Saturday, 25 June 2022

ROE V WADE: AXED SACRED HEART DAY DEO GRATIAS

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not entirely relevant to the post but mental illness is a charitable construction 



Today, the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Roe vs Wade was overturned. And every other year, in the US, this will be celebrated on the Birth of St John the Baptist, whose famous leap of recognition of Christ is scriptural proof of the humanity of babies in the womb. What an impetus to faith! What encouragement to those who persevere in prayer!

Deo gratias.

That whitewashed sepulchre of a Catholic, US President Joe Biden, said it was "a sad day ... Roe is on the ballot this fall." Our very own P M Jacinda Ardern, architect of the ALA, was "incredibly upset".

Diddums. We are incredibly upset too. Incredibly upset that you've got away scot-free with murdering thousands of babies and ruining the lives of countless Kiwi mothers and families since you introduced the Abortion Law Act into our Parliament in March 2020. No wonder New Zealand has gone to the pack so fast. 

"People are absolutely entitled to have deeply held convictions on this issue. But those personal beliefs should never rob another from making their own decisions," (Ardern) said.

These are not 'personal beliefs'. This is the law - of God and the State. Murder is a crime which "cries to heaven for vengeance"..https://douglawrence.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/old-time-religion-4-sins-that-cry-out-to-heaven-for-vengeance/

"To see that principle now lost in the United States feels like a loss for women everywhere. When there are so many issues to tackle, so many challenges that face women and girls, we need progress, not to fight the same fights and move backwards."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-political-parties-slam-us-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-decision-except-national-party/WGTEJP6UHTGF57MVWMZ3PRV6LM/?fbclid=IwAR1M1Nj1LLLc807UO6Jn8dxjrPkbPfLtPSXhZz7ABlUxPxrrLoKwP1r3Kgg

Most if not all of these issues, dear Prime Minister, are caused by abortion and the other three sins that cry to heaven for vengeance, and God's vengeance is what this country is experiencing now, under your atheistic, Marxist leadership. 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-political-parties-slam-us-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-decision-except-national-party/WGTEJP6UHTGF57MVWMZ3PRV6LM/?fbclid=IwAR1M1Nj1LLLc807UO6Jn8dxjrPkbPfLtPSXhZz7ABlUxPxrrLoKwP1r3Kgg

We can only pray - and sacrifice! - that Biden, Ardern and their foolish fellow travellers may be enlightened. These baby-killing sodomy-sympathisers are up against it: Justice Clarence Thomas (a true Catholic, six years in seminary halted by upfront, stated racism) gives notice that the Supreme Court should revisit the 'right' to same-sex intimacy and gay marriage.


Justice Clarence Thomas: "I am decidedly and unapologetically Catholic"
  


Friends, the show's not over till the fat lady sings! This gives us defenders of real Catholicism much courage to continue; it is the big, big win for Christ the King and those who love Him that we need to teach us that prayers are answered, that in the cause of right, when we pursue the Divine Will in prayer, perseverance pays. The faithful who sacrifice for the fulfilment of God's will are especially rewarded, sacrifice being so highly effective for saving souls.

That down-to-earth doyenne of conservative Catholic bloggers, Ann Barnhardt (formerly an expert in cash cattle marketing and cash market arbitrage!) has this to say about the Solemnity Americans celebrate today in the best way ever yet, with the banishment of R v W to the rubbish bin of history:

Specifically today I am reminded of the fact that science has now confirmed that in all of the Eucharistic miracles which have been confirmed as genuine and involved a Consecrated Host turning fleshy, the Flesh in every instance, upon testing, is from a human male, blood type AB, and the flesh is ENDOCARDIUM, that is, INTERIOR HEART WALL.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is not a syrupy platitude. It is a physical reality, and moreover, it is a physical reality present at every valid Mass.  The Eucharist literally, physically IS the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  

 The Gradual of the Mass for the Feast of The Sacred Heart is from Psalm 24: 8-9

“The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore He will give a Law to sinners in the way. He will guide the mild in judgment: He will teach the meek His ways.” 

