But slowly the Quixotic Jews began to recreate it, showing that it could, indeed, be a land "flowing with milk and honey" – if it just had other people than Muslims in it – and then the Arab peasants, many of them Christian but all such dhimmis under the thumb of the Muslims, began to fight back against the colonization. Then Hitler intervened. The rest, as they say, "is history". His murder of six million Jews shamed the world into granting Israel its existence.

Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Occultist

Ah, but here's "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey used to say. The WWI veteran corporal sporting the goofy mustache was tutored after that war by an odd character named Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875-1945), a ne'er-do-well swindler originally named Glauer who somehow became a Turkish citizen and got adopted by the von Sebottendorf aristocratic family (I'm not making this up). He was into the occult, rose through the ranks of the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians, converted to Islam in Turkey, became a Sufi mystic (high-level Gnostic Muslim of the latā'if rank in other words) and returned to Germany as WWI ended. He founded the occult Thule Society, which, after a bit of metamorphosis, ended up renamed the National Socialist Workers' Party by Sebottendorf's groupie, ex-Corporal Hitler. He taught Hitler to hate the Jews in true Islamic fashion, and if Hitler hated them from his days in Vienna, he bore a blind hatred after Sebottendorf's tutelage. 

Eventually, Hitler fell out with Sebottendorf. The latter wrote a book "Before Hitler came" about how he, Sebottendorf, started the whole Nazi thing. Hitler, the ultimate narcissistic nutcase, didn't like that. So, "the Baron" escaped back to Turkey, where during WWII he worked as a double-agent, for both the Germans and the English, committing suicide (ahem, we think that's what happened) in 1945.

Now, today, here we are. Amazing, but NO answer exists to the Mideast mess short of either nuclear war or everyone there converting to Christianity, which neither Jew nor Muslim will tolerate the thought of. 

One last word from a saintly source: Pope St. Pius X (hat tip to the essential Ann Barnhardt):

I wonder if John Paul II apologized to the Jews about this? He apologized to them a number of times, after all. (An Préachán writes that with sarcasm.)

Violence, Hamas attacks, Israel, Bergoglio's Church Deconstruction

Yes, all four are closely related. Five, if you include the overthrow of the U.S. government that's going on. (Beware, my friends, the officially 7 million plus illegals who have entered the U.S. under Biden are quite possibly more like double that number or more, the majority being men of military age, many from the Mid-East. See at bottom for a thought on this.*)

Amici,

Violence, Hamas attacks, Israel, Bergoglio's church deconstruction – not to mentioned the Left's ongoing seizure of power in the United States from the American people – are all indeed enmeshed in the dehumanizing will to power: to get what is wanted and to stop at nothing to get it. 

• This is pure paganism, pure Islam, itself a Gnostic religion wherein 95 percent of the Muslims have no clue they're really worshiping Aliyat, the ancient Semitic Moon Goddess, not "Allah". (See Kennedy Hall interview Lloyd De Jongh here for details.)
• Hamas has shown both an unprecedented and unbelievable level of organized sophistication in this attack. 
• They have also demonstrated an unbelievable level of pure Satanic violence. The Mainstream Media will refrain from calling it that, but it is true. They hate the Jews and Israel in classic Muslim fashion. Muhammad is said to have murdered Jews non-stop, he hated them so; the Islamic tradition makes it plain that at a certain time Jews are to be killed outright: as Sahih al-Bukhari related in an infamous hadith quoted for the past millennium, Judgment Day comes about when Muslims rise to kill Jews: "The stones and trees will say 'O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'."
  
• And they're forcing Israel to reply with unfettered violence themselves. The Israelis must do so if they are to survive. Remember, for 1300 years Islam has taught non-Muslims, especially Christians and Jews, may exist as "dhimmis", powerless third-class subjects, but that status can – and has been – rescinded at will. 
• Now new calls are being made for a general Muslim uprising en mass against Israel this Friday, October 13.
• Kill or be killed. The absolute law of the absolute jungle. All our civilized niceties done away with. World War II actually taught us all that much, but we seem to have forgotten.

