St. Thomas a Becket, Bishop and Martyr

"In the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death."

Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist

Today is the feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist. He needs no introduction. Out of all the evangelists, he is my favorite.

Fr. Leonard Goffine (1648 - 1719), in his Devout Meditations, has the following summary of the Beloved Disciple:

John, the brother of St. James the Greater, was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman of Galilee, and of Salome, a cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Matt. iv. 21). He was the youngest of the apostles, and with Peter and James, was the most trusted of the disciples of Jesus, by Whom he was tenderly loved, on which account he is called the Disciple of Love. Of this Jesus gave the most convincing evidence when, at the Last Supper, He allowed that disciple to lean upon His breast, and when, from the cross, He committed to the care of John His own Mother. After the ascension John preached the Gospel in Palestine; afterwards went to Asia Minor, fixed his residence in Ephesus, and established many churches there. He was, with the other apostles, taken prisoner and scourged by the Jews, and in the year 95, under the Emperor Domitian, before the Latin Gate, at Rome, was thrown into a vessel of boiling oil. Having endured this torture without injury, he was then banished to the island of Patmos, where, by command of the Lord, he wrote the Apocalypse, or Revelation, concerning the fortunes of the Church. On returning from his banishment, he again governed the churches of Asia Minor as chief pastor, as he had done before, and, at the age of nearly one hundred years, died at Ephesus a peaceful and natural death.

Fr. Goffine also has the following to say about St. John and purity:

'He that loves wisdom,' saith the Holy Ghost, 'will obtain it, for it will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins' (Wis. i. 4). St. John was from his childhood an angel of purity, on which account he was particularly beloved by Jesus, and endowed by the Holy Ghost with such wisdom and knowledge that, as St. Augustine has remarked, he begin his gospel in a manner more lofty and sublime than the other three evangelists. For while they walk with the God-man upon earth, speaking comparatively little of His divinity, St. John, as if despising the world, soars beyond the vault of heaven, above the host of angels, and comes to Him by Whom all things are made, saying, "In the beginning was the Word." At the Last Supper he was permitted to lean on the bosom of Jesus, but what he there drank in secretly he imparted openly. Apply thyself, therefore, to purity of heart, and thou shalt be like St. John, a beloved disciple of Jesus, and shalt be filled with heavenly wisdom.

Ora pro nobis, Sante Johannes!

Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle and Martyr

Today is the feast of St. Thomas, Apostle and Martyr. He is commonly referred to as "Doubting Thomas," from the account in John 20:24-29. The account John gives is marvelous, and invites plenty of reflection. Before the "reforms" of 1969, the Church encouraged Her Faithful to silently say what Thomas said when he realized he had touched the Word Made Flesh - "My Lord and my God!" - at the Major Elevations at Mass. This is a practice that has fallen to the wayside, and is worthy of revival in one's life.

However, it would be an injustice to focus on Thomas' doubt. (In our day and age, sadly, this is often the case.) After the Upper Room, St. Thomas went on to be an Apostle and Martyr in the truest sense of the words. Here is what Fr. Leonard Goffine (1649 - 1719) wrote about the Saint for December 21st:

Thomas, also called Didymus, or the twin, was a fisherman of Galilee. After having been received among the apostles he accompanied Jesus in all His journeys, and uniformly showed docility, zeal, and love towards Him, particularly on the occasion of His going to Bethany to raise Lazarus from the dead. For when the apostles were afraid to go thither, because the Jews desired to kill Jesus, Thomas, full of courage, said, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him" (John xi.16). His faith, indeed, wavered for a moment in regard to the resurrection of Christ; but no sooner had Christ satisfied him thereof by showing His wounds, than he cried out with firm faith, "My Lord and my God." St. Gregory thereupon says, "God overruled the doubting of Thomas to our good, since that very doubt has profited us more than the ready belief of the other disciples, inasmuch as thereby Christ was induced to give so much clearer proofs of His resurrection, in order to confirm us in the belief of it." Thomas showed the firmness of his faith by the innumerable labors which he undertook, and by the sufferings that he endured for Christ. He traversed the most extensive and remote countries, and preached Jesus to the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, and other barbarous and wicked nations, enduring in the course of his labors, with astonishing firmness, the greatest sufferings for the honor of God and the salvation of men. Finally he came to India, when, in the city of Calamina, or Meliapor, he underwent a glorious martyrdom, being pierced through with lances, by order of the idolatrous priests, as he was praying at the foot of the cross. So much did the apostle do to repair a single fault; but we, who every day commit so many - what do we do to repair them? 

