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SUNDAY-SATURDAY      September 19-25, 2004      Volume 15, no. 173

  • Propers of the Mass for September 19-25
  • "Christ dwelling through faith in your hearts" - by Father Louis Campbell
  • Modern Society's Attack on the Sacramental Aspect of Marriage - by Kevin Tierney
  • The Alter Christus Factor
  • The Ripple Effect: A Study of Indulgences - Part Two by Jacob Michael
  • Divine Providence in LIVING our FAITH series
  • Deadly America by Father Lawrence Smith
  • Innocence Lost by Gabriel Garnica
  • The Logic of Overthrowing the Social Reign of Christ the King - by Tom Droleskey
  • Christ the King College is officially open
  • Double of the Second Class Feast of St. Matthew Double Major Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
    Celebrating this week St. Matthew and Our Lady of Ransom
    Why the Priest is the alter Christus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

       There is truly meaning in the ceremonies of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - the Immemorial Mass of Tradition - the Traditional Latin Mass. Consider below what each action signifies as the priest - the alter Christus - re-enacts an action by or to Our Lord as being an exposition of the Agony, Death and Passion of our Divine Lord from Holy Thursday night until forty days after His resurrection, when He gave the final command to the Apostles to go forth and preach the Gospel to the world. These reasons are taken from The Catholic Church Alone: The One True Church of Christ, Catholic Education Company, New York, 1902, page 551.

      THE MASS OF THE CATECHUMENS

    1. Introibo ad altare Dei

    • The priest going to the foot of the altar represents Christ going to Mount Olivet.
    2. Judica me, Deus...
    • The priest commencing the Holy Mass represents Christ beginning to pray in the Garden.
    3. Confiteor Deo...
    • The priest saying the Confiteor represents Christ falling down and sweating blood at Mt. Olivet.
    4. Oramus Te, Domine, per merita Sanctorum Tuorum
    • The priest going up and kissing the altar, after praying Aufer a nobis..., represents Christ being betrayed by Judas with a kiss.
    5. Oremus
    • The priest going to the Epistle side represents Christ being captured, bound and taken to Annas.
    6. The INTROIT
    • The priest reading the Introit represents Christ being falsely accused by Annas and blasphemed.
    7. Kyrie Eleison
    • The priest going to the middle of the altar and saying the Kyrie eleison represents Christ being brought to Caiphas and these three times denied by Peter.
    8. Dominus vobiscum
    • The priest saying the Dominus vobiscum represents Christ looking at Peter and converting him.
    9. The EPISTLE
    • The priest reading the Epistle represents Christ being brought to Pilate.
    10. Munda cor meum
    • The priest saying the Munda cor meum represents Christ being taken to Herod and mocked.
    11. The GOSPEL
    • The priest reading the Gospel represents Christ being taken to Pilate and again mocked.
    Next issue: The Mass of the Faithful

    CHRIST THE KING COLLEGE
    Now on line: Check out the only totally Traditional collegiate curriculum in the U.S. Christ the King College has been officially licensed to issue a Bachelor in Catholic Studies degree/ Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey is pleased to announce that the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education of the State of California's Department of Consumer Affairs has officially licensed Christ the King College to operate in order to grant a Bachelor of Catholic Studies degree. This means that Christ the King College is now legally able to accept students for admission. We encourage everyone who is interested in a College that makes no compromise with the regime of novelty of the past forty years to consider applying to Christ the King College. Application forms may be found under the Info and Resources tab at Christ the King College website. Dr. Droleskey and the faculty are grateful to Our Lady of Good Success for her intercession for the College, as well as to Saint Christopher, whose intercession they and all Traditional Catholics have been invoking in a special way. The administrators of Christ the King College are also grateful to all of those who have donated thus far to the College and those who have prayed--and are continuing to pray--for its founding. Keep up your prayers! Ora et Labora! Christ the King College Officially Open


        Because "amongst the best of the clergy the practical result (of the New Mass) is an agonizing crisis of conscience..." *
      * The quote is from Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani and Cardinal Antonio Bacci to Paul VI on September 25, 1969 in the The Ottaviani Intervention This is the eighth of 62 reasons which were submitted by the Priests of Campos and endorsed by the late great Bishop Castro de Mayer. Each day we will publish one of the 62 until they're all complete.