This is actually our world

Hamas – which some argue Israeli Intelligence created decades ago from religious fanatics to counter Yasser Arafat's secular Palestinian group, and is obviously now a mortal enemy to Jewish people everywhere – has attacked in the most savage, barbarian seventh-century Arab pagan-Islamic extreme style, slaughtering women, children, the aged, men, all and everyone, and taking others captive to use as human shields. 

Important: No matter whatever grievances the attackers might have, or think they have, no matter the complicated and bloody history engulfing that region of the world, this utterly, utterly heartless level of atrocity has to be met with an equal savagery, if it is to be ended. Not very Christian of me, I confess; had Our Sovereign Christ been listened to 2,000 years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess. 

And I think the world would be very different indeed had Pope Paul VI not surrendered Christ's Social Kingship of the world in 1964, abandoning the Tiara Crown of the Vicar of the Universal King on the altar in the Vatican after a Mass on November 13, 1964, ostensibly to sell it to "feed the poor" (had he never read: "The poor you will always have with you, but not me"? Matt 26:11). By this act, Paul VI in reality de-enthroned both himself as Christ's vicar, and Christ Himself. The symbolism could not be missed. Abdicating kings toss off their crowns. Typical of his own idiocy and the Vatican II Church's shallow but always misinterpreted gestures, Paul thought he was being overtly pious, but in reality the hapless fool merely imitated Judas: (see John 12:5-6).

The Uses of Violence

Consider World War II. It has still lessons to teach. Had we and the Soviets not met German barbarity with its equivalent, the war might have gone on. Had we not met militaristic Japanese bloodthirstiness with its equivalent, they would have dragged out the war. They were actually counting on precisely that. They thought the more brutally they acted, the more horrified America would be. The Japanese leaders thought the USA was too multi-racial, too lazy, too interested in money (as it may now indeed be) to fight the level of warfare they calculated they needed to unleash in order to achieve their goals. 

On the other side of the world, at the same time, Hitler himself certainly thought so. It wasn't until near the end that he realized the Americans and Russians were not going to stop or be deterred, and when he did realize it, Hitler infamously ordered the destruction of Germany by the Nazis in order to punish the German people for being losers. (Albert Speer didn't carry out those orders.) Hitler also ordered Paris blown up earlier when the Allies were about to take it, but the German general involved refused to do it. This is the path of madmen: if they can't get their way, if they can't luxuriate in their narcissistic unbridled will, they'll destroy everything so no one else can have it. (What better simulacrum of Satan could there be?) Iranian leaders have boasted they'll use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel, which of course would kill millions of Palestinians. They don't care, or they think it will bring on the end of the world, Muslim Judgement Day. (It just might, but not the one they want.) Or they just say and do stupid things because they think tomorrow will be yet another copy of today. They are the damned. The "Flying Dutchman" of religions.

Where is the Church?

These are the times we live in. And in this Hell-fraught times, when the Church should be in the forefront of these crises, preaching Christ, Him Crucified, and that the world is His, and that to survive, we need to live by His teachings and repudiate our narcissistic lusts; instead of that, on the very cusp of Armageddon (this Israeli invasion of Gaza could easily lead to a much larger war, very easily, depending on how the Arab factions and states react) we have an absolute oaf in the Vatican issuing the pathetic NGO "encyclical" "Laudate Deum", a follow-up of his infamous Laudato Si' from 2015. Christ is hardly mentioned, the Faith is not mentioned, none of this Global Warming claptrap they're so besotted with has anything to do with a pope's work or the Deposit of Faith. It is all a hideous violence against EVERYTHING Catholic. And here's also this unspeakably ridiculous "Synod on Synodality" that's ditching the very Deposit of Faith – forcibly so – in favor of spoiled Westerners and their demented and deviant carnal urges. That's it. That's the dying, being replaced Vatican II Church and its successor, the limp-whispered homosexualist Synoldal Church. We are being robbed of our religious heritage, before our very eyes.

Simply insane.

Such is our world.

Pray. Fast. Recite the Rosary.

We weren't going to live forever, anyway.

Not on this Earth.

