Amici,
A friend sent along this link to a website that explains the symbolism of Bergoglio's pectoral cross. Many thanks to my friend!
I
have reviewed the link and include here the relevant part,
which explains the cross's symbolism, i.e.:
Of this explanation, I note there
isn't much here, actually. The explanation, such as it is, does
not remotely address the Cross as symbol of the blood sacrifice of
Christ's that He offered the Father. A shepherd saves his sheep, yes,
indeed, but Christ Himself IS the Lamb of God, He's the sheep,
offering Himself to the Father as Isaac (one supposes) didn't resist
Abraham's tying him up and binding him on the wood of the sacrifice in
Genesis 22. And strikingly, the offering continues in Heaven, outside of
time, as illustrated so graphically in Revelation. Ergo, what struck me
in the explanation is how Vatican II it all
is; i.e. how NOT a vertical sacrifice but rather a horizontal
Help-Along-the-Group message it proffers. Interesting. It definitely
represents a "new
ecclesiastical era", alright. (Isn't this whole fight with Bergoglio and
so many other Modernists about exactly that? Them creating a "New
Church"?)
And
importantly, the one serious photo close-up doesn't include the
figure's feet,
you-all will notice. Curious! Also, there's no explanation of the folded
arms,
although it is obvious the figure is carrying a lamb. I grew up on a
farm and although we had few sheep, and rarely lambs, I can't imagine
carrying one like that. (My father used to manage the sheep dept at the
county fair, so I've seen lambs carried around a few times.) It would be quite awkward. If the lamb is on the
back of your neck with its forelegs over one shoulder and its back legs
over another, and you're holding animal's the feet, you wouldn't cross
your arms to do that. You certainly could not pick it up that way. How
would you? Such
crossed arms would give you a lot less control of when you wanted to put
the lamb down, or if it jerked a leg free, and in fact, you would have
to pick up the lamb without crossed arms, drape it over your shoulders, and then at that point somehow let go of the lamb's feet to cross your arms. How would that work? (I've no doubt the "frolicsome" lamb would make a break for freedom.) Try it with a heavy bath towel or some such object.
- Caveat: However, I'll freely admit that though it seems quite awkward, maybe that's how it is done (for reasons I don't know). It's just as Ann Barnhardt points out, what a coincidence that certain satanic cults worship with such crossed arms, and she has a photo of Church prelates making the same exact gesture as they worship – what else would one call it – that miserable Pachamana idol Bergoglio set up in St. Peter's – an amazingly shocking replication of the Ancient Israelites setting up statues of false gods in Solomon's temple!
Beyond all this, the
history of this cross offers some interest: it was a personal creation
of an artist, then replicated by a metalsmith? How nice. But the
backward-turned foot is still a satanic symbol, whether the artist who
created it knew that or not. Yet the "kicker" (pun intended) is what artist, even an
avant-garde type, would turn an entire leg backwards? Maybe a
forward-facing leg bent slightly back at the knee to represent walking,
or striding, with the other leg forward – sure. One could produce that easily enough. But this isn't that, not remotely.
You-all
can make your own interpretations of Tio Jorge Mario's pectoral cross.
Were he a basically orthodox pope – I mean that loosely, like someone along the lines of JP2 of B16,
maybe a little more Paul 6 than otherwise – that'd be one thing. Goofy enough, true; eccentric in a Catholic "tumbledown" way, one might say. But
he's not.
It is said that at some point most (not all) Germans came to
the realization that Hitler wasn't their lover, but their murderer.
Bergoglio and his peeps are definitely out to kill what remains of the
Catholic Church as it has always existed, and replace it with something
else. What else do they have to do to prove that? An individual might want that, but no one should pretend it isn't happening. Recently, I heard Taylor Marshall say something astounding on one
of his podcasts: a priest told him that in his diocese, just about every
week, a homosexual couple comes to a Catholic church with a baby they have adopted and whom they want to baptize in the Church! And the priests have to agree to that, per their bishop's orders.
Folks, that ain't Catholicism.
Neither
is the vast majority of what's being pushed now. We see and can say the
same thing about the U.S. wherein stormtrooper battle-armed police can
break into your house at any time for any reason, and presidential
candidates and those associated with them, past or present, can be arrested and charged with sedition. This is our reality today, secular and ecclesiastical. But we must not pretend all this pork is kosher.
I
thank my friend again for the help and his getting involved! We need
everyone involved these days, that's for sure. Fulton Sheen, go ndéana Dia trócaire air, foresaw this time. We're in the pot now. And the temperature is
turning up exponentially. (Guess Pius XI or Pius XII should have consecrated Russia when Our Lady asked them to, eh?)
An Préachán
