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31 July - 13 August 2020
Issue 296
The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady Comfort in Times of Trouble 1. The Prophecy of Simeon. 2. The Flight into Egypt. 3. The Loss of the Boy Jesus in the Jerusalem. 4. Mary Meets Jesus on the way to Calvary. 5. Jesus Dies on the Cross. 6. Mary Receives the Dead Body of Jesus. 7. The burial of Jesus. page - 16
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Holy Communion During The Time After Pentecost Dom Prosper Gueranger - Extracts From The Liturgical Year
If, in the early stages of the liturgical year, in Advent, at Christmas, and during the periods of Septuagesima and Lent, when there was question of nothing beyond a preparation for the divine mysteries which wrought our salvation — if, in the name of holy Church, we then invited the faithful to have recourse to the sacrament of our Lord’s Body, as being the heavenly nourishment that would support them in the glorious career on which they had entered; now that the work is done, that they have risen again with their Redeemer, that they have followed Him, by their desires and their hopes, even to the very summit of heaven — now that the Holy Ghost has come down upon this earth, that He might complete within them the work of their union with God, surely, nothing could profit them more than that they nourish themselves, and even more frequently than before, with the Bread of life, which came from heaven, that He might give life to the world. From our first entrance into the new season, which we are now passing through, holy Church has, by the great feast of Corpus Christi, brought us face to face with the august mystery, which is both the sacrifice whereby God receives the honour due to Him, and the sacrament containing within itself the nourishment of our souls. We have now a clearer understanding of the unspeakable gift which our Saviour vouchsafed to bestow upon us the night before His Passion. We now see more plainly the nature and greatness of the homage which earth gives to its Creator, by the ceaseless offering of the holy sacrifice of the Mass. We now know, so much better than formerly, what that deifying relation is which is made to exist between God and the soul by means of the participation of the sacred Host. The Holy Ghost has shed His light upon all these truths;
He has opened out to us the very depths of the mystery shown to us from the outset-the mystery, that is, of the Emmanuel, or God with us. Now that we are so fully initiated into the whole of God’s work, we understand better that great text of the Gospel which says: ‘The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us.’ We grasp the meaning more completely; we can give it a more literal, and equally faithful translation, and say: ‘The Word was made Flesh, and took up His dwelling WITHIN US.’ All this has increased in the Christian the desire of assisting at the holy sacrifice. He says to himself, as did the patriarch of old: “Truly, the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not”; my faith was sound, but I did not perceive, as I do now, the immensity of what our Lord did at His last Supper. In the same way, having now a clearer knowledge of the union, which is brought about even in this present world, between God and the soul that is nourished with the living Bread, whereby that soul is transformed into its Creator, the Christian longs more ardently
than ever for the enjoyment of that Lord who, even during this mortal life, gives us, by means of the Eucharistic Bread, not only a foretaste, but the very reality of that which awaits us in heaven. We may truly assert that the keeping up of that state which we have already described in the third chapter, and which is the state both of the Church herself and of the faithful soul during this period of the liturgical year, is the joint work of the Holy Ghost who abides within us and of the Eucharistic gift, in which the Son of God ceases not to act for the preservation, increase, and development of the divine life which He came to bring us, and of which He thus speaks: ‘I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.” Act of Faith: Now that I am about to unite myself to thee in the mystery of thy love, I must first profess that I believe it to be truly thyself, Oh my God — thy Body, thy Soul, thy Divinity, that thou art going to give me. The first duty thou asks of me, now that thou art coming to me, is the act of my faith in this deep mystery. I make it; and my understanding is happy at thus bowing itself down before thy sovereign word. Thou, Oh Jesus, art the truth; and when presenting to thy disciples the bread changed into thy Body, thou said to’ them: ‘This is my Body!’ I believe thy word; I adore ‘the living Bread, come down from heaven to give life to the world.’ The grace of the Holy Ghost, whom thou hast sent me, enables me to relish this marvel of thy all-powerful love. This love of thine was not satisfied with uniting thee to the human nature, which thou assumed in Mary’s womb; it would, moreover, prepare for each one of us, by means of the heavenly food of thy sacred Flesh, a real and mysterious union with thee, which none but thou could have planned, none but thou could have achieved.
