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LATER THIS WEEK:
Appreciating the Precious Gift of our Faith
 
Thursday we take a break from our catechesis on the Sacrament of Penance to honor the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven. This glorious feast celebrates Christ's last appearance on earth, the time of His humanity which was fulfilled. Ten days later His promise of leaving His Spirit would be fulfilled for He would be with His Church for all time as you'll see in The Ascension. For last week's installment on the Sacrament of Penance, see Purpose of Amendment
Echoes of True Catholicism
Dr. Marian Therese Horvat will return with her regular weekly column after giving up her slot the past three weeks to bring you the blockbuster review of the heretical Jewish Document released by the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Thursday Dr. Horvat will share powerful advice pointing out that while the Heavenly Father has given us excellent advice in the Ten Commandments, seeing that those laws are kept is part of the duties of a parent. Too often too many are concerned about what other people might think, while not ever considering what God thinks. Big mistake! as she explains in her column A Father's Good Advice to a Daughter For her last column, see Votive Candles, Fire, and the Love of God.
Christ or Chaos 
Thursday Dr. Thomas Droleskey will complete a two-part column on why peace cannot be achieved in the Holy Land. There will be no world peace until the world - all men of God accept Christ the King as their Sovereign King and that means both Jew and Arab renouncing their false beliefs and accepting Jesus as the Divine Messiah. Until they do, all attempts to have a lasting truce will be in vain as Tom emphasizes in the second part of his column There Will Never Be Peace Without Christ and His Church
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'll see in Thursday's issue when Father focuses on Chapter Five with Part One of The Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VI, Missale Romanum For last week's installment, see The Language of the "New Mass".
Traditional Insights 
On Friday Mario Derksen will continue with his series on the The Humanism of John Paul II with his 6th installment in which he provides the second part of his rebuttal to the arguments advanced by a FSSP priest who praised the Pope's Assisi fiasco. The Mass of All Ages that sustained and nourished saints and sinners for two millennia has been suppressed in favor of different confessions praying in their own traditions to false gods in direct violation of the First Commandment: "I am the Lord Thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods before Me!" as Mario explains in part six in his column Assisi Revisited: Responding to a Defense (II) For the first part last week, see Assisi Revisited: Responding to a Defene (I)
Christ or chaos
In Friday's issue Dr. Thomas Droleskey continues his popular series on G.I.R.M. Warfare when he analyzes paragraph 95 and then 96 which is actually redundant and just as ambiguous as 95 in intimidating the faithful into believing the claptrap of community solidarity. If someone would dare to focus on Christ at Mass, the sole purpose for being there, the Stalinist liturgists could accuse them of divisiveness as Tom points out in his 46th installment, Rigid Ridiculousnes. For Tom's installment last week, see The Rise and Fall of the Permanent Deaconate.
The Fatima FILE 
On Friday we continue a chronological account of the cover-up by Modern Rome as documented by Father Paul Kramer and brought to you through the good graces and permission of John Vennari, editor of Catholic Family News. Friday we present the time frame from 1984 through 1990 in part three of Chronology of a Cover-Up For last week's segment from Vatican II through 1983, see part two of Chronology of a Cover-Up.
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WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:
Defending Catholic Truth and Tradition  
In Monday's issue we brought you the final part - the seventh installment of a series by Atila Sinke Guimarăes, with Dr. Marian Therese Horvat assisting in translating and editing an orthodox, traditional, true Roman Catholic response in seven installments to the flawed document "The Hebrew People in its Holy Scriptures and the Christian Bible" issued late last year by the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Commission. It created quite a stir with a horror story in the New York Times in late January. Guess what? Those horror stories are true! Monday Atila looked at Ratzinger's Preface and then gave his own Conclusion to the document in his final installment of an essay that should truly alarm you regarding the Changes in Doctrine and New Anathemas
Catholic PewPOINT 
On Monday editor Michael Cain asked "Who do you trust?" Is it those promise breakers in the hierarchy who speak with forked tongue and lead souls closer to perdition in formulating a false religion, one with its roots in the Masonic and Kabalist creed with Communistic consequences or do you trust those remnant voices who stand with St. Athanasius contra mundum in preserving the True Faith? The answer is obviously the latter, but those who stubbornly continue to march in lockstep with the post-conciliar agenda can't see the forest through the trees - the bad trees planted by Vatican II as he revealed in a hard-hitting piece Our Trust Has Been Betrayed!
