tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45433616090751221632024-03-13T04:37:29.260-04:00Traditional † CatholicismSo our Mass goes back, without essential change, to the age when it first developed out of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of that liturgy, of the days when Cæsar ruled the world and thought he could stamp out the faith of Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a hymn to Christ as to a God. The final result of our enquiry is that, in spite of unsolved problems, in spite of later changes, there is not in Christendom another rite so venerable as ours. ~Fortescuelatinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-73343205575864202922023-09-11T14:27:00.001-04:002023-09-11T14:27:45.356-04:00Armenian Bishops Request Papal Infallibility at Vatican I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Armenian_Catholic_Bishops_Jerusalem_1880.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="400" height="309" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Armenian_Catholic_Bishops_Jerusalem_1880.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 20.0pt;">FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE
INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 20.0pt;">(during Vatican I)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">n our Armenian Church there never has arisen a
doubt concerning the irreformability of the judgments which are pronounced by
the Roman Pontiff as supreme Teacher and Doctor of the Catholic Church on
matters of Faith and Morals; as very many ancient testimonies of our Fathers
and historic documents of our Church clearly show, and as the Sacred and
Orthodox Bishops of the same Church have ever proved in their teaching up to
this present day. But since we have heard that certain persons call the
infallibility in question, we, fearing the great evils which might arise from
this new doctrine to the Universal Church, but especially to the Orientals,
since it has never been doubted that the above-mentioned irreformability most
closely and inseparably adheres to the Supreme Primacy of the Roman Pontiff, we
think it necessary that the same be declared definitely by the Ecumenical
Council, and therefore we petition that the matter be treated in the Council as
early as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">--Signed by the Patriarch and 11 Armenian
Bishops<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><br /></p>latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-87376845070506706262023-02-17T15:15:00.007-05:002023-02-17T15:15:53.208-05:00LENT 2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqomoPxr0IONSaw-6GVxuIMF9Xw0890Vb7JJFii_ryzitIm_qiWAfGUOS3p64IzoHlin7UIjaibdw0tzZytctEUT0HeEjtU540lGfb0gJopVtACeMaU35g1LFlxNfyzBinJLKAh-QyEDYH6EkV1VETMD63cs6qz8D9Ycplptu3iO7MUPqEghraVfP/s640/Lent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="640" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqomoPxr0IONSaw-6GVxuIMF9Xw0890Vb7JJFii_ryzitIm_qiWAfGUOS3p64IzoHlin7UIjaibdw0tzZytctEUT0HeEjtU540lGfb0gJopVtACeMaU35g1LFlxNfyzBinJLKAh-QyEDYH6EkV1VETMD63cs6qz8D9Ycplptu3iO7MUPqEghraVfP/w400-h331/Lent.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LENT 2023<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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Let no one </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Abadi",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: Gungsuh;">flatter</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Abadi",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: Gungsuh;">
himself that he is exempt from fasting & penance **<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">As we approach the Solemn
and Universal Season of Penance</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">, the Church calls us all, in the Name of the
Redeemer, to do <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">penance </span>and to <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">fast. </span>In all ages since creation, “<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Do Penance</span>” was the great theme of the
servants of God. Even before the deluge (when all flesh had corrupted), Noah
exhorted mankind to do penance; Moses inculcated the same important duty to the
children of Israel; John the Baptist made the banks of the Jordan and the
deserts of Judea resound with the precept of doing penance; and it was with this
precept that Our Divine Redeemer began His public preaching.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Church guarantees us
that God will hear those who, with compunction of heart, invoke His mercy. Let
us be mindful, then, that this Holy Season of Lent should help us achieve the
purification of our souls for the worthy celebration of the greatest of all
Christian Festivals – the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord & Savior Jesus
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The principal object of
the Lenten Fast is the destruction of sin and the purification of the heart. To
fast on other days may be a remedy, an atonement, and a preventative of sin,
but <i>not</i> to fast in Lent would be a crime, which would deserve the
severest punishment. While diminishing the consumption of temporal foods, may
we even more so abstain from the iniquities of the world and from carnal
desires that bring destruction to the soul. In this manner, the flesh will be
obedient unto the soul and the soul unto grace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Church compels us to
atone for our former negligences, to repair the consequences of our past sins,
to crucify our flesh with all its vices and concupiscences, and, in that
mortified and guilty flesh, to fill up those things which are wanting of the
Passion of Christ. Let us, then, rend our hearts and not just our garments in
profound compunction, humbling ourselves before the throne of forgiveness. The
fast the Lord has chosen and which alone will be acceptable to Him is “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to loose the bands of wickedness</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Fasting is the best
guardian of the soul, the secure companion of the body, and the armor and
support of the strong in the struggle for salvation. May we redouble our fervor
and supplications this Lent with <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">holy
retirement</span>, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">self-examination</span>,
and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">true compunction</span> in order to
obtain the pardon of the Gracious God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">This is the great and
perfect Fast that will find favor in Heaven, heal all disease, banish all
demons, expel evil thoughts, and create a clean heart. Fasting in the right
spirit of the Church (with deep sorrow for our sins) will make pride cede place
to humility, do away with greed, and inspire in us charity to all instead of
anger, hatred, or revenge towards any. Should this be neglected, God will then
ask us, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is this the fast which I have
chosen?</i>” Let us then profess a solemn renunciation of sin, avoid its
dangerous occasions, and repair its destructive effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It would be a <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">grave mistake</span> to suppose that by the
mere exterior act of fasting alone we fulfill our obligations to Almighty God
or really practice the solemn observance of this holy season. We must remember
that the Jews fasted according to the letter of the Law, yet God reproached
them, through His prophets, because in the day of their fasts <i>their own will
</i>was found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Let us fast, therefore,
because we have sinned; let us fast, even more, so that we may not sin again;
let us fast so that our petitions may be heard before the throne of mercy. Let
us no longer sleep in the arms of perdition; let us no longer remain in the
deplorable state of sin; let us tear asunder all attachments to sin; let us remove
all criminal habits and detestable vices that are a scandal to religion, a disgrace
to the Church, and a reproach to Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The great and general
fast of every Christian is to fast from sin, from drunkenness, from thievery,
from cursing, swearing and blaspheming, from pride, covetousness, lust, anger,
gluttony, envy, sloth, slander, and detraction. This fast admits of no
dispensation and is absolutely necessary at all times, in all places, and for
all persons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Church, always solicitous
for the salvation of Her children, incessantly exhorts sinners to true
repentance and sincere penance. It was the full conviction of the indispensable
necessity of penance that peopled the deserts with crowds of austere recluses
and religious hermits in the primitive ages of Christianity. Penance has always
been considered the only means to effect a reconciliation with the offended
Deity, the only gate by which to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May we unite our fasts
and penances with the forty days of fast of Our Blessed Savior, and let us
lament all the sins and offences of our lives in the bitterness of our souls.
Let us confess our sins, and may our confession be simple, humble, plain, true,
faithful, full, entire, and accompanied with an inward grief of the heart, a
hatred of sin, and a firm purpose of amendment, which is the very soul and essence
of repentance.</span></p><p></p>latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-80978087894094145372022-01-04T10:28:00.003-05:002022-01-04T10:28:27.002-05:00Detraction - 1917<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-TxaKdQP0zHN9VumlThSXcaDuOG7SBVW9XMbW9PocdXyKfVV9yLOVNRIUoz_Em31uGGKZ3zPq9RUk3xJ3lYjuRyBHKRkGfomiqSDaDrFdpSfe7JzkN2sNb4doBF3TMgZ1m39hzfwdyCDTwyhwXfcMzKNBwl1outGFA6Uu32zZayJKRwFCcR16WFHZ=s4072" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4072" data-original-width="2792" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-TxaKdQP0zHN9VumlThSXcaDuOG7SBVW9XMbW9PocdXyKfVV9yLOVNRIUoz_Em31uGGKZ3zPq9RUk3xJ3lYjuRyBHKRkGfomiqSDaDrFdpSfe7JzkN2sNb4doBF3TMgZ1m39hzfwdyCDTwyhwXfcMzKNBwl1outGFA6Uu32zZayJKRwFCcR16WFHZ=w274-h400" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCV9dBdpWLuHx8BogoybiTSM1EeGOxABAyW14Vv47t-CeA8txhF48IqUxZZY5cLUa0zSeTsAb90bhRuMayDcR7EOe737mLTgTAvYpidJCtNOTIc2_4BrLonQlmDJWaSDxAI_cbJBLrhhUihyIm3S2dEKlCxKXuLEkE4OV6E5IgEcve54APk5HmOHWT=s3752" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3752" data-original-width="3040" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCV9dBdpWLuHx8BogoybiTSM1EeGOxABAyW14Vv47t-CeA8txhF48IqUxZZY5cLUa0zSeTsAb90bhRuMayDcR7EOe737mLTgTAvYpidJCtNOTIc2_4BrLonQlmDJWaSDxAI_cbJBLrhhUihyIm3S2dEKlCxKXuLEkE4OV6E5IgEcve54APk5HmOHWT=w324-h400" width="324" /></a></div>latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-73070741491974717662020-10-04T22:57:00.001-04:002020-10-04T22:57:28.444-04:00R.I.P. Monsignor Joseph Ambrosio<p> </p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;">†</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cooper Black","serif"; font-size: 19.0pt;">MAGNUM <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DAMNUM <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IN <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOBIS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FACTUM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EST</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 23.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;">†</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 23.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">It was with extreme
sadness that we learned of the passing of the Rev. Monsignor Joseph Ambrosio on
the morning of Sunday, October 4<sup>th</sup>, 2020 -- an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inimitable</i> Monsignor if there ever was one. There were so many
qualities that made him an excellent person, a great friend, a faithful
Christian, and an exemplary Priest. It can be safely said that, in these days
of liturgical chaos, no one outdid him in his zealous dedication for the beauty
of the House of God and that it was a great joy to serve Mass when he was the
Celebrant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Not only did he try to
rescue liturgical items from closed churches in order to put them to good
liturgical use in his own church, but he washed, starched, pressed, and
repaired the sacred linens himself, as he believed it was his duty to take care
of the Sanctuary and the Tabernacle of which he was made the custodian. Everyone
who ever visited his church and attended his Masses will testify that he always
wanted the best for the Liturgy: vestments, music, sacred vessels, Relics, ceremonies,
all types of liturgical items, etc. Additionally, he very graciously donated
many of these things to other communities that did not have what was needed for
the reverent and beautiful celebration of the Liturgy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A truly humble priest,
he would most often refer to himself simply as “Fr. Ambrosio,” despite his
title of Monsignor as a Chaplain to His Holiness. He would also frequently pray
the beautiful Litany of Humility, which he seems to have known from memory and of
which he would frequently remind people whenever certain things did not go as
planned: “these things make us humble,” he would say. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In addition to his
humility, he knew how to provide undeniably generous hospitality: servers,
parishioners, priests, Bishops, and Cardinals were witnesses of his great level
of generosity whenever they would visit his rectory. In particular, he was
well-known for his famous invitations to dinner, which made everybody realize
what an excellent cook he was, and he always made sure to provide full
entertainment, since he would also sing and play the piano, as well as tell unforgettable
stories in a way that he alone knew how – no one ever experienced a dull
evening in Msgr. Ambrosio’s rectory! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ite
ad Joseph</i> had a different meaning in Newark, N.J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">His love for the
Liturgy became much stronger when he began to celebrate the traditional Liturgy
of the Roman Church, so much so that he eventually had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> the Masses at Mt. Carmel celebrated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ad orientem</i>. He would also graciously accept invitations to celebrate
the Old Mass in many different places and in particular in New York City at the
Church of the Holy Innocents. Many of the parishioners and servers there grew
to love and admire him. He frequently said that he loved going to Holy
Innocents to celebrate the Old Mass, which for many years he did on his days
off (Fridays), and several times he was heard saying: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whenever I go to Holy Innocents, I feel young.</i>” Once he said this at
a dinner table full of servers, priests, and a couple of Bishops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">His passing from this
world certainly leaves a tremendous void because people like the good old
Monsignor are impossible to replace. May he rest in the eternal Peace of
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Súscipe, Dómine, servum tuum in locum sperándæ sibi
salvatiónis a misericórdia tua. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S A I N T P I U S V</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In 1563, Pope <span class="gstxthlt">Pius </span>IV,
on the anniversary of his Coronation, gave a great banquet to the Cardinals and
ambassadors who had come to congratulate him. As they were rising from table
the Holy Father declared his intention of raising to the purple Ferdinand de
Medici, a boy of thirteen, and Frederic di Gonzaga, a youth of
twenty. Taken by surprise, the assembled Cardinals weakly assented. … All but
Cardinal Alexandrin [the future <b>Pius V</b>]:
“<i>Most Holy Father,</i>” he cried
earnestly, “<i>after the Council of Trent
has taken such pains to reform abuses, especially among the clergy, and to
establish discipline, hitherto so miserably relaxed, what will be thought, if
the Vicar of Jesus Christ ignores one of its most important decrees, that of
admitting to ecclesiastical dignities only those subjects of suitable age and
worth? With all humility I declare to your Holiness that </i>I for one will not
wound my conscience<i> by subscribing to
this promotion! The Church does not want children in her Councils, she wants
strong men. … Let them enter Holy Orders in the usual way, and with their birth
and gifts it will surely not be long before they become Cardinals! Your
Holiness must also permit me to say that this banquet is not a Consistory, at
which alone such claims can be properly decided!</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">This electrifying speech, no less remarkable
for its courage than its sterling common sense, so impressed those present that
the Cardinal of St. Angelo said afterwards: “<i>I would have given all I pos<span class="gtxtbody1">sessed to have had
the courage to speak like that!</span></i><span class="gtxtbody1">” The Pope,
though startled, was not angry, but the negotiations were too far advanced for
him to withdraw, and shortly after the two boys were created Cardinals. When
the Florentine ambassador came, as was customary, to thank Cardinal Alexandrin [the
future <b>Pius V</b>] for having with his
fellows opened the Sacred College to his master, the intrepid answered: “<i>Do not thank me! The promotion was
absolutely against my desires! On the contrary, I opposed it with all my might,
not out of hostility to the Medici family, but because </i>my conscience would
not allow me<i> to approve of a child of
thirteen becoming a Cardinal.</i>” </span>The father of the young Prince, when
these words were repeated to him, instead of showing anger, exclaimed: “<i>Cardinal Alexandrin </i>[the future Pius V]<i> is in very truth a Cardinal of God!</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Shield given to Juan of Austria by Pius V for the Battle of Lepanto</i></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He exhorted to justice and
holiness all grades of magistrates and rulers, and personally supervised their
appointment. Numerous were the laws he made for the improvement of public
morals —men and women of bad character, and Jewish usurers, being remorselessly
banished— and for purity of life. Some of these laws, which sound curious<span class="gtxtbody1"> to modern ears, were directed against innkeepers (who
were forbidden to sell drink to their fellow citizens at what were houses of
entertainment only for travelers and strangers); against brigands, wreckers,
and pirates. ... The measures taken against blasphemy in any form were
particularly strong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These laws, at once put into force, were eminently successful. In less
than a year the aspect of affairs had changed. Even three months after the
Saint’s accession a German nobleman writes of the edifying piety of the whole
city of Rome during Lent, and especially in Holy Week, when the churches could
not contain the penitents, who slept on the bare ground and fasted rigorously.
“<i>As long as I live I shall witness, to
the shame of Satan and all his ministers, that I saw in Rome at this time the
most marvelous works of penitence and piety. . . . But nothing can astonish me
under such-a Pope. His fasts, his humility, his innocence, his holiness, his
zeal for the faith, shine so brilliantly that he seems a second St. Leo, or St.
Gregory the Great. . . . I do not hesitate to say that had Calvin himself been
raised from the tomb on Easter Day, and seen the holy Pope . . . blessing his
kneeling people . . . in spite of himself he would have recognized and
venerated the true representative of Jesus Christ!</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The Pope’s measures for the reform of the Church were
drastic. All bishops were bidden on pain of deprivation to return to their sees
within one month; to live there, and to become true Fathers of their people.
