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| The shepherd children of Fatima, immediately after their vision of Hell |
Today, on the anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal, when she showed these three children a glimpse of Hell, New Zealand's Parliament voted to promote a secular hell on earth.
A bill giving police sweeping powers to enter homes possibly without warrants while enforcing Covid-19 alert level rules passed 63/57.
This is a hell for which we are very poorly prepared, starved as we are by the very bishops and priests who are supposed to give us "our measure of food at the proper time"(Lk 12:42) - and by not having been allowed to confess our sins.
"Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep (1 Cor,11).
At the request of the Māori Council, the specific reference to marae was removed and the Government added the requirement a warrantless search be reported to the relevant marae committee."It's actually something that doesn't take away protections; it actually adds them. But Māoridom don't want that. They want to be the same as non-Māoridom in respect of those premises," said Attorney-General David Parker." In other words, Maoridom stood up for its rights, and won them back.
"The Government also backed down on the limits on tangihanga and funerals and allowed funeral directors a special dispensation to allow up to 50 people to attend." Same.
"Justice Minister Andrew Little said he appreciated this wasn't how laws were meant to be made but the times were extraordinary."
Yes, Injustice Minister Little, they are, and that's precisely because your government has made them extraordinary.
It's not a good look for the Catholic Church either, that Destiny Church's 'Bishop' Brian Tamaki (wearing his 'Man Up' t-shirt) on 3 News, staring straight down the camera barrel, vowed to hold church services this coming Sunday, while Cardinal John Dew never raised his eyes.
"Opposition leader Simon Bridges yesterday called the 10-person limit on gatherings "inhumane", especially in respect of funerals and places of worship. The National Party today launched a petition for Parliament to reject the 10-person limit." (Sign here):
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsimonoconnor.national.org.nz%2Fgathering_petition%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1MNcEKmSqlCPqQfReTEgd_Dq5ucvrS7WCRQe6VXlXEc8XFwxYBUKfIEMk&h=AT0PtrIoguN0mn53pgU5W3A86Zvxv7YhkOpg4rwGFk1_vi1fiIhhZoKNR6axp2MGQtUn6q6EImfqmMY5y1-_ZxeB1AUKgzM1EsLKVVzeXtT65tHRi_fUOtUtJ27v6FftEHve6fJcJmgOtp5Y5e-SZw
"Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep (1 Cor,11).
And so we lay Catholics - not the clergy, who've been fed throughout Lockdown on the food of angels - must stagger in this sickly state into Jacinda Ardern's Brave New World, where, as one aggrieved reader notes, "funerals and tangi get to have 50 people 'cause funeral
directors asked. Rugby NZ gets 30 players and a Ref plus subs 'cause they
asked. Funeral directors and religious leaders were in talks with the
government today.
"I want to know what the Bishops wanted and what they offered the
government that left the numbers for Mass unchanged!"
But the upshot of it was, as from today - the feast of Our Lady of Fatima! - not just police, but 'enforcers' will be able to enter our churches and homes to remove anyone suspected of harbouring a nasty germ.
The Human Rights Commission said it was "deeply concerned" about the lack of scrutiny of the bill and its rushed process "is a great failure of our democratic process."
"The legislation should include a provision to ensure those making decisions, and exercising powers, under the new law, would do so in accordance with national and international human rights commitments and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Commissioner Paul Hunt said.
"In times of national emergency sweeping powers are granted. There is a risk of overreach. Mistakes are made and later regretted. This is precisely when our national and international human rights and Te Tiriti commitments must be taken into account."
The legislation effectively allows the Health Minister to issue an order that would make alert level rules legally enforceable.
That might include, for example, the ability for police or "enforcement officers" to close certain premises or roads, ban certain types of travel or congregations.
It also would allow warrantless searches of private property (churches, for instance?) if there was a reasonable belief that the alert level rules were being broken.
The Human Rights Commission said it was "deeply concerned" about the lack of scrutiny of the bill and its rushed process "is a great failure of our democratic process."
"The legislation should include a provision to ensure those making decisions, and exercising powers, under the new law, would do so in accordance with national and international human rights commitments and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Commissioner Paul Hunt said.
