The “Why was Trump allowed to win?” mystery

By via The Orthosphere

What is indisputable is that the Left controls all the real power in the Western world–all of the key communication, finance, and administrative nodes. So some Rightists are perplexed: how can they seem so complacent at the ascendency of a man they’ve labeled a fascist? Where are the riots and lawsuits? Do we need to adjust our model of the world, since the world is not behaving as we predicted?

A few thoughts which are being ignored by most commentators.

  1. The 2nd Trump administration is allowed because Trump has accomplished something the Left could not have done on its own–the full disenfranchisement of American conservative Christians. There are now two pro-abortion, pro-sodomy parties. Just like in France, the Christian segment of the population has no representation. This is a massive consolidation of Leftist victory, and it is worth them allowing some of their fringier excursions to be temporarily curtailed if they can allow this to happen.
  2. At this point, economic collapse and military defeat are baked in, so they might as well let there be a Republican in office holding the bag when it happens, like in ’29.
  3. The Left wants war with Russia badly–they want gay pride parades in Moscow and are willing to pay for it in (others’) blood. They worry that Trump will derail this. However, they were able to coax him out of pursuing peace last time with Russiagate nonsense. That might work again. Even if it doesn’t, they can see that Trump is a fanatical Zionist who will probably start a war with Iran, so they’ll probably end up getting their war with Russia anyway.
  4. The Left has figured out that elections don’t matter when you control the permanent government and the professional classes. Winning elections tends to be more demoralizing for the Right than losing them, because we see that nothing changes.

The thing that really blows my mind is Harvard eliminating DEI statements on job applications. That I would have never expected. Maybe the Jews are more spooked than I’d imagined?

Biden Regime Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Fauci, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, etc

By Jonathan Martin

President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.

Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.

The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them. The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.

Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-white-house-discussing-preemptive-210346549.html

Benedict XVI’s own words prove that his resignation was invalid

If Benedict thought he could resign the Papacy and at the same time retain the Papacy in the least degree, his intellect was in error concerning the substance of his action

By Dr. Edmund Mazza

(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Schneider opens his essay that Francis must be Pope by arguing that human law or Church law must be subordinated to the greater good of the whole Church. He is not incorrect.

But Pope Benedict’s resignation is first of all a matter of Natural Law from which no man may prescind (and whose infraction no amount of subsequent episcopal unanimity may make licit).  A resignation, like a marriage, is not valid in the eyes of Almighty God if it is not freely willed. And it is not freely willed if that person’s intellect has an erroneous understanding of the substance of the act. If Benedict thought he could resign the Papacy and at the same time retain the Papacy in the least degree, his intellect was in error concerning the substance of his action. Can anyone dispute this logic? In which case, his substantial error not only violates Canons 126 and 188 of the 1983 Code, but Natural Law itself. In which case, he unalterably remained Pope until his death almost two years ago.

The next argument that His Excellency makes is that Francis must be Pope because:

The universal Church cannot exist for a considerable time without a visible Supreme Shepherd, without the successor of Peter, since the vital activity of the universal Church depends on its visible head, such as, for example, the appointment of diocesan bishops and cardinals, appointments that require the existence of a valid pope. In turn, the spiritual good of the faithful depends on a valid appointment of a bishop, since in the case of an invalid episcopal appointment (due to an invalid pope), priests would lack pastoral jurisdiction (e.g. to hear confessions, to witness marriages).[1]

While true to a degree, the above principles do admit of exceptions and extenuating circumstances. Taking a doctrinaire and exceptionless stance on the Church’s visibility would be at odds with the known facts of history. And as St. Thomas teaches, “Against a fact there is no argument.”

Anacletus II (r. 1130-1138), who today is generally considered an antipope, was elected and accepted by the overwhelming majority of electors and clergy and ruled from the Chair of Peter in Rome for almost eight years. He appointed vacancies (later challenged by Pope Innocent II) throughout his tenure. If God can permit this to go on for eight years back then, he can permit it for twelve years right now.