*About the flooding of America with millions of fighting-age men, many from the Middle East

Muhammad probably didn't exist. There's one reference in one ancient document (i.e. Doctrina Jacobi) contemporary to his times that references an "Arab prophet with a sword" but no details, no name, no actions does it record. For the first century of the Arab Conquest of the Persian Empire and its near conquest of the Byzantine Empire, no commentator living at that time mentions Muhammad, Islam, Muslim, or the Koran. Coins minted by the Conquerors exhibited crosses and figures of kings, all absolutely verboten by the Islam we know. So, it is likely that Islam was invented by the Umayyad leaders toward the end of that Seventh Century to give them a divine sanction for their conquest and murder and enslavement of entire peoples. (Curiously, the succeeding Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258, always said the preceding Umayyads were not real Muslims! That might be more true than we know.)

Where did the Arab conquerors come from, then? They were already there. The Arabian peninsula never at any time had the population necessary to conqueror populous and prosperous empires like the Persians and the Byzantines. Or Egypt. Or North Africa. Nor India. But we know that thousands of Arabs began migrating from the lower peninsula into both Byzantium and Persia after the Romans emptied historic Israel of its Jewish population via three horrific wars against the Jews, the first of which began forty years after Jesus Christ's death, and it destroyed the Temple and all of Jerusalem.

So, for a couple of hundred years then, parts of Persia and Byzantium, what's now Iraq and Syria and Jordan, began to host large Arab populations. Today mostly unknown or uncommented on, the great Byzantine-Sasanian War began in 602 A.D. and lasted incredibly to 628. This existential conflict had deep roots going all the way back to Alexander the Great, truth be told. It even echoed the foundational legend of the Greeks against Troy. It turned out to be the final, most devastating of all those wars, and wrecked the Sasanian Empire of Iran. Muslims begin counting their years from the Christian year of 622, which is toward the end of the Sasanian-Byzantine war. Assuming Muhammad's passage from Mecca to Medina in 622 didn't actually happen (the usual reason for starting the Muslim calendar), this date does indicate an important time for the Arabs. Certain scholars posit that this commemorates when the Arabs began to seize sections of the two empires, displacing or subjugating the indigenous peoples.

That can easily happen now in the U.S. We are broke, bitterly divided, our military is "woke" and we've given away our military resources to Ukraine and now Israel. Our country-hating Leftists are already calling for the "decolonization of America". We can have Hammas and Hezbollaha and all the rest seizing the U.S., beginning at any time now. Why can't we "get our minds around" this? The same with France. The same with Britain and Germany, Sweden and so many of the Western European countries. (Thank God for Hungary!) It could easily happen, and probably will. The invaders would be just repeating what happened in the Seventh Century.

  An Préachán

The Synodal Church, cognitive dissonance, and the video "What on Earth Is Going on at the Vatican"

Amici,

Michael Matt has for years been a major player in the Trad Catholic scene in America, and so has his family. But at the moment, like so many others, he insists Bergoglio is actually pope. See an interview here at LifeSiteNews for details. One commentator to that article wrote that Matt is making a lot of sense. 

Matt is not making sense. Honestly, this whole "Bergoglio is pope" meme has to stop. Why? Insisting Bergoglio is pope will force anyone maintaining that position into severe cognitive dissonance. Insisting that ANYTHING is X, when it is clearly Y, will make you "cross-eyed" as it were; i.e. induce in you cognitive dissonance. Allow that cognitive dissonance to continue, not clearing it up immediately, will leave you psychologically prone, knocked flat. Leave it too long, allow it to fester in you, and you'll lose your faith. 

And THAT is the plan, my friends, of Bergoglio or whoever is managing him. Drive regular, "orthodox" Catholics out from their faith, and ultimately simply render them deeply ill in the soul. Let me prove this very easily. 

Did you-all see the circus like freakshow video of the capering and antics of performers around Bergoglio? All the exotic dancers and contortionists? Here it is, on Rumble. I assume they were "celebrating" the opening of the synod – yet with Tio Jorge, any reason would do – and it looked for all the world, well, Hellish. Just simply Hellish. Watch. Decide for yourself. Bergoglio enthroned in the City of Dis, rather distantly flanked by two high-level churchmen, impassive as a Mardi Gras-like carnival swirls around him. 

