NO ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD OF COVID, NO NEED FOR LOCKDOWNS

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Well, hello world: it's time to get up, get out of your warm bed of delusion and live your life as God wants, not as some bunch of demi-gods - like Baby Butcher Ardern - decides.

Self-evident

One must refrain from saying "I told you so", but to withhold results of a study of 10 million people in China showing there is no such thing as asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 would be reprehensible. 

So there never was any need for lockdown, which Ardern decreed on the grounds that people who seemed perfectly healthy might be spreading a 'deadly' disease - from which 99.9% of sufferers recover ...  

What fear looked like in 1939

There was never any need then, as most Latin Mass adherents and contemplatives realise, O bewildered, besotted, benighted bishops, to lock our churches and deny us the Blessed Sacrament. (You might have loved lockdown - as I heard a priest say in his homily last Sunday - but you had the Lord. We did not.)

There was never any need to risk profanation of Our Lord by enforcing Communion in the hand, as the Marists in Napier, for instance, are still doing.

Ardern and Bloomfield stood up there night after night and bewitched over 50% of Kiwis apparently, going by the 2020 election results - if they can be trusted - into believing that we must lock ourselves up, and worse still lock our old people up, even the dying, away from family because although any putative visitors felt perfectly okay, they might have COVID.

A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all.

And before you go, oh Wuhan China, you can't believe anything coming out of China, this study was published in the highly regarded scientific journal Nature Communications, in a paper compiled by 19 scientists, mainly from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, but also from scientific institutions across China as well as in the U.K. and Australia. 

The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is still trotting the line that the virus “can be spread by people who do not have symptoms” and even that asymptomatic people “are estimated to account for more than 50 percent of transmissions.” Pull the other one, CDC.

Back in June, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said basically the same thing. Seems WHO rapped her over the knuckles, because when the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) pointed out that Kerkhove had “undermined the last bit of rationale there could be for lockdowns, mandated masks, social distancing regulation, and the entire apparatus of compulsion and coercion under which we’ve lived for three months”, she back-tracked, saying that that asymptomatic transmission was a “really complex question … We don’t actually have that answer yet.” Hah.

The Conservative Tree House noted that “all of the current lockdown regulations, mask wearing requirements and social distancing rules/decrees are based on a complete fallacy of false assumptions.” The evidence presented in the study shows that “‘very rare’ actually means ‘never’ asymptomatic spread just doesn’t happen – EVER.”https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/asymptomatic-transmission-of-covid-19-didnt-occur-at-all-study-of-10-million-finds

So how come we didn't hear this on TvOne 'News', from the woman with the ironed hair and the voice that shatters glass? Why isn't this information, which shows up Ardern et al for the liars that they are, being broadcast by Kim Hill at RNZ?

Because it doesn't fit with the MSM narrative. Because it would make the media look stupid. Because Ms Ardern wouldn't like it. Because she's handed the media a lot of cash. Because journalists have turned into propagandists. 

Because Satan is the Father of Lies. He uses COVID-19 to wage war on the Eucharist by attaching bishops and priests to the practice of Communion in the hand, by denying the faithful "the possibility to receive the Lord kneeling and on the tongue, thus demonstrating," in the words of Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a bishop rare in his love of truth, "a deplorable clericalism and exhibiting the behaviour of rigid neo-Pelagians".

IN CASE 2021 ISN'T PENANCE ENOUGH, POPE SAYS REFLECT ON A. L.

 

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"We’re Gonna Get a Whole Year Dedicated to Amoris Laetitia, The Evil Exhortation That Will Never Die."

Beginning March 19, a whole year will be dedicated, so Jorge Bergoglio says, to "the Amoris Laetitia Family". What's that, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. But the reflections the 'pope' asks us to make, for a whole year, on this awful exhortation, need take only a whole minute for us to realise that Amoris Laetitia is a hand grenade thrown at God's institutions of Church and family.

Amoris Laetitia may be the reason why on Christmas Day I listened to a homily which exalted human families above the Holy Family, which didn't rate a single mention. A homily which excoriated sons and daughters overseas who were too selfish to spend two weeks of their lives at Christmastime shut in a motel room somewhere in quarantine for the sake of family. As the mother of one such, I was somewhat less than edified. 

Murder in the cathedral - don't get ideas

Today the Church celebrates St Thomas Becket, Archbishop and Martyr, who strenuously defended the rights of the Church against King Henry II and was murdered by the king's followers. We must pray that God will raise up priests and bishops around the world and in New Zealand who will defend the rights of the Church against socialist governments like Jacinda Ardern's, and against the great 'global reset'. 

