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The Eucharistic Miracle of Mourne-Rouge Patrick Hayes On May 8, 1902, La Montagne, the volcano at the peak of Mount Pelée suddenly erupted. A discharge of lava immediately reached the city of Saint-Pierre de la Martinique and completely destroyed it.

Of the estimated 30,000 population, only two survivors were known.

One witness, Victor Albert, watched in horror from his farm and told the French newspaper La Croix: “A flash more dazzling than a lightning happened … At the same time, a cloud that formed on the summit of Montagne [Mount] Pelée literally fell on Saint-Pierre with such rapidity that it was impossible for anyone to escape.”

That day, the eruption mysteriously spared the village of Morne-Rouge, located between Saint-Pierre and Mount Pelée. The prodigious event was accompanied by an apparition of Jesus and His Sacred Heart in the Host exposed for public Eucharistic adoration. There were many witnesses to that extraordinary phenomenon.

On May 8, 1902, Ascension Day, the Mount Pelée volcano started erupting lava and ashes.

The inhabitants of Morne-Rouge,

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strongly devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, immediately hurried to their parish church to ask Our Lady of Deliverance to spare their village from catastrophe. At that moment of sudden danger, people rushed to the confessionals.

The parish priest, Fr. Mary, gave a general absolution to all the faithful, distributed Holy Communion, and then exposed the Blessed Sacrament for public adoration. At a certain point, a woman cried out, “The Sacred Heart of Jesus is in the Host !” A large number of people witnessed the apparition of Jesus in the Host, showing His Sacred Heart crowned with thorns.

Some declared they also saw the Precious Blood of Jesus dripping from His Sacred Heart. The vision lasted several hours and stopped only after the reposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle.

On May 8th, the village of MorneRouge was spared from the volcano’s devastating fury.

Therefore, the local population had a chance to reconcile themselves with God, receive the sacraments, and so be prepared to die in the state of grace. On August 30th of the same year, a violent eruption of the same volcano destroyed also the village of Morne-Rouge killing between 1,000 to 1,500 people.

Sometimes events such as these series of volcano eruptions, in the midst of terrible hardship and agony, there will also be great signs

of faith and miracles where God intervened in people of faith’s lives.

The greatest gift is to be ready to go when that day and hour does arrive.

Miracles of the Eucharist have always been an example of the Lord’s promise that He would always be with us until the end of the age (Matthew 28:20). This is especially true in the Blessed Sacrament. From the beginning of the age of the Church, Jesus has given such miracles to help the faithful through tough times, through persecutions, droughts, hurricanes, floods, tidal waves, and so much more.

Acts 2:17 states, “And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord

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comes, the great and manifest day. And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Psalms 116:13 states, “I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.” How great it is that Jesus is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity before His people so that His maidservants, menservants, young and old will be given dreams and visions to proclaim the Gospel.

At Mass, we do lift up the cup of salvation and offer it to all the faithful. In times of trouble, this is where we should go to call upon the name of the Lord.

I have called upon you, Oh Lord, for you will hear me, o Lord, and hear my speech. Show Your marvelous loving kindness, O Lord, you save by Your right hand those who put their trust in You from those That rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings. Amen

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The Banning Of Nancy Pelosi From Receiving Holy Communion Below is an excerpt of the text of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s notification to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, informing her that she should not receive Holy Communion in her home archdiocese.

The Second Vatican Council, in its Decree Anthony Murphy on the Church in the Modem World, Gaudium et spes, reiterated the Church’s ancient and consistent teaching that “from the first moment of conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes” (n.

51). Christians have, indeed, always upheld the dignity of human life in every stage, especially the most vulnerable, beginning with life in the womb. His Holiness, Pope Francis, in keeping with his predecessors, has likewise been quite clear and emphatic in teaching on the dignity of human life in the womb.

This fundamental moral truth has consequences for Catholics in how they live their lives, especially those entrusted with promoting and protecting the public good of society.

With regard to the application of these principles to Catholics in political life, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote to the U.S. bishops in 2004 explaining the approach to be taken: “... when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist. When ‘these precautionary measures have not had their effect ... ,’ and the person in question, with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, ‘the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.’”

As you have not publicly repudiated your position on abortion, and continue to refer to your Catholic faith in justifying your position and to receive Holy Communion, that time has now come. Therefore, in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco to be “concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to [my] care” (Code of Canon Law, can. 383, §1), by means of this communication I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.

Please know that I stand ready to continue our conversation at any time, and will continue to offer up prayer and fasting for you.

I also ask all of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to pray for all of our legislators, especially Catholic legislators who promote procured abortion, that with the help and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they may undergo a conversion of heart in this most grave matter and human life may be protected and fostered in every stage and condition of life.

Catholics are responding in a variety of ways to Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s decision not to admit Nancy Pelosi to Communion, from viewing it as a compassionate act to the “waging [of] a culture war.”

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois tweeted an earnest commendation of Cordileone’s decision, saying that “politicians who promote abortion should not receive holy Communion until they have repented, repaired scandal, and been reconciled to Christ and the Church.”

Bishop Robert Vasa of Santa Rosa said that he spoke to the pastor of St. Helena Catholic Church in St.Helena, a parish that Pelosi reportedly attends on occasion. Vasa said, “I have visited with the pastor at St Helena and informed him that if the Archbishop prohibited someone from receiving Holy Communion then that restriction followed the person and that the pastor was not free to ignore it.”

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“The new Canon (1379 §4) makes it clear that providing sacraments to someone prohibited from receiving them [has] its own possible penalties,” he said.

Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver tweeted, “I support and commend my brother bishop, Archbishop Cordileone, for making this courageous, compassionate, and necessary decision.” Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler tweeted, “Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Archbishop Cordileone for loving Nancy Pelosi in the Truth of Jesus Christ!”

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln tweeted, “I support Archbishop Cordileone in his courageous pastoral outreach to a member of his flock.

His actions are made as a shepherd with the heart of Christ.

Jamie L. Manson, president of the abortion advocacy group Catholics for Choice, maintained that the archbishop “is waging a culture war that the bishops have already retreated from,” and claimed that Cordileone’s action is “extreme.”

Sadly - but not entirely unexpectedly - the mainstream media ‘spin’ distorts the issue. It is therefore worth noting the following: - Archbishop Cordileone is not “conservative”; he is authentically orthodox and all he is asking of Pelosi is compliance with Church Teaching and Church law.

approach to reconcile this errant sheep with the Gospel. His approach does not seem to be working and in his diocese Ms. Pelosi is free to commit sacrilege while turning a deaf ear to the dialogue of Cardinal Wilton.

Cardinal Wilton’s approach is also the one favoured by the Holy Father.

Pope Francis’ several ostensibly ambiguous pronouncements on the issue have always been made contextually in the quest for reconciliation, ie. bringing lost (smelly) sheep back into the fold.

But the question remains as to how long the path of dialogue should run before stronger medicine needs to be given in order to correct the error and save the soul. In particular it is very clear from Nancy Pelosi’s public pronouncements that she has no intention of reconciling herself to Church teaching instead she believes

she is in full accord with what the Church teaches and worse she wants to restrict faithful Catholics from protesting against abortion and saving unborn babies. It is therefore clear to anyone wishing to see that the way of dialogue has not worked and will not with Ms Pelosi and a different approach is required.

Deo gratias for giving Archbishop Cordileone the personal courage and spiritual strength to fulfil, in such highly public fashion, his literal and true three-fold grex gregis responsibility: the salvation of Pelosi’s soul; the salvation of those souls potentially scandalised by her conduct; the sacred integrity of the Blessed Eucharist.

Let us remember the Archbishop in our prayers and also pray that others may follow his courage in defence of Our Lord in His most vulnerable form.

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- Nancy Pelois is publicly flaunting Church Teaching and Church law.

