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I came across the story in the News of a young man called Josh.
This young man, who self identifies as straight/heterosexual, made news because he found out that the woman he has been dating is "Trans."
Obviously stunned and confused by this newly discovered information he took to that fount of all wisdom and knowledge, Reddit.
I find this whole thing truly fascinating for a number of reasons. First, because I predicted years ago that this sort of thing would happen .
Secondly, because I often reflect on the state of the world, the Church and people's lives to seek genuine answers to what we see happening today.
Trawling through his chat on Reddit has confirmed my reflections.
The whole "Trans" thing is, without a shadow of a doubt, the logical end game of the "Gay movement".
Indeed, it is the spirit of old Sodom distilled.
Let's look at this more deeply.
Sodomy, as we know from Sacred Scripture, Natural Law and consistent Catholic teaching, is a sin against nature which cries to Heaven for vengeance. People, members of the same sex, engage in sexual activity which lacks all complementarity and is always a dead deed.
Any Catholic with their faculty of reason still intact will recognised this.
But the "Trans" thing is much much worse. How so? Well, a man who self identifies as "gay" and lives as a Sodomite can, with the grace of God, convert and live a sexual life according to God's plan.
There are many heartening stories of such men and women, touched by grace, who are living beautiful lives, married with children.
Trangenderism (it is an ideology therefore an 'ism') is the most pernicious and perverse of them all, in my estimation.
Whilst Sodomy is against nature, Transgenderism DE-natures man. Men and women, created so by God, created in His image and likeness, are mutilated, destroyed and made unfruitful.
Of course, a "Trans" person can also convert and there are more and more cases of them. But, in this life, they have been de-natured. Their bodies are mutilated (often too young to understand the ramifications) and that beautiful Temple of God, the body, is desecrated for a lifetime.
Furthermore, transgenderism mimics the natural. It makes Sodomy (in its spirit) look like one man and one woman. But it is a lie. Just like the AntiChrist will appear like the true Christ. But it is a lie.
Going back to Josh's story, what can we learn? Well, let's take a look at some of his own words. Here a actual quotes from his messages on Reddit.
"Today, i found out a girl I'm really physically and mentally entranced by is actually MtF."
"Here's where I could use your advice, she came out today after I shared a kink list with her that showed I wasn't at all interested in MtF"
We can see what the problem is immediately.
1) He is entranced on a physical and mental level. In a trance. Hypnotised. Mesmerised.
2) The whole "kink" thing.
Answer? Lust.
People think Lust is just sexually desiring someone or something when they shouldn't. It is that. But it is also so much more.
Lust is accancer of the soul. It warps reason and intellect, leaving the person operating through mere exteriority. There is little to no interiority.
P*rnography is central to this process. It reduces those involved to the exterior. A woman is reduced to the outward appearance (breasts etc). People have been hollowed when they are called to be hallowed.
Lust is pernicious. The more one gives into it the more demands it makes. The more one gives into those demands the more it warps the mind. Around and around, spiralling down into decadence and depravity until the rock bottom they hit is the hard pavement of Hell.
Josh told this denatured man 'I still want you'
This young man's mind has been warped. He is not alone. There are, sadly, many men like Josh and an increasing number of women too.
Unbridled carnal desire strips a person of interiority and warps the intellect, reason and will. The whole notion of relationship has been divorced (yes, the pun was deliberate) from God's plan for man & woman.
Today, what matters most for many people is their "sexual appetite" as if they were choosing from a menu in their favourite restaurant. God's plan for marriage, based on natural, Godly complementarity, which brings forth fruits of new life and grace, is cast aside by one of the devil's masterstrokes, the cravings of Lust.
This is how low our society has sunken. That a self professed heterosexual/straight man will desire the exteriority of a denatured man parading as a woman.
Ultimately, the greatest victim is the Truth.
So why am I writing all of this?
That maybe, just maybe, someone out there by some miracle will read it and be saved. So many innocent children are being perverted from their tender years.
Statistics show that boys first view p*rn at the age of 10.
That is horrific. And that warping and perverting will take ever deeper roots in their minds and souls. It will ramp up as puberty sets in leading to serious spiritual, psychological, emotional and physical problems.
All this leads to an ever worsening of this situation. Sexual desire becomes an insatiable sickness. Over the years I have met many people with this sickness. It is absolutely devasting. It leaves a shell where a soul should be glistening with grace,
Marriage is blasphemed by twisted ideologues. Families destroyed. Lies hailed as Truth. A wasteland.
