Sensible Catholicism

It is related in the Acts of Saint Perpetua, martyr, that, being thrown into prison, she was favored with a vision. She saw her young brother, Dinocrates, in a dark place. He was surrounded by flames, thirsty, his face was ugly, pale, covered with an ulcer, which caused his death, when seven years old.

She prayed fervently for him during seven days, and then he appeared to her in a very different condition. He was bright, clothed with a beautiful white dress, and there was no ulcer on his face. She understood that he had been delivered.

"Many souls go to Hell because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them."

- Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917.

°Pray for the Holy Souls! °

St. Gertrude the Great Chaplet

Our Lord told St. Gertrude the Great that the following prayer would release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said. The prayer was later extended to include living sinners as well.

”ETERNAL FATHER, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON, JESUS, IN UNION WITH THE MASSES SAID THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY, FOR ALL THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.”

Say this chaplet using regular Rosary beads. Begin with the Apostles’ Creed, one Our Father, three Hail Marys and a Glory Be to the Father just as with Our Lady’s Rosary.

On the five decades, say the above Prayer for the Holy Souls on each Hail Mary bead and the Our Father on each separator bead between the decades.

Saint Margaret Mary Talks to One of Her Sisters From Purgatory

St. Margaret Mary tells us about the time she beheld the apparition of one of her sisters in religion, recently deceased. That sister implored her prayers and suffrages; she was suffering cruelly in Purgatory. “See,” she said to St. Margaret, “the bed I lie on, where I am enduring intolerable pains.” I saw that bed, writes the saint, and it still makes me shudder; it was bristling with sharp and fiery spikes which entered the flesh. The deceased added that she was suffering this torture for her sloth and negligence in observing the rule.

“This is not all,” she said again; “My heart is torn in my bosom to punish my murmurs against my superiors; my tongue is eaten by worms for my words contrary to charity and my breaches of silence. But all this is a small matter in comparison with another pain which God made me experience; although it did not last long, it was more painful to me than all my sufferings.” The saint, having desired to know what this dire pain was, she replied, “God showed me one of my near female relatives who had died in a state of mortal sin sentenced by the Supreme Judge and dashed into Hell. That sight caused me a fright, horror, pain that no tongue could communicate.”

How To help the Holy Souls in Purgatory:

1. Have Masses offered for them.
2. Pray the Rosary and and the Chaplet for the Holy Souls.
3. Pray the Stations of the Cross.
4. Offer up little sacrifices and fast.
5. Spread devotion to them.
6. Attend Eucharistic Adoration and pray for them.
7. Gain all the indulgences you can, and apply them to the Holy Souls.

An indulgence, applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory, is granted to the faithful, who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the departed. The indulgence is plenary each day from the 1st to the 8th of November; on other days of the year it is partial.

Efficacious Prayer for the Faithful Departed

O Most compassionate Jesus, have mercy on the Souls detained in Purgatory, for whose redemption Thou didst take upon Thyself our nature and endure a bitter death. Mercifully hear their sighs, look with pity upon the tears which they now shed before Thee, and by virtue of Thy Passion, release them from the pains due to their sins. O most merciful Jesus, let Thy Precious Blood reach down into Purgatory and refresh and revive the captive souls who suffer there. Stretch out to them Thy strong right hand, and bring them forth into the place of refreshment, light and peace. Amen.

A Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory

O gentle Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on them. Be not severe in Thy judgments, but let some drops of Thy Precious Blood fall upon the devouring flames. And do Thou, oh most Merciful Savior, send Thy angels to conduct them to a place of refreshment, light and peace. Amen.

PRAYER OF ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT

A prayer that Jesus said would release many souls from Purgatory each time it is said and which was extended to include living sinners as well. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, and for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, for those in my own home and for those within my family. Amen.