    For other reasons to date see Eight Reasons thus far.


    Conversely in the True Immemorial Mass of Tradition - the Mass of All Ages:


        For thy salvation He renews His bitter passion in order that thou mayest participate in it.
      This is just the eighth of at least 77 Graces derived from participation at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - the Mass of All Ages - the Latin Mass of the Roman Rite which was decreed to be said "in perpetuity" by Pope Saint Pius V in codifying the infallible decrees of the dogmatic Council of Trent. These graces are taken from Father Martin von Cochem's Explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with an imprimatur by New York's Archbishop Michael Augustin on June 24, 1818 during the Pontificate of Pope Pius VII.

    For the previous Graces, see Eight Graces thus far.


    PAPAL PROOF OF WHAT THE CHURCH TRULY TEACHES
      For those who truly want to delve deeper into what the Faith teaches and what past Sovereign Pontiffs have decreed, we recommend for your vital reading to better KNOW THE FAITH in order to KEEP THE FAITH, pertinent Papal decrees which put to the lie what is being promulgated today by the Vatican II church. We strongly encourage you to read these to understand how today the modern church is in Apostasy when compared to what had always been taught by Holy Mother Church and enforced and warned as most grievous by previous Pontiffs as you'll see in CREDO & CULTURE



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    Holy Mass Propers for September 19-25

    Click on the day button below for each Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
    September 19 - SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST     September 20 - St. Eustacius and Companionss and the Vigil of St. Matthew     September 21 - St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist     September 22 - St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor     September 23 - Pope St. Linus

    September 24 - Our Lady of Ransom     September 25 - Our Lady's Saturday     September 26 - North American Martyrs

       We are proud to be able to provide for our readers the full Ordinary and Proper of each day's Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the Immemorial Latin Mass in the Traditional Calendar.

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    "Qui legit, intelligat"
    In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, he emphasizes the Epistle for the Holy Mass in which the Apostle Paul speaks of Christ dwelling in our hearts by Faith. Yet it is that very Faith that has been sabotaged by the usurpers of the true holy Faith today, as the enemy has penetrated the inner sanctum and opened the door wide to their peers in crime, trying to justify their offense against God by tolerating all religions as if the First Commandment meant nothing. Ecumenism is a heresy, a grievous error. Father assures us the One True Church will win out, but we must be willing to stand for the victor in these necessary battles for, as Christ asserts in today's Gospel, he who humbles himself will be exalted, but those who do not, woe be to them. Father explains in his sermon "Christ dwelling through faith in your hearts"
    FOCUS
    Kevin Tierney takes a break from his Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi series to share some pertinent thoughts on Pope Pius XI's most definitive decree on Christian Marriage in his encyclical Casti Connubii in 1930. Kevin illustrates how it holds truer today than ever before when attacks against marriage have forced all faithful Christians seeking to preserve this sacred institution and sacrament to call for "Protect Marriage Sunday" on September 19th. Had the conciliar popes heeded their predecessor's wisdom we would never have arrived at this crisis point. Kevin comments on His Holiness' identification of the methods of attack on the holy institute of matrimony in his essay, Modern Society's Attack on the Sacramental Aspect of Marriage
    "Quid dicit Scriptura?"
    Jacob Michael continues his series on Indulgences, assuring that indulgences are not a "get out of hell" card to allow one to sin as Protestants so often think erroneously. As he points out, Indulgences are probably one of "the most difficult teachings of the Church to understand, and even harder to defend." Yet, Jacob, no stranger to tackling tough assignments, immediately illustrates ways to better understand what Holy Mother Church intends by taking us directly to Sacred Scripture to refute Protestant accusations and misconceptions. In his second part, he also provides more indulgenced prayers so the reader can continue to put into practice what we preach immediately. Jacob explains in Part Two of The Ripple Effect: A Study of Indulgences
    In Living our Faith
    We continue with our revised series on emphasizing the practical aspect of our Faith from a totally Traditional Catholic perspective, we continue with the First Article of the Apostles' Creed, which contains the basis for what Catholics believe. This particular chapter is taken from Bishop Morrow's My Catholic Faith. Other chapters will be taken from that excellent Authentic Roman Catholic work as well as "The Catholic Church Alone - The One True Church of Christ" (1902), "Cabinet of Catholic Information" (1904), and "The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church" (1907). There will be other reputable, unerring works we will be referencing - all before Vatican II including Father George Leo Haydock's comprehensive Catholic commentaries from the Douay-Rheims Version of Sacred Scriptures. You'll also note that all pronouncements by Our Lord in Divine Revelation are characterized in red type to distinguish the Word made flesh. In this fourth chapter, we focus on God's loving care in which He provides for all our needs as He sees fit in our best interest. It is called Divine Providence

