"Blessed are they who put their trust in the Lord" (Psalm 2)
Friends, today we conclude Christmas celebrating the fact that Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Light of the World. Lightness expels darkness. We take up candles to signify our desire to have bright souls as we go to meet Christ. We follow Our Blessed Mother, who on the day of Her purification she could present the King of the Universe to the world. We go forth to greet Simeon, and rejoice with him. We rejoice with Anna who remained faithful in Christ's Temple.
We follow Simeon in proclaiming Christ to the world; Christ as the Head and glory of the New Israel, the Church. As St. Sophronius wrote:
"Gentiles before, we now become the people of God. Our eyes have seen God incarnate, and because we have seen Him present among us and mentally received him into our arms, we are called the New Israel. Never shall we forget this presence; every year WE KEEP A FEAST in its honour".
Friends, alas, due to the Absolutist State restrictions on public worship, and the "Covid Interdict" imposed upon the faithful by the bishops, we shall not be able to gather in our churches to publicly render unto God what is His due, to keep A FEAST. This is a great spiritual crime committed by the Absolutist State with cowardly acquiescence from compromised churchmen who have taken Caesar's dinari.
We have committed no crime; we have not promoted scandal, nor pushed heresies; nor have we engaged in schism, nor apostasy. To the contrary we reject the crimes of prenatal infanticide, which has caused a river of innocent blood to be shed in our land; we reject the perversion of the family, the destruction of marriage, and the Absolutist State disfiguring the very meaning of human nature.
Yet we have received a violent, merciless interdict reserved in past centuries for only the most reprobate.
Over the decades there was no interdict on these vile butchers, on those who destroyed marriage and the family. No interdict on those who pervert human nature and glorify sexual sin as virtue.
But WE have received the interdict, the bastard offspring of the adulterous union between the Absolutist State and the new Gallican "church"; or more precisely the Gallicanesque sinful churchmen who behave more as ravenous wolves in taking the knee to Caesar.
Much more could be said, but on this Feast Day let us with purity and peace of heart remain faithful to Our Lord and His Church. Let us, during this re-crucifixion of the Church by Her sinful pastors, recall us to remain by Her side, even as the the very men who should be defending Holy Mother Church have joined the Absolutist State in depriving Her of Her rights; in abusing her, even raping Her.
Let us offer up this persecution for the conversion of sinners (firstly the wayward churchmen who have betrayed us "into the hands of sinful men"), and secondly the godless Absolutist State that rages against Christ and His Church; finally, for ourselves, that we remain steadfast during this persecution.
Beautiful clarity.
ReplyDeleteWe are sad here but we rejoice in Christ and His Mother, today and we put not our trust in princes, especially those in scarlet.
Thank you for this. I have a sent a copy to my Bishop here in the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie. We have a small fraction of the "Cases" and deaths here, but are still barred from Mass. I tried to express my feelings to my parish priest, but it was like talking to a stone wall. So I pulled my direct deposit donations. If they want to treat the Holy Roman Catholic Church like a business that needs to close, then I will not pay for services which are not rendered. I give to the many causes that need assistance.
ReplyDeleteThank you Laura for your witness for our Catholic Faith. You are brave to stand up to your parish priest who should be a pastor of souls, and not a pawn of compromised, cowardly bishops.
ReplyDeleteBe assured of our prayers for you, and please pray for us.