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"The most insidious diabolical attack consists in trying to extinguish faith in the Eucharist, by sowing errors and fostering an unsuitable way of receiving it. Truly the war between Michael and his Angels on one side, and Lucifer on the other, continues in the hearts of the faithful.”

I'm happy to find support from no less than Cardinal Robert Sarah for my contention that attachment to Communion in the hand is demonic. 

Actually, although not wishing to give myself airs and graces, it does occur to me that I might be under demonic attack myself for continuously opposing this horrible practice, and refusing to comply with Cardinal John Dew's implicit, unjust demand that I receive in the hand. (Dunedin's Bishop Colin Campbell gives Communion on the tongue; the governance of the NZCBC surely leaves something to be desired.)

I mention it as pertinent to a Facebook discussion this week on the Eucharist, inspired by Palmerston North Young Family Ministry's cartoon, reminiscent of a kids' birthday party, posted as a come-on for a 'different' way of getting children 'involved' and 'participating' in the Eucharist, a post which PN Young Family Ministry have now deleted.

Oh, spare me. I'd hoped the post-Vat II obsession and misunderstanding of 'participation'  had died but obviously not, or at least it still won't lie down. 

Palmerston North Young Family Ministry's idea of the Holy Mass

In an exercise in political correctness and Pope-Franciscan 'non-judging', Communications Assistant for PN Diocese Emma Dodsworth stated that, "The conversation was no longer ‘open’: that is, not seeking discussion; - the messages were creating an ‘us and them’ mentality rather than a seeking of the truth; the  tone of many messages seemed aggressive" (? as in not 'nice'?)" – which is not the tone we want on our family page.
"We apologise for the inappropriate comments of one of the admins on the page" (I don't know what that means) "and have put internal guidelines in place in regards to best social media practices." Bureaucracy going mad.

"You can refer to our social media guidelines for more information on the appropriate use of comments on our pages - pndiocese.org.nz/site-terms-and-conditions. "  No thanks. I prefer to make time for prayer rather than 'social media guidelines'. 

"We recognise that the issues raised (the celebration of Mass, liturgical practice, the education of our children in the faith) are very important and need to be discussed. We do not wish to censor these discussions; however, we suggest that any concerns around this particular post are raised with the appropriate parish, instead of in the comments section. Future comments on these issues are welcome," (Do you want them, or don't you?) "but please do keep in mind that this page is meant as a hub for young families" (Que? What was said that might have been - God save us! - inappropriate for young families?) 

"Feel free to message our page(s) directly if you have serious concerns. Our communications team is unable to manage and reply to all comments, but endeavours to reply to messages.

"Please continue to comment and engage with our social media, but try to make comments an endorsement of the good rather than an attack on the bad (i.e. “this is better”, “I prefer this”, “the Church recommends” rather than “this is bad”, “I don’t like this”, “the Church condemns”). 

Do we see here the dead hand of Fr Joe Grayland? And does that last paragraph smack of totalitarianism? Would the PN Diocese prefer to make its own comments on its own posts, perhaps? I'd oblige willingly, only I can't remember what there was good in that post to endorse. 

God knows what the orthodox Muslim who contributed a comment would make of PN Diocesan Comms. The other participants, as noted by one - Sharon Crooks - all "adhere to the notion of One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church and attend both NO and TLM Masses." So are we 'us' or 'them'?

"But he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, because they are done in God" (Jn 3,21). If PN Diocese Communications are serious about communicating the truth, deleting posts they don't agree with is hardly the way to go about it. 

As Pope Francis has said,"There is no true peace without truth!" 

"We have to present to the world the saving truth that was incarnated in Jesus Christ. ... We should understand that there is no common good without reference to the principles taught in a constant way by Catholic Doctrine" (Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, past Executive Director of the Rome Office of Human Life International). 

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula

Exactly. Which is the point made in the posts deleted by PN 'Communications'. My comment, if I remember rightly, was that the august Sacrifice of the Son of God on Calvary  is always and everywhere essentially the same. It cannot be 'different', as presaged by PN Young Families Ministry. It is a non-bloody re-enactment of the bloody Sacrifice of Christ for the redemption of all humanity, offered in adoration, atonement, thanksgiving and petition.

I suspect that what might have got up PN Diocesan 'Communications' ' nose was my suggestion that the PN Young Family Ministry make the trip to Whanganui on Sunday to St Anthony's Gonville, where the church is full of young families, complete with babies, all 'involved' and 'participating' in the Traditional Latin Mass, with a lengthy sermon to boot (10 minutes at least, at a guess).

