Gratitude for the Proofs of Our Faith

Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers! As gratitude as a matter of justice towards God, and invites Him to shower us with greater blessings, I am happy to post here today an excerpt on the proofs of our faith by Saint Alphonsus Liguori:

Proofs of Faith

In the first place, the truth of our holy faith is loudly proclaimed by the prophecies of Holy Scripture. These prophecies were uttered hundreds of years ago and in later years for filled to the letter. Thus, for example, the death of our Savior was foretold by several prophets and the time and circumstances accompanying it minutely described. It was prophesied that the Jews, in punishment for the deicide, would be driven from the temple and the holy land and, hardened and obstinate in sin, would be dispersed throughout the world; this prophecy, we know, was literally fulfilled. It was prophesied that after the death of Christ the veneration of human deities would give away to the worship of the true God. The event has verified the prediction, for the apostles of our Lord, in spite of the innumerable obstacles thrown in their way and armed with no weapons save the cross of Christ, have conquered the world and brought it captive to faith in the living God.

In the second place, the truth of our holy faith is evident from the miracles that were wrought by our Lord, by His Apostles and the saints of the Catholic Church as a sanction of her holy teaching. Miracles are beyond the powers of nature. They can happen only by the power of God, to whom all creation is subject. Accordingly, if a religion has real miracles to show in confirmation of her doctrine, that religion must be divine, for it is impossible for God to sanction and promote a false religion by the performance of genuine miracles.

Can the Jews, the heathens, the Mohammedans, or the heretics point to a single miracle right in favor of their religious tenets? They have no doubt made efforts in the past to deceive the people by trickery and the seemingly miraculous; the deception was soon discovered. But the miracles that God has worked through His servants in every age of the Catholic Church are simply innumerable. In the Catholic Church alone have the words of our Blessed Lord been fulfilled: “Amen, amen I say to you either believe within me, the works that I do he also shall do; and greater than they shall he do.” (John 14:12).

Without doubt, in the early days of the Church, miracles were more numerous than they are today, since they were necessary for the spread of the Faith. But still they have never been wanting in any age, and they have constantly aided in the conversion of heathen and infidel nations. Numberless miracles were performed, for example by St. Francis Xavier, St. Louis Bertrand, and other holy missionaries in India. Were one to call into question the extraordinary facts recorded in the annals of Church history and in the lives of the Saints, I would simply ask him: By what right do you refuse to believe such men as St. Basil, St. Jerome, St. Gregory, and others when you willingly except what Tacitus, Suetonius, or Pliny has said?

Moreover, God has been pleased to allow certain miracles to go on uninterruptedly in the Church as a continual reproach to the unbelief of the wicked. Recall to mind the famous miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of Saint Januarius at Naples. This blood, which usually is found in a hardened, coagulated condition, liquefies several times a year when brought near the head of the Saint. This has been attested by thousands of eyewitnesses. Infidels have tried in vain to find natural explanations for the phenomenon; but the miracle continues to baffle their efforts and to humble their pride.

A third proof for the truth of our holy faith is furnished by the courage and constancy of the martyrs, and this proof is even more convincing even than that of miracles. 15 Roman emperors in succession used every means in their power to destroy the Christian faith from the face of the earth. Under the reign of Diocletian, who inaugurated the ninth persecution, 17,000 Christians were executed within a single month, not to speak of the thousands were banished from the country.

According to the account of Genebrard, 11 million martyrs were put to death during the ten great persecutions. If these were gathered within the space of one year, it would be 30,000 murders for each day. Now in spite of the fact that these confessors of Christ were subjected to every imaginable torture, such as the tearing of the flesh with iron hooks, roasting their bodies on a gridiron, and burning them with lighted torches, the number of those who were willing and anxious to die for their holy faith was never diminished but seemed always on the increase.

