Manifestations of a Loving Mother: Our Lady of Fatima

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Fiat

Inez Romero's facebook picture FatimaIt is the feast of our Lady of Fatima!

When our Lady spoke about the triumph of her Immaculate Heart, she certainly was not referring to an utopian era of secular, man-oriented, self-sufficiency and benevolent co-existence amongst peoples of conflicting ideologies and creeds.

 St. Louse de Montfort prophesized that just as it was through our Lady that Christ entered the world, so it will be through her that He will be made manifest again.  St. Maximilian Kolbe said this:  “The serpent raises his head over the whole earth, but the Immaculata is going to crush him through decisive victories..[u]nder the standard of the Immaculata a great battle will be waged, and we shall have Her banners float over the fortresses of the prince of darkness.”  He also wrote, “Then heresies and schisms will be extinguished, and hardened sinners, thanks to the Immaculata, will return to God, towards His Heart full of love, and all pagans will be baptized.” The Abbé de Nantes believed that in the era of peace, chapters 60 and 62 of Isaiah would be fulfilled. One such passage reads thus: “…the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.” The radiance of the Church will then diffuse throughout the entire world a divine influence capable of shaping  all facets of society.  Glorious peace from the hands of Our Lady!  Who amongst us now living will be graced to see Christ being proclaimed our King and the Immaculata alongside Him, Queen of the whole world?

Let us do our part to hasten the Triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart! Consecrate yourselves to her and be docile to her inspirations.  I have taken it upon myself to offer my every Sunday Communion in reparation for offenses committed against her. Our Lord will also inspire you to do a little extra.  It is not only Protestants who insult her.  Most hurtful to her must be those misguided Catholics who distort or ignore her loving admonitions.

Here us another idea: Make it a point to learn more about Fatima.  Volumes upon volumes have been written.  Fatima is not merely a pious call to recitation of the rosary as some would have it.  The presentation below is rather lengthy, but it is chock-full of very important information about our Lady’s warning of altering the liturgy.

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Important News for the Joliet Diocese TLM Community

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Fiat

Well, it’s official now.  The pastor of St. Joseph church in Rockdale, IL is going back to his home country of India, and Bishop Conlon has turned over the church to the FSSP.  Below is a picture of the new home for the Latin Mass community.   I have also been told that Fr. Valentine will be getting another priest to help him in the apostolate.  This is great news for us in the Joliet diocese!

NOTE, May 14, 2013:  I notice that the FSSP webpage mentions Fr. Valentine will be appointed  the “administrator”, and that a N.O. will continue to be offered there on Saturday evenings by other priests.  Originally, I had been given the impression that the church was going to be completely turned over, not that it would be a mixed parish.

All I can say is that it is better than what Fr. Valentine had before. I think that those who have been traveling to Chicago, will continue to do so.  But I do pray the FSSP apostolate will flourish in this diocese.

Link to Joliet Latin Mass Community here.

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THEOLOGY OF THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS #36

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Fiat

35_AT THE LAST DOMINUS VOBISCUM_KANKAKEETLM“It is peculiar to the soul, repeatedly to pronounce that with which she is strikingly and profoundly impressed.”- Gihr

And impressed, we should be, in considering that our hearts have melded with the Divinity! Holy Mother Church, in the eighth Dominus vobiscum, imparts to us one last time, that desire She has that Christ remain closely united to us, and that now, our Communion may serve to strengthen us for His service so that we might bear much fruit through Him, because without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5).

“…the priest, before the conclusion of the holy action, desires for all present that the  Lord would by His grace, by His protection, by His assistance, be with them during the course of the day – in joy and in sorrow, in fatigue and in labor; that, as the Good Shepherd, He would conduct and pasture them, be their staff and support; that He would remain with them, when the day draws to a close and the evening appears, so that they “may watch with Christ and rest in peace.” – Gihr

“Lord Jesus Christ, who, after forty days, didst ascend glorious into heaven in the sight of Thy disciples, grant that my heart may, for Thy love, despise all earthly goods which keep me bound to perishable things, and to attend only unto the eternal, and to hunger and thirst  after Thee, my God and my All!”     Amen.

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Thomas a Kempis’s, The Imitation of Mary

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Fiat

These two short meditations are taken from the book, one of them is especially for the ladies:

The character is formed as any habit of virtue is formed.  To have a good character is to be on the road of perfection.

A good character is first of all, character, that is to say, firm and stable and not changeable and variable.  It is in the second place, good, which means, pleasing to others.

Only the people who breathe joy have a good character.  The people who are glum in everything, as is said in current language, are never of an agreeable character.  They are a burden to others and to themselves.

