Originally posted on Catholicism Pure & Simple: From Life News: An international group of scientists has ditched ethical guidelines in or to allow them to pursue grisly experiments that would grow unborn babies in the womb for 40 days for the sole purpose of killing them for dubious research. Yesterday, the?International Society for Stem Cell…
Immediately this latest news flashed images through my head of this H.G. Wells Science Fiction novel The Island of Dr. Moreau! Wells along with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies both demonstrated the actual Fragility of Humanity and set up the scenario of how it could collapse by the basic defect of man; at and by his own hands.
The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection.Wikipedia
Just the other day I wrote “Nothing is held sacred anymore and a world this twisted and wicked in its ways by a people that actually accept, fully tolerate and even worship sin; there can be no future for such a hellhole!” I was getting to my point of saying how this world we humans have constructed today is far worse than anything Sodom and Gomorrah could have possibly assembled in their low tech Ancient World although they were still seen as unfit to God Almighty to be allowed to carry on in their blasphemy being obliterated from the face of the earth in fire and smoke.
Now this news surfaces of a country out of control with a lie for its Federal Government Administration with what I call the Puppet POTUS America’s Man of Perdition at the helm! This same man just appropriated a half Trillion dollars for all sorts of Abortion funding and programs which I also wrote about recently! It stands to reason now while such a corrupted extremist and radical situation exists in the seat of worldly power that this allowance would be made for this totally blaspheming completely unethical research being conducted with human beings taken from the womb and “murdered;” for the sole purpose of using them as experimental guinea pigs! If you don’t see what I see happening then I pity you because it’s as plain as day how absolute demonic evil from hell is now effectuating changes in the human race through people, that are not only going to be its total demise but are completely sacrilegious portent’s of horrors which are going to be unleashed by man on the human race before God ends it all! This Covid manure was just a crack in the door or pathway to the world of nightmares! On the horizon we see “The One Nation under God, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All” is now becoming the total opposite with nothing being held up as sacred, NO justice or liberty and only one hellish nightmare world awaits; under Satan.
I also wrote this week about a Native American Saint who was a beautiful human being with a pure heart and how she gave it all to Jesus Christ offering her life as an example of what fighting the good fight really is all about. But, who is doing that around you and I now; mostly they all scurry around ripping each other off and backstabbing is a major blood sport practiced in all strata of society now; Presidents and CEO’s down to ditch or even grave diggers; and talk about people digging their own graves, that’s going on in spades! People lie voluminously and will sell out their own mother for the right price!
Here is more of what I said about Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and her mission on this earth for a short life of only 24 years.
A short life she lived but an uneducated Native woman by today’s standards, yet with great wisdom and by being pure of heart was one who knew so much! Thank God He gave us this saintly example to emulate; so beautiful a soul. I feel shame I’m not as good as she in living this life on earth! Eking out an existence was no joke and far from easy or simple for those peoples back then even though it looks so low tech and simple to us, they truly faced reality every darn day unlike the many arrogant, disrespectful and decadent narcissistic cheap facsimiles these days; that call themselves human beings! She was brave, virtuous, honorable and so closely attuned to God’s purpose for us humans.
Then again just this week I wrote about the Extremely unusual Sun Spot and how I was interpreting this event in conjunction with so many other factors going on in our human race currently.
This country and world can never get fully upright again with the amount of sin and lies that have been propagated throughout, which has actually poisoned humanity to the core, not only leaving deep scars but implanted demons in all stations of life on earth from the Churches, Governments, Industry, Educational Institutions, Arts and anything you got that was once worth a damn; all this while the Big Pharma and Big Tech Giants try to rule the world, a bunch of Adolph Hitler copies! Nothing is held sacred anymore and a world this twisted and wicked in its ways by a people that actually accept, fully tolerate and even worship sin; there can be no future for such a hellhole! I believe this modern human race has ventured way too far from decency and basic civility making it exponentially more corrupt and wicked than Sodom and Gomorrah ever could have been; and they were vaporized by God’s wrath!
So sorry to say this, but I don’t see any way it can add up to anything other than pitiful self-inflicted doom!
Of course there is great news to see and report in all of this! Jesus is on the way; and we can be saved from this now current nightmare by devoting our hearts to Him praying fervently daily, and trying more than you ever have to show your appreciation and love for Him. And, I think “He may have given us a huge sign” via the scientists who so many people have put more faith in than our Lord in recent years, AKA the Covid Plan-Demic with so many of us staying glued to the TV or the Net to see what Fauci or all the other phonies were predicting!
But, here this astronomical anomaly may be a sign, because to me such an unusual twist on Sun Spots, something I was interested in as a child and through my college years always being advanced in my science studies; this particular sun spot being perpendicular to the sun’s equator may simply be the forming of a “Cross,” and that tells me Jesus is going to be making Himself know to us much more going forward; and perhaps the Second Coming is ever so near!
For now each day look around to see what good you can do here or there and seek God’s will as you do that, so you “make a difference;” to me that is the only way to go now!
Now we have this report today about how these so called scientists along with their bureaucrat enablers all lacking in conscience, integrity, truth, principles, virtues, compassion and worst of all; not even possessing actual genuine human love!
My interest in Sci-fi was always in the background as a sort of humanity barometer, because I knew some people are able to extrapolate in their science fiction imaginings what humans are and aren’t capable of from current events, say for example in the writings of H.G. Wells. He did this very thing I speak of in creating his novel War of the Worlds from events that inspired his story and in this case how in the 18th Century the British needing a penal colony in the South Pacific in the area of Australia and New Zealand almost eliminated the native inhabitants of Tasmania, a small island off the coast of Australia, when they decided to turn it into the penal colony they needed. Wells many times connected the dots illustrating parallels between the Martians’ treatments of Earth in his novel to Britain’s treatment of native peoples in creating its colonies. But more importantly he like other writers as it were, they could peer into the future and project an image of human wickedness to come even if the character in these future horrors were depicted as Space Aliens, Demons, Ghouls or AI Cyborgs, these monsters could and may very well come into play; only the humans themselves are going to be all of these things and worse, if God doesn’t stop it all sooner rather than later!
But then there was this other article that came up this week that I had to respond to as if all of the dots connecting wasn’t already enough of a message for us all! A baby while still in his mother’s womb was determined to have Spina bifida which is a birth defect that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don’t form properly. A great humanitarian doctor has developed a procedure to operate and fix in uterine this horrible defect! Here is some of what I had to say as soon as I read that article and hadn’t responded in any way at that point!
