Compassionate for the temporal and spiritual welfare of God's children, St. Pantaleon was promised that Christ would always be with him. Indeed He was for He appeared to St. Pantaleon during his tortures and foiled the saint's persecutors numerous times, to give the holy physician time to forgive and convert those who sought to punish him.
There is a commemoration at Sunday Low Masses for the holy martyr Saint Pantaleon. It is most appropriate this year that his feast falls on the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost when the gospel treats of Christ healing a man deaf and dumb. Pantaleon was a Venetian physician of Nicomedia who sacrificed riches and power because of his love for Jesus. Pantaleon's name in the Greek can be translated to "many shall obtain mercy". It was through the saints compassion that many were moved to conversion including his persecutors. Because he himself was converted by the priest Hermalaus, it was given him by Christ with the promise that Jesus would be with him at all times including during his martyrdom when our Lord appeared to him in the body of Hermalaus as St. Pantaleon was tortured on the rack and burned with flaming torches, then thrown into the sea and numerous other tortures that were miraculously prevented until Pantaleon fully accepted martyrdom by decapitation. He is the principal patron (along with St. Luke and Sts. Cosmas and Damian) of the medical profession. His blood liquifies on his feast day in the vial in which it is preserved at Ravello near Amalfi much in the same manner of St. Januario in Naples. For more, see Saint Pantaleon
To heal the deaf and dumb man, our Lord used no hocus pocus, no 'abracadabra' but merely separated the man from the crowd using only His Own finger and spittle and one simple word while groaning in empathy for the sinners still so deaf and dumb. It is a fitting parallel of one being healed in the confessional through the simple formula of absolution to those who are sincere of heart.
To enhance each Sunday's Epistle and Gospel we present, at least through this month, this special feature provided by John Gregory with the Haydock Commentary found at the bottom of each page of the Douay-Rheims Bible. We publish it here in conjunction with the Epistle and Gospel for the Sunday Mass, with the cogent comprehensive Catholic Commentary penned by Father George Leo Haydock because the type size is normally so hard to read and not everyone has access to the Commentary, let alone the authentic Catholic edition of Holy Writ. For the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost we see how St. Paul gives witness that only through the grace of God has he been able to accomplish what God has aided, elevated and cured of sin. That is the message of the Gospel indicating that the deaf and blind man represents the spiritual blindness and deafness mankind has contracted by turning from God and embracing the chaotic din of the world, the flesh and the devil which, ironically, causes spiriritual deafness and dumbness. Really dumb! Yet, with just one word from our Lord "Ephpheta" the man in the gospel is healed. So also by absolution in the Sacrament of Penance by a valid, truly ordained priest, can one's soul be similarly healed. You can better understand this in the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Haydock Commentary


Long have Feeneyites strained themselves by trying to lean on papal decrees as pitiful "proof" that they have not been in heresy all this time. But when push comes to shove all should realize their "doctrine of deception" has been so taken out of context that it has left the faithful with a mephetic stench for the past 60 years that needs to be cleaned up and sanitized for the sake of souls.
Thanks to Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey, who was given permission from Father Martin Stepanich, OFM S.T.D. to republish his excellent series of articles from the The Remnant back in the seventies, we've been able to bring you Father's no-nonsense authentic Catholic teaching on the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, which totally debunked Feeneyism then and does so again. This is only too evident as we link his final installment of this series in which Fr. Martin nails the heretic to the door, even though said heretic or heretics are so ashamed of their untenable position that they tried to remain anonymous. However Fr. Martin could easily see through the facade that the one trying to rebut Father's airtight arguments was the very one who had tried to elude Pope Pius XII in the fifties: none other than Fr. Leonard Feeney himself. As an added bonus to this final installment Tom adds an epilogue reinforcing the importance of the dangers of playing God in sitting in judgment of souls. Despite the fact that Fr. Martin and Tom are both both person non grata with The Remnant crowd, we pray that, through publication of all we have published on these pages of The Daily Catholic, both those stubbornly and pridefully clinging to the heresy of Feeneyism and those who still blindly acknowledge that a blatant manifest and material heretic could possibly be a true pope, will come to their sensus Catholicus and make no concessions whatsoever to the Robber Barons, the VulgArians of the counterfeit church of conciliarism beginning with Roncalli through Ratzinger and all their appointments per Pope Paul IV's truly ex cathedra (ergo: infallible when dealing with Faith and Morals) Papal Bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio. Thus we proudly present the final part of Fr. Martin Stepanich's Outside The Church There Is No Salvation, Part seven
The trap is so easy to fall into by allowing nuances of error until pretty soon it has become all-out heresy. Such is the case with Feeneyites in their stubbornness to acknowledge what Catholic doctrine teaches. Unfortunately too many have been duped into believing the spin the "doctors" of deception have foisted on the faithful.