Seminaries were everywhere established, and at Fribourg a great college. The
Decrees of the Council of Trent were to be rigorously observed by all grades of
clergy. The most severe laws were passed against the detestable practice of simony.
In France, great benefices and even bishoprics were actually held by women, who
received all revenues, and paid an ecclesiastic to perform all necessary
functions. This terrible state of things was sternly swept away. Strict
regulations were made for all religious houses; perpetual enclosure being
enjoined upon all convents of nuns, “except in cases of fire, leprosy, or
pestilence.” The recital of the Divine Office was strictly enforced in every
church, and the strongest measures were taken against irreverence in church.
Conversations of any kind, whispering, jokes and laughter were sternly
prohibited, as offending Almighty God in the Blessed Sacrament, and most severely
punished, in the first instance by a heavy fine; in the second, by prison or
exile. Priests, sacristans and officials were charged to enforce this decree.
The crowds of beggars which assembled within the churches were no longer
allowed to pass beyond the porch, except to pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If sinners trembled, the saints were jubilant as they
witnessed the edifying example of Pius V and the purifying of civic life in the
papal domain. They saw in him the patriarchal majesty of the Hebrew prophets
from whose penetrating eyes no sins could be hid. Like the old Biblical seers,
he inveighed against wickedness in high places; and men of good will recognized
in him the Sword of Saint Michael, his namesake and protector, who should “<i>drive into hell Satan and the other evil
spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.</i>” In him,
the Church Militant had once again found a leader. God had raised him up for no
other purpose. That he was a saint was evident as he went about doing good,
washing </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When he died, he was sixty-six years of age and had
filled Peter’s Chair with unfailing trust and patience and rigorous discipline
for six years, seven months, and twenty-three days. He had fought the heresy of
Luther and all its multitudinous off-shoots, the apostasy of England, the
recalcitrance of France, the lethargy of Maximilian II, and the laxity of
Sigismund Augustus of Poland. The seeds of missionary labor he planted have never
ceased to bring forth abundant harvest for the Church. With holy zeal Pius V
had dared to beard the Turk in his own lair on the sea. He broke the power of
the Ottoman tyrants. He freed Christian slaves. He had, in fact, accomplished
the impossible. For no matter how much acclaim Colonna and Don Juan received
for their splendid exploits, nor what glory Venier, Doria, and Barbarigo had
justly won, it was the indomitable will of Pius V that, in the face of a mountain
of opposition, had made all these brave men’s achievements possible! Truly a
great statesman and a mighty pontiff departed this earth when Pius V died!</span></div>
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triumph of Lepanto,</i>” says a French writer, “<i>would alone have immortalized St. <span class="gstxthlt">Pius V.</span></i><span class="gstxthlt">” </span>Its importance will be better realized when it is
remembered the Turk had never hitherto been conquered by sea. “<i>The Battle of Lepanto arrested for ever the
danger of Mohammedan invasion in the South of Europe.</i>” And Lepanto had been
won by prayer! That he was a saint was conceded even by his enemies. It needed
only the Church’s official recognition to proclaim his sainthood. … when this
valiant soldier of Jesus Christ finally sheathed the sword of Saint Michael
which he had wielded so gallantly all his life in defense of Christendom, he
might well have uttered the words of the Apostle of the Gentiles: “<i>I have fought the good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the Faith.</i>”</span></div>
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latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-90888392276571862062020-02-27T10:03:00.001-05:002020-02-27T10:05:20.462-05:00Holy Season of Lent - 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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converted to Me with all your heart, in fasting, in weeping, and in mourning. .
. . Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, gather together the people,
sanctify the Church” (Joel ii).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May this Holy Season of Lent bring about for you
a time of true and salutary penance; may it lead you to forsake the false joys
of earth and to be converted to God with all your heart; may your fasting take
the place of feasting, your weeping take the place of mirth, and your mourning
the place of joy; may your abstinence lead to a great expiation for sin and be
practiced in obedience to the spirit of the general law of the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you follow not only the example of the
penitent Ninevites, who, by a penitential fast, averted the destruction with
which God had threatened them, but follow also that example of the Innocent
Lamb of God, Who, prior to His Mission among men, was pleased to undergo a
rigorous fast of forty days and forty nights in the wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May the holy fast be to you a spiritual
springtide; may you polish your spiritual armor, may you breast the waves of
evil passions, may you set out like a traveler on his journey heavenwards, and
may you prepare like an athlete for the combat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you enter on the road which leads to heaven,
the rugged and narrow road, and travel along it by buffeting the body and
bringing it into subjection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May your penance consist not merely in
mortification of the body, but also in that of the soul, for sin is committed
by the will, and therefore it is just that the will, as well as the body,
should make atonement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you repress the waves of foolish passions and
repulse the storm of wicked imaginations, so that your deeds may yield good and
fruitful results. If you see a poor man have pity on him, if you see an enemy
be reconciled, if you see a friend in good reputation, regard him without envy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you fast not only by your mouth by forbidding
it to utter tales of slander, but also with your eyes by averting them from
unlawful sights, and with your hands by restraining them from deeds of
violence, and with your feet by not entering places of pernicious amusements,
and with your ears by stopping them from listening to gossip and detraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">“Today the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Word of God</span> appeared
clothed in flesh, and That which had never been visible to <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">human</span> eyes began to be
tangible to our hands as well. Today the shepherds learned from angels’ voices
that the Saviour was born in the substance of our flesh and <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">soul</span>; and today the form
of the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gospel</span>
message was pre-arranged by the leaders of the Lord’s flocks , so that we too
may say with the army of the heavenly host: ‘<i>Glory in the highest to <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">God</span>, and on earth peace to
men of good will</i>.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">“Our Saviour, dearly-beloved, was born today: let
us be glad. For there is no proper place for sadness, when we keep the birthday
of the Life, which destroys the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">fear</span> of mortality and
brings to us the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">joy</span>
of promised eternity. No one is kept from sharing in this happiness. There is
for all one common measure of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">joy</span>, because as our Lord
the destroyer of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sin</span>
and death finds none free from charge, so is He come to free us all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">Let the saint exult in that he draws near to
victory. Let the sinner be glad in that he is invited to pardon. Let the
gentile take <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">courage</span>
in that he is called to life. For the Son of God in the fullness of time which
the inscrutable depth of the Divine counsel has determined, has taken on Him
the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">nature</span>
of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">man</span>, thereby to
reconcile it to its Author: in order that the inventor of death, the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">devil</span>, might be conquered
through that (nature) which he had conquered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">And in this conflict undertaken for us, the fight
was fought on great and wondrous principles of fairness; for the Almighty Lord
enters the lists with His savage foe not in His own majesty but in our
humility, opposing him with the same form and the same nature, which shares
indeed our mortality, though it is free from all <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sin</span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">Truly foreign to this Nativity is that which we
read of all others, ‘<i>no one is clean from stain, not even the infant who has
lived but one day upon earth</i>’ (<span class="stiki">Job 19:4)</span>.
Nothing therefore of the <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">lust</span>
of the flesh has passed into that peerless Nativity, nothing of the law of <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sin</span> has entered.”</span></div>
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<br />latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-32129536709846816842019-11-18T11:04:00.000-05:002019-11-18T11:05:21.307-05:00Pilgrim Fatima Statue at Holy Innocents Church, NYC<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This coming <strong>Friday, November 22nd</strong>, one of the Pilgrim Virgin Statues of Our Lady of Fatima will visit the <em>Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents</em>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">11:45 a.m. - Arrival of the Statue and Joyful Mysteries of the
Holy Rosary<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">12 noon – 1:30 p.m. - Confessions<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">12:15 & 1:15 p.m. - Holy Masses in English<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2:00 p.m. - Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament and
Mysteries of Light</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3:00 p.m. - Chaplet of Divine Mercy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4:45 p.m. – 5:35 p.m. - Confessions<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">6:00 p.m. - Solemn High Tridentine Votive Mass of the
Immaculate Heart of </span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">Mary followed by Outdoor Candlelight Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima</span> </span></span></b></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b></span></b></span></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Night Vigil consisting of 20 Mysteries <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of the Most Holy Rosary and prayers of reparation to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus an<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">d the Immaculate Heart of Mary<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">12 midnight - Solemn High Tridentine Votive Mass of Our Lady on
Saturday followed </span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">by the singing of the <i>Te Deum </i>and traditional </span><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Fatima
Farewell </span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">(please bring a white handkerchief to wave to Our Lady)</span> </span></span></b></i></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></span><br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Coffee Hour” and refreshments <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in
the Parish Hall</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">number of statues of Our Lady of Fatima have been carved by the Sanctuary in Portugal to travel throughout the world in order to spread Our Lady’s Peace Plan and Message of Fatima which is one of prayer, especially the prayer of the Holy Rosary, sacrifice and penance in reparation for sin, and Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary through the Brown Scapular. The Archdiocese of New York is privileged to receive the sixth statue carved for this purpose. Having been carved decades ago, the Pilgrim Virgin which will be vising us has traveled the world many times over and has been venerated by countless Faithful.</span></span></span></span></div>
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question of Indulgences — their meaning, their value — suffers from a two-fold
disadvantage. To those outside the Church probably no Catholic dogma is
responsible for so much misunderstanding, the fruitful source of a theological
hatred that it would be hard to equal. The very name “indulgence” conjures up
to the Protestant imagination dark spectres of the past — Tetzel selling
barefaced licenses to commit, absolutions to pardon, every sin; the wealthy
salving their consciences by strips of parchment purchased by their gold; the
poor handing over their little all, with the credulity of superstition, to the
greedy vendors of spiritual wares, in the fond hope that Heaven’s gates will
open to their happy possessors; Luther, in “words that are half-battles,” denouncing
this hellish traffic in pardons that drowned men’s souls in perdition, as he
nailed to the church door at Wittenberg his thesis of defiance against a power
that professed to forgive sins without repentance of the sinner or amendment of
his life, and damned men’s souls while it promised to save them</span>.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">But even among Catholics, who know
better than to be led astray by such distorted phantoms of the imagination,
there is a tendency to put in the background, at least of thought, if not of devotional
life, the whole subject of indulgences as an abstruse and almost esoteric part
of the Christian belief, with little practical bearing on the everyday life of
the soul. We have before now come across converts who told us that their
instructors had assured them that, provided they gave their assent to the
teaching of the Church of God on that particular point, they need not trouble
their heads further about it. To all intents and purposes, it was relegated to
an academic atmosphere, remote from the living circle of the great dogmas that
mould the Catholic life from the cradle to the grave. This lack of true
perspective can only arise from a want of consideration of what the Church
actually teaches as regards indulgences. The difficulties that at first sight
seem to enshroud the dogma with an impenetrable gloom, disappear almost imperceptibly
when its real meaning and spiritual importance become apparent. For, in truth,
no doctrine perhaps is more luminous in its bearing upon Catholic belief and
conduct than that which links the Church of the twentieth century with the
Church of the third and fourth centuries by an identical formula. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">If it is the proud boast of the Catholic and Roman Church
that she is <i>semper eadem</i> — teaching today what she taught at the
beginning — an identity of type characterizing her doctrine (all development
being from within, like the increase in stature of a growing child); this note of
sameness is nowhere more prominent than in the doctrine, so much misunderstood
and withal so fiercely attacked, of indulgences. The name itself should be
sufficient to prove this; it brings us back to the early days of the Church’s
history, when persecution tried the faith of her children, and discipline in
reconciling the lapsed was correspondingly severe. Here is a confessor in
prison, awaiting death for the love he bore to Christ — a love stronger than
the ties of life; here is a poor sinner, perchance one who had been regarded as
a light for his holiness, perchance a priest of the altar, who through
cowardice had burnt a few grains of incense before a statue of the Emperor, and
thereby perjured his soul. Remorse seizes him; he can have no peace until he
has been reconciled to God and restored to the communion of the Church, which
he had forfeited by his sin. What, then, does he do? He knows that he will have
to undergo a lengthy penance before the Church will receive him, and he dreads
the probation and the disgrace. So he goes to the holy confessor bound with chains
in his dreary dungeon, and prays him to intercede in his stead, giving him a
letter to present to the bishop in which to ask him, for the sake of his
imprisonment and approaching death — in other words, through the application of
his merits — to remove in whole or in part the canonical penalty which was the
Church’s equivalent for the temporal punishment due to his sin of apostasy. And
the bishop recognized the confessor’s plea, and, as the representative of the
whole Christian Society, readmitted the penitent to the privileges of
communion, without making him undergo the long months or years of penitential
humiliation.</span></span></span></div>
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we have in a nutshell the full doctrine of indulgences. The Communion of Saints;
the belief that what one member of the body does is shared by all the other
members, or, as St. Paul expresses it, “If one member glory, all the members
rejoice with it;” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the application, by
virtue of that vital fellowship, of the merits, whether of the Head, Christ
Jesus, or of His saints (for the confessor in his dungeon, or the martyr
burning in the cruel flame, could have no merit apart from the Lord, to whom
they were united by the joints and bands of divine grace), to the penitent
sinner for the remission of the temporal punishment due to his sin, represented
by the canonical penance, whose only <i>raison d’etre</i> was the Church’s
conviction that by it the temporal penalty could be expiated; these three
elements of an indulgence were as much present in the days of Tertullian and
St. Cyprian in the third century, as in those of Leo XIII in the twentieth. For
by an indulgence the Church teaches to-day the identical doctrine that she
taught then. She claims now, as in the days of persecution, the power of
remitting, in whole or in part, the debt of temporal punishment for sin (or its
substitute in the canonical penalty imposed by the Church in satisfaction to
God), that survives after its guilt and eternal punishment have been forgiven;
— and this by the application of the merits of Christ and His saints. Even at the
present day, after some 1600 years, the Catholic Church uses the same language
in her indulgences. When we read of 100 days’, 200 days’, 300 days’ indulgence,
our memory is perforce recalled to the time when canonical penance, lasting for
various lengths of time, was wont to be exacted from the excommunicated seeking
reconciliation. The indulgence corresponds to the canonical penance, being
substituted for it even in the amount of the temporal chastisement which is
remitted by it. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But the doctrine of indulgences is not only a support to
faith, in that it is a striking witness to the purity of the Catholic faith, which
remains unchanged, in spite of all the fluctuations of time; it has also a
distinct place of importance in the spiritual life of conflict against
temptation and sin. As defined by theologians, an indulgence is declared to be “the
remission of temporal punishment still due from the sinner after the guilt of
his sin has been washed away, — which remission is binding at the tribunal of God
in heaven, since its force lies in the application of the treasure of the
Church made by a lawful superior.” To understand fully the spiritual benefits
conferred by an indulgence it is necessary to consider the precise meaning of
that “temporal,” or non-eternal, “punishment” which is cancelled by the
application of the merits stored in the treasure-house of the Catholic Church.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Every
sin committed has a two-fold effect: it stains the soul with guilt, and it
leaves behind it a severe penalty of pain. It need scarcely be said that an
indulgence is only concerned with the latter consequence. The stain of crime
cannot be washed away by anything short of the Blood of Jesus Christ: it needed
the death of God to destroy the mark of sin stamped on the sinner’s soul. No
indulgence can purge the foulness of the smallest sin. The sinner must find
peace through the way of penitence, by the strength of an abiding contrition.