Dear God! I cried as soon as I read the intro and mention of the baby grabbing the doctors finger! I thought immediately about a comment I just made to a reader and blogger’s comment on my recent posting about a Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and her goodness that shined into this world even though she lived such a short life she knew God! This Baby Samuel Alexander Armas knew God intimately like all innocent unborn babies do as I see it, because as the Lord told us in Holy Scriptures;
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
As I see it God chose this unborn baby to serve His purposes and will by this mission that He gave to this baby Samuel, which is a very meaningful biblical name; The word “Samuel” signifies “name of God,” or “his name is El” (God), quite a befitting name and task; speaking to the world in this most outstanding humble way!
This baby actually grabbed hold of the doctor’s beautiful miraculous surgical hand by clasping one of his finger during the procedure!
The astronomical sign may be the message sent by God to not fear; God is coming soon, because multitudes of humans have lost their humanity! I pray that He does come as soon as possible; this place is out of control!
An international group of scientists has ditched ethical guidelines in or to allow them to pursue grisly experiments that would grow unborn babies in the womb for 40 days for the sole purpose of killing them for dubious research.
Yesterday, theInternational Society for Stem Cell Research(ISSCR), an international non-profit and professional organization of stem cell scientists, issued newguidelinesgoverning research with ethical implications. The guidelines lift restrictions on certain types of unethical research that manipulate, alter, or destroy human embryos. Some examples include:
Removing the “14-Day Rule” for research on human embryos—In 1979, the Ethics Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare established the concept of the “14-day rule,” which stated that scientists may only conduct experiments on human embryos up until 14 days after fertilization and the embryos must then be destroyed. This “14-day-rule” has been the current policy…
Originally posted on NarrowPathMinistries: Thank you, Doctor Bruner.? God Bless you and? little Samuel.?? ?A Baby’s Hand – This Is Amazing! Read Before Viewing the Picture – A picture began circulating in November.? It should be ‘The Picture of the Year,’ or perhaps, ‘Picture of the Decade.’? It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained…
Dear God! I cried as soon as I read the intro and mention of the baby grabbing the doctors finger! I thought immediately about a comment I just made to a reader and blogger’s comment on my recent posting about a Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and her goodness that shined into this world even though she lived such a short life she knew God! This Baby Samuel Alexander Armas knew God intimately like all innocent unborn babies do as I see it because as the Lord told us in Holy Scriptures;
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
As I see it God chose this unborn baby to serve His purposes and will by this mission that He gave to this baby Samuel, which is a very meaningful biblical name; The word “Samuel” signifies “name of God,” or “his name is El” (God), quite a befitting name and task; speaking to the world in this most outstanding humble way!
“Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a kingdom under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims.” Wikipedia
Born:c. before 1070 BCE
Died:c. 1012 BCE, Ramah in Benjamin (traditional)
Feast:August 20 (Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran & Roman Catholicism), July 30 (Armenian Apostolic Church), 9 Paoni (Coptic Orthodox Church)”
OK, how amazing and beautiful and TRUE! You hear my heart speak here but now my anger must show itself as I’m only a simple man and can’t accept this evil all around me! Biden and the whole Dem party along with all the leftist maniacs better get their shit wired fast because I know you all will suffer eternal damnation if you don’t get right with the Lord God Almighty in all of this; the maker of heaven and earth and all things seen and unseen! Do you bad seeds out there hear me! I know some may say I’m mean or something worse; but let me add this which I thought will clarify my perspective! To those of you who would feel criticized by that last statement I now add; “there go I but for the grace of God.” I’m truly blessed to see this whole matter of abortion and killing unborn babies as well as I do, because I could be any one of the many others in this world who don’t bat an eyelash or care diddly-squat about all these abortions being committed on an industrial scale globally. I just want to make sure anyone who is on the middle of the fence with regard to this; to really see it for what it is, so that YOU will do all you can to protect your own immortal soul; which is as I believe the additional death involved besides any of the unborn being terminated! What a tragedy of horrendous proportions to think that someone will advocate or have an abortion destroying an innocent helpless little baby and then in the process most likely put their own soul on the chopping block and let the Devil get his due! This is even getting worse as I just read today the day after I posted this article that made me realize I must edit here today because a group of scientists have gotten some kind of approval to grow babies in the wombs of women for the soul purpose of killing them and removing then 40 days later to experiment on them!!!
Please listen to me carefully; I’ve been through some very difficult circumstances tossed at me by pure evil in recent years butt for a Godly purpose I know, and I have a lot of experience as well the insight into this evil that is running rampant in our world now; so when I tell you abortion has been an evil destroying humanity on earth, basically the human race cancelling itself out, and is actually going to get exponentially worse in terms of some of the most ugly and diabolical things happening, you really need to not let yourselves slip into complacency or apathy, actually not caring! Everyone that wants to make it to heaven has to clearly see this act for what it is and how much worse the exploitation of human babies is getting; so that you will know you want nothing to do with it ever! Anyone that has had an abortion or been involved in the procedure needs to turn to Jesus Christ with a completely open and humble heart to seek God’s forgiveness before it’s too late. You want a clear conscience and the only way you can have that is through Jesus Christ; who died for you and saved your immortal soul from hell. Please hear me, I speak from my heart. God bless You. Amen.
I leave you all with this comment I left for a wonderful Christian Woman as I felt the sadness and pain she feels; just like I feel it.
Amen. A short life she lived but an uneducated Native woman by today’s standards, yet with great wisdom and by being pure of heart was one who knew so much! Thank God He gave us this saintly example to emulate; so beautiful a soul. I feel shame I’m not as good as she in living this life on earth! Eking out an existence was no joke and far from easy or simple for those peoples back then even though it looks so low tech and simple to us, they truly faced reality every darn day unlike the many arrogant, disrespectful and decadent narcissistic cheap facsimiles these days; that call themselves human beings! She was brave, virtuous, honorable and so closely attuned to God’s purpose for us humans.
Thank you Lord for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha and beautiful baby Samuel Alexander Armas! And thank you Saint Kateri for your sacrifice and prayers. Amen.
Thank you my brother in Christ Jesus for bringing this to my attention!
God bless.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Thank you, Doctor Bruner. God Bless you and little Samuel.
A Baby’s Hand – This Is Amazing!
Read Before Viewing the Picture –
A picture began circulating in November. It should be ‘The Picture of the Year,’ or perhaps, ‘Picture of the Decade.’ It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never see it.