Growing up a modernist, we all were practical Universalists. That means, we really didn’t think anyone went to hell. (This is totally false, of course.) But because of that, most of us saw All Saints (1 Nov) as the happy day and All Souls (2 Nov) as the sad day. But St. Alphonsus Liguori (who teaches most Catholics go to hell—not to mention all those of false religions) also says basically that we on earth have a lot to admire for the Faithful Departed in Purgatory: They *cannot* lose the kingdom of heaven, but we on earth *can* lose it. Thus, even though I’m obviously not saying to refrain from praying for the faithful departed for all of November (we absolutely should pray this month and all months for our loved ones deceased without canonizing them) we should definitely realize that All Saints and All Souls are BOTH groups of the saved. That is the glory of these two days. I’m not saying they’re equal (for one has the Beatific Vision and the other doesn’t) but both groups are proven to already be the elect. We on earth are merely striving for that, so we should admire both these groups (All Saints and All Souls) with all our hearts, while still praying TO the former and FOR the latter.

October 31st ~ The VIGIL of ALL SAINTS

O LORD, our God, multiply Thy graces upon us, and grant that joy may follow in the holy praise of those Whose glorious festival we anticipate.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Collect, November 1, Vigil of All Saints

~ The New Roman Missal, 1937

Chauvinism as perversion of patriotism
Fr. Jacek Woroniecki O.P.

The main shortcomings in the area of patriotism are usually associated with the name of the commandant of the port of Rochefort in Napoleonic France, who carried his love of country so far that he had himself wrapped in the national flag in his coffin. The name of Nicholas Chauvin was later used to coin the word "chauvinism" to denote extremes and excesses of patriotism, which so often inflame minds, cloud judgments, and especially shift the focus from positive duties towards the country to a negative attitude towards other nations - especially those with which it is in historical conflict.

It does not take much to prove that chauvinism can contaminate the soul by constantly maintaining hatred and contempt for one's neighbors. But from the point of view of healthy national interests it is also highly harmful, because it blinds and makes one see the enemies of one's nation in a false light, because one does not see their virtues, which they often do not lack and which are the most dangerous in the struggle with them.

The Christian sense should therefore watch over this, so that chauvinism does not extinguish in souls the Christian love of neighbor, which is obligatory towards all people, i.e. it does not allow anyone to be excluded. With Christian love one should also love the enemies of the nation and, if circumstances demand it, show them this love without refusing one's help.

It is extremely important here to understand that true Christian humility is also obligatory in relations between nations, this positive humility, which is able to find in the opponent what is good in him, worthy of praise and imitation, in a word: what is divine in him, before which one should bow one's head. In struggles between nations it brings great benefit because it protects against passion, so dangerous to the clarity of judgment, and against the megalomania that has led to the ruin of many a nation.

source: "On Nation and the State"

#patriotism

"Democracy elects men totally lacking in scruples, without any morals; those who will pay better, thus those with a higher power of corruption; magicians, charlatans, demagogues, who will excel in their fields during the electoral campaign. Several good men would be able to slip through among them, even politicians of good faith. But they would be the slaves of the former."

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936) - Politics

- Padre Pio's spiritual direction for every day - October 25th

St Raphael, patron of happy meetings, healing, friendships and holy Catholic marriages, pray for us.

Tobias (Tobit) 12:6-18 DRC1752

[6] Then he said to them secretly: Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you. [7] For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God. [8] Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold:

[9] For alms delivereth from death: and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting. [10] But they that commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul. [11] I discover then the truth unto you: and I will not hide the secret from you.

[12] When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

[13] And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. [14] And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. [15] For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord. [16] And when they had heard these things, they were troubled: and being seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.

[17] And the angel said to them: Peace be to you. Fear not. [18] For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him.

Prayer of the Church in Honor of St. Raphael Archangel

Vouchsafe, O Lord God, to send unto our assistance Saint Raphael the Archangel: and may he, who, we believe, evermore standeth before the throne of Thy Majesty, offer unto Thee our humble petitions to be blessed by Thee; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Let us pray:

O glorious Archangel, St. Raphael, great Prince of the heavenly Court, illustrious for thy gifts of wisdom and grace, guide of those who journey by land or sea, consoler of the afflicted and of sinners: I beg thee to assist me in all my needs and in suffering of this life, as once thou didst help the young Tobias in his travels. And because thou art the “Medicine of God,” I pray thee to heal the many infirmities of my soul, and the ills which afflict my body, if it be for my greater good. I especially ask of thee an angelic purity, which may fit me to be the temple of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
 
{Indulgence of 100 Days, once a day—Leo XIII, June 21, 1890)

"Around her Queenly head appeared the luminous letters of the words: "O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee." A frame of gold appeared around the entire vision as Our Lady said:

"Have a medal struck after this model. All who wear it will receive great graces; it should be worn around the neck.