- The assertion that Communion refusal is driven by a more conservative wing of the Catholic Church and part of a culture war is totally incorrect on 3 counts: a) personal eligibility for Communion is driven by Church Teaching b) Communion denial is driven by Church law (Canon 915) c) a Catholic “conservative wing” is a fiction, authentic Catholic identity mandates full acceptance of Church Teaching and Church law, (aka orthodoxy); anything less distances oneself from the Church, and thereby personally from Christ Himself (John 6:66) How this will impact on Nancy Pelosi remains to be seen. In her role as House Speaker she spends much of her time in Washington and also travels widely so she does not often attend Mass in her home diocese. In Washington, Cardinal Wilton Gregory has made clear he favours a dialogical

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The Leaked Roe Opinion Shows Us That An Unjust Law Can Never Be Settled Law John Horvat II

The leaked majority opinion of Justice Samuel Alito is setting America afire as intended. The unexpected disclosure of the Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade allows the rabid left time to mobilize in defense of procured abortion.

thus rejects any restrictions upon an individual, even when represented by an innocent child in the womb.

The pro-life position affirms a universal moral law, which declares that taking innocent human life is always and everywhere murder and must therefore be forbidden.

Of course, the present debate is not about Justice Alito’s opinion.

Most abortion activists probably have not read it. However, they do understand the harm it will do for their cause and spin the debate to reflect its dramatic talking points.

The Alito opinion does not enter into this debate of moral perspectives but merely points to it.

Likewise, most pro-life Americans also have not labored through the 98-page document. They, too, know what the decision means for their cause. However, most have no illusions that the document is the bare minimum that might be expected from these judges. They know it will not stop abortion but understand that it can be a significant step toward that goal.

Both sides know that the document is not what it appears to be. However, they realize the symbolic value of the opinion and its powerful impact on the public. For the first time, the opinion shows that Roe v. Wade is not settled law in the eyes of SCOTUS. It forces the pro-abortion side to admit that this miscalled “right” can be reversed. Whoever wins this symbolic battle wins the war.

Two irreconcilable legal perspectives are at issue. The left denies the existence of a moral law. It

The problem with Justice Alito’s opinion is that it is based upon a weak, shaky originalism, which is not a threat or victory to either side.

The opinion rightly condemns Roe v. Wade as a poorly constructed law.

However, it is an almost technical objection that does not enter into the moral right or wrong of the issue.

was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roeand Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.” (p. 6).

Later on, Alito reaffirms this, saying, “Roe was . . . egregiously wrong and deeply damaging.

For reasons already explained, Roe’s constitutional analysis was far outside the bounds of any reasonable interpretation of the various constitutional provisions to which it vaguely pointed” (p. 40).

The justice’s position suffers from an unwillingness to return to the West’s long higher law tradition.

He stays inside the false security of positive man-made law that can change with time. He avoids the solidity of a God-given natural moral law valid for all times, places and peoples based on an unchangeable human nature.

In pointing out Roe’s errors, the Supreme Court Justice reinforces the legal maxim lex injusta non est lex, i.e., an unjust law is no law at all. Having originated with Saint Augustine, the expression was expanded upon by Saint Thomas Aquinas. It proclaims that the purpose of law is to uphold justice for the benefit of the people being governed.

An unjust law defeats the purpose of law and therefore conspires against it. This logical view corresponds to the natural moral law.

Such a shallow position resolves nothing. The justices need to have the courage to return to the natural moral law.

The humble apology offered on behalf of the Court can serve as a first atonement for a national sin that gravely offended God.

The merit of the released draft opinion is that it humbly acknowledges that Roe v. Wade is bad law. Even liberal jurists have admitted this over the years. The majority draft had the courage to proclaim that procured abortion is not “settled” law.

However, much more is needed.

An unjust law can never be settled law. The Justices need to do more.

They must drum up the courage to enter into the great moral battle at the explosive center of America’s Culture War. They must abandon the amoral, relativistic, and secularist fiction of originalism that allows for half-solutions.

Justice Alito further apologizes by admitting that the Supreme Court is to blame for this bad law that has polarized the county. He states that only the Court can fix the grave mistake that has taken so many lives over nearly half a century by overturning Roe. Twice, Justice Alito says that Roe “was egregiously wrong.” This is a first and welcome SCOTUS mea culpa.

In the Catholic judge’s words: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning

As leaked, the Alito majority draft will uphold abortion bans in half the states while recognizing the legality of post-birth abortion in others. The Court’s cowardly omission to condemn the moral wrong of procured abortion only aggravates the nation’s problems.

SCOTUS must embrace lex justa.

Anchored in the higher natural moral law, a just law is and will always be true law.

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Front row, left to right: Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Back row, left to right: Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Current Justices of the American Supreme Court - Credit: Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Ireland Needs Fatima - Main Rosary Rally in Dublin, Saturday 14th May, 2022 Ireland Needs Fatima - ISFCC Irish Society for Christian Civilisation is an organisation of lay Catholic Irishmen and Irishwomen concerned with the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christendom.

Our foundation in 2004 was inspired by the work of Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, founder of the Brazilian Society for the Defence of Tradition, Family & Property.

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515 Public Rosary Rallies Burst into the Public Square Across Ireland Thousands of Irish Catholics celebrated the 105th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima by holding 515 Public Rosary Rallies on May 14th. The

rallies represent one of the biggest widespread public manifestations of the Faith in Ireland in recent years.

Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISFCC) and its Ireland Needs Fatima campaign organised these rosary rallies as a fitting way to commemorate Our Lady’s call to challenge the culture and resist the waves of sin and aberrations rocking the nation. The effort has captured the imagination of many.

The number of rallies is growing quickly.

To put the event in context, 515 Rosary rallies mean nearly one million Hail Marys prayed in the public square! Just about every nook and cranny of Ireland was reached. These rallies are 515 more reasons for the devil to shake in his shackles in fear of Our Lady!

“One person described it as a tsunami of graces for Ireland, and it really was!”

Rosary Rally captain Gregory Murphy said. “I’m sure that God will bless Ireland, despite the nation’s sins and shortcomings, after having so many Rosary Rallies in honour of His Mother.”

“You can see the joy and happiness in the faces of the attendees,” he added. “You also have to remember that this was the first time many of these people publicly expressed their Faith.”

“It’s a great honour for me to be a rosary rally captain for Our Lady of Fatima,” commented one rally caption.

“It’s lovely to pray privately, but we need more public prayer to let them see [that] religion and God and faith won’t be stamped off the face of the earth. In Ireland, we will shout from the gallows, ‘Ireland belongs to God and Our Lady.’”

“When you called on the phone, I asked Our Lady ‘Why did you pick me? I’m not worthy for this,” one devout man reported.

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“Then I thought, Our Lady is calling us to do stuff like this. This is the first time I have ever done anything like this, but I really felt called to do [it].”

“More and more people are looking to the Fatima message because it offers a sure remedy to the moral crisis in society.” Gregory Murphy continued.

“In other words, prayer, penance and conversion are the answer to a world that has abandoned God.” For more information please visit our website www.isfcc.org

Rosary Rally in Cootehill, Co Cavan

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Rosary Rally in Killarney, Co Kerry

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How Narrow Is The Gate, And Strait Is The Way That Leadeth To Life: And Few There Are That Find It! John Lacken ***NB Parents beware - this article contains material that is not suitable for children NB*** I regularly check the Irish Bishops’ website to see if there is any interesting news. This week there was an advertisement for a webinar to be given by Professor Thomas Groome (see image right).

Professor Thomas Groome has been criticised for his position on women’s ordination. In an article for the Boston Globe in 2002, responding to the sexual abuse crisis, Professor Groome stated the following.

“Likewise, the presence of women as priests and bishops would be an extraordinary gift to the life of the Catholic Church. What a loss it is when ordained ministry is limited to men, excluding the consciousness and gifts of women; at best we benefit from only half our priestly resources. To ordain women would surely hasten the demise of clericalism -- the antithesis to priesthood as servant leadership -and catalyze a renewed ministry of “holy order.””

What many Catholics will not realise is that Professor Thomas Groome is a former priest who was laicised so that he could marry. In a interview in 2017 with the author Andrew Shatkin, Shatkin asked Professor Groome about homosexuality.