The Feast of St. Thomas supersedes all but the Sundays in Advent.

Ora pro nobis, Sancte Thoma!

St. Raphael

Magnificat

Salve Regina

FUNERAL OF HER MAJESTY, QUEEN ELIZABETH II

 

BATTLE OF BRITAIN DAY ~ 82nd ANNIVERSARY

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH II: REQUIESCAT IN PACE

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II died today at Balmoral at the age of 96. May Our Lord Jesus Christ be merciful upon her soul. 

 

"Come on out, come on out, there's going to be a war". Reflections on the Anniversary of World War 2

This day, 83 years ago, the forces of Satan crossed the Polish border and unleashed on the world a torrent of bloodshed. In the early hours of that fateful day, Nazi aircraft began to bomb Warsaw leading to the eventual occupation of that nation with co-conspirator, Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks attacked Poland on the 17th, following the secret protocols in the vile Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. In fact, Nazis had even been training in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. The right and left hand of Satan met at the river San - the dividing line between the two totalitarian States. Eventually, due to far greater organization and international connections and assorted fellow travellers,  the communist empire would devour more than half of Europe and lead to its monstrous extension over the globe leading to such a death count, that even the fiendish Hitler would end up looking like a choir boy. 

 "Come on out, come on out, there's going to be  a war", were the words my mother recalled to me of her mother hurrying down to the ocean side as she played with my uncle at Southend on Sea. That fateful day was September 3rd, and Britain and France had just declared war on Germany. A few hundred miles away, in my father's country the forces of Satanic evil were busily at work, already bombing hospitals and murdering civilians. 

Stalin directing Hitler into a losing war 

The result for Poland was the virtual extermination of Poland's Jews - protected by King Kazimir the Great centuries earlier, when Jews were being hounded out of other European states. Nazi hatred for the Catholic Church too was on display with arrests and executions of priests. Mass was proscribed, with the sole Mass at the Wawel Cathedral under the eye of the Gestapo. It was in this environment that the great Archbishop Sapiecha would take on a seminarian named Karol Wojtyla. 

My father was a witness to Nazi brutality. Early during the war, he and my grandmother on a number of occasions would sneak food to the Jews of Przemysl and pass food through the wired off area where the Jews were kept, prior to deportation to the death camps. My father always remembered this, and he remembered to his horror seeing behind the wire a young teenage boy from his class in school. Eventually my father would be arrested in a "Lapanka" (or street catch) and sent to Germany for slave labour. He then ended up in Norway on an island doing tree cutting; transferred to a camp near the Swedish border, he and another teenager escaped up into the mountains and to freedom in Sweden. He always remembered seeing the German Army motorbikes travelling along the road far below looking for them. In fact, this escape was even more daring for two young men had tried it earlier and had been shot. From Stockholm he eventually he would end up in Scotland in the armed forces... from then, onto London where he met my very English mother (who left London and spent her war years in Llandudno, Wales) - and the rest is history. 

So, please pray for Poland that she may remain true to her ancient Faith.

The puppet Kiev Regime shows again what the West's war against Russia is really about

 

Vladimir Putin with children

Joe Biden with children

Most readers should be aware that following the collapse of the western-imposed Bolshevik terror regime on the peoples of Russia, the Slavic Nation has been making increasing strides towards a Christian revival. Much work needs to be done, however, the campaign of the Putin-Medvedev governments have shown great fruit in rebuilding thousands of churches, as well as an increasing "symphony" between Church and State (anyone read Pius XII's Quas Primas?). 

 

Meanwhile in the Ukraine, the US-EU puppet regime of "Elensky" (after all "Z" is banned) has now announced that it will be seeking to introduce "civil partnerships" into legislation in a push to fully legalize eventually the horror of same-sex "marriage".

