 The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes highlights this last week in the Time after Epiphany. We complete the Nine-Day Novena to her with the Novena Prayers at Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals, which is an excellent traditional Catholic site with so many devotional prayers and information that we heartily recommend you peruse this site for all the orthodox gems they offer for enhancing one's spiritual life.
We can use all the aids and knowledge possible to maintain the true Faith in the face of the aggressive Great Apostasy that has eclipsed the true Church of Christ. That is why trust in Our Lady's words in reaffirming Catholic truth are so vital and why the story of Lourdes continues to this day with the healing waters, albeit tainted by the CONciLIAR infiltration that has diluted the authority of Our Lady's purpose, eclipsing the altars by placing tables up against and apart from the holy altars and totally vulgarizing the sacred sanctuaries of Lourdes and everywhere else practically throughout France and the world. Such are the bitter fruits of the Great Apostasy over the past 50 years. It was His Holiness Pope St. Pius X who established this feast in 1907, the very same year he issued the decree Pascendi Domenici Gregis condemning Modernism. Looking back nearly fourteen years ago now, we can see the significance Lourdes played in our own personal lives for it was the healing waters that cured us of our blindness to truly see what was wrong in the Church. Our Lady peeled the scales from our pupils and our souls to begin to realize true Popes could not possibly have perpetuated the progressive agenda and alter doctrine the way the Vatican 2 'popes' had done by embracing heresies condemned by previous true reliable Popes. Our epiphany was the beginning of a beautiful relationship with the only alternative possible to assure the gates of hell have not prevailed: Sedevacantism.
And that is something that is fast coming to the forefront where those in the Recognize-and-Resist camps, that is, those who recognize the Vatican 2 'popes' as true, but choose to resist what they teach or say, will have to come to a decision soon. Either they are in schism by clinging to the belief that the Church can teach error, contrary to what His Holiness Pope Pius IX decreed in Pastor Aeternus that "the See of Peter always remains unimpaired by any error", or they will realize there is no other alternative but to admit the Chair of Peter is vacant and, despite the financial hit they might take for such a "radical idea" that they claim is "untenable", begin to truly realize the salvation of their souls must take priority over worldly wealth and the approval of man.  His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson, who, along with nearly 150 priests, has launched out on his own to create a mirror SSPX after leaving the original Society of St. Pius X, has stirred up the embers by trying to refute sedevacantist arguments in his weekly Eleison Comments. In truth, he has met his Waterloo with the excellent reply by Novus Ordo Watch that is a must read to everyone who values their Faith and salvation. For it is shown that what the Church established and approved as a time of sede vacante between the election of true Popes is not just a theological opinion that you can choose to ignore, diss or ridicule, but rather a must if you truly believe in all the Church has taught. Yes, a must and that is why this is a must read That "Anxiety"...Bishop Williamson and Sedevacantism
The installments provided by the late Fr. James F. Wathen should be further proof of the error the CONciLIAR church and it's 'popes' spread with the universal decree of mandating the "abomination of desolation" (cf. St. Matthew 24: 15) known as the Novus Ordo Missae and we know the Catholic Church and Her Vicars of Christ cannot preach error. As you read the six installments this week you'll realize this fact. We also continue our one-two punch with the thought-provoking Revelations to St. Bridget of Sweden, which clearly reveal that, while God is most merciful, He is also equally most just.
One who was aware of this was the holy Doctor of the Church St. Cyril of Alexandria whose feast is commemorated on the Fifth and Final Sunday after Epiphany this year. Through all the persecution, he was the "Defender of Theotokos, the Mother of God.      One also devoted to Our Lady was the holy virgin and foundress St. Scholastica whose feast we celebrate on Monday. Tuesday is, of course, the 156th Anniversary of the Apparition at Lourdes, and Wednesday we honor the Seven Holy Servite Founders. On Friday we commemorate the feast of St. Valentine who gave his life for Christ - a day that the rest of the world remembers with candy and flowers, but few remember the origins of this day, just as they forget how Christianity has influenced so many other days of the year and customs.
