It is a matter of justice that those of us who refuse to vote should end-up with a POTUS who might very well publicly insult some other head of state:
Merkel is a fat ugly idiot.
On a trip to some Latin America country: You call this a country? I’ve see bigger garbage scows, believe me, and I’ll tell you another thing; the garbage scow smelled better.
At a formal White House Dinner: Can we get a high chair for this little Japanese Ambassador?
because as the national politicians drag us down into Hell, we ought to be able to derive some humorous pleasure out of it, even if it is only a certain form of black humor.
22. Just as in the Gospel, the Lord so disposing, St. Peter and the other apostles constitute one apostolic college, so in a similar way the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are joined together. Indeed, the very ancient practice whereby bishops duly established in all parts of the world were in communion with one another and with the Bishop of Rome in a bond of unity, charity and peace,(23*) and also the councils assembled together,(24*) in which more profound issues were settled in common, (25*) the opinion of the many having been prudently considered,(26*) both of these factors are already an indication of the collegiate character and aspect of the Episcopal order; and the ecumenical councils held in the course of centuries are also manifest proof of that same character. And it is intimated also in the practice, introduced in ancient times, of summoning several bishops to take part in the elevation of the newly elected to the ministry of the high priesthood. Hence, one is constituted a member of the Episcopal body in virtue of sacramental consecration and hierarchical communion with the head and members of the body.
But the college or body of bishops has no authority unless it is understood together with the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter as its head. The pope's power of primacy over all, both pastors and faithful, remains whole and intact. In virtue of his office, that is Vicar of Christ and pastor of the whole Church, the Roman Pontiff has full, supreme and universal power over the Church. And he is always free to exercise this power. The order of bishops, which succeeds to the college of apostles and gives this apostolic body continued existence, is also the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church,
Back in the day, in the Peimonte area of Vermont where Ol' Mick was born, the old timers would have said about the claim - We need this like a frog needs sideburns.
How'n'hell can an Ecumenical Council identify two different subjects as both being Supreme?
It realistically can't for such a claim is contradictory as two subjects can not both be supreme and, as such, this novel doctrine violates the principle of Non-Contradiction *
Only one subject can be supreme, unless we are talking about Diana Ross and the dolls Was some of the Second Vatican Council a happening?
I took my 15 months old granddaughter with me for early voting but they denied her a ballot.
America is the exceptional nation in this best of all poxable worlds and if you do not take voting seriously then you are a danger to democracy which is really, you know, not quite as dangerous to the sanity and the health of a nation as Necrotizing Fasciitis is dangerous to, say, one's reproductive organs - still it is something to consider before beginning to drink before noon on election day and remember that every election is the most important election ever.
The Triregnum (the Papal Tiara formed by three crowns symbolizing the triple power of the Pope: father of kings, governor of the world and Vicar of Christ) from the XVIII Century, with which the bronze statue of Saint Peter is crowned every June 29th, the feast day of the Saint.
Use of the Tiara, a ritual during solemn ceremonies, was abandoned during the Papacy of Paul VI.
The Tiara is a headdress ending in an ogive and made of silver, and during the times of Boniface VIII two crowns were added, and from 1314 three crowns (the reason it is called the triregnum), topped by a small globe with a golden cross.
Among the various interpretations, we shall mention the one that says that the three crowns represent the militant, the suffering and the triumphant Church.
The shape of the Triregnum varied throughout the years. We may find it represented as more or less rounded, in some cases without the globe and the cross. At times there is a modified position of the ribbons (two ribbons with a patent cross hanging).
PONTIFICI ELIGENDO
Pope Paul VI
Apostolic Constitution on the Vacancy of the Apostolic See and the Election of the Roman Pontiff
Paul, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God for Perpetual Remembrance
92. Finally, the Pontiff will be crowned by the Senior Cardinal Deacon, and, within an appropriate time, will take possession of the Patriarchal Archbasilica of the Lateran, according to the ritual prescribed.
All these things we lay down and prescribe after careful and mature reflection; and, declaring abrogated, as provided for above, the Apostolic Constitutions and Orders issued in this regard by the Roman Pontiffs, we wish this Consitution of ours to have full effect now and in the future, in such a way that everything that has been described and laid down therein should be religiously observed by all concerned and therefore should come into force, notwithstanding whatsoever disposition to the contrary, even though worthy of very special mention. If anyone therefore, knowingly or unknowingly, should act in a manner different from what we have prescribed, we order that such action is to be considered null and void.