The Visible Church survived this incident as she later did the Great Western Schism which saw two and then three “popes” over the course of forty years. Episcopal appointees of these antipopes did not destroy the spiritual good of the faithful because they were not invalid, they were ultimately “grandfathered in.” (And unlike Francis who overwhelmingly appoints [homosexual] Modernists who pervert the faithful, these antipope cardinals and bishops actually adhered to the Church’s faith and morals.)

The next argument that Bishop Schneider makes that Francis must be Pope is that “universal peaceful acceptance” of a man as pope heals any illegality in his election:

The spiritual good and eternal salvation of the faithful is the supreme law in the normative system of the Church. For this reason, there is the principle of supplet ecclesia (“the Church supplies”) or of sanatio in radice (“healing at the root”), that is, the Church completes what was against the human positive law, in the case of the sacraments, which demand jurisdictional faculties, e.g. confession, marriage, confirmation, the burdens of the intentions of the Masses.

Guided by this truly pastoral principle, the instinct of the Church has also applied the principle of supplet ecclesia or sanatio in radice in cases of doubts about a renunciation or a pontifical election. Concretely, the sanatio in radice of an invalid pontifical election was expressed in the peaceful and morally universal acceptance of the new Pontiff by the episcopate and the Catholic people, and in the fact that this elected, supposedly invalid, Pontiff was named in the Canon of the Mass by practically the entire Catholic clergy.

It is actually a disputed question whether Francis IS universally peacefully accepted in the sense intended by the theologians. (See https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-there-universal-peaceful-acceptance-of-francis-as-pope/) Furthermore, while this theological opinion may possibly be true in principle, it must be viewed against the facts of history. The principle does not appear to be valid when the real pope is still alive.

In September 1378, the entire college of cardinals universally and peacefully accepted Cardinal Robert of Geneva as “Pope” Clement VII. According to Schneider’s reasoning, any illegality in his election should have been healed in the root by his unanimous acceptance by the college. But down through the centuries he has been viewed as an antipope—the man who started the Great Western Schism.

Universal peaceful acceptance seemingly does not work when the true Pope is still living, as in the case of Urban VI at the time of Clement, or Benedict at the time of Francis.

Elsewhere Bishop Schneider has written: “There is no authority to declare or consider an elected and generally accepted Pope as an invalid Pope.”[2]

But, once again, facts are stubborn things. Doctor of the Church, St. Catherine of Siena (an unlettered laywoman) did exactly that: declared and considered an elected and generally accepted “Pope” Clement VII an antipope and defied the entire college of cardinals when she wrote to them:

…I tell you that you [cardinals] did wrong, with the antipope…he was chosen a member of the devil…you have committed all these faults in regard to this devil…to confess him as Pope, which he surely is not…[3]

Additionally, His Excellency has written that Francis must be Pope because:

…automatic loss of the papacy due to heresy remains only an opinion…even St. Robert Bellarmine…did not present it as a teaching of the Magisterium…The perennial papal Magisterium never taught such an opinion.[4]

But as Rev. Damien Dutertre points out, the same is true about universal peaceful acceptance, an opinion upon which Bishop Schneider leans so heavily:

…the…doctrine of universal peaceful acceptance … [proposed by] renowned theologians…has [only] the authority of the theologians…Although these…are approved authors, and…their speculation…permitted and encouraged by the Church, it does not bear the authority of the Church’s magisterium.[5]

Should we continue to countenance the loss of countless souls under a putative antipope because we have made an idol out of universal peaceful acceptance—an opinion which has never been taught by the Magisterium? Indeed, there isn’t even a consensus on what constitutes “universal” acceptance.

