Hang Tough

Jesus Christ and His spotless bride, the Church, are the only things that matter. God is sovereign and loves us. He is the Way to Eternal Life.

Don’t fret. Trust in God’s providence and be ready.

Grateful

For the Faith. For the Mass. for the Institute. For all the graces showered on me by Christ the King. Thy Kingdom come!

Blessed and happy feast day to you all.

Cupich Should Tremble at the Judgement of the Christ He Betrays

This. Is. Vile.

Christ has already won the Victory, and His mother’s Immaculate Heart will triumph.

Cupich and the other Bergoglian toadies had better repent. For their own good. And because they are created by God I will pray for it.

One Perfect Sacrifice

Matt. 7:15-21

At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father in heaven shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

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O God, You Who have given us in one perfect sacrifice the fulfillment of the various sacrifices made under the Old Law, accept these sacrificial gifts offered You by Your devoted servants, and make them holy as You did the gifts of Abel, so that what each one of us has offered in praise of Your majesty may profit for the salvation of all.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

R. Amen.

Archbishop Viganó Pulls No Punches on Cupich, but Will Anyone Address the Elephant in the Room?

Lifesite has the complete letter here. Well worth reading. The right to the Mass is inviolable. The right is guaranteed by immemorial custom, as well as by the positive legal pronouncements of more than one pope.

The Archbishop’s words concerning the Institute itself are well-meant and his call to using these trials to declare the inseparable link between the real Mass and the real Faith is a great admonition.

Yet he refers to the Institute as having had a certain “carefree acceptance” of Vatican II that led them to think that the regime would look the other way on “buckles and capes”. This is a bit of a slight, and off the mark from the Institute I know. The Institute’s view on Vatican II is the same as other traditional groups: it’s a Council that defined nothing and thus did not invoke the extraordinary magisterium. The doctrines and formulae of the Council are thus only part of the ordinary and universal magisterium of the Church when they teach what the Church has always taught. Where they don’t, they are not magisterial. That’s it. The SSPX would say it the same, I think. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

That the Council has been a major disaster in nearly every way is a fact undeniable to any faithful and thinking Catholic. This isn’t rocket science.

Everything the Institute does, from teaching, service, vestments, customs etc., are directed towards the best worship of God of which we are capable in line with the liturgy handed down over centuries. Not because it is old, but because it is so very good. They exist to celebrate the timeless Mass. In other words, they seek to extend the reign of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in every sphere of life. Truth. Charity. The Sacred Liturgy. All in the service of Christ’s Mystical Body, the Church.

With all due respect to the great Archbishop, it ain’t about buckles and capes. And if there is any “carefree acceptance “ that has led to trouble, it’s the unexamined putative papal abdication in 2013.

When will that be examined, I wonder?

“This is how I spend my days, I came to bury, not to praise.”

I cannot resist quoting Bob Dylan. The title above is from his anthemic song about the salvific action of Christ, Pay in Blood. Listen to it now. I’ll wait.

But this post, while reminding me of the above line, isn’t about Bob at all. It’s about “This is how.” It’s about the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICRSS). I’ll explain.

In a post over at Gloria TV about the satanic attacks of the Archbishop of Chicago against one of the finest Catholic priestly societies in the Church today, a post that relates how the ICRSS did not sign a letter that contains falsehoods and would neuter the entire Institute, not to mention would abandon the timeless Mass for the mess of pottage that is the n.o., one comment caught my eye:

“This is a big test for ICKSP. I’m curious to see how they will handle this.”

Well, This Is How. They didn’t sign the letter.

They now have incurred the petty wrath of a mid-manger servant of a truly satanic agenda. The “test” isn’t “how will the Institute get back at the Cardinal?” No. The test is “will the Institute betray its charism and abandon the timeless Mass?” And they have not.

The very interesting question of what happens next is not the same as how will the Institute handle the test. To date, they have passed it. They signed no letter of betrayal. They didn’t abandon Our Lord.

Whatever prudential decisions they make to care for the many souls attached to them may or may not be what internet Catholics, desperate for any check on the agenda of evil, would like to see in the heat of the moment. Count me among these people much of the time.

But.

That isn’t the test. The test is whether the ICRSS will remain true to Christ, His Mass, and their own charism.

So far so good.

They do not seek confrontation, but it is clear that there are lines that will not be crossed. They are doing well in a tough spot, and have an worldwide flock to consider. They deserve our prayers and support.

I have seen nothing yet to shake my confidence in them. Veritatem facientes in caritate.

Again, a Very Timely Reminder

We are back in the ghetto of post-1969 suppression of our rights as Catholics. Read Quo Primum. Rest assured you have a right to the traditional Mass. The Real Mass. And then pray, resist, be at peace, ask Our Lady to act. Ask Our Lord to let her heart triumph, and that the true pope will be known, recognized, and reign gloriously.

The servants of satan in the hierarchy will fall. Rest assured. No matter what persecution comes, stay on the side of Christ and His Holy Mother.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

This Lawless Action Must Be Resisted

The execrable move of the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago to “shut down” (in the words of Fr. Z) the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in that Archdiocese merits a vigorous response. I know what I would do. What the Institute will do I can only guess.

Pray for its Superiors and the faithful that Cupich wants to spiritually slaughter. Petty, vindictive move by a petty, vindictive hireling of the worst order.

But Tim, isn’t the Institute a Society of Apostolic Right? Doesn’t its charter allow exclusive recourse to the timeless Mass? How can Cupich do this? Doesn’t the Pope have to approve it? Well, certainly the Pope has to approve it (either legally or politically— Cupich is nothing if not mad for power over others).

Will anyone, ANYONE, do something about the question of our time? Just WHO is the pope? Because I doubt Pope Benedict is behind this.

I have no vote on the Institute response—so far, they have held the line, and deserve credit for it.

But for what it’s worth, I would carry on as usual regardless of this lawless act. Publish Mass times for August and thumb in the eye.

Deo Gratias!… et Tempus Fugit

I could not let this Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas go by without recalling to mind the Solemn High Mass celebrated by Canon Karl W. Lenhardt at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis on this night exactly fifteen years ago, March 7, 2007. I can’t believe it’s been that long ago.

It was the first traditional Latin Mass celebrated at the cathedral since 1969. May God bless Raymond Cardinal Burke for this and all he has done to promote the return of the traditional Mass in St. Louis and around the world.

And would it be inappropriate to mention the 2007 was a way better year than 2022? That year marked not only the return of the traditional Mass to the cathedral but also the first priestly ordinations in the traditional rite for the Institute in the United States.

And, of course, 2007 had the best of all: the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum.

These times of tribulation and suffering will no doubt produce greater fruit to come. That’s how God does these things. And I know our Lady will triumph. If we are spared, her victory will bring such great things as to make everything we’ve gone through pale in significance.

Until that glorious time comes at last, keep your heads down, all the better to duck that fire coming from the sky. May the great Saint Thomas Aquinas intercede for us and for the whole Church. Amen.

God Bless the Institute

Veritatem Facientes in Caritate

Traditional Mass as usual in Chicago this first Sunday of February.

May Christ the King and His holy Mother continue to protect and guide and strengthen them!