An indulgence is valueless unless its recipient is united by grace to Christ,
from whom the merits on which it rests flow to every member of His Body. It is
only granted to those who are already reconciled to God — the stain of their
sin washed away, their souls purified, by the cleansing waters of Baptism, by
the fire of perfect contrition, or by the application of the Precious Blood in
the Sacrament of Penance. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">It is true that sometimes in ancient
forms of indulgences we find reference made to the forgiveness of sins, e.g., “<i>Concedimus
indulgentiam omnium peccatorum</i>;” “<i>Relaxamus tertiam partem peccatorum</i>;”
“<i>Absolvimus a culpa et a poena</i>,” etc. But in the first place, it must be
remembered that we have Scriptural authority for including the punishment due
to sin under the general term “sin,” as, <i>e. g.</i>, in I Peter 2 : 24, “Who
(Himself) bore our sins in His body upon the tree;” — so that the true meaning
of the words in question is, “We relax or grant indulgence for the whole
temporal punishment still to be expiated for sins committed and pardoned ... or
for its third part.” In the second place, if, as we have seen, sacramental
confession is the usual prerequisite condition for an indulgence to be gained,
it is plain that both the <i>culpa</i> and the <i>poena</i> — the guilt and the
pain of sin — are remitted by indulgences: the one indirectly by previous
confession and absolution (or by an act of contrition), the other directly by
the bestowal of the indulgence. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">But apart altogether from the blot of
guilt that stains the immaculate purity of the soul, each sin entails a
penalty, rivets a fetter of pain upon the sinner, which he has to bear in order
to satisfy the just demands of the outraged majesty of God. The guilt, the
crime, the culpa of sin is not touched by the grant of any indulgence, however
great; but the punishment, the temporal effect of sin still remaining to be
expiated, after the sin itself has been forgiven and its eternal punishment
escaped, — this secondary consequence can be remitted wholly or partially by
the officers of Christ’s Church — the Supreme Pontiff (the successor of him to whom
the promise was made, “Whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be loosed
also in heaven”) and the bishops throughout the world in communion with him who
can echo the words of St. Paul, “What we have pardoned for your sakes we have done
it in the person of Christ.” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">This temporal punishment which
survives the forgiveness of the actual sin is manifold. It comprises such
effects of transgression as loss of money, of friends, of one’s good name;
disease of body, failure of mental power, remorse of soul, destroying, like a canker
worm, all happiness and peace. It enters even into the sphere of the
after-life. Punishment unexpiated here has to be undergone in purgatory, where
the “penal waters” finally obliterate the last traces of sinful rebellion. But
more terrible, because spiritual in their consequences, than these obvious
results of sin, are the evil habits contracted, the links of the long chain of
evil influences, that weigh down and hold back the penitent, as he tries
painfully to rise after his sad and disgraceful fall. Each separate act of sin
tends to make resistance to the temptation more difficult. The habit formed
does not vanish with the forgiven sin; it abides with us as a reminder of our
ingratitude, a mute witness to the awful sanctity of God whose law we have so
lightly set at naught. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">This branch of temporal punishment is often lost sight of,
although its bearing on the spiritual profit of indulgences makes it of the
utmost importance. An indulgence is too often regarded as a mechanical
balancing of the books, so that the credit side of the soul's account with God
may equal the debit, whereas it positively aids us in our struggle against sin.
It only needs for us to look into ourselves to realize the fact of the
advantage to be gained by a greater or less freedom from the thralldom of evil memories,
evil propensities, which sinful actions inevitably bear in their train as by a
natural law. The guilt of our sin has been destroyed; the absolving words said
over us, and we have felt to the centre of our being that we have been truly
forgiven by God. And yet in spite of this, we are sadly conscious that our life
is different from what it was before we sinned. Sin has thrown its bewitching
glamor around us, and once having yielded to its fatal charm we find it hard to
resist when it allures us a second time.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Experience
corroborates this truth. Can the sensualist who has for years given over his
body to every lustful disordered passion, turn over a new leaf at once in spite
of his weakened body, enfeebled mind, perverted will, and live in innocent
purity as in the far-off days of his happy childhood? Can the besotted
drunkard, who has tasted the delights of wild confused pleasure, be the same man
after he has signed the pledge as he was before he first yielded to the
temptation, and drank to his ruin the fruit of the grape? </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">We know that such is not the case. As
we have sown, so do we reap. Each sin bears its fruit as surely as the tree its
blossoms. The evil habits contracted in youth, of carelessness, sloth, self-indulgence,
undisciplined speech, unbridled desire — habits that increase in our riper
years — are hardly broken. Our sins may be blotted out, but their chastisement remains.
We carry ever about with us a diseased imagination, a knowledge of evil, penetrating
our every thought, from which we cannot shake ourselves free. The weight of the
heavy chains of evil habit and inclination, forged by us so tightly when we
sinned, bows us down to this lower earth, keeping us back from spiritual
progress. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">It is to destroy this secondary effect
of sin, this accumulation of evil habits, this temporal penalty in its many
ramifications, that indulgences are granted us by the Church. The sinner must
pay the debt of punishment, or another must pay it in his stead. In the
Catholic Church, as in some palace of kings, there is a treasury wherein is
contained wealth, infinite, inexhaustible — even the satisfactions of Christ
and the super-abounding merits of His saints. This boundless sea of
satisfaction can be applied to individual members of the Body of Christ,
because they <i>are</i> His members — bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh —
and the power and virtue flowing from the Head reaches to each least part of
the organism vitally united to Him. And this application of indulgences cancels
the debt, unloosens the bands of the sinner’s pain, and sets him free from the
captivity of evil. The evil habit that cloaks the soul, driving out the air and
sunshine of every holy impulse; the heavy chain that clanks drearily as the
sinner tries to enter the house of peace; the searching punishment that falls with
heavy weight upon his shoulders; the temporal misfortunes that God’s sanctity
demands in reparation for repeated acts of rebellion — all are set aside by the
gracious act of the Redeemer Who from the Cross granted the first indulgence to
the penitent thief: “Today shalt thou, freed by My royal word from every bond
of sin, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Thus, an indulgence is of real advantage to the soul. If it
is no relic of a far-distant past, possessing only an antiquarian interest, but
an important witness to the identity of the Catholic Faith of the twentieth
century with that of the primitive age, it is doubly true that besides its
evidential value, it is of solid profit to us in the spiritual life of toil and
battle. Each indulgence that we gain releases us from the effects of sin —
effects that hinder us in our struggles against evil —, strengthens our
resolutions, and brings us nearer to God. We cannot see here the full extent of
the benefits thereby conferred upon us. We can only know from inward experience
how the seductions of sin become less powerful, the influence of evil habit
decreases, the sad memories of past falls fade away, presaging the glad day
when, through the virtue of indulgences powerful even beyond the veil, we enter
the gates of the City of everlasting peace.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Recently, Pope Francis, was “<i>pained to hear… a sarcastic comment about a
pious [indigenous] man with feathers on his head who brought an offering</i>”
during Mass. In humble solidarity with the “<i>pious
man,</i>” His Holiness asked: “<i>Tell me: <b>what’s the difference</b> between having
feathers on your head and the three-peaked hat worn by certain officials in our
dicasteries?</i>” The Supreme Pontiff was referring to the Catholic biretta.
Apparently, to the Apostolic Lord of Rome, these types of things make no
difference whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">But we ask ourselves, how come His Supreme
Humbleness was “<i>pained to hear</i>” such
comment, but did not feel the same pain when His Holiness Himself made some
disparaging remarks about young “<i>rigid</i>”
priests who wear Cassocks and the Roman hat (“<i>saturno</i>”)? How quickly His Holiness’ pain disappears when those who
don’t agree with all that comes out of His Merciful Mouth are the ones who are
viciously offended, vindictively attacked, and savagely persecuted by His
Holiness Himself or His Holiness’ <i>protégés</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">How far is the reigning Pontiff from the
example of Pope St. Gregory I when writing to Eulogius of Alexandria: “<i>My honor is the honour of the Universal
Church. My honor is the firm position of my brothers. I am really honoured when
due honor is not denied to each of them.</i>” Instead, Pope Francis has a
preference for attacking, ridiculing, and disparaging whatever may bring
visibility to anything that used to bring honor and respect to the Church of
God, Her faithful ministers, and Her immemorial practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Our “Catholic sensibilities” are not supposed
to be hurt by such things, the reasoning goes, or by horrible <b>pagan-like</b>/<b>shamanic</b> ceremonies at the Vatican in the presence of the Pope
Himself! According to this logic, <b>what
difference does it make</b> to see practices and ceremonies that predate the
advent of Christianity performed with the consent and approval of the visible
Head of the Catholic Church? It would seem that to His Holiness they are the
same as the ceremonies of the Mass – the New Mass, that is, because <b>WE KNOW</b> how His Holiness feels about
the Old Mass! <b>WE KNOW </b>that those old
immemorial rites, practices, and ceremonies of the Roman Church do make a
difference to His Humble Person! So much so, that His Holiness and His
Holiness’ friends are willing to lie, persecute, slander, and stamp out
anything reminiscent of the old Catholic days… Such “<i>rigidly neopelagian promethean observances that cause deeply-rooted
psychological problems</i>” should have no place in the Church of God! Or so is
their humble wish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">We could get the impression that, according to
His Holiness, the way we feel about Holy Mass is the same way we should feel
about ritualistic services to <i>Pachamama</i>
(mother earth) with representations of <i>Yacy</i>,
<i>Ruda</i>, and <i>Guaracy</i> – all pure and <b>unadulterated
pagan idolatry and immodesty</b> ....
this should make no difference at all, they say. Just as it would make
no difference to His Holiness and minions if what had taken place had been the
burning of incense –or, better yet, the killing of babies!– in honor of the
ancient golden calf idolized by the Hebrews after the God of Israel freed them
from the hands of Pharaoh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">At the (“fertility ritual”) ceremony that took
place in the Vatican gardens on October 4th in honor of <i>Pachamana</i>, the Holy Father was given a black ring (<b>tucum ring</b> – <i>anel de tucum</i>), which has become very closely associated with the
principles of <b>Liberation Theology</b>,
which in the Pontificate of Pope Francis has reached levels of biblical
importance. With regards to the ceremony, Cardinal Baldisseri said: “<i>the purpose is to focus on this <b>garden</b> [the Amazon region] of immense
wealth and natural resources… and a territory that’s threatened by the runaway
ambitions of human beings rather than being taken care of.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Honestly, that whole thing reminded us of <b>another Garden</b> (spoken of in the first
book of the Sacred Scriptures) where those involved had the ambition to be like
gods, and we all know that that led to negative consequences of unparalleled
proportions. And here we are in 2019 with high ranking members of the Catholic
Church (the Bishop in white included) tempting the same God with a similar
ambition and behaving as if the Incarnation of the Son of God had never
happened. <b>How horrible is that</b>! And
then today we hear that the Holy Father’s friend, the “journalist” Eugenio
Scalfari (a Leftist atheist), reports that the Holy Father told him that Christ
was not God. We’re not sure about you, but that’s flirting directly with
Sabellianism, Arianism, Modalism, Patripassianism, Subordinationism,
Nestorianism, and a few other officially certified heresies… nothing new about
the heresy, except that the One Who might possibly be dishing it out is none
other than the Supreme Pontiff Himself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In the old days of Faith, the Popes would have
been the ones to clarify the correct teaching the faithful were to hold, but
that does not seem to be the case these days. Pope Julius, in the times of St.
Athanasius, during the Arian heresy, would have said: “<i>Do you not know that this is the custom, that you should write first to
Us and that what is right should be settled here?</i>” Pope St. Agatho would
have said: “<i>The Apostolic [Roman] Church
of Christ, by the grace of Almighty God will never be shown to have wandered
from the path of Apostolic tradition, nor has it ever fallen into heretical
novelties; but it was founded spotless at the time of the beginning of the
Christian faith.</i>” It might be safe to say, and I think you will agree, that
Francis the Merciful would cut His Humble tongue out before saying anything
like that! Instead, His Holiness would yell at us and at the top of His
Apostolic lungs –oops, we forgot His Holiness only has one, though that does
not prevent His Holiness from yelling at us anyway!– <b><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">what’s the difference?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Well, to us, faithful Catholics, it does make a
big difference... just as <b>one “iota”</b>
made an essential difference in the 4th century with the Arian heresy. As Fr.
Adrian Fortescue aptly said: “<i>What, it is
asked, can the difference between Homoüsios and Homoiüsios matter? Was it worth
while to rend the whole Church for the sake of an iota? Undoubtedly to a person
who cares nothing for any dogmatic belief, to whom the Christian faith means
either nothing at all or a vague humanitarianism, the discussion will seem
absurd… But to people who take historic Christianity seriously one may point
out that the question at issue was the vital one of all. It was that of the <b>Divinity of Christ</b>.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And Fr. Fortescue goes on to say that in
combat, soldiers from two different sides whose nations have very similar flags
“or [coats of] arms” would not waver in their allegiance to their nation
because of such similarity or very slight differences. So, while for the
Servant of the Servants of God an indigenous feathered hat might be the same as
a biretta, to an actual faithful Catholic, there is a real difference between
the two. Just as an actual Catholic will detect a <b>clear</b> difference between real inculturation and <b>neo-paganization</b>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Supreme Pontiff may go on and on with all
this silly stuff about “pockets of rigidity” and “semi-schismatic ways” that
lead to a bad end and to an “unhealthy view of the Gospel,” but the thing is
that we somehow still have something called the <b>Ten Commandments</b>. And the first of these commandments still reads:
“<b><i>I
am the Lord thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.</i></b>” Actual
faithful Catholics, despite the criticisms and condemnations coming from
Bishops, Cardinals, and the Holy Father Himself these days, still want to
continue the ancient Catholic practice of worshiping the True God alone by
preserving the purity and integrity of the Catholic Faith through absolute
loyalty to the Church of Old Rome in Her unchanging dogmas and living
traditions, particularly in the true Roman Mass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The Holy Father also thinks that these rigid
neo-palagians want “to change the Pope” by expressing open criticisms that
create, according to His Holiness, “confusion” and “division” and “schism.” As
Archbishop Lefebvre once said: “<i>I don’t
want to disobey the Pope, but he must not ask me to become <b>Protestant</b>,</i>” except that now that would have to be changed to:
“<i>I don’t want to disobey the Pope, but he
must not ask me to become <b><u>Pagan</u></b>.</i>”
That seems to be the difference between Paul VI and Pope Francis; the former
wanted to protestantize things, but the latter is hellbent on <u>paganizing</u>
everything! In response, we could say what Princess Pallavicini said in the
1970s when Paul VI’s Vatican tried to pressure her into not helping Archbishop
Lefebvre: “<i>I am a more than convinced
Apostolic Roman Catholic … I owe nothing to anybody, I have no honours nor
prebends to defend, and I thank God for everything. Within the limits that the
Church allows, I may dissent, I may talk, I may act: I have to talk and I have
to act: it would be cowardice not to. And allow me say, that in our home, also
in this generation, there is no room for the cowardly.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Long gone are the days when Popes, like St. Leo
the Great, would write to world leaders: <i>“…
the same Faith must be that of the people, of bishops, and also of kings, oh
most glorious son and most clement Augustus!</i>” Or Popes like Leo IX, writing
to the heretic Michael Cerularius on the preservation of Church unity: “<i>… Woe to those who break it! Woe to those
who ‘with high-sounding and false words and with impious and sacrilegious hands
cruelly try to rend the glorious robe of Christ, that has no stain nor spot.’</i>”
And, as the same Pope Leo IX wrote to the then ambitious Patriarch of
Constantinople: “<i>Let heresies and schisms
cease. Let every one who glories in the Christian name cease from cursing and
wounding the holy Apostolic Roman Church.</i>” And this was, as it should
always be, the case because it is the constant Catholic principle that <b><u>there MUST NOT BE ANY COMPROMISE in
matters of Faith and Morals</u></b>. Unfortunately, and with utmost sadness and
shame, it must be admitted that even faithful Catholics these days fall short
of this essential Catholic principle… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Nevertheless, we’ll continue to pray for our
Beloved Pope Francis, despite His Holiness’ love of deception, schism,
division, confusion, heresy, scandal, perversion, etc., which will be to His
Holiness’ eternal disgrace if no change takes place in His Humble and Merciful
Heart before His Holiness meets the Supreme Judge of all. And we, faithful
Catholics, must continue with our daily living as Catholics did in the old
Catholic days, when Rome was unequivocally “<i>the
center and organ of unity,</i>” when Rome’s guidance was “<i>known, respected, and universally accepted.</i>” This current trend of
exchanging the teachings of Christ for communist ideas, corruption of morals,
and pagan practices does not sit well with us … given that we keep in mind
constantly what Galatians 6:7 tells us: “<b>Be
not deceived, God is not mocked.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to "The Sacred Ceremonies of Low Mass"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The
august Sacrifice of the Mass comprises in itself all that is most sublime and
sacred in our Holy Religion. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament were only
shadows of that of the new, which, as St. Leo says, really offers to God what
the Jewish sacrifices only promised. The offering should bear some proportion
to the person to whom it is made; but since the ancient sacrifices were only
weak and needy elements, they could in no way satisfy for man’s debts to God
and hence another sacrifice was required. The old victims were insufficient,
the Levitical priesthood was impotent in the sight of God, therefore it was
necessary, as the Fathers of the Council of Trent express it, that by the
ordination of God the Father of Mercies, another Priest, according to the order
of Melchisedech, our Lord Jesus Christ, should arise, who would consummate and
bring to perfection all who were to be sanctified. Although Our Lord fully
consummated the sacrifice by offering Himself to God the Father, and by dying
on the altar of the Cross for our redemption yet His priesthood was not to
expire with His death, but was to continue visible in His Church to the end of
ages, as He Himself promised at His Last Supper when, instituting the
Eucharistic Sacrifice, He gave the same Divine authority to the Apostles and to
their successors. Every Priest can, therefore, say to himself when ascending the
altar: I am no longer a mere man of clay, a weak creature—being identified with
Jesus Christ through the power and the infinite value of the Victim I am about
to offer. With what a high degree of virtue ought such a dignity be
accompanied!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are four kinds of worship given to God in the Sacrifice of the Mass. The first
is called <i>Latreutic, </i>which is due to Him and can be given to His Infinite
Majesty alone, and which is rendered by the Sacred Victim along with the
adoration of the faithful, of the Saints, and of the Angelic Hosts, who,
according to the opinion of the Fathers, reverently surround the altar. The
second form of worship is termed <i>Eucharistic, </i>by which man raises his
voice in perfect thanksgiving to his most generous Benefactor. In it, the
excess of the Divine Goodness invests us with the power of offering abundant
satisfaction to Him; and the greatest advantage we derive from this benefit is,
that we can thereby make an adequate return for what we have received from God.