Bishop Schneider has written elsewhere that Francis must be Pope because

Even in the case of a heretical pope, he will not lose his office automatically and there is no body within the Church to declare him deposed because of heresy…[6]

But as scholar Arnaldo Xavier da Silveira points out, Schneider’s

opinion–which Saint Robert Bellarmine classifies as ‘exceedingly improbable’–is defended by only one theologian, among the 136 theologians… [over the last thousand years!] whose position on this matter we could verify.” [Only Marie Dominique Bouix (d. 1870).][7]

Another objection that Bishop Schneider raises in his Lifesite article is that we cannot read Ratzinger’s mind. The whole notion of his resignation being invalid due to his erroneous understanding is illusory since

God alone judges intentions whereas canon law merely limits itself in evaluating the outward behavior of the baptized. “A well-known sentence of canon law … affirms that ‘De internis non iudicat praetor’; a judge does not judge interior things”

The answer to this objection is: Yes and No.

Yes, Pope Benedict might have resigned out of pride, for example, or embarrassment, or despair—or because he wanted to spend more time with his cat! These are his personal intentions to which the rest of humanity have no access. But this is not the intention which we are speaking about.

We are not speaking about “the finis cujus gratia opus fit, the end for which one does something, which is extrinsic to it.”  We are speaking about the very

 finis operis, the intrinsic end of the work itself. Personal motivations (the subjective intention) could be very difficult to determine, and are often a combination of many different reasons…[but] for whatever personal reasons, the person wants to do something…[8]

A famous example from history should suffice to explain. In 1896, in the document Apostolicae Curae, Pope Leo XIII declared all Anglican orders invalid. What is key for us, is that the Pope attributed this partly due to defect of intentioneven though intention is normally part of the internal forum:

[D]efect of “intention”… is equally essential to the Sacrament. The Church does not judge about the mind and intention, in so far as it is something by its nature internal; but in so far as it is manifested externally, she is bound to judge concerning it. A person who has…used the requisite matter and form to effect and confer a sacrament is presumed for that very reason to have intended to do (intendisse) what the Church does…On the other hand, if the rite be changed, with the manifest intention of introducing another rite not approved by the Church and of rejecting what the Church does, and what, by the institution of Christ, belongs to the nature of the Sacrament, then …not only is the necessary intention wanting to the Sacrament, but that the intention is adverse to and destructive of the Sacrament.[9]

So it is possible to judge Benedict’s objective intention (not his personal motivation) from an examination of the words he used in his Declaratio. True, resignation is not a sacramental act, nevertheless, if Benedict deviated from the traditional expression of resignation (i.e. “if the rite is changed”) and if his words (and actions) contradict what “belongs to the nature” of resignation and/or “the nature” of the Papacy, one can judge it to be invalid. His renunciation was, after all, a legal act:

By legal transaction is ordinarily understood a juridical act…a direct manifestation of intention or will to produce a juridical effect. Hence, the essential requisites of every legal transaction are: (a) will or intention of the subject…(b) their competence (natural or legal)…(c) external manifestation, without which the internal will has no legal force or value…just as if you ate meat on Friday thinking it was a Thursday, you did not sin…you did not intend to…eat meat on Friday, so also, whenever the internal intention does not correspond to the legal transaction posited.

What matters is therefore the objective intention, manifested externally, which is necessarily included in the subjective intention, which is internal…[not] the personal, subjective, intention motivating someone to do something, which would answer the question: … Why do you want to do this thing? It is sufficient to observe that, whatever his personal motives are, the person in fact clearly manifests the intention to do something.[10]

Benedict, in his Declaratio, manifested his intention externally when he explicitly said: “I am well aware that this munus [office], due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering;” he will continue the prayer and suffering, therefore, he will continue participating in the Petrine munus. And Can. 331 specifically states that a pope’s power comes from making the munus his own: “The bishop of the Roman Church, in whom continues the munus given by the Lord uniquely to Peter…and to be transmitted to his successors…By virtue of his munus, he possesses supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power…”

Benedict never renounced the munus and so it appears he implicitly attempted to share it with the new Bishop of Rome. This amounts to a bifurcation of the papacy, which is not canonically or metaphysically possible.[11]

READ: Is Francis really the pope? The debate

In conclusion, it is long past time for the cardinals and bishops of the Church to do something about the unprecedented situation in the Church today: a putative pontiff not teaching Catholic doctrine but rather spreading heresy and fully cooperating with Marxists and Masons for the destruction of the Faith.