    REALITY CHECK
    Father Lawrence Smith asks some very basic, but necessary questions that defy the logic of the thinking of so many of our leaders today in government and the church. Too often we forget, as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story." While certain issues are getting the headlines, sound bytes and blogs for all the attention, other much deadlier cancers are allowed to metastasize unfettered in the vulnerable souls of so many who have not taken measures to protect themselves by knowing what the Church has always taught and what is morally right. Father takes to task the Catholic politicians and their hierarchs - from John Paul II on down - who should be protecting constituents and flocks, but instead are feeding at the troughs of political correctness and abandoning common sense, not to mention the irrefutable teachings of Holy Mother Church. Just as Pope Leo XIII warned the American Bishops in addressing his letter to Cardinal James Gibbons in condemning the heresy of Americanism in 1899, so today all, including the modern church, have seemingly embraced exactly what Leo cautioned so meticulously against 105 years ago. Father presents points that must be answered either now or at Judgment time in his article Deadly America


    Gabriel's Clarion
    Gabriel Garnica tackles the aspects of how the Church should and how the world does treat three ways of purposeful death. There has been a lot of rhetoric about the war and deaths caused by war, but Gabriel sets the record straight on this as well as actual Church teaching on capital punishment and then focuses on what so many others have conveniently ignored or purposefully denied: It is a given that those engaged in war or facing capital punishment are most of the time not innocent. This cannot be said of the helpless child in his mother's womb. He is totally innocent and yet, all the deaths on the battlefield in American history do not add up to the total murdered so mercilessly in the womb; all death penalties in the annals of America do not add up to the number annihilated in the womb in one day! With apologies to Milton, Gabriel shows how Innocence Lost
    Christ or chaos
    Despite an overwhelming agenda in getting Christ the King College underway, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey took time on the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary to weigh in on one of the main reason Our Lady is so sorrowful. Tom traces the tyrants who intentionally intensified efforts to weaken the tried and true government of Church and State as it was working in harmony for the temporal and spiritual welfare of all citizens when Holy Mother Church was flourishing by giving all honor to the Sovereign Kingship of Christ, when popes wore the triregno tiara with honor and authority. He chronicles the subversion of Church and State beginning materially with Henry VIII, who, having a free will, chose to turn his back on his duty as 'Defender of the Faith', by placing concupiscence over obedience. Thus began the steady implosion of the ideal system of governance and the evolution of satan's final agenda which has steadily increased war, hate, and vile sin over the centuries - all ushered in by apathy and lukewarmness from those who should have spoken out including leaders in the U.S. and the Modernist Church who have both turned a deaf ear to the plight of those who don't measure up to the manufactured Freemasonry standards. This has culminated this month in the awareness that killing of innocents is no longer limited to the womb. After murdering over 45 million unborn, the 'authorities' are now playing God by dictating in the Netherlands who lives and who dies. It's also happening in America and will only grow worse. It's all part of the insane illogic which Tom identifies as The Logic of Overthrowing the Social Reign of Christ the King