  1. He tells us that He loves us. Over and over and over again. And, He is, without question, the most hated thing in the universe. Men and demons hate God precisely because God loves them.
  2. He tells us what pleases Him, what He wants from us, both in terms of worship, and in terms of The Law, namely: Love Him above all else, Love our neighbors for love of Him, and spread the Gospel to all men and nations.
  3. He tells us what hurts Him.  These are the “Thou shalt nots”….Looking at this list, it is no surprise whatsoever that Antipope Bergoglio and the infiltrators ... despise solemn, reverent, God-centered liturgy; they rail against The Law and “Lovers of the Law”; and they rail against proselytization.  Antipope Bergoglio has called proselytization “solemn nonsense”, has told people explicitly NOT to convert and enter the One True Church, and has compared The Great Commission to islamic jihad.  Finally, everything Antipope Bergoglio and his toadies have done to date has had as its goal the disregarding or overriding of The Law.  He is at war with the Rule of Law – GOD’S LAW.  Marriage, confession, reception of Holy Communion, holy orders is coming next, and on and on.

    If this does not constitute being at war with God, then I have no idea what does.

    And yet, Christ, all-knowing, all-understanding, and pure, infinite love for each and every person, told us exactly how we can hurt Him, because if He didn’t tell us how we can hurt Him, neither would we know, by definition, how to Love Him.

    And clearly, to Him it was and is worth it.

    This is why The Law and the Sacred Heart of Jesus are inextricably connected. 

    Hate one, and you hate the other. Period.

    Be assured of my prayers. I hope this helps.'' https://www.barnhardt.biz/2022/06/24/roe-vs-wade-and-casey-overturned-on-the-solemnity-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-im-sure-thats-just-a-coincidence-right-justice-thomas-%F0%9F%98%89/



    St John the Baptist
    El Greco


  4. St John the Baptist, on your feast day, please pray for us

Friday, 24 June 2022

CHURCH BULLETIN IDOLATRY, TIPS FOR NEXT POPE


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Bergoglio on his wrecking ball




"When Matariki comes you plant a ceremonial offering of kai into the whenua for Whiro and Uenuku, to ensure a good crop for the next season." That's useless advice even for gardeners, but for Catholics in a parish bulletin it's worse than useless - it's idolatry.

This is the logical outcome of a "pope" who's not a pope, who's worshipped a lump of wood in St Peter's, who has all but demolished the Catholic Church and has stated his intention to dethrone the papacy - and a "New Mass" (Novus Ordo Missae) invented by a Freemason, Annibale Bugnini, with the help of a few Protestants.

A memo anticipating the next conclave now circulating among the cardinals is suggesting what qualities and actions the Church needs in her next pontiff. The job description is completely antithetical to Jorge Mario Bergolio's MO. It's tailored to suit a man faithful to Church doctrine, an orthodox, traditional man. 

In its usual papolatrous style the church bulletin cited above talks about "Respecting Mother Earth". Catholics' Mother is not the 'Earth' but Mary - who is God's Mother also. 

"Certain vegetables are planted to appease the land based gods Rongo, Uenuku and Whiro." This lesson in Maori pantheism is illustrated by hands clasped in prayer and the stars of Matariki - which as anyone with time to waste watching TvOne 'News' knows by now means "little eyes". There's a diagram of the Matariki Cluster, itemising all the gods these stars represent to Maori. 

"As the star cluster rose" this church bulletin informs its readers, "it was time to remember the rising of the dead who were now joining the stars of the night sky." At least it's written in the past tense, otherwise it would be outright heresy. 

Ah, but now the meaning of Father's cryptic allusion, in last Sunday's homily, to the congregation "rising with the stars" becomes plain. This is idolatrous nonsense deserving a mass walk-out. But no. They sit in the pews all masked up, compliant and uncomplaining. Falsely obedient, they continue to suck it up,because."Father says". 


 the altar display in Hornchurch, England, for an interfaith service marking Bergoglio's' pan-religious day of prayer.


Since the beginning of Lent, in an overdue reaction to such typically rotten fruits of Bergoglio's pretend pontificate as this, someone calling himself "Demos" (the people), perhaps himself a cardinal, makes the following points in a memo being handed around among the men who will elect our next pope.

"Commentators of every school ... with the possible exception of Fr Spadaro SJ (the Jesuits being in freefall - ed), agree that this pontificate is a disaster ... a catastrophe.