Tiberius, the governor of Palestine, wrote to Emperor trading that they were so many Christians he decided to die as martyrs that it was impossible to execute them all. Here upon Trajan published an edict in which he commanded the Christians to be left in peace for the future. no I ask: If the Faith of these valiant martyrs, which is the same that our Holy Church professes today, were not the True Faith of Christ and had it not God assisted them to witness to that phase with their very blood, would they ever have been able to endure those fateful tournaments in to deliver them selves up freely and joyfully to a cruel death? Have there been any murders in the sex that fell away from the Catholic Church and had it not God assisted them to witness to that Faith with their very blood, would they ever have been able to endure those frightful torments and to deliver themselves up freely and joyfully to a cruel death? Have there been any martyrs in the sects that fell away from the Catholic Church? Have they perhaps a St. Lawrence who offered his roasted limbs to the cruel tyrant for a banquet?

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One more proof of our holy faith becomes evident and we consider that from the time of the Apostles down to our own days our Faith has continued unaltered. The Apostles and their successors were careful to preserve the doctrine of our Divine Redeemer and its primitive purity and integrity. Christ Himself imposed upon them this sacred duty when He said: “going there for, teaching all nations; teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20). Therefore Saint John exhorts the faithful: “let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you.“ (1 John 2:24).

—from 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation

Nothing to See Here

Hundreds of patients in Leeds are waiting over six weeks for vital heart scans, says charity

Young athletes are becoming corpses at an alarming rate

Unlawful. Unconscionable. Outrageous. Evil. This Diktat Must Be Defied.

Let’s see if anyone will stand.

Pray for the Pope and the Church on This Feast of St. John Lateran

Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for your Son’s Church and your Son’s Vicar

Somebody Check The French Laundry

California Governor Gavin Newsom— who totally and believably won his recall election— has now disappeared from public view since receiving a Deathvaxx deathbooster on October 27.

That’s 11 days and counting.

I’m sure it’s coincidental. For his sake, I pray for his conversion and repentance before a coincidence like others have experienced takes him to the afterlife. It would be a miracle of sorts, but Our Lady is up to the task if her Son wills it.

Think about the good that would follow if just one of these wannabe communist dictators came out and admitted they were wrong, begged forgiveness, and ended the tyranny they installed.

One Freemason Who Ordered a Stop to Anti-Catholic Bigotry

That’s right, the foundingest father of them all, George Washington:

From his order ending the practice of celebrating Guy Fawkes Day in the Continental Army:

As the Commander in Chief has been apprized of a design form’d for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the pope–He cannot help expressing his surprise that there should be Officers and Soldiers in this army so void of common sense, as not to see the impropriety of such a step at this Juncture; at a Time when we are solliciting, and have really obtain’d, the friendship and alliance of the people of Canada, whom we ought to consider as Brethren embarked in the same Cause. The defence of the general Liberty of America: At such a juncture, and in such Circumstances, to be insulting their Religion, is so monstrous, as not to be suffered or excused; indeed instead of offering the most remote insult, it is our duty to address public thanks to these our Brethren, as to them we are so much indebted for every late happy Success over the common Enemy in Canada.

The Real Wave of Illness and Death Has Not Even Begun

I’m old enough to remember last year, when we heard all the panic that because of the overthrow of the West coroncold hospitals were full and we were all going to die (!!!!!!!). And yet those who were interested in reality found that that was a big lie. In fact, the hospitals were eerily empty and workers were laid off from lack of patients.

Thus, though I think this story is accurate, take it with a grain of salt. It would make sense though. After the initial cuts in staff in 2020, the death injection mandates have, and will continue to, force the firing or resignation of a high percentage of doctors and nurses.

So the “hospitals are overwhelmed”claim becomes much more believable. I think this is likely for two reasons: one there are far fewer workers to handle whatever traffic in the hospital they may be, and to the death injections are going to result i’m living in a higher amount of emergency cases of cardiac arrest strokes blood cards pulmonary problems and other serious to fatal reactions to the injections— short term catastrophic reactions, yes, but also long-term chronic reactions too.