From Interfax Religion: 

The Ukrainian Constitution cannot be changed during martial law or a state of emergency, Zelensky said. "At the same time, the government has elaborated possible solutions to legalize a registered civil partnership in Ukraine in furtherance of the effort to endorse and observe human rights and freedoms," he said.

It should be noted that the long-suffering peoples of the Ukraine (used as cannon fodder in the NATO directed war that commenced with the putsch in 2014) despise sodomy, as all traditional Slavic peoples do. After an abortive "gay pride" parade in Odessa, a priest went about purifying the area with holy water. Would that our priests (dare I say bishops!) in Canada have such courage! But alas, they sit silent like mutes.

 

This perverted scheme of Elensky and his puppet masters will come to naught. The ultimate fate of Elensky and his corrupt regime remains to be seen, but it is becoming highly likely he will either be overthrown by what is left of the Ukrainian Army (exposed as an enemy of the Ukraine and eventually be tried for treason for dragging the nation into a completely unnecessary war on behalf of the imperialist war-mongering NATO globalist elites and sending 60,000 (and counting) young Ukrainian men to needless death), or flee to one of his mansions in the decadent "West".

Meanwhile in Russia we have the following counter-blow against the "LGBT" juggernaut. Would that Washington, Westminster, Ottawa, or Brussels bring in legislation to stop the dissemination of "LGBT" propaganda. Think carefully friends, as to whom God is looking favourably upon right now. One thing I do know, it is not the demonic West (were not high ranking members of the Biden regime just recently in South Korea pushing "LGBT" ideology? Did not "Taiwan" just recently "legalize" perverted "marriages" as a nod towards its puppet master? How long will it take for people to realize that their governments are run by a bunch of perverts?). 

From Interfax Religion we have the following from Nikolay Burlyayev, first deputy head of the State Duma Committee for the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations, member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture:

Question: One of the authors of the law, Alexander Khinshtein, said that it will also affect online cinemas. However, as you rightly noted, in recent decades, in almost every film shot in Europe and America, at least one character turns out to be an LGBT representative. In many of such films, as a rule, superstars were shot, and these films were professionally dubbed at the studios of Russia. Does it mean that the new law will deprive the Russian adult viewer of the opportunity to see or re-watch these films?

Burlyayev: That's right. And thank God, because it will be a boon for Russia. I can't say for sure to what extent the law will affect online cinemas, these measures will be worked out later. The main thing now is to pass the law itself, and the specifics will be further discussed and changed. But what will definitely change is that rental certificates will be issued more deliberately.

Question: What are the chances of adoption of this bill?

Burlyayev: There is opposition, of course, but, as Nikolay Gogol said, there is a battle going on now, the most important battle for the human soul, and this battle has not only not ended since Gogol's time, but it has become tougher. As Dostoevsky wrote, "the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people." This struggle is going on in every heart, because sin is attractive, and even the screen shows vice as something very interesting. But that time is passed, I hope.

The full Q and A can be read here. 

 

Russia moves to ban all LGBT propaganda. The "Christian" West goes full degenerate

If someone had said in January of this year that within a month "fifties traditionalists" (allegedly erstwhile enemies of the degenerate western media) would reverse their position and ally with neocon "Catholics" and join with them the open avowed enemies of the Church and agitprop mouthpieces for neoliberal globalism in attacking Russia (including the scandal of re-tweeting Russia-hating notorious sodomites) one would have thought that this was a sick joke.

Alas, the insidiousness of liberalism in the Church (in the United States known as Americanism) enabled this orgy of copulating with such unlikely fellow travellers as: globalists, lockdown fanatics, big-pharma mafiosi, western corporate media, international finance, corporate capitalism, neoliberal ideologues, socialists, "Christian" zionists, communists, freemasons, modernist "Catholics" etc.) to form a cacophony of hatred against a resurgent Orthodox Russia. 

This diabolically inspired hate will rise to a level of apoplectic madness, now that a new law has been tabled in the Duma to extend the criminality of LGBT and gender ideology propaganda irrespective of age. Concomitant with it will be a clause that will also provide for even harsher punishments for those engaged in promoting pedophilia. President Putin had warned the degenerate West last February that it would not succeed in pushing its anti-human and unnatural vices into the Russian world. He was mocked as a "madman" in their "reviews" of his speeches. Let them mock.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:
Mock on, mock on: ‘tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

William Blake  

 

The Orthodox "symphony" of church and state

As the Orthodox Church in Russia continues to gain in strength, expect the raging and bellowing from the western Christ-haters (joined by the above-mentioned useful idiots of fake "Catholicism") to become even more demonic and hysterical. 