God never makes mistakes. Male and Female He created mankind. His design was for the family. One man and one woman created as a physical sign, a Sacrament in which He shows forth His plan for Bride (the Church) and the Bridegroom (Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ).
We are being demonically assaulted from all sides. Sex, sexuality, gender, the nature of the Church, the Mass and the Priesthood. All of this is under siege by a demonic ideology seeking to destroy God's vision.
Of course, it will not succeed.
Pray during this Triduum that Jesus's Triumph on the Cross may Triumph in the hearts of so many people, esp. Josh.
Pray that His Most Precious Blood will wash over such souls, cleanse them and save them.
Pray for those poor souls that are "gender confused." Call the Blood of Jesus down upon them so that they make free from these demonic lies.
Lord Jesus, touch their hearts and souls with Your grace, love and mercy. Heal their wounds. Convert them. Help them with Your Almighty power to accept that beautiful vision that You have for their lives.
Mary, Immaculate Virgin Mother, take these people into your arms as you stand at the foot of Your Divine Son's Cross. Intercede for them that they may find salvation in Him before it is too late.
Amen
God bless.
Another picture which speaks a 1000 words
Take a look at the photo below.
These are the "Religious sisters" who want to celebrate ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’.
Remember that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Do you remember when Shia LaBoeuf was interviewed by Bishop Barron? Here it is to refresh your memory.
Shia LaBeouf Becomes Catholic - "Latin Mass Affects Me Deeply" - YouTube
In the interview Shia explains to a somewhat stunned Bishop Barron that the TLM affects him deeply because it doesn't feel like someone is trying to sell him a car. Clearly, the Novus Ordo does.
Shia LaBoeuf gets it. The Church is not meant to be a Business.
Sadly, false shepherds, wolves in sheep's clothing have stripped the Church of many of her greatest spiritual treasures whilst, at the same time, filling their coffers with material wealth.
To them the Church is merely a Business. For them it has nothing to do with the Faith.
If you don't believe me then just consider these two questions.
1) Why do many dioceses employ a Chief Operating Officer? That's Business language. The Bride of Christ, His Mystical Body, does not need Chief Operating Officers. But a Business does.
2) Why is it that many bishops have sold off countless churches, often those built on the backs of the poor, for a huge profit of many millions of Dollars/Pounds/Euros?
Because it's just "good business."
In this week when we call to mind that day when wicked shepherds exchanged Our Blessed Lord for 30 pieces of silver we do well to reflect on this, especially before handing over our hard earned cash.
First of all, a blessed Holy week to you all!
I have been reflecting on the whole state of affairs regarding BLM, repatriations, CRT etc.
I must say from the outset that I am no expert and I don't claim any special knowledge on the subject matter. I can only speak from my own personal experiences and observations.
Growing up on a small British island I had very little contact with black people. Despite that, I was always taught that a person's skin colour matters not. Neither does their eye colour or the health of their bank account.
What makes a person is what is found within. My mother especially taught me these principles.
Having a Portuguese father I experienced bigotry and hatred from my fellow Brit. By some but not the majority. The hatred of a person because they are black or white or from another country is, without a doubt, ugly.
However, it seems to me (remembering my own sufferings from the hatred of others) that the prevalent ideology today has reached almost Commandment levels is: Thou shalt be a VICTIM.
Victimhood can be real. No one should ever dare to tell the poor, abused child that they are not a victim of something heinous. But we are not dealing with that type of victimhood.
The type of victimhood found at ideological levels today is one which is a "state of being" and, ironically, is itself fuelled by hatred.
Again, I am no expert on the matter but this does seem to be what is happening in places like the United States. Whilst I have never stepped foot on American soil I can, nevertheless, observe that this most insidious ideology weighs heavy on that nation.
Leftist ideologues love a victim. They love to see people perpetually trapped by self pity and munching on anti depressants. These hate-filled, self piteous depressed people are the easiest to control and are a huge boon to Big Pharma. Hopeful people are out of the grasping clutches of the Left.
But it goes further than that. By having these "victims" as their foot soldiers, the Left can push their vision ever deeper.
They want you to "take a knee" in a constant state of "penance". The word that must ever rise upon your lips is sorry. Indeed, public acts of self flagellation are required. If you are white you must be ashamed of it.
However, the ultimate goal is the white Christian with a particular emphasis on the white heterosexual male who deeply believes in Our Lord and His Holy Church. It is THAT man who is the bull's eye of their target.
