FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY
January 25-27, 2002
 volume 13, no. 15
  • FRIDAY: Feast of the CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL

  • SATURDAY: Traditional Feast of Saint Polycarp, Bishop who was martyred in 166. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops. Historical Feast of Saint Paula, Widow who assisted St. Jerome in translating the Latin Vulgate Bible. She died in 404.

    • SUNDAY: Traditionally Septuagesima Sunday; the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time in the new. Also the Traditional Feast of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. The golden-voiced preacher died in 407. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saint Angela Merici, Virgin and Foundress of the Ursulines who died in 1540.
                                  
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    IN TODAY'S ISSUE:

     Father forgive them...
    Remnant correspondent Christopher Ferrara gives first-hand accounts of Thursday's aberration at Assisi in reports sent by Gary L. Morella who adds his comments as well. Chris cites Pope Pius IX's Mortalium Animos to prove the grave error of such a gathering. As we can see from the photo to the right by Pier Paolo Cito this is not the Three Wise Men with the Holy Father but rather leaders of false religions being given recognition by the Vicar of Christ!!! Inside Assisi

     Christ or chaos
    Today Dr. Thomas Droleskey resumes his series on G.I.R.M. Warfare. He comments on paragraph 79 and 80 on the diminishing returns from sacking many of the canons of the Mass and replacing it with passive, limp 'Eucharistic Prayers' which eliminate so much of the essence surrounding the Consecration of the Mass. There is no precedent for this denuding the Mass of its treasures as Tom explains in his 36th installment Novus Ordo can't shoot straight without a Canon!
     Traditional Insights
    Mario Derksen continues with his young and refreshing Traditional Insights with a four-part series on The Crisis in the Catholic Liturgy. Today he highlights how the sacred has been eroded to where many Catholics have forgotten what to believe because the ways and means of how they worship and pray have been so drastically watered down and altered. But then what do you expect when the Altar is removed along with the tabernacle? When the crucifix is compromised and architectural, liturgical and hymnal trends lean more and more to Protestantism, then the common Catholic in the pew has no clue that he is being led astray as Mario points out in part two Lex orandi, lex credendi - How we pray is how we believe!
     The Fatima FILE
    In this issue we present the first in a new series on the consequences to the world and Russia for the failure to faithfully follow Our Lady's specific messages at Fatima. Despite the spin the post-conciliar church has put on the fulfillment of Fatima and the completion of the Third Secret, common sense, history and current events prove that the mission of Fatima has not been faithfully carried out. Through the good graces and permission of John Vennari of Catholic Family News we present the first set of articles, with part one - KGB Defector Confirms Fatima Message in an excellent, fact-filled feature by Cornelia R. Ferreira on The Perestroika Deception Updated

    WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED OVER THE PAST WEEK:

     Echoes of True Catholicism
    In yesterday's issue Dr. Marian Horvat completed a two-part piece on the Crusades, enlightening all as to what Christians - Catholics - need to realize and must believe despite all the rhetoric of tolerance toward Islam, which, in truth, is a false religion and any reference to anything otherwise is not true Roman Catholic teaching regardless of all the ecumenical spin even Rome puts on it. She pointed out how the Crusades were very necessary and in harmony with the Church Militant in part two of her column Understanding the Crusades