Professor Groome responded.

“I have gay friends who are committed to living a celibate lifestyle and I am in awe of their commitment and their spirituality that helps to sustain them, but it would be very difficult to say that My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I beg pardon of Thee for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen.

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Fourth webinar in the ‘Together Along The Way’ series to welcome Professor Thomas H. Groome from Boston College

every..., that 10% of our population who are gay have to remain celibate.

I mean the Catholic Church has always talked about celibacy as a particular charism, as a special gift from God, now to just simply mandate 10% of the population to have that charism seems somewhat stretching the point.

You see also the church, for a long time we thought that…, the church has to be informed by contemporary science, especially medical science and psychology and the disciplines of learning, and you see for a long time, for about 5,000 years I suppose in the western world we just looked upon people who had same-sex attraction as perverts, we thought they were perverts to the human condition and now we know that that’s not true, it is not a chosen lifestyle, they didn’t choose to be gay.

This is how God made people. God makes about 10% of the population gay, and you have to say then well 10% of the body of Christ, the Church is gay and should be welcomed, should be included.”

Thomas Groome then seeks to use the book of Genesis to

assert that God created some people as homosexuals and that homosexuality is part of the image and likeness of God. He says “I think when Catholics sound as if gay people are a disordered attachment, this kind of stuff, are a disordered condition, I think we’re flying in the face of Genesis chapter one and are denying that all are made in the image and likeness of God.” Andrew Shatkin then asks Thomas Groome if he believes that those in committed sexually active homosexual relationships should be barred from Holy Communion.

Rather than answer the question, Thomas Groome proceeds to tell the story of a friend of his who is “an old conservative traditional Irish catholic” who has a ‘gay’ son. This mother was “absolutely delighted” when her son met “a very fine young man” and got married to him because now he wasn’t sleeping around and cruising on the ‘gay’ scene’.

Professor Groome concludes the story by saying “It was just a mother’s heart saying, “well thank God that he found a partner and, will he be happier, will he be more content, will he live a better life?””

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“Of course he’s living a far better life in fact they’re going to Church as well, and so, I think a lot of our episcopal leaders and church leaders who hold forth on this issue might sound very different if they themselves had a gay son or daughter, or a grandson or a granddaughter... I think these episcopal leaders would sing a very different song...”

What you witness here is classic Thomas Groome and his method of what he calls ‘Shared Christian Praxis’.

In the above example, he uses an emotional story to undermine Catholic Church teaching without actually answering the question he was asked and without actually saying anything specific against Catholic doctrine. By sharing how loving the homosexual couple are and how accepting the “conservative traditional Irish catholic” mother is, he frames the story in a way that makes those who would follow Catholic Church teaching on forbidding those in an objective state of mortal sin from receiving Holy Communion, as the bad guys. Nobody wants to be the bad guy and this leads people to compromise their Catholic faith.

I wonder would professor Groome react the same way if the mother of a serial killer was thankful because her son decided that he would only kill one person per year instead of several. After all, such a man would be living a better life than before according to the professor’s metrics.

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homosexual relationships within the Catholic Church in Ireland and within the Catholic schools of Ireland.

They are permitting the undermining of the faith of young Catholic children whom God has entrusted to their care. The primary duty to educate children in the faith rests with Catholic parents, who are supposed to be helped by their bishops. Many Catholic parents in Ireland are also failing in their duty to their children, but those of us who take that duty seriously, rarely find true support amongst the Irish episcopate to help us to raise saints for the Kingdom of God.

We must continue to pray for our bishops, that they will courage from St Thomas More and from St Oliver This method was very effectively used to undermine take Plunkett that they will begin to resist the LGBT Catholic Church teaching in the same-sex referendum ideology and and its global promoters. of 2015. One of the videos used to support the ‘Yes’ campaign, featured an elderly Irish couple from rural Ireland, Brighid and Paddy, who were fifty years married and who claimed to be Roman Catholic. At one point Brighid says, “I know, the ever loving God that we believe in, will say we did the right thing and the Christian thing in voting ‘Yes’ for marriage equality.”

Paddy brought out the old canard about “what if one of your children or grandchildren tells you they are gay and asks you how did you vote.” The sinfulness of homosexual relations was ignored. As I said to one Fine Gael supporter, I would say to my child the same thing I would say if they told me they were a thief or an adulterer. “I do not condemn you, go and sin no more” Once again we must ask, why are the Irish bishops promoting a man who publicly holds views which are contrary to Catholic Church teaching, especially when this same man has gained influence in the teaching of supposed catechetics to children? The Irish bishops are failing Catholic parents and they are failing Catholic children when they promote men with views that are obviously not in accord with Catholic Church teaching.

It might be objected that the Irish bishops were not aware of Professor Thomas Groome’s views. In this case their failure is one of due diligence because they have a duty to protect children from those who promote falsehoods and who promote an erroneous understanding of what it means to be Catholic.

Let’s be honest. Irish bishops, sometimes by their positive actions and sometimes by their failure to act or their omissions, are permitting the promotion of active

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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.

Let us return to Pope Leo XIII and his encyclical letter ‘Sapientiae Christianae’ to see what he had to say about these types of situations. We saw in the last article how Pope Leo XIII urges us to fight for our beloved Catholic Church more ardently than we would fight for our beloved country. He told us that we have a positive duty to resist any laws that are at variance with the Divine Law. Pope Leo XIII continues in prophetic mode.

“But with what bitterness and in how many guises war has been waged against the Church it would be ill-timed now to urge. From the fact that it has been vouchsafed to human reason to snatch from nature, through the investigations of science, many of her treasured secrets and to apply them befittingly to the divers requirements of life, men have become possessed with so arrogant a sense of their own powers as already to consider themselves able to banish from social life the authority and empire of God. Led away by this delusion, they make over to human nature the dominion of which they think God has been despoiled; from nature, they maintain, we must seek the principle and rule of all truth; from nature, they aver, alone spring, and to it should be referred, all the duties that religious feeling prompts. Hence, they deny all revelation from on high, and all fealty due to the Christian teaching of morals as well as all obedience to the Church, and they go so far as to deny her power of making laws and exercising every other kind of right, even disallowing the Church any place among the civil institutions of the commonweal.

These men aspire unjustly, and with their might strive, to gain control over public affairs and lay hands on the rudder of the State, in order that the legislation may the more easily be adapted to these principles, and the morals of the people influenced in accordance with them. Whence it comes to pass that in many countries Catholicism is either openly assailed or else secretly interfered with, full impunity being granted to the most pernicious doctrines, while the public profession of Christian truth is shackled often times with manifold constraints.”

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The controversy over the new National Maternity Hospital in Dublin immediately springs to mind. God forbid that the Catholic bishops of Ireland would dare to try to stop doctors from killing children in a maternity hospital! Our government are intent on, and have for the most part, successfully neutered our Irish bishops while the ‘progressive’ baby killing machine embeds itself deeper and deeper into the psyche of our society.

This explains why many baptised Catholics voted for the murder of innocent human beings in their mothers’ wombs in the 2018 referendum.

Pope Leo then begins to give advice on what Catholics are called to do when they live in an anti-Catholic environment such as that of Ireland in 2022.

“Under such evil circumstances therefore, each one is bound in conscience to watch over himself, taking all means possible to preserve the faith inviolate in the depths of his soul, avoiding all risks, and arming himself on all occasions, especially against the various specious sophisms rife among non-believers.

In order to safeguard this virtue of faith in its integrity, We declare it to be very profitable and consistent with the requirements of the time, that each one, according to the measure of his capacity and intelligence, should make a deep study of Christian doctrine, and imbue his mind with as perfect a knowledge as may be of those matters that are interwoven with religion and lie within the range of reason. And as it is necessary that faith should not only abide untarnished in the soul, but should grow with ever painstaking increase, the suppliant and humble entreaty of the apostles ought constantly to be addressed to God: “Increase our faith.””

