Beautiful Christmas Message from Archbishop Viganó

Thanks to Lifesite News, I post this in full. It should be read in full. Christ has conquered. Be steadfast! Rejoice! Endure and Triumph with Him!

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“Come, O Wisdom, who orders earthly events; come to teach the way of prudence and of glory.” 

These words are taken from a very ancient hymn for Advent which dates to the eighth century. In them the Christian soul invokes the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of the Father, so that he may show us how to pass through this valley of tears unharmed – the via prudentiæ – and attain eternal beatitude in heaven – la via gloriæ. 

I address all of you, dear brothers and sisters, who during these twenty-one months of medical madness have courageously resisted the blackmails of a civil authority everywhere enslaved to globalist power, in the betrayal of the natural law and of God, and in the violation of the laws of nations. A planetary coup d’etat that seeks to make possible the Great Reset which will be used to establish the hateful tyranny of the New World Order. 

I address first of all you who are mothers and fathers of families, who in this hour of resurgence of the absurd repressions of fundamental liberties find yourselves having to pay for your decision not to subject yourselves to the so-called vaccination with the segregation and discrimination of you and your children. Their fragile psycho-physical equilibrium has already been crudely compromised by months of distance-learning, the imposition of masks, and hammering from their teachers.

The authorization of the gene serum for children, which today is presented as an indispensable and safe method for containing a virus that does not represent even a minimal threat to them and which instead puts their immune system and their health at irreversible risk, is the latest wicked decision made by people who are corrupt in soul and misguided in mind, for whom the innocent life of a child can be sacrificed on the altar of the health Moloch.

Be intrepid defenders of your little ones, for whom you are responsible before God both for their physical health and for the salvation of their souls. Place them under the protective mantle of the Most Holy Virgin, consecrating them to the one who along with Saint Joseph succeeded in stealing away from the fury of Herod “the threatened life of the little baby Jesus,” fleeing to Egypt. Do not forget, dear parents, that the Lord looks at children with a special love, and he will not fail to assure them and you of His Holy protection.

To you employees and workers, who have been suspended from work and deprived of pay because you did not want to yield to vaccine blackmail; to you artisans and shopkeepers, restaurant operators and small business owners, on whom the State has imposed unjustified closures that have served no purpose other than to impoverish you; to you military and law enforcement personnel who have been forced to choose between hierarchical obedience and your oath of fidelity to the Constitution; to you doctors and paramedics, expelled from hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes for not allowing yourself to be inoculated with the gene serum – to all of you I say: resist!

Those who would like to force you by means of extortion to put your health at risk fear your determination and know that it can be a comfort and an example for your colleagues and friends. Resist because you have the sacrosanct right to refuse a health treatment that has demonstrated itself to be ineffective and harmful, which constitutes gene therapy and which is not aimed at guaranteeing you health and protection, but rather intends to make you chronically ill or to exterminate you. Resist because it is not by yielding to blackmail that you will reconquer the freedoms that have been stolen from you. Resist because as children of God you know that you have the Lord of Time and History on your side, and not an acolyte of the corrupt in the service of the Evil One.

To you, the elderly and sick, forced to remain inside retirement homes or hospital wards; to you who have been segregated from your families and your loved ones, treated as outcasts by doctors and nurses, I say: do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by your loneliness; do not fall into despair and desperation!

You have the possibility of putting your sufferings to good use, offering them to the Lord in union with His suffering on the Cross for the remission of your sins, in reparation for offenses against God, and in suffrage for the souls in Purgatory. Pray! Pray to the Most Holy Virgin, asking her to help you and protect you. Recite the Holy Rosary, asking the Blessed Mother to save our beloved Italy and the whole world from this infernal scourge. Pray to the Saints, asking them to be your friends and to be near you in the hours of silence and abandonment. Pray to the Angels, asking them to protect others who are sick, so that they can receive the Sacraments and have the grace of going to Confession and having a holy death, with the comfort of the presence of a priest. 

Offer your sufferings, your anguish, and your tears to Our Lord, and in return, He will give you the gift of His peace and of holy abandonment to His will. And do not neglect to keep yourself in the grace of God, because you are not given to know either the day or the hour. 

To all of you, ready to fight the good fight for the Truth and for the end of this dystopian nightmare; to you who face derision and insults from those who consider you socially dangerous only because you do not surrender yourselves to mass experimentation, I say: courage! do not give in now!

This criminal farce, made up of lies and deceptions, will not last long, because it is only the Truth that makes us free. Your battle for the Truth, if waged for the glory of God, will defeat the darkness of fraud, will unveil the evil intentions of the elite, and will dispel those who are corrupt and traitors. And do not allow yourselves to be seduced by those who, in the imminence of the collapse of this castle of criminal falsehoods, will try to convince you that is useless to struggle, useless to fight. They are telling you that you are just a few thousand people, that you represent a minority, they will come to “track you down” door to door, that you are deserters.

