Praying for the Consecration as Our Lady Requested It

Psalmus 126

126:1 Nisi Dóminus ædificáverit domum, * in vanum laboravérunt qui ædíficant eam.
126:1 Nisi Dóminus custodíerit civitátem, * frustra vígilat qui custódit eam.

They Think They Are Lords over Time Itself

I link to this post at LRC blog for a few reasons, principally because it blames the French Revolution in an appropriate manner.

Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for Us!

OK, I have said before that the question of the identity of the Holy Father is of waaaaay more importance to the average Catholic than the “above my paygrade/keep my head down and try to get to heaven” contingent lets on. Getting it right is the key to unraveling the disaster of heresy and tyranny that has been promoted for the last nine years. It is the key to defense of the Mass and Sacraments.

And it is the key to the conversion of Russia, as our Lady of Fatima promised she would bring about after the Holy Father consecrates Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart in union with the Bishops of the world.

CAN YOU STILL TELL ME IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO IS POPE?

The consecration of Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart will be the solution to all of the evil, satanical forces that have made, are making, and will further make, a kind of hell on earth. She will triumph. It is our deliverance.

But the consecration of Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart by an antipope, even if —ahem— it were done in good faith, could be an occasion of the loss of faith of millions and perhaps even despair, should this consecration not be satisfactory. I’m not Our Lady, but one would think this type of consecration would not suffice by a long shot. Again, I claim zero knowledge or authority to decide that; I’m just thinking out loud here.

It is not hard to imagine that, when this consecration is made, if the conversion of Russia does not happen and a period of peace does not ensue, many may lose their confidence in Fatima, their confidence in the Church, or perhaps just lose their faith entirely. You know– a distilled and immediate version of what has happened by slow drip from 1962-2022.

On the other hand, perhaps Our Lady, in the plan of God’s holy Providence, has decided to show a definitive proof of the identity of the Pope. If Bergoglio consecrates Russia and it works, maybe he really is pope. Mea culpa from me. But if he does his consecration and nothing good happens, would that by itself be enough to confirm the Benedict is still Pope? We shall see.

Only the Pope could have answered the dubia. Only the pope can consecrate Russia according to Mary’s request.

If Cardinal Burke, or any Cardinal for that matter, or any active Bishop, or perhaps Archbishop Vigano, could see his way to address at last the identity of the Pope publicly, please? Not that it is strictly speaking relevant to the question of whether the putative abdication was valid, but it could really help to strengthen those Catholics who are left.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Something to Think about

Not always a fan, but this post at From Rome is a good and somewhat startling listen.

Castro Was 90 Miles from the US; His Bastard Soy-boy Son is 1 Inch Away

Canadian parliament approves gay Hitler’s rise to Dictator.

I’m sure Biden gives a crap.

Read that last sentence how you like.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. Only she can save us

Pansy Hitler Sends Stormtroopers after His Disobedient Slaves

Trudeau is like a bastard, testosterone-free version of Fidel Castro.

But you knew that.

Just My Two Cents on Current Events

I wanted to make a quick post on the SSPX and the former Ecclesia Dei Communities vis-a-vis the Bergoglian attacks on the Mass. Knowing me, it won’t be that quick, but still.

Recently, the SSPX Superior General published a talk noting, after some remarks to the effect that there are many fine people in these communities and he feels sorry for them, that the Ecclesia Dei priests are suffering the results of their own poor decision-making. See, he notes, this proves the SSPX position is the only one that works.

No mention was made in this talk about how at least one such Ecclesia Dei community has not buckled under the unjust and illegal order of the odious Cardinal Cupich, but has (so far) bravely and resolutely continued to do exactly as it has done and celebrate the Mass of the Ages. No mention either was made how that same community has maintained recourse to the pre-1955 books that even Archbishop Lefebvre compromised on when he staked his defense of tradition (note: this is not a cut-down– I understand why he made that choice and I have zero criticism of this brave man’s actions in the face of great evil). No mention was made either that this same community, which so many of Fr. Pagliarani’s faithful have predicted to me personally would fold like a cheap tent, has not compromised on the Mass and (as of yet anyway) shows no sign of doing so.

Maybe a better article would have been for Fr. Pagliarani to stand with his beleaguered fellow Catholics and urge them to stand firm, with the prayerful support of the SSPX. Maybe he could wait until these communities are actually obliterated, crushed or otherwise devastated before beginning their post mortem?