    For the most recent articles see below
    For all articles in August, see August Issue
    "Quid dicit Scriptura?"
    Jacob Michael begins appropriately in this Ember Days Issue a series on Indulgences. As he points out, Indulgences are probably one of "the most difficult teachings of the Church to understand, and even harder to defend." Yet, Jacob, no stranger to tackling tough assignments, immediately illustrates ways to better understand what Holy Mother Church intends by taking us directly to Sacred Scripture to refute Protestant accusations and misconceptions. In this thought-provoking first part, he also provides some indulgenced prayers so the reader can put into practice what we preach immediately. Jacob explains in Part One of The Ripple Effect: A Study of Indulgences
    Books you can count on!
    We want to bring to the attention of all our readers an excellent book by Griff Ruby that clarifies so well what the Traditional Catholic movement is, when, where and how it began and why it has continued to advance - despite the persecutions by the Novus Ordo Church of the People of God and the infighting among various Traditional factions - and how God is employing the Traditional Catholic movement to keep the Faith founded by Christ alive. Griff is not afraid to tackle all issues and emerges with a lucid chronicle of the major camps in the struggle to preserve the True Faith for in the Sacraments, Doctrines, and Immemorial Mass of Tradition - the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Latin - all Traditional Catholics are united. What amazed this editor was how each of the factions within the Traditional Catholic movement have a God-given function and that no one Traditional group has all the answers, but with Christ working through them, the situation within Holy Mother Church today is "where the Church is there is Peter." We encourage you to read this excellent book and share it with your friends, family and community. It will answer many questions about where they have taken the Mystical Body of Christ. As Mary Magdalen discovered when she asked "Where have they taken my Lord?", the Angel responded, "He is not here. He is risen." So also, thanks to the research and concise compendium Griff has put together, we are witnessing through the Traditional Catholic movement The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church
    In Living our Faith
    In our revised series on emphasizing the practical aspect of our Faith from a totally Traditional Catholic perspective, we continue with the First Article of the Apostles' Creed, which contains the basis for what Catholics believe. This particular chapter is taken from Bishop Morrow's My Catholic Faith. Other chapters will be taken from that excellent Authentic Roman Catholic work as well as "The Catholic Church Alone - The One True Church of Christ" (1902), "Cabinet of Catholic Information" (1904), and "The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church" (1907). There will be other reputable, unerring works we will be referencing - all before Vatican II including Father George Leo Haydock's comprehensive Catholic commentaries from the Douay-Rheims Version of Sacred Scriptures. You'll also note that all pronouncements by Our Lord in Divine Revelation are characterized in red type to distinguish the Word made flesh. In this third chapter, we discover the most august and unfathomable attributes of the Divine in The Perfections of God
    On Gabriel's Clarion
    Gabriel Garnica points out that over the last several month or so there have been many flip-flops and they are not all coming from the mouth of John Kerry, but from many bishops and cardinals who straddle the fence of political correctness at the expense of countless souls, confused even further by the ambiguous proportinate bafflegab that lead to a false rationalism which could be most deadly for the soul come, not election time, but judgment time. A Pope who was not afraid to be clear and absolute - Pope Pius XI - put it most assuredly that God will not be mocked. He will avenge those who are responsible for innocent blood. Gabriel cuts to the chase in his column Politics, Proportionalism and Perdition
    "Qui legit, intelligat"
    In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, he emphasizes that we will remain 'dead' if we do not place our trust in Christ and strive to seek first the kingdom and reject the snares and lures of the world. Those who place their trust in humanist institutions from the Conciliar Church to the UN are sadly lacking for these entities come up spiritually empty, incompetent, as Father points out, mainly because they have rejected the sole authority of Christ as their Sovereign King. Only in the True Church is there hope. Father reminds us of what St. Paul admonished and what Our Lady lamented at Fatima regarding sins of the flesh, and he entreats us to shun those things that would harm our souls by being vigilant in the custody of the eyes and closing our ears to the cacaphony of the satanic din that is called 'music' today. If we give in we are dead to sin. These noises are the sirens of satan and we can only shut them out by taking refuge at the Door of Salvation - Jesus Christ. He will muffle the noise of the world with His love, mercy and compassion in raising us up above the din by His pronouncing "I say to thee, arise."
    Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
    Kevin Tierney takes a cue from the Traditional Gospel where Our Lord raises up the young man, making him new again - renewed and pure as in Our Lord's words in today's Gospel "I say to thee, arise". Kevin illustrates which Proper is in accord with the fullness of Faith and the fact that Christ indeed can manifest miracles and can raise us up from the mundane to the heights of grace if we are open to His Will for He will have compassion on us. Kevin compares this to the Novus Ordo Proper which may omit the heart of the message for it includes negative theology and that is frowned on in the New Order. As Kevin points out the Traditional Mass gives us the Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth, while the Novus Ordo goes out of its way to omit the essence of man - his soul - because that would be politically incorrect for modern time and might offend man. Never mind how much God is offended! Kevin explains in comparing the Traditional Proper of the Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost with the Novus Ordo 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time in The Soul Reason We Can Leave No Stone Unturned!
    In Living our Faith
    In our revised series on emphasizing the practical aspect of our Faith from a totally Traditional Catholic perspective, we continue to treat in this issue the First Article of the Apostles' Creed - statement of belief which contains the basis for what Catholics must believe. These particular chapters are taken from Bishop Morrow's My Catholic Faith. Other chapters will be taken from that excellent Authentic Roman Catholic work as well as "The Catholic Church Alone - The One True Church of Christ" (1902), "Cabinet of Catholic Information" (1904), and "The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church" (1907). There will be other reputable, unerring works we will be referencing - all before Vatican II including Father George Leo Haydock's comprehensive Catholic commentaries from the Douay-Rheims Version of Sacred Scriptures. You'll also note that all pronouncements by Our Lord in Divine Revelation are characterized in red type to distinguish the Word made flesh. Today we focus on the First Article of the Apostles' Creed God the Supreme Being
    On Gabriel's Clarion
    With the Olympics in the rear-view mirror, football season upon us and pennant races heating up, sports garners the attention of many males, but it is three women to whom Gabriel Garnica focuses on in showing that two are running the good race as St. Paul refers to in 1 Corinthians 9, while another has abandoned virtue for the temporal treasures that might make her seem brave and powerful to those who oppose God, but a truly pathetic figure to those who realize hers is a corruptible crown. Gabriel explains in his column Define Bravery and You Define Your Values
    Traditional Insights
    Mario Derksen emerges after several months with some new perspectives on things and which are his opinions and not necessarily the stance taken by The Daily Catholic. Yet, since what he provides in no way contradicts the constituted evangelic traditions and can be documented by what Holy Mother Church has professed and determined from Peter through Pius XII, we have decided it has much merit for our readers for Mario has studied these issues in depth. He tackles today the Message of La Salette and poses the question if Pope Benedict XV or Pius XI were alive today would they still be so guarded about these messages if they knew indeed the grave crisis that has occurred within the bosom of Holy Mother Church today. The times grow darker as more and more principles and truths are compromised. The Church is nearly in eclipse. Were we not warned by Heaven? Mario explains in his column in part one of the Eclipse of the Church: 1958 and Beyond
    HOT ISSUES
    Cardinal Ambrozic of Toronto
    Hot off The Remnant pages, editor Michael Matt reports the most recent progress or lack thereof between Father Stephen Somerville and Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic who is truly playing hard ball with the Traditional priest in persecuting and cajoling Father to submit to the heresies of Vatican II. Father is going through the proper channels, but we all know that will get him nowhere. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Father Nicholas Gruner can attest to that futility. Matt provides the latest correspondence as it is obvious The Remnant has become a burr in the Cardinal's saddle. By way of a reminder, Father Somerville is the retired priest who Mel Gibson trusted implicitly to say Holy Mass for him on the set of The Passion of The Christ. As we said before, maybe, just maybe this will get Mel's attention of something that has long been needed and which we specifically addressed in our open letter to Mel Turn the mirage into a Miracle! in which we petitioned Mel to set up a fund for priests to leave the exile of the NOM and return home to Tradition without worrying about insurance and pension funds or pandering to the Modernists. Read Canadian Cardinal "Ups the Ante" Against Mel Gibson's Chaplain UPDATE