And so, as Mr. Bergoglio the unFrancis gladly allows himself to be plastered all over on covers of worldly and very sinful magazines; as the notion of collective salvation is advanced and the idea that liberation theology "isn't such a bad thing", we know it is and ask all to realize that each one of us is responsible for our own salvation. Why? Because we've all been given the blueprint before Vatican Two. Guess what? It still works. Guess what else? The new-fangled CONciLIAR religion doesn't work. That is why we find more waking up after praying for the grace to see, truly see, and that is where twitter can be a great means of conversion one soul at a time. That's why, to paraphrase an axiom in less than 140 characters, brevity is the soul of witnessing. Yes, it's time consuming, and time is a premium right now for this editor as I want to dedicate as much time as I can to caring for my bride of nearly 33 years Cyndi, who is just recovering from the flu and with her immune system so weak, I have to make sure she does not have a relapse. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. Be assured you all are in hers as she clutches her Rosary and clinches her teeth to hide the intense pain she suffers.
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Today the recurring theme of Our Lord's miracles is reaffirmed through His doctrine which filled the Jews of Nazareth with wonder (Communion). Christ is our King for He welcomes not only Jews but also Gentiles into His kingdom. Called through pure mercy to share in the Mystical Body of Christ, we must ten in our turn, show mercy to our neighbor since we are made one with our neighbor in Christ Jesus (Epistle). In doing this we shall have need of patience, since
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There is a commemoration today for the feast of the holy Doctor of the Church St. Cyril of Alexandria He manifests in this act His Divinity and the Church takes a portion from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, where ...More
Father Benedict Hughes, CMRI provides a sermon, via Traditional Catholic Sermons, on how to Avoid Unnecessary Occasions of Sin
Eighth Day of
Novena in Honor of Our Lady of Lourdes
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The foundress of the Benedictine Nuns - Saint Scholastica, whose feast has always been celebrated on February 10th, was Saint Benedict's twin sister. Both were born in 480 near Umbria and Sabina in Norcia, Italy.
Close from birth, both dedicated themselves to God from an early age. When Benedict went off to become a monk, Scholastica became a nun. When Benedict built Subiaco, Scholastica was at a monastery nearby also establishing convents for Benedictine nuns. She later followed her brother to Montecassino where she entered a monastery at Piumarola, Italy.
It was there she died in 543 at the age of 67 with Benedict by her side. After a short visit with his sister, Benedict had intended to leave, but the weather was so fierce he had to stay.
It was then he realized she was dying and that God had prevented him from going back to his monastery for this reason. He prayed with her by her bedside for three straight days. On the third day she succumbed and Benedict writes that he saw her soul rise to Heaven in the form of a pure, white dove.
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Also listen to Bishop Daniel Dolan's Sermon on St. Scholastica
Ninth and Final Day of
Novena in Honor of Our Lady of Lourdes for tomorrow's feast commemorating the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes.
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Often overshadowed by her more famous brother St. Benedict, good St. Scholastica had a way of dealing with the head of great Order he founded. The well-known story of St. Scholastica, knowing she was going to die soon but not able to put in proper words to her brother, called upon God to open the floodgates in response to her prayers with rain when it was as clear as the stars outside. The torrents prevented Benedict from returning to his monastery and for the next three days they remained together, speaking of things of Heaven and the subsequent sight of the dove lifting toward Heaven upon her death. John Gregory provides insight into this for her feast, calling upon the account of Pope St. Gregory VII, the Benedictine monk Hildebrand, as recorded in The Liturgical Year by the Benedictine Abbot Dom Prosper Gueranger. For the Feast of St. Scholastica see, God's Dove of Love: St. Scholastica
 
In Chapter Eighty-Two of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, our Lord visits the bride to share with her what He expects in a bride and that is a devout soul. That soul should watch over the senses just as if it were her body as He reminds her of her senses, including a mouth that speaks only truth with lips that protect the tongue from saying things one would regret in Christ's presence - which is always; eyes that guard modesty to protect from temptation; and ears that refuse to hear gossip. He explains how important these senses are in not taking anything in that would be harmful and a mind that keeps its focus on Jesus and the great love He extends as evident from His Passion and Death in His beautiful explanation of the senses of mouth, eyes and ears for a clean body, a steadfast heart, a faithful soul and a mind focused on only things of good will.