They want such men to show their remorse for their history and their patrimony.
How many times have I heard a Leftist raise the question of the Crusades or the Inquisition or the Colonisation of South America? How often have I been asked if I am ashamed of what the Church did to the Incas?
Indeed, this self hatred has infected many of the faithful. I remember an incident when I was studying Theology in Spain. I lived in the Student Halls of Residence with a black gentleman from Equatorial Guinea. We were discussing the Spanish Church's past when suddenly he became quite angry.
He accused the Spaniards of going to his country and dominating its people. Now, anyone who knows me on a personal level knows that I will never be canonised for my patience! I have absolutely no patience for ignorant, Anti Catholic rhetoric rooted in God hating ideology. Call a spade a spade.
I told the gentleman in question that, in fact, he owes a huge debt of gratitude for what Spain and the Catholic Church did in his country.
Whilst it may be bitter and unpalatable, truth always remains the truth.
Such countries, whilst having many inherently good things in them, were also immersed in the darkness of Paganism and human sacrifice. Don't believe me? Just watch Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.
These people were in the darkness of their ignorance when the Light of the Gospel was brought to them. Tribes were warring against each other. Slaughter abounded. Sexual immorality was rampant.
Furthermore, their culture, though with some good elements, was very rudimentary. The Church brought them Jesus Christ and all that He brought us through His Church. Art, Music, Architecture, Language, Culture and right worship.
It may be politically incorrect to say such things but it is not morally incorrect. This goes deeper, further and higher than any ideology.
Simply put, you cannot compare the Pagan frenzy of bashing bongo drums to the sublimity of Gregorian Chant reverberating around an incensed filled Cathedral.
Suffice to say, my African friend was somewhat stunned. Truth has that shocking effect.
We must not apologise to anyone who wishes to denigrate the glorious past of the Church. Of course, there were some instances of abuse. But that is sinful human nature. If a Democrat tries to get you to focus on that then ask them if they are willing to focus on their historical support for slavery (oh the irony!)
If you find one bruised apple in the basket are you going to toss out the whole bushel? Then why do it with Church history?
I am Catholic. I am not sorry. Neither should you be.
God bless
Happy Feast Day of St Benedict!
Today is the first of two Feasts of St Benedict, the other being on 11th July.
St Benedict, Father of Western Monasticism and one of the Patrons of Europe.
I think that St Benedict's vision is not really understood by most Catholics. Sure, he is known as the Founder of the Benedictine Order but his actual vision is not known.
However, to understand the future of the Church we need to understand that vision. At its heart the Catholic Church is Monastic, therefore so will its future.
When we look back over History, especially European History, we see how the Benedictines basically built Europe. Monasteries became centres of beauty, Liturgy, art, culture, music, language and academic learning. Around these glorious monasteries many villages, towns and cities grew.
People instinctively knew the value of Monastic life. The monasteries became the hub around which their lives revolved. Minds, hearts, souls and bodies (the Monasteries provided work and food) were nourished. It was, and still is, a harmonious system. It still continues in certain Traditional monasteries today.
It is so important that one just needs to look at how desperately ugly and impoverished England became on so many levels after Henry VIII destroyed Monastic life during his reign. He left the country devasted and bereft. He ripped out its heart and left the ruins of many Monasteries as stark reminders of the shell that England had become.
But we take heart. Countless Catholic prophecies point to a Golden Age, the Age of Mary wherein Monasticism will flourish anew. Indeed, many visionaries state that at the end of the world only two religious orders will prevail: Benedictine and Carmelite. These two Religious orders are and have been the main pillars of the Church's spiritual life.
Furthermore, many visionaries also state that during the Age of Mary, the era of Peace, there will be so many vocations and many monasteries and churches will be built that people will struggle to keep pace.
So why Monasticism?
Traditional monasticism distils the very essence of the Catholic Faith. A life lived rooted in a noble and beautiful Liturgy. This is central to the spiritual life. A right ordered adoration of God. The justice of giving God what He is due. A right ordered adoration which, when we cooperate with it, we become right ordered ourselves.
A life of the Glory of God's beauty made manifest in the Traditional Latin Mass and Gregorian Chant. This is the nourishment of the heart and soul, where the Sacraments are celebrated with reverence and are imbued with Tradition. Nothing compares with it. The most beautiful thing this side of Heaven. A true foretaste of the Beatific Vision.
The mind is nourished with Sacred Learning. The writings of the Saints and the Sciences rightly ordered to God's glory and the benefit of man.