God delivers us from the abyss; we present to Him the Deliverer. He opens
Heaven to us; we offer to Him the Heir. So much does the supreme goodness shine
forth in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, that not only is our act of
thanksgiving in keeping with the great benefits conferred upon us, but forms a
return in some way suitable for the great love manifested in His conferring them
upon us. We do this not merely once, as St. Gregory Nazianzen remarks, as when
our Blessed Lord offered Himself in the Incarnation to His Eternal Father, but
a thousand times, when we offer that Divine Son in the Mass, impassible and
glorious as a worthy victim of thanksgiving. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The third act of worship
is <i>Propitiatory—</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">to<i> </i></span>appease
the anger of God, to satisfy the demands of His justice, and to obtain the
pardon of our sins. Man should appease the Lord to whom he has been ungrateful,
and avert His anger lest he might be cast off forever. All other creatures
cried for vengeance against sinful man: Jesus Christ appeared and immolated
Himself upon the Cross; peace came upon the world, man’s sins notwithstanding,
and the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass pours out on him the grace of repentance
and reconciles him with Divine justice. The Sacrifice of Calvary supplied the
treasures, that of the Mass distributes them. From the treasury, judge of the key;
and if the Passion of Jesus Christ fits us for the benefits of Redemption, the
Sacrifice of the Mass enables us to enjoy them, for St. Chrysostom says : “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tantum valet celebratio Missae quantum mors
Christi in cruce</i>,” and the Church herself moreover assures us of it in
these words: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quoties hujus hostiae
commemoratio celebratur, opus nostrae Redemptionis exercetur.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the worship we render to God, as the Author of every good gift, is based upon
our prayers, serving as we do a Lord who wishes us to pray to Him, uniting His own
glory with our best interests. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call upon
Me</i>,” He says, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in the day of trouble;
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.</i>” Prayer constitutes the
fourth act of worship, called <i>Impetratory, </i>for the due rendering of which
to God the Mass furnishes us with the best of all means of moving the Divine
liberality in our favour. We are unworthy not only to be heard but even to ask,
and consequently unworthy of receiving, from the very fact that we are obliged
to ask. The Word of God prayed for us, and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was
heard for His reverence</i>.” In the Mass He prays to the Father continually
for us, in the same manner as He did, bathed with tears and blood, on the
Cross, and we through Him are heard. On the altar the word of Salvation is
raised, the life-giving Host is laid, and there is worked the most sublime
miracle, ravishing in ecstasy of wonder earth and heaven. The Son of God, the
invisible High Priest, the Holy Pontiff, just, innocent, separated from
sinners, higher than the heavens, and able to compassionate us in our
infirmities, intercedes for us with unutterable groanings, and becomes our propitiation,
our victim: and the Eternal Father, who promised to hear everyone invoking Him
in the name of His Son, cannot refuse the Son Himself praying, and offering
Himself for us. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O Father!</i>” we may
suppose Him to exclaim in the Mass, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O
Father! wilt Thou not remember the sacrifice which I consummated on Calvary? Look
down on the renewal of it, that Thou mayst bestow on My brethren the graces I
gained by My death.</i>” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Such is the excellence of
the sacrifice of our altars. Would to Heaven that all the Priests going forth
every day with joy to the mystic Calvary, animated with sublime sentiments of
religion, and covered with the blood of Our Redeemer, would present themselves
to the Father, uniting, as St. Gregory the Great remarks, by an interior and
invisible sacrifice, their groans to those of the Victim who died for men, and
showing themselves alive to their solemn office and to the wants of poor souls.
Then would they, by the Mass, honour the majesty of God, thank Him for His
benefits, appease His justice, and implore His mercy. And since of all our
functions, the Mass is the most holy and the most divine, fulfilling, as it
does, the four <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">great
ends already mentioned, it appears very clear that no study or diligence should
be omitted by the Priest in order that such a sacrifice may be celebrated with
the greatest possible interior purity and exterior devotion, as the Council of
Trent directs, declaring that the terrible anathemas fulminated by the Prophet
against those who perform negligently the functions prescribed for divine worship
apply rigidly to the ministers who celebrate Mass with irreverence. In order
then that the Priest may avoid so great a fault, and the divine malediction
consequent on it, let us remind him in the Introduction to this work what he
ought to do before celebrating, while celebrating, and after having celebrated.
All may be reduced to these three points: 1<sup>st</sup>, Preparation; 2<sup>nd</sup>,
Reverence and Exactness; 3<sup>rd</sup>, Thanksgiving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">1. The <i>Preparation </i>is
remote and immediate; the remote consists in the pure and virtuous life, which
should be led by the Priest, in order that he may celebrate worthily.
Therefore, his acts, his words, his thoughts should breathe of purity, that he
may be fit to celebrate with proper dispositions. If he who handled the sacred vessels
of old should be pure, how much more so must the Priest be, who bears in his
hands and in his breast the Incarnate Word of God? This purity of life
consists, first, in preserving himself undefiled from every sin, not only
mortal, as he is necessarily bound to—but also, to secure greater purity, every
deliberate venial sin, and even from every affection to venial sin; and
secondly, it consists in applying himself most diligently and constantly to the
acquisition of every virtue. </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Qui justus est, justificetur adhuc, et sanctus, sanctificetur adhuc</i>”
(Apoc. xxii. ii). </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">For
the immediate preparation, mental prayer is requisite. The venerable John of
Avila prescribes an hour and a half; St. Alphonsus reduces the time of
immediate preparation to half an hour, and even to a quarter; but he adds,
indeed, a quarter of an hour is too little. The Passion of Jesus Christ should
be the continual thought of the Priest. Having finished his meditation it is
meet he should recollect himself for some time before proceeding to celebrate,
and consider the great action he is about to perform. He should seriously
ponder, says St. Augustine, these four thoughts: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cui offeratur, a quo offeratur, quid offeratur, pro quibus offeratur.</i>”
On entering the sacristy, he should say with St. Bernard: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Worldly affections and solicitudes, wait here until I have celebrated
Mass.</i>” The Priest should likewise consider that he is about to call from
heaven to earth the Word Incarnate, to sacrifice Him anew to the eternal Father,
to be fed with His sacred flesh; he should in fine, reflect upon his most
serious responsibility in becoming at the altar the mediator between God and
man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">2. <i>Reverence and
Exactness</i>.—It is necessary in celebrating, to manifest all the reverence
due to so great a sacrifice. This reverence means that due attention be paid to
the words of the Mass, and that all the ceremonies prescribed by the Rubrics be
exactly observed. As to the attention, the Priest sins by willful distractions
while saying Mass; and these willful distractions, if occurring at the
consecration of the sacred species, or during a notable portion of the Canon
are, according to a large body of theologians, mortal sins. It is not
considered possible that a Priest so acting could fulfil what is prescribed by
the Rubric in these words: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sacerdos
maxime curare debet ut . . . distincte et apposite proferat . . . non admodum
festinanter, ut advertere possit quae legit.</i>” <i>Exactness </i>regards the
fulfilment of the ceremonies enjoined by the Rubrics, in the celebration of the
Divine Sacrifice. The Bull of St. Pius V., found in the beginning of the
Missal, strictly commands that the Mass be celebrated according to the rite of
the Missal, so that no willful omission, even though it be trivial, of what is prescribed
for the actual celebration of Mass, whether in word or in action, can be
excused from the guilt of, at least, venial sin. It is commonly held this does
not apply to what we have said of the preparation for the sacrifice and
thanksgiving after it. Words half pronounced, genuflections half formed,
incomplete signs, and confused and hurried actions, may lead to grave
sacrilege. There are some who hurry over the Mass in such a way that <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">the interrogation might be put regarding them
which Tertullian used for another purpose: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sacrificat,
an insultat?</i>” Of such ministers it might be said they are not Priests but
executioners, who insult the Passion of Jesus Christ; they are perfidious Jews,
who, instead of pleading for pardon, bring upon their souls everlasting malediction.
Add to this the scandal given by him who celebrates without devotion. The
people respected our Divine Saviour in the beginning of His public life, but
when they saw Him despised by the priests they lost all reverence for Him, and
cried out for His death. The greater number of authors, including Benedict
XIV., Clement IX., and other very learned Pontiffs, declare that the
celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass should not occupy more than half an
hour, nor less than the third part of an hour. Such a space of time is
prudently considered sufficient, both to secure a due and reverent celebration and
to prevent weariness on the part of those assisting. Whoever fails herein
merits reprehension; but he who gets through the Mass in a less space of time
than a quarter of an hour is, as St. Alphonsus holds, guilty of mortal sin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">3. Fervour in <i>Thanksgiving </i>after Mass is a
sure proof that the Priest has offered the Sacrifice with a heart animated with
holy affections. If he has celebrated, with the fire of the love of God it will
not be easily extinguished in him. Every benefit claims its acknowledgment.
Now, let us consider what gratitude is due to God by the Priest who has been
just permitted to say Mass! “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh! what an
abuse and what a shame,</i>” cries out St. Alphonsus, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to behold so many Priests who, after having celebrated Holy Mass, after
having received from God the honour of offering to Him in sacrifice His own
Divine Son, and after having been fed with His most Sacred Body, with tongues
still purpled with His most Precious Blood, having hurried over some short
prayers coldly and inattentively, commence immediately to discourse of useless things
or of worldly business; or else go forth carrying about the streets Jesus
Christ, who is still reposing in their breasts under the sacramental species.</i>”
With such might we deal, as the Venerable John of Avila once did with a Priest
who left the church immediately after having celebrated. He sent two clerics,
bearing lighted torches, to attend him, and they, when asked by the Priest what
they meant, replied: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We accompany the
Blessed Sacrament which you carry in your breast.</i>” Alas! How sad: and yet
this is the fittest and most precious time to treat of our eternal salvation
and to gain new treasures of grace. This is the propitious hour in which we
should present to our Saviour devout offerings and thank Him for the privileges
just conferred. After Communion, as St. Teresa says, let us not lose so good an
opportunity of treating with God, since His Divine Majesty is not wont to
reward sparingly him from whom He receives a hearty welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">As long as the Sacramental
Species remain every act of virtue possesses greater value and merit, because
of the strict union which then exists between the soul and Jesus Christ, as He
Himself declared: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Qui manducat meam
carnem et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet et ego in illo</i>.” Therefore acts
performed at this time have the highest degree of efficacy and value, for, says
St. Chrysostom; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ipsa re nos in suum
efficit corpus</i>.” Jesus places Himself in the soul as on a throne, and He
seems to say to her, as He formerly did to the man born blind, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quid tibi vis faciam?</i>” . . . Would it
not then be most advisable that every Priest should entertain Himself with
Jesus Christ for half an hour after Mass, says St. Alphonsus; or even for a
quarter of an hour? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The first portion of the
time of thanksgiving should be devoted by the Priest to the recital, more with
his heart than with his lips, of the customary prayers proposed by the Church,
which are found in all Missals and Breviaries. The second part should be spent
in loving communion with Jesus, in sentiments of adoration, of thanksgiving, of
oblation, and of supplication. The Priest should pray for himself and for the
Church; he should pray for all the people in general, and in particular for
those of his own diocese, of his country ; for his relatives; for the living
and for the dead; for all the members of the Catholic Church;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>particularly for those under his own charge
(parishioners, penitents, etc.); he should pray for all, that all may come to
know, to love, and to serve God on earth, and so afterwards to glorify Him with
the angels and saints in Heaven.</span></div>
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<br />latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-16852683409731686882019-08-08T12:46:00.001-04:002019-08-08T13:06:41.763-04:00Saint John Mary Vianney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">“The reputation of sanctity which surrounds the
name of M. Vianney makes all commendation superfluous. A common consent seems
to have numbered him, even while living, among the servants of God… It would seem
as if God were dealing with us now as He dealt with the world in the beginning
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">To the corrupt intellectual refinement of Greece
and Rome, He opposed the illiterate sanctity of the Apostles; to the spiritual
miseries of this age He opposes the simplicity of a man who in learning hardly
complied with the conditions required for Holy Orders, but, like the B. John
Colombini and St. Francis of Assisi, drew the souls of men to him by the
irresistible power of a supernatural life. It is a wholesome rebuke to the intellectual
pride of this age, inflated by science, that God has chosen from the midst of
the learned, as His instrument of surpassing works of grace upon the hearts of
men, one of the least cultivated of the pastors of His Church.” ~Abbé Monnin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“You cannot begin to speak of
St. John Mary Vianney without automatically calling to mind the picture of a
priest who was outstanding in a unique way in voluntary affliction of his body;
his only motives were the love of God and the desire for the salvation of the
souls of his neighbors, and this led him to abstain almost completely from food
and from sleep, to carry out the harshest kinds of penances, and to deny
himself with great strength of soul. Of course, not all of the faithful are
expected to adopt this kind of life; and yet divine providence has seen to it
that there has never been a time when the Church did not have some pastors of
souls of this kind who, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, did not
hesitate for a moment to enter on this path, most of all because this way of
life is particularly successful in bringing many men who have been drawn away
by the allurement of error and vice back to the path of good living.” ~John XXIII</span></div>
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whole history of the Curé of Ars is the all-sufficiency of supernatural
sanctity. A soul inhabited by the Holy Ghost becomes His instrument and His
organ in the salvation of men. To such a sanctity the smallness of natural gifts
is no hindrance, and the greatest intellectual power without it does little in
the order of grace; for souls are to be won to God, as God created and redeemed
them – by love and by compassion; and it was this which shone forth with a
surpassing splendor in all the life of this great servant of Jesus, and
concealed even the wonderful gifts of discernment and supernatural power with
which he was endowed.” ~Abbé Monnin</span></div>
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the heart of this holy priest all that he was to know and to teach to others;
and it was the more deeply engraved, as that heart was the more pure, the more
detached, and empty of the vain science of men; like a clean and polished block
of marble, ready for the tool of the sculptor. The faith of the Curé of Ars was
his whole science; his book was Our Lord Jesus Christ. He sought for wisdom
nowhere but in Jesus Christ, in His death and in His cross. To him no other
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF BL. POPE PIUS IX</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Today marks the anniversary of the death of Bl. Pope
Pius IX, who reigned as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church for 32 years –
from 1846 to 1878. <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">It is very difficult to visit the Eternal City
and not see a bust, a statue, a coat of arms, a painting or a portrait of this
magnificent Pope who gloriously filled the Chair of Peter during extremely turbulent
and violent times.<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">During his pontificate, he drew the line of
demarcation between the Church of God and the world of Satan, between what was
Catholic and what was anti-Catholic. <span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Immediately after his election in 1846, Pius IX
became Rome’s chief object of attraction. He became the most popular and
esteemed Pope, especially during the long years of suffering, for which the very
prophetically apt title of “CRUX DE CRUCE” was chosen for him.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">“So far as ceremonial was concerned, nothing
could be more gorgeous than the services at St. Peter’s as conducted by Pope
Pius IX. For such duties no one could be better fitted; for he was handsome,
kindly, and dignified, with a beautiful, singing voice… At the close of the
service, the Pope, being borne on his throne by Roman nobles, surrounded by
Cardinals and Princes, and wearing the triple crown, gave his blessing to the
city and to the world. There must have been over ten thousands of us in the
piazza to receive it, and no one could have performed his part more perfectly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><em>~ </em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><em>Andrew Dickson White</em></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">His works of charity were well-known during his lifetime.
