“THE sublime function, to which the faithful owe their fathers and guides in the spiritual life, has, however, a special interest, at this period of the year, which, more than any other, is in keeping with the present state of the world, which is one of rapid decline towards ruin. Our year, too, is on the fall, as we say. The sun, which, we beheld rising at Christmas, as a giant who would burst the bonds of frost asunder, and restrain the tyranny of darkness, now, as though he had grown wearied, is drooping towards the horizon; each day, we see him gradually leaving that glorious zenith, where we admired his dazzling splendour, on the day of our Emmanuel’s Ascension; his fire has lost its might; and though he still holds half the day as his, his disc is growing pale. All this foretells the approach of those long nights, when nature, stripped of all her loveliness by angry storms, seems as though she would bury her self, for ever, in the frozen shroud which is to bind her. So is it with our world. Illumined as it was by the light of Christ, and glowing with the fire of the Holy Ghost, it sees, in these our days, that charity is growing cold, and that the light and glow it had from the Sun of Justice, are on the wane. Each revolution takes from the Church some jewel or other, which does not come back to her when the storm is over; tempests are so frequent, that tumult is becoming the normal state of the times. Error predominates, and lays down the law. Iniquity abounds. It is our Lord himself who said: ‘When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find, think ye, faith on earth?’

“Lift up, then, your heads, ye children of God! for your redemption is at hand.  But, from now, until that time shall come, when heaven and earth are to be made new for the reign that is to be eternal, and shall bloom in the light of the Lamb, the Conqueror, days far worse than these, must dawn upon this world of ours, when the elect themselves would be deceived,  if that were possible!” [emphasis addded]

— Dom Prosper Guéranger, “The Ember-Days of September,” The Liturgical Year (Transl. Dom Laurence Shepherd), 1875

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NOTE: Who are the elect to whom the holy abbot refers, quoting Scripture, in these words that come from the tumultuous 19th century?

They are, and can be none other than, Catholics.

Guéranger knew, as all the Fathers of the Church knew, that Catholics would fall into a terrible deception. This deception would bring down even the most pious and well-intentioned among them. And that is exactly what has happened. The elect have been deceived. Not only have the lukewarm been deceived by the Great Apostasy of Vatican II, but the most zealous have been taken in, especially by the Traditionalist Swindle and its outposts that are renegade by all the disciplinary standards of the Church.

‘When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find, think ye, faith on earth?’

Like the Pharisees who turned away from Jesus when he spoke of his coming death and refused to accept a Messiah on these seemingly disgraceful terms, Catholics scorn to believe that, yes, this ruin and death is none other than their glorious Church.

The embers of Christian civilization smolder all about us. Rejoice, ye children, your redemption is at hand.

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“THERE is nothing in the world so real and substantial as the love of God. One act of Divine Love is a more finished thing than a statue [of a Greek god.] It is more firm than the foundations of the Alps. It is more enduring than the round world which God hath made so strong. All things are bubbles to it. They have nothing in them. They mean little. They soon pass away. An act of love is a complete work, and has greater power and greater consequence than any other act. The mere act of dying is not equal to it. And yet this act of love can be made by a mental glance, quick as lightening, and piercing heaven.”

— Fr. Frederick William Faber, All for Jesus, or the Easy Ways of Divine Love (1854)

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A SERIES on the vast number of “heresies, errors and novelties”  found in the official catechism of the Counterfeit “Catholic” Church in Rome continues at the Spanish website, Pro Deo et Pontifice. (Please use translation program on your browser to read in English.)

The catechism is a clever synthesis of truths and falsehoods that would have been placed, less than 100 years ago, on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Holy Office. Catholics wouldn’t have been permitted to read it, let alone use it for religious instruction. The abandonment of Catholic worship in the true Mass is only one sign that the Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church. The cause of this loss is a change in beliefs, and that is fully illustrated in the catechism of John Paul II, in which ideas forcefully rejected by the popes of nearly 2,000 years are openly promoted. No one can adhere to this catechism and to the beliefs of the apostles, saints and popes without living in a state of formal contradiction, apathy or dangerous ignorance.

The new religion, under the appearance of humanistic compassion and the utopian fusion of the world’s foremost creeds, works for the triumph of ancient, inhuman, and anti-Christian forces, once kept in check by the immense power of the papacy. This power remains, in the undying moral legacy of the last pope, Pius XII —  in a state of eclipse, as Fathers of the Church and saints predicted would eventually come to pass, leaving Catholics who strive for obedience despite their own unworthiness in a wilderness, with prayer, good works and the riches of their inheritance to sustain them. Not their own authority they follow, but the authority of St. Peter and his successors, whose rule is perpetual and can never be taken away no matter what the future brings.

This Wilderness Church, despite its seeming nothingness, is the sole reservoir of divine truth in this chaos of confusion and civilizational decline. It resembles nothing so much as the Savior Incarnate nailed to a cross.

