Islamismus contra Europam - Cruciatae: Responsum Defensionis Invasioni Islamica et Expansioni

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

The following You Tube video gives a good summary contrasting the spread of Islam with the Christian Crusades:

Pauci Verbi de Islamismo ab Archiepiscopo Marcel Lefevbre

Amici et Amicae,

A few words from Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre from SSPX are in order:

Sir Winston Churchill on Islam

Orate pro Gallia

France

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

Pray for France:

• That we all repent and fall prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament in fear and trembling
• That the victims of the vicious attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13 may be comforted
• That the souls of the deceased may have eternal rest
• That the perpetrators and their accomplices may stand before Eternal Justice
• That both Pope Francis and President Obama may come to their senses
• That the Eldest Daughter return to her Mother the Church
• That both liberal progressivism and Islam may be eradicated from the face of the Earth.

In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen!

The French Tricolor

Discrimen in Ecclesia et Discrimen in Rebus Publicis

President Barack Hussein Obama

Amici, Romani, Compatriotae,

President Barack Hussein Obama has succeeded during his term in office of creating and exacerbating harmful divisions within our Republic that no President before him has done. His deference to Islam, his promotion of sterile sexual filth, his criticism of local constabularies, and his inciting of racial hatreds have all created a dangerous atmosphere of antagonism and distrust. If during the next Presidential election a Republican is elected, few if any Democrats will tolerate it for it will mean the end of the promotion of sodomy and lesbianism, and government financing of the infanticide of the unborn. And likewise if a Democrat is elected; Conservative Republicans are at the end of their patience in being ridiculed, marginalized and misrepresented in the popular media.

Pope Francis
Jorge Bergoglio

In the same fashion Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, has succeeded during his occupancy of the Sedes Petri in exacerbating the divide between traditional conservative orthodox Catholics and liberal progressives who want to normalize the adultery of second civil marriages and both sodomy and lesbianism. Time and again Pope Francis has ranted against doctors of the law who insist on conformity tot he clear commands of Christ in Sacred Scripture. These rants are little different in tenor and tone than those which President Obama issues against conservative Republicans. And just as Democrats and Republicans can no longer tolerate each other, so also can traditional conservative orthodox Catholics and liberal progressives no longer tolerate each other.

Concerning these things the words of Jesus in Matthew 10:34-39 are quite clear:

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it."

Yes, we should and must pray for both our Pope and our President. But at the same time, as Jesus said in Matthew 10:16:

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."

The following is a modification of several prayers from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer:

A Prayer for The President of the United States, and all in Civil Authority.

ALMIGHTY God, whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite; Have mercy upon this whole land; and so rule the hearts of thy servants THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Barack Hussein Obama, The Governor of this State of South Carolina Nikki Haley, and all others in authority, that they, knowing whose ministers they are, may above all things seek thy honour and glory; and that we and all the People, duly considering whose authority they bear, may faithfully and obediently honour them, according to thy blessed Word and ordinance; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

A Prayer for Congress.

MOST gracious God, we humbly beseech thee, as for the people of these United States in general, so especially for their Senate and Representatives in Congress assembled; that thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations, to the advancement of thy glory, the good of thy Church, the safety, honour, and welfare of thy people; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be establish among us for all generations. These and all other necessaries, for them, for us, and thy whole Church, we humbly beg in the Name and mediation of Jesus Christ, our most blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.

A Prayer for the Clergy and People.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift; Send down upon Pope Francis, our Patriarchs, Metropolitans, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests and Deacons, and upon the Offices, Jurisdictions, Dioceses, and Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and, that they may truly please thee, pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing. Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our Advocate and Mediator, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Silva et Fluentum circa Nostram Regionem Residentialem post Imbres Multorum Dierum

Amici,

The photographs below show the woodland area and Walnut Creek after the rains over the past several weeks.

Toxicomaniacus et Sanctus: Marcus Ji Tianxiang

Mark Ji Tianxiang
Toxicomaniacus
et Sanctus

Amici,

I have finally stumbled across the story of a Chinese man by the name of Mark Ji Tianxiang about whom Deacon Greg Kandra delivered a homily in September of 2011:

"He was a Chinese layman who was executed in 1900, along with dozens of other Catholics in his village during a bloody persecution of Christians. St. Mark was steadfast in his faith, and refused to renounce it – and for that, he gave his life. That is extraordinary enough. But so are the circumstances under which he died. St. Mark, you see, was an addict. An opium addict. In the 19th century, the Church didn’t understand addiction as it does now – and his life was seen as gravely sinful and scandalous. As a result, for 30 years Mark Ji Tianxiang was denied communion. Yet his devotion never wavered. Witnesses say that he sang a litany to the Blessed Mother as he was led to his death."

This story is particularly noteworthy to me since I too am an addict and an alcoholic. While I have been blessed with almost three decades in sobriety, this account of St. Mark reminds me that God does not count the number of years one has been sober as a measure of one's worthiness to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The fact of the matter is that none of us are worthy, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin are death. So what saved St. Mark, an addict who could not put down the pipe, and who lived a life of utter scandal and disrepute? Only one thing saved him: God's grace through faith. It is however ironic that St. Mark did not have the strength to put the opium pipe down, but he did have the strength to chose death before renouncing his Catholic Christian faith, and he did that even though the clergy of that faith denied him access to the Sacraments for the 30 years of his addiction.

God does not judge by the outside, nor as men judge.

Praeceptum Latinum Hodiernum

Papa Franciscus

Amici,

Today’s Latin Lesson is NOT in how to translate the words, but in recognizing how applicable to today’s situation is something written around AD 1150 (865 years ago). This is from Decretum Gratiani (the Doctrine of Gratian). Gratian (Franciscus Gratianus – oh, the irony of his first name!) was a canon lawyer from Bologna, Italy in the 12th century. He has been acclaimed as  Pater Juris Canonici or Father of Canon Law. The text below is another example of why we should read what the early and medieval Church Fathers and Doctors wrote, for there is nothing new under the sun and if we forget history, then we are doomed to repeat it.

Item ex gestis Bonifacii Martiris.

III. Pars.

Si Papa suae et fraternae salutis negligens reprehenditur inutilis et remissus in operibus suis, et insuper a bono taciturnus, quod magis officit sibi et omnibus, nichilominus innumerabiles populos catervatim secum ducit, primo mancipio gehennae cum ipso plagis multis in eternum vapulaturus. Huius culpas istic redarguere presumit mortalium nullus, quia cunctos ipse iudicaturus a nemine est iudicandus, nisi deprehendatur a fide deuius; pro cuius perpetuo statu uniuersitas fidelium tanto instantius orat, quanto suam salutem post Deum ex illius incolumitate animaduertunt propensius pendere.

Likewise out of the exploits of Bonifacius Martyr

Part III

If the Pope useless and slack in his works is blamed negligent of his and the brethren’s salvation, and in addition silent from the good (which to a greater extent impedes him and everyone), he nonetheless leads numberless people in herds with himself, beaten by himself with many blows in first purchase of Gehenna. None of mortals assumes to refute faults of this there, because he himself judging all will have been judged by no one, unless he is discovered straying from the faith; for whose perpetual stability so great the whole of the faithful insistently pray; by how much their salvation after God depends from him in safety they the more eagerly observe.