 

President Putin attending Divine Liturgy in St. Petersburg

Meanwhile in the "devout Christian" West we find the following from its debauched mis-"leaders", busy promoting a continual, accelerating downward spiral of moral confusion, degeneration, and evil.

 

Macron with degenerate sybarites

 

Biden in a gay bar

Trudeau with a drag queen

From Interfax: 

Russia plans to ban propaganda of non-traditional relations for everyone regardless age

Moscow, July 11, Interfax - Propaganda regarding non-traditional relations will be banned in Russia for everyone regardless of their age, State Duma Information Policy, IT and Communications Committee head Alexander Khinshtein said.

"Such a ban [on propaganda regarding non-traditional sexual relations] currently only applies to children. Of course, that is clearly not enough. We suggest generally applying the ban on such propaganda regardless of the age of the audience (offline, in the mass media, on the Internet, on social networks, and also in online movie theaters)," Khinshtein said on his Telegram channel on Monday.

He also said it has been proposed to introduce administrative liability for such propaganda, expanding Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences (it currently applies only to propaganda among minors and envisages a fine in the amount of up to one million rubles, 15 days of arrest, and suspension of the operations of a legal entity).

It is also envisaged to introduce a separate, even tougher liability for the propaganda of pedophilia.

It is also proposed to "ban the dissemination among children not only of propaganda, but also any other information demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations and perversions," the parliamentarian said.

"These initiatives have already been tentatively coordinated with [Russia's telecoms watchdog] Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development Ministry," Khinshtein said.

The State Duma Information Policy Committee has started working on these initiatives, and "we will be ready to discuss them publicly in the fall session," he said.

Earlier in July, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to ban propaganda regarding non-traditional values.

LGBT propaganda among minors is currently banned in Russia. A bill banning this propaganda overall has been submitted to the State Duma.

Cardinal Collins: Were YOU threatened with "sanctions" if YOU did not support lockdowns and forced experimental injections?

 

A fearful Cardinal Collins

You will not have heard about it from the degenerate media (unless perchance in glowing terms), and you will not have heard about it (unless likewise in glowing terms) by any number of soi-disant"traditionalist" Catholic websites and propagandists cheering on the western war-mongers. One has to ask: are these self-styled "influencers" receiving covert money from US and UK intelligence agencies to regurgitate media propaganda to ill-informed Catholics as to the real genesis of the tragedy in the Donbass? 

Catholics should take careful heed of the most recent actions just taken by Justin Trudeau and his self-identifying Banderite Deputy PM, Christia Freeland (a well-known fanatical Ukrainian nationalist and apologist for various Nazi-affiliated organizations during World War Two involved in genocidal extermination, including the notorious fascist militia, OUN-B) - namely to impose "sanctions" the the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.

No opposition to this shameful deed will come from Canadian politicians, all eagerly clamouring for votes from a radicalized, Banderite Ukrainian diaspora. Freeland and other politicians (including the supposed anti-fascist New Democratic Party, in truth just another globalist-corporatist arm of collective West's failing attempt at world hegemony) regularly march with fascist organizations, such as the fascist organization, "Svoboda". It should be noted this sycophantic prostituting before fascists for votes is a cross-party problem, with the previous Stephen Harper regime giving in July 2015, $70,000 of taxpayers' money to a Calgary-based openly Banderite organization called, "Ukrainian Youth Centre".

That Banderite and self-serving politicians should support this "sanctioning" of the Patriarch should come as no surprise. But that we have not heard a peep from the Catholic bishops is a cause for alarm. If the Canadian government can "sanction" a major world religious leader, the head of the largest Orthodox church, what is there to stop them from "sanctioning" other major religious leaders, including Canada's bishops?  

It is legitimate to ask one's own Ordinary, in my case Cardinal Collins:

Were YOU threatened - directly or indirectly - with negative financial ramifications if you did not comply with lockdowns and/or endorsing and promoting the experimental shots? 

