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“THE Prophet Daniel, in the twelfth chapter, says that in the time of the end ‘many shall be chosen and made white, and shall be tried as fire; and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand’ that is, many who have known the faith shall abandon it, by apostasy. ‘Some of the learned shall fall;’ that is, they shall fall from their fidelity to God. And how shall this come to pass? Partly by fear, partly by deception, partly by cowardice; partly because they cannot stand for unpopular truth in the face of popular falsehood; partly because the overruling contemptuous public opinion, as in such a country as this [England], and in France, so subdues and frightens Catholics, that they dare not avow their principles, and, at last, dare not hold them. They become admirers and worshipers of the material prosperity of Protestant countries. They see the commerce, the manufactures, the agriculture, the capital, the practical science, the irresistible armies, and the fleets that cover the sea, and they come flocking to adore, and say, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant England.’ [Ed., Or perhaps, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant and Masonic America.’] And so they give up their faith, and become materialists, seeking for the wealth and power of this world, dazzled and overpowered by the greatness of a country which has cast off its fidelity to the Church.”

—- — Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861

This passage by Manning is a piercingly accurate description of the American Catholic as he has been for many years —  materialist and traitor. It was the Americans who were some of the staunchest foes of the First Vatican Council and Pope Pius IX’s valiant efforts to define the all-important, and much misunderstood, doctrine of papal infallibility. American bishops returned home in a huff, so taken aback that they might have to defend the faith in the face of Protestant effrontery and opposition.

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“THE Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know,— and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church — all of them unanimously — say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease. In the work on the end of the world, ascribed to St. Hippolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last days, we read as follows: ‘The Churches shall lament with a great lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation, nor incense, nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the churches shall be as hovels; and the precious body and blood of Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the Liturgy shall be extinct; the chanting of psalms shall cease; the reading of Holy Scripture shall be heard no more. But there shall be upon men darkness, and mourning upon mourning, and woe upon woe.’ Then, the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking-places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.”

— Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861; pp 77-78.

Cardinal Manning continues — and please read his continued observations because he explains how the time of the Antichrist is not a time of frightening, apocalyptic bloodshed under a murderous tyrant, as is so often depicted, but a time of apostasy and heresy, of falling away from true worship of God. This prophesied apostasy, he states, will be centered in Rome itself, i.e., within the Catholic Church:

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INDIFFERENCE to despotism, submissiveness and anti-Christian values — these are some of the traits that make Indians the ruling class’s ideal immigrants to America right now. Read more at Occidental Observer.

By the way, I myself have nothing against Indians personally. In fact, I like many of them. I don’t believe in unkindness or resentment toward them (or anyone else). We just don’t need their grasping, corrupt, materialistic culture, however charming and immensely lovable many Indians are. We have enough problems of our own. They have a land of their own anyway. It’s called India. I wish them well and want all good things for them. They themselves are victims of the engineered and artificial rootlessness of modern life. They too need an organic society. We are not enemies, but in this predicament together.

That said, America is going to suffer untold misery from of the encroachment of diabolical Hinduism within its borders, from its insatiable materialism and deceitfulness, from the tribalism of Indians, from the greed, arrogance and ingratitude that many, though not all of them, possess. If you think this claim of arrogance is paranoia, I suggest you visit the real world. Imagine white Americans moving to India by the tens of thousands and using government, low-interest loans (subsidized by Indian workers) to buy up Indian businesses and then treating the low-paid Indian workers like worthless peons, as I witnessed the Indian owner of a New England motel, one of many motels bought up by Indians, do to the older white women he employed and mistreated as a clerk. (And why wouldn’t they despise whites? After all, they’ve given up their own inheritance for the sheer thrill of a sick, suicidal conception of generosity.) Imagine white Americans moving to India and earning citizenship while taking the jobs of hundreds of thousands of tech workers, even those who are middle-aged and unable to move on from their lost employment. Imagine white Americans moving to India and replacing thousands of Indian lawyers, doctors, political leaders and business people. Imagine Indians not resisting this! No, this is arrogance and greed. This not a model minority, but an invader and greedy plunderer.

We have partly the Counterfeit “Catholic” Church and its abominable heresy of “ecumenism” to thank for this, as it loves nothing better than to encourage false religions, to worship their idols and to wreck the stable order of nations, particularly Western nations, with plutocratic “diversity” and its cleverly packaged replacement of the transcendent God with the transcendent “migrant” and exotic Other, thus ensuring that the Counterfeit Church’s greatest enemy — the true Catholic Church — will be demolished further by the demographic obliteration of the white man, who has it yet in his racial heritage, in his instincts and in the channels of undeserved graces poured on him despite his repeated betrayals to defend the Mystical Body of Christ, the only source of hope for any human being anywhere, and the greatest civilization on earth. Worship of something, after all, must replace the exalted and satisfying worship of God this Counterfeit abomination has thrown from its sacred altars, replacing it with a banality that simply can’t compete with the virtuous adoration of, and ritual abasement before, the noble foreigner. This diversity racket feeds on spiritual emptiness and betrayal. Man must, he absolutely must, worship something other than himself.