    "Quid dicit Scriptura?"
    Jacob Michael resumes his series on "Mother's Medicine: Mary as Mediatrix" with his fourth and last installment on the Mother of God's specific mission as Mediatrix of all graces and the affirmation of Mary's role in suffering as recorded in St. Luke and the prophesy of Simeon who proclaimed "Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed." Jacob shows how the four elements of this prophesy illustrates Our Lady's instrinsic role in the Passion and Redemption and how thus she serves as the channel of all graces. This is illustrated clearly in the Scriptures manifested in The Presentation in the Temple
    In Living our Faith
    In our revised series on emphasizing the practical aspect of our Faith from a totally Traditional Catholic perspective, we begin with the Apostles' Creed, which contains the basis for what Catholics believe. This particular chapter is taken from Bishop Morrow's My Catholic Faith. Other chapters will be taken from that excellent Authentic Roman Catholic work as well as "The Catholic Church Alone - The One True Church of Christ" (1902), "Cabinet of Catholic Information" (1904), and "The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church" (1907). There will be other reputable, unerring works we will be referencing - all before Vatican II including Father George Leo Haydock's comprehensive Catholic commentaries from the Douay-Rheims Version of Sacred Scriptures. You'll also note that all pronouncements by Our Lord in Divine Revelation are characterized in red type to distinguish the Word made flesh. The Apostles' Creed
    On Gabriel's Clarion
    Gabriel Garnica addresses an aspect of John Kerry that hasn't been discussed but is evident throughout his gauntlet in the public limelight as his past is attacked for his lack of integrity. It is how he reacts today that shows he still cannot connect the dots, cannot find the one missing link in ascending order that would free him from the slavery of denial and stubborn humanism. Until that True Chain of Command is righted, Kerry will continue to come up short just as the New Order church has come up short in trying to convince True Catholics that it is still Catholic. Kerry is no longer Catholic even though he says so. But what he says and does tells the measure of a man. This is what Gabriel zeroes in on in his column The Vital Missing Link in the True Chain of Command
    Traditional Thoughts
    Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
    In honor of the Double of the Second Class Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Tradition In Action shares an excellent essay on this feast as the late Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira provides a meditation on how Our Lady is beyond compare and why this feast is so special in the life of the Church. One such aspect of interest is that on her feast days it is said she visits Purgatory to welcome countless souls into Heaven with God's blessing. Another reason we need to keep the holy souls in our prayers for someday, when our time as members of the Church Militant are completed, we may need this during our time in the Church Suffering before Blessed Mary comes to escort us into membership in the Church Triumphant. The professor shows the necessity of the Communion of Saints through the Queen of Saints in his short commentary on The Nativity of Our Lady
    The Sanity of Sanctity
    Need a little extra devotional prayer to add to your daily Rosary? What follows is a litany to all of the saints whose feast days are celebrated in the month of September. Many of these saints are little-known and often are not, for that reason, invoked in our prayers. Thanks to Jacob Michael, readers can add this short litany to your daily Rosary, having the benefit of invoking the prayers of some of these lesser-known saints for the rest of the month. Litany of September Saints
    "Qui legit, intelligat"
    In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost, he points to the fact that we cannot put our hopes or trust in man for, as evident from the actions of the post-conciliar church in sync with the world, the things of God come secondary to the things of man. It is a barometer today that Catholics were not shocked by the heretical words uttered by John Paul II in mid-August in upholding the Masonic Creed of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. So dumbed down have so many become that error can be trumpeted as truth and few blink. Today's Gospel warns against serving mammon for Jesus clearly states "No man can serve two masters" and those who try, well, pray for them and pray for the Social Kingship of Christ to materialize in God's time as we are encouraged to seek a devout life devoid of the thorns and thistles growing up on unstable ground that threaten to choke the life out of the modern church and society. We have Christ's promise that those who build their house upon the rock and believe in Him, keeping His commandments, shall not perish. Father leaves us with this strong ray of faith, hope and love in his sermon today. "God so loved the world..."
    Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
    Kevin Tierney points out how the Traditional Latin Mass this week emphasizes man's total dependence on God and follows the logical conclusion that if we cooperate with God He will provide all we need in order to attain eternal happiness with Him. Kevin laments if only the Novus Ordo were as succinct and clear. But alas, that is not possible with such a synthetic concoction as the NOM, which only clouds the mind more with the abrasive New American Bible translations that gut Sacred Scripture of so much in inordinately focusing on man. He explains in his column for the first Sunday of September Is it really out of the Ordinary to be dependent on God?
    In Living our Faith
    This Labor Day weekend we launch a revised series originally laid out in our Appreciating the Precious Gift of Our Faith series. This time, we want to emphasize the practical aspect of our Faith from a totally Traditional Catholic perspective so Catholics, so confused by the bafflegab and ambiguity of the compromising post-conciliar church can better understand what the Catholic Faith truly teaches and what it forbids. Thus in keeping with the spirit of this weekend we begin this work Ora et Labora with the basic tenet of Catholic catechesis Why Did God Make You?
    Deprogramming Diabolic Disorientation
    William Kennedy, author of "Lucifer's Lodge", provides a brief essay in which he effectively debunks the heresies inherent in the blasphemous trash book by Dan Brown called "The Da Vinci Code" which questions the blood lineage of Jesus Christ and the heresy that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. It is rubbish and Bill identifies why. Brown's anti-Catholic work needs to be exposed for what it is: FICTION, with not a shred of truth to the Modernist author's premises. William clearly identifies and refutes two of the chief premises which Brown bases everything else. A house built upon sand cannot stand and Bill Kennedy exposes the rotting beams holding up the house of cards known as The Da Vinci Code in his short essay The Da Vinci Code: Debunked and Junked!
    In FOCUS
    Jacob Michael offers some sobering thoughts in tweaking the consciences of Traditional Catholics everywhere to consider what this 'business' of salvation truly entails. On this Feast of St. Pius X, he points out that we need to focus less on the juicy news and more on the pulp of prayer and penance in helping restore all things in Christ. He urges all to focus on if we're doing enough to keep ourselves on the straight and narrow and not worry about all the wreckage going on in the Novus Ordo establishment. It's inevitable it is going to happen and rather than looking for the carnage as ambulance chasers, let us put our minds to knowing and practicing our Faith so when the collapse does occur, we can be their with the net to help save souls, primarily our own by offering whatever we do for the greater honor and glory of God and for the souls in Purgatory. That's the essence of being a member of the Church Militant as he explains in his column Assisting in the Restoration
    Shears and Tears of a Lamb
    Catharine Lamb follows in the same vein as Jacob as she comes to the conclusion that nothing is going to get done while the present regime reigns for the Chair of Peter is Sede-vacation - since the pope is seldom there and when he is, well who knows what he is going to say. No anathemas have been pronounced, discipline is a thing of the past, and collegiality has taken over. If we allow these overwhelming situations to depress us it won't help our own spirituality and therefore only through prayer and penance can we expect the abbeys, seminaries and convents to be teeming with vocations again. It won't happen in the Novus Ordo no matter what novelty they come up with. Catharine advises we chalk that up and move on. It's time we're resigned to the fact that we need to know our Faith and seek to improve our own prayer life in the Traditional Latin Mass and other devotions so Catholic before the abandonment of the Faith by the Modernists. She points this out in her column Vacation Anyone?
    The Sanity of Sanctity
    In honor of the holy Pontiff Pope St. Pius X, the only Pope to be canonized since Pope Saint Pius V, we provide a detailed essay on his life and accomplishments for during his reign all was right within the Church. True outside and plotting were the Modernists, Masons and Communists, but due to his strong pontificate they didn't dare show their heads. One would have thought his strong decrees including the Oath Against Modernism and his encyclical on the dangers of Modernism Pascendi Dominici Gregis would have been enough to stave off what he referred to Modernism as the "Mother of all heresies," but then who would have thought Quo Primum would ever be tinkered with either. Nearly a century later we must remember the wisdom of this holy Pope and do all we can to restore all things in Christ. That begins with each one of us doing our small part. His life helps inspire us as you'll see in The Pope of the Blessed Sacrament


