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17 July - 30 July 2020
Issue 295
The Month of July Celebrating The Precious Blood of Jesus “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself
unspotted
unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14) page - 16
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2 SAINTS PETER & PAUL
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Saints Peter & Paul Canon Joseph Heppelle I.C.K.S.P.
On the 29th June, the Church celebrates the feast of two of her greatest heroes. The Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Saint Peter, whose name means “rock” was chosen by the Christ to be the rock upon which He build His Church. St. Paul, the indefatigable Apostle of the Gentiles, the great missionary who traversed the length in breath of the Roman world to preach the name of Christ to win souls for the kingdom of God. After tirelessly preaching the Gospel for many years, both Peter and Paul gave the ultimate testimony of Faith in shedding their blood for Christ on this day approximately 35 years after the Ascension. Here in Ireland in the year 2020, 29th June was also the first day since the Coronavirus lockdown in March that we could publicly worship God in the Mass. Whatever a person may think of the origin and spread of this virus and whatever opinions we may have concerning the government’s response, and the response of our superiors in the Church, there is one thing that is quite clear. In the Gospel, the Church’s mission is the salvation of souls. (cf Mt. 28:19-20) The Church is an essential service she should never have been shut down. It is no coincidence that we celebrated the first public Mass on the feast of these great apostles, for there are no coincidences with God. We can be sure that Saint Peter and Paul have been praying for us so that we can once again partake in
the Sacred ministries the most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. At this time many people are still nervous, disquieted, and even afraid. Some are afraid of the virus. Some are afraid of what is happening in the world. Some are afraid of what
comes next. Pope Saint John Paul II of happy memory used to tell us “be not afraid.” (Jn 6:20) The Lord in the Gospel tells us “fear not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mt. 10:28) We must not
St. Paul in St. Peters Square - Adamo Tadolini (1788 - 1863)
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be afraid of sickness or even death. We must not be afraid of financial woes. We must not be solicitous, Our Lord tells us during the Sermon on the Mount, of what we should eat or drink or what we should wear. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God…and all these things will be added onto you.” (Mt. 6:33). If we must seek to save our souls, and to help save the souls of our family friends and neighbours, then we need not fear. As Saint Paul tells us : “If God be for us, who is against us?” (Rom 8:23). At this time of confusion and difficulty, at this time when so many of us feel let down or abandoned by those who should be looking after our souls. We must remember that Our Lord did not choose the most perfect and holiest person he could find to be the leader of His Church. There is only one person who fits that description, and He chose her to be His Mother, and the Mother of His Mystical Body, the Church. The government and leadership of the Church, however, He entrusted to weak and sinful men. Men such as Simon Peter, who denied Him three times, and Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor. As it was in those days so, it has been throughout the 2000 years of the Church’s history. The amazing fact about the Church is not that prosecutors have failed to destroy her. The amazing fact is that the weaknesses and failings, to say nothing of the real sins and treacheries of Christians inside the Church has not destroyed her. The Church is not a human institution. The Church is the mystical body of Christ, and we have Christ’s promise that He will be with her all days until the end of time. (idem)
At the feet of St Peter in Rome So be not afraid! The gates of hell will not, indeed, cannot prevail against the Church. Saint Peter and Paul understood this since they understood the mission of the Church, the mission of saving souls. Saints Peter and Paul spent all their energy and time from the day of their conversion until the day of their death seeking souls for Christ, fishing men for Christ. And 29th day of June, 68 AD the Lord called them home. So Peter was crucified upside down at his own request, according to tradition, because he did not consider himself worthy to suffer the same way as the Lord. St. Peter’s symbol, therefore, is the upside down cross. He is also frequently shown holding the “keys of the Kingdom of Heaven” in his hand. Sometimes, he is also shown with a cock, in remembrance of the cock which crowed to awaken in his breast the sentiments of true contrition. On the same day, Saint Paul fought the last good fight and finished his course as he bared his neck to the executioners sword.
Thus, his symbol is the sword. He is also often shown with a book of Epistles, as his is the author of most of the epistles in the New Testament. May we follow the example of these holy apostles. Like them, may we be faithful to our vocation as Christians, to our duty as Christians to profess the faith, to profess the faith openly to win souls for Christ.