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“SUFFERING is a trustworthy guide to the secrets of a man’s heart. That is why false friends never stand the test of adversity. (Eccles. vi. 8). Suffering is the furnace, so to speak, in which God puts his chosen ones to the test: ‘The furnace trieth the potter’s vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.’ (Eccles. xxvii. 6). ‘Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of Himself. As gold in the furnace He hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust He hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.’ (Wisdom iii. 5-7). But for this suffering was necessary – ‘many are the afflictions of the just’ (Psalm xxxiii. 20) – in order to prove their forbearance, humility, gentleness, and perseverance to the end.”

— Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (more…)

THREE days of fasting and abstinence this week — today, Friday and Saturday — mark the traditional observance of Ember Days.

Fasting cures our illnesses, dries up the excess humors in our bodies, drives out demons, casts out evil thoughts, purifies the spirit, cleanses the heart, sanctifies the body, and raises people to the throne of God. Finally, fasting is the food of angels, and those who practice it can be considered among those blessed spirits.

— -St. Athanasius

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“HER prevision of all her sorrows, at least from the moment of St. Simeon’s prophecy, was so vivid and real, that, without a peculiar succour from the omnipotence of God, it must have separated her soul and body. She could not have lived under so dense a shadow. She could not have breathed in so thick a darkness. She must have been suffocated in the deep waters in which her soul was continually sinking. It was impossible in so perfect a creature that her reason should be perturbed. It was impossible that peace should ever be dislodged from a heart in such transcendently close union with God. But her beautiful life might have been, nay would have been, extinguished by excess of sorrow, unless God had worked a perpetual miracle to hinder this effect, just as through her whole life she was always on the point of dying from excess of love, and when His appointed moment came, and He withdrew His extraordinary succour, she did in fact die of simple love. What then must that sorrow have been, which required a standing miracle not to force body and soul asunder; and this too in a sinless soul, where remorse could never come, where doubt never harassed the judgment, unless it were once during the Three Days’ Loss, and where perpetual peace reigned amid the quietness and subordination of all the passions?”

— Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross, or The Sorrows of Mary, 1886

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“NOW our Lady’s whole being was flooded with light. Not only did a reason and intelligence of the most consummate perfection illuminate every faculty, and secure the utmost excellence in the exercise of it; but she lived within herself in a very atmosphere of supernatural air and light. In her dolours this light was a torture to her. We may well suppose that no one, except our Blessed Lord Himself, ever fully understood the Passion, or grasped all its horrors in their terrible and repulsive completeness. Yet Mary’s knowledge of it is the only one which came at all near to His, and simply because of the excess of heavenly light which shone unsettingly upon her sinless soul.

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“Ignorance is so completely our atmosphere, that we can conceive less of an excess of spiritual light, an intellectual effulgence, than of anything else. So here again the extent of our Lady’s sorrows escapes us, as we have no means of measuring the supernatural enlightenment to which they were proportioned, or which perhaps rendered them co-extensive with itself.”

Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross, or The Sorrows of Mary, 1886 (more…)

“TWICE over to say the least, if not a third time also, did He crucify her, once by His Human Nature, once by His Divine, if indeed Body and Soul did not make two crucifixions from the Human Nature only. No martyrdom was ever like to this. No given number of martyrdoms approach to a comparison with it. It is a sum of sorrow which material units, ever so many added together, ever so often multiplied, do not go to form. It is a question of kind as well as of degree; and hers was a kind of sorrow which has only certain affinities to any other kinds of sorrow, and is simply without a name, except the name which the simple children of the Church call it by, the Dolours of Mary.”

— Fr. Frederick William Faber, The Foot of the Cross, or The Sorrows of Mary, 1886

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NOW that it’s time to sleep,
sleep, son, and don’t cry;
for the time will come soon enough
when crying is needed.
O my dearest, my heart:
lullaby and sleep now.

Close those divine eyes
as other babies do;
for soon a dark veil
will deprive the sky of light
O my dearest, my heart
lullaby and sleep now.

Or take this milk
from my immaculate breasts;
for a cruel magistrate
is preparing vinegar and gall for you.
O my dearest, my heart
lullaby and sleep now.

Hor ch’è tempo di dormire

Find here meditations on the Feast of the Seven Sorrrows of Mary, which are:

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“HOW true it is that in the day of judgment many will be known to have wrought great achievements within the dominions of Christ’s kingdom, who passed for insignificant and useless persons in the world, arid were held in no repute even amongst good men. And as true it is, that the great and wonderful deeds of many which made so much noise and rendered those who wrought them so famous, will be found empty, full of the self-seekings of nature, and devoid of the Spirit of God.”

— Henri-Marie Boudon, The Hidden Life of Jesus: a Lesson and Model to Christians, (Transl.,Edward Healy Thompson); 1869

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LITANY OF THE HOLY CROSS

Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.