(An aside: You might, dear reader, turn the tables and ask where the support was during olden times from the Ecclesia Dei people to the SSPX. A fair point, which I address in two ways. First, many of us did so support them. Some of you may or may not remember that this particular blogger did stand up for the SSPX on a number of occasions, for example, when a local SSPX pilgrimage was locked out of the Shrine of Our Lady of Starkenburg after walking many a weary pilgrim mile. I said then it was an outrage and a lack of charity. There have been other occasions. But, secondly, those of us who failed in charity and solidarity then were wrong just as those who now so fail are wrong.)

There are many ways to testify to the Faith and Sacraments, and to be loyal to Christ Our King. Some are firebrands. Some are quiet. Some speak. Some do. Any can be, and all should be, resolute in their commitment to the Mass handed down by our forefathers in the Faith and developed under the guidance of the Holy Ghost for more than a millenium.

And yet, and yet, the SSPX acknowledges Bergoglio as pope, just the other traditional groups have openly or tacitly done. The Ecclesia Dei-type communities have been in his crosshairs from early days. But Bergoglio has shown some of his famous Francismercy to the SSPX over the last several years. One wonders whether this has any effect on Fr. Pagliarani’s public support of the deathvaxx, for instance. Perhaps not. But if the other communities are crushed, and there is but one place left to go, how long before the SSPX and all who attend are “excommunicated” by the man they acknowledge as pope?

Well, if only someone would ask Father, now that he has been summoned to Rome for an audience with the Bergoglio himself.

Until the papacy/antipapacy question is squarely addressed by supporters of tradition, Bishop, priest, and lay, we all have a glaring logical and practical weakness in resisting Bergoglio’s evil diktats. Sure, even if he is pope we can rest assured that assisting at the timeless Mass is our right, but the problem solves itself cleanly (logically-speaking) if he is determined not to ever have been pope, because, you see– WE ALREADY HAVE ONE AND IT IS A ONE-MAN JOB.

I hate to reference a Freemason like Benjamin Franklin, but friends, we all must hang together, or we shall certainly hang separately.

Time is wasting.

Marking King Lincoln’s Birthday

Feckless, soy-boy tyrant Justin Trudeau may be Fidel Castro’s biological bastard child, but he is also the political bastard grandchild of the destroyer of our Republic, Abraham Lincoln. Today is his birthday, so I thought a few words to honor his historical importance were in honor. From Ilana Mercer:

The “pseudo-intellectuals who [are] devoted to pulling the wool over the public’s eyes” have a lot to answer for. Lincoln’s violent, unconstitutional revolution took the lives of 620,000 individuals (including 50,000 Southern civilians, blacks included), maimed thousands, and brought about “the near destruction of 40 percent of the nation’s economy.” “The costs of an action cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to morality,” wrote the Mises Institute’s David Gordon in “Secession, State & Liberty.” Almost every other country at the time chose the path of peaceful emancipation. Yet today’s Americans look upon the terrible forces Lincoln unleashed as glorious events, the native appetite having habituated to carnage over time.

Lincoln lovers like to claim that the Constitution ratified in 1788 forbade peaceful secession, and authorized a federal government of so-called limited, delegated powers to invade and occupy any seceding state; declare martial law, subdue secessionists by force, burn and ransack entire cities, and then establish a military dictatorship over those states lasting a dozen years.

Suppose this indeed is the case, and that it was perfectly constitutional to intentionally wage war on civilians, to imprison without trial thousands of Northern citizens, jail—even execute—people who refused to take an oath of loyalty to Lord Lincoln, declare martial law, confiscate private property, censor telegraph lines, and shut down newspapers for opposing the war, incarcerating their editors and owners. Say, for the sake of argument, that it was indeed lawful to suspend the Bill of Rights, the writ of habeas corpus, and the international law.

If it endorsed, or even accommodated, what Lincoln did, including his disregard for the Ninth and 10th amendments, and his violation of the Second — then the Constitution is categorically evil and self-contradictory.

The more plausible explanation is that, in 1861, Lincoln kidnapped and killed the Constitution. The Jacobins who lionize Lincoln’s actions (by referring to his billowing prose) have been covering up his crimes and ignoring the consequences of his coup ever since.

