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St Mary's Mt Albert, Auckland

laicised former priest Sateki Raass 

CARDINAL JOHN DEW, Archbishop of the Diocese of Wellington and  President of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference, has asked the Vatican for permission to investigate BISHOP PATRICK DUNN's handling of complaints about a priest who'd groomed a 15 year-old girl by 'sexting'.

Tongan Sateki Raass was laicised after his conviction in 2019. According to 'Stuff', +Dunn had intended not to inform Raass' parish school, St Mary's Mt Albert, of complaints dating back to 2005 in Tonga; he allowed Raass to say Mass after his arrest; he bailed him to a presbytery adjacent to another primary school despite conditions prohibiting his contact with under-16s. 

+Dunn, says Stuff, then changed his mind on all those intentions. But St Mary's parents learned their parish priest had been convicted of possessing semi-nude photos of a teenage girl through the media.

Soane Patita Paini Mafi, second right, at his ordination as a cardinal at the Vatican City, Rome, in February 2015.

Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga has said, according to Stuff, that he had several conversations with +Dunn about rumours circulating in Tonga concerning Raass' behaviour. He stated also that +Dunn had 'hesitated' in sending Raass -  supposedly 'a rising star' in the Church - for further academic studies, but +Dunn denies that.

According to the Marist Cathnews (St Mary's is a Marist parish) in 2014 +Dunn 'resolved' a complaint about another inappropriate relationship of Raass' by sending him for counselling.  Raass is currently living with a woman in West Auckland.

Now, below we see what is presumably the sanctuary at St Mary's Mt Albert. Many of St Mary's N O parishioners are probably proud of it. But it can be identified as an sanctuary only by its position, and its association with a sort-of-table, a Paschal candle and a sitting-room-sized crucifix on a broomstick. But where's the priest's chair? Ah! It's that semi-circle on a circle at the back with a shelf beside. So authoritative. So sacred. So comfy. 

"The altar is an image of Christ exercising his priestly office and gives a foretaste of the heavenly banqueting table. The priest celebrant’s chair in a parish church signifies the priest’s headship during the sacred liturgy and his mission to sanctify and govern those in his care. The priest in his parish sacramentalizes Christ presiding as the head of the Mystical Body, and his chair indicates this role.https://adoremus.org/2017/03/seat-wisdom-role-celebrants-chair-life-church/ 

Even more significantly, where's the tabernacle? This so-called 'sanctuary' makes a mockery of our Catholic faith. It's merely a dais, a little stage for a few sticks of modern furniture and a tiny crucifix, not the true sanctuary for the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist that it was in the Catholic Church for hundreds of years before Vatican II.

It seems that Sateki Raass was well along on that "broad path which leads to destruction" (Mt 7:14) before he ever arrived at St Mary's Mt Albert, but this 'sanctuary', which without the Presence of Christ is literally soulless, would have done nothing to help him rediscover his vocation as an Alter Christus, an ordained man who stands in the person of Christ, but puts him on a silly seat as a kind of ringmaster, overseeing a troupe of mostly elderly lay people, mostly women, who do most of the work. 

No wonder this priest resigned, as thousands of priests did in the 1970s and later.This sanctuary, which sheltered a child abuser, is a symptom of the Novus Ordo soullessness that afflicts the whole Church in New Zealand, a soullessness well expressed by Bishop Dunn in his dithering over this poor priest's sinning, and by Cardinal John Dew in abolishing the Traditional Latin Mass, the Mass of Ages, in his own Archdiocese of Wellington.

The Modernists and the Freemasons think that by destroying the Traditional Latin Mass they will destroy the Church. They don't believe the promise of Christ Himself, that "the gates of hell shall never prevail against it", but with the abolition of the Mass of Ages which is so clearly the re-enactment of Christ's Sacrifice of Calvary, Satan will go from strength to strength. 

At one little country church this morning the congregation was down from pre-lockdown's 50 to under 30. A late-comer who waited - sans mask and contact details because she says it's all a fraud - for Father to process before entering the church, noted that there was just one envelope in the former holy water fonts now painstakingly hand-labelled, by Father, as 'Offertory Collection'. (What a travesty, to replace the sacramental of holy water for filthy mammon!) 

The days of the Church as we knew it are ending, hastened to their close by our bishops. We will have to adjust to house Masses, Rock Masses - and if we don't pray for more holy priests, no Masses at all.  

PRAYERS FOR HOLY PRIESTS

"My Dear Jesus, You desire that we pray the Lord of the harvest that He send zealous laborers into His harvest. Deign to raise up in Thy Church, and especially in this diocese, numerous and holy priests who, taking Thy Divine Heart as their Model, will, in the exercise of their holy priesthood, promote the glory of Thy heavenly Father and the salvation of those souls whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy Precious Blood. Give us truly holy priests who, inflamed with the fire of Thy divine love, seek nothing but Thy greater glory and the salvation of souls.

O Mary, Queen of the clergy, pray for us; obtain for us many holy priests."

PRAYER TO BE SAID AT THE

PRIEST'S COMMUNION

"O Lord, may You find shelter and rest gently within the heart of Thy priest...

Make him, O Lord, a priest according to Thy heart: meek, humble, zealous, so that all he does will be for Thine honor and glory. Mold him into a man of prayer and labor, insensible to earthly things, and sensible only to Thy love and to the graces of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

 

Mass in a Connemara Cabin, Aloysius O'Kelly (the priest turned to give the blessing)