Yet, it is enough to look at the people in line outside of pharmacies, or the job vacancies in businesses, schools, public offices and hospitals in order to understand that you are, that we are, many more than they would like us to believe. And even if we were few, our strength does not lie in numbers but in having made the right choice and in wanting to defend it courageously. 

When this crime is denounced and condemned, history will thank you and only you for your coherence and your fidelity to the Good. It will not thank those who have segregated you and discriminated against you, calling you infectors. It will not thank those who have blackmailed you and deprived you of work and of legitimate pay. It will not thank those who have deceived you, calling an experimental serum “safe” that is in fact ineffective, dangerous and even lethal. It will not thank those who have taken advantage of the faith placed in them by simple people, who will find themselves betrayed and stricken with health problems.

May you know how to resist, with your gaze turned toward God, whom we call “Our Father” precisely because he loves us and protects us as a loving Father and never abandons us. 

And if these trials seem painful and unsustainable to you, think of how they represent an anticipation of that infernal world of the New World Order, from which Jesus Christ and every sign of the Catholic faith must be banished. Return to God! Understand that peace, concord, and prosperity are not obtained by breaking God’s Commandments, nor by blaspheming His Name, legitimizing sin, and celebrating vice. True peace, which is the stability of order and the mirror of Divine Justice, is obtained only where Christ the King reigns, where the laws are conformed to the Good, and where every discipline and art is aimed at the greater glory of God.

Dear brothers and sisters, I invite all of you, I exhort all of you to celebrate this Holy Christmas in its true spiritual dimension. Let the Infant King be born in your heart, beginning with a good Confession and receiving Holy Communion with devotion. Think of your soul, and the Lord will take care of the rest. Turn your thoughts to the Holy Family, turned away from the inn and forced to find shelter in a cave. May their blessed poverty and their apparent segregation be a consolation for all of you.

In the midst of the social distancing and ostracization that has been imposed on those who are the weakest and the most in need, the magnificence of God does not fail to shine forth powerfully, with the choirs of Angels above the manger, the simple gifts of the shepherds, and the adoration of the Magi. Let us all place ourselves in a corner of that cave, contemplating the infinite Love that moved the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity to become Incarnate, being born amid sufferings and being prepared even from the cradle for His Redemptive Sacrifice. 

I extend to all of you my most sincere wishes for a Holy Christmas. A Christmas that will be truly holy, if you know how to celebrate it by remaining close to the Infant Jesus. A Christmas that will not be spent in solitude and anguish, but in the blessed company of the Holy Family and in the joy of the Birth of the Savior of the world. With all my heart I bless you.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop 

19 December 2021

Miserando

Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
And if things don’t change soon, he will
Oh, man has invented his doom
First step was touching the moon

Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life
And they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars

Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there facin’ the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies

But there’s a woman on my block
Sitting there in a cold chill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

Ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker
Heartbreaker, backbreaker
Leave no stone unturned
May be an actor in a plot
That might be all that you got
’Til your error you clearly learn

Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool
And when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled
Oh, man is opposed to fair play
He wants it all and he wants it his way

Now, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

—Bob Dylan

If You Read This…

You probably already read Barnhardt’s latest. But if you haven’t, read Barnhardt’s latest.

If We Don’t Stand Now, When Will We Ever Stand?!

Rorate Caeli has been posting about an impending prohibition on traditional sacramental forms outside of the Mass itself, modeled on the crackdown in the Diocese of Rome (imagine typing that!). Of course they may be proven right or wrong. But we all have the feeling of impending doom.

Assuming they’re right, what follows?

I have written before about the solution to the problem involving a correct assessment of just who the pope is. And isn’t. An antipope has no power, let alone, authority , to abrogate the Mass or sacraments. The sooner we get our heads around the canonical situation the sooner the end of this horrid and tyrannical regime will be.

But even if I, the local crackpot, am wrong about the papal identity question, this fact remains: NO POPE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ABROGATE THE MASS AND SACRAMENTS.

Hello?

The only way to deal with this cabal is to say that we will not abandon Our Lord and His Holy Sacrifice. Pronounce away— I’m going to Mass, as long as a priest is faithful enough to celebrate it.

I can only speak for myself and my household. But dear faithful, do not surrender to this evil! Dear priests and prelates, do not surrender to this evil!

Celebrate Mass! Celebrate the sacraments! Sacrifice as we all will sacrifice!