PN Diocese's recently-imported priests (Frs Trung Nguyen and Vui Hoang) are fruit of a kind of piety found in their own land (Vietnam) which is conspicuously lacking in Palmerston North and evidence of the lack of fruit borne by relativistic diocesan liturgical practices ever since PN's foundation 40 years ago. 

"We see," says Monsignor Barreiro, "how this relativistic spirit has entered into the catechesis in many countries where the truths of the Faith are not taught with clarity, due to an anti-dogmatic mentality" - a mentality prevalent not just in Palmerston North but throughout New Zealand, as evidenced in our bishops refusing the faithful their right to Communion on the tongue.

"Why do we insist on communicating standing and on the hand?" asks Cardinal Sarah. "Why this attitude of lack of submission to the signs of God? May no priest dare to impose his authority in this matter by refusing or mistreating those who wish to receive Communion kneeling and on the tongue. Let us come as children and humbly receive the Body of Christ on our knees and on our tongue. The saints give us the example. They are the models to be imitated that God offers us!”

Cardinal Sarah describes Communion in the hand as “a special concession (which) has become the picklock to force and empty the safe of the Church’s liturgical treasures.” As Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship - an office he announced 3 days ago he will continue to hold although he's reached retirement age (75) - he pleads with priests to give Communion only on the tongue.

"In society we can see signs of decadence worldwide," says Monsignor Barreiro. "In a particular way we can see it in countries that have legalized abortion and the so-called 'marriage' betweed persons of the same sex and the adoption of chilren by same-sex couples" (like New Zealand). ... This is part and parcel of the totalitarian tendencies found in liberalism (such as in the New Zealand Church which forbids Communion on the tongue, and in PN Diocese which wants a 'different' Mass for kids and suppresses criticism). 

"The true liberty of mankind is rooted in the sovereign liberty of God; when man breaks his relationship with God his liberty is at risk, and that is what is happening in contemporary secular societies. A society that severs its moorings with God will turn itself into an anti-human institution. 

"So we have to be careful that our liturgies are not influenced by the secular-humanist environment of the society in which we happen to live.

"The Church has the obligation to lead society through her preaching, through her public worship, her formation of youth in schools" (and Young Family Ministries) "and the word and example of lay Catholics who are active in society. 

"With regards to the crisis in the liturgy there is so much evidence that there is no need to say more. The crisis in the educational system of the Church has deprived us of thousands of young persons who could have had a fundamental influence in the evangelisation of society.

..."Living in and observing contemporary society it is easy to feel prone to discouragement and to be dominated by a sense of abandonement, even by the Church" (as in being denied Holy Communion). The Lord, in furnishing the means of salvation, will furnish not only the spiritual means but also the necessary natural means. 

"We must always keep in mind that Christ established only one Church, outside of which there is no salvation; that she is the only "pillar and bulwark of truth".  We must remain in the Church even if some members do not understand our commitment to the preservation of a liturgy that fully expresses the glory of the Lord and our commitment to establish the Social Kingship of Christ.

"We are opposed to all contemporary forms of rendering banal the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. ... By making the Mass banal we lose sight of the eminent dignity of the sacrament of the Eucharist. 

"We are confronted at times by members of the Church who do not seem to perceive the fundamental importance of interpreting our contemporary magisterium in total continuity with the previous magisterium of the Church; they do not seem to understand that the Holy Spirit cannot contradict Himself. 

"We have to pray to be able to coexist with those in the Church who do not understand us; pray until they are open to the grace of the Lord and come to realize the importance of the things we are upholding. We must be absolutely unbending in maintaining these substantial principles, but we should never feel superior to those who have been influenced by contemporary ways of thinking; we also are sinners. 

"We like they are working out our salvation in fear and trembling, fighting our wounded nature, the world, and the devil. We must be tolerant in matters that are not dogmatic, obviously applying appropriate discernment because we must not tolerate positions that erode dogmatic teachings or things that are not becoming and could in any way infringe on the Glory of the Lord. 

"We must be able to explain that the co-existence of the two forms in the Latin Rite (NO and TLM) need not create division. Obviously it is easier to explain this matter if our interlocutors are also committed to the preservation of the sacred nature of the liturgy."

So to help us pray for those in the Church who do not understand us, note that today is the Redemptorist Feast of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, and that Our Lord revealed to the English stigmatist, Servant of God Teresa Helena Higginson (1844-1905) that He wishes tomorrow, the Friday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart, to be observed as the Feast of the Sacred Head as the Seat of Divine Wisdom.  Our Lord asked for special reparation and atonement to be offered to Him on that day.

