Secularism is the Canadian state religion: Quebec’s Secularism Minister, Jean-François Roberge, introduced Bill C-9, which aims to strengthen secularism in the province. He said during Advent: "We can wish someone merry Christmas. We can sing Christmas songs. This is nothing but tradition. But we shouldn’t make any references to the birth of baby Jesus." Talk of Santa Claus and elves is allowed. Religious symbols are banned for people working in education, daycare centres and universities.
Meditation Three reflections on the past year Santoral by Juan Esteban Grosez, S.J. 1.-Could you say with truth like St. Paul: I have fought with courage, I have concluded the race, I have kept the faith? Here you are at the end of the year; review in your spirit all the good and all the evil you have done during this year, and see if your good deeds are more numerous than the bad ones. How many days passed without you doing anything for God? However, this year was given to you only to serve him, to do penance for your sins and deserve heaven through the practice of good works. 2.-Where are now the pleasures and honors that you enjoyed during this year? Everything has passed, and you only have the sad memory of having offended God for passing and fallacious goods! Isn't it true that, on the contrary, you experience great joy for the good you did trying to please God? You no longer experience the effort that your good deeds cost you and you hope to be rewarded by them. Your life will pass …Дэлгэрэнгүй
New York Archbishop Deletes Evidence of Homosexual Chancellor: Despite receiving dozens of emails and phone calls urging him to address the scandal involving his "married" homosexual chancellor in the Diocese of Joliet, newly appointed New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks remains silent. According to Complicit Clergy, Hicks even removed references from the diocesan website in an apparent effort to conceal the fact that David Salvato had ever worked for him.
Before He Went to Work for Bishop Hicks, Salvato Was Employed by Archbishop Gómez
Last week, we shared with you the story that David Salvato, the chancellor for the diocese of Joliet, ‘married’ his boyfriend on December 13. Bishop Hicks, the bishop of Joliet, has remained silent in spite of receiving dozens of emails and phone calls asking him to address this scandal. Hicks went as far as scrubbing the diocesan website to conceal that Salvato ever worked there. Now we learn that before he went to work for Hicks, Salvato worked as a canon lawyer for Archbishop Jose Gomez for 10 years. Salvato worked in the Metropolitan Tribunal were he oversaw the investigation of nearly 200 marriage annulment cases each year. Did you get that? Gómez assigned a homosexual man to make decisions about hundreds of marriage annulments in his archdiocese. How is someone who does not subscribe to the Catholic Church’s teaching on human anthropology make decisions about a sacramental marriage involving a man and a woman? A Catholic woman shared similar concerns in a comment on the Salvato …
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[Saint Bridget of Sweden – XIV Century AD; Uppland, Sweden/Rome, Papal States; Patron Saint of Europe, Widow, Mystic, Spiritual Writer] Interrogation 5 First question. Again the monk appeared on his ladder as before saying: ”O Judge, why did you create worms that are harmful and useless?” Second question. ”Why did you create wild beasts that are also harmful to humankind?” Third question. ”Why do you let sickness and pain into bodies?” Fourth question. ”Why do you endure the wickedness of wicked judges who scourge and harass their underlings like purchased slaves?” Fifth question. ”Why is the human body afflicted even at the point of death?” Answer to the first question. The Judge answered: ”Friend, as God and Judge I have created heaven and earth and all that are in them, and yet nothing without cause nor without some likeness to spiritual things. Just as the souls of holy people resemble the holy angels who live and are happy, so too the souls of the unrighteous become like the …Дэлгэрэнгүй
Answer to the fourth question.”As to why death comes so unexpectedly, I answer: If someone were to know the time of his or her death, he or she would serve me out of fear and would succumb out of sorrow. Accordingly, in order that people may serve me out of love and always be anxious about themselves but sure of me, the hour of their departure is uncertain, and rightly so. When humankind forsook that which was certain and true, it was needful and right for them to be afflicted by uncertainty.”
Answer to third question.”As to why disease and hunger come, I answer: It is written in the law that one who commits theft should repay more than he has taken. Since ungrateful people receive my gifts and misuse them and do not pay me my due honor, I therefore exact more bodily affliction in the present in order that their souls may be spared in the future. At times I also spare the body but punish people in and by means of that which they love, so that the person who would not acknowledge me when glad may receive knowledge indeed and understanding when afflicted.”
December 31 Of the end of the year and the brevity of life. DAILY MEDITATIONS OF THE MYSTERIES OF OUR HOLY FAITH, By the P. Alonso de Andrade FROM THE COMPANY OF JESUS. PRAYER TO BEGIN By the sign of the Holy Cross, from our enemies delier us, Lord, our God. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. My Lord and my God: I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with deep reverence. I ask you for forgiveness of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruit. My Mother Immaculate, Saint Joseph, my father and lord, my guardian Angel: intercede for me. December 31 Meditation Of the end of the year and the brevity of life. POINT ONE. Consider Christ our Lord newborn and crying in the manger; and if you find out the causes why he cries, you will find that they are not so much the cold he suffers and the inclement weather, as your carelessness and the forgetfulness with which you live of your good, and that he comes into the …Дэлгэрэнгүй
Cardinal Defies Traditionis Custodes by Confirming in Roman Rite at Cathedral: Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation according to the Roman Rite at the Cathedral of Saint Mary in Bastia. On 20 December, the cardinal presided over First Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Advent before conferring Confirmation on thirty-two members of the faithful from the Chapel of Monserrato in Bastia and the Chapel of Saint Anthony in Sant’Antonino (Haute-Corse). Abbé Benoît de Giacomoni, Provincial for France of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, was also present for the celebration.