Sister Lucy of Fatima said that unless a valid pope and bishops consecrate Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart, every country in the world will be taken over by communism.

Our Lady of Akita said that, unless mankind repents, “fire will fall from the sky…the living will envy the dead.”

If World War III breaks out—and it can happen any day now—because no (valid) pope ever consecrated Russia with all the (genuine) bishops in time, it will be precisely because the “princes” of the Church failed to act when they could have.

St. Catherine’s words to the cardinals of her day will then certainly apply to them:

Flowers you who shed no perfume, but stench that makes the whole world reek! No lights you placed in a candlestick, that you might spread the faith; but, having hidden your light under the bushel of pride, and become not extenders, but contaminators of the faith, you shed darkness over yourselves and others. You should have been angels on earth, placed to release us from the devils of hell, and performing the office of angels, by bringing back the sheep into the obedience of Holy Church, and you have taken the office of devils. That evil which you have in yourselves you wish to infect us with, withdrawing us from obedience to Christ on earth, and leading us into obedience to antichrist, a member of the devil, as you are too, so long as you shall abide in this heresy.[12]

O Mary conceived without original Sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

Dr. Mazza is the author of The Third Secret of Fatima and the Synodal Church and is delivering online lectures, which you can watch live or download here, about conclaves and antipopes.

Footnotes

[1] https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/exclusive-bishop-schneider-explains-why-he-believes-francis-must-be-the-pope/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

[2] https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasius-schneider-on-the-validity-of-pope-francis/

[3] St. Catherine of Siena, Letter to Italian Cardinals, 1378. https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=/Medieval-EN/XCT.053.html;chunk.id=00000117

https://archive.org/details/saintcatherineof0000vida/page/280/mode/2up

[4] https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasius-schneider-on-the-validity-of-pope-francis/

[5] Rev. Damien Dutertre, “ANSWERS TO THE OBJECTIONS BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL PEACEFUL ACCEPTANCE,” October 2022, mostholytrinityseminary.org

[6] https://onepeterfive.com/bishop-athanasius-schneider-on-the-validity-of-pope-francis/

[7] Arnaldo Xavier da Silveira, THE THEOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS OF A HERETIC POPE, 1975.

[8] Rev. Damien Dutertre, “On the Lack of Intention to Accept the Papacy;” https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/wpcontent/uploads/2022/06/Lack_of_Intention_Dutertre_2022.pdf

[9] Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, 1896, 33.

[10] Pio Ciprotti, article “Act, Juridical,” in the Dictionary of Moral Theology, Roberti and Palazzini, (Westminster MD, 1962); As cited in Dutertre, “On the Lack of Intention.”

[11] Paul Kramer, To Deceive the Elect, “A partial act of renunciation is null and void due to defect of intention, ‘To the Pontiff, as one (person) and alone, it was given to be the head;’” Domenico Gravina, OP, 1610.

[12] St. Catherine of Siena, Letter to Italian Cardinals, 1378. https://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=/Medieval-EN/XCT.053.html;chunk.id=00000117

https://archive.org/details/saintcatherineof0000vida/page/280/mode/2up

House Oversight delivers stunning admissions re Covid response

To be sure, there is still slobbering support for the jab and utter nonsense about how it “saved millions of lives.” But still, check out these nuggets.

Via VoxDay:

The full 527-page report can be downloaded here. One summary of it which I have not yet confirmed.