Catholics are morally bound to learn their Catholic faith and this is why the failure of the Irish bishops to protect the curriculum in the Catholic schools under their charge is so tragic. This failure was evidenced by the almost 86% vote in favour of abortion amongst the 18 - 24 age cohort in Ireland in 2018.

But such failures on the part of bishops do not absolve lay Catholics of our responsibilities. Pope Leo XIII asserts this in the powerful paragraph which follows on from the last.

“But in this same matter, touching Christian faith, there are other duties whose exact and religious observance, necessary at all times in the interests of eternal salvation, become more especially so in these our days. Amid such reckless and widespread folly of opinion, it is, as We have said, the office of the Church to undertake the defence of truth and uproot errors from the mind, and this charge has to be at all times sacredly observed by her, seeing that the honour of God and the salvation of men are confided to her keeping.

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integrity of faith, but, as St. Thomas maintains: “Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.”

To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamours are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.”

As lay Catholics, we have a duty to fight courageously to publicly defend our Catholic faith and to publicly defend our holy mother the Catholic Church. We have a duty to resist unjust laws and to protest against the corruption of children in Catholic schools. Catholic parents

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of school-age children have a moral duty to protect those children from corrupting influences.

Pope Leo XIII then tells us that Catholics are more blameworthy for our failure to fight these battles.

Writing back in 1890 he says that sometimes the effort needed to repel error is not that great.

However, in our day, because of the lack of courage and fortitude of many Catholics the errors have now become so deeply embedded in our society that the fight will be harder to win. Nevertheless, fight we must, otherwise we put our own salvation and the salvation of others in danger.

“Moreover, want of vigour on the part of Christians is so much the more blameworthy, as not seldom little would be needed on their part to bring to naught false charges and refute erroneous opinions, and by always exerting themselves more strenuously they might reckon upon being successful.

After all, no one can be prevented from putting forth that strength of soul which is the characteristic of true Christians, and very frequently by such display of courage our enemies lose heart and their designs are thwarted.

Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph: “Have confidence; I have overcome the world.” Nor is there any ground for alleging that Jesus Christ, the Guardian and Champion of the Church, needs not in any manner the help of men. Power certainly is not wanting to Him, but in His loving kindness He would assign to us a share in obtaining and applying the fruits of salvation procured through His grace.”

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A sacred time of prayer, reflection, and thanksgiving, led by Fr Paul Clayton-Lea The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are pleased to announce that this year’s Novena to the Sacred Heart will take place at the Sacred Heart Church on the Western Road, Cork, from Thursday, June 16th to Friday, June 24th, and will be led by main celebrant Fr PaulClayton Lea. A priest of the Archdiocese of Armagh, Fr Paul is a great friend to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and has enjoyed a wide and varied ministry that has involved ministering as a parish priest, comprehensive work in education, pastoral care in the Bronx, New York, and a busy career as an author and editor.

The annual MSC Novena to the Sacred Heart is a much-beloved time of great solace, peace, and prayer, and this year will celebrate the theme “Jesus – The Compassion & Mercy of God”. “We are still emerging from the effects of the pandemic, which changed the world and scarred many lives,” writes Fr Paul. “We are daily watching the horrors of war in Europe and the ongoing effects of climate change, especially on the world’s poorest people. To cope with such events and with the challenges in our own personal lives, we are strengthened and encouraged by the gift of faith, which teaches us that God is always with us.”

“I hope that the time we spend in prayer together each day of our Novena will bring us fresh reasons to be hopeful and confident in God’s saving power for us, and that we will end our Novena with renewed praise and gratitude in our hearts,” reflects Fr Paul.

As we offer up our prayers, for family and friends, for those who are sick or struggling in any way, for personal challenges and petitions, or of simple thanksgiving, we welcome all who wish to join us for this year’s MSC Novena to the Sacred Heart, in person or online via our live stream at www.mscmissions.ie.

Our Novena Masses will be streamed live at 10.00am & 7.30pm daily, including a special Day of Healing on Thursday, June 23rd.

All prayer petitions will be placed on the altar at the Sacred Heart Church, where they will be remembered daily by our MSCs. Together, we pray that our Novena will be a grace-filled and blessed time for all involved. For further information, or to submit your personal intentions for remembrance in the Novena, please contact the MSC Missions Office by phone on 021 4545704, by email at info@mscmissions.ie, or via our website at www.mscmissions.ie.

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Proper Dispositions Of The Reception Of Holy Communion Fr. William Rock, FSSP As is the case with each of the Sacraments, the fruitful reception of Holy Communion brings about in the recipient an increase of Sanctifying Grace, the Infused Virtues, and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. But the degree of growth in each of the recipients will be proportional to one’s disposition.

glory of God and for the salvation of souls, including one’s own. It is also good if one has the intention to receive Communion for the good of the Mystical Body. Communion should not be received out of habit, out of fear of what others may think if one does not receive, or as a way of flattering oneself.

The minimum required disposition for the reception of Holy Communion is that one be a Baptized Catholic in goodstanding; in a state of Sanctifying Grace (that is, not aware of any unconfessed mortal sins); and have kept the one-hour fast from all food and drink except for medicine and water. But the faithful should desire to go beyond the minimum.

Further dispositions can be divided between bodily dispositions and spiritual dispositions.

Many hand missals and booklets have prayers for those preparing to receive Communion. There are prayers for directing one’s intention and Acts of Faith, Hope, Love, Humility, and Contrition. There are also prayers composed by saints, such as St. Thomas Aquinas. It should be noted that the prayers for preparing for the reception of Holy Communion are different from the prayers for preparing for Mass.

Different prayers ought to be said for each. Here is a good place to note that time should also be spent in thanksgiving after each Mass and each Holy Communion. Hand missals and Mass booklets also contain prayers of thanksgiving.

One is well-disposed to receive with regards to bodily dispositions when one is wearing suitable dress and one is externally clean. This being the case, one’s clothing should be proper for the reception of the Sacrament and the House of God, that is not dirty or immodest.

Regarding one’s person, any noticeable dirt should be cleaned off before entering the Church.

This is important not only because it shows respect to Our Lord but because our external state affects our internal dispositions. And it is these internal dispositions which are the most important –namely faith, devotion, and right intention.

Regarding faith, one needs to recognize, by faith, that what one is receiving under the appearance of bread and wine, is not really bread and wine, but rather the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.

O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this]. Amen.

Our Lady of Fatima - June 13th, 1917.

And the stronger one’s faith is in this regard, the more disposed one will be to receive.

Devotion is here to be understood as the disposition of the will to readily and promptly serve God and our neighbor for God’s sake.

It also means that, so far as it is possible, we are at peace with our neighbors. As an effect of the reception of Holy Communion is unity with Christ and His Mystical Body, this effect would be hindered if we were at enmity with members of that Body. We must, in humility, recognize how unworthy we are of the great favor Our Lord is about to grant us by coming to dwell with us in Holy Communion. We must also stir up sentiments of love for Our Lord who first loved us unto death and left us such great gifts, including Himself.

To have the right intention when receiving, one must desire to receive Holy Communion for the greater

Let us then resolve to always ensure that we are well-disposed to receive Holy Communion so that each reception may be fruitful. Let us ensure that our external dress and appearance is proper for the great gift we are about to receive.

And, more importantly, let us work to properly prepare ourselves internally by making, with regards to the Blessed Sacrament, acts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Humility; let us be, as much as we can be, at peace with all of the other members of the Mystical Body; and let us desire to receive Communion for the greater glory of God and for the salvation of souls, including our own.

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18 ORCHESTRATED ATTACK

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The Decline In Catholic Marriages Is Not An Accident Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

In 1980, little more than a generation ago, 96% of all marriages in Ireland were Catholic marriages in Catholic churches, 2% were marriages in other religions and 2% were secular.

In 2021, according to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office, only 39% of all marriages were Catholic, now outnumbered by 43% non-religious marriages.

In 1980, there were no same-sex “marriages”, but in 2021 there were 500.

In 1980, most brides were in their early 20s. Now they are typically in their mid-30s.