I also want to highlight a great blog post with this nails-on accurate headline: coincidence rapidly becoming a leading cause of death of healthy young males. Read it and weep, for there is more to come.

It is as though some organize healthcare system to collapse the reasons not advertised. Hmmmmm, Cui bono?

And then what follows?

Ann Barnhardt Hit Me in the Mouth

Have you listened to No Agenda podcast yet? You should, but give the experience 4 listens to adjust to the vibe. Thank you for your courage.

The Best Thing to Do is Face Facts

The truth is the bedrock of sanity. To be very exact, the Truth is a Person, Jesus Christ. If we wish to be His, we must love the truth.

In that light, though I have nothing but respect for Michael Matt, a man who has done more for tradition than I could ever hope to do, I can’t get excited for stories like this one. In it, it is revealed that—shocker— Bergoglio lied that he issued his “motu proprio” in part because the world’s bishops were clamoring for the real Mass to be shut down. They weren’t.

The thing is, any believing Catholic who hasn’t been lobotomized knew it without being told. We knew it from the beginning. One of the best clues that it wasn’t true was that Bergoglio said it was true.

Many efforts to try to “prove” that Bergoglio is incorrect, or heretical, or misinformed, or tyrannical—when they start with the premise that it is worthwhile to try to change his mind and get him to be a good pope— come off as weak, controlled opposition. These efforts fail for at least one of two reasons: 1) he isn’t actually the pope, and therefore must be defied; or, 2) he is a supporter of heresy and schism, and must be resisted every time he exceeds his authority or seeks to harm the Church. Trying to curry favor from him, or hide from him, or beg him to be good, are useless and dispiriting efforts. Let me explain.

I and others before me have tried to explain why the putative abdication of Pope Benedict looks invalid. If it was invalid, Benedict is still pope. It goes without saying that trying to get an antipope to be a more Catholic antipope is pathetic.

But even if the abdication were valid, and the election were valid, and the Pope is not a manifest heretic, it is still OBVIOUS he is an enemy of the Catholic faith as handed down by our fathers. Take the example of the great Mundabor. He is firm in the belief that Bergoglio is pope. But he has no illusions of trying to reform him. Read any four posts on his blog and you’ll see what I mean.

We must submit to the Roman Pontiff, says the bull Unam Sanctam. I believe it, and willingly submit to the true Roman Pontiff, whichever one it is. I am not here saying I know for sure. Consider it, pray about it, and form your own opinion. I just can’t square the actions of Bergoglio, the wording of the putative abdication, the actions of Benedict thereafter, and see how a Bergoglian papacy exists in light of Pastor Aeternus and Christ’s promise to Peter. Even if he is pope and I use all my lawyer tools to parse and explain away the MANY problematic things he has said and done, Unam Sanctam does not stand for the proposition that we must obey the pope when he commands sin or heresy.

Anyway, however you slice it, toadying up to—at best—the worst pope ever, whose actions undermine the Church daily, Has. To. Stop.

“…there is a grave moral obligation to refuse inoculation as a possible and proximate cause of permanent damages or death. In the absence of benefits, there is therefore no need to expose oneself to the risks of its administration, but on the contrary there is a duty to refuse it categorically.”

More truth from the great Archbishop Viganó. As usual, read the whole piece, but first, ponder this:

“I realize that it may be extremely unpopular to take a position against the so-called vaccines, but as Shepherds of the flock of the Lord we have the duty to denounce the horrible crime that is being carried out, whose goal is to create billions of chronically ill people and to exterminate millions and millions of people, based on the infernal ideology of the “Great Reset” formulated by the President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and endorsed by institutions and organizations around the world.^[29]

The silence of so many cardinals and bishops, along with the inconceivable promotion of the vaccination campaign by the Holy See, represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any longer. It is necessary to denounce this scandal, this crime against humanity, this satanic action against God.”