The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
Originally posted on Lara Trace Hentz: Soul Wound The Legacy of Native American Schools U.S. and Canadian authorities took Native children from their homes and tried to school, and sometimes beat, the Indian out them. Now Native Americans are fighting the theft of language, of culture, and of childhood itself. By Andrea Smith A little…
Dear Lara…this is way too intense; I’m flipping out here…a freight train of horror and anguish has literally devastated my life long vision of North America’s Naive peoples! This statement of yours, “The general public did not know – and because it was children, this crime seems more heinous. I am sorry too. I wish I could have done something to prevent it myself,” along with the preceding one from KC Redding-Gonzalez, “I’d like to believe that this sordid history happened because the average American had no direct knowledge of it, and would have protested.” Those two hard to swallow poison pills of Reality to me; are about me too!
And now I want to know how this happened and slipped by almost undetected for so long! As informed as I thought I’ve been most of my adult life I had no idea at all this heinous atrocity and travesty occurred especially to this level to so many; all right under everyone’s noses! Where were the sincere genuine investigative journalists of yesteryear or the Ralph Nader types of public watch dogs all these freaking years!!! Was there threat of life and limb being carried out by CIA type figures in the shadows and weeds, preventing someone like me if I had any FACTS and eyewitness accounts to this would have put my own life on the damn line to expose the whole truth and nothing but the truth like a Brave Indian Warrior; to stop the evil being perpetrated upon innocent good people!
OK, I’m just one little person in this world but I can talk up a storm and I hate, yes actually using the right word here; Hate evil and this was an evil being conducted apparently for so long to so many while someone who had the power to slam dunk it; didn’t do squat! Now I’m mad and after all these years it might be as they say, how that ship has sailed; but I want to know the whole truth and see something done to not get even, but to give the dignity and honor to so many Native Americans that they so rightly deserve and must receive, if Justice is to be Done and Served.
I can’t believe I didn’t know something of this magnitude and horror was perpetrated by Americans under our noses. I see how corrupted our Government and for that matter any in the world are, they all make me sick daily; but this goes beyond that; this is way beyond targeted heinous exploitation or abuse! And as the saying goes “the Truth will set you free,” so we need a whole lot of truth now!
God bless you Fellow American!
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
U.S. and Canadian authorities took Native children from their homes and tried to school, and sometimes beat, the Indian out them. Now Native Americans are fighting the theft of language, of culture, and of childhood itself.
By Andrea Smith
A little while ago, I was supposed to attend a Halloween party. I decided to dress as a nun because nuns were the scariest things I ever saw,” says Willetta Dolphus, 54, a Cheyenne River Lakota. The source of her fear, still vivid decades later, was her childhood experience at American Indian boarding schools in South Dakota.
Originally posted on The Most Revolutionary Act: By Megan Redshaw British fashion model Stephanie Dubois suffered a blood clot days after vaccination with AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, while a young two-time Olympian died 10 days after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine. British fashion model Stephanie Dubois died from a blood clot days after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine…
This is absolutely sickening and heartbreaking to see over and over again such lovely decent people being destroyed this way in the prime of life for nothing! This whole damned Fraud has gone on long enough and some of the advocates for a “Full Measure of Justice” need to gather their collective forces and influence and start taking down the perpetrators of this evil scourge upon the human race; that’s been put in motion for their nefarious greed and power grab agenda!
These derelict and absolutely diabolical madmen are monsters equal to and exceeding now the evil that Adolf Hitler and his henchmen unleashed upon the European Continent over 80 years ago! This evil is global as we know, and all those responsible around the planet or even tied into the implementation of this genocide in any way; must be tried and put to death!
God bless the departed souls of all those who have lost their lives and blessings to their loved ones. Amen.
British fashion model Stephanie Dubois suffered a blood clot days after vaccination with AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, while a young two-time Olympian died 10 days after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine.
British fashion model Stephanie Dubois died from a blood clot days after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine in Cyprus, a health official said Monday.
Dubois, 39, suffered a “serious thrombotic episode” after receiving her first dose of the vaccine on May 6, Newsweek reported. She had no underlying health conditions according to health officials at the hospital in Nicosia, where she was hospitalized May 14, after experiencing breathing issues.
The fashion model later suffered a brain hemorrhage and was in a coma before she passed away May 21.
Dubois’ death will be investigated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said a Cypriot health service spokesperson, Charalambos Charilaou.
An absolutely astonishing and timely thorough comprehensive detailed report on the factual actuality of what evil has been unleashed upon the human race, by I must say satanic cohorts as we enter into the edge of the precipice of End Time!
It’s absolutely unbelievable that so many human beings, many who are highly qualified experts to ordinary citizens have bought into this diabolical madness which has swept around the globe in one year doing all this damage and only God knows now what horrible repercussions are on the way because of this! This may very well be the Prophesied Warning because my hunch and sadness is that this is the beginning of a massive die off of human beings going forward!
Maybe there is some answer coming that can reverse or at least retard the deadly effect of these vaccines but either way the abomination has been committed by the most nefarious humans; while being accepted by the masses who put all their faith or trust in men and not God on a Global scale; which promotes and even relishes in the murdering as likened to actual human sacrifice of countless innocent helpless, human beings; for an industrial scale commercial global transaction from hell!
God please have mercy on this horrible diseased humanity that has belittled all the good you provided to humans who are created in your likeness and image; while horribly now giving the Devil his due!
God bless you.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
As the first two articles in this series have shown, Prof. de Mattei’s argument for the “Moral Liceity of the Vaccination” (MLV), meaning abortion-derived COVID vaccines, fails on all counts:
First, the material cooperation with abortion is not remote and “passive” but rather constitutes direct participation in a “structure of sin”: an evil commercial enterprise whose existence depends upon the continuing exploitation of the bodies of murdered children.
On that score, we must bear in mind the scientific fact that every cell in the commercially exploited cell lines of the murdered children is a living memorial to their existence, for each of those cells contains the DNA that would have determined all their physical characteristics, expressed variously in somatic cells differentiated according to the genetic code in the DNA as implemented by the divine miracle of the…
What follows is my heart felt response to another blogger and advocate of good.
Thank you very much for your kind suggestion and consideration, as well for your thoughtfulness in making this gesture to me!