A harmonious relationship with the earth. Yes, Traditional Catholic Monasteries were the original "Green movement" properly understood. Not this superficial, false ideology that you find peddled by the likes of Greta Thunberg. No. What I am talking about is man living in his true environment. Working by the sweat of his brow. Working in harmony with nature just like the Traditional Monasteries do. A truly organic life where nature is respected by those who till the earth.
Like our grandparents and great grandparents, monastic life wastes nothing. A frugal life filled with simplicity and gratitude was the true "recycling mentality". Our forefathers and the monasteries never polluted the earth.
Truly, pollution only became an issue when modern man moved away from a simple, God centred and ordered lifestyle. Big cities, big bucks and Godlessness took precedence.
So, picture the scene.
The green countryside. An enormous Benedictine Abbey. The sun is shining. It is the month of May, Mary's month. There are flowers everywhere. Monks and lay people are outside, ploughing the fields, tending the crops and flocks. Honey bees, free from modernistic man's pharmaceutical pesticides, buzz around the medicinal herb garden.
The people are sweating. They are working hard. No one is dropping dead from Myocarditis from any poisonous vaxx.
Families cooperating with each other to educate their children with a Godly, Classical education.
In the distance, the Abbey bell rings out the Angelus. The people pause to pray together.
They gather up their tools. The Monks make their way back to the Abbey in order to pray Sext in their beautifully hand carved Choirstalls.
God imbues everyone, everything, everywhere.
Cardinal Arthur Roche has done something very few Modernist heretics have ever done.
He has openly and boldly admitted what he believes. Namely, that the Theology of the Church has changed.
That's it. No more defence of the Hermeneutic of Continuity. The last atom of defence definitively died on 19th March 2023, the Feast of St Joseph the Terror of demons and the Protector of the Church. With God there are no coincidences.
So there is absolutely no hiding it now. We see clearly from his lips and, therefore the lips of the one he represents (BerGOGlio), why they HATE the Traditional Mass and want it destroyed.
CATHOLIC Theology is what they hate.
The SAINTLY Archbishop Lefebvre stands completely, totally and absolutely vindicated.
Vigano stands vindicated.
The Church has been infected by parasites in vestments. Modernist, Homoheretical wolves in sheep's clothing.
Freemasons and Satanists.
Godless and faithless.
Like a creeping cancer they have been eating away at the bones and the guts of the Church.
BUT for us, in a strange sort of way, this is wonderful news. How come?
Firstly, we can take great heart. We are on the right track. Through this God is confirming what we believe.
Secondly, we have been given an opportunity to display great courage and say to these perverse heretics a loud, resound NO! We will NOT yield our Faith no matter what.
Thirdly, it can be an opportunity for those who are wavering in Novus Ordolandia to have their blinkers ripped off. They have finally, openly confessed it. Theirs is a DIFFERENT THEOLOGY. It is a changed Theology.
Think about it like this. If the Theology of the Church has changed then the Church has changed. If that is the case then it is NO LONGER the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ and adorned by Our Lady and so many countless Saints.
It is no longer the Church of the Martyrs.
It is no longer the Church of our forefathers.
It is a DIFFERENT Church.
It, therefore, cannot be the Catholic Church in its true, fullest sense.
God does not change. Truth does not change. The Theology of the Catholic Church, which is God's Church, cannot change.
So, Cardinal Roche...Here is my message to you.
To HELL with your changed Theology. I don't want. Send it back to Satan from whence it came.
I want the CATHOLIC Theology that my forefathers (especially my Irish ancestors) were persecuted for.
I want the CATHOLIC Theology that my favourite Saints lived and died for.
I DON'T want what you are offering and I resist you and your rubbish to your face.
I will have NO part in it and, by God's grace, will persist in it until my last breath.
Friends, listen to Cardinal Roche's words. He means what he says. So better had we.
Take heart. God is moving to unmask this Counterfeit Church. The enemies are full of arrogance and it is making them overly confident. They are over playing their hand.
Take heart and courage. The Traditional Mass, Sacraments and Faith are growing, especially among the young. The enemies fear it and hate it. We love it and foster it.
Keep it at the forefront of your minds. God is working!
Our Lady will Triumph as She promised in Fatima.
Take courage. Pray!
I can't begin to tell you how many times I have been told that by well meaning Catholics.
Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed such people, though well meaning, are flirting with heresy. That heresy has a name: Angelism
Today, on the whole, we are facing two erroneous extremes. On the generally conservative side there is the tendency to downplay feelings and emotions with the saying that "they don't matter."