     Precious Gift of our Faith
    In Thursday's issue we continued a beautiful catechetical apologetic series taken from The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church on the true meaning of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The 256th installment continued to unveil the poetic, inspiring essence of why the Mass is the fulcrum of our Faith corresponding to the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ with Sacred Vessels.
     The Great Sacrilege
    Father James F. Wathen, O.S.J. has granted permission to publish his entire work which was first published by Tan Books in 1972, and which we urge you to read for everything he wrote back then is backed by the solid depositum fidei - the Sacred Deposit of the Faith and still holds true. It takes up where the Ottaviani Intervention left off as you saw with Part Five of Chapter Four - The New Form of Consecration - first part in THE "NEW MASS."
     Pro Life Prescriptions
    In Wednesday's issue Dr. Frank Joseph showed that Roe vs. Wade will continue as long as men like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer are allowed to wreak havoc in the manner of a modern-day Diocletian in his meticulous campaign to rid the state of pregnancy crisis centers. Dr. Frank addressed Spitzer directly, questioning his credentials as an attorney considering his tremendous lack of having the facts to argue his case. In truth he is not defending anyone's rights, but acting more as a lobbyist for the pro-aborts as Dr. Joseph pointed out in his column An Open Letter to Eliot Spitzer
     Exspectans exspectavimus Ecclesia Dei
    Many are asking if the agreement announced between post-conciliar Rome and the Brazilian contingent will weaken the Society of St. Pius X's stance and cause them to follow suit in accepting everything of Vatican II and the New Mass of Paul VI as legitimate just for the right to continue saying the Tridentine Mass. His Excellency Bishop Bernard Fellay responded in the second part of an interview conducted by and printed in The Latin Mass Magazine. His interview helps put into perspective what is really happening - even to the fact that the Vatican is, obviously, no longer a hierarchy as it had been for 2000 years, but now is considered by those in charge a democracy where if a minority dissent, then all systems close down. Such is the case as he related in part two: Bishop Fellay will hold firm to the tried and true
     Simply Sheen
    Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen continued in Wednesday's issue on the very topic so greatly twisted and misunderstood today: TOLERANCE - the devil's watchword, trying to guilt the just into accepting evil. In his 2nd part on tolerance, the Bishop pointed out there are many times when intolerance is not the evil agenda politically correct liberals falsely assess to it. Often times one must need to be intolerant of those things which threaten the sovereign rights of man as he illustrated in Truth is intolerant of error!
     Traditional Thoughts
    On Tuesday Father Jacques Emily decried the 'second scandal of Assisi' that will see a convoy of leaders from false religions on equal footing with the Vicar of Christ, thus demeaning the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and furthering the course of destruction. Rather than achieving the desired 'peace' such actions only bring more disharmony, relying also on what happened 16 years ago in direct contradiction to Pope Pius XI's encyclical on rejecting ecumenism. It's just more of the same ol' same ol' as he emphasized in Another Abomination in Assisi.
     The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart
    Tuesday we continued with the excellent work by Father Joseph McDonnell, S.J. first written during the Pontificate of Pope Saint Pius X and which, now out of print, Catholic Family News has given us permission to reprint following their publishing of it. It is a beautiful meditation and commentary to encourage more devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with Part Seven - Meditation on the 4th Promise.
     White Smoke, Black Fire!
    In the third episode of Chapter Five in Part II - "The Smoldering" a stunned Pat Gallagher began to learn more about the terrorism of the Legion of the Basilisk and the biblical reptilian link from his host Fasif Khadid as the latter began to relate the incredible causes and effects that have led to these dire times.
    Council of Vienne


      Six years into the 'Avignon Exile' which would last from 1305-1377, the Council of Vienne lasted two years. It was called in 1311 by the first of the Avignon Popes Pope Clement V in the city of Vienne just south of Lyons. The council suppressed the Knights Templars and Jacques de Molay, the one who laid the satanic seeds of Freemasonry. They had abused their privileges after the Crusades. Politics also played a huge role in this council with King Philip IV ruler of France being reinstituted in the Church after his legendary excommunication battle with Clement's predecessor Pope Boniface VIII who had issued his famous ex cathedra bull Unam Sanctam. The Council also condemned the heresies of the Beghards and Bequines as well as that of Quietism. For the full documents, see COUNCIL OF VIENNE