In the intelligence community, there is a sensible rule of thumb. If a shockingly large societal change of this magnitude occurs in half a lifetime, it has not occurred by accident. Powerful and undesirable influences have pushed the change.

Yes, the Church in Ireland, more than most, has had to apologize for the scandals of its residential homes and of its sexual abuse of children.

Yes, there has been a general decline in religious observance, but that decline too has been too sudden for comfort.

Yes, Vatican II, with its emphasis on adjusting the Church to the world rather than the world to the Church, was an unfortunate contributing factor. The buzzword for that well-meaning but half-baked and now spectacularly failed policy was aggiornamento, which has in practice turned out to mean not so much adjustment as adjournment.

Yes, the replacement of the immemorial Rite of Mass prescribed

by the Council of Trent with the heretical Gas Board translation (now, at last, replaced by a less ugly and far less inaccurate translation) has emptied the churches not only in Ireland but throughout the English-speaking world. But that change, too, was not accidental.

Of these four indicative examples, only the first was an own-goal on the part of the Church in Ireland.

All the others were very heavily influenced by a single agency – the disinformation directorate of the KGB. Since Marx and Lenin, Communism – a.k.a. Socialism or, more recently, wokery or Black Lives Matter or LGBTQIIA+– has regarded the Church as one of the greatest threats to the global dominance it craves.

The first mission of the disinformation directorate was to destroy the reputation of Pope Pius XII by falsely making him out to be a Nazi-loving Jew-hater.

The parallel with Mr Putin’s

mischaracterization of the elected Ukrainian Government as “Nazis” is striking.

Leftist parties throughout Europe were briefed to oppose the Church’s teachings, particularly on moral questions. In very nearly every country, divorce, contraception, abortion, homosexuality and suchlike direct oppositions to the ancient and continuous teachings of the Church were actively promoted.

Communist influences were also evident at Vatican II, where some of the key bureaucrats servicing the Council were taking their orders from Moscow. Bishops – and even on one occasion an elderly Cardinal – had their microphones cut off if they failed to toe the Party line.

The destruction of the Old Rite of Mass was also an instance of a characteristically Communist tactic. Manipulation of language to mould the minds of the unaware has long been a stock-in-trade of the directorate. Today, portmanteau words like “sustainability” and

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“woke” are instances of this type of linguistic manipulation.

Eventually, the Holy See discovered that the monsignor in charge of foisting the New Rite on to the Church against the wishes and votes of the bishops of the world was taking his orders not from Heaven but from Moscow.

When he went on holiday, he returned to find that his entire office had been cleared out. Not a stick of furniture, not a chair, not a desk, not a filing cabinet remained. But by then the damage had been done.

Unfortunately, most Bishops in the nations of the West are themselves too close to the far Left to resist the relentlessly secularizing pressure, much of which is of Communist origin.

and all she stands for is not simply the tide of history running against religion.

It is, to a far greater extent than is generally realized, a deliberate, systematic, costly and co-ordinated campaign of destruction.

It is no accident, then, that it is the traditional orders and parishes that have adhered to the ancient teachings and the Old Rite that are reversing the otherwise relentless trend of rampant decline in the practice of the Faith of our fathers.

If all this sounds like “Reds under the beds”, that phrase, too, is an instance of linguistic manipulation.

For they do not allow themselves to be distracted by the things of this world. They hold fast to that which is good. That, and that alone, is what works.

Again, however, a rule of thumb from the intelligence community is helpful. It is better to overestimate the influence of the enemy than to underestimate it. Or, as the old saying goes, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”

The Lord of Life foresaw that the Church would go through dark times. He reassured us that, even when all seems as bleak as it does today, the gates of Hell would not prevail against the Church. It is time, then, for the soldiers of Christ to go on to the attack. Great is truth, and mighty above all things.

The attacks on the sanctity of marriage have been particularly relentless and multi-faceted.

Young people are encouraged to experiment, to sleep around, to wait until they have an established career before they marry. That is no small part of the reason why the average bride today is getting on for twice the age she was in 1980.

The very concept of marriage is watered down and muddied by calling same-sex unions “marriages”, which, of course, they are not.

Transgender messing about adds to the confusion. And the hierarchy, which ought to have stood gently but firmly against a lot of this nonsense, has tended to buckle and go along with it.

The first step on the road to recovery from these totalitarian assaults on the bastions of the faith is to realize that the opposition to the Church

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20 I AM THE VINE

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The Vine, The Spirit And The Church Mary Kearns

On the night before he died, in referring to himself as the “true vine” Jesus was using a potent image. Vines were familiar to the apostles as part of their lives but they had also learned in scripture about the false vines of the past.

The Old Testament recounts tales of Israel like a vine that had been planted and looked after by God but due to the people’s infidelity, the vine failed to deliver its fruit and became corrupt. Now the true vine, the Redeemer, was showing himself as the source of life to all who would be united to him. At the Last Supper Jesus identifies himself as the One the chosen people had waited for throughout the centuries.

“I am the vine; you are the branches.

If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) Jesus says we must remain connected to him so we can have life, just as the sap rises from the source and flows to all the branches of the tree, nourishing every part and providing the fruit which is its fulfilment.

Many Christians testify to the centrality of a personal relationship with Jesus but how does that happen?

We can assume that like any relationship it depends on communication. This is the result of prayer and a sense of being bonded to the other which when it means the Lord, includes a sense of dependence and awareness of the infinite love and mercy of the Almighty.

For Catholics it is more. Remaining in Jesus has to be understood in a

physical as well as a supernatural sense. In common with all Christians, our connection is primarily by means of Baptism.

“Go therefore, make disciples of all nations and baptise them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

By this means we are bonded to Jesus Christ and the bonding continues throughout our lives by our participation in sacramental life. The only way that can happen is through the Church. When we receive Jesus in Holy Communion we are physically connected to him.

Pentecost is considered to be the birthday of the Church. Peter, already assigned by Jesus as the leader, is no longer fearful. In his first public preaching, he converts thousands who are now believers.

During Mass the priest invokes the Holy Spirit to come and transubstantiate the offerings of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus. This is the same Holy Spirit who descended on Our Blessed Mother and the apostles at Pentecost. It is the miracle of Pentecost, the fulfilment of the Paschal Mystery.

The Holy Spirit promised by Jesus before he ascended to Heaven is the spirit of love and the agent of the Church’s mission to the world. In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus gave the great commission to His apostles:

Soon, the apostles and the new converts become united with a common zeal and purpose to go and preach the Gospel. They are animated by the Holy Spirit who flows through them.

In our own time what we need to recover is a more supernatural way of talking about the Church, avoiding anything that makes her sound like an institution.

In the way that everyone understands how the human body is made up of parts, possibly the understanding of the Holy Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is the most illuminating. Through the

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image of the vine we can see the principle of how the body is alive by its being connected to its source – the life principle of Jesus, the Redeemer.

In 1943 Pope Pius XII wrote: If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ which is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Roman Church - we shall find no expression more noble, more sublime, or more divine than the phrase which calls it “The Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.”

We have to fully realise that during Mass a mysterious veil covers this awesome truth. Despite all the changes recent years have experienced, nothing in fact has essentially changed since the Council of Trent, in the sixteenth century laid down its laws for all time.

Paschaltide is a sacred period of fifty days concluding with Pentecost Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Spirit and birthday of the Church. It marks the beginning of the Church’s mission to follow the Lord’s command to go and teach all nations.

The event of the Resurrection is central to the Church’s liturgy. It is the axis around which everything else revolves. Learning how the early Church viewed this mystery helps to enrich our understanding of Paschaltide. Ultimately we must focus on the continued presence of Christ in the Church.

As we know, the Easter Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Vigil of Holy Saturday are not three separate ceremonies but one.

This is why the priest does not give a dismissal or final blessing until the Triduum is complete with the first Mass of Easter.

