HASTINGS COMPLAINED OF THEIR WHITE MARTYR

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Sacred Heart's altar - note presider's chair in place of tabernacle, beneath a crucifix dwarfed by the OHP screen 

 

'Died suddenly.' It's a death notice that in the post-v*x regime of Ardern&Robertson, Death Dealers to the Nation, we're hearing more and more frequently. We'd better get used to it and the only way to prepare for it is prayer. 

It's always a tragedy but when it refers to a priest its ill-effects both in this world and in eternity are felt by all those who have lost their shepherd.

Father Anthony Htun RIP, the Parish Priest of  Hastings in the Palmerston North Diocese who recently celebrated his twentieth jubilee and was probably aged in his 50s, died suddenly in Hastings last Saturday morning. The parish community is described by one to be "in shock. Just stunned."

Fr Htun (l) with parish priest Fr Marcus Francis (r): in the background the doors to the chapel where Our Lord is consigned 

Father Htun - as he probably would prefer to be known, rather than 'Pa Anthony' as he was referred to in a Hawke's Bay parish notice informing informed us of a parish Mass 'to remember Pa Anthony Htun' (note, no 'RIP') - had come to New Zealand from Myanmar (not Borneo, as a fellow priest stated at Mass the next morning). He was a holy priest, devout, obedient and "wonderful in confession". 

One of his parishioners says Fr Htun was "taken before he was corrupted". Yes, 'corrupted' was the word he used, and what he meant was that Fr Htun might have become infected with the noisome spiritual disease of modernism which afflicts the Novus Ordo in New Zealand generally but especially Palmerston North and Cardinal John Dew's Archdiocese of Wellington - Cardinal Dew being PN's apostolic administrator. 

It was in that heretical (as in, condemned by several popes) spirit of modernism that the NZ Conference of Catholic Bishops, under the leadership of Cardinal Dew who seems besotted with our socialist prime minister Ardern and her diktats, that all our diocesan priests were made to undergo the Pfizer jab. Fr Htun was one of their number.

The priests who objected on moral and spiritual grounds to taking a concoction which incorporated the murdered remains of unborn infants - meaning that Pfizer made millions out of the satanic fetal industry and that psychologically our bishops and priests profited too, by thinking they'd made themselves 'safe' against a flu bug they were afraid might kill them -  were coerced into this violation of their conscience by the fact that if they refused, their parishes would be to all intents and purposes without a priest, without Mass and the Sacraments.  

The faithful priests who objected (to no avail) were very few but what a horrible predicament was theirs - and still is, as they hear news of 'died suddenlies', especially of a priest who dies suddenly. They need our prayer: their annual retreat, which these priests were reluctant to attend, began the day after they heard of the sudden death of one of their small number, Fr Htun, making what should be a week of rest and refreshment and real spiritual food (but is not) even more of a trial than usual. 

Father Anthony Htun RIP was that rarity in New Zealand, a priest who was himself a source of real spiritual food. In March 2020 the Archdiocesan give-away paper Welcom reported as follows:

Fr Anthony Htun is from Myanmar and arrived in the Palmerston North Diocese on 1 November last year. This is his first appointment. Ordained on 19 March 2002 he completed his Masters in Theology in New York in 2007. 

‘We are called “Donum Fidei: in Latin meaning, ‘Gift of Faith’. Despite the scarcity of priests in my home Archdiocese of Yangon we have been gifted to the Diocese of Palmerston North for three years,’ Fr Anthony said.

Spot the give-away. Latin. Fr Htun, with his Masters Degree in Theology (and a fine singing voice), was somewhat wasted on Hastings Parish, apparently. He obviously loved Latin, the official language of the Catholic Church, and used Latin phrases in his celebration of Holy Mass.

Parishioners complained. They wrote to 'the bishops'. 

Now presumably 'the bishops' - although modernists to a man - know that it was the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) that promoted the use of Latin in the liturgy.

The use of the Latin language
is to be preserved in the Latin rites.

SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM, 36

https://aleteia.org/2021/07/20/why-latin-remains-the-official-language-of-the-church/

Presumably, then, 'the bishops' would have informed those miserable parishioners of that fact, and that would have been the end of it.

But no. Complaints continued. Fr Htun confided to a friend that he was "walking a tightrope" between 'the bishops' and the laity, and caused such stress that he had "knots" in his stomach. Fr Htun was diabetic and had suffered what sounds like a hypoglycemic attack when he crashed his car (in a minor way) on his way to Mass several months ago. 