We continue to bring you this series Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey has been given permission from Father Martin Stepanich, OFM S.T.D. to republish. It is part of an excellent series of articles that The Remnant so enthusiastically ran back in the seventies on the authentic Catholic teaching on the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. Those possessed of the false interpretation of the doctrine that outside the Church there is no Salvation made the same arguments then, with the same demonic fury and pride, that are being made today by their successors. So, as you can see, little has changed with the persistent stubborn pride of Feeneyites who continue to deceive. What is sad however is that Fr. Martin, a pioneer and giant of the Traditional Catholic movement, is today persona non grata to those who are presently floundering on the fence, flailing away in trying to justify a false pope and his Motu hoax. It is time they quit schmoozing heretics and join us in denouncing heresies for they are not just nuances of error, but, as this outstanding Franciscan priest states in all charity, outright heresy. He explains in exposing their misdirection with Outside The Church There Is No Salvation, Part five and six
While they clean up Sydney in the aftermath of the mess left by the Worldy Youth last week, isn't it time to call supposed non-profits to task for being profiteers of the debacle down under?
We haven't published much from the recent Wordly Youth Days that took place late last week because, frankly, it has nothing to do with true Catholicism or any kind of Catholicism for that matter. But Remnant wag Christopher Ferrara was sent down under to cover the anticipated abberations while still trying to justify the new Remnant policy that Benedict "is really trying to be a 'traditional pope'" whereas his actions have clearly illustrated what most of our readers already knew: He couldn't possibly be Catholic, let alone a Vicar of Christ. The base photo above left is from the Remnant article. We provide Gary Morella's preface to it and the link provided to Ferrara's piece "Sydney or Sodom?" in which Ferrera also takes Karl Keating of 'Catholic' Answers to task for missing the real target. But then Keating is not about getting to the real truth, but about padding his own pocket taking down a salary of over $200,000. a year while desperately sending out slick mailers pleading disaster to souls if his "non-profit" entity doesn't get these tracts in the hands of the youth. It's all about the money, folks, not souls. I doubt you'd find any Traditional Catholic ministry where the Executive Director takes a salary above the national poverty level. We here at the Daily Catholic take no salaries for our non-profit organization, nor do any of those Traditional non-profits we promote. Not so with the Motuarians and Vulgarians who accept Vatican II. Know this, those Novus Ordo mercenary "missionaries" are not prophets, but profiteers. Do you really think Keating paid his way to Australia with the money he gets in salary, or did he dip into "travel funds" (read 'donations') to cover costs? Not much different than a congressional junket where the people get ripped off with write-offs, but at 'Catholic' Answers they call it "faith trippin'." We provide Gary's pertinent preface to Ferrara's piece here and why there is so much Mass Confusion, mainly because "Benedict XVI is an enigma!"
Each time we worthily assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in person, we gain graces that are placed in a "golden chalice", so to speak, and is offered to God to be weighed in substance when we stand before Him at our Particular Judgment. The more we have filled this chalice, the better will it go for our spiritual welfare in eternity.
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In this time of Epikeia when the true Church is in eclipse and so few true Masses available, when we pray the Mass prayers and make a spiritual act of Communion at home, graces are also received and placed in a "silver chalice", as it were, which, of course, is not as valuable as the gold one, yet is efficacious when the time comes to make an accounting for our lives.
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