Were YOU bribed - either explicitly or implicitly - with financial benefits in exchange for endorsing lockdowns and/or endorsing and promoting experimental shots? 

 

 

Your Eminence, we await your reply. Catholics can draw their own conclusions as to government pressure on bishops to comply, as witnessed in the Cardinal's fearful exclamations in various videos, as well as the constant dwelling on financial arrangements with the government.  Indeed, the very serious issue of Your Eminence even "jumping the gun" to lock us down to show your pandering to the State was exposed by Vox Cantoris. You have yet to answer Catholics for your actions, let alone - dare I suggest - apologize for your cowardice and, quite frankly, cruelty. For what else is not only locking us out of our churches, but even locking up the cemeteries (with police blocking entrances no less!). 

May Canada's bishops follow the example of St. John Fisher in rendering unto Caesar ONLY what is Caesar's...

Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep

 Every picture tells a story. 

Of the following one, taken on June 29, 2022 on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul what are we to conclude? How is it possible that a mass murderer, openly plotting further murder (prenatal infanticide, usually known as "abortion") is welcomed by the occupant of the See of Peter? Is allowed to receive the Blessed Sacrament? 

What monstrous evil is taking place? 

You, dear friend, prayerfully discern. Let there be no doubt: the Church is undergoing a profound crisis from the very top, where the occupant of the See of Peter is enabling scandal, heresy, apostasy, confusion... 

 

Millions will see these hand similar headlines:

 

Many ignorant, brainwashed Catholics (not to mention separated Brethren and other men of good will) seeing these headlines will conclude that one can be a "good Catholic" and support abortion. It can't be that bad, they will reason, or the pope wouldn't be so welcoming, would not be giving her Holy Communion. And their reasoning is correct. This is the GRAVE mortal sin of scandal. Of spreading confusion amongst not only the faithful, but all men who seek moral guidance. The Pope is not just the "papa" of Catholics, but in potentially of ALL men. 

Certainly people will - logically - conclude that this mass murderer is "good" enough to receive Holy Communion. Why? Because one only receives in the state of grace. You see, dear friends, it can't be really murder. If it were, these men would not welcome the killer with open arms, even less give her Holy Communion.

But they do welcome her, and actions speak MUCH LOUDER than words. Indeed, by welcoming her the Pope was in essence spitting in the face of Archbishop Cordileone. 

This silence, the acquiescence is perhaps even more repulsive than those deluded about the realities of prenatal infanticide. It is the complete rejection of Our Lord Jesus Christ's command to Peter and his successors to "feed my sheep". It is diabolical, evil. I do not know what is inside this pope's head, I do know one thing: his actions are EVIL.

Dear Catholic friends, hold FAST to Holy Mother Church; do NOT depart for some wayward synagogue of Satan, for there is NO salvation outside the Church. We must remain by our Mother's side and care for Here, be Her wounds open, reeking with stench, and pus pouring out. Her injuries brought on by the very men who should be lovingly tending Her. Our Lord Jesus Christ promised us that His enemies will never succeed in destroying His Church. 

Let us therefore, take up our Rosaries, let us re-enter spiritual combat. Let us enlighten ourselves and those around us to the evils taking place. Let us take heart that the Holy Spirit is still in the Church, and that though we are mightily tested, we shall come out stronger for it. Our Lord Jesus Christ will be triumphant, and the "gates of hell shall not prevail" over the Church.   

Saints Peter and Paul, ora pro nobis

EMANUEL JAQUES: Toronto's little saint of purity

It was July 29, 1977 when 12 year old Emanuel Jaques was abducted and tortured for over 12 hours by four homosexual sadists. [warning graphic content]. 

Having raped and tortured Emanuel for half a day, the monsters murdered Emanuel by holding his head in a kitchen sink filled with urine. 

Yes, urine. 

 

 

Torture, sadism, perversion, abuse...

This is homosexual depravity at it demonic, satanic conclusion. 

 

 

 

St. John Chrysostom wrote about this great evil, its causes and effects. 

Emanuel, a Catholic, had recently immigrated to Canada with his family from Portugal. I have written about Emanuel before, and will continue to do so. It is indeed scandalous that Emanuel is forgotten by the local Church. 