His person (and his pontificate) added to the glory of Rome – that seat of the
universal empire that conquered and transformed much of the known world in all
aspects. Rome was made even greater and more glorious when <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pius reigned in Rome</i></b>. The
Eternal City, baptized in the blood of the martyrs and made stronger through persecution,
became more celebrated under the reign of Pope Pius IX, the father of Christendom.</span></div>
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many pious priests in the performance of their sacred functions; but never
before did I behold a countenance more intensely expressive of piety, or so
illumined with the heavenly brightness which outwardly manifests the working of
the spirit within. It seemed as if it were suffused with a light from above.
Heart, and mind, and soul appeared to be absorbed, as they really were, in the
sacred ceremonies in which he assisted; and not for a second's space did his attention
wander from his devotions. He communed as truly with his God in the midst of
that splendid crowd, and with hundreds of eager eyes riveted upon him, as if he
were kneeling in his private chamber, and asking for another day of strength to
meet the difficulties of his exalted but perilous position.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">“There have been great and illustrious
pontificates in the history of the Church, pontificates that stand prominently
forth by the personal holiness of the Pope and the great works he accomplished
for the Church of God, or the great sufferings he underwent in her defense.
These pontificates mark distinct epochs in ecclesiastical history; and with
them posterity will range the remarkable reign of Pius IX. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The length of years during which Divine
Providence has sustained him in his eminent position; the personal sanctity
which breathes forth in all his actions; the zeal with which he has met the spirit
of an unbelieving age, that seeks to destroy alike the organization and the faith
of the Church; the defining of an article of faith called for by the piety of a
world, the convoking of a general council, the heroism and serenity displayed
amid the vicissitudes and misfortunes that have chequered his career; exile,
spoliation, imprisonment; a great heart afflicted by the sight of the evils
visited on those who adhered to him and to the cause of God; all these conspire
to invest Pius IX and his pontificate with a halo peculiarly his own.” </span></div>
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The majesty of the omnipotent God has recalled to himself the sovereign pontiff
Pius IX, of blessed memory, according to the sad news just imparted to us by
the most eminent Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, to whom it belongs to
make known to the public the death of the Roman pontiffs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">At such an announcement, the Catholic people in
every part of the world, devoted to the great and apostolic virtues of the
immortal pontiff and his sovereign magnanimity, will weep. But, above all, are
we most supremely sorrowful; we, O Romans! Since today has unhappily terminated
the most extraordinary and glorious pontificate which God has ever conceded to
his vicars upon earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">His life as pontiff and as sovereign was a series
of widespread benefits as well in the spiritual as in the temporal order,
diffused over all the churches and nations, and in a most particular manner
upon his Rome, where at every step monuments of the munificence of the lamented
pontiff and father are met with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">In accordance with the sacred canons, in all the
cities and important places solemn obsequies and suffrages for the soul of the
departed pontiff should be made until the Holy Apostolic See be provided with a
new head, and prayers should be made to the Divine Majesty for the speedy
election of a successor to the deceased, whom we can never sufficiently lament.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Recently, many faithful
Catholics publicly asked Cardinal Dolan to excommunicate Gov. Cuomo for the
abortion bill he signed into law, which is an open and defiant declaration of
war on human life, made in the image and likeness of God Himself. Well, wasn’t
His Eminence upset! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Most Eminent Sir went
on Sirius XM and defended his inaction by saying: “I’m a pastor, not a
politician.” He feels that “the Far Right” (a.k.a. faithful Catholics) unjustly
criticizes him for being “too conciliatory,” and that they expect too much from
him who is simply “some fat balding Irish bishop” with not “much clout.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He then encouraged the faithful to “do something about it.” In fact, he did
more than that: he blamed THEM for being inactive, for not speaking up!
According to him, “our folks” (a.k.a. faithful Catholics) unlike those in the
Jewish, Muslim, and gay communities, do not speak up! And pointed the finger at
the faithful who do not do anything to show that their votes count and that
they should make it clear to Gov. Cuomo that they won’t vote for him if he
doesn’t keep the “essentials of the faith.” (We’re not so sure that His Eminence
actually knows --or cares about-- what the essentials of the faith are, but let's move on).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Well, color us stupid, but His Eminence’s responsibility does not depend on
whether the faithful do their job or not – he must do his job as the Ordinary
of the Archdiocese of NY and as a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, regardless
of whether others do theirs or not. Besides, the faithful would <em>not</em> be the
legitimate authority to issue an official declaration that Gov. Cuomo has
incurred a penalty for his notorious and scandalous delicts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">His Eminence then went on
to say that he feels it would be “completely counterproductive” to
excommunicate the governor because Cuomo wants to be seen as being persecuted
by the Church, to make himself a martyr in the eyes of the public by being
officially excommunicated, and His Eminence does not want to give him that!
Well, at the rate at which he has been doing things, Cardinal Dolan is also depriving himself of the palm and crown of martyrdom! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Christian Religion, established by Our Lord Jesus Christ as a perfect
society for the salvation of souls, from the very beginning, has exercised the
right and the authority to excommunicate scandalously delinquent and
contumacious members, of which Gov. Cuomo has definitely been one for a very
long time, and a very public one at that! Excommunication is “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a penalty by which a baptized person,
delinquent and contumacious, is deprived of some spiritual goods, or goods
annexed to spiritual things, until he ceases to be contumacious and is absolved</i>”
by the legitimate authority. This used to be employed not only as a corrective
(for the benefit of the sinner in question), but also as a protective (for the
benefit of all the faithful) measure, so that other Catholics would not follow
the evil example, as well as avoid the company, of the openly contumacious
sinner. It was not only for the purpose of punishing the delinquent member, but
also to DETER others from following the bad example of the excommunicate by
placing before the faithful in a public and official manner the gravity of the
punishment (as well as the gravity of the sin).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Obviously, since Vatican II, bishops in the badly wounded Catholic Church have
been reluctant to teach and correct evil members of the Church. We might think
that a possible reason could be that they themselves have been doing and
allowing so many horrible things for which they themselves should be punished
with excommunication, so they do not want to call attention to that weapon of
the Church and have the faithful clamor for it to be used against them (the
bishops themselves). And to be fair, these days, the Bishop of Rome would be
the first one to be kept in mind for such corrective measures! And that is why
Gov. Cuomo thinks he can quote Pope Francis to support his sinful behavior and
say that he is “with the pope” on certain issues. But that specific Bishop will
be judged by a much Higher Authority when Divine Providence decides it is the
best time. For now, we’ll focus on the Episcopal Shepherd here in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It is also possible that the lack of incentive to excommunicate public,
contumacious members could be due to the fact that such members would also have
to be avoided by the faithful and they would also not be allowed to receive the
Sacraments. And in such case, Gov. Cuomo could, in all sincerity, point the
finger at so many priests and bishops who should not only not be in church, but
shouldn’t be celebrating Mass or conferring any of the other Sacraments due to
their egregiously and embarrassingly uselessness as shepherds of souls, with
many of them behaving more like wolves than shepherds!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">And, again, the current
Ordinary of the Diocese of Rome would be the first one at whom the finger would
be pointed. And given that, as can be safely assumed and asserted, none of
these people in question have any remorse of conscience about what they do
(that they should not do) and what they do not do (that they should do) – in
this context, the whole matter of dishing out excommunications simply does not
even enter the realm of possibilities. It does not enter their minds and hearts
that the virtue of religion demands that a sacred thing not be exposed to
profanations, and that they should not let public, shameless sinners such as
Gov. Cuomo anywhere near any of the Sacraments (save for the Sacrament of
Confession, but we can bet that that’s the one Sacrament he does not care for
at all).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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St. Jerome and St. Augustine used to compare excommunication to the expulsion
of Adam from Paradise, given that it would be an “exile from the Church of
God,” the city of God on earth. They also (as the Church always did up until
Vatican II) thought it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imperative</i></b> that an
organization/society whose principal aim is the sanctification of its members
should have the right and the duty to expel from its communion obstinate
members who persistently scandalize others and bring religion itself into
disrepute by their disgraceful manner of living – even the pagan religions of
old employed such measures! Yet Cardinal Dolan wants the faithful to do what
is the responsibility of the Bishops to do. He seems to forget that when the hour
of his judgment arrives, he’ll have to give an account of his own actions, not
those of the faithful (unless what the faithful do wrong is due to his eminent
failure as a shepherd).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Don’t get us wrong, Cardinal Dolan seems to be “very upset” with Gov. Cuomo and
his recent ghoulish actions! But, of men like that, who are afraid to say the simple governor of New York should be excommunicated, who forget that in the old days
the Church excommunicated princes, kings, and emperors (!), not much can be expected.
In fact, it is our belief that when Gov. Cuomo passes to the next life,
Cardinal Dolan, if he is still in this world and still driving the Archdiocese
of NY to the ground, after the fashion of the Schismatic Orthodox with their
leaders, will give him the most solemn of funeral services – whatever that
means in the New Order – with the most inspiring byzantine panegyric in which
the faithful Catholics (a.k.a. “the Far Right”) will be publicly told how Gov.
Cuomo was the wisest, holiest, and most persecuted and misunderstood of men!</span></div>
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Anglican Orders Admit of Further Investigation?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">Q. </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">As the late decree of the
Pope declaring the nullity of Anglican Orders is not an infallible utterance, does
it not leave the question as it was, a case for further investigation? Of course,
it commands and will receive the obedient acceptance of all Catholics, as a
matter of submission to law. This, however, does not make belief in its being
infallible as a matter of divine Catholic faith necessary. </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">May it not be somewhat like the decree of Pope
Stephen, who ordered all who had received ordinations from his predecessor,
Formosus, to be re-ordained? </span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">Response<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Pontifical Decision regarding the nullity
of Anglican Orders is not of a nature to command the same internal assent which
is to be given to an infallible utterance regarding a doctrine of faith or
morals. It is a judicial sentence as to the proper application of certain laws
or forms to an established fact. Hence, it is a misapprehension on the part of Anglicans
to assume that the Pope pretends to settle an historical fact by an appeal to
infallible authority, that is to say, as if the infallible guidance of the Holy
Ghost had revealed to him the nature of such a fact. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not
at all. The Pontiff simply collects all the accessible evidence which
establishes beyond human doubt the credibility of a certain fact. Having
ascertained that fact he pronounces that it stands as an infallible evidence
that the Anglican Orders administered for a full century were <i>not the same
as the priestly Orders of the Catholic Church, and that the difference, </i>as
he shows, <i>was one of essentials. </i>Nor can the fact, upon which the Papal
judgment rests its logical conclusion of the invalidity of Anglican Orders, be
held as doubtful. It is admitted by Anglicans, as well as by those who differ
from them (and fully established by documents at hand and known to both
parties) that the Edwardian Ritual was used (by law established) in the entire Anglican
communion for more than three generations. If the heads of a church make a
public avowal of Protestantism in the expressed sense of excluding a priestly
ministry (such as is conveyed in the priestly Orders as administered from the days
of St. Augustine in England); if that same form of Protestantism is declared by
the supreme ministers of state to be the religion of the land; if it is
incorporated in the ritual book which declared the norm of public worship; if
it is acknowledged in the confessions of the apologists and theologists of the
Anglican establishment down to the present day —you cannot say that this Protestantism
was <i>not a fact, </i>nor that it was Catholicism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
boots nothing that some modern Anglicans of a more pronounced tendency toward the
old forms of worship call the Edwardian Ritual a Catholic Ritual, and hence
claim the validity of the Orders administered according to its forms. Surely,
we who are Catholics, by the admission of all—at least so far as our
sacramental worship and the sacerdotal continuity is concerned—should know what
Catholic Orders are, and what the Church holds them to be. Indeed, our chief
theologian, the Pope, is the very one who is asked for an expression on a
subject which he must surely be at home with, and which he could not very well
distort or exaggerate to the prejudice of anyone, for there are some more
theologians, past and present, who have had knowledge on the same subject, and
who establish an important recourse to the fountain of Catholic truth.</span></div>
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as the fact of the use of the Edwardian form is unquestioned, and as the difference
between that form and the Catholic form in essentials is easily ascertained, the
Pope did not have to seek information beyond that of historical evidence and
Catholic doctrine. What he had to do was to show his readiness to have the topic
discussed, lest anyone be kept from the fold by false pretense or the influence
of blinded guides. The Papal utterance thus stands, not as an infallible
declaration, but as a judicial sentence which practically admits of no appeal
or reversal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">I say practically,
because the possibility of a further discussion theoretically is not excluded
by the Papal document. It may, indeed, be that not all the facts concerning the
Edwardian ordination have been ascertained. Nevertheless, one thing is assured,
that, whatever facts may come to light, <i>they cannot alter the evidence at
hand. </i>They may cause new investigation and fresh discussion, not with a
view of changing the verdict of Leo XIII, which is that of his predecessors
only confirmed, but in order to satisfy anxious minds who have been led to
think there is no evidence against Anglicanism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">Yet even this chance of ever
having the question recalled for examination by the Holy See is practically
null; each past declaration has lessened the probability of a reopening. There
has been no changing in the judgment of the highest court of appeal for three
centuries, and Leo’s words do not indicate the likelihood of a change in the future.
“Wherefore,” says the Pontiff, “strictly adhering in this matter to the decrees
of the Pontiffs, our predecessors, confirming them most fully, and, as it were,
renewing them by our authority, of our own motion and certain knowledge, We
pronounce and declare that the ordinations conferred according to the Anglican rite
have been, and are, absolutely null and void.”</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 16pt;">~The American
Ecclesiastical Review (1897, Vol 16)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">It is without doubt a very solitary life, that
of a <span class="gstxthlt">Carthusian </span>father. On ordinary days he only
leaves his cell three times—at night (10:30) for the great night service, in
the morning for high mass, in the afternoon for vespers, and on these three
occasions the cell is exchanged for the chapel of the monastery. At those hours
you would see the white-robed monk with his white cowl shading his face,
noiselessly coming from his house or cell into the cloister, passing silently into
his stall in the chapel, and then without a word to any mortal, only the
whispered or chanted words to God, returning after service all silent to the
solitude of his cell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Is he ever weary of this strange,
prayer-filled, lonely life? What thoughts occupy him, as day after day, year
after year, after that brief visit to the chapel, he comes back to that silent
home of his? Does he regret the movement and stir of the life he has left
behind? Does this solitude and silence pall upon him, weary him? They say not.
