The Universal Call to Christian Perfection A Patristic and Scholastic Essay Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience as the Means to Perfect Charity perfection_essay_v4 (1) (1) PREFACE: THE FALSE ASSUMPTION There is an error of comfort that has always threatened the Church from within — more dangerous in many respects than the errors that attack her from without, because it does not announce itself as error but settles quietly into the assumptions of ordinary Christian life and makes itself at home there, undisturbed and unexamined, generation after generation. It is the assumption that not every baptized soul is called to Christian Perfection. This error takes many forms. It presents itself as realism — an honest acknowledgment that most people are not monks or nuns and cannot be expected to live as though they were. It presents itself as pastoral charity — a merciful lowering of the bar for souls who are, after all, doing their best in difficult circumstances. It presents itself as theological …More
The Saint Who Refused To Hearken to the Voice of Women On this solemn day of August 29th, as the Church commemorates the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the echoes from the dungeon of Machaerus ring louder than ever. We do not honor a man who died for a vague, comfortable ideal; we honor a martyr who shed his blood because he dared to declare a specific, offensive truth to a culture drunk on self-indulgence: It is not lawful for you to have her. The Passion of Saint John is the ultimate warning for our present hour. It lays bare the eternal spiritual battle between the unyielding voice of divine truth and the corrupting spirit of compromise—a spirit fully alive today in the ideology of modern secular feminism. The Tyranny of the Unchecked Will The tragic scene in Herod’s palace is not merely ancient history; it is a masterclass in how Satan operates to subvert God’s order. The Seduction of Autonomy: Herodias refused to submit to the natural and divine law governing marriage. She …More
The Safety Valve of the Holy Spirit: How Vatican II’s "Pastoral" Shield Preserved the Faith For sixty years, the Catholic faithful have been told to bow before a new deity: the elusive, shape-shifting "Spirit of Vatican II." We have been assured that the twenty-first ecumenical council was a rupture, a foundational reboot that dragged a reluctant, medieval Church into the glorious light of modern progressivism. The progressive wing of the Church has weaponized the Council's documents to construct a confusing, distorted Church on the ashes of the old. But their revolution possesses a fatal, architectural flaw. In their haste to remake the Church in the image of the secular world, the architects of this modern experiment forgot a fundamental rule of Catholic theology. By explicitly, repeatedly, and formally defining the Second Vatican Council as a strictly pastoral council, the Popes of the mid-twentieth century unwittingly revealed the ultimate proof of divine intervention. The Holy …More
The silence of the GTV rebellious schismatics is deafening. Who is man enough to answer? Which of the many subsequent revisions of the 1570 Quo Primum Missal DID NOT violate "in perpetuity?"
Which Roman Rite Missal Revision DOES NOT Violate Quo Primum? Which Revised Missal Represents The UNADULTERATED TRUE TLM? Changes from the 1570 Missal to the 1962 Missal, with dates Changes to the Ordinary of Mass 1570 — Pius V promulgates the Roman Missal This is the baseline. 1604 — Clement VIII Revises the Missal and makes various textual and rubrical corrections. 1634 — Urban VIII Further revision, particularly of the liturgical texts and hymns. 1884 — Leo XIII New typical edition with various revisions. 1920 — Benedict XV Major revision following the work begun by Pius X. New calendar and revisions to rubrics and texts. 1951/1952 — Pius XII Experimental restoration of the Easter Vigil. This is the beginning of the major modern Holy Week transformation. 1955 — Pius XII Judica me removed from Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Holy Week radically reformed. People's Confiteor at Communion ultimately eliminated in the subsequent rubrical reform. Good Friday and Holy Saturday …More
@brhenry the mistake that I and many others made/make is drawing the line at Quo Primum on the belief that the Mass cannot be changed. A pope cannot legally bind the legislative power of his successor. Pope St. Pius V even altered his codified Missal. The Tridentine Reform was not to create a new mass but to get rid of the garbage. The problem during his time is the same now. The Mass was codified to stop liturgical abuse. The Novus Ordo is the apotheosis of abuse. Unlike any liturgical changes prior to VCII, there was always a respect for what came before and preservation of continuity. The new mass doesn't try for continuity but erasure; No preservation only a declaration of obsolescence. I have answered your question, and I have one for you. Why the disdain and animosity for the Tridentine Mass? What, in your opinion, makes the Novus Ordo better?