On the Left you tend to find the polar opposite.
Just picture the screaming, out of control Left winger with purple hair. Be it abortion or LGBTQ+ etc, they are full of out of control, raw emotion which leads some of them to be demonically oppressed (maybe possessed) and barking mad (some literally barking).
Neither of these positions are correct nor healthy.
To find the Truth we need look no further than Jesus.
We read in St John's Gospel Ch 11 v 35 that "Jesus wept". Furthermore, we read in verse 38 that Jesus was "groaning in himself."
Jesus is crying real human tears. Jesus is groaning in real sorrow and pain at the death of His friend Lazarus and at the mourning of the people gathered there.
Yet Jesus knew what He was going to do for His friend. He knew that death was not to have the final word.
Why did He cry? Why did He show His feelings and emotions?
Firstly, to confirm His humanity. Jesus is True God but also True MAN. Secondly, I believe He showed His emotions to sanctify emotions. In Jesus every aspect of our lives can be sanctified.
The Saint is a Saint in everything. You cannot be a Saint in part.
God created man with emotions. The problem is that since the Fall human feelings and emotions have been tainted by Original Sin and Concupiscence.
So what is the answer? Grace.
With Grace we are able to grow in emotional maturity. Some people think that emotional maturity is a Catholic form of Stoicism. But Stoicism is not Christ like.
This is a particular problem among men. Often you find well meaning men who show little or no emotion. I have seen this sort of thing being praised even among Traditional Catholics.
But the reality is that such men may be just as emotionally immature as the screaming Liberal at the Pride parade. They may be emotionally stunted. Emotional development and affective maturity has been prevented somehow. The Church and the world needs men who have a healthy affective maturity. Compassion and empathy are not just for women.
The man who cries at a sad scene in a film or at the sight of starving children on TV may be affectively more mature than his stoical comrades. Such a man is able to feel sorrow and empathy at the sufferings of others. This is a good thing and something that every man should seek to develop and cultivate in their lives.
If you are one of those men who weeps at suffering and you are chided for your tears just remember that Jesus wept.
The answer is very simple. A thoroughly healthy emotional maturity is one in which our emotions are submitted to God's Grace. It is not a question of basing our decisions on a whimsical passing feeling. Neither is it about "being in control" to the extent that we fall into a robotic way of behaving.
We are called to grow to our full stature in Grace. Compassion, empathy and the shedding of a tear over our broken world is good. Just remember that St Padre Pio did a lot of crying!
Feelings and emotions, in the right context and in the right way, DO matter. They are a part of being human and the glory of God is "man fully alive. (St Irenaeus)
Remember Jesus and Lazarus next time someone tries to tell you that feelings don't matter.
We are all invited to become more Christ like, even in our tears.
God bless
Ash Wednesday 2023
I have to admit it, I struggle with Lent. To be honest, I like my food too much.
But I deeply appreciate the vital important of this most solemn season of Penance.
This year I have decided to give Lent a real chance.
Reflecting on the power of a good Lent has brought to my mind something I saw on YouTube. If you look on there you will find a number of videos of fishermen and Marine Biologists helping poor beleaguered sea turtles.
They haul them onto a boat and start vigorously scraping of barnacles, parasites and other things that have become stuck to their shells with a brutally sharp knife.
Check out this deeply satisfying video
This is what God wants to do for us during Lent.
In our day to day lives we pick up attachments. We pick up the parasites of our vices. The clutter. The shallow nonsense of our petty loves.
God wants to free us. He wants to scrape off those things that hinder us from Holiness and from Him.
But it is deeply uncomfortable. The knife that He uses is the knife of Penance, Fasting and Suffering.
We, like those sea turtles, wriggle about. We try to escape His loving hands. We like the comfort of our sins.
Lent is the best time for us to allow God to free us from the crustiness of our sins.
Let us ask Our Lady's help, that we let God act. Let's ask for the grace to offer our little penances and sufferings borne patiently until we arrive at Easter Sunday with our souls less crusted.
God bless
16th September 2021
I watched this video. I cried.
'Pfizer vaccine killed my son': Grieving father speaks out (lifesitenews.com)
This is what is happening to so many families. So many people. So many young lads.
Please watch this video and kindly pray for this poor man and his son (RIP)
Please, inform yourselves. Protect your children.