I hand over to Steve Skojec, of OnePeterFive:

               

In his Angelus address Dec. 27, the feast of the Holy Family, the pope noted that March 19, 2021, would mark five years since the signing of Amoris laetitia following synods on the family in 2014 and 2015.

He said: “Today’s feast reminds us of the example of evangelising with the family, proposing to us once again the ideal of conjugal and family love, as underlined in the apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, promulgated five years ago this coming March 19. And it will be a year of reflection on Amoris laetitia and it will be an opportunity to focus more closely on the contents of the document. These reflections will be made available to ecclesial communities and families, to accompany them on their journey.”

“As of now, I invite everyone to take part in the initiatives that will be promoted during the Year and that will be coordinated by the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life. Let us entrust this journey, with families all over the world, to the Holy Family of Nazareth, in particular to St. Joseph, the devoted spouse and father.”

If you search 1P5 (OnePeterFive) for the phrase, “Amoris Laetitia,” you’ll get 493 unique results. That’s an impressive number for a little publication like ours, and it underscores the significance of that document. 

More than any other agenda piece of the current pontificate, this hulking Trojan horse of a post-synodal apostolic exhortation has been the Magnum Opus of what will likely be seen as the most theologically disastrous pontificate in the Church’s 2,000 year history. (I say “likely” because Paul VI gives Francis a run for his money. But then again, Francis “canonized” Paul VI, so in a way he managed to include all the horrific damage the latter did and offer it up for emulation and veneration by the faithful.)

It was Cardinal Kasper’s proposal at the February 2014 consistory that a door be opened for the divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion — a proposal adopted and promoted by Francis — that set the stage for the the disastrous program of “reform” that followed for the next seven years. It was, in many respects, what put the wheels in motion for the creation of this website.

Always, from the very beginning of his pontificate, amidst his various attacks on traditional doctrine and praxis, there have been three pillars of Catholic life under fire from our chastisement of a pope: Marriage & the family, the priesthood, and the Eucharist.

 

I can point to a number of reasons why I say the latter two are in his crosshairs, but for the sake of brevity — and because Sister Lucia of Fatima warned that attacks on marriage and the family would be the thrust of the devil’s final battle against Our Lord — let me focus here only on the first.

From the comments about Catholics breeding like rabbits to the open endorsement of contraception by the pope in the face of the Zika virus to his public friendship and praise of Italy’s most notorious abortionist to his handing of the Vatican platform over to horrific population control ideologues like Paul Ehrlich and Jeffrey Sachs to his promotion of the pro-abortion UN Sustainable Development Goals to his gutting and remaking of the Pontifical Academy for Life with pro-abortion, pro-contraception, and overtly homosexual-friendly staff members, Francis has wielded a cudgel against life and family issues like nobody could have imagined a Roman Pontiff would ever do.

Out of the starting gate, he made comments indicating that the Church has focused too much on these issues:

“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

“The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.

It was these comments that led to exploitation of the pope’s thinking by the Church’s longstanding enemies like this:

 

But it was Amoris Laetitia that seemed to be tip of the spear in his assault against the family. Because it was through this document that he effectively redefined the family — outside of the Catholic conception of what God designed it to be — and essentially wished away the sin of adultery (and even promotes it!) based on some ambiguous, subjective hand waving at complexity of context. (In the process, he left the Eucharist subject to sacrilege; but the souls damaged by such papally-approved sacrilege should not be forgotten, either.)

Pope Francis has already made certain that we know his position; by placing his letter praising the Argentinian Bishops for creating Amoris Laetitia guidelines that allow those living in adultery to receive Communion in the official acts of the Holy See, he was publicly flipping the bird to anyone trying to offer mental gymnastics as an excuse for an orthodox interpretation of his document. With both hands.

We know the efforts made to respond. We know about the Dubia, which saw two of the four cardinals — the only four in the entire Church brave enough to raise their voices above a private whimper! — actually die waiting for an audience with the pope to even discuss it. (We also saw the remaining cardinals give up on their promised formal correction of the pope, perhaps deciding that such a gesture would be futile.)

We saw a document created by 45 international theologians and Catholic scholars painstakingly listing theological censures against propositions within Amoris Laetitia sent to the college of cardinals and be completely ignored.