• Merely seeing that would make me ill were I somehow thinking Bergoglio in some way actually served as a valid pope. 
• I do not, not for an instant, and so I dismissed what I saw as idiocy. Fluff. Nonsense. 
• But the producers of this twaddle did not intend this show for people like me. 

Oh, no. It was intended for those who insist Bergoglio is pope. For such folks, it will cause great pain and torment. For them, it's an insidious manipulation. Grotesque. A mockery of everything they ever believed about the Church. A stake through their hearts. And please believe me when I say it is making Catholicism a laughing stock among Protestants, Jews, and Muslims. I'm seeing endless comments from them via the conservative political blogs regarding the descent of the Church into, well, Sodom. I've never read such a aggregate of vehemence against the Catholic Church before on these sites. And the sites and their commentators are "conservatives", and generally religious and valuing the importance of religion. 

Just crazy.

Just brutal.

And very effective.

Do not fall into their trap. 

Do not allow yourself to be devastated.

         AnP

The People vs Bergoglio, the Inimicus Ecclesiæ

Amici,

Like a great ship steaming at high speed takes time to change course, so the Church takes time for a "course correction" regarding its current trajectory. But certain signs suggest such is finally happening.

Crises everywhere

Once again curiously mirroring the revolution in the U.S. (Speaker McCarthy out, "RINOs" exposed at UniParty hacks, etc.), the Catholic Church undergoes its own and parallel revolution. In both cases, one can say it's "Us against Them", the American people in the one instance against the "Deep State", the Catholic laity against the Modernist Synodal Church in the other. Regarding the Church, I put the crisis as "The People vs Bergoglio". A rather unique case, but as in the American situation, one long building up to this moment.

Things ecclesiastical are heating up and push is coming to the long-awaited shove. The pressure builds. LifesiteNews reports that a Swiss bishop is supporting Cardinal Müller's open endorsement of the five Dubia Cardinals. Unlike the typical Bergoglio pick for cardinal (mostly men of mediocre achievement, but also many first-rate "yes-men" disasters such as Cupich in Chicago, McElroy in San Diego, and of course "Tucho" Fernández in the Vatican), these Dubia Five are a very impressive cadre:

1. Walter Brandmüller, former prefect of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences; 
2. Raymond Leo Burke, former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican's Supreme Court, more or less), and removed chaplain of the Maltese Order; once Archbishop of St. Louis;
3. Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, former Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, and apparently a supporter of the TLM; 
4. Robert Sarah, the widely admired former prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (his parents Archbishop Lefebvre converted from paganism); and...
   
5. Joseph Zen, the venerable, the saintly, former bishop of Hong Kong, persecuted by Bergoglio's friends the Communist Chinese and like some of the others – Cardinal Burke – cruelly abused and "dissed" by Bergoglio. (Both Brandmüller and Burke signed the previous 2016 Dubia submitted to Bergoglio; remember that one? The one Bergoglio utterly and permanently ignored; two of the four cardinals who signed that one died waiting for Bergoglio, who, like Godot, never showed up.)

So, I wondered why Cardinal Müller hadn't signed on. But he quickly published his whole-hearted support of the Dubia Five. Bishop Athanasius Schneider has done likewise. Now the auxiliary bishop of Chur, Switzerland, Bishop Marian Eleganti, has also published his support. His eight-points of truth, listed here by LifeSiteNews, are quite excellent and to the point. Please read them.

Also, the exceptional (literally, the singular) American bishop, Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, offers his support of the Dubia Five by firing a broadside at Bergoglio's Synod on Synodality with a new episcopal letter to his diocese that states the traditional Catholic teaching on marriage and carnal matters outside of marriage. Bergoglio, to the extent he remains sentient, has to be "hating him some Strickland" right now.

Also significant, as this Synod on Synodality convenes in Rome, 600-some Catholic women have gone on record opposing its aims. 