Form your character so that it may be stable.  Refine it, so that it may be gentle.  Conquer it so that it may be usable.  You will then be, like to Mary, exultant with joy and glorifying God in your life every day.

Practice:  To form character, it is often necessary to know how to break it, by doing that which pleases the least.

Thought:  Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria.  Rejoice and be glad, O Mary!

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A calm woman is a queenly woman, says an old proverb.  Gentleness and calmness, a smile and graciousness are, truly, the force and strength of a woman.  Too often they are represented as faults and perverted attractions.  This is an error and a falsehood.

To know how to make use of these attractions and of these graces can also be and ought to be for a woman, a virtue and a practice of Christian life.  The man who has once encountered such attractions is captivated forever.  The prayer that the Church offers in nuptial Masses asks for the woman these virtues of grace and beauty.

Practice:  To smile and to be gracious in all the circumstances of life.

Thought:  You are, Mary, the most beautiful of women:  Speciosa et decora inter filias Jerusalem.

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For the Month of our Mother

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Fiat

From Gentilucci’s compilation, Life of the Blessed Virgin

circle_BVMStrictly, the devout clients of Mary, at least the most fervent, should not only propose to imitate the heart of Mary, but also to consecrate themselves perpetually by a solemn obligation to this imitation, and thus united to Jesus in the heart of Mary, become like him as His holy Mother was. [Consecration to our Lady is not of recent development. In the 11th century St. Odilo, for example, was known to have publicly consecrated himself to her in a holy bondage.] To make our consecration entire and perfect, we must generously offer Mary all our senses, all the powers of our soul, all our spiritual goods, that is, our weak merits; in a word, we must give her, by an irrevocable act, all we have or can have on earth.  From this perpetual consecration to the heart of our Queen, we shall reap the fairest fruits.  In the first place, the Blessed Virgin, seeing us thus weaned from ourselves, will offer to God in the most perfect manner, all our works, and we for this end will endeavor to do them with care, diligence, and exactness.  In the second place, we shall not let our devotion grow cold, because, having made of all we possess a perpetual and irrevocable donation to the heart of Mary, and knowing certainly that she will come to our aid if we are faithful to her, we cannot, without a great offense to her and injury to ourselves, revoke so solemn a donation.  Finally, this consecration of ourselves to Mary embraces at the same time our consecration to Jesus, since we take the Blessed Virgin as the perfect means that Jesus Christ has Himself chosen to unite us to Him, our Redeemer and God, and consequently our last end.  [Origen’s words on servitude are certainly applicable to those consecrated to our Blessed Mother: “The bondage of Christ is nobler than liberty.  O free servitude! O bondage, glorious above all dominion! What glory is not reserved in heaven, when such joy is given here?”]

The motive which should excite us to make this consecration cheerfully, is that there is no function on earth, no honor greater than that of serving God.  His servants are far nobler and more honored than the servants of the mightiest monarchs of earth; for, after all, the latter are only the servants of a man, while the former, by Mary’s aid, endeavor to serve with fidelity Him who is King of kings, and Lord of lords; a free, generous, and noble servitude, which Scripture calls a royalty.  Moreover, we act like Jesus, who, able like the first Adam to come into the world an adult, chose [rather] to remain… [enclosed] nine whole months in Mary’s Virginal womb, and for thirty years remain with her, submissive and obedient as the most loving and respectful of children.  What, too, shall we say of the humility which we will have to practice continually, considering ourselves stripped of all and unworthy of every grace, and acknowledge that all good comes to us from Jesus through the hands of Mary?

And then, as Mary Immaculate, our Mother, is all love, sweetness and mercy towards us, as she will not be surpassed in generosity and liberality, what tongue, what power of eloquence can ever express the abundance of graces which she will shower on us…[all for His greater glory!]

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Papal Appointment

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Fiat

h/t Accion Liturgica and Secretum Meum – Vatican City, 30 April 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father:

Mgr. Guido Pozzo

- appointed Archbishop Guido Pozzo, almoner of His Holiness and titular archbishop of Balneoregium, as consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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You may remember Monsignor Pozzo,an advocate of the “hermeneutic of reform in continuity”, who was involved in the talks attempting to regularize the SSPX.  He proposed that the post-conciliar confusion is caused not by the council itself but by its interpretation.

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The Best Way to Celebrate Vatican II

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Fiat

 I do not mean to intentionally offend, but it seems to me that only the most obtuse will continue to insist on blind adherence to the documents of Vatican II. Into those documents of a merely pastoral council, were inserted elements of modernism in opposition to the doctrine taught by the 2.000 year old Magisterium of the Church.  Walter Cardinal Kasper has admitted as much. Below is a short excerpt from the article which suggests the best way to celebrate VII. I would urge you to read carefully the editorial in its entirety, from Catholic Family News.  It merits our seal of approval!