On his final appearance on earth, just before he ascended to the Father, Jesus told his apostles:

In a similar way, the celebration for which we have prepared during the forty days of Lent is not for Easter Sunday alone. It is the entire period of fifty days from the feast of the Lord’s Resurrection until the descent of the Holy Spirit at

Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And behold, I am with you always, yes, to the end of time.

(Matthew 28:18-20) In the Gospel of Luke, the Church as the Bride of Christ, rejoices to be united with the Bridegroom.

In the Acts of the Apostles the forty days between Easter Sunday and the Ascension into heaven are recorded as the time when the Lord was visibly present to his Church.

This real and tangible presence of the Lord is the same presence we encounter in the sacred liturgy at every Mass.

Pentecost - the great season of Paschaltide.

Earlier in the Gospel of John we encounter other statements where Jesus identifies himself in different ways to show his obvious relationship with humanity. He does not simply describe himself as “the Bread of Life” or “the Good Shepherd” or “the Resurrection and the Life.”

He says he actually is all of these. “The True Vine” is the final declaration and part of the discourse at the Last Supper. The apostles very probably were unable to comprehend these terms but as Jesus told them, when the Advocate or the Holy Spirit would come, all would become clear.

We know from the beginning of John’s Gospel that every life in the created order came through Jesus (John 1:3) On account of the Paschal mystery, the new life of the Kingdom now flows out of Jesus, reaching us and coming to us through the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

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22 PLAIN SPEAKING

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A Time For Plain Speaking Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For the Sundays after Easter we are moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James.

Our Gospel readings are inexhaustible and there are always manifold treasures to unlock. At the same time and for the sake of brevity, we will entrust ourselves to the clarity of Christ’s words to the Apostles about His ascent to the Father, when they exclaimed “Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!” (v. 29 RSV).

That “speaking plainly” is expressed by the Greek parrhésia, which means here, “without ambiguity or circumlocution, without the use of figures and comparisons”. Parrhésia also means, especially in modern Church parlance, “freedom in speaking, unreservedness in speech, free and fearless confidence”. The Catechism of the Catholic Church 2778 gives us this definition: “straightforward simplicity, filial trust, joyous assurance, humble boldness, the certainty of being loved”.

Especially earlier during his time in Rome Francis urged people to speak with parrhésia, even to “make a mess”. He seems to view this as a positive, though rocky, road to working things out eventually for the better.

Let’s speak plainly. I am sure that the two surviving “Dubia Cardinals” have for these last few years felt filial trust for having submitted their questions in straightforward simplicity. Surely, Card. Zen, who sent Francis a long letter about the plight of Catholics in China, feeling much the same, especially after his recent arrest and the lack of comment from the Holy See. I am pretty sure that those whom Traditionis custodes was aimed at

are still basking in “the certainty of being loved” when their pleas are raised to their bishops. No, really!

All the indications of pastoral concern and love are really there, you just have to look for them, really hard.

Parrhésia is a Christian quality of expression that is sometimes characterized by the confidence with which we as children pray in the Our Father: It is simultaneously direct and humble, confident without presumption.

To quote from the letter of James, verses 22-27: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer that forgets but a doer that acts, he shall be blessed in his doing. If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

The obvious thing for us to see here is that we are not “faith alone” Christians, as formed by the erroneous teachings of Martin Luther and the other “reformers”.

We Christians must live an actioninformed faith. James tells us several ways that this is done, how we can live have religion which is “pure and undefiled before God”.

Stop for a moment and consider that phrase: “religion that is pure and undefiled before God”.

God can neither deceive nor be deceived as we state in the classic Act of Faith. God is closer to ourselves than we are to ourselves.

God is clearer about what we really think and feel than we are. We are completely open books to God. We cannot hide anything, bury something, keep a secret, from God. It is folly to even think that we could do so. However, sometimes in our tininess and our weakness, we imagine that we can. Would that we might all take this to heart especially in preparing to make a good confession. It may be that our chief pastors aren’t interested in our parrhésia, but our 99.99% of our confessors sure are. It could be that those who dwell high atop the thing give lip service to the need for parrhésia, but our loving Father wants it all. This is where that stellar description in the CCC really shines: clarity and boldness from the “certainty of being loved”.

Speak with parrhésia in the confessional. That means good preparation.

Good preparation means daily examination of conscience. If we want to get good at something, we do it over and over, not just once in a while. The next time, before confession, you might start with the starting point, asking the question: Does God see in my “religion that is pure and undefiled”?

Going back to our reading from the Letter of James, for the Apostle true religion has several aims. He uses the word in Greek threskeía, which Jerome rendered into Latin as religio. There is a vast body of reflection in the Church’s treasury about what we call the virtue of religion. Briefly, we are bound to render unto other persons what is due to them. When this is applied to human persons, the virtue is called justice.

But the divine Persons of the Trinity, though

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Persons, are qualitatively different from us. Hence we have a separate virtue by which we render to God what is due to God: religion. The main way that we express the virtue of religion outwardly is by proper worship, as individuals, but also collectively as a Church. If we get this aspect wrong, individually and collectively as a Church, our individual lives and collective lives are going to get very deeply screwed up. This is what we are seeing in our times in the Church: we have not been fulfilling well, to any great extent, the virtue of religion through sound liturgical worship pleasing to God. This is a sine qua non for a healthy spiritual life, both for individuals and as a Church.

James takes us to the next, logical step, the other side of the coin of religion. There are our outward acts of worship given to god, and there are our acts of charity toward

neighbor, orphans and widows especially named by James. James is not shunting aside the outward expression of “vertical” worship, but rather fusing it throughout with care of the the powerless and vulnerable. Religion that is pure and undefiled involves good works.

Moreover, if it is to be pure and undefiled, it must also be free from sinful aspects of the world, warned against for example by the Apostle John (who is not this James’s brother.

As you sit with your Bible open to James mark with your finger also 1 John, especially chapter 2: Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust

of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.

Religion involves a way of life, namely, leaving that which defiles and embracing that which purifies.

For most of us, I dare say all of us, this is a lifelong project. But as Samwise Gamgee’s ol’ gaffer used to say, “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish”.

Life, as it goes on year by years, seems to get shorter and shorter, faster and faster. However, God knows us better than we know ourselves. He provides us with what we need to reach the bliss of Heaven. He isn’t going to do the work for us, but He will provide all that we truly need to get it done.

We have to be willing to do it.

As a final point of motivation, I leave you with the question I implicitly popped, above: Your “religion”, your way of living before God and neighbor: it is truly “pure and undefiled before God”?

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Saint Titus Brandsma - New Carmelite Saint And Martyr Richard N. Greene Anno Brandsma was born to Tjitsje and Titus Brandsma on February 23rd,1881, at Wondseradeel in Friesland, Holland. He was the second youngest in a family of six, four girls and two boys. Five of the six would later enter religious life.

He received his secondary education at a Franciscan school but attracted by the Carmelite Order’s devotion to Mary Mother of God and their prayer spirituality, he opted to pursue his priestly vocation with them.

After Joining the Carmelite order, he began his novitiate at Boxmeer in September 1898. He took his father’s name Titus as his religious name. He made his First Profession in October 1899 and was ordained a priest on June 17th 1905.

He was sent to study for a PhD in philosophy at the Gregorian university in Rome and received his doctorate in 1909. He developed a great interest in mystical spirituality and began to show a great talent for writing and journalism,along side his academic work.

Saint Titus Brandsma - 1920s In 1923, he helped set up the Catholic University of Nijmegen,and taught there as a Professor and became it’s Administrator. However as a Carmelite Priest he loved to share his Order’s rich spiritual tradition with people outside of the university. He travelled widely lecturing on Carmelite spirituality.

In preparation for a lecture tour in the United States in 1935, he spent some time at the Carmelite Priories in Whitefriar Street, Dublin and Kinsale, Co.Cork and whilst in Ireland met the then future President of Ireland Eamon De Valera. In Whitefriar Street there is a charming statue of him with his glasses and pipe, being a typical Dutch country man, he loved his tobacco!

St.Titus developed a great interest in journalism and publishing.

