Dear Friends,
I’ve created a new page on the website HERE: It is an initiative aimed at inviting those who attend a Novus Ordo parish to urge their pastors to offer critical excerpts from Quas Primas in their sermons given on November 22nd – the date for the Feast of Christ the King on the N.O. calendar.
Please take a look at it when you’re able and share it with your personal contacts.
I realize that many readers here attend the Traditional Latin Mass, and so this effort may not initially seem to be personally relevant.
If that describes you, please consider that many of our family members and friends will be sitting in the pews on November 22nd at a Novus Ordo parish; very likely to be subjected to yet another empty sermon regarding the Kingship of Christ.
Our valid concerns over the New Mass aside, if only the priests would offer meaningful references drawn from Quas Primas that day, eyes and hearts may be opened to a truth that many of these poor souls have never encountered.
With this in mind, please consider taking a look at the initiative and forwarding a link to those who may benefit.
Thanks in advance!
Absolutely brilliant!
A friend of mine has already sent it to her Novus Ordo community and to her favorite NO priest.
Thank you for doing all the work for her, Mr. Verrecchio.
May Our Lord Jesus Christ the King reward you in this life and the next.
Meanwhile, if you are conformed to Christ in abstaining from the falsehood of the Novus Ordo abomination of the desolators, and have followed the grace to become Catholic:
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http://sggresources.org/
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http://www.traditionalmass.org/
Louie, the N.O. church must acknowledge that that Social Reign of Christ the King is not an idealistic goal reserved for the Second Coming at the end of the world, but for Here and Now. When that day comes, the N.O. Church will find its way back to Tradition. Starting with individual parish priests is an outstanding way to make this truth known. God bless you!
If we are trying to have Christ as our King we must be consistent. We must start by giving Him our heart. Not to do that and still talk about the Kingdom of Christ would be completely hollow.
St Josemaria Escriva
Great quote, EM. Have you sent it to Bergoglio?
No need. Escriva’s ‘Christ’ and Bergoglio’s are both in communion with VII, and promulgated by the Novus Ordo. Has Bergoglio ever said a word against Opus Dei? Of course not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4AWDeKHWM
Here are some more ‘jems’ concerning EM’s favourite Novus Ordo heroes: Josemaria’s untraditional view of marriage: “For, unlike food, which is necessary for every individual, procreation is necessary only for the species, and individuals can dispense with it.” Josemaria’s untraditional view on baptism to an unbaptised Jew and very untraditional usurpation of what only God knows: “You already have the baptism of your desire”. http://churchbox.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/modern-churches-san-josemaria-escriva.html
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Mother Teresa’s untraditional view on religion: “If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. … What God is in your mind you must accept.” “I love all religions.”
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Wojtyal/JPII’s untraditional view on the Kingship of Christ: : “Christ is king in the sense that in him, in the testimony that he rendered to the truth, is manifested the ‘kingship’ of every human being, the expression of every person’s transcendent character. Such is the Church’s proper inheritance.” Same’s untraditional public exhibitions showing his faith in the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church: Kissing the Koran, receiving the mark of shiva, the abomincation of Catholic Assisi etc. etc.
Perhaps the Saints grew in wisdom and understanding…
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners.
St Paul
1Timothy 1:15-16
Not all the Saints started well, but they all finished well
St John Vianney
It’s a joy to read clear, unambiguous encyclicals from real Popes – here’s just the beginning of one:
Quas Primas
Encyclical on the Feast of Christ the King
His Holiness Pope Pius XI
December 11, 1925
To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See.
Venerable Brethren, Greeting and the Apostolic Benediction.
IN THE FIRST ENCYCLICAL LETTER which We addressed at the beginning of Our Pontificate to the Bishops of the universal Church, We referred to the chief causes of the difficulties under which mankind was laboring. And We remember saying that these manifold evils in the world were due to the fact that the majority of men had thrust Jesus Christ and his holy law out of their lives; that these had no place either in private affairs or in politics: and we said further, that as long as individuals and states refused to submit to the rule of our Savior, there would be no really hopeful prospect of a lasting peace among nations. Men must look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ; and that We promised to do as far as lay in Our power. In the Kingdom of Christ, that is, it seemed to Us that peace could not be more effectually restored nor fixed upon a firmer basis than through the restoration of the Empire of Our Lord. We were led in the meantime to indulge the hope of a brighter future at the sight of a more widespread and keener interest evinced in Christ and his Church, the one Source of Salvation, a sign that men who had formerly spurned the rule of our Redeemer and had exiled themselves from his kingdom were preparing, and even hastening, to return to the duty of obedience.