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on the first day of the month of October in the year 1975 the thirteenth of our Pontificate.
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II FOR THE INAUGURATION OF HIS PONTIFICATE
St. Peter's Square
Sunday, 22 October 1978
3. Today the new Bishop of Rome solemnly begins his ministry and the mission of Peter. In this city, in fact, Peter completed and fulfilled the mission entrusted to him by the Lord…
4. In past centuries, when the Successor of Peter took possession of his See, the triregnum or tiara was placed on his head. The last Pope to be crowned was Paul VI in 1963, but after the solemn coronation ceremony he never used the tiara again and left his Successors free to decide in this regard.
Pope John Paul I, whose memory is so vivid in our hearts, did not wish to have the tiara; nor does his Successor wish it today. This is not the time to return to a ceremony and an object considered, wrongly, to be a symbol of the temporal power of the Popes.
Our time calls us, urges us, obliges us to gaze on the Lord and immerse ourselves in humble and devout meditation on the mystery of the supreme power of Christ himself.
He who was born of the Virgin Mary, the carpenter's Son (as he was thought to be), the Son of the living God (confessed by Peter), came to make us all "a kingdom of priests”.
The Second Vatican Council has reminded us of the mystery of this power and of the fact that Christ's mission as Priest, Prophet-Teacher and King continues in the Church. Everyone, the whole People of God, shares in this threefold mission. Perhaps in the past, the tiara, this triple crown, was placed on the Pope's head in order to express by that symbol the Lord's plan for his Church, namely that all the hierarchical order of Christ's Church, all "sacred power" exercised in the Church, is nothing other than service, service with a single purpose: to ensure that the whole People of God shares in this threefold mission of Christ and always remains under the power of the Lord; a power that has its source not in the powers of this world but in the mystery of the Cross and Resurrection.
6. I thank all of you here present who have wished to participate in this solemn inauguration of the ministry of the new Successor of Peter…
And I also appeal to all men—to every man (and with what veneration the apostle of Christ must utter this word: "man"!)
— pray for me! — help me to be able to serve you! Amen. Modern Popes are humbler than Jesus. Jesus let His enemies crown him whereas modern Popes will not even let their friends crown them Pope. Jesus let His enemies mock Him whereas modern Popes will not let their own selves be crowned owing to what the Triregnum signifies - their AUTHORITY over Presidents, Kings, and the various other miscreants and malign men wielding power - for modern Popes wish to be loved (Pope Paul VI to the roman clergy explaining why he would not use discipline) and they will not do anything that might result in them being mocked; you know, such as teaching the The One True Holy Romna Catholic and Apostolic Church is the ONLY TRUE Church outside of which there is neither Salvation or Sanctification. The whole Vicar of Christ role has been largely reformed so as not to anger those who hate Jesus Christ and reject His authority and commandments. Fear of man? Yes. Fear of God?
assist at the Lil' Licit Liturgy and so you arrive for Mass early to prepare yourself and to dispose your own self to be open to receiving the immeasurable grace to be derived from the Holocaust.
Of course, in most modern Catholic Churches, that means one will have to concentrate on becoming deaf to the conversations of your pew pals who will be telling one another about the latest sale at Super Target or the current health of a husband whose colon is on the fritz and has been acting-up.
Well, this is just the way it is as the Lil' Licit Liturgy has dethroned Theocentrism and replaced it with Anthropocentrism and so it is a bit wrong to expect your pew pals to act differently than they act.
So, concentrate and pray and prepare your own self for the Holocaust/The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
PRAYER BEFORE MASS
ETERNAL FATHER, I unite myself with the intentions and affections of Our Lady of Sorrows on Calvary, and I offer Thee the sacrifice which Thy beloved Son, Jesus made of Himself on the Cross, and now renews on this holy altar:
To adore Thee and give Thee the honor which is due to Thee, confessing Thy supreme dominion over all things, and the absolute dependence of everything upon Thee, who art our one and last end.
To thank Thee for innumerable benefits received.
To appease Thy justice, irritated against us by so many sins, and to make satisfaction for them.