One of the goals of the Trump presidency, I believe, was to increase and normalize Indian immigration under a supposedly anti-immigration presidency.

Mexicans, Central Americans and Africans are no longer the ideal immigrants. Indians are. Could it be … Could it be … Could it be that the reason is found in the certainty that Indians, blinded by their obstinate paganism and materialism, will never resist the oppression of us all? Do you think if Indians were faithful to the Triune God, rather than various idols, and were pursuing holiness — not self-absorbed “enlightenment” and things — in significant numbers, they would be welcomed so enthusiastically by our rulers? Not on your life, pal. Not a chance. Besides, Indians would then be happy to remain where they are and to build God’s kingdom on earth, rejecting material advancement for the sake of their own.

The target for those despots, whether they realize it or not, is not the white man, but Jesus Christ, lord of all and Savior of all, founder of the one divine society through which human beings may be saved — the Mystical Body of Christ, the true Catholic Church.

It really is that simple. I know it’s hard to believe, but it is really that simple. Our enemies are not any of these people, but the ‘powers and principalities’ behind them.

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I LOOKED for a few moments at the coverage of the alleged plane crash this week near Palm Beach, Florida and it instantly struck me as fake. I saw no convincing evidence of a plane, people walking casually around a fiery crater, no sign of bodies, a cute co-pilot who looked like a model or actress, and cell phone footage that emerged just in time. The needle on my hoax meter jumped.

Women shouldn’t, in general, be airplane pilots for a number of reasons, but the instant story line about feminism being to blame for the crash struck me as coming straight from a government scripting team. Since when does the media blame feminism for anything? Only when it wants to create a circus or get people fighting.

Peggy Hall does a nice job of diving into the story.

The purpose of a fake story? To create fear and distraction, make money, manipulate the masses for the sheer thrill of it, vent some of the anti-feminist rage that might be building in a heavily woman-dominated election season — and who knows what else. It doesn’t matter to me. What matters is that at any time, what people see on the news may be entirely manufactured, and most people fall for it, wasting their mental energies on absurd propaganda and fairy tales. Every psyop is a tool for rendering the masses compromised morally and thus more easily controlled. Participate in lies — and you lose. Propaganda is dehumanizing because it’s made by people who view you as objects, as tools, as things they can control. They do not view you as human beings. They view you as less than slaves.

Every time you step back and think before you accept a sensational, fear-inducing story as true, you win. You potentially retain those most precious possessions — your mind and inner strength.

Better yet, don’t look at the news at all. Prove you are no slave. Prove and defend your own worth against the untold arrogance of psychological warriors.

And please, don’t shoot the messenger.

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“THE existence of fire in Purgatory is vouched for also by numerous apparitions and private revelations. They demonstrate to our very eyes this fire as a material one, thus indicating that the words ‘fire’ and ‘fiery torments’ used by Scripture are to be taken in a literal sense. St. Bridget, of whom the Church, in her official prayer, says, ‘O God, who through Thy Divine Son didst reveal to blessed Bridget heavenly mysteries,’ was permitted in one of her ecstacies to witness how a soul was sentenced to a three-fold punishment: to an external and internal fire, an intense cold, and to furious assaults of the devil. Mechtildis of Magdeburg saw a lake of fire mixed with brimstone, in which the Suffering Souls had to bathe in order to be cleansed. According to St. Frances of Rome Purgatory consists of three apartments, one above the other, all alive with a clear, sparkling fire, unlike that of hell, which is dark and sombre. Bautz … relates of the Venerable Mary Anna Lindmayer: ‘Her friend Mary Becher and her mother appeared to her, and left marks of fire on one of her feet, which she saw and felt for weeks. At one time she beheld Purgatory in the shape of a torrent of fiery water, at another, as a prison of fire. The souls themselves appeared to her as sparks of fire falling about her. The appearance of some souls caused her to shiver with frost caused by the cold proceeding from them.’

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“PEACEMAKERS are all those that have peace within themselves. That is, those who have set all the passions of their souls in order. This they do by subjecting their passions to reason, namely, to the mind and spirit. Thus, by conquering their fleshly desires, they have made of themselves a little kingdom of God. In this kingdom, everything is ordered into an harmonious whole, by virtue of the fact that the element which chief and pre-eminent in man (namely, mind or reason) ruleth, without resistance, over the elements which we have in common with the beasts. And in this fashion, the element of mind or reason, which is pre-eminent in man, is made subject to something pre-eminent to itself, namely, the Truth, even the Only-Begotten Son of God. For no one is able to govern except he be subject unto the higher powers. Now, herein we have set forth the peace which is given on earth to men of good-will. This is the life of one who is thoroughly and completely wise.

