CARDINAL SARAH CANCELLED: TIME TO PRAY THE ROSARY

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Today, on the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, it's announced that Cardinal Robert Sarah, formerly - until sacked by Antipope Francis - head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has, incredibly, been cancelled by the Archbishop of Paris, one Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich. 

Cancelled, that is, from the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass commemorating the 40th anniversary of the French organisation responsible for the  Chartres Pilgrimage. +Ulrich has prohibited Cardinal Sarah from offering that Mass.

Things are getting ever more lowdown and dirty in the world of Francis Church politics. The Vatican is worried about the success of the Chartres Pilgrimage - the powerful international symbol for the TLM - and resorts to bullyboy tactics to stamp it out. Faithful Catholics all over the world must turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Rosary to fight back.

Cardinal Robert Sarah - Our Lady's faithful knight

Consider this: in all her apparitions the Mother of God tells us, her children, to pray the Rosary. So as She is one with her Divine Son, is it not a sin of disobedience to the Divine Will to ignore Her pleas?

And St Padre Pio, considered by many to be one of the greatest saints of the 20th century, prayed the Rosary constantly. Up to 35 times a day, in fact. Should our confidence in God and His Mother not spur us on to emulate him?

Most of us are familiar with most of the promises made by the BVM in countless apparitions to those who pray her prayer. But few of us will know that devotion to the Rosary is a "great sign of predestination".

"Predestination"? Pardon me?" you say. You might think predestination is a Protestant invention. And it is a basic tenet of Anglicanism but it's a hangover from their Catholic beginnings. Predestination is a Catholic idea and a Catholic word.

So first, a comprehensive list of Our Lady's promises to those who faithfully pray the Rosary, then a brief explanation of predestination. You could probably then explain it to your Novus Ordo parish priest.

Archbishop Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich. Hmmm...

The Blessed Virgin Mary made these promises to Saint Dominic and to all who follow that “Whatever you ask in the Rosary will be granted.”

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. 

6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.https://catholic-link.org/images/infographic-the-15-promises-of-the-rosary/

“It is a dogma of the Catholic faith that the saved, the elect, are predestined by God to salvation. That’s clear from Scripture, Tradition, and the constant teaching of the Church.”

Predestination is a Catholic idea, and a Catholic word. I’m all about the project of reclaiming what is ours.

Scripture expresses very clearly the idea that those who are saved are “predestined” (Romans 8:28), that God “chose us in him before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4), that those who are the heirs of Christ “inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34).

Thus it is a dogma of the faith that “God, by an eternal resolve of His Will, has predestined certain men to eternal blessedness.”

We know that we are saved only by the gift of God’s grace. We know that God knows from all time who will be saved and who will not. So, what does this mean? That God only gives His grace to some people and not to others? That He simply chooses at random who will be saved? To put it most bluntly: If God predestines some people for Heaven, does that not imply that He also predestines some people to Hell?

On this the Church is firm: “God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end” (CCC 1037). This is a relief to hear!

The Catechism does point out that it is possible to willfully turn away from God, though the Church does not teach that any particular person is in Hell. We never know what God’s mercy does in a person’s life, even at the moment of death. But, for example, the CCC notes how Herod and Pontius Pilate are permitted by God to refuse his grace. The rich young man turns away sad, because he had many possessions. These are people who evidently turned away from Jesus, at least for a time. But that was their free choice, not God’s.

Yet we still seem to find ourselves in a bind: We know that God’s grace is a pure gift and cannot be earned; yet it would seem fundamentally unjust for God to withhold His grace from anyone arbitrarily, apart from any consideration of their actions—yet if we complained of not being given this gift, are we not then saying we are owed it? How do we escape this circle?

The Church also affirms unequivocally: God offers sufficient grace—that is, grace sufficient for them to turn toward God and away from sin—to all people. In other words, God offers the possibility of salvation to all people.": God predestines the saved to Heaven, but He does not predestine anyone to Hell. This is the error of John Calvin and others of the Protestant reformers, who, before the mystery of grace, mistakenly decided that Hell could be God’s will for certain souls. But it most definitely is not!

Predestination is a deep subject touching on many aspects of the faith. But as we wrestle with this mystery, we can rely on these wise words from the Doctor of Grace, St. Augustine:

He who created thee without thy help does not justify thee without thy help. (Sermo 169, II, 13)God is good, and God is just. He can save a person without good works, because He is good. But He cannot condemn anyone without evil works, because He is just. (Contra Jul. III 18, 35.)His mercy comes before us in everything. But to assent to or dissent from the call of God is a matter for one’s own will. (De spiritu et litt. 34, 60)."

https://aleteia.org/2019/03/14/do-catholics-believe-in-predestination-the-answer-might-surprise-you/

So with Our Lady's promises in mind, let Michael Matt of The Remnant inspire you to take up her arms in the crusade against the evil forces within the Church, personified for us today by Archbishop Urlich of Paris in his cowardly attack on of one of the few holy and courageous princes of the Church we have left to us: Cardinal Robert Sarah.

Next Saturday is the 40th anniversary of the French organization responsible for the Chartres Pilgrimage. Cardinal Robert Sarah was supposed to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass in the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris. Incredibly, the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich, has decided to cancel Cardinal Sarah, prohibiting him from offering that important anniversary Mass in Paris. And why was Cardinal Sarah canceled? I believe it is because the mainstream Church is becoming increasingly concerned over the success of the Chartres Pilgrimage – the most powerful international statement in favor of Traditional Catholic restoration in the world today. To understand more fully what I mean by this, please watch this documentary.  As the children of darkness seek to crush the last vestiges of the Light of Christ in our civilization, the children of Light unite by the tens of thousands every year on the Pentecost Pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, France, where they make a promise to remain faithful to Christ and to the old world order of Christendom despite the rise of a new and diabolical world order. Like so many hundreds of thousands, I too have been profoundly impacted by this singular event, which is why I am so happy to release this documentary on the Pilgrimage and the youth movement it represents.  It is called "THE CHARTRES PILGRIMAGE: Guardian of Tradition," and I hope and pray you will watch it, recognize its importance to the Christian counterrevolution, and decide to help make Guardian of Tradition go viral. Especially after "Traditionis Custodes," the Pilgrimage to Chartres must be held up against the folly of any force on earth attempting to cancel the Latin Mass which represents the hope and promise of the future. For God’s sake and the sake of your children and your nation, please share this video today! Pope Francis will not be happy if "Guardian of Tradition" goes viral, but I suspect God will be pleased, and so let’s do it! I call on Catholics and non-Catholics alike to ‘make Francis’s day’ by sharing this video with everyone you know. There truly is not a moment to lose! In Christo Rege, Michael J. Matt P.S. Per usual, this video is also posted at Remnant-TV.com. However, in the interest of a more mainstream impact, we are making an exception in this case and asking you to please share the YouTube link to this documentary.  Our Lady of the Rosary, protect us in this day of battle.