Holy Cross Cemetery in north Toronto,
where Emanuel's mortal remains are buried

I call upon the Archdiocese of Toronto to declare Emanuel "venerable".  

 

Today, in downtown Toronto, a so-called "gay pride parade" will be staged. A degenerate hoard ("hell appearing before its time" St. John Chrysostom) will gather to blaspheme God and His creation ("male and female He created them" Gn 1:27) and to "celebrate" sexual perversion. We cannot forget that many - if not most - of the homosexuals come from broken families, have suffered abuse in their childhood. Far worse than these sad people are the hedonistic non-homosexuals who cheer them on, who encourage them in their sin. But perhaps even worse than these reprobates are the silent bishops and clergy; who, if not encouraging and/or excusing this evil, just sit quietly by and allow this attack on God, the family to proceed without a word. Just as they have sat for decades in virtual silence on the scourge of abortion, allowing over 2 million Canadian babies to be butchered.

 

While this demonically inspired orgy takes place let us not forget that one of Emanuel's murderers is out on partial parole in B.C. This is how much children are "valued" in our society. But how could they be valued when children are dragged off to be exposed and abused by the horror of drag queens?

Let us turn to Emanuel in prayer. Let us pray that through his death, graces will be accepted by homosexuals who will repent and turn away from sin. 

Let us now once again implore Emanuel to pray for us and for the conversion of homosexuals.

Emanuel Jaques, pray for us. 

"To all homosexuals we say: Peace, Hope, and Joy in your daily pursuit of chastity and holiness. God be with you! May you always keep in your hearts the words of St. Paul, 'You are not called to immorality but to holiness' ".  

Very Rev. Mgr. Vincent Foy 

With the striking down of Roe v. Wade a Window of Grace is opened for America

 

Today is a day that will go down in history and be remembered long after Dec 6th, 1941 is forgotten, for today is the first step in striking down a far greater infamy: the mass murder of the preborn on an industrial scale. 

June 24, 2022 will go down as one of the most important dates of history. It already is the most important date in the entire history of the United States. 

The monumental clash began as Donald Trump was hounded from the moment he declared his candidacy; the forces of evil knew what the election was about: abortion. 

We can never understand the mysterious power of prayer and sacrifice, from which graces may come centuries after the fact. Take Donald Trump's honouring St. Thomas Beckett. In the eyes of God, honouring His martyr resulted in graces distributed across the centuries. The public honouring of St. John Paul II, the indefatigable foe of abortion, also resulted in the pouring down of graces. So too was the heroic pastoral care of the late, saintly Bishop Robert Morlino, who death no doubt was a holy sacrifice to God for the salvation of souls and the spread of the Gospel.

So it was that the hand of God removed to judgment an evil Supreme Court Justice allowing President Trump to nominate his third pro-life candidate. 

Today we see the results of "small things"; seemingly little gestures of honouring God's saints resulted in a flood of grace, a window of opportunity that God still is giving America a chance to repent and reverse course before a chastisement. The forces of darkness will not rest: the explosion of evil is there to see. The reaction to this ruling should alert us to the fact that most world "leaders" - from the twisted Boris Johnson, to the narcissistic, Justin Trudeau. Let there be no mistake: to lament this ruling in favour of life reveals these men are diabolical, under the influence of Satan: through their smiles and platitudes we see men diabolically oppressed. And what can be said of Joe Biden? Who today gave, without question, the most evil speech a US President has ever given. This malignant reprobate is on the attack against life. Let us redouble of prayers and sacrifices! As St. Paul wrote "where evil abounds, grace did more abound". (Rm 5:20).  

 

 

Let us therefore redouble our prayers. May God, through the intercession of Sts. Thomas Beckett and John Paul II pour out His graces upon Donald John Trump.

THE EVILNESS OF "PRIDE"

 

"PRIDE is not a thing that can be destroyed by a single stroke of the sword. One has to put it to death every day. 

PRIDE is self-love. To deny oneself all the time, there you have a good way of killing pride: to starve it out". 