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22-Year-Old Catholic Woman Explains Why She Only Receives Holy Communion On Tongue Patrick Hayes
Theresa Habsburg said her reverence for the Holy Eucharist has been deepened by attending the Traditional Latin Mass. As part of a conference on the importance of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue, a young Austrian Catholic credited the Traditional Latin Mass with increasing her reverence for Holy Communion. “The fact that I started attending the Traditional Latin Mass, for me, it made an unbelievable difference,” Theresa Habsburg told LifesiteNews’ JohnHenry Westen. The conference hosted by Voice of the Family brought together prolife leaders and Catholic scholars to explain the need for Catholics to receive Holy Communion on the tongue. Theresa Habsburg is a 22-year-old Austrian Catholic who organised a group of young Catholics after the height of the coronavirus pandemic to call on Austrian bishops to bring back the Mass. During the conference, she discussed her devotion to receiving Holy Communion on the tongue. She shared that she had not always received Holy Communion on the tongue, but her understanding and reverence for the Holy Eucharist has grown over time. She pointed out that the lack of access to the sacraments, especially
to the Holy Eucharist, during the coronavirus lockdown helped her see the importance of receiving Holy Communion and doing so in the proper manner. “I kind of came to realise how integral it is that we are able to receive the Eucharist and go to Mass. I also with that, came to this very deep understanding that there is also a right way to receive Christ. Because if we do believe what we say we believe, which is quite an outrageous thing to believe if you think about it, then I feel like there’s not much of a grey zone. There can’t be much of a grey zone … So if we actually believe we’re receiving the true body of Christ, if we actually believe that, then there is only one way to receive the body of Christ.” Habsburg now sees the reception of Holy Communion on the tongue
as the only way to receive Holy Communion. We need to “at least try to attain (the body of Christ) with as much humility and as much grace as possible or so to receive him in a way that is as worthy as we can.” Finally, Habsburg encourages other young Catholics to seek out a deeper understanding of Holy Communion. Specifically, she encourages young Catholics to attend the Traditional Latin Mass. “The fact that I started attending the Traditional Latin Mass for me it made an unbelievable difference … I was very skeptical at first, but to me that made a world of difference because in today’s world everything about you,” Habsburg said. “The whole structure of the (Latin) Mass is so away from the self and towards God.”
12 MIND CONTROL
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The Mind Controllers Are After Your Children Part 2 - John Lacken Please pause for one moment and offer up one Ave for our bishops especially with regard to the reforming of the Catholic schools in Ireland. 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 In my last article I began to look at how mind control techniques are being effectively used to change the social and political landscape of Ireland away from traditional Catholic thinking. I mentioned the Communist system of shame, confession and then reeducation. The Communist system, which Our Lady warned us about when she appeared in Fatima, is a brutal method of controlling society which resorts to violence against, and imprisonment of, those who refuse to bow to the Communist party leaders. In our Western world, the communist mind control techniques have been softened and adapted to generally exclude violence, but they are still very effective in producing societal change and in getting people to accept immorality and falsehoods in the name of progress. The use of such techniques to influence people’s behaviour, thinking, and actions, is not always done for a bad purpose. I stood as a candidate for the Christian Solidarity Party in the 1997 general election in the Sligo Leitrim constituency. I had no political experience and very little idea of what I was doing. However, we were helped by someone who had defected from one of the two main political parties in Ireland. This
man, being a Catholic, was opposed to divorce and was effectively sidelined by the party to which he belonged, because he refused to go along with the party’s changing policies on divorce. I had organised a meeting of supporters to prepare for the canvas of the constituency in a local hotel and this man said that he would come along. I gave a talk at the meeting and things were drifting and without any real focus. As I said, I had never before in my life been involved in politics. The next thing that happened, was that this man stood up and spoke very briefly to the people at the meeting in a nonchalant way. I cannot recall exactly what he said, just that it was very brief. He then sat down. Someone at the meeting stood up and responded to what he had said. It is hard to describe exactly what happened next, but this man, this defector from one of Ireland’s main political parties, suddenly came alive. He stood up in response to what had been said and it was like watching an expert fisherman playing a fish. Within minutes he had managed to organise the volunteers for every electoral area in the constituency. After the meeting, we were sitting together in the hotel and I remarked on what had just happened. I asked him how he had done it and if he had been using some psychological techniques in order to get the people to respond. I was amazed at what I had witnessed; at how a group of people, with little direction and focus, had very quickly been dynamically marshalled into service for the cause.
