LABOUR'S 3-YEAR 'NIGHT IN A BAD INN' - HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT

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Election night worshippers at the Masonic-style altar of Ardern*

The landslide victory handed to Baby-Butcher Ardern on Saturday demands that reparation be made to God by NZ Catholics in prayer and fasting, especially in reparation for bishops and priests who failed to warn us, as Catholics, that any who voted for Labour "would be in proximate cooperation with evil and would commit a grave sin".

Ordinations to the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

That's the warning this week from an anonymous priest of the FSSP (Fraternity of St Peter) to US Catholic voters, against voting for presidential candidate Joe Biden, whose position on abortion as a Democrat is essentially the same as Ardern's and  Labour's. And earlier this week, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Chicago, had said voting for Biden would require "a proportionately grave reason that outweighs the killing of 860,000 babies per year".

That's exactly what NZ's Catholics should have heard against voting for Labour and Ardern - for the same reason, of opposing the evil of abortion - from our bishops and priests. We didn't hear it - and consequently, how many Catholics helped vote Labour into for example, incredibly, every single seat in the South Island? These 'Catholics' may say they voted 'tactically', not for Labour per se but to keep the Greens out of government; but who knows how many babies will be killed per year in New Zealand, now that we've vindicated Jacinda Ardern's judgment and death penalty, imposed by way of the most extreme abortion law in the world, on an untold, unpredictable number of our unborn children? 

"Tens of thousands"? As a prediction of abortion fatalities that's far more credible than the prediction of COVID deaths made so convincingly by Ardern (thanks to her Masonic degree in comms) that we let her lock us all up, and lock all our churches up, for four weeks.

And what's the betting that borne on the crest of a 'second wave' we'll all be locked up again, and our Lord locked up again, for Christmas?

There's this much to be said for presidential hopeful, pro-abortion, 'Catholic' Biden: as presidential hopeful he hasn't offficially got any blood on his hands - yet. Whereas last year, Ardern and her Parliamentary cohorts (a minority of them in National) presided over the blood-letting of nearly 13,000 infants.

And in Election 2020, Kiwis like Americans had a very clear choice between right and wrong. I was aghast when someone known for strong pro-life views (funded by a strongly Catholic upbringing) commented to the effect that there was hope for Americans because "Trump won't be around for ever". The alternative to Trump in the shape of Biden would plunge the US into a darkness blacker than pitch.

Had NZ Catholics all voted according to Christ's and Church teaching, the pro-life party New Conservative, which polled highest of all parties outside Parliament, would now be in there as the lone party with a Christian voice.

“The stance on life is not a disagreement in perspective or approach between political parties. It is a moral absolute that admits no compromise, and is the issue that must rise to the top on election day", writes the anonymous FSSP priest.

"Abortion, which is the ugly daughter of a contraceptive and divorce-happy culture, must be eradicated, along with its own ugly daughters of pornography, prostitution, sex trafficking, and child exploitation.

"According to traditional Catholic teaching, “the Church is there to guide the administration and exercise of temporal power, to call out its abuse, but never to usurp it. While mindful of our Lord’s words to render to Caesar what is his, and to God what is God’s, the Church insists that, if there is a conflict between the two, the problem must be on the side of Caesar.

"To say that there are more pressing moral and social issues that plague our country is to completely miss the point; poisoning the river at its source poisons the lake into which it flows.

“There is a hierarchy of moral issues, and so a grave error on the fundamental right to life poisons how all life is regarded and demands correction." 

And Fr. Michael J. Stinson, the FSSP’s superior for North America, has encouraged Catholics to “pray for and defend their Church like they would their own mother.”

“Mindful of the lengths that a mother will go to care for her children,” Stinson explained, “it is most natural then that children have a similar instinct towards their mothers. While children can never return in full all their mother has given them (nor would a loving mother ever expect that), they must do something, and so Catholics must pray for and defend their Church like they would their own mother.”

Moreover, “[w]hile our first obligation and line of defense is remaining in a state of grace and cultivating a practical devout life by prayer and the Sacraments, other obligations arise when we see the Church (and country) threatened by anti-God, anti-religious, anti-life, and lawless forces, even from those who profess to be loyal to the Church,” Stinson explained.

“In the month ahead, we must summon the graces of our Confirmations and remind ourselves and others that Catholics are bound to believe the entire deposit of Faith and the moral teachings which flow from it, and so to vote accordingly,” he added. “In so doing, we speak in a way that clearly defines us as children truly loyal to the Church, and we will be assured of God’s blessing in having the courage to contribute to the cause of His right hand.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/community-of-priests-catholics-voting-for-biden-would-commit-a-grave-sin

 

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the US, adds his voice to the FSSP's:  

 “Silence on abortion is a terrible sign of the spiritual and moral deviance in that part of the Hierarchy which denies its very own mission because it has denied Christ.” 

“I remind my brother Bishops that they were anointed with the Holy Chrism as athletes of the Faith, not as neutral spectators of the struggle between God and the Adversary.” You have the ‘grace of state’, he tells the bishops, “to be heard by your flock, who recognizes in you the voice of the Divine Shepherd (Jn 10:2-3). Do not be afraid to proclaim the Gospel of Christ, just as the Apostles and the Bishops who succeeded them did not fear martyrdom.” 

“I pray that the few, courageous Pastors who raise their voices to defend the inviolable and non-negotiable principles which the Lord has established in natural law, may be joined by those who today hesitate out of fear, timidity, or a false sense of prudence,” he says. 

“(J)ust as in abortion the mother kills her own child, whom she should love, protect, and bring forth into this earthly life, so in the present fraud, the Church, willed by God to bring forth souls to eternal life, is found killing them herself spiritually in her own womb, because of the betrayal of her own Ministers.” 

The archbishop concludes by asking the faithful, who he says are “disoriented by the silence of so many fainthearted shepherds, to raise their prayers to Heaven, invoking from the Paraclete those graces which only the Holy Spirit can instill in the most hardened and rebellious heart.”

“Offer your sacrifices, your penances, and your sufferings in sickness for the Church and for your Pastors,” he added. 

Which is my reason for suggesting we in New Zealand must pray and make reparation for our bishops and priests. A reader of this blog has reacted with something like indignation to my remarks about Election 2020 ushering in a chastisement, a purification, in the shape of three years' hard Labour: 

"I don't need purification," he said. So if he died today, he'd go straight to heaven? I don't think so - any more than I would. But as a Novus Ordo Catholic, he doesn't have the daily reminders of God's chastisement offered in the readings of the Immemorial (Latin) Mass which are so necessary but not especially enjoyable - which is why, I suspect, that Vat2 all but eliminated them. 

St Teresa of Jesus (Avila) once likened life on earth to "a night in a bad inn". We're in for a long night, people. So as the great saint advises:

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

 

*Note the strange dissimilarity in the fingernails of the nearest worshipper. Does this have any signficance?