Great graces will be given to those who wear it with confidence."

The apparition turned, revealing the model for the obverse. This was a large "M," surmounted by a Cross on a bar. Below the "M" were two hearts, one encompassed with thorns, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the other pierced with a sword, the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Encircling the whole were twelve stars bordering the golden elliptical frame. The vision disappeared.

...Not long after there was an epidemic in France. The death rate soared and medical science was unable to cope with the crisis. People turned to the Sisters of Charity who gave them the Medal of the Immaculate Conception with the assurance that great graces would be showered upon all who would wear it with confidence, especially if it were worn around the neck. After the first cures, people demanded it excitedly."

The rosary is a weapon, the faith is a shield, our purpose in this life is to fight for what is right. To oppose the replacement of one’s people does not violate the law of charity, to passively accept the inflow of millions of men who are not of your kin and opposed to your God is to sin against the duty you have to provide for your family. You are not only supposed to provide food and shelter but a future.

1 Timothy 5:8

“But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

From @laelizabeta (instagram)

"Guard your eyes, since they are the windows through which sin enters the soul" - St Don Bosco

- Joseph De Maistre

“Affliction or consolation, health or sickness, is all one to a heart that loves. Since we wish only to please God, it should be enough for us that His Will is accomplished.” 

-Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

I find it hard to understand this thinking. The FSSP is formed of priests who rejected the SSPX’s theology in preference to accept Vatican 2 and the Pope’s authority, making peace with the existence of the Novus Ordo Missae. They are not revolutionaries, and they don’t need to be investigated; they are already subject to the Roman authorities. If anything, they exist to offer an approved alternative to “schismatic” traditionalist groups.

The essential thing to the Modernist is submission to the Modernist theology.

"Doing what all Catholics did everywhere before a committee of men cooked up a new “Mass” in the 1960’s has to be rendered unacceptable in order to enable the creation of a new religion which assumes the place of the perpetual Church and Magisterium with the immemorial Mass handed down together along with everything else that always was Catholic.

Enablers like those who say “Father doesn’t like the pope” or “I’d rather go to a reverent novus Ordo than an irreverent TLM” are perpetuating red herrings and straw men and simply seek to stave off any questioning or slightest doubt that might cause the discomfort that always characterizes the faith with its many crosses which the Lord Himself promised us.

The Catholic Faith is not a protection against the Cross. It is the divine means given us so that we may in a holy and saving way bear our own crosses, which are present in every human life, out of love for God and for the sake of our own salvation. The comfort of the local novus Ordo parish with its liturgical abuses, no matter the panoply of beautiful and reassuringly prosperous physical plant, numerous modern conveniences and heavily bloated lay staff and “ministries”, is displeasing to God and is an avoidance if not outright rejection of the cross which inevitably comes to those who refuse to compromise the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic faith of the Church of Christ.

It is yet another scandal that bishops are closing and selling off church buildings by the score rather than permit priests to offer the immemorial Mass in them. This while accepting blood money from the government to collude in the illegal immigrant scam and DEI agenda.

The modernists find it insufferable that any priest anywhere who is not already “canonically irregular” offers the TLM exclusively and this is why the FSSP must be investigated (read “persecuted”). The Vatican hegemony will as a result of the “investigation” either “find” something wrong or order the priests to also offer the novus ordo. When and if they refuse to follow this unjust order there will be canonical penalties."

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-modernists-will-continue-to-divide.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3L_m9IKAU2CsYzuTw6CILJnG6uQQmdBR_-Hj70EtwtNwIT2Qkjt2V-AGI_aem_sEWwTHTzViaq8j01D37QAg&m=1

"...God loves us far more than we think, especially in times of trial when He appears to desert us; for it is then He bestows upon us His most precious, most profound, most life-giving graces.