     Catholic PewPOINT
    Monday Editor Michael Cain highlighted a week which magnifies how the magnificent truths of Holy Mother Church have been twisted into saltless, profane pretzels of politically-correct pastoral pabulum by the post-conciliar church. That's tough to swallow! We could ask if this is anyway to live, but for the 44 million unborns, who are victims of Roe vs. Wade, any way to live would have been a better alternative. Yet, compromise is curtailing the chances of future preborn innocents by selling out principle all for the purpose of ecumenism and humanism. Is it all worth it? Definitely not as he pointed out in his commentary Something loyal Catholics find hard to stomach!
     Standing with the Church Militant On the BattleLine
    In Monday's issue Atila Sinke Guimarães continued a multi-part series The Ideal of the Universal Republic Blessed by the Conciliar Pontiffs first carried in Catholic Family News on the alarming trend of Rome to cater to the idea of a Universal Republic. Atila documents how the League of Nations and ultimately the United Nations came to be. In this process the Catholic state which had been the ideal throughout Europe was sacked in favor of the modern state which even the post-conciliar pontiffs have embraced as Atila illustrated in the second installment of his column In league with the League of Nations and the UN
         

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    Test your knowledge of the Faith and Church History:
    In the process of Saint Paul's conversion what happened to him?
    he could not hear
    he could not see
    he could not speak
    he could not move

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    Answer to yesterday's quiz:
    The author of the work "The Interior Castle" was Saint Teresa of Avila, the Carmelite nun who reformed her Order in the sixteenth century. "The Interior Castle", written in 1577, along with her other works "Autobiography", written in 1565 and her 1573 "The Way of Perfection", are considered spiritual classics. Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote the masterful "Summa Theologica"; Saint John of the Cross "The Dark Night of the Soul" and Saint Gertrude wrote "Love, Peace and Joy".


    An announcement that shook the world is still feeling the aftershocks 43 years later!

    Vatican IIPope John XXIII On this date 43 years ago while at St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls to celebrate the Apostle's Feast, Pope John XXIII shocked the world by announcing he would hold an Ecumenical Council. It caught most by surprise except those who had already been plotting for just such a golden chance to seize control of the Church by instilling their progressivist, humanistic agendas on the Council and drastically throw Holy MOther Church into a terrible crisis that would see conversions and vocations become almost nil and the Church veer from the path she had followed for 1950 years prior to John's so-called extemporaneous announcement. Three months after Pope Pius XII had died the die had been cast and John gave carte-blanche to all those dangerous theologians and philosophers whom Pius had so carefully kept in check because of their modernistis and heretical ideas.

    In each issue we will feature a special prayer to enhance your Catholic devotions

    Pater Noster

       Pater Noster, Qui es in Coelis, sanctificetur nomen Tuum, adveniat regnum Tuum, fiat voluntas Tua, sicut in Caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris; et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

    Also see Novena to Our Lady of Good Success and past prayers at Prayers and Devotions

     Liturgy of the Saints
     This is Respect Life Week and Promoting Christian Unity - through conversion, not compromise!

    MONDAY, January 21:
    Feast of Saint Agnes, Virgin who was beheaded by Diocletian in 304 She is the Patron Saint of the Children of Mary.

    TUESDAY, January 22:
    Feast of Saint Vincent of Zaragoza, Deacon martyred in 304. He is the Patron Saint of Seafarers and Winegrowers. Traditional Feast of Saint Anastasius, a Persian Monk who was martyred in 628.

    WEDNESDAY, January 23:
    Traditional Feast of Saint Raymond of Penafort, Priest and Patron Saint of Canon Lawyers who died in 1275, and Saint Emerentiana, foster-sister of St. Agnes, who was also a virgin and martyred in 304. Historical Feast of Saint Ildefonsus, a bishop who died in 667.

    THURSDAY, January 24:
    Traditional Feast of Saint Timothy, Bishop and Martyr who was a companion of the Apostle Paul and who died in 97 A.D. In the new liturgy Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church and Patron of Catholic Journalism, is observed.

    FRIDAY, January 25:
    Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul.

    SATURDAY, January 26:
    Traditional Feast of Saint Polycarp, Bishop who was martyred in 166. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops. Historical Feast of Saint Paula, Widow who assisted St. Jerome in translating the Latin Vulgate Bible. She died in 404.

    SUNDAY, January 27:
    Traditionally Septuagesima Sunday; the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time in the new. Also the Traditional Feast of Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. The golden-voiced preacher died in 407. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saint Angela Merici, Virgin and Foundress of the Ursulines who died in 1540. For reflections on Septuagesima Sunday, see Fr. Cusick's reflections


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