'Pfizer vaccine killed my son': Grieving father speaks out (lifesitenews.com)
15th September 2021
Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed Lady
In some quarters of the Church Traditionalist Catholics have a bad reputation of being somewhat toxic. Toxic Trads they call us.
But is there any truth in this?
A recent discussion with someone I respect made me give this whole subject some thought. The discussion centred over an article written on a blog.
The article was titled "The myth of the chaste Homosexual".
As I read the article I could understand the anger, especially among American Traditional Catholics, at what has happened and continues to happen in the Church.
They are, as we all are, very angry at the whole McCarrick scandal. The disgusting behaviour of perverted clerics has destroyed the lives of the little ones so loved by Our Blessed Lord.
Then there are the likes of the wayward priest James Martin S.J who go unreproached, who are praised and lauded, spreading falsehoods whilst good priests teaching the Catholic faith are censored, bullied, ousted and cancelled. Trads are understandably and rightfully angry. I am very angry at this grave evil.
But we also have to be careful that our anger does not blind us.
This is where the article comes in. Basically the author of the article argues that those, especially in the priesthood, who self identify as "Gay" or "Homosexual" may be sexually abstinent but they can never be truly chaste. This in itself is not false. Obviously if a person identifies with an ideology that is completely at odds with Catholic doctrine then that person cannot live out Catholic teaching in a full and flourishing manner.
However, that is not the issue with the article. The problem is that it lacks what I would call Catholic nuance. It doesn't stem from a pastoral heart and I had this confirmed by a Traditional priest with whom I shared the article's contents.
The author does not address those Catholics who suffer from Same Sex attraction, acknowledge it to be a disorder and live fully Catholic lives through prayer, penance and the Sacraments.
These people exist. People afflicted with Same Sex attraction yet striving for real holiness. I was blessed to make friends with such a person.
In 2013 I moved London.
London is wonderful, crazy, weird and fascinating place. You find all sorts of people there. The good, the bad, the ugly and everything else. Honestly, it sometimes reminded me of scenes from the Men in Black films.
London is also a place where the Catholic Faith flourishes beautifully. There is the Tyburn Convent and many wonderful Churches. Think of the amazing Brompton Oratory.
Whilst at Church I met and made friends with an Irish Catholic gentleman who was in his 70s. I shall call him Patrick to protect and respect his privacy.
Over time I got to know this quiet, gentle and unassuming man. One day we were speaking about our lives and families when the conversation turned to why he never married and had children.
"Well, I'm Homosexual" he told me. He must have seen my eyes widen because he continued
"I knew that I was since I was young. I was always surrounded my women as a child. My mother and my aunts. There was no real father figure, no real male role model so I guess I was soaked in the feminine."
I asked him how the whole LGBTQ ideology had affected him.
"Oh I have never been a part of that. I have never even watched Pornography. I honestly could never offend Our Lord like that! My strength comes from Our Lord. I am blessed to spend three hours a day in Adoration."
Wow. THAT is holiness, dear friends. This one man (there are others) puts to flight the utter nonsense that those afflicted with same sex attraction cannot be chaste.
How many of us can say that we have been that pure, that devout and that dedicated to prayer?
Patrick is a witness to both the James Martins and those Trads who say that chastity for those attracted to their own sex is a myth.
Both the writer of that article and James Martin are angry. Their anger comes from different sources but it has blinded them. For James Martin it has blinded him into thinking that chastity is impossible because "gays should be able to love" and for the Trad writer it has blinded him because of the likes of McCarrick.
God's Grace, however, does do wonders.
If a "Satanist priest" like Blessed Bartolo Longo can end up repenting and getting into Heaven then those who look most lost can be saved too.
Let us look at these people and not be blinded by our anger. Yes, be angry at the horrific scandals in the Church. But be not blind.
Right now, when the LGBTQ crowd seem to have the upper hand and their screams are deafening there are wonderful stories of men and women who have encountered Christ, thrown aside a false identity and have put on the Lord Jesus.
There are the likes of Joseph Sciambra, for example. Look him up on YouTube or here Sons of St. Joseph (josephsciambra.com)
Our Lady in Fatima asked for prayer and penance for sinners. She did not say "except this group or that group of sinners".
Now, if you are a person (especially a teenager) reading this blog post and you are same sex attracted please do not listen to people who leave you feeling hopeless or try to give you false hope. Here is my advice
1) Lady Gaga is wrong. You were not born that way.
2) You are not disordered but your sexual attractions are. God made male and female. There is no third option.