The general of the Order spoke to me of the serene, quiet happiness of the
fathers. There is never a vacant cell. There are many we know waiting for a
chance to fill one of these strange, silent homes. Everyone connected with the Order
with whom I have spoken, bears the same unanimous testimony. The happiness of
these silent, praying men seems to be deep, unbroken, real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The especial work of the monks of the Grande
Chartreuse is not the care of the sick and afflicted, but they maintain homes
for the suffering poor, their revenues being sensibly augmented by the great
sale of their famous liqueur, manufactured at a distillery a few miles distant
from the monastery, and into the composition of which many herbs growing on the
slopes of the Alps largely enter. The secret of the liqueur is rigidly kept. But
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">raison d'etre</i> of the life of a
monk of the Chartreuse without doubt is prayer. Such a life, where all is
sacrificed for this one end, may not be our ideal of life surely. The busy man
of the nineteenth century seeks more definite, more tangible results than the <span class="gstxthlt">Carthusian </span>father: He would aim at the blessed guerdon of
the honoured philanthropist, at the laurels of the great soldier, at the
applause ever given to the successful writer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The solitary believes that only in the silence
of his cell—a silence rarely broken, save by the solemn chant and psalm of his
more public services, shared in with his brother monks—comes that whisper of
the Eternal, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vena divini susurri</i>,
which teaches him the language of communion with God, which dictates the words
of those earnest, passionate prayers to his God, by which it is his belief he
can best help his brothers and sisters struggling and suffering in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Who
among us who believe in the mighty power of prayer would dare to cast a stone
at these devoted men, who, in pursuit of what they deem the highest ideal of
life, have given up all that men hold dear and love—home, friends, love, rank,
fame, ease, comfort. They have voluntarily cast all these prized things aside,
and only live their grave, austere, perhaps joyless lives, to help in the way
they deem most effective, their suffering, erring neighbours.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">(128 West 37<sup>th</sup>
Street, NYC) </span></b></div>
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2018 SCHEDULE:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Monday, December 24 – </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Masses for Late Advent</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">7:00AM, 7:30AM, & 12:15PM – (English)</span></div>
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for the Solemnity of Christmas – Holy Day of Obligation</span></b></div>
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Eve</span></b></div>
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Exposition & Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament beginning at 10:00PM
with the singing of Christmas Carols at 11:00PM and Benediction at 11:30PM.
Midnight Mass will begin with the Procession to the manger and Blessing of the
crib at <b><u>11:45PM</u>.</b></span></i></div>
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Christmas Day</span></b></div>
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the Most Blessed Sacrament)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">CHRISTMAS
FESTIVE RECEPTIONS</span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;"> – There will
be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TWO</b> festive receptions in the
Parish Hall: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one</b> immediately
following the Christmas midnight Mass and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">another
one</b> immediately after the 10:30am Mass on Christmas Day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Parishioners who would like to help with the
receptions should speak to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maria Ignacio</b>
(cell phone: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">646-371-2582</b>).</span></div>
latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-13408090907710946442018-11-30T11:51:00.000-05:002018-11-30T11:51:25.097-05:00Forty-nine years ago today ... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pope Paul VI forced the New Order of the Mass on the entire Church
by means of the Apostolic Constitution <b><i>Missale Romanum</i></b>, thus
attempting to put an end to the most glorious jewel in the Church’s liturgical
crown: The Traditional Roman Mass (with its Roman Canon), which, in essence –
as Paul VI himself admitted – goes back, at least, to St. Gregory the Great.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The false doctrinal and spiritual “riches” he claimed would come
from the innovations based on “ancient liturgical sources” <b><i>never</i></b>
materialized. Under the pretense of going back to ancient and primitive
practices, the immemorial sacred Roman Canon was mangled and replaced with
other “Eucharistic prayers” that no Apostle or Church Father had ever prayed! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Roman Mass that had been used for centuries in Latin in a
unified manner for greater “purity of worship” was forcefully replaced with
something that represented “<i>both as a whole and in its details, a striking
departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass,</i>” as had been solemnly
established by the Council of Trent.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Paul VI himself admitted, “<i>The introduction of the
vernacular will certainly be a great sacrifice for those who know the beauty,
the power and the expressive sacrality of Latin. We are parting with the speech
of the Christian centuries, we are becoming like profane intruders in the
literary preserve of sacred utterance. We will lose a great part of that
stupendous and incomparable artistic and spiritual thing, Gregorian chant</i>.”
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, wasn’t he right about the sacrifice part! But he was clearly
wrong about the supposed benefits the use of the vernacular would bring. It is
widely known that the Anglican church had the most beautiful English for its
liturgy, but it is also widely known that it was useless because it was done
before empty pews in comparison with the Catholic Church that had churches full
of people devoutly praying the Mass in Latin!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because of Paul VI’s decision to deprive the Church of her
immemorial rites, ceremonies, and language, generations of Catholics have
helplessly undergone the violent profanation of all that the Christian
centuries held supremely sacred. Catholic Worship was rendered unrecognizable
by a militant and pernicious anti-Roman spirit, as well as by incredible abuses
of every kind and in every sector. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The changes were a triumph for a protestantized mentality that
would have made Luther himself proud. It took the innovators and progressives
less time and effort than it took Protestants to savagely tear, violently
sever, and mercilessly mangle the sacred unity of the one seamless garment –
the Catholic Church. They chose to “divide and conquer” (<i>divide et
impera</i>) in vehement opposition to Our Lord’s prayer “that they may be one”
(<i>ut unum sint</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">YET, almost 40 years after Paul VI’s violent attempt to destroy
Catholic Worship, the traditional Roman Mass made a triumphant return: The
Catholic world was officially told that the immemorial Roman Mass was never
abrogated, and that there were requests for its greater use not only by people
who grew up with it, but also by young persons who “<i>have discovered this
liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with
the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them</i>.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The liturgical <i>Reconquista</i> has gone on in many places because
it is realized that it was THE Roman Mass, for which Martyrs died, for which
the Church was persecuted and shed tears of blood, that gave the faithful
immeasurable treasures of piety and devotion and built a universal Christian
civilization that no other religion or form of worship could accomplish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Tito Casini said in <b><u>The Severed Tunic</u></b>: “<i>Armed
with faith, we fight and we will fight, for Israel and within Israel, for the
Church and within the Church, mindful of those words ‘</i>non veni pacem
mittere sed gladium<i>,’ offering to God even this our pain in having to go to
war against ‘enemies’ who are our beloved brethren, laymen, like us, or
clerics.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And this is done with the realization that </span><span style="color: #365f91; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<b>our
Mass goes back, without essential change, to the age when it first developed
out of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of that liturgy, of the
days when Cæsar ruled the world and thought he could stamp out the faith of
Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a hymn to Christ as
to a God. The final result of our enquiry is that, in spite of unsolved
problems, in spite of later changes, there is not in Christendom another rite
so venerable as ours.”</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>~Fr. Adrian Fortescue</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com/2018/11/iconoclasm-by-fr-adrian-fortescue-part.html">For Part II</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com/2018/11/iconoclasm-by-adrian-fortescue-part-i.html">For Part I</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">IV. ICONOCLASM IN THE WEST</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">There was an echo of
these troubles in the Frankish kingdom, chiefly through misunderstanding of the
meaning of Greek expressions used by the Second Council of Nicaea. As early as
767, Constantine V had tried to secure the sympathy of the Frankish bishops for
his campaign against images this time without success. A synod at Gentilly sent
a declaration to Pope Paul I (757-67) which quite satisfied him. The trouble
began when Adrian I (772-95) sent a very imperfect translation of the Acts of
the Second Council of Nicaea to Charles the Great (Charlemagne, 768-8l4). The
errors of this Latin version are obvious from the quotations made from it by
the Frankish bishops. For instance, in the third session of the council
Constantine, Bishop of Constantia, in Cyprus had said: “I receive the holy and
venerable images; and I give worship which is according to real adoration [<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kata latreian</i>] only to the consubstantial
and life-giving Trinity” (Mansi, XII, 1148). This phrase had been translated: “I
receive the holy and venerable images with the adoration which I give to the
consubstantial and life- giving Trinity” (“Libri Carolini”, III, 17, P. L.
XCVIII, 1148). There were other reasons why these Frankish bishops objected to
the decrees of the council. Their people had only just been converted from
idolatry, and so they were suspicious of anything that might seem like a return
to it. Germans knew nothing of Byzantine elaborate forms of respect;
prostrations, kisses, incense and such signs that Greeks used constantly
towards their emperors, even towards the emperor’s statues, and therefore
applied naturally to holy pictures, seemed to these Franks servile, degrading,
even idolatrous. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Franks say the word
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proskynesis</i> (which meant worship only
in the sense of reverence and veneration) translated to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adoratio</i> and understood it as meaning the homage due only to God.
Lastly, there was their indignation against the political conduct of the
Empress Irene, the state of friction that led to the coronation of Charlemagne
at Rome and the establishment of a rival empire. Suspicion of everything done
by the Greeks, dislike of all their customs, led to the rejection of the
council, but did not mean that the Frankish bishops and Charlemagne sided with
the Iconoclasts. If they refused to accept the Nicene Council, they equally
rejected the Iconoclast synod of 754. They had holy images and kept them: but
they thought that the Fathers of Nicaea had gone too far, had encouraged what
would be real idolatry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The answer to the
decrees of the second Council of Nicaea sent in this faulty translation by
Adrian I was a refutation in eighty-five chapters brought to the pope in 790 by
a Frankish abbot, Angilbert. This refutation later expanded and fortified with
quotations from the fathers and other arguments became the famous “Libri
Carolini” or “Capitulare de Imaginibus” in which Charlemagne is represented as
declaring his convictions (first published at Paris by Jean du Tillet, Bishop
of St-Brieux, 1549, in P. L. XCVIII, 990-1248). The authenticity of this work,
sometime disputed, is now established. In it, the bishops reject the synods
both of 787 and of 754. They admit that pictures of saints should be kept as
ornaments in churches and as well as relics and the saints themselves should
receive a certain proper veneration (o<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pportuna
veneratio</i>); but they declare that God only can receive adoration (meaning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adoratio</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proskynesis</i>); pictures are in themselves indifferent, have no
necessary connexion with the Faith, are in any case inferior to relics, the
Cross, and the Bible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The pope, in 794,
answered these eighty-five chapters by a long exposition and defence of the
cult of images (Hadriani ep. ad Carol. Reg., P. L., XCVIII, 1247-92), in which
he mentions, among other points, that twelve Frankish bishops were present at,
and had agreed to, the Roman synod of 731. Before the letter arrived the
Frankish bishop; held the synod of Frankfort (794) in the presence of two papal
legates, Theophylactus and Stephen, who do not seem to have done anything to
clear up the misunderstanding. This Synod formally condemns the Second Council
of Nicaea, showing, at the same time, that it altogether misunderstands the
decision of Nicaea. The essence of the decree at Frankfort is its second canon:
“A question has been brought forward concerning the next synod of the Greeks
which they held at Constantinople [the Franks do not even know where the synod
they condemn was held] in connexion with the adoration of images, in which
synod it was written that those who do not give service and adoration to
pictures of saints just as much as to the Divine Trinity are to be
anathematized. But our most holy Fathers whose names are above, refusing this
adoration and serve despise and condemn that synod.” Charlemagne sent these
Acts to Rome and demanded the condemnation of Irene and Constantine VI. The
pope of course refused to do so, and matters remained for a time as they were,
the second Council of Nicaea being rejected in the Frankish Kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">During the second
iconoclastic persecution, in 824, the Emperor Michael II wrote to Louis the
Pious the letter which, besides demanding that the Byzantine monks who had
escaped to the West should be handed over to him, entered into the whole
question of image-worship at length and contained vehement accusations against
its defenders. Part of the letter is quoted in Leclercq-Hefele, “Histoire des
conciles”, III, 1, p. 612. Louis begged the pope (Eugene II, 824-27) to receive
a document to be drawn up by the Frankish bishops in which texts of the Fathers
bearing on the subject should be collected. Eugene agreed, and the bishops met
in 825 at Paris. This meeting followed the example of the Synod of Frankfort exactly.
The bishops try to propose a middle way, but decidedly lean toward the
Iconoclasts. They produce some texts against these, many more against
image-worship. Pictures may be tolerated only as mere ornaments. Adrian I is
blamed for his assent to Nicaea II. Two bishops, Jeremias of Sens and Jonas of
Orléns, are sent to Rome with this document; they are especially warned to
treat the pope with every possible reverence and humility, and to efface any
passages that might offend him. Louis, also, wrote to the pope, protesting that
he only proposed to help him with some useful quotations in his discussions
with the Byzantine Court; that he had no idea of dictating to the Holy See
(Hefele, 1. c.). Nothing is known of Eugene’s answer or of the further
developments of this incident. The correspondence about images continued for
some time between the Holy See and the Frankish Church; gradually the decrees
of the second Council of Nicaea were accepted throughout the Western Empire.
Pope John VIII (872-82) sent a better translation of the Acts of the council,
which helped very much to remove misunderstanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">There are a few more
isolated cases of Iconoclasm in the West. Claudius, Bishop of Turin (d. 840),
in 824 destroyed all pictures and crosses in his diocese forbade pilgrimages,
recourse to intercession of saints, veneration of relics, even lighted candles,
except for practical purposes. Many bishops of the empire and a Frankish abbot,
Theodomir, wrote against him (P. L. CV); he was condemned by a local synod.
Agobard of Lyons at the same time thought that no external signs of reverence
should be paid to images; but he had few followers. Walafrid Strabo (“De.
eccles. rerum exordiis et incrementis” in P. L., CXIV, 916-66) and Hincmar of
Reims (“Opusc. c. Hincmarum Lauden.”, xx, in P. L. CXXVI) defended the Catholic
practice and contributed to put an end to the exceptional principles of
Frankish bishops. But as late as the eleventh century Bishop Jocelin of
Bordeaux still had Iconoclast ideas for which he was severely reprimanded by
Pope Alexander II. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">~ADRIAN FORTESCUE</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com/2018/11/iconoclasm-by-fr-adrian-fortescue-part_15.html">For Part III</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com/2018/11/iconoclasm-by-adrian-fortescue-part-i.html">For Part I</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">II. THE SECOND GENERAL COUNCIL (NICEA II, 787)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Empress Irene was
regent for her son Constantine VI (780-97), who was nine years old when his
father died. She immediately set about undoing the work of the Iconoclast
emperors. Pictures and relics were restored to the churches; monasteries were
reopened. Fear of the army, now fanatically Iconoclast, kept her for a time
from repealing the laws; but she only waited for an opportunity to do so and to
restore the broken communion with Rome and the other patriarchates. The
Patriarch of Constantinople, Paul IV, resigned and retired to a monastery,
giving openly as his reason repentance for his former concessions to the
Iconoclast Government. He was succeeded by a pronounced image-worshipper,
Tarasius. Tarasius and the empress now opened negotiations with Rome. They sent
an embassy to Pope Adrian I (772-95) acknowledging the primacy and begging him
to come himself, or at least to send legates to a council that should undo the
work of the Iconoclast synod of 754. The pope answered by two letters, one for
the empress and one for the patriarch. In these, he repeats the arguments for
the worship of images, agrees to the proposed council, insists on the authority
of the Holy See, and demands the restitution of the property confiscated by Leo
III. He blames the sudden elevation of Tarasius (who from being a layman had
suddenly become patriarch), and rejects his title of Ecumenical Patriarch, but
he praises his orthodoxy and zeal for the holy images. Finally, he commits all
these matters to the judgment of his legates. These legates were an archpriest
Peter and the abbot Peter of St. Saba near Rome. The other three patriarchs
were unable to answer, they did not even receive Tarasius’s letters because of
the disturbance at that time in the Moslem state. But two monks, Thomas (abbot
of an Egyptian monastery) and John (Syncellus of Antioch), appeared with
letters from their communities explaining the state of things and showing that
the patriarchs had always remained faithful to the images. These two seem to
have acted in some sort as legates for Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Tarasius opened the
synod in the church of the Apostles at Constantinople in August of 786; but it
was at once dispersed by the Iconoclast soldiers. The empress disbanded those
troops and replaced them by others; it was arranged that the synod should meet
at Nicaea in Bithynia, the place of the first general council. The bishops met
here in the summer of 787, about 300 in number. The council lasted from 24
September to 23 October. The Roman legates were present; they signed the Acts
first and always had the first place in the list of members, but Tarasius
conducted the proceeding, apparently because the legates could not speak Greek.