What a bride should have.
  The late Father James F. Wathen continues with part two of Chapter Three, focusing on the holy dogmatic Council of Trent and the True Mass. He points that it was Trent that elevated the Mass to the importance and infrangibility it deserves and is, as Fr. Faber called it, "the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven". Father tackled the source of what we must all believe, the infallible dogmatic Council of Trent for as he writes "If you and I have any inkling of the the holiness and the necessity of the Mass, it is due in no small degree to the Council of Trent" and, as he illustrates, it is Trent that reinforced the True Mass in the face of the devastating Protestant Revolution. Other than a few traditional watchmen, few realized in the sixties and early seventies that the Revolution had returned with a vengeance thanks to the devil's dealings.
The Council of Trent and the True Mass
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From February 11 to July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary came down eighteen times from heaven (Introit), and showed herself to Saint Bernadette Soubirous (Collect), in the cave of the rock at Massabielle (Gradual). On March 25, she said to the little shepherdess of 14 years of age: "I am the Immaculate Conception." Today's feast therefore recalls Mary's triumph over the serpent.
Like the woman St. John saw "clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars over her heart" (Epistle), the Virgin of Lourdes "is clothed in a robe and veil as white as snow, she wears a blue girdle and on her bare feet rests a golden rose", all symbolic of her virginal love. She exhorts to penance the unfortunate children of Eve who have not been like herself preserved from sin. On the day of the Annunciation she declared her name to us, to manifest that it is on account of the Incarnation (Collect) that God has vouchsafed to her "not to be tainted with the original
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 Also listen to a Sermon by Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI on Our Lady of Lourdes
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  Today on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, ask yourself if, in studying the "Age of Mary" do we really comprehend what Heaven has conveyed? More importantly are we willing to admit it takes sincere humility to be strong enough to curb our own fallen human nature and convert a complacent conciliar community, locally and globally, who seek happiness on earth with no thought to the consequences of the hereafter? On this 156th Annersary of the first Apparition, Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey relates how the Lady in white has played such a significant role in his life and why every Catholic must heed her message of Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for Sinners
In Chapter Eighty-Three of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Jesus continues to share with the bride how He loves her in three ways, as a Husband loves his bride, a Master loves His servant and a Father loves His son or daughter. In turn, she should love our Lord as a faithful wife, never wanting to be separated from Him and always thinking of Him and seeking to fulfill His every want, i.e., God's Will. As a good servant she should love her Master always being loyal to Him in all things, and as a good child to love her Father with a filial obedience to all He says for her to do. These are the spiritual and profitable explanations Christ shares with her on the necessities of a life striving for holiness.
Express your love of God in three ways.
 Father Wathen presents the facts to show how the Novus Ordo in no way passes the test and posits Pope St. Pius V's Quo Primum codification of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to be said for all time and everywhere. Quite a contrast to what has been pushed on the people, a term Montini and his conciliar successors used instead of calling them the faithful. Father lays it out the penalties for violating the laws set down by Trent and St. Pius and how his successors would be bound morally to uphold and enforce these dogmatic laws as he explains in in Chapter Three, part three St. Pius V, Quo Primum, and the True Mass
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In Chapter Eighty-Four of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, our Lord continues His advice to the bride, this time a short soliloquy on why He made woman subject to man for He describes three specific men, known to us in the Old Testament as a king whose lover treated him with disdain and whom Christ called a crowned donkey; the mighty Samson who was taken down not by someone of equal strength but by the wiles of a woman, whom we know as the devilish Delilah. For this Jesus says he had the heart of a hare and, as we know, lost his hair. Finally He identifies Solomon who He compares to a basilisk, the deadly lizard-like serpent which could kill with its glare. So also the wise, but vain King was felled by the glance of a woman.