In 1935 he became the national spiritual advisor to the union of Catholic journalists. In this role, he encouraged opposition to the publication of Nazi propaganda

in Catholic newspapers and in the Press generally. He was especially critical of its anti-semitism. When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, he was an advisor to the Archbishop of Utrecht. He encouraged the bishops to speak out against the persecution of the Jews. In doing so, he became a marked man by the authorities.

The refusal by Catholic newspapers to print Nazi propaganda sealed the fate of St.Titus. He had agreed to deliver personally to each editor a letter from the Catholic bishops.

This letter instructed the editors not to comply with a new law requiring them to print official Nazi advertisements and articles.

Titus had visited 14 editors before being arrested by the Gestapo at Nijmegen on January 19th 1942.

He was interned at Scheveningen and Amersfoort in Holland before being transported to Dachau in June.

He was treated very harshly there, his health quickly deteriorated and he was in the camp hospital by July.

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He was subjected to biological experimentation before being killed by lethal injection on the 26th July, 1942. On the day he died, the Dutch Bishops issued a pastoral letter protesting strongly against the deportation of Jews from Holland.

Before his execution, St.Titus prayed that God might help the nurse who would administer the injection to repent of her actions in the camp.

He also gave her his rosary beads, although she protested that she was a lapsed Catholic. A few years later, this lady sought out a Carmelite priory to seek forgiveness for her role in his execution, renounced Nazi ideology, returned to her Catholic faith and was a witness in the process for his beatification, which took place in Rome on November 3rd 1985.

Titus Brandsma may now join St.Paul as a patron saint for journalists and writers especially those who lay a great emphasis on speaking truth to power and fight against oppression of the individual, the media and religion.

He passionately believed that every profession and role in life must defend truth and our common humanity, regardless of our race, religion or nationality.

On November 5th 1985, Pope John Paul II beatified Titus Brandsma as a “martyr for the faith”. Many testimonies were presented for his beatification and about half of them were those testimonies of people who had met him during his 7 months of imprisonment.

The miracle required for his canonisation was the healing of an American Carmelite priest Fr. Michael Driscoll in 2004 from stage 4 melanoma. He had a great devotion to Titus and was given a piece of cloth from a suit of Titus, which he applied each day to his head trusting in the Blessed’s intercession. Fr.Michael’s prayer to Blessed Titus was supported by all the prayers of his friends and parishioners. He underwent major

U.S. Soldiers guard the entrance to Dachau after liberation in 1945

surgery, requiring the removal of 84 lymph nodes and a salivary gland.

This was followed by 35 days of radiation. The cancer completely disappeared to Fr.Michael’s relief and joy.

A committee of theologians recognized the healing as a miracle through the intercession of Blessed Titus Brandsma on May 25th 2021.

A committee of Cardinals approved their findings on November 9th 2021 submitting their decision to Pope Francis who announced that Titus would be canonised on May 15th 2022.

The life and witness of St.Titus was long recognised in his native Holland, when the Dutch Bishops wrote to Rome encouraging all efforts to have him canonised as it would support the revival of the faith in his homeland and in 2005 the people of Nijmegen chose him as the greatest citizen to have lived in their city.

Titus had a great sense of humour but was also deeply prayerful and approachable by everyone who met him. He suffered many beatings from his Nazi prison guards and one testimony of fellow prisoner recalls the following incident: One day he was brutally beaten and kicked and flung on to muddy

rain soaked prison ground. A fellow prisoner ran over to help him up off the ground, cursing the guards calling them evil brutes. Titus said to him “Would you like to receive Holy Communion? Please help me find my tobacco pouch, I have hosts in it.” The prisoner said to Titus “No,I am so full of hatred for those brutes, I can’t now receive.”

Titus said “You know you must love your enemies”. The prisoner replied “it’s not possible to love such nasty human beings”. Titus said “you know you don’t have to love them all day”. Even in terrible humiliating circumstances during those months of imprisonment, he never lost his renowned sense of humour but deepened his great love of God and Our Lady and people even as noted above giving his Rosary Beads to the nurse who gave him the lethal injection that killed him and praying for her conversion.

POEM I see you in your bleak cell In that awful place of Hell The concentration camp Dachau Lost in deep prayer God hidden in a pouch of tobacco Made sure that Nothing disturbed you Nothing frightened you Neither hunger or brutality Until the executioner’s needle Delivered you to eternal Paradise.

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Comparing The Cost And Benefit Of Resistance Anthony Hofler

A major factor considered by ‘Western’ Governments in responding to the Russian attack on Ukraine has been the question of whether this or that type of action would hurt the ‘West’ more than it would hurt Russia. Seemingly that has been considered primarily with regard to stopping importation of Russian gas and oil. The Ukrainians’ top priority is to defeat the invasion, and they point out that it is being financed from the proceeds of gas and oil sales. The ‘West’ say that to stop such supplies immediately would be so adverse to ‘Western’ countries and to the world economy that it is too high a ‘price’ to pay for resisting Russia’s activities, and therefore the gas and oil imports must be ‘phased out’ instead of stopped suddenly.

It is a secular application of a moral question: to what extent may it be justifiable to restrict a response to something wrong in order to avert adverse effect for the responder?

Other ways of wording it are: would the effect(s) be more beneficial than burdensome? and ‘on balance, would this response be ‘worth it’? This ‘balancing exercise’ is illustrated in the criteria for a ‘just war’ (“Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 2309).

For example, it has been reported that President Putin has threatened a lightning-speed military response to certain acts against his forces.

Again, consideration of the moral question of whether to commit such acts may have to differ as between the Ukrainians and their ‘Western’ allies.

The answer to the question may depend on whether the responder is the direct victim of the wrong or a benevolent supporter of that victim. It seems likely that a direct victim is free to respond by risking more than may be gained, but is a benevolent supporter entitled - or even obliged - to be more cautious because of effects on himself or on people to whom he owes a duty?

The possibility of reprisals for resistance must have a long history.

Good examples occurred during the Second World War. On 27th May 1942, the Nazi governor of Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, was fatally injured by a bomb which was thrown beneath his car. The assailants were found, and paid with their lives, but vengeance was wreaked also on many others, such as the inhabitants of a village which was chosen for destruction -all the male ones were shot, all the females were sent to a concentration camp, and all the children were sent to Germany to be adopted.

A risk of adverse effects may arise because the perpetrator of the wrong has threatened, or is reasonably believed to be able to impose, punishment for opposition.

During the same year, a group at Munich University who called themselves “White Rose” began producing anti-Nazi leaflets, posting them to known sympathisers with

a request that copies be made and circulated. In mid-February 1943, a caretaker witnessed one of the leaflets being sprinkled in the University’s corridors, and raised the alarm. Arrests followed quickly, as did executions.

At the same time in Austria, an anti-Nazi named Franz Jagerstatter declared a conscientious objection to being summoned for active military service. He would not take the oath of total obedience to Hitler. As did St. Thomas More centuries earlier, he asked his wife (rhetorically) whether an extension of life would justify professing an egregious lie.

He, too, was beheaded. The War continued, unaffected.

Despite any sympathy with those resisters and acknowledgement of their courage in accepting great risk to themselves, some might wonder whether their actions were justified. They were justified in the sense that they arose from a desire to weaken the practical power of evil, but in practice they seem to have been wholly counterproductive: they were fatal for the heroes, made no difference to the

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status quo, and resulted in great suffering to other people. If the practical objective is not achieved and adverse circumstances are worsened, can the relevant act(s) be regarded rationally as justified?

If, furthermore, such results are foreseeable, should the idea be abandoned?

Does this have any application to your own position, particularly in responding to the surrounding ‘culture’? ls resistance to today’s contra-Catholic phenomena ‘worth it’? Lack of advocacy for such resistance suggests that some of our spiritual leaders seem to believe that it is not; some have even advised against it, or refused to allow publicity for it. Many people have no interest in resisting, and others approve of what should be resisted.

