"You're stuck, just like we all are."
That, I heard today, was a priest's response to a parishioner who'd asked, in tears, for the Sacrament of Confession. She never asked that priest for Confession again.
A couple of days ago a parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes, Palmerston North was chased away from the church - where since the 'lockdown' she's gone daily to sit praying outside, to keep the Blessed Sacrament company - by Father Joe Grayland, parish priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit.
A lay person commented that the woman sitting outside OLOL was "giving a bad example".
So what's all that about? you ask. What's that got to do with Covid-19, which is all I can think of right now?
It's about loss of faith. Loss of faith especially in the source and summit of our faith, the Blessed Eucharist.It's about apostasy. It's about the Modernist heresies that have permeated the Church throughout the world: vide,
"Catholics. Prayer, Belief and Diversity in a Secular Context: A New Zealand Perspective" by J P Grayland (Father Grayland, if you prefer - I do) which gets a plug in the current OLOL newsletter.
You can say that again, Father. My point entirely.
"This book is a pastor's reflection on the impact of the contemporary world on what believers believe. ... J. P Grayland explores several of the key forces that are driving changes in beliefs."
In other words, apostasy. "Catholic beliefs" cannot change. The are truth, and truth does not change. "Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the same for ever" (Heb 13;8).
Now at last we get around to Covid-19, and the NZ Bishops' preposterous response - locking the faithful out of the Mass, our of their churches and even ordering them off their own parish property; ordering their most faithful, the elderly, to neglect their physical and mental health as well as the vigour of their spiritual life, and their most vulnerable, women at risk of harm from violent husbands, by staying indoors.
Pandemics have always been considered as a means of God's chastisement for the sins of mankind. By means of Covid-19, in New Zealand, the Father even employs His own shepherds to chastise His own flock. And when, in all the course of history, have the sins of mankind, especially in widespread apostasy and heresy in the Mystical Body of Christ, been so in-your-face, O Lord?
Back in 590 AD, the current Pope, Pelagius, was the first victim of a plague - the terrible lues inguinaria - which was widely accepted by Romans as punishment for their immorality. Pelagius was succeeded by Gregory (St Gregory the Great).
Now, there was a Pope. Immediately he gave a cracker sermon and called on all of Rome to follow him in penance, like the king of Ninive (coincidentally, in the epistle read today by Fr Michael Johnson SSPX in the TLM live-streamed from St Anthony's Whanganui).
“Look around you", proclaimed the Pope. "Behold God’s sword of wrath brandished over the entire population. Sudden death snatches us from the world, scarcely giving us a second of time. At this precise moment, oh – how many are taken up by evil — here all around us — unable even to think about penitence.”
Pope Gregory led a seven-fold procession of men, women and children all with heads covered in ashes, in funereal silence, bearing the image of the Virgin painted by St Luke to the bridge uniting the city to the Hadrian Mausoleum, when suddenly a celestial choir of angels were heard, singing the Regina Caeli.
An avenging angel - St Michael the Archangel, naturally - then appeared about the Mausoleum, bearing a sword which dripped blood, and plunged it home into its sheath. The plague was over.
The Third Secret of Fatima reminds us that, calling us to repentance, “an Angel (appeared) with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’”
Now, (I'm sounding like a TVOne reporter) we've heard ever so much about Covid-19 in Northern Italy. Professor Walter Ricciardi, an advisor to Italy’s minister of health, has admitted that only about 12 percent of deaths attributed to the virus were directly caused by the virus: only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three.”
Now, the hardest-hit of the Italian towns in that region was Bergamo, where at least a thousand and probably many more have died during the outbreak.
It was the Diocese of Bergamo (among others) that had published on its website the following “Prayer to Pachamama,” whose hideous image was idolized during the proceedings of the absurd and scandalous Amazon Synod. Here is the prayer as it appeared on the Diocese of Bergamo’s website (translation by LifeSiteNews):
Now, the hardest-hit of the Italian towns in that region was Bergamo, where at least a thousand and probably many more have died during the outbreak.
It was the Diocese of Bergamo (among others) that had published on its website the following “Prayer to Pachamama,” whose hideous image was idolized during the proceedings of the absurd and scandalous Amazon Synod. Here is the prayer as it appeared on the Diocese of Bergamo’s website (translation by LifeSiteNews):
Pachamama of these places,
drink and eat as much as you like of these offerings,
so that this land may be fruitful.
Pachamama, good Mother
Be propitious! Be propitious!
Let the oxen walk well,
and let them not get tired.
Make the seed taste good,
that nothing bad happen to it,
that frost may not disrupt it,
that it produce good food.
We ask you:
give us everything.