We saw a petition with 800,000 signatures (including 200 Catholic prelates) asking the pope to re-affirm traditional doctrine on marriage treated like it doesn’t even exist.

There were other such initiatives, analyses, and commentaries. Too many to list here.

One of the pre-eminent Catholic philosophers in the world, the late Robert Spaemann, said in no uncertain terms that Amoris Laetitia would “split the Church” – that the “pope should have known” it would do exactly that. (Then again, Francis admitted that he might go down in history as the one who splits the Church, so perhaps he did — and did it anyway.)

Another pre-eminent Catholic philosopher, Josef Seifert, described the potential effect of the document as “a moral theological atomic bomb that threatens to tear down the whole moral edifice of the 10 commandments and of Catholic Moral Teaching.”

And we’re getting an entire year to celebrate it.

An. Entire. Year.

We appear to have a pope who despises the faithful, has contempt for the Catholic faith, and quite likely actually hates God Himself — or at least, His teachings, as given to His Children by both Scripture and Tradition. A pope so riddled with hubris that he thinks he can remake the Church in his own image. And here he is yet again, flipping us all the bird with both hands, because he knows there’s not a damn thing we can do to stop him.

Many of us have gotten better at ignoring him, it’s true, and we’ll mostly ignore this papal slap in the face like we have so many others. But that doesn’t make him any easier to take, or his incessant nuisance-making easy to avoid without simply going off the grid and never again reading any Catholic news.

And despite recurring rumors of his imminent resignation, let’s be honest about what we know: the man loves power and the sound of his own voice far too much. It’s highly unlikely he’s planning on just letting go of the office his relentless ambition allowed him to attain now that he finally has it, and fading off quietly into obscurity.

We know, too, that even when he’s finally gone, he’s stacked the deck of the college of cardinals; odds are we’ll get a like-minded ideological successor, albeit one who is younger and perhaps a bit more tactful, making him that much more dangerous.

But then again, we don’t know what 2021 will actually bring. Who could have seen 2020 coming? Odds are, it’s going to be another wild year. Buckle up.

 

Salvator Mundi, miserere nobis.

EVIL QUEEN JACINDA, BERGOGLIO, BEATLES AND ZEN

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Cruel, evil Queen Jacinda

Today the Catholic Church venerates as martyrs the Holy Innocents, massacred at the order of the cruel, evil King Herod. Bishops and priests throughout New Zealand would do well to offer Mass for the latter-day massacre of the innocent unborn at the order, in the Abortion Legislation Act passed in March, of the cruel, evil Queen Jacinda Ardern. 

Are we astonished at the omission from his Christmas message Urbi et Orbi of any  call for prayer from the Church by Jorge Mario Bergoglio for the vote pending tomorrow in his own country, Argentina, on the fate of unborn babies there? Not really. 

In a text which resonates with John Lennon's Imagine and will, like his latest encyclical effusion Fratelli Tutti (Tutti Frutti) delight the Masons, Bergoglio contradicts Church doctrine once again (sigh) by claiming that hey, we're all brothers and sisters, man.

Bergoglio and friends, obviously not in accord re masks

Dear 'Pope', we are not all brothers and sisters. "But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (Jn 1:12,13). 

Once again, we see the foolishness at best, or wickedness at worst, of the architects of the Novus Ordo Missae in omitting, among so many beauties of the Immemorial Mass, the Last Gospel - which of course the congregation stood to hear read by the priest after the Ite Missa est, leaving the church with St John's words still ringing in their ears. 

If Catholics were still familiar with that text, would Bergoglio have dared make such a glib and false assertion of international fraternity? Even the shepherds knew better, that first Christmas night when they heard the angels sing, "Peace on earth among men of good will" (Lk 2:14).

If Catholics were still attending the Mass of Ages, with all the wisdom its texts dispense, would Bergoglio get away with peddling mass vaccinations for COVID-19? If Catholics were still begging for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints in the Traditional Latin Mass, would he parade the false humility and putdown of capitalism implied in these words: "I cannot place myself ahead of others, letting the law of the marketplace and patents take precedence over the law of love and the health of humanity." 

He asked "government leaders, businesses, international organizations" to provide "vaccines for all, especially for the most vulnerable and needy of all regions of the planet."

His insistence on jabs for 'the most vulnerable and needy', coupled with the strident advocacy of chums such as George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates and Jeffrey Sachs for depopulation, is enough to make one wonder just what's in those vaccines - and how come they've been whipped up so speedily when usually the process takes 10-12 years?