The sad thing about the main stream media is they too often sensationalize to exploit something as if normal business as usual practice or standard operating procedure! It being a billion dollar business or industry it’s doing so for purely monetary or political purposes falling in line with the ruling elite or some very powerful influential individuals, and not acting as any agent of public edification or some virtuous body of positivity to foster and improve anything; they only use and discard moving on to the next sensationalism. Look what the George Floyd media circus was really all about and how it enabled mobs to go out and victimize or destroy with no accountability! All over a man that was a criminal thug drug dealer and user with a long rap sheet never doing anything to better himself as a human being or help others in need as a charitable person would but instead selling dope to others that kills a sinful act; an action sanctified by media that caused losses in the multiple billions of dollars and death to many innocent persons! All of that while these domestic terror organizations like BLM and Antifa by generating so much mayhem further sensationalizing a story for the media to exploit further while these criminal perpetrators bring in billions of dollars of revenue support to use as they wish for personal material gain buying exclusive million dollar homes or to use in conducting further terrorist plans and fund other elicit operations like some kind of giant Mafioso crime syndicate organization. Comparing all that to a child getting his knuckles wrapped with a ruler or some other corporal punishment many decades ago hardly seems like a serious problem to be bringing to the fore in the midst of all this current mayhem; unless there is a hidden nefarious agenda or something in play, which there is; a very dark and sinister one! This agenda is currently and will be moving forward causing even more damage than all of the George Floyd riots did; and because of these hidden agendas or purposes, some of the most deadly nefarious persons are being allowed to get away with perpetrating such evil upon the naïve or confused public, all in the name of power and money.
Right now, today, we could point out instances of child neglect or abuse like the young girl that was paddled by teachers in a Florida elementary school an old corporal punishment practice; for her being totally unruly! So we do observe by this example how there are still indeed things happening which demonstrate how many things which are promoted or allowed as just everyday news are being promulgated throughout society by the major media outlets which are damaging people’s minds, especially the children with a toxic soup of negativity and confusing mixed messages; or even hidden agendas to condition the public, CIA stuff! We can point out how the Bible states in Scripture to spare the rod is to spoil the child; which sounds old fashioned to today’s let them get away with whatever appeasing mindset but what the matter boils down to is discipline and proper guidance which all children and adults must learn and abide by; or we end up with BLM and Antifa crazies running loose; a corrupted and enabled society! We are all now witnesses to a steady stream of propaganda that is not only damaging individual minds and hearts with poison; but the whole of society. Child abuse is happening right out in the open and all in the name of so called diversity acceptance and other such smoke screens for nefarious agendas. The Devil is sure getting his due today! I include an article I wrote which clearly points this out.
As to what I was originally saying about Native Americans my basis of commendation to many of them is that they are a people who had to accept huge changes that came to a land as humanity evolves, but have complained the least! And when many of them were in their old cultures or practices and some still are today, a virtuous noble people, that in my opinion always deserve credit and appreciation for setting good examples; like Jim Thorpe did, and multitudes of others! They grew to appreciate opportunity, and accept things they must facing adversity while therefore making the best of any given situation; so unlike what George Floyd did during his whole adult life of deprivation, being an ingrate and despot of society! I hate to use such a cliché but it fits too well so I must; you make your bed so you have to lay in it!
I would love to help Naïve Americans if at all possible and will if given that opportunity but not by attacking anyone or our Great Nation under God! Here I want to insert a bit of wonderful information that is a great testimony to my point I make here about Native People’s in the North American Continent!
“St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon. Her mother was an Algonquin, who was captured by the Mohawks and who took a Mohawk chief for her husband.
She contracted smallpox as a four-year-old child which scarred her skin. The scars were a source of humiliation in her youth. She was commonly seen wearing a blanket to hide her face. Worse, her entire family died during the outbreak. Kateri Tekakwitha was subsequently raised by her uncle, who was the chief of a Mohawk clan.
Kateri was known as a skilled worker, who was diligent and patient. However, she refused to marry. When her adoptive parents proposed a suitor to her, she refused to entertain the proposal. They punished her by giving her more work to do, but she did not give in. Instead, she remained quiet and diligent. Eventually they were forced to relent and accept that she had no interest in marriage.
At age 19, Kateri Tekakwitha converted to Catholicism, taking a vow of chastity and pledging to marry only Jesus Christ. Her decision was very unpopular with her adoptive parents and their neighbors. Some of her neighbors started rumors of sorcery. To avoid persecution, she traveled to a Christian native community south of Montreal.
According to legend, Kateri was very devout and would put thorns on her sleeping mat. She often prayed for the conversion of her fellow Mohawks. According to the Jesuit missionaries that served the community where Kateri lived, she often fasted and when she would eat, she would taint her food to diminish its flavor. On at least one occasion, she burned herself. Such self-mortification was common among the Mohawk.
Kateri was very devout and was known for her steadfast devotion. She was also very sickly. Her practices of self-mortification and denial may not have helped her health. Sadly, just five years after her conversion to Catholicism, she became ill and passed away at age 24, on April 17, 1680.
Her name, Kateri, is the Mohawk form of Catherine, which she took from St. Catherine of Siena.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 21, 2012. She is the patroness of ecology and the environment, people in exile and Native Americans.” catholic.org
All those rioters were actually encouraged by MSM media and government officials who promoted the entire George Floyd evil media circus of debauchery as though a good thing; have condemned themselves to great suffering here and in the next world; I assure you by the humble saintly name of St. Kateri Tekakwitha! They should all be cowering in shame and fear of God’s judgment, but they have none; as they have been touched and given the mark of not just sin but evil!
I appreciate the consideration and thoughtfulness on your part my friend.
God bless all involved in these benevolent aspirations to do good for others.
Originally posted on Catholicism Pure & Simple: Catholics all know the story of the descent of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost—but do they truly understand the effects of the Holy Ghost in their souls? In his liturgical-catechetical work, “The Church’s Year”, Fr. Leonard Goffine offers some illuminating insights on the significance of the Feast of…
This is a Most beautiful explanation about the meaning and purpose of the Festival of Pentecost. All of the specific aspects of this are thoroughly illuminating as well inspiring; telling us to rise above the broken and fallen nature that our flesh lives took on after being stained with sin. We have the precious opportunity and eternal power through our Lord, Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ, to overcome any and all barriers that would seek to keep us separated from our rightful inheritance of being in, and sharing with; God’s eternal glory in Paradise, as His children! Amen.
Over the last couple of days occasion came for me to share something I had written nearly a couple of years ago regarding our walking with Jesus daily; while so doing seeking insight, wisdom, knowledge and grace from our heavenly Father, by the Holy Ghost visiting us on our journey here and for Him to fill our hearts with God’s love! I share that article link here as well; in hope that it may be helpful to anyone seeking God’s Truth. I must quote the very ending of this inspiring writing with what to me is the heart of the matter and should be our duty here; if we truly wish to follow Jesus!
“He Himself wished to die in obedience to the will of His Father.” CP&S
I close with this verse which begins the article in the header, that I wrote on November 8, 2019
“This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Catholics all know the story of the descent of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost—but do they truly understand the effects of the Holy Ghost in their souls?