I'm getting the feeling, now that the "Dubia Five" have acted, and tag-alongs sign up and others, on their own, join in, as these Catholic women who are getting involved – I mean CATHOLIC women who embrace the Deposit of Faith – that finally, FINALLY, we're seeing some traction with "The People vs Bergoglio". We're finally seeing the ship's rudder turn a bit, at least. Or it's like the first hints of a change in the wind in The Return of the King before the Battle for Gondor. 

The five Dubia Cardinals, (three new ones and the two 2016 Dubia survivors) are also maneuvering Bergoglio into some sort of curtailment of his antics, as in a formal declaration of heresy. In Matt 18:16-17, Our Lord explained how we are to try to correct someone, and after the third time, if the troublemaker won't listen/reform his ways, then treat him as "a pagan or tax collector". Many (Taylor Marshall, etc.) suspect that's in play, here. We'll see. But one thing I think everyone can agree on, and this obviously these 600 women are insisting on, is that this papacy can't continue the way it's been going for the past decade. The rising chorus (still low-voiced, for now, but rising) is an indication that more and more of the laity see this, as well.

Prosecutor for the People

Perhaps the People's chief public prosecutor facing off against Bergoglio is the estimable Archbishop Viganò. LifeSiteNews carried his latest letter here. It is truly a tour de force, this masterpiece of an argument must be read in full. Just a few direct quote highlights (I've highlighted one sentence in yellow but all of these should be so highlighted):

• The recent case of Marko Rupnik is evidence of one who exercises power like a despot, legibus solutus, who considers himself free to act without being accountable for any of his actions.
  
• I think of the shameful handling of the Rupnik case, which in addition to having rehabilitated a criminal responsible for horrendous crimes, in contempt of the numerous victims, has also discredited the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ladaria. 
• The silence of the Episcopate in the face of the Bergoglian nonsense confirms that the self-referential authoritarianism of the Jesuit Bergoglio has found servile obedience in almost all the Bishops, terrified by the idea of being made the object of the retaliation of the vengeful and despotic satrap of Santa Marta.
  
• The proliferation of declarations and behaviors completely foreign to what is expected of a pope – and indeed in contrast with the Faith and Morality of which the Papacy is the guardian – has led many of the faithful and an increasingly large number of bishops to take note of something that until some time ago seemed unheard of: the Throne of Peter is occupied by a person who abuses his power, using it for the opposite purpose to that for which Our Lord instituted it.
• An enemy who, precisely because he occupies the Throne of Peter and abuses papal authority, is capable of inflicting a terrible and disastrous blow, such as no external enemy in the entire history of the Church has ever been able to cause. The worst persecutors of Christians, the fiercest adherents of the Masonic Lodges, and the most unrestrained heresiarchs have never before succeeded, in such a short time and with such effectiveness, in devastating the Lord’s vineyard, scandalizing the faithful, disgusting the Ministers, discrediting its authority and authoritativeness before the world, and demolishing the Magisterium, Faith, Morals, Liturgy, and discipline.
• The evidence of Bergoglio’s alienity to the office he holds is certainly a painful and very serious fact; but becoming aware of this reality is the indispensable premise for remedying an unsustainable and disastrous situation.
• In these ten years of his “pontificate” we have seen Bergoglio do everything that would never be expected of a pope, and vice-versa everything that a heresiarch or an apostate would do. There have been occasions when these actions have appeared manifestly provocative, as if by his utterances or certain acts of government he deliberately wanted to arouse the indignation of the ecclesial body and urge priests and faithful to react by giving them the pretext to declare them schismatic. 
• We must ask ourselves if the 2013 election was in some way invalidated by a lack of consent; that is, if the one elected wanted to become pope of the Catholic Church or rather head of what he calls “our synodal church” – which has nothing to do with the Church of Christ precisely because it stands as something other than it.