Which Roman Rite Missal Revision DOES NOT Violate Quo Primum? Which Revised Missal Represents The UNADULTERATED TRUE TLM? Changes from the 1570 Missal to the 1962 Missal, with dates Changes to the Ordinary of Mass 1570 — Pius V promulgates the Roman Missal This is the baseline. 1604 — Clement VIII Revises the Missal and makes various textual and rubrical corrections. 1634 — Urban VIII Further revision, particularly of the liturgical texts and hymns. 1884 — Leo XIII New typical edition with various revisions. 1920 — Benedict XV Major revision following the work begun by Pius X. New calendar and revisions to rubrics and texts. 1951/1952 — Pius XII Experimental restoration of the Easter Vigil. This is the beginning of the major modern Holy Week transformation. 1955 — Pius XII Judica me removed from Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Holy Week radically reformed. People's Confiteor at Communion ultimately eliminated in the subsequent rubrical reform. Good Friday and Holy Saturday …More
@brhenry the mistake that I and many others made/make is drawing the line at Quo Primum on the belief that the Mass cannot be changed. A pope cannot legally bind the legislative power of his successor. Pope St. Pius V even altered his codified Missal. The Tridentine Reform was not to create a new mass but to get rid of the garbage. The problem during his time is the same now. The Mass was codified to stop liturgical abuse. The Novus Ordo is the apotheosis of abuse. Unlike any liturgical changes prior to VCII, there was always a respect for what came before and preservation of continuity. The new mass doesn't try for continuity but erasure; No preservation only a declaration of obsolescence. I have answered your question, and I have one for you. Why the disdain and animosity for the Tridentine Mass? What, in your opinion, makes the Novus Ordo better?
Original Sin, Man’s Greatest Vulnerability, and Divine Order The Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden reveals enduring truths about human nature, divine order, and spiritual vulnerability. Man’s greatest moral weakness is the voice of women, a vulnerability Satan immediately recognized and exploited. Scripture and the Church Fathers also teach that God established a natural order: men are to lead, and women are to submit and follow. When this order is inverted, sin, disorder, and suffering follow—a principle visible from Eden to biblical history and the New Testament. --- I. Adam and Eve: The Archetype of Male Leadership and Female Submission Genesis 2:18–24 establishes the relational and moral order of creation: > “The Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him… Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Adam was created first, entrusted with stewardship over …More
The Redemption of Man and the Rejection of “Holy Sex” A Patristic and Scholastic Disputation Against the Modern Exaltation of Carnal Pleasure “The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.” —1 Corinthians 15:45 Prologue: The Question Before Us There is a fundamental question which must be asked before we speak of the holiness of sexual pleasure: What is man? And immediately after that: What became of man through the Fall? For if we begin with fallen man as though his present condition were the standard of human nature, we shall inevitably mistake the wounds of the Fall for the original design of God. This is precisely the danger in the modern exaltation of sexuality. The question is no longer merely: "Is marital intercourse lawful?" The Catholic tradition already answers that question. The more profound question is: "What ought the Christian to desire within the marital act?" And here a profound difference appears between the ascetical tradition …More
Unam Sanctam Catholic Infallible Dogma One God, One Faith, One Spiritual Authority Pope Boniface VIII - 1302 Bull of Pope Boniface VIII promulgated November 18, 1302 Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5]. There had been at the time of the deluge only one ark of Noah, prefiguring the one Church, which ark, having been finished to a single cubit, had only one pilot and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that, outside of this ark, all that subsisted on the earth was destroyed. We venerate …More
Unam Sanctam Catholic Infallible Dogma One God, One Faith, One Spiritual Authority Pope Boniface VIII - 1302 Bull of Pope Boniface VIII promulgated November 18, 1302 Urged by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: ‘One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the chosen of her who bore her,‘ and she represents one sole mystical body whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God [1 Cor 11:3]. In her then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism [Eph 4:5]. There had been at the time of the deluge only one ark of Noah, prefiguring the one Church, which ark, having been finished to a single cubit, had only one pilot and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that, outside of this ark, all that subsisted on the earth was destroyed. We venerate …More
By the way, @brhenry , an act of mere disobedience (not schism) compelled by moral conscience and duty, and the spiritual needs of 700,000 faithful Catholics in their care, while begging for the assistance and collaboration of the Holy See -- which was refused to their sincere pleas -- does not constitute a failure to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. Stop being so simplistic and publicizing it to boot.