People who would want to resist may hesitate. They may simply lack the necessary courage, or expect that resistance would be unsuccessful or that it would disadvantage them, or have no idea of what practical action is possible for them (it is important to note that none of those factors deterred the people who brought about the present situation, and that at one time those people were the minority).

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law or the Magisteriurn of the Church (“Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraphs 1756, 1789, and 2039).

it is] ifl don’t’ (which is equivalent to a Satanic ‘Beatitude’ of ‘Blessed is he who copies sinful examples; he shall receive my thanks).

Hesitation to refuse complicity with a sinful policy might easily arise from a prospect of dismissal from one’s employment, and from fear of considerable difficulties which would result. There are legal rules which theoretically can provide protection, but European ‘human rights’ law has been interpreted and applied in ways which denied such protection to Christian opponents of the ‘new orthodoxy’.

Just as abortion is, according to reports, often committed because of pressure from relatives and friends, it can be expected that a worker who wishes to resist a sinful instruction will be pressurised to prioritise care for family and home, and preservation of employment’s financial advantages. A likely gambit is ‘Your refusal won’t change the policy anyway, so how does refusal make sense?’ A wavering resister may tell himself that ‘someone else will [do whatever

He will probably hear also advice that (for example) the problematic instruction is a small matter in which obedience does not necessarily prove real agreement with the policy being thereby served. That was tried out on St. Thomas More.

He resisted both what a superior authority required of him and pressure to put his family first.

Consequently he was executed.

Resistance today (at least where this article is read) does not risk that result, but quite possibly less serious ones. They should be seen in correct perspective, but so should any way of averting them. ‘Following orders’ is not always justified, as the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal acknowledged. We must keep in mind also the principle that no human activity, even in temporal affairs, can be withdrawn from God’s dominion (“Catechism of the Catholic Church,” paragraph 912).

Perhaps the most likely context in which the matter may arise for decision is that of employment: in the ordinary course of employment, someone is asked to do something which helps to implement or otherwise support a sinful principle or policy- often one which has legal approval. Should the worker try to avoid such complicity, and- if attempted avoidance fails - simply refuse?

The basic and overriding moral rules are that one may never do evil even if good may result from it, that the rightness or wrongfulness does not always depend on one’s intention or on the surrounding circumstances, and that personal opinion must not be given precedence over the moral

“Offer up everything within your power as a sacrifice to the Lord in an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended; and of supplication for the conversion of sinners. Thus invoke peace upon your country. I am her Guardian Angel; the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and bear with submission the sufferings that the Lord may send you.”

(The Angel of Portugal to Fatima children 1916)

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The Light Of St Benedict Canon Wulfran Lebocq

St Benedict lived at a crossroads in the history of Europe, at the beginning of the so-called dark ages, yet shines as a light for our faith and for European culture over a thousand years later. This saint has had a profound impact on the religious and monastic life in the west like no other, and consequently on the whole culture of our continent.

Pope Paul VI declared St Benedict to be a principal patron of Europe in a beautiful apostolic letter in which he wrote: When darkness seemed to be spreading over Europe after the fall of the Roman empire, he brought the light of dawn to shine upon this continent. For with the cross, the book and the plough, Christian civilisation was carried, principally through him and his disciples, to the peoples who lived in those lands which stretch from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, and from Ireland to Poland.

We have the details of the saints lifted from the biography written by St Gregory the Great (who was himself a monk and managed to interview some of St Benedict’s disciples). St Benedict was born in the Italian town of Nursia in or around 480AD. When he was old enough he was sent to Rome to further his studies.

The young and pious St Benedict was horrified by the lack of morals and faith among the Roman students of his day. Therefore he fled the city. Eventually he found his way to the desert of Subiaco where he began to live the life of a hermit, having received the religious habit from the hands of a monk of a neighbouring monastery.

He led an exemplary religious life and this drew the attention of many other young men seeking Christ. He acted as their spiritual father, investing many in the habit.

The period in Subiaco, a time of solitude with God, was a time of maturation for Benedict. It was here that he bore and overcame the three fundamental temptations of every human being: the temptation of selfaffirmation and the desire to put oneself at the centre, the temptation of sensuality and, lastly, the temptation of anger and revenge. In fact, Benedict was convinced that only after overcoming these temptations would he be able to say a useful word to others about their own situations of neediness.

When we see a statue or painting of St Benedict he is usually depicted holding the abbots crozier and a cup of wine with a snake crawling out. The cup of wine refers to an incident related by St Gregory. The neighbouring monastery of Vicavaro chose St Benedict as their abbot after having heard of his holiness. They were not prepared, however, for his reforming efforts in the monastery. The monks began to plot against him and eventually settled that the best course of action would be to poison him.

St Benedict Card - Image from Wellcome Trust

At the time it was well known how to concoct a poison that would be undetectable. So while at table, as was the custom, the server for the day presented St Benedict his cup of wine while asking for a blessing. When St Benedict made the sign of the Cross over the cup it shattered, revealing that it was poisoned, and showing God’s providential care for this saint who was to be

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so important in the future of the Church. After this event St Benedict left the monastery and returned to Subiaco.

The pastoral staff St Benedict holds in paintings is a symbol of his office as abbot, the superior of a monastery. He founded many monasteries in his time, almost establishing what one might call a “monastic city” of 12 monasteries at Subiaco.

However his most famous foundation is that of Monte Cassino. It was established high on a mountain top, in an area in which paganism was still rampant.

St Benedict and his monks brought the light of the Gospel to shine from that hill top over the surrounding countryside, and eventually over all Europe. The dark ages were no longer dark where the monks of St Benedict made their home. His monasteries were to become centres of great learning, and of the arts.

Their schools were to become the origin of our modern universities.

Their almshouses, infirmaries and

Monte Cassino Monastery - (Photo Ludmiła Pilecka CC3) guest houses provided support for the poor, the sick and the traveller long before the welfare state was ever thought of.

Sometimes St Benedict is also pictured holding a small book, his holy rule, which has formed the basis of most monastic orders in the west from his time until today.

Monte Cassino Cloister

His rule brings the Roman genius of order and balance to bear on the monastic life. He built on the traditions of eastern monasticism, and the Rule of the Master in the west, giving them a form that would prove to be a foundation of modern Europe.

His rule establishes the monastery as a “school of the Lord’s service” centred around the “opus Dei” of the “work of God”, the Hours of the breviary which send praise to heaven throughout the day and sanctify each moment of the monks life.

St Benedict predicted his death beforehand, asking his grave to be opened six days before his death.

After contracting a fever he was carried into the abbey church where he received the Body and Blood of Our Lord for the last time. He died on Saturday 21st of March 543 having spent 14 years in his famous monastery of Monte Cassino and leaving a spiritual and cultural legacy that reaches even into the 21stcentury.

“To forestall this [the second world war], I shall come to ask for the Consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.

“If they heed My requests, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace. If not, she shall spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecutions of the Church; the good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated; in the end, My Immaculate Heart shall triumph.

(Our Lady - Fatima July 13th 1917)

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3rd June 2022

73 MILLION ABORTIONS TAKE PLACE EACH YEAR WORLDWIDE

Notwithstanding one’s natural God-given immunity to infection, it seems that the profit-making pharmaceutical companies manufacturing and distributing Covid 19 vaccines, and vicariously endorsed by His Holiness Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, enjoy full immunity from all substantive liability involving claims of vaccine injury as in the case of www.c19vaxreactions.com.

It also seems that the Holy See, under His Holiness Pope Francis, is currently a permanent non-Member State Observer of the abortion-promoting World Health Organisation.

Finally, the World Health Organisation, it would appear, is not guided by Dignitas Personae or one’s God-given, nonprofit making, natural immunity in its decision making processes. Also, the World Health Organisation is currently seeking the full implementation of an International Pandemic Health Treaty which, it is hoped, will grant the World Health Organisation global control and absolute immunity in continuing to subordinate, into extinction, one’s scientifically superior God-given natural immunity in favour of scientifically inferior synthetic, profit-making vaccine consumables which do not have full molecular and chemical disclosure.

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