In his liturgical-catechetical work, “The Church’s Year”, Fr. Leonard Goffine offers some illuminating insights on the significance of the Feast of Pentecost, including an exposition on the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost.
Instruction on the festival of Pentecost
What festival is this?
It is the day on which the Holy Ghost descended in the form of fiery tongues, upon the apostles and disciples, who with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, were assembled in prayer in a house at Jerusalem. (Acts II)
Why is this day called Pentecost?
The word “Pentecost” is taken from the Greek, and signifies fifty. As St. Jerome explains it, this was the last of the fifty days, commencing with Easter, which the early Christians celebrated…
Originally posted on NarrowPathMinistries: By Rev Bill Woods Acts 10:1-8 ???Matthew 5:6 Today I want to look at a man who had his priorities right and was a blessing to his entire household. I wish more Christians would follow these priorities for the home. Acts 10:1-8 In Caesarea there lived a Roman army officer named…
— Jeremiah 33:3 “Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.”
All of this is a wonderful story about how anyone’s journey with the Lord is a work of art in progress. As we each follow the will of God through Jesus Christ who sends the Comforter or Holy Spirit our way is enlightened by the very presence of God as He reveals Himself to us in His own way but making certain that we know He is there; “God does work in mysterious ways,” ways of the Spirit that manifest even tangibly in our personal walk with the Lord.
I’ve been a huge fan of taking walks to clear clutter and tensions but also to do that walk with Jesus asking along the way if there is anything He will show me or can reveal to me on today’s journey, whether it be some symbolism that is pure and simple via actual physical things I may encounter or perhaps a thought in my mind and deep feeling in my heart; in essence a sudden realization or revelation and sometimes a conversation with another person along the way, that brings out in the open something that needs to be considered more in order to crystallize the message that is being sent to me! This has happened to me often enough in any of these ways to confirm to me that God is always there and totally receptive to our thirsting for TRUTH! In this way we gain insight and understanding so that we can be the better example of who we are for Him and further emulate what He is teaching us each day while living our lives and going through our trials; not just making us better people but preparing our very souls to join Him in Paradise! So the walking is key to facilitating this process, for me perhaps as important or sometimes more than praying, because the praying can be and often is built into the walking journey! You brought out walking being good a few times here! “– How can we see God working in our lives and the lives of others?” narrowpathministries.com
“We pretend to be satisfied with a lesser walk with God, but something’s missing.” narrowpathministries.com
You again mention walking with this verse that immediately preceded Jeremiah 33:3.
“That’s why a daily walk is so important. Keep weeds out of soil! When we’re fully committed to Jesus and filled with the Spirit we’ll have more of God — we’ll see greater things.” narrowpathministries.com Isn’t that exactly what this verse says and as I mentioned the walking with Him our Lord will bring us closer and open our hearts to Him more; allowing Him to lead the way and reveal things to us!
Here in this Scripture I see how all of this ties together wonderfully with even 3 standing out as a great symbolism or metaphor of the Divine Trinity that has tied together the fact that the presence of God in my life daily is experiencing how the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are with me not in some other place in the universe that I’m unable to see, touch and feel because I do have that communion with God in His way via the “Holy Spirit that brings all Truth” to us working in God’s own mysterious ways. “Emmanuel; God is with us!”
I want to continue here with the entire explanation of this communion with God that I wrote November 8th, 2019 which was about my Walk with Jesus on Sunday November 3, 2019. I think this may very well offer some further insight into what I’m trying to convey here in conjunction with what you’ve explained beautifully too. This particular writing quite profoundly came up two other times this week in very special ways for great reasons; and so today it’s happening again with your essay here makes it the 3rd time it was meant to come to the fore; to me a confirmation to share with all!
Today I want to look at a man who had his priorities right and was a blessing to his entire household.
I wish more Christians would follow these priorities for the home.
Acts 10:1-8
In Caesarea there lived a Roman army officer named Cornelius, who was a captain of the Italian Regiment. He was a devout, God- fearing man, as was everyone in his household. He gave generously to the poor and prayed regularly to God. One afternoon about three o’clock, he had a vision in which he saw an angel of God coming toward him. “Cornelius!” the angel said. Cornelius stared at him in terror. “What is it, sir?” he asked the angel. And the angel replied, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have been received by God as an offering! Now send some men to Joppa, and summon a…
Originally posted on It's a God thing…: It’s been almost a month since life changed forever for my 14-year-old nephew Reuben. On Saturday 24th April, he and his family went swimming at a Queensland beach. Like any other day, the kids were in the water, having fun. But the jump Reuben took ended tragically.…
Hi Ali…I had woken up a little while ago and looked online at my account. I saw your latest blog post notification with a couple of others at the top of the cue. The first I clicked on was another nice Christian lady’s the Godly Chic Diaries and after reading that posting I send this which I thought may have relevance.
I next clicked on a very nice Christian blog site that I follow closely lately rebogging many of his because it was a very short thank you sent to me from my last comment yesterday evening. Then when I next read yours the 3rd in the cue I was sad and not sure what to say at that moment; as I started remembering how when I was a high school student I had gone surfing with some guys I grew up with who could surf and swim well but I was fair at it. This was just after a hurricane had passed by the area and so the surf was up to humongous proportions; way over my skill level and very dangerous! But being young and I guess we can say foolish I paddled way out around a point in order to be far enough out to be in the swell area were you wait for the biggest that is beginning to crest then go for it!
A set of three huge waves were roaring toward me and then I realized I was in way over my head and not in a good place so I went for it with the approaching wave and me and the board rose up into the air a few stories and all I could do was hold onto the big gun long board which suddenly shot down pearling under with me! I was lost in the under-toe and it was sounding like a freight train down there with rocks clapping and water rushing in all directions around me so I just felt in my heart oh God please save me; knowing if I panicked it was over and had no chance of surviving. So as I went limp and got tossed I felt a calm come and had no fear or anything really on my mind, Then like a cork I popped up to the surface and was bobbing around looking out to sea. Then I saw another huge wave building to a crest coming at me so I dove under it. I was already feeling tired but then when I popped up on the surface again as the next cresting wave, the 3rd one in that set, was now almost on top of me as I then heard a voice from a man on a surfboard whom I had no idea who he was; said grab hold of the board which I did and we paddled toward shore, then he said you can make it all the way now, and I said yea and starting to swim then stand on the bottom walking the rest of the way; and as I did I looked back as I recall to see that man which I did not!