  • The Successor of St Peter is ... a major source ... of worldwide unity ... preserving the apostolic tradition, the rule of faith, ensuring that the Churches continue to teach what Christ and the Apostles taught.
  • The German synod speaks on homosexuality, women priests, communion for the divorced. The Papacy is silent.
  • Cardinal Hollerich rejects the Christian teaching on sexuality. The Papacy is silent. ... the Cardinal is explicitly heretical ... The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith must act and speak.
  • The silence is emphasised when contrasted with active persecution of the Traditionalists and contemplative convents.
  • The Christ-centricity of teaching is weakened: Christ is being moved from the centre. Sometimes Rome seems confused about the importance of a strict monotheism, hinting at some wider concept of divinity; not quite pantheism

The church bulletin cited above is complete pantheism. 

  • Pachamama is idolatrous
  • Contemplative nuns are being persecuted
  • The Christo-centric legacy of St John Paul II in faith and morals is under systematic attack. Many of the staff of the Roman Institute for the Family have been dismissed; most students have left. The Academy for Life is gravely damaged ... some members recently supported assisted suicide. The Pontifical Academies have members and visiting speakers who support abortion. These issues have been crystallized through the Vatican trial of ten accused of financial malpractices
  •  The Pope has changed the law four times during the trial to help the prosecution
  • Cardinal Becciu has not been treated justly ... removed from his position and stripped of his cardinalatial dignities without trial. He did not receive due process.
  • The Pope sometimes (often) rules by papal decrees (motu proprio) which eliminate the right to appeal of those affected
  • Many staff, often priests, have been summarily dismissed from the Vatican Curia, often without good reason
  • Phone tapping is regularly practised
  • In the English case against Torzi the judge criticised the Vatican prosecutors harshly
  • The raid by the Vatican Gendarmeria on the auditor's office on Italian territory was probably illegal and certainly intimidating and violent. It is possible the evidence against the auditor was fabricated
  • The financial situation of the Vatican is grave. For the last three years financial deficits have been around 30 - 35 million Euros annually
  • The Vatican is facing a large deficit in the Pensions Fund ... experts estimate around 800 million Euros in 2030
  • It is estimated the Vatican has lost 217 million Euros on the Sloane Avenue property in London
  • Through inefficiency and corruption during the past 25-30 years the Vatican has lost perhaps 150-200 million Euros
  • For decades the Vatican has dealt with disreputable financiers avoided by all respectable bankers in Italy

Is this due to the Mafia, or blackmail, or both? 

  • The return on the 5261 Vatican properties remains scandalously low. In 2020 it was 2900 Euros per property
  • The changing role of Pope Francis in the financial reforms ... is a mystery and an enigma. He first strongly backed the reforms, then prevented the centralisationof investments, opposed the reforms and most attempts to unveil corruption, and supported Becciu. Then in 2020 he turned on Becciu. The external auditors were dismissed and the Auditor General was forced to resign on trumped-up charges. They were coming too close to the corruption in the Secretariat of State
  • The political influence of Pope Francis and the Vatican is negligible. Intellectually papal writings demonstrate a decline from the standard of St John Paul II and Pope Benedict
  • There have been grave failures to support human rights in Venezuela, Hong Kong, mainland China and now in the Russian invasion
  • There has been no public support for the loyal Catholics in China persecuted for their loyalty to the papacy for over 70 years and no public support for the Catholic community in Ukraine
  • The position of Tridentine traditionalists should be regularised
  • The celebration of individual Masses in St Peter's Basilica should be permitted once again. The Basilica is now like a desert in the early morning
  • The Covid crisis has covered up the large decline in the number of pilgrims attending papal audiences and Masses
  • The Holy Father has little support among seminarians and young priests and widespread disaffiliation exists in the Vatican Curia
  • The College of Cardinals has been weakened by eccentric nominations and not been reconvened since 2014
  • After Vatican II Catholic authorities underestimated the hostile power of secularisation, the world, the flesh and the devil
  • Many factors are beyond our control in the short term at least, e g decline in number of believers, frequency of Mass attendance, the demise or extinction of many religious orders. 


The new pope must understand that the secret of Catholic vitality comes from fidelity to the teachings of Christ and Catholic practices, not from adapting to the world or from money.The first tasks of the new pope will be to restore normality, doctrinal clarity in faith and morals, a proper respect for the law, and ensure that the first criterion for the nomination of bishops is acceptance of the apostolic tradition If the synodal gatherings continue around the world they will consume much time and energy, probably distracting energy from evangelisation and service

If the national or continental synods are given doctrinal authority we will have a new danger to Church unity e g the German church holds doctrinal views not shared by other Churches and not compatible with the apostolic tradition.  If there were no Roman contradiction of such heresy, the Church would be reduced to a lcoose federation of local Churches holding different views, probably closer to an Anglican or Protestant model.