Doctors of the Church 
Monday's Doctor of the Church was another from the 4th century who also faced the intense persecutions and calumnies of the Arian bishops and suffered greatly, never complaining and living a life of austerity while his fellow Arian bishops lived high on the hog. Like his good life-long friend and fellow Doctor of the Church St. Gregory Nazianzen, he,too, came from holy stock and had two brothers who became bishops, a father, mother and sister who became saints. This Bishop of Caesarea, considered the "Orator of Orthodoxy" who we featured as the sixth on the chronological list was Saint Basil the Great
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"In the first place, the eyes must be mortified. We must abstain from looking at any object that may give occasion to temptation. We must also mortify our tongue, by abstaining from words of detraction, abuse, and obscenity. An impure word spoken in jest may prove a scandal to others, and sometimes a word of double meaning, said in a witty way, does more harm than a word openly impure."
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
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Your Passport to The
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Voyages (hits) on The IHS
DAILY CATHOLIC:
For April 2002, Voyages from 104 countries numbered:
1,133,013
Daily Average for April:
37,767
Total Voyages thus far in 2002:
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Daily Average for 2002:
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Total Voyages in 2001:
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In each issue we will feature a special prayer to enhance your Catholic devotions
  
Prayer for the Feast of Saint Stanislaus
"O God, for Whose honor the glorious bishop Stanislaus fell under the swords of the wicked; grant, we beseech Thee, that all who implore his aid, may obtain alutary answer to their prayers. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen."
From the Collect for today's Mass
For prayers posted thus far, see Devotions and Reflections
LITURGY OF SAINTS
TUESDAY, May 7:
Rogation Day. Traditional Feast of Saint Stanislaus of Krakow Bishop who was martyred in 1079. Historical feast of Blessed Gisele, Widow from the 11th Century who was the Mother of Saint Emeric.
WEDNESDAY, May 8:
Rogation Day. Vigil of the Ascension. Historical feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel in 525 and the historical feast of Saint Desideratu, Bishop of Bourges who died in 550.
THURSDAY, May 9:
SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD - Holy Day of Obligation. Traditional Feast of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop and Doctor of the Church who died in 389. Historical feast of Saint Pachomius, Abbot and Founder of Christian Monasticism. He died in 348.
FRIDAY, May 10:
Traditional Feasts of Saint Antonius, Archbishop of Firenze who died in 1459 and the traditional feast of Saints Gordian and Epimachus who were both martyred in 362. In the new, the feast of Blesssed Father Damien of Molokai, Priest who died in 1889. Historical feast of Saint Solange, Virgin who was martyred in 880. She is the saint invoked during time of drought.
SATURDAY, May 11:
Traditional Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles and Martyrs.Traditional feast of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on the Saturday following the Ascension. Historical feasts of Blesed Ladislaus of Gleiniow, Franciscan who died in 1505 and Saint Francis di Giorlamo, Priest and Apostle of Naples who died in 1716.
SUNDAY, May 12: MOTHER'S DAY
Sunday after the Ascension. In the new the 7th Sunday of Easter. Feast of Saints Nereus, Achilleus and Pancras who were martyred in the 1st century. Traditional feast of Saint Domitilla, Virgin who died in the 2nd century. Historical feast of Blessed Imelda Lambertini, Virgin who died in 1333. She is Patron of First Communicants.
For reflections on the Sunday Liturgy, see Fr. Cusick's reflections
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