The 'pope''s traditional message to the "city [Rome] and world" drew attention to matters of concern in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chile, Venezuela, Philippines and Vietnam.

Bergoglio mentioned the Israelis and Palestinians as well as the persecuted Rohingya and Yazidi peoples. So far, so good. 

But excuse me, what about China, where the Holy See's dealings with the Communist Party amount, in the words of Cardinal Joseph Zen, to "a total sell-out" and churches that registered with the CCP in the hope of peaceful worship now may endure more harassment than the hold-outs? And what about Christians increasingly persecuted and massacred for their belief, especially by Muslims, throughout the world? 

Pray for Cardinal Joseph Zen, betrayed

With such a 'pope' as this, we are easily persuaded by that darling of the sixties and swingers ever since, John Lennon, in his prophetic paean of praise to the 'Great Reset', to:

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or…

Pray for John Lennon: by 1969 the fifth Beatle was heroin

MASS IN THE CHURCH FOYER A SIGN OF ECCLESIASTICAL FREEMASONRY

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"Is this priest a man of prayer (contemplative prayer) and learning?"

The question posed by an anonymous reader is prompted by reports that Fr Craig Butler has been appointed Administrator of the Palmerston North Diocese. 

Fr Craig Butler, not looking too traditionalist 

She says her question of priests generally is the question always and famously asked by St Teresa of Jesus (Avila), Doctor of the Church.  As 'Anonymous' rightly points out, a priest who is not a man of prayer and learning deprives their sheep of the fruits of contemplation. She asks also, rhetorically, "That's why the holiness of a priest is so vital, isn't it?

"A holy priest is in the Divine Will Persona Christi, par excellence! When priests possess the living waters of contemplation they are able to share with the Bride of Christ, His Church, the fruits of this divine union.

"Feed my sheep!" (Jn 21:17). There is no sanctity without orthodoxy. The tragedy today, and it truly is a tragedy, is that "Priests are not accessing Mystical Theology" (Professor Tony Hickey, Manchester). Therefore the sheep miss out and suffer spritiual malnutrition, and furthermore all into heresies. 

'Anonymous' remembers Fr Butler, when visiting Palmerston North some time ago, making a point of celebrating Holy Mass at St Mary's in the foyer (a common practice of priests in New Zealand in winter months).

"To separate the altar from the tabernacle, outside the sacred sanctuary, is a Masonic act! The excuse given by priests is that it's too cold in the church to say Mass. Let's then have it in a dirty foyer, an undignified place, and most of all well away from the Real Presence of the Body, Soul and Divinity of Christ.

A "small flock" blessed "by the blood and tears of millions of martyrs" of Soviet persecutions: Msgr. Tomash Peta, Archbishop of Nur-Sultan (new name of Astana), describes the Catholic Church of Kazakhstan (150,000 faithful)

"It is Masonic because it is "a desacralisation of the sacred" according to Archbishop Tomash Peta of Kazakhstan. This is a sign of ecclesiastical Freemasonry!"  

    

UK Freemasons accept trans women who joined as men

BERGOGLIO NOW BACKS BAD VAX AND STARS ON NETFLIX

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There are bad popes. And then there are worse popes. 

Pope Francis accepts gifts at an Amazonan Synod Mass

Obviously, in the eyes of the man the world calls Pope Francis, sin is a thing of the past. On Monday the Vatican, with the approval of Jorge Bergoglio, announced that Covid-19 vaccines made with the help of cell lines from murdered babies is 'morally acceptable'. 

These days the Vatican also favours idolatry. Having worshipped the goddess Pachamama last December, the Vatican now parades astronauts and aliens in its 'traditional' Christmas crib in St Peter's Square. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò calls it an "expression of apostasy, immorality and vice – of ugliness erected as a model." Fair enough. https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/vigano-vatican-nativity-is-expression-of-apostasy-immorality-and-vice?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=8ea43f9bd8-Daily%2520Headlines%2520-%2520U.S._COPY_702&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-8ea43f9bd8-402364845

Pope Francis gets on famously with people like LGBT, abortion promoters Bill and Melinda Gates and Jeffrey Sachs who's all for abortion and population control. 

Now we know that Our Lord Jesus Christ "ate with sinners", but He wasn't "gratified" by, or "satisfied" with their public sinning, as Bergoglio says he is with chums like LGBT and abortion promoters Bill and Melinda Gates, and Jeffrey Sachs who's all for abortion and population control. 