To implore grace and mercy for myself, for....for all afflicted and sorrowing, for poor sinners, for all the world, and for the holy souls in purgatory.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
PRAYER TO BE SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MASS
Eternal Father, I unite myself with the intentions and affections of our
Lady of Sorrows on Calvary, and I offer Thee the Sacrifice which
Thy beloved Son Jesus made of Himself on the Cross and which
He now renews on this holy altar:
First. To adore Thee and give Thee the honor which is due Thee,
confessing Thy
supreme dominion over all things, and the absolute dependence of everything upon
Thee, Who art our one and last End.
Second. To thank Thee for innumerable benefits received.
Third. To appease Thy justice, aroused against us by so many sins, and to make
satisfaction for them.
Fourth. To implore grace and mercy for myself, for my loved ones, for my friends
and enemies, and for all afflicted and sorrowing, for poor sinners, for all the world
I pray this beautiful old school prayer: Invocatio Post Communionem
O Lord God almighty, thy blessed Son! who graciously hearest them that call upon thee in uprightness, who knowest the prayers of those even who are silent; we thank thee for thou hast deemed us worthy to partake of thy sacred mysteries thou hast given to us, for fully strengthening our faith in those things which we so well know, for the preservation of piety, and for the forgiveness of our sins; for the name of thy Christ has been invoked upon us, and we have been joined to thee.
O thou who has separated us from communion with the ungodly, unite us with them that are consecrated to thee, strengthen us in the truth, by the coming of the Holy Ghost, teach us the things we know not, supply our deficiencies, confirm us in the truths we already know.
Preserve thy priests blameless in thy service. Keep kings in peace, magistrates in justice, the air salubrious, thy fruits in abundance, the world in thy almighty providence. Pacify nations that are waging war. Convert them that are astray.
Sanctify thy people; preserve thy virgins; keep in fidelity them that are in wedlock; strengthen the chaste; lead little ones to mature age; confirm the newly initiated; teach the catechumens and make them worthy of initiation; and gather us all together into the kingdom of heaven, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To whom, together with thee, and the Holy Ghost, be glory, honor, and adoration for ever. Amen
And then I thank Jesus for humbling Himself to enter into my Heart and my Soul and I praise Him as the light of the world and I ask Him to burn away all of the darkness and shadows of sin in my heart and my soul and to complete His work in me so that I may become the Ol' Mick He has always desired I be rather than the Ol' Mick I have always chosen to be.
SALVATION
SANCTIFICATION
He desires we be Holy as His Heavenly Father is Holy and He works His will through us - if we aught but cooperate - via His Sacraments, all of which are, substantially, Him freely sharing His Divine Life with us to the extent we are properly disposed to receive Him; We must be in a state of grace.
2 Peter 1:As all things of his divine power which appertain to life and godliness, are given us, through the knowledge of him who hath called us by his own proper glory and virtue. By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.
God became man so man could become God was the axiom of Saint Athanasius
Pope Leo the Great, rightly noted about Jesus; The Risen Christ has passed over into the Sacraments
At Mickiweaks, we have taken a leak suggesting Franciscus will cite this verse at the upcoming Feast of Martin Luther in Sweden where, before the international press, he will prolly bow to be blessed by a married lesbian bishop, the wondrously named, Eva Brunne. Here is the questionable, if not querulous, content of the Papal address we fradulently manufactured and would like the world to consider: The Holy Spirit prompts us all to love one another as brothers and sisters in the unity of love in the new civilisation of love where, no longer, can there be distinctions made between Catholics and Lutherans since the Incarnation has dissolved the distinctions even between Priest, Prophet, and Poultry as scripture teaches us; yes, precisely because of the Incarnation, all of creation is as one for all of creation is one in the act of original love even as the God of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity is one who loves all equally and it is this unity that the world longs for and that alone is the unity that will bring peace to our common ancestral mother, earth.
And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint, Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man. And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man, Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.
And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith. And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard? I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
At the 7:30 a.m. Lil' Licit Liturgy in St. Therese de Lesieux in Wellington, Florida, Rev. Father Steven Olds * explained to us that the Widow in Luke represents God.
And men wonder why there is such confusion within Catholicism.
Well, just look at what is being preached during the Holocaust ** and what is being taught at Florida's Regional Seminary. For the truth, let's turn to the great Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide:
A1legorically
, S. Augustine (Lib. ii. Quæst. Evangel. qu. 45), says, “The widow is the Church, which seems desolate until her bridegroom Christ, who now bears her griefs in secret, return from heaven to judgment.”