He then told me some of his history with his former political party. He was amongst a group of forty-one specially chosen individuals who had been trained in how to use certain techniques with people to manage elections and to get the most out of people for the specific purpose of getting party candidates elected. Some of the techniques that he described to me, which were not used at that meeting, were questionable from an ethical point of view. I was personally not very comfortable with the use of any of these techniques even though they were being used for a good cause; to promote Christian values in society. He also told me of other somewhat humorous techniques used by the party. A government minister appearing on national television with a hole in his shoe. Another minister appearing on national television wearing odd socks, which was commented on by the presenter. These incidents were not accidents, the political party was using subtle psychological techniques in order to create a certain perception amongst the electorate which would make them sympathetic to the party’s candidates at the ballot box. The mainstream political parties spend millions of your taxes on public relations experts who devise psychological strategies designed to increase their candidates profiles in the public eye. In March 2019, the Irish Examiner reported that Leo Varadkar’s department had spent €1.8 million on advertising. We noted in our May-June Lumen Fidei bi-monthly newsletter, that the Fine Gael party was using the Covid-19 scare as a public relations exercise which gave them unprecedented and free access to
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the national airwaves. The amount of airtime they have used during this so-called crisis would have cost them millions had it been paid advertising. Subsequent opinion polls proved how effective this strategy was with the Irish Times reporting ‘a massive boost’ in support for Fine Gael in June. The use of these psychological techniques is not limited to the world of politics. I once worked in tele-sales, selling IT equipment. We were given some training by a practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP. This is a ‘New Age’ ideology which was being adapted by many businesses much like Mindfulness is to the fore today. Afterwards, I was asked by my manager what I thought of the training. I said that I found parts of it offensive and that I was not sure if I wished to remain in sales if we were expected to adapt these techniques. The manager’s response was to try to get me fired. I survived by moving into the purchasing department of the company. The point I am making here is that Catholics need to be aware that we are being lied to and manipulated on a regular basis by our politicians and by those who seek to shape public opinion. These politicians seek to carry out the commands of a global elite who wish to destroy Christendom. Their primary targets are the teachings of the Catholic Church and the traditional understanding of family life with a husband and father, married to a wife and mother and rearing their biological children. These traditional families, united in their Catholic and Christian beliefs, are the cornerstone of civil society. If you wish to replace Christendom, as most Irish politicians do, you must tear down this family cornerstone and create chaos in society in order to replace Christendom with a New World Order.
Who Pulls The Political Strings in Ireland This is where the re-education programmes come in. Anyone involved in the Irish education system is expected to subscribe to the new ideology. Anyone who disagrees will be sidelined, pressured to conform, or coerced into leaving the education sector. Steps are being taken within the education system to normalise disordered and dysfunctional relationships in the minds of children and in the minds of the general public. It is not a coincidence that the last two ministers for children in Ireland have both been in very public homosexual relationships. The general public is being groomed into accepting disordered homosexual relationships as being normal and as being equal to heterosexual relationships even though this is not the case. Anyone who objects will be publicly shamed and called ‘homophobic’ or condemned with other equally false slurs. The official response to the recent controversy concerning our newest minister for children and his tweeted support for a man who has made favourable comments regarding certain relationships between adults
and children, is the latest example of the use of mind control. Anyone who objects to what the minister has tweeted in the past, or who seeks clarification of the minister’s previous actions is labelled as ‘homophobic’. This is the public shaming policy. I have no problem stating publicly that I believe that Minister Roderic O’Gorman is not suitable to be the minister for children because he is in a public homosexual relationship with another man. This disordered relationship gives a bad example to children, and it gives children a false understanding of human sexuality by normalising disordered relationships in children’s minds. That I will be called ‘homophobic’ as a consequence, bothers me only in so far as it deflects from the real problem, that, those who are promoting same-sex relationships to children as normal and healthy, are guilty of child abuse. Minister O’Gorman, also falsely believes that you can change someone’s gender by issuing them with a government certificate. He believes that the government has the power, through these magic