Bergoglio now intends to star with sinners on Netflix, the pro-abortion movie platform that gained global infamy for its 2019 Christmas movie portraying Jesus as gay and its 2018 Christmas film featuring a drunk Jesus.

 

Netflix portrays Jesus Christ Our Lord as a drunk in 'The Last Hangover'

This month, Netflix was forced to delete an Instagram "Praise Satan" post after a firestorm from Christians. Its softcore child pornography film Cuties sparked a "#CancelNetflix" campaign in September.

But hello, here's the Jesuit-owned Loyola Press announcing that "Netflix will produce an original documentary series based on its award-winning book Sharing the Wisdom of Time, by Pope Francis and friends."

The docuseries will feature 'special commentary' from Bergoglio on stories with little or no Christian content from other oldies from other religions, compiled by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, another confidant of the pope and editor-in-chief of the Jesuit journal, La Civiltà Cattolica.

"By their fruits you shall know them" (Mt 7:16). So the infamous Netflix joins other outfits with Bergoglio's backing such as the Vatican’s Youth Symposium, which promotes 'Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including abortion and contraception which, chillingly, are to be "instilled" into "all learners".  As we are surely all life-long 'learners' that means none of us will escape this 'instilling' not only of SDGs but Bergoglio's Laudato Si  (aka Laudato Me) and Fratelli Tutti (aka Tutti Frutti).

Pope Francis chatting up the mistress of the Argentinian president 

Aiding and abetting Bergoglio in this 'instilling' is Monsignor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, a modernist who says he was within his rights in giving Holy Communion to the pro-abortion president of Argentina and his mistress, in spite of what Canon Law says to the contrary. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-teams-up-with-un-to-educate-world-on-sustainable-lifestyles-gender-equality-global-citizenship

So in case you missed the main point here, let's repeat that the Vatican has announced that Covid-19 vaccines developed using cell lines derived from aborted foetuses are "morally acceptable".

A baby killed in a 'D&C'

What, one might ask, does the Vatican know or care about morals? In the absence of any alternative, such vaccines "can be used in good conscience", the Vatican said. What, one might ask, does the Vatican now know or care about conscience?

This is typical of the despicable, Jesuitical white-anting of Catholic doctrine which has marked of this tragic pontificate, fruit of Vatican II and its bastard child, the Novus Ordo, which for more than 50 years has eroded faith in the Real Presence to the point that 'good Catholics' can now romp about and shout and clap during Holy Mass in the house of God, and routinely priests betray their loss of faith by handling the Body of Christ on the altar as casually as if It were just the pieces of bread It resembles.

Others with due competence have come to the conclusion that vaccines are not needed at all for this pandemic, which they state is effectively “over.”

Several thousand doctors in Belgium affirmed that “[i]f 95% of people experience Covid-19 virtually symptom-free, the risk of exposure to an untested vaccine is irresponsible.” 

In a paper released on December 12, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, along with co-signers Cardinal Janis Pujats, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga, expressed the strong conviction that any use of a vaccine tainted with the “unspeakable crime” of abortion, under any circumstances, “cannot be acceptable for Catholics.”

These prelates cite the teaching of St. John Paul II affirming the duty of every Catholic and person of goodwill to defend “the most basic and fundamental right” to life “with maximum determination.” 

“The crime of abortion is so monstrous that any kind of concatenation with this crime, even a very remote one, is immoral and cannot be accepted under any circumstances by a Catholic.

“One who uses these vaccines must realize that his body is benefitting from the ‘fruits’ ... of one of mankind’s greatest crimes.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-doctrine-dept-permits-abortion-tainted-vaccines-for-grave-danger

IN 2020 HOLY KEYS LOCKED CHURCHES, ARDERN ELECTED TO SACRIFICE OUR BABIES

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In the year 2020 an Act of New Zealand's Parliament ushered in a new holocaust of babies sacrificed to the god of convenience.  And then New Zealand elected the architect of that Act, Jacinda Ardern, as our Prime Minister.

The right hand of a baby aged 14 weeks, sucked out of mother's womb and left in a tip

In 2021 New Zealand must pray for the nation's repentance, healing and conversion for the evil done in 2020. The best way to pray is the Mass. The best way to pray the Mass is the the traditional Latin Mass, the Mass which for hundreds of years made such great saints. We need saints now. We must pray for good, holy priests to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass.