An early priority for the next pope must be to require unity in essentials and not permitting unacceptable doctrinal differences. The morality of homosexual activity will be one such flash point. 

While younger clergy and seminarians are almost completely orthodox, sometimes quite conservative, the new pope will need to be aware of the substantial changes in Church leadership since 2013. There is a new spring in the step of the Protestant liberals in the Catholic Church.

Schism is not likely to occur from the left who often sit lightly to doctrinal issues. Schism is more likely to come from the right. Unity in the essentials, Diversity in the non-essentials. Charity on all issues. 

Serious consideration should be given to a visitation on the Jesuit Order. They are in catastrophic decline from 36,000 during the Council to fewer than 16,000 in 2017 (with probably 20-25% over 75 years of age. In some places there is catastrophic moral decline.

The disastrous decline in Catholic numbers and Protestant expansion in South America should be addressed. It was scarcely mentioned at the Amazonian Synod.

Steps will (need to) be taken to separate the Vatican from criminal accomplices and balance revenue and expenditure. Continuing financial pressures ... are much less important than the spiritual and doctrinal threats facing the Church, especially in the First World.

Demos - Lent 2022

And as a footnote, the next time you attend a tangi, before you bow your head in the karakia at the words Atua Mo Ake Mo Ake, reflect on their meaning: To the gods for ever and ever.      

                 

                


 

 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us


                 

                

                

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

STILL FIRING NURSES: ARDERN WANTS CHAOS, KILLING

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Not relevant to the story, just relevant to Public Enemy No 1



"Why are we still firing nurses over the Covid jab?" Heather du Plessis-Allan can't work it out and neither can most of the people who've recently waited eight hours at ED.

Good, normal people struggle to get their heads around the enormity of evil confronting them in New Zealand now. 

The reality is that Jacinda Ardern wants chaos and killing. She's working for Satan. Satan's running the show and we're being culled like stupid, helpless sheep.   

Du Plessis-Allan tells it like it is, at face value: 

We have a shortage of 4000 nurses.

We have a report that a woman died in Middlemore emergency department of a brain bleed last Wednesday morning because there was an 8 hour wait to see a doctor.

Brain bleeds are known to be induced by the very same vaccine which nurses have had enough of (like, two jabs already). "Severe thrombocytopenia and antibodies to PF4 make a diagnosis of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) likely" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33928772/

We have surgeries delayed another month in Wellington hospital because there aren’t enough nurses to cope.

Palmerston North Hospital is so short-staffed it’s being described as unsafe.

Like all our hospitals, it's been unsafe for their littlest patients since the '70s. The only place in New Zealand which is now more unsafe for a baby is its mother's womb. 

Christchurch Hospital’s general team has never before cared for so many people at once.   

Which tells you that it's not just the shortage of nurses, it's the plethora of patients. Just wait: we're going to get sicker and sicker.                 

We are paying South Auckland GPs $1400 an hour to take pressure off Middlemore.

And the vax-happy sleepwalkers will likely tell you that the pressure on hospitals is due to all those selfish people who wouldn't take the jab, when the truth is that the pressure comes not just from a shortage of nurses but from a plethora of vaccine-injured individuals who have no idea why they're sick, and unless the ones who die have an autopsy no one else will have any idea either.  

And we’re still standing these nurses down from their work.

And by the way, we’re not talking about anti-vaxxers. We’re talking about nurses who’ve had two jabs but simply don’t want to get a third. So what? About a million Kiwis did exactly the same thing: got two jabs, skipped the third.

Nice to know there are a million Kiwis with that much common sense, at least. But not enough. Just watch as the sheep are herded in for a fourth jab, announced yesterday. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-parliament-passes-law-to-allow-fourth-dose-of-pfizer-vaccine/UJSOW4QKQUYZTKZBCDYLC6YZGI/


Minister of Sick Andrew Little, Public Enemy No 2 


As I say, we have a shortage of 4000 nurses and we’ve stood down another 518 for the booster.

If you go into hospital tonight with a brain bleed, do you want a nurse?  Or do you only want a nurse who’s been boosted?

If you say you want only a boosted nurse, are you then prepared to take a chance with your life and wait 8 hours so you can see a boosted nurse?

What I’m really surprised to hear is that the nurses’ union - the NZNO supports this.