Be propitious! Be propitious!
(Prayer to the Mother Earth of the Inca peoples)
Saint Peter’s Basilica ought to be reconsecrated to remedy an unprecedented sacrilege perpetrated with the approval of Pope Francis himself. Never has there been a spectacle like this in the basilica that stands at the very heart of the Church and is situated over the bones of Saint Peter.
This a massive failure of the virtue of prudence, as Jeff Mirus has so insightfully explained, resulting in irrational decisions by civil authorities: the lockdown of entire countries and bans on public gatherings, except to buy groceries, work in “essential businesses” (sounds familiar?) and use mass transit, thereby defeating the very purpose of this ludicrous attempt at nationwide quarantines.
These foolish decisions have caused immense damage to the temporal common good and unnecessary suffering on the natural level.
These foolish decisions have caused immense damage to the temporal common good and unnecessary suffering on the natural level.
It is one thing to die from the effects of the coronavirus, quite another to die with the virus. Let’s say you are 87 years old, diabetic, with congestive heart failure and emphysema. You are infected with the coronavirus, get sick, and die. Did you die from it, or merely with it?
Dr. John Lee, a retired professor of pathology in the United Kingdom, made in Spectator USA. “There is a big difference,” he writes, “between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes. . . .
“First do no harm.” Dr. Lee is right to warn that the panicked response to this new virus has neglected that age-old medical advice.
“Unless,” he notes, “we tighten criteria for recording death due only to the virus (as opposed to it being present in those who died from other conditions), the official figures may show a lot more deaths apparently caused by the virus than [are] actually the case.
What then? How do we measure the health consequences of taking people’s lives, jobs, leisure and purpose away from them to protect them from an anticipated threat? Which causes the least harm?” what government stimuli stimulate is more government spending, along with inflation and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
“Unless,” he notes, “we tighten criteria for recording death due only to the virus (as opposed to it being present in those who died from other conditions), the official figures may show a lot more deaths apparently caused by the virus than [are] actually the case.
What then? How do we measure the health consequences of taking people’s lives, jobs, leisure and purpose away from them to protect them from an anticipated threat? Which causes the least harm?” what government stimuli stimulate is more government spending, along with inflation and ever increasing government bureaucracy.
As of March 26, we have seen more than 490,000 hospitalizations and 34,000 flu deaths. Add in the COVID-19 numbers and you get 565,000 hospitalizations and 35,264 deaths. In other words, seen in context, COVID-19 cases are a barely discernible blip.
With these differences: the patients suffering from the effects of COVID-19 tend to be much sicker, taking up hospital beds for longer, and they are arriving more quickly and in bigger clumps.
President Trump’s adviser on the “pandemic,” Deborah Birx, told the press, the only hard and reliable datum on the lethality of the virus is the number of people who have actually died from its effects, a numerator that grows smaller and smaller in relation to the rapidly rising denominator of total cases.
Hence Dr. Birx also reported that the death rate for COVID-19 in the United State will likely fall below 1% based on the number of people tested so far. Assuming quite reasonably that reported cases are only the tip of the iceberg of actual total cases in the world, it may well turn out that the death rate from this particular coronavirus is vanishingly small.
NY Governor, 'Catholic' Andrew Cuomo, recently said about moves to reduce deaths from Covid-19 that, “This is about saving lives. If everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” Cuomo it was who signed off on the deal that would leave full-term babies born alive after botched abortions and left to die, without even a nurse's arms to cradle them. Loss of faith? Apostasy? Heresy, even?
Coincidentally. Dr Birx continued to raise concerns about the New York metro area, which has become the epicenter of coronavirus cases and accounts for more than 50 percent of all new cases being reported.
Coincidentally, the bridge from which Alexander Tschugguel threw those pachamama idols into the Tiber is the very bridge from which Pope St Gregory the Great saw St Michael the Archangel sheathe his bloody sword as a sign that the plague was over.
And - coincidentally - Alexander Tschugguel has just been discharged from hospital having recovered from Covid-19. Deo gratias.
Our Lady of Akita warns the world, in line with the Fatima prophecy of the annihilation of various nations:
“As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before.
"Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead.“As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before.
“The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary.”
The Rosary and the Consecration of Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart are the only remedies to avert death by the worst virus of all: the virus of apostasy from God and His Law, which has spread throughout the world and shows no signs of abating.
And many now know it was a hoax to get suckers to take a poison vaccine. Depopulation is the goal again. This is all a replay of the WW1 era "Spanish Flu" hoax and the poison vaccines given then that murdered millions. Churches closed, masks were everywhere then too. The churches regretted they did not follow Peter's example to obey God and not man.
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