To put the case (implied) for the TLM, I hand over to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (who's blamed now by Catholic leftys for the defrocked McCarrick's predation. His reflection takes time but utterly defied my attempts at abbreviation:

"The months that we leave behind represent one of the darkest moments in the history of humanity: for the first time ever, since the birth of the Savior, the Holy Keys have been used to close churches and restrict the celebration of the Mass and the Sacraments, almost in anticipation of the abolition of the daily Sacrifice prophesied by Daniel, which will take place during the reign of the Antichrist.

In less than two weeks, by the grace of God, this year of Our Lord 2020, which has been marked by terrible events and great social upheavals, will draw to a close. Allow me to formulate a brief reflection with which to turn a supernatural gaze both towards the recent past as well as the immediate future.

For the first time ever, at the Easter celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection, many of us were forced to assist at Mass and Holy Week services through the internet, depriving us of Holy Communion. For the first time, we became aware, with pain and dismay, of being deserted by our bishops and parish priests, who were barricaded in their palaces and rectories out of fear of a seasonal flu that claimed about the same number of victims as in other years.

We have seen – so to speak – the generals and officers abandon their army, and in some cases they even joined the enemy ranks, imposing on the Church an unconditional surrender to the absurd reasons for the pseudo-pandemic. 

Never, down all the centuries, has so much faint-heartedness, so much cowardice, so much desire to pander to our persecutors found such fertile ground in those whoought to be our guides and leaders. And what most scandalized many of us was the realization that this betrayal involved the highest levels of the Hierarchy of the Church much more than the priests and the simple faithful. Precisely from the highest Throne, from which we should have expected a firm and authoritative intervention in defense of the rights of God, of the freedom of the Church and the salvation of souls, we have received instead invitations to obey unjust laws, illegitimate norms, and irrational orders. 

And in the words that the media promptly spread from Santa Marta, we recognized many, too many, nods to the insider language of the globalist élite – fraternity, universal income, new world order, build back better, great reset, nothing will be ever be the same again, resilience – all words of the new language, which testify to the idem sentire of those who speak them and those who listen to them.

It was a true act of intimidation, a thinly-veiled threat, with which our Pastors ratified the pandemic alarm, sowed terror among the simple, and abandoned the dying and the needy. In the height of a cynical legalism, it even reached the point of prohibiting priests from hearing Confessions and administering the Last Sacraments to those were abandoned in intensive care, depriving our beloved dead of religious burial, and denying the Blessed Sacrament to many souls.

And if on the religious side of things we saw ourselves treated as outsiders and barred access to our churches like the Saracens of old – even as the implacable invasion of illegal immigrants continued to replenish the coffers of the self-styledhumanitarian associations – on the civil and political side we discovered that our rulers had a vocation to tyranny ...

 

Water cannon used at a protest in defiance of lockdown in Thailand

We have seen people forcibly dragged by soldiers in anti-riot gear, elderly people fined while they were going to the pharmacy, shopkeepers forced to close their doors, and restaurants that first took costly measures in an effort to comply with the government’s demands only to then to be ordered to be closed. 

Riot police in Victoria St Market, Melbourne

With bewilderment, we have heard scores of self-styled experts – most of whom are lacking any scientific authority whatsoever and largely in grave conflict of interest due to their ties to pharmaceutical companies and supra-national organizations – pontificating on television programs and on the pages of newspapers about infections, vaccines, immunity, positive tests, the obligation to wear masks, the risks for the elderly, the contagiousness of the asymptomatic, and the danger of seeing one’s family.

 

US nurse about to faint while lauding the jab she's just received

They have thundered at us, using arcane words like “social distancing” and “gatherings,” in an endless series of grotesque contradictions, absurd alarms, apocalyptic threats, social precepts and health ceremonies that have replaced religious rites.

 

 Here's looking at you, Kiwi Labour voters

 Forced to disguise ourselves as anonymous people without a face, they have imposed a muzzle on us that is absolutely useless for avoiding contagion and actually harmful to our health, but indispensable for their purposes of making us feel subjugated and forced to conform. They have prevented us from being cured with existing and effective treatments, promoting instead a vaccine that they now want to make obligatory even before knowing if it is effective, after only incomplete testing.

And in order not to jeopardize the enormous profits of the pharmaceutical companies, they have granted immunity for the damage that their vaccines may cause to the population. The vaccine is free, they tell us, but it will actually be paid for with taxpayers’ money, even if its producers do not guarantee that it will protect from contagion.