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The 1927 biography by Lady Cecil Kerr,

republished by Rev Dr Paul Haffner,

professor of theology in Rome

Teresa Higginson (1844-1905) was a saintly Catholic schoolteacher. She was born in North Wales, lived most of her life in North West England and Scotland and died in Devon. It seems she received many supernatural gifts from God, such as healing, prophecy, bilocation and the stigmata.

It is claimed that Teresa was chosen by Christ to make known the devotion to his Sacred Head as the Seat of Divine Wisdom. This would be a remedy for a time of extraordinary intellectual pride and falling-away from faith. It would not only be the completion of the devotion to the Sacred Heart, but the crowning of all devotions.

In fact it was prophesied to be the one great means for the conversion of England.

Devotional prayer and litany to the Sacred Head is also found on the popular free app, iPieta.

If you want to find more please visit: http://www.sacredhead.org/index.html

It would not only be the completion of the devotion to the Sacred Heart but the crowning of all devotions.  In fact, it was prophesied to be the one great means for the conversion of England.

12 Promises of

THE SACRED HEAD,
given to Teresa Helena Higginson of England, by
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
to be especially adored as
The Seat of Divine Wisdom.
(1880 - 1883)

Our Lord told her that "the sufferings of His body are but like a drop in the ocean compared with what His Soul endured". Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, V.G.: England, September 2, 1926

1. "Anyone who shall assist in furthering this Devotion shall be blessed 1000- fold; but woe to him that shall reject or go against My wish in this respect, for they shall be scattered in my wrath and shall know their place no more." (June 2, 1880)
2. Our Lord "would crown and clothe with a peculiar glory all those who further this devotion" to the Sacred Head. "He would clothe with glory before angels and men in the courts of heaven those who clothed Him in glory on earth and would crown them in everlasting bliss." (Sept. 10, 1880)
3. "We render a great homage to the ever Blessed Trinity by adoring our dear blessed Lord's Sacred Head as the 'Seat of divine wisdom'." (Annunciation 1881)
4. Our Lord would bless "all who practice or further this devotion in any way." (July 16, 1881)
5. "Untold blessings are promised to those who shall try to further our Lord's wishes in spreading the Devotion." (Juni 2, 1880)
6. "The more we practice devotion to the Sacred Head the more we must see of the working of the Holy Spirit of God in the human soul, and the better we will know and love the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." (Juni 2, 1880)
7. The "devotion and love to His Sacred Heart should be bestowed a hundredfold upon those who practice devotion to the Seat of divine Wisdom." (May 1883)
8. "Our blessed Lord said that all that He had promised to those who should worthily love and honour His Sacred Head should be poured out upon those who honoured it themselves or were the means of others doing so. Oh, Sacred Head, may Thy Wisdom ever guide us, and the sacred tongue ever bless us and plead for mercy and pardon, and may we never hear the curse pronounced against those who shall hinder or despise this Devotion." (June 2, 1880)
9. "To them, that honour Me I will give of my might and I will be their God and they shall be My children and I will place my sign upon their foreheads and My seal upon their lips." (June 2, 1880)
10. He gave me to understand that this wisdom and Light was the seal that marked the number of His elect and they shall see His Face and His Name shall be on their foreheads. (May 23, 1880)
11. Our Lord gave her to understand that St. John referred to His Sacred Head of the Seat of Divine Wisdom "in the last two Chapters of Revelations and with this mark were sealed the numbers of His elect." (May 23, 1880)
12. Our Lord shows her the great blessings and graces he has in store for all who shall further His divine Will to this end. (May 9, 1880)

Prayers  written by Teresa herself Imprimatur: Jacobus Canonicus Carr, Pro Episcopo Liverpolitana

O WISDOM of the Sacred Head, guide me in all my ways. O LOVE of the Sacred Heart, consume me with thy fire. Three Glory be’s, in honour of the Divine Will, Memory and Understanding. O SEAT OF DIVINE WISDOM, and guiding Power, which governs all the motions and love of the Sacred Heart, may all minds know thee, all hearts love thee, and all tongues praise thee, now and for evermore. Amen. O WILL, which was always in meek subjection to thy Heavenly Father's, control me in all things, as thou didst govern all the affections and motions of the Sacred Heart of the God made man. O UNDERSTANDING, which knows all things, ever guide me with thy light. O MEMORY, in which past, present and future are at once reflected, which is ever mindful of me, and always seems studying some new means of giving fresh favours, force me to love thee more and more.