In trope
, “The widow,” says Theophylact, “is the soul which has put away her former husband. He was hostile to her because she came to God. God is a judge Who fears no one, and regards not the persons of men. The widow represents every soul that is desolate and afflicted, and who prays to the judge, that is God, to be delivered from her adversary. But because it is incongruous to compare God to the unjust and wicked judge, as Euthymius rightly says, from S. Chrysostom, we should rather say that it is Christ who is here spoken of; and not in comparison but as concluding from the less to the greater. That is: If the unjust judge were overcome by the importunity of the widow to change injustice into justice, and give her her rights, how much rather should God do this, who is most just, nay who is justice itself, punishing all injustice?”
So S. Augustine above—S. Chrysostom and Theophylact—as will be clearly shown on verse 7.
Vers. 6, 7.—And the Lord said, hear what the, &c. “God,” says Theophylact, “is the leader, the judge and the vindicator of all righteousness.” So David on Psalm xxxiv. 17, “The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth.” The Arabic has, “Hear what the unjust judge said; and shall not God more rightly avenge His own elect who cry to Him day and night?” So Ecclus. xxxv. 21, 22; Rev. vi. 9, 10, where the souls of the slain for Christ cry to God demanding vengeance. They hear from Him that they must rest yet a little while until the number of their fellow servants is completed. See what I have commented on the place.
Morally.
Behold how great is the dignity, the need, and the power of prayer. The need, that by it we may be delivered from all the temptations and tribulations by which we are every where, and always, surrounded. The dignity, because by means of prayer we converse with God, as do the angels. The power, because by it we overcome all adversities and hardships. “To pray always,” says S. Chrysostom (Book ii. of Prayer) “is the work of angels, who, wholly intent upon God, teach us while we pray to forget our human nature, and to have no regard to things present, but to conceive of ourselves as standing in the midst of angels, and performing the same sacrifice with them.” He adds, “Satan does not venture to come too near to a soul fortified by prayer, for he fears the strength and fortitude which prayer confers. Prayer supports the soul more than food supports the body.” And (Book i.), “As the sun gives light to the body, so does prayer to the soul. If it be a loss to a blind man not to see the sun, how much greater a loss is it to a Christian not to pray assiduously, nor to introduce the light of Christ into his soul by prayer! By it we attain to this end, that we cease to be mortal and of time. By nature we are mortal, but by pray and our life with God, we pass to the life immortal. For it is inevitable that he who holds communion with God, should come out superior to death and to all that is subject to corruption.”
Ver. 8.—When the Son of man cometh. He comes to the universal judgment, when He will deliver His elect, whom He ordered to be always ready and eager; and to await that day patiently, preparing themselves for it by prayer and good works. For that day will be sudden and unexpected like lightning, as He Himself has said (chap. xvii. 24).
Christ gives the reason why we should always pray, and persevere in prayer; because from His long absence, faith will fail even in many who believe, so that they will either lose all faith or believe very feebly, scarcely thinking that He will return at all. Secondly, Christ here gives the reason, why many are not heard in prayer. Their faith begins to fail and they do not continue steadfast in prayer, nor await the coming of the Lord with patience as they ought.
Thirdly, Theophylact says, “He rightly connected His words on prayer with those on faith, for the base and foundation of all prayer is faith. He declared at the same time that few would pray, for faith would be found in few.”
Christ says this to add a fresh incentive to unceasing prayer, for by degrees faith is failing more and more, and offences and persecutions are therefore increasing.
Shall He find faith—perfect faith, that is; faith formed by certain confidence (fiducia) and love. “This,” says S. Augustine (tract xxxvi), “is scarcely found on earth, for the Church of the faithful is full of imperfect faith, and is, as it were, half dead.” Christ Himself explains it so, S. Matt. xxiv. 12.
This will happen more especially; at the end of the world before the coming of Christ to judgment, when men shall eat and drink themselves over to pleasure and think not of the judgment, as Christ said, chap. xvii. 27; and S. Peter, 2 Pet. iii. 3. That is, Christians will deny that He is coming to judgment, even when that coming is near at hand (2 Peter iii. 4). As if they had said, “Nature has made the world: the same Nature continues its course in the same tenor, and always will continue it. There is no God to destroy it: no Deity to judge us and our works, and to punish them.”
Was some of the Second Vatican Council a happening?
* http://www.catholicapologetics.info/catholicteaching/philosophy/princip.htm