3) There are people who have been healed of their unwanted SSA. It is not guaranteed to happen but there is help out there. Here is a good place to start National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (narth.us)
4) God loves you and has always loved you from all eternity.
5) You can be chaste. Go to Confession and Holy Communion (Better to go to the Traditional Latin Mass).
6) Pray the Rosary everyday. Read and reflect on the 15 Promises of the Rosary. Get close to Our Lady.
7) Get officially enrolled in the Brown Scapular by a priest.
8) If you fall into any serious sin, pick yourself up, get to Confession and don't listen to the lies of the devil.
9) Do some sort of penance. A little bit of fasting (no seconds for example). A cold shower (if you can take it)
10) Don't isolate yourself. Make good, Catholic friends. Mix with people who don't have SSA and are living good Catholic lives. Sin, SSA and dirty, dark secrets thrive in isolation.
11) Find a good, Traditional priest to be your Spiritual Director and Confessor.
12) Never let the devil or toxic people steal your hope. God wants your salvation more than you do and it is God who has the final word.
As for Traditional Catholics please examine your conscience. Have you become too embittered to the point of making sweeping, negative statements?
Are you praying for the conversion and salvation of people have been mislead by the evil LGBTQ ideology?
Do you try to spread hope even whilst you fight corruption?
Do you encourage those who struggle with this disorder to repent, convert and grow in grace?
Finally, what would you do if it was your own kid?
People, being a Traditional Catholic means both firm orthodoxy and charity. We are all sinners. Let's encourage each other to become Saints.
Whilst we must fight the evil that has slithered into the Church we must also practise charity. Let us not tear people down.
Be truthful. Do not water down the truth but do not present it as an ideal beyond reach either.
Encourage people to set aside sin. Encourage people to embrace the Catholic Faith in its fullness. Encourage people to abandon Modernism and false ideologies.
Encourage people to become truly, really and deeply Holy and in love with God.
God bless
* Some details have been altered to protect the privacy of others
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
It is with great sadness that we learned of Pope Francis' decision to abrogate the main provisions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, 2007. After decades of divisions and quarrels, that Motu Proprio was, for all the Catholic faithful, a work of peace and reconciliation.
Rome violates the word given by Pope Benedict XVI with brutality and intransigence, far from the much vaunted fraternal welcoming.
The explicit will of Pope Francis, stated in the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to see the celebration of the Mass of the Tradition of the Church disappear. This decision drives us to great dismay. How can we understand this rupture with the traditional Missal, a “venerable and ancient” actualization of the “law of faith,” which has bore fruit through so many nations, so many missionaries, and so many saints? What harm is done by the faithful who simply want to pray as their ancestors had done for centuries? Can we be unaware that the Tridentine Mass converts many souls, that it attracts young and fervent assemblies, that it arouses many vocations, that it has given rise to seminaries, religious communities, monasteries, that it is the backbone of many schools, youth groups, catechism activities, spiritual retreats, and pilgrimages?
Many of you, Catholic brothers and sisters, priests, and bishops, have shared with us your failure to understand this and your deep sorrow: thank you for your many testimonies of support.
To promote peace within the Church, in order to build unity in charity, and also to lead Catholics to reconnect with their own heritage by making as many people as possible discover the riches of liturgical tradition, the treasure of the Church: those were the goals pursued by Summorum Pontificum. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI witnesses his work for reconciliation destroyed during his own lifetime.
In a time steeped in materialism and torn by social and cultural divisions, liturgical peace appears to us as an absolute necessity for the Faith and for the spiritual life of Catholics in a world that is dying of thirst. The drastic restriction of the authorization to celebrate Mass in its traditional form will bring back mistrust, doubt, and it heralds the return of an agonizing liturgical war for the Christian people.
We solemnly affirm, before God and before men:
We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure which is first of all that of the Church.
We will not remain inactive in the face of the spiritual suffocation of vocations laid forth in the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes.
We will not deprive our children of this privileged means of transmitting the faith which is faithfulness to the traditional liturgy.
As children to their father, we request Pope Francis to reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.
Bread rather than stones.
September 8, 2021,
on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
*** Copied and pasted from Rorate Caeli
27th August 2021
I would really, really like to recommend The Incredible Catholic Mass by Fr Martin Von Cochem.
The Incredible Catholic Mass: An Explanation of the Catholic Mass (tanbooks.com)
I bought and read this book a number of years ago after reading the great influence it had on Fr Kenneth Walker FSSP (RIP) and his family. You may remember Fr Walker as the priest who was murdered in Arizona.