“From a kingdom such as this, which is a state of complete peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out. (more…)

“WE know nothing more reprehensible than the mambypambyism babbled by sentimental Catholics about the good faith of ‘our separated brethren.’ There may be persons in good faith amongst Protestants, but, if so, they do not lack opportunities of showing it, and of coming out from the Babylon in which they have been reared. Men cannot be saved without Christ, for there is no other name given under heaven whereby they can be saved. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and is the remunerator of them that seek him; and how can those be saved by Christ who adhere to the party that rejects him and makes war on him. And how can they have faith or believe in God who commune with those who resolve all faith, all belief, all truth, indeed, into a mere opinion, or an inward sentiment, varying with each individual? (more…)

“IT is worthy of remark that in the war which Protestants** and infidels have hitherto waged against the Church neither has nor pretends to have any truth or principle to oppose to her. They do not fight for the truth, nor for any affirmative or Catholic principle that she denies or neglects; but for what they call the rights of the mind, which, translated into plain English, means the emancipation of the human mind from the authority of truth, and therefore from God who is truth, or, in simpler terms still, the liberty to treat truth and falsehood as of equal value, as equally indifferent, or to deny all real distinction between them, and therefore between right and wrong. Neither reason nor revelation can tolerate this sort of liberty – intellectual and moral license rather; and the very existence and presence of the Church condemns it. Hence the irreconcilable antagonism between the Church and the sects. (more…)

“THE history of Christianity in every age shows how alien to Christ is the heresy of indifferentism [the belief that all religions are paths to God], which was first popularized by the English Deists and the French Rationalists of the seventeenth century. In the first three centuries the Christian martyrs died by the thousands, rather than save their lives by a profession of indifferentism. Frequently they were asked by friends and kinsfolk to sacrifice to the gods of pagan Rome, or at least to allow their names to be written down as having sacrificed. “What difference does it make?” asked their pagan friends. (more…)

“HOW foolish therefore be they that seek God with their outward eyes, since it is in the heart that he is seen. Thus it is written elsewhere: In simplicity of heart seek him. For a pure heart is one that hath the simplicity of single-mindedness. And just as light can be seen only insofar as the bodily eyes have clear vision, so God can be seen only insofar as the heart is clear by reason of its single-mindedness of purpose.”

      — St. Augustine

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“AND so there is no night there, no darkness, no gathering of clouds, no asperity of heat or cold. But such is the nature of things there as no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, except of those only who have been found worthy to enjoy it, whose names are written in the book of life; and who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, and are before the throne of God, serving him day and night. There is no old age anywhere there, nor misery of old age, for all are come to perfect manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

“But far above all these things is the fellowship there. That is, to enjoy the companionship of the heavenly citizens: to look upon the choirs of Angels and Archangels, of Thrones and Dominions, Principalities, Powers, and all the heavenly Virtues on high: and to behold the army of the Saints shining more gloriously than the stars; of the Patriarchs glowing with faith; of the Prophets rejoicing in hope; of the Apostles judging the world reformed into twelve tribes of the new Israel; of the Martyrs resplendent in their ruddy crowns of victory; and of the Virgins wearing garlands of the purest white.”

— Sermons of St. Venerable Bede, the Priest, Ex Sermone 18. de Sanctis

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“NO ONE … can be said to be without peace, who is perfectly content with his lot and extremely thankful for it, but the holy sufferers in Purgatory know that their present condition is the very one condition which suits them best, and is most for their good. They know that God has used towards them infinite mercy in not exacting from them a far greater amount of suffering, that they have deserved far more, and even Hell itself, and on this account they are overflowing with gratitude that their case is not harder than it is.

“Besides these elements of peace in the Holy Souls there are others which consist in or result from their condition in itself. We all know what are the dangers to peace in this life dangers so many and so great that it seems almost impossible to be at perfect peace as long as we are what we are. What a blessing we should account it to be free from all external temptation, from all molestation of the evil one, from all provocations to sin from objects external to ourselves, whether they attack us on the side of the irascible part of our nature, or whether their seductions are addressed to our concupiscence! But in the case of the Holy Souls there are no disturbances to their peace from the things which cause us pain or pleasure, which appeal to ambition, or pride, or anger, or envy, or jealousy. All the beauty in the world cannot be a danger to them, all the riches or honours of the world cannot even seem to them desirable, much less be the occasion of serious temptation. (more…)

ONLY IN SLEEP

Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,
Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,
Annie with ringlets warm and wild.

Only in sleep Time is forgotten –
What may have come to them, who can know?
Yet we played last night as long ago,
And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.

The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild –
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?