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“One of the saddest events of the past month was the Vatican Radio report of Pope Francis’ statement that ‘Vatican II is the beautiful work of the Holy Spirit’; his claim that to resist the Council is to ‘resist the Spirit’; and that those are ‘testardi’ – stubborn hardheads – who want to go back from Vatican II.  If these are truly his sentiments, it should put no dent in our resolve. The Vatican II establishment now collapses under its own decay.

“It is time for traditional Catholics to close in for the kill, and not merely ask if we may be excused from the worst excesses of their reckless experiment.

The Church Militant

The Church Militant

 ”It is time to go on the offensive, without anger, without bitterness and without letup. We must relentlessly ask our Church leaders why they love a blunder of such magnitude that “if the Church were not divine, the Council would have buried her.”

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The Pope who finally repudiates Vatican II will most certainly suffer.  But it will be done!

“I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head in his hands and weeping. Outside, there were many people and some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language against him. Poor Holy Father! We must pray very hard for him! ” – Blessed Jacinta

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Another Young Priest Celebrating TLM….

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Fiat

….in Salisbury, North Carolina. Father Jason Barone,  who attended Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, is a mere 29 years of age.  (See, I told you so. The Church’s traditions continue to attract the young!)

He is quoted as saying, “What I love about Latin Mass for this age is precisely its timelessness. God does not change. Human nature does not change. Timeless worship, I believe, anchors us  [to] God in these very turbulent times.”

Scott Myers / Salisbury Post<br /><br /><br /> Sacred Heart Catholic Church has started a Latin Mass.

Scott Myers / Salisbury Post<br /><br /><br /> Sacred Heart Catholic Church has started a Latin Mass.

The rest of the story can be found here: Sacred Heart Catholic Church

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Notes; Frenzied Females

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Fiat

The weather has been perfect for outdoor work.  I’ve transplanted a peach tree that had been growing near the compost pile for the past 3 or 4 years, planted over 75 flower bulbs and tubers, sowed (two different kinds) cosmos, bachelor’s buttons, catchfly, snapdragons, sunflowers; and 5 rhubarb roots. I’ve forgotten what else!

Soon I’ll start in earnest with the vegetable garden.

So, you see, I’ve had little time for blogging, although I do make sure to keep an eye out for what is going on in the Church.  There is, for instance, that assault on Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Brussels by a group of, hmmm…. “ladies”.  I am sure all of you have heard about it.  I only want to add to it what you probably have not heard.

This was not the first attack by these nuts.  It has been reported that these radical feminists are targeting the Archbishop because of his alleged complicity in defending pedophile priests.  This is utter nonsense since the Archbishop only assumed office in 2010.   If anyone deserves castigation, it certainly is not Archbishop Leonard, but his predecessor, the notoriously ultra-progessive Daneels who presided over the archdiocese during its worst scandals and who was involved in a cover-up.  It seems the real “sin” of Archbishop Leonard is that he has been known to speak out against the sins of perversion.

The other surprising element to this story is that these “activists” females are receiving payment for what they do.  What a job, eh?  An infiltrator to their group has reported that they receive 2,500 euros per month, while in Paris, the ladies may receive 1,000 euros per “protest”.

There is speculation about who is funding these “ladies”.   I will not mention a name since I have no way to ascertain the veracity of the allegation against the person.  But I will say, that the individual named is very rich, and hails from North America.

One need not wonder why the Mahoney’s or Imesch’s will never be victims of these frenzied females.

God bless Archbishop Leonard! I will include him in my prayers for persecuted priests.

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Enjoy the beautiful weather outside! The flowers, trees, all of nature still give Him glory, and His gifts still give joy to the heart!

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Finding Purpose in Life Through the Mass

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Fiat

With the aid of grace, let us resolve to delve more deeply into the mystery which unfolds before our very eyes when assisting at Mass.  After I watched this, one of my thoughts was that it is so easy to understand why Satan hates the traditional Latin Mass.

This video most beautifully portrays what we have attempted to do with our “Theology of the TLM in Pictures” series. I would suggest watching it when you have a little time.  It is not something one can rush through.

After Mass, don’t forget your thanksgiving.

“When Mass ended I remained with Jesus to render Him thanks. My thirst and hunger do not diminish after I have received Him in the Blessed Sacrament, but rather, increase steadily. Oh, how sweet was the conversation I held with Paradise this morning. The Heart of Jesus and my own, if you will pardon my expression, fused. They were no longer two hearts beating but only one. My heart disappeared as if it were a drop in the ocean.”

-  St. Pio of Pietrelcina

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