I’m shivering right now and beginning to cry because something happened to save my life that day and it was God intervening so I would live to continue here for reasons only He knew! I walked on and fell to the beach sand laying face first in it and saying thank you God and I’m not surfing anymore! I went on with life and many things have happened that if I weren’t around I know could have turned out much different, some that would affect others negatively and I also would not have grown to be who I am now, some of it good and bad; but still I know I made a difference in a big way here and there, many times.
So after feeling at a loss as to what to say to you I didn’t want to say some cliché thing and just fill in a window with some words. I got up from my chair at my desk and walked over to my bed where my dog being a bit old now was still resting so I got back on the bed and was petting her asking if she wanted to go for that big walk the one in that piece I just sent that I mentioned in it. She seemed peaceful so I said OK I’m going to lay down a bit and as I did for about 15 minutes I went into a dream and in it I was standing in a building like hospital sort of place and saw Rueben and I was glad to be there and get to see him in person so I could talk a bit; then we said our hellos and I asked him, so how long have you been standing like that and how do you feel now after all this has happened; to which he said for a while and everything is great or something to that effect because it gets fuzzy now after that point my dog happened to disturbed my peaceful dreamy state and I had to get up to bring her outside!
My hope and prayer now is that what I saw and truly hope in my heart of hearts is a sign that things will work out fine for Rueben and everyone connected to him now and onward through this circumstance! I feel in my heart God has special plans for Rueben. I’m starting to tear with emotion again; it’s all good we are in His hands! Tell Reuben I said hi and I’ll be thinking about him as I go for this morning’s walk down that same location I wrote about in that other posting. “Always Walking with Jesus Christ”
God bless you all and great love and happiness to all of you in Jesus’ Holy Name. Amen. 🙏 🙏 🙏 😉 👍 ♥️ 🌻 🌈🌻🌞
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence
I just saw the last message I sent your way was April 3!
Those emojis in that order were part of a previous message to you some time ago that I noticed as soon as I looked at my contact history.
Aside from all else I’ve said and could or would say now that can be in tandem to the fine insights within this latest CP&S heartfelt encouragement to stay the distance via Traditional Catholicism; is this one other amazing accounting of a miracle that happened bringing an atheist full circle to devote himself to Catholicism.
That article was “Fatima Vision of Hell helped Atheist, Salvador Dalí, return to God” which involves our Blessed Mother which this young seminarian obviously has great affinity and love for. So here I discovered in review of several of my most recent postings the pure and obvious reason for this young man to stay the distance and be a priest of a traditional order!
And I must quote: “Salvador Dali is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20thcentury and the most famous Surrealist. At the height of his popularity in 1960, he was commissioned by The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima to paint the Vision of Hell, as Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco experienced during the July 13, 1917, apparition at Fatima. The idea for the painting came from a Protestant who, having read about the vision from Sister Lucia’s memoirs, converted to Catholicism and entered the seminary. The thought was that Dali could reach young people and unbelievers far more effectively with this message than any sermon on Sunday morning or story about saints. This commission would change Dali’s life and work, and lead him from his avowed atheism back to his Catholic roots.” Posted on May 17, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple
To me this is all so beautiful and an example of divine intervention or as I refer to these things a connecting of dots in our lives that God helps us
to see. This is a tremendous inspiration or why the Catholic Church and it goes totally hand in hand with what I said in my response recently to this seminarian. “A virtuous young man who chose a most beautiful vocation that is in peril now because the whole world is! The world needs you and many more like you to stand ready for Christ and do the will of our Father in heaven. I believe He inspired you in the first place so the battles are many and severe; but now is the time to face all adversity in order to grow that virtue and faith that’s in you.” https://lawrencemorra.com/2021/05/19/seminarian-is-there-any-reason-why-i-should-remain-catholic/
I went on to say; “We have that same Church that Jesus proclaimed to Peter ordaining him and that Church to continue; against even hell itself can’t ever defeat it!
We must not throw out the baby with the dirty bath water ever! So too our Church has been attacked, contaminated and stained with filth and sin, even blasphemy over many years; doing much harm and even self-destruction from within by evil cohorts!”
So now from what was stated here in this latest article which I quote; “The article to which I am responding suffers from one fatal logical error that runs from start to finish: the anonymous seminarian allows the enemy to dictate the terms of the entire debate. He lets the postconciliar distortion of Catholicism set the agenda for the discussion, and that is why he is disgusted and has no way of escape: he gave himself for a decade to what he can now see is a lie, but he does not seem to see that the existence of a falsehood implies the corresponding existence of the truth, since error is parasitical upon truth, as evil is upon the good. The lie he hates and thrashes against is not Catholicism, but neo-Catholicism or Modernism (as he obliquely recognizes when he says the only punishable crime nowadays is adhering to tradition). For example, he writes:
I could not tell you one teaching of the Catholic faith that isn’t always changing. I don’t think we’ve even begun to acknowledge the extent to which modernism has undermined the foundations of the faith. The Church is crumbling into quicksand, and we are scolded ad nauseam that the Church still has to change more with the times.
The wolves in sheep’s clothing of today warp the teaching of Catholicism by means of an “official theology” that has and can have no magisterial standing, although it wishes it could.
The Church of Christ has been occupied by impostors, by modernists who are not believers. They wear the clothes, they hold the offices, but they do not hold the Faith, and do not pass it on. The seminaries of these impostors are mind-bendingly manipulative as they try to suck out the spirit of right judgment and the love of tradition.
Regardless of what the churchmen who occupy ecclesial posts may do or say, the Catholic Faith is still believed, practiced, lived, across the world in places where the authentic Roman liturgy, trustworthy catechisms, true devotion to Our Lady and the saints, and a love for Catholic culture are still to be found.
If fifty years of relentless hostility and lack of support have not been able to crush traditional-loving Catholics, who, though a minority, are more numerous, well-informed, and committed today than at any time since the Council, nothing will crush them in the future. Divine Providence will not permit it, because the true Faith must last until the end of time. The Faith is alive, and in a humble way, thriving: but you will seldom find such evidence of supernatural life in the mainstream parishes, chanceries, and seminaries.”