At such times as these, let us say with St. Theresa: “Lord, Thou knowest all things, canst do all things, and Thou dost love me.”

Such in essence is the love God has for us, a creative and life-giving love; supremely generous and supremely free."

- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

https://marklambert.blogspot.com/2024/10/priest-writes-to-pope-francis.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3-o4CaLrwGXUGEGpUy0nlpfMl6JunobI95wsp1jrIN2ysCVimSLY8ble4_aem_zU5gt794Yl7PRSgP3h0fIg&m=1

EXHORTATION, 1. In order to avoid the vice of lying, (a) let us be careful in small matters regarding the truth; (b) let us avoid all unnecessary loquacity; (c) let us always remember that insincerity is hateful both to God and man (Ecclus. vii. 14; Wis. i. li; Prov. xii. 22; Ecclus. xx. 26). 2. Parents should train their children to be scrupulously truthful.

Catechism of the Council of Trent, Part III

THE SIN OF LYING

To all conscientious persons is addressed the divine command that in all their intercourse with society, in every conversation, they should speak the truth at all times from the sincerity of their hearts; that they should utter nothing injurious to the character of another, not even of those by whom they know they have been injured and persecuted. For they should always remember that between them and others there exists such a close social bond that they are all members of the same body.

THE MALICE OF LYING

In order that the faithful may be more disposed to avoid the vice of lying, the pastor will place before them the extreme lowness and disgrace and turpitude of this sin. In the Sacred Scriptures the devil is called "the father of lies"; for as, "he stood not in the truth, he is a liar and the father thereof."(1)

But to banish from amongst the faithful so great a sin, the pastor will add the mischievous consequences of which this vice is the source. These consequences are without number; and the pastor, therefore, must be content with pointing out the chief kinds of evil and calamity that are caused by lying.

In the first place, he will inform them how grievously lies offend God and how deeply a liar is hated by God. "Six things there are," says Solomon, "which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief, a deceitful witness that uttereth lies, etc." (2) Who, then, can protect or save from severest chastisements the man who is thus the object of God's special hate?

Again, what more wicked, what more base than, as St. James says, "with the same tongue, by which we bless God and the Father, to curse men, who are made after the likeness of God," so that "out of the same fountain flows sweet and bitter water."(3) The tongue, which was before employed in giving praise and glory to God, afterwards, as far as it is able, by lying treats the Author of truth with ignominy and dishonor. Hence, liars are excluded from a participation in the bliss of heaven. To David asking, "Lord! who shall, dwell in thy tabernacle?" the Holy Spirit answers: "He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue." (4) Lying is also attended with this very great evil that it is an almost incurable disease. For since the guilt of the calumniator cannot be pardoned, unless satisfaction be made to the calumniated person, and since as we have already observed, this duty is difficult for those who are deterred from its performance by false shame and a foolish idea of dignity, it follows that he who continues in this sin perseveres in a course which must ultimately lead to the unending punishments of hell. Let no one indulge the delusive hope of obtaining the pardon of his calumnies or detractions, until he has repaired the injury which they have inflicted, whether this was done in a court of justice or in private and familiar conversation.

But the evil consequences of lying are widespread and extend to society at large. By duplicity and lying good faith and truth, which form the closest links of human society, are dissolved, confusion ensues, and men seem to differ in nothing from demons.

The pastor will also teach that loquacity is to be avoided. By avoiding loquacity the other evils of the tongue will be obviated, and a preventive opposed to lying, from which loquacious persons can scarcely abstain.

https://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/Eighth.html

St. John Cassian on the demon of dejection

BREAKING: SSPX Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais is dead—RIP

Tissier, as he was commonly known, was one of four bishops consecrated for the SSPX by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1988.

May he rest in peace.

https://www.wmreview.org/p/tissier-des-mallerais-obituary

Neither of these people deserve any of our support.

The 453rd anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto - the battle that saved Europe.

Pray the Holy Rosary!