His confidant, a prayerful and sympathetic parishioner (thank God there was one, at least) read the warning signs and lent Fr Htun a book of Bishop Athanasius Schneider's:

The Catholic Mass : Steps to Restoring God to the Center of Liturgy

required reading for Hastings parishioners

That book gave Fr Htun - who had been "struggling with what he was allowed to do" - courage, in a foreign, modernist country, to resume using a little Latin and find confidence in his preaching, to the extent that he dared to tell Havelock North's Our Lady of Lourdes parishioners at a weekday Mass that in receiving the Blessed Sacrament in the hand (as they almost all do) they risk dropping Our Eucharistic Lord, in unnoticed fragments of the Host, to the floor to be trampled on or vacuumed up (OLOL is scrupulously vacuumed and well kept and in contrast to at least one other HB church, a pleasure to visit - except that the tabernacle is off-side). 

And speaking of the tabernacle, he told OLOL how wrong it is that at Sacred Heart Hastings - a faux Mission church of masonic design - Our Lord is kept well away from His people in a side chapel. Christ's loneliness and longing to be with us is not understood, simply because priests' and people's faith in the Real Presence has been lost, more through the irreverence and casual nature of Communion in the hand than any other single factor. Fr Htun's expressed desire to see the tabernacle in Sacred Heart church itself were stonewalled. 

How it must have hurt his devout, theologian's heart, to celebrate Holy Mass in that church with its raked floor, where before Mass Our Lord has to be fetched from the side chapel like a dog from a kennel, and where the congregation looks down on their Saviour and Redeemer on the altar rather than raising their eyes to Him as they should. 

Sacred Heart Hastings - faux Mission, masonic

What one reader of this blog thought, when she heard from an electrified OLOL parishioner of Fr Htun's reproachful remarks, was that Father must have been told he was to be moved on. And it seems that was the case, even though he'd been in Hastings Parish only three years.

But he was moved on by God Himself, taken away from largely unaware and ungrateful people to be comforted by Him Who made him, in eternity. 

A notice circulated in Hawke's Bay parishes today read as follows:

Tonight our Catholic Parish of Hastings came together to remember Pā Anthony Htun in the Mass, the highest form of prayer. Of significance was the presence of the Marist Priests from Mary Knoll at the Mission Estate. The tuakana priests had come to support the teina priest Pā Trung Nguyen who is one of the youngest priests in the country who has lost his friend, brother and mentor.

There will be Mass every night at 7:00pm at St Peter Chanel Church Hastings.  

The church is open during the day and people are invited to come and leave any tributes and prayers.

Thank you Pā Vince for being there with Pā Trung and celebrating Mass with us tonight.

A reader of this blog responded:

I’m amazed that the Hastings Parish would refer to their priest from Myanmar as ‘Pa Anthony Htun’  Or Father Trung Nguyen from Vietnam, as ‘Pa Trung Nguyen. Or Fr Onesi, a Pacfic Islander, as ‘Pa Vince’.

And why would they use Te Reo words not understood by non-Maori? I can think of only one couple who might be Maori in the Sacred Heart weekday congregations. It’s not effective communication, to say the least.

And Catholics would surely expect to read ‘Fr Anthony Htun, RIP’.  And surely the purpose of the Mass was not to ‘remember’ Fr Htun but to pray for his soul, and for the parish, especially for Fr Nguyen.

Especially Fr Nguyen (known locally with typical Novus Ordo familiarity, as "Father Trung"), indeed.  Please offer a Rosary for the intentions of Fr Nguyen, a very young, devout priest and like Fr Htun, "wonderful in Confession". Coming as he has from Communist Vietnam he is no stranger to hardships imposed by a regime - during the 17th and 18th centuries in Vietnam, it is believed that up to 100,000 Christians were martyred. 

Fr Nguyen must be deeply concerned by New Zealand's Marxist Prime Minister Ardern, but spiritual hardship imposed by fellow Catholics would surely be harder to bear. 

Fr Htun, who left his own people who needed him in the grip of a military junta and communism insurgents to go to a foreign, virtually pagan country where he was needed even more, and suffered rejection, could be fairly described as a white martyr.

https://aleteia.org/2017/10/31/3-types-of-martyrdom-that-lead-to-a-heavenly-reward/

 

St Andrew Dung-Lac and 116 Companion Martyrs of Vietnam, please pray for us