Heather, it's not surprising. The entire health establishment, not just in New Zealand but around the world, is controlled by the WHO - who Trump snubbed and Biden rejoined. That tells you all you need to know, really. 

Their members do not want to work alongside nurses who haven’t had the booster.

Diddums. The 'health' (sickness) industry, like the teaching profession, academia and the media, is socialist. 'Health professionals' drink in Ardern's propaganda and bring it up again like the bile that it is.

And yet look at how many medical staff haven’t had the flu jab: 46 percent.

That figures. Medical staff know something about medicine, right? Perhaps they realise this isn't a vaccine at all, but an untested gene-altering serum. And some don't just have the good memory they need to pass their exams, they have a brain as well. 

This is so crazy that I can’t quite get my head around it: that we would rather delay operations and leave people living in pain without a hip replacement and we would rather make it even harder for our hospitals to cope right now than let nurses stay at work just because they wouldn’t get a third jab. Crazy.

It's actually not crazy. It makes perfect sense. Our hospitals started going bonkers the moment they started killing their smallest, most innocent patients by abortion. The global elite and the Freemasons who trained Jacinda Ardern want to reduce the world's population in order to make the planet a nicer place for them to live in, and they employ any and all means at their disposal. And we should realise that Satan, who hates life and happiness, is using our hospitals, the global elite and the Freemasons as Luciferian tools of destruction. 

 

It's only God and His Blessed Mother, Our Lady Help of Christians, who can save us from extermination.  
 

Coronation of the Virgin
El Greco

Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for us

Monday, 20 June 2022

'GENIUS' JOE, +CULLINANE FORGET THE FAITH

 

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Novus Ordo carried to its logical conclusion

 

"No, don't come to Mass with me.” A would-be convert to the Novus Ordo Catholic Church of Palmerston North Diocese, who’s regularly attended the Latin Mass overseas, doesn't want her parents (good, educated Protestants) to form a bad impression of the Catholic Church.

That's quite an indictment of the modernist Church foisted on the diocese by its first bishop, +Peter Cullinane, and now steered towards the same end - self-destruction - by Fr Joe Grayland of the cathedral parish.

The fruits of +Cullinane and Grayland's theology were evident on the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ yesterday, when a protege of +Cullinane’s informed his congregation that in Communion "we don't receive the Man who once walked this earth. No! We receive each other". That's a point-blank denial of the source, summit and cornerstone of Church teaching - the Real Presence of "the Man who walked this earth", in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Holy Eucharist. In other words it’s heresy.

And we are indebted to the modernist Marist Cathnews for telling us what we'd rather not know: that for the liturgy of the word +Cullinane now wants us to form small groups, chatting on chairs instead of pews; and that Fr Grayland, quoting Einstein, defining himself as Einstein’s “genius who masters chaos” on our behalf, assures us that "the Church that promised us it would never change, changed". 

No, Fr Dr 'Genius' Joe Grayland, the Church has not changed. She cannot.The Mystical Bride of Christ is "indefectible" an adjective which the letters after your name prove you know very well means "perfect", meaning “not liable to decay”. It's her members who, sadly, are only too subject to change and decay. QED. 

The problem in PN Diocese may be partly its provincial nature and - the Novus Ordo's dumbed-down banalities having bled the Church of most of her educated, professional members - the aging priests and people remaining are only too easily impressed by "intellectuals" and "theologians" as they suppose +Cullinane and Grayland to be.

But what rears its ugly head, in a Mass shaming and embarrassing to faithful Catholics and Protestant would-be converts alike, is pride - a lack of proper humility which is evident in the texts of the Novus Ordo and in its interpretation by the likes of +Cullinane and Grayland: vide the former's preference for chairs over pews. He must have been told, by those who've tried, how hard it is to kneel with a chair behind you and how impossible, while kneeling, to lean against the chair in front. And PN Diocese has all too vivid memories of +Cullinane's confused 'catecheses' re kneeling for the Eucharistic Prayer, which had the presumably desired effect of most of the terminally bewildered standing for the Consecration - to this day. And it's hard not to notice how even people on the liturgy roster sweep into Holy Mass without pausing to bend a knee to Our Lord in the tabernacle. 