The Official Government Report finds:

  • COVID-19 Origins: The COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a laboratory or research-related incident.
  • Misinformation: Public health officials and the Biden administration engaged in misinformation and disinformation campaigns to suppress the lab-leak theory and promote specific narratives.
  • Government Overreach: The Biden administration’s mask mandates and other restrictive measures exceeded its authority and were often not supported by scientific evidence.
  • School Closures: The decision to close schools during the pandemic was not supported by science and had severe adverse impacts on students’ academic performance, mental health, and physical health.
  • Vaccine Mandates: The government imposed vaccine mandates that were not supported by science, ignored natural immunity, and caused significant collateral damage.
  • Erosion of Public Trust: Actions by public health officials and the government led to a decline in public trust in institutions and a rise in misinformation and anti-science rhetoric.
  • Financial Mismanagement: The government’s pandemic relief programs were vulnerable to significant fraud, waste, and abuse due to insufficient oversight and outdated financial management systems.
  • WHO’s Failure: The World Health Organization (WHO) failed to uphold its mission, caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, and did not hold China accountable for violating international health regulations.
  • Economic Impacts: The pandemic and the government’s response had severe economic impacts on individuals, communities, and businesses, including job losses, business closures, and supply chain disruptions.
  • Unintended Consequences: The government’s pandemic policies, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates, had severe unintended consequences that will likely have lasting effects on society.

Congratulations to all the purebloods. It’s official and the US government has admitted it: you were absolutely right to distrust the government, the media, the corporations, the medical community, and what they all tried to pass off as “the science”.

Of course, this is only the partial truth. There are more revelations to come.

Advent goals: It’s easier to forgive than to forget

“I’m still meditating on 1 Corinthians 13. One of the elements that especially challenges me is, “Love does not keep a record of wrongs.” It’s easier to forgive than to forget.  And how often past memories invade the present and tempt one to rehash a wrong, fan it into flames, and form it into a grudge as weighty as the Washington Monument.

…

“Blame seems to me to be the fundamental cause for keeping a record of wrongs. Pointing the finger at others can make it easy to ignore our own faults. We can just keep running down the list seeing the splinter in the other person’s eye while ignoring the beam in our own.

“This Advent I want to stop blaming and start thanking. I wrote several thank you letters on Thanksgiving Day and I want to do that frequently during Advent. How many graces I’ve received from others. I want to thank them for it. I don’t want to focus on the hurtful events in my life. What good is that? Besides, when others hurt us they offer us a great opportunity to be united to the cross of Christ, and help make up what’s lacking in His suffering as St. Paul says. It took me a long time to figure out what Paul meant. How could anything be lacking in the passion and suffering of Christ? The answer is simple: our cooperation in Christ’s passion by our complete submission to the Divine Will by embracing our own sufferings — not just accepting them, but kissing them like Christ kissed His cross.

“St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, apostle of the Sacred Heart, suffered a lot from the time she was a child. Instead of blaming those who persecuted her, she excused them, forgave them in her heart, and saw them as a means to holiness. What a great blessing if I can learn to do the same thing. It seems impossible, but Jesus promises that “My grace is sufficient for you.” So I’m confident that when Christmas arrives I will find in my stocking a little more patience, a little more kindness, a little more gratitude, and a blank “record of wrongs” list…”

https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2024/12/sunday-meditation-love-does-not-keep.html

Thanksgiving and Purity

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Many good Catholics today are striving for an increase in purity by both prayer and mortification.  This is extremely commendable.  But did you know the virtue of purity is directly connected to supernatural hope?  And the virtue of supernatural hope is directly connected to gratitude?  I found this while studying Scripture:

Gratitude increases hope:

The hope of an ungrateful man will melt like wintry frost and flow away like waste water.—Wis 16:29.

… and hope increases purity:

And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies Himself as He is pure.—1 John 3:3.

Therefore, real gratitude increases both supernatural hope and purity.  Purity of heart is not only something in regards to the 6th and 9th commandment (although it is certainly those too) but also refers to seeking God-alone above all creatures and gifts.  It’s amazing that thanking God for those creatures and gifts (if done the right way) detaches us from those very creatures as obstacles while ironically attaching us God alone.  This leads to purity of heart and mind.  And again, this is done by increasing gratitude.