Not to be mean but does this sound like a time to turn tail and run? Not to me it doesn’t; as a matter of fact it gives me all the more impetus to meet the challenge head on and seek God’s guidance to fight the good fight! The Catholic Church is like the Crown Jewel or Holy Grail to the Devil which he must destroy in order to get back at God; thus all the horrendous evil and attacks from within to accomplish that. This world has never been easy or a happy forever place where all goes smoothly and we know why! The enemy has raised havoc and hell itself upon this place that is Fallen from Grace! Jesus Christ is the Light of all existence which will bring home all the good within this world. You have done an excellent job up until now so don’t blow it by giving up or in to this wickedness that seeks your defeat like it does of any of us! We have to be the soldiers for Christ defending the faith and Church along with doing what the Holy Spirit directs us to do one day at a time, just like Saint Mother Teresa said and did her whole life of serving the Church and needy! Your disillusionment is understandable but not necessary or acceptable to God! Don’t allow these devils and imposters who have infiltrated this great Church of God’s just like they have infested the US Government the One Nation under God to deter you from the mission! I hate that these despots have done this to my Church and Nation but I will not run away or give up! For me it’s a fight to the finish and Jesus Christ wins always!
I recently was responding to another blog site and it touched on this whole idea of holding on to the mission and not losing faith especially when the battle heats up or is intensifying!
“…our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fighting’s, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that comforted those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;…” 2 Corinthians 7:5-6
Apostle Paul mentions Titus for good reason.
“I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother:…” 2 Corinthians 2:13
“To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.” Titus 1:4
To me this same doubt and struggle today was occurring even back them with all the challenges and suffering going on in the world around them back in that time of Christ on Earth and now it’s more imperative to meet the challenges with determination and face all adversity with Christ Jesus leading our way!
Let me close with the rest of what I had said in the other blog posting.
This is an excellent explanation about being an encourager and what Titus was accomplishing for God’s will. It does come down to being a good example for others so that what good exudes from our heart of hearts through Jesus Christ will rub off on others. If more people would be brave and selfless like you mentioned and do this then many things would improve dramatically! But in this fast paced materialistic narcissistic hurry and get what I can for me kind of world; sadly this message is being suppressed and even lost to the mob mentality and sheer indifference or apathy!
You certainly are an encourager coming out with this excellent statement and projection of your own heart into the world of near chaos to say I’m doing different than the “fray” and will be a “ray of hope;” a beacon that sends out the right message like a lighthouse guiding the weary on the tossed sea in their ships; helping them to make it to their destination and back home!
God bless you and yours.
Brother in Christ Jesus, Lawrence Morra III
A Reply to the Discouraged Seminarian: There Are 6,000 Reasons to Remain Catholic Posted on May 21, 2021 by Catholicism Pure & Simple
CP&S comment. On May 19th we published a disturbing testimony from 1Peter5 by an unnamed seminarian who was about to leave the seminary due to his total disillusionment with the current state of the Church. Finding no point anymore in his vocation to become a priest when the modernist formation he had been receiving denied all the fundamental bulwarks of our Catholic Faith, he sees the Barque of Peter as sinking fast on a downward spiral. He even asks, “Is there any reason why I should remain Catholic?”
Christ’s Agony in the Garden, Duccio di Buoninsegna, ARSH 1308, Museum of the Duomo, Siena
I was deeply moved by the article that appeared at this site, entitled “Seminarian: ‘Is There Any Reason Why I Should Remain Catholic?’” What follows is my affirmative reply. I’m under no illusions that my answer will be comprehensive or convincing to everyone, but what it has going for it is the sincerity of a person who has himself been wounded by members of the hierarchy, who has been denied speaking platforms on account of upholding the traditional Faith, and who has also stared into the abyss of corruption and apostasy that mark the Church on earth in our times—and yet who believes, finds reasons to believe, and, indeed, finds reasons for hope.
Even if we take the most conservative estimate, dodging the “saint factory” that revved up in the 1980s under John Paul II, the Catholic Church venerates at least 6,000 saints officially recognized as such (some would say over twice that many, depending on how you tabulate them). Each one of these saints is a masterpiece of God’s grace triumphing in the frailty and fracturedness of fallen human nature. Each one is a bright light in the encircling gloom. Each one tells us what the Christian is called to be and can, in fact, become by fidelity to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Each one gives the lie to fatalism, nihilism, and cynicism. And each one is an unanswerable argument for the truth of the Catholic Faith.
Decades ago, Joseph Ratzinger made the following observation:
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb. Better witness is borne to the Lord by the splendor of holiness and art which have arisen in the community of believers than by clever excuses which apologetics has come up with to justify the dark sides which, sadly, are so frequent in the Church’s human history. (The Ratzinger Report, 129)
One could perhaps amplify this by saying there is a threefold apologia: the saints, the civilization produced by Catholicism, and the inner cogency and coherence of traditional Catholic theology, which displays a monumental solidity and a profound consistency.
If someone were to ask me “Why be a Catholic?,” I would reply: The saints—the Apostles like Peter, John, and Paul; the martyrs from Lawrence and Stephen down to Maximilian Kolbe and Franz Jägerstätter; confessors like Athanasius the Great and Basil the Great; religious like Benedict, Francis, Dominic, John of the Cross, Clare of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Thérèse of Lisieux; priests like St. John Vianney and St. Peter Julian Eymard; missionaries like St. Francis Xavier, St. Edmund Campion, St. Isaac Jogues, and Father Damien of Molokai; kings and queens, simple porters and lay brothers; the list goes on and on and on—and I barely know a fraction of my heavenly family, whom I can’t wait to meet in person (please God!), but with whom I am already bound by a mystical communion in Christ our Head. He, of course, is the reason for the greatness of these heroes of faith and charity who adorn His Mystical Body: He is their Model and Maker. If they are so wonderful, what must He be like? And He has given Himself to us already in the Most Holy Eucharist under the veils of bread and wine, so that He may prepare us to see Him with face unveiled in the Kingdom of heaven.
If someone were to ask me “Why be a Catholic?,” I would reply: The glorious civilization the Catholic Church inspired and built—the culture of fine arts and sciences that has no equal, let alone rival, anywhere in human history, because divine revelation illuminates and fuels human endeavor. It attracted and motivated the highest flights of genius as well as the most extensive philanthropy; it made a home for epiphanies of beauty that reach up to eternity and infinity, lifting us above our earthbound vision and daily doldrums. The music, the architecture, the painting, the poetry—Gregorian chant, Palestrina and Byrd, Haydn and Bruckner; Romanesque basilicas and Gothic cathedrals; Giotto, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, El Greco, Bernini, van Eyck; Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Manzoni, Hopkins, Chesterton, Waugh… once again, the list could go on practically for ever. From the holy mountain of Christ rushes down a torrent of delights and insights, consolations and provocations—all bearing witness to the splendor of the Incarnation that dazzles the human spirit, and sustains it sacramentally.