Pope Benedict XVI tells us:

The Hebrews regarded the knees as a symbol of strength; to bend the knee is, therefore, to bend our strength before the living God, an acknowledgment of the fact that all that we are we receive from him ... Kneeling is not only a Christian gesture, but a christological one ... It is precisely this humility, which comes from love, that is the truly divine reality and procures for him the “name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth” (Phil 2:5-10) ... All bend the knee before Jesus, the One who descended, and bow to him precisely as the one true God above all gods. ... The humble gesture by which we fall at the feet of the Lord inserts us into the true path of life of the cosmos ... The devil was compelled by God to show himself to a certain Abba Apollo. He looked black and ugly, with frighteningly thin limbs, but, most strikingly, he had no kneesThe inability to kneel is seen as the very essence of the diabolical. https://adoremus.org/2016/11/power-knee-catholic-liturgy/

Einstein, says Fr Grayland PhD, wrote ‘the stupid need order; the genius masters chaos’ and he proceeds to master it on our behalf, because "the genius can see beyond the current chaotic circumstances by seeing the order in the chaos" - and incidentally identifying himself, by presenting the mainstream media's version of the war in Ukraine, not just as a genius but as a lefty or a sucker (or both).

He doesn't waste too much time on the Silly Synod. One suspects Grayland sees it for what it is, and as an aggrieved participant described it - "exercising energy on yet another think tank that will inevitably go nowhere": only it's going somewhere all right, and that somewhere is the New World Religion and the New World Church, headed (if he lives long enough) by the Most Benign Bergoglio; and the poor souls still sitting in the NO pews (sorry, chairs) will find themselves caught in this mass apostasy and dragged by the demons they've been told no longer exist down to the hell whose flames will exist for ever.

The synodal process brings old and new grievances to the fore. The grievances show we have more work to retain members, recruit them back, restore trust, and open new pathways. 

Yes indeed, Fr Grayland, because 'Mr Global' (Gates, Fauci, Soros, Schwab etc) want enough of the falsely obedient and/or stunned sheep handing in their Planned Giving envelopes or clicking on the money-snatching machines in church foyers with which the Cullinanes and Graylands have replaced holy water fonts, enough to keep enough Catholic Church property running for a facelift, a makeover, in the not-too-distant future, into the New World Church the Freemasons have been planning since 1717. 

REMAIN ON SPIRITUAL ALERT! You are seeing the wolves in sheep's clothing (Mt 7:15) leading the People of God toward the spiritual abyss, and you accept it with such weakness and coldness that you may wake up being part of the tares -MESSAGE OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL TO LUZ DE MARIA, JUNE 18, 2022.

 So after much mulling in the marsh of "chaos" over mothers of gay children wanting to attend their weddings, over Latin Massgoers wanting to attend their Mass, and over migrants wanting their "devotional form of Catholicism", the wolf disguised as Fr Dr 'Genius' Grayland concludes:

We, the Church, need ... a mature engagement with the world from a community of mature people who believe, live and pray in the “real world”; an authentic adult Church; the authentic sacramental conversation partner immersed in a chaotic world that is also God’s playground ... Embrace it!

"God's playground." Really? The world which has forgotten God and consequently has gone stark raving mad and utterly deserving of the tribulation He is now visiting on it (and we ain't seen nothing yet), where Christ is crucified day and night, suffering terrible torments, is God's playground? Mothers of gay children, Fr Grayland, must be told that those children are in mortal sin which if unrepented before death means eternal damnation.  That’s what the Church’s “indefectibility” means: she teaches God’s word which never changes because the truth cannot change. You, Fr Grayland, are responsible for that poor mother and her eternal welfare, and you will answer for it personally at your particular judgment. We would not like to be in your shoes.

"Embrace it (the chaotic world)!" 

Fr Grayland! Wash your mouth out! Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him (1 Jn 2: 15).

And speaking of Freemasons, in the same edition of Cathnews Bishop 'Emeritus' Cullinane worries about the liturgy of the word not 'connecting'. He says it requires of readers 'a sense of the wonder and the drama of God among us'.

So while Fr Dr 'Genius' Joe Grayland embraces the world, which as St John puts it means he cannot embrace God, +Cullinane seems to do exactly that, by becoming "alive to Christ’s real presence".

But it turns out - no surprises here, we've heard this from +Cullinane for ever and we see the evidence in steadily emptying pews - that he doesn't mean Christ's Real Presence at all. 

(W)e become alive to Christ’s real presence – in the congregation … ;  in the word  … ;  in the ministry of those ordained  … ;  and especially in the Sacrament .