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

D-Day: June 6, 1944. May we NEVER forget

Seventy eight ago, this very day, the Allies stormed ashore upon the Normandy Beaches... may we never forget their incredible sacrifice.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon the them. May the souls of the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

Last year, the Prince of Wales opened a memorial to fallen British veterans. 

Address of H.M. King George VI on D-Day, 6 June 1944

Four years ago our Nation and Empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy with our backs to the wall. Tested as never before in our history, in God's Providence we survived that test.

The spirit of the people, resolute, dedicated, burnt like a bright flame lit surely from those unseen fires which nothing can quench.

Once more a supreme test has to be faced. This time the challenge is not to fight to survive, but to fight to win the final victory for the good cause. Once again what is demanded from us all is something more than courage, more than endurance. We need the revival of spirit, the new unconquerable resolve.

After nearly five years of toil and suffering we must renew that crusading impulse on which we entered the war and met its darkest hour.

We and our allies are sure that our fight is against evil and for a world in which goodness and honour may be the foundation of the life of men in every land.

That we may be worthily matched with these new summons of destiny I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer and dedication.

We are not unmindful of our own shortcomings, past and present. We shall ask not that God will do our will, but that we may be enabled to do the will of God. And we dare to believe that God has used our Nation and Empire as an instrument for fulfilling His high purpose.

I hope that throughout the present crisis of the liberation of Europe there may be offered us earnest, continuous and widespread prayer.

We, who remain in this land, can most effectively enter into the suffering of subjugated Europe by prayer. Whereby we can fortify determination of our sailors, soldiers and airmen who go forth to set the captives free.

The Queen joins with me in sending you this message. She well understands the anxieties and cares of our womenfolk at this time. And she knows that many of them will find, as she does herself, fresh strength and comfort in such waiting upon God.

She feels that many women will be glad in this way to keep vigil with their men as they man the ships, storm the beaches and fill the skies.

At this historic moment surely not one of us is too busy, too young, or too old to play a part in a nationwide, a worldwide vigil of prayer as the great Crusade sets forth.

If from every place of worship, from home and factory, from men and women of all ages and many races and occupations, our intercessions rise, then, please God, both now and in the future not remote, the predictions of an ancient song may be fulfilled: "The Lord will give strength unto His people, the Lord will give His people the blessing of peace."

 

Canada's bishops have yet to apologize for two years of abuse and degradation they imposed on Catholics

 

The above photo of the faithful in Montreal, locked out of their churches, marginalized, ignored by their pastors; reduced to kneeling on hard cement in the freezing cold of Montreal is a reflection of the abuse inflicted on them by the men who outwardly occupy the sees of the successors of the Apostles in Canada. 

We Catholics are still waiting for these sad men to admit their guilt, their abuse, their collusion with the State. May they repent and do penance. Perhaps a start might be actually taking a pro-life stand? Perhaps they could show repentance by rebuking the political abusers? Silence, in this case, means consent. When the man who is the Prime Minister of Canada called Canadian truckers "Nazis" the bishops remained silent. When he called them racists the bishops were silent. And so it goes. 

The perverse irony of this is that he and his Deputy came out as fanatical supporters of real Nazis and racists involved in a foreign war half a world away (shipping them bombs and bullets on the backs of long-suffering taxpayers). 

Friends, pray for these men to repent and convert. They have abused us as neo-Gallican satraps of Caesar. They even allowed the Sacred Liturgy to be trodden underfoot by surrendering to State bureaucrats the rubrics of the Mass: the greatest crime of which was turning over the Most Holy Eucharist to the control of godless sinners.  

Queen Victoria: the Monarch who oversaw the founding of the Dominion of Canada

 

Today, in Canada, is celebrated the birthday of Queen Victoria (which is actually on the 25th). Though the enemies of this country toppled her statue in a desperate bid to destroy her memory, we commemorate her reign in which she oversaw the formation of the Dominion of Canada. 

 

 

President Putin rebukes war-mongering West who continue to arm Nazis and Banderites

 

Today, on Victory Day, President Vladimir Putin  - once again - outlined the real truths that precipitated this tragic war in the Ukraine. Yesterday, for us in the now decadent West, it was VE in Europe Day. One would have never had known it. It was a day devoted to by, for example, the repugnant Banderite Justin Trudeau to pay homage to globalist "Elensky" (after all "Z" has been banned in the Ukraine). 

