New TLM movie, Mass of the Ages, Episode I; and Importance of The Assumption

 Amici,

If you've not seen it yet, please access The Mass of the Ages, Episode I, here or go to the site of those who produced it, The Liturgy.org. They're some folks from Dayton, apparently (Lex Orandi, LLC; 3080 Ackerman Blvd #215; Dayton, Ohio 45429, United States)

There'll be three movies altogether, and this first one is free. I know they we're working on this project when the lockdowns began, so it has been in process for a while. It is surreptitious that the team has been working on this project now, isn't it, that The Ogre is trying to stamp it out? Divine Providence, it is. Someone (a lot of us 'someones') need to tell the Church's Modernist bigshots that we're not going back. Period.

To put it metaphorically, both Fat Arry 8th and his sickly puppet son are long dead, so someone needs to tell Bergi that his imitation of Queen Elizabeth Tudor isn't going to work. (True, she was even uglier than the Argentine, but still, Bergoglio has filled the Vatican so full of "queens" that there's no room for even one more.)

The Assumption

Sorry I didn't get an article out yesterday for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (For an extended article and explanation of the Feast, see Fr Z on the subject. Old Fr. Hunwicke has a insightful reflection regarding this in an article here.)

The TLM I usually attend was packed yesterday morning, with a triple-sized choir an about ten or so brass horn/trumpet musicians. Alas, I wanted to attend the evening Solemn High Mass at the SSPX, but didn't make it, being "Married, with Kids". I'm sure it was exquisite. Along with all the other senses, memories, prayerful reflections and simple power of the Incarnation that these glorious Holy Sacrifices of the Mass envelope us in, it is astounding how they 'ennoble': they ennoble one's worship, one's spirit, one's soul. They truly uplift one toward Heaven and the Divine Judgment that awaits all of us.

So is it any wonder the Modernists want to deep-six it?

Bergoglio is scheduled to visit Hungary, September 12, and it is expected he's going to jerk the chain of Cardinal Erdő regarding the Latin Masses here. Pray God's will is always done, as the Lady Galadriel's prayer put it, "What should be will be", and that one way or another, Bergi's evil intentions are thwarted. Massively so.

Bottom Line

It's plain that "the Bad Guys" have seized the Church's control mechanisms, and as Fr Zuhlsdorf says, "Holy Mother Church is indefectible. The Lord promised that Hell would not ultimately prevail. He didn’t, however, promise that it wouldn’t prevail quite a lot. He made no promises about the mighty Church in N. Africa or Asia Minor… or these USA… or Rome."

An P

PS: During Cameron O'Hearn's opening presentation of the movie, notice the T-shirt he's wearing, and the names on it. Tolkien aficionados (how he would dislike being referenced with a Spanish noun!) will recognized immediately to whom the names refer. :)

Troubling One's House: Wrecking the Papacy to Denounce Bergoglio...

Amici,

With his publication and clear intent to forcefully implement his fateful motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, Jorge Bergoglio is clearly "troubling his own house." (Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.) Bergoglio has been doing almost nothing BUT "troubling his own house". 

He's now gone into high gear, as it were, in troubling his own house with Traditionis custodes. Yet – and please consider the supreme and devilish irony of this – in their efforts to try to corral Bergoglio over the past near decade, and especially now, many Trads and "Conservative" Catholics end up troubling THEIR OWN houses!

Why? One of the supremely nasty things about Bergoglio is that in order to get around the Argentine's craziness, to try to reign it in or in some way mitigate what The Ogre is doing, they denounce the office of the papacy in some degree, i.e. its power and scope. 

This is an essential problem if one accepts that Bergoglio is legitimately pope. If he is legitimately pope, he legitimately has the power to do almost anything – that's within the Deposit of Faith, of course. The kicker is, HE gets to decide to an incredible length just what that Deposit is. 

THIS is the trouble we've been having since Bergoglio's "election". 

Yet of course, if Bergoglio is not legitimately pope, should his election have been a sham, a coup d'état ecclesiastical, then all this trouble goes away. Poof! 

We have every reason to think Bergoglio was in no way legitimately elected: Benedict was clearly forced from office in a long-term operation done on many levels, mirroring the attempts to remove President Trump, and as with Trump, the efforts ended with a fraudulent election! The parallels are astounding.

Poor Benedict with his butler leaking private documents to the press and finally even with the Vatican's bank teller machine stopping to work; then there's the whole story with "the Saint Gallen Mafia" that is notorious, how they planned to put in Bergoglio when Benedict was elected, all that; and then Bergoglio's antics while in office that are "unpapal" in the extreme: pagan worship in the Vatican, embrace of the homosexual agenda, and now his clear intent, King Herod-like, to murder the children of Bethlehem, the small but vibrant and growing TLM movment. 

So, in fighting Bergoglio over the past eight years, many Trads and "Conservative" Catholics who accept the Argentine's election as legitimate have in effect been whittling away at the power of the papacy in order to try to corral the rogue "pope". You see that now in arguments that Bergoglio does not have the power to overturn Benedict, i.e. cancelling Pope Benedict's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The papal power was not supposed to be limited in this "worldly" legalistic/ersatz-constitutional fashion, but rather limited by charity, prudence, and faith.  

The power of the office is immense, and for any true Vicar of Christ, it ought to be very carefully used. And it has to be used with prudence and charity, for the position of the papacy is crucial, in fact, to the Faith. It is the oldest continuous office of any kind to on Earth. It is where "the buck stops". It's the final (Earthly) authority of the whole Christian Faith (despite what Prots and the 14 Orthies might say – their own chaos show how necessary the papacy is). And obviously such an office needs to be careful guarded – most primary in that defense is preventing the wrong man from assuming it! 

As Our Lord Christ's vicar, His vizier, His Prime Minister, a pope is only answerable to God Himself. So, a pope has the power to do most anything to support the bishops in their teaching and preaching and holding the Deposit of Faith. But deep wisdom is required. For it is often morally wrong to do something that could be otherwise licit but is in fact a sin against charity. In the process of this use of power, therefore, one has to be prayerful, humble, and Faith-filled. One has to be something very rare in the modern world: wise.

And it is not wise to "trouble one's house."  

Wisdom. If Bergoglio has "wisdom" it isn't heavenly wisdom, for it is not wisdom to trouble one's own house. 

Therefore I insist it is madness to insist on Bergoglio's election to the office was licit. That just ties one into hopeless, never-ending Gordian Knots. We see that in a flood-tide of knots now! And no, the papacy is not vacant. The office has had a properly elected pope all this time, Benedict. (He insists he no longer pope; does that make him a sedevacantist?) Every passing day proves again and against that we have an anti-pope and unless we "wise up" to this, we're doing nothing but "troubling our own house."

An Préachán

N.B. No one, least of all myself, has the right or authority to say a pope was invalidly elected; no cardinal or group of cardinals has that right: this is in the nature of the office of the papacy. But anyone, layman to cardinal, bishops, etc., have the right, and a clear duty, per Canon 212, to raise issues, and Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis does not remotely act or administer as a pope should, and the questions around his election are extremely significant. We need to let everyone know WE know that, and that we accept no blather to the contrary. Do NOT let yourself be twisted into mental 'knotage'. Alexander cut the Gordian Knot; it was the right thing to do. Being a Catholic isn't a mutual suicide pact nor is it giving one's soul to follow the Führerprinzip. A Führerprinzip defense on Judgement Day will work no better for us than it did for Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl at Nuremberg.