— Sara Teasdale
Music composed by Ēriks Ešenvalds

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Prayers and daily reflections for the month of November, dedicated to the faithful departed in Purgatory, can be found here, here and here.

“How great, therefore, must not be the desire of the poor souls to be ransomed from Purgatory.”

— Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876

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“THE thought of death and what follows death can be not only salutary, but even sweet and attractive, by linking it with the thought of our deceased ones — parents, relations, neighbours, friends. When a person is advanced in years, he can count more friends beyond the grave than this side of it. It is sweet to live in memory with them, to pray for and to them. When our conversation is with them, as St. Paul might put it, we learn to see the things of this life in their proper perspective. The soul turns from things of earth, and unites itself with God, and longs for the day when they shall receive it into everlasting dwellings, where it will be united to its friends. The invisible and beneficient presence of our departed friends is about it. Whether they are in Heaven or in Purgatory, they pray for us. When the soul has tasted the sweetness of this company, it cannot be separated from it, because the world holds no charm for it and a heavenly nostalgia fills it to the overflow.

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Instructions for All Souls’ Day
by Leonard Goffine, 1871

What is All Souls’ Day?

It is the day set apart by the Catholic Church for the special devout commemoration of those of its members, who have departed this life in the grace and friendship of God, for whom we pray, that they may soon be released by God from the prison of purgatory.

What is purgatory?

Purgatory is that place in which the souls of the deceased faithful, who though dying in the grace of God, are yet burdened with some small sins not yet atoned for, suffer temporal punishment, and become purified from all sin. (more…)

“The saints are friends of God. They are like the angels in heaven. We honor them, not as we honor God, but on account of the relation they bear to God. They are creatures of God, the work of His hands. When we honor them, we honor God; as when we praise a beautiful painting, we praise the artist.

“We do not believe that the saints can help us of themselves, but we ask them to ‘pray for us.’ We believe that everything comes to us ‘through Our Lord Jesus Christ.’ With these words all our prayers end. It is useful, salutary, and reasonable to pray to the saints and ask them to pray for us. No doubt all will admit the reasonableness of this practice if the saints can hear and help us.” Source

Today is the Feast of All Saints. “Earth is so near to heaven today that the one thought that fills all hearts is happiness,” wrote Dom Prosper Guéranger on this ancient feast, which dates to 609 AD, when Pope Boniface IV opened the crypts of the martyrs at the Pantheon in Rome, their holy bones then dedicated to the prayers and veneration of the faithful.

Pray for us, all you saints, beloved heroes of God. Pray too for all those whose lives are impoverished by the absence of your example and powerful intercession, those who lack your friendship, those who don’t know you, those who live in a world not of saints but of vapid celebrities, political idols, egotistic influencers, pseudo-intellectuals and religious frauds and hucksters. Even though we ourselves are so far from sainthood, we are inspired and awed by your nobility, by the charity and humility that dwell in your mountainous souls. We honor you precisely because of your superiority to us. If God had not revealed that we could, and should, pray for your petitions on our behalf, that it is good and right to pray for them, such presumption would never have occurred to us, beloved heroes of God. The thought of joining you in heaven fills us with a sense of our miserable inadequacy — and yet joy. Only the over-generous and over-abundant mercy of God — what a paradox! — could overcome the chasm between we and you. And yet, by the standards of the world, you were so often considered losers, ridiculous paupers, theological fanatics, nothings, pointless non-conformists, fools, traitors, reactionaries, and anti-celebrities. Then there are those who have called you idols of superstition, who have defamed you centuries after your deaths. Unlucky world that has overlooked you! Unlucky world that was never worthy of you! Unlucky world that has now replaced you with impostor saints and counterfeit, celebrity “popes,” double-tongued revolutionaries, Marxist peaceniks, wolves of sentimental, sham holiness and false peace!

They have dishonored your very name. They have dishonored the title of “saint” — a crime apocalyptic in nature, of inconceivable proportions.

From the Offertory of today’s Mass: “The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of malice shall not touch them; in the sight of the unwise, they seemed to die, but they are in peace, alleluia.”

Indeed, the saints were tormented in this life by human hatred for or indifference to God. This was torture, moral in nature, far worse than the prisons, racks, guillotines, swords, guns, and fires by which the martyrs among them were killed.

The torment of malice shall not touch them — such is the blessed land of the saints where only love of God reigns supreme, where the malice of revolutionaries is not, where the souls of the true saints constitute a magnificent vista of such grandeur and beauty that we could not even glimpse it if not supported by the immense and over-generous mercy of our loving Father.

O almighty, everlasting God, who has granted us to venerate in one solemnity the merits of all your saints, we beseech you, that as our intercessors are multiplied, you would bestow upon us the abundance of your mercy. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. (Collect, Feast of All Saints)

Feast on the glory of the saints today and never forget how much they desire, in their sacred tenderness and compassion, to accompany you on your journey through this vale of tears.

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