N O CATHOLICS CAUGHT IN jJACINDA'S TOILS OF TYRANNY

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Like the protestors at Parliament, Catholics are perfectly free to obey. If they don't they lose only their eternal lives.

 The Gospel according to the Novus Ordo - at least, as it was preached in one Palmerston North diocesan church yesterday, and it's surely not atypical - is that we have to wait till we die to enjoy freedom. Then, it's guaranteed.

 "We hear a lot about freedom these days," said Father, "but we'll all have freedom in heaven."

Now, Father's not too bothered about having to wait for freedom (probably, given  his age, not for very long) because, he said, he's had a happy life. But many of his listeners have had sad lives, even if only in enduring years of loneliness after the death of their spouse. 

They needed to hear Father say that Jesus Christ came to give us freedom here on earth. Especially as their masks betrayed that they are far from free. They are caught up in the toils of tyranny, of Jacinda Ardern's totalitarian regime.

Jesus Christ came on earth precisely to set us free, in spirit.  "Then Jesus said to those Jews, who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (Jn 8: 31, 32).

The trouble with the Novus Ordo is that it's absolutely not "the hermeneutic of continuity" that apologists for the disaster of Vatican II claim it to be. It's anything but. In its ambiguities and Protestant inclinations, Vatican II did not "continue in my word" and so its adherents, not knowing what God's word is, can't possibly be His disciples - as in his Easter Sunday homily, contradicting God's word, Father made it abundantly clear. 

St Thomas Aquinas, who was so alert (and sympathetic) to the frailties of human nature suffered by prelates as well as their people, wrote that "one is not to give assent to the preaching of a prelate which is contrary to the Faith". Father Chad Ripperger adds that "we as Catholic faithful have a right to expect those who teach us to be sure that what they teach does not contradict the teaching of God or the prior Magisterium".

In some churches in the Palmerston North Diocese over the Easter Triduum - that jewel in the crown of the Church's liturgy - the faithful had their eardrums assaulted by "120 decibels from each speaker", according to one N O Massgoer. "I think the clergy love the microphone  - it’s pop rock 'n' roll.    What did they do before? "

"Before", we had microphones, we had the Latin Mass and no need for any of those expensive electronics. But now prelates like Cardinal John Dew have "contradicted the prior Magisterium" and forbidden us the silent, prayerful worship of the Traditional Latin Mass.  

In a PN city church the Mass was decorated as it were, with umpteen verses in the processional and recessional hymns in an unconscious effort to dress the NO up,. On the other hand, another church had no purple hangings in Holy Week, no servers at the Easter Sunday Mass, and no bells.  Behold the gradual creep of Protestantism - and its effect, which in the same church was obvious in the two old men (one being the PP, the other the Parish Council chairperson) who struggled to erect the cross in the sanctuary with its Easter Sunday adornments,no younger men being available to do the job.

It's the Novus Ordo effect. Vatican II produced some treasures for the Church, but "the hermeneutics of continuity" was not one of them.

 “The hermeneutics of continuity does not stand the test of facts. For example, with regard to the social kingship of Christ and the objective falsity of non-Christian religions, Vatican II marks a break with the teaching of previous popes and leads to the objectively unacceptable results of the Abu Dhabi Declaration signed by Francis.”

“By accusing critics of having remained tied to a past that must be overcome, it implicitly affirms the need to overcome the teaching of all the popes up to Pius XII. But ‘such a theological position,’ observes Bishop Athanasius Schneider, ‘is ultimately Protestant and heretical, since the Catholic faith implies an unbroken tradition, an uninterrupted continuity, without a perceptible doctrinal and liturgical rupture.’”https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/status-criticizing-vatican-ii-64595

So Novus Ordo Massgoers can sit inert in their pews, swallowing hererical homilies as a kind of weekly injection of anaesthetics, and die in their sins of wiful ignorance - Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin (Jn 8:24) - or they can bone up on Church teaching. There's a snag in that, though.

A reader of this blog shut herself in her room on Good Friday to pray Vespers, and read that “on Good Friday Vespers are not said by those who are present at the postmeridian liturgical action”. .Anyone else get the impression that it's not just liturgical but literacy standards which have fallen somewhat?

So that might be a handicap for some in studying the Church doctrine that Catholics must know and believe as a prerequisite for entering heaven. There are videos to watch of course, but what about the elderly and other minorities who for whatever reason don't do videos? They absolutely rely on Father to give them the real oil and if he misleads them, one can only hope that he can rightly blame New Zealand's modernist bishops for leading him astray.

St John Eudes tells us that "it is a terrible castigation" from God "when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clergy who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practise the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than charity and affection of devoted shepherds."

As for the heresy implied in Father's homily (we're all going to heaven) one needs only quote the Gospel again. But it's the Gospel taught in the Traditional Latin Mass, not the Gospel according to the Novus Ordo. where passages like these are seldom if ever heard and like sex and politics are not to be talked about in homilies:

The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Mt 8:12).Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels (Mt 25:41).

Another clue to the prevalence of heresy and ambiguity in the Novus Ordo lies in its vernacular language. As the Baltimore Catechism explains: 

 Q. 566. Why does the Church use the Latin language instead of the national language of its children?

A. The Church uses the Latin language instead of the national language of its children:
   1. To avoid the danger of changing any part of its teaching in using different languages;
   2. That all its rulers may be perfectly united and understood in their communications;
   3. To show that the Church is not an institute of any particular nation, but the guide of all nations.

That's pretty clear, and logical, and easily understood. The Baltimore Catechism would seem to be the one to have.

 

O God, Who in the Paschal solemnity hast bestowed Thy healing grace on the world, continue, we beseech Thee, to pour forth Thy heavenly gifts on Thy people that thereby we may deserve to obtain freedom and advance toward life eternal -  Collect, Vespers, Monday within the Octave of Easter.