These different manifestations of Christ’s real presence invite different ways of responding. The appropriate way of responding is the appropriate way of being reverent.

Where Grayland manifests lack of love, +Cullinane manifests lack of faith. Christ is Really Present in only one way: in the Eucharist, the Sacrament of the altar; and the fruits of +Cullinane's years of catechesis are shown by Catholics' 'inappropriate' way of being reverent, such as:

·                     rarely if ever visiting Him in the tabernacle

·                     not genuflecting to the tabernacle

·                     talking in church

·                     receiving Our Lord in grubby hands, standing instead of humbly kneeling

·                     Father's manner of saying Mass, which is likely to be casual

·                     he's likely to stroll off mid-Mass, leaving Our Lord alone on the altar

·                     he might break off during Mass to have a chat 

·                     if the tabernacle's in its proper place he says Mass with his back to Our Lord

·                     he's very likely to deny Our Lord to the faithful who kneel to receive on the tongue, which is the Church’s approved way to receive (Fr Grayland seems to have had a change of heart in this regard but just wait for the next virus to turn up)

·                     Father has a chat to the congregation at the end of Mass and goes through notices while Our Lord is still present in his soul

·                     the congregation sit rather than kneel, after Communion, and might have a chat while Our Lord is still present in their soul

·                     Everyone sings a banal song about us more than about Him while Jesus is still present in their soul. 

·                     Everyone including Father leaves the church while Jesus is still within their soul. 

When received the sacred Species lasts physically for 15 minutes or so, and every one of those minutes is occupied with anything but listening to the Lord and speaking with Him. In the NO we could be forgiven for thinking every effort is made to distract us from spending time with Him. Those most precious moments of our entire life are wasted - or worse, our cavalier treatment of our God and King will count against us severely at our particular judgment, and even more so will it count against priests who at the very least have allowed this to happen - or even encouraged it, or deliberately set about making it so.

If +Cullinane genuinely wanted the readings to 'connect' he would advise that Father proclaim them, as the priest always did pre-Vatican II, when the evidence of Mass-going and conversions would seriously suggest that the readings 'connected' far, far more than since the advent of girls in mini-skirts or tight jeans or worse, middle-aged or elderly women in same, or boys or men in t-shirts instead of shirt and tie. Clothing aside, the priest's proclamation of the word is supernaturally boosted by nature of his ordination. Proclaiming scripture is one of those ministries a priest is ordained to do. It is not in the job description for wives, husbands, singles or sole parents, boys or girls.

             There is a paradigm for this in St Luke’s Easter story about the two disciples “on the road” who were “talking about all that had happened” and were down-hearted, (Lk 24:13-35). He explained the meaning of the scriptures to them.'

Exactly. It is the Real Presence of Christ who will explain the meaning of the scriptures. But most Catholics no longer BELIEVE in that Real Presence! That's obvious from the way they behave at Mass (as noted above). They do NOT believe He is there in the tabernacle. At least one priest in PN Diocese has even said as much to a parishioner. Does that priest believe then, that something happens to the Host between altar and tabernacle? Does he believe the Host changes back into a wafer of bread? Or what? From the behaviour of Massgoers towards the tabernacle, if they believe they receive Christ in the Eucharist, they must also believe that by the time the tabernacle door is locked, He's changed back into bread again. Or don't they believe anything?  

How can we make our celebrations of the Eucharist more like the discussion on the road?

Simply by spending time with Jesus, like the disciples did. They knew Christ because they'd been with Him for years, so when He talked to them on the road, even though He looked different, they heard Him and their hearts burned within them. And we must treat God in the Mass like God. 


He was alive and present to them. 

Exactly. He does not seem alive and present to us, because the NO Missae (Mass) doesn't treat Him as if He were alive and present to us. We must treat God in the Mass as He is, as God. 

+Cullinane suggests, before his small-group liturgy of the word, that we have 'a short penitential rite.' Carry us home to die. How much shorter can it get? God has made known to us our salvation through the repentance of our sins (the Benedictus). Our salvation - eternal life as opposed to eternal death in hell - depends on our repentance for our sins. That's why in the Traditional Latin mass the priest says the whole Confiteor and then the server repeats it, both bowing profoundly in humility, and then the Kyrie (Lord have mercy) is repeated three times - not just once, as in the NO.  