Amen
And the end….
33. The faithful, moreover, by meditating upon these truths, will gain much strength and courage, enabling them to form their lives after the true Christian ideal. If to Christ our Lord is given all power in heaven and on earth; if all men, purchased by his precious blood, are by a new right subjected to his dominion; if this power embraces all men, it must be clear that not one of our faculties is exempt from his empire. He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ. He must reign in our wills, which should obey the laws and precepts of God. He must reign in our hearts, which should spurn natural desires and love God above all things, and cleave to him alone. He must reign in our bodies and in our members, which should serve as instruments for the interior sanctification of our souls, or to use the words of the Apostle Paul, as instruments of justice unto God.[35] If all these truths are presented to the faithful for their consideration, they will prove a powerful incentive to perfection. It is Our fervent desire, Venerable Brethren, that those who are without the fold may seek after and accept the sweet yoke of Christ, and that we, who by the mercy of God are of the household of the faith, may bear that yoke, not as a burden but with joy, with love, with devotion; that having lived our lives in accordance with the laws of God’s kingdom, we may receive full measure of good fruit, and counted by Christ good and faithful servants, we may be rendered partakers of eternal bliss and glory with him in his heavenly kingdom.
34. Let this letter, Venerable Brethren, be a token to you of Our fatherly love as the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ draws near; and receive the Apostolic Benediction as a pledge of divine blessings, which with loving heart, We impart to you, Venerable Brethren, to your clergy, and to your people.
Given at St. Peter’s Rome, on the eleventh day of the month of December, in the Holy Year 1925, the fourth of Our Pontificate.
PIUS XI
Latest from francis
http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/#.Vkj0bIqQHCQ
Francis believes in EVERYTHING because he believes in NOTHING!
“Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,
Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet
Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor
Kneel to repeat his paternoster o’er;
Far off the noises of the world retreat;
The loud vociferations of the street
Become an undistinguishable roar.
So, as I enter here from day to day,
And leave my burden at this minster gate,
Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray,
The tumult of the time disconsolate
To inarticulate murmurs dies away,
While the eternal ages watch and wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
EM, they ended well because of accepting the grace of conforming to Christ. Name one example of a Catholic Saint (this means non-VIINovusOrdo) who can be a poster-child ‘after conversion’ for satan?
A prophet once said that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. One might add that if we continue to deny God in favour of ‘god’, the lack of wisdom is the least of our problems.
Witness the idolisation of the tricolor as some mad remedy to the wickedness of a false ‘prophet.
And the atheistic totalitarianism it represents.
Yep. Theocidal followers of satan who reckon Christ is always sport for murder and athiest followers of satan might kill each other for gain, but they are all on the same side.
Only one person seems to have taken you up on this plan so not sure it matters, but wonder where you see the authority for sheep to take (or for you to direct sheep to take) material to the pastor and request it be taught from the pulpit (i.e. to educate the shepherd). In addition to seeing no precedent for this except VC2 empowerment of the laity, see a danger of wolf using the request to get sheep to go along w/a (modernist) request (turning the tables – esp w/sheep that really don’t know what they’re doing & who respect ‘priests’). Perhaps you are trying to focus your readers attention on Christ the King or get them to realize what’s going on in their church (how their shepherd really thinks vs how a Catholic thinks). Main problem is that Feast of Christ the King was established to be the last Sunday in October, i.e. directly before All Saints Day (and All Souls Day) to express where Jesus comes in God’s order relative to us. Last Sunday before Advent is intended to focus on particular and general Judgment/4 last things Heaven, Hell, Death and Judgment (same as 1st Sunday of Advent- Old year ending – New Year beginning, time to take stock & make resolutions). Why not direct your readers’ focus there?