In the first three sessions Tarasius gave an account of the events that had led
up to the Council, the papal and other letters were read out, and many
repentant Iconoclast bishops were reconciled. The fathers accepted the pope’s
letters as true formulas of the Catholic Faith. Tarasius, when he read the
letters, left out the passages about the restitution of the confiscated papal
properties, the reproaches against his own sudden elevation and use of the
title Ecumenical Patriarch, and modified (but not essentially) the assertions
of the primacy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The fourth session
established the reasons for which the use of holy images is lawful, quoting
from the Old Testament passages about images in the temple (Ex., xxv, 18-22;
Num., vii, 89; Ezech., xli, 18-19; Hebr., ix, 5), and also citing a great
number of the Fathers. Euthymius of Sardes at the end of the session read a
profession of faith in this sense. In the fifth session Tarasius explained that
Iconoclasm came from Jews, Saracens, and heretics; some Iconoclast
misquotations were exposed, their books burnt, and an icon set up in the hall
in the midst of the fathers. The sixth session was occupied with the Iconoclast
synod of 754; its claim to be a general council was denied, because neither the
pope nor the three other patriarchs had a share in it. The decree of that synod
was refuted clause by clause. The seventh session drew up the symbol (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">horos</i>) of the council, in which, after
repeating the Nicene Creed and renewing the condemnation of all manner of
former heretics, from Arians to Monothelites, the fathers make their
definition. Images are to receive veneration (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proskynesis</i>), not adoration (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">latreia</i>);
the honour paid to them is only relative (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">schetike</i>),
for the sake of their prototype (for the text of this, the essential definition
of the council, see IMAGES, VENERATION OF). Anathemas are pronounced against
the Iconoclast leaders; Germanus, John Damascene, and George of Cyprus are
praised. In opposition to the formula of the Iconoclast synod, the fathers
declare: “The Trinity has made these three glorious” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he Trias tous treis edoxasen</i>). A deputation was sent to the empress
with the Acts of the synod; a letter to the clergy of Constantinople acquainted
them with its decision. Twenty-two canons were drawn up, of which these are the
chief:</span></div>
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3 forbids the appointment of ecclesiastical persons by the State; only bishops
may elect other bishops;</span></div>
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7 forbids bishops, under penalty of deposition, to consecrate churches without
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">An eighth and last
session was held on 23 October at Constantinople in the presence of Irene and
her son. After a discourse by Tarasius, the Acts were read out and signed by
all, including the empress and the emperor. The synod was closed with the usual
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Polychronia</i> or formal acclamation,
and Epiphanius, a deacon of Catania in Sicily, preached a sermon to the
assembled fathers. Tarasius sent to Pope Adrian an account of all that had
happened, and Adrian approved the Acts (letter to Charles the Great) and had them
translated into Latin. But the question of the property of the Holy See in
Southern Italy and the friendship of the pope towards the Franks still caused
hard feeling between East and West; moreover an Iconoclast party still existed
at Constantinople, especially in the army. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">III. THE SECOND ICONOCLAST PERSECUTION</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Twenty-seven years
after the Synod of Nicaea, Iconoclasm broke out again. Again, the holy pictures
were destroyed, and their defenders fiercely persecuted. For twenty-eight years,
the former story was repeated with wonderful exactness. The places of Leo III,
Constantine V, and Leo IV are taken by a new line of Iconoclast emperors — Leo
V, Michael II, Theophilus. Pope Paschal I acts just as did Gregory II, the
faithful Patriarch Nicephorus stands for Germanus I, St. John Damascene lives
again in St. Theodore the Studite. Again, one synod rejects icons, and another,
following it, defends them. Again, an empress, regent for her young son, puts
an end to the storm and restores the old custom — this time finally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The origin of this
second outbreak is not far to seek. There had remained, especially in the army,
a considerable Iconoclast party. Constantine V, their hero had been a valiant
and successful general against the Moslems, Michael I (811-13), who kept the
Faith of the Second Council of Nicaea, was singularly unfortunate in his
attempt to defend the empire. The Iconoclasts looked back regretfully to the
glorious campaigns of his predecessor, they evolved the amazing conception of
Constantine as a saint, they went in pilgrimage to his grave and cried out to
him: “Arise, come back, and save the perishing empire”. When Michael I, in June
813, was utterly defeated by the Bulgars and fled to his capital, the soldiers
forced him to resign his crown and set up one of the generals, Leo the Armenian
(Leo V, 813-20), in his place. An officer (Theodotus Cassiteras) and a monk
(the Abbot John Grammaticus) persuaded the new emperor that all the misfortunes
of the empire were a judgment of God on the idolatry of image-worship. Leo,
once persuaded, used all his power to put down the icons, and so all the
trouble began again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 814, the Iconoclasts
assembled at the palace and prepared an elaborate attack against images,
repeating almost exactly the arguments of the synod of 754. The Patriarch of
Constantinople was Nicephorus I (806-15), who became one of the chief defenders
of images in this second persecution. The emperor invited him to a discussion
of the question with the Iconoclasts; he refused since it had been already
settled by the Seventh General Council. The work of demolishing images began
again. The picture of Christ restored by Irene over the iron door of the palace
was again removed. In 815, the patriarch was summoned to the emperor’s
presence. He came surrounded by bishops, abbots, and monks, and held a long
discussion with Leo and his Iconoclast followers. In the same year, the emperor
summoned a synod of bishops, who, obeying his orders, deposed the patriarch and
elected Theodotus Cassiteras (Theodotus I, 815-21) to succeed him. Nicephorus
was banished across the Bosporus. Till his death in 829, he defended the cause
of the images by controversial writings (the “Lesser Apology”, “Antirrhetikoi”,
“Greater Apology”, etc. in P. G., C, 201-850; Pitra, “Spicileg. Solesm.”, I,
302-503; IV, 233, 380), wrote a history of his own time (Historia syntomos, P.
G., C, 876-994) and a general chronography from Adam (chronographikon syntomon,
in P. G., C, 995-1060). Among the monks who accompanied Nicephorus to the
emperor’s presence in 815 was Theodore, Abbot of the Studium monastery at
Constantinople (d. 826).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Throughout this second
Iconoclast persecution, St. Theodore (Theodorus Studita) was the leader of the
faithful monks, the chief defender of the icons. He comforted and encouraged
Nicephorus in his resistance to the emperor, was three times banished by the
Government, wrote a great number of treatises controversial letters, and
apologies in various forms for the images. His chief point is that Iconoclasts
are Christological heretics, since they deny an essential element of Christ’s
human nature, namely, that it can be represented graphically. This amounts to a
denial of its reality and material quality, whereby Iconoclasts revive the old
Monophysite heresy. Ehrhard judges St. Theodore to be “perhaps the most
ingenious [der scharfsinnigste] of the defenders of the cult of images” (in
Krumbacher's “Byz. Litt.” p. 150). In any case, his position can be rivalled
only by that of St. John Damascene. (See his work in P. G., XCIX; for an
account of them see Krumbacher, op. cit., 147-151, 712-715; his life by a
contemporary monk, P. G., XCIX, 9 sq.) His feast is on 11 Nov. in the Byzantine
Rite, 12 Nov. in the Roman Martyrology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The first thing the new
patriarch Theodotus did was to hold a synod which condemned the council of 787
(the Second Nicene) and declared its adherence to that of 754. Bishops, abbots,
clergy, and even officers of the Government who would not accept its decree
were deposed, banished, tortured. Theodore of Studium refused communion with
the Iconoclast patriarch, and went into exile. A number of persons of all ranks
were put to death at this time, and his references; pictures of all kinds were
destroyed everywhere. Theodore appealed to the pope (Paschal I, 817-824) in the
name of the persecuted Eastern image-worshippers. At the same time Theodotus
the Iconoclast patriarch, sent legates to Rome, who were, however not admitted
by the pope, since Theodotus was a schismatical intruder in the see of which
Nicephorus was still lawful bishop. But Paschal received the monks sent by
Theodoret and gave up the monastery of St. Praxedes to them and others who had
fled from the persecution in the East. In 818, the pope sent legates to the
emperor with a letter defending the icons and once more refuting the Iconoclast
accusation of idolatry. In this letter, he insists chiefly on our need of
exterior signs for invisible things: sacraments, words, the sign of the Cross,
and all tangible signs of this kind; how, then, can people who admit these
reject images? (The fragment of this letter that has been preserved is
published in Pitra, “Spicileg. Solesm.”. II, p. xi sq.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The letter did not have
any effect on the emperor; but it is from this time especially that the
Catholics in the East turn with more loyalty than ever to Rome as their leader,
their last refuge in the persecution. The well-known texts of St. Theodore in
which he defends the primacy in the strongest possible language — e. g., “Whatever
novelty is brought into the Church by those who wander from the truth must
certainly be referred to Peter or to his successor ... Save us, chief pastor of
the Church under heaven” (Ep. i, 33, P. G.., XCIX, 1018); “Arrange that a
decision be received from old Rome as the custom has been handed down from the
beginning by the tradition of our fathers” (Ep. ii, 36; ibid., 1331 —were
written during this persecution). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The protestations of
loyalty to old Rome made by the Orthodox and Catholic Christians of the
Byzantine Church at the time are her last witness immediately before the Great
Schism. There were then two separate parties in the East having no communion
with each other: the Iconoclast persecutors under the emperor with their
anti-patriarch Theodotus, and the Catholics led by Theodore the Studite
acknowledging the lawful patriarch Nicephorus and above him the distant Latin
bishop who was to them the “chief pastor of the Church under heaven”. On
Christmas Day, 820, Leo V ended his tyrannical reign by being murdered in a
palace revolution that set up one of his generals, Michael II (the Stammerer,
820-29) as emperor. Michael was also an Iconoclast and continued his
predecessor’s policy, though at first he was anxious not to persecute but to
conciliate every one. But he changed nothing of the Iconoclast law and when
Theodotus the anti-patriarch died (821) he refused to restore Nicephorus and
set up another usurper, Antony, formerly Bishop of Sylaeum (Antony I, 321-32). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 822, a certain
general of Slav race, Thomas, set up a dangerous revolution with the help of
the Arabs. It does not seem that this revolution had anything to do with the
question of images. Thomas represented rather the party of the murdered
emperor, Leo V. But after it was put down, in 824, Michael became much more
severe towards the image-worshippers. A great number of monks fled to the West,
and Michael wrote a famous letter full of bitter accusations of their idolatry
to his rival Louis the Pious (814-20) to persuade him to hand over these exiles
to Byzantine justice (in Manse, XIV, 417-22). Other Catholics who had not
escaped were imprisoned and tortured, among whom were Methodius of Syracuse and
Euthymius, Metropolitan of Sardes. The deaths of St. Theodore the Studite (11
Nov., 826) and of the lawful patriarch Nicephorus (2 June, 828) were a great
loss to the orthodox at this time. Michael’s son and successor, Theophilus,
(829-42), continued the persecution still more fiercely. A monk, Lazarus, was
scourged till he nearly died; another monk, Methodius, was shut up in prison
with common ruffians for seven years; Michael, Syncellus of Jerusalem, and
Joseph, a famous writer of hymns, were tortured. The two brothers Theophanes
and Theodore were scourged with 200 strokes and branded in the face with hot
irons as idolaters (Martyrol. Rom., 27 December). By this time, all images had
been removed from the churches and public places, the prisons were filled with
their defenders, the faithful Catholics were reduced to a sect hiding about the
empire, and a crowd of exiles in the West. But the emperor’s wife, Theodora,
and her mother, Theoctista, were faithful to the Second Nicene Synod and waited
for better times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Those times came as
soon as Theophilus died (20 January, 842). He left a son, three years old,
Michael III (the Drunkard, who lived to cause the Great Schism of Photius,
842-67), and the regent was Michael’s mother, Theodora. Like Irene at the end
of the first persecution, Theodora at once began to change the situation. She
opened the prisons, let out the confessors who were shut up for defending
images, and recalled the exiles. For a time she hesitated to revoke the
Iconoclast laws, but soon she made up her mind and everything was brought back
to the conditions of the Second Council of Nicea. The patriarch John VII
(832-42), who had succeeded Antony I, was given his choice between restoring
the images and retiring. He preferred to retire and his place was taken by
Methodius, the monk who had already suffered years of imprisonment for the
cause of the icons (Methodius I, 842- 46). In the same year (842) a synod at
Constantinople approved of John VII’s deposition, renewed the decree of the
Second Council of Nicaea and excommunicated Iconoclasts. This is the last act
in the story of this heresy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">On the first Sunday of
Lent (19 February, 842) the icons were brought back to the churches in solemn
procession. That day (the first Sunday of Lent) was made into a perpetual
memory of the triumph of orthodoxy at the end of the long Iconoclast
persecution. It is the “Feast of Orthodoxy” of the Byzantine Church still kept
very solemnly by both Uniats and Orthodox. Twenty years later, the Great Schism
began. So large has this, the last of the old heresies, loomed in the eyes of
Eastern Christians that the Byzantine Church looks upon it as a kind of type of
heresy in general that the Feast of Orthodoxy, founded to commemorate the
defeat of Iconoclasm, has become a feast of the triumph of the Church over all
heresies. It is in this sense that it is now kept. The great Synodikon read out
on that day anathematizes all heretics (in Russia, rebels and nihilists also)
among whom the Iconoclasts appear only as one fraction of a large and varied
class. After the restoration of the icons in 842, there still remained an
Iconoclast party in the East, but it never again got the ear of an emperor, and
so gradually dwindled and eventually died out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Encyclopedia (1913): Iconoclasm</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Iconoclasm</span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;"> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eikonoklasmos</i>,
“Image-breaking”) is the name of the heresy that in the eighth and ninth
centuries disturbed the peace of the Eastern Church, caused the last of the
many breaches with Rome that prepared the way for the schism of Photius, and
was echoed on a smaller scale in the Frankish kingdom in the West. The story in
the East is divided into two separate persecutions of the Catholics, at the end
of each of which stands the figure of an image-worshipping Empress (Irene and
Theodora). </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">I. THE FIRST ICONOCLAST PERSECUTION</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The origin of the
movement against the worship (for the use of this word see IMAGES, VENERATION
OF) of images has been much discussed. It has been represented as an effect of
Moslem influence. To Moslems, any kind of picture, statue, or representation of
the human form is an abominable idol. It is true that, in a sense, the Khalifa
at Damascus began the whole disturbance, and that the Iconoclast emperors were
warmly applauded and encouraged in their campaign by their rivals at Damascus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">On the other hand, it
is not likely that the chief cause of the emperor’s zeal against pictures was
the example of his bitter enemy, the head of the rival religion. A more
probable origin will be found in the opposition to pictures that had existed
for some time among Christians. There seems to have been a dislike of holy
pictures, a suspicion that their use was, or might become, idolatrous among
certain Christians for many centuries before the Iconoclast persecution began
(see IMAGES, VENERATION OF). The Paulicians, as part of their heresy held that
all matter (especially the human body) is bad, that all external religious
forms, sacraments, rites, especially material pictures and relics, should be
abolished. To honour the Cross was especially reprehensible, since Christ had
not really been crucified. Since the seventh century these heretics had been
allowed to have occasional great influence at Constantinople intermittently
with suffering very cruel persecution (see PAULICIANS). But some Catholics, too
shared their dislike of pictures and relics. In the beginning of the eighth
century several bishops, Constantine of Nacolia in Phrygia, Theodosius of
Ephesus, Thomas of Claudiopolis, and others are mentioned as having these
views. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">A Nestorian bishop,
Xenaeas of Hierapolis, was a conspicuous forerunner of the Iconoclasts
(Hardouin, IV, 306). It was when this party got the ear of the Emperor Leo III
(the Isaurian, 716-41) that the persecution began. The first act in the story
is a similar persecution in the domain of the Khalifa at Damascus. Yezid I
(680-683) and his successors, especially Yezid II (720-24), thinking, like good
Moslems, that all pictures are idols, tried to prevent their use among even
their Christian subjects. But this Moslem persecution, in itself only one of
many such intermittent annoyances to the Christians of Syria, is unimportant
except as the forerunner of the troubles in the empire. Leo the Isaurian was a
valiant soldier with an autocratic temper. Any movement that excited his
sympathy was sure to be enforced sternly and cruelly. He had already cruelly
persecuted the Jews and Paulicians. He was also suspected of leanings towards
Islam. The Khalifa Omar II (717-20) tried to convert him, without success
except as far as persuading him that pictures are idols. The Christian enemies
of images, notably Constantine of Nacolia, then easily gained his ear. The
emperor came to the conclusion that images were the chief hindrance to the
conversion of Jews and Moslems, the cause of superstition, weakness, and
division in his empire, and opposed to the First Commandment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The campaign against
images as part of a general reformation of the Church and State [began]. Leo
III’s idea was to purify the Church, centralize it as much as possible under
the Patriarch of Constantinople, and thereby strengthen and centralize the
State of the empire. There was also a strong rationalistic tendency among the
Iconoclast emperors, a reaction against the forms of Byzantine piety that
became more pronounced each century. This rationalism helps to explain their
hatred of monks. Once persuaded, Leo began to enforce his idea ruthlessly.