In this scenario that is similar to the disastrous effects of a war, the economy of our countries lies prostrate, while online commerce companies, home delivery companies, and pornography producers are booming. The local shops close but the large shopping centers and supermarkets remain open: monuments to the consumerism in which everyone, even those with Covid, continue to fill their carts with foreign products, German cheeses, Moroccan oranges, Canadian flour, and cell phones and televisions made in China. 

“The world is preparing for the Great Reset,” they tell us obsessively. “Nothing will ever be the same again.” We will have to get used to “living with the virus,” subjected to a perpetual pandemic that feeds the pharmaceutical Moloch and legitimizes ever more hateful limitations of our fundamental liberties.

Those who since childhood have catechized us to worship freedom, democracy, and popular sovereignty today govern us by depriving us of freedom in the name of health, imposing dictatorship, arrogating to themselves a power that no one has ever conferred on them, neither from above nor from below.

And the temporal power that Freemasonry and the Liberals ferociously opposed in the Roman Pontiffs is today claimed by them in reverse, in an attempt to submit the Church of Christ to the power of the State with the approval and collaboration of the highest levels of the Hierarchy. 

Out of this whole humanly discouraging scenario, an unavoidable fact emerges: there is a chasm between those who hold authority and those who are subjected to it, between rulers and citizens, between the Hierarchy and the faithful. It is an institutional monstrum in which both civil and religious power are almost entirely in the hands of unscrupulous people who have been appointed because of their absolute ineptitude and great vulnerability to blackmail.

Their role is not to administer the institution but to demolish it, not to respect its laws but to violate them, not to protect its members but to disperse and distance them. In short, we find ourselves facing the perversion of authority, not due to chance or inexperience but pursued with determination and following a pre-established plan: a single script under a single direction.

 

Ardern on election night - victory for Freemasonry

We thus have rulers who persecute their citizens and treat them as enemies, while welcoming and financing the invasion of criminals and illegal immigrants; law enforcement officers and judges who arrest and fine those who violate social-distancing rules, even as they ostentatiously ignore criminals, rapists, assassins and treacherous politicians; teachers who do not transmit culture or the love of knowledge but instead indoctrinate students into gender and globalist ideology; doctors who refuse to treat the sick but impose a genetically-modified vaccine whose efficacy and potential side-effects are unknown; bishops and priests who deny the faithful the Sacraments but who never miss an occasion for propagandizing their own unconditional adherence to the globalist agenda in the name of Masonic Brotherhood.

Those who oppose this overturning of every principle of civil life find themselves abandoned, alone, and without a leader who would unite them. Loneliness, in fact, allows our common enemies – as they have amply demonstrated themselves to be – to instill fear, despair, and the feeling of not being able to stand together to resist the assaults to which we have been subjected. Citizens are alone in the face of the abuse of civil power, the faithful are alone in the face of the arrogance of heretical Prelates given over to vice, and those who wish to dissent, raise their voice, or protest within institutions are likewise alone.

Loneliness and fear increase when we give them ground to stand on, but they vanish if we think of how each one of us merited that the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity became incarnate in the most pure womb of the Virgin Mary: qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis. And here we come to the Mysteries which we are preparing to contemplate in these coming days: the Immaculate Conception and the Lord’s Holy Nativity.

From these mysteries, dear friends, we can draw renewed hope with which to face the events that await us. Above all, we must remember that none of us is ever truly alone: we have the Lord at our side. He always wants our good, and so he never fails to send us His help and His grace, if only we ask for it with faith. We have the Most Blessed Virgin at our side, our loving Mother and our secure refuge. We have near us the hosts of Angels and the multitude of Saints who from the glory of Heaven intercede for us before the Throne of the Divine Majesty. 

The contemplation of this sublime community that is the Holy Church, the mystical Jerusalem that we are citizens of and living members, should persuade us that the last thing we ought to fear is being alone, and that there is no reason to be afraid, even if the devil rages to make us believe that there is. True loneliness is in Hell, where the damned souls do not have any hope: that is the loneliness we should truly fear, and before it we must beg for the grace of final perseverance, that is, to be able to merit the grace of a holy death from the Mercy of God. A death for which we ought to always be prepared by keeping ourselves in a state of grace, in friendship with the Lord. 

Of course, the trials that we are facing in this moment are tremendous, because they give us the feeling that evil is triumphing, that each of us is abandoned to ourselves, that the wicked have managed to get the better of the pusillus grex [little flock] and of all humanity.