We Are Approaching Our Lefebvre Moment— But Not the One You Think

In 1988, despite having failed to secure papal authorization to consecrate new bishops for his priestly society, an aged Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre defied the the threat of excommunication and consecrated 5 bishops— 4 for the SSPX, and 1 for the Diocese of Campos, Brazil. As a result he and the other bishops were all excommunicated. Or not. The SSPX argued against the validity of the excommunication decree until Pope Benedict XVI declared them void (possibly ab initio) prior to issuing Summorum Pontificum. [As an aside, please note the way a truly humble pope brings peace to a contentious situation. The way Pope Bendict phrased the ‘lifting’ of the excommunication decree, he left room for the interpretation that it never really was valid at all, thus allowing all parties who acted in good faith in 1988 to save face.]

Though I have always understood the SSPX’s position on why they thought the Lefebvre excommunication was invalid, and while I believe their position was held in good faith, I admit that it sometimes wearied me whenever an SSPX attendee would go on about how Lefebvre saved the Traditional Mass by consecrating the bishops, ensuring the SSPX would continue to have priests. I recall many conversations where I simply posed the question, “What better good might not have come from obedience? We’ll never know.”

As it turns out, the claim that Lefebvre saved the traditional Mass (which retains its obvious merit) makes way more sense to me now. Not because of 1988. But because of 1976. Wait, 1976, you ask? Let me explain.

The issue involved the ability of a bishop of the Catholic Church being able to ordain priests in an approved Catholic rite of priestly ordination. The traditional Mass had not been abrogated, nor had the rite of priestly ordination. But Pope Paul VI forbade Lefebvre from ordaining the priests in the traditional rite. He didn’t forbid their ordinations, but just the use of the traditional rite of ordination.

Does this sound familiar?

Archbishop Lefebvre judged that he had the right to ordain these priests in the traditional manner. As Pope Benedict confirmed in Summorum Pontificum, he did indeed. But Pope Paul VI declared him and his priests suspended a divinis. Because he judged he was in the right legally and morally, Archbishop Lefebvre continued to ordain traditional priests and always maintained that the suspensions were illegitimate and invalid. It was this action, much more than in 1988, that one can claim that Lefebvre saved the Mass, in a manner of speaking (Our Lord is Sovereign and responsible for all good). He died without knowing whether his position would be vindicated.

You could say that it is 1976 again for traditional societies and institutes previously under the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. The Vatican has said traditional priestly ordinations are no longer possible. The FSSP, ICRSP and others have lots of vocations and of course have ordinations scheduled this year. And some bishops, like the odious Cardinal Cupich, have forbidden even traditional societies from celebrating the traditional Mass on the first Sunday of every month and on high holy days, beginning February 6. A watershed moment awaits.

One thing you could say for the Vatican’s position in 1976 was that there was an uncontestedly legitimate pope who ordered Lefebvre to refrain from the traditional ordination of priests. The same cannot be said for 2022.

Even if Bergoglio were pope, his orders to block the traditional Mass and sacraments are just as invalid, assuming for a moment they were drafted in accordance with the law. His censures are equally invalid should they be issued for a priest, prelate or layman making use of his right to the Mass and Sacraments. Lastly, Bergoglio’s motives are so more obvious in their hatred for the Mass, the Sacraments, the faithful, and Him of Whom he claims to be vicar.

Fr. Laguerie of the IBP stated it very well that we must simply persevere in our lawful adherence to the traditional Mass and sacraments. That there must be a continuation of everything the traditional societies have been doing already. Father notes what lots of us sense— he hears of none of his confreres who will cave into the unjust forcing of the novus ordo onto traditional priests. The traditional laity have their back and will not betray faithful priests. There is a large traditional community.

We are in the right.

This is 1976. But really it isn’t. A Lefebvre moment is being forced on us in 2022. it starts in Chicago on February 6. It will occur worldwide by Midsummer. Let us remain faithful to Christ and to His sacraments. Let us respond with at least as much courage as Lefebvre showed in 1976.

This is the reality, whether Bergoglio or Pope Benedict XVI is pope. That question need not divide us nor cause us to waver. The prohibition against the Mass is invalid either way. But I would add this could very well be the perfect time to bring that question to a head for the good of souls. The time has come to acknowledge, and come to the aid of Pope Benedict XVI. That would save the Mass, and so much more.

Matthew10:36