Gratitude, hope and purity all make us love God above all things, and all creatures for His sake.  Strangely, we love them more while detached.

We can’t automatically increase hope or purity.  But we can automatically increase thanksgiving in our prayer by naming specific things.  We should do this meditation on Thanksgiving Day.   But we should also make this a daily exercise of thanking God for real things, especially His Son dying and rising on a cross for us.   In such meditation (when we live real thanksgiving) we not only receive more blessings from God, but we see that gratitude is already a foretaste of heaven-on-earth. Why? Because heaven will be the saved eternally praising and thanking God.

At this same time last year on my Life Update pull-down section, I wrote about some of the specific things I am thankful for here.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Bergoglio is an antipope. Thanks be to God, and pass the stuffing.

Yes, we should GIVE THANKS that Bergoglio is an antipope. Because if he were true Pope, or ever had been, there would be a LOT of explaining to do. Remember, the Office of the Papacy is conferred by Christ Himself… not by the Cardinals, not by the Church, but by Christ Himself. In doing so, He binds Himself to the Officeholder in a special way, whereby the man is transformed into His Vicar on earth, supernaturally incapable of teaching error in matters of faith and morals. After all, what good is the Papacy without such protections? Christ, being God, cannot bind himself to error, much less outright heresy and apostasy. In fact, this is the biggest contrast between Bergoglio and all the dozens of other antipopes throughout history… all the rest were Catholic! So give thanks, enjoy this little essay, and pray for Jorge’s conversion. Your duty is such. Happy Thanksgiving!

Is Francis a Pope or a Pretender?

“At this point, however it seems that the faith of many Catholics will be more badly shaken should Francis turn out to be the true pope. How, it will be asked, could God allow his Church to be ruled by a man whose teachings contradict what Christ taught? Why does God permit the confusion and demoralization that Francis has wrought? Why does Francis bear so much animosity toward good and faithful Catholics like Bishop Strickland?

“The possibility that Francis is the pope does far more damage to the credibility of the Church than the possibility that he is not. If Francis continues to introduce novel and divisive changes to Church teachings on an almost weekly basis, then the credibility of the Church and the papacy will decline rapidly. If, on the other hand, he is revealed to be an imposter intent on subverting the Church, then much of the current turmoil would be seen in a new light. It would be seen not as the result of some inherent flaw in the Church, but as the result of a deliberate plot to destroy the Church.

“If Francis is actually an enemy of the Church, then it makes sense that he would favor harmful innovations—that he would be open to same-sex blessings, that he would participate in pagan rituals, that he would put the John Paul II Academy for Marriage and the Family in the hands of a man who would not be welcome in the homes of most Catholic families, that he would put another such man in charge of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, that he would issue a motu proprio calling for a radical paradigm shift in Catholic theology and on and on. All of these innovations have sown confusion in the Church. But that, it seems, is what they were intended to do.

“If Francis were really a false prophet, then it would be understandable that he thinks conversion is undesirable, that he tells seminarians to forgive all sin in the confessional even if there is no repentance, and that he maintains that sexual sins are nothing to worry about.

“If for some reason—an invalid resignation by Pope Benedict, a rigged papal election, or evidence that Bergoglio had no intention of guarding the Catholic faith—it becomes evident that Francis is not a valid pope, then many Catholics would breathe a sigh of relief. If Francis/Bergoglio is an antipope then the promises of Christ and the protection of the Holy Spirit do not apply to him. Catholics would be free to ignore his new doctrines, to resist him, and above all, to better understand the trial that has been visited on the Church.

“Some think that the antipope/false prophet accusations against Francis are reckless, but scripture teaches us that at some point in time, something of this nature is exactly what we should expect…”

https://turningpointproject.com/is-francis-a-pope-or-a-pretender/

“Long Lay the World in Sin and Error Pining…”

Two new full-length courses from Dr. Mazza start next Tuesday. Join me!