But was not our Lord perhaps alone in Gethsemane, alone on the wood of the Cross, alone in the Tomb? And returning to the mystery of Christmas that is now fast approaching: were not the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph perhaps alone when they found themselves forced to take refuge in a stable because non erat locus illis in diversorio [there was no room for them in the inn]?

Imagine how the putative father of Jesus must have felt seeing his Most Holy Spouse ready to give birth in the cold of the night of Palestine; think of their worries during the Flight into Egypt, knowing that King Herod had unleashed his soldiers to kill the Infant Jesus. Even in these terrible situations, the solitude of the Holy Family was only apparent, while God arranged everything according to His plans. He sent an Angel to announce the birth of the Savior to the shepherds.He moved no less than a Star to call the Magi from the Orient to adore the Messiah. He sent choirs of His Angels to sing over the cave of Bethlehem. He warned Saint Joseph to flee in order to escape the massacre of Herod. 

Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Ruberns 

Also to us, in the solitude of the lockdown which many of us are forced to endure, in the abandonment of the hospital, in the silence of the deserted streets and the churches closed to worship, the Lord comes to bring His company. Also to us He sends His Angel to inspire us with holy purposes, his Most Holy Mother to console us, the Paraclete to give us comfort, dulcis hospes animae. 

We are not alone: we are never alone. And it is this, in the end, that the authors of the Great Reset fear most: that we become aware of this supernatural – but no less true  – reality that makes the house of cards of their infernal deceptions collapse. 

If we think of how we have at our side She who crushes the head of the Serpent, or the Archangel who has drawn his sword to drive Lucifer into the abyss; if we recall that our Guardian Angel, our Patron Saint, and our dear ones in Heaven and Purgatory are with us: what can we ever be afraid of? Do we want to believe that the God of armies drawn up for battle has any hesitation about defeating any servant of the eternally defeated one? 

She who in the year 630 saved Constantinople from siege, terrorizing the Avars and Persians by appearing tremendous in the heavens; who in 1091 at Scicli in Sicily was invoked as Our Lady of the Militia and appeared on a shining cloud chasing away the Saracens; who in 1571 at Lepanto and again in 1683 at Vienna was invoked as Queen of Victories and granted victory to the Christian army against the Turks; who during the anti-Catholic persecution of Mexico protected the Cristeros and repelled the army of the Mason Elias Calles – She will not deny us Her holy assistance; She will not leave us alone in the battle; She will not abandon those who have recourse to Her with trusting prayer in the moment in which the conflict is decisive and the confrontation is nearing an end. 

We have had the grace to understand what this world can become if we deny the Lordship of God and replace it with the tyranny of Satan. This is the world that is rebellious against Christ the King and Mary the Queen, in which each day thousands of innocent lives in the wombs of their mothers are sacrificed to Satan; this is the world in which vice and sin want to cancel every trace of good and virtue, every memory of the Christian religion, every law and vestige of our civilization, every trace of the order that the Creator has given to nature. A world in which churches burn, Crosses are knocked down, statues of the Virgin are decapitated: this hatred, this Satanic fury against Christ and the Mother of God is the mark of the Evil One and his servants.

In the face of this total Revolution, this accursed New World Order that would prepare the way for the kingdom of the Antichrist, we cannot still believe that any brotherhood is possible if not under the Law of God, nor that it is possible to construct peace if not under the mantle of the Queen of Peace. Pax Christi in regno Christi. 

The Lord will give us the victory only when we bow down to Him as our King. And if we cannot yet proclaim Him as King of our Nations because of the impiety of those who govern us, we can nevertheless consecrate ourselves, our families, and our communities to Him. And to those who dare to challenge Heaven in the name of “Nothing will be the same again,” we respond by invoking God with renewed fervor: “As it was in beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.”

Let us pray to the Immaculate Virgin, Tabernacle of the Most High, asking that in our meditation on the Holy Nativity of Her Divine Son which now draws near, She may dispel our fear and solitude, gathering us together in adoration around the manger. In the poverty of the crib, in the silence of the cave of Bethlehem, the song of the Angels resounds; the one true Light of the world shines forth, adored by the shepherds and the Magi, and Creation itself bows down, adorning the vault of heaven with a shining Star. 

Veni, Emmanuel: captivum solve Israël. Come, O Emmanuel, free your imprisoned people.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

13 December 2020
Dominica Gaudete, III Adventus