If someone were to ask me “Why be a Catholic?,” I would reply: The theology of the Church in its apostolic, patristic, and scholastic plenitude, a grand oak tree birthed from a tiny acorn, showing in its mighty trunk and vast crown the power of the principles at root. As John Henry Newman saw and described so well in writing the work that accompanied his entry into the Roman Church, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, the truth unfolds in strength and stability across the ages of faith. Whether we take up the formidable Summa theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas with its seried ranks of syllogisms or simply consult any standard catechism from the Counter-Reformation down to the eve of the Second Vatican Council, we will find one and the same Catholic Faith, always confessing the Holy and Undivided Trinity, the perfect humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, the virginal maternity of Mary, the veneration of the saints, the life of grace, virtues, prayer, worship, and sacraments, the promise of eternal life in the bliss of the beatific vision. There is no deviation, no distortion, no dereliction in the Faith of the Church; it is there, it is knowable, it is livable, it is lovable. When we know it, we can live it; as we live it, we come to love it, to treasure it; we would no more choose to live without it than we would choose to live without sanity of mind or health of body.
The transcendentals are inseparable, but one may predominate in this or that subject. The glorious company of the saints show forth the Good; the great artists, architects, musicians, and writers show forth the Beautiful; the theologians show forth the Truth. Together they bear witness to the Father (“no one is good but God alone”), the Son (“image [eikon] of the invisible God”), and the Holy Ghost (“He will guide you into all the truth”) (Mk 10:18, Col 1:15, Jn 16:13). I am reminded of the proverb: “Though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Eccles 4:12).
The article to which I am responding suffers from one fatal logical error that runs from start to finish: the anonymous seminarian allows the enemy to dictate the terms of the entire debate. He lets the postconciliar distortion of Catholicism set the agenda for the discussion, and that is why he is disgusted and has no way of escape: he gave himself for a decade to what he can now see is a lie, but he does not seem to see that the existence of a falsehood implies the corresponding existence of the truth, since error is parasitical upon truth, as evil is upon the good. The lie he hates and thrashes against is not Catholicism, but neo-Catholicism or Modernism (as he obliquely recognizes when he says the only punishable crime nowadays is adhering to tradition). For example, he writes:
I could not tell you one teaching of the Catholic faith that isn’t always changing. I don’t think we’ve even begun to acknowledge the extent to which modernism has undermined the foundations of the faith. The Church is crumbling into quicksand, and we are scolded ad nauseam that the Church still has to change more with the times.
But what’s going in reality is this (modifications in italics):
I could not tell you one teaching of the Catholic faith that today’s Modernists in the Church aren’t saying must always be changing. I don’t think we’ve even begun to acknowledge the extent to which modernism has attempted to undermine the foundations of the faith, even though we know it can never do so, since God’s truth is indestructible, and the consistent teaching of the Church on any major issue is easily accessible. The human element of the Church (certainly not those in a state of grace or the saints in glory) is crumbling into quicksand, and we are scolded ad nauseam by the progressives and liberals that the Church still has to change more with the times, even though this view was condemned again and again by Church authority.
One could do this kind of “fisking” on every sentence. To let the modernists in the hierarchy of the Church define the meaning of being Catholic would be the equivalent of letting the Jacobins of the Revolution define the meaning of being French, or the Democrats of 2021 define the meaning of being American. The wolves in sheep’s clothing of today warp the teaching of Catholicism by means of an “official theology” that has and can have no magisterial standing, although it wishes it could. How do we know that it has no standing? For one simple reason: the Faith cannot contradict itself: as St. Vincent of Lérins classically expressed it, growth over time in the understanding of religion does not mean mutation or substantial change. Catholicism is a religion of faith and reason, where the one never contradicts the other.
I feel for this seminarian. He has been put through the machinery of neo-Catholicism, and it’s shredded him to a pulp. His article is the anguished cry of a man who has been spiritually abused by the “Squishy Church,” with all its pomps and works—a simulacrum of Catholicism that no longer tries to hide but openly parades its perversity. The seminarian recognizes that the modernist reinvention of Catholicism in the ascendent after the Council leads to a dead end: the traditional reasons given for being Catholic are no longer accepted by the modernists themselves, who have virtually expelled themselves from the Church. The Church of Christ has been occupied by impostors, by modernists who are not believers. They wear the clothes, they hold the offices, but they do not hold the Faith, and do not pass it on. The seminaries of these impostors are mind-bendingly manipulative as they try to suck out the spirit of right judgment and the love of tradition.
What I see sorely missing in this article—though again, my heart bleeds for this victim of a bloodsucking bureaucratic monster—is an awareness that there is any alternative, but there is, and, like Christ, it is the same yesterday, today, forever: traditional Catholicism. Regardless of what the churchmen who occupy ecclesial posts may do or say, the Catholic Faith is still believed, practiced, lived, across the world in places where the authentic Roman liturgy, trustworthy catechisms, true devotion to Our Lady and the saints, and a love for Catholic culture are still to be found. They do exist, here, there, across the map like sprinkled drops of holy water from a cosmic aspergillum, in greater numbers than one might think possible in a time of such decadence. Whether it be a dedicated priest in an out-of-the-way rural refuge or a parish run by a religious order in a million-peopled metropolis, such circles, or dare I say cenacles, of faithful Catholics will never disappear. If fifty years of relentless hostility and lack of support have not been able to crush traditional-loving Catholics, who, though a minority, are more numerous, well-informed, and committed today than at any time since the Council, nothing will crush them in the future. Divine Providence will not permit it, because the true Faith must last until the end of time. The Faith is alive, and in a humble way, thriving: but you will seldom find such evidence of supernatural life in the mainstream parishes, chanceries, and seminaries.
As readers can see, I agree with the author’s dark portrait of the situation, but diverge when it comes to the crucial decision that must be made: Do I stay at the foot of the Cross with St. John and Our Lady and persevere to the promised resurrection, no matter how bleak things appear, or do I walk away shaking my head because the Messiah wasn’t what we were expecting Him to be, and His mission looks like it’s all over? Surely, that ragtag coetus of disciples is a pathetic sight—nothing great can be expected from them. The former, with the eyes of faith and reason, sees what must be so, waits, works, and does not waver; the latter, closing those eyes, sees what the Enemy would have him see, and thus gives up, stops working, and falls away.
Speaking of Our Lady… there’s a glimmer of faith at the end of the seminarian’s cri de coeur where he turns to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the Stella Maris, the star that guides the desperate sailor in the stom back to the safety of the port. Outside of Jesus Christ, there is darkness and shipwreck. “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
An absolutely astonishing and timely thorough comprehensive detailed report on the factual actuality of what evil has been unleashed upon the human race, by I must say satanic cohorts as we enter into the edge of the precipice of End Time!
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