Constantine of Nacolia came to the capital in the early part of his reign; at
the same time John of Synnada wrote to the patriarch Germanus I (715-30),
warning him that Constantine had made a disturbance among the other bishops of
the province by preaching against the use of holy pictures. Germanus, the first
of the heroes of the image-worshippers (his letters in Hardouin, IV 239-62), then
wrote a defence of the practice of the Church addressed to another Iconoclast,
Thomas of Claudiopolis (l. c. 245-62). But Constantine and Thomas had the
emperor on their side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 726, Leo III
published an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, xx, 4, 5,
and commanding all such images in churches to be destroyed. At once, the
soldiers began to carry out his orders, whereby disturbances were provoked
throughout the empire. There was a famous picture of Christ, called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christos antiphonetes</i>, over the gate of
the palace at Constantinople. The destruction of this picture provoked a
serious riot among the people. Germanus, the patriarch, protested against the
edict and appealed to the pope (729). But the emperor deposed him as a traitor
(730) and had Anastasius (730-54), formerly syncellus of the patriarchal Court,
and a willing instrument of the Government, appointed in his place. The most
steadfast opponents of the Iconoclasts throughout this story were the monks. It
is true that there were some who took the side of the emperor but, as a body,
Eastern monasticism was steadfastly loyal to the old custom of the Church. Leo
therefore joined with his Iconoclasm a fierce persecution of monasteries and
eventually tried to suppress monasticism altogether. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The pope at that time
was Gregory II (713-31). Even before he had received the appeal of Germanus, a
letter came from the emperor commanding him to accept the edict, destroy images
at Rome, and summon a general council to forbid their use. Gregory answered, in
727, by a long defence of the pictures. He explains the difference between them
and idols, with some surprise that Leo does not already understand it. He
describes the lawful use of, and reverence paid to, pictures by Christians. He
blames the emperor’s interference in ecclesiastical matters and his persecution
of image-worshippers. A council is not wanted; all Leo has to do is to stop
disturbing the peace of the Church. As for Leo’s threat that he will come to
Rome, break the statue of St. Peter (apparently the famous bronze statue in St.
Peter’s), and take the pope prisoner, Gregory answers it by pointing out that
he can easily escape into the Campagna, and reminding the emperor how futile
and how abhorrent to all Christians was Constans’s persecution of Martin I. He
also says that all people in the West detest the emperor’s action and will
never consent to destroy their images at his command (Greg. II, “Ep. I ad
Leonem”). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The emperor answered,
continuing his argument by saying that no general council had yet said a word
in favour of images that he himself is emperor and priest (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">basileus kai lereus</i>) in one and therefore has the right to make
decrees about such matters. Gregory writes back regretting that Leo does not
yet see the error of his ways. As for the former general Councils, they did not
pretend to discuss every point of the faith; it was unnecessary in those days
to defend what no one attacked. The title Emperor and Priest had been conceded
as a compliment to some sovereigns because of their zeal in defending the very
faith that Leo now attacked. The pope declares himself determined to withstand
the emperor’s tyranny at any cost, though he has no defence but to pray that
Christ will send a demon to torture the emperor’s body that his soul be saved,
according to 1 Corinthians 5:5. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Meanwhile the
persecution raged in the East. Monasteries were destroyed, monks put to death,
tortured, or banished. The Iconoclasts began to apply their principle to relics
also, to break open shrines and burn the bodies of saints buried in churches.
Some of them rejected all intercession of saints. These and other points
(destruction of relics and rejection of prayers to saints), though not
necessarily involved in the original programme are from this time generally (not
quite always) added to Iconoclasm. Meanwhile, St. John Damascene (d. 754), safe
from the emperor’s anger under the rule of the Khalifa, was writing at the
monastery of St. Saba his famous apologies “against those who destroy the holy
icons”. In the West, at Rome, Ravenna, and Naples, the people rose against the
emperor’s law. This anti-imperial movement is one of the factors of the breach
between Italy and the old empire, the independence of the papacy, and the
beginning of the Papal States. Gregory II already refused to send taxes to
Constantinople and himself appointed the imperial dux in the Ducatos Romanus.
From this time, the pope becomes practically sovereign of the Ducatus. The
emperor’s anger against image-worshippers was strengthened by a revolt that broke
out about this time in Hellas, ostensibly in favour of the icons. A certain
Cosmas was set up as emperor by the rebels. The insurrection was soon crushed
(727), and Cosmas was beheaded. After this, a new and severer edict against
images was published (730), and the fury of the persecution was redoubled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Pope Gregory II died in
731. He was succeeded at once by Gregory III, who carried on the defence of
holy images in exactly the spirit of his predecessor. The new pope sent a
priest, George, with letters against Iconoclasm to Constantinople. But George
when he arrived, was afraid to present them, and came back without having
accomplished his mission. He was sent a second time on the same errand, but was
arrested and imprisoned in Sicily by the imperial governor. The emperor now
proceeded with his policy of enlarging and strengthening his own patriarchate
at Constantinople. He conceived the idea of making it as great as all the
empire over which he still actually ruled. Isauria, Leo’s birthplace, was taken
from Antioch by an imperial edict and added to the Byzantine patriarchate,
increasing it by the Metropolis, Seleucia, and about twenty other sees. Leo
further pretended to withdraw Illyricum from the Roman patriarchate and to add
it to that of Constantinople, and confiscated all the property of the Roman See
on which he could lay his hands, in Sicily and Southern Italy. This naturally
increased the enmity between Eastern and Western Christendom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 731, Gregory III
held a synod of ninety-three bishops at St. Peter’s in which all persons who
broke, defiled, or took images of Christ, of His Mother, the Apostles or other
saints were declared excommunicate. Another legate, Constantine, was sent with
a copy of the decree and of its application to the emperor, but was again
arrested and imprisoned in Sicily. Leo then sent a fleet to Italy to punish the
pope; but it was wrecked and dispersed by a storm. Meanwhile every kind of
calamity afflicted the empire; earthquakes, pestilence, and famine devastated
the provinces while the Moslems continued their victorious career and conquered
further territory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Leo III died in June,
741, in the midst of these troubles, without having changed policy. His work
was carried on by his son Constantine V (Copronymus, 741-775), who became an
even greater persecutor of image-worshippers than had been his father. As soon
as Leo III was dead, Artabasdus (who had married Leo’s daughter) seized the
opportunity and took advantage of the unpopularity of the Iconoclast Government
to raise a rebellion. Declaring himself the protector of the holy icons, he
took possession of the capital, had himself crowned emperor by the pliant
patriarch Anastasius and immediately restored the images. Anastasius, who had
been intruded in the place of Germanus as the Iconoclast candidate, now veered
round in the usual Byzantine way, helped the restoration of the images and
excommunicated Constantine V as a heretic and denier of Christ. But Constantine
marched on the city, took it, blinded Artabasdus and began a furious revenge on
all rebels and image-worshippers (743). His treatment of Anastasius is a
typical example of the way these later emperors behaved towards the patriarchs
through whom they tried to govern the Church. Anastasius was flogged in public,
blinded, driven shamefully through the streets, made to return to his
Iconoclasm and finally reinstated as patriarch. The wretched man lived on till
754. The pictures restored by Artabasdus were again removed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">In 754, Constantine,
taking up his father’s original idea summoned a great synod at Constantinople
that was to count as the Seventh General Council. About 340 bishops attended;
as the See of Constantinople was vacant by the death of Anastasius, Theodosius
of Ephesus and Pastilias of Perge presided. Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and
Jerusalem refused to send legates, since it was clear that the bishops were
summoned merely to carry out the emperor’s commands. The event showed that the
patriarchs had judged rightly. The bishops at the synod servilely agreed to all
Constantine’s demands. They decreed that images of Christ are either
Monophysite or Nestorian, for — since it is impossible to represent His
Divinity — they either confound or divorce His two natures. The only lawful
representation of Christ is the Holy Eucharist. Images of saints are equally to
be abhorred; it is blasphemous to represent by dead wood or stone those who
live with God. All images are an invention of the pagans — are in fact idols,
as shown by Ex xx, 4, 5; Deut. v, 8; John iv, 24; Rom. i, 23-25. Certain texts
of the Fathers are also quoted in support of Iconoclasm. Image-worshippers are
idolaters, adorers of wood and stone; the Emperors Leo and Constantine are
lights of the Orthodox faith, our saviours from idolatry. A special curse is
pronounced against three chief defenders of images — Germanus, the former
Patriarch of Constantinople, John Damascene, and a monk, George of Cyprus. The
synod declares that “the Trinity has destroyed these three” (“Acts of the
Iconoclast Synod of 754” in Mansi XIII, 205 sq.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The bishops finally
elected a successor to the vacant see of Constantinople, Constantine, bishop of
Sylaeum (Constantine II, 754-66), who was of course a creature of the
Government, prepared to carry on its campaign. The decrees were published in
the Forum on 27 August 754. After this, the destruction of pictures went on
with renewed zeal. All the bishops of the empire were required to sign the Acts
of the synod and to swear to do away with icons in their dioceses. The
Paulicians were now treated well, while image-worshippers and monks were
fiercely persecuted. Instead of paintings of saints the churches were decorated
with pictures of flowers, fruit, and birds, so that the people said that they
looked like grocery stores and bird shops. A monk, Peter, was scourged to death
on 7 June, 761; the Abbot of Monagria, John, who refused to trample on an icon,
was tied up in a sack and thrown into the sea on 7 June, 761; in 767 Andrew, a
Cretan monk, was flogged and lacerated till he died (see the Acta SS., 8 Oct.;
Roman Martyrology for 17 Oct.); in November of the same year a great number of
monks were tortured to death in various ways (Martyrology, 28 Nov.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The emperor tried to
abolish monasticism (as the centre of the defence of images); monasteries were
turned into barracks; the monastic habit was forbidden; the patriarch
Constantine II was made to swear in the ambo of his church that although
formerly a monk, he had now joined the secular clergy. Relics were dug up and
thrown into the sea, the invocation of saints forbidden. In 766, the emperor
fell foul of his patriarch, had him scourged and beheaded and replaced by
Nicetas I (766-80), who was, naturally also an obedient servant of the
Iconoclast Government. Meanwhile the countries which the emperor’s power did
not reach kept the old custom and broke communion with the Iconoclast Patriarch
of Constantinople and his bishops. Cosmas of Alexandria, Theodore of Antioch,
and Theodore of Jerusalem were all defenders of the holy icons in communion
with Rome. The Emperor Constantine V died in 775. His son Leo IV (775-80),
although he did not repeal the Iconoclast law, was much milder in enforcing
them. He allowed the exiled monks to come back, tolerated at least the
intercession of saints and tried to reconcile all parties. When the patriarch
Nicetas I died in 780, he was succeeded by Paul IV (780-84), a Cypriote monk
who carried on a half-hearted Iconoclast policy only through fear of the
Government. But Leo IV’s wife Irene was a steadfast image-worshipper. Even during
her husband’s life, she concealed holy icons in her rooms. At the end of his reign,
Leo had a burst of fiercer Iconoclasm. He punished the courtiers who had
replaced images in their apartments and was about to banish the empress when he
died on 8 September 780. At once, a complete reaction set in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal;">“There is one other aspect of
Carthusian life, the monks agree, that </span></em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">cannot be passed without
mention. <strong>Every monk nourishes a deep </strong></span></em><strong>
</strong><em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;"><strong>practical devotion to the
Virgin Mary</strong>. Carthusians have clung to the </span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">tradition of reciting the ‘Little
Office’ of the Virgin before the </span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">regular canonical hours. They
also feel that Mary guides them </span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">through their solitary lives
each day. <em>‘When I think of what I’d do </em></span></em><em>
</em><em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;"><em>without the Blessed Mother,’</em>
one monk says, and his voice trails </span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">off. The three monks sit in
silence for a moment, shaking their </span></em>
<em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;">heads, as if an absurdity has
been introduced into the conversation. </span></em><strong>
</strong><em><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-style: normal;"><strong>A Carthusian life unaided by
Mary is unthinkable</strong>.”</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />latinmass1983http://www.blogger.com/profile/18109855026898340656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543361609075122163.post-48263568693576506232018-10-22T14:20:00.002-04:002018-10-22T14:21:48.439-04:00Forty Hours Devotion 2018<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 22pt;">CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">(128 West 37<sup>th</sup>
Street, NYC) </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">FORTY HOURS EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION 2018</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Church of the
Holy Innocents will start its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">annual</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Forty Hours Devotion</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">this coming Friday, October 26, 2018</b>. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">First Day</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">:
The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">opening Mass will be on <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Friday, October 26, 2018</span> at 6PM</b>, and
it will be a Votive Mass of the Most Blessed Sacrament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At
the end of the opening Mass, the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, there will
be a solemn Eucharistic procession inside the church, and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pange lingua</i>, the Litany of the Saints,
and some other special psalms, versicles, and prayers will be chanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Second Day</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">:
On the second day, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Saturday, October 27</span></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">at 1PM,</b> we will have the traditional Votive
Mass<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Pro Pace</i>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Third Day</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">:
The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">closing Mass will be on<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> Sunday, October 28 </span>at<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> 10:30AM</span></b>, which will also be the 1st
class <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Feast
of Christ the King</span></b>. This closing Mass will be celebrated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">coram Sanctissimo</i> (in the presence of
the Blessed Sacrament exposed throughout the entire Mass). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">At
the end of the closing Mass, the Litany of the Saints and other special psalms
and prayers will be chanted and we will have another Procession of the Blessed
Sacrament inside the church. This Procession will end with Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament, the Divine Praises, and the recitation of the Act of
Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">While in the Roman
Catholic Church there are many Feasts and devotions throughout the year, the
Forty Hours Devotion is always awaited and received with extreme joy. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament</i>,”
according to Fr. Faber, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is the queen of
all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather
round it and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate His
Mysteries; this is Himself.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The Forty Hours Devotion
is surrounded with three special dimensions: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">1) The protection
from evil and temptation; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">2) Reparation for our
own sins and for the poor souls in purgatory; and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">3) Deliverance from
political, material and spiritual calamities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">All these petitions
(for ourselves, for our neighbors, and for the entire Church) are expressed in detail
in the beautiful Litanies of the Saints that are chanted as part of the opening
and the closing Masses for the Forty Hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">The very active and
vibrant Church of the Holy Innocents (NYC) is still the only parish in the
entire Archdiocese of NY that has the Forty Hours Devotion in its traditional
form. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">This beautiful devotion was permanently established by Pope
Clement VIII “</span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">in order that day and night the
faithful might appease their Lord by prayer before the Blessed Sacrament
solemnly exposed, imploring there His divine mercy</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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