Toward the Spirit: Why Faithful Catholics Need to Recover the Patristic and Scholastic Vision of Marriage Faithful Catholics today find themselves in an unusual position. On one side stands a secular culture that has largely abandoned Christian morality altogether. Marriage has been redefined, chastity ridiculed, fertility treated as a burden, and self-denial dismissed as unhealthy. Against these errors, faithful Catholics rightly defend the Church's teaching. Yet another danger confronts us—one far more subtle. It is possible to defend Catholic morality while gradually losing sight of the theological vision that once animated it. We may continue to affirm the Church's teachings while forgetting the spiritual principles that gave those teachings their shape. We may preserve the conclusions while neglecting the foundations. This danger is especially evident in the realm of marriage. The Catholic Church continues to teach the sanctity of marriage, the evil of contraception, the goodness …More
Communion we all born from the side Christ who are baptised and have life from his body and blood . We are attached to eucharist umbilical cord the church is the bride of Christ which is pregnant with faithful Catholics. The crucifix is the symbol of marriage no escaping calvary in this life for it is the source of redemptive life . Marriage is the mirror of calvary
The Destruction of Catholic Marriage How Von Hildebrand's Subjective Personalism Erased the Objective Order of Catholic Marriage — and Produced the Crisis We Now Inhabit There is a word for what happened to Catholic marriage theology in the twentieth century. The word is flattening. Not development. Not enrichment. Not a recovery of neglected truths. Flattening — the systematic removal of every hierarchy from a reality that was structured by hierarchy from top to bottom: the hierarchy of ends in marriage, the hierarchy of the sexes in nature, the governing authority of the husband in the household, and the moral ordering of the conjugal act itself. One by one, all the heights were leveled. What remained was a single plane of mutual feeling, going nowhere in particular, accountable to nothing above itself. The man most responsible for this was Dietrich von Hildebrand — a German-American Catholic philosopher who fled the Nazis, and whose ideas now govern the mainstream of Catholic marriage …More
It seems very well written peace Henry. Well done. I must say about this paragraph: " The couple is pursuing the act's primary meaning. They are simply declining its secondary result. This is the logic — never stated plainly, but structurally present — that underlies the catastrophic collapse of Catholic fertility. " It is actually said, very plainly, by the v2 ultra-liberal-modernists, whereby one of them simply were the infiltrants (remember Bella Dodd and her list of 1100 masonic-communist infiltrants). It is written in de new very Code of Canon Law 1983. A result of this is the new Code of Canon Law which came in 1983., which has mixed purposes of marriage, so that puts an abstract concept of "common good of the spouses" in front of the procreation and raising children! But there is more: For Christian understanding of marriages, the Old Testament Book of Tobit is extremely important. Especially those warnings given by God through Archangel Rafael to Tobit 6, 16-17, and Tobit 6, 22. …More
Obey Your Enemies What Scripture says about corrupt shepherds should end the schism debate The schismatics have a story they tell about themselves. The hierarchy has grown so corrupt, so faithless, so brazen in its departures from tradition, that faithful Catholics have no choice but to separate. Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. When Rome fails, the remnant must act. It is a compelling story. It is directly contradicted by Jesus Christ. Matthew 23 opens with one of the most extraordinary commands in the Gospels. Our Lord turns to the crowds and announces: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you.” Full stop. No asterisk. No escape clause reading unless the corruption becomes sufficiently grave. Obey them. Who were these men He commanded obedience to? Read the rest of the chapter. Whitened sepulchres. Sons of hell. Men who devoured widows’ houses, shut the kingdom of heaven against the faithful, and were about …More
Not always simple. Whats the answer when two different Popes teach opposing doctrine or teach in direct opposition to scripture? Should young seminarians have obeyed when Cardinal McCarrick instructed them to sleep with him in his beach house bed?