A purported excommunication by an antipope for refusing to betray Christ and His Holy Church is a badge of honor. Recognize this, and fight!

The path of patience, prayer and prudence is correct. I fault no faithful Catholic for having tried any strategy in good faith to avoid unnecessary confrontation or provocation in a time of uncertainty. I really don’t, even though a chorus of keyboard commentators scoffed. St. Thomas More followed this path. Rightly so. No presumption. No vainglory. Use that brain God gave us! But, in the end, there will come a time when one must STAND or CAPITULATE. That time is approaching.

Our Lord was abandoned by nearly everyone during His Passion, including for a time Peter, the first Vicar. Why should we expect better treatment?

Dear Catholics, cardinal, bishop, priest, religious, and lay, Our Lord is asking us now: Quo Vadis? What do you say? Will you stand or capitulate?

Our Lady of Fatima, come swiftly to our aid!

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Mediatrix of All Graces

Time to Declare is Running Out

It took me many years to state in this space my belief in what I suspected/feared/dreaded from the moment Pope Benedict’s putative abdication was announced, that Pope Benedict did not in fact validly abdicate the papal office and thus remains pope.* I waited years, partly out of the enormity of the thing, partly out of a fear of leading others astray in case I was wrong, partly out of fear of committing schism, and partly because it seemed to me precisely the easiest way out of the terrible scourge that the putative Bergoglian papal reign has been to all of us. By us, I mean Catholics, and those who could have become Catholic if the faith had been upheld and proclaimed by the hierarchy and lay Catholics who followed Bergoglio down the road to his version of religion. Usually, when I want something to happen, it does not; hence my own desire that Benedict not have validly resigned was a significant reason for me hesitating to believe it.

But there it is.

So many times I hear, from well-meaning Catholics better than me, that it isn’t something I should concern myself about “because it doesn’t really matter to my daily life as a Catholic who the pope is.”

But maybe it does? What if it does? Consider these two recent headlines:

Vatican source: Pope to attack Ecclesia Dei communities in February

Newsmax thinks Bergoglio is dying

If I were in a group that was the subject of a potentially existential attack by Bergoglio, yet harbored a suspicion or belief that he was not the pope at all, wouldn’t the time to say so be now? If I planned to resist the attack, that is?

And if a conclave were to be held during Pope Benedict’s life but after Bergoglio’s death/ abdication, what does that make the man coming out of that conclave?

I think the answers to these questions are absolutely relevant to how I live my daily life as a Catholic. The reason for all our relative complaisance now is that Pope Benedict has not or cannot stake his claim to the papacy publicly. We haven’t been forced to choose. If he does stake his claim, we can all agree we must choose– and act in accordance with this choice. But if either of the two events I reference above happens, we must effectively choose, because these choices will have much more immediate consequence to our lives than we face at present.

I say, why wait?

• As stated before, I reiterate, due to the importance of this question: I willingly submit to the authority of the Roman Pontiff, as necessary for salvation, as defined in Unam Sanctam, the bull of Pope Boniface VIII. Because I am human, and an often foolish one, I admit readily that I could be wrong about the factual question of the identity of the Pope, and if I am wrong I willingly submit to the truth, and to the correction of the Church. Thus if Francis is Pope I willingly submit to him in all things necessary for salvation. If Benedict is Pope, I owe him this same allegiance. I also believe in the dogma of Papal Infallibility as defined in the documents of the First Vatican Council. I think the fact that Papal Infallibility is true is more easily and logically squared with the Benedict-is-still-Pope conclusion, but of course as a lawyer I can string together an argument based on the Francis-is-Pope conclusion. Let’s just say my hourly rate to argue the latter is much higher than the former.

An Earnest Prayer to Our Lady

Cover abundantly with they maternal protection all the parishes chapels, schools, works and missions of the Institute, and mayest thou forever impede the devil from reigning in any manner in this Institute, which desires to be entirely thine, for the greater glory of God, the exaltation of our mother, the Holy Catholic Church, and for the conversion of sinners. Amen.

Today is a Day for Justice

Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted on all counts. Thank God in Heaven.

This is not the day to note how bad things are. That will come, maybe tomorrow. Yes, the rule of law (as in ‘are our laws just?’) died when Epstein’s pal John Roberts killed the Constitution to protect Obamacare. But today, in the remains of the former USA, barely, an innocent man received the protection he should received from the jury process, in the face of tyrannical governmental persecution.

Friends, today, rejoice. Thank God. The rule of law in the criminal process lives. Barely. By the skin of its teeth.

Mary, please act! Lord Jesus, maranatha!

This needs to be settled.

They Have to Pull Their Punches Even with a Headline Like This

They can’t face the sum of the facts. They really don’t fear the worst.

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