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This Advent/Christmas learn how The Light came into a World of Darkness and Pagan Civilization transformed into Christendom.Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1879) By Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920) The painting displayed is “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” by French artist Luc-Olivier Merson, completed in 1879. It depicts the

Each Christmas Catholics face the challenge of navigating a yearly routine of commercialism, cards, presents, and parties entirely divorced from the real “reason for the season.” Yet, separated from authentic history, the stable in the little town of Bethlehem is nothing more than a cardboard cutout among the rest of the decorations. While no sensible person would form an opinion on a great book having only read the last chapter, many today light candles and sing Christmas carols in blissful ignorance of the incredible events that led up to the appearance of the Babe in the Manger. But where do you turn to learn the “rest of the story?”

In an engaging and entertaining way, Dr. Mazza makes sense of Scripture, Tradition, and history to reveal startling insights from an astounding array of serious sources. Through Old Testament prophecies to ancient oracles to modern discoveries of astronomy and archaeology you will boldly overcome modern ignorance and indifference to enjoy your most profound experience of Christmas ever.

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Weekly Live Classes start Tues Dec 3rd, at 5pm PDT/8pm EDT and will run approximately 70-80 minutes. Q&A will follow for 10 minutes or more for those who can stay. I will suggest readings. No tests. No pressure. Content: Ages 13 and up. Recorded video link sent afterwards so you can watch on your own time!  (Projected duration 12-13 weeks)

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Weekly Live Classes start Wed Dec 4th, at 5pm PDT/6pm EDT and will run approximately 70-80 minutes. Q&A will follow for 10 minutes or more for those who can stay. I will suggest readings. No tests. No pressure. Content: Ages 13 and up. Recorded video link sent afterwards so you can watch on your own time!  (Projected duration 12-13 weeks)

“Immaculate from her first conception”

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. If you aren’t wearing her medal 24/7, you should be.

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the young Sister Catherine Laboure while she was at prayer with the Sisters in a chapel in Paris. Our Lady appeared in an oval frame, standing on a globe of the world. She was dressed in a white robe with a blue cloak edged with silver, having as it were diamonds in Her hands from which fell streams of golden rays upon the earth. A voice was heard saying: “These rays are the graces that Mary obtains for men.” Then golden words formed around the oval: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!” The oval picture then turned around, and on the reverse side the Sister saw the letter M, with a cross above it, having a crosspiece at its base, and below the letter the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the former surrounded by a crown of thorns, and the latter pierced with a sword. Then the voice said: “A medal must be struck on this pattern; the persons who shall carry it with indulgences attached to it, and shall offer the above prayer, shall enjoy a very special protection from the Mother of God.”
The medal was struck and spread all over the world, and immediately the most wonderful conversions and cures attested to its miraculous efficacy. Devout Catholics everywhere attest to its wonder-working power!
Medal of the Immaculate Conception (aka Miracu...
COLLECT: O Lord Jesus Christ, who wast pleased that the most Blessed Virgin Mary Thy Mother, immaculate from her first conception, should shine resplendent with miracles beyond number; grant, that, ever imploring her patronage, we may attain the joys of everlasting life.
When Saint Catherine was shown the model for the medal, in 3D, she noticed that certain gems within it appeared dim, and she asked Our Lady why they didn’t shine. Her response:
“Those are the graces for which people forget to ask.” HERE
Your Mother is literally begging you to beg her. Implore her Holy Name. Praying the Ave is like praying twice, because her Holy Name is found twice therein. Have you started praying the Rosary every day? Have you at least tried? Because I can assure you that you will succeed and your desire to recite it will win out, despite considerable effort from the enemy to prevent you. When you find you desire it, but “something comes up,” well that is Satan, my friend. He’s also the same one who throws down barricades to Daily Mass and Adoration. When Satan starts paying extra attention to you, it’s because he knows he’s losing his grip. Maintain your bearing, see this for what it is, and redouble your resolve.
Mary is in heaven right now, her palms outstretched to you, at the ready with weaponized Grace.
Happy feast!