    On Gabriel's Clarion
    Gabriel Garnica weighs in on the sad plight of France. This once mighty fortress of the Faith has practically lost all semblance of the sensus Catholicus. To make matters worse, the pope of modern Rome travels to one of the most holy of Marian Shrines and proclaims for all the world to hear the Masonic Creed of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Tolerance. To compound the anathema, he did so on the 150th anniversary of Pope Pius IX's proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. While Gabriel laments how far France has fallen, in reading between the lines we can see how far the papacy has plumetted since men named Pius ruled the Primacy of Peter with respect and Fear of the Lord. This, sadly, has been lost on the modern popes who prize placating man above pleasing God. Gabriel lays out the facts in his column France is Falling!
    Echoes of True Catholicism
    though it may look like these women are nude, they are wearing skin tight leotards while marching before the pope in 1984Note the discipline of custody of the eyes is sorely missing
    The Olympics are over, though few paid much attention to all the commercial hype. For that we are thankful and many, including the editor, didn't watch any of it at all. Neither did Dr. Marian Therese Horvat and she gives an indication why by broaching a subject few talk about, but is part of the core of masculinizing women today: Sports and the short shorts they wear. Marian points out the immodesty inherent both in apparel and activities that have deteriorated to brutal combat where all femininity is removed and the absurd and obscene take over. An example is the photo above taken from TIA of women in tight, tight leotards - yes, they are covered but it wouldn't look like it from the photo above - who marched for the Pope in 1984 to his thunderous approval! The book, published by Marian and Atila Sinke Guimarăes, Previews of the New Papacy, has hundreds of pictures that show the laxity in the Papacy today. This is not as it should be nor as it was just a short several decades ago. Marian bases her argument not on just her personal opinion, but on the words of vigilant popes - yes, we did have such before Vatican II allowed for the demasculization of men and defeminization of women. Today women wear leotards and suggestive wear while taking part in Papal Masses no less, so we shouldn't be surprised that the modern Vatican saw fit to place more importance on establishing a special Sports commission for the brotherhood of man rather than cleaning up the charlatans in wolves' clothing who pose as bishops, scandalizing so many and causing countless Catholics to lose their Faith and disuading anyone from converting to the True Faith. Marian shares the wisdom of Holy Fathers Pius XI and Pius XII in her column on decency in how one should comport oneself and finishes with the solid words of the Angelic Doctor. She explains the perennial moral teaching of the Church in her article Women in Sports: Natural and Unnatural Challenges to Purity
    The Fatima File
    John Vennari, editor of Catholic Family News, provides the latest volley in exposing the lies coming from the Modernist humanists. He is one of the chief journalists who has been at the forefront in exposing the unCatholic skimble-skamble coming from the Rector of Fatima in trying to cover-up the inevitable - an interfaith shrine at the Cova where the ugly heresy of ecumenism will be celebrated much to Our Lady's chagrin. In his signature piece appearing this month in CFN, he documents on film the facts that prove Monsignor Guerra, the Shrine Rector, is either living on another planet or is lying. You be the judge. Also, with this undeniable proof, surely Father Robert Fox of the Fatima Apostolate has to see how he himself has been deceived and come clean himself, beginning with an apology to Traditional Catholics for not abandoning Our Lady's plea when all others have. John dots the i's and crosses the t's in getting to the crux of the matter in his excellent article, which, because of its length, we are carrying only this article today so readers can take their time reading his insight and facts. As Jack Webb used to say, "Just the facts, sir." Well, that's what Vennari provides in Shrine Rector Attempts to Justify Hindu Prayer Service at Fatima

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