A tribute to Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP (1985-2014) - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
It was thanks to this book that Fr Walker's family experienced a conversion and fell in love with the Traditional Mass. Furthermore, his priestly vocation has, in many senses, its roots in this very book.
Please, if you have not read this book, read it.
When I read it I cannot express how much it moved me. It brought me to tears of joy at the sheer beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass.
If you are looking for something to read that will make you appreciate the depth, meaning, spirituality and beauty of the "most beautiful thing this side of Heaven" then get a copy of this book.
Trust me. You will not be the same afterwards.
God bless
26th August 2021
You've heard the expression
Actions speak louder than words
In the Catholic Church that could not be truer, especially in the crazy times in which we now find ourselves.
So with that in mind take a look at this little beauty
Messe dans la Basilique St-Pierre de Rome, chapelle saint Pie X • La Porte Latine
What you are seeing is the Tridentine Mass or TLM celebrated by a priest of the SSPX (Society of St Pius X) in ST. PETER'S BASILICA.
Let's note a few things
1) There are no Altar Cards
2) The priest is using a Novus Ordo style semi Gothic Chasuble
3) He is not wearing a Maniple
4) The Missal is much smaller than usual.
What can we draw from these points?
The Altars in St. Peter's Basilica are not set up for the TLM, hence why there are no Altar cards.
Also, this is a group of French Pilgrims. They have gone to Rome with their Priest, Abbé Michel de Sivry who, understandably, hasn't brought an entire sacristy with him.
Imagining that they were there for about a week, it would be too much to lug a trunk load of Chasubles around and about the city of Rome. So they used what was available in order to have the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
There is no Maniple in most Novus Ordo vestment sets. The SSPX is not so rigid as to make a song and dance about it. He gets on with it.
The Missal is small because it is a Travel Missal. SSPX priests are used to travelling light to bring the Sacraments to the Faithful.
No rigidity here.
Yet what is most telling is that this Mass, offered by a priest of the SSPX in early August of 2014, is taking place in St. Peter's Basilica.
Why is a "Schismatic priest" offering the Mass in the very heart of the Catholic Church???
Remember that actions speak louder than words.
Using common sense here we can deduce what happened. The priest and Faithful turned up at the Basilica and asked the officials if they could say Mass.
The officials would have asked them who they are.
KNOWING FULL WELL that they were SSPX, the officials let them use the Altar dedicated to none other than St. Pius X, Patron of the SSPX.
Remember, actions speak louder than words.
The Roman Authorities know full well that the SSPX are not, nor ever were, Schismatic.
They know full well that the state of being "illicit" or "canonically irregular" is, in fact, completely unjust.
The SSPX are truly Catholic.
However, they will not openly admit this.
Why? Because is pulls down the entire Modernist edifice that they have built.
This leads us to where we are today. It answers why Francis is doing his utmost to murder the TLM.
The Plandemic exposed the utter futility and inherent weaknesses of the whole Novus Ordo set up. They closed their Churches over a virus that gives you roughly 99% chance of surviving it.
But is has been all but fatal for the Novus Ordo ideology.
The SSPX and other TLM Communities largely carried on as normal, with same adaptations.
Many people saw it. They made the logical move to where they could get the Sacraments. That and seeing the Theological mess pushed by Francis et al.
The Modernists "had to act". Traditional Catholicism, being truly Godly, is a huge threat to their nefarious and demonic dogmas.
That is why they are trying to destroy it. They know that it is uncompromisingly Catholic.
So next time someone tries to tell you that you are a Schismatic, show them this video and ask them
Why were Schismatics allowed to say Mass in the Vatican?
Of course someone may quip that things are different now as such Masses have been restricted in the Vatican.
The point still stands.
This was 2014. This was before Francis "gave them Faculties to hear Confessions" etc. If they were Schismatic back then what were Vatican Officials doing by allowing them to say Mass?
If in 2014 the Tridentine Mass was permitted in the Vatican, why is it suddenly verboten in 2021?
What is really going on?
Remember
Actions speak louder than words!!!
SSPX Mass in St. Peter's Basilica: video - District of the USA
23rd August 2021
It's not easy failing. No one likes it.
But we do.
I do.
But it brings learning, growth (hopefully including the vegetables) and some humility (with God's Grace).
As you are aware this blog is also about Homesteading. Often that has taken a bit of a back seat on here but Homesteading is something I am passionate about. I also like to encourage others to take it up as much as possible in some form or another.
So here is my failure