Le samedi 20 décembre, le Cardinal François Bustillo est venu en sa Cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Bastia présider les premières Vêpres du 4e dimanche de l'Avent, et donner le sacrement de confirmation selon le Pontifical Romain traditionnel à 32 fidèles de la chapelle de Monserrato de Bastia et de la chapelle Saint-Antoine de Sant' Antonino. L'abbé Benoit de Giacomini, provincial de France de la Fraternité Saint-Pierre était présent, ainsi que l'abbé Sébastien Dufour chapelain des fidèles attachés à la messe traditionnelle Cismonte.
Monday, December 29 – Monday within the Octave of Christmas – Saint Thomas Becket, of Canterbury, Bishop and Martyr – Blessed Gerard Cagnoli of Valence, Lay Brother, First Franciscan Order
[St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori – XVII-XVIII Century AD; Marianella, Kingdom of Naples/Pagani. Kingdom of Naples; spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, theologian; Bishop; Doctor of the Church] Chapter XXVIII ~ Saint Lucy, Virgin, December 13 “ST. LUCY was descended of a noble family of Syracuse, which was then regarded as the principal city of Sicily. She lost her father in her infancy; but Eutychia, her mother, took care to educate her properly, and to instruct her well in the doctrines of our holy faith. When our saint arrived at a proper age, her mother began to think of giving her in marriage, but Lucy, who had consecrated her virginity to Jesus Christ, awaited only a favorable opportunity to reveal her resolution to her mother. This opportunity soon presented itself. Eutychia was afflicted for many years with a flux of blood, without being able to find any effectual remedy. St. Lucy, therefore, persuaded her to repair to the tomb of St. Agatha, martyred a …Дэлгэрэнгүй
“Since this is the case,” said the tyrant, “ I will cause thee to be brought to an infamous place, in order that the Holy Ghost may leave thee.” The saint replied: “ The body receiveth no stain when the will is averse to sin; on the contrary, the violence you meditate would double my crown.” The governor then threatened the most horrid tortures, in case she continued obstinate. The saint intrepidly exclaimed: Behold my body ready to suffer every torture ! why dost thou delay ? Begin the execution of that to which the devil, thy father, prompts thee.” Paschasius, maddened with rage, ordered that she should instantly be brought to the place of infamy, in order that she might first lose the honor of virginity, and then be deprived of life. The guards endeavored to execute this command, but found that God had rendered her so immovable, that all their exertions were insufficient to drag her from the spot. Paschasius in astonishment exclaimed: “What incantation is this?” The saint replied …Дэлгэрэнгүй
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Apostolic Nuncio to the Baltic States, said that Russia had effectively delivered a slap in the face to Pope Leo XIV by rejecting the Vatican's offer of mediation in the war against Ukraine. In an interview with Herder Korrespondenz in January, Archbishop Gänswein revealed that shortly after his election in May, Pope Leo XIV had offered to mediate in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. While Ukraine accepted the proposal, Russia rejected it. "With that, the door to peace negotiations under Vatican mediation was, for the time being, closed — bluntly put, a slap in the face for the Pope and the Vatican," he said.Consequently, a papal visit to Ukraine currently appears hardly feasible, he added. Recent developments suggest that hopes for a ceasefire are fading: "The past weeks have clearly shown that the fighting has intensified. A ceasefire seems an increasingly distant prospect. There is an obvious lack of serious willingness for peace on the Russian …Дэлгэрэнгүй
Why should Putin seek Leo's aid? The latter has clearly communicated he's in step with the E.U. and the N.W.O. What advantage would his role be as a mediator to Russia? At least Trump for all his faults & flip-flops is really trying to end the conflict by appealing to BOTH side with promises and toughness when he thinks that will work. In sum, Ganswein is succumbing to more "cult of celebrity" about the Pope seeing him as some "world[ly] leader', rather than urging Leo to actually do his job - DEFEND THE FAITH!!
I would like to see the link where Putin said that please. Is this hear say? Or is it a fact he said it. And if so, I understand why Putin said that. After talks with Trump, Zelsensky sent 91 drones to attack Putin's Official Resident. Sounds like the US gave more intel to Ukraine. And as one person put it. It's not time for any peace or rifts to be mended. It's all GOD'S Will. When The Consecration of Russia to The Immaculate Heart of Mary is done. Then there will be peace. Not until then. And talks are a waste as Zelensky obeys his masters who pay him well with tax payers money.
“There's a pattern that keeps repeating itself down the ages. Father Hewko knows a good deal about the Cristeros, who were the heroes of the Catholic resistance to the Masons in the 20th century. A tremendous story. And they were betrayed by the church. Counter-reformation. Then the devil comes back and attacks again. So this time, it's liberalism that swings off to the left. Liberalism. Vatican II sweeps almost the whole thing off to in line with modernism. It's the retread of modernism, which is the retread of liberalism and Protestantism. It's all basically the same thing. The church, Archbishop Lefebvre continues the straight line of Catholicism. Archbishop Lefebvre. He sticks to the true faith and continues the straight line of Catholicism. Straight. He holds straight and he also begins to rebuild. His society begins to expand throughout the world. A few years ago, well a year ago, the last few years, the society has been all over the world. And there are a few countries, well …Дэлгэрэнгүй