12 MIND CONTROL
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The Mind Controllers Are After Your Children John Lacken Please pause for one moment and offer up one Ave for our bishops. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen I was contacted by a parent recently who asked me if I would consider putting an ‘adult content’ warning on my articles which deal with human sexuality and with the perversions that the sex educators want to teach to children. I am not fully in favour of highlighting the adult nature of my articles in case it has the opposite effect to the one desired, by attracting curiosity, but please be warned, if you have young children in your home who might have access to the Catholic Voice, that my articles often deal with subject matter that is not suitable for children. This is very likely to continue as I deal with some of the issues that will arise on account of our new government which has a particular focus on indoctrinating children with the LGBT agenda and with the early sexualisation of children, even in their pre-school years. I hope the irony is not lost on Catholic parents that we need to warn them to protect their children from reading about what will be taught to the children in schools. During the lock-down, when the weather was fine, my wife would often encourage me to go out with her for a walk. We live in the countryside and when the weather is fine, my wife likes to get me away from the computer and the technology for a little while. She also likes to get me away from some of the ‘dark’ materials which I often have to write about. During some of these lock-down walks, while reflecting on how our country and the practice of
the Faith was being impacted by Covid-19, or Covid-1984 as one internet blogger likes to refer to it, I would remark on how peaceful life seemed to be in our part of the country. Little lambs and baby calves were bounding about and running in the fields. The purple foxglove; the yellow gorse flowers with their hint of coconut fragrance; and many other hedgerow plants were coming into bloom. From my viewpoint, the Catholic Faith is under serious attack and yet, here in the countryside, apart from the world of humans, life continues as normal. Very few people seem to be aware of the attack against the Catholic Church. For me, there was sometimes an almost surreal aspect to these walks in that they masked the seriousness of the problems we are facing. It was like there was a dark cloud on the horizon that could hardly be perceived and that gave an ominous, almost ever present, dark hue to life, warning of some impending disaster. It was something which I struggled to define. I knew that something was going on, but I could not quite name it or describe it until yesterday. Yesterday, someone refused to shake my hand because of the apparent threat of Covid-19. Now please don’t get me wrong, I was not insisting that they shake my hand, I was just surprised at the hesitant refusal, because this person is a friend. I got a little tetchy when it was suggested that perhaps we should bump elbows instead. I am not prepared to succumb to the ‘new normal’ being imposed on us by government forces. Afterwards, when I had apologised to my friend for my tetchiness, it became a kind of ‘Eureka’ moment, because I could finally identify and
name this ‘thing’ that I had been aware of for some time and I could begin to do some research on what it is that we are going through. This is not about the handshake or about my friend. For some it may already be obvious, but the fact is that we are being systematically subjected to deliberate mind control techniques; by our government; by our media; and on the internet. These thought control propaganda techniques have been in use for many decades. The Covid-19 virus has allowed the mind controllers to step up their game, and this is what has clearly exposed their techniques to me and the simple refusal of a handshake opened my eyes more fully. It was one of those ‘red-pill’ moments. I don’t mind if someone doesn’t want to shake my hand, but this time it just felt personal. I know that it was not meant personally, but I was now regarded as the potential enemy, the potential Covid carrier who brings sickness, death and destruction in his wake. To touch my hand would be to court disease and possible death. This is how all of us are now being portrayed by our government and by our health department officials. We must be protected from one another. I am sorry to have to say that our church officials have also joined in this campaign which amounts to a disparagement of human beings. We are being systematically desensitised and de-humanised and asked to treat each other with extreme wariness and caution because of the existence of a virus. Our neighbours, we are being told repeatedly, have become a threat to our health and well being and we must protect ourselves from them. When the Communist Mao TseTung came to power in China, he implemented a programme
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of “thought reform” which used various psychological techniques in an attempt to change people’s thought processes so that they would think favourably of and submit to the regime. The Chinese regime under Mao was particularly brutal and ended up causing the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese. The mind control techniques developed in China were studied by Western psychologists and some of them have been adapted to make them seem less coercive, and are now regularly used by politicians, governments, pressure groups, and even businesses in order to bring about social or other changes. If we look at the situation here in Ireland, it is legitimate to ask the question, ‘how did a once Catholic nation come to embrace the new pagan ideologies so quickly and so enthusiastically?’ Part of the answer to this question involves the use of subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, thought control techniques. In his book ‘Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism’, Robert Jay Lifton, who studied Chinese thought reform techniques and their effects on those subject to them, notes the following. “Whatever its setting, thought reform consists of two basic elements: confession, the exposure and renunciation of past and present ‘evil’; and re-education, the remaking of a man in the Communist image. These elements are closely related and overlapping, since they both bring into play a series of pressures and appeals; intellectual, emotional, and physical, aimed at social control and individual change.” These two elements are still being used today by those who wish to change how people think. In Irish society, the main focus of the use of these techniques by those who wish to change our society, is to encourage people to abandon Catholic teaching. In business, the motivation is simply for money and profit. In
Screenshot from Irish Army Chaplain’s LGBT Pride Video political parties and other pressure groups, the techniques are used to recruit members and to train and encourage activists. One of the clearest examples of the use of these techniques in Irish society is the rise of the global LGBT movement. The element of ‘confession and the exposure and renunciation of past and present evil’, can be seen in the false narrative that has been created which claims that those with samesex attraction are among the most persecuted section of our society. The Catholic Church is falsely labelled as the organisation that fomented the oppression of those with same-sex attraction, because the Catholic Church correctly teaches that homosexual acts are disordered and that homosexual relationships are disordered. Anyone who disputes or contradicts this narrative is labelled as ‘homophobic’, biphobic, transphobic or ‘whatever you’re having yourself phobic’. New terms of denunciation are made up to denounce each and every viewpoint that is at variance with the global narrative. The confessions come when bishops and priests apologise for
crimes committed by Catholics in the past for which they personally do not bear any responsibility. This is also a part of the tactic, if you are a Catholic, then you are personally responsible for all the crimes and perceived crimes that Catholics have committed at any time in the past. Another part of the confession comes from those who claim to renounce the past by accepting the LGBT movement. This is most effective for those working to change our society, when the advocates hold positions of authority within the Catholic Church. One recent example of this is the head Chaplain to the Irish Army, a Catholic priest of the diocese of Limerick, who publicly expressed his disappointment at being unable to attend the Dublin Pride parade this year in a video. There is a screen shot from his video above. In the video, which is publicly available on the Irish Army’s chaplaincy website, the Catholic priest says: “This year I was looking forward to representing the Chaplaincy Service of the Irish Defence Forces for the first time at the Dublin Pride Parade. I felt priveleged as Head Chaplain to have the opportunity to walk side by side with our LGBTQI+ members, showing solidarity and support.”