In fact it's humility that is gone from the Mass and humility is the foundation stone for all the other virtues. The modern Catholic, at least most of those catechised by +Cullinane and Grayland, has no idea of who he/she is before God: a mere NOTHING, a worm capable by themselves spiritually of nothing but sin. Capable by themselves physically of nothing too, but the NO Mass gives us no idea, no realisation of the fact that if God forgot us for a fraction of a second we would cease to exist.

 Small groups at Mass! OMG! We say that sincerely. 'Sharing' our feelings. How utterly awful. Do we go to Mass to talk to one another, or to talk with God? Well, many do go to church to talk to one another, but they do it before and after Mass - and largely in the church where one or two other Massgoers are trying to pray.  

And sitting on chairs! Having burned or scrapped our altar rails in the spirit of Vat 2, will we now burn any remaining pews? That's Cullinane's most freemasonic idea ever: chairs instead of pews will eliminate kneeling once and for all. Have you ever tried to kneel in front of a chair, with another chair in front of you? Brilliant, Bishop Peter! You will decimate what remains of congregations after the bishops' collective efforts at emptying our churches during the scam/plan/mandemic.

 

'Paul and Barnabas assembled the church and gave an account of all that God had done with them.'

Exactly. What God had done with them, not what the nice lady with the gorgeous shoes in their group had done with them. Holding Paul and Barnabas up as an example reminds us that we are at Mass so that God, not Mrs Thingummyjig, can do things with us.

+Cullinane is still insisting on putting the cart before the horse - the Second Commandment before the First. We are not at Mass, we are not Catholics, primarily to 'deepen our relationship with one another' but first to deepen our love of God, which is the only way to deepen our relationship with one another.

 

Our bishop had his mistake illustrated abundantly at an NO Mass yesterday attended by (oops, we must remember now not to say 'attended', but 'celebrated'. So, at an NO Mass 'celebrated' by a reader of this page, veering from heresy into something dangerously close to idolatry, Father told the congregation they weren't just celebrating Corpus Christi, they were celebrating Matariki and the rise of the stars - with which the congregation also rises. Just waiting now for 'Prayers of the Faithful' to Matariki instead of God. 

 

The rest of the homily was spent reminding parishioners that they're not paying the parish's way, that the parish now survives only by the generosity of people long dead and gone (whose generosity by the way, was engendered by the Traditional Latin Mass, and only the TLM) and begging people 'to go on the roster' as readers, church cleaners - and organists! When Father had banned one of the church's two organists for violating the National Safeguarding Guidelines (in what way, exactly, is yet to be explained) that’s ironic, to say the least.

 

"Liturgy," says +Cullinane, "involves community and our own real presence"'. We thought it was rather more about involving God in His Real Presence. 


REMAIN ON SPIRITUAL ALERT! You are seeing the wolves in sheep's clothing (Mt 7:15) leading the People of God toward the spiritual abyss, and you accept it with such weakness and coldness that you may wake up being part of the tares.

“The Church is in great danger.” We turn for relief to the German visionary Venerable Catherine Anne Emmerich, who died in 1824.

         “We must pray so that the Pope may not leave Rome; countless evils would result if he did … I now see that in this place (Rome) the Church is being so cleverly undermined, that there hardly remain a hundred or so priests who have not been deceived. They all work for destruction, even the clergy. A great devastation is now near at hand.

          “Among the strangest things that I saw, were long processions of bishops. Their faults towards religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts were like thick vapors. Some were lame, others were paralytics; others were asleep or staggering.

         “I saw what I believe to be nearly all the bishops of the world, but only a small number were perfectly sound. I also saw the Holy Father —- God-fearing and prayerful. Nothing left to be desired in his appearance, but he was weakened by old age and by much suffering. His head was lolling from side to side, and it dropped onto his chest as if he were falling asleep. He often fainted and seemed to be dying. But when he was praying, he was often comforted by apparitions from Heaven. Then, his head was erect, but as soon as it dropped again onto his chest, I saw a number of people looking quickly right and left, that is, in the direction of the world.

        "Everything that pertained to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence. (All) priests … contributed to the work of the destruction.

“In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars.”

“For when the Blood of Christ is no longer offered on the Altars of our churches, then the blood of men will have to be spilled on the asphalt of our streets.”


Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich

 

 

Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, pray for our priests, especially in the Diocese of Palmerston North, New Zealand, and for a holy bishop to be appointed, at last, to this diocese.