"In times of national emergency sweeping powers are granted. There is a risk of overreach. Mistakes are made and later regretted. This is precisely when our national and international human rights and Te Tiriti commitments must be taken into account."
The legislation effectively allows the Health Minister to issue an order that would make alert level rules legally enforceable.
That might include, for example, the ability for police or "enforcement officers" to close certain premises or roads, ban certain types of travel or congregations.
It also would allow warrantless searches of private property (churches, for instance?) if there was a reasonable belief that the alert level rules were being broken.
At the request of the Māori Council, the specific reference to marae was removed and the Government added the requirement a warrantless search be reported to the relevant marae committee."It's actually something that doesn't take away protections; it actually adds them. But Māoridom don't want that. They want to be the same as non-Māoridom in respect of those premises," said Attorney-General David Parker." In other words, Maoridom stood up for its rights, and won them back.
"The Government also backed down on the limits on tangihanga and funerals and allowed funeral directors a special dispensation to allow up to 50 people to attend." Same.
"Justice Minister Andrew Little said he appreciated this wasn't how laws were meant to be made but the times were extraordinary."
Yes, Injustice Minister Little, they are, and that's precisely because your government has made them extraordinary.
It's not a good look for the Catholic Church either, that Destiny Church's 'Bishop' Brian Tamaki (wearing his 'Man Up' t-shirt) on 3 News, staring straight down the camera barrel, vowed to hold church services this coming Sunday, while Cardinal John Dew never raised his eyes.
"Opposition leader Simon Bridges yesterday called the 10-person limit on gatherings "inhumane", especially in respect of funerals and places of worship. The National Party today launched a petition for Parliament to reject the 10-person limit." (Sign here):
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsimonoconnor.national.org.nz%2Fgathering_petition%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1MNcEKmSqlCPqQfReTEgd_Dq5ucvrS7WCRQe6VXlXEc8XFwxYBUKfIEMk&h=AT0PtrIoguN0mn53pgU5W3A86Zvxv7YhkOpg4rwGFk1_vi1fiIhhZoKNR6axp2MGQtUn6q6EImfqmMY5y1-_ZxeB1AUKgzM1EsLKVVzeXtT65tHRi_fUOtUtJ27v6FftEHve6fJcJmgOtp5Y5e-SZw
"The Human Rights Commission was "strongly of the view" the legislation should include a provision to ensure those making decisions, and exercising powers, under the new law, would do so in accordance with national and international human rights commitments and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Hunt said.
"In times of national emergency sweeping powers are granted. There is a risk of overreach. Mistakes are made and later regretted. This is precisely when our national and international human rights and Te Tiriti commitments must be taken into account."
From Monday our 'Catholic' schools will teem with children, but in the church next door - the very reason for the school's existence - not more than ten people will be allowed.
But who needs police, when you've got bishops and priests? In their collective wisdom, New Zealand's bishops have decreed it's up to individual churches, i.e. the PP and Parish Council, to decide whether to open the church. In other words they passed the buck.
So let's go round the traps. In the Palmerston North Diocese St Brigid's Pahiatua will stay locked, with our Eucharistic Lord its Voluntary Prisoner, unvisited, for another two lonely weeks.
Our Lady of Lourdes Havelock North "will be open on Thursday 14th between 9 am and 12 noon for private prayer. The priests will be available for reconciliation and pastoral councilling (sic) from 10 am." No Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, not even with two priests on hand, not even for under ten souls.
St Joseph's Dannevirke won't be open until Monday, "as hand sanitizer has not arrived yet. It will be open Monday - Friday 10am - 12 midday every day, with reconciliation on Tuesday 10am - 12 midday."
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing it's all down to Father whether St Joseph's Waipukurau and/or St Patrick's Waipawa will be open at all.
As for the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, it won't be open till Sunday midday - 1 p m and 4.30-5.30 p m. midday - 1pm and 4.30 to 5.30pm.
What a shocking indictment of the demoralised priests of the Novus Ordo.
Just recently I was ticked off by a correspondent for being "too focused on the Latin Mass as a solution".
Our Lady of Lourdes Havelock North "will be open on Thursday 14th between 9 am and 12 noon for private prayer. The priests will be available for reconciliation and pastoral councilling (sic) from 10 am." No Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, not even with two priests on hand, not even for under ten souls.
