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"He'd better not come right now," says Sharon Crooks of Palmerston North, "because I can think of only a handful of priests in this country who are prepared to defend the Holy Eucharist with their life, and not be among those withholding the sacraments from the children of God.
"The rest are busy defending the flock from a common cold, which is faithless (behaviour) at best and ridiculous at worst, because the Divine Physician came to heal and rebuke fevers and drive out evil spirits.
"It is absolutely unbelievable that our bishops and priests would so happily comply with every regulation JaSINda puts forward and yet blatantly disregard their own instructions in the NZ GIRM, Church documents and canon law, which make it plain that it's the salvation of our souls that must be forefront in their minds, not the salvation of our bodies. This means not withholding Communion on the tongue.
"Withholding the Divine Physician is counter-faithful or - a better word - ‘evil’! God help the bishops and priests on the Day of Judgement, because it is by their fruit they will be known, and right now they’d be akin to the fig tree with no fruit and we all know Jesus rebuked that tree and it withered and died!
"When Jesus asks for an account of their works, what will they say? "We abandoned The Bride of Christ for Covid"? In sickness and in health...
Bob Gill of Dannevirke says:
"The Novus Ordo priests and bishops have literally hidden away from us, coming into view only through the virtual world of online Masses, some of which are lukewarm and casually presented.
"I have not seen my parish priest since before the instruction was given to close my church on the morning of the Feast of the Annunciation, without a Mass being held or any kind of church service that day, many hours before the official lockdown at 11:59pm on 25 March 2020. Real support has been non-existent all along.
"I must look to the Latin Mass, it seems, to meet my spiritual needs."
"Bishops who have “directly prohibited their faithful access to the sacraments” have behaved as “fake shepherds”: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Kazakhstan, is of exactly the same mind as Crooks and Gill on the complete and utter dereliction of duty by bishops throughout the world during the coronavirus crisis.
“The unbelievable fact is that in midst of this worldwide ban of the public Holy Mass, many bishops, even before the government banned public worship, issued decrees by which they not only forbade the public celebration of Holy Mass, but of any other sacrament as well,” +Schneider said in a talk given today at the virtual Rome Life Forum.
Schneider said that the almost worldwide ban on the public celebration of Holy Mass had made it seem as though “the ruthless historical persecutions of the Church were brought back” and that there had developed “[a]n atmosphere of the catacombs...with priests celebrating Holy Mass in secrecy with a group of the faithful.”
“In the time of the plague, which had an incomparably higher mortality rate as the current epidemic of Covid-19, St. Charles Borromeo increased the number of the public celebrations of Holy Mass,” +Schneider said.
“Even though he closed the churches for a while, he at the same time ordered that there should be Masses celebrated in many public and open places, such as squares, crossroads, street corners.
"He obliged the priests to visit the sick and the dying to administer them the sacraments of Penance and of Extreme Unction. He ordered public processions to be held, in which people walked in due distance, to make reparation for the sins and invoke Divine Mercy.
"St. Charles Borromeo did not forget the care for the body of the infected people, but at the same time his primary concern was the spiritual help of the sacraments, with which the sick had to be strengthened.”
"He obliged the priests to visit the sick and the dying to administer them the sacraments of Penance and of Extreme Unction. He ordered public processions to be held, in which people walked in due distance, to make reparation for the sins and invoke Divine Mercy.
"St. Charles Borromeo did not forget the care for the body of the infected people, but at the same time his primary concern was the spiritual help of the sacraments, with which the sick had to be strengthened.”
+Schneider also called on Pope Francis and bishops around the world to understand the public cessation of Holy Mass and sacramental Holy Communion during the Covid-19 epidemic as a “divine rebuke” for the liturgical crisis in the Church for the past fifty years.
He said the cessation of Holy Mass was “so unique and serious that one can discover behind all of this a deeper meaning.”
“This event has come almost fifty years after the introduction of Communion in the hand and a radical reform of the rite of Mass with its protestantising elements and its horizontal and instructional style of celebration (freestyle moments, celebration in a closed circle and towards the people).
“The current cessation of public Holy Mass and Holy Communion could be understood by the Pope and bishops as a divine rebuke for the past fifty years of Eucharistic desecrations and trivializations and, at the same time, as a merciful appeal for an authentic Eucharistic conversion of the entire Church.”
He called on Pope Francis to “issue concrete liturgical norms” in order to address irreverence to the Holy Eucharist, including making ad orientem celebration of the Eucharistic prayer compulsory and forbidding the reception of Communion in the hand.
“Once the current tribulation has ended, the Pope should issue concrete liturgical norms, in which he invites the entire Church to turn again towards the Lord in the manner of celebration, i.e. celebrant and faithful turned in the same direction during the Eucharistic prayer,” +Schneider said.
“The Pope should also forbid the practice of Communion in the hand, for the Church cannot continue unpunished to treat the Holy of Holies in the little sacred Host in such a minimalistic and unsafe manner.”