Beware of man's greatest downfall.
We continue with installments of Father James F. Wathen's irrefutable work written in 1971. This was only six years after the close of the Vatican Two Council and few had the foresight or true knowledge of Catholicism to call Paul 6 on the carpet for this, the greatest of sins against God - the "abomination of desolation" as Christ warned in St. Matthew 24: 15. It was, he warned, a very grave sin. Father warned that Montini was the antithesis of St. Pius V and that he had, indeed, incurred what the holy Pope had said "the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul". Is there any other way to say it considering how in retrospect the CONciLIAR church has been the bane of so many souls just as satan designed it and how it grows more bizarre and non-Catholic by the day, hour, and year as we see in retrospect, as Father explains in part four of Chapter Three, because of The Act
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The recurring theme of Our Lord's miracles is reaffirmed through His doctrine which filled the Jews of Nazareth with wonder (Communion). Christ is our King for He welcomes not only Jews but also Gentiles into His kingdom. Called through pure mercy to share in the Mystical Body of Christ, we must ten in our turn, show mercy to our neighbor since we are made one with our neighbor in Christ Jesus (Epistle). In doing this we shall have need of patience, since in God's kingdom here on earth there are both good and bad, and it is only when our Lord comes to judge men, as described in the Last Sunday of
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Also listen to Bishop Daniel Dolan's Sermon on St. Catherine of Ricci
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In Chapter Eighty-Five of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Christ reveals to the bride that He is an open book for He shows her two pages, on one page is His divine Mercy in which He extends to all His compassion for those willing to follow His holy Will. On the other page He shows His divine Justice to remind all that no one can escape His judgment for all will die and their sentence will be by either water, that is doing penance in this life, or fire, by being cleansed longer in Purgatory if the soul can escape hell. Jesus advises the former by turning to His Mercy and converting to strive toward holiness so that we will not fear His Justice.
Choose God's Mercy over His Justice.
 Father next took full aim at the shaman posing as the tragic Hamlet-like 'pope' Paul 6, who enabled the demonic apostate mess and tried to pass off this "New Mass" as a continuation of tradition when, in truth, it was a direct detour from the apostolic canonical Latin Mass of All Ages in denuding the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass from its sacrificial aspect. When's a sacrifice not a sacrifice? When it's the Novus Ordo, but that didn't stop Montini from trying to defend it with bafflegab and contradiction and plenty of ambiguity to dupe the faithful into believing they had to do it because the 'pope' said it and the bishops went along with it. It was the perfect scenario that quite possibly even lucifer hadn't thought would ever come about so quickly. A revolution without a shot being fired as seen in part five of chapter three, Paul VI's Defense
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In Chapter Eighty-Six of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, the Mother of God returns to console the holy widow of Sweden as Our Lady likens herself to a flower from which bees gather sweet honey. Keeping this simile in tact, Mary shares that the bees are the servants and chosen ones of God who continually gather the nectar of grace from the Blessed Virgin Mary and, like worker bees they labor for the Queen Bee, the Immaculate Queen of Heaven, with their spiritual wings, feet, knowing that if they fail they will lose their sting and die in the state that will not be sweet to God Who wants us to honor the only woman ever conceived immaculately. It is a sweet thought on this St. Valentine's Day
Bee happy and serve the Queen of Heaven.
