Monday 14 October 2019

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian Readers


Psalm 137

(Of David.)
1
 
My heart’s thanks, Lord, for listening to the prayer I uttered; angels for my witnesses, I will sing of thy praise.
2
 
I bow down in worship towards thy sanctuary, praising thy name for thy mercy and faithfulness; thy own honour and thy pledged word thou hast vindicated for all the world to see.
3
 
To thee I appealed, and thou didst listen to me, didst fill my heart with courage.
4
 
All the kings of the earth, Lord, will praise thee now; were not thy promises made in their hearing?
5
 
Their song shall be of the Lord’s doings, how great is his renown,
6
 
the Lord, who is so high above us, yet looks with favour on the humble, looks on the proud too, but from far off.
7
 
Though affliction surround my path, thou dost preserve me; it is thy power that confronts my enemies’ malice, thy right hand that rescues me.
8
 
My purposes the Lord will yet speed; thy mercy, Lord, endures for ever, and wilt thou abandon us, the creatures of thy own hands?

4 comments:

J Haggerty said...

*Joy to the world, the Lord is come* and He is our Thanksgiving.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has just published his new book, *Christus Vincit: Christ's Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age*.

*Huge Sign of Hope: Schneider, Burke, Speak Out in Rome.*
Remnant Video. 15 October 2019. YouTube.

Today on YouTube, Bishop Robert Barron, reflecting on Saint John Henry Newman, attempted a desperate last-gasp defence of Vatican II and Lumen Gentium, as if that faded document is of any help to us now in our dark night of the soul.

Any last attempt to legitimise the New Mass, with all its abuses, and the Amazon Synod, as Newman's *development of doctrine* will convince no one, except those princes of the Church who sat like Comintern hacks this week through the travesty that was enacted inside the Vatican.

*The narrowness of the Gospel is the narrowness of God.*
The old-time Bible preachers from John Wesley to Spurgeon and Lloyd-Jones, knew the eternal truth of this, even if as Protestants they did not have the graces that flow from the Eucharist.

But Bergoglio's Age of Aquarius Church is preaching another gospel; *let him be accursed* in Saint Paul's own words.

Little does the pope see that Modernism in its death throws.
The Amazon Synod hammered in the last nail in Modernism's coffin.

Bishop Barron, an astute politician, will soon know that there has been a wind shift.
Roll on the day when he and every bishop in America celebrate the true Mass.

There is no shame in being wrong; the moral evil is to deliberately persist in error; that is what the apologists for Stalin did.

The Modernists with their Witchcraft, almost did what Stalin failed to do: Destroy Christ's Mystical Body.
They failed.

J Haggerty said...

Thanks for printing my comment.

My words are not to be read as lacking in charity.

Bishop Barron is an amiable and accomplished vlogger, and I have learned much from his reflections on Church history.

In other circumstances I would find Jorge Mario Bergoglio a kind and sensitive priest; I admire the depth of his concern for the poor and marginalised, and his sorrow at those clergy who are in love with luxury and pleasure.

I am concerned with those menacing figures who have corrupted the Church and the minds of young Catholics.

See *Father Ted Hesburgh - Traitor to the Faith*. Church Militant. 2 March 2015. Church Militant. YouTube.
It reveals how Notre Dame, America's most prestigious Catholic University, departed from basic Catholic morality in order to seek favour with President Obama and the Democrats.

This week Bishop Barron is at the grave of JRR Tolkien (YouTube) in Oxfordshire. How ironic that Tolkien detested the liturgy that came out of Vatican II!

We only pray and plead with the Modernists to consider that they are wrong in their ideas about the Church.

Men of ideas like Arthur Koestler and Whittaker Chambers admitted they had been wrong about Communism.
Their greatness lay in the fact that they could change their minds.
Those minds that God freely gave us.

J Haggerty said...

After paying tribute to Bishop Barron for his talks on Church history, I am shocked by his vlog on the Last Things, in which he stated that *We have a reasonable hope that all men will be saved*.

If this neo-universalism is the way the 21st Century Church is going, then we will see many more souls on the way to ruin; more men and women dying in mortal sin.
And the Catholic teachers and clergy who are backing Justin Trudeau will face a terrible judgement at their own death.

Bertrand Russell, a non-believer, acknowledged that Christ spoke plainly about the eternality of hell. (Dives and Lazarus, Judas.)

C.S. Lewis said there was no other doctrine that he would not rather abolish, but that he was unable to do so, since Our Lord warned us about the terrible fate awaiting unrepentant sinners.

The children at Fatima were given a vision of hell as was Saint Faustina Kowalksi.
Saint Pope John Paul II endorsed Fatima (visiting the shrine again after the attempt on his life) and he made Faustina a saint.

Even the Protestant preachers wanted to save souls from damnation.
In America there was Jonathan Edwards who always preached on the theme *Sinners in the hands of an angry God*.

Francis Schaeffer, while appearing at a conference on the Four Last Things, suddenly broke off from speaking, and wept for the souls who would be lost.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said in a recorded sermon on DVD:
*Never be ashamed that you have come to Christ because you are afraid of death and judgement; that is why most of us become Christians.*

*Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom*.
Hell must be preached, now more than ever.

Bishop Barron would be a true shepherd if, in the spirit of perfect love, he warned souls of *the second death* that awaits us if we die in our sins.

John Haggerty said...

In the very unlikely event that Bishop Barron should read these comments, let me quote a verse from the great John Newton hymn, Amazing Grace. (There's a lovely recording by Gloria Franchi on YouTube.) This is the Gospel of Grace that the post-Conciliar Church has so tragically misplaced if not actually lost.

*Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.*

I would also recommend a book for Bishop Barron and every wishy-washy member of the American hierarchy:

*The Forgotten Fear - Where Have All The God-Fearers Gone?* by Albert D Martin (2015).

*The fear of God is the soul of godliness.*