+Schneider also suggested that Pope Francis together with cardinals and bishops should “carry out a public act of reparation in Rome for the sins against the Holy Eucharist, and for the sin of the acts of religious veneration to the Pachamama statues.”
+Schneider spoke of the importance of listening to the faithful laity, who he said have been “humiliated and despised in the midst of the Church by an arrogant and undoubtedly Pharisaic clericalism.”
“These little lovers and defenders of the Eucharist will renew the life of the Church in our day and these words of Jesus are rightly and deservedly applied to them: “I bless you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things hidden to the wise and intelligent and you have revealed them to the little ones” (Mt 11, 25).
And while we're talking 'unbelievable', how about poor Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of 'Health' (who looks decidedly sick) and his statement reported today:
Can anyone take this Gummint propaganda seriously? Tragically, it seems the media do.
'If', says Bloomfield. He might as well say " 'If' pigs could fly".
"The Director-General of Health made
the comparison while describing how Aotearoa had managed to 'head off' the disease having a significant impact here."
"There are 21 recorded deaths from the
virus so far compared with the UK's 36,914, but Dr Bloomfield says this
could've been much higher."
Too true. My word, it could have been 'tens of thousands', as threatened by PM Ardern! Our nation is sick all right, but it ain't Covid it's sick with.
Too true. My word, it could have been 'tens of thousands', as threatened by PM Ardern! Our nation is sick all right, but it ain't Covid it's sick with.
"Clearly this is a virus that's
having a big impact globally…"
"If we were the UK" (and if pigs could fly), "we would've had between 3000
and 3500 deaths to date, yesterday we would've reported 250 new cases and we
would still be in lockdown. That's proportionate by population."
Dr Bloomfield adds a vaccine or an
effective treatment will help to not just control COVID-19, but help open up
global borders."
Health Minister Dr David Clark says
the development of a vaccine is a "crucial tool in the control of COVID-19
worldwide" and that a "global effort is well underway" to
develop and test vaccine candidates.
Oh, dream on. How long has the world been waiting for a vaccine for the common cold? $37m that NZ hasn't got, to spend looking for a vaccine which if ever found will, as even Bill Gates admits, come with thousands of side effects and could harm or kill hundreds of thousands of people.
And if your blood's not boiling yet, how about this:
"The Ecumenical Charter declares that the Church is “one, holy, catholic and apostolic” and therefore the “inescapable ecumenical task consists in making visible this unity.”
No, it's not some Vatican outfit making this pronouncement about a Catholic Church document, but the signing ceremony did take place in a Catholic Church - the San Paolo Maggiore Roman Catholic Church in Bologna, Italy.
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| Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, pro-gay prelate (would you buy a 2nd-hand car from this man?) |
If I hadn't seen a pic today of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi (pictured above) actually signing this "historical Ecumenical Charter" alongside a Seventh-Day Adventist, on January 25 of this year, I would not have believed it.
http://adventmessenger.org/seventh-day-adventists-roman-catholics-and-evangelicals-sign-a-historic-ecumenical-charter-that-affirms-faith-in-one-holy-catholic-apostolic-church/?fbclid=IwAR3ByWcjT6RCSh0ZrZfvaprv8RBG6VnbVeR14Z8YqnEBmvdZHcJXoCqG_Jo
So Seventh-day Adventists, Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Evangelicals and Methodists are now “one, holy, catholic and apostolic” Church.
This is the sort of fruit borne by ''ecumenical' goings-on like The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which NZ Catholics are asked to indulge in as preparation for the Feast of Pentecost this Sunday.
This year it commemorates the Feast of the Shipwreck of St Paul, marking and giving thanks for the arrival of Christian faith in Malta. "The theme for this year ... is “They showed us unusual kindness” (Acts 28.2), which refers to the reception given to Paul and companions" says Cardinal John Dew.
"There is much to reflect upon in this theme in the light of our experience of the last few weeks with COVID-19."
No, Cardinal Dew, the last few weeks have NOT been "with Covid-19." They have been with this evil Government's hijacking of a flu bug by locking us in, locking our Eucharistic Lord up and denying us the Mass and the Sacraments,
"We have been urged to “Be kind”, and "stay united" - yes, by a Prime Minister who voted for infanticide without pain relief, for leaving aborted babies to die with no duty of care for the nurses and doctors responsible for that baby's death.
Certainly the Catholic Church can take pride in staying united with the Government; united with the Government rather than with the faithful, with the world rather than with Christ.
"The pandemic has been the equivalent of a shipwreck for many people ..." - no, the Government's handling of Covid which IS NOT A PANDEMIC has been the equivalent of a shipwreck for many people, for many businesses and for the nation.
" ...and unusual kindness” is needed as never before", says Cardinal Dew.
Surely not kindness like the Prime Minister's? A mass murderer's 'kindness'?
The cardinal's business is actually to promote true kindness - the love of God which is found only in doing His will.
"Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God" (Heb 10:7).
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