 The eclipse of the true Church had begun as Father James F. Wathen alerted all in his book and he was one of the few who felt it was necessary to publish his findings and to counter the ridiculous claim that this new man-made concoction, influenced by six Protestants, was in line with the authentic tradition of the Holy Mass as Christ intended it. This, as we can see looking back at the ruin that is strewn in the path of the post-Vatican Two church is proof that Father was right and that Montini was truly trying to, and, unfortunately, successfully pulled the wool over the eyes of the obedient sheep who followed him right out of the true Church as we see in chpater three, part six where Father Wathen challenged Paul the Sick's contention that all he was doing was in accord with
The "Authentic Tradition"
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Today is the observance of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday in which we honor Our Lady, a fitting tribute to the end of the season of the Time after Epiphany and this week honoring Our Lady of Lourdes. The Blessed Mother has said in her approved apparitions to prepare by saying her holy Rosary as often as we can and doing penance for the conversion of sinners. Preparing is the watchword as tomorrow we begin the penitential Lenten Season with the preface of Lent in the Time of Septuagesima with Septuagesima Week, Sexagesima Week and the short three days of Quinquagesima Week leading to Ash Wednesday and the official start of Lent. Yes, we are 71 days from Easter and thus, as we put away the green vestments until the Time after Pentecost, we break out the purple for this holy season that begins tomorrow. Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of everlasting glory.
Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday
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In Chapter Eighty-Seven of Book Four of the Prophesies and Revelations of St. Bridget of Sweden, Christ returns and resumes His metaphor of the body and how Bridget can keep her body beautiful and unblemished. He compares parts of the flesh in a spiritual sense to the perfect love of God and of neighbor, especially the friends of God. He explains how our arms enfold Him and keep Him close to our own hearts, warmed by the fire of His unending Divine Love. The ribs are our very own parents, just as Eve was taken from the rib of Adam, and the skin that covers us represents our neighbor and will be radiant if we love our neighbor, and shrivel away if we do not. He concludes what the bride should do in a spiritual way is compared to what the phoenix does in a physical way, that is, to collect wood and burn herself up without burning away for the fire then will burn brighter and not be extinguished for she will rise above worldly things.
The Fire of Love .
 Father James F. Wathen continues with Chapter Three, this time calling out the CONciLIAR charlatans, specifically Giovanni Montini, aka Paul 6, on the assinine idea that he could justify the total ransacking of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, by saying the Roman Rite was only returning to ancient times as it had been before changes were made. It was a smokescreen to hide the ambiguities and devastating destruction of the Traditional Latin Mass as it had been said for centuries and had now come under full attack by what Montini's predecessor John 23 had enabled by calling the Council. Paul 6 used his chicanery under the guise of a "return to the liturgy of the Early Church" and Father knew this ruse would ruin all that is Catholic. He was right as we see today for in part ten, he proves it in The Roman Rite and Antiquarianism
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The Fatima Prayers
My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee; and I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not trust, and do not love Thee.
(repeat the above 3 times then bow your head in reciting the following:)
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in tabernacles throughout the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in unison with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.
O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
O my Jesus, it is for love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of poor sinners.
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When One Cannot physically Assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
For those who cannot be present for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we provide additional prayers that can be supplemented with the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and the PROPER OF THE DAY to enable you to better prepare yourself at home. Of course, this never replaces actually being there, but it is much better than attending the Novus Ordo services. Therefore we have gleaned from The Key of Heaven prayers to say at home. It is very comforting to know that the Holy Mass is offered for us even when we are not actually present. But to enjoy the benefits which it procures, we must by a SPIRITUAL COMMUNION become partakers of the altar from which we are temporarily banished. Here we provide prayers in preparation for fulfilling assistance in absentia in addition to the ORDINARY OF THE HOLY MASS and PROPER OF THE DAY. PRAYERS IN ABSENTIA
Prayer Before the Crucifix
Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight, and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst fix deep within my heart lively sentiments of Faith, Hope and Charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment, whilst with deep affection and grief of soul I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate Thy five most precious Wounds; having before my eyes the words which David in prophesy spoke concerning Thee, O Good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones."
Plenary Indulgence, Condition:
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Pope Pius IX, July 31, 1858
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