 

In fact we found out on VE Day that Canada has "for years" (Trudeau's words) trained up to 30,000 Ukrainian troops. We also know that they and other NATO imperialists also trained Nazis, such as those of the Azov and Aidar Battalions. It is only fitting then, that Nazi and fascist, racist Banderite enablers would be silent on the day we should be solemnly recalling the sacrifice given to rid the world of - so we thought - Nazism and Banderism. 

 

Banks and Military Industrial Complex PROFIT from the Ukraine-Russia War

The US, EU, and their "allies" (Canada, Australia) have ensured that the war over the Donbas will make handsome profits for their masters, the international banksters. And indeed massive profits are being made; by banks and the ever present military industrial complex. The involvement of BIG globalist money also explains the MSM dutifully spewing out the war-mongering agitprop. This is a war about Russia, not about "democracy", "human rights", etc. Otherwise, for example, the US would not have reduced Raqqa to rubble through carpet bombing, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths. Or the 78 days of non-stop bombing of Belgrade by the imperial forces of the globalists, NATO. 

Perhaps the saddest thing in all this is that the churchmen are silent. Or, if not silent, dutifully joining their paymasters (Caesar) and pushing the propaganda. 

 

Contrary to the lies spread by the war mongers, the people of the Donbas have suffered horribly over the last 8 years. You never hear about them. But you will if you watch this... 

 

 

 

 

 

LIVE: Easter Vigil (pre-1955 Traditional Liturgy)

LIVE: Mass of the Presanctified

Good Friday

FIRST LESSON: Osee 6:1-6

In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord: 

For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us. He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth. What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning. For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

SECOND LESSON: Exodus 12: 1-11

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 

This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year.

 

Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. 

But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. 

And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid. 

And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. 

And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 

And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce. 

You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. 

Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.

 

And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN

John 18:1-40; 19:1-42

The apprehension of Jesus

When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples. 

And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place; because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples. 

Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 

Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them: Whom seek ye? 

They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them. 

As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went backward, and fell to the ground. 

Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. 

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way, 

That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one. 

Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus. 

Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scabbard. The chalice which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 

Then the band and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him: 

And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father in law to Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year. 

Jesus at the palace of the High Priest

Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: That it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 

And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest. 

But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out, and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter. 

The maid therefore that was portress, saith to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man’s disciple? He saith: I am not. 

Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also, standing, and warming himself. 

The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. 

Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world: I have always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort; and in secret I have spoken nothing. 

Why askest thou me? ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them: behold they know what things I have said. 

And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by, gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so? 

Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me? 

And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest. 

And Simon Peter was standing, and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said: I am not. 

One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with him? 

Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately the cock crew. 

Jesus before Pilate

Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor’s hall. And it was morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch. 

Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man? 

They answered, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee. 

Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death; 

That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die. 

Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? 

Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?

 

Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done? 

Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence. 

Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice. 

Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him. 

But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the pasch: will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews? 

Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. 

Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. 

And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple garments. 

And they came to him, and said: Hail, king of the Jews; and they gave him blows. 

Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith to them: Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him. 

(Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man. 

When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him. 

The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 

When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more. 

And he entered into the hall again, and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 

Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee? 

Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee, hath the greater sin. 

And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar’s friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Cæsar. 

Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha. 

And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king. 

But they cried out: Away with him; away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Cæsar. 

Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. 

The Crucifixion

And they took Jesus, and led him forth. 

And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha. 

Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst. 

And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 

This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. 

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am the King of the Jews. 

Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written. 

The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 

They said then one to another: Let us not cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lot. And the soldiers indeed did these things. 

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. 

When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. 

After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. 

The Death of Jesus

Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst. 

Now there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth. J

esus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. 

(Here all kneel and pause for a few moments.)

Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 

The soldiers therefore came; and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. 

But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 

But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side, and immediately there came out blood and water. 

And he that saw it, hath given testimony; and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also may believe. 

For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. 

And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced. 

Here the Munda cor meum is said and the remainder is sung in the Gospel tone. No incense nor candles are used, and the book is not kissed.

And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus. 

And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 

They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 

Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid. 

There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

There is no Credo.