Holy Cross, whereon the Lamb of God was offered for the sins of the world,
Deliver and save us.

Hope of Christians,
Save us, O Holy Cross* [Repeat after each asterisk below]

Pledge of the resurrection from the dead,*
Shelter of persecuted innocence,*
Guide of the blind,*
Way of those who have gone astray,* (more…)

“This festival was instituted in commemoration of the day on which the holy Cross of Christ, was, with great solemnities, brought back to Jerusalem. Chosroes, king of Persia, had invaded Syria with a powerful army, and had conquered Jerusalem, the capital. He caused the massacre of eighty thousand men, and also took many prisoners away with him, among whom was the Patriarch Zachary. But more painful than all this to the Christians was, that he carried away the holy, Cross of our Saviour, which, after great pains, had been discovered by the holy empress, St. Helena. (more…)

“… HE and his people [descendants of Noah] therefore, erected this [Tower of Babel] against the Lord, and so gave expression to their impious pride; and justly was their wicked intention punished by God, even though it was unsuccessful. But what was the nature of the punishment? As the tongue is the instrument of domination, in it pride was punished; so that man, who would not understand God when He issued His commands, should be misunderstood when he himself gave orders. Thus was that conspiracy disbanded, for each man retired from those he could not understand, and associated with those whose speech was intelligible; and the nations were divided according to their languages, and scattered over the earth as seemed good to God, who accomplished this in ways hidden from and incomprehensible to us.”

— St. Augustine, City of God, Book XVI, Chapter 4

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“MULTIRACIALISM is social engineering designed to eliminate the superiority of White people by eliminating White people through biological mixing and ecological replacement in the world’s most desirable nations made desirable by the superiority of the White race.

“The Right won’t acknowledge this because the Right is committed to human equality.”

— Mark Charlton

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“OUR latest research in 2009 has brought us to a series of remarkable discoveries in the collection of victim stories. What began as an insightful look at the CNN.com 9/11 Victim Memorial, the original source of the death reports, turned into realization after realization that the entire body of victims – from the airplanes, to the Pentagon, to the World Trade Center – had all been created at the same time by an ‘identity generating’ software program which creates ‘digital’ people with (oft improbable) fictitious names. Anyone armed with a little patience and a discerning attitude should be able to realize that the CNN Victim Memorial is a preposterous list of counterfeit identities. As a result, the full extent of the 9/11 simulation – heroes, victims and villains – is revealed as the absurd, fabricated drama that it is.

“To understand how computer-assisted false identities can take the place of both false events and society’s “normal” functions (including the role of news anchors or even the role of those allegedly investigating the simulation!) please view the full body of the CNN.com 9/11 Victim Memorial Pay particular attention to the invariably sappy and contrived comments/tributes posted by alleged “families and friends”; note the endlessly recycled patterns of those messages of condolence – almost invariably addressed in first person to the ‘dead’ as if they could read their own tributes from Heaven; note also the farcically poor quality of hundreds of portraits – as if all these families had no better picture of their loved ones to offer. Then read the Vicsim Report. After this exercise, you should feel equipped to tackle the increasing challenge of distinguishing between computer-generated sims and real people.”

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“TO uphold and perpetuate the myth of the 9/11 victims, a grand traveling circus was set up since day one and is still maintained to this day: A bunch of actors and actresses have been contracted to play the role of mourning family members, all of which get constant/extensive press & TV coverage. Hard to believe? Well, in this video – “911 ACTORS” – I have analyzed a number of public appearances of a few alleged “mourning family members”, such as Bob Mc Ilvaine and Donna Marsh O’Connor, who claim to have lost a son or daughter on 9/11. I trust that anyone who has taken acting classes will easily see that Bob and Donna are nothing but (rather poor) actors reciting a ‘theatrical drama script’- over and over again: September Clues – 911 ACTORS

“An early team of 9/11 widows gained instant international fame: They were credited of forcing the government to set up the 9/11 commission: The so-called Jersey Girls were portrayed as left-wing activists who asked inconvenient questions. Of course, it was all a comedy of smoke and mirrors, a dog and pony show for public consumption.”

      — THE RATIONALE OF THE 9/11 HOAX by Simon Shack, January 1, 2010

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FROM Jon’s Substack:

“ON the morning of 9/11, multiple military-grade smoke machines were switched on, engulfing all of lower Manhattan in smoke.

“The entire area was inundated with smoke. Nobody could see a damn thing. Visibility was virtually zero. Anyone holding one of the rare cameras or camcorders available in 2001 found themselves filming nothing more than a thick, blinding wall of gray smoke.

“This is key to understanding the Truth about 9/11.

“They want you to think that everyone had a clear view of the towers, a clear view of the planes, a clear view of the ACTION.

“But that is FALSE. In reality, the entire area was evacuated and subsequently engulfed in an intense smokescreen that lasted all the way from morning until night. Obscuring the view of their covert operation from anyone trying to get a peek. (more…)