ONE DAY OUR LADY OF FATIMA IS ATTACKED, NEXT DAY TORNADOES ATTACK

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On December 9 - the day following the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - an unidentified man vandalised a statue of Our Lady of Fatima at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington US. 

He repeatedly struck the face of the statue with a hammer, cut off the hands and carried them off. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/man-uses-hammer-to-damage-our-lady-of-fatima-statue-at-basilica-of-national-shrine/65-696f28bc-096a-46a9-8262-28426f1f42dc

The day after that, December 1o, tornadoes left a trail of devastation across six states in the US, killing at least 70 in Kentucky alone. The state's death toll was expected to reach at least 100. “This has been the most devastating tornado event in our state’s history,” Governor Andy Beshear said. “The level of devastation is unlike anything I have ever seen.”

Mayfield Kentucky

Surely no one still thinks that God punishes sin? No one in the post-Vatican II Church of the Novus Ordo Missae (New Mass) does, that's for sure. That's the NO effect, caused by the sort of catechesis in "Catholic" schools that Michael Davies of fond memory, describes. 

In 1981 he quoted Canon George Telford resigning  as Vice-Chairman and Secretary to the Catechetical Commission of the Bishops of England and Wales because "modern catechetics is theologically corrupt and spiritually bankrupt. Its strictures and innovations are irrelevant and unmeaningful for Catholic faith, and can achieve nothing but its gradual dilution."

The man was a prophet! Decades before the pretender to the papacy Jorge Mario Bergoglio arrived on the scene, the good Canon Telford stated an important technique of modern catechetics as being "Ambiguity ... if applied skillfully (as only a Jesuit knows how) it becomes possible to talk and write about essential doctrines in a manner quite unrelated, or even contradictory, to anything taught by the Church. The golden rule is to avoid all clear and explicit statements."

Anyone who's cast a glance at the bumf NO Catholics are asked to read in Synod 2021 2023 (or wait - we've been granted a reprieve, don't have to make our submissions till March, so maybe it should be Synod 2022 2024 or 5?) will recognise exactly what Canon Telford was predicting in 1977. 

But good Proddys believe God punishes sin, because they know their bible - and traditional Catholics believe God punishes sin, too because of the understanding of Scripture they gain through the texts of the Latin Mass. 

Writing of the Anglican Church in the nineteenth century, Cardinal (now St John Henry) Newman complained:

We are over-tender in dealing with sin and sinners. We are deficient in jealous custody of the revealed Truths which Christ has left us. We allow men to speak against the Church, its ordinances, or its teaching, (or vandalise her statues - ed) without remonstrating with them. We do not separate from heretics, nay, we object to the word as if uncharitable.

... There are few if any British bishops (or New Zealand's - ed) who would openly deny a dogma of the Faith, but there are also few if any British (or NZ - ed) bishops who will accept the consequences deriving from the dogmas which they do not openly deny. ... As Catholics we believe that we were created by God with an eternal destiny in heaven made possible because God the Son became incarnate and died to atone for our sins. He offers all men the graces necessary for salvation, but those graces can be culpably rejected.

Davies was writing in 1981. What would he think of the graces of the traditional Latin Mass "culpably rejected" by the man who calls himself pope, in the insultingly named Traditionis Custodes? 

What would Davies think of the graces of traditional church architecture culpably rejected by parishes like Our Lady of Lourdes Palmerston North, where the seating - with no kneelers - is ranged around a central table, with the crucifix metres away on the end wall and with the tabernacle out of sight, next to an exterior door with people - and the famous Palmy not balmy wind - coming and going? What would he think of Fr Joe Grayland who does not exert himself to elevate the Host and the Chalice at the Consecration but just pushes the Sacred Species away from him?

OLOL Palmy - so woke it's got chronic insomnia 

What would Michael Davies think of the graces rejected by a priest like Fr Grayland who says to a would-be communicant kneeling in front of him, ready to receive, at the end of the queue, "I can't give you Communion on the tongue, only in the hand", and instead of giving her Christ, gives her a blessing? Father Grayland is rejecting not only grace but the Source of all grace.

It was a traditional Latin Massgoer who today declared that without a doubt there was a connection between the vandalism of Our Lady's statue at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the day after her feast, and the tornadoes that blasted the US southern states the day after that. 

I have heard various Protestant preachers suggest that sin somehow demands that God directly punish us, but that Jesus took our place and absorbed the punishment for us.  This is not the teaching of the Catholic Church.  In the Catechism, we read that ‘. . . punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin’ (1472).  When we freely choose to sin, we take upon ourselves the consequences of sin, which we often refer to as punishment.  In essence, we punish ourselves when we sin, not God. What a comfort and consolation to be deeply convicted of this truth: God does not punish us for our sins - Father Tim McCauley.  https://catholicexchange.com/does-god-punish-us-for-our-sins

We note that Father Sumich of the traditional Latin Mass order, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, led a Rosary procession with the statue of Our Lady of Fatima in Mt Albert, Auckland, this very evening. As a notice advertising the procession stated: "Public Prayers are needed in desperate times".

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only he that now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.

 

Holy Mass at the FSSP Auckland