St Joseph's Dannevirke won't be open until Monday, "as hand sanitizer has not arrived yet. It will be open Monday - Friday 10am - 12 midday every day, with reconciliation on Tuesday 10am - 12 midday."
Reading between the lines, I'm guessing it's all down to Father whether St Joseph's Waipukurau and/or St Patrick's Waipawa will be open at all.
As for the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, it won't be open till Sunday midday - 1 p m and 4.30-5.30 p m. midday - 1pm and 4.30 to 5.30pm.
What a shocking indictment of the demoralised priests of the Novus Ordo.
Just recently I was ticked off by a correspondent for being "too focused on the Latin Mass as a solution".
My critic doesn't cite chapter and verse for that statement. But I believe that had the Immemorial Mass and Communion on the tongue been preserved with the same privileges as the 'New Mass' enjoys, then St Brigid's, St Joseph's Dannevirke and St Joseph's Waipukurau would not have decreed their churches should stay locked and deserted while an untold number of children frolic (as they should, for heaven's sake!) in the classrooms nearby.
Ever since Vatican II the priests and parish councillors responsible for those decisions have been drinking not the Precious Blood of our Lord and Saviour, but a 'spiritual drink'. They've been handing out or receiving His Sacred Body like so many pieces of chewing gum.
Lex orandi, lex credendi! We pray as we believe; we believe as we pray. Ever since Vat2 we've seen a systematic banishment of the doctrine of Hell from the texts of the New Mass.
Pity poor Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: the decision to limit funerals to only ten mourners "is causing pain".
"The idea we would force people to not be able to comfort each other is very hard to comprehend. This has been very hard ... ultimately we want to protect people." She shares that attitude with the Pope, cardinals and bishops who have treated the laity like children, 'protecting' us from the reality of Hell by never referring to it, or by representing it as nothing to be afraid of.
Note that the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God Himself did not 'protect' the shepherd children of Fatima from this reality. Just look at the expressions on their childish faces. For the rest of his short life St Francisco Marto spent hours together on his knees, forehead to the ground, subsumed with the desire to save souls from that dreadful eternity of Hell which was revealed to him by his Blessed Mother.
But Hell, I've been told, is just "the absence of God". Well excuse me, but when you have no idea Who God is, why should you be bothered by His absence? You've got along quite nicely without Him in this life, you're quite comfy with the idea of Him not being around you in the next.
Years ago when I objected to the abolition of kneeling during the Consecration and asked a product of the Novus Ordo what he'd do if God Himself entered the room, he said he "would stand, as a mark of respect".
I repeated that to a Latin Massgoer and she fell all over the place laughing. She said it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. That's the difference between the this-worldly, man-centred attitude of the New Mass, and the other-worldly perspective of the traditional Latin Mass.
We've seen the Fear of God abolished from the list of Gifts of the Holy Spirit on display in His very own cathedral in Palmerston North, and replaced by 'Awe'. That was an innovation of the diocese's first bishop, +Peter Cullinane, whose praxis, including standing for the Consecration, reeked of Freemasonry. Had he and all the other liberal priests we know forgotten that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom "(Prov 1:7).
That means, unless we begin by fearing Almighty God and His just punishment for our sins and negligences in Hell we will never attain to that filial fear, of offending Him because we love Him, that we must have to enter Heaven.
Don't go thinking the Judge will let you off if you plead ignorance of the Law. Okay, maybe you're not expected to turn up at your Particular Judgment with a degree in theology, but there are things you know instinctively because God Himself has given you a natural understanding of right and wrong, and He will judge you on how well or badly you've lived them out.
Specially He gives you the basic laws of charity which He has written in your heart as well as in Scripture, in the Ten Commandments - and has spelled out your horrible ending, "to be cast into hell fire..."
"And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire (Mt 18: 8,9).
Just as one comparison between the traditional Latin Mass (usus antiquior) and the bowdlerised texts of the New, in the former those verses are read at least twice a year and in the latter, never.