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Restoration of Edenic Motherhood Modern Christianity often speaks of the marriage bed as though it were pure, uncomplicated delight—an unmixed gift, innocent in itself, and untouched by the catastrophe of the Fall. That is a sentimental error. Perrenial Tradition is far more severe and far more realistic: marriage is good, but the marriage bed of fallen man is not Edenic innocence. It is generation after the Fall, marked by concupiscence, bodily loss, and the need for moral order. To call every aspect of the marriage bed “beautiful” in the same sense that creation itself is beautiful is to flatten the doctrine of original sin. It is to forget that humanity now begets children in a wounded condition, under the shadow of mortality. Tradition never denies that marriage is lawful and honorable. What it denies is the modern fantasy that fallen desire is pure simply because it occurs inside a marriage bed. Marriage goods regulate and excuse what is otherwise disordered …More
Revelations to St. Britget of Sweden, 1 book, 26 chapter ... Those who unite with divine love and fear for the sake of procreation and to raise children for the honor of God are my spiritual temple where I wish to dwell as the third with them. But people in this age are joined in marriage for seven reasons: First, because of facial beauty. Second, because of wealth. Third, because of the despicable pleasure and indecent joy they get out of their impure intercourse. Fourth, because of feasts with friends and uncontrolled gluttony. Fifth, because of vanity in clothing and eating, in joking and entertainment and games and other vanities. Sixth, for the sake of procreating children but not to raise them for the honor of God or good works but for worldly riches and honor. Seventh, they come together for the sake of lust and they are like brute beasts in their lustful desires. They come to the doors of my church with one mind and consent, but all their desires and inner thoughts are completely …More
Yes. It's good to see this. That is exactly what they told us at the time. All lies. These priests had said the Latin Mass for years and had to have known that it was all lies. They spoke Latin. They understood Latin. They had to know it was NOT just a change from Latin to English. That the changes ARE doctrinal. And these horrible lies have caused the loss of so many souls.
YOU CANNOT SMASH THE PATRIARCHY You Can Only Replace the Father The patriarchy cannot be abolished. It can only be transferred. This is the fact the enemies of Christ have concealed from their victims for a century, and it is the first thing that must be understood about the errors of Russia and what they produced. The rule of the father is not a human arrangement. It descends from God. Every family in heaven and on earth, St. Paul tells the Ephesians, takes its name from the Father. Fatherhood on earth participates in the eternal fatherhood of God. It is not a custom. It is not a power structure that evolved and can be dismantled. It is the order of creation, and it will have its representatives on earth whether men acknowledge them or not. The chain of authority in the household runs in one direction: from Christ to the father, from the father to the wife, from the father and wife together to the children. This is not a negotiated arrangement. It is the order of creation, and every …More
THE REAL WAR NOBODY WANTS TO NAME On Christ, Antichrist, the Errors of Russia, and the Shape of Reality There is a war going on. You can feel it. Most people can feel it even if they cannot name it. And because they cannot name it, they name the wrong thing. They say it is a war between races. Or between nations. Or between the globalists and the patriots. Or between Islam and the West. Or between men and women. Or between the rich and the poor. None of that is wrong exactly. But none of it is the real thing. Those are the shadows of the war, not the war itself. The real war is between Christ and Antichrist. And if that language does not work for you yet, try this: it is the war between reason and unreason. Between the natural order and the war on that order. Between those who accept that reality has a shape — and those who have declared war on that shape. Christ and reason are not two different things. They are the same thing. That is the claim this piece is built on, and it is worth …More
It is quite simple as St. John himself, the Beloved Apostle of Love is telling us: "Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. (1 John 2) "And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world" Douay-Rheims Bible, 1 John Chapter 4 (1 John 4) So all the spirits dissolving Jesus - spirits of the synagogue of Satan, of impious Mohammedan sect and those actively co-operating with them are of Antichrist.
The Age of Self-Will Is Breaking the Chain That Built Society For most of human history, life followed a chain of authority so ordinary it was almost invisible. A child was born into a household, raised under the authority of father and mother, shaped by religion and community, and then—at the proper time—transferred into another structured life. A man formed his own household under the same pattern. A woman entered into one. Others entered religious communities. The chain continued. That chain had a name we are now uncomfortable even saying: obedience. There was obedience in the family. Obedience expected of children. Obedience expected of wives. Obedience to fathers, to religious authority, to inherited structure. It was not considered strange or oppressive—it was considered normal, even necessary. It was how order sustained itself across generations. There was no gap. No vacuum. No prolonged experiment in personal sovereignty. That chain is now broken. What replaced it was not simply …More
[Saint Bridget of Sweden/ Heliga Birgitta; XIV Century AD: aged 69-70; Uppland, Sweden/Rome, Papal States; Widow, Mystic; Spiritual Writer; Founder; Patroness of Europe] Our Lord’s words of admonishment to the bride about true and false wisdom, and about how good angels aid the wise who are good while devils aid the wise who are evil. Chapter 33 “My friends are like scholars who have three things: First, a reasonable understanding above what is natural to the brain. Second, wisdom without human aid, for I myself teach them inwardly. Third, they are full of the sweetness and divine love with which they defeat the devil. But nowadays people study in a different way. First, they want to be wise out of vainglory in order to be called good clerks and masterly scholars. Second, they want to be wise in order to own and win riches. Third, they want to be wise in order to win honors and privileges. That is why I leave them when they go to their schools and enter there, since they study because …More
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