Conclusion

The People's Prosecutor makes his case. The whole essay is an essential read for anyone remotely interested in our current phase in "the clash of civilizations". Remember my essay about cult being the root of culture, and the Traditional Latin Mass being the root of the entire Western Civilization as it developed from the Dark Ages on? (An essay derived from excellent articles.) How the attempt to quash and prohibit that Mass since the Vatican II Council strikes at not only the "source and summit of the Christian life", the Holy Eucharist, but at the root of Western Civ itself? What can we say, therefore, of the attempt to entirely replace the Catholic Church with a "Synodal Church" professing the moral blindness of the mainline Protestant Churches? (You know, those empty shell denominations ignored by almost everyone?)

We are experiencing a true clash of civilizations, indeed. Everything is at stake. We each must make our Joshua statement. (Joshua 24:15)

   An Préachán

"Their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father Who is in heaven."

 Amici, a chairde,

Today is October 2, the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels.

Perhaps the most famous Biblical passage about Guardian Angels is St Matthew 18:10

"See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven."

Guardian Angels are a not a formal doctrine of the Catholic Faith. That Angels exist is a dogma, but Guardian Angels is an ancient belief, formally defined or not. "That every individual soul has a guardian angel has never been defined by the Church, and is, consequently, not an article of faith; but it is the 'mind of the Church', as St. Jerome expressed it: 'how great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it.' (Comm. in Matt., xviii, lib. II)." This is from the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia at the New Advent site. For theological detail on Angels in general, and the Church teaching thereof, see this encyclopedia article. for the historical development of the Feast.

St Peter certainly had a Guardian Angel. See Acts 12:15: "You are out of your mind," they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so (i.e. that the imprisoned St. Peter was miraculously at the gate), they said, "It must be his angel." Clearly, by Our Lord's own words, children have Angels, and but this story from Acts, it is clear adults have Angels. Historically, theologians argued back and forth whether everyone has Guardian Angels.

Does everyone have a Guardian Angel? This from the Encyclopedia:

St. Thomas teaches us (Summa Theologica I:113:4) that only the lowest orders of angels are sent to men, and consequently that they alone are our guardians, though Scotus and Durandus would rather say that any of the members of the angelic host may be sent to execute the Divine commands. Not only the baptized, but every soul that cometh into the world receives a guardian spirit; St. Basil, however (Homily on Psalm 43), and possibly St. Chrysostom (Homily 3 on Colossians) would hold that only Christians were so privileged.

It is one of the greatest meditations on God that he created so many Angels in the first place, and that life on Earth is itself so "plush", so exuberant, so over-the-top abounding in life, that this probably reflects their spirit world (things visible and invisible). It's hardly a stretch to comprehend the Lord God just creating Spirit Life as abundantly as the biological life here below. The Bible of course has a number of quotes about the many hosts of Angels. Just one example, Hebrews 12:22 "But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels...". "Thousands of thousands, thousands of hosts of Angels" is a typical style of putting it. And this from Revelation 5:11 "And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures, and the ancients; and the number of them was thousands of thousands,...".

There's enough Angels, clearly, for God to appoint one to you.

In fact, Fr. Ripperger, the Exorcist, says that when created, each Angel was given a specific task. If the Angels refused, off to Hell he went. Satan, Lucifer, the Lightbringer, the Star of the Morning, one of the greatest of Angels, was given the task, Fr. Ripperger says, of being the Guardian Angel of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He refused. This, remember, from an exorcist who has forced many a demon to tell him information, information he extracts via inflicting severe pain on the devil. Go here for Fr. Ripperger's one hour long lecture on Guardia Angels. It is, of course, excellent and very well worth the time.

In any event, from this perspective, there's no doubt everyone has a Guardian Angel. And they chose to be your Guardian Angel, so, be right with them. Don't hurt them by sinful acts, and thank them for all they do. Today is their special Feast but you can (and should) thank them every day.

One great way to thank them is to recite this Traditional Catholic Litany for Guardian Angels. It takes a few minutes but it's a beautiful series of prayerful truths about the "Angel of Heaven, who dost love me tenderly."

From the Collect for today, from the TLM:

O God, who in Thine ineffable Providence hast deigned to send Thy holy Angels to keep watch over us: grant to us Thy suppliant people, that we may always be defended by their protection, and may rejoice in their fellowship for ever. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Three in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

         AnP