Jacinda would agree: we need 'protection'. Just as we do NOT need protection against a nasty flu bug which mostly affects old people in rest homes, because God Himself has provided antibodies to fight against it - which Jacinda and the nerdish Dr Something Something have done their utmost to extinguish by weeks of isolation - neither should we be protected from the reality of Hell which Our Blessed Mother chose to show to three little children, for the obvious reason that if we don't know it's there, we could so easily tumble into it as into a trap satan has set for our unwitting feet.
In other words, lex orandi tell us how to pray so that lex credendi governs lex vivendi - the way we live, which must be based on orandi and credendi. It's called integrity and boy, will we need it in the new, New Zealand neo-Nazi state.
That means, unless we begin by fearing Almighty God and His just punishment for our sins and negligences in Hell we will never attain to that filial fear, of offending Him because we love Him, that we must have to enter Heaven.
Don't go thinking the Judge will let you off if you plead ignorance of the Law. Okay, maybe you're not expected to turn up at your Particular Judgment with a degree in theology, but there are things you know instinctively because God Himself has given you a natural understanding of right and wrong, and He will judge you on how well or badly you've lived them out.
Specially He gives you the basic laws of charity which He has written in your heart as well as in Scripture, in the Ten Commandments - and has spelled out your horrible ending, "to be cast into hell fire..."
"And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire (Mt 18: 8,9).
Just as one comparison between the traditional Latin Mass (usus antiquior) and the bowdlerised texts of the New, in the former those verses are read at least twice a year and in the latter, never.
Jacinda would agree: we need 'protection'. Just as we do NOT need protection against a nasty flu bug which mostly affects old people in rest homes, because God Himself has provided antibodies to fight against it - which Jacinda and the nerdish Dr Something Something have done their utmost to extinguish by weeks of isolation - neither should we be protected from the reality of Hell which Our Blessed Mother chose to show to three little children, for the obvious reason that if we don't know it's there, we could so easily tumble into it as into a trap satan has set for our unwitting feet.
In other words, lex orandi tell us how to pray so that lex credendi governs lex vivendi - the way we live, which must be based on orandi and credendi. It's called integrity and boy, will we need it in the new, New Zealand neo-Nazi state.
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| Dante's Inferno |
To help acquire that integrity, we might follow little St Francisco Marto's example by praying as he, Lucy, and Jacinta were taught by the angel who prepared them for the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin:
"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you; I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you."
"My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you; I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you."
Bob Gill says:
ReplyDeleteIt’s one thing the NZ bishops having the parish priest and parish council deciding on opening the church, but the restrictive re-opening times must surely come from the bishops. Also, the availability of private prayer and Reconciliation only must come from the bishops as one of the first things lay people would want to do during restrictive hours would be restoring Eucharistic Adoration. Surely the next best thing to the Mass during restrictions would be ongoing Exposition – and would be so easy to organise.
I will be checking with my church coordinator today to verify just how much of the buck has been passed on to the parish priest and parish council during Level 2.
Teresa Coles says:
Taupo Church is open today for 2 hours 10-11am and 5-6pm which I will go with 2 other parishioners later which I am looking forward to..Hand sanitizer at the door,write your name down and go behind where the ropes are ..huh! Julia maybe you could take your own sanitizer to the church...The whole procedure is ridiculous..There have been no cases for the last 2 days and the borders are closed..
Bob Gill says:
ReplyDeleteI’ve just been advised that my church (St Joseph's Dannevirke) will re-open 10 am to 12 noon Monday to Friday. Now, I don’t think for one minute that the instruction comes from the Government – I bet it comes from the Bishops. I’m curious to know if all other parishes have those same few opening hours that don’t take into consideration the people working.
I note that the church is shut on Sunday, the Lord’s Day. Why? Are all churches closed on Sunday?
Hopefully an explanation is forthcoming from our church coordinator.
Monica Devine says:
The Cardinal also said in a FB post yesterday 'The government's move to Alert Level 2 with some restrictions allows many of our parish activities to resume, including churches opening for private prayer and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.'
This allowed us to hope BUT then on calling and emailing all the parishes (almost all) we were told no private prayer, no reconciliation for at least two weeks. Feeling very disappointed.
Noels Famularo says:
That shocks me too.
The NZ Bishops passed the buck to the parishes and priests. That's called dereliction of duty.
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